LXXXIV.

Olivier said: "So strong the Pagan host; Our French, methinks, in number are too few; Companion Rollánd, sound your horn, that Carle May hear and send his army back to help." Rollánd replies:--"Great folly would be mine, And all my glory in sweet France be lost. No, I shall strike great blows with Durendal; To the golden hilt the blade shall reek with blood. In evil hour the felon Pagans came Unto the Pass, for all are doomed to die!" Aoi.