the cross-bows bended,
Original French: les arbeleſtes bandées,
Modern French: les arbelestes bandées,
Notes
Design for a giant crossbow
da Vinci, Leonardo (1452–1519), Design for a giant crossbow. Leonardo da Vinci.net
arbaleste
A Crosse-bow; also, a Bow-net; also, the sinewie Cross-bow, wherewith a man shoots, not deere, but his deerest.
Cotgrave, Randle (–1634?), A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongue. London: Adam Islip, 1611. PBM