The golden legend [a play]. Illustr. from designs by B. Foster and J.E. Hay

by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Joseph Bennett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1800 195 pages eng

Prince Henry, of Hoheneck, lying sick in body and mind at his castle of Vautsberg, on the Rhine, has consulted the famous physicians of Salerno, and learned that he can be cured only by the blood of a maiden who shall, of her own free will, consent to die for his sake. Regarding the remedy as imposs…