Chapter VII

Marsile then ordered forth the ten white mules
The King of Sicily once sent to him;--
Golden their bits--their saddles silver-wrought--
And on them mounted his ambassadors.
Thus holding each a branch of olive-tree,
They rode away and came to Carle of France.
Nor can he from the treacherous snare escape.
Aoi.

COUNCIL OF CHARLEMAGNE AT
CORDOBA.