The Young King of the Black Isles (13)

The Young King of the Black Isles (13)

  " ' Yes, said I, in a rage, ' it is I who chastised that monstor, according to his desert ; I ought to have treated thee in the same manner ; I now repent that I did not ; thou hast too long abused my goodness. '  As I spoke these words, I drew out my cimeter, and lifted up my hand to punish her ; but fastly, she said with a jeering smile, ' Moderate thine anger. ' 
At the same time she pronounced words I did not understand ; and afterward added, ' By virtue of my enchantments, I command thee to become half marble and half man. '
Immediately, my lord, I became what you see, a dead man among the living, and a living man among the dead.
After this cruel sorceress, unworthly of the name of queen, had metamorphosed me thus, and brough me into this hall, by another enchantment she destroyed my capital, which was very flourishing and populous ; she annihilated the houses, the public places and markets, and reduced the site of the whoe to the lake and deaert plain you have seen.

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