I beg it as a boon." Messire Pierre, distressed to see her situation, granted her request too readily.
The countess then ordered a great train to be prepared, and set forth on her journey, taking with her treasure and jewels of great value, which was not much remarked at the time; but she knew well that she did not intend to return.

Her journey and her pilgrimage accomplished, she announced her intention to pay a visit to her cousins, the King and Queen of Castile; and to their Court she went, and was received with joy.

And there the Countess Florence is still, and will not return, nor send back her children.

The very night on which he had killed the great bear, Messire Pierre was seized with the malady which has ever since taken possession of him.

"He rises," said the squire, "in the night, arms himself, draws his sword, and, with loud and furious cries and gestures, like a man possessed, flies at every one near him, and makes such a terrific noise and confusion that it would seem fiends were in his chamber.