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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Child Maidelvold, by Anonymous, Edited by
+Thomas J. Wise, Translated by George Borrow
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+Title: Child Maidelvold
+ and other ballads
+
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Editor: Thomas J. Wise
+
+Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28771]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD MAIDELVOLD***
+</pre>
+<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David
+Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.&nbsp; Many thanks to Norfolk and
+Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images
+from which this transcription was made.</p>
+<h1>CHILD MAIDELVOLD<br />
+<span class="smcap">and other ballads</span></h1>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br />
+GEORGE BORROW</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span
+class="smcap">London</span>:<br />
+<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span><br />
+1913</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a
+name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in
+the United States of America</i><br />
+<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin &amp; Co. for Clement
+Shorter</i>.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+5</span>CHILD MAIDELVOLD.</h2>
+<p>The fair Sidselil, of all maidens the flower,<br />
+With her mother the Queen sat at work in her bower.</p>
+<p>So hard at the woof the fair Sidselil plies,<br />
+That out from her bosom, so white, the milk flies.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now hear thou, O Sidselil, child of my heart,<br />
+What causes the milk from thy bosom to start?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O that is not milk, my dear mother, I vow,<br />
+It is but the mead I was drinking just now.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Unlike are the two, most unlike to the sight,<br />
+The one it is brown, and the other is white.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+6</span>&ldquo;I see it is best that the truth be declared,<br />
+The handsome Child Maidelvold me has ensnared.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And if it be truth what thou now hast declared,<br />
+And handsome Child Maidelvold thee has ensnared,</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Aloft on the gallows I&rsquo;ll hang him, I trow,<br />
+And burn thee to ashes the gallows below.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Proud Sidselil she her blue mantle puts on,<br />
+And unto Child Maidelvold&rsquo;s bower she is gone.</p>
+<p>With her fingers so tapering she twirled at the pin:<br />
+&ldquo;Child Maidelvold rise, and with speed let me
+in.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve summoned no one the tribunal before,<br />
+And at night to no one will I open my door.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Child Maidelvold rise, I beseech, in Christ&rsquo;s
+name,<br />
+I&rsquo;ve spoke to my mother who knows of my shame.</p>
+<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+7</span>&ldquo;Aloft on the gallows she&rsquo;ll hang thee, I
+trow,<br />
+And burn me to ashes the gallows below.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O I will not hang, my sweet maiden, for thee<br />
+And thou shalt not burn, my sweet maiden, for me.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Collect thou thy gold in the coffer with speed,<br />
+And I&rsquo;ll to the stable and saddle my steed.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>He flung round the maiden his mantle so wide,<br />
+And he lifted her up on his courser of pride.</p>
+<p>They came to the wood of the briar and rose,<br />
+There Sidselil craved for a while to repose.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now art thou fatigued by thy journey, sweet love,<br />
+Or say, does the saddle too close for thee prove?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I am not o&rsquo;ercome by the journey, sweet love,<br
+/>
+But the saddle too close for my burden doth prove.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+8</span>He spread on the cold earth his mantle so wide:<br />
+&ldquo;Here rest thee a space and I&rsquo;ll watch by thy
+side.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O Jesus, that one of my maidens were near,<br />
+The pains of a mother are on me I fear.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Thy maidens are now at a distance from thee,<br />
+And thou hast no one to assist thee but me.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;&rsquo;Twere better to perish again and again,<br />
+Than thou should&rsquo;st stand by me and gaze on my
+pain.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Then take off thy kerchief and cover my head,<br />
+And perhaps I may stand in the wise woman&rsquo;s
+stead.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;One draught of pure water could&rsquo;st thou bring me
+now,<br />
+To cheer up my heart that is sinking so low?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>So faithful to her was the Child, and so true,<br />
+He fetched her the drink in her gold spangled shoe.</p>
+<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+9</span>Child Maidelvold sped through the forest so black,<br />
+He went to the fountain the wearisome track.</p>
+<p>And when he arrived at the fount in the vale,<br />
+Two nightingales sat there and sang him their tale:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Dead Sidselil lieth beneath the green bough,<br />
+With two little babes on her bosom of snow.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>He paid little heed to the nightingales&rsquo; lay,<br />
+And traced through the forest his wearisome way.</p>
+<p>But, ah! what a spectacle burst on his view,<br />
+The little birds&rsquo; story he found to be true.</p>
+<p>A grave broad and deep has Child Maidelvold made,<br />
+Therein the unfortunate three he has laid.</p>
+<p>As o&rsquo;er them he clamped the mould down with his boot,<br
+/>
+He thought that the babies screamed under his foot.</p>
+<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+10</span>Against a grey stone has the Child set his sword,<br />
+The point of the blade his heart mortally gor&rsquo;d.</p>
+<p>He was true to his Sidselil whilst he had breath,<br />
+He lies &rsquo;neath the earth now beside her in death.</p>
+<p>*** Another, but widely different, version of this Ballad was
+printed in <i>Romantic Ballads</i>, 1826, pp. 28&ndash;31, under
+the title <i>Sir Middel</i>.&nbsp; In this version the name of
+the heroine is Swanelil, in place of Sidselil; and that of the
+hero is Sir Middel, in place of Child Maidelvold.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+11</span>SIR PETER.</h2>
+<p>Sir Peter and Kirstin they sat by the board,<br />
+Betwixt them in jest there passed many a word.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now listen to me, good Sir Peter the knight,<br />
+Say, when wilt thou me to thy bridal invite?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;&rsquo;Twill be held in a far distant country, I
+trow,<br />
+So far that to come quite unable art thou.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And though thou shouldst hold it, Sir Peter, in
+Rome,<br />
+If thou shouldst invite me I&rsquo;d certainly come.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And if at my bridals thou wish to appear,<br />
+Behind thou must leave all thy red golden gear.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;In my red golden gear I will ever go dight,<br />
+For it was not gained by dishonor, Sir Knight.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+12</span>Sir Peter he bids them his bridals get ready,<br />
+Cries Kirstin: &ldquo;Now shoe ye my palfrey so
+steady.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Fair Kirstin she saddles her courser so gray,<br />
+To the house of Sir Peter she taketh her way.</p>
+<p>She rides her horse into Sir Peter&rsquo;s court yard,<br />
+And there stood the knight, clad in sable and mard.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now hear thou, Sir Peter, so handsome and fine,<br />
+Say, may I this day skink before thee the wine?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;To skink wine before me if thee I permit,<br />
+Thou on the stone bench with the servants shalt sit.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Adown her cheeks trickled the tear-drops so free&mdash;<br />
+How hard by each mortal insulted to be!</p>
+<p>To the high and wide hall good Sir Peter proceeds,<br />
+Fair Kirstin behind him in rich scarlet weeds.</p>
+<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+13</span>A coronet glittered her temples upon,<br />
+And full of gold rings were her fingers, each one.</p>
+<p>When into the hall little Kirstin she came,<br />
+Uprose to receive her each maiden and dame.</p>
+<p>She took in her fair hand the white silver can,<br />
+To skink mead before the young knight she began.</p>
+<p>The youthful bride said to her servant: &ldquo;Canst tell<br
+/>
+The name of that skinker, that sweet demoiselle?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Then answered the servant, as low as she might:<br />
+&ldquo;&rsquo;Tis only Sir Peter his love-lady light.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And if he possessed such a leman, why rode<br />
+Sir Peter the knight to my father&rsquo;s abode?</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And had good Sir Peter a leman so brave,<br />
+O why did he me of my father e&rsquo;er crave.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;More gold she displays on her ten fingers small,<br />
+Than my father could show in his good castle all.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+14</span>Now o&rsquo;er was the supper, the laugh and the
+song,<br />
+To retire to her bed the young bride she doth long.</p>
+<p>With the bride to the bridal apartment they go,<br />
+Fair Kirstin in front bears the yellow flambeau.</p>
+<p>The bride in the soft bridal couch they have plac&rsquo;d,<br
+/>
+To come to her arms good Sir Peter made haste.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+15</span>INGEFRED AND GUDRUNE.</h2>
+<p>Ingefred and Gudrune they sate in their bower,<br />
+Each bloomed a beauteous fragrant flower&mdash;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>So sweet it is in summer tide</i>!</p>
+<p>A working the gold fair Ingefred kept,<br />
+Still sate Gudrune, and bitterly wept.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Dear sister Gudrune so fain I&rsquo;d know<br />
+Why down thy cheek the salt tears flow?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Cause enough have I to be thus forlorn,<br />
+With a load of sorrow my heart is worn.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Hear, Ingefred, hear what I say to thee,<br />
+Wilt thou to-night stand bride for me?</p>
+<p>&ldquo;If bride for me thou wilt stand to-night,<br />
+I&rsquo;ll give thee my bridal clothes thee to requite.</p>
+<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+16</span>&ldquo;And more, much more to thee I&rsquo;ll give,<br
+/>
+All my bride jewels thou shalt receive.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O I will not stand for bride in thy room,<br />
+Save I also obtain thy merry bridegroom.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Betide me whatever the Lord ordain<br />
+From me my bridegroom thou never shalt gain.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>In silks so costly the bride they arrayed,<br />
+And unto the kirk the bride they conveyed.</p>
+<p>In golden cloth weed the holy priest stands,<br />
+He joins of Gudrune and Samsing the hands.</p>
+<p>O&rsquo;er the downs and green grass meadows they sped,<br />
+Where the herdsman watched his herd as it fed.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Of thy beauteous self, dear Damsel, take heed,<br />
+Ne&rsquo;er enter the house of Sir Samsing, I rede.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Sir Samsing possesses two nightingales<br />
+Who tell of the Ladies such wondrous tales.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;With their voices of harmony they can declare<br />
+Whether maiden or none has fallen to his share.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+17</span>The chariot they stopped in the green wood shade,<br />
+An exchange &rsquo;twixt them of their clothes they made.</p>
+<p>They change of their dress whatever they please,<br />
+Their faces they cannot exchange with like ease.</p>
+<p>To Sir Samsing&rsquo;s house the bride they conveyed,<br />
+Of the ruddy gold no spare was made.</p>
+<p>On the bridal throne the bride they plac&rsquo;d,<br />
+They skinked the mead for the bride to taste.</p>
+<p>Then said from his place the court buffoon,<br />
+&ldquo;Methinks thou art Ingefred not Gudrune.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>From off her hand a gold ring she took,<br />
+Which she gave the buffoon with entreating look.</p>
+<p>Said he: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m an oaf and have drunk too hard,<br
+/>
+To words of mine pay no regard.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&rsquo;Twas deep at night, and down fell the mist,<br />
+To her bed the young bride they assist.</p>
+<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+18</span>Sir Samsing spoke to his nightingales twain:<br />
+&ldquo;Before my young bride sing now a strain.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;A song now sing which shall avouch<br />
+Whether I&rsquo;ve a maiden or none in my couch.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;A maid&rsquo;s in the bed, that&rsquo;s certain and
+sure,<br />
+Gudrune is standing yet on the floor.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Proud Ingefred straight from my couch retire!<br />
+Gudrune come hither, or dread my ire!</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now tell me, Gudrune, with open heart,<br />
+What made thee from thy bed depart?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;My father, alas! dwelt near the strand,<br />
+When war and bloodshed filled the land.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Full eight there were broke into my bower,<br />
+One only ravished my virgin flower.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Upon her fair cheek he gave a kiss:<br />
+&ldquo;My dearest, my dearest, all sorrow dismiss;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;My swains they were that broke into thy bower,<br />
+&rsquo;Twas I that gathered thy virgin flower.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+19</span>Fair Ingefred gained, because bride she had been,<br />
+One of the King&rsquo;s knights of handsome mien.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+20</span>SIR RIBOLT.</h2>
+<p>Ribolt the son of a Count was he&mdash;<br />
+Gulborg he courted in secrecy.</p>
+<p>Since she was a child the maid he woo&rsquo;d,<br />
+And till she had come to womanhood.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Gulborg do thou become my bride,<br />
+In a better land then thou shalt reside.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Unto the land I thee will bear,<br />
+Where grief ne&rsquo;er comes the mind to tear.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;To an island &rsquo;neath a blissful sky,<br />
+Where thou shalt live and never die.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;To the land thou never me wilt bear,<br />
+But grief shall come the mind to tear.</p>
+<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+21</span>&ldquo;Nor me to the isle wilt thou convey<br />
+Where I&rsquo;ve no death to the Lord to pay.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O there no grass but the leek up-springs,<br />
+And there no bird but the cuckoo sings.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;No other water flows than wine,<br />
+Thou may&rsquo;st believe these words of mine.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;But how from the Castle can I fly?<br />
+So many watch incessantly.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m watched by father, watched by mother,<br />
+By sister I am watched, and brother.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m watched by the man to whom I&rsquo;m
+plighted,<br />
+And I fear him more than the rest united.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Although by all thy clan controll&rsquo;d,<br />
+Thy promise to me thou yet shall hold.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;In my acton blue I thee will case,<br />
+And my golden helm on thy head I&rsquo;ll place.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll gird thee with my sword of worth,<br />
+Then none will think that a maid rides forth.</p>
+<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+22</span>&ldquo;Decked with my gilded spurs so free,<br />
+Thou off may&rsquo;st ride though thy father see.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>O&rsquo;er her he threw his mantle wide,<br />
+And set her upon his steed of pride.</p>
+<p>When on the moor themselves they found,<br />
+Met them a Count, in arms renown&rsquo;d.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Here, Ribolt, hear, dear comrade mine,<br />
+Say, who&rsquo;s that fair young page of thine?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Comrade, it is my youngest brother,<br />
+I&rsquo;ve ta&rsquo;en him from his doting mother.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;It little avails such tales to tell;<br />
+Gulborg, Gulborg, I know thee well.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Thy scarlet dress thou may&rsquo;st disguise,<br />
+But thy cheeks of rose I recognise.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Thy hair I know of fairest sort,<br />
+For long I&rsquo;ve served at thy father&rsquo;s court.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;By thy garb and shoon I know thee not,<br />
+But I know the knight who thy troth has got.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+23</span>A bracelet drew she forth of gold,<br />
+And gave it to that Count so bold:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Where&rsquo;er thou rest thee at close of day,<br />
+Be sure no word of me thou say.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The Count he rode to Kulloe house,<br />
+Where the kemps were drinking a deep carouse.</p>
+<p>He enter&rsquo;d at Sir Truid&rsquo;s gate&mdash;<br />
+At his table wide Sir Truid sate.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Here, Truid, thou sitt&rsquo;st the red wine taking,<br
+/>
+Whilst Ribolt off with thy bride is making.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Then through his hall Sir Truid roar&rsquo;d:<br />
+&ldquo;Up, up, ye knights, take helm and sward!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Barely a mile had they advanced<br />
+When fair Gulborg behind her glanced.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O yonder my father&rsquo;s steed I see,<br />
+And the knight who is betrothed to me.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Gulborg, be therefore in no pain,<br />
+But hold our steeds by the bridle rein.</p>
+<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+24</span>&ldquo;And though to earth thou see me fall,<br />
+Gulborg thou must not upon me call.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And though thou see me freely bleed,<br />
+Let not my name from thy mouth proceed.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>His helm on his head Sir Ribolt cast,<br />
+Gulborg with her fair hands laced it fast.</p>
+<p>Then, crying his cry, he slays outright<br />
+Her father dear and her plighted knight,</p>
+<p>And, at the second &ldquo;Halloo,&rdquo; he slew<br />
+Her brothers with locks of yellow hue.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Desist, O Ribolt, my heart&rsquo;s ador&rsquo;d,<br />
+&rsquo;Tis time, &rsquo;tis time to sheath thy sword.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;My youngest brother I pray thee spare,<br />
+That he to my mother may tiding bear;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Bear her the tidings of the slaughter,<br />
+O would she never had borne a daughter!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Scarce had the name of Ribolt sounded,<br />
+When Ribolt tottered, deadly wounded.</p>
+<p><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+25</span>He sheathed his faulchion, blood be-dyed:<br />
+&ldquo;Come, dear Gulborg, we hence will ride.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>They thread the mazes of the wood,<br />
+No word escaped him, bad or good.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Hear, Ribolt, hear, my destined mate,<br />
+Why art not glad as thou wast of late?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Gulborg, I feel my life-blood leak,<br />
+Gulborg, I feel me faint and weak.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;But chiefly, chiefly I look not pleas&rsquo;d<br />
+Because Death&rsquo;s hand my heart has seiz&rsquo;d.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Myself of my girdle I&rsquo;ll dis-array,<br />
+And thy streaming blood will stanch and stay.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;God bless thee ever, my own true love,<br />
+Of service slight will thy girdle prove.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>And when to the Castle gate they won,<br />
+His mother stood there and leaned thereon.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Welcome, my son, thou art welcome twice,<br />
+And thy fair young bride she is welcome thrice.</p>
+<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+26</span>&ldquo;I ne&rsquo;er have seen a bride so pale<br />
+Come travelling over hill and dale.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;If pale she be is a wonder slight,<br />
+When she has witness&rsquo;d so hard a fight.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;God grant I may retain my breath<br />
+Whilst parting presents I bequeath.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;To my father I give my courser tall,<br />
+O mother I pray thee a priest to call.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And unto my brother, who&rsquo;s standing near,<br />
+I give Gulborg whom I love so dear.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O willingly her to wife I&rsquo;d take,<br />
+If, brother, &rsquo;twere not for the black sin&rsquo;s
+sake.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;May the Lord God me in my trouble aid,<br />
+So sure as she is for me a maid.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;&rsquo;Twas only once that I had the bliss<br />
+From her rosy mouth to snatch a kiss.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O better, better to sink in death,<br />
+Than unto two brothers plight my faith.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+27</span>Ribolt was dead ere the cock did cry,<br />
+Gulborg was dead ere the sun was high.</p>
+<p>They bore from the Castle corses three,<br />
+A handsome corse was each to see.</p>
+<p>The one was Ribolt, the other his bride,<br />
+His mother the third, of grief she died.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 28--><a
+name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span><span
+class="smcap">London</span>:<br />
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