Who is it that bids me put my hunger by.

OLDEST PUPIL.

I am your oldest pupil, Seanchan;

The one that has been with you many years—

So many, that you said at Candlemas

That I had almost done with school, and knew

All but all that poets understand.

SEANCHAN.

My oldest pupil? No, that cannot be,

For it is some one of the courtly crowds