And I with him, here I me shryve, and seye

That wikkedly ye doon us bothe deye.

64. But sith it lyketh yow that I be deed,

By Neptunus, that god is of the see,

Fro this forth shal I never eten breed

445

Til I myn owene herte blood may see;

For certayn, I wole deye as sone as he'—

And up he sterte, and on his wey he raughte,

Til she agayn him by the lappe caughte.