It was after a while, that that
time came, that the burgh was completed with the best of all. And
Hengest came to the king, and asked him to a banquet, and said that he
had prepared an inn against him (his coming) and bade that he should
come thereto, and he should be fairly received. And the king granted
him as Hengest it would.
It came to the time that the king gan forth proceed, with the dearest
men of all his folk; forth he gan proceed until he came to the burgh.
He beheld the wall up and down over all; all it liked him well, that
he on looked. He went into the hall, and all his knights with him;
trumps they blew, games men gan to call, boards they ordered to be
spread, knights sate thereat, they ate, they drank, joy was in the
burgh!--when the folk had eaten, then was the better befallen to them.
Hengest went into the inn, where Rowenne dwelt; he caused her to be
clad with excessive pride; all the clothes that she had on, they were
most excellent, they were good with the best, embroidered with gold.
She bare in her hand a golden bowl, filled with wine, that was one
wondrous good.
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