Sir John Constantine
READING AGE 16+
Memoirs Of His Adventures
At Home And Abroad And
Particularly In
The Island Of Corsica:
Beginning With The Year 1756.
Written by His Son
Prosper Paleologus,
Otherwise Constantine, and
Edited by "Q"
(A.T. Quiller Couch).
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Published in 1906.
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"For knighthood is not in the feats of warre,
As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong,
But in a cause which truth can not defarre
He ought himself for to make sure and strong
Justice to keep mixt with mercy among:
And no quarrell a knight ought to take
But for a truth, or for a woman's sake."
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Unfold
POSTSCRIPT.
BY GERVASE ARUNDEL.
July 15 (St. Swithun's), 1761.
My nephew has asked me to write the few words necessary to conclude this narrative.
The day after my brother's burial, the Gauntlet, in company with General Paoli's gunboat, Il Sampiero, weighed and left the island of Giraglia for Isola Rossa, where by agre……
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