go THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF CHAP.

said to him, ‘My dread Lord, I beseech your
Majesty to receive this pledge as a surrender
unto your Majesty of all the treasure that
the great King Lyvmerick was master of, with

 

 

which I freely infeoff you, out of my mere
voluntary and free motion.’

At these words the King received the
straw, and smiling, gave the fox great thanks
for the same. But the fox laughed outright
to think of the abuse; from that day forward