XL.

The King Marsile said:--"Fair Sire Ganelon, Unwise and all too hasty was I, when In my great wrath I poised my lance to strike. This gift of sables take as your amends: More than five hundred marks their weight in gold. Before to-morrow-eve the boon is yours." Ganelon answers:--"I reject it not. May God, if 'tis his will, your grace reward." Aoi.