Conduct me thither."

And, gramercied, then

Mounted a void horse of that wondering train,

And thence departed with two squires. And they

Came to a lone, dismantled priory

Hard by a castle gray on whose square towers,

Machicolated, o'er the forest's bowers,

The immemorial morning bloomed and blushed.

A woodland manor olden, dark embushed

In wild and woody hills. And then one wound