She promised that she would; but she was a proud woman, who would far rather have been a queen than the wife of a courtier.

She dressed herself in her best dress, and adorned herself with her richest jewels; and when the King came, presently, he discovered the cheat.

So, he caused his false friend, Athelwold, to be murdered in a wood, and married his widow, this bad Elfrida.

Six or seven years afterwards, he died; and was buried, as if he had been all that the monks said he was, in the abbey of Glastonbury, which he--or Dunstan for him--had much enriched.
England, in one part of this reign, was so troubled by wolves, which, driven out of the open country, hid themselves in the mountains of Wales when they were not attacking travellers and animals, that the tribute payable by the Welsh people was forgiven them, on condition of their producing, every year, three hundred wolves' heads.

And the Welshmen were so sharp upon the wolves, to save their money, that in four years there was not a wolf left.
Then came the boy-king, EDWARD, called the Martyr, from the manner of his death.