CHAPTER XI.
All hail to the lordings of high degree,
Who live not more happy, though greater than we!
Our pastimes to see,
Under every green tree
In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be.
Macdonald.
The new comers were Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, on
the Prior of Botolph's palfrey, and Gurth, who attended him, on the Knight's own war-horse. The
astonishment of Ivanhoe was beyond bounds,
when he saw his master besprinkled with blood,
and six or seven dead bodies lying around in the
little glade in which the battle had taken place.
Nor was he less surprised to see Richard surrounded by so many sylvan attendants, the outlaws, as they seemed to be, of the forest, and a
perilous retinue therefore for a prince. He hesitated whether to address the King as the Black
