Put the verbs in parentheses in past tense (fortidsform)

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Years (to pass) by, and the three boys had (to grow) up to be men. King William (to lie) upon his death-bed, and again he (to think) of what would become of his sons when he was (to go) . Then he (to remember) what the wise men had (to tell) him; and so he (to declare) that Robert should (to have) the lands which he held in France, that William should (to be) the King of England, and that Henry should have no land at all, but only a chest of gold. So it (to happen) in the end very much as the wise men (to have) foretold. Robert, the Short Stocking, was bold and reckless, like the hawk which he so much (to admire) . He lost all the lands that his father had (to leave) him, and was at last shut up in prison, where he was (to keep) until he died.