A Selection of Texts for the History of English

Then you can try my hospitality and be true to our compact. Or I’ll have no words to waste, which would be well for you: you’d relax in this land, and not look for me further. But stop! Take up the grim tool you need, and show me how you chop.” ”Gladly, sir,” he said, “Indeed,” and gave the ax a strop. ................
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