* * * * * * * * * * [Footnote 65: In the MS. the Capital letter is prefixed to the next line.] [Footnote 66: MS. haue{n}. Cf. ll. 1868, 2528. Only an assonance, not a rime, seems intended.] [Footnote 66*: Word added by editor: see Emendations.] [Footnote 67: MS. berƿen, _the A.S. _w_ being used here._ Cf. l. 697.] [Footnote 68: MS. yif.] [Footnote 69: A folio has here been cut out of the MS., containing 180 lines. The missing portion must have been to this effect. “To this they gladly assented; and Havelok, accompanied by his wife Goldeborw and the sons of Grim, set sail for Denmark. Disembarking, they travel till they reach the castle of a great Danish earl, named Ubbe, who had formerly been a close friend to king Birkabeyn. Havelok begs that he will allow him to live in that part of the country, and to gain a livelihood by trading.”] [Headnote: HAVELOK GIVES UBBE A GOLD RING.] [Sidenote: [Fol. 212, col. 1.]] “With swilk als ich byen shal: Þer-of bi-seche you nou leue; [Sidenote: Havelok asks Ubbe to give him leave to buy and sell there.] Wile ich speke with non oþer reue, But with þe, þat iustise are, 1628 Þat y mithe seke{n}[70] mi ware In gode borwes up and doun, And faren ich wile fro tun to tun.” A gold ring drow he forth anon, 1632 An hundred pu{n}d was worth þe ston, [Sidenote: He gives Ubbe a gold ring.] And yaf it ubbe for to spede:-- He was ful wis þat first yaf mede, And so was hauelok ful wis here, 1636 [Sidenote: Dearly he sells it, all the same.] He solde his gold ring ful dere, Was neuere non so dere sold, For chapme{n}, neyþer yung ne old: Þat sholen[71] ye forthward ful wel here{n}, 1640 Yif þat ye wile þe storie heren. [Footnote 70: _Qu._ sellen.] [Footnote 71: MS. shoren.] [Headnote: UBBE INVITES HAVELOK TO A FEAST.]