. His memory is celebrated by the church
November 3. Legend says that he was the son of a nobleman of
Aquitaine, and a keen hunter; and that once when he was engaged in
the chase on Good Friday, in the forest of Ardennes, a stag appeared
to him having a shining crucifix between its antlers. He heard a
warning voice and was converted, entered, the chnrch, and became
bishop of Maestricht and Liege. See the _Encyclopedia Americano_.

The role of the deer in mythology, however, is not usually so
beneficent, and "the antelope, the gazelle, and the stag generally,
instead of helping the hero, involve him rather in perplexity and
peril. This mythical subject is amplified in numerous Hindoo
legends." See de Gubernatis, _Zooelogical Mythology_, London, 1872,
vol. ii, p. 84 and following.

La Biche au Bois_ (The Hind of the Woods) of Mme. d'Aulnoy is a
story that offers some striking resemblances to _La Corza Blanca_ of
Becquer. A beautiful princess is transformed by a wicked fairy into
a white hind, which form she is allowed to quit at certain hours of
the day. One day, while still in the form of the hind, she is
pursued by her lover and wounded by an arrow. However, a release
from the enchantment and a happy marriage end the sufferings of the
heroine. In this Spanish tale the transformation is voluntary, which
fact gives to Constanza the traits of a witch.

In Wordsworth's beautiful poem _The White Doe of Rylstone_ we find
the doe divested of all the elements of witchcraft, and in its
solicitude for the gentle and bereft Lady Emily it is likened
symbolically

To the grief of her soul that doth come and go
In the beautiful form of this innocent Doe:
Which, though seemingly doomed in its breast to sustain
A softened remembrance of sorrow and pain,
Is spotless, and holy, and gentle, and bright;
And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light.

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Asi pensando y discurriendo paso Garces la tarde, y cuando ya el sol
comenzo a esconderse por detras de las vecinas lomas y don Dionis
mando volver grupas a su gente para tornar al castillo, separose sin
ser notado de la comitiva y echo en busca del zagal por lo mas espeso
e intrincado del monte.

La noche habia cerrado casi por complete cuando don Dionis llegaba a
las puertas de su castillo. Acto continuo dispusieronle una frugal
colacion, y sentose con su hija a la mesa.

--Y Garces ?donde esta? pre