Text Appearing Before Image: Tears before theking found any means of sending news of himself to hisdear queen, but at last he contrived to send this letter: Sell all our castles and palaces, and put all our treasures Text Appearing After Image: THE LUTE PLAYER 73 in pawn and come and deliver me out of this horribleprison. The queen received the letter, read it, and wept bitterlyas she said to herself, How can I deliver my dearesthusband ? If I go myself and the heathen king sees mehe will just take me to be one of his wives. If I were tosend one of the ministers ! — but I hardly know if I candepend on them. She thought, and thought, and at last an idea cameinto her head. She cut off all her beautiful long brownhair and dressed herself in boys clothes. Then she tookher lute and, without saying anything to anyone, she wentforth into the wide world. She travelled through many lands and saw many cities,and went through many hardships before she got to thetown where the heathen king lived. When she got thereshe walked all round the palace and at the back she sawthe prison. Then she went into the great court in frontof the palace, and taking her lute in her hand, she beganto play so beautifully that one felt as though one couldn
Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.
Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
No known copyright restrictionsNo restrictionshttps://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/false