[Sidenote: This feat is everywhere talked about.] Þis selkouth mithe nouth be{n} hyd, Ful sone it was ful loude kid 1060 Of hauelok, hw he warp þe ston Ouer þe laddes euerilkon; Hw he was fayr, hw he was long, Hw he was with, hw he was stro{n}g; 1064 Þoruth england yede þe speke,[53] Hw he was strong, and ek meke; In the castel, up in þe halle, Þe knithes speke{n} þer-of alle, 1068 [Sidenote: Godrich hears the knights talking of it.] So that Godrich it herde wel Þe[r] speke{n} of hauelok, eueri del, Hw he was stro{n}g man and hey, Hw he was stro{n}g and ek fri, 1072 And þouthte godrich, “þoru þis knaue Shal ich engelond al haue, And mi sone after me; For so i wile þat it be. 1076 [Sidenote: “Athelwold said I was to marry his daughter to the strongest man alive.] The king aþelwald me dide swere Vpon al þe messe-gere, Þat y shu[l]de his douthe[r] yeue Þe hexte [man][53*] þat mithe liue, 1080 Þe beste, þe fairest, þe stra{n}gest ok; Þat gart he me swere{n} on þe bok. Hwere mithe i finden ani so hey [Sidenote: [Fol. 210, col. 1.]] So hauelok is, or so sley? 1084 Þou y southe heþen in-to ynde, So fayr, so strong, ne mithe y finde. Hauelok is þat ilke knaue, Þat shal goldeborw haue.” 1088 [Sidenote: That is Havelok.”] Þis þouthe [he] with trechery, With t{ra}ysoun, and wit felony; For he wende, þat hauelok wore Sum cherles sone, and no more; 1092 Ne shulde he haue{n} of engellond Onlepi forw in his hond, With hire, þat was þerof eyr, Þat boþe was god and swiþe fair. 1096 [Sidenote: He thought Havelok was only a thrall.] He wende, þat hauelok wer a þral, Þer-þoru he we{n}de haue{n} al In engelond, þat hire rith was; He was werse þan sathanas, 1100 Þat ih{es}u c{ri}st in erþe shop:[54] Hanged worþe he on an hok! [Footnote 49: _Qu._ so; see l. 991.] [Footnote 50: _Qu._ wit = with: miswritten owing to confusion of þ with ƿ (_w_)?] [Footnote 51: MS. pulten. But see ll. 1031, 1033, 1044, 1051, &c.] [Footnote 51* (from Emendations): “For _stareden_ we should perhaps read _stradden_; see the Glossary.”] [Footnote 52: In the former edition-- “ye”. But the _y_ is not dotted, and it may be “ƿe.”] [Footnote 53: MS. speche. Read “speke,” as in l. 946.] [Footnote 53*: Word added by editor: see Emendations.] [Footnote 54: _Qu._ shok _or_ strok.] [Headnote: GOLDBOROUGH IS SENT FOR TO LINCOLN.]