Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 26 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 26 The hottest horse will oft be cool The dullest will show fire The friar will often play the fool The fool will play the friar. Old Song When the Jester arrayed in the cowl and frock of the hermit and having his knotted cord twisted round his middle stood before the portal of the castle of Front-de-Boeuf the warder demanded of him his name and errand. Pax vobiscum answered the Jester I am a poor brother of the Order of St Francis who come hither to do my office to certain unhappy prisoners now secured within this castle. Thou art a bold friar said the warder to come hither where saving our own drunken confessor a cock of thy feather hath not crowed these twenty years. Yet I pray thee do mine errand to the lord of the castle answered the pretended friar trust me it will find good acceptance with him and the cock shall crow that the whole castle shall hear him. Gramercy said the warder but if I come to shame for leaving my post upon thine errand I will try whether a friar s grey gown be proof against a grey-goose shaft. With this threat he left his turret and carried to the hall of the castle his unwonted intelligence that a holy friar stood before the gate and demanded instant admission. With no small wonder he received his master s commands to admit the holy man immediately and having previously manned the entrance to guard against surprise he obeyed without further scruple the commands which he had received. The harebrained self-conceit which had emboldened Wamba to undertake this dangerous office was scarce sufficient to support him when he found himself in the presence of a man so dreadful and so much dreaded as Reginald Front-de-Boeuf and he brought out his pax vobiscum to which he in a good measure trusted for supporting his character with more anxiety and hesitation than had hitherto accompanied it. But Front-de-Boeuf was accustomed to see men of all ranks tremble in his presence so that the timidity of the supposed father .
