LVIII.

Another vision followed hereupon:

He is in France, in his Chapelle, at Aix.

A bear his right arm caught with such sharp fangs

[That from the bone the flesh is torn away.]

From toward Ardennes he saw a leopard come,

Which in his dream, made on him fierce attack;

But then a greyhound dashes from the hall

Unto Carle's rescue, swift of leap and bound;

First from the treach'rous bear the hound tears off

An ear, then with the leopard combat makes.

"See!" cry the French, "what battle fierce is here."

But they know not which of the two will win

The field—Carle still asleep naught can awake.

Aoi.

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