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308 bonds that held him, and escaped. He was immediately pursued, but disappeared in an instant. The knight retained a perpetual memento of that severe wound; for every year, upon the night of that encounter, it broke out afresh. Some time after, he crossed the seas, and fell, valiantly fighting against the pagans. (86)

My beloved, the knight is Christ; his antagonist is the devil, who is armed with pride; the castle is the world.

, speaking of the Trojan war, relates, that when Helen was carried off by Paris, it