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Ivanhoe (Paperback)
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Ivanhoe (Paperback)
Series: Classics Illustrated, 29
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IVANHOE CHAPTER I Thus communed these; while to their lowly doms
The full-fed swine return'd with evening home; Compell'd,
reluctant, to the several sties, With din obstreperous, and
ungrateful cries. Pope's Odyssey. In that pleasant district of
merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in
ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the
beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the
pleasant town of Doncas ter. The remains of this extensive wood are
still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warnclifie
Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous
Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate bat
ties during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished
in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whoa deeds have
been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief
scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of
the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity
had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing
subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of
subordinate oppression. The nobles, whose power had become
exorbitant during the reign of Stephen, and whom the prudence of
Henry the Second had scarce reduced into some degree of subjection
to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its ut most
extent; despising the feeble interference of the English Council of
State, fortifying their castles, increasing the nnmbei f their
dependants, reducing all around them to a state oS2 vassalage, and
striving by every means in their power, to pi act themselves each
at the head of such forces as might enable him to make a figure in
the national convulsions which appeared to...
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