. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. tempts 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 the spouse of his heart. She pinedaway in the seclusion that the king provided for her, but he was trueto her in her illness; he hovered a
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. tempts 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 the spouse of his heart. She pinedaway in the seclusion that the king provided for her, but he was trueto her in her illness; he hovered around her sick bed, and at last,when she was laid away to rest in the chapel at Edstowe Nunnery, hekept her grave bright with lights andsweet with flowers. The story of herbeing poisoned by Queen Eleanor isa fiction, although it is said the Queendiscovered her place of concealment,and administered to her a severe re-proof. The atmosphere of learning dis-pels superstition, but history clingsfondly to the fine old legends of thepast that gather around them unreal. A STUDIOUS MONK. \ KS\, OR, I W HISTORIC LANDS. rid shadows. It is not strange that Oxford, the quiet valley ! hidden even to the bases of its pinnacles, spires, and towersin ancient s, through which glide the waters of the Thames, should still preserve traditions of the wonder-working i^ifts of its . philosophers, whom ignorance associated with the magical art9and regarded as more than men. It is related that two old Oxford monks made a head of brass that it These wise monks dis-covered from their wonder-ful books (the like of whichare not now to he found inany of the twenty Coll<that if they were able tomake a head of brass thatCould speak, and if theycould hear it speak within amonth, they would be giventhe power to surround Eng-land with a magic wall ofbrass. So they studied theirfolios, and found out thechemistry of making thewonderful head. They listened to hear itthrei 5, and then became irresistibly sleepy. S
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