And therewith the Giants, who won war against God
A long while; but He gave them their wages therefor.
[ III. HOW GRENDEL FELL UPON HART AND WASTED IT.]
Now went he a-spying, when come was the night-tide,
The house on high builded, and how there the Ring-Danes
Their beer-drinking over had boune them to bed;
And therein he found them, the atheling fellows,
Asleep after feasting. Then sorrow they knew not
Nor the woe of mankind: but the wight of wealth's waning,
The grim and the greedy, soon yare was he gotten,