Their castle well they guarded, as best they might, wherein they now were thronging.

Tale the Fourteenth.
HOW HETTEL SENT TIDINGS FROM HERWIC’S LAND.

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Hettel then sent tidings, to still their fears at home.

To the fair and high-born ladies men with news did come,

That unto the old and youthful, throughout the stormy fighting,

Good luck had aye befallen; and now, with hope must they for them be waiting.

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