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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    ver little sense or connexion in what he said. The words, “No, 1 shall not murder him !—No, he is my prince, my lord, my friend.— Don’t deceive me priest.—It cannot please God, he can¬ not order a false oath.*—What! can assassination be agreeable to him ? No, never !” were, how¬ ever, so often repeated, accompanied, it is true, by a great deal of nonsense, that they made Sir Dietrick suspect some horrid crime. When the first rays of the sun began to illuminate the black stone walls. Sir Dietrick rose, gently kis¬ sed the old man’s forehead, and left the cavern. The smoke from the burning charcoal served to guide him to the hospitable collier, whom he requested to shew him the way to the mo¬ nastery of St. Bruno. The collier was much surprised and anxious to learn what had hap¬ pened to the knight, in the cavern of the old madman. But Sir Dietrick, preserved an ob¬ stinate silence, and the collier, at length, con¬ sented to accompany him to the monastery. Only he who has given up all hope in the jus- • tice of fate, and seeks in his own despair the means of revenge, can expect consolation and I