Therefore, my cousin, I would ask you to come with our ealdorman tomorrow and hear all I would say." Then Neot said, "That is all.

I think you will not refuse so kindly an invitation.
The writing is the king's own, and here is his name at the end." So he showed it me.

The letter was better written than the name, as it seemed to me.
"I will take your word for it," I said, laughing as I looked; "but it is a kindly letter, and I will surely come." "Ay; he has written to you as to an equal," Odda said.
"That is so.

Now I would have the good king know that I am not that; I am but a sea king.

Maybe he thinks that I shall be a good ally, and makes more of my power than should be.