Crossword-Solution: LXXIV 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

LXXIV From the other part, Turgis of Turtelose, He was a count, that city was his own; Christians he would them massacre, every one.

LXXIV Their general did with due care provide To save his men from ambush and from train, Some troops of horse that lightly armed ride He sent to scour the woods and forests main, His pioneers their busy work applied To even the paths and make the highways plain, They filled the pits, and smoothed the rougher ground, And opened every strait they closed found.

LXXIV “Suppose no weapon can thy valor’s pride Subdue, that by no force thou may’st be won, Admit no steel can hurt or wound thy side, And be it Heaven hath thee such favor done: ’Gainst Famine yet what shield canst thou provide? What strength resist? What sleight her wrath can shun? Go, shake the spear, and draw thy flaming blade, And try if hunger so be weaker made.

LXXIV Oh how contentment in their foreheads shined! Their looks with joy; thoughts swelled with secret pleasure, These three it seemed good success designed To make the lords of love and beauty’s treasure: Their doubtful fellows at their hap repined, And with small patience wait Fortune’s leisure, Upon his lips that read the scrolls attending, As if their lives were on his words depending.

LXXIV “Go then, go, whither sweet desire inviteth, How can thy gentle knight so cruel be? Love in his heart thy grief and sorrows writeth, For thy laments how he complaineth, see.