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Hereward's men! march these traitors and their French Prior safe out of the walls, and into Milton Woods, to look after their poor corrodiers, and comfort their souls, after they have ruined their bodies by their treason!" "Out of this place I stir not. Here I am, and here I will live or die, as St. Peter shall send aid."
"Now, you sea-cocks," said Winter, springing up, "we'll to the Bolldyke Gate, and all start fair." The Bolldyke Gate was on fire; and more, so were the suburbs. There was no time to save them, as Hereward would gladly have done, for the sake of the poor corrodiers. They must go, on to the Bolldyke Gate. Who cared to put out flames behind him, with all the treasures of Golden Borough before him?
The poor corrodiers, and other servants of the monastery, fled from the town outside into the Milton woods. The monks prayed on inside till an hour after matin.
And Leofric the priest, and mad Martin Lightfoot, watched like two dogs for her going out and coming in; and when she went among the poor corrodiers, and nursed the sick, and taught the children, and went to and fro upon her holy errands, blessing and blessed, the two wild men had a word from her mouth, or a kiss of her hand, and were happy all the day after.
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