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526 unknown, taking with him a single page as an attendant, and retired to a solitary hermitage in the forest of Ardenne, where he was advertised by an angel of his approaching dissolution. He then despatched his page to Felice with the gold ring which he had received from her at parting, and adjured her to come and give directions for his burial. She arrived; found him dying; received his last breath; and, having survived him only fifteen days, was buried in the same grave."

Now is the story brought to an end, Of Guy, the bold baron of price, And of the fair maid Felice, Fair ensamples men may lere, Whoso will listen and hear. True to love, late and early, As, in his life, did good Sir Guy: For he forsook worldly honour, To serve God his creatour; Wherefore Jesu, that was of a maid born To buy man's soul that was forlorn, And rose from death the third day, And led man's soul from hell away, On their souls have mercy! And ye, that have heard this story,