雙語《列那狐》 2

CHAPTER II

ESEGRIM the Wolf, with his lineage and friends, came and stood before the King, and said,“High and Mighty Prince, my Lord the King, I beseech you that through your great might, right, and mercy, that you will have pity on the great trespass and the unreasonable misdeeds that Reynart the Fox has done to me and to my wife: that is to wit, he is come in to my house against the will of my wife, and there he has bepissed my children whereas they lay, in such wise as they thereof are waxen blind. Whereupon was a day set, and was judged that Reynart should come and have excused him hereof, and have sworn on the holy saints that he was not guilty thereof. And when the book with the saints was brought forth, tho had Reynart bethought him otherwise, and went his way again into his hole, as he had naught set thereby. And, dear King, this known well many of the Beasts that now be come hither to your Court. And yet has he trespassed to me in many other things. He is not living that could tell all that I now leave untold. But the shame and villainy that he has done my wife, that shall I never hide nor suffer it unavenged, but that he shall make to me large amends.”