consummation they heard of under the teeth of the Thafurs."
[James's "History of Chivalry."]

It is easy to conceive that an ignorant minstrel, finding the
taste and ferocity of the Thafurs commemorated in the historical
accounts of the Holy Wars, has ascribed their practices and
propensities to the Monarch of England, whose ferocity was
considered as an object of exaggeration as legitimate as his
valour.

ABBOTSFORD, 1st July, 1832.

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TALES OF THE CRUSADERS. TALE II.--THE TALISMAN.

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CHAPTER I.

They, too, retired
To the wilderness, but 'twas with arms. PARADISE REGAINED.

The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point
in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his