Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... A CHAPTER FROM THE PALMERIN OF ESTGLAmV WITH AN INTERPRETATION FOLLOWING. [Note 1.] The history relates that the Knight oi the Savage Man, weary of searching the empire over from one end to the other, in which he expended much time, and being almost desperate of succeeding in his quest, had now his spirits so dead, and his heart so sorrowful, that it seemed any little danger would have been too much for him; and in this state of despair, wandering about without hope, he uttered such amorous complaints as were unlike his former condition, and one whose will had for so great a part of his life been so unrestrained. But as Fortune was now weary of tormenting him, she let him at last discover the place where his 1 Chapter 154, Southey's Abridgment, 1807. lady was, that this might the better enable him to endure what he had yet to undergo. [2.] One evening, as he was travelling in that part of the empire where it bordered upon the kingdom of Macedonia, at the foot of a lofty and craggy sierra, the sun was overclouded, and the heavens overcast with such darkness as if it were night; and so heavy a rain began to- pour down, that he expected to be lost: for he was far from any inhabited place, and neither he nor his squire knew the country, so that they were without any remedy. [3.] Presently they heard the cries of a woman, whose voice seemed to come through the thickness of the air, and groans with them, as of one who was Buffering some wrong, or which the desperate weather and the place, far from all shelter, occasioned her to utter. Now, though he had need of all his strength to save himself, yet was he so accustomed never to be near danger without hastening toward it, especially when a woman cried for succor, that, forgetful of..."
