Stories from the Faerie Queen, Told to the Children

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Edmund Spenser. Stories from the Faerie Queen, Told to the Children

ABOUT THE FAERIE QUEEN

I. UNA AND THE LION

II. ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

III. BRITOMART AND THE MAGIC MIRROR

IV. THE QUEST OF SIR GUYON

V. PASTORELLA

VI. CAMBELL AND TRIAMOND

VII. MARINELL, THE SEA-NYMPH’S SON

VIII. FLORIMELL AND THE WITCH

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Once upon a time, in a country not far from Fairyland, there lived a king and queen and their daughter, whose name was Una.

Una was one of the most beautiful princesses that ever were seen, and she was as good as she was beautiful.

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The two women were hiding in a dark corner, half-dead from fear. Una tried to comfort them, and asked them if she and her lion might shelter there for the night. When darkness came she lay down, very tired, to sleep, while her lion lay and watched at her feet.

In the middle of the night a knock came to the door. It was a wicked robber, who used to bring the things he stole and give them to those two bad women. The women were so afraid of the lion that they dared not come out of their hiding-place. So the thief, in a rage, burst the door open, and when he did this, the lion rushed at him and tore him in pieces.

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