The wondering crowd burst out in merriment:

Himself, unhurt, beheld the mischief done,

And swore, with vengeance, on the “evil-one.”

(This self-conceited Jullien of the band,

Remember’d long the name of Hollybrand.)

[252] The leader of the band.

VII.

Now, undesirous to prolong the tale—

By repetition what at Ruttendell

Was being enacted to commemorate