Having fallen deeply in love with Felice
Everybody's Encyelopedia · 1912 · p. 3
the fair anc accomplished daughter of the earl, he fell into a grievous sickne , but was recalled to life by a promise of her hand when he had earned it by knightly deeds. He performed the most stufeats of valor, —a the ‘amous Dun Cow on Duns more Heath, and a most portentous dragon then ravishing North umber land, which won for him the fair Felice. But remorse for all the slaughter he had done merely for a woman's love began to seize him, and after 40 brief days of wedded happine he left his home ix the dre of a palmer to visit the Holy Land. Later he retired toa hermitage at the place still called Guy’s Cliff, near Warwick. Before his death he sent her parting ring as a token ts Felice, and she arrived in time te close his eyes, survived him for but Se and was buried in the same Guyon, Madame Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte, a French mystic; the introducer in France of the system of Quietism; born in Montargis, April 13, 1648. At the age of 16 she was married to J: — Guyon, after whose death in 1676 the tendency to mystic enthusiasm which had characterized her younger years again acquired ascendency, and she began the religious pt me of her extreme views of self-abnegation, indifference to life and death, and even to future salvation or perdition. A commi ion of ecclesiastics, chief among whom was Bo uet, sat in judgment, and the doctrines of Madame Guyon were condemmed (1695). This led to her being imprisoned for some years, in the Bax tile, whence she was lfberated in 1702, She died in Blois, June 9, 1717.
Readham'da tam maddeyi gor →