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Then rode he round the Kynast; her face she turned away,

The Lady Kunigunde:

“Woe’s me, the Knight is riding down to his grave to-day!”

He rides around the Kynast, right round the narrow wall;

The Lady Kunigunde!

She cannot stir for terror her lily hand at all.

He rides around the Kynast, dear round the battlement;

The Lady Kunigunde!

As if a breath might kill him, she held her breath suspent.

He rode around the Kynast and straight to her rode he;

Said the Lady Kunigunde of Kynast:

“Thanks be to God in Heaven, who gave thy life to thee!

“Thanks be to God that into thy grave thou didst not ride!”

Said the Lady Kunigunde:

“Come down from off thy horse now, O Knight, unto thy bride!”

Then spake the noble rider, and greeted, as he sate,

The Lady Kunigunde:

“Oh, trust a Knight for horsemanship! well have I taught thee that.

“Now wait till comes another who can the same thing do,

O Lady Kunigunde of Kynast!

I’ve wife and child already, can be no spouse for you!”

He gave his steed the spur, now; rode back the way he came;