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AGNES BEENAXJERIN. - 81
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XIV.—AGNES BEKKAUEBIK ( Continued. J
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Agnes It c , h th ance at d a , great so...
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Agnes Beenaxjerin. - 81
AGNES BEENAXJERIN . - 81
Xiv.—Agnes Bekkauebik ( Continued. J
XIV . —AGNES BEKKAUEBIK ( Continued . J
Agnes It C , H Th Ance At D A , Great So...
Agnes It ch th ance at d a , great sometime tournament after the was m hel arriag d at e _B- of egensburg Albrecht . The and
duke reso , lved to be present . It was the first occasion upon which he quitted his happy retirement ; and he went ,
accomwholl p the anied evil y happy b s y of his her in beau amb her tiful i husband wife position . ' , s Living love . , A entirel Li gnes ht y tongues in seclusion never had yet , been and felt
busy with her fair fame guous . In an age in g which gallants , and unnatural especially that -royal her ones connection , loved with much the par duke amours should , be it supposed was not
al to thou be g an h th illicit ere was one . but Few little believed real indi her gnation to be excited his wife b , y but the ,
idea that he lived with a fair leman his enemies at the court of Baiern-Munchen were not unwilling to wound the duke through
his appear love ance ; and with they , her in termined public . to take advantage of his first
Innocent and happy , Agnes joyfully accompanied her lord to the jousts at Regensburg _, believing fully that she went there as
his anoth w ife , tournamen even if not t , at recognized that one held as his at duchess Augsburg . , It was 1428 at , that they had first met and loved ; and the fond young wife
may have looked forward with delighted pride to the opportunity of of again warwomen seeing had her kni to g s ht chool the th victor eir hearts of the to lists " buckl . In . e those the ages spurs
whom upon the , best heel they " o loved f warr , forth ior , hus to b fam and e , and or lover to danger , and t . o send those The morninof the tournament arrived . It was in spring
and the sun shone g brightly , and the breeze blew merrily through , the listed . Tier over tier rose the seats for the hihborn
and the no space blefor statesmencourtiersand for ladies ; g thickly swarmed the expectant , le , royalt , lent to the assembly the
glitter of a crown ; and peop womanhood ; disp y layed its fairest diadem in the Queen of Beauty and of Love
. an Duk d time e Albrecht appeared , ' one in his of golden the most armour famou s kni dis g p lits layed of his his well land
known cognizance , . Looking up to . the , bench at which sat his his Angela squire , he . lode While through she was the looking barriers , on and he took felt sure his lance of victory from
and he longed eagerly for the trumpet blast which would loose , him his foe . As he sat thus his horsethe
marshal upon of the lists approached , and upon in the name eager of the most , hi excluded gh and from puissant the prince tournament , his master , wegen , declared seiner Gemeinsch Duke Albrecht qft mit
einer Dime , " because he came there companioned by a quean . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/9/
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