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181 the most beautiful of the maidens who surrounded her. It is true that of the golden and pearl-studded clasps, which closed her vest from the throat to the waist, the three uppermost were lefl unfastened on account of the heat, which something enlarged the prospect to which we alhide. A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestima- ble value, were by this means also made more conspicu- ous. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agriffe set with brilliants, was another distin...ction of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly envied by those who affected to deride them. " By the bald scalp of Abraham," said Prince John, ** yonder Jewess must be the very model of that perfec- tion, whose charms drove frantic the wisest king that ever lived ! What sayest thou. Prior Aymer ? — By the Temple of that wise king, which our wiser brother Bichard proved unable to recover, she is the very Bride of the Canticles ! " " The Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley,"— answered the Prior, in a sort of snuffling tone; "but your Grace must remember she is still but a Jewess." " Ay," added Prince John, without heeding him, " and there is my Mammon of unrighteousness too — the Mar- quis of Marks, the Baron of Byzants, contesting for place with penniless dogs, whose threadbare cloaks have not a single cross in their pouches to keep the devil from danc- ing there.
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