Chapter LXXIV

Then from the Moorish land an Almazour
Steps forth. All Spain can show no greater wretch.
Before Marsile he makes a boastful vaunt:
"To Ronceval will I my people lead--
Full twenty thousand men with lance and shield.
If I Rolland find there, I pledge his death;
No after-day shall dawn but Carle shall weep."
Aoi.