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Updated: June 21, 2025
The carle laughed: 'Sooth is that, said he, 'that there is little gear therein now; for the strong-thieves have voided both hall and bower and byre. 'And when was that? said Face-of-god. 'The night before last night, said the carle, 'the door was smitten on, and when none answered it was broken down. 'Yea, quoth Penny-thumb, 'a host entered, and they in arms.
Said the captain: "Even so it is with the Goldburg folk: if they raise hand against some of these strong-thieves or man-stealers, he has but to send the war-arrow round about these deserts, as ye deem them, and he will presently have as rough a company of carles for his fellows as need be, say ten hundred of them. And the Goldburg folk are not very handy at a fray without their walls.
In this period the barons widely became mere violent and illegal robbers; and the castles with which the land was dotted, and which were begun under the auspices of the Conqueror as military posts, became mere dens of strong-thieves. No doubt this made the business of the next able king, Henry II., the easier.
And when he came to the entry of the wood, there found he a great part of his company, which was come to meet him and when they saw them thus naked, they asked of him: "Sir, who hath thus arrayed you?" But he told them that they had fallen in with strong-thieves, who had thus ensnared them.
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