Weary Traveler

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it." ~ Eudora Welty

Untouched Maiden
“So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.”
~Catullus

King's Chambers

"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Huntsman

“News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.”
~Gene Fowler

Dungeon Prisoner

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Queen With Child

"Because the royal crown is considered to belong to the people, apparently, when royalty gets pregnant it’s the whole country carrying the fetus." ~Author Unknown

Knight's Vigil

"Now it is fitting that I should tell what it is to be a knight: whence comes this name of knight; what manner of man a knight should be to have a right to be called knight; and what profit the good knight is to the country wherein he lives...." ~ Diaz de Gamez

King's Champion

"If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart."
~Chris Evert

Our Kingdom's Castle

"The Castle is always where its seeker most wants it to be. In plain sight, yet never seen. This is its nature."

~Author Unknown

The Executioner
“Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.”
~Lucretius

The Holy Grail

"To the Knights in the days of old,
Keeping watch on the mountains height,
Came a vision of The Grail
And a voice through the waiting night;
Follow, follow, follow the gleam;
Banners unfurled o'er all the world;
Follow, follow, follow the gleam
Of the chalice that is The Grail!"
~ Helen Hill Miller

The Minstrel's Apprentice

"Of Merlin wise I learned a song,—
Sing it low, or sing it loud,
It is mightier than the strong,
And punishes the proud."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Village Tavern

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
~Jonathan Swift