He had seen eyes glaring in the darkness, and had heard a terrible voice say, 'Darest thou slay Caius Marius?'

For it was thou who didst slay my brother Sir Caradus at Dolorous Gard, who was held to be the best knight in all the world.

The woods that are golden and red for a day Girdle the hills in a jewelled case, Like a girl's strange mirth, ere the quick death slay

It gives vivid pictures of certain phases of life among the Anglo-Saxons: "One shall sharp hunger slay; One shall the storms beat down; One be destroyed by darts, One die in war.

Yet even whylst her bloody hands them slay, Her eyes looke lovely, and upon them smyle, That they take pleasure in their cruell play, And, dying, doe themselves of payne beguyle.

Since then much have I learned of thee and thy valiant doings, more especially of Barham Broomhow thou didst slay the vile Sir Gilles 'neath the eyes of Ivo and all his powers and thereby didst snatch from shame and cruel death one that is become the very heart of me, so needs must I love and honour and cherish thee so long as I be Jocelyn and thou thy noble self.

'Tis slay or die, win or return no more.

I've watched her slay John that was my comrade, you'll mind for his armlet.

Abimelech said: Lord, wilt thou slay a man ignorant and rightful?