Si a vous ne plait de avoyr me sure,
          Certes ie clis,
          Que ie suis,
        Sans venture.[6]

With Quinones were his nine companions in scarlet velvet and blue cloaks bearing Quinones’ device and chain, and the trappings of their horses blue, with the same device and motto.  Near Quinones were many knights on foot, some of whom led his horse to do him honor.  Three pages magnificently attired and mounted closed the procession, which entered the lists, and after passing around it twice halted before the judges’ stand, and Quinones exhorted the judges to decide impartially all that should happen, giving equal justice to all, and especially to defend the strangers in case they should be attacked on account of having wounded any of the defenders of the Pass.

The next day, Monday, at dawn the drums beat the reveille, and the judges, with the heralds, notaries and kings-at-arms, took their places in their stands.  The nine defenders meanwhile heard mass in a large tent which served as a private chapel for Quinones, and where mass was said thrice daily at his expense by some Dominicans.  After the defenders were armed they sent for the judges to inspect their weapons and armor.  The German knight, Arnoldo, had a disabled hand, but he declared he would rather die than refrain from jousting.  His arms and horse were approved, although the latter was superior to that of Quinones.  The judges had provided a body of armed soldiers whose duty it was to see that all had fair play in the field, and had a pile of lances of various sizes placed where each knight could select one to suit him.

Quinones and the German now entered the lists, accompanied by their friends and with “much music.”  The judges commanded that no one should dare to speak aloud or give advice or make any sign to any one in the lists, no matter what happened, under penalty of having the tongue cut out for speaking and a hand cut off for making signs; and they also forbade any knight to enter the lists with more than two servants, one mounted and the other on foot.  The spur taken from the German the previous Saturday was now restored to him, and the trumpets sounded a charge, while the heralds and kings-at-arms cried Legeres aller! legeres aller! e fair son deber.

The two knights charged instantly, lance in rest, and Quinones encountered his antagonist in the guard of his lance, and his weapon glanced off and touched him in the armor of his right hand and tore it off, and his lance broke in the middle.  The German encountered him in the armor of the left arm, tore it off and carried a piece of the border without breaking his lance.  In the second course Quinones encountered the German in the top of his plastron, without piercing it, and the lance came out under his arm-pit, whereupon all thought he was wounded, for on receiving the shock he exclaimed Olas! and his right vantbrace was torn off, but the lance was not broken.  The