They rode unto the sea:

When in his towers at last she stood

A pale-faced girl was she.

"Unbusk, unbusk her, tire-girls!

Take off these rags," quoth he;

"And clothe her body in silk and pearls,

And red gold, neck and knee."

They busked her in a shift of silk,

And in a samite gown:

They looped her throat with pearls like milk,