Will he aid me against the prowess of Mahon?’ Quoth Loéis, ‘We will take counsel thereon, To-morrow in the morning shalt thou conne, If aught by us in this matter can be done.’ Guillaume heard this⁠—black was he as carbon, He louted low, and seized a baton, And said to the king, ‘Of your fief will I none, I will not keep so much as a spur’s iron; Your friend and vassal I cease to be anon; But come you shall, whether you will or non.’ ” He is said to have been taken prisoner and carried to Africa by the Moorish King Tobaldo, whose wife Arabella he first converted to Christianity, and then eloped with. And who was Renouard? He was a young Moor, who was taken prisoner and brought up at the court of Saint Louis with the king’s daughter Alice, whom, after achieving unheard of wonders in battle and siege, he, being duly baptized, married. Later in life he also became a monk, and frightened the brotherhood by his greediness, and by going to sleep when he should have gone to mass. So say the old romances. ↩