William Morris

“ I come and find thee here as happy as any man in the world, wedded to a fair wife, the lord of a stout and stalwart people who love thee above all things. And I have that in me that tells me that if I carry thee away I carry thee away to death. ”

“ Yea, said the Lord, for I will to East Cheaping, and there I will set me to gather men, and I look to it that, ere three months are over, I shall have a good host on foot. It is well, said Osberne.
So in two days' time the Lord went, with his two men that had fled into the Dale with him, to East Cheaping, and Osberne rode with him. When they came to East Cheaping the Lord said: Now is the time for farewell. Nay, nay, said Osberne, there shall be no farewell this time at least; but I will help thee with the gathering of men, and when we have got an host I will be the leader thereof. ”