. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. t of jewels raon when iai'd some ity of the icesses her rds of half istress and of messire ' proceeded "At Mar- Insmau the iry mark ©f '0ven9al do- e count de isader Ray- ith. a strong I queens of ae count of 2d Guienne, Berengaria's g count so .e affections The attach- ms subsisted counts
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. t of jewels raon when iai'd some ity of the icesses her rds of half istress and of messire ' proceeded "At Mar- Insmau the iry mark ©f '0ven9al do- e count de isader Ray- ith. a strong I queens of ae count of 2d Guienne, Berengaria's g count so .e affections The attach- ms subsisted counts of sn Eleanora ; that sub- |f Thoulouse, gilts to her if srxiiig her dominions, o seems to to a life-long I fol. 447. Iter to the heroic Ithe emnity suh- BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE. 309 incarceration. The royal prisoner almost despaired of liberty when he wrote that pathetic passage in his well-known Pro- veu9al tenson, saying, " Now know I for a certainty that there exists for me neither friend nor parent; or, for the lack of gold and silver,! should not so long remain a ; He scarcely did justice to his affectionate mother, who, directly she learned his captivity, never ceased exerting herself for his release. Without giving any credence to the ballad story of king Richard and the lion's heart, wliich solely seems to have arisen from a metaphorical epithet of the troubadour Peyrols,^ and is not even alluded to by the most imaginative of con- temporary chroniclers, it really appears that Richard was ill- treated during his German captivity. Matthew Paris declares he was thrown into a dungeon from whence no other man ever escaped with life, and was loaded with irons; yet his countenance was ever serene, and his conversation pleasant and facetious with the crowds of armed guards, who were stationed at his dungeon-door day and night. It was a long time before Richard's friends could with any certainty make out his locality. He was utterly lost for some months. Blon
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