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THE STORY OF QUEEN ISABEL. 309
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A And nd were gathered in the round ir own that lace name . and She memory knew them , there p
But tried to keep _tlie secret from herself , , And would not look upon them . "
In this frame of mind , little prophetic of future happiness , Queen Isabel comes over to her husband ' s country , where
To look on her great beauty u The peop and b le eli loved eved
And She must yet so be blest happy as , to being be Queen born , in of F Eng ranc land e , . "
Bitterer griefs , however , awaited her , for at the end of a year , King John returns to Pranceand wars with Hugh de Lusignan as
the supporter of young Prince , Arthur ; and by some untoward chance of combatDe Lusignan is taken prisoner , with twenty
gallant knights , whom , the abominable victor parades chained in tumbrilsto
_, That even King John Show had the won doubting a battle world once mail ,
A B shamed areheaded as , beaten in their stain ldiers 'd and are asham batter e 'd , Haggard , with wrathand hunerand disda , in
Each man of them look , 'd twice g as , much a king , A As face their soft captor them . for _Never she fear saw ' d the too Queen much
To see among the face of One , ; but evermore A dream of p allid heroes vex'd her soul . "
Isabel , however , though she had not dared to look , was compelled perforce to thinkand the idea of Hugh de Lusignan ,
miserable in his prison , , smites her with pain . She hints rather than her anxietyin the presence of a devoted page , who
straig expresses htway comprehending , that her heart is much wrapped up in these unfortunate twenty captive knights , contrives to send them
succour , and then delicately insinuates , u They thank your Grace .
F For or wounds daily benefits 6 and 'Tis weariness your . mercy and spares scanty their food lives ;
He Were counting slaying all them for before common . ' tenderness Of , natural pity , poured alike to on herself all :
Not She , owning owning that noug she ht but pitied pity all for one . " , This passinincident took lace in Franceand on the return of
the Court to Eng g land , the captives p were sent , to separate prisons , there to drag out their weary days , while .
Great darkness settledFirst " the On common the Queen air
_Groan'd with the death . of Arthur , . No man told
Silentl The news y , like before a breath her , but of pestilence it came to , her
The Story Of Queen Isabel. 309
THE STORY OF QUEEN _ISABEL . 309
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/21/
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