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He pulled up by the root the tallest tree he could see, and in the hollow he dug a deep deep cave, and into the cave he thrust May Margaret. 'Now will ye wander no more in my woods! cried Hynde Etin. 'Here shall ye stay, or home shall ye come with me to be my wife. 'Nay, here will I rather stay! cried May Margaret, 'for my father will seek for me and will find me here.
Hynde Horn longed as he had never longed before to be once more beside the Princess Jean that he might guard her from all harm. Fair blew the wind, onward sailed the ship, and at length Hynde Horn saw land, and knew that he was drawing near to Scotland. A little later he had reached the coast and had begun his journey towards the palace. As he hastened on, King Horn met a beggar man.
'Your father may be earl of all the land, May Margaret, yet shall ye die, because ye will not ask my leave to come to Elmond wood. And he seized her fast and tied her to a tree by her long, yellow locks. Yet did Hynde Etin not kill the maiden, but this is what he did.
It. to Thurston, my cook. £6 13s. 4d. It. to William Body, my servant, £6 13s. 4d. It. to Peter Mewtas, my servant, £6 13s. 4d. It. to Ric. Sleysh, my servant, £6 13s. 4d. It. to George Wilkinson, my servant, £6 13s. 4d. It. to my friend, Thomas Alvard. £10, and my best gelding. It. to my friend, Thomas Rush, £10. It. to my servant, John Hynde, my horsekeeper, £3 6s. 8d. Item.
Down by the hazel bushes she hastened, nor noticed that the evening shadows fell; on past the birch groves she ran, nor noticed that the dew fell fast. No one did May Margaret meet until she reached a white-thorn tree. There, up from the grass on which he lay, sprang Hynde Etin. 'What do ye seek in the wood, May Margaret? said he. 'Is it flowers, or is it for dew ye seek this bonny night of May?
Finding that she was not maimed for life, Lady Ardmore turned with comical and unsympathetic haste to Francesca, so completely do amateur theatricals dry the milk of kindness in the human breast. "Put on these clothes at once," she said imperiously, knowing nothing of the volcanoes beneath the surface. "Hynde Horn is already on the stage, and somebody must be Jean.
When the prince was well, King Alymer listened to the story the lad had to tell, the story of his ruined home, his lost kingdom, his suffering at the hands of the cruel King Mury. And King Alymer, for he was gentle at heart, shed a tear as he heard. 'Thou shalt stay at our court, Hynde Horn, he said, 'and learn all that a prince should learn.
But now that Hynde Horn and his companions had come, the king knew that the Princess Jean would no longer be dull while he was away. She, too, in the early days after the prince came to the palace, would ride to hunt and hawk, Hynde Horn by her side.
This poor Jack of the Nursery, with his miraculous shoes of swiftness, coat of darkness, sword of sharpness, he is one. Hynde Etin, and still more decisively Red Etin of Ireland, in the Scottish Ballads, these are both derived from Norseland; Etin is evidently a Jotun. Nay, Shakspeare's Hamlet is a twig too of this same world-tree; there seems no doubt of that.
Fykenyld had no thought to spare for his old playmate, save to be glad that he had never returned from the far East to claim his bride. But though seven long years had rolled away, Princess Jean had not forgotten Hynde Horn. Forgotten! Nay, day and night he was in her thought, in her heart. Yet was she sure that he would never now return.
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