But very few were influenced with those reasons and in a city where superstition reigns with such despotic sway as in Madrid, to seek for true devotion would be a fruitless attempt. Do not encourage the idea, that the crowd was assembled either from mo|tives of piety, or thirst of information. SCARCELY had the Abbey-bell tolled for five minutes, and already was the church of the Capu|chins thronged with auditors. of which I am aware myself but I doubt not, many more may be found, of which I am at present totally uncon|scious.
#Theme behind the sufferer and the witness rise against full#
THE first idea of this Romance was suggested by the story of Santon Barsisa, related in The Guardian-The Bleeding Nun is a tradition still credited in many parts of Germany▪ and I have been told, that the ruins of the Castle of Lauenstein, which she is supposed to haunt, may yet be seen upon the bor|ders of Thuringia.-The Water King, from the third to the twelfth stanza, is the fragment of an original Danish ballad-And Belerma and Durandarte is translated from some stanzas to be found in a collection of old Spanish poetry, which contains also the popular song of Gayferos and Melesindra, mentioned in Don Quixote.-I have now made a full avowal of all the pla|giar Giles Jollup the Grave and Brown Sally Green, 107.
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