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Chapter 41

           Groupsofeverydescriptionweretobeseendevouringthefoodandswallowingtheliquorthusabandonedtotheirdiscretion.ThenakedSaxonserfwasdrowningthesenseofhishalf-year’shungerandthirst,inonedayofgluttonyanddrunkennessthemorepamperedburgessandguild-brotherwaseatinghismorselwithgust,orcuriouslycriticisingthequantityofthemaltandtheskillofthebrewer.SomefewofthepoorerNormangentrymightalsobeseen,distinguishedbytheirshavenchinsandshortcloaks,andnotlesssobytheirkeepingtogether,andlookingwithgreatscornonthewholesolemnity,evenwhilecondescendingtoavailthemselvesofthegoodcheerwhichwassoliberallysupplied.

           Mendicantswereofcourseassembledbythescore,togetherwithstrollingsoldiersreturnedfromPalestine,(accordingtotheirownaccountatleast,)pedlarsweredisplayingtheirwares,travellingmechanicswereenquiringafteremployment,andwanderingpalmers,hedge-priests,Saxonminstrels,andWelshbards,weremutteringprayers,andextractingmistuneddirgesfromtheirharps,crowds,androtes.

           OnesentforththepraisesofAthelstaneinadolefulpanegyric;another,inaSaxongenealogicalpoem,rehearsedtheuncouthandharshnamesofhisnobleancestry.Jestersandjugglerswerenotawanting,norwastheoccasionoftheassemblysupposedtorendertheexerciseoftheirprofessionindecorousorimproper.IndeedtheideasoftheSaxonsontheseoccasionswereasnaturalastheywererude

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