Stephan

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Portrait of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić Vuk Stefanović Karadžić,  Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

“ Stephan and the Vizier’s Daughter
Therefore she complied with her father’s wish with alacrity, and when she reached Stephan she greeted him tenderly: “Hail, O Serbian Hero! May God be with [182] thee!” And the chivalrous prince returned the greeting: “May God help thee, O peerless Haykoona!”
The beautiful maiden then said: “O Prince Stephan, I value thee more than my black eyes! I sorrow to see thy face thus darkened and thy life so miserable in the prison-donjons of my father. Take this bottle of cooling water; bathe thy heroic visage with the liquid and drink a little of it!”
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Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić Vuk Stefanović Karadžić,  Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

“ The vizier turned sadly away and ordered his djelat to behead Prince Stephan. But again Stephan’s good fortune befriended him. The Grand Vizier of Novi Bazar came to the Vizier of Tyoopria and implored him not to behead the young man. “Dost thou not remember,” said he, “that thou didst promise that his life should not be taken from him? ’Twere better to deliver him to me on ransom: I will give twice his weight in golden ducats, and I declare solemnly that when I have him in my province of Novi Bazar, I shall not fail to induce him to embrace Islam!” ”
Source: Gutenberg

Raphael Holinshed,  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland…

“ King Stephan hauing no pleasant voice of himselfe, appointed earle Baldwin to giue an exhortation to his armie, wherevpon getting himselfe Earle Baldwin his oration on the behalfe of king Stephan. to an high place where he might be seene & heard of them, he thus began. "All such as shall giue battell, ought to foresée thrée things: first, that their cause be righteous: secondlie, the number of their men to be equall at the least: and thirdlie, the goodnesse and sufficiencie of them. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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