An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.
But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales.
For every wound, the ointment of time.
If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet...
It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf’s class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and br...
Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials.
May I offer you some advice?I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start, Richard said with a tight smile. But I'll take the advice, too.
Richard grinned, very pleased with himself for having found a way to honor his mother, thwart his father, and serve God, while having a grand adventure at the same time.
Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head?
The day that he accused a reigning King of murder was the day he signed his own death warrant, and he knew it.
The scene in the great hall was a raucous one, a cheerful mélange of knights, minstrels, servants, disreputable-looking women, and dogs, who were dicing, performing bawdy songs, responding to cries fo...
What shall we drink to, Ned? To England?I've a better thought than that. It is not precisely the season for it, with Epiphany still four days hence, and I daresay our lady mother would never forgive m...
Yesterday I heard some of the castle servants talking about a funeral for one of the stable lads. He went skating last week on the pond in the village, but the ice was not thick enough and he drowned....
You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.
You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not be accountable only to God. No mortal man ought to be entrusted with powe...
For each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.
If a man is a fool to wed for love, he must be utterly daft to wed for lust. No one with sense would expect a candle to burn forever, so why should a flame kindled in bed?
Just ridden
When a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging.
For he of all men knew how dangerously stubborn Henry Fitz Empress could be.There were faint bloodstains upon the tiles in Canterbury Cathedral testifying to that.
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