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the seemingly timeless ‘Follow the Leader’ and ‘Hide and Seek’. On his own, Froissart made mud pies, collected shells, played with a spinning top, and blew soap bubbles through a pipe, and he attached thread to a butterfly’s wings so that he could make the poor creature fly ‘as I pleased’. Froissart’s poem appears typical of a small boy of any historical period: the mess, the running around, the
states that she was the ‘last true Princess of Wales’, who ‘was lost to her people and her nation for 700 years’: she was ‘like a butterfly that never took flight’ and ‘lived and died in a cocoon’. Her tale also features on the ‘Castlewales’ website, complete with an image of the modern tombstone at Cwmhir Abbey and the commemorative stone in Lincolnshire. 22 The latter two quotations were from Malt Anderson, who formed the Gwenllian Society, and shows that the impulse behind this twenty-first-century commemoration is a nationalistic sense of a Welsh medieval past
Thornton, Buckinghamshire, and family ( c .1472), Robert’s wives have old-fashioned short veils over small horns drawn together, while his daughters wear fashionable, large pill-box caps on the backs of their heads and butterfly veils underneath. 26 Reason and emotions The growing strength of the youth’s body was matched by an increasing sharpness in the mind. Reaching the age of