They looked out over the water: “The bridegroom tarries late!”

10

They poured in cups of silver the mead and wine so red;

All in the evening early the bride must seek her bed.

11

They led her in, the fair young bride, all to her chamber door,

Forth went knights and pages to bear the torch before.

12

Oh, they laid her in the bridal-bed, and she was a dainty dame.

She tarried there three hours and more, and ne’er a bridegroom came.