Fragment V.[F5]

[Footnote F5: In Halliwell’s edition IV.]

By the se syde as it lay,

God sende hym gatys ryght! 950

[Sidenote:

reaches Calabria, and hears of the Giant.]

An hye waye hath he nome,

Into Calabre is he come

Within two dayes or thre. 953

So he met folke hym agayne,

Fast comynge with carte and wayne

Frowarde the se. 956

‘Dere God,’ sayd Torente now,

‘Good folke, what eyleth you,

That ye thus fast fle?’ 959

‘There lyeth a gyaunte here besyde,

For all this londe brode and wyde

No man on lyue leueth he.’ 962

‘Dere God,’ sayd Torente then,

‘Wher euer be that fendes den?’

They answered hym anone: 965

‘In a castell in the see,

Slogus’ they sayd ‘hyght he,

Many a man he hath slone. 968

[Sidenote:

The Giant Slogus is in Hungary.]

We wote full well, where he doth ly

Byfore the cyte of Hungry,’

. . . . . . . . . . 971

[Headnote: FRAG. 6. TORRENT FIGHTS A GIANT. DESONELL HAS TWINS.]