(^82) PIAST
Apres fu le roy de Poulainne
Qui tint Cracouve en sa domaine,
Qu'il promist qu'il y aideroit,
Toutes les fois que poins seroit
Au saint voyage mettre a fin.
Et tuit li prince qui la furent
Li un vouent, li autre jurent
Que volontiers y aideront
Et que leur povoir en feront.
But when it came to jousting, Pierre de Lusignan was unbeatable:
Mais einsois grans joustes crierent
Car il le veulent sestier
De jouster & de tournier.
Briefment, il jousterent ensamble;
Et l'emperere, ce me semble,
Jousta avec les autres roys
Qui estoient en grans arrois.
Mais I'estrange roy ot le pris,
Comme des armes li mieus apris.
After that, having received their gifts and their 'honourable' and 'courteous'
wishes, the champion left for Vienna:
Or chevaucha li roys de Chipre
Qui n'est pas vestus de drap d'Ipre
Mais d'un drap d'or fait a Damas.
II n'est remes piteus ne mas
De sa besogne pourchacier.
Eins ne fait que'aler & tracier
Les signeurs partout, et querir
Pour leur aide requerir.
Tant a erre par ses journees
Par froit, par chaut et par jalees
Qu'a Vienne vint sus la Denoe,
A x journees de Cracoe.
- Afterwards, it was (the turn) of the King of Poland/Who holds Cracow in his domain/And
who promised that he would help him,/Whenever the conditions were (right)/To put the
holy crusade into execution./And of all the princes who were there,/Some avowed, and
others swore on oath/That they would willingly assist/And do everything in their power.
** But the heralds proclaimed the lists/For they all wished to tarry/To joust and to hold a
great tournament ./In short, they jousted together;/And the Emperor, as I recall./Tilted
with the other kings/Who were (there) in great array./But the foreign king took the
prize,/Being trained the best in the use of arms.
*** Then the King of Cyprus took horse again./He was clad in no (ordinary) cloth of
Ypres/But in cloth-of-gold woven in Damascus./Nor was he sorry for himself, nor
weary/By the need to pursue (his quest) from place to place/He did nothing but travel, and
seek out rulers everywhere, asking/if he could obtain their aid./Day after day he made such
speed/Through cold, and heat, and frosts,/That he came to Vienna on the Danube/In ten
days from Cracow.^12