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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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CHAPTER XXII. A WEDDING AT GAUTWICK.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]


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[Whoso thinketh this good game]

Whoso thinketh this good game,
God keep us all from hurt and grame;
And may all things have such an end
That all we unto God may wend.
He who to tell this tale hath will,
He needeth no long time be still;
For here we cast off pain and woe,
Here noble deeds may Champions know,
Manners and tales and glorious lore,
And truth withal that shall endure,
Thanks to him who hearkened it,
Yea and unto him who writ,
And Thorgeir that engrossed it fair.
God's and Mary's grace be here!