MARKO KRALJEVIĆ AND BEG KOSTADIN
Two pobratims rode their way together,
Beg Kostadin and Kraljević Marko.
And Beg Kostadin said to Marko:
"Pobratim, Kraljević Marko,
An thou comest to me in autumn.
In autumn on Saint Demetrius' day.
On the day of my patron saint[1]
Thou shalt see brave festival,
And have brave welcome and according;
And lordly meats in goodly array." 10
Quoth Kraljević Marko:
"Boast not thyself. Beg, of thy hospitality,
Once when I sought my brother Andrea,
It fortuned I was in thy house,
In autumn, on Saint Demetrius' day.
On the day of thy patron saint.
I saw thy hospitality,
And I saw three unworthy deeds."
Quoth the Beg Kostadin:
"Pobratim, Kraljević Marko; 20
Of which unworthy deeds dost thou speak?"
Answered to him Kraljević Marko:
"This was the first unworthy deed, brother:
There came to thee two poor lads,
They asked of thee white bread to eat
And red wine to drink;
But thou saidst to the two needy ones—
"Get ye gone, vile outcasts.
Sully not my wine before these signors.'—
Sore grieved was I, Beg, 30
I was sore grieved for the two needy ones.
I took them both,
- ↑ Крсно нме: another name for the Slava. See Appendix, p. 184.
