Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
Amadis then made answer, I trust in God, Sirs, that what ye thus
determine is for his service, and will have his blessing; I will
therefore thus allot the conquests. You Don Quadragante, who are son
and brother to a King, and have no lands equal to your birth and
deserts, shall have the Lordship of Sansuena; and you, my good Sir,
Don Bruneo of Bonamar, shall have the Kingdom of King Aravigo with
my sister Melicia, and the Lands of the Marquis your father may then
devolve to Branfil. Don Florestan, my brother, shall have the Queen
whom he desires, and besides her Island of Sardinia, the Emperor
will, at my request, give you the Lordship of Calabria, which was
Salustanquidio's. You, Sirs, Agrayes and Grasandor, will content
yourselves for the present with those great Kingdoms which you will
inherit; and I with this little corner the Firm Island, till it shall
please God to give us more. At this they were all well pleased, and
because to relate all that passed with respect to their marriages with
these Ladies would be great prolixity, you shall only know that as
the Knights had said, so said they also. The Emperor granted to Don
Florestan what Amadis asked, and they were all espoused by the holy man
Nasciano, but their nuptials were to be celebrated on the same day with
those of Amadis and the Emperor.
_CHAPTER 40._
Amadis said to King Perion his father, Sir, it would be well that you
should send for my lady the Queen, and for Don Galaor my brother, for
whom I have reserved Queen Briolania, with whom he will be happy. King
Perion replied, I will write to the Queen, and do you send whom you
please with the letters: at that uprose Don Bruneo and said, I will
undertake this voyage with my brother Branfil, if it please you; but
then Angriote of Estravaus cried, you shall not go without me: then
said King Perion, I consent that Angriote and Branfil should go, but
not you Don Bruneo; for he would not be your friend who should separate
you from your mistress. Don Bruneo smiled and answered, Though this,
sir, is the greatest of all the favours I have received from you,
yet will I go to serve the Queen my lady; for from thence will come
satisfaction to all others. Be it so then, quoth the King; and would to
God my good friend that you may find your brother Don Galaor able to
travel. Sir, cried Ysanjo, he is well: there came some merchants here
from Gaul, on their way to Great Britain, being afraid of the war, and
I asked them for Don Galaor, they told me that he had left his bed, and
was able to go about, though still weak.
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