Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
Then said Lisuarte, Dame, you have put us in great fear
with your fires, if it please you tell me who you are, though I believe
with little difficulty we can divine. Sir, quoth she, in vain should he
labour who strove to strike fear into your great heart, and into these
Knights in whom no fear is; these fires I bring to protect me and my
Damsels: and if you think I am Urganda the Unknown, you think aright;
I come to you as the best King in the world, and to behold the Queen,
who for virtue and goodness hath no peer. Then said she to Amadis, Sir,
draw nearer, and I will tell you of your brother Galaor to save you
and your friends the labour of searching him; for though all in the
world were to seek him it would be but labour lost: he is healed of his
wounds, and leads a life of such pleasure as he never till now enjoyed.
Lady, quoth Amadis, I always thought that next to God the safety of Don
Galaor was in your hands, else would I rather have died than suffer him
to be carried from me as he was. You shall soon see him, quoth she. The
King then said, it is time that you should leave the galley and come
to my palace. Many thanks, she answered, but this night I will remain
here, to-morrow I will be at your command; then let Amadis and Agrayes,
and Don Bruneo of Bonamar, and Don Guilan the Pensive come for me, for
they are all lovers and of high heart, even as I am myself. Use your
own pleasure, replied Lisuarte, in this and every thing; then ordering
all the people to return into the town he took his leave, and appointed
twenty cross-bowmen to keep guard that none should go down to the
shore.
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