They went to market and found there, by paying for them, two fine asses with their equipment.
XXXIX
As they rode on astraddle, they came to Oost-Camp, where there is a great wood the fringe of which touched the canal.
Seeking therein shade and sweet fragrance, they went into it, without seeing anything but the long forest alleys going in every direction towards Bruges, Ghent, South Flanders, and North Flanders.
Suddenly Ulenspiegel jumped down from his ass.
“Dost thou see nothing yonder?”
Lamme said:
“Aye, I see.” And trembling: “My wife, my good wife! ’Tis she, my son. Ha! I cannot walk to her. To find her thus!”