We then will help you gladly, and pay him back the ill that he has brought you.”
[681]
Before they yet had spoken unto the fair young maid,
Already of her sorrow her friends had taken heed.
The lady had been longing to see the heralds hourly;
Them in haste she sent for, the loss of land and honor, mourning sorely.
[682]
When they came before her, they found the queenly maid
Sitting sad, and weeping,— faithful love she had;
She asked them of her lover, and how they leave had taken,