Цитаты из книги «Принцесса Кентербери и другие английские легенды / Princess of Canterbury (сборник)»

Indeed, a bad thing in good hands is better than a good thing in bad hands.

Once upon a time[17] there were two king’s daughters. They lived in a bower near the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. And Sir William[18] came wooing the eldest and

“I’ll try my worth, folly or luck;[59]

and yet he was quite poor. One day he ploughed his field

And with these words the bird flew away. The farmer put the ring on his finger and started on the way home. In the evening

ys until you come to a great oak. This oak stands by itself[3] and is higher than all