"Seigneurs Barons, which of you shall we send

To meet the King Marsile in Sarraguce?"

Duke Naimes responds:—"I, with your leave will go;

Give me the glove and staff."—"Nay," quoth King Carle,

"A sage you are in council, well I know:

By this mustache and by this beard of mine,

So far away from me you shall not go.

Back to your seat, since none hath summoned you."

Aoi.