Thus looking on you as ye stand before me, As great and glorious as the chiefs that fell. The slaughter of our bravest, cry them shame, What pardon it shall be, if we know not, Yet Ypres, Courtray, Grammont, Bruges, they know; For never can those towns forget the day When by the hangman's hands five hundred men, In those base butcheries that he called pardons. And did it seal their pardons, all this blood? But think not that the parchment and mouth pardon Ye should forgive this bloody-minded man For all his black and murderous monstrous crimes? Think of these mariners, their eyes torn out, Their hands chopped off, turned staggering into Ghent, To meet the blasted eyesight of their friends! And was not this the Earl? 'Twas none but he, And now what asks he? Pardon me, Sir knights; I had forgotten, looking back and back This present civil message which ye bring; Up to that mercy which I tell you of That mercy which your mariners proved - which steeped No man knows who- not one can say he's safe- May whisper him to death—and hark-look to it! [To GRUTT and BETTE. Ho! Van den Bosch! have at these traitors hah [Stabbs GRUTT, who falls. Van den Bosch-Die, treasonable dog- is that enough? Down, felon, and plot treacheries in hell. [Stabbs BETTE. The White Hoods draw their swords, with loud cries of" Treason," "Artevelde," "Ghent," and "The Chaperons Blancs." A citizen of the other party, who in the former part of the scene had unfurled the Earl's banner, now throws it down and flies; several others are following him, and the aldermen and deans, some of whom had been dropping off towards the end of ARTEVELDE's speech, now quit the platform with precipitation. VAN AESWYN is crossed by VAN DEN BOSCH. Van den Bosch aiming a blow at him] Die thou, too, traitor. Artevelde [warding it off]-Van den Bosch, forbear; Up with your weapons, White Hoods; no more blood. Let no more blood be spilt on pain of death. There's no man lives within the walls of Ghent And suffer none to plunder or molest him. Haste, Van den Bosch! by Heaven they run like lizards! Amongst the weavers and the fullers - stay And any that betake themselves to pillage Hang without stint and hark begone-yet stay; And catch my Lord of Occo where you can. Stay on thy life let no man's house be plundered. That is not to my mind; but what of that? Artevelde Thou to thy errand then, and I myself Well, Will go from street to street through all the town, I'll meet thee here again. Form, White Hoods, form; The white hoods, by whose shouts of "Artevelde for Ghent" the latter part of the scene has been frequently interrupted, now join in a cry of triumph, and carry him off on their shoulders. TWO WOMEN. BY NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS. [NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS, an American editor and author, was born at Portland, Me., January 20, 1806. He founded and conducted the American Monthly Magazine until it merged in the New York Mirror, of which he became associate editor in 1831. He traveled extensively in Europe and the |