Aurelius in all haste from his bed, and together they set off for
Orleans. When they were still about a quarter of a mile from the town
they met a young scholar wandering by himself. He greeted them in
Latin and then told them that he already knew of their coming. They
went with him to his house, where they were received with wonderful
entertainment. First they saw a park full of deer and hunters killing
the beasts. Then they saw men out hawking, and knights jousting on a
plain, and last Aurelius saw his lady at a dance and he himself with
her, holding her hand. Yet all the while they three sat alone in the
scholar's study among his books and none came in to them.

After this they feasted and received good entertainment, nor were
they long in coming to an agreement. The student promised that for a
thousand pounds he would make all the rocks disappear. Aurelius would
have given the whole world if he might have had hope of his lady's
love, so he willingly promised to pay this fee. Back they all three
journeyed together to Brittany. It fell out that they came in the
cold frosty days of December when the sun grows tired and weak amid
the frosts and sleet and rain. Forthwith the scholar began his magic
with centres and arguments and proportionals and other such
paraphernalia of astrology about which I know nothing. At last all
was ready and duly calculated, when lo! the rocks all disappeared,
not one was to be seen.

As soon as Aurelius saw this miracle he went at once and sought till
he found his mistress in Diana's temple, and falling before her on
his knees, said, "Lady, I love you now as well as ever, and would be
your true love or die of longing. For your honour's sake do you have
pity on me, for as you desired so have I done, and every rock has
gone from this coast." Aghast was Dorigen at this news and pale she