CHAP. III REYNARD THE FOX 13

King, vouchsafe, I beseech you, to hear our
complaint, and redress those injuries which
Reynard hath unjustly done to me, and to my
children that here stand weeping. For so it 1S,
most mighty sir, that in the beginning of April,

 

when the weather was fair, | being then in the
height of my pride and glory, because of the
great stock and lineage I came of, and also I
had eight valiant sons, and seven fair daughters,
which my wife had hatched, all which were strong
and fat, and walked in a yard well walled and
fenced round about, wherein they had in several