THE PORT FOLIO,

AND

NEW YORK MONTHLY MAGAZINE,

CONDUCTED BY OLIVER OLDSCHOOL, ESQ.

VOL. I.

VARIOUS, that the mind

Of desultory man, studious of change

And pleased with novelty, may be indulged.-CowPER.

APRIL, 1822.

No. 4.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF IVANHOE.

No. 4.-Wamba before Front-de-Bœuf.

"By St. Dennis an ye pay not the richer ransom, I will hang ye up by the feet from the iron bars of these windows, till the kites and hooded crows have made skeletons of you!-Speak out, ye Saxon dogs-what bid ye for your worthless lives?-How say you, you of Rotherwood?"

"Not a doit, I," answered poor Wamba-" and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again."