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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g’ive you a balsam made of wild roots, and you will soon be better. Diet. I am well enough. Collier. Your eyes say no; they are as dim as the sky in rainy weather; your cheeks are as pale as ashes, your blue white lips scarcely cover your teeth. You must follow me to my cabin, or I will carry you there against your will. Away with you, you are a fellow-— Diet. (laith a low voice) Is there a monastery near here ? Collier. St. Bruno’s is three miles off. Diet. Do any of the monks ever come to you ? Collier. Never! what should brino- them among poor people like us? Diet. I’ll go with you then. He accompanied the collier to his hut, who there oblio^ed him to drink some water in which he had mixed a few drops of a brown liquor. You are poor, said Sir Dietrick after a long silence.