XII

　　That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits,

　　Calls his barons, his council to begin:

　　Oger the Duke, that Archbishop Turpin,

　　Richard the old, and his nephew Henry,

　　From Gascony the proof Count Acolin,

　　Tedbald of Reims and Milun his cousin:

　　With him there were Gerers, also Gerin,

　　And among them the Count Rollant came in,

　　And Oliver, so proof and so gentil.

　　Franks out of France, a thousand chivalry;

　　Guenes came there, that wrought the treachery.

　　The Council then began, which ended ill.

　　AOI.