Saintly princess and miraculous birth legend in Southey satire
Excerpt recounts a medieval legend about a pagan king’s daughter Thametes, her miraculous virgin conception, and subsequent miraculous deliverance. The tale, interwoven with Arthurian names and historic airs, critiques credulity and celebrates improbable sanctity within a mythic genealogy.
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Mertin
Thametes
Thenis
Lot
Lowthean
Orkenny
Annals of the Round Table
Anna
Uther Pendragon
Arthur
Father Cressy
John of
Dumpelder
Legendary Saint Kentigern and the tale of Rentigern
Narratives recount Saint Servan sheltering a sea cast mother and child, baptizing them as Kentigern later called Mungo. Envious monks test him with miracles, while a rob assists his devotions. The dialogue shifts to modern duelling debates citing Jeffrey and Baron Grimm on passion versus law. A formal duel letter from a Baron Grimm text contrasts glory and blood in cold blood.
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Clusia
Pysche
Pantaloon
Lot
Collenros
Culros
Servan
Alpia
Arabia
Canaan
Valhalla
Kientiern
Kentigern
St. Servan
Mungo
Rentigern
Asmodeus
Baron Grimm
D’israeli
Ferdinand
Bois de Boulogne
Ridicule as a Deterrent for Duelling in History
A dialogue cites James I era England where social fashions shifted after public mockery. Asmodeus argues that making duelling absurd would deter it more than laws or sermons, recalling Mrs Turner and the Overbury case and the fatal wearing of the ruff and farthingale.
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Ferdinand
Asmodeus
James 1
France
England
Turner
Thomas Overbury
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