Yet shalt thou eat though I hunger now."

She took him apples from her scrip,

She kissed him, cheek and chin and lip.

She took him cakes of woodland bread:

"Whiles am I hunger-pinched," she said.

She had a gourd and a pilgrim shell;

She took him water from the well.

She stroked his breast and his scarlet gear;

She spake, "How brave thou art and dear!"

Her arms about him did she wind;