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I have eaten your bread and salt, / I have drunk your water and wine, / The deaths ye died I have watched beside, / And the lives that ye led were mine.
Was there aught that I did not share / In vigil or toil or ease, / One joy or woe that I did not know, / Dear hearts across the seas?
I have written the tale of our life / For a sheltered people's mirth, / In jesting guise -- but ye are wise, / And ye know what the jest is worth.