Note 827 — Chapter I · THE EQUALISATION OF CLASSES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Nov. 64. With reference to this practice, it is said expressly in the Orlandino (ii. str. 7), of a tournament under Charlemagne: ‘Here they were no cooks and scullions, but kings, dukes, and marquises, who fought.’