The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the MoonGodwin, Francis
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The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon
Godwin, Francis
Moon -- Fiction; Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800
I found him sitting in a magnificent Chair of State, with his Wife or
Queen on one Hand, and his Eldest Son on the other, one attended by a
Troop of Ladies, and the other of young Men, and all along the Side of
the Room stood a great Number of handsome Personages, whereof scarce
one was lower of Stature than _Pylonas_, whose Age they report is now
one and twenty thousand Moons. At my Entrance I fell on my Knees, and
taking out my Jewels, I presented to the King seven Stones of several
Sorts, a Diamond, a Ruby, an Emerald, a Saphire, a Topaz and an Opal,
which he accepted with Joy and Admiration. Then I offered the Queen
and Prince some others, and designed to have bestowed divers more upon
his Attendants; but _Pylonas_ forbid them to accept any, supposing,
as I heard, they were all I had, which he would have me reserve for
_Irdonozur_ his Sovereign: He then embraced me with much Endearedness,
and enquired divers Things by Signs, which I answered in the same
manner to the best of my Skill; which not contenting him, he delivered
me to the Guard of 100 of his Giants as I may well call them, strictly
charging them, that I should want nothing fit for me; that they should
suffer none of the _Dwarf Lunars_, or _little Moon Men_, to come near
me. That I should be instructed in their Language, and lastly, that
they should by no Means impart to me the Knowledge of several Things by
him specified, what they were I could never understand. It may be you
long to know what _Pylonas_ enquired of me: Why, what should it be but,
whence I came, how I arrived there what was my Name and Business, with
the like; to all which I answered as near the Truth as possible.
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