Ivanhoe

CHAPTER XXVIII

1 (p. 271) epigraph: The lines are written by Scott himself.

2 (p. 281 ) Juvenal’s Tenth Satire: Better known to Scott’s readers in the form of Samuel Johnson’s imitation, “The Vanity of Human Wishes,” in which the rich traveler discovers that “Nor light nor darkness bring his pain relief / One shows the plunder, and one hides the thief” (lines 43-44).

3 (p. 283) “Here be two arblasts … with windlaces and quarrells”: [Author’s note] Arblast, etc. The arblast was a cross-bow, the wind-lace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it.