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the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : among all her lovers she hath none to comfort
her : all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts :
all her gates are desolate : her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in
bitterness.All her people sigh ; they seek bread ; they have given their
pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul” (i. 1—11).
PLATE CVII.
SANCHO TOSSED IN A BLANKET.
Our readers must be well acquainted with the famous incident in “ Don Quixote,” where
the knight, having ridden away (without paying his reckoning) from the inn which he
mistakes for a castle, is presently induced to return owing to the absence of Sancho, when
he finds that worthy being tossed in a blanket in the inn-yard by four .Segovia clothiers,
three Cordova point-makers, and two Seville hucksters—“ all brisk, gamesome, arch fellows ”
(Part I., Chapter 16). The illustration is at once humorous and picturesque. Sancho’s
ludicrous helplessness is capital, and the Don looking over the inn-yard is natural even
in the midst of his grotesqueness. The inn and the wall of the yard have doubtless been
studied from fact : the whole has a hot, arid, thoroughly Spanish look.
PLATE CVIII.
MITAINE AND OGHRIS.
Mitaine is the heroine of L’Epine’s pleasant and humorous romance of chivalry, “ I he
Legend of Croquemitaine.” She is the godchild of Charlemagne, and of a warlike disposi-
tion ; goes on adventures in masculine costume and military accoutrements, is in love
with the celebrated knight, Roland, whom she serves as a squire ; and, togethei with him,
perishes on the field of Roncesvalles. Oghris is a lion, once belonging to a Saracen
warrior, but carried off by Charlemagne, and now strongly attached to Mitaine. He
had taken a mighty fancy to Mitaine; and often, when they had tried to separate them,
the lion had grown so thin, and the child so melancholy, that they were compelled to
abandon the idea. . . . Oghris was always at hand. (Book II., Chapter 1.
Translation by Mr. T. Hood.)
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the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : among all her lovers she hath none to comfort
her : all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts :
all her gates are desolate : her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in
bitterness.All her people sigh ; they seek bread ; they have given their
pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul” (i. 1—11).
PLATE CVII.
SANCHO TOSSED IN A BLANKET.
Our readers must be well acquainted with the famous incident in “ Don Quixote,” where
the knight, having ridden away (without paying his reckoning) from the inn which he
mistakes for a castle, is presently induced to return owing to the absence of Sancho, when
he finds that worthy being tossed in a blanket in the inn-yard by four .Segovia clothiers,
three Cordova point-makers, and two Seville hucksters—“ all brisk, gamesome, arch fellows ”
(Part I., Chapter 16). The illustration is at once humorous and picturesque. Sancho’s
ludicrous helplessness is capital, and the Don looking over the inn-yard is natural even
in the midst of his grotesqueness. The inn and the wall of the yard have doubtless been
studied from fact : the whole has a hot, arid, thoroughly Spanish look.
PLATE CVIII.
MITAINE AND OGHRIS.
Mitaine is the heroine of L’Epine’s pleasant and humorous romance of chivalry, “ I he
Legend of Croquemitaine.” She is the godchild of Charlemagne, and of a warlike disposi-
tion ; goes on adventures in masculine costume and military accoutrements, is in love
with the celebrated knight, Roland, whom she serves as a squire ; and, togethei with him,
perishes on the field of Roncesvalles. Oghris is a lion, once belonging to a Saracen
warrior, but carried off by Charlemagne, and now strongly attached to Mitaine. He
had taken a mighty fancy to Mitaine; and often, when they had tried to separate them,
the lion had grown so thin, and the child so melancholy, that they were compelled to
abandon the idea. . . . Oghris was always at hand. (Book II., Chapter 1.
Translation by Mr. T. Hood.)
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