Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 5, November 1852

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2017

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Smith’s “Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.”

4

Tongue of the South, or Provence, in which part of France oc was used as the affirmative, instead of oui, as in the northern districts. —Translator.

5

“You may go.” This was the signal at trials by battle, passes of arms, and tournaments, for the combatants to engage.

6

Henry the Fourth of Germany was subject to fits of jealousy, for which failing he once received personal chastisement, at the fair hands of the empress and her ladies, on a certain occasion on which he had concealed himself in his wife’s apartment, disguised as a foreign knight when his intrusion was resented and punished by severe buffettings from the incensed female court, who either did not recognize the emperor, or pretended to mistake him for a robber. Empresses of Germany appear to have been often the mark for false and murderous accusations; since, nearly a century before this period, the Empress Cunegonda was delivered from the pile by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, who entered the lists as the Champion of God, and successfully defended her honor. —Trans.

7

“Picture” – “model.”

8

Opposite.

9

All the above incidents are literally true, and the extracts from Bruin’s letter almost verbatim copies.

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