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‘For the eyes that beene in his head,

They glister as doth the gleed180.’ ‘Now, by my faith,’ says noble King Arthur, ‘That is a well faire steed.’

After showing them other of his possessions, King Cornwall has the strangers conducted to bed; but first takes the precaution to conceal the Burlow Beanie, or Billy Blind—friendly household spirit—in a rubbish-barrel by the bedside, to listen and overhear their conversation.