Seem tapestry in a lordly hall,"
&c. &c.
The first use he makes of his power is to convey the wounded knight, laid across his weary horse, into Branksome Hall
"Before the beards of the warders all;
And each did after swear and say,
There only passed a wain of hay."
Having deposited him at the door of the Ladye's bower, he repasses the outer court, and finding the young chief at play, entices him into the woods under the guise to him of a "comrade gay."
"Though on the drawbridge, the warders stout,
Saw a terrier and a lurcher passing out;"
and, leading him far away "o'er bank and fell," well nigh frightens the fair boy to death by resuming his own elvish shape.