Endementiers quil ooient le seruice reuint li escuiers la tierce fois & fiert son
segnor grignor cop quil nauoit fait deuant & quant li saluages homs le uit
si recommencha a rire . Lors fu la messe cantee & grisandoles & si com-
paignon sen issirent fors del moustier . & li cheualiers ke li escuiers auoit The knight asks crisan-

40 feru sen issi apres & demanda a grisandoles a qui il estoit & que ce estoit que ^tn. **'°"' '''^ ^^
il menoit ensi lije . & il dist quil estoient a iulius cesar qui estoit empereres
de romme . & si li menons . j . saluage homme que nous auons pris en cele
forest qui chertefier li doit vne auision ki li auint . Mais ore me dites biaus



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The squire declares
that he could not help
strikijig his master.
Grisandoles, riding by
the wild man*s side,
vainly attempts to find
out why the latter has
laughed.
Grisandoles delivers
the wild man to the
emperor.
The wild man tells
them that he is a bap-
tized Christian.
Another wild man had
surprised his mother in
a wood.
