With new and well-cut clothing; none better ever showed.
Then the guests there gathered were their wishes speaking;
Of the king and all his liegemen they asked that they their leave might now be taking.
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Then spake to them King Hagen: “Why will you leave my land?
So far as I was able, I have striven for this end,—
That you within my kingdom should meet with kindness only;
Now would you hence be sailing, leaving me here, to lead a life all lonely.”
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To him old Wâ-te answered: “The Hegeling king, our lord,