His neck! Whose gorgeous vesture heaps the ground?

A prize? He turned, and peeringly on him

Brooded the women-faces, kind and dim,

Ready to talk—"The Jongleurs in a troop

Had brought him back, Naddo and Squarcialupe

And Tagliafer; how strange! a childhood spent

In taking, well for him, so brave a bent!

Since Eglamor," they heard, "was dead with spite,

And Palma chose him for her minstrel."

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