CHAGIEAR X!
How the Fox was arrested and judged to death.

Upon this arrest a parliament was called, and
every voice went that Reynard should be
executed. Notwithstanding he answered every
objection severally, though great art was used
both in one and the other, to the wonderful
admiration of all that heard him. But witnesses
examined, and every proof made pregnant, the
fox was condemned, and judgment was given,
that he should be hanged till his body were
dead; at which sentence the fox cast down his
head, for all his jollity was lost, and no flattery
nor no words now prevailed.

This done, Grzméard his nephew, and divers
others near him in blood (which could not endure
to see him die) took their leave of the King
and departed from the court. When the King
noted what gallant young gentlemen departed
thence, all sad and weeping, being near of the