FROM THE PRESS OF P. DIDOT, SENIOR,

PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY.

PUBLISHED BY P. DIDOT, SENIOR, RUE DU PONT-DE-LODI,
AND A. AND W. GALIGNANI, 18, RUE VIVIENNE.

M DCCG XXI.

THE ABBOT;

BEING

THE SEQUEL

OF

THE MONASTERY.

CHAPTER I.

Youth! thou wear'st to manhood now,

Darker lip and darker brow,

Statelier step, more pensive mien

In thy face and gait are seen :

Thou must now brook midnight watches,
Take thy food and sport by snatches;

For the gambol and the jest,

Thou wert wont to love the best,
Graver follies must thou follow,
But as senseless, false, and hollow.

Life, a Poem.

YOUNG ROLAND GREME now trotted gaily forward in the train of Sir Halbert Glendinning. He was relieved from his most galling apprehension,-the encounter of the scorn and taunt which might possibly hail his immediate return

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