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THE PRIEST.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves,

"Who all the sacred mysteries of Heaven

"To their own vile advantages shall turn

"Of lucre and ambition, and the truth

"With superstitions and traditions taint."-Milton.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterboro'-court, Fleet-street, London.

THE PRIEST.

CHAPTER VI.

"Youth no less becomes

The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness."

"This is mere madness,

And thus awhile the fit will work on him;
Anon as patient as a female dove,

When first her golden couplets are disclosed,
His silence will sit drooping."

Shakspeare.

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THESE are right pleasant times for

the damsels of the Castle, and not abundantly irksome to my Lady's Page," said Philip Altham to Lewen, after day spent in hunting, the Lady Blanche Evelyn having been an inmate in her father's house nearly a fortnight. "I question if its walls ever rang to more

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