The Templar accordingly read it as follows:⁠—“I, Wamba, the son of Witless, Jester to a noble and freeborn man, Cedric of Rotherwood , called the Saxon⁠—And I, Gurth, the son of Beowulph, the swineherd⁠—”

“Thou art mad,” said Front-de-Boeuf, interrupting the reader.