Out of the fire were fled:
There they sat, under a thorn,
Bare and naked as they were born,
Brought out of their bed.
A woeful man then was he,
When he saw them all naked be.
The lady said, all so blive,
'For nothing, sir, be ye adrad.'
He did off his surcote of pallade[1],
And with it clad his wife.
His scarlet mantle then shore he;
Therein he closed his children three
That naked before him stood.
"He then proposed to his wife, that as an expiation of their sins, they should instantly undertake a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and, cutting with his knife a sign of the cross on his shoulder, set off with the four companions of his misery, resolved to beg his bread till he should arrive at the holy sepulchre.
"After passing through 'seven lands,' supported by the scanty alms of the charitable, they arrived at length at a forest where they wandered during
- ↑ Palata, Lat. Paletot, O. Fr. sometimes signifying a particular stuff, and sometimes a particular dress. See Du Cange.
