He hath won him another heart-grief as his brother's death is told, And he spake aloud in his sorrow, 'Now mine anchor hath found its hold And its haven in bitter rueing,' and the badge did he lay aside, 535 And his grief taught him bitter anguish, and aloud the hero cried, 'Galoes of Anjou! henceforward shall never a man deny That on earth ne'er was born thine equal for manhood and courtesy, And the fruit of a free hand knightly from thine heart did it bloom amain. Ah! woe is me for thy goodness!' then to Kailet he spake again, 540 'How goeth it with Schoettè, my mother, of joy bereft?' 'So that God hath had pity on her! When Gandein this life had left, And dead was Galoes thy brother, and thou wert not by her side, And she saw thee no more, then death brake her heart, and she too hath died!' Then out quoth the Gascon Hardeiss, 'Turn thy will to a manly mien, 545 Thou shalt mourn but in fitting measure if true manhood thine own hath been!' But too great was the load of his sorrow, and the tears as a flood must flow From his eyes--Then all things he ordered that the knights a fair rest might know, And he went where he saw his chamber, of samite the little tent, And in grief and sore lamentation the hours of the night he spent. 550 When there dawned another morning the knights together came, The inner host and the outer, all who thought there to win them fame; Were they young or old, were they cowardly or brave, they fought not that day. And the light grew to middle morning: yet so worn were they with the fray, And the horses so spent with spurring, that the knights in battle tried 555 Were yet by weariness vanquished--Then the queen herself would ride, And the valiant men from the open would she bring to the town again, And the best of the knights within there she bade ride to the Leo-plain; And straightway they did her bidding, and they rode in their knightly ranks, And they came ere the Mass was ended to the sad king of Zassamank. 560 Then the benediction spoken, Herzeleide the queen she came, And e'en as the folk upheld her, so she laid to the knight her claim: Then he spake, 'A wife have I Lady, and than life shall she be more dear, Yea, and e'en if I were without her thou another tale shouldst hear That afar should drive me from thee, if men here shall list my right!' 565 But the queen she looked upon him, and she spake to the gallant knight: