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200 So found I ever, in faring thus, that he is dearest to dwellers on earth whom God has raised to rule o’er men as long as here he lives in the world.”

So, faring aye, are fated to wander men of song through many lands, to say their need and to speak their thanks. Or south or north, some one is found, wise of word and willing of hoard, to lift his praise in his liegemen’s presence, to honor his earlship,—till all is fled, light and life together: he gets him laud, holds under heaven a haughty name.