Author's Note
In the musty pages of a book
the dusty cover I now look,
To read Will's story in that way,
as it once began for me that day...
Through rustic walls I did delve
and meals consumed while all was well,
And friends who aren't too friendly dined in the same room
amongst two Wards who sat amid their own gloom.
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A table wide, far and long,
could put a jongular into song
and no meal was ever so fine
as Master Chubb's wondrous design.
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A Baron and a Knight seemed the best of friends
While ladies the servants glanced at passing trends.
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Chatter and fancy music filled the wondrous hall,
and never would I've know the things they would befall.
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For time will fade away their fanciful great tales,
so I shall recount them, one by one, as long as time prevails.