Crossword-Solution: BENEDICTA 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

That I never had to do with Benedicta and Theodotus, yea and afterwards when I fell into some fits of love, I was soon cured.

And one morning Marius encountered an extraordinary crimson object, borne in a litter through an excited crowd—the famous courtesan Benedicta, still fresh from the bath of blood, to which she had submitted herself, sitting below the scaffold where the victims provided for that purpose were slaughtered by the priests.

Now the town was full, and every inn a-throng with company--lords, both great and small, knights and esquires and their several followings, as archers, men-at-arms, and the like, all thither come from far and near to joust at the great tournament soon to be, to honour the birthday of Benedicta, Duchess of Tissingors, Ambremont, and divers other fair cities, towns and villages.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The first, our Duchess--Benedicta hight, That late from Tissingors, her town, took flight, To-day, returning here, doth bless our sight, And view the prowess of each valiant knight; Each champ-i-on, in shining armour dight, With blunted weapons gallantly shall fight.

Art sighing again, sweet maid?” “Nay, indeed--and wherefore should I sigh?” “At mention of a Fool, belike.” “Ah, no, no, 'twere shame in me, Benedicta! A Fool forsooth!” “Yet Fool of all fools singular, Yolande.