“Dear lady, greet with kisses this good and high-born maiden;
Oft in my years of sorrow my life with help and kindness she did gladden.”
[1580]
“To none will I give kisses who is to me unknown.
Who are this maiden’s kinsmen? What name doth the lady own,
That you should bid me kiss her, and be so friendly with her?”
He said: “Her name is Ortrun; she from the Norman kingdom cometh hither.”
[1581]
“Never shall I kiss her; how can you ask for this?
If I should bid them kill her I should not do amiss.