“Sister mine! thou in the Lord my sister,
Dost thou know some plant of demon-virtue,
Which may bring our sister to perdition?”
Radool’s wife her sister swiftly answered:
“In the name of God, what mean’st thou, sister?
Of such cursed weeds I know not.—Did I,
Never would I tell thee of them, never;
For my brothers love me; yes! they love me—
To their love full many a gift bears witness.”
When Paul’s youthful wife had heard her sister,