Now my last command is that, when all is done,
maybe to-morrow, or maybe the next day, ye bring me out of the city
and the frank of the Five Crafts, and bring me somewhat on my way
over the downs, for loth am I to part from you ere needs must. Then
they knelt before her and kissed her hands, and they were full of
grief; but they saw that so it had to be.
Thereafter Gerard spake with his sons apart, and in a while came to
Birdalone, and said: Our lady, we will do your will in all wise; but
we shall tell thee, that the Five Crafts will look but strange to us
when thou art gone, and that we have a mind to betake us to Utterhay
and the land of our kindred. Wherefore we pray thee to give this
house that hath been so dear to us unto thy workwoman and her mates;
for we need it not, nor the hire thereof, but shall do well enough
with what money or good thou mayst give us. Is this according to thy
will, or have I spoken rashly?
She said: Ye are good and ungreedy, and I bless you for it; be it as
ye will; and this the more, as I were fain that ye go to Utterhay;
for whiles I have deemed that I myself am drawn thitherward,
wherefore it may be that we shall meet again in that place.
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