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`` Right , noble prince , '' said the priest 's low voice , `` pause there for a solution to all enigmas ; there view the symbol of all-enduring power ; there , learn its ends below -- comprehend the account it must yield above . To your thoughts and your prayers we leave you . '' He took the stalwart arm of Taillefer , as he spoke , and , with a grave obeisance to Fitzosborne , left the chamber . The next morning William was long closeted alone with Lanfranc , -- that man , among the most remarkable of his age , of whom it was said , that `` to comprehend the extent of his talents , one must be Herodian in grammar , Aristotle in dialectics , Cicero in rhetoric , Augustine and Jerome in Scriptural lore , '' -LSB- 66 -RSB- -- and ere the noon the Duke 's gallant and princely train were ordered to be in readiness for return home . The crowd in the broad space , and the citizens from their boats in the river , gazed on the knights and steeds of that gorgeous company , already drawn up and awaiting without the open gates the sound of the trumpets that should announce the Duke 's departure . Before the hall-door in the inner court were his own men . The snow-white steed of Odo ; the alezan of Fitzosborne ; and , to the marvel of all , a small palfrey plainly caparisoned .