Now I leave you in the keeping of God in heaven and of Wulf on earth.

Should we meet no more, my counsel is that you two wed here in Jerusalem and travel back to Steeple, there to live in peace, if it may be so.

Brother Wulf, fare you well also.

We part to-day for the first time, who from our birth have lived together and loved together and done many a deed together, some of which we can look back upon without shame.

Go on your course rejoicing, taking the love and gladness that Heaven has given you and living a good and Christian knight, mindful of the end which draws on apace, and of eternity beyond." "Oh! Godwin, speak not thus," said Wulf, "for in truth it breaks my heart to hear such fateful words.