Excerpt from Holiness or the Legend of St. George; A Tale From Spencer's Faerie Queene Fairly did the young knight sit his horse, ready for knightly joust and fierce encounter. Right, faithful, true, he seemed, in word and deed; but his air was solemn, for his purpose was high, involving much weal or woe to others. He seemed one whom an opposer should dread, but who could dread nothing himself. A lovely lady and fair, but veiled from head to foot, rode beside the knight, upon a lowly ass, which was whiter than snow. The lady seemed sad and heavy, as if she nourished some hid den care, and inly mourned. And over her snowy veil she had thrown a black stole or cloak, an emblem of her grieved spirit. But she looked, and was, as inno cent and pure as the milk-white lamb which she led, tied to her saddle bow by a silken thread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.