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The King sent messengers to all parts of his dominions, bidding all / the judges learned in the law come to him at his palace at Aachen. / So the judges came as he commanded, and were gathered together on the / Feast of St. Silvester, which was the last day of December. When / they were all assembled he bade the Serjeants fetch Ganelon out of / his prison, and bring him before the judges. When they had done / this, the King said, "My Lords, I would have you judge this man / Ganelon. He came with me when I went with my army to the land of / Spain; he has robbed me of twenty thousand men of France; he has / robbed me of Roland my nephew, whom we shall see no more, and of / Oliver the courteous knight, and of the Twelve Peers of France -- and / all this he has done for the sake of money."
"It is true," said Ganelon; "may a curse fall on me if I deny it. / But listen; Roland did me wrong in the matter of gold and silver. / Therefore I sought to revenge myself upon him; and I compassed his / death. That I confess; but I deny that I wrought any treason. " So / Ganelon spake, as he stood before the King. He was of a fair / presence, and had been a noble knight if only he had been true of / heart.