When they were come almost to that citý, But if it were 3324 a two furlong or three, A young clerk roaming by himself they met, Which that in Latin thriftily 3325 them gret. 3326 And after that he said a wondrous thing; “I know,” quoth he, “the cause of your comíng;” And ere they farther any footë went, He told them all that was in their intent. The Breton clerk him asked of felláws The which he haddë known in oldë daws, 3327 And he answér’d him that they deadë were, For which he wept full often many a tear. Down off his horse Aurelius light anon, And forth with this magician is be gone Home to his house, and made him well at ease; Them lacked no vitáil that might them please. So well-array’d a house as there was one, Aurelius in his life saw never none.