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VESTERVIG.
Chap. XL.
England’s son, but now you shall die the hardest death
I can devise! ”
Kirsten sees it is all over with her. She begs for
mercy, and then, resigned to her fate, makes her will.
After other legacies, she bequeaths—
“ To Sofie my silver-bound knife;
For she has sworn away my young life.”
Then the king, in a passion, calls his small page.
“Bring me in the whips! Bring me one! bring me
two!—crescendo—eight! Bring me nine ! for my sister
shall surely die! ” All the maidens and matrons
grieve for her, except the wicked Sofie.
Valdemar now falls to. “ Oh! stand up, Sofie, and
entreat for me; for your brother has caused my
misfortune.” “ No! ” replies the queen: “ my virtuous
cheek would blush, were I to beg for such as you! ”
Valdemar lays about him with all his force, and the
floor is stained with blood. Little Kirsten begs, “ for
Christ’s sake, who died upon the cross,” to creep
under Queen Sofie’s skarlagen rød, but is repulsed.
“ Don’t touch it! ” she crie^, “ or I can never wear it
again.” Whack! whack! go the whips. At last, with
one cut out flies the heart of poor Kirsten. When Sir
Peter sees this, he faints dead upon the bench.
Valdemar now has exhausted his rage. “ Oh!
Sofie!” he exclaims, “this is all your doing. Alas!
my poor sister! Where shall we lay this red rose ? ”
“Lay her?” replies the queen, “ on Ribe bridge, to be
sure ; where I every day may gallop over her grave! ”
“That shall you not do!” answers the king; “we
will bear her here to Vestervig Kloster, and I will
give much gold with her to assoil my soul from this
great sin.”
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