The doors and windows are
disposed so as to afford the most agreeable prospects, and to throw a
soft yet lively light upon the eyes. Fresh currents of air too are
admitted, so as to renew every instant the delicious coolness of this
apartment.
(From the sketch of the History of the Spanish Moors, prefixed to
Florian's Gonsalvo of Cordova).]
[Footnote 2: "The grave matron does not perceive how time has impaired
her charms, but decks her faded bosom with the same snow-drop that seems
to grow on the breast of the Virgin." P.H.]
The Rose.
Betwene the Cytee and the Chirche of Bethlehem, is the felde Floridus,
that is to seyne, the feld florisched. For als moche as a fayre Mayden
was blamed with wrong and sclaundred, that sche hadde don
fornicacioun, for whiche cause sche was demed to the dethe, and to be
brent in that place, to the whiche sche was ladd. And as the fyre
began to brenne about hire, she made hire preyeres to oure Lord, that
als wissely as sche was not gylty of that synne, that he wold help
hire, and make it to be knowen to alle men of his mercyfulle grace;
and whanne she had thus seyd, sche entered into the fuyer, and anon
was the fuyer quenched and oute, and the brondes that weren brennynge,
becomen white Roseres, fulle of roses, and theise weren the first
Roseres and roses, bothe white and rede, that evere ony man saughe.
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