Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... This done, he remained for the winter in Burgundy, where he devastated the country, and took Langres, and all their cities. Even Ostun, which had so long deserved the love and favour of the Romans, surrendered to King Arthur, and finally he reduced the whole of Gaul to subjection, and with this ended his winter campaign. When summer was come, which he had greatly desired, in order to cross the mountains and enter Italy, and he had already transported his legions to the Alps, and nearly crossed them, news arrived from Britain that his nephew, Mordreth, whom he had appointed to take charge of his kingdom and his wife, had usurped the royal diadem of Britain by violence and detestable treason, and, inflamed with lawless passion, which had blinded his eyes to reason, had violated the rights of the marriage bed, and had forcibly contracted a matrimonial alliance with the Queen Guenever, wife of the said King Arthur. O detestable man, full of wickedness and treacherous tyranny, hast thou utterly stifled the voice of reason in thyself, that thou darest to usurp the royal insignia, and place the crown on thy head, during the life of thy natural lord and uncle, who so much loved and honoured thee, --yea, held thee too dear, thou inhuman traitor, in that he appointed thee guardian of what he most loved in this mortal world. O wretch! and if these considerations did not affect thee, at least thou oughtest to have been influenced by the divine law, which prohibits any violation of the marriage tie where there exists relationship of blood, and thou and the king are issue from one and the same parentage. But surely neither consanguinity, nor law, nor the fear of God, have influenced thee, for the art of the devil has bound thee in the chains of perfidy..
