L’avoient moult miex fait que li joule d’assés,
Assés en fui le soir laidement ramponés.”
(ll. 144–161.)
Compare also Syr Ferumbras, ll. 144–163
p. 32, l. [1088]. of = “on account of.”
p. 32, l. [1092]. According to most of the old romances Roland was invulnerable. He never lost any blood by a wound but on the occasion when he was beaten by Charlemagne
“For trois goutes sans plus, quant Charles par irour
Le feri de son gant que le virent plousour.”
See Histoire Poétique, p. 264.
The French text (ll. 166–170) runs as follows: