bird with their heat. And after that came more beasts, and bowing their
breasts toward the bird, went their way. Then came there divers birds
that sung sweetly and pleasantly: with that the emperor awaked.

In the morning early this Anselm remembered his vision, and wondered
much what it might signify; wherefore he called to him his philosophers,
and all the states of the empire, and told them his dream, charging them
to tell him the signification thereof on pain of death, and if they
told him the true interpretation thereof, he promised them good reward.
Then said they, "Dear lord, tell us your dream, and we shall declare to
you what it betokens." Then the emperor told them from the beginning to
the ending, as is aforesaid. When the philosophers heard this, with glad
cheer they answered, and said, "Sir, the vision that you saw betokeneth
good, for the empire shall be clearer than it is.

"The moon that is more pale on the one side than on the other, betokeneth
the empress, that hath lost part of her colour, through the conception
of a son that she hath conceived. The little bird betokeneth the son
that she shall bare. The two beasts that fed this bird betoken the wise
and rich men of the empire which shall obey the son. These other beasts
that bowed their breasts to the bird betoken many other nations that
shall do him homage. The bird that sang so sweetly to this little bird
betokeneth the Romans, who shall rejoice and sing because of his birth.
This is the very interpretation of your dream."

When the emperor heard this, he was right joyful. Soon after that, the
empress travailed in childbirth, and was delivered of a fair son, at
whose birth there was great and wonderful joy made.

When the king of Ampluy heard this, he thought in himself thus: "Lo, I
have warred against the emperor all the days of my life, and now he hath
a son who, when he cometh to full age, will revenge the wrong I have
done against his father; therefore it is better that I send to the
emperor and beseech him of truce and peace, that the son may have
nothing against me when he cometh to manhood." When he had thus said to
himself, he wrote to the emperor, beseeching him to have peace. When the
emperor saw that the king of Ampluy wrote to him more for fear than for
love, he wrote again to him, that if he would find good and sufficient
sureties to keep the peace, and bind himself all the days of his life to
do him service and homage, he would rece