And after this I lay two days and two nights, and on the third night I weenedoftentimes to have passed, and so weened they that were with me.
For when I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.
O, then his household shrieked for dread, And weened at least he must be dead; His lady leman swooned: Eftsoons they hie them all to look If haply in some dell or nook His body might be found.
And when the Abbot Don Garcia Tellez and Gil Diaz saw this, they weenedthat it was no longer fitting for the body to remain in that manner.
Each youthful heart turned, as it were, to stone; for well they weened the Danish soldiers came to bring them forth to shame and death.
But the guests sat on, stared at the surges, sick in heart, and wished, yet weened not, their winsome lord again to see.
Ges cuidoie avoir achetes, I weened to have bought them.
It means 'I weened to have bought it very knowingly'; F.
Then the king weened that he had been through-shotten with the arrows of the knights, and addressed him for to go to him.
And when he was brought to the church he weened well he should have been led to the Emperor Decius.
Simon Magus was so much beloved of Nero that he weened that he had been the keeper of his life, of his health, and of all the city.
And then he blessed him and returned to the first gate, and weened he had dreamed; and after he advised and comforted himself and covered his visage and entered into the city.
Weened they strongly that he were but slack then, An atheling unkeen; then came about change To the fame-happy man for every foul harm.
I never weened the monkish art or profession to consist of more.
The Master was wroth, and ordered them to proceed, as Charlie weened by his motions; but, instead of that, they retired trembling into a corner.
They weened that he had conquered / in trial by his proper might.
He weened to have good pleasure / of that fair lady, Yet was the time still distant / when that she his wife should be.
Soon they brought together / three thousand men or more, Who little weened what mickle / sorrow was for them in store.
She weened to save the hero, / yet wrought she nothing save his bane.
Then weened eke the lady / it should his vantage be, But there alone did Kriemhild / her own good knight betray.
The prince weened to find there / his bow or his sword: Then in sooth had Hagen / found the traitor's meet reward.
He weenedhe should take vengeance / for harm his friends did bear.
And from this time he abode in peace in Valencia; and laboured alway to serve God and to increase the Catholic faith, and to make amends for the faults he had committed towards God, for he weened that his days now would be but few.
Conchobar and his people could not move; they weened they would not find the lad alive before them.
Thou wouldst have weened it was a hammering wherewith each hair was hammered into his head, with such an uprising it rose.
Thou wouldst have weened it was a spark of fire that was on every single hair there.
In her arms she grasped the peerless knight; she weened to bind him, as she had done the king, that she might have her case upon the bed.
The latter weened to venge straightway his masters, till he then discovered Siegfried's mighty strength; for no match for him was the sturdy dwarf.
The mighty beast weened now to escape from the hunter with his life, but the proud knight and a good leaped from his steed and began to chase him.
When Sir Bloedel heard the guerdon, and that the lady through her beauty would befit him well, he weened to serve the lovely queen in strife.
He weened to find his bow or his sword, and then had Hagen been repaid as he deserved.
She waxed so wroth that he was sore a-troubled; he weened that they were lovers, but he found here hostile hate.
When I weened to love her, she bound me sore; she bare me to a nail and hung me high upon a wall.
Full many among them spake to the guests: "We weenedthat Lady Kriemhild had naught of goods, now hath she wrought many wonders with her gifts.
When he spied Hagen, with fierce rage he spake to the hero: "Ye may perchance hight Amelrich, but ye are not like him whom I weened here.
Then theyweened to overpower him, sith he no longer bare a shield.
He weened to fell him by his mighty blows, but the stately knight wist how to guard bin, well.
Then he who had weened to be the master, began to plead.
All weened that he were dead, yet forth he stood again unscathed.
Those of Troneg chased their foes; they were in passing haste, who had not weened to make amends.
And then Sir Launcelot drew his sword, for he felt himself so sore y-hurt that he weened there to have had his death.
Sir, said Palomides, I weened ye had been turned upon Sir Launcelot's party, and that caused me to turn.
By my knighthood, said Palomides, until now I knew you not; I weened that ye had been the King of Ireland, for well I wot ye bare his arms.
And at that time Sir Launcelot was not there, but when they saw a knight disguised do such deeds of arms, they weened it had been Sir Launcelot.
So as they rode by the way King Mark then began to mock Sir Dinadan, and said: I weenedyou knights of the Table Round might not in no wise find their matches.
But Dinadan had weened the haut prince had been more weary than he was.
Sir, said Sir Bors unto Sir Launcelot, what adventure hath brought you hither, for we weened to-morn to have found you at Camelot?
But when Dame Elaine saw Sir Launcelot that would not speak unto her she was so heavy that she weened her heart would have to-brast; for wit you well, out of measure she loved him.
So Sir Launcelot smote Sir Tristram so sore upon the shield that he bare horse and man to the earth; but Sir Launcelot weened that it had been Sir Palomides, and so he passed forth.
This Solomon had an evil wife, wherethrough he weened that there had been no good woman, and so he despised them in his books.
Wit you well the lady was glad, and so was Sir Launcelot, for heweened that he had had another in his arms.
I weened ye had seen him; yonder he hoveth under the umbre of his ships on horseback, with his spear in his hand and his shield upon his shoulder.
And then Sir Tristram asked them where was La Beale Isoud, for he weened she had been had away of Andred's people.
Nay, nay, my lord Arthur, it is not so; I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wot well ye are of an higher blood than I weened ye were.
Nay, said the lady, so God me help I will never go with him; for he that I loved most I weened he had loved me.
And therewithal Sir Tristram departed from the field, for he felt him so wounded that he weened he should have died; and Sir Dinadan espied him and followed him into the forest.
THEN stood the realm in great jeopardy long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong, and many weened to have been king.
And he thanked her, and weened it had been so, but she was false, for the sword and the scabbard was counterfeit, and brittle, and false.
THE meanwhile Morgan le Fay had weened King Arthur had been dead.
I weened in this court had been the best knights without treachery or treason.
Ah, said the cowherd, I weened not this, but I may believe it well, for he had never no tatches of me.
So when Sir Tristram was departed by the forest's side he alighted, and unlaced his harness and freshed his wound; then weened Sir Dinadan that he should have died.
And I weened that I might thus get me a name even higher than if I had been made a general of the Czar Peter's troops against the infidels.
LXVII Rogero was the first who went to ground, And so much longer did the king delay, Nigh every one of those who waited round Weened he the prize and vaunt had borne away.
But now, so wroth I saw that Saracen With woman, so outrageous in his hate, I weened not only he would ill assuage, But never more would calm, his amorous rage.
And, where he weened he might the paynim best Encounter, thitherward his steed addrest.
Then they stood still near the flower shrubs which were placed round about the hall to garnish it, and it might have been weened from their demeanor that they had quarrelled and had come to high words.
You would have weened that day that there were none but rich folk in Nuremberg.
Jung Kubbeling was the last man on earth we could have weened would read hearts.
And as we talked I found there was more and nobler matter in his brain and heart than I had ever weened I might find in a craftsman.
I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wot well ye are of an higher blood than I weened ye were.
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