Vulgar words in Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine (Page 1)
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As in The Taking of Orange, it never seems to occur to the poet that there can be any moral wrong in making love to a ÂSaracenÂs wife, or in promising her hand in her husbandÂs lifetime; and, strange to say, so benignant are these much-wronged paynim that Guiteclin is not represented as offering or threatening the slightest ill-treatment to his faithless queen, however wroth he may be against her lover; nor, indeed, as having even the sense to make her pitch her tent further from the bank.