But let me go hence with you.

Better the rope than these wild beasts.

Or slay me now, and swiftly." "Who, of all your friends, tied you here ?" I asked him.
"Howel's men," he answered.

"They took my goods at the ford of Caerau yonder, and so brought me here and left me.

That was early this morning." "I marvel that you bided in reach of any who might speak with me," I said.
"My comrades left me, for fear of that same.