This chapter's epigraph is from the play's opening line, "Four knights of the Apocalypse" . It's a reference to the seven "deadly sins" of the apocalypse, which are the same seven sins that plague the characters in the play. The four knights of apocalypse are the narrator, the audience, and the audience's representatives. The narrator tells the audience that it's impossible for a man to just go to a person and say, "I'll murder you" , because he can't do that. The audience is shocked to learn that the man in question is none other than the guy who found the "buried rapier" in the ground. He's called "iron side," and he's the one who found it. The townspeople are shocked to find out that the guy they thought was a "whoa" and a "fox" is actually a "holy knight." They're even more shocked when they learn that he was supposed to fight a girl in order to get the buried rapier back, but instead, he fought a "ling" instead. The townsfolk are shocked that a man would fight a woman, and they're also shocked that he'd work for "a holy knight." The townsfolk don't believe him, but the narrator tells them that there's "nothing false or hidden" about him. He tells them to hide the rapier in their cloak and never show it to anyone in town. He also tells them not to give it to "the man calling iron side," because that's what the townspeople would think. He says that he saw the girl "hall an able hand" with a "rapier," and that she was wearing a "piece of the coffin of everlasting darkness." He says he saw her many times on the street, and that he thinks she was carrying the "coffin of eternal darkness" with her. He knows that the girl must have been carrying the coffin with her