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Flow Reynard the Fox was honoured of all beasts by

the King’s commandment.

As soon as this conference was ended, the royal
King mounted upon a high throne made in
manner of a scaffold, made of fair squared stone,
and then commanded a general silence amongst
all his subjects, and that every one should take
his place according to his birth, or dignity in
office, only the fox was placed between the
King and the Queen.

Then said the King, ‘ Hear, all you noble-
men, knights, gentlemen, and others of inferior
quality; this Reynard, one of the chief and
supreme officers of my household, whose
offences had brought him to the least reckoning
of his life, as being in the hands of the law and
justice, hath this day, in requital of these in-
juries, done that noble and worthy service
to the State that both myself and my Queen