e him such a charge that he shall
remember it while he liveth. And therewithal Sadok departed from her,
and either betook other to God. And when Sadok came to King Mark he told
him faithfully that he had drowned young Alisander her son; and thereof
King Mark was full glad.

Now turn we unto Anglides, that rode both night and day by adventure out
of Cornwall, and little and in few places she rested; but ever she drew
southward to the seaside, till by fortune she came to a castle that
is called Magouns, and now it is called Arundel, in Sussex. And the
Constable of the castle welcomed her, and said she was welcome to her
own castle; and there was Anglides worshipfully received, for the
Constable's wife was nigh her cousin, and the Constable's name was
Bellangere; and that same Constable told Anglides that the same castle
was hers by right inheritance. Thus Anglides endured years and winters,
till Alisander was big and strong; there was none so wight in all that
country, neither there was none that might do no manner of mastery afore
him.

CHAPTER XXXIV. How Anglides gave the bloody doublet to Alisander, her
son, the same day that he was made knight, and the charge withal.

THEN upon a day Bellangere the Constable came to Anglides and said:
Madam, it were time my lord Alisander were made knight, for he is a
passing strong young man. Sir, said she, I would he were made knight;
but then must I give him the most charge that ever sinful mother gave to
her child. Do as ye list, said Bellangere, and I shall give him warning
that he shall be made knight. Now it will be well done that he may be
made knight at our Lady Day in Lent. Be it so, said Anglides, and I pray
you make ready therefore. So came the Constable to Alisander, and told
him that he should at our Lady Day in Lent be made knight. I thank God,
said Alisander; these are the best tidings that ever came to me. Then
the Constable ordained twenty of the greatest gentlemen's sons, and the
best born men of the country, that should be made knights that same day
that Alisander was made knight. So on the same day that Alisander and
his twenty fellows were made knights, at the offering of the mass there
came Anglides unto her son and said thus: O fair sweet son, I charge
thee upon my blessing, and of the high order of chivalry that thou
takest here this day, that thou understand what I shall say and charge
thee withal. Therewithal she pulled out a bloody doublet and a blo