{"id":2719,"date":"2010-07-24T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:18","slug":"17-the-mageste-beste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/07\/17-the-mageste-beste\/","title":{"rendered":"#17- The Mageste Beste"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong><em>The Mageste Beste is kneughne moste certis by tide of birth<br \/>\nAt Prime whanne the sonne ronne fro the earth,<br \/>\nIch wight not ryde, save conssente by hir maister wille.<br \/>\nIt muste be few wight beknowen the treuthe<br \/>\nIchone Maistere is tolde by a furst.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Jennifer and Meagan puzzled over the words as Mrs. Bridgestone moved slowly to a couch and settled onto it. \u201cThe language is a little strange. Old English, you see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d Meagan asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the first line reads, \u2018The Magic Beast is known most certainly by time of birth.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer was reading carefully. \u201cWhat is \u2018Prime?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second service of the medieval church, just after sunrise. I interpret it to mean the Great Horse is born at dawn, \u2018when the sun runs from the earth.\u2019 That is a typical metaphor of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the next part?\u201d Jennifer said, reading slowly. \u201c\u2019Ich wight not ryde?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWight means man. So the phrase says, \u2018Each man shall not ride the Great Horse without the consent of its master.\u2019\u201d Mrs. Bridgestone closed her eyes and concentrated. \u201cFew men know the truth, each new master is told by a first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meagan shook her head. \u201cI don\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we must be sure you do,\u201d Mrs. Bridgestone said seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Excerpted from pg. 58 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/\"><em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the award-winning 1st volume of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/\"><strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong>&#8221; trilogy. <\/a> (Hrdbk)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Book II: The Golden Spark<\/strong><\/em> will be available Fall 2010.<\/h4>\n<p><small>Copyright \u00a9 2008 John Royce<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Mageste Beste is kneughne moste certis by tide of birth<br \/>\nAt Prime whanne the sonne ronne fro the earth,<br \/>\nIch wight not ryde, save conssente by hir maister wille.<br \/>\nIt muste be few wight beknowen the treuthe<br \/>\nIchone Maistere is tolde by a furst.<\/em> ~ excerpt from &#8220;Eclipsed by Shadow&#8221; revealing the rules of knowing a Great Horse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[118,70,165,164,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}