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第1099章 LXXX

At once their spears in rest nine warriors laid, When the trump sounded, in the hostile train, But he in black no sign of jousting made, As if he held such vantage in disdain:

Better he deemed the law were disobeyed, Than that his courtesy should suffer stain.

The knight retires apart, and sits to view What against nine one single lance can do.