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The two earls in the north, Edwin and Morcar, are enemies of your house. Make them your friends by marrying their sister, Aldwyth. Harold was silent. 'Ah, my son, said the old king, 'I know that you have long hoped to marry my ward, the Lady Edith; but you must sacrifice yourself for England.
Her face was pale and sorrowful, but she had resolved to do her duty. 'Harold, she implored him, 'for the sake of England; that our country may be free! I will never, never marry any one else; but you are a king! Marry Aldwyth! With a sore heart Harold yielded to her entreaty, and promised the old king that he would do as he asked.
The Confessor also is as true in art as to history, and his vision of the fall and rise of England is a noble passage. In Aldwyth we have something of Vivien, with a grain of conscience, and the part of Edith Swan's-neck has a restrained and classic pathos in contrast with the melancholy of Wulfnoth.
The conqueror gave her leave to search, and for a long time the noble English lady wandered over the battle-field, seeking vainly among the dead. Then came Aldwyth, Harold's wife; but she too, was unable to find the body of her husband. Last of all came Edith of the Swan's Neck, whom Harold had loved; and she sought long for the body.
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