Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances: To which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction on the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and EnglandHenry G. Bohn, 1848 - 600 páginas |
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Página 481 - And with it clad his wife. His scarlet mantle then shore he ; Therein he closed his children three That naked before him stood. " He then proposed to his wife, that as an expiation of their sins, they should instantly undertake a pilgrimage to Jerusalem ; and, cutting with his knife a sign of the cross on his shoulder, set off with the four companions of his misery, resolved to beg his bread till he should arrive at the holy sepulchre. " After passing through
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Página 481 - seven lands," supported by the scanty alms of the charitable, they arrived at length at a forest where they wandered during three days without meeting a single habitation. Their food was reduced to the few berries which they were able to collect; and the children, unaccustomed to such hard fare, began to sink under the accumulated difficulties of their journey. In this situation they were stopped by a wide and rapid though shallow river. Sir Isumbras, taking his eldest son in his arms, carried him...