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Then is thy name Beltane , for I have heard him name thee oft -- '' `` Forsooth , and did he so ? But how came you here , and wherefore ? '' `` To seek thee , lord Beltane , according to thy saintly father 's word . And the manner of it , thus : As we sat together of a certain fair noon within Holy Cross Thicket , there came to us thither a woman , young , methinks , and fair , for her speech was soft and wondrous sweet in mine ears . And she did hail thy father ` Duke , ' and thereafter spake thy name full oft , and so they fell to many words , walking together up and down before the hut . Anon , sudden and silent as she came , she was gone , and thy father walked full long , praying oft as one that rejoiceth greatly , and oft as one in deep perplexity . In a while cometh he to me and gave me scrip and therewith food and money , and bade me seek thee in Belsaye and speak thee thus : ` Tell Beltane , my well-beloved , that I , his father , have heard of his great and knightly deeds and that I do glory in them , praising God .