626 
Et de cette héroine 
Je veux fuivre les pas.—a 
Mais Azolin, dans Rome 
Sut calmer fes ennuis: 
Elle eut fans ce grand homme 
Paffe de triftes nuits.— 
Du feu rei de Pologne, 
Monfieur, qu’en penfez-yous ? 
Tl vécut fans vergogne 
Tranquille parmi nous. 
On fait fon inconflance, 
Moine, roi, cardinal, 
Tl vint mourir en France 
Réduit 4 Phépital— 
Le diable vous emporte 
Et toutes vos raifons! 
Meffieurs, que vous importe ? 
Je ferai des chanfons. | 
Marigny, Sarrazin, Scarron, Benferade, 
Segrain, Pavillon, Madame Defhoulieres, 
Senée, Cailly, Voiture, Péiiffon, and 
Chevreau, are placed in this colle&tion by 
the fide of Corneille, La Fontaine, Racine, 
and Boileau. Here alfo are to be found 
fome verfes by the Prince de Condé, Tu- 
renne, Louis XIV., and Madame de Main- 
tenon. We fhall conclude with the fol- 
Jowing lines by Regnier Defmarets, which 
were compofed at the epoch of the jubilee, 
in 31704: 
¢¢ J’amois depuis long-temps Isméne, 
7 haifiois Zoile au fupréme degré. 
Le jubilé venu, on veut bon gre mal gré 
Qi jétouffe en mon coeur et l'amour et Ia 
ha2ine 5 
Il ne faut rien faire a demi: 
Puifgue je Vai promis, je tiendrai ma pro- 
meffe. 
Mais qu’on quitte aifément une ancienne mai- 
Me? trefle, 
Qu’on embraffe avec peine un ancien enne- 
mi !? 
¢¢ Mattilde, ou Memoires tirés de I’Hif- 
toire des Croifades.’’—Matilda, or Me- 
moirs extracted from the Hiftory of the 
Crufades, by Madame Cottin, 6 vol. 
I2mo. : 
' Matilda, the heroine of this romance, 
is the fifter of Richard Coeur de Lion. She 
is reprefented as having been a novice ina 
convent, and, in coniequence of a vifit 
from her brother previoufly to his journey 
to the Holy Lanc, the alfo conceived the 
project of a pilgrimage to Jerufalem. 
C. 
B; 
Richard is reprefented 2s having twice 
fworn on his fword that he would never 
leave her: he is however induced, it feems, 
by his paffion for arms, to entruft his fitter 
to the care of Queen Berengere, who re- 
fided in the ifland of Cyprus. Thefe great 
perfonages having gone in’ queft of him 
foon after, theic veiiel happens to be taken 
by Malek Adhel, brother of Saladin, a 
Retrofpedi of French Literaturév—Mifcellanien 
warrior who is reprefented “¢ as far otentet 
than Saladin himfelf, more valiant, more 
able, and ftill dearer to his foldiers.°? In 
fhort, this Muffulman is reprefented as a 
hero, and this hero is of courf in love 
with Matilda, who, together with an 
Archbifhop of Tyre, a Duke of Norfolk, 
a Duke of Glouceiter, and Joffelin de 
IMfontmorency, becomes his prifoner. 
it need fcarcely be added, that they 
were treated with the utmof courtefy, on 
account of fharing the captivity of the 
fair Chriftian, and that 2!] the coftly mag- 
nificence of the Eaft was difplayed on this. 
eccafion, We accordingly hear of a pa- 
lace, in which ‘a faloon of jafper was 
* embellifhed with thejftatues of four Cu- 
pids, cut in pophyry, who pouring out as 
many ftreams of water, exhibited a mot 
refrefhing, as well as enchanting, fcene.” 
Nor were the attentions of the Maho~" 
‘metan chief altogether loft on the fair and 
lovely Matilda, notwithftanding “ fhe had 
conceived a Saracen to be an exaét coun- 
terpart of the Devil in the Scriptures, 
But, inftead of the features of a demon, 
fhe perceived a majeflic figure, a fine 
martial air, and a look by which a noble 
mind was depi€ted. Aftonifhed, and at 
the fame time overwheimed with horror, 
left forme infernal machinations fhould 
have feduced and blinded her, fhe falls at 
the feet ot the archbifhep of Tyre, and, 
concealing her inead in his robe, deleechesg 
his auguft advice and interpofition.”” 
_ Malek Adhel, at the fame time, neglect. 
ed his feraglio, and becomes wholly en- 
grofled with his paffion for a itranger, 3 
chriftian, the filter of Richard. He is 
jealous, on one hand, of Joffelin de Mont. 
morency, and alarmed, on the other, at 
the homilies of the Archbifhop of Tyre, 
He therefore, with a view of removing 
the caufe of his fufpicions, determines to 
get rid of them both; while at the fame 
time, in order to afford a moft convincing 
and unequivocal proof of his magnani- 
mity, be determines to. fend them to the 
Chriftian camp, without even demanding 
a ranfom. , 
On their return, the eloquence of the 
archbifhop contributes to appeafe the dif- 
fenfions which had prevailed in the army 
of the crufaders. He accordingly fuc- 
ceeds, after fome difficulty, in reconciling 
Richard of England and Philip Auguftus 
of France; while he, at the fame time, 
reduces to filence the oppofite preteniions 
of Lufiznan, the dethroned King of Jeru- 
falem, and of Conrad, Marquis of Tyres 
who, inright of his wife, had a claim to 
the fame crown. Joflelin de Montmoren- 
i. cya 
—— So 
