Tell me then what shall befall."
Somehow I could not heed him as a living man as much as I had done,
and the voice that came from me seemed less of me as I answered:
"These men are strong and valiant as any that have been or shall be,
and good fellows also and kindly; but they are simple, and see no
great way before their own noses. The victory shall they have and
shall not know what to do with it; they shall fight and overcome,
because of their lack of knowledge, and because of their lack of
knowledge shall they be cozened and betrayed when their captains are
slain, and all shall come to nought by seeming; and the king's uncles
shall prevail, that both they and the king may come to the shame that
is appointed for them. And yet when the lords have vanquished, and
all England lieth under them again, yet shall their victory be
fruitless; for the free men that hold unfree lands shall they not
bring under the collar again, and villeinage shall slip from their
hands, till there be, and not long after ye are dead, but few unfree
men in England; so that your lives and your deaths both shall bear
fruit.
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