Then he broke down and destroyed the palace, and all the things that had seemed so beautiful, but that were only a part of her wicked magic.
As Guyon and the palmer led the witch by her chains to their boat that waited by the shore, the fierce beasts that had attacked them when they landed came roaring at them again.
But the palmer touched each one with his staff, and at once they were turned into men. For it was only the witch’s magic that had made them beasts. One of them, named Gryll, who had been a pig, was angry with the palmer, and said he had far rather stay a pig than be a man.
‘Let Gryll be Gryll, and have his hoggish mind,
But let us hence depart whilst weather serves and wind,’
said the palmer.
So they sailed away to the fairy court, and gave their wicked prisoner to the queen to be punished.
And Sir Guyon was ready once again to do the Faerie Queen’s commands, to war against all evil things, and to fight bravely for the right.