And we will make us merry as we may.

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.”

He spake: the Prince, as Enid pass’d him, fain 375

To follow, strode a stride; but Yniol caught

His purple scarf, and held, and said, “Forbear!

Rest! the good house, though ruin’d, O my son,

Endures not that her guest should serve himself.”

And reverencing the custom of the house, 380

Geraint, from utter courtesy, forbore.

So Enid took his charger to the stall;