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50 MEDIAEVAL TRAITS.
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Wliat the Dragon said is not reported , but it may be assumed that he used expressions unmentionable to ears polite , as nothing
but bad language could have provoked a gentlemanly knight into lieved he calling destroye his his mind d opponent the by animal giving a "f and _yers the th I fvnde > en ragon went , " this i . on e . fierce to Rowland _Hode fiend s rej for . oicing Having his , Oliver where re- ,
, we " mayntayned It regret is gratif to y say " ing by he to force was find killed among of arms himself so , that many conversions by instances the Saracens lace of from This the . . heatheni faith certainl being sm
s could eldom , and happened actuall without y did , occasionall an opportune y take miracle p or . two just at the y very miracle moment s were then when almost required as common . But this as Dragons made little or Geaunts diiference . In , the as
_aboiit " Kyng by of the Tars interest " we read a heathen of a beautiful gentleman conversion takes in the being shape broug of his ht
son and heir . The convertee was no less a personage than the Soudan of Damas , which some suppose , with plausibility , to mean
Damascus . Having heard that his near neighbour the Kyng of Tars ( possibly Tarsus ) had , in common with about fifty other kings
fallen of the very of period Tars much , the to in most love with beautiful for her her b hand daug y deput hter accor y , in he ding the sent . world to messengers custom , and . having to That the
crowned Kyng head behaved propose with urbanity , called , the Soudan a " devel , _" and sent back a polite refusal to his request . When the Soudan
was apprised of his answer he kicked the table over , " lokede as a wylde lyon , " and then proceeded to knock down everybody lie could
reach . i ( Al that he Mtt lie smot doun rilit B Erl othe and sergaun eke baronn t and . knih " t ,
When he had recovered from this momentary ebullition of temper , which onllasted one day and one night , he made preparations to
invade the y territory of the Kyng of Tars . He encountered that potentate on the third of May , ( year unknown , ) and inflicted on him a
severe defeat , killing three thousand of his knights . A good idea of the number of soldiers in the Soudan's host may be formed from
the factthat when he was in the meMe struck off his horse , thirty thousand , men ran to help him on again . When the " cristens " had
retreated into Tars , the king's daughter , unlike other heroines of romance , became nervous about the number of men who had
been " slawen and morthred " in her defence , and proposed to her parents offer herself that rather to the than Soudan that in more the capacit blood should of " be wy shed f . " , To she this should the
the king intimation and queen of gave their an change unwilling of sentiment assent . y When towards the him infidel , he received became
quite hilarious , and absolutely went so far as to promise that he would not kill any more _peojole .
" No mo folk mil I now spille , _"
50 Mediaeval Traits.
50 _MEDIAEVAL TRAITS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/50/
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