FEUDAL TYRANTS, Volume IV. ◆ ◆ ◆ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEUDAL TYRANTS; OR, _The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans_. A ROMANCE. _TAKEN FROM THE GERMAN._ IN FOUR VOLUMES. ◆ ◆ ◆ BY M. G. LEWIS, AUTHOR OF _The Bravo of Venice, Adelgitha, Rugantino, &c._ ◆ ◆ ◆ VOL. IV. ═══════════════════ _SECOND EDITION_. ═══════════════════ The portals sound, and pacing forth With stately steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of regal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go. — GRAY. ══════════════════════════════════ London: Printed by D. N. SHURY, Berwick-Street, Soho, FOR J. F. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. ── 1807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEUDAL TYRANTS, &c. &c. &c. ═════════════════════ _PART THE SEVENTH._ ═════════════════════ CONTINUATION OF “THE SISTERS WITHOUT A NAME.” _Written by the Abbot of Cloister-Curwald._ Oh! noble Elizabeth! you to whom these leaves are more particularly addrest, have you had resolution sufficient to read thus far? will you possess sufficient presence of mind to enable you to continue the perusal of this writing, now that I have placed before you the most important and most cruel transactions, which have occurred throughout your whole life, and by which your whole life has been embittered? and will you, when at length you reach the conclusion of my painful narrative, magnanimously sacrifice your long-cherished prejudices; and daring to gaze steadily on the light of truth, will you learn to excuse and to pity, to regret and to forgive? Before I relate the transactions, which followed the fatal interview between Ida and her lover on your bridal day, I must request your patient attention, while I relate those incidents of Henry of Montfort’s earlier days, which I believe to be still unknown to you. It is thus only, that I can enable you to form a correct and unbiassed judgment of the case.