Again at home to see them are always greatly longing:
With pain our friends are waiting until again they see us homeward thronging.”
[1606]
Then spake again Queen Hilda: “Grudge not, I beg, to me
One happiness and honor, for none can greater be;
Herwic, king most worthy, the boon now deign to give me,
That I, poor lonely woman, may see my daughter crowned, ere she shall leave me.”
[1607]
For this was he unwilling; but still she begged and bade:
Thereby those held in bondage were soon from sorrow freed.