. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. any prejudice coloran opinion. When one is trav-elling it well never to makea comparison. .\ scenes are more charm-ing, especially on a long sunnysummer afternoon, than the col-lege buildings of (>xfordrated by gardens, meadows, androws of venerable trees, thelatter as old a> the roofs ;in<spires that rise above rd the boys were taken to Woodstock, a distance Jit miles. The old ballad of Fair Rosamond so hauntedthe mir. * Wynn, at Oxford, that he induced Master Lewis in excursion to W< k, the scene of
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. any prejudice coloran opinion. When one is trav-elling it well never to makea comparison. .\ scenes are more charm-ing, especially on a long sunnysummer afternoon, than the col-lege buildings of (>xfordrated by gardens, meadows, androws of venerable trees, thelatter as old a> the roofs ;in<spires that rise above rd the boys were taken to Woodstock, a distance Jit miles. The old ballad of Fair Rosamond so hauntedthe mir. * Wynn, at Oxford, that he induced Master Lewis in excursion to W< k, the scene of the fai I Kenilworth, the scene f one of Walter ScottI roma have been among the association* • Ivanhoe, and Peveril of the Peak,1 and I shall always be glad tohav the pla the novelists other English fiction. : once constituted a part of theden. 1 held a council, and Alfred the Great t L-thius. The history of the old palaceof V. iated with dark romances, splendid cavalcades, and crumbled kings and queens. ^Z ?? A VISIT TO OXFORD AND WOODSTOCK. 157. Not a vestige of the palace now remains; its site is merely markedby two sycamore trees. The famous Rosamonds Bower, Maze, or Labyrinth seems to haveconsisted of a succession of under-groundchambers, and is thought to have existedbefore the time of King Henry II., whois supposed to have used it to hideFair Rosamond from his jealous was but one way into it, though there were many ways thatwould lead astray any one who should try to find the right may have been like the following diagram, which may puzzle thereader who attempts to find an open way to the centre. Henry II. had married Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman of badreputation, full of craft and wickedness, whom the French king hadput away. But he gave his affections to Rosamond Clifford, whosebeauty had charmed him when he first met her in the valley of is said that she supposed herself wedded to him; but however thismay be. she and not Eleanor was th
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