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Maid Marian.

CHAP. IX.

  Who set my man i' the stocks?——I set him there, Sir: but his own disorders Deserved much less advancement.—Lear.

The baron was inflexible in his resolution not to let Matilda leave the castle. The letter, which announced to her the approaching fate of young Gamwell, filled her with grief, and increased the irksomeness of a privation which already preyed sufficiently on her spirits, and began to undermine her health. She had no longer the consolation of the society of her old friend Father Michael: the little fat friar of Rubygill was substituted as the castle confessor; not without some misgivings in his ghostly bosom: but he was more allured by the sweet savour of the good

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