 | Edwin Sidney Hartland - 1890 - 366 pages
...sharply rebuked her for foolishly asking what was so much to his damage, and always forbade her evermore to speak to him on the subject ; and while she, on...rode through the market-place, without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey, she returned with gladness to her astonished... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1890 - 610 pages
...sharply rebuked her for foolishly asking what was so much to his damage, and always forbade her evermore to speak to him on the subject; and while she, on...rode through the market-place without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey, she returned with gladness to her astonished... | |
 | Edwin Sidney Hartland - 1891 - 402 pages
...sharply rebuked her for foolishly asking what was so much to his damage, and always forbade her evermore to speak to him on the subject ; and while she, on...and attended by two knights, she rode through the market place without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey, she returned... | |
 | 1898 - 448 pages
...shall be fulfilled." . . . Then the countess, beloved of God, loosened her hair thus veiling her body, and then, mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market 1 Sharp, Antiquities of Coventry (ed. Fretton, 1870), 23G. seen of none, her most white legs... | |
 | Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1899 - 270 pages
...willing to do it ?' 'I will,' said he. Whereupon the Countess, beloved of God, loosed her hair ,56 and let down her tresses, which covered the whole...rode through the market-place without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey, she returned with gladness to her astonished... | |
 | 1902 - 266 pages
...rebuked " her for foolishly asking what was so much to his damage, and " always forbade her for evermore to speak to him on the subject ; and " while she,...and attended by two knights, she " rode through the market place without being seen, except her fair " legs, and having completed the journey, she returned... | |
 | Mary Dormer Harris - 1911 - 398 pages
...shall be fulf1lled. . . . Then the countess, beloved of God, loosened her hair thus veiling her body, and then, mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market seen of none, her white legs nevertheless appearing ; and having completed her journey, returned... | |
 | Julia de Wolf Addison - 1922 - 564 pages
...town from that service . . . the earl sharply rebuked her for foolishly asking what was so much to Ins damage, and always forbade her ever more to speak...covered the whole of her body like a veil, and then mounted her Piiinted by Jules Lefebure. LADY GODIVA. horse, and attended by two knights, she rode through... | |
 | Sydney Eleanor Ingraham - 1922 - 346 pages
...such a thing if I were willing?" "I would!" he roared. Soon after this, the countess, beloved of all, loosed her hair and let down her tresses, which covered the whole of her body like a veil, except her fair feet, and then, mounting on a milk-white horse, she rode toward the town. The townsfolk,... | |
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On which Godiva replied,' But will you give me permission if I am willing to do it?' 'I will,' said he. Whereupon the countess, beloved of God, loosed her hair and let down her tresses, which covered the whole of her body like a veil, and then mounting... 