Which best summarizes the events from the poem contained in these lines? "when the sun was sunken, he set out to visit the lofty hall-building, how the ring-danes had used it for beds and benches when the banquet was over. then he found there reposing many a noble asleep after supper; sorrow the heroes, misery knew not. the monster of evil greedy and cruel tarried but little, fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers thirty of thanemen"

the underline word is basically like a prepositional phrase.

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.