In the sight of God it were a scandal,
An affront and shame among all people,
If, of three, no one were found to bear it.”
So she staid at home, the aged mother,
And she rock’d the nursling in the cradle.
Then arose the youthful wife of Goïko;
Gave them the repast, and bade them forward.
Call’d around her all the serving maidens;
When they reach’d Boyana’s flowing river,
They were seen by Mrnyavtchevitch Goïko,