If our
Heavenly Father has indeed given you the desire, he has taken
from you the strength. We all know that Your Highness is not
ready for such a formidable and arduous battle as this will be.
Let your grace be ruled by our counsel and will. If we believed
that Your Excellency were disposed for such an undertaking, we
would very willingly have agreed to what Your Highness has
commanded."
All the other barons and knights praised what this baron had
said.
"My most faithful vassals and subjects," said the king, "since it
is not to your liking, and you see that I am not fit to combat
the Moorish king, I give you my thanks for the great love you
have shown me, and I submit to your will. But it is my wish and
my command that no one, under pain of death, shall be so bold as
to say that he will take my place in battle, except the one I
shall choose. Unto him I shall give the crown, the kingdom and
the royal scepter."
Then the king said:
"Dukes, counts and marquis, and all the rest of my most faithful
subjects, I am relinquishing my station, the scepter and the
royal crown, and my title to my beloved father hermit.
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