walk into the eaſt, and lie perdue at the ſources of the Nile. While he was deliberating with himſelf on this difficulty, prince Iſidor of Paros, who held of the Deſpot of the Cyclades at Naxos, arrived for the purpoſe of celebrating his nuptials with Miſs Irene, ſiſter to the fair Calliſta. Great preparations were made for the rejoicings, which were to conclude with a ſplendid tournament. The hero from Swabia felt his antient military courage rouſed at this news. He was a ſufferer both from diſappointment and liſtleſſneſs; of courſe he wanted diverſion, and expected to find it at the appointed games, to which knights of every country were invited by proclamation in the market-place of the city, and at all the croſs roads. In his own country he had no pretenſions to enter the liſts; and had he preſumed to intrude among the knights, he would have been infallibly expoſed to public ſcorn and mockery. But at this diſtance he thought he ran no riſque by inveſting himſelf, under
