Una and the red cross knight, and other tales from Spenser's Faery Queene; . OF PRINCE ARTHUR & OF THE to be saddled and each set forth on his severaljourney. But before they parted company, Una desiredof the Prince that he should shew them his nameand lineage which were hidden from them, andthat they might further know of his adventures,and this he told them most willingly. THE TALE Fair Virgin, said the Prince, you ask athing that is beyond my power; for to say truthmy fathers name and the place of my birth arehidden from me; for no sooner was I born than Iwas taken from my mother and given
Una and the red cross knight, and other tales from Spenser's Faery Queene; . OF PRINCE ARTHUR & OF THE to be saddled and each set forth on his severaljourney. But before they parted company, Una desiredof the Prince that he should shew them his nameand lineage which were hidden from them, andthat they might further know of his adventures,and this he told them most willingly. THE TALE Fair Virgin, said the Prince, you ask athing that is beyond my power; for to say truthmy fathers name and the place of my birth arehidden from me; for no sooner was I born than Iwas taken from my mother and given to a FaeryKnight who taught me all that pertains to gentle-ness and knighthood. This Knight was old Timon whose dwellingis in a low valley by the river Dee; and thithercame Merlin, the great enchanter, whose charge itwas to overlook my growth and learning, andoftentimes I asked him of my birth, but he wouldmake no answer save that I was called Arthur andwas son and heir to a king whose name and stateI should know in due time. Then, when I had grown to mans estate, and. LIBRARY ADVENTURE OF SIR TREVISAN 149 learned the use of arms, it chanced on a day thatI ranged the forest on my courser, until beingweary with long riding, I lay down on the greengrass with my helmet for pillow. And soon Islept soundly. Then in my dreams it seemed that a RoyalMaiden more fair than any the sun ever lookedon yet came to me. Most goodly glee and lovely blandishment She to me made, and bad me love her dear;For dearly sure her love was to me bent, As when just time expired, should appear. But whether dreams delude or true it were,Was never heart so ravished with delight, Nor living man like words did ever hear,As she to me delivered all that night;And at her parting said, the Queen of Fairies hight. When I awoke and found her place devoid, And naught but pressed grass where she had lienI sorrowed all so much as erst I joyed, And washed all her place with watery eyen. From that day forth I l
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