john3859
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Wysłany: Nie 20:01, 03 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: but now he lifted up his faceweepingand said |
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lf an hour." So the King bade send for himand there
was silence in the chamber till he came inclad in a scarlet kirtle and a
white cloakand with his sword by his side. He was a tall manbigly
made; somewhat pale of faceblack and curly of hair; blue-eyedthin-
lippedand hook-nosed as an eagle; a man warrior-likeand somewhat
fierce of aspect. He knelt down by the King's bedsideand asked him in
a sorrowful voice what he wouldand the King said: "I ask a great
matter of theeand all these my wise menand I myselfwithaldeem that
thou canst do itand thou alone--nayhearken: I am departingand I
would have thee hold my placeand do unto my people even what I would
do if I myself were living; and to my daughter as nigh to that as may be.
I say all this thou mayst doif thou wilt be as trusty and leal to me after I
am deadas thou hast seemed to all men's eyes to have been while I was
living. What sayest thou?"
The Earl had hidden his face in the coverlet of the bed while the King
was speaking; but now he lifted up his faceweepingand said:
Kinsman and friend and King; this is nought hard to do; but if it wereyet
would I do it.
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