Orent por li mainte medlée;
Mult le preisoent et amoent,
Et à seignor le desiroent,
Com costumes est de plusors,
Ki conveitent novels seignors.
Par espeir des veisins chastels
E par consence des Mansels,
Helies el Mans s’embati,
E cil del Mans l’unt recoilli.”
Helias however was not a new lord, a fact which Wace’s confused order puts out of sight. On the somewhat different tone of the Biographer of the Bishops, see [Appendix KK].