I will go." And he put down the knapsack.
I turned to start, but the king had already started.

He halted, and looked down upon a man who lay in a dim light, and had not noticed us thus far, or spoken.
"Is it your husband ?" the king asked.
"Yes." "Is he asleep ?" "God be thanked for that one charity, yes--these three hours.
Where shall I pay to the full, my gratitude! for my heart is bursting with it for that sleep he sleepeth now." I said: "We will be careful.

We will not wake him." "Ah, no, that ye will not, for he is dead." "Dead ?" "Yes, what triumph it is to know it! None can harm him, none insult him more.

He is in heaven now, and happy; or if not there, he bides in hell and is content; for in that place he will find neither abbot nor yet bishop.

We were boy and girl together; we were man and wife these five and twenty years, and never separated till this day.