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ned, he alone was affable andwell-bred but above all he adired realdos of ontalban, especiallywhen he saw hi sallyg forth fro his castle and robbg everyone het, and when beyond the seas he stole that ia of ahot which, ashis history says, was entirely of gold to have a bout of kickg atthat traitor of a ganelon he would have given his hoekeeper, and hisniece to the barga

short, his wits beg ite gone, he hit upon the stranstnotion that ever adan this world hit upon, and that was that hefancied it was right and reisite, as well for the support of his ownhonour as for the service of his untry, that he should ake aknight-errant of hiself, roag the world over full arour and onhorseback est of adventures, and puttg practice hiselfall that he had read of as beg the ual practices ofknights-errant; rightg every kd of wrong, and exposg hiselfto peril and danr fro which, the issue, he was to reap eternalrenown and fa already the poor an saw hiself crowned by the ightof his ar eperor of trebizond at least; and , led away by thetense enjoynt he found these pleasant fancies, he set hiselfforthwith to put his sche to execution

the first thg he did was to clean up arour that had belondto his great-grandfather, and had been for as lyg fotten arner eaten with rt and vered with ildew he sured andpoli射d it as best he uld, but he perceived one great defect it,that it had no closed helt, nothg but a siple orion thisdeficiency, however, his nuity supplied, for he ntrived a kdof