![]() The audience now assembled in the Capuchin church was collected by various causes, but all of them were foreign to the ostensible motive. 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.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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