With care so cold;
On Monday thereafter
Lay she in the mould.
(For she loved the knight so truly.)
XXVIII, XXIX
LOVEL AND JOHN
TYGE HERMANDSSON
Jovial Ballads, these, of the Young Lochinvar type, where the too tardy bridegroom wins the verdict “Serve him right!” (In the former, I have made free with the name of Sir Lave, turning it into Lovel.) The svalegang plays its part in the story, since it is along this open gallery-stair that Sir John lights the bride to her bower. The Burden is handled with singular skill; the concluding line in verses 2, 3, and 4 forms no part of the dialogue, but is an aside spoken by the poet.
“Gallant knight” in “Tyge Hermandsson,” v. 21, is literally “lady’s swain” (Jomfrusvend)—squire of dames, first in love as in war.
XXVIII
LOVEL AND JOHN
Lo now, I bid you, my merry men all,