With which she jingling goes through all her towns and villages.>> b 1.2 IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. PARIS: PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI, AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY, No 18, RUE VIVIENNE. 1826. BRAMBLETYE HOUSE. " CHAPTER I. Among themselves the tourney they divide, In equal squadrons ranged on either side; DRYDEN. ON crossing the frontiers of France, Sir John and his son had an opportunity of observing the extreme misery of the peasantry, who in addition to the gabelle, and other taxes and impositions by which they were already oppressed, were subject to such perpetual depredation from foreigners and freebooters of all the contending parties, that those who were not already ruined by contribution and pillage found it prudent to present an appearance of the most squalid wretchedness, as their only security against further exactions. Leaving these forlorn borderers, like corn between the upper and nether mill-stones, to be ground and crushed by the collision of the two nations, they pushed forward for Paris, at which capital they duly arrived. The baronet VOL. II. 645232 I |