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Lady Godiva Statue
 
        
Cold Cast Bronze
9.5 inches high
$55.00
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#PT-7986

Longing to free the townsfolk of Coventry, England from the oppression of heavy taxes, The Countess Godiva implored her husband, the Earl Leofric to offer relief. With great urgency and prayer she asked him, but the Earl sharply rebuked her for foolishly asking what was so much to his detriment, forbidding her to speak to him on the subject ever again.
But with a woman's tenacity, she never ceased her request, and at last her husband made her a deal.
"Mount your horse and ride naked, before all the people, through the market of this town from one end to the other, and on your return you shall have your request."

Godiva replied, "But will you give me permission if I am willing to do it?"

"I will," he said.

Then the Countess loosed her hair and let down her tresses, which covered the whole of her body like a veil, and then, mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the marketplace without being seen, except her fair legs, and having completed the journey, she returned with gladness to her astonished husband and obtained of him what she had asked.
Earl Leofric freed the town of Coventry and its inhabitants from the tax, and confirmed it by a charter.

You go girl!

Source: Edwin Widney Hartland, English Fairy and other Folk Tales (London: Walter Scott Publishing Company, n.d. [ca. 1890], pp. 55-56.