Dear then were the greetings
and caresses betwixt them, and when it was over, and Birdalone had
led away his horse and dight it for him, and had gotten him victuals
and drink, and they were all sitting on the grass together, he told
them how he had fared. He had done all his matters in the Land under
the Green Mountains, and had given over his lands and houses to a man
of his lineage, his cousin, a good knight, and had taken from him of
gold and goods what he would. Then he had taken his two bairns and
their nurse, and an old squire and five sergeants, whereof one was
his foster-brother, and the others men somewhat stricken in years,
and had departed with them. Sithence he had come his ways to
Greenford, and had held talk therein with the prior of a great and
fair house of Black Canons, and had given him no little wealth
wherewith to re-do the Castle of the Quest what was needed, and for
livelihood of four canons to dwell there, and Leonard to be their
prior, that there they might remember Sir Baudoin their dear friend
daily in the office, and do good unto his soul.
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