Preface
You feel as if you were in the night tour at Changdeokgung Palace
with your family, friends, tourists in moonlit night with this book !
This book is the culmination of six years of my research, field study, and personal experience on the subject of the nighttime tour named Moonlight Tour of Changdeokgung Palace. While working as a tour guide at the royal palace, I gave many tou
imperial jointress
to this warlike state...
have we, as twere with a defeated joy...
with one auspicious
and one dropping eye...
with mirth in funeral
and with dirge in marriage...
taken to wife.
And now, Laertes,
whats the news with you?
You told us of some suit.
What wouldst thou beg, Laertes?
My dread lord, my thoughts and wishes
bend again toward France...
and bow them to your gracious leave
throne-like chair. Tatiana is very serious
and very regal. She slides over to make room for
Anastasia who sits next to her.
TATIANA
Why were you so late tonight
ANASTASIA
I was showing Sonya
something . . .
TATIANA
What were you showing her?
ANASTASIA
(sheepishly)
How to read.
TATIANA
I thought you were told not to
tutor your servants anymore.
ANASTASIA
I know, but I had to because . . .
Anastas
imperial power over his
leather and copper segmented upper body armor (LORICA
SEGMENTATA). His breath clouds in the bitter cold; the
man is tired to the bone.
OPPOSITE STANDS THE ROMAN ARMY
This is the mighty army of the Danube, yet it seems like
these men -- buried in the shadows and as frozen and worn
as their leader -- have come to the very edge of the world
to be swallowed by this wilderness.
throne and make you long become it.
Sure we thank you.
My learned lord,
we pray you to proceed...
and justly and religiously unfold...
why the law salique
that they have in France,
or should or should not
bar us in our claim.
And pray, take heed
how you impawn our person,
how you awake
our sleeping sword of war.
We charge you,
in the name of God, take heed.
For never two such kingdoms did
contend