



Produced by David Widger






JAUFRY THE KNIGHT AND THE FAIR BRUNISSENDE

A TALE OF THE TIMES OF KING ARTHUR

By Mary Lafon

Translated From The French Version by Alfred Elwes.

Illustrated With Twenty Engravings By Gustave Dore

Addey And Co.

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

They reached the lofty rock, where, at the summit, they beheld the king
hanging thus helpless from the monster's horns..........Frontispiece.

"Knight," then cried Jaufry to the corpse, "it grieves me not to know
thy slayer, or whether thou wert wrong or whether right: thou now art
dead; but if I can, I even will learn why, and by whose hand".....035

"Knight," said Sir Jaufry, "thou dost press me sore"..............043

The wood and iron, for a cubit's length, pierced through the shoulder.
..................................................................053

"Good Mend," he then apostrophised the knight, "the passage now may be
considered safe"..................................................054

"Halt, knight," he cried; "I'll have a word with thee"............060

A fierce wind, in passing, swept away the last memorial of the magic
work..............................................................082

Knights and burghers, minstrels, jugglers from all countries, hither
trooping came.....................................................088

His troop returned, bearing him faint and bleeding................094

The wood was gloomy, intricate, and dense; and at the first cross-road
before him, he beheld, squatted beneath a pine, a hag, whose aspect
struck him with surprise..........................................100

"Heaven!" Sir Jaufry cried, "in thee I trust; what figure have we
here?"............................................................110

Back returned the sable knight, hissing and growling as the thunder
doth when tempests vex the air....................................112

Jaufry with Augier's daughter rode away...........................117

No wonder, then, if Jaufry were surprised to see her come thus lovely,
full of grace, and smiling as the queen of the sweet south........131

I leave you to surmise the games and joy which at the castle on that
day were seen.....................................................134

They sat them down in the great hall of the castle................136

He his efforts used to save her with the butt-end of his lance....140

Sir Jaufry found himself with two dames in a delicious land.......143

Then was the convent-church most richly decked, to which the king in
pomp conducted him with the fair Brunissende......................155

All the train which called Sir Melyan lord escorted back in triumph
to Montbran that happy pair.......................................157




TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The description given by one of the authors of _Jauvfry_ about the
origin of the romance, and the evidence afforded by the French adapter
concerning the Mss. wherein it is contained, make it unnecessary for me
to dwell upon these particulars.

The veneration in which King Arthur's name is held by all lovers of
the early romantic history of Britain will give the tale a strong
recommendation in such eyes; while the personages with which it deals
render the appearance of its characters in an English