Of the marvels all ye shall do and see.—

But at last your soul belongs to me!

After these words Emma and Moonen have taken their way to Bolduc, where for some while they tarried, feasting merrily, and paying the shot of each and all who ate and drank in their company.

Now shall we stint a little of Emma and Moonen and tell of Sir Gysbrecht, her eme.

After that Mary, the which now hight Emma, had been for some while away, Sir Gysbrecht, her eme, much wondered at her tarrying, and said with himself thus:

O anxiety, which clamors within me strong,

How dost thou rend my heart and my wit molest.

For that my niece Mary doth bide so long

Who to Nimmegen market hath her dress’d,

Where if it grew dark, I told her, as for the best,