Higher yet his sister swore, and louder—
“’Twas not I, upon my life, my brother;
On my life and on thy life, I swear it!
But if thou wilt disregard my swearing,
Take me to the open fields—the desert;
Bind thy sister to the tails of horses;
Let four horses tear my limbs asunder.”
But the brother trusted not his sister:
Furiously he seized her white hand—bore her
To the distant fields—the open desert: