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And there was ordained an horse bier; and so with an hundred torches ever brenning about the corpse of the queen, and ever Sir Launcelot with his eight fellows went about the horse bier, singing and reading many an holy orison, and frankincense upon the corpse incensed.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

And so the Bishop and they all together went with the body of Sir Launcelot daily, till they came to Joyous Gard; and ever they had an hundred torches brenning about him.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Moray, of March, and Dunbar [1] departed from the great host, they took their way thinking to pass the water and to enter into the bishopric of Durham, and to ride to the town and then to return, brenning and exiling the country and so to come to Newcastle and to lodge there in the town in the despite of all the Englishmen.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

The next day the king departed, brenning and wasting all before him, and at night lodged in a good village called Grandvilliers.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

After the town of Barfleur was thus taken and robbed without brenning, then they spread abroad in the country and did what they list, for there was not to resist them.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Then the king of England entered into the country of Beauvoisis, brenning and exiling the plain country, and lodged at a fair abbey and

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

They of the town and of the castles spake that night with the marshals of the host, to save them and their town from brenning, and they to pay a certain sum of florins the next day as soon as the host was departed.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Thus as ye have heard, the king rode forth, wasting and brenning the country without breaking of his order.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

They offered up thanksgiving on this day, and paraded about with flambeaux and candles -- proceedings which some thought were too close imitations of the Pagan customs of _brenning_ -- in honour of Juno.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

Then he departed from the town of Caen and rode in the same order as he did before, brenning and exiling the country, and took the way to Evreux and so passed by it; and from thence they rode to a great town called

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart