“How fares my child, how fares my roe? Once will I come, then never more.”

And she nursed the child as she was wont to do before she disappeared. The King dared not speak to her, but on the next night he watched again. Then she said⁠—

“How fares my child, how fares my roe?

This time I come, then never more.”

“How fares my child, how fares my roe? This time I come, then never more.”

Then the King could not restrain himself; he sprang towards her, and said, “You can be none other than my dear wife.”