Lastly spake Folk-might and said:
'Guests and brothers-in-arms, we have been looking about our new
house, which was our old one, and therein we find great store of
wares which we need not, and which we can but use if ye use them. Of
your kindness therefore we pray you to take of those things what ye
can easily carry. And if ye say the way is long, as indeed it is,
since ye are bent on going through the wood to Rose-dale, and so on
to Burgdale, yet shall we furnish you with beasts to bear your goods,
and with such wains as may pass through the woodland ways.'
Then rose up Fox of Upton and said: 'O Folk-might, and ye men of the
Wolf, be it known unto you, that if we have done anything for your
help in the winning of Silver-dale, we have thus done that we might
help ourselves also, so that we might live in peace henceforward, and
that we might have your friendship and fellowship therewithal, so
that here in Silver-dale might wax a mighty folk who joined unto us
should be strong enough to face the whole world. Such are the redes
of wise men when they go a-warring. But we have no will to go back
home again made rich with your wealth; this hath been far from our
thought in this matter.
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