She spake: “Thou art my kinsman,
as I, in sooth, am thine;
Therefore to thee I’ll trust him,
this darling love of mine,
That thou mayst guard him for me—
this husband of my own.”
Then told she him the story
’twere well he had not known.
She spake: “Thou art my kinsman,
as I, in sooth, am thine;
Therefore to thee I’ll trust him,
this darling love of mine,
That thou mayst guard him for me—
this husband of my own.”
Then told she him the story
’twere well he had not known.