"Him would I neither loose, nor yet have slain, But, as thou seest, in bonds to thee convey:
That whether he should be condemned to pain, Or death, it should be thine his doom to say.
I, hearing thou wert with King Charlemagne, Thither, in hope to find thee, took my way.
I thank my God, that thee upon this ground, Where I least hoped to meet thee, I have found.