"The monarch to the cave did Fortune guide, When the orc's wife alone was in the lair.
Seeing the king: `Fly! -- Woe to thee!' (she cried)
`Should the orc take thee!' -- `Woeful every where I cannot choose but be,' (the king replied)
`Whether be take or miss me, kill or spare.
Not hither I by chance have wandered, I
Come with desire beside my wife to die.'