Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
By this they had reached the island; the night was some way advanced,
but it was clear moonlight, the Damsel had two tents pitched beside
a little brook, and there they supped, and rested till the morning.
Galaor would fain have shared the Damsel's tent, but to that, albeit,
she thought him the fairest of all Knights and much delighted in his
conversation, she would not consent. In the morning they set forward,
and he asked his guide if she knew the Knight's name?—Neither man nor
woman in all this land know it, except his mistress. Then was Galaor
the more curious that one of such worth in arms should so conceal
himself. Presently they saw a castle on a height, surrounded for a
league on all sides by a rich plain. In that castle, quoth the Damsel,
is he whom you seek. Having advanced farther, they found a stone
pillar curiously wrought, and a horn upon it. Sound that horn, said
she, and you shall presently see the Knight. Galaor blew the horn, and
forthwith there came certain men from the castle, and pitched a tent
in the meadow before the gate, and then there issued out ten Dames and
Damsels, and in the midst of them one richly clad, who was the Lady of
the rest. Why does the Knight tarry? quoth Galaor, who saw all this.
The Damsel answered, he will not come till the Lady send for him. I
beseech you then, said he, go to her and request her to summon him, for
I have much to do elsewhere and cannot tarry. When the Lady heard this
errand, what! cried she, holds he our Knight so cheap that he already
thinks of doing ought elsewhere? he will depart sooner than he thinks,
and more to his cost. Then she turned to her man: go, call the strange
Knight. Anon he came from the castle, armed and afoot; his men led
his horse, and carried his shield and lance and helmet, and he went
straight to his mistress. You see a foolish Knight yonder, said she,
who thinks lightly to take his leave of you: I desire you would make
him know his foolishness! and then she embraced, and kissed him. All
this made Galaor the more angry.
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