Thence Walter comes. She sat beside the window,

And with her burning sighs did melt the ice.

I thought, he teaches her to read and write,

Hearing all princes now instruct their children,—

A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books.

Shall I expel him from my house? He is

So needful to our Litwa; he can rank

The troops as can no other; rampart mounds

He best can heap; the thunder-arms direct.

I have one behind my army.—Walter, come,