I. Anonymous

“Horns and hounds awake the princely train;
and issue early through the city gate,
There more wakeful huntsmen ready wait,
with nets and darts beside swift horse, and spartan dogs.
Come the Tyrian peers and officers of state
for the slow queen in antechambers waits;
Her lofty courser in the court below
who his majestic rider seems to know,
proud of his purple trappings he paws the ground
and champs the golden bit to spread the foam around.
Queen Dido at length appears;
flowered simar with golden fringe adorned,
and at her back a golden quiver bore;
her flowing hair a golden caul restrains,
a golden clasp the Tyrian robe sustains.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“The Saxons upon the signal “Nemet oure Saxas.” Drew their daggers and fell upon the Briton princes, who little suspected any such design… For they all came without arms having no thoughts of anything but treating peacefully. This gave the others a fairer opportunity of exercising their villainous plot.
But the pagans did not escape unpunished; a great number of them were killed during the massacre. For the Britons, taking up clubs and stones, resolutely defended themselves…
There was present one Eldol Consul of Gleven who at the sight of this treachery took up a stake, which he happened to find, and with that made his defense. Every blow he gave carried death along with it… until being no longer able to stand his ground against such numbers, he made his escape.”
― Geoffery of Monmouth, Histories of the Kings of Britain

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote