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KING EDWARD "dying on a couch, and by him standing the" QUEEN, HAROLD, / ARCHBISHOP STIGAND, GURTH, LEOFWIN, ARCHBISHOP ALDRED, ALDWYTH, "and" / EDITH.
STIGAND. Sleeping or dying there? If this be death, / Then our great Council wait to crown thee King / Come hither, I have a power; ["To" HAROLD. / They call me near, for I am close to thee / And England I, old shrivell'd Stigand, I, / Dry as an old wood-fungus on a dead tree, / I have a power! / See here this little key about my neck! / There lies a treasure buried down in Ely: / If e'er the Norman grow too hard for thee, / Ask me for this at thy most need, son Harold, / At thy most need not sooner.