With all their jewels still adornéd,
None to do them injury;
Then said this lady gay, ‘Full woe is me!
O, let me still sustain this kind captivity!
*****
Thou hast set this present day my body free,
But my heart in prison strong remains with thee.’”
The captain urged many objections, each one of which in turn she argued away and removed, even when he said—
“I have neither gold nor silver
To maintain thee in this case,
And to travel is great charges
As you know in every place.”