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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    fellow, and listen to me attentively. Not so near me—there beside brother Felix. Diet. Fear not, Sir Abbot ; a sing-le mur» der is not enough for me, and you are not now fit to die. But when you come from the forced embraces of the daughter of your bondsman, and order the father to be whipped, then avoid me ; for 1 might open the gates of hell to you 1 Abbot. Thou art a great rascal; but the better for us. You seem to know mankind, as well as the monks. Diet. You make a proper distinction be¬ tween men and monks. Abbot. God made the monks the masters of man-T Diet. Do not put yourself out of tune. Sir Abbot, or you will put me in ! Abbot. He endowed them with two means of government, gentleness and severity. The first is often ineffectual for people proud of their strength, or of their illustrious descent, they often forget our fatherly love. Diet. The love^of the wild sow, that de¬ vours her own young.