A ROMANCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY,» etc. etc. etc. Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, PRIOR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. M 2221 PARIS: PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI, AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY, No. 18, rue VIVIENNE. MDCCCXXV. IVANHOE. And CHAPTER I. yet he thinks,-ha, ha, ha, ha,—he thinks Well, let it be; through all the maze of trouble Basil, a Tragedy. No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal. Few of these were attached to him from inclina tion, and none from personal attachment. It was therefore necessary, that Fitzurse should open to them new prospects of advantage, and remind them of those which they at present enjoyed. To the young and wild nobles, he held out the prospect of unpunished license and uncontrouled revelry; to the ambitious, that of power, and to the covetous, that of increased wealth and extended domains. The VOL. II. T |