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THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY.
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vent the growth of children designed for dwarfs, by
enclosing them in boxes, or by the use of tight
bandages- The sister of one of the Roman em-
perors had a dwarf who was only two feet and a
hand breadth in height. Many relations concerning
dwarfs we may look upon as not less fabulous than
those of giants. They are, like the latter, indis-
pensable in romances, where their feats, far from
being dwarfish, are absolutely gigantic, though these
diminutive heroes seldom occupy any more osten-
sible post than that of humble attendant.
“ Fill’d with these views th’ attendant dwarf she sends :
Before the knight the dwarf respectful bends;
Kind greetings bears as to his lady’s guest,
And prays his presence to adorn her feast.
The knight delays not.”
“ A hugye giaunt stiffe and starke,
All foule of limbe and lere ;
Two goggling eyen like fire farden,
A mouthe from eare to eare.
Before him came a dwarffe full lowe,
That waited on his knee.”—Sir Cauline.
Behind her farre away a dwarfe did lag
That lasie seem’d, in being ever last,
Or wearied with bearing of her bag
Of needments at his backe.—Faerie Queene.
The dwarf worked in the tapestry has the name
Tvrold placed above him, and seems to have been
a dependant of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, William the
Conqueror’s brother.*
* Archseologia, Ivo. xix.
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99
vent the growth of children designed for dwarfs, by
enclosing them in boxes, or by the use of tight
bandages- The sister of one of the Roman em-
perors had a dwarf who was only two feet and a
hand breadth in height. Many relations concerning
dwarfs we may look upon as not less fabulous than
those of giants. They are, like the latter, indis-
pensable in romances, where their feats, far from
being dwarfish, are absolutely gigantic, though these
diminutive heroes seldom occupy any more osten-
sible post than that of humble attendant.
“ Fill’d with these views th’ attendant dwarf she sends :
Before the knight the dwarf respectful bends;
Kind greetings bears as to his lady’s guest,
And prays his presence to adorn her feast.
The knight delays not.”
“ A hugye giaunt stiffe and starke,
All foule of limbe and lere ;
Two goggling eyen like fire farden,
A mouthe from eare to eare.
Before him came a dwarffe full lowe,
That waited on his knee.”—Sir Cauline.
Behind her farre away a dwarfe did lag
That lasie seem’d, in being ever last,
Or wearied with bearing of her bag
Of needments at his backe.—Faerie Queene.
The dwarf worked in the tapestry has the name
Tvrold placed above him, and seems to have been
a dependant of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, William the
Conqueror’s brother.*
* Archseologia, Ivo. xix.
F 2