Re: [council] Stockholms anniversary

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

At 06.06.2002 12:10, Philip Sheppard wrote:
> XIII "My Lords Barons,"
> says the Emperour then, Charles,
>      "King Marsilies hath sent me his
> messages;
>      Out of his wealth he'll give me weighty
> masses.
>      Greyhounds on leash and bears and lions
> also,
>      Thousand mewed hawks and seven hundred
> camels,
> 185  Four hundred mules with gold Arabian charged,
>      Fifty wagons, yea more than fifty drawing.
>      But from France demands he my departure;
>      He'll follow me to Stockenholm, where is my
> Castle;
> Philip


Dear Philip,
you seem to hold back the passage preceding your quote:

XII   That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits,
      Calls his barons, his council to
begin:
170   Oger the Duke, that Archbishop Turpin,
      Richard the old, and his nephew
Henry,
      From Gascony the proof Count Acolin,
      Tedbald of Reims and Milun his
cousin:
      With him there were Gerers, also
Gerin,
175   And among them the Count Rollant came in,
      And Oliver, so proof and so gentil.
      Franks out of France, a thousand
chivalry;
      Guenes came there, that wrought the
treachery.
      Names Council then began, which ended
ill.

Of course, the characters and events depicted are entirely 
fictitious; any similarities to actual persons are purely 
coincidental.

Best regards,
/// Alexander