1 The poor wretch," said De Bracy, "is resolved to die in his vocation.
2 If the Saxon Cedric cannot rescue England, he is willing to die for her.
3 Ay," answered the Templar, "as well as the wretch who is doomed to die within an hour.
4 But let his obsequies be private, as becomes those of a man who died in an unjust quarrel.
5 Front-de-Boeuf is dying too, so we shall receive no more aid from his bull's head and brutal strength.
6 Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions.
7 When the sounds of Rebecca's devotional hymn had died away in silence, the low knock at the door was again renewed.
8 Wilfred, placing his foot on his breast, and the sword's point to his throat, commanded him to yield him, or die on the spot.
9 Forgive the interruption," said Rebecca, meekly; "I am a maiden, unskilled to dispute for my religion, but I can die for it, if it be God's will.
10 Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of Templestowe, about the hour when the bloody die was to be cast for the life or death of Rebecca.
11 And say unto him, even unto him, even unto Wilfred, the son of Cedric, that if Rebecca live, or if Rebecca die, she liveth or dieth wholly free of the guilt she is charged withal.
12 One by one the sullen sounds fell successively on the ear, leaving but sufficient space for each to die away in distant echo, ere the air was again filled by repetition of the iron knell.
13 But such recollections dwell not long with those who lead a life of danger and enterprise, and ere the sound of the death-hymn had died on the wind, the outlaws were again busied in the distribution of their spoil.
14 The signs and sounds of a tumultuous concourse of men lately crowded together in one place, and agitated by the same passing events, were now exchanged for the distant hum of voices of different groups retreating in all directions, and these speedily died away in silence.
15 No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses, and Free Companions are grown keepers of dying folk's curtains, when the castle is about to be assailed.
16 Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition.
17 Thus ended the memorable field of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, one of the most gallantly contested tournaments of that age; for although only four knights, including one who was smothered by the heat of his armour, had died upon the field, yet upwards of thirty were desperately wounded, four or five of whom never recovered.
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