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872 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
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Christina Of Pisa.
offered to take back with him Christina _' s _young son , then aged thirteenand to educate him with his own sons . The arrangement
, was made : but two years afterward Salisbury ' s head was cut off at Cirencester , and his young protege would have been left without a
patron , but that Henry himself took him under his care , and benignly sent to invite Christina to his court . An accomplished
French scholar himself , the king had read her poems , and was doubtless not insensible to the lustre his court would derive from
the presence of so accomplished an authoress . Besides , there was magnanimity in showing favor to the friends of Salisbury . Two
kings-at-arms were accordingly dispatched with regal courtesy , to convey his invitationtogether with the offer of an ample maintenance
, in England if Christina would consent . But her sympathies were witk Kichard and with Salisbury . She disliked and distrusted
the usurper : accordingly she temporised and manoeuvred , and at last succeeded In getting her son back again , without fulfilling the
condition—that of herself going to England—under which he was restored to her , She afterwards placed him in the service of the
Duke of Orleans , in a poetical address to whom , she mentions in a touching manner— Ci Le comte tres louable
Du De mals Salisbury pays , cr _qtii Ang mourut leterre a ; , detresse ou muable Y sont la gent . "
Her verses in praise of chivalry have a spirit and point , which by no means superabound in the poetry of her time :
_< c Each gentle squire-at-arms attend my rede , In " Who fain a would land th win fortune of knightl thou y fame must the try meed .
Be many just and courteous y to thine enemy ; , Pl Trust y not Grod in fig in ht all , : withdraw in speech not be scant from the and foe slow , .
Prepare Let never th c ' oward assault fear with assail , cunning thheart and with art , In chivalry ' s best love thmind y ;
y assay , Be Love brave well thy doci prince le : ; ro thry mise captain not in ' s v wor ain d obey . So shalt thou , praise of p knightly worth attain ; .
u Search By y frequent sage out advice the travel direct seek of th forei th y y course mind potentates in to war store , ,
The plans and purpose ways of all gn stranger states , ; O Converse ppose not with reason men ' s of voice wor with th : their babblings friendshi vain p , gain ,
The Speak merits ill of of no the man valiant living and , ever the prize wise . Make For gain friends of honor of good spare men not : never strife nor spurn stour the ; poor ;
So In Be shalt all liberal thy _thoxi of speech th praise y wealth be of tru kni , e not and ghtly bent just worth on and gain p _attaint lain , ,
872 Biographical Notices.
872 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/12/
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