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"That is true," said Godrith with earnest emphasis, for, with all his affectation of Norman manners, he was thoroughly English at heart, and now among the staunchest supporters of Harold, who had become no less the pattern and pride of the young nobles than the darling of the humbler population, "that is true and Harold showed us his noble English heart when he so urged the King to his own loss."
"That is true," said Godrith with earnest emphasis, for, with all his affectation of Norman manners, he was thoroughly English at heart, and now among the staunchest supporters of Harold, who had become no less the pattern and pride of the young nobles than the darling of the humbler population, "that is true and Harold showed us his noble English heart when he so urged the King to his own loss."
Holy Virgin!" cried Vebba, with his mouth full of the Phrygian attagen, "how came anything Moorish in our Christian island?" Godrith laughed outright. "Why, our cook here is Moorish; the best singers in London are Moors. Look yonder! see those grave comely Saracens!" "Comely, quotha, burnt and black as a charred pine-pole!" grunted Vebba; "well, who are they?"
"Welcome indeed," returned Godrith, with some embarrassment; "but how camest thou hither, and whom seekest thou?" "Harold, thy Count, man and I trust he is here." "Not so, but not far distant at a place by the mouth of the river called Caer Gyffin . Thou shalt take boat, and be there ere the sunset." "Is a battle at hand?
"Such are not our weapons," said the Earl; "and ill would it become me, unpractised, so to peril our English honour, as to strive against the arm that could bend that arc and wing that arrow. But, that I may show these Norman knights, that at least we have some weapon wherewith we can parry shaft and smite assailer, bring me forth, Godrith, my shield and my Danish axe."
Godrith, a young Saxon of considerable rank, but one of the most sedulous of the imitators of the foreign fashions, coloured high at the irony in the knight's speech, and turning rudely to the huge guest, who was now causing immense fragments of pasty to vanish under the cavernous cowl, he said in his native tongue, though with a lisp as if unfamiliar to him
"How!" said Godrith, reddening, "thinkest thou so meanly of us thegns of Middlesex as to deem we cannot entertain thus humbly a friend from a distance? Ye Kent men I know are rich. But keep your pennies to buy stuffs for your wife, my friend." The Kent man, seeing he had displeased his companion, did not press his liberal offer, put up his purse, and suffered Godrith to pay the reckoning.
"Yet is he a troublesome foe," said Godrith, who did not hear the sound Vebba had provoked, "and a thorn in the side both of the Earl and of England; and sorrowful for both England and Earl was it, that Harold refused to marry Aldyth, as it is said his father, wise Godwin, counselled and wished."
Holy Virgin!" cried Vebba, with his mouth full of the Phrygian attagen, "how came anything Moorish in our Christian island?" Godrith laughed outright. "Why, our cook here is Moorish; the best singers in London are Moors. Look yonder! see those grave comely Saracens!" "Comely, quotha, burnt and black as a charred pine-pole!" grunted Vebba; "well, who are they?"
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