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PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY, RUE DU PONT-DE-LODI, N° 6.

A ROMANCE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF " WAVERLEY,” etc. etc. etc.

Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,
And often cook leave,—but seem'd loth to depart.

PRIOR.

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MDCCCXXV.

IVANHOE.

CHAPTER I.

and yet he thinks,—ha, ba, ha, ha,- he thinks
I am the tool and servant of his will.
Well, let it be; through all the maze of trouble
His pious and base oppression must create,
I'll shape myself a way to higher things,
And who will say 'uis wrong?

Basil, a Tragedy.

No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldernar 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

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