Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 413
932 THE MAID OF HAINAULT. The game that bluff King Henry playedWith his imperial German guest; Sharp points in statecraft, too, they made,And kept the score with royal zest. The game beloved longages sinceIn those chivalric realmsafar,By Norman Knight, andOrleans Prince,And white-plumedHenry of… … With pearls around her white throat set,And silken puffs upon her sleeves. From court to lofty wall above, The swift rebounding balls were flung;—Did she cry, Deuce ! and Forty love! In her sweet-tuned, provincial tongue ? Close runs the royal rivalry;But gallant knights and cour-tiers allTheir…
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