three hours before noon
After your fashion you make trouble at my Court . And -- hearken all -- blood so hot had best be quickly cooled lest one or other of these knights should take a fever . Moreover , the noble Cattrina has but to-day asked my leave to ride from Venice to-morrow , having urgent business at Avignon at the Court of Pope Clement . So I decree that this combat _ à outrance _ shall take place in our presence on the Campo del Marte to-morrow , three hours before noon , ere the sun grows too hot . To all the details of the combat our heralds will attend forthwith . Officer , take soldiers and escort the Ambassador and the Champion of his Grace of England , together with this Captain of Archers , back to their own door . Set guards there and see that none molest them by word or deed under pain of fine and strait imprisonment .