[Footnote 40* (from Emendations: see also Errata) “Perhaps we should, however, read _se-weren_, and the note on the line may be wrong. See _Weren_ in the Glossary.”] [Headnote: HAVELOK SELLS FISH LIKE THE BEST.] [Sidenote: Thus they lived for 12 years.] +Þus-gate grim him fayre ledde. Him and his genge wel he fedde Wel twelf wint{er}, oþer more: Hauelok was war þat gri{m} swa{n}k sore 788 [Sidenote: Havelok thinks he eats too much to be idle.] For his mete, and he lay at hom: Thouthe, “ich am nou no grom; Ich am wel waxe{n}, and wel may ete{n} More þa{n} euere Grim may geten. 792 Ich ete more, bi god on liue, Þan grim an hise children fiue! It ne may nouth ben þus lo{n}ge, Goddot! y wile with þe gange, 796 For to leren su{m} god to gete; Swinken ich wolde for mi mete. [Sidenote: It is no shame for a man to work.] It is no shame forto swinken; Þe ma{n} þat may wel ete{n} and dri{n}ke{n}, 800 Þat nouth ne haue but on swi{n}k lo{n}g, To ligge{n} at hom it is ful strong. God yelde him þer i ne[41] may, Þat haueth me fed to þis day! 804 [Sidenote: He determines to carry about panniers like the rest.] Gladlike i wile þe paniers bere; Ich woth, ne shal it me nouth dere, Þey þer be i{n}ne a birþene gret, Al so heui als a neth. 808 Shal ich neuere lengere dwelle, To morwe{n} shal ich forth pelle.” [Footnote 41: MS. ine.] [Headnote: HAVELOK GOES TO LINCOLN TO GET WORK.]