And many a wailing cry

They raised, the minstrel prophets of the house,

“Woe for that kingly home!

Woe for that kingly home and for its chiefs!

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Woe for the marriage-bed and traces left

Of wife who loved her lord!”

[*]There stands he silent; foully wronged and yet

[*]Uttering no word of scorn,[[301]]

[*]In deepest woe perceiving she is gone;