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Updated: June 3, 2025
Zbyszko also regretted her escaping punishment at Spychow; otherwise he received the news quietly. He did not oppose the departure of the Bohemian with Zygfried, because he was indifferent to anything which did not directly concern Danusia. He began to talk about her at once. "I shall take her in front of me on horseback to-morrow, then we shall proceed." "How is it there?
"What?" said the princess. "What else if not the same song which you sang in Tyniec, when Zbyszko saw you for the first time." "Hej! I remember and shall never forget it," said Zbyszko. "When I heard that song somewhere else I cried." "Then I will sing it!" said Danusia.
Prince Janusz will dub me a knight. If the princess and Danusia ask him, he will do it. In the meantime I will fight in Mazowsze with the son of Mikolaj of Dlugolas." "What for?" "Because Mikolaj, the same who is with the princess and whom they call Obuch, called Danusia, 'bush." Macko looked at him in amazement.
"I will help you, and you can be sure of Danusia's constancy. Only yesterday I said to her: 'Danusia, will you always love Zbyszko? And she answered: 'I will be Zbyszko's and no one else's. She is still a green berry, but when she promises anything, she keeps her word, because she is the daughter of a knight. Her mother was like her." "Thank God!" said Zbyszko.
Danusia held her head as low as possible over the plate, because she was ashamed. Zbyszko looked with ecstasy at her little head and pink cheeks; and he felt his love, like a river, overflowing his whole breast. He could also feel her sweet kisses on his face, his eyes and his mouth. Formerly she used to kiss him as a sister kisses a brother, and he received the kisses as from a child.
Suddenly he quivered and awoke entirely. "O gracious Christ! what is that?" From the high window in the adjacent tower, the sounds of a lute, hardly heard at first, reached his ear. Jurand, while on the way to Szczytno, was sure that Danusia was not in the castle, and yet this sound of the lute at night aroused his heart in an instant.
Jurand had told him in Krakow, that he could not give Danusia to him; therefore it was evident that he had promised her to somebody else; evidently he was bound by an oath, and now he had fulfilled his promise. Zbyszko called Sanderus and questioned him again; but the German prevaricated more and more. Therefore, Zbyszko was riding along, sad and unhappy.
I felt sorry for Jagienka, but still more so for Danusia and I set out to her to Mazowsze, because, I tell you frankly, I could not live any longer without her. Recollect the time when you yourself loved recollect it! and it will not seem strange to you."
Who will swear then, that they did not lie to Jurand before, and now do the same to you, lord?... I know not, I know not where Danusia is but I challenged him, because, even if I were to lose my life, I prefer death to life without my love, without the one who is clearest to me in the whole world."
"Jurand himself told me that; but he begged me not to question him further, because he not only did not wish to tell what it was, but he could not. Surely he must be bound by some oath, as so often happens among the knights. But God will help us and everything will turn out well." "Without Danusia I will be as unhappy as a chained dog or a bear in a ditch," answered Zbyszko.
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