86 THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF CHAP.

promise to all beasts that would take wages,
and acknowledge Bruzz for their sovereign,
and defend his title, a full year’s pay before-
hand. And in this journey my father accom-
panied him, carrying letters patent signed to
that purpose, little suspecting that he was
robbed of the wealth which should supply his

 

treason. When this negotiation was finished
between lve and Soame, and a world of valiant
soldiers raised against the beginning of the
next spring, then they returned to Bruzz and
his consorts, to whom they declared the many
perils they had escaped in the dukedom of
Saxony, where they were pursued by huntsmen
and hounds, so as they hardly escaped with
life. After this relation they showed Bruin