And what would you with us, O Queen?

"It is a sad hour for song, O Queen!"

"Then the future does not bode well for you, O Queen."

"It is so, O Queen," for so he named me now.

I bade him lead on, but he wavered a little and said, "O Queen, there is trouble.

I cannot, O Queen, except with my own life.

As all men know, O Queen, it is time that you should be wed, and I offer myself as your husband.

We know not, O Queen," answered the physician, "for in all our lives we have never seen its like.

The tale has not all been told, O Queen.

"It is so, O Queen," they answered, as with one voice.