Tale the Twenty-Eighth.
HOW HERWIC SLEW LUDWIG.
[1441]
Now said Herwic sadly: “Ah, welaway! Woe’s me!
If fair Gu-drun, my lady, my fall did lately see.
Should e’er the hour be coming when I shall clasp the maiden,
And as a wife shall own her, with blame and scorn shall I by her be laden.
[1442]
“Sorely doth it shame me, that now the gray old man
Thus has overthrown me.” Forthwith he bade again