“Can it, can it be, my lord and husband,

That so young, thou, reckless, would’st immure me?

Let us go and seek my aged mother:

Let us go—my mother she is wealthy:

She will buy a slave,—a man or woman,

To be buried in the wall’s foundations.”

When the mother-wife—the wife and mother,

Found her earnest plaints and prayers neglected,

She address’d herself to Neimar Rado:[4]

“In God’s name, my brother, Neimar Rado,