tailieunhanh - Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 14

Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott- Chapter 14 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 14 In rough magnificence array d When ancient Chivalry display d The pomp of her heroic games And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion s call In some proud castle s high arch d hall. Warton Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby. This was not the same building of which the stately ruins still interest the traveller and which was erected at a later period by the Lord Hastings High Chamberlain of England one of the first victims of the tyranny of Richard the Third and yet better known as one of Shakspeare s characters than by his historical fame. The castle and town of Ashby at this time belonged to Roger de Quincy Earl of Winchester who during the period of our history was absent in the Holy Land. Prince John in the meanwhile occupied his castle and disposed of his domains without scruple and seeking at present to dazzle men s eyes by his hospitality and magnificence had given orders for great preparations in order to render the banquet as splendid as possible. The purveyors of the Prince who exercised on this and other occasions the full authority of royalty had swept the country of all that could be collected which was esteemed fit for their master s table. Guests also were invited in great numbers and in the necessity in which he then found himself of courting popularity Prince John had extended his invitation to a few distinguished Saxon and Danish families as well as to the Norman nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. However despised and degraded on ordinary occasions the great numbers of the Anglo-Saxons must necessarily render them formidable in the civil commotions which seemed approaching and it was an obvious point of policy to secure popularity with their leaders. It was accordingly the Prince s intention which he for some time maintained to treat these unwonted guests with a courtesy to which they had been little accustomed. But although no man with less scruple made his .