that thy brother shall never speak until thou cuttest the thread that groweth under his tongue."
The Brazen Head having ended his speech, Valentine embraced Orson, and cut the thread which grew under his tongue; when he directly related many surprising things.
After which Valentine married the Lady Clerimond, but not before she had turned a Christian.
In this castle there lived a dwarf, named Pacclet, who was an enchanter, and by his art had contrived a horse of wood, and in the forehead fixed, a pin, by turning of which he could convey himself to the farthest part of the world.
This enchanter flies to Portugal, and informed Feragus of his sister's nuptials, and of her turning Christian, which so enraged him, that he swore by Mahomet he would make her rue it, and therefore got ready his fleet, and sailed towards the castle of Clerimond, where, when he arrived, he concealed his malice from his sister, and also the two Knights, telling them, that he came to fetch them into Por-
