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"Won't! to Heaven that I could redeem Judah! Would that mint:
ew\n blood might avail to set free my father, and this his bcnefacLor
from the chains of the oppressor! lie sh'eps ! Nature cxli nutted by
■sufferance and waste of spirit*, his wearied frame embraces the first
moments of temporary relaxation Lo sink into slumber.1’
At that moment he awakened, only to be sensible of a new danger
—the burning of the castle. The Templar came and bore Rebecca
f-om the scene. A t that instant the Black Knight entered the apart’
inor.?:, seized Ivanhoe and rushed to the postern. One turret was now
in flames, which burst, out furiously from window and shol hole. The
towering flames soon surmounted every obstruction and ro.se to the
evening skies-, one huge a-ld burning beacon, seen far and wide
throng hour. the adjacent country. Tower after tower crashed down
with binding roof and rafter, and the combatants were driven from the
con rt-yard.
The victors, assembling in la rye band-, gu/,ed with fear and wonder
upon the flames. A t length, wnh a terdfie crash, the whole turret
gave w ay', and a voice was heard: “ Shout, yeomen, the dc-l o f tyrants
is no m ore:!'’— 5 ik Waj.tisr Scott.

b o a o i c c a .

jl'h c figures in this spirited selection refer to the correspond bir: autr:bcrii;i P;-rtI.]
[Tl^adiccs ■'.vrrfi (jnftn o f the a Initial: tr'bi; inhabiting what are now 11n’:
o mi :i ties g f Cn-ri l.iri 1 1: > i:, ^ ii lTq] k an rt Nor£bi k . Tt i (; K i n ti, h r } i ■. i fib;; n t\, h avi tie d i ,
[jeeut'f.thetl fil J his possessor.*;is to The KrifjC:tor Noro and his two 1 1».mfillers. The
Ruii iai: roiitursons. however, look liis kingdom , and jftivc his droiglitcrsi to titeir
si fives, while B o: i! H ■ m w.-is puhlic'y .-.courted lor hothi:: icid or ima<;m<T.;v oJTcnc.e.
T a t Ro;nt:.:i jjrovemor bsiir.g absent, she bi:r-ii. i:i1 o l.om lon, ;ih ttip head o f ;■ Ifir’ge
iirtnv, hmne:l C;ii: chy f.a ’i killed tliuiisuno* ol the: Romans aiul Roman ,-.i:':>’ ccls.
T h * Ro;nr::i i-cvei'liu:' ;j:inieflifi‘ ::ly liIir h o m e , f.ilfl 'i K illIf: v. ;is fom'lil tic;:it -St.
Albans. TUe iintons, .•ili.h'.nii'h lIjcv louitht valiantly and J.eret-ly, v.-«:n:iU:fc>il<j;lbv
the ilisfipliucd Romans. Jioadieoa poisoned herecir, A . I>. 6j.J
T y 'U E N the "British warrior Queen, bleeding from tile Ron’.en rods,
_ W Sought, with an indignant mien, cotm.sel of her country’ gods;
Sage beneath a so reading oak the Druid, hoary chief;
Every burning word he spoke, fall of rage and full of grief;