Chapter CCX

"Beloved Rolland, to France I now return.
When in my chamber I shall be at Louen,
And foreign men come from afar to ask
Where lives Rolland the Captain, I shall say
'He lieth dead in Spain;' and I henceforth
Shall hold my realm in bitter pain. No day
Shall dawn for me unmarked by tears and moans."
Aoi.