Chapter 87: XXIV

XXIV How Sir Marhaus rode with the damosel, and how he came to the Duke of the South Marches. Now turn we unto Sir Marhaus, that rode with the damosel of thirty winter of age, southward. And so they came into a deep forest, and by fortune they were nighted, and rode long in a deep way, and at the last they came unto a courtelage, and there they asked harbour. But the man of the courtelage would not lodge them for no treatise35 that they could treat, but thus much the good man said, An ye …