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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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Now there was the mother of Elf, and a woman wise was she,
And she spake to her son of a morning: “I have noted them heedfully,
Those women thou brought'st from the outlands, and fain now would I wot
Why the worser of the women the goodlier gear hath got.”