Quod dum faceret, inventus est, et captus a viris hostilis exercitus, et ad dominum ipsorum, comitem videlicet Aedilredi regis, adductus: a quo interrogatus quis esset, timuit se militem fuisse confiteri; rusticum se potius et pauperem, atque uxoreo vinculo conligatum fuisse respondit; et propter victum militibus adferendum in expeditionem se cum suis similibus venisse testatus est.
But as he so did, he was found and taken of men of the enemies army, and brought unto their lord, to wit a retainer of king Ethelreds: of whom being demanded what he was, he feared to confess that he had been a soldier; answering rather that he was a poor countryman and one that was bound with the tie of marriage; and testified that he had come to the campaign with them that were his like to bring victuals to the soldiers.
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