Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... a day she espied king Urience how he lay in his bed sleeping, then she called unto her a damosel of her counsel and said, "Goe fetch me my lords sword, for I saw never better time to sley him then now." "O madam," said the damosell, "and if ye sley my lord, ye can never escape." "Care not thou," said Morgan le Fay, "for now I see my time in the which it is best to doe it, and therefore hie thee fast and fetch me the sword." Then the 1 Our.--Your. Caxton. 8 Leeches.--Physicians. Surgions is not found in Caxton's text; it was a more modern word. 3 To search.--To probe; to examine. damosel departed, and found sir Ewaine1 sleeping upon a bed in another chamber; so she went unto sir Ewaine and wakned him, and bad him "arise and waite upon my lady your mother, for she will sley the king your father sleeping in his bed, for I goe to fetch her his sword." "Well," saidsir Ewaine, " goe on your way and let me deale." Anon the damosell brought the sword unto Morgan with quaking hands, and shee lightly tooke the sword and drew it out, and went boldly to the beds side, and awaited how and where she might sley him best. And as she lift up the sword for to smite, sir Ewaine lept unto his mother and caught her by the hand, and said, "Ah! fiend, what wilt thou doe? and thou were not my mother, with this sword I would smite off thy head. Ah," said sir Ewaine, "men say that Merlin was begotten of a divell, but I may say an earthly divell bare me." "Oh, faire sonne Ewaine," said Morgan, "have mercy upon me, I was tempted with a divell, wherefore I crie thee mercy, I wil never more doe so, and save my worship and discover me not." "On this covenant,"...