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"Let hi, with his hand to his side "I pray you to unlace hi, but never have I been nearer falling from my horse than as I watched this one I feared the fall had struck hiel had indeed lain with all the breath shaken from his body, and as he was unaware that his helmet had been carried off, he had not understood either the alarreat hauberk in which he had been shut like a pea in a pod, he stood blinking in the light, blushing deeply with shame that the shifts to which his poverty had reduced hi courtiers It was the King who brought him comfort

"You have shown that you can use your father's weapons," said he, "and you have proved also that you are the worthy bearer of his name and his arms, for you have within you that spirit for which he was famous But I wot that neither he nor you would suffer a train of hungry men to starve before your door; so lead on, I pray you, and if the race before it, then it will be a feast indeed"