...speaking is not at all numinous. For that one might expect Chaucer to go to folk ballads - things like O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through...mirk mirk night, and there was nae *stern* light, star And they waded through red blude to the knee ; For a" the blude, that's shed on earth, Rins through...

...land, Ye'll neer get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded thro rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor...night, and there was nae stern light, And they waded thro red blude to the knee; For a' the blude that's shed an earth Rins thro the springs o that countrie....

...No. 57, Version C, verses 5-7, vol. I, 325-26. 5O they rade on. and further on. / And they waded thro rivers aboon the knee. / And they saw neither sun...night, and there was nae stern light. / And they waded thro red blude to the knee; / For a' the blude that's shed on earth / Rins thro the springs o' that...