Marsile spake thus:—"Sire Ganelon, believe,

Much I desire to love you, and of Carle

I crave to hear. Is he not old, his prime

Has he not passed? Men tell me he has lived

More than two hundred years; his body dragged

Throughout so many lands; so many blows

Upon his shield!—So many mighty Kings

To beggary reduced!—When will he cease

To march on battle-fields?"—Then Ganelon

Responded:—"Such is not King Carle; no man

Alive who sees and knows him but will tell

How our great Emperor is Baron true.

I could not praise and honor him enough,

For no man lives so valiant and so good.

His valor ... who on earth could ever tell?

His soul God with such virtue has illumed,

I'd rather die than quit my noble lord!"

Aoi.