A ship may hold a hundred or but twenty men--not less." Then Eadmund made a sign to his people, and they went out and left us together, and we looked on one another.
"Let me send for the earl," he said; but I put my hand on his arm.
"You are enough, my prince.

But for sending for him your levies would be here, and we should march together even now to London." He groaned.
"You are right, and I am a fool," he said.
"Wait for the earl no longer," I urged; "raise your own levy, and bid him follow you or the king as he will.

There must be a raising of all England.

Send to the king tonight." "What will Cnut do ?" he asked me.
"Olaf thought that if he landed in Kent he would make for London and besiege it.

If so, you have time yet." "There shall be no delay.