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1949* Why will ye still inquire, adding iniquity?
1949Britain has rulers, and she has watchmen: why dost thou incline thyself thus uselessly to prate?"
1949But why should I say more?
657How more rueful?
657Moreover, we might ask, if our whole dependence had been centered in Bede, what would have become of us after his death?
657This year Aethan, King of the Scots, fought against the Dalreods and against Ethelfrith, king of the North- humbrians, at Daegsanstane[ Dawston?
657To those who are unacquainted with this monument of our national antiquities, two questions appear requisite to be answered:--"What does it contain?"
657What shall I say?
657What then?
657Who could be angry after this?
657Who will not be penetrated with grief at such a season?
657and,"By whom was it written?"
657or who is so hardhearted as not to weep at such misfortune?
7672And when again, my grandmother?
7672How is that?
7672What old ruin looms yonder?
7672What weave they, then, good grandmother?
7672And yon castle towards the west?"
7672But saw you not, as we rode along, the lowering brows?
7672But to my question, my gentle Rolf; this London must be rich?"
7672But who and what is this same Hilda?
7672How know I but what the next year the raven flag may stream over these waters?
7672The writer in the Athenaeum is acquainted with Homeric personages, but who on earth would ever presume to assert that he is acquainted with Homer?
7672Would any words from the modern vocabulary suggest the same idea, or embody the same meaning?
7672and heard you not the angry murmurs?
7672one of thy kith and kin?--surely not less than kingly blood runs so bold?"
7672shall I ever return to the nineteenth century again?
7673And that?
7673And thou, Taillefer the minstrel, lovest thou not song for the sake of song?
7673But methought, though my knowledge of English troubles is but scant, that Siward was the sworn foe to Godwin?
7673Father, have my behests been fulfilled?--hath Hugoline, my treasurer, dispensed the gifts that I spoke of?
7673Hearest thou this, Lord Seneschal? 7673 Know you not, in truth?"
7673Lovest thou not, William Lord of Breteuil, lovest thou not fame for the sake of fame?
7673Nay, how with thee, dear friend and king? 7673 No schism in thy Church?
7673Thou fearest that man, and why?
7673Thy name, young knight?
7673Have I said eno''to prove why, for the sake of nations, it were wise for the pontiff to stretch the harsh girths of the law?
7673How fares it with thee?"
7673Methought that I then banished thee my realm?"
7673Out spoke the Frank Archbishop then, a priest devout and sage,"When peace and plenty wait thy word, what need of war and rage?
7673Pray you, is it the Saxon custom to enter a king''s hall so garbed, and drink a knight''s wine so mutely?"
7673The Duke started from his reverie, and bowed his head: then said, rather abruptly,"Is not yon blazon that of King Alfred?"
7673This House of Godwin, thou wilt not again let it tower above thy palace?"
7673Thy name?
7673We may never meet again, William,--age creeps over me, and who will succeed to my thorny throne?"
7673Wherefore?"
7673While yet time, why not both seek some quiet convent, and put away these earthly cares?"
7673Why waste a land as fair as aught beneath the arch of blue, Which might be thine to sow and reap?"
7673Why, if thou desirest not rewards, shouldst thou thus care to serve me-- thou, a foreigner?"
7673Yea, have I said eno''to prove that the humble clerk can look on mundane matters with the eye of a man who can make small states great?"
7673cried Taillefer, with his usual bluffness, and laughing with great glee,"why wouldst thou not listen to me, monseigneur?"
7676And they have not tormented thee again with the thoughts of the convent?
7676Come they,said he,"with so large a train?
7676Didst thou not fortell our return in triumph from the unjust outlawry, and, lo, it hath come to pass? 7676 Githa,"she said at last,"where is thy lord?
7676Githa,she said, slowly,"doubtless thou rememberest in thy young days to have seen or heard of the terrible hell- maid Belsta?"
7676Gurth,said he,"is not this the morning of the sixth day in which we have been at the King''s Court?"
7676Have I not told thee, son of Godwin,said the Vala, solemnly,"that Edith''s skein of life was inwoven with thine?
7676How darest thou, Abbot Fatchere,cried Alred, indignantly;"How darest thou revive grief without remedy, and slander without proof?"
7676How fares it, dear father?
7676How so, kinswoman, how so?
7676Is it so?--Is there peace in the home where the thought of Harold becomes a sin?
7676They? 7676 Vala,"said Harold, gloomily,"I will not oppose my sense to thy prophecies; for who shall judge of that power of which he knows not the elements?
7676Without proof?
7676And what royal robe so invests with imperial majesty the form of a man as the grave sense of power responsible, in an earnest soul?
7676Between brother and brother shall there not be love, as the best bequest of the dead?"
7676But when and where, my kinswoman?"
7676Dost thou deem that my charms have not explored the destiny of the last of my race?
7676For who makes his way to greatness without raising foes at every step?
7676Gurth, has my father ailed?
7676Where is Hilda?
7676Why askest thou?"
7676Without proof before man; but did he try the ordeals of God?--did his feet pass the ploughshare?-- did his hand grasp the seething iron?
7676and hast thou not"( here Githa''s proud face flushed)"foretold also that my stately Harold shall wear the diadem of a king?"
7676and who ever rose to power supreme, without grave cause for blame?
7676and why didst thou forsake thy train?"
7676or despise the marvel of which he can not detect the imposture?
7678And what terror has death, if thou lovest me?
7678And you are their beacon- fires? 7678 Art thou Cymrian, and talkest of faith with a Saxon?
7678But the rebel Gryffyth?
7678Is this lady, think you, in the stronghold with her lord?
7678Of what tellest thou?
7678Shall we dissuade?
7678Speak, father, or chief,said the Welch King in his native tongue;"what would Harold the Earl of Gryffyth the King?"
7678They defend their own soil,replied the Earl simply:"had not we done the same?"
7678What counsel ye-- ye strong in battle, and wise in debate?
7678What means all this commotion?
7678What, after such havoc and gore?
7678Where is Harold?
7678Yet one word: And if Gryffyth refuse, despite all warning?
7678And suddenly again was heard a voice that seemed that of the King, but no longer distinct and clear!--was it laugh?--was it groan?
7678At last said the elder,"But hast thou thought who will carry this message?
7678But, kindly and courteous Sir, will your wounds permit the journey, not long, but steep and laborious, and only to be made on foot?"
7678Can not our eyes perceive the towers?"
7678Faith with the spoiler, the ravisher and butcher?
7678In the halls of the race to come, will bards yet unborn sweep their harps to the deeds of thy King?
7678Is it love, is it hate, that prefers death for the loved one, to the thought of her life as another''s?"
7678Or say, Child of Truth, if all that is told of Gryffyth thy King shall be his woe and his shame?"
7678Shall they tell of the day of Torques, by Llyn- Afangc, when the princes of Powys fled from his sword as the clouds from the blast of the wind?
7678Think ye not the hour is come?"
7678What tale lies hid in this token?"
7678Wilt thou be the murtherer of thy men, in strife unavailing and vain?
7678Yet of Sweyn, in our childhood, was Godwin most proud; who so lovely in peace, and so terrible in wrath?
7678[ 168] Or the towns that he fired, on the lands of the Saxon, when Rolf and the Nortbmen ran fast from his javelin and spear?
7678asked the old thegn,"thou canst not accept him again as crowned sub- king of Edward?"
7678cried the pious knight, crossing himself,"is there no priest here to bless us?
7674And if not, my vain brother?
7674But three parts done?
7674Hast thou said?
7674How comes it, then, that you English so love this Earl Godwin?--Still more, why think you it right and proper that King Edward should love him too? 7674 How hast thou answered?"
7674Is it to fly, think you, that I have put on my mail, and girded my sword?
7674Oh Norman home, why did I leave thee?
7674Pause yet,whispered Stigand;"and who shall say, this hour to- morrow, if Edward or Godwin reign on the throne of Alfred?"
7674Shall Esau lose his birthright, and Cain retain it?
7674So what says the King?
7674They heard thee throughout, then?
7674Thinkest thou,said Harold, with a stern composure,"that I can have joy and triumph in a brother''s exile and woe?"
7674What mean you, Sir Father?
7674What was the course I proposed? 7674 Who amongst you hath the courage and the heart to say it?
7674Yet answer me still, why love you Earl Godwin? 7674 Am I so lost that faith should be broken even with thy father''s son?
7674And if I stand up in my place and say,''Give age and grief to the cloister-- youth and delight to man''s hearth,''what will answer the monks?
7674And why did I believe and bless the Vala, when she so said?
7674Are ye willing that we should hear the message?
7674But is it possible, cher Envoy, for the King to love the man who thus betrayed his brother to the shambles?"
7674Can Edith ever be my wife?
7674Can the tree say to the wind,''Rest thou on my boughs,''or Man to Belief,''Fold thy wings on my heart''?
7674Deadly was my sin!--But what asked I?
7674Father and son, both?"
7674For what offence was I outlawed?
7674For what offence were I, and the six sons I have given to my land, to bear the wolf''s penalty, and be chased and slain as the wild beasts?
7674Harold bounded after him; but Sweyn, halting, said, mournfully,"Is this thy promise?
7674Has the Vala doomed him, too?
7674He stood for some minutes absorbed in reverie, and his soliloquy ran somewhat thus:"Why said the Vala that Edith''s fate was inwoven with mine?
7674Nevertheless, what was my offer?
7674No more?
7674Tell me, O Saxon, frank Saxon, why you love Godwin the Earl?
7674Was this the meeting where justice could be done mine and me?
7674What meanest thou by''Godwin the thing''?"
7674When I looked to London for the peaceful Witan, what saw I?
7674Who among my foes, if foes now I have, will not respect the old man''s gladness?
7674Who amongst you would not grieve to say it?"
7674Who shall say that Siward of the Strong Arm, the grandson of the Berserker, ever turned from a foe?
7674Who were the Englishmen most of mark?"
7674for whom my runes have been graven on the bark of the elm, and the Scin- laeca[ 94] been called in pale splendour from the graves of the dead?"
7674what thinkest thou is the fate which thy brain and thine arm shall will?"
7680And if I insist on my departure, not so satisfying him?
7680And if you now put to him that choice, think you it will favour your views? 7680 And is it really true that a villein with you can rise to be a noble?"
7680But pardon me that I press for--"Ye have no such strongholds, I say, in England?
7680Deemest thou that I am a coward?
7680Every castle on our road hath a dungeon as deep as Count Guy''s; but where another William to deliver you from William?
7680How, boy? 7680 Lives there any other man in the wide world whose arm could have wrought that feat?"
7680Proved? 7680 Thou heardst her, noble Harold: what is thine answer?
7680Who could bend that of-- Ulysses?
7680And the Duke answered fiercely,''Where?
7680And thou, Wolnoth, hast thou kept thy word to me?
7680Are they thus mutinous and surly in England, Lord Harold?"
7680As for other leaders, save Gurth( who is but your own vice earl), who is there that will not rejoice at the absence of Harold?
7680But what ails you?
7680But what counsellest thou?
7680Comprehendest thou?"
7680Deemest thou he would be more gentle to us and to thee?
7680Deemest thou that this fairspoken Duke will dare aught against my life?"
7680He came to thee as to a prince and a friend; sufferest thou thy liegeman to detain him as a thief or a foe?"
7680Heedest thou me, dear Harold?"
7680How otherwise can one deal with you-- how be safe amongst you?"
7680Let us return to Harold,--thou thinkest, then, that he is worthy of his fame?"
7680Norman is thy garb, in truth; is thy heart still English?"
7680Think over all this, and then wilt thou tell me that I merit not this crown?"
7680Thinkest thou I care for his strong arm?
7680Thou didst seem to understand me when I hinted of-- in a word, what is the object William would gain from me?"
7680What are they?"
7680What charge can the Norman bring against a free Englishman?"
7680What dost thou resign?
7680What, too, were those mysterious points on which he was to satisfy the Duke?
7680Why should William''s be less so?
7680Will he not reject your proffers, and with hot scorn?"
7680darest thou that word to me?"
7680growled the Duke, fiercely,"or----""May I speak,"interrupted De Graville,"and suggest a counsel?"
7680have I no headsman whose axe is as sharp as Harold''s?
7680or dost thou thyself covet the English crown; and is it to a rival that I have opened my heart?"
7680why, where but in the Tour noir?--where but in the cell in which Malvoisin rotted out his last hour?''
7679But one question more remains; shall I live to wear the crown of England; and if so, when shall I be a king?
7679Go you so soon?
7679Hast thou not asked thy kinswoman, the diviner of dreams?
7679Hath no danger befallen thee?
7679How dost thou pretend to that mystery of the future, which is dim and clouded even to me? 7679 How so?
7679Speak to me,then said Harold, bending his face to hers;"why this silence?"
7679The figure of a warrior?
7679Wherefore hostage from me?
7679And granting even that Gurth were safe from whatever danger he individually might incur, did it become him to accept the proxy?
7679And, in truth, if Harold be safe in England, Gurth must be safe in Rouen?
7679Are there no reasons why danger from William should be special against thyself?
7679Art thou answer''d, dauntless seeker?
7679Askest thou, O Hilda, the rich and the learned, askest thou counsel and lore from the daughter of Faul?"
7679But reverse the case, and with Gurth in England, is Harold safe in Rouen?
7679Can we baffle fate by refusing to heed its approaches?
7679Canst thou tell when and where the daughter of the Norse kings shall sleep on the breast of her lord?"
7679Fraud may plot, and force assail thee,-- Shall the soul thou trusteth fail thee?
7679If I go to the court of the Norman, shall I return unscathed?"
7679In a word, do you Saxons merely overrun, and neglect to hold what you win?"
7679In the cloud and the wind and the fire couldst thou read no answer from Heaven, unquiet soul?
7679Oh, Harold, what should all this portend?"
7679Shall my league with William the Norman avail to win me my bride?"
7679Should he for the first time in his life shrink from a peril in the discharge of his duty; a peril, too, so uncertain and vague?
7679Should he suffer Gurth to fulfil the pledge he himself had taken?
7679Verily Hilda is a prophetess; and when Edward rests with the saints, from what English heart will not burst the cry,''LONG LIVE HAROLD THE KING?''"
7679What knowest thou of the runes of old, whispered by the trunkless skull to the mighty Odin?
7679What need England do more?
7679When will all the clouds that beset thee roll away from thy ken?
7679When wilt thou be as wise as the hag thou despisest?
7679Why hast thou set in the heart the mystic Law of Desire, ever toiling to the High, ever grasping at the Far?"
7679Will my boy know his mother again?
7679With that love, indeed, there was blended so much wistfulness, so much fear, that Harold exclaimed:"Soul of my soul, what hath chanced?
7679Would Gurth''s voice, too, be as potent as his own in effecting the return of the hostages?
7679[ 175]"How so, dear lord and King?"
7679answered Edith, wringing her hands;"when the bird hides its head in the brake, doth it shut out the track of the hound?
7679then the Norman and Harold shall plight friendship and troth?"
7679what affects thee thus?"
7679why art thou not of us, why comest thou not to our revels?
7682Ah?
7682And if I take the offer, what will Harold son of Godwin give to my friend and ally Hardrada of Norway?
7682And who,he asked calmly,"is that man who spoke so well?"
7682And will thy brother as King give to thee again thy domain as Earl?
7682Are my brothers without?
7682Bold rider and graceless,quoth he,"who thus comes in the presence of counts and princes?"
7682For the vow which thou mightest take as subject, what matters it now thou art king?
7682Ha? 7682 His news?
7682How now, nuncius? 7682 How?"
7682Is glory, then, a drug that soothes to sleep?
7682Is this, then, thy answer, unhappy son?
7682What army comes yonder?
7682What meanest thou? 7682 What will Harold the King give to his brother?"
7682Why should my words so disturb thee, O King of the Norseman?
7682Ah why, why did I not believe her then?
7682And now what had passed in the councils of William?
7682Are ye contented?"
7682But thou must come to take it in time, or----""Or what?"
7682But while the breath is struggling, and the eye glazing, life, busy in the bystanders, murmurs,"Who shall be the heir?"
7682Doth the wind always blow from one point?--and is Fate less unstable than the wind?"
7682Hath he not need of you?
7682Have you not a noble host of knights and warriors?
7682Is not William your lord?
7682Now who will shrink from thy side?
7682Put right on thy side, and then----""Ah, what then?"
7682The summer was gone; the autumn was come; was it likely that William would dare to trust himself in an enemy''s country as the winter drew near?
7682Then I asked in my sorrow,''Can nought avert the doom?
7682What but a bold heart?
7682What hast thou there, Haco?"
7682What want you to destroy the Saxon and seize his realm?
7682Whom commendest thou to us as shepherd to thy bereaven flock?
7682[ 245]"What wouldst thou with me, daring foe?"
7682and may not my people free themselves by repentance, like the Ninevites of old?''
7682and who reigns?"
7682cried the Norseman, reddening,"how was not that made known to me before?
7682his news?"
7682whom shall we admonish to tread in those traces thy footsteps leave below?"
7682why did I then reject the cloister?
7682why lookest thou so grim, and why shakest thou thy head?"
7675And her heart, O Lady of England?
7675And how,pursued the abbot triumphantly,"can a sinner open his heavy heart until you have given him something to lighten it?
7675And what did you answer, holy father?
7675And why, Harold?
7675But thy banished kin-- the valiant, the wise; they who placed thy lord on the throne?
7675Didst thou see a light, son of Godwin, by the altar of Thor, and over the bautastein of the mighty dead? 7675 Dost thou reproach me, Harold?"
7675Have thy dreams been prophetic, son of Godwin?
7675Is it to woman or to man?
7675Is love a folly, my father?
7675Oh, Edith, why?
7675Promised to Hilda?
7675Thine, Harold?
7675What are they, my father?
7675What shape, or what shadow of shape, does that spectre assume?
7675Why dost thou look on me thus, and why art thou so silent?
7675Why, Harold, sayest thou that our kinship is thy bane? 7675 Why?"
7675And thus said the Queen to her godchild:"Why dost thou hesitate and turn away?
7675As for Algar, what sayest thou?"
7675But for Edric Streone, the traitor and low- born, what had been Wolnoth, thy grandsire?"
7675But it is not Hilda that thou hast promised?"
7675But what hast thou there?"
7675By the shrine of St. Alban, dost thou hesitate, man?"
7675Forgettest thou that Edith and I are within the six banned degrees of the Church?"
7675O King, I dream?"
7675Ponder it, and ask thyself if thy power, when I am dead, is not necessary to the weal of England?
7675Shalt thou be there?"
7675So my sister hath sent for thee: wittest thou wherefore?"
7675Then said the stern shape by my side,''Harold, fearest thou the dead men''s bones?''
7675Then she closed the door gently, and coming with a quick step to Harold, said, in a low but clear voice,"Dost thou love the maiden?"
7675Thinkest thou, poor child, in thine ignorance of life, that the world ever can give thee a bliss greater than the calm of the cloister?
7675Those hands the Queen gently withdrew; and looking steadfastly in the changeful and half- averted face, she said mournfully,"Is it so, my godchild?
7675Thou not ambitious, Harold?
7675What had been Godwin, son of Wolnoth, had he not married into the kingly house of great Canute?
7675Why is that sweetness to me, to thee so bitter?"
7675[ 106]"But how long shall the exile be?"
7675a flame, lambent and livid, like moonbeams collected over snow?"
7675and is thy heart set on the hopes of earth-- thy dreams on the love of man?"
7675cold and self- heeding, wilt thou send him to bear a peril from which thou shrinkest thyself?"
7675cried the Queen,"who ever bended that soul of steel?"
7675said the troubled mother,"why, of all my children, have they chosen thee?
7677And why thinkest thou the conceit so outrageous? 7677 Are these the Earl''s headquarters, then?--no castle, even of wood-- no wall, nought but ditch and palisades?"
7677But surely they bear a stain and stigma, and their fellow- thegns flout them?
7677Deemest thou my eye so ill practised in siege, as not to see towers? 7677 Dost thou promise and swear, that wert thou king of England, Cymry should be free from all service?"
7677How camest thou in England?
7677How else could we buy our freedom? 7677 How shouldst thou, poor Norman?"
7677How to the Earl''s loss?
7677I like him the better for that,said the honest Kent man:"why does he not marry the girl at once?
7677Is a battle at hand? 7677 Is he married, or celibate?
7677Nevertheless, I can not but think a few light horse----"Could scale yon mountain- brow?
7677No, nor have the English generally; yet whom could we choose but Harold?
7677Not a whit-- why so? 7677 Thinkest thou the people of England are like cattle and sheep, and chattels and theowes, to be left by will, as man fancies?
7677Welcome indeed,returned Godrith, with some embarrassment;"but how camest thou hither, and whom seekest thou?"
7677Well, Vebba, and how likest thou the Atheling? 7677 What bird is this?"
7677Whom in broad England hath Harold wronged?
7677Why seek ye my life?
7677And how is our Earl''s brother Tostig esteemed by the Northmen?
7677And were Harold but slain-- who then would be king in England?
7677But what of the commons-- the sixhaendmen and the ceorls, master Norman?
7677Dare they speak as we speak of king and of law, of thegn and of captain?"
7677How fares it?"
7677How is this?
7677Is it not so?"
7677It can not matter to them whether shaven Norman or bearded Saxon sit on the throne?"
7677Knowest thou not, Master Mallet, that one- third of all the lands of England is in the hands of the priests?"
7677Need I say that I am in high favour?
7677The Norman crossed himself, as if he had heard some signal impiety, and then said:"Thou lovest not Mother Church, worthy Sexwolf?"
7677The Norman!-- How could that ever be?"
7677Was it not in that watch that his good Fylgia had saved his life?
7677You can tarry awhile and meet us; you know his old lodge in the forest land?"
7677and how?
7677answer me, staring Vebba?"
7677are we in tine?
7677cried Vebba, with his mouth full of the Phrygian attagen,"how came anything Moorish in our Christian island?"
7677cried the Saxon, reddening to the tips of his great ears,"what dost thou babble of, stranger?
7677from the vines of this country: wherefore, wilt thou see to it, and instruct thy cooks how to season the cheer?"
7677grunted Vebba;"well, who are they?"
7677said Godrith, reddening,"thinkest thou so meanly of us thegns of Middlesex as to deem we can not entertain thus humbly a friend from a distance?
7677said the Cymrian chief, gloomily;"thinkest thou so indeed?"
7681Alas, who then?
7681And I?
7681And for what end, Prophetess? 7681 And that purpose?"
7681And to that end, as imperative for the public weal, you consent,said Alred, thoughtfully,"to abide by our advice, whatever it be?"
7681By all the fiends of the North?
7681Does the new ground reject the germs of the sower, or the young heart the first lessons of wonder and awe? 7681 Edith, Edith, what wouldst thou say?--What knowest thou?--Who hath told thee?--What led thee hither, to take part against thyself?"
7681Hast thou then seen this spot before?
7681Hill, ruin, grave- mound-- but where the tall image of the mighty one?
7681Is Hilda within?
7681Knowest thou the cause, Haco?
7681Says Hilda this?
7681This is my brother''s son, Edith; thou hast not, that I remember, seen him before?
7681What, against his own brother?
7681When, and where?
7681Whither go we, Harold?
7681Who then?
7681''And who,''asked my subjects amazed,''who shall we say, speaketh thus to us?''
7681--''How?--Why thinkest thou so?''
7681And when she had vanished within the house, Haco turned to his steed:"What matters,"he murmured,"the answer which the Vala can not or dare not give?
7681Art thou blind, man?"
7681As the shell and the sea- weed interlaced together, we are dashed on the rushing surge; whither?
7681But speak on; what saidst thou at the last to William?"
7681For what art thou here but for chastisement and revenge?"
7681God wot, who among us have not taken some oath at law for which they have deemed it meet afterwards to do a penance, or endow a convent?
7681Haco mused a moment and said:"Methinks I divine thy purpose; is it not formed on the sudden, Harold?"
7681He drew rein,--"What wantest thou, my nephew?"
7681How purify the erring lives of the churchman, if thyself a rebel to the Church?
7681Left alone with Haco, the last said, abruptly:"Thou wilt not be so indiscreet, O Harold, as to confess thy compelled oath to the fraudful Norman?"
7681Seest thou not that the hand of death is in the hush of the smileless lip, and the glance of the unjoyous eye?"
7681Shall we do the same, O Edith?"
7681Thou hast seen Hilda?--and Edith, my mother?
7681Thou wilt come back, ere thou departest to aid Tostig, thy brother, and tell me how Hilda hath prospered with my ailing child?"
7681Through all eternity the state impossible to the soul is repose!--So again thou art in thy native land?"
7681What are you doing?
7681What if at Edward''s death Mercia and Northumbria refuse to sanction thy accession?
7681What led me?
7681Where will ye find a chief with arm as strong, and heart as dauntless?
7681Wilt thou choose that which absolves from sin, or that which consults but thy carnal affections?"
7681Wilt thou not be proud to live for this fair country, and these noble men, and to speak the language of Alfred the Great?"
7681You will not hear them?
7681is there not absolution from this oath,--an oath I dare not keep?
7681murmured Harold; and then he asked aloud,"What said she?"
7681oh, whither?"
7681shall we for that very reason deprive ourselves of the only man able to resist him?
7681she exclaimed,"dost thou remember that in the old time I said,''Edith had loved thee less, if thou hadst not loved England more than Edith?''
7681thou comest not, then, to aid thy brother?"
7681what was the answer of this caitiff Norman, with his glittering eye and venomed smile?
45366''How is it that his coming pleaseth thee more than that of any other king?'' 45366 ''What meaneth all this noise?''
45366Doubtless,cried the opponents,"he is our lord; but is it not enough for us to pay him his dues?
45366Oh, king,exclaimed Godwin,"why is it that, on the slightest recollection of your brother, you always look so angrily on me?
45366What need I fear of thee? 45366 What, though those golden eagles of the sun Have gone for ever, and we are alone, Shall we sit here and mourn?
45366Who are these men advancing towards us?
45366And are all our pious endeavours now frustrated by the dissolute lives of the priests?
45366And what matters it whether or not we believe in all these mighty epochs?
45366And whither should I fly, after having wandered through so many provinces in Britain without finding a shelter?
45366Are not all such things so?
45366As to my sister, whom the duke claims, to marry her to one of his chiefs, she died this year:--would he have me send him her body?"
45366But what is the lot of a brave man but to die amongst the first?
45366Could his seneschal have deceived him, or could they be so disloyal as to refuse to furnish him with the aid he required?
45366Did I deny support and establishments to the clergy or the convents?
45366Had the gifted young prince offended Edburga by refusing her hand, and was this jealousy aroused by queen Drida and her daughter?
45366How can I escape my persecutor?"
45366How looked those British fathers and husbands when they again met the Saxon slayers in battle?
45366Now, if these gods had been of any real use, would they not have assisted me, instead of them?
45366Ought we not, then, to feel alarmed, who covet them so much, yet are everyway as transient?
45366Say what kings accompany thee?--how many have come with thee from the combat?''
45366Such fancies would naturally float over their benighted minds, for at what other conclusions could they arrive from what they now saw?
45366The next question he asked was whether the inhabitants were Christians or Pagans?
45366This is a grave charge; but where, with one or two exceptions, could he in his whole kingdom find a kindred mind to his own?
45366Thou must also give thy sister in marriage to one of my barons"( Did he mean queen Editha?)
45366Was my assistance ever wanting to the poor?
45366What had he gained by the eight hard- fought battles he shared in the year before his accession to the crown?
45366What matters it about the date when such things once were, or at what time or place they first appeared?
45366What should we have known of the earlier Britons but for Julius Cæsar?
45366What were the thoughts of Alfred while he looked full in the face of his enemy as he stood before him in his tent?
45366What would we not now give to know all that he had seen?
45366What would you have me do?
45366What, are you amazed?
45366When did you call for supplies which I refused you?
45366When that my care could not withhold thy riots, What wilt thou do, when riot is thy care?
45366Where is he that supported and feasted me?
45366Who more likely than they to oppose his wise plans-- to thwart him when he was anxiously labouring for the good of his subjects?
45366Who so blind, that he can not see the chain which now reached from Normandy to Rome-- the links, William, Lanfranc, and all the friends of the pope?
45366Who so grateful as duke William-- who so highly honoured as the monk, Lanfranc, the man who had more power over the pontiff than the duke himself?
45366Whom shall I praise, now Urien is no more?
45366and are we not ourselves like a river, that hurries headlong and heedlessly along to the dark and illimitable ocean of time?
45366exclaimed Braghi;''why are so many warriors in motion, and for whom are all these seats prepared?''
7683And the King, the King,she cried, in a sudden and thrilling voice;"where is he?--the King?"
7683Ay-- did you not know it?
7683How like ye, O Normans, the Saxon gleeman?
7683I would bid thee live, poor youth,whispered Harold;"but what were life if this day were lost?
7683Is that thy choice?
7683Methinks I have seen thy face before; thou art not Harold''s wife or sister?
7683Nay,said Gautier;"but I have a great host of chevaliers and paid soldiers, and without the old man at their head will they fight as well?"
7683Per la resplendar De,cried William, frowning;--"do ye think, my proud vavasours, to fail me in this great need?"
7683Saw ye ever such beau rei?
7683See ye not, maladroits,said the Duke,"that your shafts and bolts fall harmless on those ozier walls?
7683Shall we go forth with the King''s army?
7683So thou didst mingle with the men undiscovered?
7683That Hereafter!--is it not near?
7683What says William the Count of the Foreigners, to Harold, King of the Angles, and Basileus of Britain?
7683What think you?
7683Where is the banner?
7683Who and what art thou?
7683Who art thou?
7683Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
7683Who, Haco, if we fall, will search for us?
76831st, When did the Celts first introduce idols?
76832d, Can we believe the classical authorities that assure us that the Druids originally admitted no idol worship?
7683Accustomed already to kings of a foreign race, and having fared well under Canute, there were many who said,"What matters who sits on the throne?
7683And know you not that it is my fortunate day-- the day on which, hitherto, all hath prospered with me, in peace and in war-- the day of my birth?"
7683And will not their popular idols be found to be as ancient as the remotest traces of the Celtic existence?
7683Are not yon stout fellows all in mail, so tall and so orderly, in advance of the London burghers, Hilda''s aid to our Fyrd?"
7683Are the gods who led Odin from the Scythian East but the juggling fiends whom the craven Christian abhors?
7683Are we so united( the King''s rule thus fresh) but what no cabals, no dissensions will break out amongst ourselves?
7683Are we sure that it will swell the numbers?
7683Are ye less than Danes, or I than Canute?
7683As they came up the hills, Harold turned to Haco and said:"Where is thy battle- axe?"
7683At the accession of Edward?
7683But Godwin''s outlawry is the result of the breach between him and the foreigners.--In William''s visit to Edward?
7683But if so, where was the will?
7683Can any of ye remember?"
7683Dost thou think that men will get better heart to fight for their country by hearing that their King shrinks from the danger?"
7683For what do I not owe to thee-- owe to that very love of which even the grief is sacred?
7683From whom would they acquire them?
7683Grant the worst-- grant that Harold were defeated or slain; would it not be wise to reserve their strength to support the Atheling?
7683Harold should be perilled, but wherefore England?
7683Have we not around us now our most stalwart veterans-- the flower of our armies-- the most eager spirits-- the vanquishers of Hardrada?
7683Have we not given too much faith to the classic writers, who assert the original simplicity of the Druid worship?
7683His curiosity arrested, he asked"what the boy proposed to do?"
7683How is it named?
7683How is this broken ground of hillock and valley named in our chart?
7683How should we maintain an army, except by preying on the people, and thus discontenting them?
7683If destroyed, where were the witnesses?
7683If he come in sight of the city, think you that merchants and cheapmen will not be daunted by the thought of pillage and sack?
7683If he slay Harold----""What then?"
7683In what roll are your names, holy Heroes of the Soil?
7683Is it even safe for me to rest here?
7683Is mine heart, then, all a lie?
7683Is this all?"
7683Is this the hand of Nature?
7683On horse and in mail, with sword and with spear, knight to knight, man to man, wilt thou meet William the Norman?''"
7683Pale King and dark youth, would ye learn what Hilda saw, eh?
7683Shall it be said that your King rushed to chase his own brother from the soil of outraged England, yet shrunk from the sword of the Norman stranger?
7683Speak, hag, art thou dumb?"
7683The Dane was kindred to us in language and in law, and who now can tell Saxon from Dane?
7683The night will be dark anon-- our steeds are fleet-- and not shod with iron like the Normans;--the sward noiseless-- What think you?"
7683Were it not better to fly to York, or seek refuge with Malcolm the Scot?"
7683What next?"
7683What wonder that they were brave?
7683What would astrologers say to the meeting of such stars?"
7683When could those oaths have been pledged?
7683Where are our forts?
7683Where guard that army?
7683Why didst thou lay aside that labour of love for Harold the King?
7683Why drops the axe from his hand?
7683Why halts his stride?
7683Why should not our example rouse and unite all who survive us?
7683Why was it never produced or producible?
7683Without thee, what am I?
7683Would not the Cimmerii have transported them from the period of their first traditional immigration from the East?
7683[ 240] Does any Scandinavian scholar know why the trough was so associated with the images of Scandinavian witchcraft?
7683[ 278] Eight centuries have rolled away, and where is the Norman now?
7683and is not their Bel identical with the Babylonian deity?
7683asked a young monk, bolder than the rest,"to animate the host with prayer and hymn?"
7683cried the prelate;"do ye flag?
7683do ye falter when the sheaves are down, and ye have but to gather up the harvest?
7683eh?
7683he said;"shall we judge ourselves of the foe?
7683if we do so, and the Norman conquer, what become of our abbacies and convent lands?
7683one of those of whom no man knoweth whether they are of earth or of Helheim?
7683or where is not the Saxon?
7683said the Duke, startled;"where have I heard that name before?
7683said the King;"and how, thus unhonored in the air of heaven, lies the corpse of the noble Hilda?
7683where our mountains?
7683whether they have ever known the lot and conditions of flesh, or are but some dismal race between body and spirit, hateful alike to gods and to men?"
7683why were they not cited?
34117But art thou anxious, kinsman, to go there?
34117But what is thy need?
34117Gera má ek þat,segir Glámr;"eða eru þar n[o,]kkur vandhoefi á?"
34117How have you escaped a drubbing,said they,"has not the man been{ 377} here?"
34117Hvat er þér bezt hent at vinna?
34117Hvern veg ætlar þú nú,segir prestr,"at fara?"
34117Hví ertu hér, segir B[o,]ðvarr, eða hvat gerir þú?
34117Hæccine arma sunt,inquit,"quibus et uitam et regni tuebor honorem?"
34117That may I well do,said Glam,"but are there any difficulties?"
34117Viltu geyma sauðfjár míns?
34117What way,said the priest,"do you mean to go?"
34117What work art thou best fitted for?
34117Why art thou here?
34117Wilt thou watch my sheep?
34117Í litlum foerum em ek til þess,sagði Skapti;"eða hvat stendr þik?"
34117( p. 4_ etc._) 1892 OLRIK, A. Er Uffesagnet indvandret fra England?
341171886 SIEVERS, E. Altnordisches i m Beowulf?
341171913 NERMAN, B. Vilka konungar ligga i Uppsala högar?
341171915- 19 LINDROTH, H. Är Skåne de gamles Scadinavia?
341171917 SCHÜCKING, L. L. Wann entstand der Beowulf?
34117ARE THE CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE REST OF THE POEM?
34117Amer._ XXIV, 252) and Panzer(_ Beowulf_, 397), who both say"How do we know that it is not the merest chance?"
34117And how old is the belief?
34117And it has been noted[428] that Garulf rushes to the attack only after he has asked"Who holds the door?"
34117And why should we assume that the"passus"of_ Beowulf_ correspond to pieces of{ 295} parchment of various sizes of which an earlier exemplar consisted?
34117And why, above all, should the Götar never be mentioned, whilst the Swedes, far to the north, play so large a part?
34117And why, indeed, should the Jutes have specially commemorated a legend in which their part appears not to have been a very creditable one?
34117And why, it has often been asked, is the adversary under the water sometimes male, sometimes female?
34117And, having slain the dragon, what hero would neglect the gold?
34117Are all these poems Scandinavian?
34117Are such expressions natural, if Hildeburh had eloped with Finn, and her father had in consequence been slain by him some twenty years before?
34117Are the Christian elements incompatible with the rest of the poem?
34117Are we to argue that West- Saxons are Mercians?
34117Are we to suppose{ 330} any direct connection between the classical and the Old English epic?
34117At what date exactly did these sound changes take place?
34117But Garulf pays no heed; he challenges the champion on guard:"Who is it who holds the door?"
34117But are the parallels really so close?
34117But does not this feeling rest largely upon the analogy of other races and ages?
34117But how could anyone infer this from the_ Brunanburh_ lines?
34117But is there any instance of the thing being done on this scale-- of a wholesale burning of helmets and byrnies followed by a burial of huge treasure?
34117But is this likely?
34117But is this really a parallel?
34117But we have still to ask: How close was the connection supposed to be?
34117But what do we mean by"nation"?
34117But what hero ever did otherwise?
34117But what tribe?
34117But who were this"certain Hjalti"and Bjarki?
34117But would the pyre have been hung with helmets and byrnies?
34117But, among the numerous English proper names recorded, can any instance be found of any individual named Beowa?
34117But, if so, how can the mention of a ring- sword in_ Beowulf_( if indeed that be the meaning of_ hring- m[=æ]l_) prove Scandinavian colouring?
34117But, vague as it is, does the Christianity of_ Beowulf_ justify such a judgment as this?
34117But_ did_ the Frisians occupy Jutish territory?
34117Can Garulf''s question mean that he knows his father Guthlaf to be inside the hall, and wishes to avoid conflict with him?
34117During this period, how many instances can we find in which a tribe took the name of the people whose territory it occupied?
34117Firstly, if"Eoten"means"Jute,"as it is usually agreed that it does, why should the Frisians be called Jutes, seeing that a Frisian is not a Jute?
34117For what has Ingeld to do with Christ[48]?"
34117For why, it might be urged, should the wrenching off of an arm have been fatal to so tough a monster?
34117H[o,]ttr mælti ok grét:"skaltu nú bana mér, Bokki sæll?"
34117He meets a champion who is drinking up a river:"Good morning, John Bear, whither art going?"
34117Hon signdi sik ok mælti:"Þetta er ófoera; eða hvat gerir þú þá af meyjunni?"
34117Hott said, weeping,"Wilt thou be the death of me, good fellow?"
34117How are we to account for the parallels and for the discrepancies?
34117How are we to harmonize these accounts?
34117How could this be said, if Hengest was now their lord and prince?
34117How did he feel then?
34117How is it that we never get any hint anywhere of this Jutish preponderance and Jutish ascendancy?
34117How then can the boar- helmets of_ Beowulf_ show Scandinavian rather than Anglo- Saxon origin?
34117How then can the mention of it in_ Beowulf_ be a proof of Scandinavian origin?
34117How then could warfare be carried on for three generations between Jutes and Swedes without concerning the Götar, whose territory lay in between?
34117How then would a seventh or eighth century Englishman regard Finn and his father Folcwalda?
34117IS"BEOWULF"TRANSLATED FROM A SCANDINAVIAN ORIGINAL?
34117If it means"son of Sceaf,"why should a father be given to Scyld, when the story demands that he should come from the unknown?
34117If so, what archæological authority have we for such a custom in England?
34117If the Geatas be Jutes, why should their immediate neighbours, the Angles, never appear in_ Beowulf_ as having any dealings with them?
34117If they were distinct, how do Gregory''s words help the"Jute- theory"?
34117If, then, Hengest wants vengeance upon Finn, why does he not pursue it?
34117If, then, the English audience knew them, why must the poet himself have travelled on the continent in order to know them?
34117Is it borne out by such known facts as we can gather about this period?
34117Is it fanciful to suggest that the reference to damascening is a tradition coming down from the time of the earlier sword as found in the Nydam moss?
34117Is it not far more easy to regard the story of the fight between Beowulf and Grendel merely as a fairy tale, glorified into an epic[99]?
34117Is it to be supposed that Sigurd, under such circumstances, would have taken quarter from the slayer of Bui his father?
34117Is its"accuracy confirmed in every point by archaeological or contemporary literary evidence"?
34117Is the account of Beowulf''s funeral so true to old custom that it must have been composed by an eye- witness of{ 124} the rite of cremation?
34117Is this mere accident, or does the_ Grettis saga_ here preserve the original time limit, which has been exaggerated in_ Beowulf_?
34117Is_ Beowulf_ translated from a Scandinavian original?
34117Konungr horfði á dýrit ok mælti síðan:"enga sé ek f[o,]r á dýrinu, en hverr vill nú taka kaup einn ok ganga í móti því?"
34117Konungr mælti:"hverjar bætr viltu bjóða mér fyrir hirðmann minn?"
34117Konungr mælti:"viltu vera minn maðr ok skipa rúm hans?"
34117Must we find many different authors for_ The Ring and the Book_?
34117Noah and Adam occur; are we therefore to suppose that the compiler of the_ Genealogy_ believed his kings to be of one blood with the Hebrews?
34117Prof. Ayres''statement here is too good to summarize; it must be quoted at length:"How did he feel during that long, blood- stained winter?
34117Qualiter enim regem censeri posse, cui senectus animum, cæcitas oculum pari caliginis horrore fuscauerit?
34117Qui dum orationem complesset, a collateralibus senior sciscitabatur, cuiusnam hæc fuisset oratio?
34117Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?_ See Jaffé''s_ Monumenta Alcuiniana_(_ Bibliotheca Rer.
34117Quid multa?
34117Quid plura?
34117Rundschau_, 1903, 619- 21( signed-tz-?
34117She crossed herself and said,"That is an impossible way; what will you do with the child?"
34117Stud._ XXXVII, 401- 3; Schücking,_ Archiv_, CXV, 417- 21; Barnouw,_ Museum_, XIV, 96- 8;_ Neue philologische Rundschau_(?
34117Symons in_ Pauls Grdr._( 2), III, 649: Züge aus dem anglischen Mythus von Béaw- Biar( Biarr oder Bjár?
34117The Mantuan folk- tale may have been carried down to North Italy from Scandinavia by the Longobards: who can say?
34117The further question remains: Granting that he_ would_, could he?
34117The king said,"How can one know that more has not changed in thy temper than can be seen?
34117The king said,"What compensation wilt thou offer me for my retainer?"
34117The king said,"Wilt thou become my man and fill his place?"
34117The seamanship of_ Beowulf_ is removed by centuries from that of the(?
34117Was the slaying fair or treacherous?
34117Were the thegns asked to sacrifice theirs, and go naked into the next fight in honour of their lord?
34117Were these songs heroic or magic?
34117What are Hengest and the thegns to do?
34117What is there in this to indicate whether the raiders came from Jutland, or from the coast of the Götar across the Cattegat, 50 miles further off?
34117What part does he play?
34117When did the Jutes suffer any similar downfall at the hands of either Frisians, Franks, or Swedes?
34117Where was he, then, when Heardred was defeated and slain?
34117Who now will undertake to go against it?"
34117Whose?
34117Why did it never occur to them that this deluge of blood might much more suitably proceed from the monster?
34117Why do they not betray their origin by metrical inaccuracies such as we find in poems undoubtedly interpolated, like_ Widsith_ or the_ Seafarer_?
34117Why must Grendel or his mother represent the tempest, or the malaria, or the drear long winter nights?
34117Why should we construct a legend of the gods or a nature- myth to account for these tales?
34117Why then should the identity of_ Sc[=e]af_ and_ Sc[=e]afa_ be denied because one form is strong and the other weak[613]?
34117Why then should the watchers on the cliff above assume that the blood- stained water must necessarily signify the_ hero''s_ death, and depart home?
34117Why then, contrary to all analogy, should we assume a literary borrowing in the case of the_ Beowulf- Grettir_-story?
34117Why was Hjalti chosen as the victim, at whom missiles were to be discharged?
34117Will he prove so unpregnant of his cause as that?
34117Wilt thou endure patiently the slaughter of thy righteous sire?...
34117Would the Danes have been likely to forget utterly so striking a story, concerning the king from whom their line derived its name?
34117[ 190] But is this so?
34117[ 542] Loki kvaþ:"Hvat''s þat et lítla, es[ ek] þat l[o,]ggra sék, ok snapvíst snaper?
34117[ 551] This is proposed by J. J. Mikkola in a note appended to the article by K. Krohn,"Sampsa Pellervoinen< Njordr, Freyr?"
34117at koma þar?"
34117poetry was at once scrapped, and entirely new poems composed to fit in with the new sound laws?
34117said Bothvar,"and what art thou doing?"
34117{ 45} And was it in accordance with the rules of Old English nomenclature to give to mortals the names of these heroes of the genealogies[87]?
45341A brother?
45341About the same color with your own, ha? 45341 And because he is free-- the freeman but of the hour-- he has despised thee, Edith, the slave girl?
45341And did you kill him, sir?
45341And how have you heard it now?
45341And how will you render your verdict?
45341And is it so hard?
45341And of man, Eadwulf? 45341 And what color is the person''s at the bar?"
45341And who may you be, sirrah,cried the leader, checking the rudeness of his vassals for the moment,"who brave us thus?"
45341Art sure this is he, Damian? 45341 Be there any other charges against this man, Kenric, beside this one of murder?"
45341By whom is the charge put in?
45341Can it be that one so brave, so generous, and seemingly so noble, should be so base and abject? 45341 Can it be?"
45341Can this be? 45341 Can you name any one day, in particular, when you saw the person at the bar, between July and October, to know him?"
45341Could you see, to know him, at that distance?
45341Do you take up the glove, and are you ready in like manner to defend your charge with your body?
45341For what is this man brought here again in this guise? 45341 Had''Eadwulf the Red''a brother?"
45341Had''Eadwulf the Red''a brother?
45341Have you a writ of_ Neifty_[4] for me, Sir Foulke?
45341How can I serve you, dear lady?
45341How far off was he, when you saw him?
45341How is this? 45341 How should I be glad?
45341I not sufficient for a paltry bail of a hundred marks of silver? 45341 Is not that man''Kenric,''the brother of''Eadwulf the Red?''"
45341Kenric, lady?
45341Of what color are your own hair and beard?
45341Of your own knowledge, on your oath?
45341Of your own knowledge?
45341On what evidence does he charge me?
45341Our lady save us,murmured the gentle Guendolen, who seemed about to relapse into insensibility;"he saved my life, and have ye let him perish?"
45341She is very old?
45341She is very old?
45341That were a penalty,said the young man, half- sadly smiling;"but, can you help it, Guendolen?"
45341The thirteenth day of last September?
45341Then, why not escape at once?
45341To whom? 45341 Was not his name''Kenric?''"
45341Well, mother, and who art thou?
45341Well, then, what needs this man Kenric?
45341Well, there is a bail- bond needed, is there not, bailiff?
45341What is it, then? 45341 What mean you, Edith?"
45341What part of him?
45341What then? 45341 What was his name?"
45341What, the brave man who saved me from the stag at the risk of his own life, who was half slain in serving me-- is he-- is he_ your_ Kenric?
45341When did you see him first, to know him?
45341Where is the rub, my friend?
45341Wherefore, how should it be impossible? 45341 Who can tell, sir?"
45341Who ever heard of a serf refusing to be free, more than of a Jew not loving ducats? 45341 Who is his bondsman, and in what bail is he held?"
45341Who? 45341 Why dost not add,''better a thousand- fold thou wert delivered up to the avenger of blood,''and then go deliver me?"
45341Why not go straight to the castle, and place yourself in my lord''s safeguard?
45341Why was he called the Red?
45341Will not Sir Philip consent? 45341 Wilt die, or cry''craven?''"
45341And now, will you yield your own brother''s life a forfeit to the man- hunter, or the hunter of blood?"
45341And you deny to be a villeyn, and claim to prove your liberty?"
45341Art thou pursued?
45341As each entered the lists, he was met by a friar, who encountered him with the question,"Brother, hast thou confessed thy sins this morning?"
45341Being cross- examined;"Would she know her sons any where; would she know them apart?"
45341Beyond doubt, they were on his track; and how was he to shun their indomitable fury?
45341But do I understand aright?
45341But speak, what brings thee hither?
45341But we must all die one day, Kenric; and who knows but it is best to die young?"
45341But what shall I say to thee, obstinate, obdurate, ill- doer, senseless, rash, ungrateful, selfish?
45341By strong hand I escaped, and fleet foot----""By red hand?"
45341Canst swear to the man?
45341Clarencieux, what knowest thou of this kindred of these houses?"
45341Do n''t you think so, sir?"
45341Does this man Eadwulf, or Kenric, claim to be free, or confess himself to be a villeyn?"
45341Dost not love liberty, Kenric?"
45341Eat, bathe, sleep?
45341Has no one a leathern bottiau?
45341Have you any more witnesses, Master Gourlay?
45341He, being sworn, was asked;"Know you the person at the bar; and, if ay, what is his name?"
45341How hast thou escaped?
45341How rules he your warders, since?
45341I may seem to speak enigmas to you, lady, and I am sure that you do not understand me-- how should you?
45341I say, by what warrant have you done this?"
45341In the last charge, who is the prosecutor?"
45341Is it they-- is it the chase returning?"
45341Is there any other here, who knows the features of the fellow Eadwulf, to witness them on oath?
45341Is this the newer spirit you spoke of but now?
45341Knaves, is there a man hurt here?"
45341Now, bailiff, art thou there?"
45341Now, can you swear to him?"
45341Now, master bailiff, in quality of host, can you not find a flask of something choicer than your ale and metheglin?
45341Now, when did the hounds take the scent again?"
45341Or is there some new charge against him?"
45341Sang ever nightingale so sweetly as yon trill, Sir Knight?"
45341Shall we go?"
45341Sheriff of Lancaster, have you a guard at hand to protect the court?"
45341Should I be man, or beast, if, leaving these in bondage, I were to fare forth hence, alone, into dishonored freedom?"
45341The soul of the people had awakened, and what could fetter it?
45341Then said King Florentyne,"What noise is this?
45341Think you a woman, with such thoughts as these at her heart, can be very gay or joyous?"
45341This is thou, Eadwulf?
45341Thomas de Curthose, cross- examining the witness, asked--"The man at the bar is Eadwulf the Red?"
45341Thou art a runaway, then, and pursued?
45341What brings him hither?
45341What brings thee hither?"
45341What dost thou require?"
45341What have you there?"
45341What new disaster can have brought him hither?"
45341What say you to that, sirrah?"
45341What sayst to that?"
45341What seek you?"
45341What was the vision that had so changed the tenor of her mind?
45341What will you wager, Beausire?"
45341When did thy presence ever bring joy, or aught else than disaster and disgrace?
45341Where are thy boasts and threats now?
45341Who dare lift spears, or display banners, in my town of Kendal, without license of me?"
45341Who is next?"
45341Who is the boy?"
45341Why do we Normans boast ourselves, as if we alone could think great thoughts, or do great deeds?
45341Why dost not ask the serf, now, for life, for mercy?"
45341Why, here''s a sturdy knave, who has done what, to win all this mighty gratitude?
45341Will it please you, mount?
45341Will you not tell me what is this sorrow which weighs on you so heavily?
45341Wilt eat or bathe first?
45341You can have no sorrows of the heart, I think, so penetrating as to make all outward bodily pains forgotten, and yet-- you are pale, you are weeping?
45341_ Duke._ What, is Antonio here?
45341_ Tal._ Prisoner to whom?
45341asked the justiciary, in a kindly tone,"and what hast thou to tell us in this matter?"
45341brother Saxon, this is thou, then, is it?"
45341do you dare threaten me?"
45341do you fear so?
45341dog, what knowest thou of_ Neifty_?
45341exclaimed Sir Philip;"art thou mad?
45341exclaimed the Norman damsel, indignantly;"when ever did you see a Norman lady_ run_?
45341how can you call her clumsy, Marguerite?
45341how say you to that, Sir Yvo de Taillebois?"
45341is it so?
45341it has come already, has it?
45341she asked, in reference more to what she understood Edith to mean, than to any thing she had spoken, or even hinted--"is it so hard, my poor child?
45341this the way you would earn largess whereby to win your freedom?
45341what is this?"
45341what is this?"
45341what then?"