My crime is therefore that you chose wrongly as you say, but as I still hold, most rightly, and because of this crime I and my husband are to be given as a peace offering to the Teules.

Listen: let me tell you something of those wars in which we have fought before you give us to the Teules and our mouths are silent for ever.

Where shall I begin?
I know not.

Stay, I bore a child--had he lived he would have been your prince to-day.

That child I saw starve to death before my eyes, inch by inch and day by day I saw him starve.