"
"To have killed her!" said Nomerfide. "Then you would turn a lover into
a murderer? Since such is your opinion, it would indeed be a fearful
thing to fall into your hands."
"If I had gone so far," said Hircan, "I should have held it
dishonourable not to achieve my purpose."
Then said Geburon--
"You think it strange that a Princess, bred in all honour, should prove
difficult of capture to one man. You should then be much more astonished
at a poor woman who escaped out of the hands of two."
"Geburon," said Ennasuite, "I give my vote to you to tell the fifth
tale, for I think you know something concerning this poor woman that
will not be displeasing to us."
"Since you have chosen me," said Geburon, "I will tell you a story which
I know to be true from having made inquiries concerning it on the spot.
By this story you will see that womanly sense and virtue are not in the
hearts and heads of Princesses alone, nor love and cunning in such as
are most often deemed to possess them."
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