Hast plighted troth with another man, so hast thou cozened me!”
20
“Harken, Tyge Hermandsson, this word I tell thee plain,
Never, ah, never I’ll wed the man dares not ride out in the rain!
21
“Now hadst thou been a gallant knight, and pledged a lady word,
Thou wouldst have braved the billows blue all with thy naked sword!”
22
“Oh, I will enter a cloister, and learn the monkish lore!
But know, thou haughty Liselil, thou’lt see my face no more!”