He had been accused by an anonymous informer, of having killed a stag in the royal preserves. I said: "Anonymous testimony isn't just the right thing, your Highness. It were fairer to confront the accused with the accuser." "I had not thought of that, it being but of small consequence. But an I would, I could not, for that the accuser came masked by night, and told the forester, and straightway got him hence again, and so the forester knoweth him not.

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