Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4

part in the war against his father-in-law.

Achillês’ and his father’s javelin caused Pain first, and then the boon of health restored. Dantê, _Hell_, xxxi. (1300).

And fell in speche of Telephus, the king, And of Achilles for his queinte spere, For he coude with it both hele and dere (_i.e._, wound). Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“The Squire’s Tale”).

Whose smile and frow...