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"Ah, dear my lady, thy wilfulness hath e'en now brought thee into dire perils and dangers. O rueful day!" "Nay, Godric, my wilfulness hath brought me unto my heart's desire. O most joyful day!" "Lady, I do tell thee here is an evil place for thee: they do say the devil is abroad and goeth up and down and to and fro begirt in mail, lady, doing such deeds as no man ever did.
They ate and drank, roystered and rioted, like most other young Normans; and vexed the staid soul of Godric, whose nose told him plainly enough, whenever he entered the kitchen, that what was roasting had never come off a deer. In vain he protested and warned them, getting only insults for his pains. At last he told his lord. The lord, as was to be expected, cared nought about the matter.
The night after he came he visited me in my quarters, and after courteous passages, of which I need not speak, he suddenly said, 'You have the papers of Sir John Godric those bearing on Prince Charles's invasion of England? "I was stunned by the question, for I could not guess his drift or purpose, though presently it dawned upon me.
"Lady," quoth he, "mine eyes be old, and yet methinks I should know yon horseman that rideth unhelmed so close beside the lady Winfrida that breadth of shoulder! that length of limb! Lady, how think ye?" "'Tis Duke Ivo!" she whispered. "Aye," nodded Godric, "armed, see you, yet with but two esquires " "And with Winfrida!" said the Duchess, frowning. "Can it indeed be as I have thought, betimes?
Now of a sudden he put up his vizor and stepped toward them down the sloping bank. Then the Duchess let fall the dagger and reached out her hands. "Godric!" she sighed, "O Godric!" Thus came white-haired old Godric the huntsman, lusty despite his years, bright-eyed and garrulous with joy, to fall upon his knees before his lady and to kiss those outstretched hands.
After awhile he wandered on again, until at Wolsingham, in Durham, he met with another holy hermit, who had been a monk at Durham, living in a cave in forests in which no man dare dwell, so did they swarm with packs of wolves; and there the two good men dwelt together till the old hermit fell sick, and was like to die. Godric nursed him, and sat by him, to watch for his last breath.
The Norman sneer, in which the king and his wife are referred to as Godric and Godgifu, is as plain an indication of the feeling of that party. Such a taunt as this could not have been called out by the mere marriage, and would never have been spoken if the policy of the king, in spite of the marriage, had been one in sympathy with the wishes of the extreme Norman element.
"O my faithful Godric, look now upon lord Beltane, my well-beloved who shall be Duke of Mortain ere the moon change. Salute thy lord, Godric!" So, perforce, came old Godric to fall upon his knee before Beltane, to take his hand and swear the oath of fealty. "Lord Beltane," said he, "son art thou of a mighty Duke; God send Mortain find in thee such another!" "Amen!" said Beltane.
The deer had once been theirs, the game, the land, the serfs; and if Godric of Corby slew the Irnham deer, burned Irnham Hall over the head of the new Norman lord, and thought no harm, he did but what he would with that which had been once his own. "In Tatenai habuerunt Turgisle et Suen IIII. Carrucas terae," &c.
"Now, there was one lady to whom I talked with some freedom of my early life and of Sir John Godric. She was interested in all, but when I named Sir John she became at once much impressed, and I told her of his great attachment to Prince Charles.
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