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Thereafter we talked, and he told me many a woeful tale of Pentavalon and of its misery. How, when I was gone, rose bitter fight and faction, barons and knights striving together which should be Duke. In the midst of the which disorders came one, from beyond seas, whom men called Ivo, who by might of sword and cunning tongue made himself Duke in my place.
Father took off his wet blouse and mother stirred up the fire: they would have one more cup of coffee, with a drop of something, and then go to bed. Ivo lit his pipe and stretched out his legs to dry beside the stove. They drank their coffee and listened to the steady breathing of the boys and the dripping of the gutters on the cobbles outside.
"Hoc Ivo Taillebosc ibi habet in dominio," all, that is, that the wars had left of them. Wherefore it befell, that once upon a day there came riding to Hereward in the Bruneswald a horseman all alone.
"Hillo, knaves!" said he, seeing the two, "are you here eavesdropping? out of the castle this instant, on your lives." Which hint those two witty knaves took on the spot. A few days after, Hereward was travelling toward Buckingham, chained upon a horse, with Sir Robert and his men, and a goodly company of knights belonging to Ivo.
I will go in and bolt the rabbit; and you shall snap him up as he comes out." And Ivo, who was as brave as a bull-dog, thrust his horse into the path, while the Abbot sat shivering outside. "Certain nobles of higher rank," says Peter de Blois, "followed his example, not wishing to rust their armor, or tear their fine clothes, in the dank copse."
He landed, and hurried on with half his men, leaving the rest to disembark the booty. He was anxious as to the temper of the monks. He foresaw all that Torfrida had foreseen. And as for Torfrida herself, he was half mad. Ivo Taillebois's addition to William's message had had its due effect. He vowed even deadlier hate against the Norman than he had ever felt before.
One to Ivo Taillebois at Spalding, to tell him that Hereward was at Peterborough, and that he must try to cut him off upon the Egelric's road, the causeway which one of the many Abbots Egelric had made some thirty years before, through Deeping Fen to Spalding, at an enormous expense of labor and of timber.
But hereupon, Sir Pertolepe, staring round about him and down upon his galling bonds, spake: "Sir knight," said he, "who thou art I know not, yet, if indeed thou art of gentle blood, then know that I am Sir Pertolepe, Baron of Trenda, Seneschal of Garthlaxton, lord warden of the marches: moreover, friend and brother-in-arms am I to Duke Ivo "
He came to William at Brandon. "You are come in at last, young earl?" said William, sternly. "You are come too late." "I throw myself on your knightly faith," said Morcar. But he had come in an angry and unlucky hour. "How well have you kept your own, twice a rebel, that you should appeal to mine? Take him away." "And hang him?" asked Ivo Taillebois. "Pish! No, thou old butcher.
Since Duke Ivo came they are afraid." "Ha! And what of the outlaws there be many wild men within the forests." "The outlaws hey, that doth mind me. I, with Giles and Walkyn and the young knight Sir Jocelyn brought down the outlaws upon Thornaby Mill.
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