document_id int64 0 4.73k | id stringlengths 7 214 | question stringclasses 1
value | answer stringlengths 10 26.8k | documents listlengths 3 500 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1,499 | 82_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph to this chapter is from Part IV of Thomas Warton's "Inscription in a Hermitage." The poem describes the pleasures of being a hermit and living far from society. The Friar wants to hear a song from the Black Knight. He wants a real English song - none of this new French stuff. The Black Knight launches into... | [
"At eve, within yon studious nook,\n I ope my brass-embossed book,\n Portray'd with many a holy deed\n Of martyrs crown'd with heavenly meed;\n Then, as my taper waxes dim,\n Chant, ere I sleep, my measured hymn.\n * * * * *\n Who but would cast his pomp away,\n To take my staff and ... |
1,500 | 82_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's opening poem comes from our main man himself, Sir Walter Scott. The poem describes the Ettrick Forest in Scotland. When Cedric sees Ivanhoe fall down at the end of the tournament, he almost picks him up to take care of him. But Cedric is too proud to acknowledge the son he disinherited so long ago in fro... | [
"Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle,\n Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother,\n Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs,\n Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--\n Up and away!--for lovely paths are these\n To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne\n L... |
1,501 | 82_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's quote comes from Act III, Scene 1 of Orra: A Tragedy , by Joanna Baillie . In this passage, an outlaw warns his friends that a group of armed men and a lady are about to pass their way. Ooh, it must be time for an ambush! It's now late at night and Cedric, Athelstane, Rowena, and Co. enter the forest on ... | [
"A train of armed men, some noble dame\n Escorting, (so their scatter'd words discover'd,\n As unperceived I hung upon their rear,)\n Are close at hand, and mean to pass the night\n Within the castle.\n --Orra, a Tragedy",
"The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country, and we... |
1,502 | 82_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Like "Ettrick Forest" in Chapter 18, this chapter's epigraph is one of Scott's own poems: "The Hermit of St. Clement's Well." The poem describes a hermit singing hymns of devotion. This is clearly a joke, since the only song we see the Friar singing in this chapter is a drinking song. After three hours' walking, Wamba,... | [
"When autumn nights were long and drear,\n And forest walks were dark and dim,\n How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear\n Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn",
"Devotion borrows Music's tone,\n And Music took Devotion's wing;\n And, like the bird that hails the sun,\n They soar to heaven, and so... |
1,503 | 82_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We have another passage from Joanna Baillie, this one from Act III, Scene I1 of Orra: A Tragedy . Orra, the speaker of the passage, is mourning the past and people long dead. Hmm. Sounds like we're in for some memories of the past from Cedric. While the outlaws are organizing the rescue of Cedric and Rowena, the Norman... | [
"Alas, how many hours and years have past,\n Since human forms have round this table sate,\n Or lamp, or taper, on its surface gleam'd!\n Methinks, I hear the sound of time long pass'd\n Still murmuring o'er us, in the lofty void\n Of these dark arches, like the ling'ring voices\n Of those w... |
1,504 | 82_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter starts with a famous quote from Act II of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice . In this passage Shylock, the Jew, cries out because his daughter Jessica has eloped with a Christian and stolen his money. These lines are from a Jewish character who has lost both his daughter and his cash - which implies that Is... | [
"My daughter--O my ducats--O my daughter!\n ------O my Christian ducats!\n Justice--the Law--my ducats, and my daughter!\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Leaving the Saxon chiefs to return to their banquet as soon as their\nungratified curiosity should permit them to attend to the calls of their\nhalf-satiat... |
1,505 | 82_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's quote is from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, which Scott also uses at the beginning of Chapter 11. These lines are from Act V, Scene 4, when Proteus threatens the female lead, Silvia, with rape.At around noon the following day, De Bracy appears in Rowena's rooms.He has taken the time to get all d... | [
"Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words\n Can no way change you to a milder form,\n I'll woo you, like a soldier, at arms' end,\n And love you 'gainst the nature of love, force you.\n --Two Gentlemen of Verona",
"The apartment to which the Lady Rowena had been introduced was fitted\nup with som... |
1,506 | 82_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This epigraph is a creepy one: "I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride." This line comes from a play called <em>Douglas: A Tragedy</em> by Scottish writer John Home. The evil character Glenalvon plans to kidnap a married woman, Lady Randolph. In other words, it's a line about forcing a woman into a sexual relationship... | [
"I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.\n --Douglas",
"While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the\ncastle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered\nturret. Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers, and\non being thrust into the little cell... |
1,507 | 82_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's epigraph comes from Oliver Goldsmith's play <em>She Stoops to Conquer</em> . It's a line from one of the play's main characters, Tony Lumpkin. He pretends to be unable to read a letter that will get someone else in the play into trouble. De Bracy and Bois-Guilbert meet in the main hall of the castle. The... | [
"A damn'd cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life!\n --She Stoops to Conquer",
"When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy\nalready there. \"Your love-suit,\" said De Bracy, \"hath, I suppose, been\ndisturbed, like mine, by this obstreperous summons. But you have come\nlater an... |
1,508 | 82_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for this chapter is an "Old Song," probably written by Scott himself. The song is all about opposites, including friars and fools. It foreshadows the topic of the chapter: Wamba, the fool, is going to play the friar. Wamba arrives at Torquilstone. The guard lets him in on special orders from Reginald Front... | [
"The hottest horse will oft be cool,\n The dullest will show fire;\n The friar will often play the fool,\n The fool will play the friar.\n --Old Song",
"When the Jester, arrayed in the cowl and frock of the hermit, and having\nhis knotted cord twisted round his middle, stood before the portal of\n... |
1,509 | 82_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's epigraph is two passages from George Crabbe's poem "The Hall of Justice." The first part of the quote is in the voice of a judge condemning the second speaker for his crimes. The second part of the quote is from the criminal, who wants to confess his terrible life. Urfried doesn't lead Cedric out of the ... | [
"Fond wretch! and what canst thou relate,\n But deeds of sorrow, shame, and sin?\n Thy deeds are proved--thou know'st thy fate;\n But come, thy tale--begin--begin.\n * * * * *\n But I have griefs of other kind,\n Troubles and sorrows more severe;\n Give me to ease my tortured mind,\n ... |
1,510 | 82_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter starts with another set of lines from Scott himself, from a poem called "The Jew." The poem describes the Jewish people's great knowledge and learning, particularly in medicine. Our story backtracks quite a bit, to the end of the tournament at Ashby. Rebecca convinces her father to bring the injured Ivanho... | [
"This wandering race, sever'd from other men,\n Boast yet their intercourse with human arts;\n The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt,\n Find them acquainted with their secret treasures:\n And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms,\n Display undreamt-of powers when gather'd by ... |
1,511 | 82_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We start out with a quote from Frederick Schiller's tragic play <em>Maid of Orleans</em>, based on the life of Joan of Arc. The speaker asks a soldier to climb the nearby watchtower to report on the battle. Rebecca is really enjoying this time with Ivanhoe. But she is always aware that he thinks of her coldly, as a Jew... | [
"Ascend the watch-tower yonder, valiant soldier,\n Look on the field, and say how goes the battle.\n --Schiller's Maid of Orleans",
"A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and\naffection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our\nfeelings, and betray the inten... |
1,512 | 82_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for this chapter is from an "Old Play," Scott tells us. But the author is really none other than Scott himself . It describes the deathbed of an old sinner, Anselm. Because Anselm is a sinner, his death is not a peaceful one.De Bracy asks Bois-Guilbert if Front-de-Boeuf is dead.Bois-Guilbert says he's not ... | [
"Approach the chamber, look upon his bed.\n His is the passing of no peaceful ghost,\n Which, as the lark arises to the sky,\n 'Mid morning's sweetest breeze and softest dew,\n Is wing'd to heaven by good men's sighs and tears!--\n Anselm parts otherwise.\n --Old Play",
"During the interva... |
1,513 | 82_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with an epigraph from one of the most famous patriotic speeches in all of Shakespeare, as Henry V addresses his men before the siege of the French town of Harfleur in Act III, Scene 1 of Henry V. This play is relevant for many reasons: first, it's all about the English fighting the French . Second, i... | [
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,\n Or, close the wall up with our English dead.\n -------And you, good yeomen,\n Whose limbs were made in England, show us here\n The mettle of your pasture--let us swear\n That you are worth your breeding.\n King Henry V",
"Cedric, altho... |
1,514 | 82_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As in Chapter 30, we start with another passage from an "Old Play," actually written by Scott himself. The passage claims that every group of men, even outlaw groups, have their own laws. It's human nature to have law. Locksley goes to the agreed-upon meeting place with Cedric and the Black Knight. Now that they are ba... | [
"Trust me each state must have its policies:\n Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters;\n Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk,\n Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline;\n For not since Adam wore his verdant apron,\n Hath man with man in social union dwelt,\n But laws were mad... |
1,515 | 82_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for this chapter is from Act I, Scene 6 of Shakespeare's play <em>Coriolanus. </em>The passage describes the work you have to do <em>after </em>you have defeated people in a battle. Prior Aymer looks both frightened and angry. Locksley assures him that he can go home as soon as he has paid a hefty ransom. ... | [
"---Flower of warriors,\n How is't with Titus Lartius?\n MARCIUS.--As with a man busied about decrees,\n Condemning some to death and some to exile,\n Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.\n --Coriolanus",
"The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture\nof o... |
1,516 | 82_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once again, Scott takes his epigraph from Shakespeare, in this case the play <em>King John</em>. In the play, King John wants to kill Arthur of Brittany, his nephew and a competitor for the throne. In this passage, King John describes Arthur as an obstacle - one he wants his friend to remove for him. Prince John and hi... | [
"KING JOHN.--I'll tell thee what, my friend,\n He is a very serpent in my way;\n And wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread,\n He lies before me.--Dost thou understand me?\n --King John",
"There was brave feasting in the Castle of York, to which Prince John\nhad invited those nobles, prelates, a... |
1,517 | 82_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another "Anonymous" contribution from Sir Walter Scott himself, this chapter's epigraph is about the dangers of fanaticism. Scott reminds us that it's really dangerous to mess with people who are passionately devoted to a cause. Now we go back to Isaac. Isaac arrives at the house of the Rabbi Nathan Ben Israel, who loo... | [
"Arouse the tiger of Hyrcanian deserts,\n Strive with the half-starved lion for his prey;\n Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire\n Of wild Fanaticism.\n --Anonymus",
"Our tale now returns to Isaac of York.--Mounted upon a mule, the gift of the Outlaw, with two tall yeomen to act as his ... |
1,518 | 82_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's epigraph is another passage from that fictional "Old Play" Scott uses as a cover for his own poetry. The speaker of the passage tells people not to look down on those who act or pretend for a living. After all, everybody lies - from beggars to clergymen. Philip Malvoisin's brother Albert is a member of t... | [
"Say not my art is fraud--all live by seeming.\n The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier\n Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;\n The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier\n Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,\n All practise it; and he who is content\n With sho... |
1,519 | 82_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's epigraph is another poem from Scott, this one on the subject of justice in the Middle Ages. The poem says that the toughest courts of the time were those that justified their domination and cruelty in the name of God. At Rebecca's trial, Lucas Beaumanoir and his attendants and priests are all sitting on ... | [
"Stern was the law which bade its vot'ries leave\n At human woes with human hearts to grieve;\n Stern was the law, which at the winning wile\n Of frank and harmless mirth forbade to smile;\n But sterner still, when high the iron-rod\n Of tyrant power she shook, and call'd that power of God.\n ... |
1,520 | 82_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's epigraph goes back to good old Shakespeare: Act I, Scene 1 of <em>Richard II</em>. In this passage, the character Henry Bolingbroke has challenged Thomas Mowbray to a duel by throwing his glove to the ground.Rebecca's bravery impresses even Beaumanoir.Beaumanoir tells her to repent for being a witch.If s... | [
"---There I throw my gage,\n To prove it on thee to the extremest point\n Of martial daring.\n --Richard II",
"Even Lucas Beaumanoir himself was affected by the mien and appearance\nof Rebecca. He was not originally a cruel or even a severe man; but\nwith passions by nature cold, and with a high, thou... |
1,521 | 82_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For this chapter Scott gives us two lines from "Song ," by Anna Seward. Scott makes a slight change: the original poem goes, "<em>Ah nymph,</em> unrelenting and cold as thou art," while Scott's version is "<em>O maid, </em>unrelenting and cold<em>..."</em> He presumably makes this change because Rebecca <em>is </em>a m... | [
"O maid, unrelenting and cold as thou art,\n My bosom is proud as thine own.\n --Seward",
"It was in the twilight of the day when her trial, if it could be\ncalled such, had taken place, that a low knock was heard at the door\nof Rebecca's prison-chamber. It disturbed not the inmate, who was then\nengaged... |
1,522 | 82_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter's epigraph is from Colley Cibber's 1699 adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III . The line in the original play goes, "Conscience avant; Richard's himself again" . "Avant" means "go away," so Richard III is saying, "Go away, conscience, I'm feeling more like myself again" . Instead of the "conscience"... | [
"Shadows avaunt!--Richard's himself again.\n Richard III",
"When the Black Knight--for it becomes necessary to resume the train of\nhis adventures--left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held\nhis way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent\nand revenue, called the Priory of Sai... |
1,523 | 82_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epigraph for this chapter comes from Andrew Macdonald's opera <em>Love and Loyalty</em> . The speaker sings of the merry life of people living freely in the forests. Ivanhoe and Gurth come across the outlaws, King Richard , Robin Hood , and Wamba. Ivanhoe is amazed to see these men with six or seven dead bodies lyi... | [
"All hail to the lordlings of high degree,\n Who live not more happy, though greater than we!\n Our pastimes to see,\n Under every green tree,\n In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be.\n Macdonald",
"The new comers were Wilfred of Ivanhoe, on the Prior of Botolph's\npalfrey, and Gurth, w... |
1,524 | 82_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're back to Scott's "Old Play" for the epigraph of this chapter. The speaker of these lines describes a funeral ceremony. King Richard and Ivanhoe enter Coningsburgh Castle. At Athelstane's funeral there are about a dozen representatives of old Saxon families from the area. When King Richard enters the room, Cedric r... | [
"I found them winding of Marcello's corpse.\n And there was such a solemn melody,\n 'Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,--\n Such as old grandames, watching by the dead,\n Are wont to outwear the night with.\n --Old Play",
"The mode of entering the great tower of Coningsburgh Castle i... |
1,525 | 82_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is the second epigraph from Shakespeare's <em>Richard II</em> .This one comes from Act I, Scene 2. The speaker, the Duchess of Gloucester, curses her enemy Thomas Mowbray. She hopes he will be thrown from his horse during a tournament.Now our attention turns back to Templestowe.The whole town is packed with people... | [
"Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,\n That they may break his foaming courser's back,\n And throw the rider headlong in the lists,\n A caitiff recreant!\n --Richard II",
"Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of\nTemplestowe, about the hour when the bloody die w... |
1,526 | 82_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We've reached the last epigraph! This one is by 17th century playwright John Webster, in Act IV, Scene 1 of his play The White Devil. The speaker announces that it's the end of his story. Beaumanoir pronounces Rebecca innocent of all charges. Bois-Guilbert's weapons and body belong to Ivanhoe. Just then King Richard ar... | [
"So! now 'tis ended, like an old wife's story.\n Webster",
"When the first moments of surprise were over, Wilfred of Ivanhoe\ndemanded of the Grand Master, as judge of the field, if he had manfully\nand rightfully done his duty in the combat? \"Manfully and rightfully hath\nit been done,\" said the Grand Mast... |
1,483 | 82_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the opening chapter, Scott describes the setting and gives a historical account of England during the reign of Richard I. With the captivity of King Richard, the nobles had resumed the practice of making vassals and serfs of their less powerful neighbors. The hostility of the Saxons, which began with the victory of ... | [
"Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,\n The full-fed swine return'd with evening home;\n Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties,\n With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.\n Pope's Odyssey",
"In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the\nriver Don, there ex... |
1,527 | 82_chapters_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The horsemen prove to be Brian de Bois-Guilbert, the Knight Templar, and his companion Prior Aymer, worldly minded Abbot of Jorvaulx, and their attendants. Wamba misdirects them as they seek to find the home of Cedric the Saxon. Before they reach a sunken cross where the paths meet, they have a lively discussion which ... | [
"A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie,\n An outrider that loved venerie;\n A manly man, to be an Abbot able,\n Full many a daintie horse had he in stable:\n And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear\n Gingeling in a whistling wind as clear,\n And eke as loud, as doth the chapell bell... |
1,528 | 82_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac of York is introduced in these chapters. His dealings with the Palmer herald further meetings of the two. In conversation, Cedric learns of Ivanhoe's prowess in the Crusades and the Palmer pledges a meeting between Ivanhoe and Brian de Bois-Guilbert. By his knowledge of the language of the Saracen slaves the Palm... | [
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,\n senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with\n the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the\n same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as\n a Christian is?\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Oswal... |
1,529 | 82_chapters_7-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tournament with its colorful pavilions and the excited and varied crowds of spectators are described in vivid detail. Rebecca, beautiful daughter of Isaac, is introduced for the first time. A Norman-Saxon quarrel over the seating of Isaac and Rebecca is solved in an unexpected manner by Wamba, the Jester. Other cha... | [
"Knights, with a long retinue of their squires,\n In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires;\n One laced the helm, another held the lance,\n A third the shining buckler did advance.\n The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet,\n And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit.\n The sm... |
1,530 | 82_chapters_10-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Disinherited Knight, as custom dictates, is presented with the choice of the horses and armor or equivalent ransom from each of the five knights whom he has vanquished. He accepts ransom money from four of them but refuses to take anything from the squire of Bois-Guilbert on the grounds of the "mortal defiance" bet... | [
"Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls\n The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,\n And in the shadow of the silent night\n Doth shake contagion from her sable wings;\n Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas,\n With fatal curses towards these Christians.\n --Jew of Malta",
"Th... |
1,494 | 82_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The excitement on the second day of the tournament reaches a climax as the Disinherited Knight is assaulted at the same time by Athelstane, Front-de-Boeuf, and Brian de Bois-Guilbert. With the aid of the Black Sluggard he succeeds in overthrowing Athelstane and Front-de-Boeuf. The Templar's horse goes down under the ch... | [
"The heralds left their pricking up and down,\n Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.\n There is no more to say, but east and west,\n In go the speares sadly in the rest,\n In goth the sharp spur into the side,\n There see men who can just and who can ride;\n There shiver shaftes upon shield... |
1,531 | 82_chapters_13-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With the identity of Ivanhoe revealed, there is much speculation as to whether Front-de-Boeuf will be forced to relinquish the castle he now occupies, previously assigned by Richard to Ivanhoe. Prince John, whose plan for wedding Rowena to De Bracy is in the making, is quite agitated when he receives a billet saying, "... | [
"\"Heroes, approach!\" Atrides thus aloud,\n \"Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd,\n Ye who by skill or manly force may claim,\n Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.\n This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed,\n For him who farthest sends the winged reed.\"\n --Iliad",
"The... |
1,532 | 82_chapters_16-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Black Knight, who had disappeared before his identity was questioned too much, reappears in these chapters wandering in the forest. He comes upon the hermitage of the Clerk of Copmanhurst, whom the reader will recognize as the curtal friar of Fountain's Abbey, Friar Tuck of Robin Hood's band. When a mutual trust is... | [
"Far in a wild, unknown to public view,\n From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;\n The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,\n His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well\n Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days,\n Prayer all his business--all his pleasure praise.\n --Parnell"... |
1,533 | 82_chapters_18-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Cedric is satisfied that Ivanhoe is in good hands, he and his party start home. Gurth is recognized by Oswald and bound as a captive for having attended Ivanhoe. During the ride he slips his bonds and escapes, renouncing his service to Cedric. The superstitious Saxons are frightened by the howling of Fangs, sure t... | [
"Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle,\n Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother,\n Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs,\n Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--\n Up and away!--for lovely paths are these\n To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne\n L... |
1,534 | 82_chapters_22-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac of York is thrown into the dungeon-vault of the castle and threatened with slow torture by fire unless he delivers to Front-de-Beouf a thousand pounds of silver. Isaac asks that his daughter be sent to York under safe conduct to procure the money, only to learn that she has been made the special property of Brian... | [
"My daughter--O my ducats--O my daughter!\n ------O my Christian ducats!\n Justice--the Law--my ducats, and my daughter!\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Leaving the Saxon chiefs to return to their banquet as soon as their\nungratified curiosity should permit them to attend to the calls of their\nhalf-satiat... |
1,535 | 82_chapters_24-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rebecca, like Rowena, is being wooed by a man she dislikes, Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Unlike De Bracy, however he does not propose marriage. When she repulses his advances, threatening to jump from the tower, he is moved to admiration. When the trumpet sounds, he, too, is forced to heed its summons. A letter from the Bla... | [
"I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.\n --Douglas",
"While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the\ncastle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered\nturret. Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers, and\non being thrust into the little cell... |
1,536 | 82_chapters_28-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scott uses a flashback to supply missing information about the wounded Ivanhoe from the time of the tournament until the battle of Torquilstone. When Rebecca gave up her litter to the invalid and exposed herself on horseback, Brian de Bois-Guilbert noted her beauty and desired her. Regaining consciousness, Ivanhoe was ... | [
"This wandering race, sever'd from other men,\n Boast yet their intercourse with human arts;\n The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt,\n Find them acquainted with their secret treasures:\n And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms,\n Display undreamt-of powers when gather'd by ... |
1,537 | 82_chapters_30-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Front-de-Boeuf, mortally wounded in the fighting, is reviled by Ulrica as he is dying. She rightfully accuses him of blasphemy and parricide, for she has witnessed the murder of his father. In a last desperate effort at revenge, Ulrica has set fire to the castle. Both she and Front-de-Boeuf perish in the flames. Meanwh... | [
"Approach the chamber, look upon his bed.\n His is the passing of no peaceful ghost,\n Which, as the lark arises to the sky,\n 'Mid morning's sweetest breeze and softest dew,\n Is wing'd to heaven by good men's sighs and tears!--\n Anselm parts otherwise.\n --Old Play",
"During the interva... |
1,538 | 82_chapters_32-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The liberated party assemble at Locksley's trysting place in the forest, where Cedric makes Gurth a free man. Cedric refuses a share of the plunder from the castle, but both he and Rowena express gratitude for Locksley's help. Friar Tuck arrives, leading Isaac by a rope around his neck. The Friar and the Black Knight e... | [
"Trust me each state must have its policies:\n Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters;\n Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk,\n Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline;\n For not since Adam wore his verdant apron,\n Hath man with man in social union dwelt,\n But laws were mad... |
1,539 | 82_chapters_35-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac, bearing the letter from the Prior to Brian de Bois-Guilbert, arrives at Templestowe and is brought to the Grand Master, Lucas Beaumanoir. The letter discloses Rebecca's presence at Templestowe and thus casts reflection on Brian de Bois-Guilbert. At the same time its contents condemn Rebecca as a sorceress, "a se... | [
"Arouse the tiger of Hyrcanian deserts,\n Strive with the half-starved lion for his prey;\n Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire\n Of wild Fanaticism.\n --Anonymus",
"Our tale now returns to Isaac of York.--Mounted upon a mule, the gift of the Outlaw, with two tall yeomen to act as his ... |
1,540 | 82_chapters_37-39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Rebecca's trial the charges against Brian de Bois-Guilbert are read and tempered by the intimation that he was made devoid of reason by a supernatural power. Witnesses against Rebecca testify to her occult powers of healing and curious happenings concerning her appearance on the parapet at the storming of Torquilsto... | [
"Stern was the law which bade its vot'ries leave\n At human woes with human hearts to grieve;\n Stern was the law, which at the winning wile\n Of frank and harmless mirth forbade to smile;\n But sterner still, when high the iron-rod\n Of tyrant power she shook, and call'd that power of God.\n ... |
1,541 | 82_chapters_40-42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On their way to Athelstane's castle of Coningsburgh, the Black Knight and Wamba are attacked by Waldemar Fitzurse and his men. With the help of Robin Hood and his band, called up by the horn, Richard slays all of his enemies except Fitzurse, whom he banishes from England. Richard's magnanimity toward his brother John i... | [
"Shadows avaunt!--Richard's himself again.\n Richard III",
"When the Black Knight--for it becomes necessary to resume the train of\nhis adventures--left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held\nhis way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent\nand revenue, called the Priory of Sai... |
1,542 | 82_chapters_43-44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Many people assemble at Templestowe for the combat which is to decide the fate of Rebecca. Among them are Allan-a-Dale and Friar Tuck, who discuss the legend which is rapidly arising around Athelstane. Brian de Bois-Guilbert, the unwilling champion of the order against Rebecca, appeals once more to her to ride away wit... | [
"Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,\n That they may break his foaming courser's back,\n And throw the rider headlong in the lists,\n A caitiff recreant!\n --Richard II",
"Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of\nTemplestowe, about the hour when the bloody die w... |
1,543 | 82_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Toward the end of the reign of King Richard I, England is in the grip of turmoil. The king is far from the country, having been imprisoned by the rulers of Austria and Germany on his way home from the Crusades. In his absence, the throne is held by Prince John, but the real authority lies in the hands of the nobles, wh... | [
"Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,\n The full-fed swine return'd with evening home;\n Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties,\n With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.\n Pope's Odyssey",
"In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the\nriver Don, there ex... |
1,544 | 82_chapters_5-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The porter, Oswald, returns with the information that the man at the door is a Jew named Isaac; he asks whether he ought to admit a Jew into the house. Brian de Bois-Guilbert and Prior Aymer are disgusted at the thought, but Cedric gruffly asserts that his hospitality is not to be limited by their dislikes. He suggests... | [
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,\n senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with\n the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the\n same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as\n a Christian is?\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Oswal... |
1,545 | 82_chapters_9-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prince John and his councilor Waldemar Fitzurse discuss the identity of the Disinherited Knight; they run down a list of candidates, but are unable to draw any conclusions. When the Knight is allowed to choose his Queen of Love and Beauty, he shocks the assembled Normans by selecting Rowena, a Saxon. He further surpris... | [
"----In the midst was seen\n A lady of a more majestic mien,\n By stature and by beauty mark'd their sovereign Queen.\n * * * * *\n And as in beauty she surpass'd the choir,\n So nobler than the rest was her attire;\n A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow,\n Plain without pomp, and ric... |
1,546 | 82_chapters_13-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the tumult after the revelation of Ivanhoe's identity, as the name of the victorious knight spreads throughout the crowd, Prince John and his advisors hurriedly discuss the consequences of his reappearance. One problem is that John has granted Ivanhoe's castle to Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf. Maurice de Bracy and Wal... | [
"\"Heroes, approach!\" Atrides thus aloud,\n \"Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd,\n Ye who by skill or manly force may claim,\n Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.\n This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed,\n For him who farthest sends the winged reed.\"\n --Iliad",
"The... |
1,547 | 82_chapters_18-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Though Cedric has been unable to bring himself to forgive Ivanhoe for leaving England to fight in the Crusades with Richard, he is nevertheless worried about his son's injury. He dispatches Oswald to check on him. Cedric, in turn, discovers Gurth, who has been serving Ivanhoe in disguise and takes him captive. But Gurt... | [
"Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle,\n Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother,\n Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs,\n Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--\n Up and away!--for lovely paths are these\n To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne\n L... |
1,548 | 82_chapters_23-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Isaac is being threatened with torture, Rowena is imprisoned elsewhere in Torquilstone. De Bracy demands her hand in marriage, saying that if she does not consent, he will kill both Cedric and her beloved Ivanhoe. Rowena, who did not know that Ivanhoe was also De Bracy's prisoner, begins to weep. De Bracy is trou... | [
"Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words\n Can no way change you to a milder form,\n I'll woo you, like a soldier, at arms' end,\n And love you 'gainst the nature of love, force you.\n --Two Gentlemen of Verona",
"The apartment to which the Lady Rowena had been introduced was fitted\nup with som... |
1,549 | 82_chapters_28-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the tournament, the gravely wounded Ivanhoe was tended by Isaac and Rebecca; in fact, it was because Rebecca left the cover of her litter, giving it to Ivanhoe, that she caught Brian de Bois-Guilbert's eye. When Ivanhoe weakly regained consciousness, Rebecca promised him that she was a mistress of the healing art... | [
"This wandering race, sever'd from other men,\n Boast yet their intercourse with human arts;\n The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt,\n Find them acquainted with their secret treasures:\n And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms,\n Display undreamt-of powers when gather'd by ... |
1,550 | 82_chapters_32-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Saxons and their liberators now meet at Locksley's trysting place in the forest. Here, out of gratitude for his role in the battle, Cedric grants Gurth his freedom. When the spoils from the castle are divided, the Black Knight takes his due, but Cedric proudly refuses a share of his Norman captor's wealth. The Blac... | [
"Trust me each state must have its policies:\n Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters;\n Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk,\n Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline;\n For not since Adam wore his verdant apron,\n Hath man with man in social union dwelt,\n But laws were mad... |
1,551 | 82_chapters_37-40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The trial of Rebecca begins with a list of charges read against Brian de Bois-Guilbert--charges which are read and then dismissed on the grounds that Rebecca is truly to blame for the Templar's misdeeds. Supposed "witnesses" drummed up by Malvoisin testify that Rebecca possesses supernatural powers of healing; another ... | [
"Stern was the law which bade its vot'ries leave\n At human woes with human hearts to grieve;\n Stern was the law, which at the winning wile\n Of frank and harmless mirth forbade to smile;\n But sterner still, when high the iron-rod\n Of tyrant power she shook, and call'd that power of God.\n ... |
1,552 | 82_chapters_41-44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ivanhoe and Gurth approach Richard and his men in the forest; Richard tells Ivanhoe that all the men now know his identity. Ivanhoe criticizes the king for embarking on silly adventures when the nation desperately needs him, but Richard replies that he cannot yet reveal himself to the nation; he is waiting for his alli... | [
"All hail to the lordlings of high degree,\n Who live not more happy, though greater than we!\n Our pastimes to see,\n Under every green tree,\n In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be.\n Macdonald",
"The new comers were Wilfred of Ivanhoe, on the Prior of Botolph's\npalfrey, and Gurth, w... |
1,483 | 82_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The story is set in England in the twelfth century, towards the end of the reign of Richard I. Richard is absent from the country. He has been imprisoned in Austria on his return from the Crusades in the Holy Land. In his absence, the nobles have established a tyranny, and the lower classes suffer under it. This situat... | [
"Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,\n The full-fed swine return'd with evening home;\n Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties,\n With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.\n Pope's Odyssey",
"In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the\nriver Don, there ex... |
1,484 | 82_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A group of ten horsemen overtake Wamba and Gurth on the road. The two most important men in this group are an easy-going, generous-minded monk, Prior Aymer of Jorvaulx, and a stern knight of the order of the Knights Templar, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, who has been fighting in the Holy Land. The other men are their attenda... | [
"A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie,\n An outrider that loved venerie;\n A manly man, to be an Abbot able,\n Full many a daintie horse had he in stable:\n And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear\n Gingeling in a whistling wind as clear,\n And eke as loud, as doth the chapell bell... |
1,485 | 82_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Cedric's mansion, the hall is prepared for the evening meal. Cedric sits at his table on a raised dais, waiting for the dinner, which has been delayed, to be served. Several servants stand behind him, and his dogs are at his feet. Cedric is anxious because Gurth has not returned with the herd, and he fears that some... | [
"Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears\n The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong,\n And yellow hair'd, the blue-eyed Saxon came.\n Thomson's Liberty",
"In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its\nextreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks\nr... |
1,486 | 82_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cedric greets his hosts with dignity, although there is some tension between the Saxon Cedric and his Norman guests. Wamba and Gurth return, to Cedric's complaints about how tardy they are. The feast is a fine one, and the diners are joined by Cedric's beautiful young ward, the Lady Rowena. Brian de Bois-Guilbert, the ... | [
"With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled,\n And the proud steer was on the marble spread;\n With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round,\n Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.\n * * * * *\n Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat;\n A trivet table and ignobler seat,\n ... |
1,487 | 82_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The stranger is an old man named Isaac, who is a Jew. Because of this fact he is treated coldly, although he is given food. At the main table, there is some verbal sparring between Saxon and Norman, before the topic turns to the Crusades. Rowena is anxious to hear that English warriors have excelled there, and De Bois-... | [
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,\n senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with\n the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the\n same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as\n a Christian is?\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Oswal... |
1,488 | 82_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rowena summons the palmer to her apartment. She asks him to tell her everything he knows about Ivanhoe. The palmer says he knows little about him, but does know that he plans shortly to return to England. Rowena hopes that he will appear in time for the tournament. She is worried about him because she fears he will fac... | [
"To buy his favour I extend this friendship:\n If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;\n And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.\n --Merchant of Venice",
"As the Palmer, lighted by a domestic with a torch, passed through the\nintricate combination of apartments of this large and irregular mansion,\n... |
1,489 | 82_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tournament is to take place at Ashby, in Leicestershire. Prince John will be in attendance, and rich and poor alike are also looking forward to the spectacle. All the knights of renown will be competing. Spectators are seated according to their rank, but there are some quarrels and disputes. Isaac is roundly abused... | [
"Knights, with a long retinue of their squires,\n In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires;\n One laced the helm, another held the lance,\n A third the shining buckler did advance.\n The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet,\n And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit.\n The sm... |
1,490 | 82_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prince John says that he may vote for Rebecca as the fair Sovereign of Love and of Beauty at the tournament. His companions are horrified, and Prince John says he was only joking. It is decided that the knight who becomes the champion should choose the lady. As the knights emerge on horseback, they make an impressive a... | [
"At this the challenger with fierce defy\n His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply:\n With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky.\n Their visors closed, their lances in the rest,\n Or at the helmet pointed or the crest,\n They vanish from the barrier, speed the race,\n An... |
1,491 | 82_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Disinherited Knight refuses to raise his visor before he receives his prize. Prince John and his men try to guess who he might be, and Prince John is nervous lest it be King Richard himself. The Knight does not speak as Prince John compliments him on his victory. Then the Knight is informed that he may choose the Q... | [
"----In the midst was seen\n A lady of a more majestic mien,\n By stature and by beauty mark'd their sovereign Queen.\n * * * * *\n And as in beauty she surpass'd the choir,\n So nobler than the rest was her attire;\n A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow,\n Plain without pomp, and ric... |
1,492 | 82_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The squires of the defeated knights come to the Disinherited Knight's pavilion to offer their horses and armor, as the laws of chivalry dictate. The Knight refuses to accept them, but he does accept a ransom of a hundred zecchins. Half of this he keeps for himself; the other half he asks to be distributed amongst the s... | [
"Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls\n The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,\n And in the shadow of the silent night\n Doth shake contagion from her sable wings;\n Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas,\n With fatal curses towards these Christians.\n --Jew of Malta",
"Th... |
1,493 | 82_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a lane just outside Ashby, Gurth is seized by four outlaws who demand his money. His captors drag him into a thicket and then into a clearing. Two more outlaws join them. Gurth says he has thirty zecchins, but the leader of the band knows he has more. Gurth says it belongs to his master. The robbers take all the mon... | [
"1st Outlaw: Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you;\n If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.\n Speed: Sir, we are undone! these are the villains\n That all the travellers do fear so much.\n Val: My friends,--\n 1st Out: That's not so, sir, we are your enemies.\n 2d Out: Peace!... |
1,494 | 82_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the second day of the tournament, all the knights battle at once, rather than in single combat. There are fifty knights on each side. Athelstane has enlisted on the side of the Knight Templar. This is because he considers Rowena to be his future bride, and he wants to punish the Disinherited Knight for having chosen... | [
"The heralds left their pricking up and down,\n Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.\n There is no more to say, but east and west,\n In go the speares sadly in the rest,\n In goth the sharp spur into the side,\n There see men who can just and who can ride;\n There shiver shaftes upon shield... |
1,495 | 82_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once the word gets out that the Disinherited Knight is Wilfred of Ivanhoe, there is concern in Prince John's camp. They know that Ivanhoe will claim the castle and manor bestowed on him by King Richard, which Prince John has given to Front-de-Boeuf. News reaches them that the wounded Ivanhoe is now being cared for by h... | [
"\"Heroes, approach!\" Atrides thus aloud,\n \"Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd,\n Ye who by skill or manly force may claim,\n Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.\n This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed,\n For him who farthest sends the winged reed.\"\n --Iliad",
"The... |
1,496 | 82_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening there is a luxurious banquet at the Castle of Ashby. Prince John greets Cedric and Athelstane with great courtesy; they say Rowena is indisposed and cannot attend. The Normans make sarcastic comments about the Saxons' manners, and the Saxons are ignorant of Norman etiquette. Prince John proposes a toast to... | [
"In rough magnificence array'd,\n When ancient Chivalry display'd\n The pomp of her heroic games,\n And crested chiefs and tissued dames\n Assembled, at the clarion's call,\n In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.\n --Warton",
"Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby. T... |
1,497 | 82_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Waldemar Fitzurse uses all his political skill to rally the supporters of Prince John. They plan to make him king. Fitzurse then encounters De Bracy, dressed in green like a yeoman and carrying a longbow. De Bracy says he plans to attack Cedric's entourage and carry off Rowena as his bride. Because of his disguise, the... | [
"And yet he thinks,--ha, ha, ha, ha,--he thinks\n I am the tool and servant of his will.\n Well, let it be; through all the maze of trouble\n His plots and base oppression must create,\n I'll shape myself a way to higher things,\n And who will say 'tis wrong?\n --Basil, a Tragedy",
"No spi... |
1,498 | 82_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the tournament, the Black Knight leaves Ashby and rides north. As evening falls he seeks shelter in a dilapidated, out-of-the-way small chapel. At first the monk inside refuses to admit him. But the Knight threatens to break down the door, and the monk reluctantly invites him in. He offers the knight the most rud... | [
"Far in a wild, unknown to public view,\n From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;\n The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,\n His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well\n Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days,\n Prayer all his business--all his pleasure praise.\n --Parnell"... |
1,499 | 82_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Knight sings a ballad, accompanying himself on the harp. The hermit responds by singing "The Barefooted Friar," a ballad about a happy friar who roams wherever he likes and enjoys ample food, drink and hospitality. It is clear that the friar in the song resembles the hermit who sings it, although of course he denie... | [
"At eve, within yon studious nook,\n I ope my brass-embossed book,\n Portray'd with many a holy deed\n Of martyrs crown'd with heavenly meed;\n Then, as my taper waxes dim,\n Chant, ere I sleep, my measured hymn.\n * * * * *\n Who but would cast his pomp away,\n To take my staff and ... |
1,500 | 82_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrative returns to where it left off at the end of Chapter VII. Cedric, although he does not forgive his disinherited son, arranges for the wounded Ivanhoe to be transported to Ashby as soon as the crowd has dispersed. Rowena tries in vain to persuade Cedric not to be so hard-hearted. Cedric captures Gurth, who h... | [
"Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle,\n Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother,\n Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs,\n Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--\n Up and away!--for lovely paths are these\n To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne\n L... |
1,501 | 82_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As twilight descends, Cedric and his party enter the forest on their way home, hoping they will be safe from outlaws. They come upon Isaac and Rebecca, as well as a sick man who is being transported on a horse-litter. They are stranded. It turns out that the six bodyguards Isaac hired to accompany them had deserted the... | [
"A train of armed men, some noble dame\n Escorting, (so their scatter'd words discover'd,\n As unperceived I hung upon their rear,)\n Are close at hand, and mean to pass the night\n Within the castle.\n --Orra, a Tragedy",
"The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country, and we... |
1,502 | 82_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locksley rounds up his men in the forest. He pays a visit to the hermitage, where the monk and the knight are still singing drinking songs. The drunken friar reveals to the knight that Locksley is the keeper of the forest of whom he spoke earlier. The friar removes his gown and puts on a green cassock and hose. This sh... | [
"When autumn nights were long and drear,\n And forest walks were dark and dim,\n How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear\n Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn",
"Devotion borrows Music's tone,\n And Music took Devotion's wing;\n And, like the bird that hails the sun,\n They soar to heaven, and so... |
1,503 | 82_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the kidnappers take their captives to Front-de-Boeuf's castle, De Bois-Guilbert reveals to De Bracy that he means to carry off Rebecca as his prize. When they arrive at Torquilstone, Front-de-Boeuf's castle, Cedric and Athelstane are imprisoned in a hall, while Rowena is taken to a different room. Rebecca and Isaac ... | [
"Alas, how many hours and years have past,\n Since human forms have round this table sate,\n Or lamp, or taper, on its surface gleam'd!\n Methinks, I hear the sound of time long pass'd\n Still murmuring o'er us, in the lofty void\n Of these dark arches, like the ling'ring voices\n Of those w... |
1,504 | 82_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac is thrown into a dungeon. Front-de-Boeuf enters with some black slaves and demands a thousand silver pounds. Isaac protests that he does not have that amount of money. Front-de-Boeuf responds by threatening to strip Isaac and place him on iron bars over a fire grate, which the slaves have just lit. The slaves sei... | [
"My daughter--O my ducats--O my daughter!\n ------O my Christian ducats!\n Justice--the Law--my ducats, and my daughter!\n --Merchant of Venice",
"Leaving the Saxon chiefs to return to their banquet as soon as their\nungratified curiosity should permit them to attend to the calls of their\nhalf-satiat... |
1,505 | 82_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | De Bracy visits Rowena in her imprisonment, aiming to win her hand in marriage. He tries to charm her, but she responds only with contempt. He then takes a tougher approach, telling her that if she does not leave the castle as his wife, she will never leave it at all. He also reveals that he knows of Rowena's love for ... | [
"Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words\n Can no way change you to a milder form,\n I'll woo you, like a soldier, at arms' end,\n And love you 'gainst the nature of love, force you.\n --Two Gentlemen of Verona",
"The apartment to which the Lady Rowena had been introduced was fitted\nup with som... |
1,506 | 82_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rebecca is thrust into a cell where she encounters an old woman named Urfried. It turns out that when Urfried was young, Front-de-Boeuf's father stormed the castle in which her father and his seven sons lived. All the men were killed, and Urfried was forced to live in the castle with the conquerors. She tells Rebecca t... | [
"I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.\n --Douglas",
"While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the\ncastle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered\nturret. Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers, and\non being thrust into the little cell... |
1,507 | 82_chapter_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Front-de-Boeuf, De Bois-Guilbert and De Bracy meet. They have received a written demand from, of all people, Wamba and Gurth. The demand is that the knights surrender their prisoners within one hour or face the consequences. The document is also signed by the Black Knight. Locksley has placed his mark on it too. The kn... | [
"A damn'd cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life!\n --She Stoops to Conquer",
"When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy\nalready there. \"Your love-suit,\" said De Bracy, \"hath, I suppose, been\ndisturbed, like mine, by this obstreperous summons. But you have come\nlater an... |
1,508 | 82_chapter_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wamba arrives at the castle. De Bois-Guilbert decides that he should be given a written order asking De Bracy's men in York to come to their aid. In the meantime, Wamba is shown into the hall where Cedric and Athelstane are held. Wamba tells them to prepare for their deaths. They receive this news with disbelief, but t... | [
"The hottest horse will oft be cool,\n The dullest will show fire;\n The friar will often play the fool,\n The fool will play the friar.\n --Old Song",
"When the Jester, arrayed in the cowl and frock of the hermit, and having\nhis knotted cord twisted round his middle, stood before the portal of\n... |
1,509 | 82_chapter_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Urfried ushers the reluctant Cedric into a small apartment. She begins to tell him her story. Cedric is amazed to discover that she is the daughter of Torquil Wolfganger, his father's friend. Urfried then guesses that she is talking to Cedric, and she continues her story. Her real name is Ulrica. She was forced to live... | [
"Fond wretch! and what canst thou relate,\n But deeds of sorrow, shame, and sin?\n Thy deeds are proved--thou know'st thy fate;\n But come, thy tale--begin--begin.\n * * * * *\n But I have griefs of other kind,\n Troubles and sorrows more severe;\n Give me to ease my tortured mind,\n ... |
1,510 | 82_chapter_xxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrative returns to the story of how Ivanhoe came to be in the litter transported by Isaac and Rebecca. After Ivanhoe is injured in the tournament, Rebecca persuades her father to allow Ivanhoe to be taken to the house in Ashby where they are staying. There she cares for his wounds, using her knowledge of medicine... | [
"This wandering race, sever'd from other men,\n Boast yet their intercourse with human arts;\n The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt,\n Find them acquainted with their secret treasures:\n And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms,\n Display undreamt-of powers when gather'd by ... |
1,511 | 82_chapter_xxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rebecca is still at Ivanhoe's side, and she is becoming very fond of him. Ivanhoe wants to watch the coming battle from a window, but he is still too weak to rise from his bed. So Rebecca stands at the window instead and describes what she can see. She reports that the attackers, led by the Black Knight, are advancing.... | [
"Ascend the watch-tower yonder, valiant soldier,\n Look on the field, and say how goes the battle.\n --Schiller's Maid of Orleans",
"A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and\naffection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our\nfeelings, and betray the inten... |
1,512 | 82_chapter_xxx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Front-de-Boeuf is mortally wounded, and De Bracy and De Bois-Guilbert discuss how to defend the castle. They know their position is dire, and De Bracy suggests surrendering the prisoners, but De Bois-Guilbert will not hear of it. They decide to defend the castle as best they can. Front-de-Boeuf is tormented on his deat... | [
"Approach the chamber, look upon his bed.\n His is the passing of no peaceful ghost,\n Which, as the lark arises to the sky,\n 'Mid morning's sweetest breeze and softest dew,\n Is wing'd to heaven by good men's sighs and tears!--\n Anselm parts otherwise.\n --Old Play",
"During the interva... |
1,513 | 82_chapter_xxxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The attackers construct a long raft by which they cross the castle's moat. The Black Knight and Cedric are the first to cross, and in spite of the shower of arrows from their men, they are in a precarious position. Then the attackers see a red flag flying from the castle and know it is time to press their assault. De B... | [
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,\n Or, close the wall up with our English dead.\n -------And you, good yeomen,\n Whose limbs were made in England, show us here\n The mettle of your pasture--let us swear\n That you are worth your breeding.\n King Henry V",
"Cedric, altho... |
1,514 | 82_chapter_xxxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The victorious outlaws assemble in the forest to divide up the spoils they plundered from the burning castle. Cedric is distraught because Athelstane was killed. He pardons Gurth, makes him a free man and gives him some land. Rowena arrives with an escort. De Bracy, now a prisoner, asks her to forgive him, but Rowena i... | [
"Trust me each state must have its policies:\n Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters;\n Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk,\n Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline;\n For not since Adam wore his verdant apron,\n Hath man with man in social union dwelt,\n But laws were mad... |
1,515 | 82_chapter_xxxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locksley tells the Prior that he will be freed only on payment of a ransom. He asks Isaac to decide what the ransom should be. Isaac says six hundred crowns. Asked to name Isaac's ransom, the Prior sets it at a thousand crowns. Both men protest loudly about the large sums expected of them. Locksley lowers Isaac's ranso... | [
"---Flower of warriors,\n How is't with Titus Lartius?\n MARCIUS.--As with a man busied about decrees,\n Condemning some to death and some to exile,\n Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.\n --Coriolanus",
"The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture\nof o... |
1,516 | 82_chapter_xxxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the castle of York, Prince John and his men plot to seize the throne. But they are disturbed by reports that Front-de-Boeuf, De Bracy and De Bois-Guilbert have been captured or killed, since they need the help of these knights if their plan is to succeed. De Bracy arrives and tells them the whole story. He also says... | [
"KING JOHN.--I'll tell thee what, my friend,\n He is a very serpent in my way;\n And wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread,\n He lies before me.--Dost thou understand me?\n --King John",
"There was brave feasting in the Castle of York, to which Prince John\nhad invited those nobles, prelates, a... |
1,517 | 82_chapter_xxxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isaac journeys to the castle of Templestowe, the home of the Templar Order, to negotiate Rebecca's freedom. Before he arrives he stays with his friend Nathan. Nathan advises him not to go further because the strict and virulently anti-Semitic Grand Master of the Templar Order, Lucas de Beaumanoir, is currently staying ... | [
"Arouse the tiger of Hyrcanian deserts,\n Strive with the half-starved lion for his prey;\n Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire\n Of wild Fanaticism.\n --Anonymus",
"Our tale now returns to Isaac of York.--Mounted upon a mule, the gift of the Outlaw, with two tall yeomen to act as his ... |
1,518 | 82_chapter_xxxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Grand Master rebukes Albert Malvoisin, the Preceptor of the Order, for allowing Rebecca, whom he calls a Jewess sorceress, to stay at their establishment. Malvoisin claims that he admitted her only so he might be able to break De Bois-Guilbert's infatuation for her. The Grand Master says that the knight deserves pi... | [
"Say not my art is fraud--all live by seeming.\n The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier\n Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;\n The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier\n Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,\n All practise it; and he who is content\n With sho... |
1,519 | 82_chapter_xxxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Grand Master makes a speech in which he explains that if De Bois-Guilbert had deliberately broken the laws of the Order regarding his association with Rebecca, he would merit serious punishment. But if he had been bewitched, then he had fallen into Satan's hands, and needed only penance to purify himself. The punis... | [
"Stern was the law which bade its vot'ries leave\n At human woes with human hearts to grieve;\n Stern was the law, which at the winning wile\n Of frank and harmless mirth forbade to smile;\n But sterner still, when high the iron-rod\n Of tyrant power she shook, and call'd that power of God.\n ... |
1,520 | 82_chapter_xxxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Grand Master assigns De Bois-Guilbert to be the champion who defends the Order. He gives Rebecca three days to find a champion for herself. Rebecca is allowed to send a message to Isaac, and she declares that a champion will emerge who will vindicate her. Higg, the messenger, meets Isaac and his companion Samuel on... | [
"---There I throw my gage,\n To prove it on thee to the extremest point\n Of martial daring.\n --Richard II",
"Even Lucas Beaumanoir himself was affected by the mien and appearance\nof Rebecca. He was not originally a cruel or even a severe man; but\nwith passions by nature cold, and with a high, thou... |
1,521 | 82_chapter_xxxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the evening, De Bois-Guilbert visits Rebecca in the apartment where she is being held. He tries to reason with her, saying that he is not responsible for her predicament, since he did not know that the Grand Master would be at the Preceptory. Rebecca does not accept his argument, saying that he concurred in her cond... | [
"O maid, unrelenting and cold as thou art,\n My bosom is proud as thine own.\n --Seward",
"It was in the twilight of the day when her trial, if it could be\ncalled such, had taken place, that a low knock was heard at the door\nof Rebecca's prison-chamber. It disturbed not the inmate, who was then\nengaged... |
1,522 | 82_chapter_xl | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrative returns to the Black Knight, who rides to a religious house not far from the forest, where Ivanhoe was taken after he was removed from the doomed castle. The Black Knight says he will meet Ivanhoe again at the funeral of Athelstane. He also mentions that it is his task to reconcile Ivanhoe to his father. ... | [
"Shadows avaunt!--Richard's himself again.\n Richard III",
"When the Black Knight--for it becomes necessary to resume the train of\nhis adventures--left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held\nhis way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent\nand revenue, called the Priory of Sai... |
1,523 | 82_chapter_xli | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gathering in the forest is joined by Ivanhoe and Gurth, and they all gather for a feast. Ivanhoe tells Richard that his kingdom is in disarray and he should act quickly to reclaim it. Richard replies that he needs to wait until he is sure that the various forces he is depending on are marshaled and ready. Robin Hoo... | [
"All hail to the lordlings of high degree,\n Who live not more happy, though greater than we!\n Our pastimes to see,\n Under every green tree,\n In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be.\n Macdonald",
"The new comers were Wilfred of Ivanhoe, on the Prior of Botolph's\npalfrey, and Gurth, w... |
1,524 | 82_chapter_xlii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When they arrive at the castle, Richard and Ivanhoe are shown to a large apartment, where Cedric and a dozen other distinguished Saxon men sit. Cedric takes Richard and Ivanhoe to a small chapel, in which the bier of Athelstane has been placed. Then he guides them to a small adjoining oratory, where they meet Edith, At... | [
"I found them winding of Marcello's corpse.\n And there was such a solemn melody,\n 'Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,--\n Such as old grandames, watching by the dead,\n Are wont to outwear the night with.\n --Old Play",
"The mode of entering the great tower of Coningsburgh Castle i... |
1,525 | 82_chapter_xliii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The trial by combat of Rebecca begins. The stake at which she is to be burnt has already been prepared, and is surrounded by sticks of wood. A crowd has assembled. Rebecca is taken to a black chair which has been placed near the pile of wood. She retains her dignified manner. There is a flourish of trumpets and the com... | [
"Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,\n That they may break his foaming courser's back,\n And throw the rider headlong in the lists,\n A caitiff recreant!\n --Richard II",
"Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of\nTemplestowe, about the hour when the bloody die w... |
1,526 | 82_chapter_xliv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Grand Master orders that Rebecca be freed. Then Richard the Lion-hearted arrives with a band of armed men. He had been intending to be Rebecca's champion. He orders one of his knights of arrest Malvoisin for treason, and then tells the Grand Master that the flag of England now flies over the castle, rather than the... | [
"So! now 'tis ended, like an old wife's story.\n Webster",
"When the first moments of surprise were over, Wilfred of Ivanhoe\ndemanded of the Grand Master, as judge of the field, if he had manfully\nand rightfully done his duty in the combat? \"Manfully and rightfully hath\nit been done,\" said the Grand Mast... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.