not bend with the wind. Then said Kai, "By the hand of my friend,
behold, yonder is the fire of a robber!" Then they hastened towards
the smoke, and they came so near to it, that they could see Dillus
Varvawc scorching a wild boar. "Behold, yonder is the greatest
robber that ever fled from Arthur," said Bedwyr unto Kai. "Dost thou
know him?" "I do know him," answered Kai, "he is Dillus Varvawc, and
no leash in the world will be able to hold Drudwyn, the cub of Greid
the son of Eri, save a leash made from the beard of him thou seest
yonder. And even that will be useless, unless his beard be plucked
alive with wooden tweezers; for if dead, it will be brittle." "What
thinkest thou that we should do concerning this?" said Bedwyr. "Let
us suffer him," said Kai, "to eat as much as he will of the meat, and
after that he will fall asleep." And during that time they employed
themselves in making the wooden tweezers. And when Kai knew
certainly that he was asleep, he made a pit under his feet, the
largest in the world, and he struck him a violent blow, and squeezed
him into the pit. And there they twitched out his beard completely
with the wooden tweezers; and after that they slew him altogether.

And from thence they both went to Gelli Wic, in Cornwall, and took
the leash made of Dillus Varvawc's beard with them, and they gave it
into Arthur's hand. Then Arthur composed this Englyn -


Kai made a leash
Of Dillus son of Eurei's beard.
Were he alive, thy death he'd be.


And thereupon Kai was wroth, so that the warriors of the Island could