But my sympathy, I own, was more given to the prince than to the lover.

It was natural that I, priest and foreigner, should obey at first the orders of Mauger, archprelate and spiritual chief, and the more so as the law was with him; but when I resolved to stay despite thy sentence which banished me, I resolved to aid thee; for if with Mauger was the dead law, with thee was the living cause of man.

Duke William, on thy nuptials with Matilda of Flanders rests thy duchy--rest, perchance, the mightier sceptres that are yet to come.

Thy title disputed, thy principality new and unestablished, thou, above all men, must link thy new race with the ancient line of kings and kaisars.
Matilda is the descendant of Charlemagne and Alfred.

Thy realm is insecure as long as France undermines it with plots, and threatens it with arms.