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| She had been forced down into fearful waters,/ the cold depths, after Cain had killed/ his father's son, felled his own/ brother with a sword./ Branded an outlaw,/ marked by having? | |
| Lands and wives he gave outright/ To all his servants save one knight:/ That was BLANK; him he forgot.? | |
| And if you will listen to my lay but a little while,/ As I heard it in hall, I shall hasten to tell.? | |
| To be gone from this bench and stand by you there,/ If I without discourtesy might quit this board,/ And if my liege lady misliked it not,/ I would come to your counsel before you ? | |
| Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,? | |
| She put this shape upon me to puzzle your wits,/ To afflict the fair queen, and frighten her to death…? | |
| Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun/ To telle yow al the condicioun/ Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, ? | |
| Lo, heere the wise kyng, daun Salomon;/ I trowe he hadde wyves mo than oon.? | |
| For Adam plight for to be pined./ Here to dead I oblige me/ Fro that sin for to save mankind,/ And sovereignly beseek I thee/ That they for me may favor find.? | |
| Thus gaily? Has thou thy Maker forgeet?? | |
| the first was this, in the beginning of the feast” “presently, that clownish person? | |
| Of ghostly sight the people be so blind,/ Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God. In worldly riches is all their mind.? | |
| O false Good, cursed thou be,/ Thou traitor to God, that hast deceived me/ And caught me in thy snare.? | |
| In alms half my good I will give with my hands twain,/ In the way of charity with good intent;/ And the other half, still shall remain,/ I 'queath to be returned there it ought to ? | |
| If priests be good, it is so, surely./ But when Jesu hanged on the cross with great smart,/ There he gave out of his blessed heart/ The same sacrament in great torment…? | |
| O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind./ In thy power it lieth me to save:/ Yet of my good will I give thee, if thou will be kind…? | |
| Therefore I will, in all the haste,/ Have a reckoning of every man's person.? | |
| Put on his garment to thy behove,/ Which is wet with you tears…? | |
| Sir knights, say, how work we now?? | |
| | Quote | Speaker/Addressee/BLANK |
| Fy! Spek namoore--it is grisly thyng--/Of hire horrible lust and hir likyng.? | |
| Lo, heere the wise kyng, daun Salomon;/ I trowe he hadde wyves mo than oon.? | |
| He shot wide and buried a shaft/ in the flesh and blood of his own brother…? | |
| And now the timbres trembled and sang,/ a hall-session that harrowed every Dane/ inside the stockade: stumbling fury,/ the two contenders crashed through the building.? | |
| In swich estaat as God hath cleped us/ I wol persevere; I nam nat precius.? | |
| Ho, no I hold it weel.? | |
| When he heard about BLANK, Hygelac's thane/ was on home ground, over in Geatland./ There was no one else like him alive.? | |
| She bestowed on him her heart/ And her body, every part./ Now BLANK is on easy street!? | |
| Though high-born Arthur at heart had wonder,/ He let no sign be seen, but said aloud/ To the comely queen, with courteous speech,/ 'Dear dame, on this day dismay you no whit;/ Such? | |
| Now displays of deportment shall dazzle our eyes/ And the polished pearls of impeccable speech;/ The high art of eloquence…? | |
| So faultless her features, so fair and so bright,/ His heart swelled swiftly with surging joys.? | |
| Bretful of pardoun, comen from rome al hoot.: A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot.? | |
| But thilke text heeld he nat worth an oystre;/: And I seyde his opinion was good.? | |
| Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable,: And whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere? | |
| In good faith,' said BLANK, 'my gain is the greater/ Though I am not he of whom you have heard;? | |
| Made angry by these words, the queen/ Insultingly expressed her spleen.? | |
| So chic, noble, and proud, he said,/ That even her lowliest chambermaid…? | |
| For every one of us, living in this world/ means waiting for our end. Let whoever can/ win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,/ that will be his best and only bulwark.? | |
| Now I mean to be a match for Grendel,/ settle the outcome in single combat.? | |
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