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 And he called for his debt and his right, And said that the land was disgraced because of us two from that night If we did not pay him his debt.

What is there to be said When a man with a right to get it has come to ask for your head?

If you had been been sitting there you had been silent like us.

He said that in twelve months more he would come again to this house And ask his debt again. Twelve months are up to-day.