The king looked round him, to left, to right,
And in sooth he beheld a fearsome sight;
For here lay folk whom men mourned as dead,
Who were hither brought when their lives were sped;
E’en as they passed so he saw them stand,
Headless, and limbless, on either hand …
Men and women on every side
Lay as they sleep at slumbertide,
Each in such fashion as he might see
Had been carried from earth to Faerie.
Anon, Sir Orfeo (translated by Jessie L. Weston)