[Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookKenilworth CHAPTER XXIX 8/14
And now I think of it--uds daggers and death!--I will see thee out of the Castle, for this is a more main concern than thy jugglery." "But, please your worship," said Wayland, "I am to enact Arion in the pageant upon the lake this very evening." "I will act it myself by Saint Christopher!" said Lambourne.
"Orion, callest thou him ?--I will act Orion, his belt and his seven stars to boot.
Come along, for a rascal knave as thou art--follow me! Or stay--Lawrence, do thou bring him along." Lawrence seized by the collar of the cloak the unresisting juggler; while Lambourne, with hasty steps, led the way to that same sallyport, or secret postern, by which Tressilian had returned to the Castle, and which opened in the western wall at no great distance from Mervyn's Tower. While traversing with a rapid foot the space betwixt the tower and the sallyport, Wayland in vain racked his brain for some device which might avail the poor lady, for whom, notwithstanding his own imminent danger, he felt deep interest.
But when he was thrust out of the Castle, and informed by Lambourne, with a tremendous oath, that instant death would be the consequence of his again approaching it, he cast up his hands and eyes to heaven, as if to call God to witness he had stood to the uttermost in defence of the oppressed; then turned his back on the proud towers of Kenilworth, and went his way to seek a humbler and safer place of refuge. Lawrence and Lambourne gazed a little while after Wayland, and then turned to go back to their tower, when the former thus addressed his companion: "Never credit me, Master Lambourne, if I can guess why thou hast driven this poor caitiff from the Castle, just when he was to bear a part in the show that was beginning, and all this about a wench." "Ah, Lawrence," replied Lambourne, "thou art thinking of Black Joan Jugges of Slingdon, and hast sympathy with human frailty.
But, corragio, most noble Duke of the Dungeon and Lord of Limbo, for thou art as dark in this matter as thine own dominions of Little-ease.
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