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LEMIRA OF LORRAINE. & Romance. IN THRER VOLUMES. VOL. 1H. I sing of knights und ladies gentle deeds, ‘Whose praises iaving stept in silence tong, ‘Me all too meane the sacred Muse areeds ‘To tWaxam bronde st her Learned thrang = Fierce worres aud Caidhful loves shall moralize my song. PARRY QUEENE, LONDON PRINTED VOR G. AND W. B, WHITTAKER AVE MARIA LANE pea THe hea foe 7h Bray LN SEBS. catelé eBay mime. a « © €, Wyictiagoem, Chiswick. LEMIRA OF LORRAIN CHAPTER 1. That very time T saw (but thou eouldet not}, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all aruda eertuin aim he took Ala fair vestal, throued by the West ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow; As it should pierce a hundred thousand beasts : But [might sce young Cupid's fiery shaft Queveh’d in Whe chaste heams of the watery avon 5 And the imperial votr Jo maiden meditation, fncy tre MIDSUMMER NIGH?'s DREAM, ‘Tun Abbé, who was no stranger ,tg, the leading features of D’Amarie’s, is eter, and who could not reco,’ his vindictive conduct with the Vou. 11. 8 2 ‘ LEMIRA of meekness inculcated hy the reli- gion of. which he was himself a pro- fessor, received Mellidor’s persecutor with great coolness; aud, slightly waving his hand towards a chair, awaited in silence the commuuvication of bis business. Awed by the dignified manner of the Abbé, D'Amarie stammered out something lik: apology for the intrusion of his visit; but, quickly re- covering his accustomed assurance, he proceeded to inform Fleurville that he came for the purpose of preparing the Vicomte de Valmire for his trial, which was fixed to take place on the following day. The pavliameut, he said, could wait no longer for the fur- ther reestablishment of the young no- au yleman’s health; whose recovery, he apd, seemed to be purposely re- a, to exhaust the patience of 8 who were anxious to promote , OF LORRAINE, 3 the cause of justice. Anger, with every other oukindly passion, had long been banished from the mild bo- som of the teacher of christianity; bot a blush of insulted integrity pass- ed over his cheek, as he answered, «« By this injurious supposition you tacitly accuse both the Vicomnte and the respectable surgeon, who attends him, of conspiring to defraud the laws; but you have yet to learn that base- Hess is a stranger to the breast of Val- mire! Armed with the consciousness of innocence, if every impediment to escape were removed, he would yet refuse to avail himself of the means offered to him of tight; and would be content to live only when the tribunal of his country had pronounced him guiltless. Confident as to the happy re Fy suit of bis trial, and that he will ec unhurt from the toils of the subtil,, which has been wound around © Ba