“ Behind thou must leave all thy red golden gear.”
“In my red golden gear I will ever go dight,
For it was not gained by dishonor, Sir Knight.”
p. 12Sir Peter he bids them his bridals get ready,
Cries Kirstin: “Now shoe ye my palfrey so steady.”
Fair Kirstin she saddles her courser so gray,
To the house of Sir Peter she taketh her way.
She rides her horse into Sir Peter’s court yard,
And there stood the knight, clad in sable and mard.
“Now hear thou, Sir Peter, so handsome and fine,
Say, may I this day skink before thee the wine?” ”

“ Sir Peter the knight to my father’s abode?
“And had good Sir Peter a leman so brave,
O why did he me of my father e’er crave.
“More gold she displays on her ten fingers small,
Than my father could show in his good castle all.”
p. 14Now o’er was the supper, the laugh and the song,
To retire to her bed the young bride she doth long.
With the bride to the bridal apartment they go,
Fair Kirstin in front bears the yellow flambeau.
The bride in the soft bridal couch they have plac’d,
To come to her arms good Sir Peter made haste. ”

“ Thou may’st believe these words of mine.”
“But how from the Castle can I fly?
So many watch incessantly.
“I’m watched by father, watched by mother,
By sister I am watched, and brother.
“I’m watched by the man to whom I’m plighted,
And I fear him more than the rest united.” ”