The lay of the purple falcon; a metrical romance [by R. Curzon]. |
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Page xiii - Anno 1670. Not far from Cirencester was an apparition. Being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad, returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume, and most melodious twang.
Page x - ... he was thus slayn, he hewe hym in peces and salted hym in the barell, and cut his heed in iiij. peces as his master bad hym, and than put the herte in the myddell and salted them wele : and when all this was done, he hynge the lampe ryght ouer the barell, that it myght at all tymes droppe in therto.
Page viii - Then he thought in his mind how he might marry her " — apparently forgetting that he 'was already married — " and thought in his mind to found in the midst of the sea a fair town with great lands belonging to it ; and so he did by his cunning, and called it Naples : and the foundation of it was of eggs. And in that town of Naples he made a tower with four...
Page viii - Naples he made a tower with four corner a and on the top he set an apple upon an iron yard, and no man could pull away that apple without he brake it ; and through that iron set he a bottle, and on that bottle set he an egg ; and he hanged the apple by the stalk upon a chain, and so hangeth it still. And when the egg stirreth, so should the town of Naples quake ; and when the egg brake, then should the town sink. When he had made an end, he let call it Naples.
Page xi - ... I cannot tell whither, for he would not let me go with him.' Then was the emperor angry with that answer, and said, ' Thou liest, false thief that thou art ; but without thou show me shortly where he is, I shall put thee to death.' With those words was the man abashed, and said, ' Worshipful lord, seven days ago I went with him without the town to the castle, and there he went in, and there I left him, for he would not let me in with him.' Then said the emperor, ' Go with me to the same castle...
Page xi - Emperor and all his folke, a naked childe, three time running about the barrel, saying the words, cursed be the time that ye came ever here...
Page ix - ... and ye shall nine days long once in the day fill the lamp, and fail not. And when this is all done, then shall I be renewed and made young again, and live long time and many winters more, if that it fortune me not to be taken off above and die." And when the man heard his master Virgilius speak thus, he was sore abashed, and said: "That will I never while I live, for in no manner will I slay you.
Page ix - ... men stand with iron flails in their hands, sore smiting. Then said Virgilius to his man ; enter you first, into the castle...
Page ix - ... castle. And when they were both in, Virgilius turned the vices again, and so went the iron flails as they did afore. Then said Virgilius, ' My dear beloved friend, and he that I above all men trust, and know most of my secrets ;' and then let he the man into the cellar, where he had made a fair lamp at all seasons burning. And then said Virgilius to the man, ' See you the barrel that standeth here...
Page xi - Make appease these flails that we may come in.' Then answered the man, 'I know not the way.' Then said the emperor, ' Then shalt thou die.' And then, through the fear of death, he turned the vices and made the flails stand still ; and then the emperor entered into the castle with all his folk, and sought all about in every corner after Virgilius, and at the last they sought so long that they came into the cellar where they saw the lamp hang over the barrel, where Virgilius lay indeed. Then asked...