Therefore I bid you now, all ye that are weaponed, wend past us that
the tale of you may be taken. But first let every hundred-leader and
half-hundred-leader and score-leader make sure that he hath his tale
aright, and give his word to the captain of his banner that he in
turn may give it out to the Scrivener with his name and the House and
Company that he leadeth.'
So he spake and sat him adown; and the horns blew again in token that
the companies should go past; and the first that came was Hall-ward
of the House of the Steer, and the first of those that went after him
was the Bride, going as if she were his son.
So he cried out his name, and the name of his House, and said, 'An
hundred and a half,' and passed forth, his men following him in most
goodly array. Each man was girt with a good sword and bore a long
heavy spear over his shoulder, save a score who bare bows; and no man
lacked a helm, a shield, and a coat of fence.
Then came a goodly man of thirty winters, and stayed before the
Scrivener and cried out:
'Write down the House of the Bridge of the Upper Dale at one hundred,
and War-well their leader.
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