When dead he lay by the thicket, they leashed the hound again.
Now marvelled all Burgundians at the wealth of prey he had ta’en.
“If the thing may be asked offenceless,” his huntsman merrily said,
“Leave unto us, Lord Siegfried, of the wild things some few head.
Mountain and forest thou makest of tenants dispossessed!”
Sunnily smiled the hero at the old rough woodland jest.
Then halloo of men and baying of dogs burst forth all round:
Uprose so mighty a clamour of voices of huntsman and hound
That the mountain-side and the forest rang and rang again,
For that four and twenty couples were unleashed by the hunters then.