I looked at the poppy which I still held in my
hand, and bethought me of Will Green, and said:
"Lo, how the light is spreading: now must I get me back to Will
Green's house as I promised."
"Go, then," said he, "if thou wilt. Yet meseems before long he shall
come to us; and then mayst thou sleep among the trees on the green
grass till the sun is high, for the host shall not be on foot very
early; and sweet it is to sleep in shadow by the sun in the full
morning when one has been awake and troubled through the night-tide."
"Yet I will go now," said I; "I bid thee good-night, or rather
good-morrow."
Therewith I half rose up; but as I did so the will to depart left me
as though I had never had it, and I sat down again, and heard the
voice of John Ball, at first as one speaking from far away, but little
by little growing nearer and more familiar to me, and as if once more
it were coming from the man himself whom I had got to know.
CHAPTER XII
ILL WOULD CHANGE BE AT WHILES WERE IT NOT FOR
THE CHANGE BEYOND THE CHANGE
He said: "Many strange things hast thou told me that I could not
understand; yea, some my wit so failed to compass, that I cannot so
much as ask thee questions concerning them; but of some matters would
I ask thee, and I must hasten, for in very sooth the night is worn old
and grey.
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