Prince Arthur Volume 1-2; An Allegorical Romance the Story from Spenser (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1779 Excerpt: ... "hasty hand from signing any compact "with him. Build not on your strength "to.overpower my widowed weakness, "for truth is strong, and shall sind friends, if need require, to support her cause: "so bids thee farewell. Fidessa." The king was greatly astonished at the contents of the letter, and fat, for some time, in profound silence; at last, with doubtful eyes, steadily sixed on his guest, he thus addressed him: "Redoubted "Knight, who hast ventured thy life and "honour for my fake, let not my grati tude sind any allay. What mean these "threats, the ebulitions of a womanish, "impatient mind? let nothing be con"cealed from me: what vows, what al"tars does she talk of? if thou hast plighted thy faith to any former love, "do not add to it a fresh crime, but di"vulge the occasion of these upbraidings, .l before it is too late." With an unembarrassed countenance, and great composure, sure signs of-innocence, the Red Cross Knight thus endeavoured to vindicate himself from these aspersions, and to banish that suspicion which sat on the brow of the monarch: t Be not concerned, my lord, till you are "informed who it is that accuses me of "so flagrant a breach of honour. Whilst "I journied towards thy kingdom, it was "my mishap to stray out of my way, as "I have already told thee: as I wandered, "I found, or rather was found by, this "false woman, called Fidessa. She was "then dressed in royal robes, and, by her "arts, would have deceived a more ex perienced Knight than myself. I ac knowledge that I fell into her snares, "and for some time made her the com"panion of my pleasures, till, being t betrayed by her into the hands of the "giant, I found, to my cost, that her love u love was far from real, and that the "beautiful form of Fidessa, concealed the "foul and u...