1949-7 Subject. List llustrations. Engravings on Steel. The Escape of the Countess from Cum nor Place. The Alchymist's La A. Cooper,R.A. A. W. Warren. Frontispiece KENILWORTH. CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. Pistol. And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys, And happy news of price. Falstaff-I prithee now deliver them like to men of this world Pistol.-A foutra for the world, and worldlings base! I speak of Africa, and golden joys. HENRY IV., Part 2. HE public room of the Black Bear at Cumnor, to which the scene of our story now returns, boasted, on the evening which we treat of, no ordinary assemblage of guests. There had been a fair in the neighbourhood, and the cutting mercer of Abingdon, with some of the other personages whom the reader has already been made acquainted with, as friends and customers of Giles Gosling, had already formed their wonted circle around the evening fire, and were talking over the news of the day. VOL. XXIII. A |