“You have to tell me only when our time to wait is ending;
To sail shall I be ready, nor need you then for me be further sending.”
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Then to the sorrowing women, before they spread the sail,
The friendly guests, now leaving, bade a kind farewell.
The hearts of knights and maidens deep in woe were sinking;
Yet warlike deeds they plotted of which their Norman foes were never thinking.
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When they at length had ridden back again to their land,
Sadly they mourned their losses: then to the Wulpensand,