Melusine. Part I

Cap. L. How the geaunt fled & Geffray folowed hym.

Thenne was the geaunt ryght dolaunt & abasshed whan he sawe his Clubbe þus cutte lyeng on the grounde, For he durst not bowe hym self to take it vp. Thenne he lept on geffray & strake hym with his fyst vpon the helmet with so grete myght & yre that almost geffray was astonyed therwith aƚƚ. but geffray, corageous & hardy, smote the geant vpon the þye, so that he cutte a grete part of it. And thenne whan the geaunt sawe hym thus hurt he withdrew hym a lytel backward, and syn bygan to flee / but geffray, holdyng his swerd̛, folowed hym / and the geaunt entred into a hoƚƚ within the mountayne, Wherof geffray was abasshed /. Thenne came geffray [folio 192b] to the hoƚƚ and loked in, but it was so obscure & derk & so deep that he sawe nor wyst where the geaunt was become. And he retourned and toke & mounted ayen vpon his hors, and descended into þe valey, & came to hys meyne that abode for hym there, whiche had grete meruayƚƚ whan they sawe hym retourne hole & sauf / and in especial the two knightes wondred moche & were abasshed of it / and they asked hym yf he had sene the geaunt / and he said to them, 'I haue faught with hym / and

he is fled & entred in to an hoƚƚ, where as I may not see hym.' And they demanded of geffray yf he had told hym hys name / and he ansuerd, 'ye' / and thenne they said̛ that it was for nought to seke hym, For wel he wyst that he shuld dey by the handes of geffray. 'Doubte you not,' said geffray, 'For wel I knowe where he is entred in / and to morne, with goddes help, I shal fynd̛ hym wel.' And whan they vnderstode Geffray to speke they had grete joye, and said that geffray was the moost valyaunt knight of the world.