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 e de bones costumes be habundos,      hauie contractat matrimoni, de hac manades corts: e per               fer cridar cort general afi que la gran fama qui fon per la terra     si fes gran exercici darmes. La de sa cort, hun assaut scuder         fama fon divulgada per tots los tot sol, en son palaffre caualcant,   regnes de cristians, de la grandissima anava a la cort per esser adobat      festa que lo famos Rey a noueyl cauayler: on per lo          preparaua. Seguis que un gentilom trebayl que hac sostengut d'son       de linatge antich e natural caualcar, dementre que anaua          de Bretanya, anant en companyia en son palaffre adormis. E en         de molts altres gentils aquella hora lo cauayler qui en       homens qui a la gran festa la forest fahia sa penitencia ffon    anauen aturas mes darrer de vengut a la ffont contemplar           tots e adormis sobrel roci fatigat Deu e menysprear la vanitat de        del treball del gran cami que aquest mon, seguns que cascun         fet hauia. Son cauall lexa lo jorn hauia acustumat. cami e pres per una senda qui dreçava ala delitosa font hon Dementre que lescuder caualcaua       lermita staua qui en aquell cas en axi, son palaffre exi d'l          se delitaua legir un libre qui es cami e mes se per lo boscatge,

king, who was most noble and          absolute idleness and languor, of many excellent habits, ordered     determined, since he had contracted an assembly of his court. marriage, to proclaim a On account of the great fame          meeting of the General Court which his court enjoyed all over      where great exercises of arms the earth, a doughty squire, all      should take place. The news of alone and riding on his palfrey,      the wonderful festival which the went thither in order that he         famous king was planning was might be made a knight; when,         spread throughout all the Christian on account of the fatigue that he     realms. It happened that underwent from his riding, he         a nobleman of ancient lineage fell asleep while going along on      and a native of Brittany, traveling his steed. And at that moment         in the company of many the knight who was doing penance      other noblemen who were going in the forest had come to             to the great festival, fell behind the spring to contemplate and         all the rest, and, overcome by to despise the vanity of this          the fatigue of the long journey world just as he was accustomed       that he had made, dropped to do every day. asleep. His steed left the road and followed a path which led While the squire was riding           to the delightful spring where along in this manner, his steed       the hermit was, who at that left the road and entered the