Beseeching him to do her that honour, That she might have the Christian folk to feast: “To pleasë them I will do my laboúr.” The Soudan said, “I will do at your hest,” 1518 And kneeling, thanked her for that request; So glad he was, he wist 1519 not what to say. She kiss’d her son, and home she went her way.

Arrived be these Christian folk to land In Syria, with a great solemnë rout, And hastily this Soudan sent his sond, 1520 First to his mother, and all the realm about, And said, his wife was comen out of doubt, And pray’d them for to ride again 1521 the queen, The honour of his regnë 1522 to sustene.