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So I plucked up heart and took the cup from the hand of the king, trying to collect my thoughts into some sort of fitting words. "Drinc hael Cyning," I said, while my voice shook. "Here do I vow before all the Saints and before this company that I will do my best to prove myself worthy of this honour that has been set on me!"
"Drinc hael to the lady Elfrida, bravest and fairest in all the land of Somerset!" he cried. "Drinc hael, Oswald the king's thane thane by right of ready and brave service just rendered!" Then he drank with his eyes on me, and there went up a sort of cheer at his words, for men love to see any service rewarded on the spot if it may be so.
Cedric, seated in equal rank among his countrymen, seemed yet, by common consent, to act as chief of the assembly. The King, no stranger to the customs of his English subjects, returned the greeting with the appropriate words, "Drinc hael", and partook of a cup which was handed to him by the sewer.
Then the gleemen hushed their song, and Alsi stood up with the gold-rimmed horn of the king in his hand, and high he raised it, and cried, "Waeshael!" And all the guests rose up, cup in hand, with a wonderful flashing of the glorious English jewels, and cried with one voice, "Drinc hael, Cyning!"
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