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EBBESEN.<br />

I have been out walk<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

FLEMMING.<br />

Is that so?<br />

In the elf-thicket yonder?<br />

And solitary.<br />

EBBESEN.<br />

Yes, it is cool there!<br />

FLEMMING.<br />

EBBESEN.<br />

Certa<strong>in</strong>ly.<br />

KING.<br />

Afraid of the elves?<br />

EBBESEN.<br />

But aren't you<br />

I can see<br />

Your grace will have his joke.<br />

Egnen is full of all sorts of elf-legends.<br />

In the church-wall at Great-Hedd<strong>in</strong>ge<br />

There is an arch which is bricked up;<br />

It is called the elf-k<strong>in</strong>g's dark chamber.<br />

The simple folk believe he has his day-bed there;<br />

While at night he wanders here <strong>in</strong> the thicket<br />

In moonlight and gentle summer breezes.<br />

But if a storm rages, or if the sea grows wild,<br />

Then he sits on Stevns' white sea-cliff,<br />

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