[A Dream of John Ball A King's Lesson by William Morris]@TWC D-Link bookA Dream of John Ball A King's Lesson CHAPTER IX 5/5
I started and said, "Yea, brother; now must I get me back to Will Green's house, as I promised to do so timely." "Not yet, brother," said he; "I have still much to say to thee, and the night is yet young.
Go we and sit in the stalls of the vicars, and let us ask and answer on matters concerning the fashion of this world of menfolk, and of this land wherein we dwell; for once more I deem of thee that thou hast seen things which I have not seen, and could not have seen." With that word he led me back into the chancel, and we sat down side by side in the stalls at the west end of it, facing the high altar and the great east window.
By this time the chancel was getting dimmer as the moon wound round the heavens; but yet was there a twilight of the moon, so that I could still see the things about me for all the brightness of the window that faced us; and this moon twilight would last, I knew, until the short summer night should wane, and the twilight of the dawn begin to show us the colours of all things about us. So we sat, and I gathered my thoughts to hear what he would say, and I myself was trying to think what I should ask of him; for I thought of him as he of me, that he had seen things which I could not have seen..
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