Calaynos
A Tragedy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Calaynos: A Tragedy<br><br>Pedro.<br><br>"When a Calaynos shall go to Seville,<br>Then sure that Calaynos shall go to ill."<br><br>My grandam taught me that. She could read, and was a great diviner, with a beard that would make two of yours. She told fortunes by the way a cat jumped, or a sparrow flew; and as often hit the truth as the wisest of your scholars. If she hit it not, then was not the thing foreordered; and she left that for the schoolmen to wrangle about. Why does my lord go, Baltasar<br><br>Baltasar.<br><br>To do homage for his lands, as all vassals must. The king granted his ancestors lands; and my lord must acknowledge the king's right and sovereignty, as he holds the land from his forefathers.<br><br>Pedro.<br><br>Can a man have four fathers and but one mother Then was not his mother an honest woman.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.