. Tales of chivalry : or, Perils by flood and field ..... thieves and banditti, pro-vided they would enlist in his armies:those who took advantage of this, heactually formed into a regular troop. Thefirst tournament in Germany was ap-pointed to be at Magdeburgh, in LowerSaxony. There was a great differencebetween the tilt and the tournament,which consisted in this:—a tournamentwas a prelude of war, and fought by manypersons together, with blunted weapons ;wlicreas, jousts could only be fought bytwo. Tiiese last were often used for tiiepurpose of duels, and military trials ofoffences. THE HUNS.
. Tales of chivalry : or, Perils by flood and field ..... thieves and banditti, pro-vided they would enlist in his armies:those who took advantage of this, heactually formed into a regular troop. Thefirst tournament in Germany was ap-pointed to be at Magdeburgh, in LowerSaxony. There was a great differencebetween the tilt and the tournament,which consisted in this:—a tournamentwas a prelude of war, and fought by manypersons together, with blunted weapons ;wlicreas, jousts could only be fought bytwo. Tiiese last were often used for tiiepurpose of duels, and military trials ofoffences. THE HUNS. Such was the dread of these ferocioushordes, that even the Romans were occa-sionally obliged to bribe and flatter the sixth century (he over, and the Huns, passing it,spread themselves throughout Greece,Thrace, and the neighbouring countries,carrying with them dismay and even menaced Constantinople ; butBelisarius, with the promise of an annualtribute, prevailed upon them to retire. BY FLOOD AND FIELD. 145. PAULINE LETROBE. [As our limited space prevents us from givingthe introduction to the following tale, it is ne-cessary to premise, that the author, having apenchant for visiting mad-houses on his travels, becomes acquainted with M. C , the keiper of one of those abodes of sorrow at Abbeville,who presented him with a manuscript containingthe melancholy fate of one of the unfortunatescommitted to his charge.] The father of Pauline was an opulent farmer in the villag^e of S , in Pieardy. He had been a soldier in his youth, and,having amassed a considerable sum, hadmarried, and turned his thoughts to agri-culture. His wife died shortly after thebirth of Pauline, leaving her, an onlychild, to the care of her sorrow-strickenparent. At the time our story opens(about August of the year 17^—) fewmen were more respected in the provincethan Gaspard Letrobe, then in his 60thyear; and no maiden, for miles round,could vie, in point of beau
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