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The
knight
shrugged
his
shoulders
,
and
leaving
the
hut
,
brought
in
his
horse
,
(
which
in
the
interim
he
had
fastened
to
a
tree
,
)
unsaddled
him
with
much
attention
,
and
spread
upon
the
steed
's
weary
back
his
own
mantle
.
The
hermit
was
apparently
somewhat
moved
to
compassion
by
the
anxiety
as
well
as
address
which
the
stranger
displayed
in
tending
his
horse
;
for
,
muttering
something
about
provender
left
for
the
keeper
's
palfrey
,
he
dragged
out
of
a
recess
a
bundle
of
forage
,
which
he
spread
before
the
knight
's
charger
,
and
immediately
afterwards
shook
down
a
quantity
of
dried
fern
in
the
corner
which
he
had
assigned
for
the
rider
's
couch
.
The
knight
returned
him
thanks
for
his
courtesy
;
and
,
this
duty
done
,
both
resumed
their
seats
by
the
table
,
whereon
stood
the
trencher
of
pease
placed
between
them
.
The
hermit
,
after
a
long
grace
,
which
had
once
been
Latin
,
but
of
which
original
language
few
traces
remained
,
excepting
here
and
there
the
long
rolling
termination
of
some
word
or
phrase
,
set
example
to
his
guest
,
by
modestly
putting
into
a
very
large
mouth
,
furnished
with
teeth
which
might
have
ranked
with
those
of
a
boar
both
in
sharpness
and
whiteness
,
some
three
or
four
dried
pease
,
a
miserable
grist
as
it
seemed
for
so
large
and
able
a
mill
.
The
knight
,
in
order
to
follow
so
laudable
an
example
,
laid
aside
his
helmet
,
his
corslet
,
and
the
greater
part
of
his
armour
,
and
showed
to
the
hermit
a
head
thick-curled
with
yellow
hair
,
high
features
,
blue
eyes
,
remarkably
bright
and
sparkling
,
a
mouth
well
formed
,
having
an
upper
lip
clothed
with
mustachoes
darker
than
his
hair
,
and
bearing
altogether
the
look
of
a
bold
,
daring
,
and
enterprising
man
,
with
which
his
strong
form
well
corresponded
.
The
hermit
,
as
if
wishing
to
answer
to
the
confidence
of
his
guest
,
threw
back
his
cowl
,
and
showed
a
round
bullet
head
belonging
to
a
man
in
the
prime
of
life
.
His
close-shaven
crown
,
surrounded
by
a
circle
of
stiff
curled
black
hair
,
had
something
the
appearance
of
a
parish
pinfold
begirt
by
its
high
hedge
.
The
features
expressed
nothing
of
monastic
austerity
,
or
of
ascetic
privations
;
on
the
contrary
,
it
was
a
bold
bluff
countenance
,
with
broad
black
eyebrows
,
a
well-turned
forehead
,
and
cheeks
as
round
and
vermilion
as
those
of
a
trumpeter
,
from
which
descended
a
long
and
curly
black
beard
.
Such
a
visage
,
joined
to
the
brawny
form
of
the
holy
man
,
spoke
rather
of
sirloins
and
haunches
,
than
of
pease
and
pulse
.
This
incongruity
did
not
escape
the
guest
.
After
he
had
with
great
difficulty
accomplished
the
mastication
of
a
mouthful
of
the
dried
pease
,
he
found
it
absolutely
necessary
to
request
his
pious
entertainer
to
furnish
him
with
some
liquor
;
who
replied
to
his
request
by
placing
before
him
a
large
can
of
the
purest
water
from
the
fountain
.
"
It
is
from
the
well
of
St
Dunstan
,
"
said
he
,
"
in
which
,
betwixt
sun
and
sun
,
he
baptized
five
hundred
heathen
Danes
and
Britons
--
blessed
be
his
name
!
"
And
applying
his
black
beard
to
the
pitcher
,
he
took
a
draught
much
more
moderate
in
quantity
than
his
encomium
seemed
to
warrant
.
"
It
seems
to
me
,
reverend
father
,
"
said
the
knight
,
"
that
the
small
morsels
which
you
eat
,
together
with
this
holy
,
but
somewhat
thin
beverage
,
have
thriven
with
you
marvellously
.
You
appear
a
man
more
fit
to
win
the
ram
at
a
wrestling
match
,
or
the
ring
at
a
bout
at
quarter-staff
,
or
the
bucklers
at
a
sword-play
,
than
to
linger
out
your
time
in
this
desolate
wilderness
,
saying
masses
,
and
living
upon
parched
pease
and
cold
water
.
"
"
Sir
Knight
,
"
answered
the
hermit
,
"
your
thoughts
,
like
those
of
the
ignorant
laity
,
are
according
to
the
flesh
.
It
has
pleased
Our
Lady
and
my
patron
saint
to
bless
the
pittance
to
which
I
restrain
myself
,
even
as
the
pulse
and
water
was
blessed
to
the
children
Shadrach
,
Meshech
,
and
Abednego
,
who
drank
the
same
rather
than
defile
themselves
with
the
wine
and
meats
which
were
appointed
them
by
the
King
of
the
Saracens
.
"
"
Holy
father
,
"
said
the
knight
,
"
upon
whose
countenance
it
hath
pleased
Heaven
to
work
such
a
miracle
,
permit
a
sinful
layman
to
crave
thy
name
?
"
"
Thou
mayst
call
me
,
"
answered
the
hermit
,
"
the
Clerk
of
Copmanhurst
,
for
so
I
am
termed
in
these
parts
--
They
add
,
it
is
true
,
the
epithet
holy
,
but
I
stand
not
upon
that
,
as
being
unworthy
of
such
addition
.
--
And
now
,
valiant
knight
,
may
I
pray
ye
for
the
name
of
my
honourable
guest
?
"
