18/32 Now, if we are not careful we have a hornets' nest on us in good truth. Ina does not give swords like this to men he cares nought for, and there will be hue and cry enough after him, and that from Saxon and Welsh alike." "Kill him and have done. That is what we meant to do when we laid up for him." So said many growling voices, and I certainly thought that the end was very near. "Mind you this, that with the Welsh up against us we cannot get to Exmoor, and with the Saxons out also we cannot win to the Mendips, as we have done before now." "There is the fen." "And all the fenmen Owen's own men. Little safety is there in that." "But he slew Morgan, as they say." "Worse luck for Morgan therefore. |