Before, arose like a star and leapt:
"Still leaps with the love that it found untrue,
That it found unworthy.—Now run me through!
"Yea, run me through! for meet and well,
And a jest for laughter of fiends in Hell,
"It is that I, who have done no wrong,
Should die by the hand of Hugh the Strong,
"Of Hugh her leman!—What else could be
When the devil was judge 'twixt thee and me?