Come to me, and be of the nobles who guard me and mine, and so wait in honour until the time comes when you may return to your place.

Then you will be with the boy also." So it came to pass that we took leave of that good friend the abbot, and went from Malmesbury in the train of Ina of Wessex.
Thereafter for six years I served Ethelburga the queen, being trained in all wise as her own child, and after that I was one of the athelings of the court in one post or another, but always with the king when there was war on the long frontier of the Wessex land..