[Legends of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber]@TWC D-Link bookLegends of the Middle Ages CHAPTER X 17/20
Amanda, who was warned by Fatima of Huon's danger, rushed into the Sultan's presence to plead for her husband's life; but when she discovered that she could obtain it only at the price of renouncing him forever and marrying the Sultan, she declared that she preferred to die, and elected to be burned with her beloved.
The flames were already rising around them both, when Oberon, touched by their sufferings and their constancy, suddenly appeared, and again hung his horn about Huon's neck. The knight hailed this sign of recovered favor with rapture, and, putting the magic horn to his lips, showed his magnanimity by blowing only a soft note and making all the pagans dance. "No sooner had the grateful knight beheld, With joyful ardor seen, the ivory horn, Sweet pledge of fairy grace, his neck adorn, Than with melodious whisper gently swell'd, His lip entices forth the sweetest tone That ever breath'd through magic ivory blown: He scorns to doom a coward race to death. 'Dance! till ye weary gasp, depriv'd of breath-- Huon permits himself this slight revenge alone'" WIELAND, _Oberon_ (Sotheby's tr.). [Sidenote: Huon and Amanda in fairyland.] While all were dancing, much against their will, Huon and Amanda, Sherasmin and Fatima, promptly stepped into the silvery car which Oberon placed at their disposal, and were rapidly transported to fairyland.
There they found little Huonet in perfect health.
Great happiness now reigned, for Titania, having secured the ring which Amanda had lost in her struggle with the pirates on the sandy shore, had given it back to Oberon.
He was propitiated by the gift, and as the sight of Huon and Amanda's fidelity had convinced him that wives could be true, he took Titania back into favor, and reinstated her as queen of his realm. When Huon and Amanda had sojourned as long as they wished in fairyland, they were wafted in Oberon's car to the gates of Paris.
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