Fitz of Fitz-Ford; a legend of Devon - University Library

FITZ OF FITZ-FORD. 41
CHAPTER IL
I know thee well,
But in thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
SHAKSPEARE.
They now advanced to the tor, and joined the
man, the very idea of whom had struck such a
panic into the heart of the little city-bred fol-
lower of Israel. Levi and the youth dismount-
ed. Let us imagine the place, and the gTOupe.
It was such as Salvator perhaps alone could
have done justice to in the wildness of its scenery,
though the fig-ures might have been a study
worthy the pencil of Rembrandt, so strong, so
marked was the character of each, and so well
adapted for that force of light and shadow
which, in the hand of the great Flemish master
just named, became the means of rendering the
creatures of his canvass so truly animated, that
it seemed as if they were about to start into
life and action before the eyes of the observer.
The mornino' liolit tino-ed with o;-old the sum^
mit of every surrounding eminence, though the