"_Afin que les entreprises honorables et les nobles aventures
et faicts d'armes soyent noblement enregistrés et conservés,
je vais traiter et raconter et inventer ung galimatias._"
THE DIZAIN OF QUEENS OF THAT NOBLE MAKER IN THE
FRENCH TONGUE, MESSIRE NICOLAS DE CAEN, DEDICATED
TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ISABELLA OF PORTUGAL, OF
THE HOUSE OF THE INDOMITABLE ALFONSO HENRIQUES,
AND DUCHESS DOWAGER OF BURGUNDY. HERE BEGINS
IN AUSPICIOUS WISE THE PROLOGUE.