Be ye sure, full evil entreated at mine hand shall your enemies be.”
“Now welcome to me is thy saying,” the King said joyful-voiced,
As though in the proffered helping indeed and in truth he rejoiced.
In his falseness lowly he bowed him, that King of the traitor-heart!
Yet again spake Siegfried the noble, “Let all your fears depart.”
Plotters and vassals prepared them, as it were for the war-march, then;
But all was done for a semblance unto Siegfried and his men.
And the hero bade his warriors of Netherland arm for the fray;
And straightway the knights of Siegfried sought out their war-array.
To his sire spake Siegfried the mighty: “Here in the land remain,