Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 9 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 9 ------In the midst was seen A lady of a more majestic mien By stature and by beauty mark d their sovereign Queen. And as in beauty she surpass d the choir So nobler than the rest was her attire A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow Plain without pomp and rich without a show A branch of Agnus Castus in her hand She bore aloft her symbol of command. The Flower and the Leaf William de Wyvil and Stephen de Martival the marshals of the field were the first to offer their congratulations to the victor praying him at the same time to suffer his helmet to be unlaced or at least that he would raise his visor ere they conducted him to receive the prize of the day s tourney from the hands of Prince John. The Disinherited Knight with all knightly courtesy declined their request alleging that he could not at this time suffer his face to be seen for reasons which he had assigned to the heralds when he entered the lists. The marshals were perfectly satisfied by this reply for amidst the frequent and capricious vows by which knights were accustomed to bind themselves in the days of chivalry there were none more common than those by which they engaged to remain incognito for a certain space or until some particular adventure was achieved. The marshals therefore pressed no farther into the mystery of the Disinherited Knight but announcing to Prince John the conqueror s desire to remain unknown they requested permission to bring him before his Grace in order that he might receive the reward of his valour. John s curiosity was excited by the mystery observed by the stranger and being already displeased with the issue of the tournament in which the challengers whom he favoured had been successively defeated by one knight he answered haughtily to the marshals By the light of Our Lady s brow this same knight hath been disinherited as well of his courtesy as of his lands since he desires to appear before us without uncovering his face. --Wot ye my .
