Now this is to command you to come to our court at Damascus so soon as you may be fit to travel, knowing that here you will be received with love and honour.

Also I invite your kinsmen to accompany you, since I knew their father, and would welcome knights who have done such great deeds, and the woman Masouda with them.

Or, if they prefer it, all three of them may return to their own lands and peoples.
"Hasten, my niece, lady Rose of the World, hasten, for my spirit seeks you, and my eyes desire to look upon you.

In the name of Allah, greeting." "You have heard," said Rosamund, as Godwin finished reading the scroll.

"Now, my cousins, what will you do ?" "What else but go with you, whom we have come so far to seek ?" answered Wulf, and Godwin nodded his head in assent.
"And you, Masouda ?" "I, lady?
Oh, I go also, since were I to return yonder," and she nodded towards the mountains, "my greeting would be one that I do not wish." "Do you note their words, prince Hassan ?" asked Rosamund.
"I expected no other," he answered with a bow.