god gramercy and you / wherfore I wyll not hyde no thyng from you / Ye muste knowe that I have here wythin a prysoner / by whom I shall have peas, and all myn herytaunce agayne.' 'Reynawde,' sayd Rowlande, 'I praye you tell me what he is; For here is noo man / but that wolde fayne ye sholde doo well.' 'By my soule,' sayd Reynawde, 'it is the grete emperour Charlemagn, to whome all Fraunce belongeth.' And whan Rowland vnderstode thise tydynges, he was sore merveylled of it, and sayd, 'Reynawde, ye telle me now a wondrefull thynge / How have ye taken myn vncle soo lightly? [Car de le auoir pris en bataille ne en champnē son ost et pavillion oncques ne fut si recreant, F. orig. C. v.] telle me, & playse you, how ye had hym here wythin / have ye taken hym by force of armes?' 'Naye, verely,' sayd Reynawde [richart, F. orig.] / 'telle me thenne how, I praye you,' sayd Rowlande. 'Wyte it,' sayd Reynawde, [richart, F. orig.] 'that I wote not how mawgys my cosyn dyde to nyghte / but wel I wote that he hath broughte the kynge here wythin,3 oute of hys pavylion,3 [3—3 omitted, F. orig.] and hathe layd hym in a bed / in a chambre, where he is now fast a slepe.'
Whan Rowlande and all his felawes herde thise tydynges, they were gretly abasshed [Seigneurs dist le duc naymes bien fait nostre seigneur a ceulx quil luy plait, F. orig. C. v.] / how it myghte be that mawgys sholde brynge the kynge there / 3'I merveylle moche herof,' sayd the duke naymes3 [3—3 omitted, F. orig.] / 'For ye knowe well that the kynge made hym selfe to be kepte bothe nyghte and daye well sure.' 'Lordes,' sayd thenne oger / 'all this hath doon our lord for the love of reynawd, by cause he setted hym all to [folio A.A.vi.b] mischeeff 3agenst Reynawde,3 [3—3 omitted, F. orig.] and that the werre hathe lasted to longe, the whiche shall now be left, wherof I thanke god for my parte / For many goode knyghtes