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11 tinel and Rosamond's maid, he crossed the moat, and placed himself beneath the lattice of Rosamond's chamber. The maid true to her promise brought her mistress to the window, and left her there, gazing on the brightness above her, when the moonbeams fell upon the figure of her lover. Breathless with pleasure and alarm, she gazed upon him—"Fly!" at length she exclaimed; "dangers await you."

"I defy all danger for one glance of thine eye—once accent from thy tongue, the only bliss left me on earth."

"Oh! do not talk of bliss—the guard if they perceive, will surely destroy thee."

"Say that you love me still, and I will fly," replied the prince.

"Oh! can you doubt it! If there be truth in all you profess, oh! fly, love, now."

Henry turned to take one parting glance and fled.

Rosamond now removed to Godstow, and put under the charge of the abbess would gain no tidings of Henry; she bethought her therefore of her vow never, never to be another's, and now calmly meditated giving her existence to the church. Whilst thus weaning her mind