But indeed, how could I blame you?
Since heaven itself has assoiled you.

For assuredly it was not chance that placed on your arm the little trinket that, alone, could have saved your life from the Welsh.
"Now to yourself, Sir Oswald.

You will, I hope, continue my knight, as you have been my squire." "Assuredly, Sir Henry, I have never thought of anything else." "Very well, then; I will, as soon as may be, appoint to you a double knight's feu.

I say a double feu, because I should like to have you as one of the castle knights, and so have much larger service from you, than that which a knight can be called upon to render, for an ordinary feu.

I will bid Father Ernulf look through the rolls, and see what feus are vacant.