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.