“She is here without a doubt,” replied Ulenspiegel. And continuing:
“I shall harness two of your horses to one of the wagons, our two asses to the other. In the first wagon I shall put my wife and myself, my friend Lamme, the witnesses of the marriage; in the second, tambourine players, fifers, and shawm players. Then displaying the joyful marriage flags, playing the tambourine, singing, drinking, we will go trotting down the highway that leads to the Galgen-Veld, the Gallows Field, or to liberty.”
“I will help you,” said Thomas Utenhove. “But the women and girls will wish to go with their men.”
“We shall go, by the grace of God,” said a pretty girl, putting her head in at the half-open door.
“There will be four wagons, if they are needed,” said Thomas Utenhove; “in this way we shall get more than twenty-five men through.”
“The duke will be crestfallen,” said Ulenspiegel.
“And the prince’s fleet served by some good soldiers the more,” replied Thomas Utenhove.
Having his serving men and women summoned then by ringing a bell, he said to them:
“All ye that are of Zealand, men and women, oyez; Ulenspiegel the Fleming here present desires that you should pass through the duke’s army in wedding array.”
Men and women of Zealand shouted together: