Well, if so it be—if this wild life no longer contents you—then I will give you the best counsel that ever friend gave to friend: take to wife an honourable maiden.
Knut.
Say you so? And if I now told you that ’tis even that I have in mind?
Gudmund.
Good luck and happiness to you then, Knut Gesling! And now you must know that I too—
Knut.
You? Are you, too, so purposed?
Gudmund.
Aye, truly. But the King’s wrath;—I am a banished man—
Knut.