Chap-books of the eighteenth century . f Thrace, wherehe heard that the Emperor of Almains fair daughter Blanch,was to be made a prize for him that won her in the field, uponwhich account the worthies of the world assembled to try theirfortunes—The golden trumpets sounded with great joy andtriumph, and the stately pampered steeds prance over theground, and each He there thought himself a Caesar, that nonecould equal;—Kings and Princes being there to behold whoshould be the conqueror, everyone thinking that fair Blanchshould be his. After desperate charging with horse and man, much bloodwas she
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . f Thrace, wherehe heard that the Emperor of Almains fair daughter Blanch,was to be made a prize for him that won her in the field, uponwhich account the worthies of the world assembled to try theirfortunes—The golden trumpets sounded with great joy andtriumph, and the stately pampered steeds prance over theground, and each He there thought himself a Caesar, that nonecould equal;—Kings and Princes being there to behold whoshould be the conqueror, everyone thinking that fair Blanchshould be his. After desperate charging with horse and man, much bloodwas shed, and Princes no more valued than common persons;but our noble Guy appearing laid about him like a lion, amongthe princes \ here lay one headless, another without a leg or anarm, and there a horse. Guy, still like Hercules, chargeddesperately and killed a German Prince and his horse underhim. Duke Otto vowing revenge upon our English Champion,gave Guy a fresh assault, but his courage soon cooled. Then Gtiy\ Earl of Warwick. a 145. Duke Poyner would engage our favourite knight; but with aslittle success as the rest, so that no man could encounter Guyany more; by which valor he won the Lady in the field as aprize, being thus approved Conqueror. The Emperor being himself a sjicctator, he sent a messengerfor our English Knight — Guy immediately came into theEmperors presence, and made his obeysance, when the Em-peror as a token of his affection, gave him his hand to kiss andwithal resigned him his daughter, the falcon and the hound—
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