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Updated: June 13, 2025
Sitting down by my desk, I could find neither my wax nor my silver candlestick, my scissors nor my ball of twine. Plainly Francesca had been on one of her borrowing tours; and she had left an additional trace of herself if one were needed in a book of old Scottish ballads, open at 'Hynde Horn. I glanced at it idly while I was waiting for her to return.
So carefully were they tended in the palace of King Alymer that soon roses bloomed again on the cheeks of Hynde Horn and his two companions, strength crept back to their bruised bodies. Ere many weeks had passed all in the palace loved Hynde Horn and knew that he was a prince worthy of his name.
Hynde Horn was going away to win his spurs, to show himself worthy of the lady whom he loved. Before he left her, he gave her a beautiful silver wand, and on the wand were perched seven living larks. They would warble to the Princess Jean when Hynde Horn was no longer near to sing to her, as had been his wont, in his soft sweet voice.
'Old man, cried Hynde Horn, 'I have come from far across the sea. Tell me what news there is in this country, for it is many a long day since I have been in Scotland. 'There is little news, said the beggar, 'little news, for we dwell secure under our gracious King Alymer. To be sure, in the palace there is rejoicing. The feast has already been spread for forty days and more.
False to Hynde Horn was Fykenyld, for ever did he say, 'Hynde Horn is dead, or 'Hynde Horn hath forgotten the Princess Jean, or 'Hynde Horn hath married one of the dark-haired princesses in the far-off East. And never did he leave the palace to go in search of his old playfellow, whom he had once longed to serve.
But her eyes would flash as he told of the cruel King Mury, and of how one day he would go back to his kingdom and win it from the hand of the evil king. Her eyes would flash and her heart would beat, yet when she was alone she would weep. For what would she do if Hynde Horn went away to the far East and she was left alone?
'Thou must wait, my daughter, said the king; 'thou must wait to wed Hynde Horn until he has journeyed to the far East and won back the kingdom Mury so unjustly wrested from him. Then, when he has shown himself as brave as he is courteous, then shall the wedding be without delay. Thus it was that a few days later Hynde Horn and Princess Jean stood together to say farewell one to another.
'Get up, Hynde Etin, get up and come with us, for the earl has sent for you, cried the merry hunters. 'The earl may do as he lists with me, said Etin. 'He may cut off my head, or he may hang me on a greenwood tree. Little do I care to live, moaned Etin, 'now that I have lost my lady Margaret.
The Princess Jean must be in trouble, or already evil had befallen her. Hynde Horn hastened down to the seashore, and there he hired a ship to sail speedily to Scotland, where King Alymer ruled. The ship sailed swiftly, yet the days seemed long to King Horn. Oft he would gaze at his ring, but only to find the diamonds growing always more dull, more dim.
Now they would drift gently on the swell of the quiet sea, now they would whirl giddily on the crest of a storm-tossed wave. Faint and weary grew Hynde Horn and his two companions. It seemed to them that they would perish from hunger or be devoured by the storm. Yet every day the little boat was drifted by soft breezes or driven by wild storm-clouds westward and always westward.
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