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That is the rule of our liege lord, King William; and by it he will conquer England, or the world, if he will; and while he does that, he shall never say that Ivo Taillebois stayed at home to guard his own manors while he could join his king, and win all the manors of England once and for all."
Ivo Taillebois and Earl Warrenne came down and had a look at him. "Hereward!" said Ivo. "I will warrant that little slouching cur is not he. Hereward must be half as big again, if it be true that he can kill a man with one blow of his fist." "You may try the truth of that for yourself some day," thought Hereward. "Does any one here talk English? Let us question the fellow," said Earl Warrenne.
"To convert to other uses the goods of the Church, to convert them to profane uses would, I need not say, be a sacrilege as horrible to Heaven as impossible to so pious a monarch " Ivo Taillebois winced. He had just stolen a manor from the monks of Crowland, and meant to keep it.
So strong was the new bridge, that William trusted himself upon it on horseback, with Ivo Taillebois at his side. William doubted the powers of the witch, and felt rather ashamed of his new helpmate; but he was confident in his bridge, and in the heavy artillery which he had placed in his four towers. Ivo Taillebois was utterly confident in his witch, and in the bridge likewise.
Who would have thought that Ivo Taillebois would ever rise so high in life as to be looking out for a wife, and that a lady, too?" Eddeva faira, Eddeva pulcra, stands her name in Domesday-book even now, known, even to her Norman conquerors, as the Beauty of her time, as Godiva, her mother, had been before her.
Dare you fight Taillebois and Gilbert of Ghent, with William, Duke of Normandy, at their back? Or will you take me, here as I stand, and give me up to them as an outlaw and a robber, to feed the crows outside the gates of Lincoln? Do it, if you will. It will be the wiser plan, my friends.
Soon a group came along the drove which promised fresh sport to the man-hunters: but as the foremost person came up, Ivo stopped in wonder at the shout of, "Ivo! Ivo Taillebois! Halt and have a care! The English are risen, and we are all dead men!" The words were spoken in French; and in French Ivo answered, laughing,
But while Hereward was casting in his mind what gewgaw further might suffice to appease the Apostle, he was recalled to business and common-sense by hearing the two old hags talk to each other in French. His heart leapt for joy, and he forgot St. Peter utterly. "Well, how have you sped? Have you seen the king?" "No; but Ivo Taillebois. Eh! Who the foul fiend have you lying there?"
"What is all this about?" They told him as much as they chose to tell him. He was very wroth. "Who was Ivo Taillebois, to add to his message? He had said that Torfrida should not burn." Taillebois was stout; for he had won the secretary over to his side meanwhile. He had said nothing about burning. He had merely supplied an oversight of the king's.
Normans were in possession of every castle around; his cousins, the young Earls Edwin find Morkar, had submitted to the Conqueror; Edwin was betrothed to Agatha, William's daughter; and their sister Lucy was married to an Angevin named Ivo Taillebois bringing him a portion of their lands, in right of which he called himself Viscount of Spalding.
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