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Hark thee, Guillaume, thou hast been guest with this usurper; thou hast seemed to me to have some love for him a love natural since thou didst once fight by his side; wilt thou go from me to the Saxon host with Hugues Maigrot, the monk, and back the message I shall send?"

His form was worn with mortification and fast, and his face was hueless and livid, with the perpetual struggle between zeal and flesh. "Thus saith William, Count of the Normans," began Hugues Maigrot, the monk. "With grief and amaze hath he heard that you, O Harold, his sworn liege-man, have, contrary to oath and to fealty, assumed the crown that belongs to himself.

"Change thy titles, or depart," said Harold, fiercely, his brow no longer mild in its majesty, but dark as midnight. "What says William the Count of the Foreigners, to Harold, King of the Angles, and Basileus of Britain?" "Protesting against thy assumption, I answer thee thus," said Hugues Maigrot.

Back went Hugues Maigrot, the monk, to William, and told the reply of Harold to the Duke, in the presence of Lanfranc.

"Hugues Maigrot delivered this message in a solemn tone; and the Norman chronicle says that at the word EXCOMMUNICATION, the English chiefs looked at one another as if some great danger were impending.

"A monk named Hugues Maigrot came in William's name to call upon the Saxon king to do one of three things either to resign his royalty in favour of William, or to refer it to the arbitration of the Pope to decide which of the two ought to be king, or to let it be determined by the issue of a single combat.

His form was worn with mortification and fast, and his face was hueless and livid, with the perpetual struggle between zeal and flesh. "Thus saith William, Count of the Normans," began Hugues Maigrot, the monk. "With grief and amaze hath he heard that you, O Harold, his sworn liege-man, have, contrary to oath and to fealty, assumed the crown that belongs to himself.

Back went Hugues Maigrot, the monk, to William, and told the reply of Harold to the Duke, in the presence of Lanfranc.

"Change thy titles, or depart," said Harold, fiercely, his brow no longer mild in its majesty, but dark as midnight. "What says William the Count of the Foreigners, to Harold, King of the Angles, and Basileus of Britain?" "Protesting against thy assumption, I answer thee thus," said Hugues Maigrot.

"A monk, named Hugues Maigrot, came in William's name to call upon the Saxon King to do one of three things either to resign his royalty in favor of William, or to refer it to the arbitration of the pope to decide which of the two ought to be king, or let it be determined by the issue of a single combat.