“No other water flows than wine,
Thou may’st believe these words of mine.”
“But how from the Castle can I fly?
So many watch incessantly.
“I’m watched by father, watched by mother,
By sister I am watched, and brother.
“I’m watched by the man to whom I’m plighted,
And I fear him more than the rest united.”
“Although by all thy clan controll’d,
Thy promise to me thou yet shall hold.
“In my acton blue I thee will case,
And my golden helm on thy head I’ll place.
“I’ll gird thee with my sword of worth,
Then none will think that a maid rides forth.
“Decked with my gilded spurs so free,
Thou off may’st ride though thy father see.”
O’er her he threw his mantle wide,
And set her upon his steed of pride.
When on the moor themselves they found,
Met them a Count, in arms renown’d.