“If you your love will give me,” he said, “most lovely maid,

Then shall my truest worship to you be ever paid;

Throughout my lands and castles to you there shall be given

My kinsmen’s faithful service, and ne’er shall I repent that thus I’ve striven.”

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She said: “I give you freely the love for which you pray;

By all your toils and daring you well have earned to-day

That you and all my kindred foes shall be no longer.

Now none can make me sorrow, and every day our bliss shall grow the stronger.”

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