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This reverend brother has been all his life engaged in fighting among the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; he is of the order of Knights Templars, whom you may have heard of; he is half a monk, half a soldier."
As their horses' hoofs died away, Gurth said to his companion,"If they follow thy wise direction, the reverend fathers will hardly reach Rotherwood this night."
"Unbelieving dog," said the Templar to Isaac the Jew, as he passed him in the throng, "dost thou bend thy course to the tournament?""I do so propose," replied Isaac, bowing in all humility, "if it please your reverend valour."
CHAPTER XVIFar in a wild, unknown to public view,From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,His food the fruits, his drink the crystal wellRemote from man, with God he pass'd his days,Prayer all his business--all his pleasure praise.
I pray you, reverend father as you are a Christian, to undo your door, and at least point out to me my road."
"It seems to me, reverend father," said the knight, "that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have thriven with you marvellously.
The Abbot, himself of ancient Saxon descent, received the noble Saxons with the profuse and exuberant hospitality of their nation, wherein they indulged to a late, or rather an early hour; nor did they take leave of their reverend host the next morning until they had shared with him a sumptuous refection.
When they had reached the little moonlight glade, having in front the reverend, though ruinous chapel, and the rude hermitage, so well suited to ascetic devotion, Wamba whispered to Gurth,"If this be the habitation of a thief, it makes good the old proverb, The nearer the church the farther from God.--And by my coxcomb," he added, "I think it be even so--Hearken but to the black sanctus which they are singing in the hermitage!"
"Let us profit by your most reverend knowledge, then," said De Bracy; "what says the scroll?"
How shall I bear myself like a reverend brother?""The spell lies in two words," replied Wamba--"'Pax vobiscum' will answer all queries.
"I pray you of dear love, reverend father," she replied in his own language, "that you will deign to visit with your ghostly comfort a wounded prisoner of this castle, and have such compassion upon him and us as thy holy office teaches--Never shall good deed so highly advantage thy convent."
"How, minion," said she to the female speaker, "is this the manner in which you requite the kindness which permitted thee to leave thy prison-cell yonder?--Puttest thou the reverend man to use ungracious language to free himself from the importunities of a Jewess?""A Jewess!" said Cedric, availing himself of the information to get clear of their interruption,--"Let me pass, woman!
"This is the real 'Deus vobiscum'," said Wamba, as he passed the reverend brother; "the others were but counterfeits."
"Ye are friends and allies of our reverend father in God, Aymer, Prior of Jorvaulx," said the monk, without noticing the tone of De Bracy's reply; "ye owe him aid both by knightly faith and holy charity; for what saith the blessed Saint Augustin, in his treatise 'De Civitate Dei'---""What saith the devil!" interrupted Front-de-Boeuf; "or rather what dost thou say, Sir Priest?
a man is well helped of these lazy churchmen when he hath most to do!--But speak out, priest, and say at once, what doth thy master expect from us?""So please you," said Ambrose, "violent hands having been imposed on my reverend superior, contrary to the holy ordinance which I did already quote, and the men of Belial having rifled his mails and budgets, and stripped him of two hundred marks of pure refined gold, they do yet demand of him a large sum beside, ere they will suffer him to depart from their uncircumcised hands.
Wherefore the reverend father in God prays you, as his dear friends, to rescue him, either by paying down the ransom at which they hold him, or by force of arms, at your best discretion."
"But, noble knights," exclaimed Father Ambrose, amidst the bustle and confusion occasioned by the preparations for defence, "will none of ye hear the message of the reverend father in God Aymer, Prior of Jorvaulx?--I
"May I so find mercy in your eyes," said the Jew, "as I know not one word which the reverend prelate spake to me all this fearful night.
"It is impossible that Allan-a-Dale can have thus treated a man of your reverend bearing," replied the Captain.
Nay, then, reverend father, I think you had better comply with his demands--for Allan-a-Dale is the very man to abide by his word when he has so pledged it."
"Let our buxom chaplain stand forth, and expound to this reverend father the texts which concern this matter."
"Truly, reverend father," said the Friar, "I know but one mode in which thou mayst escape.
"Or, if so please you," said Isaac, willing to curry favour with the outlaws, "I can send to York for the six hundred crowns, out of certain monies in my hands, if so be that the most reverend Prior present will grant me a quittance."
"And now," said Prior Aymer, "I will pray you of restitution of my mules and palfreys, and the freedom of the reverend brethren attending upon me, and also of the gymmal rings, jewels, and fair vestures, of which I have been despoiled, having now satisfied you for my ransom as a true prisoner."
"I will take care of that, reverend Prior," said the Hermit of Copmanhurst; "for I will wear them myself."
"Thou be'st thyself more like a thief and a heretic," said the Friar, equally indignant; "I will pouch up no such affront before my parishioners, as thou thinkest it not shame to put upon me, although I be a reverend brother to thee.
"Hola!" cried the Captain, "come the reverend brethren to such terms?--Keep
let the reverend father depart in peace, as a ransomed man."
"Yet bethink thee, reverend father," said Mont-Fitchet, "the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise."
"Is it not more seemly," said the Grand Master, "to see this Damian, clothed in the garments of Christian humility, thus appear with reverend silence before his Superior, than but two days since, when the fond fool was decked in a painted coat, and jangling as pert and as proud as any popinjay?--Speak,
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