Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
when his wife was in travail. The Knight knowing the signs and planets, and looking on a book, read that the farmer’s daughter that was born that hour was to be his lady and bride. And how the cruel Knight got the child from her parents, and flung it into a river; but by good...
Soon after the Knight took this maiden away, And with her did ride till they came to the sea, Then looking upon her with anger and spite, He spoke to the virgin and made her ali...
4. PART I.In York fair city a farmer did dwell, Who was belov’d by his neighbours full well; He had a good wife who was virtuous and fair, And by her he had a child every year. In seven y...
5. PART II.The fisherman was one time at an inn, And several gentlemen drinking with him, The wife sent this girl to call her man home. But when she did into the drinking room come, The ge...
1. PART I.--Showing how a noble Knight was riding by a farmer’s house,when his wife was in travail. The Knight knowing the signs and planets, and looking on a book, read that the farmer’s daughter that was born that hour was to be his lady and bri...
2. PART II.--How the fisherman was at an inn with some gentlemen, thecruel Knight being in the same company, and seeing the young girl come in, he asked the fisherman if she was his own daughter, who told the story of his taking her up, &c. How t...
3. PART III.--How the Knight contrived her death a third time; but herlife was saved, by showing the Knight a ring that he flung in the sea; when the Knight saw it, found it in vain to strive against his fortune, so he married her, and made her hi...