Through Portugal . od intent. The legend told is that QueenPhilippa one day surprised John the Great, whowas a gallant lover, kissing a maid of honour andoffering her a rose. The Plantagenet queen hada temper of her own, which John probably fearedmore than the Castilian charge up the slope ofAljubarrota, and the king in exculpation cried tohis wife, Por Bem ; as who should say, Honisoit qui maly pense. The reputation of John wassuch that his excuse passed from mouth to mouthderisively, the queens sycophantic maids repeat-ing it with such significant emphasis, and so fre-quently, that the king
Through Portugal . od intent. The legend told is that QueenPhilippa one day surprised John the Great, whowas a gallant lover, kissing a maid of honour andoffering her a rose. The Plantagenet queen hada temper of her own, which John probably fearedmore than the Castilian charge up the slope ofAljubarrota, and the king in exculpation cried tohis wife, Por Bem ; as who should say, Honisoit qui maly pense. The reputation of John wassuch that his excuse passed from mouth to mouthderisively, the queens sycophantic maids repeat-ing it with such significant emphasis, and so fre-quently, that the king to shame them adopted Por Bem as his motto, and had his receptionhall at Cintra painted with the chattering birdsrepeating it. Another fine Moorish hall is called the hall ofswans, of which the ceiling is painted with thosebirds, in memory of a pair of them kept in thepatio below, and given to King Manuel by hisbrother-in-law, Charles V., as a very great rarity. Another large apartment, with a conical roof, was 224. Manueijnk Windows in tiik ( 1alace, Cintra. CINTRA by King Manuel himself, who gavetc it the name of the hall of stags. Here theking collected the armorial achievements of allthe Portuguese nobility. Seventy-four stags areranged around the room, each one having de-pendent from its neck the scutcheon of a noblefamily—except one, that of Tavora, which thegreat minister Pombal, in the eighteenth century,ordered to be erased—whilst upon a frieze run-ning round the hall is the following verse :— Pois com esforgos e leaesServicios, foram ganhados,Com estes e outros taesDevem ser conservados. By prowess stout and loyal fameThese honours bright were gained ;By others like or eke the sameThey needs must be retained. The small and plain hall of audience or justice has at the end a seat of tiled brick upon which the Sovereigns sat, and here tradition says the Council met, summoned by the rash young King Sebastian in 1578, to sanction the crusading attack
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