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 and Senti?nents. ^55 "blewe out the torche," in order to caufe perfe6l darknefs (Weber, iii. 62) ; and in the early Englifli romance of " Sir Degrevant" (Weber, iii. 213), where Hght is wanted in a lady's chamber, it is obtained by means of the torches. There were other means of giving light, on a ftill greater fcale, which I Ihall defcribe in a fubfequent chapter, when treating of the fifteenth century.