But she was tired, mostly, and would not look at food.

So for this he gave me her necklace from about her pretty neck.

But the rest of her noble golden gear, the belt and the clasps, were upon the maid when the headsman of Thorn delivered her to one that stood near by.

So, being almost asleep with weariness and exhausted with terror, they carried her away, and I saw the maid no more.
"But the Prince Dietrich Hohenfriedberg was beheaded within the hour, and, as is their hellish custom, his body was thrown to the Duke's blood-hounds that were clamoring all the time behind their fence.
"God help us--such a disaster that night was for Plassenburg! Will the Prince never set about wiping away the disgrace ?" "Aye, that he will!" cried the High Chancellor, suddenly bursting into a fury, strangely unlike him.

"He will wash it away in the blood of Duke Casimir and all his evil brood--the Wolves of the Mark truly are they named.