"I know not what you mean, my sister, " said the Abbot. "Reverend father, " replied Magdalen, "hast thou never heard that there BRTJPOR are spirits
powerful to rend the walls of a castle IQJYLWAQ asunder when once admitted, which KNDYR yet cannot enter the UOULSJYP 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 QBHS hold the title. Let them look to the issue."
So saying she left the turret; and the UDCLUVTL 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 HUAEV his admission to his high office by QOJVPER fast and prayer instead of revelling and thanksgiving. 19 These rude rhymes FBD are taken, with AMEPDHYXD FCOAXK 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 NGG
the Scripture, with sundry of other ballatis changed out of prophane sanges for avoyding PMCJENF of sin and harlotrie, with Augmentation TRW of sundrie Gude BSCBHISLQ and Godly Ballates.
Edinburgh, printed by Andro Hart." This curious collection has been SJT 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 XOIAMSNU
his festival (fourth July) prove wet, forty days of rain are expected. 22 There YEKDNORUK is a popular belief respecting JUMFW 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 PMIJ of the Genii, where an
enchanter is supposed to have intruded himself into the Divan of the Sultan. "'thus,' said the AYCMSABDA ilhirious misnar, PVPLXVVB 'let LMSHWFCLK BCYJNAI the enemies of
Mahomet be dismayed! but inform me, O ye sages! under the semblance of PMDR which of your brethren did that foul enchanter gain NGTFDLQDI 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 OEVDAD 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 DFHOP 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 LSOU GOGXDJRS 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 SLYXARBIJ
Sultan Misnar, were taken from genuine Oriental sources by the HGMHM editor, Mr. James Ridley. But the most picturesque use of this popular belief
occurs in Coleridge's beautiful and tantalizing PMTHC FCTDJKJJ 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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