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Yea, with public cry and sound of trumpet he bade all who would, come to behold the stripling carry his fair daughter to the pinnacle of the mountain. And from every region round about...

Doubt not that she will dis¬cover some cunning simple, that will strengthen your body, as well as comfort your heart. Then return to this realm with your potion, and ask me at my father`s...

When this news was noised about the country, many came upon the quest. But strive as they would they might not enforce themselves more than they were able. However mighty they were of body,...

Marie De France (About 1150—1200)All that is positively known of the author of this Lay is that she wrote in Norman French, that her name was Marie, and that she was “of France.” It...

Pharaoh opened wide his great eyes of glass in astonishment at my witty request.“What country do you come from? and what is your age?”“I am a Frenchman; and I am twenty-seven years old, venerable...

The Princess Hermonthis still held my hand, and graciously saluted the mummies of her acquaintance.My eyes became accustomed to the dim twilight, and objects became discernible.I beheld the kings of the subterranean races seated...

I thought this proposition natural enough. I arrayed myself in a dressing-gown of large-flowered pattern, which lent me a very Pharao¬nic aspect; hurriedly put on a pair of Turkish slippers, and informed the Princess...

“Well, my dear little foot, you always flee from me; yet I always took good care of you. I bathed you with perfumed water in a bowl of alabaster; I smoothed your heel with...

Her arms, slender and spindle-shaped, like those of very young girls, were encircled by a peculiar kind of metal bands and bracelets of glass beads; her hair was all twisted into little cords; and...

I peered through my room with a feeling of expectation which I saw nothing to justify: every article of furniture was in its proper place; the lamp, softly shaded by its globe of ground...