That I have but three days more to live;
For if I do not answer him questions three
My head will be smitten from my body.
"The first is to tell him there in that stead,
With his crown of gold so fair on his head,
Among all his liege-men so noble of birth,
To within one penny of what he is worth.
"The second, to tell him, without any doubt,
How soon he may ride this whole world about;
And at the third question I must not shrink,