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Updated: May 14, 2025
With her husbands sanction, Sebile has her tent pitched on the bank, and establishes herself there with her ladies to act as decoys to the Franks; for fair ladys look makes men undertake folly. She is taken, however, in her own toils; falls in love with Baldwin one summers day on seeing him ride forth with hawk on wrist, and makes Helissend invite him over the river, under a very frank pledge that she will be his, for loss or gain. Their first meeting apparently takes place in the presence of Sebiles ladies, and so little mystery is attached to their love that, on Baldwins return to the Frank host after killing and despoiling of his armour a Saxon chief, he not only tells his adventure publicly to the Emperor, but the latter promises in a twelvemonth to have him crowned king of the country and to give him Sebile for wife, forbidding him, however, to cross the river any more a command which Baldwin hears without meaning to obey.
If in heaven and on earth Mahomet has no power, even to pray Him who made Lazarus, I pray and request Him to have mercy on thee. The dead man is then placed in a great marble tomb; Sebile is christened, marries her lover, and is crowned with him as Queen of Saxony, Helissend being in like manner given to Berard. It is now that the truly tragical part of the poem commences.
Fair Helissend, the daughter of the murdered Milo of Cologne, is her captive at once and her favourite, and when the French host takes up its position before the Rune, names and points out young Baldwin to her.
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