Ivanhoe, who had other web to weave than to stand canvassing a palfrey's paces with its owner, lent but a deaf ear to the Prior's grave advices and facetious jests, and having leapt on his mare, and commanded his squire (for such Gurth now called himself) to keep close by his side, he followed the track of the Black Knight into the forest, while the Prior stood at the gate of the convent looking after him, and ejaculating,--
Gyorsabb ügetésre nógatta Malkint, és megparancsolta csatlósának - mert Gurth már annak nevezte magát -, hogy maradjon szorosan mellette. Így vágtak neki az erdőnek, követve a Fekete lovag útját, míg a prior a kolostor kapujából nézett utánuk.