Note 135 — BOOK III. (continued 2)

This anecdote, which is here quoted without giving it any more importance than it merits, is related in the Magnum Chronicon Belgicum, which is found in the collection of the historians of Germany of Pistorius. The author says the lion followed Geoffrey like a hare:—Eum sequitur, sicut lepus; et quamdiù fuit in terrâ, nunquam recedens, multa ei commoda contulit tam in venationibus quam in bello; qui carnes venaticas abundanter dabat. Leo verò quæcunque domino suo adversari videbat, prosternabat, quem, ut dicunt, in navi positum cùm domum rediret, derelinquere noluit, sed nolentibus eum, ut crudele animal, in navem recipere nautis, secutus est dominum suum, natando per mare, usque quo labore deficit.