“Danger of death! we are willing!”
And the men said, one to another:
“It is joy to us to leave the land of slavery to go to the free sea. If God be for us, who shall be against us?”
Women and girls said:
“Let us follow our husbands and our lovers. We are of Zealand and we shall find harbour there.”
Ulenspiegel espied a pretty young girl, and said to her, jesting:
“I want to marry you.”
But she, blushing, replied:
“I am willing, but only in church.”
The women, laughing, said to one another: