The first to sit down was Lord Thomas himself,

His bride, fair Ellinter, by his side.

14

‘Is this your bride, Lord Thomas?’ she said;

‘If this is your bride, Lord Thomas, she looks most wonderfully dark,

When you could have gotten a fairer

As ever the sun shone on.’

15

‘O don’t you despise her,’ Lord Thomas said he,

‘O don’t you despise her to me;