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Savary and his nobles, and were received with great joy.

At length the Emperor set out from Constantinople, after taking leave of his family to visit a strong castle he had in Spain.

While he was absent, Brandifer, brother to Feragus, invaded the empire with a very great army, and at length besieged Constantinople, where lay Valentine and Orson, the Green Knight, and all the ladies.

Valentine seeing the condition they all were in, resolved to give Brandifer battle, and thereupon divided his army into ten battalions, commanded by ten Knights, and sallying out of