Amadis of Gaul, Volume 2J. R. Smith, 1872 |
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adventure Agrayes Amadis of Gaul Angriote of Estravaus answered Arcalaus Ardan Canileo arms asked bade battle beholding Beltenebros beseech Boiling Lake Brian of Monjaste Briolania Brisena brother castle chamber child Corian court cousin cried daughter death Dinarda Don Brian Don Bruneo Don Florestan Don Galaor Don Galvanes Don Grumedan Don Quadragante emperor Endriago enemies Enil fair father fear fell Firm Island Gandales Gandalin Gandandel and Brocadan Garadan Gaul Gavarte gave giant Grasinda greatly Green Sword Knight Guilan hand hath head heard heart helmet honour horse King Aravigo King Arban King Cildadan King Lisuarte King Perion king's kissed knew lady lance land letter of credence lioness looked Mabilia Madasima Master Helisabad Miraflores mountain nephew never Norandel Oriana peril queen quoth Amadis replied rode Sarquiles sent shield slain squire succour tell thee thereat things thought told took Urganda wounded
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Page 164 - Knights ! leave them to me that my spear may enjoy their blood. O how God takes vengeance upon the unjust ! and how is he dissatisfied with those who follow pride ! remember Reader that Nimrod who built the Tower of Babel, and many others, whom I will not now mention that I may not run into prolixity, so was it with Madarque in this battle. Amadis who heard him feared greatly seeing how monstrous he was, and commending himself to God, he said, now Oriana Lady mine, it is time to be succoured by you...
Page 16 - Fin roseta, no me meta En tal cuita vuestro amor. Sin ventura, yo en locura Me metí; En vos amar es locura Que me dura, Sin me poder apartar. ¡Oh, hermosura sin par, Que me da pena y dulzor!
Page 262 - Thus they , arrived at the palace, and there was he lodged in a rich chamber, such as became the dwelling of such a Lady, and was disarmed, and his hands and face washed from the dust, and they gave him a rosecoloured mantle. When Grasinda saw him thus attired she thought him more beautiful than she had believed mortal man could be, and she sent for a master to heal his wounds, the best and skilfullest y
Page 199 - Andandona the giantess of the Dolorous Isle ; and if I have not fulfilled my desire now, there will come a time wherein I shall be avenged. He was about to follow her on Gandalin's horse, but seeing she was a woman, he said to Gandalin, Mount ! and if you can cut off the head of that devil it will be a good thing. Gandalin went to horse directly and after her full speed ; but when Amadis saw Durin he embraced him with great pleasure, weening that he brought him news of his lady. Durin then gave him...
Page 269 - ... they cover it down to the feet, not of feathers but of a shaggy leather, black as pitch and shining, and so hard that they resist all arms, and with these wings the monster covers itself as with a shield, and from under them come its arms which are as strong as lion's paws, all covered with smaller scales, and its hands are like...
Page 96 - Quadragante then blew the blast, and the two knights ran full speed, and encountered lance against shield so fiercely that the lances shivered, and they hurtled with such force that the horse of Ardan Canileo fell and broke his neck and died, and the horse of Amadis broke his shoulder and could not rise. Amadis presently arose, though with some difficulty, for a truncheon of the lance was sticking in his shield, and through the lappets of his armour, though it had not reached the flesh ; he plucked...
Page 304 - Lasindo ! he replied, welcome ! and he raised him up,— your master is doing well: but tell us wherefore you carry those heads ? Sir, he said, take me to Don Bruneo, for to him must I relate it. Then went they to the tent which Grasinda had sent for Bruneo, and 'the squire knelt and said, Sir, you see here the heads of those knights who did you such great wrong ; your true friend Angriote of Estravaus sends them, for he knew their treason, and fought with them both and slew them, and he will be...
Page 124 - The third was called the Whirling Palace, for three times in the day and as often in the night it •whirled round, so that they who were in it thought it would dash to pieces ; and the fourth was that of the Bull, because every day a wild Bull issued out of an old covered way, and ran among the people therein as though he would kill them, and when they fled from him he ran against the iron door of a tower and burst it open and went in, and presently he came out again being quite tame, and ridden...
Page 106 - ... king could be moved against one, who sleeping and waking had no thought of any thing but his service. After some days, when the three knights were healed of their wounds, they rode out one morning being richly apparelled, and after hearing mass went to the palace, where they were right welcomed by all except by the king, who neither looked at them nor received them as he was wont. Amadis did not conceive that this proceeded from any ill will, but that traitor Gandandel came up to him, and embracing...
Page 29 - Beltenebros then descended the sloping ground to meet them. He looked toward Miraflores as he went, and said, O Oriana, my Lady, never did I attempt adventure confiding in my own courage, but in you : my gentle Lady, assist me now, in this great need ! He felt his full strength now, and all fear was gone, and he cried out to the Dwarfs to stop. When the Giant heard him, he came towards him with such rage that smoke came through the vizor of his helmet, and he shook his boar-spear with such force...