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I like the mystery and the spirituality, the poetry and the romance." "I read a book of Fouque's last night that charmed me Minstrel Love. Do you know it, Lady Amelie?" "No," she replied; "tell me what it is." "Only the history of a poet-knight who loved the lofty Lady Alcarda. She lived with her husband, a German warrior, in an old castle, and the poet was her knight.
He could not altogether shake off the fear that he was still in Alfonso's power, and wherever he went he fancied that an officer was in pursuit of him to drag him back to the foul prison in St. Anne's. A modern Italian poet, Aleardo Aleardi, has graphically described the feelings of the gentle poet-knight, roaming, pale and dishevelled, as a mendicant from door to door.
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