King Marsilies is turn'ed white with rage, His feathered dart he brandishes and shakes.
Guenes beholds: his sword in hand he takes, Two fingers' width from scabbard bares the blade;And says to it: "O clear and fair and brave;Before this King in court we'll so behave, That the Emperour of France shall never say In a strange land I'd thrown my life away Before these chiefs thy temper had essayed.""Let us prevent this fight:" the pagans say.
