sleep, and in her waking, the knife fell out of her hand, and with that the looked by her, and found the Earl's daughter dead by her side, and all the bed besprinkled with blood, wherefore with an high voice the cried, and said, Alas! alas! and woe is me. My Lord's daughter is slain.
Then cried the Countess unto the Earl, with a piteous voice, and said, O my Lord, let this devilish woman be put to the fouleft death that can be thought, which hath thus - slain our only child.
Then when the Counters had thus said unto the Earl, he said to the Empress in this wife, The high God knoweth, that thou mischievous woman, haft stain my daughter with thine own hands, for I saw the bloody knife in thy hand, and therefore thou shalt die a foul death. Then said the Earl in this wife: O thou woman, were it not I dread God greatly, I should cleave thy body with my. sword in two parts, for I delivered thee from hanging, & now thou haft slain my daughter, nevertheless, from me thou shalt have no harm, therefore
