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Updated: June 27, 2025
With imagination aroused and sympathies excited he enters a life of alternate combat and love, almost real in the consistency of its improbability. Three gallant knights, Sir Gawaine, Sir Marhaus, and Sir Uwaine set out together in search of adventures. At the last they cam in to a grete forest that was named the countreye and foreste of Arroy and the countrey of straunge auentures.
And thei ben alle so propurlyche made, that it semethe a verry vyne, berynge kyndely grapes. And before the emperoures table, stonden grete lordes, and riche barouns and othere, that serven the emperour at the mete.
In his startlement, though, he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to Grete.
Lo! here be oakis grete, streight as a line, Under the which the grass, so fresh of line, Be'th newly sprung at eight foot or nine. Everich tree well from his fellow grew, With branches broad laden with leaves new, That sprongen out against the sonne sheene, Some golden red and some a glad bright green. And in another canton was the following similar legend:
The later narrative Mara, in the collection entitled Hans and Grete , is also the fruit of exotic experiences. This account of a love in imagination has the same motif as one of the most original narratives of the Swiss Spitteler, Imago, with the only difference that in Mara over-excitation of the brain is motivated by tropical heat.
And thanne he wente prevylly, alle be nyghte, tille he cam to his folk, that weren fulle glad of his comynge, and maden grete thankynges to God immortalle, and to that bryd, be whom here lord was saved.
No gold ceilings with cornice carvings, but plain wooden beams. 'Know that the men of great renown, Were men of simple needs: Bare to the Lord they laid them down, And slept on mighty deeds. 'God wot, there's no emptying thy store of ballads, Grete: so much shall be said of thee. Yes; times are changeing: We're growing degenerate. Look at the men of Linz now to what they were!
Margarita knew the voice of the stranger before she had opened the door, and on presenting herself, the hero gave her a guardian-like salute. 'One may see, he said, 'that it requires better men than those of Werner to drive away the rose from that cheek. Gottlieb pressed the rosy cheek to his shoulder and patted her. 'What do you think, Grete?
'Shameful! exclaimed Margarita. 'I will speak to Berthold as he descends. I hear him coming. He shall do what I wish. 'Call it dreadful, Grete! Dreadful it was. If Berthold would like to sit and hear Ah! she is gone. A good girl! and of a levity only on the surface. Aunt Lisbeth heard Margarita's voice rapidly addressing Berthold. His reply was low and brief.
According to the "Grete Herbale," "if the hare come under it, he is sure that no beast can touch hym." Topsell also, in his "Natural History," alludes to this superstition: "When hares are overcome with heat, they eat of an herb called Latuca leporina, that is, hare's-lettuce, hare's-house, hare's-palace; and there is no disease in this beast the cure whereof she does not seek for in this herb."
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