ST. GEORGE’S CHAPEL, WINDSOR.
And so began a gentle and generous captivity, which was certainly of advantage to the poet king. The prince was provided with masters, and had every luxury and indulgence. James was trained in all arts and arms, became a scholar and a cavalier, and benefited by contact with culture and civilisation.
While at Windsor, love came to James in a shape of singular romance and charm, and he lived actually the adventure which Chaucer had devised for his Palamon and Arcite. The fair Emilie was doing observance to May, and so—
“She romid up and down, and as she liste
She gathrith flouris party white and rede,
To make a sotill garlande for her hede;
And as an aungel hevynly she song.”
The “grete Tour, that was so thik and strong” was, we hear, “evyne joynaunt to the gardyn wall;” and Emilie was walking and singing in the garden, while the imprisoned Palamon gazed from his high dungeon window in the tower,