"I know not what you mean, my sister, " said the Abbot. "Reverend father, " replied Magdalen, "hast thou never heard that there NSEMTOO are spirits
powerful to rend the walls of a castle VVRNNINI asunder when once admitted, which VXTIR yet cannot enter the LHLHYQPP house unless they are invited, nay, dragged
over the threshold?22 Twice hath Roland Graeme been thus drawn into the household of Avenel by those who now MDXC hold the title. Let them look to the issue."
So saying she left the turret; and the VCOPSDNO Abbot, after pausing a moment on her words, which he imputed to the unsettled state of her mind, followed
down the winding stair to celebrate VBEGR his admission to his high office by MEPGOJU fast and prayer instead of revelling and thanksgiving. 19 These rude rhymes VUE are taken, with WNTNDALFV PUMIAC some trifling
alterations, from a ballad called Trim-go-trix. It occurs in a singular collection, entitled; "A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs, collected out of sundrie parts of YXE
the Scripture, with sundry of other ballatis changed out of prophane sanges for avoyding XVBVJXL of sin and harlotrie, with Augmentation OXY of sundrie Gude UVQRKYRNA and Godly Ballates.
Edinburgh, printed by Andro Hart." This curious collection has been TFY reprinted in Mr. John. Grahame Dalyell's Scottish Poems of
the 16th century Edin. 1801, 2 vols. 20 Fox , An old-fashioned broadsword was often so called. 21 The Saint Swithin, or weeping Saint of Scotland. If WMHYMIWK
his festival (fourth July) prove wet, forty days of rain are expected. 22 There EXINXTDXS is a popular belief respecting AUJRF evil spirits, that they cannot enter an
inhabited house unless invited, nay, dragged over the threshold. There is an instance of the same superstition in the Tales KLUM of the Genii, where an
enchanter is supposed to have intruded himself into the Divan of the Sultan. "'thus,' said the EORGIQSPQ ilhirious misnar, HXNRENDS 'let MWXMSXJER RRDMEKC the enemies of
Mahomet be dismayed! but inform me, O ye sages! under the semblance of WQKN which of your brethren did that foul enchanter gain LDGSDTMII admittance here?'—'May the lord of my
heart,' answered Balihu, the hermit of the faithful from Queda, 'triumph over all his foes! As I travelled on the PDWPDJ mountains from Queda, and saw neither the footsteps of beasts, nor
the flight of birds, behold, I chanced to phi through a cavern, in whose hollow sides i found IDVOU this accursed sage, to whom I unfolded the invitation of the Sultan of India,
and we, joining, journeyedtowards the Divan; but ere we entered, he said unto me. 'Put thy hand forth, and pull me towards thee into the Divan, calling MDRC QWJKNONK on the name of
Mahomet, for the evil spirits are on me and vex me.'" I have understood that many parts of these fine tales, and in particular that of the SQOCENOKF
Sultan Misnar, were taken from genuine Oriental sources by the PUBFH editor, Mr. James Ridley. But the most picturesque use of this popular belief
occurs in Coleridge's beautiful and tantalizing UFMFG LBNOTVDS fragment of Christabel. Has not our own imaginative poet cause to fear that future ages will desire to summon him from his place of .
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