CHAP. XII REYNARD THE FOX 85

thus finished, away he went towards the village
about his private affairs ; then went I presently
towards the hole, and notwithstanding all his
subtilty I quickly found it out, then entered
I the cave, where I found that innumerable
quantity of treasure which cannot be expressed.
I took Lrmelin my wife to help me, and we

 

ceased not, day nor night, with infinite great
toil and labour, to carry and convey away this
treasure to another place much more con-
venient for us, where we laid it safe from the
search of any creature. Now during the time
that my wife and I were thus employed, my
father was in consultation with the rest of the
traitors, about the death of the King ; in which
consultation it was concluded that /segrim the
wolf should travel over all the kingdom, and