. Tales from the old French. ^^ ^^^ ^^^ barons with him. When they ff^ M . came to the house they were received full W ^ richly, and Messire Guillaume made great joy, even as one who is glad at heart by reason of his guerdon. The father must needs grant the marriage whether he would or no, and the old man of the twisted moustaches took what comfort he might therein. Even so, lordings, the Lord God willed that this marriage which seemed good to him be established. Messire Guillaume was brave, courte-ous and right valourous, and no whit didhis prowess abate, but rather he strovethe more, and was
. Tales from the old French. ^^ ^^^ ^^^ barons with him. When they ff^ M . came to the house they were received full W ^ richly, and Messire Guillaume made great joy, even as one who is glad at heart by reason of his guerdon. The father must needs grant the marriage whether he would or no, and the old man of the twisted moustaches took what comfort he might therein. Even so, lordings, the Lord God willed that this marriage which seemed good to him be established. Messire Guillaume was brave, courte-ous and right valourous, and no whit didhis prowess abate, but rather he strovethe more, and was well looked on bycounts and princes. Now before the thirdyear, as the tale telleth us, the old mandied, this is sooth, and he gave andgranted all his wealth to the knight, whothereafter held all his lands which wererich and plenteous. A good thousandpounds a year the land yielded him. . .And he held it quit of all claim. So the adventure I have related endethin this wise, as truth telleth you. ContiB U\)ot0 d bibac^i^ue«. FORETIME, in ^^^the wild land be-tween Normandy MnxQ^t andBretaigne,there a mighty lord ***^^^who was of much ^^*great fame. Nearto the border andbeside the sea, helet build a castle full well embattled, andso strong and so well garnished that hefeared neither count nor viscount, neitherprince nor duke nor king. And the highman whereof I speak, was, the tale saith,most comely of body and countenance,rich in goods and noble of lineage; andfrom his face it seemed that in all theworld was no man more debonair, but of asooth, he was all falseness and disloyalty,so traitorous and so cruel, so fierce and soproud, so fell and of so great disdain hefeared neither God nor man; and all thecountry round about him he had laidwaste, — this is the sum thereof. No man might he meet, but he did himsome outrage of his body, so great was his 173 licence; he held all the roads and waylaidthe pilgrims and did the merchantsannoy; and many were oft sore discom-forted
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