Scott's Ivanhoe - 1899 Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: herd with tame, and to seek the protection of man, their mortal foe, rather than perish by the elements. Let his wants be ministered to with all care.— Look to i... more »t, Oswald." And the steward left the banqueting-hall to see the commands of his patron obeyed. CHAPTER V. OSWALD, returning, whispered into the ear of his master, " It is a Jew, who calls himself Isaac of York.1 Is it fh I should marshal him into the hall? " " Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; " the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew." " St. Mary!" said the abbot, crossing himself, " an unbelieving Jew, and admitted into this presence!" " A dog Jew," echoed the Templar, " to approach a defender of the Holy Sepulcher!" "By my faith," said Wamba, "it would seem the Templars love the Jews' inheritance better than they do their company." "Peace, my worthy guests," said Cedric; "my hospitality must not be bounded by your dislikes. If Heaven bore with the whole nation of stiff-necked unbelievers for more years than a layman can number, we may endure the presence of one Jew for a few hours. But I constrain no man to converse or to feed with him. Let him have a board and a morsel apart — unless," he said, smiling, " these turbaned strangers will admit his society." " Sir Franklin," answered the Templar, " my Saracen slaves are true Moslems,2 and scorn as much as any Christian to hold intercourse with a Jew." " Now, in faith," said Wamba, " I cannot see that the wor 1 The capital of Yorkshire County, England, situated on the river Ouse at its junction with the Foss. Under the Heptarchy, the city was the capital of Northumbria. a Followers of Mohammed. shipers of Mahound and Termagaunt1 have so greatly the ad, vantage over the people once chosen of ...« less