Subject for March, 2020

CHAPTER XLIII

Subject: Ivanhoe

     Be Mowbray’s sins so heavy in his bosom,      That they may break his foaming courser’s back,      And throw the rider headlong in the lists,      A caitiff rec...

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CHAPTER XLII-2

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“Thou hast it, my son,” said Cedric, raising him up. “The son of Hereward knows how to keep his word, even when it has been passed to a Norman. But let me see thee use the dress...

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CHAPTER XLII-1

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  I found them winding of Marcello’s corpse.      And there was such a solemn melody,      ‘Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,—      Such as old grandames,...

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CHAPTER XLI

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    All hail to the lordlings of high degree,      Who live not more happy, though greater than we!      Our pastimes to see,      Under every green tree,      In all the gay wo...

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CHAPTER XL-2

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“Why, never, I think,” replied the Knight. “Thou never deservest to have a full one in thy hand, for so simple an answer! Thou hadst best empty thy pitcher ere thou pass it to a...

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CHAPTER XL-1

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Shadows avaunt!—Richard’s himself again.      Richard III When the Black Knight—for it becomes necessary to resume the train of his adventures—left the Trysting-tree of th...

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CHAPTER XXXIX

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  O maid, unrelenting and cold as thou art,      My bosom is proud as thine own.      —Seward It was in the twilight of the day when her trial, if it could be called such, had t...

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CHAPTER XXXVIII

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  —-There I throw my gage,      To prove it on thee to the extremest point      Of martial daring.      —Richard II Even Lucas Beaumanoir himself was affected by the mien and ap...

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CHAPTER XXXVII-2

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“He is possessed by a dumb devil,” said the Grand Master. “Avoid thee, Sathanus!—Speak, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, I conjure thee, by this symbol of our Holy Order.” Bois-Guilbert ...

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CHAPTER XXXVII-1

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   Stern was the law which bade its vot’ries leave      At human woes with human hearts to grieve;      Stern was the law, which at the winning wile      Of frank and harm...

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