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He was indeed feeble and dizzy at times, but with a far from painful languor; and the Princess, enjoying the permission to follow the dictates of her own heart, was kind to him with a motherly or sisterly kindness, could not bear to receive from him his wonted attendance, but made him lie upon the cushions at her feet, and when out of hearing of every one, talked of the faithful Isabel, and of "pretty Bessee," on whom she already looked as the companion of her little Eleanor, whom she had left at home.
"Said you that he had saved my child?" "He drew me from the river, Father," said Bessee looking up. "There was nothing to stand on, and it was so cold! And he took me in his arms and pulled me out, and put me in a boat; and the lady pulled off my blue coat, and put this one on me. Feel it, Father; oh, so pretty, so warm!" "It was the Princess," said Richard; but Henry, not noticing, continued,
However, there was a gentle knight whose love for "pretty Bessee" was proof against the discovery of her father's condition and the entreaties of his friends; and after he had satisfied her by promises not to despise her parents, the blind beggar counted out so large a portion, that he could not double it, and on the wedding-day the beggar revealed his own high birth, to the general joy.
Now, the eldest daughter of Edward IV. Elizabeth, or Lady Bessee, as she was called was older than her poor young brothers; and she heard, to her great horror, that her uncle wanted to commit the great wickedness of making her his wife, after poor Anne Nevil's death.
Put a tester in my dish, fair Sir, for appearance' sake. Thou hast it not? aha I told thee I was the richer as well as the freer man. What's that? That is no ring of coin." "'Tis a fair jewel, father, green and sparkling," cried Bessee. "Nay, nay, I'll have none of it. Some token from thy new masters? Ha, boy?" "From the Princess, on New Year's Day," replied Richard.
In the well-known ballad preserved by Bishop Percy, of "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green," it is imagined that Henry de Montfort was rescued at night from the field of battle while still living, by "a baron's faire daughter," in search of her father's body; that she nursed him, and that, on his recovery they married, their daughter being "prettye Bessee."
My sins are not visited on her beyond the grave!" "Thou art on the earthly side of the grave still, my son," said Sir Robert, at the same time as Bessee sprang from Richard, and nestled on his breast, clinging to his neck. "My babe my Bessee!" he exclaimed, gathering her close to him. "Living, living, indeed! Yet how may it be! Surely this is the other world.
The Blind Beggar. The reference is to the ballad of "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green." The version in the Percy Reliques relates the adventures of Henry, Earl of Leicester, the son of Simon de Montfort, who was blinded at the battle of Evesham and left for dead, and thereafter begged his way with his pretty Bessee.
And again Edward spoke of all that would tempt a child. "Father," said Bessee, "if father comes!" "No, Bessee," said her father; "I have done with palaces. No places they for blind beggars." "Oh, let me go! let me go!" cried Bessee, struggling. And as the King released her hands, she flew to her father. "He would lose himself without me! I must be with father. O King, go away!
"'But first you shall promise and have it well knowne The gold that you drop shall all be your owne; With that they replyed, 'Contented we bee; 'Then here's, quoth the beggar, 'for pretty Bessee." Old Ballad. The day after Midsummer had come, and towards the fine elm tree that then adorned the centre of Bethnal Green, three horsemen were wending their way.
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