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25 The King then asked the counsel of the Fox, for now the Court followed the trickster’s will. “Because you want the treasure I will speak” (said Reynard) “but hear my directions well. West of Flanders stands a forest we call Husterlo. Deep inside is a water pit that of old was called Krekenpyt, but all now say squatting-pit. But beware! So great is this forest, no one goes willingly into it.” 26 “In Husterlo you’ll find the hidden treasure; but first you have to find the squatting-pit— deep inside it the treasure is buried there. There are none I trust so well in the Court as my King and Queen, so you two must go and get the treasure at the squatting-pit yourselves. So when you reach the squatting-pit (you’ll see two birch trees standing beside it), there you must scrape and dig away, if you’d be rich.” 27 “There you shall get many pieces of gold and silver, and also the shining crown which King Ermanric wore in days of old. (It’s that crown Bruno the Bear would have worn if his conspiracy had continued to spin.) Many brilliant jewels await you, rich stones set in gold work costing a pretty penny. O King, when you’re holding all these riches you’ll say in your heart, ‘How great is Reynard the Fox!’” 28 “You’ll say” (Fox continued) “‘How true and good is Reynard the Fox, whose tremendous courage took him into Husterlo, that grim wood, to hide this great treasure! May God keep thee, Reynard, and give thee welfare and fortune always!’ That, methinks, is what you’ll say to me.” So the King said, “Sir Reynard, you must come with us, and show us the way to the treasure. “I’ve heard of places named Paris, Aachen, and Cologne,” 29 “but I’ve never heard of the squatting-pit of Husterlo; I would never find it. In fact I don’t believe a word of it” (said the King). “Krekenpyt!” he mocked the Fox. These words were not good to Reynard the Fox, who addressed the Court in an angry mood : “Because you don’t believe it, it can’t be true? Hear now as I change your suspicious mind. Cuwart the Hare!” (he called) “Come now before your Lord.” 30 The Beasts parted to make way for the Hare, and wondered what the King would do with this. And Reynard said : “Be not afraid of me, Cuwart; why do you quake and tremble so? Simply tell the Lord our King here the truth of what I shall ask; and remember the faith you owe both him and his good Queen, Sir Hare.” Cuwart answered, “I shall speak only the truth, even if it kills me; for only truth I speaketh.” 31 “I’m glad to hear you speaketh only truth” (said Fox) “Tell us where the squatting-place is.” “The squatting-place?” (answered Cuwart) “Where’s that?” “The Krekenpyt” (Fox said) “Know you of this?” “You trouble me over the Krekenpyt?” (asked the Hare) “I know of the Krekenpyt, but that was twelve years ago. Why ask me that? It stands in a forest named Husterlo. I’ve suffered much sorrow there for hunger and cold,” 32 “more than I can tell. Father Symonet the Frisian used to make false money there, and partied there with curious company right in the middle of the lonesome wild. But all that was before I had fellowship with Ryn the Hound, who’s helped me to escape from many dangerous Situations; and if he were here with me now, he’d say I’ve never offended the King in any way.” 33 Reynard said to him, “Depart us, Cuwart the Hare; the Lord your King desireth not to hear more of you.” So Cuwart left and went back to the place he had come from. Then the Fox turned to the King and asked him, “So is it true about the squatting-place?” And the King answered, “Yes, Reynard, forgive me. Now my friend, let us three go to the place; and you shall show us to the pit and its treasure.”

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18 “My Lord” (said Reynard) “where are all those to fight and lose themselves to keep you on the throne?” The King and Queen conferred for a moment. They decided they wanted the treasure for themselves, so forsook the procedure of the Court, and took Reynard straight to heart, hoping he would show them such obedience he would tell them where the treasure lay hid. Reynard asked, “You would hear where the treasure lay hid?” 19 “But why should I tell you, O King?” (said Fox) “Or those flatterers who would see me hanged? If I told you I’d be out of my wit!” The Queen then spake. “Nay, Reynard” (she said) “the King shall let you have your life, and let pass and dismiss from his mind all your crimes, and you shall be forgiven, and a friend to our King you shall be henceforth, if wise and true to our monarch you continue to be.” 20 Then said the Fox in answer to the Queen, “Dear Lady, if the King would have me as a friend, and forgive me all my crimes, there was never King so rich as I shall make him, for what I have as treasure can never be counted.” The King said, “My dear, should we believe this? Save your reverence. He is born to rob, steal, and to lie. All that sticks to his bones, and cannot be had out of the flesh of the Fox.” 21 The Queen answered, “Nay, my Lord, believe him. Reynard shows us rehabilitation; he is not what he was. You have heard him impeach his own father, and the Badger his nephew, with a story he might well have laid on other Beasts if he was still false, devious, and a liar.” The King answered her : “Dame, if you would have it so, and think it best to be done, then let it be done.” 22 “Let it be done” (said the King) “though I for one think this will surely hurt me in some way if I believe even a single word of Reynard the Fox. But let it be done. But I swear by my crown, if he ever after misdo and trespass, he will pay penalty for it, and all his lineage as well.” The Fox admired the King in silence for a bit, and was tickled at how things befell. 23 “My Lord” (said Reynard the Fox) “I were not wise if I should say anything to you untrue.” So the King took up a straw from the earth and pardoned Reynard, and forgave him his life of crime, and pardoned his father’s crimes, too. So if the Fox just now was merry and glad, it was no wonder; he had escaped death by hanging; he stood friendly with the King; and now was fancy-free with all of his enemies. 24 “My Lord the King and noble Lady the Queen, God grant you great worship for your kindness” (said the Fox, who then picked up his own straw) “May it please you to receive the treasure that Ermanric had. I give it with free will and acknowledge it openly.” The King received the straw, then he cheerfully tossed it away with an honest smile, and thanked Reynard the Fox, who laughed quietly to himself.

13 “So I brought my wife Ermelyn to help, and we rested nor night nor day while we carried away, in great effort and pain, the abundance of glittering treasure, that lay for us better in a deep hole under a Hawthorn tree. Meanwhile, while my wife and I worked so innocently, my father sat with them that would betray our noble King. Now hear you what they did that day.” 14 “Isengrim and Bruno wrote many letters, that if any would-be soldiers wanted pay, come to the Bear to earn fighting wages. My father ran all over the country delivering these letters, not privy to my robbery, and though his letters mass an army, he wasn’t worth a penny. When my father returned from all the lands ’twixt the Elbe and the Somme, he thought his news was good.” 15 “He told his fellows he’d massed an army, and how daring he’d been to choose the boroughs of the Saxon to hazard a journey, where the hunters rode after him with hounds so often he’d barely escaped with his life. When he said all this to the four false traitors, he showed them letters that pleased everyone. A full twelve hundred of Isengrim’s lineage promised to help (for a month’s wages in advance).” 16 “Joyously my father returned to the hole and his hidden treasure, to look at it. Then his sorrow began. He found the hole broken, and all his treasure taken out. So he sorrowed and bewailed his lot, and swelled with great anger; and went about haunted, ever looking for what he’d lost. Then he did what I may sorrow and bewail; in his terrible despondence he hung himself.” 17 “So now I am without a dear father; and for the rest of my days I go alone without the love of an encourager. Now hear my greatest misfortune of all : many traitors sit by the King in council, I mean Isengrim and Bruno to start; they sit by you and advise in your ear; while I, poor Reynard, have gotten no thanks that I buried my father so my King might live.”

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Canto 17 How the foxe brought them in daunger that wolde haue brought hym dethe, & how he gate the grace of the kyng. 1 Now listen how the Fox began. “My lord” (he said) “my father was scratching at the earth one day, and through blind chance found a great good hidden in a pit. ’Twas a great treasure.” Reynard paused to admire the silence of attention around him, then went further. “’Twas the old King Ermanric’s treasure, indeed it was” (he said) “and when my father saw what he had found, he swelled with puffed-up pleasure.” 2 “Now a wealthy fox, he became haughty and right orgueilleux, and he scoffèd at all the Beasts from his superior height of prosperity. He made Tibert the Cat journey through the wild Ardenne Forest to pay his respects to Bruno the Bear, and invite him to come to Flanders County, and said that if he came, he would be king. Bruno was glad to hear it, and started walking.” 3 “At Flanders my father received him friendly; then he sent for wise Grimbert the Badger, for Isengrim the Wolf, and for Tibert. These five conspirators came between Gaunt and a village called Yft, and there they held an evil council through a long dark night. They called upon the Devil’s help and craft, and declared that for my father’s riches they’d kill the King. Now hear the wonder that came next.” 4 “The four of them surrounded Isengrim, and swore a solemn oath upon his tail that they would elevate Bruno to king, and bring him forward on the royal stool to Aachen, and set the crown on his head; and if there were any of the King’s friends or family that were against this thing, my father with the power of his treasure would punish that ally, and take from him his life.” 5 “So, Grimbert reeled in early, drunk with wine, and the conspiracy slipped out of his lips to his wife. When he was sober he bade her keep it a secret, and she promised. But she soon forgot the promise and told it to my wife, and made her swear upon all that is holy to keep it a secret; but she told it to me, and told me to keep it a secret. But I went cold as ice.” 6 “And all the fur on my body stood up in dread and fear (in fear for you, my King), and my heart became as heavy as lead, and, like I say, I went as cold as ice. And I thought of something that reminds me of a sort of Homeric metaphor. If I had the skill to tell this tale, you’d glory in the power of Homer. I must do my best for you, and will try. Now hear!” 7 “I thought of something that befell the frogs a long time ago, back when they were free. They complained of their freedom, and argued that a community without a lord was not good; so they cried to God to bring someone to rule them. They got what they asked (for it was a reasonable request), and so came a Stork, who swallowed them in, as many as he could find; and was always cruel.” 8 “So now all the frogs complained of their hurt, but it was too late; they who once lived free must bow down now to the strength of their king. At any rate” (said Fox) “something like this could happen to us. O my Lord, my King, I have sorrowed for you without any thanks. I’m sure that if Bruno was running things as king we should all be destroyed and lost. ’Twould be a terrible trade, Bruno for our King!” 9 “What an evil change, from noble mighty stately Lion, to foul stinking thief!” (said Fox) “I couldn’t refuse your defence, for the head of the Bear is a cauldron of mad folly (and those of his lineage, too). Thus I’ve sorrowed for you with many a sorrow, wrestling with the agony of betraying my birth father for a greater father; but I knew I had to find the courage to try.” 10 “Always I prayed that God would keep our King in worship and good health, and grant him long life; but I knew that if my father had his way, he and his false fellows would destroy you. So I thought how best I might foil their plot. So I waited at all times, as often as I could, in woods, in bushes, in fields, by night and by day, cold or wet, waiting to spy my father slinking to his buried treasure.” 11 “One time I lay down all flat on the earth and saw my father scamper up out of a hole. Now listen well to what I saw him do. When he came out from the hole he looked quick about him as if to see if he’d been seen. But he didn’t see me. He filled the hole with sand, and hammered it with his tail to make it even like the ground nearby, and smoothed it with his mouth, so no one should see it.” 12 “But I saw it; and saw what my father really was, false, with many subtleties that I had known nothing of. Then he left and ran toward the village to do his things. I stayed behind and leapt to the hole and was not such a fool but found it fast, and scratched and scraped the sand out with my feet, then crept inside. What I found there was marvellous, more gold and silver than any Beast here could imagine.”

11 Said Reynard to the Queen, with sorrowful face, “When I get out from under Bruno, I’m to die; and had ye not warned me to save my soul, I should soon go down to the pain of Hell. So now I’ll say nothing but to make it good. The King” (said Reynard) “should have been murdered, murdered by those right here in the Court. I would stay silent, and not betray my own family, but I’d rather not burn in Hell everlastingly.” 12 The Lion King was sorely vexed at heart, and said, “Reynard, sayest thou to me the truth?” “Yes” (said the Fox) “I speaketh to you the truth. You see how it stands with me—do you think I would willingly damn my soul? Would it help if I speaketh anything but truth right now? My death is nigh. There may be nor prayer nor good to help me now.” So said the Fox, who trembled like a leaf within the circle of Beasts. 13 Within the fellowship Reynard trembled, seemingly fearing his fate; and the Queen saw, and had pity on him; and she prayed for her husband the King to show mercy, and abandon all further punishment; and she prayed the King should order the Beasts to hold their peace, and give the Fox audience, and hear what he should say. Reynard heard this, and trembled all over all the more in earnest. 14 The King commanded that the Court be still, and to allow the Fox to speak his mind. Reynard, then, through all his trembling, said, “Be ye now all still, as it is the word of the King, and I shall tell you the truth of this treason. And I shall spare no one who I know is guilty.” So, then, Reynard began a long tale without a tremble, for all his trembling, if truth be told, had been fake. NEXT, A NINE-PAGE SEQUENCE : How the foxe brought them in daunger that wolde haue brought hym dethe, & how he gate the grace of the kyng.