I ween these foes are coming to wreak the hate they long ’gainst us are wearing.”
Tale the Twenty-Seventh.
HOW LUDWIG AND HARTMUT MET THE HEGELINGS.
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Asleep still left he lying all his faithful men.
He and his father Ludwig, the twain, to go were seen,
And, gazing from the window, they saw the throngs below them.
Quickly then said Hartmut: “Too near our castle-walls methinks they show them.
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