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Never had he seen her thus; and, deeply moved as well as keenly stung, he rose at length to depart; her hand lay passive in his parting clasp, and a slight shiver went over her frame. "Farewell, Edith; when I return from Windshore, I shall be at my old home yonder, and we shall meet again." Edith's lips murmured inaudibly, and she bent her eyes to the ground.
So, in the Easter of the year of our Lord 1053, King Edward kept his court at Windshore , and Earl Godwin and his sons, and many others of high degree, left their homes to do honour to the King.
Never had he seen her thus; and, deeply moved as well as keenly stung, he rose at length to depart; her hand lay passive in his parting clasp, and a slight shiver went over her frame. "Farewell, Edith; when I return from Windshore, I shall be at my old home yonder, and we shall meet again." Edith's lips murmured inaudibly, and she bent her eyes to the ground.
But the Earl looked only to his father, and he saw that his eyes were absent from the glee, and that he was bending his head over the old falcon, which sate on his wrist. No subject of England, since the race of Cerdic sate on the throne, ever entered the courtyard of Windshore with such train and such state as Earl Godwin.
So rode the Earl and his four fair sons, all abreast, into the courtyard of Windshore . Now when King Edward heard the tramp of the steeds and the hum of the multitudes, as he sate in his closet with his abbots and priests, all in still contemplation of the thumb of St. Jude, the King asked: "What army, in the day of peace, and the time of Easter, enters the gates of our palace?"
So, in the Easter of the year of our Lord 1053, King Edward kept his court at Windshore , and Earl Godwin and his sons, and many others of high degree, left their homes to do honour to the King.
So rode the Earl and his four fair sons, all abreast, into the courtyard of Windshore . Now when King Edward heard the tramp of the steeds and the hum of the multitudes, as he sate in his closet with his abbots and priests, all in still contemplation of the thumb of St. Jude, the King asked: "What army, in the day of peace, and the time of Easter, enters the gates of our palace?"
But the Earl looked only to his father, and he saw that his eyes were absent from the glee, and that he was bending his head over the old falcon, which sate on his wrist. No subject of England, since the race of Cerdic sate on the throne, ever entered the courtyard of Windshore with such train and such state as Earl Godwin.
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