William Morris

“ Meseems I cannot keep my sheep together so well as thou; but last autumn I learned how to slay wolves that would tear the sheep.
She rose up as if to look at him the better, and strained her hands together hard, and gazed eagerly at him. He saw that she was wondering at him and praising him, so he said lightly: It is no so great a matter as some think; what is most needed is a good heart and a quick eye. ”

“ I would no wise take thy pipe from thee, which saveth thee from blame and beating; and as to the necklace, that is woman's gear even as the whittle is man's. Keep it safe till thou art become a great lady. ”

“ And full surely I know that thou wilt one day be a great and mighty man. Yet this I find strange in thy song almost to foolishness, that thou speakest in it as I were a woman grown, and thou a grown man, whereas we be both children. ”