Chapter XVII

"Seigneurs Barons, which of you shall we send
To meet the King Marsile in Sarraguce?"
Duke Naimes responds:--"I, with your leave will go;
Give me the glove and staff."--"Nay," quoth King Carle,
"A sage you are in council, well I know:
By this mustache and by this beard of mine,
So far away from me you shall not go.
Back to your seat, since none hath summoned you."
Aoi.