The wife won't come.

All she wants is to have her dresses and jewels sent to her.

Of so cruel a husband she has had enough.

As for the son, he has jumped out of a boat on the Rhine, as he was being carried to his monastery, and was drowned! But he was not drowned, but had only dived.

"The gallant boy swam on beneath the water, never lifting his head for a single moment between Godesberg and Cologne; the distance being twenty-five or thirty miles." Then he becomes an archer, dressed in green from head to foot.