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The Nobla Leyçon, the Confession of Faith of the Vaudois Church, of the date of 1100, claims on their behalf the same ancient origin; Ecbert, a writer who flourished in 1160 the year of Peter Waldo speaks of them as "perverters," who had existed during many ages; and Reinerus, the inquisitor, who lived a century afterwards, calls them the most dangerous of all sects, because the most ancient; "for some say," adds he, "that it has continued to flourish since the time of Sylvester; others, from the time of the apostles."
I wish that when his infant majesty fell in the Rhine, there had been no Count Ecbert nigh to rescue him!" "Is it not rather an exalted charity, of which you have no conception, and a Christian forgiveness which puts to shame your last ungenerous wish?" "I can have no sympathy or pity for him who has loaded with insult a princess alike distinguished for beauty and virtue."
Did he not give the brave knight, Ecbert of Rabenwald, that famous black steed, by means of which he vanquished all the champions at the great tournament at Bremen? and did not the same steed afterwards precipitate itself with its rider into an abyss so steep and fearful, that neither horse nor man were ever seen more?
Did he not give the brave knight, Ecbert of Rabenwald, that famous black steed, by means of which he vanquished all the champions at the great tournament at Bremen? and did not the same steed afterwards precipitate itself with its rider into an abyss so steep and fearful, that neither horse nor man were ever seen more?
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