The Most Illustrious Dame Beatrice of Mousehole
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THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS DAME BEATRICE OF MOUSEHOLE
by Six of Hearts
In some place of Mousehole, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those young girls that tended to a farm. A pot of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of her family's income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days she made a petite figure in her best homespun. The age of this girl of ours was around the early twenties. They will have it her surname was Jill or Fill (for here there is some difference of opinion among the authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable conjectures it seems plain that she was called Amy Hill. This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair’s breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
FIVE CHAPTERS
CHAPTER I WHICH TREATS WITH THE ORDEAL OF THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS DAME BEATRICE OF MOUSEHOLE TRYING TO RECRUIT HER NEIGHBOR AS A SQUIRE
CHAPTER II WHICH TREATS THE SUDDEN ENCOUNTER OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS DAME BEATRICE AND HER BELOVED PRINCE SEBASTIAN OF THE NORTHERN ISLES
CHAPTER III OF WHAT BEFELL DAME BEATRICE WITH A CERTAIN DARK SORCERER AND HIS FAMILIAR DRAGON
CHAPTER IV OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS DAME IN THE INN WHICH SHE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE
CHAPTER V IN WHICH THE ILLUSTRIOUS DAME VISITED A LOCAL BLACKSMITH