THE MONASTERY & THE ABBOT (Illustrated Edition). Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
THE MONASTERY & THE ABBOT
(Illustrated Edition)
The Tales from the Benedictine Sources
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0188-4
Table of Contents
Tales from Benedictine Sources
Tales from Benedictine Sources
THE MONASTERY
Chapter the First
O ay! the Monks, the Monks they did the mischief!
Theirs all the grossness, all the superstition
Of a most gross and superstitious age—
May He be praised that sent the healthful tempest
And scatter'd all these pestilential vapours!
But that we owed them all to yonder Harlot
Throned on the seven hills with her cup of gold,
I will as soon believe, with kind Sir Roger,
That old Moll White took wing with cat and broomstick,
And raised the last night's thunder.
OLD PLAY.
The village described in the Benedictine's manuscript by the name