(June 17th to 23rd)
Format: Triple
“…Would a Spaniard”, she began, looking on the ground, “speak of his revenge till his revenge were ripe? No. Yet a man who loved a woman might threaten her in the hope that his threats might make her love him. Such things have been” |
This is from “Gloriana” in Rewards and Fairies. Queen Elizabeth of England is trying to interpret a letter from Philip of Spain, in which he threatens her with a ‘destruction from the West’. |
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… ‘You can tell your mates that even in that place, at that time, hanging on the wet, weedy edge of death, our Bishop, a Christian, counselled me, a heathen, to stand by my fathers’ gods. I tell you now that a faith which takes care that every man shall keep faith, even though he may save his soul by breaking faith, is the faith for a man to believe in’… |
This is from “The Conversion of St Wilfrid” in Rewards and Fairies. Meon, a heathen king of the West Saxons, is urging his people to turn to Christianity. |
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…'”What would you have done” he said to me, “If I had not been here?” |
This is from “A Centurion of the Thirtieth” in Puck of Pook’s Hill. Parnesius, a newly promoted Centurion, is marching his first command north to the Great Wall. He has just been challenged by an insubordinate soldier, when they happen on Maximus, the would-be Emperor of Rome. |