Copy 1, Volume 2

Popular tales and romances of the Northern nations.

Date:: 1823

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Popular tales and romances of the Northern nations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Jacob. You have killed him in the midst of his sinful career. He is g-one without atone¬ ment or repentance. Philip. God forgive me ! May he also for¬ give the warden’s sins. But I have killed the tiger which prayed on every animal. The scorpion which secretly stung honest men. Can you still cry, woe ! woe! over my deed ? Jacob. If not over the deed, yet over its consequences. The followers of the abbot are near. How will you escape ? Not even the murdering of him will save you. Philip. I expect to find safety from pre¬ serving his life. Try to recover him. I go to Matilda. He lighted a piece of pine at the lamp, and ascended the ladder. The groans of the war¬ den had awakened Matilda, and filled her with fears. She called Sir Philip, but received no answer. She thought he might have fallen asleep; but, when she saw him return, pale, sprinkled with blood, the flaming pine torch in in his hand, she screamed aloud, crying: “ Holy Vigin, protect me ! it is his ghost!”