In such a night Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs That did renew old Jason."

In such a night Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs That did renew old Jason."

[Durward]

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R to be retrieved. And why? Because they had no gentry to lead, to
rally, or to counsel them. The populace in both countries, though
miserably deteriorated by the long defect of an aristocracy whom they
could respect, were still sound at the heart; they felt the whole sorrow
of their own degradation; and that they would have fought, was soon
proved in the case of the Portuguese, when we lent them officers and
training; as it was proved also thirty years afterwards in the case of
the Spaniards, when Don Carlos, in a time of general peace, obtained
good officers from every part of Europe. Each country was forced into
redeeming itself by the overflowing upon it of a foreign gentry. And
yet, even at the moment of profoundest degradation, such was the
maniacal vanity still prevailing amongst the Spaniards, that at one time
the Supreme Junta forwarded the following proposal to the British
Government:--Men they had; their own independence of foreign aid, in
that sense, they had always asserted; money it was, and not armies,
which they needed; and they now proposed an arrangement, by which the
Spanish armies, as so notoriously the heroes of Europe, should be
rendered universally disposable for the task of facing the French in the
field, whilst the British (as confessedly unequal to duties so stern)
should be entrusted with the garrison duty of the fortresses. "_Illa se
jactet in aula Anglia_;" and, since the h

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