Ivanhoe

CHAPTER IX

1 (p. 107) epigraph: The source for these slightly altered lines—Dryden’s The Flower and the Leaf; or, The Lady in the Arbor: A Vision (1700; lines 175-177, 184—189)—is another poem in which Dryden, like Scott after him, revisits the Middle Ages.

2 (p. 112) Og the King of Bashan, and Sihon, King of the Amorites: In the biblical accounts (Numbers 21 and 32:33), these two Canaanite kings were killed in battle against the Israelites.