remained in the hall, but he would not do off his clothes nor his of silk, and had around him waxen tapers burning that were fixed in coffins, as it seemed him. He thought in his heart that he would go shoon, for the night seemed him to be too short, and for that he would launde, and he seeth about it a great graveyard wherein were many seemed him in his sleep, and issued forth of the castle a great pace he slept, seemed him the King had gone without him. The squire was sore scared thereat, and came to his hackney and set the saddle and great forest and looked in the way before him and saw the slot of the The squire thought that the hoof-marks on the way had come to an end and so thought that the King had alighted there or hard by there. He looketh to the right hand and seeth a chapel in the midst of the he see there in one part nor another, save a knight that lay dead in "Sir," saith the squire, "At your pleasure." lying down in such sort as I have told you, and in the first sleep that four candlesticks of gold. This squire marvelled much how this body the midst of the chapel upon a bier, and he was covered of a rich cloth King's horse and followed the track a long space, until that he came to towards the chapel, for he supposed that the King would have entered to after the King. And when he had ridden a long space he entered into a pray there. He went thitherward and alighted. When the squire was bridle upon him, and did on his spurs and girt on his sword, as it fain be ready in the morning at the King's commandment. The squire was And the evening drew on, and the King and Queen go to bed. When they a launde of the forest whereat he thought that the King had alighted. had eaten in hall, the knights went to their hostels. The squire alighted, he tied up his hackney and entered into the chapel. None did