Crossword-Solution: AMBOISE 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

LXII Next Stephen of Amboise did five thousand lead, The men he prest from Tours and Blois but late, To hard assays unfit, unsure at need, Yet armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charge, but soon retire for doubt, Like fire of straw, soon kindled, soon burnt out.

Yet the knight despises those who thought of flight, and the monk praises his countrymen who were resolved on death.] 81 (return) [ Baldwin, and all the writers, honor the names of these two galleys, felici auspicio.] 811 (return) [ Pietro Alberti, a Venetian noble and Andrew d’Amboise a French knight.—M.] 82 (return) [ With an allusion to Homer, Nicetas calls him enneorguioV, nine orgyæ, or eighteen yards high, a stature which would, indeed, have excused the terror of the Greek.

Yet the knight despises those who thought of flight, and the monk praises his countrymen who were resolved on death.] [Footnote 81: Baldwin, and all the writers, honor the names of these two galleys, felici auspicio.] [Footnote 811: Pietro Alberti, a Venetian noble and Andrew d'Amboise a French knight.--M.] [Footnote 82: With an allusion to Homer, Nicetas calls him enneorguioV, nine orgyÊ, or eighteen yards high, a stature which would, indeed, have excused the terror of the Greek.

These are the Death of Gretir the Strong, the Death of Gunnar of Lithend, the Death of Hereward the Wake, the Death of Bussy d’Amboise.

Monsieur de Chessel had told me that the walnut-trees in the Brehemont, also those about Amboise and Vouvray, were not bearing.