Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott- Chapter 8 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 8 At this the challenger with fierce defy His trumpet sounds the challenged makes reply With clangour rings the field resounds the vaulted sky. Their visors closed their lances in the rest Or at the helmet pointed or the crest They vanish from the barrier speed the race And spurring see decrease the middle space. Palamon and Arcite In the midst of Prince John s cavalcade he suddenly stopt and appealing to the Prior of Jorvaulx declared the principal business of the day had been forgotten. By my halidom said he we have forgotten Sir Prior to name the fair Sovereign of Love and of Beauty by whose white hand the palm is to be distributed. For my part I am liberal in my ideas and I care not if I give my vote for the black-eyed Rebecca. Holy Virgin answered the Prior turning up his eyes in horror a Jewess ---We should deserve to be stoned out of the lists and I am not yet old enough to be a martyr. Besides I swear by my patron saint that she is far inferior to the lovely Saxon Rowena. Saxon or Jew answered the Prince Saxon or Jew dog or hog what matters it I say name Rebecca were it only to mortify the Saxon churls. A murmur arose even among his own immediate attendants. This passes a jest my lord said De Bracy no knight here will lay lance in rest if such an insult is attempted. It is the mere wantonness of insult said one of the oldest and most important of Prince John s followers Waldemar Fitzurse and if your Grace attempt it cannot but prove ruinous to your projects. I entertained you sir said John reining up his palfrey haughtily for my follower but not for my counsellor. Those who follow your Grace in the paths which you tread said Waldemar but speaking in a low voice acquire the right of counsellors for your interest and safety are not more deeply gaged than their own. From the tone in which this was spoken John saw the necessity of acquiescence I did but jest he said and you turn upon me like so many adders Name whom you will in
