Under weight of the weapon. To war he incited
His friends and fellows, in the fray to join.
230 Offa shouted; his ash-spear shook:
“Thou exhortest, O Ælfwine, in the hour of need,
When our lord is lying full low before us,
The earl on the earth; we all have a duty
That each one of us should urge on the rest
235 Of the warriors to war, while his weapons in hand
He may have and hold, his hard-wrought mace,
His dart and good sword. The deed of Godric,