This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... and hushing the song of birds. Geraint, who had wedded Enid, daughter of old Earl Yniol, brought his wife to court, and there rejoiced to see the common love between Enid and the Queen. But when a rumor rose about the Queen, Touching her guilty love for Lancelot, Tho' yet there lived no proof, nor yet ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... and hushing the song of birds. Geraint, who had wedded Enid, daughter of old Earl Yniol, brought his wife to court, and there rejoiced to see the common love between Enid and the Queen. But when a rumor rose about the Queen, Touching her guilty love for Lancelot, Tho' yet there lived no proof, nor yet was heard The world's loud whisper breaking into storm, not less Geraint believed it; and there fell A horror on him, lest his gentle wife, Through that great tenderness for Guinevere, Had suffered or should suffer any taint In nature. It was Lancelot who had gone to Leodogran's court to escort Guinevere to King Arthur. Though the betrothed of the King, her fancy was snared by "the warmth and color" she found in Arthur's chief knight. "That pure severity of perfect light" in the spiritual man she imagined too high for her, and so suffered herself to descend to the lesser man. It was the rumor of this guilty love that led Geraint to withdraw from court and take Enid with him to his own land. There he sinks into uxorious idleness, forgetful of his promise to the King to cleanse his marches of bandit earls and caitiff knights. I Enid reproaches herself as the cause of her husband's idleness, now become the common talk of his people. Waking from sleep one morning, Geraint overhears her, in the poignancy of her self-upbraiding, accusing herself: O me, I fear that I am no true wife! His fancy, haunted by the rumor of the Queen's guilt, flashes into unknightly suspicion of his wife's faithfulness. Seized by the rough passion of the moment, he rushes off into the wilderness on a bootless quest, compelling Enid to accompany him appareled in her "worst and meanest dress," in which he had wooed her in the midst of broken...
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