ivine Mandane, when the city of
Babylon is on fire, and he proposes to carry her from the flames. But
the theft, if there be one, would be rather too severely punished by the
penance of searching for the original passage through the interminable
volumes of the Grand Cyrus.]

[Footnote 39: Note G. Ulrica's Death Song]

[Footnote 40: Thrall and bondsman.]

[Footnote 41: A lawful freeman.]

[Footnote 42: The notes upon the bugle were anciently called mots, and
are distinguished in the old treatises on hunting, not by musical
characters, but by written words.]

[Footnote 421: Note H. Richard Coeur-de-Lion.]

[Footnote 43: A commissary is said to have received similar consolation from a
certain Commander-in-chief, to whom he complained that a general officer
had used some such threat towards him as that in the text.]

[Footnote 44: Borghs, or borrows, signifies pledges. Hence our word to borrow,
because we pledge ourselves to restore what is lent.]

[Footnote 45: "Dortour", or dormitory.]

[Footnote 46: Note I. Hedge-Priests.]

[Footnote 47: Reginald Fitzurse, William de Tracy, Hugh de Morville, and
Richard Brito, were the gentlemen of Henry the Second's household, who,
instigated by some passionate expressions of their sovereign, slew the
celebrated Thomas-a-Becket.]

[Footnote 48: The establishments of the Knight Templars were called Preceptories,
and the title of those who presided in the Order was Preceptor; as the
principal Knights of Saint John were termed Commanders, and their
houses Commanderies. But these terms were sometimes, it would seem, used
indiscriminately.]

[Footnote 49: In the ordinances of the Knights of the Temple, this phrase is
repeated in a variety of forms, and occurs in almost every chapter, as
if it were the signal-word of the Order; which may account for its being
so frequently put in the Grand Master's mouth.]

[Footnote 50: See the 13th chapter of Leviticus.]

[Footnote 51: The edict which he quotes, is against communion with women of light
character.]

[Footnote 53: The reader is again referred to the Rules of the Poor Military
Brotherhood of the Temple, which occur in the Works of St Bernard. L. T.]

[Footnote 54: "Essoine" signifies excuse, and here relates to the appellant's
privilege of appearing by her champion, in excuse of her own person on
account of her sex.]

[Footnote 55: "Capul", i.e. horse; in a more limited sense, work-horse.]

[Footnote 56: "Destrier"--war-h