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Title: Young people's history of England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shephard New York, C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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king, was some-what vain. A minstrel, who had written a songin the kings praise, came to sing it to Canute while hewas holding a court of justice. Canute would not post-pone his business, but kept on hearing and adjudgingthe complaints of the suitors. At last the minstrel be-came impatient, and asked the king to pause and hearhis song, which was very short. Canute thereupon turnedto him indignantly and said, Are you not ashamedto write a short poem about me ? Unless by dinner to-morrow you bring a poem of over thirty verses in mypraise, you shall lose your head. The minstrel hurriedaway, and next day, sure enough, he appeared with a poemof the length which Canute had demanded, and receivedtherefor a generous sum of money. Canute died at the early age of forty, having reignedHarold eighteen years. He was succeeded (1035) byHarefoot. Harold, his son, who was called Harold Hare-foot, because he could run very swiftly. He was quiteunworthy of his wise and pious father. Instead of cherish-
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CANUTE REPROVING HIS COURTIERS.-Page 46. CANUTE AND HIS SUCCESSORS. 4/ ing the Church, he scoffed at it, and showed his contemptfor it in many ways. Fortunately for England, Haroldreigned but four years, and, dying, left the throne to hishalf-brother, Hardicanute (1040). It will be rememberedthat Canute had married Emma, the sister of the Duke ofNormandy, and the widow of Canutes predecessor, KingEthelred. Hardicanute was the eldest son by this secondmarriage. But Emma already had two sons by Ethelred,named Alfred and Edward. Harold Harefoot had Alfredput to death with great cruelty ; but Hardicanute treatedthe remaining son of Ethelred, Edward, with kindness,and adopted him as his successor to the throne. Hardi-canute at first gave promise of being a good ruler, jj^^.^.But he proved to be even more tyrannical than CanutesHarold had been. He governed his peopleseverely, and imposed burdensome taxes upon themwhich they could ill bear. In some places the peoplerose in revolt against thi

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