Add to such ill, that, hungering sore for food, They and their horses, through the livelong night, Trampling the mire, with chattering teeth, had stood:
But (what well-nigh engendered more despite -- Say not well nigh -- more moved the warrior's mood)
Was that they knew the damsel would recite How they had been unhorsed by hostile lance In the first course which they had run in France;
