The gentlemen all were amazed to see,
The fisherman's daughter so full of beauty;
They asked him, presently, if it was his own?
Who told the whole story before he went home.
"As I was a fishing within my own bound,
One Monday morning this sweet babe I found;
'Tis eleven years past since her life I did save,
Or else she had lain in a watery grave."
The cruel knight was in this company;
And hearing the fisherman tell the story,