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I hate flattery as I hate an unfilled flasket in the woodlands at midnight.

She shared my small portion of biscuit with me, and she drank from the flasket I filched from the cabin when we escaped from the ship; and so she lived, good sir, lived to be picked up in the dreary waste of waters.

In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalks on high.

Then, on the day when, with much weeping and many sad farewells, La Belle Isoude with her gentlewomen and many noble ladies and knights were to go into the ship, the queen called Bragwine aside, and giving her a little golden flasket, said to her: 'Take this with thee, Bragwine, for I misdoubt this marriage overmuch, and I charge thee do this.

At London Printed for John Flasket, and are to be solde in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Blacke-beare.