"Christopher Stasheff - Warlock 03 - King Kobold Revived" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stasheff Christopher)

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"Then did Catharine the Queen meet with her great Lords all, in her great Hall in
Runnymede, and did say unto them, 'Lo, it seemeth thou dost take boys from the
plow, who know neither Letters nor Holiness, and doth set them above thy
people as priests, that they may more certainly do thy bidding; and know that
such practice doth offend the Lord God, and affronteth thy Queen; wherefore,
henceforth, I shall appoint thee full measure of Priests, and send them unto thee;
and I will not brook nay-saying.' Then were the Lords wroth indeed, but Loguire
held up his hand, and they checked. And it came to pass as the Queen had said,
that the souls of her people were governed by monks that she sent out from
Runnymede, though they did oftimes confirm the priests the Lords had set over
their Parishes; yet some among them had grown slack and, aye, even sinful; and
these the Queen's monks removed, and set others of their number up in their
steads.

"Then did the Queen summon all her Lords unto her again, and did say unto
them, 'Lo, I have seen the Justice that is done on thine estates, both by thyselves
and by the Judges thou dost appoint; and I have seen that the manner of Justice
thou dost deliver is not all of one-piece; for Hapsburg in the East will hew off a
man's hand for the theft of a loaf of bread, while Loguire in the South will only
outlaw a man for a Murder; and I have seen that my people grow restive
therefore, and are like to forsake the ways of Law in their confusion. Therefore
wilt thou no longer deliver thyselves of Justice, nor set others to judge thy folk
for thee; but all shall be judged by men that I shall send among thee, from my
Court in Runnymede.' Then all the Lords waxed wroth indeed, and would have
haled her down from her Throne; but the Duke Loguire withheld them, and
turned his face away from the Queen, and withdrew to his Estates, and so did
they all; but some among them began to plot Treason, and Loguire's eldest son
Anselm made one of them.

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"Then, of a night, thunder did roll and fill all the World, though the skies were
clear, and the Moon bright and full, and folk looked up and wondered, and did
see a star fall from the Heavens, and they turned away marveling, and praying
that it might prove an Omen, heralding the healing of their Land of Gramarye, as
indeed it did; for the Star fell to land, and from it stepped the High Warlock, Rod
Gallowglass, tall among the sons df men, high of brow, noble of mien, with a
heart of golden courage and thews of steel, merciful to all, but stern in justice,
with a mind like sunlight caught in crystal, that clearly understood all the actions
of all men, and his face was comely above all others.

"He came unto the Queen, but she knew him not, and thought him only one