Die derwaert gaen en keeren niet.”
In English, this is:
“O no, my daughter; no, not so,
They ne’er return who thereward go.”
Then Quirina asked her mother, but she replied to her daughter, exactly as her father had done.
Then she sought the advice of her older sister, whether she should go to Sir Halwyn’s castle.
The answer made was the same.
Finally of her brother, she made the same request. His reply was different from that of the others; for he trusted that his sister’s wit would extricate her from any difficulty.
“Go where thou wilt, all’s one to me,
But see thou keep’st thine honor free,