"Gallant Ivanhoe, dost thou know our Master so well, and yet suspect him of taking so wise a precaution? I was drawing toward York, having heard that Prince John was making a head there, when I met King Richard, like a true knight-errant, gallopping hither to achieve this adventure of the Templar and the Jewess, with his own single arm. I accompanied him with my band almost maugre his consent."
"And what news from York, brave Earl?" said Ivanhoe; "will the rebels bide us there?"
"No more than December's snow will bide July's sun," said the Earl; "they are dispersing; and who should come posting to bring us the news, but John himself?"
"The traitor! the ungrateful insolent traitor!" said Ivanhoe; "Did not Richard order him into confinement?"
"O! he received him," said the Earl, "as if they had met after a hunting-party; and, pointing to me and our men-at-arms, said, Thou seest, brother, I have some angry men with me—thou wert best go to our mother, carry her my dute-
