For would she of her gentlenesse,
Withouten more, me ones kesse,
It were to me a great guerdoon.
Release of all my passion […]

Verse, like the laurel its immortal meed,
Should be the guerdon of a noble deed

I had some faint recollection of having a penny-piece in my waistcoat pocket, and, pleased with the service he had rendered to us, I gave it him as his guerdon. "Thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir," he cried, and immediately returned to his station near the footway.

"Here, minstrel, drive bad thoughts away! Sing! Take
"My glove for guerdon!"

Sons of honour, nobly fathered, scions of the sturdy brood,Who from age to age have gathered strength and duty in the blood,Strength to bear the distressed burden, duty which has cost them dear—Wounds for wage and death for guerdon—Lo! the final hour is here.[…]

And when thou see'st the Admiral ride by,
Discharge thy musket, and perform his death;
And then I'll guerdon thee with store of crowns.

[…] him we gave a costly bribe
To guerdon silence […]

Guerdon

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