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Then the king turned on his courtiers, glad to ease his own conscience by cursing them. "This is your doing, sirs! If I had not listened to your base counsels, Edwin might have been now my faithful liegeman and my son-in-law; and I had had one more Englishman left in peace, and one less sin upon my soul." "And one less thorn in thy side," quoth Ivo Taillebois. "Who spoke to thee?
"Ha!" quoth he, "let our Duke that hath no duchy be lodged secure to the dungeons, aye, he shall sleep with rats until my lord Duke Ivo come to see him die yet stay! The dungeons be apt to sap a man's strength and spirit, and to a weak man death cometh over soon and easy.
So must I back to the wild-wood to wild and desperate doings. But, as for ye I have heard tell that the men of Belsaye are brave and resolute. Let now the memory of wrongs endured make ye trebly valiant to maintain your new-got liberty. If Duke Ivo come, then let your walls be manned, for 'tis better to die free men than trust again to his mercy."
Ivo Taillebois came with him, hungry after those Spalding lands, the rents whereof Hereward had been taking for his men for now twelve months. William de Warrenne was there, vowed to revenge the death of Sir Frederic, his brother. Ralph Guader was there, flushed with his success at Norwich.
"Ah, messire, to-day, ere the dawn, we fell upon Sir Benedict of Bourne a seditious lord who hath long withstood Duke Ivo. But though his men were few they fought hard and gained the ford ahead of us. And in the fight I, with many others as ye see, was smitten down and the fight rolled on and left us here in the dust.
Though the great Norman barons stood aloof from him Robert of Belleme and his two brothers Roger and Arnulf, William of Warenne, Walter Giffard, and Ivo of Grantmesnil, with others Henry was stronger in England than Robert.
Thou should'st be henceforth my lord, my knight-at-arms to lead my powers 'gainst Duke Ivo, teaching Mortain to cringe no more to a usurper to free Pentavalon from her sorrows ah, see you not, Beltane?" "Helen!" he murmured, "O Helen, poor am I a beggar "
The house and the prisoner were left in the hands of Matthew, Father Jordan, and Perrote. Norman Hylton accompanied his master. Lady Foljambe's mind had grown tolerably easy on the subject of Ivo, and she only gave Perrote a long lecture, warning her, among other things, never to leave the door unlocked nor the prisoner alone.
Ivo, as the story runs, seems to have arranged with Ralph Pagnel at Buckingham to put him into the keeping of a creature of his own. And how easy it was to put out a man's eyes, or starve him to death, in a Norman keep, none knew better than Hereward. But he was past fear or sorrow. A dull heavy cloud of despair had settled down upon his soul. Black with sin, his heart could not pray.
"Ay, I remember him." "And also a priest, named Father Eloy. The priest won clean away over the wall; only Mark saith that Colle hath a piece of his hose for a remembrance. Sir Roland and Ivo were taken, and be lodged in the dungeon." "Poor fools!" said the Countess again. "O Perrote, Perrote, to be free!" "Dear my Lady, should it be better with you than now?" "What wist thou?
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