. Tales from the old French. e great tormentthey endured by reason of the love theybore you. But I, who have escaped withlife, all uncounselled and all woful, oftensee her whom I love most in the worldcome and go, and speak to me morningand evening, yet may I have neither kissnor embrace, nor any joy of her, save thatof speech only. A hundred such sorrowsyou make me endure; rather had I sufferdeath. For this reason shall the lay benamed for me; The Woful Elnight shall itbe called, and whosoever termeth it TheFour Sorrows will change its true my faith, saith she, this pleasethme well; n
. Tales from the old French. e great tormentthey endured by reason of the love theybore you. But I, who have escaped withlife, all uncounselled and all woful, oftensee her whom I love most in the worldcome and go, and speak to me morningand evening, yet may I have neither kissnor embrace, nor any joy of her, save thatof speech only. A hundred such sorrowsyou make me endure; rather had I sufferdeath. For this reason shall the lay benamed for me; The Woful Elnight shall itbe called, and whosoever termeth it TheFour Sorrows will change its true my faith, saith she, this pleasethme well; now let us call it The WofulKnight. Thus was the lay begun, and thereafterended and spread abroad; but of thosethat carried it through the land somecalled it The Four Sorrows. Each of thenames suiteth the lay well, for the matter24 demandeth both; but commonly it is *e*called The Woful Knight. Here it endeth rtv* f 0and goeth no farther; more there is not so ^ ,far as I have heard or known, and no more ****Sv^will I tell IN Normandy, ofold, there fell anadventure oft re-counted ; t is a taleof two children wholoved one another,and how boththrough their lovedied. Of this theBretons made a lay and called it LesDous Amanz. Know ye that in Neustria, which wecall Normandy, is a great mountain mar-vellous high, and on its summit lie the twolovers. Near to this mountain on one side,a king with great care and counsel builthim a city; lord he was of the Pistreis, andbecause of his folk he called the townPitres. Still has the name endured, andthere to this day may ye see houses andcity; and all that region, as is well known,men call the Vale of Pitres. This king had a daughter, a fair damseland a courteous; no other child had he,and much he loved and cherished was sought for in marriage by manya great lord, who would gladly have26 taken her to wife; but the king would 4&^give her to none, for that he could not .^»„-bear to part with her. No other com- ^panion had he, but
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