Kenelm Chillingly Book VIII by Edward Bulwer-lytton

THE minstrel gave a cordial parting shake of the hand to the fellow-traveller whom he had advised to settle down, not noticing how very cold had become the hand in his own genial grasp. Lightly he passed over the wooden bridge, preceded by Max, and merrily, when he had gained the other side of the bridge, came upon Kenelm's ear, through the hush of the luminous night, the verse of the uncompleted love-song, --

"Singing, singing, Lustily singing, Down the road, with his dogs before, Came the Ritter of Nierestein."