Morris, William, 1834-1896 / 2008-06-29 00:00:00

EBOOK, THE WATER OF THE WONDROUS ISLES ***


Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk


THE WATER OF THE WONDROUS ISLES


THE FIRST PART: OF THE HOUSE OF CAPTIVITY


CHAPTER I. CATCH AT UTTERHAY

Whilom, as tells the tale, was a walled cheaping-town hight Utterhay,
which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great
highway which went from over the mountains to the sea.
The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be
mighty great, or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it,
and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof.
Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden;
never came chapman thence into Utterhay; no man of Utterhay was so
poor or so bold that he durst raise the hunt therein; no outlaw durst
flee thereto; no man of God had such trust in the saints that he
durst build him a cell in that wood.
For all men deemed it more than perilous; and some said that there
walked the worst of the dead; othersome that the Goddesses of the
Gentiles haunted there; others again that it was the faery rather,
but they full of malice and guile.
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