This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... forester. Some while they thought he had taken some word unkindly, and had taken the pet: then they imagined some new love had withdrawn his fancy, or haply that he was sick, or detained by some great business of Gerismond's, or that he had made a reconcilement with his brother, and so returned to Bordeaux. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... forester. Some while they thought he had taken some word unkindly, and had taken the pet: then they imagined some new love had withdrawn his fancy, or haply that he was sick, or detained by some great business of Gerismond's, or that he had made a reconcilement with his brother, and so returned to Bordeaux. These conjectures did they cast in their heads, but specially Ganymede: who having love in heart proved restless, and half without patience, that Rosader wronged her with so long absence; for love measures every minute, and thinks hours to be days, and days to be months, till they feed their eyes with the sight of their desired object. Thus perplexed lived poor Ganymede: while on a day sitting with Aliena in a great dump, she cast up her eye, and saw where Rosader came pacing towards them with his forest bill on his neck. At that sight her colour changed, and she said to Aliena, "See, mistress, where our jolly forester comes." "And you are not a little glad thereof," quoth Aliena; "your nose bewrays what porridge you love, the wind cannot be tied within his quarter, the Sun shadowed with a veil, oil hidden in water, nor love kept out of a woman's looks: but no more of that, Lnpua est in fobula." As soon as Rosader was come within the reach of her tongue's end, Aliena began thus: "Why how now, gentle Forester, what wind hath kept you from hence 1 that being so newly married, you have no more care of your Rosalind, but to absent yourself so many days 1 are these the passions you painted out so in your sonnets and roundelays? I see well, hot love is soon cold, and that the fancy of men is like to a loose feather that wande.reth in the air with the blast of every wind." "You are deceived, mistress," quoth Rosader; "'twas a copy of unkindness that...
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Backstrip torn in parts. Loose binding in some parts. Brown spots on some pages. This book has soft covers. Ex-library. in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 150grams, ISBN:
