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THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 20 by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE

First Line: TO THE HOAR KING THUS COUNSELL'D ELIDUC
Last Line: AND BATTLE SHALL HE HAVE BOTH STARK AND GRIM!'
Subject(s): FIGHTS; KNIGHTS & KNIGHTHOOD;

To the hoar king thus counsell'd Eliduc—
'If your stout earls can hold the city walls,
My liegemen true for ambushment shall look
In the swarth forest that to southward falls.
Then, when the Reaver's force is spent and shook,
Or when his bugle from the fight recalls,
I and my Breton knights will fall on him,
And battle shall he have both stark and grim!'



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