And because I felt there were Heavenly Spirits in the room I kneeled me down, and these two princesses, Jehanne Plantagenet and Blaunche of France, went hand in hand across the orchards to Paradise.
She was carried through the city she loved with her visage open and her head on a white cushion and buried in a painted tomb behind the High Altar of St. Paul’s Church, and Don Pedro was slain by Don Enrique not long after, and I kept my peace.
Now Sir Paon de Brambre went to Almaine and died fighting.…
THE MACEDONIAN GROOM
The Emperor Michael III
How shall I care that I am blind when I have seen enough colour in my days to fill the rest of meagre time?