Hereward the Wake, 'last of the English'
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1881. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. HOW HEREWARD FULFILLED HIS WORDS TO THE PRIOR OF THE GOLDEN BOROUGH. In the course of that winter died good Abbot Brand. Hereward went over to see him, and found him moaning to himself texts of Isaiah, a...
MoreBook may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1881. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. HOW HEREWARD FULFILLED HIS WORDS TO THE PRIOR OF THE GOLDEN BOROUGH. In the course of that winter died good Abbot Brand. Hereward went over to see him, and found him moaning to himself texts of Isaiah, and confessing the sins of his people. "Woe to the vineyard that bringeth forth wild grapes. Woe to those that join house to house and field to field,--like us, and the Godwinssons, and every man that could--till we stood alone in the land. Many houses, great and fair, shall be without inhabitants. It is all foretold in Holy Writ, Hereward, my son. Woe to those who rise early to fill themselves with strong drink, and the tabret and harp are in their feasts: but they regard not the works of the Lord. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge. Ah--those Frenchmen have knowledge, and too much of it: while we have brains filled with ale instead of justice. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure, and all go down into it, one by one. And dost thou think thou shalt escape, Hereward, thou stout-hearted?" "I neither know nor care: but this I know, that whithersoever I go, I shall go sword in hand." "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword," said Brand, and blessed Hereward and died . A week after came news that Thorold of Malmesbury was coming to take the abbey of Peterborough, and had got as far as Stamford, with a right royal train. Then Hereward sent Abbot Thorold word, that if he or his Frenchmen put foot into Peterborough, he Hereward would burn it over their heads. And that if he rode a mile beyond Stamford town, he should walk back into it barefoot in his shirt. Whereon Thorold abode at Stamford, and kept up his spirits by singing the song of Roland, which some say he himself composed. A week ...
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