The University Studies Volume 11 (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. 1911 Excerpt: ...At the gate of the castle, as the queen entered, was a huge "Salvage man" armed with a club who dented entrance in the most imperious manner; but at the sight of the queen, he humbled himself, and paid his allegiance to her truth and beauty. pectedly, while unarmed, by Orgoglio, the giant Pride, and is captured and thrown into a dungeon. Ducssa now gladly becomes the highly honored mistress of Orgoglio, and is mounted on a huge, seven-headed serpent. Clearly the sudden capture of Calais, 1558, is here alluded to. Mary had left the citadel entirely in an unprovided condition, while she made war, to please her husband, against France. Francis, Duke of Guise, the embodiment of pride and arrogance, captured the undefended place, and England's cup of humiliation/was full. Ducssa, I think, has suddenly shifted her political role, and is now Mary, Queen of Scots,10 the young Queen of France, whom the Guise and Spanish party would advance to the crown of England. Such was the condition of affairs when Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558. Una has left Satyranc and Sans Loy fighting, and meets her dwarf who tells her that her natural protector is in the power of Orgoglio. A champion appears in the person of Arthur, Leicester, and the task of freeing England from foreign domination begun. Always Leicester was to the popular mind, at least, identified with the party that opposed the Spanish and French influence. In 1586 he led the English expedition against Spain in Flanders. He was the popular English hero. Arthur, with the help of his magic shield, kills Orgoglio, although Ducssa had nearly over-powered his Squire with her poison. The allegory is, of course, the reuniting of England and True Religion, or the accession of Elizabeth, owing, according to Spen...