What sayest thou then?
Shalt thou be ever a woodman in these thickets, and a follower of Jack of the Tofts?
If so thou wilt, it is well." He took her by the shoulders and bent her backwards to kiss her, and held her up above the earth in his arms, waving her this way and that, till she felt how little and light she was in his grasp, though she was no puny woman; then he set her on her feet again, and laughed in her face, and said: "Sweetling, let to-morrow bring counsel.

But now let it all be: thou hast said it, thou art weary; so now will I dight thee a bed of our mantles, and thou shalt lie thee down, and I shall watch thee as thou badest me." Therewith he went about, and plucked armfuls of the young bracken, and made a bed wide and soft, and spread the mantles thereover.
But she stood awhile looking on him; then she said: "Dost thou think to punish me for my wilful folly, and to shame me by making me speak to thee ?" "Nay," he said, "it is not so." She said: "I am not shamed in that I say to thee: if thou watch this night, I will watch by thee; and if I lie down to rest this night, thou shalt lie by me.

For my foemen have given me to thee, and now shalt thou give thyself to me." So he drew near to her shyly, like unto one who hath been forgiven.

And there was their bridal bed, and nought but the oak boughs betwixt them and the bare heavens..