"But if you love me as you vow,
"Then give me what I ask!
"No quest for errant knight have I,
"No deed of high emprize;
"No giant Tartars to be slain,
"In homage to my eyes."
"Oh, take my life!" her lover cried,
"Nor break this dream of bliss;
"Take house, or head, or lands, or fame—
"Take evry thing but this,—