“God guerdon them!” said Siegfried; “I put my trust alway
In their love and their faith true-hearted, as friend with friend doth aye:
This doth withal their sister. Now shall ye further tell
If our friends in their far-off homeland be merry, and all go well.
Since the day that we parted from them, hath any evil been done
By a foe to my Lady’s brethren? Concerning this say on.
In loyal faith will I help them aye to the uttermost.
Of my service to these shall foemen learn to their bitter cost.”
Answered the Lord of the Marches, Gere, a right good knight:
“In chivalry and in joyance be all things going aright;