الفصل الفصل 30 · How Ulric Gallet was sent un

Chapter 1.XXX.

How Ulric Gallet was sent unto Picrochole.

The letters being dictated, signed, and sealed, Grangousier ordained that

Ulric Gallet, master of the requests, a very wise and discreet man, of

whose prudence and sound judgment he had made trial in several difficult

and debateful matters, (should) go unto Picrochole, to show what had been

decreed amongst them. At the same hour departed the good man Gallet, and

having passed the ford, asked at the miller that dwelt there in what

condition Picrochole was: who answered him that his soldiers had left him

neither cock nor hen, that they were retired and shut up into the rock

Clermond, and that he would not advise him to go any further for fear of

the scouts, because they were enormously furious. Which he easily

believed, and therefore lodged that night with the miller.

The next morning he went with a trumpeter to the gate of the castle, and

required the guards he might be admitted to speak with the king of somewhat

that concerned him. These words being told unto the king, he would by no

means consent that they should open the gate; but, getting upon the top of

the bulwark, said unto the ambassador, What is the news, what have you to

say? Then the ambassador began to speak as followeth.