Chapter 83 No.83

"Dire dealings with the fiendish race

Had marked strange lines upon his face:

Vigil and fast had worn him grim,

His eyesight dazzled seemed and dim,

As one unused to upper day;

Even his own menials with dismay

Beheld, Sir Knight, the grisly sire,

In his unwonted wild attire;

Unwonted, for traditions run,

He seldom thus be