CLXXXVIII.

Another vision follows this: in France

At Aix he is:—Upon a marble step

He stands, and holds in two-fold chains a bear.

From towards Ardennes he sees rush forth a pack

Of thirty other bears which speak as men.

They say:—"To us restore him, Sire! Not right

It were that you should keep him longer; help

Our kin we must."—Then from his palace runs

A greyhound fair which on the verdant grass

Assails the fiercer of the other beasts

Before them all. The King a wond'rous fight

Beholds: but who shall win or lose, none knows.

This is a dream God's Angel showed to Carle,

Who sleeps until the morrow's morn appeared.

Aoi.

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