"What aileth thee to whoop and wail? Who is it?" But Bull
turned about and shook his head at him, and said: "It is a man
of my kindred, even he that was leading away thy she-friend;
and belike she it was that slew him, or why is she not here:
Ochone! ahoo! ahoo!" Therewith fire ran through Ralph's heart,
and he bethought him of that other murder in the wilderness,
and he fell to wringing his hands, and cried out: "Ah, and where
is she, where is she? Is she also taken away from me for ever?
O me unhappy!"

And he drew his sword therewith, and ran about amongst the rocks
and the bushes seeking her body.

And therewith came up Clement, and others of the company, and wondered
to see Bull kneeling down by the corpse, and to hear him crying out
and wailing, and Ralph running about like one mad, and crying out now:
"Oh! that I might find her! Mayhappen she is alive yet, and anigh
here in some cleft of the rocks in this miserable wilderness. O my love
that hast lain in mine arms, wouldst thou not have me find her alive?
But if she be dead, then will I slay myself, for as young as I am,
that I may find thee and her out of the world, since from the world
both ye are gone."

Then Clement went up to Ralph, and would have a true tale out of him,
and asked him what was amiss; but Ralph stared wild at him and answered not.
But Bull cried out from where he knelt: "He is seeking the woman, and I would
that he could find her; for then would I slay her on the howe of my kinsman:
for she hath slain him; she hath slain him."

That word heard Ralph, and he ran at Bull with uplifted sword to slay him;