Therfore delay a time, thou shortly shalt receiue
With full consent the thing, which now thou seek’st to haue.
Harolde.
8.
Then I in hast my power did prepare,[1256]
For why, I hearde my brother Tostoe’s[1257] trayne,
Two of my earles by north he had destroyd,[1258]
And manye a thousand men he there had layne:
But when we met, his triumphe was in vayne:
For I and myne the Norway king there kilte,