5 In two MS. copies of the _Heptameron_ in the Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris, numbered respectively 1520 and 1524, after
the words "not with men" there follows "in men there is some
mercy, but in animals none."--L.
6 Peyrechitte is evidently intended for Pierrefitte, a
village on the left bank of the Gave, between Argelez and
Cauterets.--Ed.
Then the two ladies and the three gentlemen entered the room where these
unhappy travellers were, and found them weeping. They recognised them
to be Nomerfide and Ennasuite, whereupon they all embraced and recounted
what had befallen them. At the exhortations of the good Abbot they began
to take comfort in having found one another again, and in the morning
they heard mass with much devotion, praising God for the perils from
which they had escaped.
While they were all at mass there came into the church (7) a man clad
only in a shirt, fleeing as though he were pursued, and crying out for
aid. Forthwith Hircan and the other gentlemen went to meet him to see
what the affair might mean, and perceived two men behind him with drawn
swords.
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