Count Sayn was a wall for the mansion of the Lord, lest this madness should rage further, enveloping guilty and innocent alike, bishops and princes, religious and Catholics, like peasants and heretics.
Count Sayn and others who had been accused were subjected to a form of examination, were declared innocent, and were restored to reputation and to their possessions.
On the following Monday the solemn purgation of Count Sayn took place in the field of judgment beyond the walls.
Count Sayn was an especially notable prey, as he was one of the most powerful nobles of the diocese, whose extensive possessions were guarded by castles renowned for strength, and whose reputation was that of a stern and cruel man.
They sayn the world is much war than it wont, All for her shepheards be beastly and blont.
Have you sayn him, Tom, at all--he wor in the thick of the foightin' jist now summat about heres?
Whiche thing is wonder, that 180 they knowing me saying but sothe, arn now tempted to reply her olde praysinges; and knowen me wel in al doinges to ben trewe, and sayn openly that I false have sayd many thinges!
If a man be riche and fulfild with worldly welfulnesse, some commenden it, and sayn it is so lent by juste cause; and he that hath adversite, they sayn he is weked; and 25 hath deserved thilke anoy.
Sithen ye sayn that your goodes ben all his, and he shulde by reson be the moost perfit man, it semeth openlich that ye ben cursed children, so to sclaunder your +fader, and make him imperfit.
Why covette +ye not to burye poore folk among you; sith that they ben moost holy, as ye sayn that ye ben for youre povertee?
And some sayn that love shulde be in windy blastes, that stoundmele turneth as a phane, and glorie of renome, which after lustes of the varyaunt people is areysed or stilled.
With +Dives such shall have hir doom That sayn that they be Christes frendes, And do nothing as they shuld doon; 535 All such ben falser than ben fendes.
Suche harlottes shull men disclaunder For they shullen make hir gree, And ben as proude as Alexaunder, 335 And sayn to the pore, "wo be ye!
There, Hildegunde, I have much less evidence to go upon, for his letters, if they exist, are concealed somewhere in the archives of Sayn Castle.
Some of the Counts of Sayn led turbulent lives, and except with a battle-ax it was difficult to persuade them not to meddle with the goods and chattels of their neighbors.
Thus the House of Sayn was one of the richest in Germany.
A strenuous line they proved in those olden days; but many noble women have adorned the Castle of Sayn whose lives shine out like an inspiration against the dark background of medieval tumult.
The distance from Sayn Castle to Schloss Stolzenfels was a little less than four leagues, so their early start permitted a leisurely journey.
Concealed as it was in the Sayn valley, half a league from the great river, the situation of his stronghold favored his depredations.
I venture that no woman of the House of Sayn talked thus when the Emperor Rudolph marched Count von Sayn to the scaffold.
I cannot learn whether she was older or younger than the Archbishop of Cologne of that period, and thus I wish to enlist the interest of Father Ambrose in searching the archives of Sayn for anything pertaining to her.
Prince Roland, if you bring hither the Countess von Sayn to-morrow afternoon, when the bells strike three, I will marry you, and gladly accept whatever penances ensue.
Sayn and his successors; all accumulated by robbery as cruel as any that the Red Margrave has perpetrated.
By the way, Highness, how did you happen to meet Countess von Saynin Pfalz?
The youthful Countess Hildegunde vonSayn watched the slow oncoming of a monk, evidently tired, who toiled along the hillside deep in the shadow of the Castle, as if its cool shade was grateful to him.
Now Kuno of Sayn possessed both copper and silver mines, and arriving at his castle he summoned his overseer.
The knight of Sayn related his adventure with the earth-spirit, upon which the Lord of Falkenstein told him how a terrible thunderstorm mingled with unearthly noises had raged throughout the night.
Only Kuno of Sayn was firm enough to persevere in his suit against the rebuffs of the stubborn Lord of Falkenstein, and in the end he was rewarded with the smiles and kind looks of the fair maid.
With a passionate glance at the blushing maid, the knight of Sayndeclared that he had come to ask the noble lord for his daughterÂ’s hand in marriage.
Folk sayn so," replied Bess; "boh I'd leyther howd my tung about it.
Whey they sayn ot King Harry hon decreet ot we're to ha' naw more monks or friars i' aw Englondshiar.
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