CHAPTER VI.

Disguise of Achilles--Of Ulysses--Of Codrus--Fiction employed by Numa Pompilius--King Alfred disguised in the Swineherd’s Cottage--His Visit, as a Harper, to the Danish Camp--Richard Cœur de Lion takes the Garb of a Pilgrim--He is discovered and imprisoned--Disguises and Escape of Mary, Queen of Scots--Escape of Charles the Second, after the Battle of Worcester--Of Stanislaus from Dantzic--Of Prince Charles Edward from Scotland--Peter the Great takes the Dress of a Ship Carpenter--His Visit to England--Anecdote of his Conduct to a Dutch Skipper--Stratagem of the Princess Ulrica of Prussia--Pleasant Deception practised by Catherine the Second of Russia--Joan of Arc--Her early Life--Discovers the King when first introduced at Court--She compels the English to raise the Siege of Orleans--Joan leads the King to be crowned at Rheims--She is taken Prisoner--Base and barbarous Conduct of her Enemies--She is burned at Rouen--The Devil of Woodstock--Annoying Pranks played by it--Explanation of the Mystery--Fair Rosamond 86