More, and more, and more, he fain would utter;

But the king allow’d it not. Vukashin,

By her white hand seizes her, and summons

Master Rado,—he the master-builder;

And he summons his three hundred workmen.

But the young espoused one smiles, and dreams it

All a laughing jest,—no fear o’ercame her.

Gathering round her, the three hundred workmen

Pile the stones and pile the beams about her.

They have now immured her to the girdle.