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036 - The Black Bull of Norroway · Blue Fairy Book

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  Speaker 1: The Black Bull of Norway of The Blue Fairy Book.
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  Speaker 1: Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. The Black Bull of Norway
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  Speaker 1: and many a hunting song they sung, and song of
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  Speaker 1: game and glee, then tuned to plaintive strains their tongue
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  Speaker 1: of Scotland's louve and lee. Two wilder measures. Next day
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  Speaker 1: turn the Black Black Bull of Norway. Sudden, the tapers
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  Speaker 1: cease to burn, the minstrels cease to play. The Coute
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  Speaker 1: of Kilda by j. Leyden. In Norway, Langsyne, there lived
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  Speaker 1: a certain lady, and she had three daughters. The oldest
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  Speaker 1: of them said to her mother mother, beg me a
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  Speaker 1: bannock and roast me a collop, for I'm gon oah
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  Speaker 1: to seek my fortune. Her mother did say, and the
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  Speaker 1: doctor getowah to an old witch washer wife and telled
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  Speaker 1: her purpose. The old wife bade her stay that day
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  Speaker 1: and gang and look out her back door and see
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  Speaker 1: what she could see. She saw nocht the first day.
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  Speaker 1: The second day, she did the same and saw nocht.
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  Speaker 1: On the third day she looked again and saw a
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  Speaker 1: coach and six coming along the road. She ran in
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  Speaker 1: and tell the old wife what she saw. A wheal
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  Speaker 1: quoth the old wife, yan's for you say? They took
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  Speaker 1: her into the coach and galloped aff The second doctor
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  Speaker 1: says to her mother, mither beg me a bannock and
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  Speaker 1: roast me a collop for i'm gon oa to seek
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  Speaker 1: my fortune. Her mother did say, and the wash she
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  Speaker 1: gave to the old wife as her sister had done.
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  Speaker 1: On the third day, she looked out at the back
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  Speaker 1: door and saw coaching four coming along the road. A
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  Speaker 1: wheel quoth the old wife, yarns for you said, they
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  Speaker 1: took her in and afti set. The third doctor says
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  Speaker 1: to her mother, mother, back me a bannock and roast
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  Speaker 1: me a collop for i'm gon oa to seek my fortune.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother did say, and a washy gave to the
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  Speaker 1: old witchwife. She bade her look out of her back
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  Speaker 1: door and see what she could see. She did say,
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  Speaker 1: and when she came back, said she saw nocht. The
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  Speaker 1: second day she did the same and saw nocht. The
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  Speaker 1: third day she looked again and on coming back said
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  Speaker 1: to the old wife, she saw nocht but a muckled
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  Speaker 1: black bull come roaring along the road a wheel, quoth
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  Speaker 1: the old wife, yarns for you, on hearing as she
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  Speaker 1: was next to distracted with grief and terror. But she
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  Speaker 1: was lifted up and set on his back, and Awa
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  Speaker 1: they went Aye they traveled, and on they traveled till
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  Speaker 1: the lady grew faint. We hunger, eat out o my
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  Speaker 1: right lug, says the black bull, And drink out of
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  Speaker 1: my left lug, and set by your leavings. Say. She
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  Speaker 1: did as he said, and was wonderfully refreshed, and lang negaded.
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  Speaker 1: And sare they rayed till they came in sight of
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  Speaker 1: a very big and bonny castle yonder. Wi man be
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  Speaker 1: this night quotable for my old Brither lives yonder. And
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  Speaker 1: presently they were at the place. They lifted her off
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  Speaker 1: his back and took her in and sent him away
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  Speaker 1: to a park for the night. In the morning, when
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  Speaker 1: they brought a bull hame. They took lady into a
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  Speaker 1: fine shining parlor and gave her a beautiful apple, telling
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  Speaker 1: her not to break it till she was in the
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  Speaker 1: greatest strait ever mortal was in in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: that would bring her out again. She was lifted on
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  Speaker 1: the bull's back, and after she had ridden far and
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  Speaker 1: farer than I can tell, they came in sight of
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  Speaker 1: a far Bonnia castle, and far farther awa than the last.
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  Speaker 1: Sis the bull tell her yonder, we maun be the knight,
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  Speaker 1: for my second brether lives yonder, and they were at
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  Speaker 1: a place directly. They lifted her down and took her in,
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  Speaker 1: and sent the bull to the field for the night.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning, they took the lady into a fine
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  Speaker 1: and rich room and gave her the finest pair she
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen, bidding her not to break it till
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  Speaker 1: she was in the greatest strait ever mortal could be in,
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  Speaker 1: and that would get her out it again. She was
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  Speaker 1: lifted and set on his back. And a while they
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  Speaker 1: went and lang, they gazed, and sare they rayed, till
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  Speaker 1: they came in sight to the far biggest castle and
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  Speaker 1: far farther staff they had yet seen Wiman be yonder
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  Speaker 1: the night, says the bull, for my young brother lives yonder,
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  Speaker 1: and they were there directly. They lifted her down, took
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  Speaker 1: her in, and sent the bull to the field for
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  Speaker 1: the night. In the mornin they took her into a
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  Speaker 1: room the finest of all, and geit he a plum,
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  Speaker 1: telling her not to break it till she was in
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  Speaker 1: the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that would
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  Speaker 1: get her out it. Presently they brought Haim the bull,
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  Speaker 1: set the lady on his back, and Awa they went,
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  Speaker 1: and I they gazed, and on they raid till they
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  Speaker 1: came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped,
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  Speaker 1: and the lady lighted down. Says the bull to her. Here,
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  Speaker 1: ye maun, stay till I gang and fight the deal. Yemunt,
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  Speaker 1: seat yoursel on that stain, and move neither hand nor
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  Speaker 1: fit till I come back. Else I never find ye again.
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  Speaker 1: And if everything round about ye turns blue, I had
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  Speaker 1: beaten the deal. But should the things turn red, heel
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  Speaker 1: he conquered me. She set hersel down on the stain,
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  Speaker 1: and by and by ahe round her turned blue. Or
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  Speaker 1: come with joy, She lifted the a foot and crossed
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  Speaker 1: it o'er the either say, glad was she that her
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  Speaker 1: companion was victorious. The bull returned and sought for but
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  Speaker 1: never could find her. Lang She sat and aye, she
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  Speaker 1: grat till she was wearied. At last she raised and
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  Speaker 1: gave owah. She cadnaw huartill on she wandered till she
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  Speaker 1: came to a great hill of glass that she tried
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  Speaker 1: all she could to climb, but was now able. Round
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the hill, she gained sobbing and seeking
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  Speaker 1: a passage o'er till at last she came to a
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  Speaker 1: smith's house, and the smith promised if she would serve
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  Speaker 1: him seven years, he would make her iron shoon, wherewith
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  Speaker 1: she could climb o'er the glassy hill. At seven years end,
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  Speaker 1: she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, and
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  Speaker 1: chanced to come to the old washer wife's habitation. There
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  Speaker 1: she was telled of a gallant young knight that had
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  Speaker 1: given in some bloody sarks to wash, and where washed
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  Speaker 1: the sarks was to be his wife. The old wife
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  Speaker 1: had washed till she was tired, and then she said
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  Speaker 1: to her doctor and bathe washed, and they washed, and
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  Speaker 1: they batter washed hopes of getting the young knight, But
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  Speaker 1: ah they could do. They could not bring out a stain.
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  Speaker 1: At length, they set the stranger damosel to wark, and
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  Speaker 1: whenever she began, the stains came out pure and clean,
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  Speaker 1: but the old wife made the knight believe it was
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  Speaker 1: her doctor had washed the sarks. So the knight and
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  Speaker 1: the eldest doctor were to be married, and the stranger
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  Speaker 1: Damosel was distracted at the thought of it, for she
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  Speaker 1: was deeply in love with him. So she bethought her
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  Speaker 1: of her apple, and breaking it, found it filled with
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  Speaker 1: gold and precious jewelry, the richest she had ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: All these, she said to the eldest doctor, I will
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  Speaker 1: give you on condition that you put off your marriage
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  Speaker 1: for a day and allow me to go into his
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  Speaker 1: room alone at night. So the lady consented, But meanwhile
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  Speaker 1: the old wife had prepared a sleeping drink and given
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  Speaker 1: it to the night wa drank it and never waken
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  Speaker 1: till the next mornin' the lee lang night there Damosel
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  Speaker 1: sabbed and sang, oh seven lang years. I served for thee,
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  Speaker 1: the glassy hill, I clamb for thee, the bloody shirt.
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  Speaker 1: I rang for thee. And wilt thou know waken and
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  Speaker 1: turn to me next day? She kept now what to
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  Speaker 1: do for grief. She then broke the pear and found
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  Speaker 1: it filled with jewelry foul richer than the contents of
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  Speaker 1: the apple with a jewel She bargained for permission to
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  Speaker 1: be a second night in the young knight's chamber, but
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  Speaker 1: the old wife guide him a neither sleeping drink, and
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  Speaker 1: he again sleepeth till morning. Ah night, she kept sighing
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  Speaker 1: and singing as before, seven laying years, I served for thee,
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  Speaker 1: the glassy hill, I clamb for thee, the bloody shirt,
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  Speaker 1: I rang for thee, and wilt thou no walkin in
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  Speaker 1: turn to me? Still he sleepith, and she nearly lost
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  Speaker 1: hope all the gither. But that day, when he was
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  Speaker 1: out at the hunting, somebody asked him what noise in
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  Speaker 1: moaning was yon they heard all last night in his
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  Speaker 1: bed chamber. He said he heard nah ony noise, but
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  Speaker 1: they assured him there was say, and he resolved to
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  Speaker 1: keep waking that night to try what he could hear.
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  Speaker 1: That being the third night, and the damosel being between
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  Speaker 1: hope and despair, she broke her plum and it held
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  Speaker 1: father richest jewelry of the three. She bargained as before,
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  Speaker 1: and the old wife, as before, took in the sleeping
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  Speaker 1: drink to the young knight's chamber, but he telled her
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  Speaker 1: he could not drink it that night without sweetening, And
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  Speaker 1: when she gave a wah for some honey to sweeten
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  Speaker 1: it with, he poured out the drink and say, may
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  Speaker 1: the old wife think he had drunk it. They went
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  Speaker 1: to bed again, and the Damosel began as before, singing,
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  Speaker 1: seven lang years, I serve for thee, the glassy hill,
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  Speaker 1: I clamb for thee, the bloody shirt. I rang for thee,
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  Speaker 1: And wilt thou no walkin and turned to me. He
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  Speaker 1: heard and turned to her, and she telled him all
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  Speaker 1: that had befawn her, and he telled her all that
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  Speaker 1: had happened to him. And he caused the old washer
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  Speaker 1: wife and her doctor to be burned. And they were married,
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  Speaker 1: and he and she are living happy till this day.
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  Speaker 1: Fatta ken End of the Black Bull of norroway