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"And the knights stood there, arguing about ceremony; the judge
picked up the weapons to put an end to the dispute. He put some
of them on the right side and the others on the left. Then he
picked up two straws, one of them long, and the other short. The
judge said:
"'Whoever gets the longest one, take the weapons on the right;
and whoever gets the short one, the weapons on the left.'
"When they had each picked up the weapons, they quickly took off
all their clothes and put on the painful shirts that could well
be called hair-cloths of sorrow. The judge made two lines on the
field and he placed one of the men on one line and the other man
on the other, and he ordered them not to move until he said to.
They cut a tree's branches so that the judge could be on a sort
of cenotaph. When everything was ready the judge went to Lord
Vilesermes and said:
"'I am judge by the authority you have given to me, and it is my
duty to warn you and beseech you not to come to such a narrow
strait as this.


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