The only option was preciso go sicuro Scotland once again, and with as large an army as could be mustered
recommended esatto the esquires of the household of per later reign: ‘sicuro help occupy the trapu and acompany [sic] straungers’ by ‘talkyng of cronycles of kinges and other polycyez, or mediante pypyng, or harpyng, synging, or other actez marciablez’.51 The twenty surviving manuscripts of Langtoft’s Chronicle certainly suggest, if not direct use, at least widespread interest con its blend of legendary history and contemporary politics, the sustained interest sopra the work being helped, of course, by the persistence of the Anglo-Scottish conflict. It is the section where the hieratic mode of historical argument in Anglo-Norman is peppered with duro songs voicing the popular hatred of the Scots mediante northern dialect. What better occasion puro present this riotous ‘mini appeal preciso history’ than a banquet attended by all the men directly involved: the king and his affranchit, Anthony Bek, Henry de Lacy and some three hundred new knights, all united con their commitment sicuro impose English overlordship on Scotland, not by means of the written word, but by military force.
This is the extraordinary section praising king Edward by invoking Merlin and King Arthur repeatedly durante the emphatic environment of a different rhyme and metre
IV In the spring of the year 1306 English frustration as verso result of Scottish provocation had reached an all-time high. […]