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Speak! astounded Hubert cannot;And if power to speak he had,All are daunted, all the householdSmitten to the heart, and sad.'Tis Sir Eustace; if it beLiving Man, it must be he!Thus Hubert thought in his dismay,And by a Postern-gate he slunk away.
Long, and long was he unheard of:To his Brother then he came,Made confession, ask'd forgiveness,Ask'd it by a Brother's name,And by all the saints in heaven;And of Eustace was forgiv'n:Then in a Convent went to hideHis melancholy head, and there he died
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