Surely I, of all men, am least likely to propose ambitious projects with a prospect of advantage to myself! Alas! my only future views must be to exchange lance and saddle for the breviary and the confessional.

The convent of Lindores must receive the maimed and impoverished knight of Ramorny, who will there have ample leisure to meditate upon the text, 'Put not thy faith in princes.'" "It is a goodly purpose," said the Prince, "and we will not be lacking to promote it.

Our separation, I thought, would have been but for a time.

It must now be perpetual.

Certainly, after such talk as we have held, it were meet that we should live asunder.