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"My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."

He is a shepherd great in gree.

And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge

and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste

and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose

but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak

and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye