mock-mad

Updated: May 18, 2025

Count William was a gallant and courtly knight, learned in all the ways of chivalry, the model of the younger cavaliers, handsome in person, noble in bearing, the surest lance in the tilting-yard, and the stoutest arm in the foray. Like "Jephtha, Judge of Israel," of whom the mock-mad Hamlet sang to Polonius, Count William had "One fair daughter, and no more, The which he loved passing well;"

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