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CHAP. XXXIX. PRESTER JOHN AND THE GOLDEN KING
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CHAPTER XXXIX.
HOW PRESTER JOHN TREATED THE GOLDEN KING HIS PRISONER.
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AND on this the Golden King was so sorely grieved that
he was like to die. And he said to them : " Good, my
sons, for God's sake have pity and compassion upon me.
Ye wot well what honourable and kindly entertainment
ye have had in my house ; and now ye would deliver me
into the hands of mine enemy ! In south, if ye do what
ye say, ye will do a very naughty and disloyal deed, and
a right villainous." But they answered only that so it
must be, and away they had him to Prester John their
Lord.
And when Prester John beheld the King he was
right glad, and gi eeted him with something like a
malison. The King answered not a word, as if he
wist not what it behoved him to say. So Prester John
ordered him to be taken forth straightway, and to be put
to look after cattle, but to be well looked after himself
also. So they took him and set him to keep cattle.
This did Prester John of the grudge he bore the King,
to heap contumely on him, and to show what a nothing
he was, compared to himself.
And when the King had thus kept cattle for two
years, Prester John sent for him, and treated him with
honour, and clothed him in rich robes, and said to him :
"Now Sir King, art thou satisfied that thou wast in no
way a man to stand against me ? " " Truly, my good
Lord, I know well and always did know that I was in
no way a man to stand against thee." And when he
had said this Prester john replied : " I ask no more ; but
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