Be it so, said Anglides, and I pray you make ready therefore.

So came the Constable to Alisander, and told him that he should at our Lady Day in Lent be made knight.

I thank God, said Alisander; these are the best tidings that ever came to me.

Then the Constable ordained twenty of the greatest gentlemen's sons, and the best born men of the country, that should be made knights that same day that Alisander was made knight.

So on the same day that Alisander and his twenty fellows were made knights, at the offering of the mass there came Anglides unto her son and said thus: O fair sweet son, I charge thee upon my blessing, and of the high order of chivalry that thou takest here this day, that thou understand what I shall say and charge thee withal.