92 THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF CHAP.

named Paris, London, Aix, and Cologne, but
Crekenpit | never heard of, therefore, I fear,
you dissemble.’

The fox blushed at those words, yet with
a bold countenance he said, ‘Is your Majesty
so doubtful of my faith? nay, then I will
approve my words by public testimony’; and
with that he called forth Ayward the hare
from among the rest of the beasts, and
commanded him to come before the King,
charging him upon his faith and allegiance
which he bore to the King and Queen, to
answer truly to such questions as he should
ask him.

The hare answered, ‘| will speak truth in all
things, though I were sure to die for the same.’

Then the fox said, ‘Know you not where
Crekenpit standeth ?’

‘Yes,’ said the hare, ‘I have known it any
time these dozen years; it standeth in a wood
called HYustreloe, upon a vast and wide wilder-
ness, where I have endured much torment
both of hunger and cold. Besides, it was there
where father Szwony the friar made false coin,
with which he supported himself and his fellows.
Yet that was before I and Azmg the hound
became companions.’