He refuses for a while, and sets forth his troubled mind with some pathos;

“Avoi! fait-il, seignors, avoi!

Uncor sui-je plus maus assez

E plus cent tant que vos ne quidez;

Mais c’est la fin, remis m’en sui,

Que je n’irai mais en bois ui.

Ne voil por rien qu’alé i seie

Ne que jamais la forest veie.”

He goes forth, and, as I have said in the text ([p. 332]), is shot by the arrow glancing from a tree. Benoît knew through what agency;

“Mais tant li mostre li reis Ros