Was I born, and I rue it ever! If thou clear not my name
From the stain of such utter abasement, my love never more shalt thou claim.”
Then spake to a lord King Gunther: “Summon him hither thou.
If he of such deed have boasted, he must make confession now,
Or must give to the lie denial, this hero of Netherland.”
So unto that presence Siegfried was called by the King’s command.
So then when the good knight Siegfried saw faces disquieted,
And the cause thereof divined not, straightway he spake and said:
“Now wherefore weep these ladies? This unto me make known;
And wherefore the King hath called me hither, be this too shown.”