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Often appears with: sultan’s mother’s scheming · religious persecution and toleration · religious deception · myth and the gods of the nations · feast-and-ambush plot · cruelty of political intrigue · conspiracy and assassination
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1) · irony (1)
Constance sails away, while the Sultan’s mother orders a plot to prevent the marriage by pretending to embrace Christianity until she can trap and kill the Christians at a feast.
Namely* to folk of high condition, *especially Not *when a root is of a birth y-know?* *when the nativity is known* Alas! we be too lewed*, or too slow. *ignorant To ship was brought this woeful faire maid Solemnely, with every circumstance: “Now Jesus Christ be with you all,” she said. There is no more,but “Farewell, fair Constance.” She *pained her* to make good countenance. *made an effort* And forth…