- 守望古典 wrote:
请问XW，《勇敢的心》里的暴君长腿是完全虚构的，还是历史上确有其人？
Braveheart? Mel Gibson, William Wallace.
这暴君我还真不知道呢？要说华莱士，那可是真的，朋斯有诗：
Scots Wha Ha'e
'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome tae your gory bed,
Or tae Victorie!
'Now's the day, and now's the hour:
See the front o' battle lour,
See approach proud Edward's power -
Chains and Slaverie!
'Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha will fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
'Wha, for Scotland's king and law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or Freeman fa',
Let him on wi' me!
'By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
'Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow! -
Let us do or dee!'
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I almost forgot it. Is the tyrant Edward II ?
My little book says:
Edward II, reigned 1307-1327
Few kings have been sillier or less suited to the throne than Edward.
Born in 1284, he always preferred the company of workmen to
courtiers and was not in the least interested in statecraft or
the responsibilities of kingship. It was a disaster for the country
when he succeeded to the throne in 1307.
Although married to Isabella of France, Edward spent far more
time with his handsome friend Piers Gaveston, a French adventurer who
milked the royal connection for all it as worth. But rival barons executed
Gaveston and his successor as royal favourite, Hugh Despenbser.
Matters eventually came to such a pass that Isabella and her lover
Roger Mortimer imprisoned Edward in Berkeley Castle. He was murdered
there in 1327 -- skewered with a red-hot spitting iron -- and his
son was declared king in his place.
xw