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4 mistress, found her brother Pepin the tree, to whom he declared all that had happened, and how his sister was banished through the false suggestion of the arch-priest; which when King Pepin heard, he was greatly enraged against the Lady Bellifant, saying, the Emperor ought to have put her to death. So leaving Blandiman, he returned with his nobles to Paris.

The Lady Bellifant having followed the bear to no purpose, returned to the place where she had left the other babe but great was her sorrow when Blandiman said he had seen her brother Pepin, but could tell nothing of the child;—and having comforted her for the loss of it, they went to the sea-side took shipping and arrived at the castle of the giant Feragus, in Portugal.

All this while the bear nourished the infant among her young ones until length it grew up a wild hairy man doing great mischief to all that passed through the forest; in which we will leave him, and return to the arch-priest, who did great mischief, until he was impeached by a merchant, having wrongfully accused the