Carlemagne around him calls his counts and dukes:

"What counsel give ye touching those I kept,

Unto this plea who came for Ganelon

Themselves sworn hostages for Pinabel?"

Respond the French:—"Let none of them survive!"—

Carle then commands a road-keeper, Basbrun:

"Hang them all up on yon accursed tree!

By this gray beard of mine, I swear, if one

Escape, thou diest but a villain's death!"—

Answered the man:—"What else but to obey?"—

Then by a hundred sergeants roughly seized,

Those thirty men are hanged.—Who man betrays

Destroys himself and others drags to death.

Aoi.