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I. Then said the king: -- "Stand here, Sir Guldemar, / Beside me, where the arras falleth close. / Now, down this marble stair the princess goes. / And thou shalt mark her, hidden here with me: -- / And thou shalt tell me, on thine honour's oath, / If any woman is as fair as she. / (Giving thy guerdon, no fear hanging loath! ")
II. "For, when thou sayest, -- ‘_She's_ more fair / Than the queen's sister! ' -- straight that woman shall, / Guldemar, to thy have and hold befall. / The hour thou didst so knightly lift thy lance / To shield our life, we gave our royal word -- / For Guldemar! the fairest in all France! ". / (Guldemar stood beside his king and heard.)