These wordës and such others saidë she, And he wax’d wroth, and bade men should her lead Home to her house; “And in her house,” quoth he, “Burn her right in a bath, with flamës red.” And as he bade, right so was done the deed; For in a bath they gan her fastë shetten, 4592 And night and day great fire they under betten. 4593

The longë night, and eke a day also, For all the fire, and eke the bathë’s heat, She sat all cold, and felt of it no woe, It made her not one droppë for to sweat; But in that bath her lifë she must lete. 4594 For he, Almachius, with full wick’ intent, To slay her in the bath his sondë 4595 sent.