RESOLUTION OF THE SPANIARDS. 47 both were pronounced to have demeaned them- chapter XI. selves like good and valiant knights.'^ '■ — The tourney being ended, the combatants met in the centre of the lists, and embraced each other in the true companionship of chivalry, " making good cheer together," says an old chronicler, before they separated. The Great Captain was not satisfied with the issue of the fight. " We have, at least," said one of his champions, " disproved the taunt of the Frenchmen, and shown ourselves as good horse- men as they." " I sent you for better," coldly retorted Gonsalvo.^° A more tragic termination befell a combat a Vou- i>ueibe- o tween Bay- trance between the chevalier Bayard and a Spanish lolomayor cavalier, named Alonso de Sotomayor, who had ac- cused the former of uncourteous treatment of him, while his prisoner. Bayard denied the charge, and defied the Spaniard to prove it in single fight, on horse or on foot, as he best liked. Sotomayor, aware of his antagonist's uncommon horsemanship, preferred the latter alternative. At the day and hour appointed, the two knights 1503. entered the lists, armed with sword and dagger, '^^^^^^ W Chronica del Gran Capitan, this, notwithstanding it was fought cap. 53. — D'Auton, Hist.de Loiiys in the presence of a crowd of wit- XII., part. 2, chap. 26. — Giovio, nesses, who had nothing to do but Vitas lUust. Virorum, pp. 238, 239. look on, and note what passed be- — Memoires de Bayard par le Loy- fore their eyes. The only facts in al Serviteur,chap. 23, apud Petitot, which all agree, are, that there was Collection des Memoires, torn. xv. such a tournament, and that neither — Brantome, CEuvres, tona. iii. disc, party gained the advantage. So 77. much for history ! This celebrated tourney, its ^o D'Auton, Hist. deLouysXTI., causes, and all the details of the ubi supra. — Quintana. Espauules action, are told in as many different C61ebres, torn. ii. p. 263. ways as there are narrators ; and
