Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
On the morrow we mounted our palfreys and returned to the Castle;
without delay Briolania went to the Arch of True Lovers and past
through the Forbidden Perrons like one who had never failed in her
love, and the image with the trumpet made so sweet a sound that we were
all astonished, and when she entered where the images were of Apolidon
and Grimanesa, it ceased with so sweet a finish as was marvellous to
hear. There beheld she those images as fair and fresh as life, and
being alone with them she thought herself in good company; and while
there she saw letters newly written in the Jasper, saying, this is the
name of Briolania, daughter to King Tagadan of Sobradisa, the third
Damsel that hath entered here. Then she felt a fear of being alone and
returned. The fifth morning she went to attempt the Forbidden Chamber;
she was in rich attire, and she wore nothing upon her beautiful head
except a gold clasp with jewels, and all who saw her said, that if
she did not enter the Chamber there was none in the world who could,
and that they should now see the end of all those enchantments. She
commended herself to God, and passed through the copper Perron, and
came up to the marble Perron and read the writing there, and proceeded
so far beyond that all surely thought the adventure was atchieved; but
when she was within three paces from the door three hands seized her
by those beautiful locks, and pitilessly cast her out of the Forbidden
ground as they had done all others, and she lay in such plight that we
could not soon recover her. Till now Oriana's heart had been misgiving
her, but now she looked at Mabilia and the Damsel of Denmark, and
they at her, being all well pleased; the next day pursued the Damsel,
Briolania departed for her own kingdom. So the Damsel then received her
bidding from Brisena and Oriana, and the other Ladies, and set out on
her return to her Mistress.
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