With equal distribution see you part My lands and goods betwixt these lovely twain: Only bestow a hundred thousand sesterces Upon my friends and fellow-soldiers.

draw out the cord that binds the twain, And breaks not, though outlengthened till the maid Can only say, I know he is not here.

I thank your grace: but let me hug these twain, Leicester and Richmond, Christ's sworn champions, That follow'd Richard in his holy war.

Even on this wise gave the Libyan a bridegroom to his daughter, and joined the twain.

So saying, he stooped, and lifting the unconscious knight, flung him across his shoulder and strode off, leaving the twain to stare upon each other shame-faced.

* * So love this twain, but whither have they passed?

BETWEEN, [Sax. Betweonan, or Betwynan,] literally, by-twain, seems to have been formed from be, by, and twain, twoor the Saxon Twegen, which also means two, twain. 21.

At last the Chaplain said the final words, pronouncing the twain as one, and gave his blessing in a somewhat stronger voice that carried in it a note of triumph, and was about to step down from the pedestal of the dial when there flew out from the darkness a young man with drawn sword, who dashed immediately upon the young husband.

Then Sir Galahad began to break spears marvelously, that all men had wonder of him; for he there surmounted all other knights, for within a while he had defouled many good knights of the Table Round save twain, that was Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale.

Even him did gold in his hands glittering beguile for a great reward to bring back from death a man already prisoner thereto: wherefore the hands of the son of Kronos smote the twain of them through the midst, and bereft their breasts of breath, and the bright lightning dealt them doom.

O never again will trip the twain across the Northern Sky.

For my own part I believe that, if life has not long before twinned any twain, Death can do nothing to divide them.

Yea, moved not, though two hours he watched the twain And heard their blood drip drip upon the floor, Twice with stern voice he spake to them again,

The king welcomed the twain with much honour, and spoke kindly unto them.