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 e ana tant la hon li plach per lo     nomenat arbre de batalles. E boscatge, tro esdevench en la         feya continuament gracies, com fontana hon lo cauayler estava        aquell libre legia, a nostre en oracio. Lo cauayler qui viu        Senyor Deu de les singulars venir lescuder lexa sa oracio e       graties que en aquest mon hauia assech se en lo bel prat a la         aconseguides servint lorde de ombra del arbre, e comença a           caualleria. E stant axi veu legir a .i. libre que tenia en la     venir per pla un home a cauall; fauda. e conegue que venia dormint; lexas de legir e nol volgue despertar. Lo palaffre con fo a la font          Com lo roci fon dauant bech de laygua, e lescuder qui        la font e veu laygua, acostasi senti en durment que son palaffre     per voler beure: e per que tenia nos mouia, despertas, e               la falça regna en larço de la viu denant si lo cauayler qui fo       çella no podia: e tant bascha molt veyl, e hac gran barba e         que fon forçat al gentilom ques lonchs cabels, e romputs vestiments:  despertas: e obrint los hulls, se per la velea e per la                  veu dauant un hermita ab molt penitencia que fasia fo magre         gran barba tota blancha: e quasi e descolorit, e per les lagremes      les vestidures rompudes: e mostrauas que gitaua, sos hulls foren apo-*     flach e descolorit. E

woods. It went wherever it            very moment was reading with pleased in the forest until it came   great delight a book entitled to the spring where the knight        Arbre de Batalles. And he was was praying. The knight, who          continuously rendering thanks, saw the squire coming, ceased         while reading that book, to our praying and seated himself on         Lord God for the singular favors the beautiful meadow in the           that he had obtained in this shade of the tree, and began to       world in the service of the Order read in a book which he had in        of Chivalry. Being occupied in his lap. When the steed was at        this manner, he saw a man on the spring, it drank, and the          horseback coming across the squire who in his sleep felt that     plain, and noticed that he was the palfrey was no longer moving,     asleep. He ceased reading and awoke, and saw before him             did not wish to awaken him. the knight who was very old,          When the steed was in front of and had a big beard and long           the spring and saw the water, hair, and clothes that were torn. it approached, for it wished to From his vigils and from the          drink, but because the rein was penance that he was doing he          fastened to the pommel of the was thin and pale; and from the       saddle it was not able to do so: tears that he was shedding, his       it stooped so low that the rider