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16669	And when is there hope to haue an end of these miseries said I?
16669	Heereat the duke all smiling did aske hir what thereby she ment?
7672	And when again, my grandmother?
7672	How is that?
7672	What old ruin looms yonder?
7672	What weave they, then, good grandmother?
7672	And yon castle towards the west?"
7672	But saw you not, as we rode along, the lowering brows?
7672	But to my question, my gentle Rolf; this London must be rich?"
7672	But who and what is this same Hilda?
7672	How know I but what the next year the raven flag may stream over these waters?
7672	The writer in the Athenaeum is acquainted with Homeric personages, but who on earth would ever presume to assert that he is acquainted with Homer?
7672	Would any words from the modern vocabulary suggest the same idea, or embody the same meaning?
7672	and heard you not the angry murmurs?
7672	one of thy kith and kin?--surely not less than kingly blood runs so bold?"
7672	shall I ever return to the nineteenth century again?
7673	And that?
7673	And thou, Taillefer the minstrel, lovest thou not song for the sake of song?
7673	But methought, though my knowledge of English troubles is but scant, that Siward was the sworn foe to Godwin?
7673	Father, have my behests been fulfilled?--hath Hugoline, my treasurer, dispensed the gifts that I spoke of?
7673	Hearest thou this, Lord Seneschal? 7673 Know you not, in truth?"
7673	Lovest thou not, William Lord of Breteuil, lovest thou not fame for the sake of fame?
7673	Nay, how with thee, dear friend and king? 7673 No schism in thy Church?
7673	Thou fearest that man, and why?
7673	Thy name, young knight?
7673	Have 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?
7673	How fares it with thee?"
7673	Methought that I then banished thee my realm?"
7673	Out spoke the Frank Archbishop then, a priest devout and sage,"When peace and plenty wait thy word, what need of war and rage?
7673	Pray you, is it the Saxon custom to enter a king''s hall so garbed, and drink a knight''s wine so mutely?"
7673	The Duke started from his reverie, and bowed his head: then said, rather abruptly,"Is not yon blazon that of King Alfred?"
7673	This House of Godwin, thou wilt not again let it tower above thy palace?"
7673	Thy name?
7673	We may never meet again, William,--age creeps over me, and who will succeed to my thorny throne?"
7673	Wherefore?"
7673	While yet time, why not both seek some quiet convent, and put away these earthly cares?"
7673	Why waste a land as fair as aught beneath the arch of blue, Which might be thine to sow and reap?"
7673	Why, if thou desirest not rewards, shouldst thou thus care to serve me-- thou, a foreigner?"
7673	Yea, 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?"
7673	cried Taillefer, with his usual bluffness, and laughing with great glee,"why wouldst thou not listen to me, monseigneur?"
7676	And they have not tormented thee again with the thoughts of the convent?
7676	Come they,said he,"with so large a train?
7676	Didst 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?
7676	Githa,she said, slowly,"doubtless thou rememberest in thy young days to have seen or heard of the terrible hell- maid Belsta?"
7676	Gurth,said he,"is not this the morning of the sixth day in which we have been at the King''s Court?"
7676	Have I not told thee, son of Godwin,said the Vala, solemnly,"that Edith''s skein of life was inwoven with thine?
7676	How darest thou, Abbot Fatchere,cried Alred, indignantly;"How darest thou revive grief without remedy, and slander without proof?"
7676	How fares it, dear father?
7676	How so, kinswoman, how so?
7676	Is it so?--Is there peace in the home where the thought of Harold becomes a sin?
7676	They? 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?
7676	Without proof?
7676	And what royal robe so invests with imperial majesty the form of a man as the grave sense of power responsible, in an earnest soul?
7676	Between brother and brother shall there not be love, as the best bequest of the dead?"
7676	But when and where, my kinswoman?"
7676	Dost thou deem that my charms have not explored the destiny of the last of my race?
7676	For who makes his way to greatness without raising foes at every step?
7676	Gurth, has my father ailed?
7676	Where is Hilda?
7676	Why askest thou?"
7676	Without proof before man; but did he try the ordeals of God?--did his feet pass the ploughshare?-- did his hand grasp the seething iron?
7676	and hast thou not"( here Githa''s proud face flushed)"foretold also that my stately Harold shall wear the diadem of a king?"
7676	and who ever rose to power supreme, without grave cause for blame?
7676	and why didst thou forsake thy train?"
7676	or despise the marvel of which he can not detect the imposture?
7678	And what terror has death, if thou lovest me?
7678	And you are their beacon- fires? 7678 Art thou Cymrian, and talkest of faith with a Saxon?
7678	But the rebel Gryffyth?
7678	Is this lady, think you, in the stronghold with her lord?
7678	Of what tellest thou?
7678	Shall we dissuade?
7678	Speak, father, or chief,said the Welch King in his native tongue;"what would Harold the Earl of Gryffyth the King?"
7678	They defend their own soil,replied the Earl simply:"had not we done the same?"
7678	What counsel ye-- ye strong in battle, and wise in debate?
7678	What means all this commotion?
7678	What, after such havoc and gore?
7678	Where is Harold?
7678	Yet one word: And if Gryffyth refuse, despite all warning?
7678	And suddenly again was heard a voice that seemed that of the King, but no longer distinct and clear!--was it laugh?--was it groan?
7678	At last said the elder,"But hast thou thought who will carry this message?
7678	But, kindly and courteous Sir, will your wounds permit the journey, not long, but steep and laborious, and only to be made on foot?"
7678	Can not our eyes perceive the towers?"
7678	Faith with the spoiler, the ravisher and butcher?
7678	In the halls of the race to come, will bards yet unborn sweep their harps to the deeds of thy King?
7678	Is it love, is it hate, that prefers death for the loved one, to the thought of her life as another''s?"
7678	Or say, Child of Truth, if all that is told of Gryffyth thy King shall be his woe and his shame?"
7678	Shall 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?
7678	Think ye not the hour is come?"
7678	What tale lies hid in this token?"
7678	Wilt thou be the murtherer of thy men, in strife unavailing and vain?
7678	Yet 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?
7678	asked the old thegn,"thou canst not accept him again as crowned sub- king of Edward?"
7678	cried the pious knight, crossing himself,"is there no priest here to bless us?
7679	But one question more remains; shall I live to wear the crown of England; and if so, when shall I be a king?
7679	Go you so soon?
7679	Hast thou not asked thy kinswoman, the diviner of dreams?
7679	Hath no danger befallen thee?
7679	How dost thou pretend to that mystery of the future, which is dim and clouded even to me? 7679 How so?
7679	Speak to me,then said Harold, bending his face to hers;"why this silence?"
7679	The figure of a warrior?
7679	Wherefore hostage from me?
7679	And granting even that Gurth were safe from whatever danger he individually might incur, did it become him to accept the proxy?
7679	And, in truth, if Harold be safe in England, Gurth must be safe in Rouen?
7679	Are there no reasons why danger from William should be special against thyself?
7679	Art thou answer''d, dauntless seeker?
7679	Askest thou, O Hilda, the rich and the learned, askest thou counsel and lore from the daughter of Faul?"
7679	But reverse the case, and with Gurth in England, is Harold safe in Rouen?
7679	Can we baffle fate by refusing to heed its approaches?
7679	Canst thou tell when and where the daughter of the Norse kings shall sleep on the breast of her lord?"
7679	Fraud may plot, and force assail thee,-- Shall the soul thou trusteth fail thee?
7679	If I go to the court of the Norman, shall I return unscathed?"
7679	In a word, do you Saxons merely overrun, and neglect to hold what you win?"
7679	In the cloud and the wind and the fire couldst thou read no answer from Heaven, unquiet soul?
7679	Oh, Harold, what should all this portend?"
7679	Shall my league with William the Norman avail to win me my bride?"
7679	Should 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?
7679	Should he suffer Gurth to fulfil the pledge he himself had taken?
7679	Verily 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?''"
7679	What knowest thou of the runes of old, whispered by the trunkless skull to the mighty Odin?
7679	What need England do more?
7679	When will all the clouds that beset thee roll away from thy ken?
7679	When wilt thou be as wise as the hag thou despisest?
7679	Why hast thou set in the heart the mystic Law of Desire, ever toiling to the High, ever grasping at the Far?"
7679	Will my boy know his mother again?
7679	With that love, indeed, there was blended so much wistfulness, so much fear, that Harold exclaimed:"Soul of my soul, what hath chanced?
7679	Would 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?"
7679	answered Edith, wringing her hands;"when the bird hides its head in the brake, doth it shut out the track of the hound?
7679	then the Norman and Harold shall plight friendship and troth?"
7679	what affects thee thus?"
7679	why art thou not of us, why comest thou not to our revels?
7682	Ah?
7682	And if I take the offer, what will Harold son of Godwin give to my friend and ally Hardrada of Norway?
7682	And who,he asked calmly,"is that man who spoke so well?"
7682	And will thy brother as King give to thee again thy domain as Earl?
7682	Are my brothers without?
7682	Bold rider and graceless,quoth he,"who thus comes in the presence of counts and princes?"
7682	For the vow which thou mightest take as subject, what matters it now thou art king?
7682	Ha? 7682 His news?
7682	How now, nuncius? 7682 How?"
7682	Is glory, then, a drug that soothes to sleep?
7682	Is this, then, thy answer, unhappy son?
7682	What army comes yonder?
7682	What meanest thou? 7682 What will Harold the King give to his brother?"
7682	Why should my words so disturb thee, O King of the Norseman?
7682	Ah why, why did I not believe her then?
7682	And now what had passed in the councils of William?
7682	Are ye contented?"
7682	But thou must come to take it in time, or----""Or what?"
7682	But while the breath is struggling, and the eye glazing, life, busy in the bystanders, murmurs,"Who shall be the heir?"
7682	Doth the wind always blow from one point?--and is Fate less unstable than the wind?"
7682	Hath he not need of you?
7682	Have you not a noble host of knights and warriors?
7682	Is not William your lord?
7682	Now who will shrink from thy side?
7682	Put right on thy side, and then----""Ah, what then?"
7682	The 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?
7682	Then I asked in my sorrow,''Can nought avert the doom?
7682	What but a bold heart?
7682	What hast thou there, Haco?"
7682	What want you to destroy the Saxon and seize his realm?
7682	Whom commendest thou to us as shepherd to thy bereaven flock?
7682	[ 245]"What wouldst thou with me, daring foe?"
7682	and may not my people free themselves by repentance, like the Ninevites of old?''
7682	and who reigns?"
7682	cried the Norseman, reddening,"how was not that made known to me before?
7682	his news?"
7682	whom shall we admonish to tread in those traces thy footsteps leave below?"
7682	why did I then reject the cloister?
7682	why lookest thou so grim, and why shakest thou thy head?"
7680	And if I insist on my departure, not so satisfying him?
7680	And 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?"
7680	But pardon me that I press for--"Ye have no such strongholds, I say, in England?
7680	Deemest thou that I am a coward?
7680	Every castle on our road hath a dungeon as deep as Count Guy''s; but where another William to deliver you from William?
7680	How, boy? 7680 Lives there any other man in the wide world whose arm could have wrought that feat?"
7680	Proved? 7680 Thou heardst her, noble Harold: what is thine answer?
7680	Who could bend that of-- Ulysses?
7680	And the Duke answered fiercely,''Where?
7680	And thou, Wolnoth, hast thou kept thy word to me?
7680	Are they thus mutinous and surly in England, Lord Harold?"
7680	As for other leaders, save Gurth( who is but your own vice earl), who is there that will not rejoice at the absence of Harold?
7680	But what ails you?
7680	But what counsellest thou?
7680	Comprehendest thou?"
7680	Deemest thou he would be more gentle to us and to thee?
7680	Deemest thou that this fairspoken Duke will dare aught against my life?"
7680	He came to thee as to a prince and a friend; sufferest thou thy liegeman to detain him as a thief or a foe?"
7680	Heedest thou me, dear Harold?"
7680	How otherwise can one deal with you-- how be safe amongst you?"
7680	Let us return to Harold,--thou thinkest, then, that he is worthy of his fame?"
7680	Norman is thy garb, in truth; is thy heart still English?"
7680	Think over all this, and then wilt thou tell me that I merit not this crown?"
7680	Thinkest thou I care for his strong arm?
7680	Thou didst seem to understand me when I hinted of-- in a word, what is the object William would gain from me?"
7680	What are they?"
7680	What charge can the Norman bring against a free Englishman?"
7680	What dost thou resign?
7680	What, too, were those mysterious points on which he was to satisfy the Duke?
7680	Why should William''s be less so?
7680	Will he not reject your proffers, and with hot scorn?"
7680	darest thou that word to me?"
7680	growled the Duke, fiercely,"or----""May I speak,"interrupted De Graville,"and suggest a counsel?"
7680	have I no headsman whose axe is as sharp as Harold''s?
7680	or dost thou thyself covet the English crown; and is it to a rival that I have opened my heart?"
7680	why, where but in the Tour noir?--where but in the cell in which Malvoisin rotted out his last hour?''
7674	And if not, my vain brother?
7674	But three parts done?
7674	Hast thou said?
7674	How 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?"
7674	Is it to fly, think you, that I have put on my mail, and girded my sword?
7674	Oh Norman home, why did I leave thee?
7674	Pause yet,whispered Stigand;"and who shall say, this hour to- morrow, if Edward or Godwin reign on the throne of Alfred?"
7674	Shall Esau lose his birthright, and Cain retain it?
7674	So what says the King?
7674	They heard thee throughout, then?
7674	Thinkest thou,said Harold, with a stern composure,"that I can have joy and triumph in a brother''s exile and woe?"
7674	What mean you, Sir Father?
7674	What was the course I proposed? 7674 Who amongst you hath the courage and the heart to say it?
7674	Yet answer me still, why love you Earl Godwin? 7674 Am I so lost that faith should be broken even with thy father''s son?
7674	And 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?
7674	And why did I believe and bless the Vala, when she so said?
7674	Are ye willing that we should hear the message?
7674	But is it possible, cher Envoy, for the King to love the man who thus betrayed his brother to the shambles?"
7674	Can Edith ever be my wife?
7674	Can the tree say to the wind,''Rest thou on my boughs,''or Man to Belief,''Fold thy wings on my heart''?
7674	Deadly was my sin!--But what asked I?
7674	Father and son, both?"
7674	For what offence was I outlawed?
7674	For 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?
7674	Harold bounded after him; but Sweyn, halting, said, mournfully,"Is this thy promise?
7674	Has the Vala doomed him, too?
7674	He 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?
7674	Nevertheless, what was my offer?
7674	No more?
7674	Tell me, O Saxon, frank Saxon, why you love Godwin the Earl?
7674	Was this the meeting where justice could be done mine and me?
7674	What meanest thou by''Godwin the thing''?"
7674	When I looked to London for the peaceful Witan, what saw I?
7674	Who among my foes, if foes now I have, will not respect the old man''s gladness?
7674	Who amongst you would not grieve to say it?"
7674	Who shall say that Siward of the Strong Arm, the grandson of the Berserker, ever turned from a foe?
7674	Who were the Englishmen most of mark?"
7674	for 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?"
7674	what thinkest thou is the fate which thy brain and thine arm shall will?"
7675	And her heart, O Lady of England?
7675	And how,pursued the abbot triumphantly,"can a sinner open his heavy heart until you have given him something to lighten it?
7675	And what did you answer, holy father?
7675	And why, Harold?
7675	But thy banished kin-- the valiant, the wise; they who placed thy lord on the throne?
7675	Didst 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?"
7675	Have thy dreams been prophetic, son of Godwin?
7675	Is it to woman or to man?
7675	Is love a folly, my father?
7675	Oh, Edith, why?
7675	Promised to Hilda?
7675	Thine, Harold?
7675	What are they, my father?
7675	What shape, or what shadow of shape, does that spectre assume?
7675	Why dost thou look on me thus, and why art thou so silent?
7675	Why, Harold, sayest thou that our kinship is thy bane? 7675 Why?"
7675	And thus said the Queen to her godchild:"Why dost thou hesitate and turn away?
7675	As for Algar, what sayest thou?"
7675	But for Edric Streone, the traitor and low- born, what had been Wolnoth, thy grandsire?"
7675	But it is not Hilda that thou hast promised?"
7675	But what hast thou there?"
7675	By the shrine of St. Alban, dost thou hesitate, man?"
7675	Forgettest thou that Edith and I are within the six banned degrees of the Church?"
7675	O King, I dream?"
7675	Ponder it, and ask thyself if thy power, when I am dead, is not necessary to the weal of England?
7675	Shalt thou be there?"
7675	So my sister hath sent for thee: wittest thou wherefore?"
7675	Then said the stern shape by my side,''Harold, fearest thou the dead men''s bones?''
7675	Then 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?"
7675	Thinkest thou, poor child, in thine ignorance of life, that the world ever can give thee a bliss greater than the calm of the cloister?
7675	Those hands the Queen gently withdrew; and looking steadfastly in the changeful and half- averted face, she said mournfully,"Is it so, my godchild?
7675	Thou not ambitious, Harold?
7675	What had been Godwin, son of Wolnoth, had he not married into the kingly house of great Canute?
7675	Why is that sweetness to me, to thee so bitter?"
7675	[ 106]"But how long shall the exile be?"
7675	a flame, lambent and livid, like moonbeams collected over snow?"
7675	and is thy heart set on the hopes of earth-- thy dreams on the love of man?"
7675	cold and self- heeding, wilt thou send him to bear a peril from which thou shrinkest thyself?"
7675	cried the Queen,"who ever bended that soul of steel?"
7675	said the troubled mother,"why, of all my children, have they chosen thee?
7677	And 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?"
7677	But surely they bear a stain and stigma, and their fellow- thegns flout them?
7677	Deemest 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?"
7677	How camest thou in England?
7677	How else could we buy our freedom? 7677 How shouldst thou, poor Norman?"
7677	How to the Earl''s loss?
7677	I like him the better for that,said the honest Kent man:"why does he not marry the girl at once?
7677	Is a battle at hand? 7677 Is he married, or celibate?
7677	Nevertheless, I can not but think a few light horse----"Could scale yon mountain- brow?
7677	No, nor have the English generally; yet whom could we choose but Harold?
7677	Not 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?
7677	Welcome indeed,returned Godrith, with some embarrassment;"but how camest thou hither, and whom seekest thou?"
7677	Well, Vebba, and how likest thou the Atheling? 7677 What bird is this?"
7677	Whom in broad England hath Harold wronged?
7677	Why seek ye my life?
7677	And how is our Earl''s brother Tostig esteemed by the Northmen?
7677	And were Harold but slain-- who then would be king in England?
7677	But what of the commons-- the sixhaendmen and the ceorls, master Norman?
7677	Dare they speak as we speak of king and of law, of thegn and of captain?"
7677	How fares it?"
7677	How is this?
7677	Is it not so?"
7677	It can not matter to them whether shaven Norman or bearded Saxon sit on the throne?"
7677	Knowest thou not, Master Mallet, that one- third of all the lands of England is in the hands of the priests?"
7677	Need I say that I am in high favour?
7677	The Norman crossed himself, as if he had heard some signal impiety, and then said:"Thou lovest not Mother Church, worthy Sexwolf?"
7677	The Norman!-- How could that ever be?"
7677	Was it not in that watch that his good Fylgia had saved his life?
7677	You can tarry awhile and meet us; you know his old lodge in the forest land?"
7677	and how?
7677	answer me, staring Vebba?"
7677	are we in tine?
7677	cried Vebba, with his mouth full of the Phrygian attagen,"how came anything Moorish in our Christian island?"
7677	cried the Saxon, reddening to the tips of his great ears,"what dost thou babble of, stranger?
7677	from the vines of this country: wherefore, wilt thou see to it, and instruct thy cooks how to season the cheer?"
7677	grunted Vebba;"well, who are they?"
7677	said 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?
7677	said the Cymrian chief, gloomily;"thinkest thou so indeed?"
7681	Alas, who then?
7681	And I?
7681	And for what end, Prophetess? 7681 And that purpose?"
7681	And to that end, as imperative for the public weal, you consent,said Alred, thoughtfully,"to abide by our advice, whatever it be?"
7681	By all the fiends of the North?
7681	Does 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?"
7681	Hast thou then seen this spot before?
7681	Hill, ruin, grave- mound-- but where the tall image of the mighty one?
7681	Is Hilda within?
7681	Knowest thou the cause, Haco?
7681	Says Hilda this?
7681	This is my brother''s son, Edith; thou hast not, that I remember, seen him before?
7681	What, against his own brother?
7681	When, and where?
7681	Whither go we, Harold?
7681	Who then?
7681	''And who,''asked my subjects amazed,''who shall we say, speaketh thus to us?''
7681	--''How?--Why thinkest thou so?''
7681	And 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?
7681	Art thou blind, man?"
7681	As the shell and the sea- weed interlaced together, we are dashed on the rushing surge; whither?
7681	But speak on; what saidst thou at the last to William?"
7681	For what art thou here but for chastisement and revenge?"
7681	God 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?
7681	Haco mused a moment and said:"Methinks I divine thy purpose; is it not formed on the sudden, Harold?"
7681	He drew rein,--"What wantest thou, my nephew?"
7681	How purify the erring lives of the churchman, if thyself a rebel to the Church?
7681	Left 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?"
7681	Seest thou not that the hand of death is in the hush of the smileless lip, and the glance of the unjoyous eye?"
7681	Shall we do the same, O Edith?"
7681	Thou hast seen Hilda?--and Edith, my mother?
7681	Thou wilt come back, ere thou departest to aid Tostig, thy brother, and tell me how Hilda hath prospered with my ailing child?"
7681	Through all eternity the state impossible to the soul is repose!--So again thou art in thy native land?"
7681	What are you doing?
7681	What if at Edward''s death Mercia and Northumbria refuse to sanction thy accession?
7681	What led me?
7681	Where will ye find a chief with arm as strong, and heart as dauntless?
7681	Wilt thou choose that which absolves from sin, or that which consults but thy carnal affections?"
7681	Wilt thou not be proud to live for this fair country, and these noble men, and to speak the language of Alfred the Great?"
7681	You will not hear them?
7681	is there not absolution from this oath,--an oath I dare not keep?
7681	murmured Harold; and then he asked aloud,"What said she?"
7681	oh, whither?"
7681	shall we for that very reason deprive ourselves of the only man able to resist him?
7681	she 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?''
7681	thou comest not, then, to aid thy brother?"
7681	what was the answer of this caitiff Norman, with his glittering eye and venomed smile?
7683	And the King, the King,she cried, in a sudden and thrilling voice;"where is he?--the King?"
7683	Ay-- did you not know it?
7683	How like ye, O Normans, the Saxon gleeman?
7683	I would bid thee live, poor youth,whispered Harold;"but what were life if this day were lost?
7683	Is that thy choice?
7683	Methinks I have seen thy face before; thou art not Harold''s wife or sister?
7683	Nay,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?"
7683	Per la resplendar De,cried William, frowning;--"do ye think, my proud vavasours, to fail me in this great need?"
7683	Saw ye ever such beau rei?
7683	See ye not, maladroits,said the Duke,"that your shafts and bolts fall harmless on those ozier walls?
7683	Shall we go forth with the King''s army?
7683	So thou didst mingle with the men undiscovered?
7683	That Hereafter!--is it not near?
7683	What says William the Count of the Foreigners, to Harold, King of the Angles, and Basileus of Britain?
7683	What think you?
7683	Where is the banner?
7683	Who and what art thou?
7683	Who art thou?
7683	Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
7683	Who, Haco, if we fall, will search for us?
7683	1st, When did the Celts first introduce idols?
7683	2d, Can we believe the classical authorities that assure us that the Druids originally admitted no idol worship?
7683	Accustomed 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?
7683	And 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?"
7683	And will not their popular idols be found to be as ancient as the remotest traces of the Celtic existence?
7683	Are not yon stout fellows all in mail, so tall and so orderly, in advance of the London burghers, Hilda''s aid to our Fyrd?"
7683	Are the gods who led Odin from the Scythian East but the juggling fiends whom the craven Christian abhors?
7683	Are we so united( the King''s rule thus fresh) but what no cabals, no dissensions will break out amongst ourselves?
7683	Are we sure that it will swell the numbers?
7683	Are ye less than Danes, or I than Canute?
7683	As they came up the hills, Harold turned to Haco and said:"Where is thy battle- axe?"
7683	At the accession of Edward?
7683	But Godwin''s outlawry is the result of the breach between him and the foreigners.--In William''s visit to Edward?
7683	But if so, where was the will?
7683	Can any of ye remember?"
7683	Dost thou think that men will get better heart to fight for their country by hearing that their King shrinks from the danger?"
7683	For what do I not owe to thee-- owe to that very love of which even the grief is sacred?
7683	From whom would they acquire them?
7683	Grant the worst-- grant that Harold were defeated or slain; would it not be wise to reserve their strength to support the Atheling?
7683	Harold should be perilled, but wherefore England?
7683	Have we not around us now our most stalwart veterans-- the flower of our armies-- the most eager spirits-- the vanquishers of Hardrada?
7683	Have we not given too much faith to the classic writers, who assert the original simplicity of the Druid worship?
7683	His curiosity arrested, he asked"what the boy proposed to do?"
7683	How is it named?
7683	How is this broken ground of hillock and valley named in our chart?
7683	How should we maintain an army, except by preying on the people, and thus discontenting them?
7683	If destroyed, where were the witnesses?
7683	If he come in sight of the city, think you that merchants and cheapmen will not be daunted by the thought of pillage and sack?
7683	If he slay Harold----""What then?"
7683	In what roll are your names, holy Heroes of the Soil?
7683	Is it even safe for me to rest here?
7683	Is mine heart, then, all a lie?
7683	Is this all?"
7683	Is this the hand of Nature?
7683	On horse and in mail, with sword and with spear, knight to knight, man to man, wilt thou meet William the Norman?''"
7683	Pale King and dark youth, would ye learn what Hilda saw, eh?
7683	Shall 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?
7683	Speak, hag, art thou dumb?"
7683	The Dane was kindred to us in language and in law, and who now can tell Saxon from Dane?
7683	The night will be dark anon-- our steeds are fleet-- and not shod with iron like the Normans;--the sward noiseless-- What think you?"
7683	Were it not better to fly to York, or seek refuge with Malcolm the Scot?"
7683	What next?"
7683	What wonder that they were brave?
7683	What would astrologers say to the meeting of such stars?"
7683	When could those oaths have been pledged?
7683	Where are our forts?
7683	Where guard that army?
7683	Why didst thou lay aside that labour of love for Harold the King?
7683	Why drops the axe from his hand?
7683	Why halts his stride?
7683	Why should not our example rouse and unite all who survive us?
7683	Why was it never produced or producible?
7683	Without thee, what am I?
7683	Would 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?
7683	and is not their Bel identical with the Babylonian deity?
7683	asked a young monk, bolder than the rest,"to animate the host with prayer and hymn?"
7683	cried the prelate;"do ye flag?
7683	do ye falter when the sheaves are down, and ye have but to gather up the harvest?
7683	eh?
7683	he said;"shall we judge ourselves of the foe?
7683	if we do so, and the Norman conquer, what become of our abbacies and convent lands?
7683	one of those of whom no man knoweth whether they are of earth or of Helheim?
7683	or where is not the Saxon?
7683	said the Duke, startled;"where have I heard that name before?
7683	said the King;"and how, thus unhonored in the air of heaven, lies the corpse of the noble Hilda?
7683	where our mountains?
7683	whether 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?"
7683	why were they not cited?