He does not care to travel alone and, like most pilgrims, prefers company: “Mes de ce se tint il por fol Qu’il est meüz sans compaignie, Le grant chemin n’ira il mie, Ançois l’avoit laissié à destre, Une sente torne à senestre,” and leads him to a place where he finds “dan Belin Le moton qui se reposoit,” and whom he persuades to go with him, thus avoiding, he suggests, being eaten by his owners. A third member, the donkey, is soon added to their party: “En lor chemin en sont entrè, Mes il n’orent guères erré, Qant trovent Bernart l’archeprestre En un fossé les cardons pestre,” and he is easily persuaded to follow. They enter the forest. Night comes. Where shall they find shelter? Why should we, Reynard remarks, look for any other “ostel” than the fine grass under this tree? “Et nos queil ostel querrion Fors la bele erbe soz cest arbre? Meus l’eim que un paleis de marbre.” {447} Appealing as must have been the fine grass to him, Belin objects, the wood being so dangerous. So they continue their journey until they reach the “ostel Primaut,” that is the house of Primaut the Wolf, who was away. There they find “Char salée, formache et oes . . . Si i trovent bone cervoise. Tant boit Belins que il s’envoise; Si a commencié à chanter Et l’archeprestre à orguaner, Et dan Renart chante en fauset.” Concluding speech of Reynard, after the siege of the house by the wolves, and the miscarriage of the pilgrimage: “Segnor, dist Renart, par mon chef, Cest eires est pesant et gref; Il a el siécle meint prodome Qu’ onques encor ne fu à Rome: Tiex est revenuz de sept seinz Qui est pires qu’il ne fu einz. Je me voil metre en mon retor, Et si vivrai de mon labor Et gaaignerai léelment, Si ferai bien à povre gent. Lors ont crié: outrée, outrée! Si ont fete la retornée.” “Le roman de Renart,” ed. Ernest Martin, Strasbourg and Paris, 1882 ff, 7 vols.; i. pp. 269 ff. ENDNOTES INTRODUCTION [1] “Year Books,” 30, 31 Edward I. Edited by A. J. Horwood, for the Rolls Series, 1863. PART I — ENGLISH ROADS [2] And possibly, in early times, of roads also; see McKechnie, “Magna Carta,” Glasgow, 1905, p. 353. On the _Trinoda_ or _Trimoda Necessitas_, see W. H. Stevenson, in the “English Historical Review,” Oct. 1914. [3] “History of Rome,” translated by W. P. Dickson, London, 1886, book viii. chap. v. [4] J. Horsley, “Britannia Romana,” London, 1732, p. 391. [5] H. M. Scarth, “Roman Britain,” S.P.C.K., London, 1883, p. 121. Cf. T. Codrington, “Roman Roads in Britain,” S.P.C.K., 1903.