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Fair Rosamond; Or the Days of King Henry Ii.
Fair Rosamond Or the Days of King Henry Ii Author:Thomas Miller General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Up goeth the herne into the sunnie skie, Up goes the hawke, and upward manie au eye ; To watche the atoop and mount, and see them flie. The quarry tries to soar above his peer, The falconer whoops, his speckled hawke to cheer, -- Mo bush or brake above to shelter there. Johling'f Oay Ger-falcm. A Sweet spring morning with its primrose- coloured sky broke softly over the massy turrets of the old castle, and though its principal inmates still slept, the drowsy warders dragged their weary forms along the high-piled battlements, and by many a gape, and stretching of the arms, told how welcome would be a relieve- guard, sunrise, and sleep. A thousand birds in the adjacent coverts had burst forth into song at the first glimmering of day, and the dusky rooks went sailing and cawing over the half- lighted fields in quest of food, awaking by theirloud uproar, the recumbent sheep that dotted the various pastures. As the daylight spread, the figures of a serf or two might be distinguished issuing from the rude huts at the foot of the castle, and wending away to their various occupations over field and woodland. At length the sun arose and " firing the proud tops of the eastern pines," glanced "goldenly" upon the arms and armour of the soldiers as they moved wearily along battlement and turret: hill and tree and stream caught the bursting lustre of his beams, and stood out before his glory, as if they had become instinct with life, and were suddenly awakened by his presence. Before the outer barrier of the castle, three men were already in waiting, and from the anxious glances which they cas...« less