The Poisonous Knight
March, 1958
Long ago in Flanders, two knights, strangers to that land, came riding toward a town. Sitting in a meadow near the town they saw a beauteous young lady, dressed in mourning clothes. They learned from a passerby that many months before, her husband, who was a lover of all pleasant things, had left her for another lady. Since that time this lady had striven excessively to show her grief in public. Although her kinsmen and friends tried to comfort her, she would not heed them, but swore that she co...
