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Carlemagne around him calls his counts and dukes: "What counsel give ye touching those I kept, Unto this plea who came for Ganelon Themselves sworn hostages for Pinabel?" Respond the French:--"Let none of them survive!"-- Carle then commands a road-keeper, Basbrun: "Hang them all up on yon accursed tree! By this gray beard of mine, I swear, if one Escape, thou diest but a villain's death!"-- Answered the man:--"What else but to obey?"-- Then by a hundred sergeants roughly seized, Those thirty men are hanged.--Who man betrays Destroys himself and others drags to death. Aoi.