Look, wizards, and bid them farewell!

We count you by hundreds, you who cried for a curse on the king.

Ha! soon shall we bid YOU farewell!

Then they were silent, and went in silence to the place appointed for

them, there to pass the night in mutterings and magic. But those who

were gathered together shivered with fear when they heard their words,

for they knew well that many a man would be switched with the gnu's

tail before the sun sank once more. And I, too, trembled, for my heart