I say I love him, and if Peter wishes to kill him, he must kill me first." "Sir Peter Brome," said the king, "the judgment lies in your hand.

We give you the man's life, to grant or to take." Peter thought a while, then answered: "I grant him his life if he will acknowledge this lady to be his true and lawful wife, and live with her as such, now and for ever, staying all suits against her." "How can he do that, you fool," asked Betty, "when you have knocked all his senses out of him with that great sword of yours ?" "Perhaps," suggested Peter humbly, "some one will do it for him." "Yes," said Isabella, speaking for the first time, "I will.

On behalf of the Marquis of Morella I promise these things, Don Peter Brome, before all these people here gathered.

I add this: that if he should live, and it pleases him to break this promise made on his behalf to save him from death, then let his name be shamed, yes, let it become a byword and a scorn.

Proclaim it, heralds." So the heralds blew their trumpets and one of them called out the queen's decree, whereat the spectators cheered again, shouting that it was good, and they bore witness to that promise.
Then Morella, still senseless, was borne away by his squires, Betty in her blood-stained robe marching at his side, and his horse having been brought to him again, Peter, wounded though he was, mounted and galloped round the arena amidst plaudits such as that place had never heard, till, lifting his sword in salutation, suddenly he and his gentlemen vanished by the gate through which he had appeared.
Thus strangely enough ended that combat which thereafter was always known as the Fray of the Eagle and the English Hawk..