"That were great pity," then said the queen,
"If any grace might be.
"My lord, when I came first into this land,
To be your wedded wife,
The first boon that I would ask,
Ye would grant it me belife;
belife, at once.
"And I asked never none till now,
Therefore, good lord, grant it me."
"Now ask it, madam," said the king,