“If Calleken has been faithful as she says, it behoves her now to leave you in very deed, as a punishment for your unkindness.”
“He knows not how I love him,” said Calleken.
“Is this the truth?” cried Lamme. And then seeing that it was so: “Then come, wife,” he cried, “the winter is over!”
Thereafter, having given and received from all the kiss of peace: “Come now,” cried Lamme, “come, wife, with me. For now is the hour of lawful loves!”
And together they sailed away in their little boat.
Meanwhile the soldiers, the sailors, and the ship’s boys that stood around, all waved their caps in the air and shouted: “Adieu, brother! Adieu, Lamme! Adieu, brother—brother and friend!”
And Nele removed with the tip of her sweet finger a tear that had settled in the corner of the eye of Ulenspiegel.
“You are sad, my love?” she asked him.
“He was good,” Tyl said.
Nele sighed.