So that all the other kingdoms lay open and safe to me.
None of this I heeded; I only knew that my enemies had got the mastery, and that ruin was upon me.

So I ground my teeth and was mute.
Then they cut my bonds and I stood free, but cared not.

Nor did I stir from my place; and a look of surprise crossed Eanulf's face.

But Ealhstan the Bishop, knowing well, I think, what was in my mind, rose from his seat, and came to me, laying his hands on my shoulders.

I would have shaken them off; but be kept them there gently, and spoke to me.
"Heregar, my son," he said, and his words were like the cool of a shower after heat, to my burning brain, "be not cast down in the day of your trouble overmuch.