LVIII
First they took him and hang’d him half,
And then they lat him down anon,
And quarter’d and put him in boiling lead,
And there he was sodden, breast and bone.
LIX
O then bespake the Lord of Lorn,
With many other lordës mo,
‘Sir Duke, if you be as willing as we,
We’ll have a marriage before we go.’
LX
But then bespake the Duke of France,
Unto the Child of Lorn right there:
Says, ‘Heir of Lorn, if thou’lt marry my daughter,
I’ll mend thy living a thousand a year.’
LXI
But then bespake that Child of Lorn,
And answer’d the Duke right merrilye:
‘I had rather have her with a ring of gold
Than all the gold you can proffer to me.’
FOOTNOTES:
[470] hend = courteous.