"At our trysting-place, for a certain space,

I must wander to and fro;

But I had not had power to come to thy bower,

Had'st thou not conjured me so."—

Love master'd fear—her brow she cross'd;

"How, Richard, hast thou sped?

And art thou saved, or art thou lost?"—

The vision shook his head!

"Who spilleth life, shall forfeit life;

So bid thy lord believe: