Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
King Lisuarte thought himself well advised by this speech, and bade
Don Guilan prepare to go to the Emperor, for for such an Embassy such
an Embassador was meet. Don Guilan answered, in this Sir, and in far
more than this I am ready to do you service, and God grant it may be to
the advancement of your honour; let therefore the dispatches be made
ready, that you may be obeyed without delay. There needs nothing more
than your letters of credence, said the King. Tell the Emperor that in
compliance with his demand, I gave my daughter to his Embassadors to
be his wife, and tell him what hath befallen her, and that the Knights
have sent to me preferring certain terms, which I, knowing the insult
concerned him more than me, would not accept. And say to him that what
will satisfy me is that we should surround the place where they detain
my daughter and make all the world know that we like great princes as
we are have punished these thieves and robbers for the insult and
injury which they have offered us. Tell him then your own opinion and
say that wrongs of this nature grow worse, the longer the remedy is
delay'd. Don Guilan then received his credentials and went on board.
The King then called for Brandoyuas and bade him go to the Island of
Mongaza and summon Don Galvanes with all his people, and then pass
over with the like bidding to King Cildadan of Ireland; and he sent
Filispinel to Gasquilan King of Sweden, to tell him in what state he
was, he being a Knight who delighted in all occasions wherein he could
show his great hardihood and prowess. In like manner he sent to all his
other friends and vassals, and ordered all his people to make ready,
and set about preparing arms and horses, to have the greatest force of
horsemen that he could raise.
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