1345

So greet a routhe I have hit for tendyte—

And bad [her norice] and her suster goon

To fecchen fyr and other thing anoon,

And seide, that she wolde sacrifye.

And, whan she mighte her tyme wel espye,

1350

Up-on the fyr of sacrifys she sterte,

And with his swerd [she roof her to the herte].

But, as [myn autour] seith, right thus she seyde;