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Updated: May 8, 2025
ROGER. "O day most blessed, since woman's love hath lifted thee from death and shall be thy glory and Pentavalon's salvation, master!" "Roger Roger, speak you of the Duchess Helen? What mean you, man?" ROGER. "There be signs and portents, master, the very air is full o' them. Whiles we tarry here, others be up and doing " BELTANE. "Others, Roger?" ROGER. "Notably Walkyn o' the Axe, master!"
But, an I come not within two days from now, then hie you each and every to reinforce Eric and Giles in Belsaye. As for Roger, he rideth with me to Barham Broom." "Ha, lord! wilt fight, then, in the witch's cause?" cried Walkyn. "Aye, forsooth, though forsooth I had rather fight in a dog's cause, for a dog, see you, is a faithful beast." "To Barham Broom?" quoth Roger, staring.
Forth sprang Ulf, swift and eager, but Walkyn, bounding up, shouldered him aside his axe whirled and fell once, and Sir Pertolepe's mace was dashed from his loosened hold whirled and fell again, and Sir Pertolepe's great casque was beaten from his head and all men might see the ghastly, jagged cross that scarred his brow beneath his fiery hair whirled again, but, ere it could fall, knights and esquires mounted and afoot, had burst 'twixt Walkyn and their reeling lord, and Walkyn was dashed aside, shouting, cursing, foaming with rage, what time Sir Pertolepe was borne out of the fight.
Nil desperandum, brother: bruised and beaten, bleeding and in bonds, yet I breathe, nothing desponding, for mark me, a priori, brother, Walkyn and the young knight won free, which is well; Walkyn hath long legs, which is better; Walkyn hath many friends i' the greenwood, which is best of all. So do I keep a merry heart dum spiro spero trusting to the good St.
Now did Beltane divide the three hundred into five companies of sixty; over the first company he set Walkyn, over the second, Roger, over the third, Ulf, over the fourth Jenkyn o' the Ford.
"Why then, lord, let us to the Hollow it lieth scarce a mile through the brush yonder, and 'twas there I did appoint for Walkyn to meet with thee again so shall we sleep secure; moreover I have a feeling as it were one calling us thither, a wondrous strange feeling, master! Mayhap we shall come by news of Walkyn there " "'Tis well bethought, Roger. Come thy ways."
"Aye," grumbled Walkyn, "and what of Roger? what of me? we were there also, methinks?" "Nay, show patience," said Giles, "we will amend that in the next triplet, thus: "There Roger fought, and Walkyn too, And Giles that bare the bow of yew; O swift and strong his arrows flew, Dixit!" "How think ye of that, now?" "I think, here is too much Giles," said Roger. "Forsooth, and say ye so indeed?
Fast and furious Beltane sped on, crashing through underbrush and crackling thicket, o'erleaping bush and brook and fallen tree, heedful of eye, and choosing his course with a forester's unerring instinct, praying fiercely beneath his breath, and with the three ever close behind. "Would I had eaten less!" panted Giles. "Would our legs were longer!" growled Walkyn.
Come then, as ye are children of God, go ye in brotherly love together henceforth, and may heaven bless ye, valiant sons!" Thus saying, she set their hands one in another, and these hands gripped and held. Quoth Ulf, sighing: "Forsooth, I did but mean to try the balance of thine axe, Walkyn. And truly it is a mighty weapon and a peerless one that even my strength cannot break!"
Then up sprang Walkyn, pointing to Beltane with his axe. "Brothers!" he cried, "behold a man that doeth such deeds as no man ever did that burned the gallows burst ope the dungeon of Belsaye and slew Tostig the mighty with naked hands! Behold Beltane the Duke! Is he not worthy to be our leader shall we not follow him?" Then came a roar of voices: "Aye let us follow let us follow!"
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