"To die early--without lineage--without lamentation! A heavy sentence, and well that it is not passed by a more competent judge.

Yet the Saracens, who are accomplished in mystical knowledge, will often maintain that He, in whose eyes the wisdom of the sage is but as folly, inspires wisdom and prophecy into the seeming folly of the madman.

Yonder hermit is said to read the stars, too, an art generally practised in these lands, where the heavenly host was of yore the object of idolatry.

I would I had asked him touching the loss of my banner; for not the blessed Tishbite, the founder of his order, could seem more wildly rapt out of himself, or speak with a tongue more resembling that of a prophet .-- How now, De Vaux, what news of the mad priest ?" "Mad priest, call you him, my lord ?" answered De Vaux.

"Methinks he resembles more the blessed Baptist himself, just issued from the wilderness.