‘I want no boats.’ Instead he spread his sails. The galleon backed, the galleon went ahead. One and all looked: ‘Why, he will strand the galleon!’
‘Let him be,’ said the king, ‘let him strand her.’
He stranded the galleon.
Baldpate said to the king, ‘When I started to fetch this girl, did I not tell you you must let me do as I would? No one must interfere.’
He took the girl and the prince; he came to the gate. ‘Pull it down.’
‘Pull it down, why?’ they asked.
‘Did I not tell you no one must interfere?’
They set to and pulled it down. They went up, sat down, ate, drank, laugh, and talk.
The worm gnaws Baldpate within.
Night fell; they will bed the pair. Baldpate said, ‘Where you sleep I also will sleep there.’