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SOUTHEY'S 
COMMON-PLACE    BOOK. 

jtouuIl  Seties. 

ORIGINAL    MEMORANDA,    ETC. 


EDITED 
BV     Hie    SON-IK-LAW, 

JOHN   WOOD   WARTER,   B.  D. 


LONDON; 

LONGMAN,   BROWN,   GREEN,  AND   LONGMANS, 


(I 


JUOtGH  THOU   MADST  MADK  A  Gl.NEUAL 


OF  ALL  THE  BEST  OF  MEN  S  BEST  KNOWLEDOF-'^^ 

AND  KNEW  SO  MUCH  AS  EVER  LEARNING   KNEW; 

YET  DID  IT  MAKE  THEE  TRUST  THYSELF  THE  LF^S, 

AND  LESS  PRESUME.— AND  YET  WHEN  BEING  MOV'o 

IN  PRIVATE  TALK  TO  SPEAK;    THOU  DIDST  BEWRAY 

HOW  FULLY  FRAUGHT  THOU  VVEUT  WITHIN;    AND  PROTu 

THAT  THOU  DIDST  KNOW  WHATEVER  WIT  COUI.D  SAY. 

WHICH  SHOw'd  THOU  HADST  NOT  BOOKS  AS  MANY   HAVf, 

FOR  OSTENTATION,  BUT  FOR   USE;    AND  THAT 

IIIV  BOUNTEOUS  MEMORY  WAS  SUCH  AS  GAVk 

A   LARGE  REVENUE  OF  THE  GOOD  IT  GAT. 

\V1TNESS  80  MANY  VOLUMES,  WHERETO  THOU 

HAST  SET  THY  NOTF.S  UNDER  THY   LEARNED  HAND, 

AND  MARKED  THEM  WITH  THAT  PRINT,   AS  WILL  SHOW   HOW 

THE  POINT  OF  THY  CONCEIVING  THOUGHTS  DID  STAND  ; 

IIIAT  NONE  WOULD  THINK,  IF  ALL  THY  LIFE  HAD  BEEN 

TURn'd  INTO  LEISURE,  THOI'  COULDST  HAVE  AITAIn'd 

SO  MUCH  OP  TIME,  TO  HAVE  PERUs'd  AND  SFKN 

SO  MANY  VOLUMES  THAT  SO  MUCH  CONTAIn'd." 

Damei,.      Funeral  Poem  upon  the  Death  of  the  late  WohU  Earl  of 

Devo7ishire, — "  Well- la ngu aged  Daniel,"  as  Browne  calls 

him  in  his  "  Britannia's  Pastorals,"  was  one  of  Sotttf^Cirft 

favoiiritp  Poeti. 

JOHN  WOOD  U  MMKH. 


Iprefare. 

T  is  little  that  the  Editor  has  to  s&y  on  the  appearance  of  the 
Fourth,  and  concluding,  Series  of  the  lamented  &0Uttc?*II 
Common  Place  Book.  Fossihly  to  some,  it  may  cont^n 
the  most  interesting  portion  of  the  whole, — as  Daniel  says, 
"  the  tongue  of"  his  "  best  thoughts," — to  others,  deeper  thought,  and 
original  ideas,  may  be  less  interesdog,  and  they  may  long  for  the  olla 
podrida  of  the  earlier  portions.  But,  to  all,  even  to  general  readers, 
there  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  Series  now  presented  to  the  PubUc  is  in 
every  way  most  interesting,  and  there  is,  in  his  Manna,  to  adopt  a  say- 
ing of  the  Rsbhi'B,  something  to  suit  the  taste  of  all. 

In  a  letter  written  July  11,  1822,  there  occurs  the  passage  follow- 
ing, and  in  it  is  shewn  that  "  besetting  sin — a  sort  of  miser-like  love  of 
accumulation"  —  to  which  the  Reader  owes  the  volumes  now  brought, 
with  no  little  labour,  to  completion.  "  Like  those  persons  who  frequent 
sales,  and  fill  their  houses  with  useless  purchases,  because  they  may 
want  them  some  time  or  other;  so  am  I  forever  making  collections  and 
storing  up  materials  which  may  not  come  into  use  till  the  Greek 
Calends.  And  this  I  have  been  doing  for  five  and  twenty  years  t  It  is 
true  that  I  draw  daily  upon  my  hoards,  and  should  he  poor  without 
them ;  but  in  prudence  I  ought  now  to  be  working  up  those  materials 
rather  than  adding  to  so  much  dead  stock."  Life  and  Correspondence, 
vol.  V.  p.  135. 

From  these  stores,  as  hinted,  these  Common  Place  Books  are  de- 
rived,— but  much,  very  much,  is  left  behind, — besides  that  contained 
in  the  wondrous  collection  for  the  HisTonY  of  Portugal, — not  to  be 
understood  except  by  those  who  know  the  private  marks  of  the  Author. 
Enough,  however,  has  been  given  to  shew  the  vast  collections  of  this 
unrivalled  scholar,  and  the  comprehensive  grasp  of  that  gigantic  intellect. 


VI 


PREFACE. 


which,  with  uDtold  mines  of  power,  was  meek  and  lowly  and  of  childlike 
simplicity,  as  shewn,  more  or  less,  in  every  letter  in  the  Life  and  Corre- 
spondence, That  ^DUtflC^  was  a  great  man  and  a  great  scholar,  is 
comparatively,  a  little  thing, — that  he  was  a  good  man  and  a  Christian 
every  whit,  and  a  righteous  example  and  a  pattern  for  ages  yet  to  come, 
that  is  a  great  matter  !  His  praise  is  this,  that  he  was  a  humble  minded 
man,  a  good  son,  a  good  father,  a  good  Christian ! 

It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  add,  in  the  words  of  his  prime  favourite 
author,  that  '^  he  had  a  rare  felicity  in  speedy  reading  of  books,  and  as 
it  were  but  turning  them  over  would  give  an  exact  account  of  all  con- 
siderable therein."  The  words  occur  in  the  Holy  State,  in  the  Life  of 
Mr.  Perkins,  who  preached  to  the  prisoners  in  the  castle  of  Cambridge, 
"  bound  in  their  bodies,  but  too  loose  in  their  lives." 


JOHN  WOOD  WARTER. 


Vicarage  House,  West  Taerikg,  Sussex, 
December  2A^  1850. 


CONTENTS. 

P»ge 

TDEAS  and  Studies  for  Literary  Composition        1 

Collections  for  History  of  English  Literature  and  Poetry 279 

Characteristic  English  Anecdotes,  and  Fragments  for  Espriella       352 

Collections  for  the  Doctor,  &c 427 

Personal  Obsenrations  and  Beoollections  with  Fragments  of  Journals 514 

Miscellaneous  Anecdotes  and  Gleanings 540 

Extracts,  Facts,  and  Opinions,  relating  to  Political  and  Social  Society     ....  662 

Texts  for  Sermons 721 

Texts  for  Enforcement 722 

L'Envoy    • 724 


dout|)ep'0  Common-pUte  }&ooft. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


EngUth  SeaoBuUn.' 
HE  frequent 
monoi^Uablei  ii  unfavour- 
mble  to  hexuneten  in  our 
language.  The  omiesion  of 
tlie  e  in  tlie  imperfect  and 
parUciple,  the  contractioD  of  the  genitive, 
these  ilao  b;  thortening  words  increase  the 
difficult. 

The  Saxoil  geniUve,  then,  muat  be  re- 
•tored;  the  pronoun  genitive  also,  "his," 
and  eren  "  her."  The  latter  innovation  or 
renovatioD  will  remove  one  hiwing  sound, 
lb  English  hexameter  will  be  much 
longer  to  the  eje  than  either  the  Greek  or 
Latin,  but  so  many  of  our  letters  are  use- 
lest,  tliat  I  do  not  think  it  can  be  longer  to 
the  ear.  We  often  express  a  single  sound 
bj  two  characters,  as  in  all  letters  with  the 
h  coBipoanded. 

A  trochee  ma;  be  used  for  a  spondee,  per* 
hapa  an  iambic,  but  the  iambic  must  never 
Mow  a  trochee. 

Like  blank  verse,  hexameter*  may  run 
into  each  other,  but  the  sentence  must  not, 
I  think,  close  with  a  hemistich. 


iU  find  the  question  of  English 
hcunetan  foDr  examined  in  (he  PreGuw  to  the 
n».  ^Ji.dgm«n.-3.  W.  W. 


Perh^  the  Saxon  plural  in  en  may  be 
advantageously  restored. 

The  fewest  possible  syllables  in  a  line  are 
thirteen,  the  most  seventeen.  The  fir^t  four 
feet  vary  from  eight  to  twelve.  I  conceive 
that  any  arrangement  between  these  will  be 
sufficient  if  they  satisfy  the  ear. 

We  have  in  our  language  twelve  feet;  the 
Greeks  and  Romans  had  twenty-eight. 


Iambic  .  . 
Trochee  .  . 
Dactyl  .  . 
Amphibrachys 
Amphimaeer 
Antibacchiui 


Peon  Secondua   > 

[ajor     J 


Egypt 

D^ffirt 

Lingiiid 

L5vemf 

BetavSd 

undertake 

Hoiisebi'eakfe 

Extinguisher,  occord- 
'  g  as  it  stands  in 

AfqilibibsiSr 


Irr^vliB-  Blank  Vtrte. 

Of  metres  that  must  be  the  best  which 
being  harmonious  enough  to  the  reader,  fet< 
ters  least  the  poet's  thoughls. 

Those  lines  are  adoisuble  in  irregular 
blank  verse  of  which  none  make  the  half  of 
anyother;  fbrtheAlexandrineis  two  tacked 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Anapaestic. 
12. 
9. 


together,  and  they  never  fit  well  unless  you 
see  the  seam  in  the  middle.  So  Wamer*s 
long  line  is  splittable  into  the  common  bal- 
lad metre. 

Iambic.         Trochaic. 
10.  8. 

8.  6. 

6.  7. 

5. 
The  Adonic  line,  the  Dactylic,  the  Ana- 
creontic, the  Sapphic. 

The  sentence  must  not  too  often  close  on 
a  long  syllable.  The  trochaic  line  of  eight 
is  the  only  double  ending.  This  may  be 
palliated  by  running  the  lines  into  the  de- 
cimal one.  And  the  anapeestic  of  nine  will 
bear  a  redundant  syllable  at  the  end.  There 
may  also  be  occasionally  introduced  the  tro- 
chaic of  six,  and  the  Adonic,  perhaps  the 
Sapphic  or  Phaleucian  line. 

Thus  are  there  thirteen  usable  lines.  The 
more  complicate  ones  can,  however,  only  be 
inserted  in  polishing ;  composition  will  not 
pause  for  them. 


Metrical  Memoranda. 

How  would  the  galloping  dactylic  metre 
suit  to  be  written  rhymelessly  ?  rhyme  is 
even  less  essential  to  harmony  here  than  in 
the  iambic  cadence,  for  the  lyric  there  would 
be  the  four-lined  stanza  of  two  twelve,  two 
nine,  with  all  its  changes. 

♦12     12      9      9 

9      9     12     12 

12       9       9     12 

♦  9     12     12       9 

In  these  long  lines  there  ts  danger  lest  the 

epithets  should  be  too  frequent. 

Of  these  duodecimo  lines  there  is  no  frac- 
tion but  the  9,  for  8  and  9  are  convertible, 
like  11  and  12,  and  6  woiild  be  halving  the 
long  line  only.  The  7  makes  a  good  line, 
the  last  half  of  a  pentameter. 

With  rhyme  a  correspondent  metre  to 
that  of  the  ebb  tide  would  have  a  good  ef- 
fect, rhyming  alternately  thus, 
9     12     12     9 


Could  trochaic  lines  be  introduced  into 
the  rhymeless  four-lined  stanza  ?  or  would 
the  change  of  cadence  be  too  harsh  ? 


Noah. 

Of  all  subjects  this  is  the  most  magni- 
ficent. 

This  is  the  work  with  which  I  would  at- 
tempt to  introduce  hexameters  into  oiir  lan- 
guage. A  scattered  party  of  fifty  or  a  hun- 
dred do  nothing ;  but  if  I  march  a  regular 
array  of  some  thousands  into  the  country, 
well  disciplined,  and  on  a  good  plan,  they 
will  effect  their  establishment. 

My  plan  should  be  sketched  before  I  have 
read  Bodmer*s  poem ;  then,  if  his  work  be 
not  above  mediocrity,  it  may  be  melted  at 
my  convenience  into  mine. 

For  the  philosophy,  Burnett's  Theory  is 
the  finest  possible ;  for  machinery  the  Rab- 
bis must  give  it  me,  and  the  Talmuds  are  in 
requisition. 

The  feelings  must  be  interested  for  some 
of  those  who  perished  in  the  waters,  A 
maiden  withheld  from  the  ark  by  maternal 
love,  and  her  betrothed  self-sacrificed  with 
her.  Their  deaths  and  consequent  beati- 
tude may  be  deeply  affecting.  In  the  des- 
potism that  has  degraded  the  world,  and 
made  it  fit  only  for  destruction,  there  is  room 
for  strong  painting.  The  Anakim  have  once 
already  destroyed  mankind ! 

March  26,  1800. 

I  HAVE  read  the  Noachid  of  Bodmer;  it 
is  a  bad  poem.  In  one  point  only  does  it 
deserve  to  be  followed,  in  adopting  the  sys- 
tem of  Whiston,  and  destroying  the  world 
by  the  approximation  of  a  comet.  This 
may  be  ingrafted  upon  Burnett's  Theory. 

June  29,  1801. 

It  is  unfortunate  thatShem  and  Ham  can- 
not be  christened. 

Japhet,  the  European  inheritor,  must  be 
the  prominent  personage,  and  brimful  of 
patriotism  he  should  be.  Some  visit,  per- 
haps, to  Enoch  in  paradise.     The  death  of 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


one  of  the  just  may  tell  well.  A  father  of 
one  of  the  wives ;  his  son  should  be  the  love 
Tictim.  A  martyrdom  also; — some  hero, 
bmut  offering  to  the  god-tyrant, — a  rank 
Romish  priesthood.  Why  not  an  Atheist 
firiend  of  Noah  ?  one  who  reasons  from  the 
wickedness  of  the  world,  a  good  man,  but 
not  stiff-necked,  who  has  never  swallowed 
the  poker  of  principle,  nor  laced  on  the 
strait  waistcoat  of  conscience,  an  incense- 
burner  to  the  idols  whom  he  derides. 

Anguish  of  Noah  when  the  sentence  of 
the  world  is  past.  The  spirit  of  Adam 
might  announce  it,  on  his  own  grave. 

The  chief  tyrant?  some  beef-headed  boo- 
by brute. 

The  universal  iniquity  will  be  difficultly 
made  conceivable.  There  must  be  an  uni- 
rersal  monarchy  to  account  for  it,  and  focus 
it 

How  to  heighten  the  crimes?  to  bring 
about  the  crisis  of  guilt  ?  all  must  be  bad, 
even  those  who  see  the  evil  must  seek  to 
remedy  it  by  evil  means ;  some  United  Irish 
violence. 

The  burnt  offering  the  outstanding  ^- 
gnre ;  a  young  man  full  of  all  good  hopes 
and  arrogance,  who  would  revolutionize  the 
world ;  his  error,  the  working  with  evil 
means,  and  his  ruin.  The  final  wickedness ; 
his  death,  after  an  Abbe  Barruel-Bartholo- 
mew-massacre. 

Is  language  equal  to  describe  the  great 
crash  ?  one  line  of  comfort  must  be  the  ter- 
minating one — lo,  yonder  the  ark  on  the 
waters. 

The  great  temple-palace  should  be  some 
Tower  of  Babel  building,  made  in  despite 
of  prophecy,  and  mockery  of  God*s  venge- 
ance. It  should  resist  the  water  weight,  and 
overlive  all  things,  till  the  vault  of  the  earth 
bursts. 

Arbathan  the  self-confident  hero.  Some 
act  of  solitary  goodness  seen  by  Japhet 
should  win  his  affections,  which  the  darkness 
of  conspiracy  had  shocked.  Arbathan  would 
act  like  Omniscience.  He  would  dare  do  ill 
for  the  good  event.  Thus,  too,  he  should 
argue,  and  assume  to  himself  the  praise  of 


humanity  in  only  destroying  half, — when 
Noah  threatens  all  with  extermination. 

At  length — the  doom  voice  was  uttered, — 
and  the  Lord  Grod  Almighty  turned  from 
mankind  the  eyes  of  his  mercy. 

The  statue  omen.  They  should  fear  Noah, 
and  attempt  to  destroy  him  so ;  but  the  blow 
harms  not  the  statue^s  head,  it  shivers  the 
mallet,  and  palsies  the  arm  that  struck. 

The  peace-virtues  of  the  holy  family,  vi- 
olet virtues  more  sweet  than  showy.  The 
young  hopes  and  heat  of  Japhet  may  force 
him  into  a  livelier  interest ;  he  should  be  for 
isocratizing. 

The  general  embarkation  must  be  kept 
out  of  sight ;  it  savours  too  much  of  the 
ridiculous. 


«WV%/\^VW%/S^^h^S^^^^fWVN^ 


AfANGO  CaPAC.^ 


I  HAVE  completely  failed  in  attempting  to 
identify  Madocwith  Mango  Capac.  He  goes 
indeed  to  Peru,  but  this  is  all — The  histo- 
rical circumstances  totally  differ,  but  he  has 
a  fleet  of  companions,  and  assumes  no  divine 
Authority;  —  therefore  will  I  remove  the 
Welsh  adventurers  to  Florida,  and  cele- 
brate the  Peruvian  legislation  in  another 
poem. 

From  whence  was  IVIango  Capac?  he 
could  not  have  grown  up  in  Peru,  nor  in- 
deed in  any  part  of  America.  There  is  no 
instance,  no  possibility  of  any  such  character 
growing  up  among  savages ;  it  is  a  miracle 
more  unbelievable  than  his  inspiration ;  but 
whence  or  how  came  he  to  Peru.  Europe 
was  too  barbarous  to  furnish  a  civilizer  for 
America ;  and  from  Europe  he  must  have 
taken  the  impossible  way  up  the  Maragnon, 
where  I  had  led  Madoc.  But  a  European 
would  have  been  a  Christian.  From  the 
East  his  opinions  might  have  proceeded ;  biit 
the  voyage  from  Persia!    its  impassable 


1  The  reader  is  referred  to  the  Commentarios 
ReaUs,  etcritos  por  el  Ynca  GarcUasso  de  la  Vega, 
The  copy  before  me  was  Southet'b.  Lisboa, 
Ano  de  M.DCIX.— J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


length — and  New  Holland  and  all  those 
islands  just  in  the  course  I  This  could  not 
have  been ;  the  waj  from  China  is  more 
practicable — ^but  how  could  Mango  Capac 
conceive  such  designs  in  that  country?  in- 
spiration seems  the  solution  most  easy  to 
credit  as  well  as  to  adopt. 

Reasoning  as  a  necessarian,  and  so  I 
must  reason,  all  effects  proceed  from  the 
first  cause.  The  belief  of  inspiration  is  as 
much  produced  bj  that  first  cause,  as  what 
is  acknowledged  to  be  real ;  where  then  is 
the  difference ;  or  does  it  result  that  he  who 
believes  himself  inspired,  is  so?  Crede  quod 
habeas  et  habes  ?  this  rather  puzzles  than 
satisfies  me. 

But  in  another  light  why  should  inspira- 
tion be  confined  to  Judea?  Mohammed  has 
produced  evil  assuredly;  but  Zoroaster, 
but  Confucius,  above  all  Mango  Capac?  he 
at  least  produced  extensive  good ;  there  is 
therefore  a  cause  for  divine  revelation ;  or 
if  it  be  deemed  undeserving  of  such  agency, 
intermediate  beings  may  have  produced 
the  same  effect.  Their  existence  is  every 
way  probable,  perhaps  even  their  interpo- 
sition. 

About  A.D.  1 150  Mango  Capac  and  Mama 
Oella,  his  sister-wife,  appeared  by  the  Lake 
Titiaca.^  At  that  time  the  Mohammedan  su- 
perstition had  triumphed  in  the  East ;  and 
the  few  followers  of  Zoroaster  were  perse- 
cuted, or  safe  only  in  obscurity.  Here  then 
the  poem  roots  itself  well.  The  father  of 
these  children  is  a  Guebre,  rather  a  Sabean, 
one  driven  into  mountain  seclusion;  the 
children  necessarily  become  enthusiasts ;  if 
they  see  other  human  beings  they  at  least 
find  none  who  can  feel  as  they  feel  or  com- 
prehend them — hence  they  love  each  other. 
The  spirit  of  the  sun,  whom  they  adore, 
may  drop  them  where  he  pleases.  The  rest 
is  I  doubt  more  philosophical  than  poetical 
— the  influence  of  intellect  over  docile  and 
awed  ignorance. — Anno^  1799. 


*  See  libro  iii.  de  loi  Commentarios  EeaUt,  c. 
XXV.  torn.  L  f.  80.— J.  W.  W. 


Images. 

Atteb  a  battle — ^the  bank  weeds  of  the 
stream  bloody. 

Tameness  of  the  birds  where  gunpowder 
is  unknown. 

The  sound  of  a  running  brook  like  dis- 
tant voices. 

There  is  a  sort  of  vegetable  that  grows 
in  the  water  like  a  green  mist  or  fog. 

Christ  Church,  Oct.  8, 1799.  I  crossed  the 
bridge  at  night ;  the  church  and  the  ruins 
were  before  me,  the  marshes  flooded,  the 
sky  was  stormy  and  wild,  the  moon  rolling 
among  clouds,  and  the  rush  of  the  waters 
now  mingling  with  the  wind,  now  heard 
alone,  in  the  pauses  of  the  storm. 

Perfect  calmness — a  spot  so  sheltered 
that  the  broad  banana-lei^  was  not  broken 
by  the  wind. 

Bubbles  in  rain — a  watry  dome. 

Gilt  weathercock — ^bright  in  the  twilight. 

Holly — its  white  bark. 

Beech  in  autumn — ^its  upmost  branches 
stript  first  and  all  pointed  upwards. 

Moss  on  the  cot  thatch  the  greenest  ob- 
ject. 

Redness  of  the  hawthorn  with  its  berries. 

Water,  like  polished  steel,  dark,  or  splen- 
did. 

Ice-sheets  hanging  from  the  banks  above 
the  level  of  the  water,  which  had  been 
fi*ozen  at  flood. 

Willows  early  leaved,  and  their  young 
leaves  green. 

The  distant  hill  always  appears  steep. 

As  we  were  sailing  out  of  Falmouth  the 
ships  and  the  shore  seemed  to  dance — like 
a  dream. 

At  sea  I  saw  a  hen  eating  the  egg  slie 
had  just  laid  I 

An  old  sailor  described  a  marvellously 
fine  snow-storm  to  Tom.^  The  sun  risin<; 
remarkably  red,  a  heavy  gale  from  the  op- 

*  This  is  the  late  Captain  Thomas  Soutuey. 
R.N.  He  was  an  acute  obsenrer  of  nature,  and 
many  references  are  made  to  his  letters. 

J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


posite  point  of  the  horizon  driving  the  large 
flakes,  which,  tinged  bj  the  sun,  looked  like 
falling  fire — so  strikingly  so  Uiat  the  men 
remarked  it,  and  thought  it  ominous. 

May  14,  1800.  A  singular  and  striking 
evening  skj.  The  horizon  is  perfectly  clear 
and  blue ;  just  in  the  west  runs  a  ridge  of 
black  clouds,  heavy,  and  their  outline  as 
strongly  defined  as  a  line  of  rock — a  low 
ridge---the  sky  behind  has  the  green  tinge, 
the  last  green  light.  I  well  remember 
when  a  six  years*  boy  drawing  such  un- 
cooth  shapes,  making  blotches  of  ink  in  the 
same  jagged  formlessness,  and  fancying 
them  into  the  precipices  and  desert  rocks 
of  faery  romance. 

The  trunk  of  the  palm  seems  made  by  the 
ruins  of  the  leaves. 

The  inside  of  the  banana  leaf  feels  like 
satten. 

A  gentle  wind  waving  only  the  stunmit 
of  the  cypress. 

At  the  bull  fight  I  saw  the  sweat  of 
death  darken  the  dun  hide  of  the  animal ! 

The  cypress  trunk  is  usually  fluted. 

July  1.  The  chesnut  tree,  now  beginning 
to  push  out  its  catkin,  and  in  full  leaf;  has 
a  radiant  foliage.  Whiter  than  other  trees 
from  its  young  catkin,  and  perfectly  starry 
in  shape. 

The  Indian  com  flowers  only  at  the  top; 
the  seed  is  in  a  sheath  below,  near  the  root ; 
from  the  point  of  the  shea^  hangs  out  a 
lock  of  brown  filaments,  like  hair,  green  in 
its  earlier  stage.  The  flower  is  of  light 
brown,  somewhat  inclined  to  purple. 

A  thunder-storm  burst  over  Cintra. 
Roster  saw  the  eagles  flying  about  their 
nest,  scared  by  the  lightning  from  entering 
to  their  young,  and  screaming  with  terror. 

From  the  Fenina  I  saw  the  sea  so  dap- 
pled with  clouds  and  slips  of  intermediate 
light,  as  not  to  be  distinguishable  from  the 
Ay. 

View  from  above  of  a  wooded  glen,  afler 
describing  the  visible  objects — ^the  billowy 
wood  that  hides  all — ^below  is  the  sound 
that  tells  of  water,  &c. 

Water,  only  varied  by  the  air  bubble 


rising  to  the  surface.  Trees,  like  men,  grow 
stifl'with  age;  their  brittle  boughs  break 
in  the  storm — a  light  breeze  moves  only 
their  leaves. 

Glitter  of  water  at  the  bottom  of  reeds. 

Storm  from  the  south-east  at  the  Cape. 
The  appearance  of  the  heavenly  bodies,  as 
observed  by  the  Abb^  de  la  Caille,is  strange 
and  terrible,  "  The  stars  look  larger  and 
seem  to  dance ;  the  moon  has  an  undulating 
tremor;  and  the  planets  have  a  sort  of 
beard  like  comets." — Babrow. 

Where  the  ship  breaks  ito  way,  the  white 
dust  of  the  water  sinks  at  first,  with  a  his- 
sing noise,  and  mingles  with  the  dark  blue; 
soon  they  rise  again  in  ur-sparkles. 

Sound  of  a  river — a  blind  man  would 
have  loved  the  lovely  spot.^ 

Waterfall,  its  wmd  and  its  shower,  and 
its  rainbow,  where  the  shade  and  the  sun- 
shine met,  and  its  echo  from  the  rock,  in- 
creasing the  inseparable  sound. 

Insects  moving  upon  smooth  water  like 
rain. 

The  wind  sweeping  the  stream  showers 
up  sparkles  of  light. 

The  mountains  and  the  mountain-stream 
had  a  grey  tinge,  somewhat  blue,  like  the 
last  evening  light. 

At  Mafra,  the  sound  of  the  organ  when 
it  ceased — ^like  thunder;  the  rise  of  the 
congregation — ^like  the  sea. 

Finland.  **The  only  noise  the  traveller 
hears  in  this  forest  is  the  bursting  of  the 
bark  of  the  trees,  from  the  effect  of  the 
frost,  which  has  a  loud  but  dull  sound.** — 
Acerbi, 

Trees  seen  from  an  eminence  lie  grouped 
below  in  masses,  like  the  swell  of  heavy 
clouds. 

Flags.  I  saw  the  colours  in  a  bright 
sky  flowing  like  streams  of  colour  with  daz- 
zling vividness. 

*  The  reader  of  Soutbxt's  works  will  find 
many  of  these  ideas  worked  up.  These  words 
occur  in  Madoc  without  alteration,  part  il.  xxiii. 
and  were  auoted  to  me  by  Southet,  1829,  in 
one  of  the  loveliest  spots  of  all  Cumberland. 

J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


When  the  Marlbro*  was  wrecked,  the 
goats  ran  wildly  about,  and  the  cats  came 
screaming  upon  deck,  evidently  aware  of 
danger.  Wind,  not  in  gusts,  but  one  con- 
tinuous roar,  like  the  perpetual  bound  of  a 
cataract. 

The  hut  enough  upon  the  rising  to  be 
above  all  winter  floods,  trees  enough  about 
it ;  the  alder  and  the  willow  by  the  brook ; 
orchards,  and  the  yew  among  the  stones, 
and  the  ash,  and  the  mountain  ash,  and  the 
birch ;  but  a  little  beyond  and  all  was 
dreary  —  the  nakedness  of  nature,  the 
mountain  side  all  ruined,  loose  stones  and 
crags  that  waited  but  the  next  frost  to 
thunder  down ;  in  the  bottom,  a  few  lines 
of  those  low  stone  walls,  that  you  hardly 
suspect  to  be  the  works  of  man. 


From  ToM*8  Letter, 

"  There  were  yesterday  two  fine  water- 
spouts close  to  us.  They  appeared  to  de- 
scend  from  a  heavy  black  cloud,  not  in  a 
straight  column,  but  with  a  round.  When 
they  reached  the  water  they  blew  it  about 
with  great  violence.  One  of  them  looked 
like  the  smoking  of  a  vessel  burnt  to  the 
water  8-edge.  The  other  seemed  not  to 
raise  the  water  so  high,  but  formed  it  very 
like  the  capital  of  a  Corinthian  pillar ;  the 
column  was  more  transparent  in  the  middle 
than  at  the  sides.  When  it  ceased  to  act 
upon  the  water,  it  reascended  to  the  cloud, 
forming  a  circle  with  a  still  increasing  ra- 
dius as  it  drew  directly  up.  The  lower 
point  at  last  formed  the  centre,  it  then  was 
so  wide.  It  was  then  interrupted  by  other 
clouds  passing  over.** 

*^  A  PUBSTA  del  Sol  parescio  la  Luna,  e 
comio  poco  a  poco  todas  las  nubes.** — Cron. 
del  Conde  D.  Pero  Nino.^ 

Tom. 
**  You  should  have  been  with  us  last  cruise 
(Lat.  60  H .)  to  have  seen  the  Aurora  Bore- 


»  See  Second  Series,  p.  615.— J.  W.  W. 


alis  flashing  in  bright  columns  behind  large 
masses  of  black  cloud.  I  look  upon  it  the 
clouds  we  have  here  are  only  detached 
pieces,  driven  fh>m  the  large  mass  that 
constantly  floats  near  the  Arctic  circle  this 
time  of  the  year.** 

The  Boiling  Well,  near  Bristol  Grbt- 
gebenish  bubbles  rise  sometimes  by  dozens, 
a  whole  shower  of  them.  Sometimes  one 
huge  one ;  the  large  ones  always  bring  up 
a  trail  of  gravel  soil. 

Little  volcanos  of  gravel,  where  the  soil 
is  finer  it  rises  like  smoke. 

The  Hawk,  Abound  that  echoed  from  the 
rock  aright,  alefl,  around — and  from  the 
vault  of  rock,  you  felt  the  shaking  war,  and 
it  made  the  senses  shake. 

Grass  under  a  gale,  as  if  you  saw  the 
stream  of  wind  flowing  over  it. 

I  have  seen  the  yellow  leaves  of  the  ash 
and  birch  in  Autunm  give  a  sunshiny  ap- 
pearance to  the  trees — a  hectic  beauty. 

Twinkling  of  the  water-lilly  leaves  in  a 
breeze. 

Sept.  28.  Crackling  of  the  furze  pods  in 
a  hot  day. 

A  steady  rain,  so  slow  and  in  so  still  a 
day,  that  the  leafless  twigs  of  the  birch 
were  covered  with  rain-drops — no  rain- 
drop falling  till  with  its  own  weight. 

An  Autumn  day,  when  at  noon  the  morn- 
ing dew  lies  still  upon  the  grass  undried, 
yet  the  weather  delicious. 

"  We  were  most  dreadfully  annoyed  by 
flies  which  swarm  about  the  heaps  of  old 
forage  and  filth  scattered  over  the  camp.** 
This  was  near  the  camp  in  India  which  had 
been  abandoned  the  day  before. 


SimUiee. 

An  uncharitable  man  to  the  desert — ^which 
receives  the  sunbeams  and  the  rain,  and  re- 
turns no  increase. 

"  As  the  moon  doth  show  her  light  in  the 


roEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


world  which  she  receiveth  from  the  sun,  so 
we  ought  to  bestow  the  benefits  received  of 
God  to  the  profit  and  commodity  of  our 
neighbour." — Wit's  CommomoeaWi. 

Meet  adversity  —  like  the  cedar  in  the 
snow. 

The  enchanted  fountains  to  the  sources 
of  Whang-ho. 

Convulsions  in  eastern  kingdoms  —  to  a 
stone  cast  into  a  green-mantled  pool;  for 
a  moment  it  is  disturbed,  but  the  green 
stagnation  covers  it  again. 

Sound  of  a  trumpet — tc  YirgiPs  statue  by 
Naples. 

Bitter  resentment,  revenge  that  requires 
blood — ^the  sting  of  a  scorpion,  only  to  be 
healed  by  crushing  it  and  binding  it  on  the 
wound. 

White  heat,  tremulous,  intense — ^like  the 
sun  if  steadily  beheld. 

Look  of  love — to  the  intense  affection  in 
the  eye  of  the  ostrich  when  fixed  on  its  egg. 

Sorrow,  misfortunes. — I  have  seen  a  dark 
cloud  that  threatened  to  hide  the  moon, 
grow  bright  as  it  passed  over  her,  and  only 
make  her  more  beautiful.  August  7,  Cin- 
tra,  eleven  at  night. 

Violet  virtues— discovered  by  their  sweet- 
ness, not  their  show. 

^  Upon  the  lake  lie  the  long  shadows  of  thy 
towers.**  —  Shadows  seem  to  sink  deep  in 
dark  water. 

Desertion — ^weeds  seeding  in  the  garden 
or  court-yard,  or  on  the  altar. 


PiNB  and  fir  groves  said  to  form  fine 
echoes. 

M.  de  la  Hire  after  Leonardo  da  Vinci 
observes  that  any  black  body  viewed  through 
a  thin  white  one  gives  the  sensation  of  blue; 
and  this  he  assigns  as  the  reason  of  the  blue- 
ness  of  the  sky,  the  immense  depth  of  which 
being  wholly  devoid  of  light,  is  viewed 
through  the  air  illuminated  and  whitened  by 
the  sun. 

Chama  Gigas  —  the  name  of  those  huge 
scallop  shells  which  are  placed  about  foun- 
tains. 


The  skylark, — ^rising  as  if  he  would  soar 
to  heaven,  and  singing  as  sweetly  and  as 
happily  as  if  he  were  there. 

The  wind  hath  a  human  voice. 

July  1822.  I  WAS  on  the  lake  with 
Lightfoot,^  between  the  General*s  Island  and 
St.  Herbert*s,  and  nearly  midway  between 
the  east  and  west  sides.  The  water  was  per- 
fectly still,  and  not  a  breath  of  air  to  be 
felt.  We  were  in  fine  weather,  but  on  the 
eastern  side  a  heavy  shower  was  falling, 
within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  us,  and  the 
sound  which  it  made  was  louder  than  the 
loudest  roaring  of  Lodore,  so  as  to  astonish 
us  both.  I  thought  that  a  burst  had  hap- 
pened upon  Walla  crag,  and  that  the  sound 
proceeded  from  the  ravines  bringing  down 
their  sudden  torrents.  But  it  was  merely 
the  rain  falling  on  the  lake  when  every  thing 
was  still. 

Bell  -  RINGING,  a  music  which  nature 
adopts  and  makes  her  own,  as  the  winds 
play  with  it. 

"  The  olive  will  hardly  admit  of  any  graft, 
by  reason  of  its  fatness,  nor  will  the  grafts 
of  it  easily  thrive  in  any  other  stock." — ^Db. 
Jackson,  vol.  2,  p.  639. 

It  is  remarkable  that  Reginald  Heber 
shoiild  never  have  noticed  the  *  pale  trans- 
lucent green*  of  an  evening  sky,  till  he  saw 
it  on  his  voyage  to  India. — Journal,  vol.  1, 
p.  Ivii. 

TuRNER*s  Tour  in  the  Levant,  vol.  3,  p. 
175.  "  From  the  tomb  of  Orchan  I  vainly 
looked  for  the  miraculous  drum  which  was 
said  to  sound  of  itself  every  night,  and  on 
enquiry  was  informed  that  it  was  burnt  in 
the  last  great  fire — at  Brusa.** 

Sunshine  in  sheets  and  fuUs  of  light 
through  the  ref>s  in  a  cloud. 

'  His  old  friend,  the  Rev.  Nicholas  Lightfoot. 
See  Life  and  Correspondence,  vol.  v.  118. 

J.  W.  W. 


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At  the  edge  of  the  frozen  lake,  opposite 
to  Lord*8  Island,  the  frost  had  formcMl  little 
crystalline  blossoms  on  the  ice  whereyer 
there  was  the  point  of  a  rush  to  form  a  nu- 
cleus. These  frost  flowers  were  about  the 
size  of  the  little  blue  flower  with  the  orange 
eje,  (O)  and  exceedingly  beautiful,  bright 
as  silyer. 

3  March,  1829.  Thb  lake  perfectly  still 
in  a  mild  clear  day ;  but  at  once  a  motion 
began  upon  it  between  the  Crag  and  Stable 
hill,  as  if  an  infinite  number  of  the  smallest 
conceivable  fish  were  lashing  it  with  their 
tails.  What  could  possibly  occasion  this, 
neither  I,  nor  Bertha  and  Kate,  who  were 
with  me,  coiild  discoyer  or  imagine.  It 
abated  gradually. 

**  Where  the  rainbow  toucheth  the  tree, 
no  caterpillar  will  hang  on  the  leaves.** — 

LlIXT. 

In  the  Secchia  Rapita  the  hammer  of  the 
bell  is  spoken  of 

^  n  martello  de  la  maggior  campana.** 

Canto  1.  X. 

and  the  fire-flies — but  in  a  way  worthy  of 
such  a  writer. 

**  E  le  lucciole  uscian  con  cul  de  foco, 
Stelle  di  questa  nostra  ultima  sfera.** 

8.1. 

I  NOTICED  a  very  pretty  image  by  the  side 
of  a  little  and  clear  runlet,  the  large  butter- 
cups on  its  margin  moved  when  there  was 
no  wind,  rocked  by  the  rapid  motion  of  its 
stream. 

The  horse-chestnut  in  the  way  in  which 
its  boughs  incline  to  rest  upon  the  ground, 
resembles  the  fig-tree. 

**  Achilles*  shield  being  lost  on  the  seas 
by  Ulysses,  was  tossed  by  the  sea  to  the 
tomb  of  Ajax,  as  a  manifest  token  of  his 
right.** — EuPHVEs. 


Flies  in  a  bed  room  when  the  window 
curtain  is  drawn  appear  in  a  glance  of  lighty 
like  fire-flies,  where  they  flit  across  the  sun- 
beam, that  beam  not  being  otherwise  visible 
except  where  it  falls  upon  the  wall. 

First  Rochelle  expedition.  **  Men  fell 
a-rubbing  of  armour  which  a  great  while 
had  lain  oyled.**— Sib  H.  Wottoh,  p.  222. 

^  Sol  la  cicala  col  nojoso  metro 
Fra  i  densi  rami  del  fronzuto  stelo 
Le  valli  e  i  monti  assorda,  e*l  mare,  e*l  cielo.** 

Ariosto,  c.  8.  St.  20. 

Grabs  tiomkiimg  with  the  morning  dew. 


«^^/WW\^/^N»W%/V»/WV>/»»« 


Ferran  Oonzalez,  Count  of  Castille, 

Ferran  Gohzalbz  had  slain  in  battle 
Sancho  Abarea,  King  of  Navarre,  with  his 
own  hand.  He  had  not  provoked  the  war : 
Sancho  had  often  infested  Castille,  and  an- 
swered the  Count's  remonstrances  and  de- 
mands of  restitution  by  defying  him.  He 
sent  home  the  body  honourably. 

Teresa,  Queen  dowager  of  Leon,  was 
daughter  of  Sancho  and  sbter  to  Garcia 
Abarea,  then  reigning  in  Navarre.  There 
exists  a  jealousy  between  Sancho  of  Leon 
and  the  Count,  whom  his  victories  and  re- 
nown made  too  formidable  for  a  vassal.  At 
a  Cortes  which  he  attended,  Sancho  had 
asked  of  him  his  horse  and  his  hawk.  These 
the  Count  would  have  given,  but  the  Kirg 
would  only  receive  them  as  a  purchase— and 
contracted  for  1000  marks,  to  be  paid  on  a 
certain  day,  if  not,  the  debt  was  daily  to 
double ;  it  was  his  own  contract.  The  writ- 
ings were  drawn  out "  partidas  por  A.  B.  C.** 
and  sealed  and  witnessed  in  all  form.  At 
this  same  Cortes,  Teresa  proposed  to  the 
Count,  her  niece  Sancha  of  Navarre  for  wife. 
This  was  concerted  with  Garcia,  that  so  he 
might  entrap  Ferran,  and  imprison  or  slay 
him  in  revenge  of  his  father's  death. 

A  meeting  was  appointed  to  conclude  the 
marriage,  each  party  to  be  accompanied  by 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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onlj  fiye  knights.  The  Count  kept  his  pro- 
mise; Garcia  brought  thirtj-fiye,  and  seized 
him,  but  n^t  till  after  a  hard  resistance,  for 
the  CastQians  refuged  in  an  Ermida,  and  de- 
fended it  till  thej  had  secured  their  Uves  bj 
a  capitulation.  The  five  knights  were  re- 
leased, the  Count  fettered  and  imprisoned. 

A  Lombard  Count  on  pilgrimage  to  San- 
tiago, yisits  Ferran  in  prison,  and  upbraids 
Sancfaa  for  her  part  in  the  wrong.  She  sent 
her  damsel  to  see  him,  and  then  woit  her- 
self; the  marriage  promise  passed  between 
them,  and  they  fled  togeUier;  his  chains  were 
heayj,  and  she  at  times  sustidned  them.  A 
priest  who  was  riding  with  hawk  and  hound, 
disoorers  them,  and  onlj  consents  to  let  the 
Count  escape  on  condition  that  Sancha 
abandons  her  person  to  him,  she  retires  with 
him,  contrives  to  throw  him  down,  and  Fer- 
ran kills  him  widi  a  knife.  They  proceed, 
and  meet  the  Castilians  coming  to  his  res- 
cue, with  a  stone  image  of  the  Count  before 
them,  which  they  had  sworn  never  to  for- 
sake. 

Garcia  infests  Castille  till  the  patience  of 
the  Count  fails,  and  he  meets  him  in  a 
pitched  battle,  defeats  and  takes  him — ^he 
refuses  to  liberate  him  at  Sancha*s  request, 
but  she  appeals  to  his  knights,  and  pleads 
so  well  that  they  obtain  his  deliverance  for 
her  sake. 

The  King  of  Leon  summons  him  now  to 
a  Cortes,  and  inunediately  seizes  him.  San- 
cha sets  out  with  her  knights,  leaves  them 
concealed,  and  proceeds  as  on  pilgrimage. 
The  ELing  of  Leon  allows  her  to  see  her  hus- 
band and  pass  the  night  with  him.  In  her 
pilgrim  dress  Ferran  e8Ciq[>es  and  joins  his 
troops ;  but  their  aid  is  made  needless  by 
an  interview  between  Sancha  and  the  Ring 
of  Leon,  the  Able  mind  of  the  Countess  over- 
powers him,  and  all  is  settled. 


^»>W»/>»»^/^»^<»»M>/^W^i'^ 


Catholic  Mythology. 

Adam  in  Limbo  beholding  the  light  of  the 
Annunciation.  Simile, — suggested  by  Bet- 
tinelli*8  Sonnet,  Pern.  Mod.  19,  p.  169. 


Sabbath  of  Hell.  See  the  liegend  of  Ju- 
das and  St.  Brandon.  How  much  more  hu- 
manly is  this  conceived  than  Monti*8  Son- 
net, vol.  17,  p.  77,  who  describes  Justice  as 
writing  upon  the  traitor's  forehead  as  soon 
as  he  has  expired,  sentence  of  eternal  dam- 
nation, with  the  blood  of  Christ  I  dipping 
her  finger  in  the  blood.  This  is  hideous ! 
The  angels,  says  the  second  sonnet,  made 
fans  of  their  wings  to  shut  out  the  sight. 

**  Per  spavento 
Si  fer  de  Tale  a  gli  occhi  una  visiera.** 

I  thought  I  had  done  when  at  the  end  of 
the  first  sonnet,  but  it  seems  there  is  yet  a 
third,  to  tell  us  that  as  the  soul  had  re- 
sumed flesh  and  bone,  the  sentence  appear- 
ed in  red  letters, — ^it  frightened  the  damned 
— ^he  tried  to  tear  it  out,  but  Grod  had  fixed 
it  there. 

^  Ne  sillaba  di  Dio  mai  si  cancella  !** 

Perkopi  this  horrible  absurdity  suggested 
to  Lewis  his  fine  picture  of  the  Wandering 
Jew. 

A  GOOD  paper  in  the  manner  of  Addison, 
might  be  made  upon  the  motion  of  a  Board 
of  Suicide,  instituted  to  grant  licenses  for 
that  act,  upon  sufficient  cause  being  shown. 


^^^^i^^^^/^^Ai^^^v^^/^^^^^ 


WoM  this  story  mature  into  a  useful 
volume  f 

Oltvbb  Elton  is  the  second  son  of  wealthy 
parents,  who  live  up  to  the  extent  of  their 
income ;  he  is  not  their  favourite ;  his  mo- 
ther had  not  nursed  him.  She  would  not 
perform  maternal  duty,  and  was  therefore 
deprived  of  maternal  affection.  Oliver's 
provision  was  a  good  living ;  he  has  scru- 
ples, and  cannot  accept  it. 

Hie  date  must  be  1793.  During  a  vaca- 
tion Oliver  sets  out  for  a  long  walk — to  bo- 
tanize, and  to  be  from  home.  At  a  country 
inn,  he  is  requested  by  the  landlady  to  sit 
in  her  room,  the  house  being  full.  The  land- 
lord had  been  a  respectable  tradesman,  by 
misfortunes  bankrupt,  and  reduced  to  this 


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IDEAS  AKD  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


employment.  Dorothy,  the  daughter,  had 
therefore  been  decently  educated.  Oliver 
soon  afler  he  leayes  the  inn  sprains  his  foot 
violently,  and  returns,  preferring  it  to  home, 
and  a  practical  comment  follows  upon  the 
text  from  S.  Augustin. 

Mr.  Elton  refuses  to  support  his  son  while 
he  graduates  in  physic — the  living,  or  no- 
thing. Oliver  who  has  lived  parsimoniously 
at  Oxford,  sets  off  for  London,  his  way  lies 
by  the  inn,  and  he  finds  Palmer  dying  of 
a  broken  heart;  in  Dorothy^s  distress  he 
becomes  her  comforter. 

In  London  Oliver  looks  about  for  literary 
employment,  he  is  unknown,  his  last  ten 
pounds  are  stolen,  and  he  must  have  walked 
the  streets  for  want  of  a  lodging,  had  not  a 
prostitute  invited  him  in.  This  woman  who 
would  have  infected  him,  hearing  his  dis- 
tress, offers  him  money. 

A  letter  from  Dorothy  finds  him;  her 
mother  is  in  danger  of  an  arrest,  could  he 
send  twenty  pounds?  He  enlists  as  a  soldier, 
and  sells  liis  watch  to  make  up  the  sum. 

On  a  review  day  he  sees  Dorothy,  it  dis- 
orders him,  and  she  faints,  he  runs  to  her, 
and  the  Major  strikes  him,  they  had  been 
schoolfellows  and  enemies,  he  knocks  him 
down,  and  writes  from  his  confinement  to 
the  Colonel,  who  interferes  and  dismisses 
him  from  the  regiment. 

One  friend  only  knows  Oliver's  fate,  he 
procures  for  him  the  place  of  gardener  to 
Lord  L.  with  a  decent  salary.  Dorothy  had 
been  apprenticed  to  a  milliner,  he  marries 
her,  and  lives  in  happy  obscurity. 

The  story  should  be  related  in  a  nar- 
rative to  his  sister,  who  with  her  husband 
visiting  Lord  L.  recognized  Oliver. 

Parkgate,  Saturday  Oct.  10,  1801.' 
The  soldier  part  should  be  omitted.  So 
will  the  history  become  that  of  a  man  who, 
by  practical  wisdom  and  useful  knowledge, 
preserves  himself  from  misery  in  diCQcult 
circumstances,  and  makes  and  deserves  his 
own  happiness. 


*  These  are  hvrtQai  t^povrldt^ — the  former 
part  dates  from  1798,  or  1799.— J.  W.  W. 


Ground  (hat  may  he  built  on, 

Giovanni,  the  Judas  Iscariot  of  S.  1 
Cisco's  disciples,  a  man  of  blasted  hopei 
slave  of  his  own  feelings, — sense  enou 
smell  the  saint  for  a  fool  and  his  disc 
as  rogues. 

Some  nun  of  St.  Clara's  school. 

Frequent  Portugueze  shipwrecks  oi 
coast  of  Africa.  Some  girl  on  her  wi 
a  nunnery — a  Caffir — the  good  Negi 
the  dfjLVfioyti  dvdpwy.  Here  would  be 
scenery. 

A  COURT  fool  at  some  tyrant's  court 

A  DRAMATIC  romance  with  the  good 
of  Merlm  or  the  Round  Table,  magic 
the  sublime  of  pantomime. 

A  Jew  family  in  Portugal,  love  and 
inquisition. 

Beast  Poenu.  Thet  would  be  difliculi 
of  good  purport,  some  tales  of  the  affec 
between  the  bear  and  her  cub,  or  the 
or  walrus. 


Pelato  the  restorer  would  form  a  ( 
hero  for  a  poem  which  should  take  up 
tholicbm  for  it*  machinery. 

Count  Julian,  Florinda,  Egilona,  Rod 
in  his  state  of  penitence,  Oppas,  yc 
Alonso,  fine  characters  all.  llie  cav 
Toledo  for  a  scene  of  enchantment,  O 
donga  for  the  battle. 

Biscay  seems  to  have  been  disputed 
tween  Pelayo,  Eudon,  and  Pedro.  Al< 
was  Pedro's  son  and  married  Ormisi 
Pelayo's  daughter. 

This  is  a  grand  subject  for  narrative^ 
for  dramatic  poetry,  but  as  one  bad  ] 
would  be  seven  times  as  productive  i 
good  poem  six  times  its  length,  let  us 
what  can  dramatically  be  done  with  Pel 

End  with  the  surprizal  of  Gigon,  the  d 
of  Munuza,  and  the  acclamation  of  Pel 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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Ormisinda  a  noble  Virago,  she  refuses  to 
marry  anless  her  children  can  be  free,  the 
end  then  is  her  giving  her  hand  to  Alonso. 

There  may  be  a  scene  at  her  mother*8 
grave. 

Munuza  wants  her  in  marriage,  this  the 
necessary  deviation  from  historical  legend. 
The  demand  a  little  rouses  Pelayo,  for  Mu- 
nuza was  becoming  powerful  by  early  sub- 
mission.^ 


««A^M^^^%A^^«^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Epic  writers  have  usually  been  deficient 
in  learning.  Homer  indeed  is  all  miracle, 
he  knew  every  thing,  and  Milton  has  orna- 
mented with  the  whole  range  of  knowledge 
a  story  which  admitted  the  immediate  dis- 
play of  none.  But  the  manners  in  Tasso  are 
mixed,  in  Virgil  they  are  of  no  time  and  no 
country ;  another  deadly  sin !  I  know  no 
poet  so  accurate  as  Glover. 

The  following  nations  offer  a  rich  field  of 
civil  and  religious  costume : 

The  Jews. 

The  Scandinavians. 

The  Persians. 

Celtic  superstition  is  too  little  understood, 
ud  the  documents  of  Celtic  manners  are 
scanty.  Still  there  is  an  outline.  The  Bri- 
tish Brutus  has  been  too  oflen  thought  upon, 
to  remain  for  ever  without  his  fame. 

The  Hindoo  is  a  vile  mythology,  a  tangle 
of  thread  fragments  which  require  the  touch 
of  a  faery*s  distaff  to  unravel  and  unite 
them,  lliere  is  no  mapping  out  the  coun- 
try, no  reducing  to  shape  the  chaotic  mass. 
It  is  fitter  for  the  dotage  dreams  of  Sir 
William  Jones,  than  the  visions  of  the  poet. 
Let  the  wax-nose  be  tweaked  by  Volney 
on  one  side  and  Maurice  on  the  other ! 

The  Greenlanders  are  stupid  savages,  or 
tbere  is  a  favourable  wildness  in  their  belief 
»nd  in  their  country. 

The  Amortam  might  be  the  groundwork 
of  a  Hindoo  poem,  but  the  draught  of  im- 

'  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  here  are 
the  first  ideas  for  Roderick,  the  Last  of  the 
Goths.— J.  W.  W. 


mortality  ought  only  to  be  sought  by  a  bad 
man,  and  then  Vathek  would  stand  in  the 
way  of  invention. 

Jewish  Stories, 

Thb  deluge.  Joshua.  The  first  destruc- 
tion of  Jerusalem.  The  second.  TheMacca- 
Dees. 

Judith  is  too  short  an  action.  Moses  does 
too  little  himself; — ^besides,  the  end  of  this 
action  is  under  Joshua. 

Savage  superstitions  will  balladize  well. 


^r>^>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^k^^^^^ 


Grecian. 


Whobvsb  reads  Pausanias  or  the  Mytho- 
logists  will  find  that  much  of  the  best  clas- 
sical groimd  is  yet  unbroken.  A  hero  is 
indeed  wanting.  Aristomenes?  a  hero  in 
misfortune  offers  the  best  lesson;  but  a  long 
and  disjointed  story,  and  Sparta  in  the 
wrong,  that  must  not  be !  Lycurgus  ?  the 
conqueror  of  human  nature,  perhaps  the 
amender.  The  great  Alexander  f  alas  all 
perished  with  the  mighty  Macedonian. 

Better  some  lesser  story,  imaginary,  or  of 
obscure  record.  The  Pythoness,  Endymion, 
not  ill  handled  by  Gombauld,  but  of  much 
promise. 


^'W«M/%^/%^M>\^/\/V/SAOAA^ 


stories  connected  with  the  Manners  of 
Chivalry, 

FevdaUsm,  Robin  Hood.^  The  establish- 
ment of  the  Inquisition,  St.  Domingo*s  the 
prominent  personage. 

The  superstitions  of  the  dark  ages  would 
body  well.  Saints  and  angels  through  the 
whole  hierarchy,  and  every  order  of  de- 
monology .  They  have  rarely  been  used  well, 
or  never,  the  cursed  itch  of  imitation  has 
made  them  parodies  of  the  Greek  gods. 


Rwnic, 
The  conquests  of  Odin  were  suggested  by 

'  Since  published— a   Fragment — by  Mrs. 
Southey,  who  took  a  part  in  it. — J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Gibbon;  but  Odin  must  be  the  god,  not 
the  hero.  The  storj  must  be  whojlj  imagi- 
nary. The  history  of  savages  is  never  im- 
portant enough  to  furnish  an  action  for 
poetry. 

Persian, 

Zoroaster  was  a  bad  and  bloody  priest. 
Other  personage  their  history  offers  not,  for 
Cyrus  is  anterior  to  the  system  of  the  Zen- 
davesta. 

Thus  then : — A  Persian  Satn^),  persecu- 
ted by  the  powers  of  darkness.  Every  ca- 
lamity that  they  inflict  developes  in  him 
some  virtue  which  prosperity  had  smothered, 
and  they  end  in  driving  him  to  emigrate  with 
a  Greek  slave,  and  becoming  a  citizen  of 
Athens.  Here  then  the  whole  mythology, 
and  the  whole  hatefulness  of  oriental  ty- 
ranny come  into  the  foreground.  The  Athe- 
nian slave,  who  chuses  his  master,  for  his 
pupil  and  son-in-law,  may  be  as  Jacobinical 
08  heart  could  wish. 


VW>MAA«W^«/\AA^^MMM^ 


Hindoo. 

There  is  a  singular  absurdity  in  this  sys- 
tem, prayers  and  penance  have  an  actual, 
not  a  relative  value;  they  are  a  sterling 
coin  for  which  the  gods  must  sell  their  fa- 
vours, as  the  shopkeeper  supplies  the  thief 
for  ready  money,  Some  of  the  most  famous 
penitents  have  been  actuated  by  ambition 
and  cruelty. 

By  penance  and  prayer  any  gift  may  be 
compelled  from  the  gods ;  add  immortality, 
and  there  may  exist  an  enemy  formidable 
even  to  heaven. 

The  search  of  the  Amortam  by  such  a 
man,  call  him  for  the  present  Keradon^ — ^he 
is  a  Bromin.  An  inj ured  Paria — Cartamen — 
follows  him,  finds  him  in  the  very  presence 
of  Yamen,  who  alone  dispenses  the  draught 

*  Here  again  we  have  the  first  germ  of  the 
Curse  of  Kehama.  Writing  to  his  early  and 
valued  friend,  Charles  Danvers,  May  6, 
1801,  Sou  they  says,  "  I  have  just  and  barely 
begun  the  Curu  nf  Kiradon»^*—J.  W,  W. 


of  immortality,  and  immortalizes  him  in  a 
more  natural  way. 

On  the  coast  of  Malealon,  Cartamen  may 
meet  Parassourama,  who  still  exists  there. 
The  God  for  the  sake  of  his  mother  Maria- 
tale,  may  befriend  the  Paria. 

Stung  by  some  violent  provocation,  Car- 
tamen kills  the  brother  of  Keradon.  Maria- 
tale,  the  despised  goddess,  protects  the  de- 
spised Paria,  and  preserves  him  from  death. 
He  is  condenmed  to  bear  about  the  Bra- 
min*s  skull,  and  eat  and  drink  out  of  it ; 
but  his  punishment  is  his  glory. 

The  Hindoos  admit  the  truth  of  all  reli^ 
gions, — ^Turk,  Christian,  Jew,  or  Gentile 
may  therefore  be  introduced. 

A  daughter  of  the  Paria  shall  be  a  pro- 
minent character, — ^a  Grindouver  descends 
for  her  love.  Seevajee  claims  her  for  the 
wife  of  the  god,  that  is,  a  temple-prostitute. 
Cartamen  in  vain  alleges  that  their  god  is 
not  the  god  of  the  Parias,  hence  the  murder. 
She  has  nurst  a  young  crocodile,  to  save 
herself  she  lei^M  into  the  river,  the  beast 
receives  her. 

Funeral  of  Seevajee.  His  ghost  i4>pears 
to  Keradon,  and  tells  him  he  cannot  destroy 
LfCdalma  till  the  Amordam  has  made  him 
equal  with  the  gods.  Keradon  then  curses 
the  murderer,  commands  all  the  evil  powers 
to  persecute  him,  and  forbids  any  good  one 
to  assist  him. 

When  he  is  on  the  rocks  near  Mount  Me- 
rou, — the  fine  incident  of  the  bitch  that  lefl 
her  whelps  for  want. 

It  is  Kalya  who  saves  herself  and  her  fa- 
ther, when  they  are  about  to  be  executed, 
by  calling  on  Mariatale^  the  mixed  power. 
She  with  her  father  is  cast  out,  but  he  leaves 
her  when  she  is  asleep,  that  she  may  not 
partake  his  sufferings.  The  Mouni — ^Will- 
o-the  wisps — ^misleads  her.  She  sinks  un- 
der a  manchineel ;  then  Eelia,  the  Grindou- 
ver, sees  and  saves  her. 

Parassourama  advises  Ledalma  to  appeal 
to  Bely,  the  just  governor  of  Padalon.  See- 
vajee cannot  be  judged  till  the  term  ap- 
pointed for  his  natural  life  had  elapsed. 
His  spirit  therefore  is  at  leisure  to  be  mis- 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


13 


chierons.  Ledidma  maj  Bee  Belj  on  the 
night  when  he  visits  earth,  or  attempt  to 
descend  bj  Yamen*8  throne. 

The  Sorgon  might  be  conquered  bj  Ke- 
radon  and  Padalon.  Yamen  calmlj  awaits 
him  nnmoved  at  his  post,  and  gives  him  the 
cup,  the  consummation  of  his  conquests. 

Eenia,  afler  seeking  other  aid  in  vain, 
dares  to  appeal  to  Eswara,  and  complain 
that  there  is  injustice  in  the  world.  Eswara 
tells  him  Death  alone  can  aid  Laderlad. 

Eenia  takes  Kaljal^  to  the  Sorgon,  and 
shows  her  all  its  joys ;  but  she  asks  to  be 
restored  to  her  father.  He  knows  not  where 
he  is,  but  asks  Arounin,  the  charioteer  of 
the  sun.  Thus  Arounin*s  answer  brings  up 
the  lee-way,  and  the  clumsiness  of  a  revert' 
ing  story  is  avoided. 

£enia  asks  Manmadin  to  wound  Kalyal 
&I90.  The  Love  Grod  cannot,  her  heart  is 
fall  of  stronger  feelings. 

Kalyal  is  exposed  to  violation  in  a  temple. 
Eeniaguards  her,  and  kills  whoever  attempts 
her.    He  daily  tells  her  of  her  father. 

Keradon  takes  Laderlad  and  leads  him 
through  Padalon  to  see  with  living  eyes  his 
after  pain.  Sure  that  Yamen  must  give  the 
draught,  he  drags  his  conquered  enemies  to 
the  spot  of  triumph,  drinks,  and  dies.  The 
wrath-eye  of  Eswara  is  on  him. 

When  the  father  and  daughter  are  about 
to  be  executed  at  Naropi*s  grave,  Laderlad 
despairs,  and  therefore  is  abandoned.  Ka- 
lysl  is  for  piety  exempted  from  the  curse. 

Karopi^s  spirit,  animating  his  corpse,  per- 
secutes Laderlad  and  his  daughter.  When 
alone,  she  is  led  into  a  house  where  the 
spectre  awaits  her,  and  escaping  from  his 
Incubus  attempt  sinks  at  the  foot  of  the 
numchineel  tree. 

Keradon*s  curse. — May  he  be  shunned  by 
all  his  own  cast,  and  be  in  the  same  abomi- 
nation to  them  that  they  are  to  the  rest  of  the 
world ;  the  tun  shine  to  scorch  him ;  no  wind 
cool  him ;  no  water  wet  his  lips.     He  shall 

*  The  reader  will  observe  that  in  this  early 
Ms.  the  characters  are  yarionsly  spelt.  In  the 
poem  ita^  we  have  Kalyal  and  Olendoveer — 
notKalya  and  Grindouver.— J.  W.  W. 


thirst,  and  the  cool  element  fly  from  his 
touch ;  he  shall  hunger,  and  all  earthly  food 
refuse  its  aid.  He  shall  never  sleep,  and 
never  die^  till  the  full  age  of  man  be  accom- 
plished. 

When  the  dead  Naropi  attempts  Kalyal, 
the  eye  of  Eswara  falls  upon  him  and  con- 
sumes him. 

Keradon  has  obtained  that  none  can  de- 
stroy him  but  himself. 

After  Kalyal  has  fed  her  father  with  the 
Sorgon  fruits,  Keradon  strikes  her  with  le- 
prosy, that  the  Grindouver  may  loath  her. 
Then  it  is  that  Eenia  flies  to  the  throne  of 
the  Destroyer- God. 

The  Cintra  cistern  might  be  well  painted. 
Laderlad  lying  by  the  water. 

Kalyal  is  taken  to  the  Sorgon  to  be  re- 
covered. 

The  giants  join  Keradon  to  get  the  Amor- 
tam. 

The  frozen  bay  by  Parassourama*s  cave 
of  sleep.  Thence  he  may  embark  for  the 
end  of  the  world,  to  Yamen. 

Thus  then  the  arrangement.  Funeral  and 
curse.  Its  gradual  effects  till  Laderlad 
leaves  Kalyal  asleep  Her  adventure  with 
the  dead  Naropi.  Eenia  bears  her  to  the 
Sorgon.  Search  of  her  father.  Arounin*s 
account.  The  meeting.  Keradon  smites  her 
with  leprosy.  First  he  exposes  her  in  the 
temple.  Eenia  defends  her.  His  request 
to  Manmadin.  Keradon  then  taints  her 
with  the  leprosy.  He  attempts  to  destroy 
her.  Mariatale  saves  her.  Afler  the  dis- 
ease Eenia  goes  to  Eswara,  as  he  is  leading 
both  to  Yamen.  The  giants  seize  them. 
Parassourama  wakes  to  their  rescue.  Their 
voyage.  On  the  shore  Keradon  captures 
them.  His  triumph  in  Padalon,  and  the  end. 
1.  The  curse.  2.  The  manchineel.  3. 
The  Sorgon.  4.  The  meeting.  5.  The 
prostitution.  6.  The  leprosy.  7.  The  ap- 
peal to  Eswara.  8.  Parassourama.  9.  The 
captivity.     10.  The  catastrophe. 

Eenia*s  appeal  to  Eswara.  An  allusion  to 
the  fruitless  attempt  of  Brahma  and  Viche- 
non  to  measure  the  greater  god.  The  Grin- 
douver finds  him  soon.    Allegory,  whom 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


curious  presumption  cannot  discover,  af- 
flicted earnestness  instantly  finds. 

The  meeting  with  Belj  might  be  in  his 
ruined  city  Mavalipuram.  Its  sea  scenery 
would  be  impressive. 

Kalyal  comes  to  the  Lake  Asru-tirt*ha, 
bj  bathing  there  she  would  lose  all  worldly 
affections  and  go  to  Yishu's  paradise ;  for 
her  father's  sake  she  refuses,  and  thus  is  re- 
served for  a  higher  bliss. 

I  shall  write  this  romance  in  rhyme,  thus 
to  avoid  any  sameness  of  style  or  syntax  or 
expression  with  my  blank  verse  poems,  and 
to  increase  my  range  and  power  of  lan- 
guage.^ 

But  the  chain  must  be  as  loose  as  possible, 
an  unrhymed  line  may  often  pass  without 
off*ending  the  ear.  Like  the  Emperor  of 
China's  lying  fiddler,  he  may  be  silent  in  the 
nobe  of  his  companions.  A  middle  rhyme 
may  be  used,  not  merely  to  its  own  termi- 
nation but  to  that  of  another  verse.  The 
octave  line  is  of  more  hurrying  rapidity  than 
the  decimal,  and  may  be  varied  at  pleasure 
with  that  of  six,  and  with  the  fuller  close 
often  or  twelve.  In  short  lines  a  repetition 
of  rhymes  is  pleasant ;  even  in  long  ones,  as 
Warner  proves  to  my  ear,  and  the  Spanish 

*  '*  It  is  begun  in  rhymes,  as  irregular  in 
length,  cadence,  and  disposition  as  the  lines  of 
Thalaba,  I  write  them  with  equal  rapidity,  so 
that  on  the  score  of  time  and  trouble  tliat  is 
neither  loss  nor  gain.  But  it  is  so  abominable 
a  sin  a^inst  what  I  know  to  be  right,  that  my 
stomach  turns  at  it.  It  is  to  the  utmost  of  my 
power  vitiatine,  or  rather  continuing  the  cor- 
ruption  of  public  taste — it  is  feeding  people  on 
French  cookery,  which  pleases  their  diseased 
and  pampered  palates,  when  they  are  not  healthy 
enouc;h  to  relish  the  flavour  of  beef  &  mutton. 
My  mducements  are— to  avoid  any  possible 
sameness  of  expression,  any  mannerism,  and 
to  make  as  huge  an  innovation  in  rhymes  as 
Thalaba  will  do  m  blank  verse.  But  I  am  almost 
induced  to  translate  what  is  already  done  into 
the  Thalaban  metre."— MS.  Letter  to  C.  Dari- 
vers,  Lisbon,  May  6,  1801. 

"  If,  after  all,  you  like  better  to  write  in 
rhyme,  what  is  done  may  be  easily  translated. 
In  proof  of  the  practicability,  the  first  seventy 
pages  of  Kehama  underwent  this  metamorpho- 
sis."  MS,  Letter  to  Caroline  Bowles,  10th  May, 
1824.— J.  W.  W. 


ballads,  double  rhymes  the  more  the  better. 

Anaranya,  like  Crispin  the  Conjurer,  fol- 
lows them  on  the  water. 

The  Wrath  Eye  is  reserved  for  the  catas- 
trophe. As  Keradon  drinks,  it  falls  upon 
him,  and  fills  him  with  fire,  red  hot. 

Eenia  will  be  better  winged,  like  the 
Glums,  than  with  feathers.  His  application 
to  Cama  must  be  in  the  Sorgon. 

Living  Careatades  might  support  the 
throne  of  Yamen. 

After  Auaranya*8  body  is  by  Mariatale 
destroyed,  he  might  still  persecute  a  shadow 
dark  in  the  evening  light ;  but  his  eyes  were 
bright,  like  stars  in  the  haze  of  mist.  The 
moon  waJ9  gone;  the  clouds  moved  on.  Then 
the  shadow  he  grew  light  in  the  darkness  of 
the  Jiight,  and  his  eyes  like  flame  were  red.^ 

Indra  will  not  allow  Eenia  to  bYing  La- 
derlad  to  the  Sorgon,  fearing  sooner  to  ex- 
asperate Keradon.  But  Kalyal  builds  her 
father  a  cane  hut,  and  Eenia  daily  brings 
him  the  fruits  of  the  Sorgon.  At  last  he 
comes  not,  and  a  hurricane  tears  up  the  hut. 

Kehama  orders  her  to  be  thrown  into  the 
river  at  once.  May  not  the  very  curse  save 
her,  by  enabling  Laderlad  to  get  her  out  of 
the  river  ?  This  idea  strikes  him,  and  he 
runs  instantly  as  he  is  freed. 

Derla  and  Vedilya,  wives  of  Arvelan, 
burnt ;  one  patiently,  and  with  no  love  of 
life,  which  never  had  been  happiness ;  the 
other  younger,  and  with  strugglings.  They 
also  wander  in  spirit,  being  untimely  slain ; 
and  in  the  Jaggemat  temple  save  Kalyal 
from  the  force  of  their  tyrant,  for  Arvelan 
there  appears  in  body. 

Kohalma  discovers  that  of  Kalyal  an  im- 
mortal babe  shall  be  bom ;  hence  he  may 
save  her  at  last,  deeming  that  by  him  it 
must  be  begotten. 

Lake  of  Crocodiles.  She  is  throned  on 
one  ;  before  the  espousals  with  the  idol,  the 
angelic  increase  of  beauty  given  by  the  Sor- 
gon fruits  occasion  her  election. 

An  hour  passes  in  the  Sorgon,  but  it  is 

'  As  it  is  so  written  in  the  original  MS.  I 
have  not  thought  it  necessary  to  divide  the 
lines.— J.  W.  W. 


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an  hoar  of  the  blessed ;  and  Laderlad  has 
had  a  yearns  wandering. 

Only  into  Laderlad's  hand  may  the  cup 
of  Amreeta  be  given.  Thus  hath  it  been 
decreed,  and  that  not  for  himself  is  he  to 
receive  it.  A  reason  for  his  presence.  La- 
derlad*8  must  pass  through  the  dark  portal. 
Crocodiles  are  kept  in  a  moat  or  tank  that 
surrounded  a  town  in  the  East  Indies,  as 
guards.  So  I  heard  from  a  man  who  had 
been  an  officer  in  that  service ;  and  so  it  was 
at  Goa. — Alboq.  Barros. 

Laderlad  might  at  last  rise  in  open  hos- 
tility to  Kehama. 

Among  the  ornaments  of  Major  Cart- 
right*8  magnificent  temple  is  the  self  moved 
vessel  of  the  Phoeacians.  The  body  of  the 
living  bark  is  like  a  scollop  shell ;  instead  of 
a  helm,  it  grows  into  a  human  head,  to  see 
and  direct  the  way. 

She  is  thrown  under  the  wheels  of  Jagre- 
nat's  car  to  be  destroyed ;  but  he  who  lies 
next  her  is  Laderlad,  and  Death  knew  Ke- 
hama*8  Curse. 


N^N^W\^*WVW^VN/%/VW\*i 


Notes  for  Modoc} 

SiLEKT,  apart  from  all  and  musing  much. 
■^ViBiRA  LusrrANO,  canto  8,  p.  278. 
BbdOmcn. — CarlosMaqno,  p.2d.  But 

not  understandable,  like  the  Mexican  pro- 

digy.^ 

Priests  running  into  the  battle. — Corte 
^ieal,  Seg.  Cerco  de  Diu.  canto  11,  p.  143. 
Canto  18,  p.  289. 

Sunless  world,  a  phrase  correspondent  to 
mine,  p.  2. 

Endymion  de  Gombauld. 

Early  navigator.  Capt.  James*s  poem  in 
danger.— 2  c.  98. 

Death  of  Coatel.  Water  of  Jealousy. 
Tale  in  Niebuhr.  Pierre  Faifen,  cap.  22, 
p.  58.     John  Henderson  at  Downend. 

'  By  referring  to  the  notes  on  Madoc,  the 
i^er  will  see  how  small  a  portion  of  his  great 
coUections  Southey  was  in  the  habit  of  using 
op.  See  Life  and  Corretvondencef  vol.  v.  172. — 

J.  W.  W. 


OronocoIndian*s  trial. — TAariqvy  RevoL 
vol.  1,  p.  52.  Also  the  case  of  Judkin  Fitz- 
gerald, Esq. 

Ashes  of  the  kings. — Ibid.  p.  99.  So  the 
flight  from  Almanzor. 

**  L.  Martio  et  Sex.  Julio  consulibus  in 
agro  Mutinensi  duo  montes  inter  se  concur- 
serunt,  crepitu  maximo  assultantes  et  rece- 
dentes,  et  inter  eos  flamma  fumoque  ex- 
eunte.  Quo  concursu  villse  omnes  elis«e  sunt, 
animalia  permultss  qu89  intra  fuerant,  exa- 
nimata  8unt."-~rT£XTOR*8  Officina^  210  fi*. 

"For  my  harp  is  made  of  a  good  mares  skyn, 
The  strynges  be  of  horse  heare,  it  maketh  a 
good  dyn." 

Borders  Introduction  to  Knowledge^ 
quoted  in  Walker*8  Bards. 

"Cortes  made  the  Zempoallans  pull  downe 
their  idolls,  and  sepulchres  of  their  Cassikz, 
which  they  did  reverence  as  Gods." — Con^ 
qitest  of  the  Weast  Indies, 

Apple  blossoms  in  Hoel's  poetry — so  an 
Irish  sonnet,  of  which  Walker  has  foolishly 
given  only  a  rhyme  version. 

"Blest  were  the  days  when  in  the  lonely  shade 
Joined  hand  in  hand  my  love  and  I  have 

stray'd. 
Where  apple  blossoms  scent  the  fragrant  air 
Fve  snatched  sofl  kisses  from  the  wanton  fair. 
"  Once  more,  sweet  maid,  together  let  us 

stray, 
And  in  soft  dalliance  waste  the  fleeting  day. 
Through  hazel  groves,  where  clustering  nuts 

invite. 
And  blushing  apples  charm  the  tempted 

sight." 


The  Irish  horsemen  were  attended  by 
servants  on  foot,  commonly  called  Daltini,' 
armed  only  with  darts  or  javelins,  to  which 
thongs  of  leather  were  fastned,  wherewith 
to  draw  them  back  after  they  were  cast. — 
Sir  James  Ware's  Antiquities  of  Ireland, 


*  Du  Cange  quotes  Ware  and  Stonihurst  in 
V.  Spelma}!  in  bis  Glou,  gives  the  explanation 
at  length.— J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Ezra,  cb.  iii.  y.  11-13.  Recovery  of  the 
land  from  Aztlan. 

**  To  the  temple  tasks  devote." — Virgini' 
dasy  c.  5.  St.  34. 

Extinguishing  all  the  fires  to  relight  them 
from  the  sacred  flame  seems  to  have  been  an 
universal  superstition.  The  Druids.  The 
MagL    Custom  in  Monomotapa. 

After  Lautaro  had  cut  off  Yaldivia. 

**  For  el  las  fiestas  fieron  alargadas, 
exercitando  siempre  nuevos  juegos 

de  saltos,  luchas,  pruebas  nunca  usadas, 
danzas  de  noche  entomo  de  los  fu^os.** 

Arauaauij  3. 

"  Con  flautas,  cuemos,  roncos  instrumentos 
alto  estruendo,  alaridos  desdenosos, 

salen  los  fieros  barbaros  sangrientos 
contra  los  Espanoles  valerosos.** 

Ibid.  4. 

The  AfXiucan  Army, 

**  Alii  las  limpias  arroas  relucian 

mas  que  el  claro  cristal  del  Sol  tocado, 
cubiertas  de  altas  plumas  las  celadas^ 
verdes,  azules,  blancas,  encamadas.** 

Ibid.  9. 

**  Quando  el  Sol  en  el  medio  cielo  estaba 
no  declinando  a  parte  un  solo  punto, 

y  la  aguda  chicharra  se  entonaba 
con  un  desapacible  contrapunto.** 

Ibid. 

Throwing  the  lance  was  one  of  the  Aran- 
can  games. — Canto  10. 

The  Araucan  learnt  much  from  the  Spa- 
niards.— P.  6,  vol.  1. 

Horsemen  of  Lautaro. — F.  228. 

Bebs  seem  to  have  been  destroyed  by  water 
formerly.    Lord  Sterline  in  his  Doomsday, 

^  Winged  alchymisto  that  quintessence  the 

flowers, 
As  ofl- times  (iroW^before,  now  burn*d  shall 

be."  Third  Haure,^  st  40. 

^  '*  This  Foem  of  *  Doomes-day,'  is  written 
in  the  octave  stann^and  divided  intofour  books, 
called  Hours."— Bi6.  AngL  Poetic,  ji,  809. 

J.  W.  YT. 


**  E  iioH  nos  devemos  espantar  porque 
ellos  son  muchos,  ea  mas  puede  un  L^n  qae 
diez  ovejas,  ematarien  treynta  lobes  a  treyn- 
ta  mil  corderos." — Speech  of  Febnan  Goh- 
9ALBZ.  Coromca  de  Eepana^  del  Rey  D* 
Alonso. 

**  Eux  doncques  navigans  la  mer  de  Font 
descouvrirent  d*assez  loing  la  flote  du  Sou- 
dain  Zaire,  qui  (revestu  de  sa  proye)  ne 
pensoit  qu*a  entretenir  Onolorie,  quand  ceux 
qui  estoient  aux  eages  et  hunee^  pour  faire 
guet,  luy  vindrent  raporter  qu*ilz  avoient 
descouvert  gens  en  mer  et  grosse  flote  de 
vaisseaux.** — AmadiSy  8me.  livre,  ch.  28. 

**  Ob  seen  low  lying  through  the  haze  of 
mom.**  This  is  what  sailors  call  Cape  Fly- 
away. 

On  the  coast  of  Campeche  the  priests 
wore  long  cotton  garments,  whUe^  and  their 
hair  in  great  quantities,  completely  clotted 
and  matted  with  blood. — Bemal  Diaz.  3. 

Snake  idols  at  Campeche. — ^Ibid.  3. 7.  At 
Tenayuca.  125. 

Some  Indians  whom  Grijalva  saw  had 
shields  of  tortoise  shell,  and  they  shone  so 
in  the  sun  that  many  of  the  Spaniards  in- 
sisted they  were  of  gold.  For  **  all  seemed 
yellow  to  the  jaundiced  eye  !*' — Ibid.  8. 

**  Many  Indians  came  on,  and  each  had 
a  white  streamer  on  his  lance,  which  he 
waved,  wherefore  we  called  the  place  the 
Rio  de  Venderas.** — ^Ibid.  8. 

Montezuma*s  men  also. — Ibid.  9. 

They  spread  mats  under  the  trees  and 
invited  us  to  sit,  and  then  incensed  us. — 
Ibid. 

When  Aguilar  first  rejoined  his  country- 
men **  el  Espanol  mal  mascado  y  peor  pro- 
nunciado,  dixo,  Dios  y  Santa  Maria,  y  Se- 
villa  !**  and  ran  to  embrace  them. — Ibid.  p. 
12. 

The  houses  atCampoala  were  so  dazzling- 

ly  white,  that  one  of  the  Spaniards  galloped 

—  -  .  ■    -. 

*  HuvB  de  navire.  C'est  le  panier  ou  la 
cage  qui  est  au  haat  du  mat,  qui  sert  k  porter 
un  matelot,  pour  d^oonvrir  la  terre,  et  les  Cor- 
saires."    Menage  in  v.— J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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back  to  Cortes  to  tell  him  the  walls  were  of 
silver. — Ibid.  p.  30. 

The  prisoners  designed  for  sacrifice  were 
f&tted  in  wooden  cages. — Ibid,  passim. 

The  Tlascalan  embassadors  made  three 
reverences,  and  burnt  copal,  and  touched 
the  ground  with  their  hands,  and  kissed  the 
earth. — Ibid.  p.  52. 

Kill  all  you  can,  said  the  TIasCalans  to 
Cortes,  the  young  that  they  may  not  bear 
arms,  the  old  that  they  may  not  give  coun- 
sel.—Ibid,  p.  56. 

The  sprinkled  maize — so  ashes  in  Bel  and 
the  Dragon. 

*^Unos  como  paveses,  que  son  de  arte,  que 
los  pueden  arroUar  arriba  quando  no  pe- 
lean,  porque  no  les  estorve,  y  al  tiempo  del 
pelear  quando  son  menester  los  dexan  caer, 
^  quedan  cubiertas  sus  cuerpos  de  arriba 
abaxo."— Ibid.  p.  67. 

Beasts  were  kept  by  the  temples,  and 


The  walls  of  Mexitlis*  temple,  and  the 
ground,  were  black,  and  flaked  with  blood, 
and  stenching. — Ibid.  p.  71. 

Tezcalipoca*s  eyes  of  the  same  substance 
te  their  mirrors. — Ibid. 

Nanraez  thought  the  number  of  glow- 
worms were  the  matches  of  Cortes*  soldiers. 
—Ibid,  p.  99. 

They  gave  command  by  whistling. — ^Ibid. 
pp.  144,  165.  **  Resuena  y  retumba  la  voz 
por  un  buen  rato." 

The  first  thing  an  Indian  does  when 
woiinded  with  a  lance,  is  to  seize  it.  The 
orders  always  were  to  drive  at  their  heads, 
and  trust  to  their  horses. — Ibid.  p.  172. 

**  The  sky  and  the  sea  were  in  appearance 
so  blended  and  confounded,  that  it  was  only 
close  to  the  ship  that  we  could  distinguish 
what  was  really  sea." — Stayobinus. 

*^  Tanian  instrumentos  de  diversas  mane- 
ras  de  la  musica  de  pulso,  e  flato,  e  tato,  e 
Toz.** — Cb.  db  Pbbo  Nino. 

Fltiho  fish. —  GoMBs  Eankbs.    Pbbo 

NlKO. 


Joan  of  Arc. 

Mystic  meaning  of  the  Fleurs  de  Lys. — 
RiCHBOSMB,  Plainte  Apologetique^  p.  343. 

Ehglabd  should  be  the  scene  of  an  Eng- 
lishman's poem.  No  foreign  scene  can 
be  sufficiently  familiar  to  him.  Books  and 
prints  may  give  the  outlines,  as  description 
will  give  you  the  size  and  colour  of  a  man's 
eyes  and  the  shape  of  his  nose,  but  the  cha- 
racter that  individualizes  must  be  seen  to 
be  understood. 

Is  there  an  historic  point  on  which  to 
build  ?  Alfred — the  thrice  murdered  Al- 
fred ! — a  glorious  tale,  but  that  is  forbidden 
groimd. 

Brutus  has  been  knocked  on  the  head  by 
Ogilvie.  The  name  too  is  unfavourable; 
such  nobler  thoughts  will  cling  to  it.  A  de- 
cent story  might  be  made  by  supposing  the 
original  race  oppressed  by  Sarmatic  inva- 
ders— and  uniting  Bardic  wisdom  with  Tro- 
jan arms. 

The  Roman  period,  Cassibelan,  Bondu- 
ca,  the  war  of  savages  against  civilization; 
such  it  must  be,  though  you  call  it  the  strug- 
gle of  liberty  against  oppression. 

Arthur — but  what  is  great  is  fable  :  he 
must  be  elsewhere  considered. 

Egbert — it  is  a  confused  action  ;  little 
means  making  a  great  end, — as  the  little 
kingdoms  made  a  great  one. 

From  the  Norman  conquest  downwards, 
but  one  event  occurs  whose  after  effects 
were  equal  to  its  immediate  splendour ;  the 
Armada  defeat,  and  our  escape  from  the 
double  tyranny  it  was  to  have  established. 
Yet  we  should,  like  Holland,  have  defeated 
the  Spaniards,  had  they  even  obtained  a 
temporary  dominion. 

Of  Charles  I.  nothing  can  be  said — be- 
cause of  Charles  II. 


Robin  Hood, 

A  pastobal  epic,  with  rhyme  and  with- 
out rhyme, — long  lines  and  short  line,  now 


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Darrative,  now  dramatic,  —  lawless  as  the 
good  old  outlaw  himself. 

Maid  Marian,  a  Neif. 

Ayeline,  the  ward  of  a  bad  gnardian,  her 
foster  brother  a  viUatn.  The  funeral  of  her 
father  should  be  the  opening. 

Robert,  Earl  ofHuntingdon,  a  minor.  The 
next  heir  wants  to  persuade  him  to  go  cru- 
sading. This  he  will  not  do  because  he  loves 
Marian  the  daughter  of  his  father*8  old  ser- 
vant,  and  because  of  Mothanna,  an  Arab, 
whom  his  father  had  brought  from  the  Ho- 
ly Land,  who  for  the  boy*s  sake  has  forgiven 
the  father,  and  taught  young  Robert  to  like 
Moslem,  and  long  for  the  liberties  of  a  Be- 
douin. 

Reginald  wants  to  make  Robert  marry 
his  daughter  Annabel.  He  consoles  himself 
by  taking  the  value  of  the  marriage.  But  he 
hopes  more  than  this.  Richard  Lion-heart 
is  abroad.  Reginald  is  the  favourite  of  John. 
He  wants  to  get  Robert  outlawed,  that  he 
may  have  a  grant  of  the  estate.  He  pro- 
vokes him  to  some  violence,  and  the  young 
vassals  follow  him  to  the  forest 

A  church  scene.  The  mass  for  his  mother*s 
soiil.    Robin  shall  rob  K.  Richard. 


*^^^^\^K^^^^\A^^V^\^^/N/%^ 


Mohammed.^ 

^  MoHAMXED  was  ou  his  celebrated  ex- 
pedition of  Bedr-Oeuzma  against  the  peo- 
ple of  Mecca,  when  he  heard  of  the  death 
of  his  daughter  Roukiy6,  who  was  married 
to  Osman.  He  received  this  news  with  as- 
tonishing coolness,  and  with  dry  eyes  he  ut- 
tered these  remarkable  words,  *•  Let  us  give 
thanks  to  God^  and  accept  as  a  favour  even 
the  death  and  interment  of  our  daughters.*** 

D*Oh880N. 

"  Post  hoc  introduxit  me  in  Paradisum, 
et  inveni  ibi  pucllam  fcHrmosam,  quae  mul- 
tum  placuit  oculis  meis,  et  interrogavi  eam, 
cuja  esset ;  quas  respondit,  hie  servor  Zayth 

^  The  reader  may  see  the  **  Fragment  of  Mo- 
hammed/* at  the  end  of  Unfinish^  Tale  of  Oli- 
ver Newman,  p.  113.— J.  W.  W. 


filio  Hyarith.  Et  cum  descendissem 
radiso  nuntiavi  hsec  Zayth  filio  Hyar 
de  meis  consortibus  unus  erat.**  —  I 

XlMENBS. 

Before  the  battle  at  Beder,  Moh 
exhausted  all  the  wells,  except  one 
troops. 

"  Cum  Otaiba  repudiasset  filiam 
meti,  gravissimeque  eum  Isesisset,  i 
imprecatus  est  ei  a  Deo.     Cumque 
constitisset  noctu  cum  sociis  in  quodf 
SyrisB,  venit  leo,  aliisque  relictis, 
eum,  comminuitque  caput  ejus.** 

"  Obavit  quondam  pro  Saado,  u 
jaceret  sagittas ;  et  obtineret  quicqui< 
petisset.  Nunquam  vero  Saadus  ja^ 
est  quin  scopum  attingeret;  nee  u 
precatus  est  quin  exaudiretur.** 

"  .^GBOTABAT  Aly,  gravlquc  doloi 
ciabatur.  Invisit  eumMahumetus,jui 
surgere.  Surrexit  ille,  nee  amplius 
eum  dolorem.** 

"  Obavit  pro  Aly,  ut  Deus  imr 
redderet  eum  a  calore,  et  frigore ;  el 
exaudivit  eum.  Fortasse  hoc  evenit 
quam  Aly  mortuus  est ;  tunc  enim  n< 
plius  calorem  aut  frigus  corpus  ejus  s 

**  CoNFBACTus  fucrat  ensis  cujusda 
litis  Mahumetani  in  prselio  Bedrensi. 
illi  Mahumetus  baculum  ligneum, 
piens  ut  agitaret  eum ;  quod  cum  ille 
set,  baculus  conversus  est  in  gladiun 

D*Ohs8on  says  from  an  Arabian  a 
that  when  Mohammed  prayed  over  th< 
of  his  mother,  she  rose  from  the  dea 
knowledged  her  belief  in  his  missioi 
then  returned  into  the  grave. 

"  Habebat  autem  Omar  sororem 
potem,  qui  Mahumetum  sequebantur. 
cum  Omar  invenisset  legentes  in  qi 
codice  Suram  vigesimam  Alcorani,  cu 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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log  est  Tah,  voluit  per  vim  codicem  a  so- 
rore  arripere,  tandemque  minis  et  yerberi- 
bus  illam  obtinuit,  sed  non  sine  promissione 
restituendi.  Cum  autem  coepisset  codicem 
legere,  lectionis  pulchritudine  allectus,  ad 
Mahumetum  se  contulit,  atque  in  illius  ver- 
ba juravit." — Mabacci. 

Whek  the  decree  for  prohibiting  all  com- 
merce with  the  Hashemites  was  suspended 
in  the  temple,  Abu-laheb  of  that  family  and 
Ommogemila  his  wife  went  over  to  the  Eo- 
reish.  "  Ommogemila  autem  virgas  spino- 
sas  in  vift,  per  quem  transiturus  erat  Mahu- 
metus,  ponebat,  ut  in  eas  pedibus  impingens, 
sauciaretur." 

At  the  war  of  the  ditch,  afler  thirty  days 
it  was  agreed  that  a  single  combat  should 
decide  it  between  Amru,  son  of  Abdud,  and 
All.  AH  killed  him.  Whilst  they  fought 
the  storm  arose  which  tore  up  the  tents  of 
the  besiegers. 

When  Mahomet  attacked  his  enemies  in 
the  valley  of  Houein,  "  inter  captivos  fuit 
Scebama,  filia  Halims,  soror  coUactanea 
Mahumeti,  quae  cognovit  eum,  seque  illi 
cognoscendam  dedit,  ex  vestigio  mors^, 
qnem  ipse  puer  dentibus  impresserat  dorso 
ejus  Cognosce  Mahumeti  adhuc  ab  ivcunabu- 
^  latcimam,)  Concessit  igitur  illi  M.  li- 
bertatem,  cum  aliis  foeminis  quas  ilia  postu- 
larit,  cum  parte  prsede  suae  et  cseterorum 
Moslemorum." — Mabacci. 

Who  but  a  monk  would  have  found  lewd- 
ness in  this  story  P 


[Sketch  of  the  Poem.'] 

P.l.  Thb  death-bed  of  Abu  Taleb.  Ele- 
vation of  Abu  Sophian .  Tumult  of  the  Ko- 
reish.  Danger  of  Mohammed,  and  his  escape 
bj  the  heroism  of  All.  He  looks  back  upon 
the  crescent  moon. 

2.  The  Koreish  pursue ;  they  reach  the 
cavern;  at  whose  entrance  the  pigeon  has 
hiid  her  eggs  and  the  spider  drawn  his  web ; 
^d  turn  away, satisfied  that  no  one  can  have 


entered.    Fatima  and  Ali  bring  them  food 
and  tidings. 

3.  Journey  through  the  desert.  Tlie  pur- 
suers overtake  them,  and  Mohammed  is  at 
the  mercy  of  an  Arab.  They  find  an  ex- 
posed infant. 

4.  They  halt  at  an  islanded  convent.  Ma- 
ry the  Egyptian  is  among  the  nuns.  Her 
love  and  devotional  passion  transferred  to 
the  prophet. 

5.  Arrival  at  Medina.  Intrigues  to  expel 
him — chiefly  among  the  Jews.  This  danger 
averted  by  a  son  accusing  his  father. 

6.  Battle  of  Beder.  Attempt  to  assassi- 
nate him  afterwards  when  sleeping.  What 
hinders  me  from  killing  thee?  This  was 
Daathur,  leader  of  the  foes. 

7.  Defeat  at  Mount  Ohud.  Death  of 
Eamza.  Conversion  of  Caled  in  the  very 
heat  of  victory. 

8.  Siege  of  Medina  by  the  nations.  The 
winds  and  the  rain  and  the  hail  compel  them 
to  retire. 

9.  The  Nadhirites  defeated,  and  the  Jews 
of  Kainoka,  Eoraidha,  and  Chaibar. 

10.  The  prophet  lays  siege  to  Mecca. 
Truce  on  permission  to  visit  the  Caaba.  Am- 
ron  lays  in  wait  for  him  there,  and  is  over- 
awed and  converted.  He  tells  them  that  the 
worm  has  eaten  the  words  of  their  treaty, 
leaving  only  the  name  of  God.  Astonished 
by  this,  terrified  by  the  irresistible  number 
of  his  swelling  army,  the  Koreish  yield  the 
city.  He  bums  the  idols,  and  Henda  clings 
to  her  Grod,  and  is  consumed  with  him. 


Abu  Sophian,  Henda 

his  wife. 
Moawiyah,  their  son, 

of  the  race  of  Om- 

miyah. 
Caled  and  Amrou 

The  early 
Othman. 
Zobair. 
Saad. 


Ali  and  Fatima. 
Omar  and  Abubeker. 
Zeed  and  Zeineb. 
Hamza. 

Lebid  the  poet. 
Mary  the  Egyptian. 

believers. 
Abdarrahman. 
Abu  Obeidah. 


Islam — "  the  saving  religion." 

Al- Abbas, — uncle  of  M.  taken  at  Bedcr. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Mary  must  be  captured  afler  the  vic- 
tory at  Beder. 

On  Mount  Ohud  Mary  saves  him. 

Caled  must  not  be  in  the  fight  of  Beder. 

The  contest  with  the  Jews  must  be  con- 
nected with  the  intrigues  of  the  Koreish, 
and  take  place  during  the  si^e  of  Medina. 

2.  Ali  on  the  Prophet*s  bed.  The  Ko- 
reish waiting  his  forthcoming.  Their  pur- 
suit. When  they  leave  the  cavern,  the 
poem  remains  there.  Death  of  Cadijah  re- 
lated to  him. 

Mohammed  visits  his  mother*s  sepulchre. 
Sale,  V.  1,  p.  263. 

The  famous  miracle  of  the  mountain. 
The  people  before  one  of  the  battles  de- 
mand of  him  angelic  aid ;  then  he  calls  the 
mountain,  and  applies  the  fact  by  showing 
that  the  miracle  is  not  wanted — "  Are  ye 
not  men  and  valiant  ?  ** 

Zeinab,  the  Jewess,  who  attempted  to 
poison  Mohammed  at  Kaibar,  may  be  made 
a  striking  personage. 

Okail,  the  brother  of  Ali,  deserted  him 
in  his  latter  difficulties. 

Ziad,  the  brother  of  Moawiyah,  from  his 
bastard  birth  called  Ben  Abihi — Son  of  the 
Unknown,  continued  attached  to  Ali*8 
cause,  even  afler  his  death.  Obeidallah, 
[Uosein  was  his  son]  the  destroyer  of  Ab- 
darrahman,  son  of  Caled,  and  inheritor  of 
his  zeal  and  courage,  was  poisoned  by  com- 
mand of  Moawiyah. 

The  Beder  Books.  Mohammed  in  the 
valley  awaiting  his  scouts.  Thus  the  thread 
,  is  unbroken,  and  the  boasts  of  Abu  Sophian 
explain  the  Koreish  transactions.  The 
mountain  miracle.  Al- Abbas  leading  the 
pursuit  when  the  Moslem  gives  way,  is  first 
struck  by  the  action  of  his  nephew,  half 
doubtful  before.  Pursuit  of  the  caravan. 
Sebana  and  Miriam,  of  Egypt,  among  the 
captives.  Miriam  must  feel  respect  and  ad- 
miration for  the  enthusiast ;  but  it  is  after 
the  defeat  and  danger  of  Ohud,  that  his 
fearless  yet  wise  fanaticism  infects  her,  and 
makes  her  at  once  believe  and  love. 

The  death  of  Otaiba  may  be  connected 
with  the  ambush  and  conversion  of  Amru. 


The  bodies  of  the  noblest  slun  conveyed 
to  Mecca — for  the  dirge  of  Ommia  to  be  in- 
troduced. 

The  factions  at  Medina  reconciled  on 
his  flight  there. 


Subjects /or  Poendings* 

A  SENTIMENTAL  sonnet  to  eggs  and  bacon ; 
thinking  what  the  bacon  was,  and  what  the 
eggs  might  have  been  ;  or  there  is  enough 
for  an  elegy.  Alas!  that  men  who  eat 
should  feel — alas !  that  men  who  feel  should 
eat.  Why  not  have  an  air-diet  infused! 
Pig — ^his  happiness.  The  stye,  his  home,  and 
its  domestic  joys.  The  cock,  his  plumage, 
and — "  sweet  at  early  morn,  his  cockadoo- 
dledoo."  Ghosts.  Rise  neither  in  my  con- 
science, O  bacon,  nor  in  my  stomach. 

The  emigrant.  Description  of  a  priest 
walking  alone,  a  good  and  pious  roan.  The 
rabble  of  ex-nobles.  Charity  of  England ; 
in  the  day  of  her  visitation  may  that  he 
remembered. 

Meditations  on  an  empty  purse. 

Iroquois.   Their  complaint  in  captivity. 

Their  address  to  the  dead.^ 

The  praise  of  a  savage  life. 

Ballad  of  the  man  at  Stroud  who  was 
almost  killed  by  his  ass. 

Euthymus  and  the  demon  Lybas. 

Winter.    How  we  will  welcome  him. 

Consecration  of  our  new  house. 

Winter  walk.  Companion  to  the  Mid- 
summer meditations. 

To  an  old  pair  of  shoes,  showing  the 
possible  inconvenience  but  absolute  neces- 
sity of  having  a  new  pair. 

To  health. 

The  defeat  of  Attila. 

The  spider,  a  metaphysician.  The  silk- 
worm feeds  first  and  spins  afterwards. 

The  cold  in  my  head.  French  black- 
smith.   Ode. 


I  Some  of  these  the  reader  will  find  worked 
up  in  his  Poems,  e.  g. "  The  Fig,"  p.  162.  "  Hu- 
ron's Address  to  the  Dead,^*  p.  132.  Ed.  in  one 
volume. — J.  W.  W. 


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21 


A  poem  is  possible  upon  a  candle  with 
unhackneyed  thoughts.  Its  wasting  by 
agitation.  Its  danger  out  of  doors.  And, 
politically  considered,  not  forgetting  the 
snuffers.  As  the  flame  to  the  candle,  so 
perception  to  the  body.  The  student.  Thy 
fate  is  to  give  light  and  waste  away. 

H  yentoso. 

Monodrama.  Cranmer  recanting  his  re- 
cantation in  St.  Mary*s,  Oxford. 

The  Shangalla  woman  wooing  another 
wife  for  her  husband. — Bbuce,  vol.  2.  This 
is  an  interesting  subject,  and  the  circum- 
stances of  these  poor  savages  are  very 
striking  for  poetry. 

Monodrama.  Florinda  addressing  her 
father.  Count  Julian,  before  she  threw  her- 
self from  the  tower  at  Malaga. 

Love  verses.     Advice  to  a  poet. 

My  considering  cap.  All  possible  head- 
coverings.  The  powdered  head — the  mitre 
—the  three-tailed  wig — the  judges' — the 
helmet. 

Laudanum  visions.  I  saw  last  night 
one  figure  whose  eyes  were  in  his  specta- 
cles; another,  whose  brains  were  in  his 
wig.  A  third  devil  whose  nose  was  a  trum- 
pet. 

Laver;  how  it  was  ambrosia,  which 
when  Jupiter  came  for  Europa  was  evolved 
throogh  all  the  intestinal  government. 

Pharmaceutic  ode— over-reaching,  mov- 
ing the  bowels,  getting  at  the  bottom  of  a 
subject 

The  bird  over  the  gate  screams,  for  a 
year  of  famine  is  at  hand.  A  witch  is 
gone  to  the  Well  of  Rogoes,  and  caught 
the  dew  that  was  to  make  the  Nile  rise. 


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lettres  envoyees  de  par  le  Roy  d^Angleterre 
ttu  Due  de  Burgor^ne, — MoNSTSEiJiET, 
fueillet,  70. 

TaBscHiEBettresaymeoncle.  Lafervente 
Section  que  scavons  vous  avoir,  comme 
vray  catholique,  a  nostre  mere  saincte  eglise 
ct  lexaltation  de  nostre  saincte  foy,  raison- 
nablement  nous  exhorte  et  admoneste  de 


vous  signifier  et  escrire  ce  que  al  honneur 
de  nostre  dicte  mere  saincte  eglise,  fortiffi- 
cacion  de  nostre  foy,  et  extirpacions  der- 
reurs  pestilencieuses  a  este  en  ceste  nostre 
ville  de  Rouen  fait  ja  na  gueres  solennelle- 
ment.  U  est  assez  commune  renommee  ja 
comme  par  tout  divulguee  comment  celle 
femme  qui  se  faisoit  nommer  Jehanne  la 
pucelle  erronnee  sestoit  deux  ans  et  plus, 
contre  la  loy  divine  et  lestat  de  son  sexe 
femenin,  vcstue  en  habit  dhomme,  chose  a 
dieu  abhominable.  Et  en  tel  estat  trans- 
portee  devers  nostre  ennemy  capital  et  le 
vostre ;  auquel  et  a  ceulx  de  son  party, 
gens  deglise,  nobles,  et  populaires  donna 
souvent  a  entendre  quelle  estoit  envoyee 
de  par  Dieu  en  soy  presumptueusement 
vantant  quelle  avoit  communicaciou  perso- 
nelle  et  visible  avecques  Saint  Michel  et 
grande  multitude  danges  et  de  sainctz  de 
Padis  comme  Saincte  Katherine  et  Saincte 
Marguerite.  Par  lesquelz  faulx  donne  a 
entendre  et  lesperance  quelle  promectoit 
de  victoires  futures  divertit  plusieurs  erreurs 
dhommes  et  de  femmes  de  la  verite  et  les 
convertist  a  fables  et  mensonges.  Se  ves- 
tist  aussi  darmes  applicquees  pour  cheval- 
iers et  escuieres,  leva  lestandart.  Et  en 
trop  grant  oultrage,  orgueil  et  presumpcion 
demanda  avoir  et  porter  les  tresnobles  et 
excellentes  armes  de  France,  ce  que  en 
partie  elle  obtint.  Et  les  porta  en  plusieurs 
courses  et  assaulx,  et  ses  freres,  comme  on 
dit  Lestass  avoir  ung  escu  a  deux  fleurs  de 
lys  dor  a  champ  dazur,  et  une  espee  la 
poincte  en  haulteferve  en  une  couronne.  En 
cest  estat  sest  mise  aux  champs,  a  conduit 
gens  darmes  et  de  traict  en  exercite  et 
grans  compaignies  pour  faireet  exercer  cru- 
aultez  inhumaines,  en  espandant  le  sang 
humain,  en  faisant  sedicions  et  commocions 
de  peuple,  le  induisant  a  pariuremens,  re- 
bellions supersticions  et  faiilses  creances, 
en  perturbant  toute  vray  paix  et  renouvel- 
lant  guerre  mortelle,  en  se  souflrant  hon- 
norer  et  reverer  de  plusieurs  comme  femme 
sainctifiee,  et  autrement  damnablement 
oeuvrant  en  divers  cas  longs  a  exprimer,qui 
toutesvoies  ont  este  en  plusieurs  lieux  assez 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


cogneues,  dont  presquetoute  la  chrestiente 
a  este  toute  scandalisee.  Mais  la  diyine 
puissance,  ayant  pitie  de  son  peuple  loyal  qui 
ne  la  longuement  voulu  laisser  en  peril,  ne 
souffert  demourer  esvaines  perilleuses  et 
nouvelles  crudelitez  ou  ja  legierement  se 
mectoit  a  vouloir  permectre  sa  grant  mise- 
ricorde  et  clemence  que  ladicte  femme  ajt 
este  prinse  en  vostre  host  et  siege  que  teniez 
lors  de  par  nous  devant  Compiegne,  et 
mise  par  vostre  bon  raoyen  en  nostre  obeys- 
sance  and  dominacion.  Et  pour  ce  que 
deslors  fusmes  requis  par  levesque  au  dio- 
•  cese  duquel  elle  avoit  este  prinse,  que  icelle 
Jehanne  nottee  et  difiamee  de  crimes  de 
leze  majeste  divine  luy  fissions  delivrer 
comme  a  son  juge  ordinaire  ecclesiastique. 
Notant  pour  la  reverence  de  nostre  mere 
saincte  eglise,de  laquelle  voulons  les  ordon- 
nances  preferer  a  noz  propres  faitz  et  vou- 
lentez  comme  raison  est,  comme  aussi  pour 
Ihonneur  et  exaltacion  de  nostre  dicte 
saincte  foy,  luy  fismes  bailler  ladicte 
Jehanne  affin  de  luy  faire  son  proces,  sans 
en  vouloir  estre  prinse  par  les  gens  et  offi* 
ciers  de  nostre  justice  seculiere  aucune 
vengeance  ou  punicion  ainsi  que  faire 
nous  estoit  raisonnablement  licite,  attendu 
les  grans  dommages  et  inconveniens,  les 
horribles  homicides  et  detestables  cruaultez 
et  autres  maulx  innumerables  qui  elle  avoit 
commis  a  lencontre  de  nostre  seigneurie  et 
loyal  peuple  obeyssant.  Lequel  evesque 
adioint  avecques  luy  le  vicaire  etde  linquisi- 
teur  des  erreurs  et  heresies,  et  appelle  avec- 
ques eulx  grant  et  notable  nombre  de  so- 
lennelz  maistres  et  docteurs  en  theologie  et 
droit  canon,  commenga  par  grande  solenni- 
te  et  deux  gravite  le  proces  dicelle  Jehanne. 
Et  apres  oe  que  luy  et  le  dit  inquisiteur 
juges  en  certe  partie,  eurent  par  plusieurs 
et  diverses  joumees  interrogue  ladicte  Je- 
hanne, firent  les  confessions  et  assercions 
dicelle  meurement  examiner  par  lesditz 
maistres  docteurs.  Et  generalement  par 
toutes  les  facultez  de  nostre  treschiere  et 
tresaymee  fille  luniversite  de  Paris,  devers 
laquelle  lesdictes  confessions  et  assercions 
ont  este  envoyez  par  loppinion  et  delibera- 


cion,  desquelz  trouverent  lesditz  juges  icelle 
Jehanne  supersticieuse,  devineresse  de  dia- 
bles,  blasphemeresse  en  Dieu  et  en  ses 
saintz  ^t  sainctes,  scismastique  et  errant 
par  moult  de  sors  en  la  foy  de  Jesu  Christ. 
Et  pour  la  reduire  et  ramener  a  la  unite 
et  communion  de  nostre  dicte  mere  saincte 
eglise,  la  purger  de  ses  horribles  et  pemi- 
cieulx  crimes  et  pechez,  et  guerir  et  pre- 
server son  ame  de  perpetuelle  paine  et  dam- 
nacion,  fut  souvent  et  par  bien  long  temps 
trescharitablement  et  doulcement  admo' 
nestee  a  ce  que  toutes  erreurs  fussent  par 
elle  regectees  et  mises  arriere,  voulsist  hum- 
blement  retoumer  a  la  voye  et  droit  sender 
de  verite  ou  autrement  elle  se  mectoit  en 
grant  peril  de  ame  et  de  corps.  Mais  le 
tresperilleux  et  deuise  esperit  dorgueil  et 
de  oultrageuse  presumpcion  qui  tousjours 
sefforce  de  vouloir  empescher  la  unite  et 
seurte  des  loyaulx  chrestiens  occuppa  et 
detint  tellement  en  ses  liens  le  courage  di- 
celle Jehanne  que,  pour  quelconque  saincte 
doctrine  ou  conseil  ne  autre  doulce  exhor- 
tacion  que  on  luy  eust  administree,  son 
cueur  endurcy  et  obstine  ne  se  voulut  hu- 
milier  ne  amolir.  Mais  se  vantoit  souvent 
que  toutes  choses  quelle  avoit  fuctes  estoi- 
ent  bienfaictees,  et  les  avoit  faictes  du  com- 
mandement  de  Dieu  et  desdictes  sainctes 
Vierges  qui  visiblement  sestoient  a  elle  ap- 
paruz.  Et  que  pis  est  ne  recognoissoit 
ne  vouloit  recognoistre  en  terre  fors  Dieu 
seulement  et  les  saintz  de  Paradis  en  refu- 
sant  et  deboutant  le  jugement  de  nostre 
saint  pere  le  Pape,  du  concille  general,  et  la 
universelle  eglise  militant.  £t  voyans  les 
juges  ecclesiastiques  sesditz  courage  et  pro- 
pos  par  tant  et  si  longue  espace  de  temps 
enduraj  et  obstine  la  firent  mener  devant 
le  clergib  et  le  peuple  iUec  assemble  en  tres- 
grant  multitude,  en  la  presence  desquelz 
furent  preschez  exposez  et  declairez  solen- 
nellement  et  publicquement  par  ung  nota- 
ble maistre  en  theologie  alexaltacion  de 
nostre  foy,  extirpacion  des  erreurs,  et  edif- 
fication  et  amendement  du  peuple  chrestien. 
Et  de  rechief  fut  charitAblement  admones- 
tce  de  retoumer  a  lunion  de  saincte  eglise 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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et  de  corriger  ses  faultes  et  erreurs  en  quoy 
pertmace  et  obstinee.  Et  en  ce  considere 
les  juges  dessosditz  procederent  a  prononcer 
la  sentence  contre  elle  en  tel  cas  de  droit 
introdoite  et  ordonnee.  Mais  avant  que 
la  sentence  fut  parluctee  elle  commencaj 
semblant  amuer  son  courage  disant  quelle 
Tooloit  retoumer  a  saincte  eglise,  ce  que 
Toulentiers  et  joyeusement  ojrent  les  juges 
et  le  clerge  dessusditz,  qui  a  cela  receu- 
rent  benignement,  esperant  per  ce  mojen 
SOD  ame  et  son  corps  estre  racbaptez  de 
perdicion  et  torment.  Adonc  se  submist 
a  lordonnance  de  saincte  ^lise  et  ses  er- 
reurs et  ^etestables  crimes  revocqua  de  la 
boQche.  Et  objura  publicquement  signant 
de  sa  propre  main  la  cedulle  de  la  dicte  re- 
vocquacion  et  objuracion.  Et  par  ain  si 
nostre  piteuse  mere  saincte  ^lise  soy  esi- 
ojBsant  BUT  la  pecberesse  faisant  penitence 
Tueillant  la  brebris  retourner  et  recouvrer 
qui  par  le  desert  sestoit  esgaree  et  for- 
vojee  ramener  avecques  les  autres  icelle 
Jehanne  pour  faire  penitence  condanma  en 
chartre.  Mais  gueres  ne  fut  illec  que  le 
feu  de  son  orgueil  qui  sembloit  estre  es- 
taint  en  icelle  rembrasa  en  flambes  pesti- 
lencieuses  par  les  soufflemens  de  lennemy. 
Et  tantost  ladicte  femme  maleuree  re- 
cheut  es  erreurs  et  es  rageries  que  par 
avant  avoit  proferees  et  de  puis  revocquees 
et  objurees  comme  dit  est.  Pour  lesquelles 
causes  selon  ce  que  les  jugemens  et  insti- 
tucions  de  saincte  eglise  lordonnerent  affin 
que  doresenarant  elle  ne  contaminast  les 
autres  membres  de  Jesu  Christ,  elle  fut  de 
rechef  foreschee  publiquement.  Et  comme 
elle  fut  renchue  es  crimes  et  faultes  vil- 
laines  par  elle  acoustumees  fut  delaissee  a 
la  justice  seculiere,  laquelle  incontinent  la 
condanma  a  estre  bruslee.  Et  voyant  son 
finement  approucher  elle  congneut  plaine- 
ment  et  confessa  que  les  esperitz  quelle 
disoit  estre  apparans  a  elle  souventeffois  es- 
toient  maulvais  et  mensongiers,  et  que  les 
promeases  que  iceulx  espuitz  luy  avoient 
plusieurffois  faictes  de  la  delivrer  estoient 
faulses.  £t  ainsi  se  confessa  plesditz  espe- 
ritz avoir  este  deceve  et  democquee.     Si 


fut  menee  par  ladicte  justice  lyee  auvieil  il 
marche  dedans  Rouen  et  la  publicquement 
fut  arse  a  la  veue  de  tout  le  peuple.  La- 
quelle chose  ainsi  faicte  le  dessusdit  Roy 
dangleterre  signifia  p.  ses  lecttes  comme 
dit  est  au  dessusdit  Due  de  Bourgogne  affin 
que  icelle  execution  de  justice  tant  par  luy 
comme  les  autres  princes  fut  publiee  en 
plusieurs  lieux  et  que  leur  gens  et  subgectz 
doresenavant  fussent  plus  seurs  et  mieux 
advertis  de  non  avoir  creance  en  telles  ou 
semblables  erreurs  qui  avoient  regnes  pour 
a  loccasion  de  ladicte  Pucelle. 


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Hor9e  of  the  Idql  Perenuth. 

In  the  temple  of  the  Idol  Pe^enuth  a 
horse  was  kept  on  which  the  god  rode  to 
assist  his  votaries  in  the  battle,  frequently 
afler  a  fight  he  was  found  covered  with  foam, 
none  but  the  priests  dared  approach  the 
place  where  he  was  kept. 

When  the  Saxons  designed  to  declare  war 
against  tbeir  enemies,  they  set  their  spears 
before  the  temple,  and  the  sacred  horse  was 
led  out,  if  he  put  his  right  foot  forward,  the 
omen  was  held  good,  if  he  stepped  with  his 
left  foot  first,  the  omen  was  esteemed  unfor- 
tunate, and  they  desisted  from  the  intended 
business.  —  Strut's  compleat  view  of  the 
Manners,  Sfc,  of  the  ancient  Inhabitants  of 
England.  See  p.  12. 

The  White  horse? — Yebsteoan  to  be 
consiilted,  and  Saxo  Gbammaticus. 


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Mercy  Knives, 

Mbbct  knives  used  to  kill  knights  in  com- 
pleat armour  when  overthrown,  by  stabbing 
them  in  the  eye.  Afler  the  battle  of  Pavia 
some  of  the  French  were  killed  with  pick- 
axes by  the  peasantry  hewing  on  their  ar- 
mour. 


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Capture  of  the  Maid, 

As  before  ye  have  heard  somewhat  of  this 
damsels  strange  beginning  and  proceedings, 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


so,  sith  the  ending  of  all  such  miracle-mon- 
gers dooth  (for  the  most  part)  plainlie  deci- 
pher the  vertue  and  power  that  they  worke, 
by  hir  shall  ye  be  advertised  what  at  last 
became  of  hir :  cast  your  opinions  as  ye 
have  cause.  Of  hir  lovers  (the  Frenchmen) 
reporteth  one,  how  in  Campeigne  thus  be- 
sieged, Guillaume  de  Flavie  the  capteine 
having  sold  hir  aforehand  to  the  Lord  of 
Lutzenburgh,  under  colour  of  hasting  hir 
with  a  band  out  of  the  town  towards  their 
king,  for  him  with  speed  to  come  and  leavie 
the  siege  there,  so  gotten  hir  forth  he  shut 
the  gates  afler  hir ;  when  anon  by  the  Bur- 
gognians  set  upon  and  overmatcht  in  the 
conflict^  she  was  taken :  marie  yet  (all  things 
accounted)  to  no  small  marvell  how  it  could 
come  so  to  passe,  had  she  beene  of  any  de- 
votion or  of  true  beleefe,  and  no  false  mis- 
creant, but  all  holie  as  she  made  it.  For 
earlie  that  morning  she  gat  hir  to  St.  Jameses 
church,  confessed  hir,  and  received  her 
maker  (as  the  booke  terms  it)  and  after  set- 
ting hirself  to  a  piller,  manic  of  the  towns- 
men that  with  a  five  or  six  score  of  their 
children  stood  about  there  to  see  hir,  unto 
them  quod  she  *  Good  children  and  my  dear 
friends,  I  tell  you  plaine  one  hath  sold  me. 
I  am  betraied  and  shortlie  shall  be  deli- 
vered to  death ;  I  beseech  you  praie  to  God 
for  me,  for  I  shall  never  have  more  power 
to  doo  service  either  to  the  king  or  to  the 
realm  of  France  again.'" — Chroniques  de 
Bretagncy  p.  130. 

*♦  Saith  another  booke,  Le  Rosier,  she  was 
intrapt  by  a  Ficard  capteine  of  Soissons,  who 
sold  that  citie  to  the  Duke  of  Burgognie,and 
he  then  put  it  over  into  the  hands  of  the 
Lord  of  Lutzenburgh,  so  by  that  means  the 
Burgognians  approached  and  besieged  Cam- 
peigne ;  for  succor  whereof  as  damsell  Jone 
with  hir  capteins  from  Laignie  was  thither 
come,  and  dailie  to  the  English  gave  manie 
a  hot  skirmish,  so  happened  it  one  a  dale 
in  an  outsallie  that  she  made  by  a  Picard  of 
the  Lord  of  Lutzenburghs  band,  in  the 
fiercest  of  hir  fight  she  was  taken,  and  by 
him  by  and  by  to  his  Lord  presented,  who 


sold  hir  over  again  to  the  English,  who  for 
witchcraft  and  sorcerie  burnt  hir  at  Rone. 
Tillet  telleth  it  thus,  that  she  was  caught 
at  Campeigne  by  one  of  the  Earl  of  Lignei's 
soldiers,  firom  him  had  to  Beaurevoir  Cas- 
tle, where  kept  a  three  months,  she  was  after 
for  10,000  pounds  in  monie  and  300  pounds 
in  rent  (all  Turnois)  sold  into  the  English 
hands."— /«  La  Vie  du  CharUe  VIL 


Sentence  of  the  Maid, 

In  which  for  hir  pranks  so  uncouth  and 
suspicious,  the  Lord  Regent  by  Peier  Chau- 
chon  Bishop  of  Beauvois  (in  whose  diocesse 
she  was  taken)  caused  her  life  and  beleefe, 
after  order  of  law,  to  be  inquired  upon  and 
examined.  Wherein  found  though  a  virgm, 
yet  first  shamefuUie  rejecting  hir  sex  abo- 
minablie  in  acts  and  apparell  to  have  coun- 
terfeited mankind,  and  then  all  damnablie 
faithlesse,  to  be  a  pernicious  instrument  to 
hostilitie  and  bloudshed  in  divelish  witch- 
craft and  sorcerie,  sentence  accordingliewas 
pronounced   against   hir.     Howbeit  upon 
humble  confession  of  hir  iniquities,  with  a 
counterfeit  contrition  pretending  a  careful 
sorrowe  for  the  same,  execution  spared  and 
all  mollified  into  this,  that  firom  thenceforth 
she  should  cast  off  hir  unnatural  wearing  of 
man's  abilliments,  and  keepe  hir  to  garments 
of  hir  owne  kind,  abjure  her  pernicious 
practises  of  sorcerie  and  witcherie,  and  have 
life  and  leasure  in  perpetuall  prison  to  be- 
waile  hir  misdeeds,  which  to  performe  (ac- 
cording to  the  manner  of  abjuration)  a 
solemne  oath  verie  gladlie  she  took. 

"But  herein  (God  helpe  us)  she  fullie 
afore  possest  of  the  feend,  not  able  to  hold 
hir  in  anie  towardness  of  grace,  falling 
streightwaie  into  hir  former  abominations, 
(and  yet  seeking  to  catch  out  life  as  long  as 
she  might)  stake  not  (tho  the  shift  were 
shamefull),  to  confesse  hirself  a  strumpet, 
and  (unmarried  as  she  was)  to  be  with  child. 
For  triall,  the  Lord  Regent's  lenitie  gave 
her  nine  months  stale,  at  the  end  whereof, 
she,  found  herein  as  false  as  wicked  in  the 


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D  eight  daies  afler,  upon  a  fiirther  de- 
3  sentence  declared  against  hir  to  be 
3  and  a  renouncer  of  hir  oath  and  re- 
ice,  was  she  thereupon  delivered  over 
liar  power,  and  so  executed  bj  con- 
ion  of  fire  in  the  old  market  place  of 
in  the  selfe  same  steede  where  noW 
chaePs  Church  stands ;  hir  ashes  af- 
d  without  tlie  towne  wals  shaken  into 
ad." — HoLiNSHBD,  p.  604. 


Perfumed  Room  in  Alhambra, 

he  cabinet  (of  the  Alhambra)  where 
leen  used  to  dress  and  saj  her  pray- 
d  which  is  still  an  enchanting  sight, 
9  a  slab  of  marble  full  of  small  holes, 
h  which  perfumes  exhaled,  that  were 
»DStantlj  burning  beneath.  The  doors 
adows  are  disposed  so  as  to  afford  the 
greeable  prospects,  and  to  throw  a 
t  lively  light  upon  the  eyes.  Fresh 
ts  of  air,  too,  are  admitted,  so  as  to 
every  instant  the  delicious  coolness 
\  apartment.  —  From  the  Sketch  of 
\h  History  prefixed  to  Florian's  Oon- 
f  Cordova,  Consult  Swinburne  and 
;rron. 


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*.  of  Flavy  who  betrayed  the  Maid, 

HEW  Compeigne  was  besieged  by  the 
1  and  Burgiindians,  the  maid  with 
ailles  threw  herself  into  it.  A  party 
sallied  out  were  driven  back  by  the 
b.  Joan  secured  their  retreat,  but 
the  governor  shut  the  gates  upon  her, 
3  was  pulled  oflf  her  horse  and  taken 
bastard  of  Vendome. 
anche  the  wife  of  Flavy  suspected 
K)n  afler,  of  an  intention  to  murder 
e  resolved  to  be  beforehand  with  him, 
1  the  assistance  of  his  barber  and 
ed  her  husband.  Charles  probably 
t  her  motives  such  as  justified  the 
T  he  granted  her  a  free  pardon." — 
ws.  See  Brantome. 
les  might  have  saved  the  maid  by 


threatening  reprisal  on  Talbot,  Suffolk,  and 
his  other  prisoners.  The  Cardinal  of  Win- 
ton  was  the  only  Englishman  among  her 
judges. 


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Insults  offered  to  the  Maid  in  Prison, 

Hist,  de  France  par  Vijllaret,  4to.  Paris, 
1770,  tome  8,  p.  27,  referring  to  1431. 

"  Depos.  du  Seigneur  de  Macy  present 
k  cette  entrevue. 
"Dans  le  temps  que  les  commissaries 
travailloient  k  Tinstruction  du  proc^  avec 
le  plus  actif  acharnement,  le  Comte  de  Ligne- 
Luxembourg  eut  Tinhumaine  curiositi  de 
voir  cette  genereuse  prisonniere,  lui  qui 
Tavoit  si  lachement  vendue.  Les  Comtes 
de  Warwick  et  de  Strafford  Taccompag- 
noient.  D  voulut  lui  persuader  qu'il  venoit 
pour  traiter  de  sa  ran9on.  Elle  dedaigna  de 
lui  faire  des  reproches,  et  se  contenta  de  lui 
dire,  *  Vous  n*en  avez  ni  la  volonte,  ni  la 
pouvoir.  Je  S9ais  bien  que  ces  Anglois  me 
feront  mourir,  croyant  qu'apr^  ma  mort 
ils  gagneront  la  royaume  de  France ;  mais 
seroient  ils  cent  mUle  Goddons  ^  plus  qu'ils 
ne  sont  k  present,  ils  n*auront  pas  ce  roy- 
aume.* Strafford  tira  son  ep6e  et  Tauroit 
per^ee,  si  le  Comte  de  Warwick  ne  Tavoit 
retenu." 

"Jeanne  se  plaignit  qu'un  tres  grand 
seigneur  d'Angleterre  Tavoit  voulu  violer 
dans  sa  prison.  L*autorit^  du  coupable  n*a 
pas  permis  qu'il  nous  parvint  d'cclaircisse- 
ment  sur  cette  infamre  particularite  :  voici 
un  fait  atteste ;  la  Duchesse  de  Bedford, 
princesse  vertueuse  obtint  qu*on  respecte- 
roit  du  moins  la  virginity  de  la  pucelle. 
Elle  Tavoit  fait  visiter;  Topinion  de  ce 
temps  etant  qu'une  sorci^re  ne  pouvoit  etre 
vi^rge.  II  n'est  p(^  du  report  de  Thistoire 
de  prononcer  sur  Fiufallibilit^  des  signes : 
equivoques  ou  certains  ils  ne  prouveroient 
point  rinnocence  de  Taccusce ;  la  purit^  de 


'  **  Godam  Jurement  Anglois  qui  si^ifie  Dieu 
me  damne," — the  common  term  for  the  English 
in  France  at  that  time. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


ses  mceurs  etoit  un  temoignage  irreproch- 
able  dc  son  integrity.  Cea  monumens  ajou- 
tent  que  le  Due  de  Bedford  yit  cet  examen 
d*une  chambre  voisine,  par  le  moyen  d*une 
ouverture  pratiquee  dans  le  mur  de  sepa- 
ration/* 


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Sword  at  Fez. 


A.  D.  1457.  Alphokso  V.  of  Portugal  as- 
sails the  Moors  of  Africa  with  a  powerfiil 
^army  and  navy.  He  aims  at  the  possession 
of  a  fancied  sword  which  he  supposed  to 
hang  on  the  summit  of  a  tower  at  Fez. — 
Andbbws. 

Death  of  Agnes  and  Charles. 

A.  D.  1449.  Aqnes  SoBBii  poisoned  by  the 
Dauphin  (Louis  XL)  who  was  known  to 
hate  her,  and  had  once  publicly  given  her 
a  box  on  the  ear.  Jacques  Coeur  the  king*8 
mint-master  bore  the  blame ;  he  was  for- 
saken by  the  rascally  Charles  whom  he  had 
assisted  with  his  private  fortune  in  his 
greatest  need.  He  went  to  Cyprus.  His 
friends  raised  him  a  large  sum,  and  by  com- 
merce  he  became  richer  than  ever. 

A.  D.  1461 .  Charles  VII.  died,  destroyed 
by  abstinence  lest  his  son  should  poison 
him. 


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Anglo-Norman  Shipping. 

"  The  Anglo-Normans  were  very  expert 
in  the  management  of  their  shipping,  and 
fought  with  great  courage.  Their  chief  aim 
was  to  grapple  with  the  galleys  of  their  ene- 
mies, and  come  to  a  close  engagement,  hand 
to  hand,  and  board  them  if  possible ;  though 
they  always  began  the  fight  at  a  distance, 
with  their  arrows  from  their  cross-bows,  as- 
sisted by  the  archers  and'  slingers.  Upon  a 
nearer  approach,  the  close  heavy-armed 
soldier  (men  of  arms)  with  their  spears,  axes, 
swords,  and  other  offensive  weapons,  sup- 
ported the  engagement  They  provided 
Chemselves  with  quick  lime  finely  powdered, 
and  at  all  times  carefully  strove  to  be  to 


windward  of  their  adversaries,  and  then 
threw  plentifully  of  this  lime  into  their 
faces." — Steutt. 

They  had  trumpets,  horns,  and  other  mar- 
tial music  on  board.  In  one  of  Strutt*s 
prints  a  man  is  represented  standing  in  a 
kind  of  battlement  or  box  upon  the  mast' 
and  hurling  down  darts  and  stones  upon  his 
enemies.  It  is  one  of  the  series  of  the  life 
of  Beauchamp,  Earl  Warwick,  by  John 
Rous. 

From  the  notes  of  Stephan us  Stephanius 
to  Saxo  Orammat.  Quoted  from  TuBpnr. 

Image  of  Mahomed. 

**  Tbadunt  Sarraceni,  quod  Idolum  istud 
Mahumet,  quern  ipsi  colunt,  dum  adhuc  vi- 
veret,  in  nomine  suo  proprio  fabricavit,  et 
Dsemoniacam  legionem  quandam  euk  arte 
magic&  in  ek  sigillavit;  quae  etiam  tanti 
fortitudine  illud  Idolum  obtinet,  quod  a 
nullo  unquam  frangi  potuit.  Cum  enim 
aliquis  Christianus  ad  illud  appropinquat, 
statim  periclitatur ;  sed  cum  aliquis  Sarra- 
cenus  causa  adorandi  vel  deprecandi  Ma- 
humet accedit,  ille  incolumis  recedit.  Si 
forte  super  illud  avis  quselibet  se  deposuerit, 
illico  moritur.  Est  igitur  in  maris  margine 
lapis  antiquus,  opere  Sarracenico  optim^ 
sculptus,  supra  terram  deorsum  latus  et 
quadratus,  desursum  strictus,  altissimus  sci- 
licet, quantum  solet  volare  in  sublime  cor- 
Yus;  super  quem  elevatur  imago  ilia  de 
auro  Optimo,  in  efiSgie  hominis  fusa,  super 
pedes  8U08  erecta,  faciem  suam  tenens  ver- 
sus Meridiem,  et  manu  dcxtr&  tenens  quan- 
dam clavam  ingentem;  quae  scilicet  clava, 
ut  ipsi  Sarraceni  aiunt,  a  manu  ejus  cadet, 
quando  Rex  futurus  in  Gallic  natus  fuerit, 
qui  totam  terram  Hispanicam  Christianis 
legibus,  in  novissimis  temporibus,  subju- 
gabit."— Cap.  4.* 

'  This  does  not  refer  to  Saxo  Grammaticus 
but  to  Turpln's  c.  iv.  **  My  thologue  suse  potius, 
quam  Historise  de  Vita  Caroli  Mac^l  et  Bo- 
Inndi,"  as  Stephanus  Stephanius  cam  it.  Sea 
Notet  on  Suio  GrammaticuSf  p.  51.  Ed.  SonB| 
1644,  folio— J.  W.W. 


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WkUe  Horse  of  Swantowiih. 

"Inoens  in  fede  (urbis  Arkon)  simula- 
crum omnem  humani  corporis  habitum  gran- 
ditate  transcendeng,  quatuor  capitibus,  to- 
tidemque  cerricibus  mirandum  perstabat,  e 
quibus  duo  pectus,  totidemq;  tergum  respi- 
cere  videbantur.  CsBterum  tarn  ante  quam 
retro  collocatorum  unum  dextrorsum,  alte- 
nim  IsYorsum  contemplationem  dirigere 
videbatur.     Corrasse  barbe,  crines  attonsi 
figurabantur,  ut  artificiis  industriam  Rugi- 
anorum.  ritum  in  cultu  capitum  aemulatam 
putares.  In  dextr&  comu  yario  metalli  ge- 
nere  excuUum  gestabat,  quod  sacerdos  sa- 
crorum  ejus  peritus,  annuatim  mero  per- 
fundere  consueverat,  ex  ipso  liquoris  habitu 
sequentis  anni  copias  prospecturus.    Lsevft 
arcam  reflexo  in  latus  brachio  figurabat. 
Tunica  ad  tibias  prominens  fingebatur,  qusB 
ex  diyersa  ligni  materia  create,  tarn  arcano 
nexu  genibus  jungebantur,  ut  compaginis 
locus  non  nisi  curiosiori  contemplatione  de- 
prehendi  potuerit,  pedes  bumo  contigui  cer- 
nebantur,  eorum  basi  intra  solum  latente. 
Haad  procul  frenum  ac  sella  simulacri,  com- 
pluraq;  di vinitatis  insignia  visebantur.  Quo- 
rum admirationem  conspicus  granditatis 
ensis  augebat,  cujus  vaginam  ac  capiilum 
prseter  excellentem  ccelaturse  decorem,  ex- 
terior argenti  species  commendabat. — Huj  us 
sacerdos,  prseter  communem  patriae  ritum, 
barbae  conucq;  prolixitate  spectandus,  pri- 
die  quam  rem  divinam  facere  debuisset, 
sacellum  (quod  ei  soli  intrandi  fas   erat) 
adhibito  scoparum  usu,  diligentissime  pur- 
gare  solebat,  observato  ne  intra  sedem  ha- 
litum  funderet,  quo  quoties  capessendo  vel 
emittendo  opus  habebat,  toties  ad  januam 
procurrebat,  ne  videlicet  dei  presentia  mor- 
talis  spiritus  contagio  pollueretur.  —  Alia 
quoque  fana  compluribus  in  locis  hoc  nu- 
Dien  habebat,  quae  per  supparis  dignitatis, 
M  minoris  potentias  flamines  regebantur. 
IVaHerea  peculiarem  albi  colons  equum  ti- 
tolo  possidebat,  cujus  jubae  aut  caudae  pilos 
convellere  nefarium  ducebatur,  hunc  soli 
siu^rdoti  pascendi,  insidendiq;  jus  erat,  ne 
divini  animalis  usus,  quo  frequentior,  hoc 


vilior,  haberetur.  In  hoc  equo,  opinione 
Rugiae,  (Swantowith)  Suantovitus,  (idsimu- 
lacro  vocabiilum  erat)  adversum  sacrorum 
suorum  hostes  belJa  gerere  credebatur. 
Cujus  rei  pnecipuum  argumentum  extabat, 
quod  is  noctumo  tempore  stabulo  insistens, 
adeo  plenmique  man^  sudore  ac  luto  res- 
persus  videbatur,  tanquam  ab  exercitatione 
veniendo  magnorum  itinerum  spatia  percur- 
risset." — Saxo  OtxanmaHcua,  lib.  14. 


<^^AA^^^^^WV^V^^^W\^ 


Orave  of  Balder, 

"Cujus  (Balderi)  corpus  exercitus  regio 
funere  elatum,  facto  coUe  condendum  cu- 
ravit.  Hunc  quidam  nostri  temporis  viri, 
quorum  praecipuus  Haraldus  erat,  vigente 
veteris  sepulturae  fam&,  spe  reperiendae  pe- 
cuniae noctu  adorti,  repentino  coeptum  hor- 
rore  liquerunt,ex  ipso  namqueperrupti  mon- 
tis  cacumine  subita  torrentis  vis,  magno 
aquanim  strepito  prorumpere  videbatur, 
cujus  rapidior  moles  incitatissimolapsu  sub- 
jectis  infusa  campis  quicquid  offendebat 
involveret.  Ad  cujus  impetum  deturbati 
fossores,  abjectis  ligonibus,  variam  carpsere 
fugam,  irruentis  aquae  vorticibus  implican- 
dos  se  rati,  si  cceptum  diutius  exequi  nite- 
rentur.  Ita  a  diis  loci  illius  pr^sidibus 
incussus  subito  metus,  juvenum  animos  ava- 
ritid  abstractos,  ad  salutis  curam  convertit, 
neglectoque  cupiditatis  proposito,  vitae  stu- 
diosos  esse  docuit,  hujus  autem  scaturiginis* 
speciem  adumbratam,non  veram  fuisse  con- 
stat ;  nee  ab  imis  terrae  visceribus  genitam, 
sed  praestigiosft  quadam  administratione 
productam,  cum  in  arido  liquidos  manare 
fontes  natura  non  sinat.  Omnes  hunc  posteri 
collem,  ad  quos  fractionis  ejus  fama  tran- 
sierat,  intentatum  liquere." — Saxo  Gram- 
matictiiy  1.  3. 

Not  w^ian  Brothers  in  the  torrent'CircUd 

Island. 

"  Fratbss,  (duodecim)  deficientibus  a 
se  sociis,  intra  insulam  rapidissimo  ambitam 
fluvio  praealtam  moliti  vallum,  terrestrem  in 
piano  munitionem  extenderant ;   cujus  re- 


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1 


ceptaculo  freti,  crebr&  yicinos  irruptione  la- 
cesserant.  Excedentes  enim  insal&,  conti- 
nentem  extructo  ponte  petere  consueverant. 
Quern  port89  munitionU  annexum  ita  quo- 
dam  funiculorum  regimine  moderari  sole- 
bant,  ut  quasi  volubili  aliquo  cardine  cir- 
cumvectus,  modo  trans  flumen  it«r  sterneret, 
modo  occulto  restium  ductu  supern^  retrac- 
tus  januae  deserviret.  Fuere  autem  juvenes 
hi  acres  animis,  robusti  juvent^  prsestabiles 
habitu  corporis,  gigantaeis  clari  triumphis, 
trophsis  gentium  celebres,  spoliis  locupletes, 
quonindam  yero  ex  ipsis  nomina  (nam  cse- 
tera  vetustas  abstulit)  subnotavi.  Gerbi^n, 
Gunbi0rn,  Armbi^rn,  Stenbi^rn,  Esbi0rn, 
Thorbi^m  ct  Bi^rn.  Hie  equum  habuisse 
traditur  pnestantem  corpore,  prsepetem  ve- 
locitate,  adeo,  ut  cseteris  amnem  trajicere 
nequeuntibus,  hie  solus  obstrepentem  inde- 
fessus  vorticem  superaret.  Cujus  aquae  lap- 
sus tam  in  cito  ac  praecipiti  volumine  defer- 
tur,  ut  animalia  nandi  vigore  defecta  ple- 
rumque  pessundare  soleat.  Ex  summis  enim 
montium  cacuminibus  manans,  dum  per  cli- 
vorum  praerupta  sax  is  exceptus  eliditur,  in 
profunda  vallium  multiplicato  aquarum  stre- 
pitu  cadit :  verum  continuo  saxorum  obsta- 
culo  repercussus,  celeritatem  impetus  e4dem 
semper  aequabilitate  conservat.  Itaque  to- 
ta  alvei  tractu,  undis  uniformiter  turbida- 
dis,*  spumeus  ubique  candor  exuberat.  At 
ubi  scopulorum  angustiis  evolutus  laxius 
>  stagnanda  effunditur,  ex  object^  rupe  insu- 
1am  fingit.  Pracruptum  hinc  inde  jugum 
eminet  variis  arborum  generibus  frequens, 
quarum  objectus  amnem  eminus  pervideri 
non  sinat." 

These  Norwegian  brothers  were  killed  by 
the  Dane  Fridlevus,  except  Bi^rn. — Saxo 
OrammaJticus^  1.  6. 


Arnold  of  Brescia, 

Arnold  of  Brescia,  a  famous  heretic  of 
the  twelfth  century,  born  at  Brescia  in  Italy, 

^  It  is  so  in  the  original  to  which  I  have  re- 
ferred, p.  97,  ut  supra.  Perhaps  it  should  be 
turbidatisy  which  is  used  by  Martianus  Capella, 
elsewhere  followed  by  Saxo.— J.  W.  W. 


from  whence  he  went  to  France,  where  he 
studied  under  the  celebrated  Peter  Abelard. 
Upon  his  return  to  Italy,  he  put  on  the  ha- 
bit of  a  monk,  and  began  to  preach  several 
new  and  uncommon  doctrines,  particularly 
that  the  pope- and  all  the  rest  of  the  clergy 
ought  not  to  enjoy  any  temporal  estate.  He 
maintained  in  his  sermons,  that  those  eccle- 
siastics who  had  any  estates  of  their  own,  or 
held  any  lands,  were  entirely  cut  off  from 
the  least  hopes  of  salvation ;  that  the  clergy 
ought  to  subsist  upon  the  alms  and  volun- 
tary contributions  of  Christians ;  ^nd  that 
all  other  revenues  belonged  to  princes  and 
states,  in  order  to  be  disposed  of  amongst 
the  laity  as  they  thought  proper.  He  main- 
tained also  several  heresies  with  regard  to 
baptism  and  the  Lord*8  supper.  Otto  Fri- 
singensis  and  St.  Bernard  have  drawn  his  cha- 
racter in  very  strong  colours.  The  former 
tells  us  that  he  had  wit,  address  and  elo- 
quence; but  that  his  eloquence  consisted 
rather  of  a  torrent  of  words,  than  in  solid  and 
just  sentiments.  The  same  author  observes 
that  he  was  extremely  fond  of  peculiar  and 
new  opinions ;  that  he  assumed  a  religious 
habit  on  purpose  to  impose  upon  mankind 
more  effectually,  and  under  pretence  of  piety; 
and,  as  the  Gospel  expresses  it,  in  sheep*s 
cloathing  carried  the  disposition  of  a  wolf, 
tearing  every  one  as  he  pleased  with  the 
utmost  fiiry,  without  the  least  regard  to 
any  person,  and  having  a  particular  enmity 
against  the  clergy,  bishops,  and  monks. 
"  Would  to  God  (says  St.  Bernard)  that  his 
doctrine  was  as  holy  as  his  life  is  strict  I 
would  you  know  what  sort  of  man  this  is  ? 
Arnold  of  Brescia  is  a  man  that  neither  eats 
nor  drinks  ;  who,  like  the  devil,  is  hungry 
and  thirsty  after  the  blood  of  souls :  who 
goes  to  and  fro  upon  the  earth,  and  is  always 
doing  among  strangers  what  he  cannot  do 
amongst  his  own  countrymen ;  who  ranges 
like  a  roaring  lion,  always  seeking  whom  he 
may  devour ;  an  enemy  to  the  cross  of  Christ; 
an  author  of  discords  and  inventor  of  schisms, 
a  disturber  of  the  public  peace :  he  is  a  man 
whose  conversation  has  nothing  but  sweet- 
ness, and  his  doctrine  nothing  but  poison  in 


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it ;  a  man  who  has  the  head  of  a  dove,  and 
the  tail  of  a  scorpion.**  He  engaged  a  great 
number  of  persons  in  his  party,  who  were 
distinguished  by  his  name,  and  proved  very 
formidable  to  the  popes.  His  doctrines  ren- 
dered him  so  obnoxious,  that  he  was  con- 
demned in  the  year  1139,  in  a  council  of 
Dear  a  thousand  prelates  held  in  the  church 
of  St.  John  Lateran  at  Rome,  under  Pope 
Innocent  II.  Upon  this,  he  left  Italy  and 
retired  to  Switzerland.  After  the  death  of 
that  Pope  he  returned  to  Italy,  and  went  to 
Home,  where  he  raised  a  sedition  against 
Pope  Eugenius  UI.,  and  afterwards  against 
Hadrian  IV.,  who  laid  the  people  of  Rome 
under  an  interdict,  till  they  had  banished 
Arnold  and  his  followers.  This  had  its  de- 
sired effect.  The  Romans  seized  upon  the 
hoQiKs  which  the  Amoldists  had  fortified, 
and  obliged  them  to  retire  toOtricoli  in  Tus- 
cany, where  they  were  received  with  the  ut- 
most affection  by  the  people,  who  considered 
Arnold  as  a  prophet.  However,  he  was 
seized  some  time  aft^r  by  Cardinal  Gerard, 
and  notwithstanding  the  efforts  of  the  Vis- 
counts of  Campania,  who  had  rescued  him, 
he  was  carried  to  Rome,  and  condemned  by 
Peter,  the  prefect  of  that  city,  to  be  hanged, 
and  was  accordingly  executed  in  the  year 
1155.  Thirty  of  his  followers  went  from 
Prance  to  England  about  the  year  1160,  in 
order  to  propagate  their  doctrines  there,  but 
they  were  immediately  seized  and  destroyed. 
From  the  Biographical  Dictionary. — The 
roarginal  references  are  Du  Pin,  torn.  9,  p. 
105.  Otto  Frisingensis  de  Reb.  gest.  Frid. 
Hb.  2,  cap.  20.  Ligenious  thoughts  of  the 
fathers,  collected  by  Bouhours  in  French, 
P>  ld5,  English  translation  (this  must  be  a 
curious  work).  Maimbourg,  Hist,  de  la  de- 
cadence de  TEmp.  apr^  Charlemagne,  1.  4, 
p.418.— OiMnn  Gwynez^  died  1169. 


Cowardice, 

**A8oiJ)iEii  without  courage  is  like  a  dead 
corpse ;  sorrow  hangs  on  the  countenances 
of  its  late  best  friends  till  it  is  buried  out  of 


(( 


their  sight." — Mem,  of  Peter  Henry  Bruce^ 
by  himself. 


Old  Scotch  Cookery, 

Nob  yet  had  they  (the  Scots)  any  pans 
or  cauldrons  to  dress  their  meat  in,  for  what 
beasts  they  found  (as  they  always  did  good 
store  in  those  northern  parts),  they  would 
seeth  them  in  their  own  skins,  stretched  out 
bellying  on  stakes,  in  the  manner  of  caul- 
drons: and  having  thus  sod  their  meat,  they 
would  take  out  a  little  plate  of  metal,  which 
they  used  to  truss  somewhere  in  or  under 
their  saddles,  and  laying  it  on  the  fire,  take 
forth  some  oatmeal  (which  they  carried  in 
little  bags  behind  them  for  that  purpose), 
and  having  kneaded  and  tempered  it  with 
water,  spread  that  thereon  ;  this  being  thus 
baked,  they  used  for  bread,  to  comfort  and 
strengthen  their  stomachs  a  little  when  they 
eat  flesh." — Joshua  Barnes^  Hist,  of  Ed- 
ward III, 


Images  for  Poetry. 

A  CBOw  flew  over  my  head  in  the  sun- 
shine, and  I  caught  the  gleam  of  his  wings. 

Brown  ivy  leaf,  with  the  light  veins  dis- 
tinctly seen. 

Leaves  of  the  bramble  still  green,  Jan.  25. 

The  adder's-tongue  grew  luxuriantly  on 
the  steep  bank  of  a  hill  where  a  stream  arose. 
Its  leaves  hung  down  to  the  water.  This 
plant  loves  shade.  Does  it  love  watery  si- 
tuations ?  What  is  its  botanic  name  ?  ^  its 
medical  properties  ? 

The  withered  leaves  are  still  on  the  oaks, 
Feb.  3rd. 

The  currant  and  gooseberry  trees  put  out 
their  leaves  much  earlier  than  other  trees, 
April  11th. 

The  buds  of  the  poplar  .assume  a  bright 
rich  yellow  hue  in  the  sun,  April  22nd.  They 

•  Ophioglussum.  See  John80N*s  Gerarde*s 
Herhaly  p.  404.  The  adder's  (or,  as  it  should 
be  called,  the  hart's)  tongue  fern,  is  quite  a  dif* 
ferent  plant.— J.  W.  W. 


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are  brown-bright,  and  close  to  the  fibres 
green,  when  closely  inspected. 

Very  green  appearance  of  the  poplar  when 
the  evening  sun  shines  upon  it,  and  a  black 
cloud  hangs  behind. 

The  rain  drops  shining  as  the  willow  waves. 

The  distant  hills  form  a  line  of  darker  blue 
against  the  clear  sky,  May  25th,  on  the  road 
from  London  to  Southampton. 

The  trunk  of  the  fir  tree  coloured  more 
than  any  other  by  a  rust-coloured  kind  of 
moss. 

The  quick  stream,  after  passing  under  the 
bridge,  forms  numberless  little  whirlpools  in 
consequence  of  being  broken  by  the  arches. 

I  always  observe  fish  stemming  the  cur- 
rent near  a  bridge. 

The  shadow  made  by  the  insects  that  sport 
on  the  water  has  a  light  edge  round  it. 


^S/%/W\/\/\A/V\A/^^^^'\^^/S^ 


Similiei. 


Thb  notes  of  the  harp  die  away  like  the 
moanings  of  the  distant  wind. 

The  song  of  birds  to  the  trees  alive  with 
music  in  Flath-innis. 

Perfumes  to  the  Alhambra  apartment. 

A  torrent  to  that  which  burst  from  the 
grave  of  Balder. 

Gloominess  caused  by  a  torrent  to  the 
Taghairm.^ 

A  sword  to  that  of  Fez.  11.;  or  that  stolen 
from  Amadis  by  the  injurious  damsel,  or 
Balisarda. 

Armour,  to  that  of  Hector  won  by  Man- 
dricardo. 

Perpetual  clouds  of  Peru,  to  those  that 
hover  on  the  hills  ofFlath-innis,each  involv- 
ing the  source  of  a  stream. 

A  horse  to  the  white  horse  of  Swantowith. 

Local  beauty,  to  the  isle  where  Arthur 
lives;  or  where  Enoch,  Elijah,  and  St.  John, 
await  the  coming  of  Christ ;  or  the  fountain 
where  Brammon  met  Sanatree. 

Dreariness, — to  the  place  where  Sepul- 
veda  and  Leonor  perished. 

*  See  Scott's  Note  on  the  I^dy  of  the  Lake, 
Canto  rv.  Appendix,  note  i. — J.  W.  W. 


When  a  palm  branch  grows  old,  it  shrinks 
and  becomes  crooked  and  yellow,  not  ill  re- 
presenting the  appearance  of  the  new  moon. 
Thus  the  Koran:  "And  for  the  moon  Lave 
we  appointed  certain  mansions,  until  she 
change  and  return  to  be  like  the  old  branch 
of  a  palm  tree.**  Ch.  y.  s.  36. 

The  boundary  of  air  inclosing  Othatha  in 
Irem,  strong  as  the  wall  built  by  Dhu*lkar- 
nein.  Sale,  246.  D'Herbelot,Art.Jagiouge; 
or  Hanyson,  184 ;  Purchas. 


Club  of  Haldanus, 

Sttaij>u8  quidam  claro  admodum  loco 
natus,  apud  Sueonum  concionem  Frothonis 
ac  conjugis  ejus  exitio  flebiliter  memorato, 
tantum  Haldani  odium  pen^  omnibus  gene- 
ravit,  ut  plurimorum  sufiragiis  novarum  re- 
rum  licentiam  assequeretur.  Nee  solo  vo- 
cum  favore  contentus,  adeo  plebis  animum 
ambitionis  artibus  occupavit,  ut  omnium 
fere  manus  ad  regium  insigne  capiti  suo  im* 
primendum  adduceret.  Hie  septum  filios 
habebat  tanto  veneficiorum  usu  callentes, 
ut  ssepe  subitis  furoris  viribus  instincti  so- 
lerent  ore  torviUm  infremere,  scuta  morsibus 
attrectare,  torridas  fauce  prunas  absumere, 
extructa  qusvis  incendia  penetrare;  nee 
posset  conceptus  dementise  motus  alio  re- 
medii  genere  quam  aut  vinculorum  injuriis, 
aut  caedis  humanse  piaculo  temperari.  Tan- 
tam  illis  rabiem  sive  ssevitia  ingenii,  sive 
furiarum  ferocitas  inspirabat.  Quibus  audi- 
tis  Haldanus,  ut  erat  circa  piraticam  occu- 
patus,  expedire  militibus  dixit,  ut  qui  in 
exteros  hactenus  dessevierint,  nunc  civimn 
visceribus  ferrum  adigant,  ereptiq;  regni 
injuriam  propulsent,  qui  dilatandi  curam 
genere  consueverunt.  Quo  imminente  Sy- 
valdus  missis  ad  eum  legatis  jubet,  si  famam 
factis  sequaret,  et  taiitus  re  esset  quantus 
opinione  censeretur,  se  suamq;  sobolem 
pugna  solus  excipiat,  privatoq;  periculo  pub- 
licum redimat.  Eo  deinde  respondente,  le- 
gitime dimicationis  formam  duorum  nume- 
rum  excedere  non  debere ;  nil  mirandum, 
inquit  Syvaldus,  hominem  coelibem  proleq; 
vacuum  oblatos  detrectare  congressus,  cui 


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31 


loops  caloris  natura  deforme  corporis  ani- 
mique  frigus  incusserit.  Nee  liberos  ab  eo 
diversos  existere,  quern  siue  generationis 
auctorem  habuerint,  quod  ab  ipso  commune 
nascendi  principium  traxerint.  Ita  se  ac 
fillos  unius  homiDis  loco  censendos  ecse, 
quibus  yeluti  unum  corpus  a  natur&  tribu- 
tum  videatur.  Cujus  convicii  rubore  per- 
motus  Haldanus,  provocation!  parere  coepit, 
tarn  contumcliosum  ccelibatus  exprobratio- 
nem  egregiis  virtutis  operibus  pensaturus. 
Cumque  per  opacam  forte  nemoris  indagi- 
nem  graderetur,  hserentem  obiter  quercum 
humo  radicitus  emit,  solisq;  spoliatam  ramis 
in  Bolidam  clavae  speciem  transformavit. 
Que  gestamine  fretus,  tali  carmen  brevitate 
compegit : 

En  rude  quod  gerimus  obnixo  vertice  pon- 
dus, 

Vulnera  verticibus  exitiumq;  feret. 
Sed  neque  frondosi  gestamen  roboris  ullum 

Omine  G^tenses  horridiore  premet. 
Ardua  comminuet  nodosi  robora  colli, 

£t  cava  sylyestri  tempora  mole  teret. 
Clava  quidem  sseyum  patrie  domitura  fiiro- 
rem, 

Nulla  magis  Suetis  exitialis  erit. 
Ossa  domans,  lacerosq;  vir^  libranda  per 
artus 

Impia  prffimpto  stipite  terga  premet ; 
Cognatos  pressura  lares,  fusura  cruorem 

Civis,  et  in  patriam  pcmiciosa  lues. 

His  dictis  Syvaldum  cum  septem  fiiiis  at- 
tentatum  acerrimas  eorum  vires  eximi&  cla- 
^  mole  frustratus,  exitio  tradidit. — Saxo 
0.  lib.  7. 


Voyage  of  ThorktU, 

Htnc  (Snioni)  succedit  Bi^m;  itemq; 
post  ipsum  Haraldus  rerum  assequitur  sum- 
mam.  Cujus  filio  Crormoui  inter  priscos 
Danorum  duces  non  infime  laudis  locum 
f^enim  strenu^  gestarum  titulus  tribuit.  Hie 
enim  novum  audaeise  genus  complexus,  hse- 
feditarium  fortitudinis  spiritum  scrutandse 
fcnun  naturae  vestigiis  quam  armis  exco- 
lere  maluit :  utq;  alios  Regum  ardor  belli- 


cus,  ita  ipsum  cognoscendorum  mirabiliuui, 
qusecunque  vel  experimento  deprehensa, 
vel  rumore  vulgata  fuerant,  prscordialis 
stimulabat  aviditas.  Cumq;  esset  externa 
atq;  inusitata  viscndi  cupidus,  experiendam 
prse  caeteris  duxit  Greruthi  cujusdam  sedium 
acceptam  a  Thylensibus  famam.  Incredi- 
bilia  enim  ab  eis  super  opum  inibi  conges- 
tarum  magnitudine  jactabantur,  sed  iter 
omni  refertum  periculo  ac  pen^  mortalibus 
invium  ferebatur.  Ambitorem*  namqueter- 
rarum  oceanum  navigandum,  solem  postpo- 
nendum  ac  sidera,  sub  Chao  peregrinandum, 
ac  demum  in  loca  lucis  expertia,  jugibusq; 
tenebris  obnoxia  transeundum,  expertorum 
assertione  eonstabat.  Sed  in  juvenili  ani- 
mo  circumstantis  periculi  metum  non  tarn 
pnedse  quam  glorie  cupido  calcabat,  mul- 
tum  sibi  claritatis  accessurum  sperant^,  si 
rem  admodum  intentatam  auderet.  Tre- 
centis  idem  cum  Rege  votum  nuncupanti- 
bus,  auctorem  fames  Thorkillum  itineris 
ducem  assumi  placuit,  utpote  locorum  gna- 
rum,  peritumq;  adeundie  regionis  ejus.  Is 
officio  non  recusato,  adversum  inusitatam 
navigandi  maris  ssevitiam  firmiore  struc- 
tursB  genere,  nodisq;  erebrioribus,  ac  con- 
sertioribus  clavis  pneparanda  jubet  navigia 
solidari ;  eademq;  magnis  repleri  conimea- 
tibus,  ac  bovinis  supeme  tergoribus  claudi, 
qusB  intrinseca  navium  spatia  ab  incursen- 
tium  undarum  aspergine  tuerentur.  Inde 
tribus  duntaxat  libumis  navigatio  tenditur, 
unaqu&que  centenos  capiente  delectos. 

At  ubi  in  Halogiam  ventum,  secundis 
flatibus  destituti,  vari&  pelagi  jactatione, 
dubiis  navigationis  casibus  agebantur.  Tan- 
dem per  summam  alimentorum  inopiam 
etiam  pane  defecti,  exigusB  pultis  usu  trax- 
ere  famem.  Inter) ectis  diebus  eminus  per- 
strepentem  procellse  fragorem,  perinde  ac 
scopulos  inundantis  exaudiunt.  Igitur  in- 
tellectd  telluris  vicini^  agilitatis  eximiie 
juvenis,  speculandie  rei  gratia  caeumen  mali 
conscendere  jussus,  prerupti  sitiis  insulam 

'  After  quoting  Diunysius  Afer,  Steph.  Ste- 
ruAKius  adds, '' Hinc  etiam  Ocfan us  Eddied  di* 
citnr  AnnuhiSt  vel  Zona  regioDum  et  insulanim.*' 
Not.  in  loc.  p.  183.— J.  W.  W. 


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in  oonspectu  esse  denunciat.  Lseti  omnes 
regionem,  quae  ab  eo  significabator,  avidis 
insequuntur  luminibus,  attent^  promissi  lit- 
toris  prsesidium  exspectantes.  Cujus  tan- 
dem aditum  nacti,  in  editiorem  soli  partem, 
per  obstantes  clivos,  prelatis  callibus  eni- 
tuntur.  Tunc  Thorkillus  ex  armentis,  qus 
in  maritimis  frequentia  discurrebant,  supra 
quod  semel  leniendae  fami  sufficeret,  negat 
esse  tollendum:  futunun  enim,  si  secus 
agerent,  ut  a  dib  loci  prsesidibus  discedendi 
potentii  privarentur.  At  nautse  magis  pro- 
rogandse  satietatis,  quam  senrandi  imperii 
cupidiores,  incitamento  guise  salutis  consi- 
lium subjecerunt,  exhausta  navium  gremia 
cssorum  gregum  corporibus  onerantes.  Qui 
ideo  captu  perfaciles  extitere,  quod  ad  in- 
usitatos  virorum  aspectus  firmato  pavore 
mirabundi  conyenerant.  Nocte  insequenti 
monstra  littori  involantia,  ac  toto  concre- 
pantia  nemore,  conclusas  obsedere  puppes. 
Quorum  unum  cfeteris  grandius,  ingenti 
fuste  armatum,  profundum  passibus  eme- 
tiebatur.  Idem  proprius  admotum  yocife- 
rari  coepit,  non  ante  enavigaturos,  quam 
fusi  gregis  injuriam  expiando,  viris  pro  na- 
vium numero  traditis,  divini  pecoris  damna 
pensassent.  Cujus  minis  obsecutus  Thor- 
killus, ut  universorum  incolumitatem  pau- 
corum  discrimine  tueretur,  tres  sorte  deno- 
tatos  exhibuit. 

Quo  facto,  optato  vento  excepti  in  ul- 
teriorem  Biarmiam  navigant.  Regio  est 
perpetui  frigoris  capax,  preealtisque  offusa 
nivibus,  ne  vim  quidem  fervoris  persentiscat 
sestivi,  inviorum  abundans  nemonmi,  fru- 
gum  baud  ferax,  inusitatisq;  alibi  bestiis 
frequens.  Crebri  in  ea  fluvii  ob  insitas 
alveis  cautes  stridulo  spumantiq;  volumine 
perferuntur.  Illic  Thorkillus  subductis  na- 
vibus  tendi  in  littore  jubet ;  eo  loci  pervcn- 
tum  astrucns,  unde  brevis  ad  Geruthum 
transitus  foret.  Prohibuit  etiam  uUum  cum 
supervenientibus  miscere  sermonem,  affir- 
mans  monstra  nullo  magis  nocendi  vim, 
quam  advenarum  verbis  parum  comiter  edi- 
tis  sumere.  Ideoq;  socios  silentio  tutiores 
esistere,  se  vero  solum  tuto  profari  posse, 
qui  prius  gentis  ejus  mores  habitumque  per- 


viderit.  Crepusculo  appetente,  innsitate 
magnitudinis  vir  nominatim  salutads  nau- 
ticis  intervenit.  Stupentibus  cunctis,  Thor- 
killus adventum  ejus  alacriter  excipiendom 
admonuit,  Guthmimdum  hunc  esse  docens 
Geruthi  fratrem,  cunctorum  illic  applican- 
tium  piissimum  inter  pericula  protectorem. 
Percontantiq;  quid  ita  cseteri  silentium  co- 
lerent,  refert  rudes  admodum  linguss  ejus 
ignoti  pudere  sermonis.  Tum  Guthmundos 
hospitio  invitatos  curriculis  excipit.  Pro- 
cedentibus  amnis  aureo  ponte  permeabilis 
cemitur.  Cujus  transeundi  cupidos  a  pro- 
posito  revocavit,  docens  eo  alveo  humana 
k  monstrosis  rerum  secrevisse  naturam,  nee 
mortalibus  ultra  fas  esse  vestigiis.  Subinde 
ad  ipsa  ductoris  penetralia  pcrvenitur.  Ulic 
Thorkillus  seductis  sociis  hortari  coepit,  ut 
inter  tentamentorum  genera,  quae  varius  ob- 
tulisset  eventus,  industries  viros  agerent, 
atq;  a  peregrinis  sibi  dapibus  temperantes, 
propriis  corpora  sustentanda  curarent,  dis- 
cretasq;  ab  indigenis  sedes  peterent,  eorum 
neminem  discubitu  contingendo.  Fore  enim 
illius  escee  participibus  inter  horridos  mon- 
strorum  greges,  amiss&  cunctorum  memori&, 
sordid^  semper  communione  degendum.  Nee 
minus  ministris  eorum  ac  poculis  abstinen- 
dum  edocuit.  Duodecim  filii  Guthmundi 
egregi&  indole.  Totidemq;  filias  proRclui* 
form&  circumsteterant  mensas.  Qui  cum 
Regem  a  suis  duntaxat  illata  delibare  con- 
spiceret,  beneficii  repulsam  objiciens,  inju- 
riosam  hospiti  querebatur.  Nee  Thorkillo 
competens  facti  excusatio  defuit.  Quippe 
insolito  cjbo  utentes  plerumq;  graviter  af- 
fici  solere  commemorat,  regemq;  non  tarn 
alieni  obsequii  ingratum,  quam  propriae  sos- 
pitatis  studiosum,  consueto  more  corpus 
curantem  domesticis  coenam  obsoniis  in- 
struxisse.  Igitur  haudquaquam  contemptui 
imputari  debere,  quod  fugiendse  pestis  salu- 
tari  gereretur  afiectu.  Videns  antem  Guth- 
mundus  apparatus  sui  fraudem  hospitum 
frugalitate  delusam,  cum  abstinentiam  he- 
betare  non  posset,  pudicitiam  labefactarc 

'  Martulnus  Cafella,  lib.  i.  do  Nupt.  Phil, 
is  quoted  by  Stephanas  Stephanius  for  the  word. 
Cf.  Not.  p.  184,  ut  supra— J.  W.  W. 


:i,saluti  ubidinem  prtetuierunt.  i^uod 
ium  Ijmphatos  inopesq;  mentis  ef- 
pri8tiii&  rerom  memori&  spoliavit. 
i  post  id  factum  parum  animo  con- 
^tiduntur.  Qui  si  mores  suos  intra 
I  temperantiBB  fines  continuissent, 
eos  asquassent  titulos,  giganteam  ani- 
titudinem  superassent^  perenniterq; 
mirificarum  rerum  insignes  extitis- 
LCtores.  Adhuc  Guthmundus  propo- 
tinaci&  dolum  intendere  perseverans, 
iatis  horti  sui  deliciis,  eo  R^em  per- 
brum  fructuum  gratis  perducere  la- 
t,  blandimentis  nisus,  illecebrisq; 
iautelse  constantiam  elidere  cupiens. 
lum  quas  insidiaa  Rex  Thorkillo,  ut 
uctore  firmatus,  simulate  humanita- 
iquium  sprevit,  utendi  excusationem 
randi  itineris  negotio  mutuatus.  Cu- 
identifle  Guthmundus  suam  in  omni- 
sssisse  considerans,  spe  peragendae 
abject&  cunctos  in  ulteriorem  flumi- 
im  transvectos  iter  exequi  passus  est. 
;ressi  atrum  incultumq;  oppidum  ya- 
i  maxime  nubi  simile,  baud  procul 
prospectant  Pali  propugnaculis  in- 
desecta  virorum  capita  pneferebant. 
e  ferocitatis  canes  tuentes  aditum  pne 
excubare  conspecti.  Quibus  Thor- 
Dornu  abdomine  illitum  collamben- 
[)iir.if»njL  incitatifMiniajn  rftbipin  niur- 


mosq;  tam  ab  omni  avaritia  adversos,  quam 
a  metu  remotos  haberent ;  neque  vel  captu 
suavia  concupiscerent,  vel  spectatu  horrida 
formidarent,  quanquam  in  summ&  utriusq; 
rei  forent  copi&  Tersaturi.  Fore  enim  ut 
aTidsB  capiendi  manus  subit&  nexus  perti- 
naci&  k  re  tact&  divelli  nequirent,  et  quasi 
inextricabili  cum  illft  vinculo  nodarentur. 
Casterum  composite  quatemos  ingredi  ju- 
bet.  Quorum  Broderus  et  Buchi  primi 
aditum  tantant.  Hos  cum  rege  Thorkillus 
insequitur.  Ceteri  deinde  compositis  gra- 
diuntur  ordinibus.  .^kles  deintus  obsoleta 
per  totum,  ac  vi  teterrimi  Taporis  ofiusa, 
cunctorum,  quibus  oculus  aut  mens  ofiendi 
poterat,  uberrima  cemebatur.  Postes  lon- 
g8eY&  fuligine  illiti,  obductus  illuvie  paries, 
compactum  h  spiculis  tectum,  instratum  co- 
lubris  payimentum  atq;  omni  sordium  ge* 
nere  respersum,  inusitato  adyenas  spectaculo 
terruerunt.  Super  omnia  perpetui  foetoris 
asperitas  tristes  lacessebat  olfieictus.  Exan- 
guia  quoque  monstrorum  simulacra  ferreas 
onerayerant  sedes ;  denique  consessuum  loca 
plumbesB  crates  secreyerant ;  uminibus  hor- 
rendsB  janitorum  excubi»  prs^rant.  Quo- 
rum alii  consertis  fiistibus  obstrepentes',  alii 
mutuft  caprigeni  tergoris  agitatione  defor- 
mem  edidere  lusum.  Hie  secundo  Thorkil- 
lus ayaras  temer^  manus  ad  illicita  tendi 
nrohibenfl.  iterare  monitum  coeoit.     Proce- 


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docet  Thor  divum  gigante&  quondam  inso- 
lenti4  lacessitum  per  obluctantis  Geruthi 
prsecordia  torridam  egisse  chalybem,  e&- 
demq;  ulterius  \apsk,  convulsi  montis  lat^ra 
pertudisse ;  foeminas  vero  vi  fulminum  tac- 
tas  infracti  corporis  damno  ejusdem  numinis 
attentat!  pcenas  pependisse  firmabat.  Inde 
digress!  dolia  septem  zonis  aureis  circumli- 
gat«  panduntur,  quibus  pensiles  ex  argento 
circuU  crel»ro8  inseruerant  nexus.  Juxta 
quae  inusitatsB  belluedens  extremitates  auro 
prseditus  reperitur.  Huic  adjacebat  ingens 
bubal!  comu,  exquisito  gemmarum  fulgore 
operosius  cultum,  nee  cselaturs  artificio  va- 
cuum. Juxta  quod  eximii  ponderis  armilla 
patebat.  Cujus  immod!c&  quidem  cupiditate 
succensus  avaras  auro  manus  applicuit,  ig- 
narus  excellentis  metall!  splendore  extre- 
mam  occultar!  pemiciem,  nitentiq;  prasdie 
fatalem  subesse  pestem.  Alter  quoq;  parum 
cohibendflB  avaritisB  potens,  instabiles  ad  cor- 
nu  manus  porrexit.  Tertius  priorum  fidu- 
ciam  aemulatus,  nee  satis  digitis  temperans, 
osse  ^  humeros  onerare  sustinuit.  Quse  qui- 
dem pneda  uti  visu  jucunda,  ita  usu  proba- 
bilis  extitit.  Illices  enim  formas  subjecta 
oculis  species  exhibebat.  Armilla  si  quidem 
anguem  induens  yenenato  dentium  acumine 
eum  a  quo  gerebatur,  appetiit.  Cornu  in 
draconem  extractum,  sui  spiritum  latoris 
eripuit.  Os  ensem  fabricans,  aciem  prsecor- 
diis  gestantis  immersit.  Caeteri  sociss  cladis 
fortunam  veriti,  insontes  nocentium  exem- 
plo  perituros  putabant,  ne  innocentise  qui- 
dem incolumitatem  tribuendam  sperantes. 
Alterius  deinde  tabemacul!  postic&  angus- 
tiorem  indicante  secessum,  quoddam  uberi- 
oris  thesauri  secretarium  aperitur :  in  quo 
arma  humanorum  corporum  habitu  grandi- 
ora.  panduntur.  Inter  quae  regium  paluda- 
mentum  cultior!  conjunctum  pileo,  ac  miri- 
fici  operis  cingulum  visebantur.  Quorum 
Thorkillus  admiratione  captus,  cupiditate 
frenos  excussit,  propositam  animo  tcmpe- 
rantiam  exuens;    totiesq;  alios  informare 


'  "  Otse  i.  e.  dente,  en  jus  mox  montio  focta, 
Synfiodoche  generis  pro  specie.'*  Steph.  Ste- 
PHANius  in  loc.  p.  184.— J.  W.  W. 


solitus,  ne  proprios  quidem  appetitus  cohi- 
bere  sustinuit.  Amiculo  enim  manum  inse- 
reus,  caeteris  consentaneum  rapinse  ausum 
temerario  porrexit  exemplo.  Quo  facto, 
penetralia  ab  imis  concussa  sedibus,  inopi- 
natae  fluctuationis  modo  trepidare  ccepenint 
Subinde  a  fceminis  conclamatum,  aequo  diu- 
tins  infandos  tolerari  prasdones.  Igitur  qui 
prius  semineces,  expertiaq;  vitae  simulacra 
putabantur,  perinde  ac  foeminarum  vocibus 
obsecuti,  e  suis  repente  sedibus  dissultan- 
tes,  vehement!  incursu  advenas  appetebant. 
Caetera  raucos  extulere  mug!tus.  Tum  Bro- 
derus  et  Buchi  ad  olim  nota  sib!  studia  re- 
currentes,  incursantes  se  Lamias  adactis 
undiq;  spiculis  incessebant,  arcuumq;  ac 
fundarum  tormentis  agmen  obtrivere  mon- 
stronmi.  Nee  alia  vis  repellendis  efficacior 
fuit.  Yiginti  solos  ex  omni  comitatu  regio 
sagittaria:  artis  interventus  servavit.  Caeteri 
laniatui  fu^e  monstris.  Regressos  ad  am- 
nem  superstites  Guthmundus  navigio  tra- 
jicit^  exceptosq;  domi  cum  diu  ac  multum 
exoratos  retentare  non  posset,  ad  ultimum 
donatos  abire  permisit.  Ilic  Buchi  panun 
diligens  sui  custos,  laxatis  continentiae  ner- 
vis,  virtute  qu4  hactenus  fruebatur  abjecti, 
unam  e  filiabus  ejus  irrevocabil!  amore  com- 
plexus,  exit!!  su!  connubium  impetravit, 
moxq;repentino  verticis  circuitu  actus,  pris- 
tin  um  memoriae  habitum  perdidit.  Ita  egre- 
gius  ille  tot  monstrorum  domitor,  tot  peri- 
culorum  subactor,  imius  virginis  facibus 
superatus,  peregrinatum  k  continentia  ani- 
mum  miserabili  jugo  voluptatis  inseruit. 
Qui  cum  abiturum  regem  honestatis  causi 
prosequeretur,  vadum  curriculo  transiturus, 
altius  desidentibus  rotis,  vi  vorticum  impli- 
catus,  absumitur.  Rex  amic!  casum  gemitu 
prosecutus,  maturata  navigatione  discessit. 
Qu&  primum  prosper^  usus,  deinde  advers^ 
quassatus,  periclitatis  inedi&  sociis,  paucisq; 
adhuc  superstitibus  religionem  animo  intu- 
lit,  atq;  ad  vota  superis  nuncupanda  confu- 
git,  extremae  necessitatis  praesidium  in  deo- 
rimi  ope  consistere  judicans..  Deniq;  aliis 
varias  deorum  potentias  exorantibus,  ac  di- 
verssB  numinum  majestati  rem  divinam  fieri 
oportere   censentibus,    ipse   Ugarthilocun 


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votifl  pariter  ac  propitiamentis  aggressus, 
prosperam  exoptati  sideris  temperiem  asse- 
cutus  est. 

**  Domum  yeniens  cum  tot  maria  se  tot- 
que  labores  emensum  animadyerteret,  fes- 
8am  aBrumnis  spiritum  k  negotiia  procul 
habendum  ratus,  petito  ex  Suetio  matrimo- 
nio,  superiorb  studii  habitum  otii  medita- 
tione  mutayit.  Yit^  quoque  per  summum 
secmitatis  usum  ezact&  ad  ultimum  poene 
etatis  8uaB  finem  proyectus,  quum  proba- 
bilibiiB  qaorundam  argumentb  animos  im- 
mortales  ease  compertum  liaberet,  quasnam 
sedes  esset  ezuto  membris  spiritu  petiturus, 
aat  quid  pnemii  propensa  numinum  yene- 
ratio  mereretur,  cogitatione  secum  yarU 
disquirebat. 

**  HiBC  yolyentem  subeunt  quidam  parum 
benigni  in  Thorkillum  animi,  docentes  di- 
?ioo  opus  esse  consultu,  tantaeq;  rei  certi- 
tadinem  humano  altiorem  ingenio,  nee  mor- 
talibus  cognito  facilem,  coelestibus  expeten- 
dam  oraculis.  Quamobrem  propitiandum 
esse  Ugarthilocum,  neminemq;  id  Thorkillo 
tptius  executurum.  FuSre  quoque  qui  eun- 
dem  insidiarum  reum,  ac  regii  capitis  hostem 
deferrent,  qui  cum  ultimo  se  pericuio  des- 
tinari  yideret,  criminationis  auctores  pro- 
fectionis  oomites  expetiyit.  Tum  qui  in- 
lontem  notayerant,  periculum  alieno  capiti 
preparatum  in  seipsos  recidisse  cementes, 
consultum  reyocare  tentabant,  sed  frustra 
regias  aures  implentes,  etiam  payoris  incre- 
piti,  Thorkillo  duce  nayigare  coguntur.  Ita 
excogitatia  in  alterum  malis  auctorem  pie- 
ramq;  adigi  necesse  est.  Qui  cum  se  in- 
eyitabili  discriminis  necessitate  districtos 
animadyerterent^  nayigium  taurinis  obstruc- 
tum  coriis,  proyisis  abunde  commeatibus 
impleyerunt. 

**  Quo  eyecti  eo  penrenere  loci,  ubi  regio 
Soils  inops,  ignara  siderum,  nee  diumi  lu- 
minis  capax,  perpetusB  noctis  specie  cali- 
gabat.  Cumq;  diu  sub  inusitata  c<eli  facie 
Btyigassent,  tandem  incidente  lignorum  in- 
opia,  foculi  nutrimentis  defecti,  nee  suppe- 
tentc  decoctionis  officini,  crudis  Aunem  ob- 
Kmiis  propulerunt.  Verum  oomplures  yes- 
centium  ultimam  pestem  ab  indigestse  dapis 


satietate  traxerunt.  Primum  enim  paula* 
tim  stomachis  inusitato  partus  edulio  lan- 
guor irrepsit,  deinde  latius  manante  con- 
tagio,  yitalia  morbus  appetiit  Sicq;  anceps 
utriusq;  intemperantis  nudum  ut  mediam 
gray  em,  ita  gulam  quoq;  suspectam  cfk- 
cerat,  cum  nee  yesci  tutum,  nee  abstinere 
commodum  nosceretur.  Igitur  omnem  sa- 
lutis  spem  abjicientibus  (ut  neryum  tunc 
facilius  rumpi  solitum  est,  cum  arctius  ten- 
ditur)  patrocinium  inopinatsB  conmioditates 
affulsit.  Subito  enim  ignis  baud  procul 
emicare  conspectus,  exhaustis  trahendse  yitse 
fiduciam  ingenerayit.  Quem  Thorkillus  tan- 
quam  diyiuitus  datum  remedium  coUigere 
statuens,  quo  aibi  certiorem  ad  socios  redi- 
tum  strueret,  cacumen  mali  infixae  genmiaB 
fulgore  signayit.  Littore  deinde  potitus 
subjicit  oculis  angusti  aditus,  arctarumq; 
faucium  specum.  Quem,  comitibus  foris  pne- 
stolari  jussis,  ingressus,  duos  eximise  gran- 
ditatis  aquilos '  conspicatur  comeis  naribus 
contracta,  quae  fors  obtulerat,  igni  nutri- 
menta  pnestantes.  CflDterum  deformis  in- 
troitus,  obsoleti  postes,  ater  situ  paries, 
sordidum  tectum,  frequens  anguibus  payi- 
mentum,  non  oculum  magis  quam  animum 
ofiendebant.  Tum  gigantum  alter  saluta- 
tum  eum  rem  conatu  prssarduam  orsum  esse 
dicebat,  inusitati  nimiinis  adeundi  cupiditate 
flagrantem,  atq;  extramundani  climatis  cog- 
nitionem  inyestigabili  scrutatione  complex- 
um.  A  se  autem  propositi  itineris  semitas 
cognitunmi,  si  tres  yeridicas  sententias  to- 
tidem  proyerbiis  eomprehensas  expromeret. 
Tum  Thorkillus:  non  mehercule  incomp- 
tiorem  naribus  familiam  peryidisse  comme- 
mini.  Sed  neque  locum,  quo  minus  libenter 
degerem,  attigi.  Item ;  ilium  mihi  pedem 
potiorem  statuo,  qui  prior  exitum  capessere 
quiyerit.  Gigaa  Thorkilli  prudentid  delec- 
tatus,  proyerbiorum  yeritate  laudat&,  docet, 
ad  inops  graminis  solum,  altisq;  obfusum 


*  U  9.  dark,  swarthy.  AquUum,  ;il>av.  Glou. 
ex  Lucil.  MABTimj  Lex.  in  v.  Flautus  also 
uses  the  word, 

"  StaturA  haud  magnA,  corpore  aquilo." 
Pan,  V.  ii.  152.     J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


tenebris,  imprimis  esse  migrandum.  Ante 
autem  quam  destinatus  possit  locus  accipi, 
navigationem  quatriduo  pertinaci  remigio 
pertrahendam.  lUic  yisendum  fore  Ugar- 
thilocum  tetros  horrendosq;  specus  sordidi 
mansione  complezum.  Thorkillus  magno- 
pere  stupens,  quod  et  longa  et  periculosa 
navigatio  iraperabatur,  spe  tmnen  dubifl 
prsesentem  metum  vincente,  foculum  expe- 
tivit.  Et  gigas,  si  ignem,  inquit,  desideras, 
necesse  est  alias  tres  sententias  similibus 
proverbiis  edas.  Tum  Thorkillus,  consilio 
tametsi  exilis  id  auctor  ediderit,  obsequen- 
dum  est.  Item,  eo  temeritatis  processi,  ut 
si  regredi  quivero,  salutem  meam  null!  magis 
quam  pedibus  debeara.  Rursum,  si  impne- 
sentiarimi  recessu  liber^  fruerer,  ulterius  a 
reditu  temperandum  curarem. 

^'  Indc  perlato  ad  socios  igne,  aursB  in- 
dulgentiamnactus,  quarto  die  ad  propositum 
portum  appulit,  aggressusq;  cum  sociis  ter- 
ram,  apud  quam  continuse  noctis  facies  al- 
terni  luminis  vicissitudinem  frustrabatur, 
segr^  prospectum  capientibus  oculis,  inusi- 
tatas  molis  scopulum  conspicit.  Cujus  per- 
lustrandi  cupidus,  a  comitibus  foris  statio- 
nem  peragentibus,  extusum  silicibus  ignem, 
opportunum  contra  dsemones  tutamentum, 
in  aditu  jussit  accendi.  Post  hsec  prselato 
per  alios  lurainc,  arctis  cavemfle  faucibus 
corpus  subjiciens  inter  crebros  serpen  tum 
allapsus  ferreorum  undiq;  sedilium  frequen- 
tiam  conteraplatur.  Inde  placidior  aquae 
moles,  subjectoq;  sabulo  moUiter  influens, 
conspectui  obsenrata  est.  Qui  transit^ 
paulo  devexiorem  situ  speluncam  aggredi- 
tur.  Ex  qu&  item  atrum  obsccenumque  con- 
clave visentibus  aperitur.  Intra  quod  Ugar- 
thilocus  manus  pedesq;  immensis  catenarum 
molibus  oneratus  aspicitur;  cujus  olentes 
pili  tarn  magnitudine  quam  rigore  corneas 
cequaverant  hastas.  Quorum  unum  Thor* 
killus  adnitentibus  sociis  mento  patientis 
excussum,  quo  promptior  fides  suis  habere- 
tur  operibus  asservavit ;  statimq;  tanta  foe- 
toris  vis  ad  circumstantes  manavit,  ut,  nisi 
repressis  amiculo  naribus,  respirare  nequi- 
rent.  Yixq;  egressu  potiti,  ab  involantibus 
undiq;  colubrisconspuuntur.  Quinque  dun- 


taxatThorkilli  comitum,  ceteris  vene 
sumptis,  navigium  cum  ductore  coi 
unt.  Imminent  efferi  dsemones,  et 
jectos  venenata  passim  sputa  con 
At  naute  prsetentis  coriorum  uml 
illapsum  respuere  virus.  His  cu 
forte  prospicere  cupientis  tactum 
caput,  perinde  ac  ferro  recisum  cen 
emptum  est.  Alius  ocellos  umbraci 
erens,  sub  e&dem  vacuos  luminun 
retulit.  Alius  exerti  manu  tegim 
plicans,  ejusdem  tabis  vi  truncum 
brachium  revocavit.  Igitur  caeteris  f 
siora  sibi  numina  nequicquam  depi 
bus.  Thorkillus  Universitatis  Deui 
aggressiis  eiq;  cum  precibus  libamei 
fundens,  mox  prions  cceli  usum  ac  pe 
rerum  elementa  prosper^  navigatio 
legit. 

"  Jamq;  alium  sibi  orbem,  atq; 
rerum  humanarum  aditum  perspicei 
bantur.  Tandem  ad  Grermaniam  < 
anis  tunc  sacris  initiatam  appulsus 
ejus  populum  divini  cultiis  rudimen 
cepit.  Ubi  sociorum  manu  ob  inu 
aeris  haustum  propemodum  consumj 
obus  tantum,  quos  sors  ultima  prsBt 
comitatus,  reditum  ad  patriam  habu 
rum  illitus  ore  marcor  ita  habitum  c< 
ac  pristina  formae  lineamenta  confi 
ne  ab  amicis  quidem  potuisset  agnos 
ubi  detersd  illuvic,  notitiam  sui  vis* 
reddidit,  eximiAm  Regi  cognoscends 
tionis  aviditatem  ingessit.  Sed  i 
asmulorum  obtrectatione  supit4,  fu< 
Regem,  cognitis,  quas  Thorkillus  a 
subito  decessurum  astruerent.  Au 
firmationis  fidem,  ejusdem  rei  fals& 
praedictione  suggesta  credulitas.  Jgi 
noctu  Thorkillum  opprimerent,  Re| 
perio  subomantur.  Cujus  ille  rei  i 
indicium  nactus,  clam  cunctis  relictc 
magni  ponderis  lignum  subjecit ;  ec 
to,  subornatis  truncum  caedentibus, 
fraudis  commentum  elusit.  Die  ] 
Regem  corpus  curantem  aggressus,  1/ 
inquit,  saevitiae  tuae,  erroriq;  veniam 
qui  prosperum  legationis  nuncium  aJ 
poenam  pro  gratia  decrevisti.  Itaq;  te 


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37 


pro  quo  caput  tot  lerumnis  devovi,  tot  peri- 
colis  contudi,  quemq;  operum  meorum  gra- 
tlssimum  pensatorem  speravi,  acerrimum 
virtutis  punitorem  inyeni,  verum  ultionis 
partibus  pnetermisais,  intemo  animi  tui 
rabore  (si  tamen  ullus  ingratos  pudor 
afficit)  Isesionis  mes  yindice  sum  contentus. 
Nee  immeritb  te  omnem  dseinonum  rabiem, 
&at  belluarum  sffiTitiam  superare  conjecto, 
quod  tot  monstrorum  insidiis  erutus  k  tuis 
immunis  esse  non  potui.  Rex  cuncta  ex 
ipso  cognoscere  cupiens,  fatisq;  arduum 
obstare  judicans,  eventuum  ordinem  ex- 
ponere  jubet.  Cumq;  per  csetera  avidis 
referentem  auribus  excepisset,  postremo  re- 
censitam  numinis  sui  mentionem  sinistra 
opinlone  colligi  passus  non  est.  Exprobra- 
tam  enim  Ugarthiloci  fceditatem  exaudlre 
non  sustinens,  ade6  indignitatis  ejus  vicem 
doluit,  ut  impatientem  dictorum  spiritum 
inter  ipsa  narrantis  recitamenta  deponeret. 
Itaq;  dum  vani  numinis  cultum  cupid^fovit, 
abbam  yerus  esset  miseriarum  career  ag- 
novit.  Crinis  quoq;  oliditas,  quern  Thor- 
killus  perinde  atque  operum  suorum  mag- 
nitudinem  testaturum  capillitio  gigantis 
ezcerpserat,  in  circumstantes  effusa  com- 
pluribus  exitio  fuit." — Saxo  Grammatictts^ 
lib.  8. 


N^^^»^^^^VS^^^^WWV^\^» 


InusiiakB  beUtUB  dens. 


**FoKTB  yel  ille  dens  elepbanti  fuit  — 
Tel  etiam  Amphibii  illius  quod  Rosmar 
vulgo  cUcunt.  Ejus  etenim  dentes  in  maximo 
foine  pretio,  apud  antiques  Septentrionis 
incolas,  ostendit  Olaus  Magnus,  lib.  21,  c. 
28,  et  Yir  CI.  Johannes  Isaciis  Pontamis 
in  urbis  Amstelodamensis  Historic.**  — 
-*Stxph.  Stbphanius. 


W^^^^S^\^^^^^>^iA^\^^/%/%^\AA 


Of  the  Carhunde,    See  ^lian.  de  Animal. 

8.  21. 

'*  DuM  Rex  Bononise  esset,  allatus  est  ad 
etun  ex  Indi&  Orientali,  abbomine  incognito, 
ied,  ut  apparebat,  moribus  barbaro,  lapis 
>tapend&  specie  et  natur& ;  yidelicet  lumine 


et  fulgore  mirabiliter  coruscantibus,  quiq; 
totus  yeluti  ardens  incredibili  splendore 
micabat,  et  jactis  quoquo  yersus  radiis,  am- 
bientem  aerem,  luce  nullis  fere  oculis  tole- 
rabili,  latissim^  complebat.  Erat  et  in  eo 
mirabile,  quod  terrse  impatientissimus,  si 
cooperiretur,  su&  sponte,  et  yi  facto  impetu, 
confestim  eyolabat  in  sublime ;  contineri 
yerb  includiye  ullo  loco  angusto  nuIU  ho- 
minum  arte  poterat,  sed  ampla  liberaq;  loca 
duntaxat  amare  yidebatur.  Summa  in  eo 
puritas,  eximius  nitor,  nulla  sorde  aut  labe 
coinquinatus ;  figure  species  nulla  ei  certa, 
sed  inconstans  et  momento  commutabilis ; 
cumq;  esset  aspectu  longe  pulcherrimus, 
contrectari  tamen  sese  impune  non  patieba- 
tur,  et  diutius  contra  adnitentibus,  aut  ob- 
stinatius  cum  eo  agentibus,  incommodum 
afiercbat,  quod  multi,  multis  spectantibus, 
sunt  experti.  Si  quid  fortassis  ex  eo  enixius 
conando  detrahebatur  (nam  durus  admo- 
dum  non  erat)  nihilo  minor  fiebat.** — Jaco* 
BUS  Augustus  Thuanus,  1.  6.  apud  Stefh. 
Stefhan.  in  loc. 


Ugarthilocus. 

**  Ugabthiloci  hujus  mentionem  quoque 
facit  Edda,  qua  et  omnia  fere  attribuit  cui- 
dam  Achuthoro,  seu  Asatboro,  quae  Saxo 
noster  de  Torkillo  hie  commemorat.  Sunt 
autem  nonnulli  qui  narrationem  banc,  fa- 
bulse  tantum  non  affinem,  exponimt  de 
itinere  k  Torkillo,  jussu  Gormonis  regis, 
suscepto  yel  in  extremam  Bjarmiam,  cujus 
incohe  olim  non  idololatrse  solum  erant  per- 
tinacissimi,  sed  et  magi  ac  yenefici  nudis 
artibus  ad  fascinandos  homines  instructis* 
simi ;  unde  etiam  ab  lis  tot  pnestigise,  qua- 
rum  meminit  Saxo,  Torkillo  sociisq;  objectas 
fuerunt :  yel  etiam  in  aliam  quandam  in- 
sulam  longe  dissitam,  forte  I^andiam  yel 
Gronlandium,  ubi  tale  Ugarthiloci  Idolum 
colebatur.  Alii  existimant  latere  sub  hfic 
Mythologift  veram  historiam  religionis  pri- 
mum  in  has  terras  per  Torkillum  intro- 
ductas;  quippe  qui  per  y  arias  regiones, 
Ethnicismi  tenebris  dens&q;  caligine  adhuc 
oppressas,  longinquft  peregrinatione  suscep- 


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tA,  tandem  in  Germaniam,  Christianis  tunc 
sacrifl  initiatam,  ut  ait  Sazo,  appulit,  et 
apud  ejus  populum  divini  caltiu  radimenta 
percepit.  Quam  mox  domum  revermis,  in 
patri&  propagavit.** — Stbpu.  Stsphanius. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


i 


Descent  of  HieUngtis. 

**  SiQUiDEM  coenante  eo  (Hadingo)  foe- 
mina  cicutarum  gerula,  propter  foculum 
humo  caput  extulbse  conspecta,  porrecto- 
que  sinu  percunctari  visa,  qu&  mundi  parte 
tarn  recentia  gramina  brumali  tempore  fu- 
issent  exorta.  Cujus  cognoscendi  cupidum 
Regcm  proprio  obvolutum  amiculo,  refuga 
secum  sub  terras  abduxit,  credo  Diis  infer- 
nalibus  ita  destinantibus,  ut  in  ea  loca  vivus 
adduceretur,  quae  morienti  petenda  fuerant. 
Primum  igitur  vapidse  cujusdam  caliginis 
nubilum  penetrantes,  perq;  callem  diutumis 
adcsum  meatibus  incedentes,  quosdam  prse- 
textatos,  amictosq;  ostro  proceres  conspi- 
oantur ;  quibus  prssteritis  loca  demum 
aprica  subeunt,  quse  delata  k  foeminft  gra- 
mina protulerunt.  Progressiq;  pnecipitis 
lapsus  ac  liventis  aquae  fluvium  diversi  ge- 
neris tela  rapido  volumine  detorquentem, 
eundemq;  ponte  meabilem  factum  offendunt. 
Quo  pertransito,  binas  acies  mutuis  viribus 
concurrere  contemplantur ;  quarum  condi- 
tionem  k  foemind  percunctate  Hadingo ;  ii 
sunt,  inquit,  qui  ferro  in  necem  acti  dadis 
suae  speciem  continuo  protcstantur  exemplo, 
praesentique  spectaculo  praeteritae  yitae  fa- 
cinus  aemulantur.  Prodeuntibus  mums  adi- 
tu  transcensuq;  difficilis  obsutebat;  quern 
foemina  nequicquam  transilire  conata,  cum 
ne  corrugati  quidem  corporis  exilitate  pro- 
ficeret,  galli  caput,  quem  secum  forte  defe- 
rebat,  abruptum,  ultra  mcenium  supra  jac- 
tavit^  statimq;  redivivus  ales  resumpti  (idem 
spiraculi  claro  testabatur  accentu." — Saxo 
OrammaticuSy  I.  1. 


Carving  the  Eagle, 

*'  Apud  Anglos,  Danos,  aliasq;  nationes 
Boreales,  victor  ignomini&  8umm&  debella- 


tum  adversarium  affecturus,  gladium  circa 
scapulas  ad  spinam  dorsi  adigebat,  costasq; 
amplissimo  per  corporis  longitudinem  facto 
vulnere,  utrinque  a  spinft  separabat ;  quie 
ad  latera  deductae  alas  repraesentabant 
Aquilinas.     Hoc  genus  mortis   vocabant 

*  Aquilam  in  dorso  alicujus  delineare.* 
Glossarium  Islandicum  MSS.  ejusmodi  vul- 
nus  sive  plagam  testatur.    In  ^^tl^fa^U 

*  tunc  Comes  Einarus  in  dorso  Halfdani 
Aquilinam  excitavit  plagam,  ita  ut  gladium 
dorso  adigeret,  omnesq;  costas  a  spinA  se- 
pararet,  usq;  ad  lumbos,  indeque  pulmones 
extraxit.*  In  ®mtfagU  *  Ormerus  evagi- 
nato  gladio  in  dorso  Brusi  Aquilinam  in- 
flixit  plagam,  separatis  a  dorso  costis,  et 
pulmonibus   exemptis.**  —  Step.  Stepha- 


NIUS. 


1 


Thus  Halla  was  executed  in  revenge  for 
the  death  of  Regner  Lothbrog. 


Sat.  Feb.  4,  1797.     Thefiret  day  of  my 
residence  in  London, 

Bkistol  I  I  did  not  on  thy  well-known 

towers 
Turn  my  last  look  without  one  natural  pang : 
My  heart  remembered  all  the  peaceful  yean 
Of  childhood,  and  was  sad.    Me  many  cares 
Have  changed  I     I  may  revisit  thee  agab, 
But  never  with  that  eager  glow  of  joy, 
As  when  from  Corston  to  my  mother^s  arms 
I  hastened  with  unmingled  happiness. 
Returning  from  first  absence.    Thy  old 

towers 
Again  may  from  the  hill-top  meet  mine  eye, 
But  I  shall  see  them  dimly  through  the  tear. 
There  is  a  stranger  in  my  father's  house : 
And  where  my  evil  fortunes  found  a  home 
From  the  hard  world,  the  gate  has  closed 

upon  me ; 
And  the  poor  spaniel,  that  did  love  me,  lies 
Deep  in  the  whelming  waters. — Fare  thee 

well 


*  The  passage  of  SaxoOrammaticus,  on  which 
this  is  a  note,  occurs  in  lib.  ix.  p.  177.  Ed.  Sort 
**  Dorsum  plagi  aquilam  fisnirante  affici  jo* 
bent,  &c.»  —  J.  W.  W. 


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leasant  place !     ^  I  had  been  well  con- 
tent 
>ek  no  other  earthly  home  beside  V* 


^^^lA^^^^^N/^^N^t^^^^^^^^^ki^^^ 


ination  by  a  Torrent,  or  Taghairm. 

L  wiij>  species  of  magic  was  practised 
5  district  of  Trotterness  (Skie),  that 
ttended  with  a  horrible  solemnity.  A 
f  who  pretended  to  oracular  know- 
,  practised  these  ceremonies.  In  this 
ry  is  a  vast  cataract,  whose  waters,  fall- 
-om  a  high  rock,  jet  so  far  as  to  form  a 
oUow  beneath,  between  them  and  the 
)ice.  One  of  these  impostors  was  sewed 

the  hide  of  an  ox,  and  to  add  terror 
i  ceremony,  was  placed  in  this  conca- 

the  trembling  enquirer  was  brought 
;  place,  where  the  shade  and  the  roar- 
'  the  waters  increased  the  dread  of  the 
ion.  The  question  is  put,  and  the  per- 
1  the  hide  delivers  his  answer ;  and  so 
this  species  of  divination  styled  Tag- 
." — Penmaht^s  Hebrides, 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Oid  Age  of  an  American  Savage, 

the  Chapter  Coffee  House  Club,  to 
I  accompanied  Carr  and  Barbauld, 
iday,  February  9, 1797,  Morgan  (a  man 
sy  and  boisterous  abilities)  related  the 
ing  story,  to  prove  that  the  age  of  the 
ican  savage  is  not  destitute  and  mise- 

European  met  with  an  aged  Indian 
i  banks  of  a  lake.  He  had  lived  more 
'^y^tjjeBn.  The  European  asked  him 
ras  not  weary  of  life.  **  No,  stranger  I" 
)lied,  **  our  Grod  comes  over  the  great 
once  in  every  year ;  and  I  hope  he 
ome  and  return  many  times  before  he 
me  with  him.  In  summer  I  can  yet 
le  for  myself  by  fishing.  In  winter  the 
;  men  give  me  share  of  their  provisions, 
sit  with  them  around  the  fire,  and  hear 
tell  the  stories  of  the  chase,  and  I  love 
\r  them." 


Doltryddelan  Castle, 

*^  Seated  in  a  rocky  valley,  sprinkled 
over  with  stunted  trees,  and  watered  by  the 
Lleder.  The  boundaries  are  rude  and  bar- 
ren mountains ;  and  among  others,  the  great 
bending  mountain  Scabod,  often  conspicu- 
ous  from  most  distant  places.  The  castle 
is  placed  on  a  high  rock,  precipitous  on 
one  side,  and  insulated :  it  consists  of  two 
square  towers,  one  forty  feet  by  twenty- 
five,  the  other  thirty-two  by  twenty.  Each 
had  formerly  three  floors.  The  materials 
of  this  fortress  are  the  shattery  stone  of 
the  country;  yet  well  squared,  the  ma- 
sonry good,  and  the  mortar  hard.  The  castle 
yard  lay  between  the  towers."  ^ 

"  Llewelyn  the  Great  ap  Jorwerth  Drwn- 
dwn  was  born  here." — J^EmvAJHT^sSnotvdoti, 
with  a  print. 


WAi<\A<'«^V/V^Ays/\/\/%/N/S/\/\^^ 


Llys  Bradwen, 

"  At  some  distance  beyond  these  (the  two 
pools  called  Llynian  Cregenan,  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Cader  Idris),  near  the  river 
Kr^ennan,  I  saw  the  remains  of  Llys  Brad- 
wen,  the  court  or  palace  of  Ednowain,  chief 
of  one  of  the  fifteen  tribes  of  North  Wales, 
either  in  the  reign  of  GryfTydd  ap  Cynan, 
or  soon  after.  The  reliques  are  about  thirty 
yards  squai*e :  the  entrance  about  seven  feet 
wide,  with  a  large  upright  stone  on  each  side, 
by  way  of  door  case :  the  walls  with  large 
stones,  uncemented  by  any  mortar.  In  short, 
the  structure  of  this  palace  shows  the  very 
low  st«te  of  architecture  in  these  times ;  it 
may  be  paralleled  only  by  the  artless  fabric 
of  a  catUe  house.  ^ — Ibid. 


*^^^N/N/\A^^h^^WS/\A^^h/\/%A 


Welsh  Manners. 


"  I  MUST  not  lead  the  reader  into  a  belief 
that  every  habitation  of  those  early  times 

*  This  and  the  next  extract  are  used  up  in  the 
notes  to  Madoc.  For  "  Dolwydellan's  Tower/' 
and  Elregennan,  see  pt.  1st  x.  and  the  engrav- 
ing in  vol  V.  of  Southey's  Poetical  Workt, 

J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


was  equal  in  magnificence  to  that  of  Edno- 
wain  ap  Bradwen.  Those  of  inferior  gentry 
were  formed  of  wattles,  like  Indian  wig- 
wams, or  Highland  hovels;  without  gardens 
or  orchard,  and  formed  for  removal  from 
place  to  place,  for  the  sake  of  new  pasture, 
or  a  greater  plent j  of  game.  The  furniture 
was  correspondent ;  there  were  neither  ta- 
bles, nor  cloths,  nor  napkins ;  but  this  is  less 
wonderful,  since  we  find,  that  even  so  late 
as  the  time  of  Edward  II.  straw  was  used 
in  the  royal  apartment.  Notwithstanding 
this,  the  utmost  hospitality  was  preserved. 
Every  house  was  open,  even  to  the  poorest 
person.  When  a  stranger  entered,  his  arms 
were  taken  from  him  and  laid  by ;  and,  after 
the  scriptural  custom,  water  was  brought 
to  wash  his  feet.  The  fare  was  simple :  the 
meal  did  not  consist  of  an  elegant  variety, 
but  of  numbers  of  things  put  together  in  a 
large  dish :  the  bread  was  thin  oat  cakes, 
such  as  are  common  in  our  mountainous 
parts  at  this  time.  The  family  waited  on 
the  guests,  and  never  touched  anything  till 
they  had  done,  when  it  took  up  with  what  was 
left.  Music,  and  the  free  conversation  of 
the  yoimg  women,  formed  the  amusements 
of  the  time,for  jealousy  was  unknown  among 
us.  Bands  of  young  men,  who  knew  no  pro- 
fession but  that  of  arms,  often  entered  the 
houses,  and  were  welcome  guests ;  for  they 
were  considered  as  the  voluntary  defenders 
of  the  liberties  of  their  country.  They  mix- 
ed with  the  female  part  of  the  family,  joined 
their  voices  to  the  melody  of  the  harp,  and 
consumed  the  day  with  the  most  animated 
festivity.  At  length,  sunk  into  repose,  not 
under  rich  testers,  or  on  downy  beds,  but 
along  the  sides  of  the  room,  on  a  thin  cover- 
ing of  dried  reeds,  placed  round  the  great 
fire,  which  was  placed  in  the  centre,  they 
lay  down  promiscuously,  covered  only  by  a 
coarse  home-made  cloth,  called  Brychan  or 
plaid,  the  same  with  the  more  ancient  Bra- 
cha  ;^  and  kept  one  another  warm  by  lying 


I  See  Celtic  Diet,  in  t.  '  Breacan,*    Hence 
Gallia  Braccata,     Spelmjln  in  v.  ^^Bracha." 

J.  W.  W. 


close  together,  or  should  one  side  lose  iti 
genial  heat,  they  turn  about  and  give  the 
chilly  side  to  the  fire.  (See  Giraldus  Cam- 
brensis,  Descr.  Walliae,  p.  888.) 

*^  Some  vein  of  the  antient  minstrelsie  b 
still  to  be  met  with  in  these  mountainous 
countries.  Numbers  of  persons  of  both  sexes 
assemble,  and  sit  around  the  harp,  singing 
alternately  Pennylls,'  or  stanzas  of  ancient 
or  modem  poetry.  The  young  people  usual- 
ly begin  the  night  with  dancing,  and  when 
Uiey  are  tired,  sit  down,  and  assmne  this 
species  of  relaxation.  Oftentimes,  like  the 
modern  improvisatore  of  Italy,  they  will  sing 
extempore  verses.  A  person  conversant  in 
this  art,  will  produce  a  Pennyll  apposite  to 
the  last  which  was  sung ;  the  subjects  pro- 
duce a  great  deal  of  mirth ;  for  they  are 
sometimes  jocular,  at  others  satyrical,  and 
many  amorous.  They  will  continue  sing- 
ing without  intermission,  and  never  repeat 
the  same  stanza ;  for  that  would  occasion 
the  loss  of  the  honour  of  being  held  first  of 
the  song.  The  audience  usuaUy  call  for  the 
tune :  sometimes  only  a  few  can  sing  to  it; 
and  in  many  cases  the  whole  company :  but 
when  a  party  of  capital  singers  assemblei 
they  rarely  call  for  a  tune,  for  it  is  indifie- 
rent  to  them  what  tune  the  harper  plays. 
Parishes  often  contend  against  parishes,  and 
every  hill  is  vocal  with  the  chorus.** — ^PsH- 
HAHT*s  Snowdon, 


Birth  of  Sommona  Codom. 

'^SoBUfOHA-CoDOM,  the  Siamese  dcitj, 
was  bom  of  a  virgin,  who  conceived  by  the 
prolific  influence  of  the  sun.  The  innocent 
virgin,  ashamed  to  find  herself  with  child, 
flew  to  a  solitary  desert,  in  order  to  conceal 
herself  from  the  eyes  of  mankind.     She  was 


*  "  Pennilly*'  an  epigram,  a  staiF  of  a  poem 
or  of  a  song,  consisting  of  two,  three,  four,  or 
more  lines.  Richabds  in  t.  In  1823  I  spent 
a  night  in  a  small  cottage  at  the  fuoi  of  Uar* 
nedd  Llewelin,  and  in  the  heart  of  Snowdonia, 
with  an  old  and  valued  friend,— and  there  we 
heard  the  Welsh  iniproYisatore*4  verse  in  per- 
fection.-J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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minciilcmsl J  deliyered  upon  the  banks  of  a 
lake  of  the  most  beautiful  babe  that  ever 
wt8  created,  without  anj  assistance  or  sense 
of  pain,  (Spemer)  but  having  no  milk 
wlierewith  to  suckle  him,  and  being  unable 
to  bear  the  thoughts  of  seeing  him  die,  she 
jamped  into  the  lake,  where  she  set  him 
upon  the  bud  of  a  flower,  which  blowed  of 
itself  for  his  more  commodious  reception, 
and  afterwards  inclosed  the  infant  as  it  were 
in  A  cradle.** — (Father  Tachabd.  Second 
Voyage  to  Siam,  Book  5.) 

**  As  he  was  sitting  under  a  tree,  he  was 
glorified  in  a  yerj  signal  manner,  and  adored 
bj  angels,  who  came  down  from  heaven  for 
no  other  purpose.  His  brother  Thevatat, 
jealous  of  his  glory,  conspired  his  downfall, 
and  declared  open  war  against  him,  with  all 
tbe  brute  creation.  Sommona-Codom  de- 
fended himself  manfully  by  virtue  of  hb 
good  works ;  but  nothing  was  so  great  a  sup- 
port and  protection  to  him  as  his  strict  prac- 
tise of  the  tenth  commandment,  which  com- 
prehends the  exercise  of  charity,  without 
which  he  must  have  inevitably  been  van- 
quished, notwithstanding  he  was  endowed 
with  all  the  good  works  contained  in  the  nine 
other  injunctions.  The  guardian  angel  of 
the  earUi,  used  her  utmost  endeavours  to 
prevail  on  the  enemies  of  Sommona-Ck>dom 
to  adore  him  as  a  god ;  but  at  last  finding 
them  obstinate  and  perverse,  and  inatten- 
tive to  her  repeated  remonstrances,  she 
compressed  her  watery  locks,  and  poured 
forUi  such  a  deluge  as  totally  destroyed 

them." — ^PlCAKT. 


^^f^^^^^^^^v^^^^i^^^v^^^^ 


PeopUng  of  the  World  in  the  Belief  of  Laos. 

**  The  people  of  Laos(Laies  or  Langiens) 
believe  that  the  heavens  existed  from  all 
eternity ;  that  they  are  situate  above  sixteen 
terrestrial  worlds,  the  pleasures  whereof  are 
justly  proportioned  to  their  respective  ele- 
vation. The  earth,  about  18,000  years  be- 
fore Xacca  or  Xequin,  was  dissolved  and 
i^uced  to  water.     A  mandarin  of  divine 


extraction,  or  at  least  something  more  than 
human,  descended  from  the  highest  of  the 
sixteen  worlds,  and  with  a  stroke  of  his  scy- 
metar  cut  asunder  a  certain  flower  which 
swam  on  the  surface  of  the  water,  from  which 
sprang  up  a  beauteous  young  damsel,  with 
whom  the  pious  mandarin  was  so  passionate- 
ly enamoured  that  he  determined  to  marry 
her :  but  her  inflexible  modesty  rendered 
his  most  endearing  addresses  firuitless  and 
ineffectual.  The  mandarin  was  more  gene- 
rous and  just  than  to  force  her  to  com- 
pliance; and  notwithstanding  it  was  the 
most  disagreeable  thing  in  nature  to  him  to 
live  alone,  without  any  relations  and  with- 
out issue,  he  checked  the  violence  of  his  in- 
clination, and  behaved  with  the  utmost  de- 
cency and  respect.  Unsuccessful  as  he  was, 
however,  he  planted  himself  at  an  awfiil  dis- 
tance directly  opposite  to  this  inexorable 
beauty.  He  gazed  upon  her  with  all  the 
tenderness  of  the  most  affectionate  lover. 
By  the  miraculous  influence  of  his  amorous 
glances,  she  conceived,  and  became  the  joy- 
ful mother  of  a  numerous  ofispring,  and  yet 
still  remained  a  pure  and  spotless  virgin. 
In  process  of  time  the  virtuous  mandarin 
thought  himself  in  duty  bound  to  furnish  his 
numerous  family  with  all  the  conveniences 
of  life,  and  for  that  purpose  created  that 
beautiful  variety  of  beings  which  now  re- 
plenish the  earth.  Afterwards  he  returned 
to  heaven,  but  could  not  however  gain  ad- 
mittance therein  till  he  had  first  done  pe- 
nance, and  duly  qualified  himself  for  that 
happy  state. 

^^  Before  this  restoration  of  the  earth  to 
its  primitive  state,  four  deities  condescended 
to  govern  and  preside  over  it  Three  of 
them,  weary  at  last  of  the  important  charge, 
resigned  their  guardianship,  and  went  higher 
towards  the  north,  to  taste  the  uninterrupted 
joys  of  solitude  and  retirement.  Xaca,  the 
sole  remaining  god,  after  instructing  man- 
kind in  the  duties  of  religion,  fully  deter- 
mined to  attain  to  the  highest  pitch  of  perfec* 
tion,  sunk  at  last  into  Nireupan,  or  the  ever* 
blessed  state  of  annihilation.** — Picakt. 


J 


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roEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Siamese  Heaven  and  Hell. 

^  SoMMOHA-CoDOM  IB  likewise  in  Nireu- 
pan.  According  to  the  Siamese  (M.  de  la 
Loub^e  and  Pere  Tachard),  there  are  nine 
abodes  of  bliss,  and  nine  of  sorrow.  The 
former  are  over  our  heads,  and  the  latter 
under  our  feet.  The  higher  each  mansion 
the  more  delightful  and  joyous ;  the  lower, 
the  more  dismal  and  tremendous :  insomuch 
that  the  happj  are  exalted  far  above  the 
stars,  as  the  unhappy  are  sunk  10,000  fa- 
thoms deep  below  the  earth.  Those  who  in- 
habit the  higher  realms  are  called  Thenada, 
the  dwellers  below,  Pii,  the  men  of  earth, 
Manout. 

^^  When  a  soul  has  once  attained  to  so  high 
a  pitch  of  perfection,  as  that  no  new  enjoy- 
ments here  on  earth,  how  refined  soever,  are 
suitable  to  the  dignity  of  its  nature,  the 
Siamese  think  that  it  is  then  freed  from  all 
future  transmigrations.  From  that  happy 
moment  it  appears  no  more  in  this  world, 
but  rests  for  ever  in  Nireupan ;  that  is  to 
say,  in  a  state  of  perfect  inactivity  and  im- 
passibility. In  short,  according  to  their  no- 
tion, consummate  happiness  and  the  ineffable 
joys  of  Paradise  entirely  consist  in  this  sort 
of  annihilation.  The  remarkable  passage 
ascribed  to  Mus»us  by  the  ancients,  ^^  that 
virtue  will  hereafter  be  rewarded  with  an 
eternal  ebriety,"  so  nearly  resembles  that  of 
the  impassibility  of  the  soul,  that  these  two 
opinions  may  be  resolved  into  one,  without 
the  least  difficulty  or  forced  construction.** 

— PiCABT. 


<^^%^^^^H^f^^A^^^^^^^^^ 


Siamese  Hermits, 


^*  Thb  Siamese  say  that  there  are  certain 
anchorets  who  live  retired  in  the  most  soli- 
tary deserts,  and  are  perfect  masters  of  all 
the  secrets  of  human  nature.  They  perfectly 
understand  the  art  of  making  gold,  silver, 
and  the  most  precious  metals :  there  is  no- 
thing so  wonderful  and  surprising  but  what 
they  can  effect  with  the  utmost  ease.  They 
assume  what  forms  they  please,  and  make 
themselves  immortal;    for  they  are  well 


skilled  in  all  the  arts  which  are  necessarj 
for  the  prolongation  of  life.  They  cheer- 
fully however  resign  it  to  Grod  £rom  one 
thousand  years  to  another,  by  voluntarilj 
sacrificing  themselves  on  a  funeral  pile,  re- 
serving only  one  of  their  tribe  to  raise  up 
those  that  are  dead,  by  virtue  of  his  magi- 
cal incantations.  It  is  as  dangerous  as  it 
is  difficult  to  meet  with  these  marvellous 
hermits ;  and  the  lives  of  such  as  do,  are  in 
apparent  danger  of  being  lost.** — Picabt. 


Descent  of  fallen  Souls  compared  to  the 
FaU  of  the  Ganges, 

An  Indian  poet,  endeavouring  to  illustrate 
the  manner  in  which  souls  always  descend 
into  bodies,  one  more  imperfect  than  an- 
other, in  proportion  to  their  deviating  from 
the  dictates  of  reason,  compares  them  to  the 
descent  of  the  river  Ganges,  **  which,**  says 
he,  **  fell  first  from  the  highest  heavens  into 
Chorkam ;  from  thence  on  the  top  of  Issour- 
en;  after  that,  on  the  celebrated  Mount  Ima; 
from  thence  on  the  earth ;  from  that  into 
the  sea,  and  from  thence  at  last  into  Pada- 
1am,  that  is,  into  hell.** — Pere  Bottchet.  Pi- 
cabt. 


'^^^^^»WWVW»^^»S/»»»l'W« 


Japanese  Penitents, 

^*  Cbbtatm  Jvpaneae  penitents  make  it  their 
duty  to  pass  over  several  high  and  almost 
inaccessible  mountains  into  some  of  the  most 
solitary  deserts,  inhabited  by  an  order  of  an- 
chorites, who,  though  almost  void  of  huma- 
nity, commit  them  to  the  care  and  conduct 
of  such  as  are  more  savage  than  themselves. 
These  latter  lead  them  to  the  brinks  of  the 
most  tremendous  precipices,  habituate  them 
to  the  practice  of  abstinence,  and  the  most 
shocking  austerities,  which  they  are  obliged 
to  undergo  with  patience,  at  any  rate,  since 
their  lives  lie  at  stake ;  for  if  the  pilgrim 
deviates  one  step  from  the  directions  of  his 
spiritual  guides,  they  &x  him  by  both  his 
hands  to  the  branch  of  a  tree,  which  stands 
on  the  brink  of  a  precipice,  and  there  leave 
him  hanging  till,  through  faintness,  he  quits 


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lold  of  tiie  bough  and  drops.  This  is, 
srer,  the  introduction  only  to  the  disci- 
i  they  are  to  undergo;  for  in  the  sequel, 
incredible  fatigue  and  a  thousand  dan- 
undergone,  they  arriye  at  a  plain  sur- 
ded  with  lofty  mountains,  where  they 
d  a  whole  day  and  night  with  their  arms 
»,  and  their  face  declined  upon  their 
8.  Tiiis  is  another  act  of  penance,  un- 
f  hich,  if  they  show  the  least  symptoms 
lin,  or  endeavour  to  shift  their  uneasy 
ire,  the  unmerciful  hermits  whose  pro- 
Mt  is  to  overlook  them,  never  fail  with 
I  hearty  bastinadoes  to  reduce  them  to 
appointed  situation.  In  this  attitude 
pilgrims  are  to  examine  their  consci- 
s,  and  recollect  the  whole  catalogue  of 
sins  committed  the  year  past,  in  order 
infess  them.  After  this  strict  exami- 
m,  they  march  again  till  they  come  to  a 
»  rock,  which  b  the  place  set  apart  by 
i  savage  monks  to  take  the  general  con- 
m  of  their  penitents;  on  the  summit  of 
ock  there  is  a  thick  iron  bar,  about  three 
n  length,  which  projects  over  the  belly 
e  rock,  but  is  so  contrived,  as  to  be 
n  back  again,  whenever  it  is  thought 
enient.  At  the  end  of  this  bar  hangs 
i;e  pair  of  scales,  into  one  of  which  these 
cs  put  the  pilgrim,  and  in  the  other  a 
terpoise,  which  keeps  him  in  equilibrio ; 
thLs,  by  the  help  of  a  spring,  they  push 
cales  off  the  rock,  quite  over  the  pre- 
e.  Thus  hanging  in  the  air,  the  pilgrim 
liged  to  make  a  full  and  ample  confes- 
of  all  his  sins,  which  must  be  spoken  so 
ictly,  as  to  be  heard  by  all  the  assist- 
at  this  ceremony ;  and  he  must  take 
cular  care  not  to  omit  or  conceal  one 
e  sin,  to  be  stedfast  in  his  confession, 
lot  to  make  the  least  variation  in  his 
mt:  for  the  least  diminution  or  conceal- 
,  though  the  misfortune  should  prove 
the  r^ult  of  fear  than  any  evil  inten- 
is  sufficient  to  ruin  the  penitent  to  all 
ts  and  purposes ;  for  if  these  inezor* 
lermits  discern  the  least  prevarication, 
10  holds  the  scales  gives  the  bar  a  sud- 
erk,by  which  percussion  the  scale  gives 


way,  and  the  poor  penitent  is  dashed  to 
pieces  at  the  bottom  of  the  precipice.  Such 
as  escape  through  a  sincere  confession,  pro- 
ceed farther  to  pay  their  tribute  of  divine 
adoration  to  the  deity  of  the  place.  After 
they  have  gratified  their  father  confessor's 
trouble,  they  resort  to  another  pagod,  where 
they  complete  their  devotions,  and  spend  se- 
veral days  in  public  shows  and  other  amuse- 
ments.**— PicAXT.  Acasta,  DeBry,  Purchoi, 

Priest  of  Manipa. 

**Manipa,  the  goddess  of  the  people  (Tar- 
tars) of  Tanchuth  (called  Lassa,  or  Boratai, 
or  Barantola),  has  nine  heads,  which  form 
a  kind  of  pyramid.  A  bold  resolute  young 
fellow,  prompted  by  an  enthusiastic  rage, 
like  him  who  cries  Amoc  amongst  the  In- 
dians, and  drest  in  armour,  flies  round  about 
the  city,  upon  some  certain  days  in  the  year, 
like  a  madman,  and  kills  every  one  he  meets 
in  honour  of  the  goddess.  This  young  en- 
thusiast b  called  Phut  or  Buth.** — Picabt. 


^^S^^^^^^^^^^AAA^^A^A^A 


Fountain  of  the  Fairies, 

^^Im  the  journal  of  Paris  in  the  reigns  of 
Charles  Yl.  and  VII.,  it  b  asserted  that  the 
Maid  of  Orleans,  in  answer  to  an  interro- 
gatory of  the  doctors  whether  she  had  ever 
assbted  at  the  assemblies  held  at  the  foun- 
tain of  the  fairies  near  Domprein,  round 
which  the  evil  spirits  dance?  confessed  that 
she  had,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  often 
ropaired  to  a  beautiful  fountain  in  the  coun- 
try of  Lorraine,  which  she  named  the  good 
fountain  of  the  fairies  of  our  Lord.** — Fa' 
bliaux,  by  Eixis  and  Wat.    Le  Orand, 


^A/>/S/WS«W%MA/VS/VWWN^ 


Identity. 

"Chaqub  individu,consid^r^  separ^ent, 
differo  encore  de  lui-mSme  par  Teffet  du 
tems;  il  devient  un  autre,  en  quelque  mani- 
ac, aux  diverses  ^poques  de  sa  vie.  L*en- 
fant,  rhomme  fait,  la  vieillard  sont  comme 
autant  d*etrangers  unb  dans  une  seule  per- 


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Sonne  par  le  lien  mjBterieux  du  souvenir.** 
—Necker.  Sur  VJSgaUU. 

Awkwardness  at  Court. 

**  A  MAN  unaccustomed  to  converse  with 
the  masters  of  the  world,  entors  their  mag- 
nificent palaces  with  slow  and  distrustful 
steps.  Wisdom  and  virtue  are  unequal  to 
the  task  of  walking  with  elegance  and  ease 
through  the  unstudied  road  of  imperial  eti- 
quette. Want  of  familiaritj  with  surround- 
ing objects  forbids  ease ;  while  prejudices, 
like  nurses*  midnight  tales,  are  at  the  same 
time  recollected,  despised,  and  jet  feared.** 
— RobinsotCs  Ecclesiastical  Researches. 


^^F^^^>^^S^S0^>^'^^S^i^^^*i^^^%0' 


Images  for  Poetry. 

Whkn  we  were  within  half  a  mile  of  the 
sea  in  a  very  clear  day,  it  appeared  as  if  the 
water  was  flowing  rapidly  along  the  shore 
in  the  same  direction  as  the  wind ;  a  kind 
of  quick  dizzy  motion,  which  I  should  have 
thought  the  effect  of  having  dazzled  my  eyes 
by  looking  at  the  sun,  if  we  had  not  both 
observed  it  at  once. 

The  river  in  a  very  hot  day  has  the  same 
appearance. 

The  sudden  wrinkling  of  the  water  when 
the  wind  sweeps  it,  as  it  were  sparkling  up 
a  shower. 

Where  the  river  is  visible  at  its  windings, 
it  forms  little  islands  of  light. 

In  a  day  half  clear  half  cloudy,  I  observe 
streaks  of  a  rainbow  green  upon  the  sea. 

The  cormorant  is  a  large  black  bird,  and 
flies  with  his  long  neck  protruded ;  when 
full,  he  stands  upon  the  beach  or  some  sand 
bank,  spreading  his  wings  to  dry  them,  very 
quaintly.^ 

It  is  pleasant  to  see  the  white-breasted 
swallows  dart  under  a  bridge. 

The  bark  of  the  birch  is  much  striped 
across  with  a  grey-white  moss. 

'  "  The  cormorant  stands  upon  its  shoals, 
His  black  and  dripping  wings 
Half  opened  to  the  wind."    Thalaha^  xi. 

J.  W.  W. 


Trees  are  grey  by  torch  light. 

A  sea-mew  sailed  slowly  by  me;  the  sun 
edged  his  wings  with  silver. 

The  richest  peacock  green-blue  is  under 
the  bend  of  the  difil 


yVWNA/WVWVW\/WV» 


Sentences. 


I  INTEND  to  be  a  hedge-hog  and  roll  my- 
self up  in  my  own  prickles :  all  I  regret  is 
that  I  am  not  a  porcupine,  and  endowed  with 
the  property  of  shooting  them  to  annoy  the 
beasts  who  come  near  enough  to  annoy  me. 


^>'WN^s^^/V>AXW%^^W^^r%^ 


The  French  legislators  have  done  as  much 
as  the  nature  of  the  people  would  permit 
Who  can  carve  a  Venus  de  Medicis  in  free- 
stone? 

When  the  cable  of  happiness  is  cut,surel7 
it  is  better  that  the  vessel  should  sink  at  once, 
than  be  tost  about  on  the  dreary  ocean  of 
existence,  hopeless  of  a  haven. 


^^/W»/H^^^/VW>^/V/V\/>^>*»<»<» 


If  Momus  had  made  a  window  in  my 
breast,  I  would  have  made  a  shutter  to  itk' 


^A^kM^^^^^^^^^^i^^^V^^#W^« 


The  loss  of  a  friend  is  like  that  of  a  limb. 
Time  may  heal  the  anguish  of  the  wound, 
but  the  loss  cannot  be  repaired. 


^^^^V^'^^^^^^'^^^V^'VN/^'V^ 


Mtstebies.  He  who  dives  into  thick 
water  will  find  mud  at  the  bottom ;  no  stream 
is  clearer  than  that  which  rolls  over  golden 
sands. 

A  MAN  is  a  fool  if  he  be  enraged  with  an 
ill  that  he  cannot  remedy,  or  if  he  endures 
one  that  he  can.  He  must  bear  the  gout, 
but  there  is  no  occasion  to  let  a  fly  tickle 
his  nose. 


*  The  reader  is  referred  to  Tristram  Shandy's 
remarks  on  this  head.     Vol.  i.  p.  129,  c.  xxiii 

J.  W.  W. 


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**  To  best  and  dearest  parents  filial  grief 
Hallows  this  stone :  the  last  of  duties  this ; 
But  memory  dies  not,  but  the  love,  that  now 
Sleeps  in  the  grave,  shall  wake  again  in  hea- 
ven."—Jan.  18,  1798. 


^^^w^^^^^/<^/^s^»>^^^^ 


*  Madoc, 

Wbdhbsdat  Feb.  22,  1797.  Prospect 
Place,  Newington  Butts.  This  morning  I 
began  the  study  of  the  law :  this  evening  I 
b^an  Madoc.^ 

These  lines  must  conclude  the  poem.  I 
wrote  them  for  the  commencement. 

""  SpimiT  of  SoKO !  it  is  no  worthless  breast 
That  thou  hast  filled,  with  husht  and  holy 
awe 

'  It  may  bo  as  well  to  give  her««,  at  length, 
such  information  as  is  in  my  hands  relative  to 
Madoc.  On  the  fly-leaf  to  the  First  Fragment 
of  Madoe  (in  my  possession),  Southey  has  writ- 
ten, "  This  portion  of  Madoc  was  written  in  the 
summer  of  1794,  after  Joan  of  Arc  had  been 
transcribed,  and  some  months  before  this  poem 
was  sent  to  press  and  recompoeed."  At  the 
end  of  the  precious  little  volume  he  has  added, 
^"Ilins  Car  in  1794.  I  began  to  revise  Feb.  22, 
1797,  and  finished  the  revisal  March  9." 

The  extract  next  following  is  from  a  MS. 
letter  of  Southey *b  to  his  fnend  C.  Danvers. 
It  is  wiUiout  date,  but  the  post-mark  is  Oct.  24, 
1803. 

"  The  poem  has  hung  lone  upon  my  hands, 
tnd  daring  so  many  ups  and  downs  of  life,  that 
I  had  almost  become  superstitious  about  it,  and 
could  hurry  through  it  with  a  sort  of  fear. 
Projected  in  1789,  and  begun  in  prose  at  that 
time^then  it  slept  till  1794,  when  I  wrote  a 
book  and  a  half — another  interval  till  1797, 
when  it  was  corrected  and  carried  on  to  the  be- 
ginning of  the  fourth  book, — and  then  a  &;ap 
l^gaintill  the  autumn  of  1798,  from  which  tune 
it  went  (airly  on,  till  it  was  finished  in  your  poor 
ntother's  parlour  on  her  little  table.  B4X>k  by 
book  I  had  read  it  to  her,  and  passage  by  pas- 
nge  as  ih.ew  were  written  to  my  moSier  and  to 
Peggy.  ITiis  was  done  in  July  1799— four 
years!  I  will  not  trust  it  longer,  lest  more 
chanees  befiUI,  and  I  should  learn  to  dislike  it  as 
s  meUncholy  memento  I " 

The  above,  with  the  preface  to  the  last  edi- 
tion of  Madoc,  contains  the  whole  history  of  that 
poem's  composition.  The  lines  here  referred  to 
werenot  maerted.— J.  W.  W. 


I  felt  thy  visitation.    Blessed  power, 
I  have  obeyed,  and  from  the  many  cares 
That  chain  me  to  this  sordid  selfish  world 
Winning  brief  respites,  hallowed  tha  re- 
pose 
To  thee,  and  pour*d  the  song  of  bet  tert  things. 
Nor  vainly  may  the  song  of  better  things 
Live  to  the  unborn  days ;  so  shall  my  soul 
In  the  hour  of  death  feel  comfort,  and  re- 


joice 


tt 


^^V>/S/W^W^W^WS^*^M 


Images  for  Poetry, 

Ths  white  foam  left  by  the  wave  on  the 
shore  trembles  in  the  wind  with  rainbow 
hues. 

The  clouds  spot  the  sea  with  purple. 

The  white  road  trembling  on  the  aching 
eye. 

The  water  spider  forms  a  shadow  of  six 
spots  at  the  bottom  of  the  stream,  edged 
with  light  brown  yellow ;  the  legs  four,  and 
two  from  the  head.  The  reflection  of  the 
body  is  a  thin  line  only,  uniting  the  rest. 

In  a  hot  cloudy  day  the  sea  was  pale  grey, 
greener  at  a  distance,  and  bounded  by  a 
darker  line. 

Half  shadowed  by  a  cloud,  beyond  the 
line  of  shadow  light  grey,  like  another  sky. 

The  ripe  redness  of  the  grass. 

Sunday,  July  16,  1797.  I  saw  the  light- 
ning hang  in  visible  duration  over  the  road. 

Shadows  of  light  roll  over  the  shallow 
sands  of  a  stream  wrinkled  by  the  wind. 
An  overhanging  bough  reflects  this  prettily. 

The  flags  sword  leaves. 

Up  the  Stour,  the  swallows  cavern  their 
nests  in  the  sand  clifl*. 

I  saw  a  dick-duck-drake  leaping  fish. 

The  reed-rustling  breeze. 

The  sea  like  burnished  silver.  Morning. 


Triad, 

*^Thebb  things  restored  will  prolong  aman*s 

life: 
The  country  where  in  childhood  he  was 

brought  up ; 
The  food  that  in  childhood  nourished  him ; 


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And  the  train  of  thoughts  that  in  childhood 
amused  him.** 

G.  WuxiAMS,  note,  y.  2,  p.  36. 


^A/WWWW^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


7^  three  Names  of  this  Island. 

**  Thb  first — ^Before  it  was  inhabited  it 
was  called  the  water-guarded  green  spot ; 
after  it  was  inhabited,  it  was  called  the 
honey-island;  and  after  its  subjection  to 
Prjdain,  the  son  of  Aedd  Mawr,  he  gave  it 
the  name  of  the  Isle  of  Prydain.** — Cam, 
Register,^  y.  1.  p.  22. 


^h/^^/V%/>^M^^^^'W^^^^^^^^^^ 


Sonnet  by  B.  W,  H. 

**  Why  tell  ye  me  of  heaven,  and  of  that  bliss 
Which  much-enduring  saints  will  some- 
time know  I 
ril  own  no  heaven  beyond  my  Harriet*s  kiss, 
No  joys  but  what  from  her  sweet  converse 
flow. 
Ye  talk  to  those  whom  poverty*s  stem  power 
Loads  with  the  weight  of  soul-subduing 
care. 
Bid  them  expect  that  lingering  distant  hour 
When  the  bright  flash  of  hope  shall  blind 
despair. 
For  me,  if  youth  eternal  crown  my  joys ; 
If  love  attend  me  through  the  paths  of  life, 
And  affluence  guarding  well  from  worldly 
strife, 
ril  quafi*  the  cup  of  pleasure  till  it  cloys ; 
Blessing  the  auspicious  hour  that  gave  me 

birth. 
Then  sink  to  nothing  in  my  native  earth.** 

B.  W.  H.1 


^V^^^^^^^^^N^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Virtues  of  Gems, 

From  the  Mirror  of  Stones,  by  Camxixus 
Lbohasdus,  Physician  at  Pisaro.  Dedi- 
cated to  Cesar  Borgia,  Eng.  Trans.  Lon- 
don, 1750. 

*^  Thb  Diamond  helps  those  who  are  trou- 
bled with  phantasms  or  the  Night  Mair. 

*  I  can  assien  no  reason  why  such  a  sonnet 
was  transcribed  by  Southey,  neither  do  I  know 
whom  the  initials  represent. — J.  W.  W. 


^  The  Amethyst  drives  away  drunkenness ; 
for  being  bound  on  the  navel  it  restrains 
the  vapour  of  the  wine,  and  so  dissolves  the 
ebriety. 

^*  Alectoria  is  a  stone  of  a  christalline  co- 
lour, a  little  darkish,  somewhat  resembling 
limpid  water ;  and  sometimes  it  has  veins 
of  die  colour  of  flesh.  Some  call  it  Galli- 
naceus,  from  the  place  of  its  generation,  the 
intestines  of  capons,  which  were  castrated 
at  three  years*  old  and  had  lived  seven ;  be- 
fore which  time  the  stone  ought  not  to  be 
taken  out ;  for  the  older  it  is  so  much  the 
better.  When  the  stone  is  become  perfect 
in  the  capon,  he  do*nt  drink.  However,  *tis 
never  found  bigger  than  a  large  bean.  .The 
virtue  of  this  stone  is  to  render  him  that 
carries  it  invisible ;  being  held  in  the  mouth 
it  allays  thirst,  and  therefore  is  proper  for 
wrestlers;  (so  will  any  stone  by  stimolat- 
ing  the  glands,  but  what  if  the  wrestler 
should  swallow  it  ?)  makes  a  woman  agree- 
able to  her  husband ;  bestows  honours,  and 
preserves  those  already  acquired ;  it  frees 
such  as  are  bewitched ;  it  renders  a  man 
eloquent,  constant,  agreeable,  and  amiable ; 
it  helps  to  regain  a  lost  kingdom,  and  ac« 
quire  a  foreign  one. 

*^  Borax,  Nosa,  Crapondinus,  are  names 
of  the  same  stone,  which  is  extracted  from 
a  toad.  There  are  two  species,  the  which  is 
the  best  is  rarely  found ;  the  other  is  black 
or  dun  with  a  cerulean  glow,  having  in  the 
middle  the  sunilitude  of  an  eye,  and  must 
be  taken  out  while  the  dead  toad  is  yet  pant* 
ing,  and  these  are  better  than  those  which 
are  extracted  from  it  after  a  long  continu- 
ance  in  the  ground.  They  have  a  wonderful 
efficacy  in  poisons.  For  whoever  has  taken 
poison  let  him  swallow  this ;  which  being 
down,  rolls  about  the  bowels,  and  drives  out 
every  poisonous  quality  that  is  lodged  in 
the  intestines,  and  then  passes  through  the 
fundament  and  is  preserved.  It  is  an  ex** 
cellent  remedy  for  the  bites  of  reptiles,  and 
takes  away  fevers.  K  it  be  made  into  a  lo- 
tion and  taken,  it  is  a  great  help  in  disor- 
ders of  the  stomach  and  reins,  and  some  say 
it  has  the  same  efi*ect  if  carried  about  one. 


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47 


1 


**  The  carbuncle  is  male  and  female.  The 
females  throw  out  their  brightness,  the  stars 
appear  burning  within  the  males. 

"  Some  imagine  that  the  crystal  is  snow 
turned  to  ice  which  has  been  hardening 
thirty  years,  and  is  turned  to  a  rock  by  age. 
(Affonso  Apbicamo,  c.  2,  p.  43). 

**  Chemites  is  a  stone  that  has  the  appear- 
ance of  iyory  ;  not  heavy,  and  in  hardness 
like  marble.  It  is  said  to  preserve  the  bodies 
of  the  dead  a  long  time  from  being  hurt  by 
the  worms  and  from  putrefaction. 

"  Conria  or  Gorvina  is  a  stone  of  a  red- 
dish colour,  and  accounted  artificial.  On  the 
calends  of  April  boil  the  eggs  taken  out  of  a 
crowds  nest  till  ihej  are  hard ;  and  being 
cold,  let  them  be  placed  in  the  nest  as  they 
were  before.  When  the  crow  knows  this, 
she  flies  a  long  way  to  find  this  stone ;  and 
having  found  it  returns  to  the  nest,  and  the 
eggs  being  touched  with  it,  they  become 
ff&k  and  prolific.  The  stone  must  imme- 
diately be  snatched  out  of  the  nest.  Its  vir- 
tue is  to  increase  riches,  to  bestow  honours, 
and  to  foretell  many  future  events. 

"  Draconites, — ^Dentrites, — ^Draconius,  is 
a  stone  lucid  and  transparent  of  a  cristalline 
colour.  Albertus  Magnus  says  it  is  of  a 
bUck  colour,  and  that  its  figure  is  pyrami- 
dal and  not  lucid.  Some  say  it  shines  like  a 
looking  glass,  with  a  blackness ;  that  many 
seek  after  but  never  find  it.  It  is  brought 
from  the  east,  where  there  are  great  dra- 
gons ;  for  it  is  taken  out  of  the  head  of  dra- 
gons, cut  off  while  the  beast  is  yet  panting. 
It  loses  its  virtue  if  it  remains  in  the  head 
anj  time  after  the  death  of  the  dragon. 
Some  bold  fellows  in  those  eastern  parts 
search  out  the  dens  of  the  dragons,  and  in 
these  they  strew  grass  mixed  with  sopori- 
ferous'medicaments,  which  the  dragons  when 
they  return  to  their  dens  eat,  and  are  thrown 
into  a  sleep  ;  and  in  that  condition  they  cut 
off  their  heads  and  extract  the  stone.  It 
has  a  rare  virtue  in  subduing  all  sorts  of 
poison,  especially  that  of  serpents.  It  also 
renders  the  possessor  of  it  bold  and  invin- 
cible; for  which  reason  the  kings  of  the 
cast  boast  they  have  such  a  stone. 


**  Fingites  is  of  a  white  colour,  hard  as 
marble,  and  transparent  like  alabaster ;  it 
is  brought  from  Cappadocia.  Some  report 
that  a  certain  king  built  a  temple  of  this 
stone  without  windows ;  and  from  its  trans- 
parency the  day  was  admitted  into  it  in  so 
clear  a  manner  as  if  it  had  been  all  open. 

**  Galatides  or  Galactica  is  a  whit«  lucid 
stone,  in  form  of  an  acorn,  hard  as  the  ada- 
mant, and  so  cold  that  it  can  hardly  be 
warmed  by  fire ;  which  proceeds  from  the 
exceeding  closeness  of  its  pores  which  will 
not  sufi*er  the  heat  of  the  fire  to  penetrate. 

^  Kinocetus  is  a  stone  not  wholly  useless, 
since  it  will  cast  out  devils. 

'*  Sarcophagus,  the  stone  of  which  the  an- 
cients built  their  monuments,  so  called  from 
its  effects,  for  it  consumes  a  human  body 
that  is  placed  in  it,  insomuch  that  in  forty 
days  the  very  teeth  are  gone,  so  that  no- 
thing appears ;  nay,  farther,  if  this  stone  be 
bound  to  a  man  while  he  is  alive,  it  has  the 
force  of  eating  away  his  flesh. 

^*  The  asbestas  is  a  stone  of  an  iron  colour, 
produced  in  Arcadia  and  Arabia ;  being  set 
on  fire  it  retains  a  perpetual  flame,  strong 
and  unquenchable,  not  to  be  extinguished 
by  showers  or  storms.  It  is  of  a  woolly  tex- 
ture, and  many  call  it  the  salamander's  fea- 
ther. Its  fire  is  nourished  by  an  insepara- 
ble unctuous  humid  flowing  from  its  sub- 
stance.** 

Turkish  Idea  of  Thunder, 

"  When  the  Turkish  ambassador,  Esseid 
AH  Effendi,  saw  some  electrical  experiments 
at  Lyons  (Messidor  14th)  (July  2, 1797)  and 
heard  the  analogy  between  electricity  and 
lightning  explained,  he  seemed  astonished 
at  the  ignorance  of  the  Europeans,  who  did 
not  attribute  lightning  to  the  breath  of  an 
angel,  and  the  noise  of  thunder  to  the  clap- 
ping of  his  wings.** — Star,  Thurs,  July  20. 


Novqgorod  Ood  of  Thunder. 

"  Whbw  Wolodemir  introduced  Christian- 
ity into  Russia  (a.  d.  990)  to  prove  the  sin- 


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ceritj  of  his  conversion,  he  caused  the 
brazen  image  of  Perun,  long  worshipped  at 
Novogorod  as  the  God  of  Thunder,  to  be 
thrown  into  the  river  after  being  bruised 
with  clubs.  It  is  not  long  since  (as  Olearius 
writes)  that  the  inhabitants  believed  that 
Perun  from  the  deep  still  exerted  his  loud 
and  dissonant  voice  once  every  year ;  and 
excit«d  all  that  heard  it  to  broils  and  bat- 
tery."— ^Ambas.  Travels,  Andrews,  vol.  1, 
p.  42. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*^^^^% 


**  NoYOQOBOD  is  situated  in  a  very  fair 
spacious  plain  upon  the  Wologda.  This  river 
derives  its  source  from  the  lake  Ilmen, 
about  three  miles  above  the  city,  from  whence 
it  falls  into  lake  Ladoga.  There  are  falls  or 
rapids  in  the  Ladoga  lake  with  dangerous 
rocks." — ^Pbtsb  Hsnbt  Bbucb. 


V«M«W\/W^/VWWWW^W>M 


£!pitap?u, 
*'  As  careful  nurses  to  the  bed  do  lay 
Their  children  which  too  long  would  wan- 
ton play. 
So  to  prevent  all  my  ensuing  crimes 
Nature  my  nurse  lidd  me  to  bed  betimes." 
In  some  part  of  Yorkshire. 


*'*HBBB  lize  Sarre  FFlougger  who  dyde 
by  the  krewill  youzitch  ov  hur  usbun." 
In  Upham  Church  yard,  Hants. 


^AAAA^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W 


'*  As  I  lay  sleeping  here  alone 
With  my  grandfather  to  him  Fm  come ; 
With  heavenly  charms  so  blest  am  I, 
With  joy  and  pleasure  here  I  lie." 

Blonham,  Wilts. 

^  Ah  I  she  bids  her  friends  adieu  I 
Some  angel  calls  her  to  the  spheres; 

Our  eyes  the  radiant  sun  pursue 
Thro*  liquid  telescopes  of  t«ars." 

Portsmouth. 


^A/W>MA^/^^V\A/VN/W\/X 


'*  LiFB  is  a  city  full  of  crooked  streets. 
And  Death  the  market  place  where  all  men 
meets. 


If  Life  were  a  merchandize  which  men  could 

buy 
The  rich  would  purchase  it,  and  only  the 

poor  would  die."  Worpleton. 


^^t'^^^^^^^^^^v^^^^^^^^^^ 


Sopra  le  due  Citta  svbissate  dal  Tretna*oto, 

'*  Qui  pur  foste  o  Cittk ;  ne  in  voi  qui  resta 

Testimon  di  voi  stesse,  un  sasso  solo ; 

In  cui  si  scriva,  qui  s*aprerse  il  suolo 
Qui  fu  Catania,  e  Siracusa  h  questa. 
lo  su  Tarcna  solitaria  e  mesta 

Voi  sovent«  in  voi  cerco,  e  trovo'wlo 

Un  silenzio,  un  orror,  che  d*alto  duolo 
M*  empie,  e  gli  occhi  mi  bagna,  e  il  pi^ 

m*arresta, 
£  dico,  o  formidabile  t  oh  tremendo 

Divin  giudizio !  pur  ti  veggio,  e  sento, 
E  non  ti  temo  ancor,  n^  ancor  t*  intendo ! 

Deh  sorgeste  a  mostrar*  V  alto  portento 
Subissate  Cittadi,  e  sia  Torrendo 

Scheletro  vostro  ai  secoli  spavento." 

YmCEliZO  DA  FlULCAJA. 

*'  Here,  cities,  ye  once  stood ;  but  there  does 
not  remain  in  you  a  testimony  of  your  ex- 
istence, not  a  stone  on  which  might  be  writ- 
ten, 'Here  the  ground  opened,  there  was 
Catania,  and  this  is  Syracuse.*  Oflen,  as  I 
wander  over  the  silent  and  deserted  strand, 
do  I  look  about  for  you  in  yourselves ;  but 
all  I  find  is  a  silence,  a  horror,  which  fills  me 
with  deep  grief,  bathes  mine  eyes  and  stops 
my  foot,  and  I  exclaim,  O  formidable,  0 
tremendous  judgments !  I  see  you,  I  feel 
you  all  around,  and  still  do  not  fear,  still 
cannot  fully  understand  you.  Rise  then  once 
more,  ye  engulphed  cities,  show  the  porten- 
tous desolation,  and  let  your  horrible  ske- 
leton be  the  terror  and  lesson  of  ages  to 
come." — In  Matt*s  Review^  from  a^coOeC' 
Hon  of  Italian  Sonnets  translated  into  Latin 
hexameters  by  Jassbus.^ 

'  These  sonnets  were  intended  to  be  cast  into 
English  ones.  The  translation  implies  the  time 
when  Southey  was  nut  the  able  Italian  scholar 
he  was  in  his  latter  days.  His  own  version  of 
some  of  them  may  be  seen  in  subsequent  pages, 
®'  S'  PP'  81,  82.  They  were  composed  mostly 
in  1799.— J.  W.  W. 


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49 


NascUa  de  PHmogenito  de  Piemonte, 

r  Italia  col  crin  sparse  e  incolto, 
dove  la  Dora  in  Po  declina, 
ea  mcsta,  e  avea  negli  occhi  accolto 
un  *orror  di  servitu  yicina : 
tera  piangea ;  serbava  un  volto 
•lente  bensi,  ma  di  Reina ; 
e  appanre  allor,  che  il  pie  discolto 
ipi  ofiri  la  liberta  Latina. 
;er  lieta  in  un  balen  la  vidi, 
'a  ricomporsi  al  fasto  usato, 
i,  e  quindi  minacciar  pui  Lidl ; 
lia  TAppennin  per  ogni  lato 
*applausi,  e  di  festosi  gridi, 
,  Italia  il  tuo  soccorso  e  nato  I  ** 
rsTACHio  Maufhedi.  Bolognese. 

^he  spot  where  the  Douro  falls  into 

I  saw  the  dishevelled  and  unkempt 
tting  in  deep  son'ow ;  she  had  in  her 
borror  of  impending  slavery, — ^not 

proud  one  shed  a  tear.  Sorrow  in- 
a  in  her  countenance,  but  it  was  the 
3f  a  Queen ;  such  perhaps  she  ap- 
n  ancient  Latium,  when,  bare  of  foot, 
e  forward  to  have  her  fetters  put 

I I  saw  her  in  an  instant  rise  joyful 
r  seat,  resume  her  ancient  state  and 
I  the  nations  on  one  side  of  her  and 
)ther,  and  the  Apennines  shouted 

their  thousand  echoes,  Italy,  Italy  I 
iour  is  born." 

'  says,  *'  the  author  of  thb,  Eusta- 
ufredi,  seems  to  show  even  here 
is  of  a  family  of  mathematicians,  for 
not  a  proposition  of  Euclid  in  which 
lows  st-ep  more  methodically  than 
in  this  sonnet.**  He  adds,  **  I  did 
3  to  render  the  *pie  disciolto,*  be- 
owever  classical  the  idea  to  express 
the  naked  foot  would  have  present- 
gusting  picture  to  the  English  rea- 

0  might  have  sent  the  dirty  wench 
n  her  stockings.** 

1  Mbnaiziane  di  una  sua  Nipote, 

secol  fuggii  la  perfid*  onda, 

>  del  sangue  nostro,  e  la  procella, 


Dolce  Nipote,  ne  tomarmi  a  quella 
Poter  lusinghe  mai  d*  aura  seconda. 
Eppur  si  ficro  turbo  anco  alia  sponda 

II  legno,  che  m*accolse,  urta,  e  flagella, 

Ne  a  placar  1*  atro  nembo  io  veggio  Stella, 
Che  in  tanta  notte  un  raggio  almen  difibnda. 
Occupa  pur  tu  fortementc  il  porto ; 

Innocenza  e  Virtu  trarranne  in  parte, 
Ove  avrem  d*ogni  mal  fine,  e  conforto ; 
E  im  di  schernendo  i  furor  vani,  ho  speme, 

Che  salve  aU*ara  appese  antenne  e  sarte, 
SuUe  tempeste  rideremo  insieme.** 

P.  Savebio  Bettineuj. 

*'  I,  sweet  niece,  was  the  first  of  our  blood 
who  fled  from  the  treacherous  waves  and 
tempest  of  life ;  nor  could  the  flattering 
appearance  of  favourable  gales  ever  tempt 
me  to  try  them  again ;  and  yet  though  I 
have  escaped,  still  does  the  storm,  beating 
on  the  beach,  dash  daily  against  the  sides  of 
the  vessel  in  which  I  was ;  nor  amidst  so 
deep  a  night  do  I  discover  a  single  star 
whose  benign  ray  may  assist  to  weather  the 
fierce  storm.  Make  you  then  strongly  for 
the  shore.  Innocence  and  Virtue  will  help 
draw  to  land,  where  we  shall  find  comfort 
and  the  end  of  every  ill.  There,  our  sails 
and  cables  safe  at  length,  and  appended  to 
the  altar,  I  have  hope  that  we  may  one  day 
laugh  together  at  the  impotence  of  the  tem- 
pest.*' 


^/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


*'  Italia,  Italia,  o  tu,  cui  feo  la  sorte 

Dono  infelice  di  bellezza,  onde  hai 

Funesta  dote  d'infiniti  guai, 
Che  in  fronte  scritti  per  gran  doglia  porte. 
Deli  fossi  tu  men  bella,  o  almen  piu  forte, 

Onde  assai  piu  ti  paventassi,  o  assai 

T*amasse  men  chi  del  tuo  bello  a  i  rai 
Par  che  si  strugga,  e  pur  ti  sfida  a  morte 
Che  or  giu  d*air  Alpi  no  vedrei  torrent! 

Scender  d*armati,  ne  di  sangue  tiiita 
Sever  Fonda  del  Po  Gallici  armenti ; 

Ne  te  vedrei  del  non  tuo  ferro  cinta 
Pugnar  col  braccio  di  straniere  genti 

Per  servir  sempre  o  vincitrice,  o  vinta." 

FlLICAIA. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


**0  Italy,  Italy,  gifled  by  fate  with  ttn  un- 
happy gifl  of  beauty,  from  whence  thou  hast 
a  deadly  dower  of  miseries,  whose  marks 
thou  still  bearest  on  thy  forehead;  oh,  that 
thou  wert  less  beautiful  or  more  strong,  that 
they  might  love  thee  less,  or  fear  thee  more, 
who  pretend  to  be  dying  for  thee  at  the  time 
they  are  attempting  thy  life.  Then  should 
we  not  behold  torrents  of  hostile  squadrons 
roll  down  thy  Alps,  nor  Gallic  herds  drink- 
ing by  thy  ensanguined  Po.  Then  should 
we  not  see  thee  girt  with  a  sword  not  thine 
own,  and  shooting  thine  arrows  from  a  fo- 
reign bow,  to  be  still  a  slave  at  the  end  of 
the  day,  whether  victor  or  vanquished/' 

"  Dov*  ^  Italia,  il  tuo  braccio  ?  e  a  chi  ti  servi 

Tu  deir  altrui  ?  non  ^s*  io  scorgo  il  vero, 

Di  chi  t*ofiende  il  difiensor  men  fero ; 
Ambo  nemici  sono,  ambo  fur  servi : — 
Ck>si  dunque  Tonor,  cosi  conservi 

Gli  avanzi  tu  del  glorioso  impero  ? 

Cosi  al  valor,  cosi  al  valor  primiero, 
Che  a  t«  fede  giuro,  la  fede  asservi  ? 
Or  va  t  repudia  il  valor  prisco,  e  sposa 

L*Ozio,e  fra  il  sangue,i  gemiti,  e  le  strida 
Nel  periglio  maggior  dormi,  e  riposa : 

Dormi  adultera  vil,  fin  che  omicida 
Spada  ultrice  ti  svegli,  e  sonnachiosa 

E  nuda  in  braccio  al  tuo  fedel  t*uccida.** 

FlUCAIA. 

*^  Italy,  where  is  thine  own  right  arm,  and 
wherefore  dost  thou  use  a  stranger's  ?  If  I 
remember  me  right,  he  who  defends  thee  is 
not  less  a  barbarian  than  he  who  attacks 
thee.  Both  are  thine  enemies,  both  have 
been  thy  slaves.  Thus  then  it  is  that  thou 
bethinkest  thee  of  thy  past  illustrious  story  I 
thus  thou  maintainest  thine  honour,  and 
this  is  the  remembrance  thou  hast  of  thy 
pledged  faith  to  the  valiant  genius  of  old 
Latium  t  Gro  then,  divorce  thee  from  that 
honored  husband — marry  sloth;  and  amidst 
blood,  groans,  and  the  nobe  of  arrows  hiss- 
ing round  thee,  sleep  on  and  repose  in 
greater  danger  than  before :  —vile  adulte- 
ress, sleep  on,  tin  the  avenging  sword  awake 
and  slay  thee,  naked  and  drowsy,  in  the 
arms  of  thy  new  beloved.'* 


Epitaphs. 

**  Dbae  near  my  friends  and  have 
As  you  be  now  so  once  was  i 
And  as  I  am  so  you  shall  be 
The  glass  is  nmning  now  for  thee.' 

Up] 


^^^^N/N/\^v%/%AA/\^^^AA^^b^ 


(( 


We  were  not  slayne,  but  rayj 

Raysd  not  to  life. 
But  to  be  buried  twice 

By  men  of  strife. 
What  rest  could  living  have 

When  dead  had  none  ? 
Agree  amongst  you. 

Here  we  ten  are  one." 

Henry  Rogers  died  Aprill  17, 1641. 

Christchu 

Of  this  I  heard  two  traditionary 
nations,  neither  of  them  satisfactor 
each  destroying  all  the  authority 
other.  That  the  ten  men  were  killed 
falling  in  of  the  earth  in  a  gravel  p 
dug  out  to  be  buried.  This  the  firi 
contradicts ;  and,  if  true,  what  mea 
fourth  ?  That  they  were  ten  ro; 
whose  bones  were  dug  up  by  Cro 
The  single  name  then  at  the  end  is  st 
"  One  "  must  mean  unanimous.  TI 
solution  is  possible ;  but  I  believe  tl 
nour  of  digging  up  his  dead  enemi* 
reserved  for  the  worthy  Charles  IL 


i»A^^^^^»^^^^^^^A^^^^^^^ 


**  Heus  I  lie  all  putrefaction 
Waiting  for  the  resurrection.' 


^^N''^ww^w^%^^\/v^^rv^ 


Petition  of  the  London  Wives, 

'*  In  this  parliament  (1428)  there  w 
Mistris  Stokes,  with  divers  others 
women  of  London,  of  good  reckoning 
apparrelled,  came  openly  to  the  uppe 
liament  and  delivered  letters  to  the 
of  Glocester,  and  to  the  archbishop 
to  the  other  lords  there  present,  cont 
matter  of  rebuke  and  sharpc  reprehen 


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51 


ke  of  Glocester,  because  he  would 
iver  his  wife,  Jacqueline,  out  of  her 
a  imprisonment,  being  then  helde 
T  by  the  Duke  of  Burgondj,  suffer- 
there  to  remain  so  unkindly,  and  for 
>like  keeping  by  him  another  adul- 
sontrary  to  the  law  of  Grod,  and  the 
ible  estate  of  matrimony.** — Edmund 

» 

e  are  many  curious  particulars  in 
11*8^  history.  I  have  never  (that  I 
)er)  seen  him  quoted,  or  heard  his 
He  wrote  under  Elizabeth,  James 
tries ;  and  acknowledges  obligations 
itance  in  his  work,  among  other  men 
ninent  in  their  own  day,  to  Sir  Ed- 
oke  and  Master  Camden. 


^^^^^A^^M«^^^^f^«W^^tf^^^^ 


IhUtf  of  exposing  Crimes. 

DX  tel  forfaits  celui  qui  d^toume 
irda  est  un  l&che,  un  d^erteur  de 
ce ;  la  v^itable  humanity  les  envi- 
our  les  connoitre,  pour  lea  juger, 
id^tester.** — Ls  Lxyttb  d*Ephbaim. 
the  motto  for  my  war  poems. 

£pitap?is, 

■B  year  rolls  on  and  steals  away 
te  breath  that  first  it  gave, 
te*er  we  do,  where*er  we  be, 
e*re  travelling  to  the  grave.** 
Winnessley,  Monmouthshire. 


JM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W 


It  the  ester  end  of  this  free 
me  here  doeth  ly  the  letle 
ne  of  Water  Spurrer 
at  fine  boy  that  was  his 
lends  only  joy  he  was 
ownd  at  Milham*s  bridge.** 

Ch.  Ch.  1691. 

nd  by  Hearme  that  he  published  it 
>wb's  papers,  and  that  it  b^rsSTOwa's 
Sept.  2,  1798— R.  S.  The  work  is 
ited  in  Watt's  Biblwth,  Britan,  "  An- 
r  a  Genera]  Chronicle  of  England,  be- 
Fohn  Stow,  continued  to  the  end  of  the 
M.    Lond.  1631,  foL"— J.  W.  W. 


**  Ws  lived  together  as  you  did  see  to  die 
Together  that  will  be  never  yet  in  and 
Thro*  Christ  we  hope  to  live  for  ever 
From  sudden  death  Good  Lord  deliver  me 
Yet  sudden  death  we  hope  did  set  our  sister 
free.**— Ch.  Church. 


^t^k^S/^^r^r^r^rvN^^^^W^^^^'WW 


Lf  a  church  yard,  about  five  miles  from 
Monmouth,  on  the  Chepstow  road : — 

**  On  Somb  Children. 

*'  Sleep  sofl  in  dust,  wait  the  AImighty*s 

will 
Then  rise  agiun  and  be  as  angels  still.** 

"  A  LOVING  wife,  a  tender  mother, 
AVhich  hard  it  were  to  find  such  another. 
If  Angels  were  on  earth  sure  this  was  one* 
Whose  limbs  lie  here,  her  soul  to  God  is 
flown.** 

^*  I  LABOUB*D  hard  in  this  world 
But  *twas  no  gain  to  me, 
I  hope  my  child  and  I  will  gain  eternity.** 

**  A  TENDEB  father,  a  mother  dear, 
Two  bosom  friends  lie  buried  here. 
It  was  pale-faced  death  that  brought  us 

hither. 
We  lived  in  love — ^let  us  lie  together. 

So  here  we  lie  by  our  dear  babes 

All  covered  with  cold  clay. 
Hoping  with  joy  to  meet  our  Lord 

At  the  eternal  day.** 


Yabhouth. 

'*  The  best  of  wives  was  calFd  from  me 
She  was  both  meek  and  mild ; 

Twas  God*s  decree,  let  his  will  be, 
He  took  both  wife  and  child.** 

'*  Hebe  lies  a  woman 
By  all  the  good  esteemed 

Because  they  proved  her 
Really  what  she  seem*d.** 

**  Sleep  lovely  babes,  and  be  at  rest, 
God  calls  them  first,  whom  he  loves  best.** 


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roEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


**  For  Jesus*  sake  in  his  most  blessed  name 

I  crave, 
Do  not  remove  this  stone,  nor  yet  disturb 

this  grave." 

**  Fabbwsll  dear  babes ;   to  dust  we  you 

resign, 
And  at  your  lot  we  will  no  more  repine ; 
Being  assured  that  at  the  Resurrection, 
Tour  bodies  through  Christ  will  rise  into 

perfection." 


Similes, 

'*  Un  ruisseaux  tire  des  eaux  pures  de  sa 
source;  mais  il  est  trouble  d^abord  qu*il 
passe  par  dessus  les  bords  de  son  canal." — 
Oriental  Maxim. 

A  good  simile  applied  to  economy. 


^r^^r^^^^A/V^^^^\/W%/N/Ni#N/V^' 


"  In  winter  the  trees  remind  us  of  skele- 
tons."— W.  Smblub. 


^<\^^^^/V»/N/W^^^^^i^^^ 


Unbblibvbbs  —  to  a  man  who  stops  his 
ears  in  a  thunder-storm  for  fear. — Koran^ 
V.  1.  p.  4. 

Cool  sound  of  wind — to  the  rain  falling 
on  the  tree  that  shelters  the  summer  tra- 
veller. 

Clinging  to  religion — ^to  the  volutella. 

**0h  I  woe  to  thee  when  doubt  comes  on  I 
it  blows  over  thee  like  a  wind  from  the 
north,  and  makes  all  thy  joints  to  quake." 

From  a  quaint  piece,  in  the  Selections 
from  Foreign  Journals,  taken  from  the 
TeiUscIie  Museum,  entitled—"  That  a  man 
can  do  whatever  he  will,  is  something  more 
than  a  mere  matter  of  speculation ; "  by  John 
Fetbb  Cbaft. 


VWWWW^SA^WWWW 


Lines  to  S.  P} 

BuBTON,  September  1st.  1797. 

*^  A  WBABTiKG  thing  it  is  to  waste  the  day 
Among  the  biped  herd ;  to  walk  alone 

'  Sophia  Pemborton,  afterwards  married  to 
his  friend  Charles  Lloyd.—J.  W.  W. 


Amid  the  irksome  solitude  of  crowds, 
And  with  the  unmeaning  look  of  gaiety 
Hide  the  heart*s  fullness.    It  is  very  hard 
When  Memory's  eye  turns  inward  on  the 

form 
Of  one  she  loves,  to  waken  from  the  dream, 
As  all  unpitying  on  the  suffering  ear 
Some  fashion-monger  with  her  face  of  fool 
Voids  all  her  gather*d  nonsense.   -  When  I 

think 
That  thy  meek  spirit  must  endure  all  this 
Sophia  I  I  esteem  the  truant  hour 
Most  profitably  past  whose  song  may  bring 
Brief  solace.     Thou  would*st  know  what 

cares  employ 
The  mom,  and  whither  is  the  noon-tide  walk 
And  what  the  evening  sports  of  him,  who 

mom 
And  noon  and  night  fills  up  Affection's 

thoughts. 
I  know  these  longings  well ;  and  I  would 

fain 
Sketch  the  rude  outline  that  Afiection's  hand 
Will  love  to  perfect,  as  her  magic  gives 
Soul  to  the  picture.  When  at  mom  he  seeks 
The  echoing  ocean's  verge,  she  best  can  feel 
What  feelings  swell  within  the  enthusiast's 

breast. 
As  o'er  the  grey  infinity  of  waves 
His  eye  reposes,  as  the  gathered  surge 
Bursts  hollow  on  his  ear,  then  rolling  back 
Yields  to  a  moment's  silence,  while  the  foam 
Lefl  by  the  billow,  as  it  melts  away. 
Shakes  in  the  wind  trembling  with  rainbow 

hues. 
She  best  can  tell,  when  at  the  noon-tide  hour 
Beside  the  brook  he  bends,  the  wrinkled 

brook 
Rolling  light  shadows  o'er  its  bedded  sand, 
What  thoughts  of  quietness  arise,  what  scenes 
Of  future  peace  float  o'er  the  tranquil  mind, 
As  the  low  murmuring  of  the  pleasant  stream 
Makes  sweetest  music,  such  as  in  the  heart 
Of  one  made  hard  by  suffering  till  he  hates 
Mankind  with  deadliest  loathing,  might 

awake 
Feelings  that  fill  the  eye.  She  reads  his  soul 
When  from  the  high  hill  top,  the  dark  high 

hill 


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the  watered  Yole  abrupt  and  bare 
beholds  the  goodly  plain  below ; 
us  and  tufted  cottages,  the  clifiGs 
island  whose  white  majesty 
g  sun  empurples,  and  the  sea 
den  greyness  to  the  baffled  sight 
igling  with  the  sky.     Affection 

1  her  own  identity  with  his 
n  his  sensations. 

I  would  tell 
damp  eve  retiring  how  we  draw 
e  cheerful  light,  but  that  the  group 
rers,  and  Sophia  scarce  has  heard 
in  whom  my  heart  has  centred  all 
t  feelings,  idl  its  earthly  hopes, 
:.    I  am  little  prone  to  trust 
e  now,  for  many  wrongs  have 
rht 

om  in  me  which  in  earlier  youth 
i  I  made  my  mock :  and  now  I  bear 
rom  whose  impervious  adamant 
i*d  darts  of  disappointment  fall 
ler  weakness.  Yet  that  heart  ad- 

"  a  rebel  to  its  own  resolves." 
I  full  and  perfect  happiness 
om  yours  addition ;  when  the  song 
of  home  and  all  its  nameless  joys 

the  most  intense  delight  pervade 
eart,  and  fill  her  eye  with  tears, 

round  she  feels  those  joys  her 

R.  S. 

Hannah} 

m  as  I  crossed  the  conmion  lane 
ien  on  my  view.  It  was  not  here 
*  every  day,  as  in  the  streets 
tat  city,  and  we  paused  and  asked 
le  grave  was  going.  It  was  one, 
girl ;  they  told  us  she  had  borne 
en  months*  strange  illness ;  pined 


t)een  thought  right  to  insert  this  here. 
>riginal  £aft  of  the  Hannah  in  the 
^logues,  from  which  it  difTers  consi- 
See  Poenu  in  one  volume,  p.  152. 

J.  W.  W. 


With  such  slow  wasting  as  had  made  the 

hour 
Of  death  most  welcome.     To  the  house  of 

mirth 
We  held  our  way,  and  with  that  idle  talk 
That  passes  o*er  the  mind  and  is  forgot 
We  wore  away  the  time.    But  it  was  eve 
When  homewardly  I  went,  and  in  the  air 
Was  that  cool  freshness,  that  discolouring 

shade 
That  makes  the  eye  turn  inward  ;  then  I 

heard 
Over  the  vale  the  heavy  toll  of  death 
Sound  slow,  and  questioned  of  the  dead 

again. 
It  was  a  very  plain  and  simple  tale  I 
She  bore,  unhusbanded,  a  mother's  name. 
And  he  who  should  have  cherished  her,  far 

off 
Sailed  on  the  seas,  self-exiled  from  his  home, 
For  he  was  poor.  Left  thus,  a  wretched  one, 
Scorn  made  a  mock  of  her,  and  evil  tongues 
Were  busy  with  her  name. 

She  had  yet  one  ill 
Heavier,  neglect, — forgetfidness  from  him 
Whom  she  had  loved  so  dearly.    Once  he 

wrote. 
But  only  once  that  drop  of  comfort  came 
To  mingle  with  her  cup  of  wretchedness. 
And  when  his  parents  had  some  tidings  from 

him. 
There  was  no  mention  of  poor  Hanitah  there. 
Or  'twas  the  cold  enquiry,  bitterer 
Than  silence :  so  she  pined  and  pined  away. 
And  for  herself  and  baby  toiled  and  toiled 
Till  she  sunk  with  very  weakness.    Her  old 

mother 
Omitted  no  kind  office,  and  she  worked 
Most  hard,  and  with  hard  working  barely 

earned 
Enough  to  make  life  struggle.    Thus  she  lay 
On  the  sick  bed  of  poverty,  so  worn 
That  she  could  make  no  effort  to  express 
Affection  for  her  infant,  and  the  child 
Whose  lisping  love  perhaps  had  solaced  her. 
With  strangest  infantine  ingratitude 
Shunned  her  as  one  indifferent.     She  was 

post 
That  anguish,  for  she  felt  hei  Viout  dxvw  oiv^ 


li 


And  *twas  her  only  comfort  now  to  think 
Upon  the  grave.    "  Poor  girl  I "  her  mother 

said, 
"  Thou  hast  suffered  much  I"    "  Ay,  mo- 
ther I  there  is  none 
Can  tell  what  I  have  suffered !  **  she  replied, 
"  But  I  shall  soon  be  where  the  weary  rest^** 
And  she  did  rest  her  soon,  for  it  pleased  God 
To  take  her  to  his  mercy.  R.  S. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^«^^^^^^^k^^* 


Tenderness. 

Tendbbness  with  golden  locks,  and  the 
grey  eye  that,  in  the  twilight  hour,  a  darker 
lustre  beams. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^s/^%^AA^« 


Priestesses  in  the  Seam. 

**  In  the  Seam,  an  isle  by  the  coast  of  the 
French  Bretagne,  nine  virgins  consecrate  to 
perpetual  chastity,  were  priests  of  a  famous 
oracle,  remembered  by  Mela.  His  printed 
books  have  '*  OaUicenas  vacant  ;**  where  that 
great  critic  Turneb  reads,  **  Oalli  zenas^^  or 
**  Unas  vocani,^*  But  White  of  Basingstoke 
will  have  it  "  cenas^  as  interpreting  their 
profession  and  religion,  which  was  in  an  ar- 
bitrary metamorphosing  themselves,  charm- 
ing the  winds  (as  of  later  times  the  witches 
of  Lapland  and  Finland)  skill  in  predictions, 
more  than  natural  medicine  and  such  like ; 
their  kindness  being  in  all  chiefly  to  sailors.** 

SBU>£lf*8i2/tl«/ra/lOIUO/*DBATTON*8  PoU/' 

Olbion,     Sang  the  First, 


W^'WS^^^^^^^^^^k^^A^tfi 


St.  David 


St.  Dewt,  as  the  Welsh  call  him,  was 
prognosticated  above  thirty  years  before  his 
birth.  '*  The  translation  of  the  archbishopric 
was  also  foretold  in  that  of  Merlin,  *  Mene- 
via  shall  put  on  the  pall  of  Caerleon ;  and 
the  preacher  of  Ireland  shall  wax  dumb  by 
an  infant  growing  in  the  womb.'  That  was 
performed  when  St.  Patrick,  at  presence  of 
Melaria,  then  with  child,  suddenly  lost  use 
of  his  speech ;  but  recovering  it  after  some 
time,  made  prediction  of  Dewy's  holiness.** 

♦*  Reports  of  hira  affirm  that  he  was  uncle 


to  King  Arthur  (Bale  and  others  say,  got- 
ten upon  Melaria,  a  nun,  by  Xantus,  prince 
of  Cardigan),  and  successor  to  Dubrice, 
archbishop  of  Caerleon,  upon  Usk.** — Ibid. 
Songs  the  Fourth  and  Fifth. 


^^^^^^^^A/N/N'VN/S^N/WS^^^ 


Merlin. 

**  Of  Merlin  and  his  skill  what  region  doth 
not  hear  ? 

The  world  shall  still  be  full  of  Merlin  every- 
where. 

A  thousand  lingering  years  his  prophecies 
have  run, 

And  scarcely  shall  have  end  till  time  itself 
be  done. 

Who  of  a  British  nymph  was  gotten,  whilst 
she  played 

With  a  seducing  spirit,  which  won  the  good- 
ly maid : 

As  all  Demetia  through  there  was  not  found 
her  peer. 

Who  being  so  much  renowned  for  beauty 
far  and  near. 

Great  lords  her  liking  sought,  but  still  in 
vain  they  prov'd. 

That  spirit  (to  her  unknown)  this  virgin 
only  loved ; 

Which  taking  human  shape,  of  such  perfec- 
tion seem*d. 

As,  all  her  suitors  8com*d,  she  only  him  es- 
teem*d. 

Who  feigning  for  her  sake  that  be  was  come 
from  far. 

And  richly  could  endow,  a  lusty  batchelor, 

On  her  that  prophet  got,  which  from  his  mo- 
ther*s  womb 

Of  things  to  come  foretold  until  the  gene- 
ral doom.** 

His  mother  was  a  nun,  daughter  to  Fu- 
bidius,  king  of  Mathraval,  and  called  Ma- 
tilda.—Ibid,     Song  the  Fifth, 

Mathraval. 

'*Mathbaval  is  five  miles  west  of  the  Se- 
vern, it  shows  at  present  no  remains  of  its 
ancient  splendour,  there  being  only  a  small 
farm  house  where  the  castle  stood,  whose 


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ipied  about  two  acres,  guarded  on 
I  by  the  steep  over  the  river,  on  the 
r  a  vast  rampart  of  stone  and  earth 
^ep  fosse.  A  high  keep  at  one  cor- 
k  Gwern  Ddu,  a  wood  over  against 
i  opposite  side  of  the  river,  is  a  cir- 
itrenchment,  and  in  a  field  beyond 
mount.** — 6ouGH*8  Camden. 


^^^w^^^^^^^^^AMMM^^^^ 


Itnages. 
NCT  shadows  on  the  water  in  cloudy 

y  smell  of  moss. 

of  the  autumnal  leaves, 
misty,  unreal  appearance  of  the  hills 
I  October  morning. 
;rass  in  an  orchard  gaily  chequered 
e   sunshine    falling  between    and 

the  trees. 

ntry  house.  No  sound  but  the  click 
Dck.    The  hollyhock  still  in  blossom. 

ing.  A  grey  cloud  rising  like  a  hill 
le  horizon. 

s  Inn  Hall  in  a  November  afternoon, 
light  through  the  unpainted  part  of 
lows.  The  fire  in  the  middle,  equally 
irts  affected  by  the  air,  flaming  up 

0  a  point,  and  often  showering  up 
ost  in  the  gloom  above.  Objects 
us  seen  across  the  charcoal  fire, 
ind  of  the  roof  beams  strongly  light- 
•ove,  all  gloom.  Add  to  this  the  tro- 
mour  damp  gleaming  to  the  central 

1  it  is  the  hall  of  chivalry, 
marked  by  their  ramification  in 
Minute  and  many  branchings  of 

What  tree  is  it  that  hangs  down 
liar  seeds  by  a  long  thin  stem  ? 
nist  by  its  light  tinge  as  it  passes 
*  sun,  marks  its  place, 
lolesome  green  in  trees,  &c.  in  damp 

x>sed  epistolizing  my  attempt  to  visit 
istle,  and  would  preserve  the  images 
eisure  may  occur  to  use  them, 
rising.     Ileford — Evilford-bridge. 
tath — ^no  grass  there.   The  little  cot- 


tage with  a  fidd  like  an  island  of  fertility ; 
looking  from  thence  down  a  little  glen,  in 
whose  bottom  flows  a  brook ;  the  sea  appears 
about  100  yards  distant,  breaking  on  a  rough 
shore.  The  stones  in  this  brook  were  some 
green,  some  of  the  brown  yellow  iron  hue. 
The  single  rock  in  sight.  Sand  bank  at 
Poole  harbour  mouth.  Our  separation. 
Breakfastless  walk.  View  of  Ck>rfe.  Brank- 
sey.  Sturt*s  hideous  house.  Entry  of  the 
vessel  from  Newfoundland.  Sand  shower. 
Eficect  of  wind  in  confusing  the  head.  Rick- 
man's  bush  shelter  from  a  storm  at  the  ha- 
ven mouth. 

Tom — I  pray  thee  cherish  it. 
For  it  must  never  meet  the  common  eye. 

Were  I  a  single  being  I  would  be  a  wan- 
derer.   Why  ? 


^h#^^^^^^^^^%^^^kA^^^^^ 


Si^e  of  Orleans, 

MoNSTRELLBT  wHtcs  ItClaccdaSyandCla- 
sendas  at  his  death. 

'*  A  une  dicclles  escarmouches  fut  occis 
ung  tresvaillant  Chevalier  Anglois  et  re- 
nomme  en  armes  nomme  Messire  Lancelot 
de  Lisle. 

**  AUerent  avecques  elle  assaillir  labataille 
de  Saint  Loup  qui  estoit  moult  fort,  et  avoit 
dedans  de  troys  a  quatre  cens  Angloys  ou 
environ,  lesquelz  assez  tost  furent  conquis 
et  mors  et  prins  et  mis  a  grant  mischief.  Et 
ladicte  fortificacion  fut  toute  demoile  et  mise 
en  feu  et  en  flambe.** 

"  Le  Seigneur  De  Moulins  et  Le  Bailly 
Deureux" — skilled. 

The  forts  were  burnt  as  soon  as  taken, 
and  when  the  English  had  fled  *'  lesdictes 
bastilles  et  forteresses  furent  prestement 
arses  et  demolies  jusques  en  terre,  afllin  que 
nulles  gens  de  guerre  de  quelconque  pays 
quilz  soient  ne  si  peussent  plus  loger.** — ff, 
43. 


«<^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^/VM^^ 


Battle  of  PaJtay, 

At  Patay,  **  les  Francois  moult  de  pres 
mirent  pied  a  terre,  et  descendirent  la  plus 
grant  partie  de  leur  chevaulz.** 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


"  The  Duke  of  Bedford,  recovered  a  little 
from  the  astonishment  into  which  the  late 
singular  events  had  thrown  him,  collected 
about  4000  men,  and  sent  them  to  join  the 
remains  of  the  English  army,  now  command- 
ed bj  the  brave  Lord  Talbot.  When  this 
reinforcement,  conducted  by  Sir  J.  Fastolf, 
joined  Lord  Talbot,  they  formed  an  army 
which  the  French  a  few  months  before 
would  not  have  dared  to  approach.  The 
French  commanders  held  a  council  of  war, 
in  which  they  consulted  their  oracle  the  M. 
of  O.,  who  cried  out  "  In  the  name  of  God, 
let  us  fight  the  English,  though  they  were 
suspended  in  the  clouds."  "But  where,"  said 
they, "  shall  we  find  them."  "  March  I  march !" 
cried  she,  **  and  God  will  be  your  guide." 
She  stood  by  the  King^s  side,  with  her  ban- 
ner displayed,  during  the  whole  ceremony; 
and  as  soon  as  it  was  ended,  she  fell  pros- 
trate at  his  feet,  embraced  his  knees,  and 
with  a  flood  of  tears  entreated  his  permission 
to  return  to  her  former  station." — Henbt. 


^«/N/>^^^«^^^VW^WWW« 


French  Wars  ruinous  to  the  English, 

**  Iw  the  last  year  of  the  victorious  Henry 
y.  there  was  not  a  sufficient  number  of  gen- 
tlemen left  in  England  to  carry  on  the  busi- 
ness of  civil  government. 

"  But  if  the  victories  of  Henry  V.  were  so 
fatal  to  the  population  of  his  country,  the 
defeats  and  disasters  of  the  succeeding  reign 
were  still  more  destructive.  In  the  twenty- 
fifth  year  of  this  war,  the  instructions  given 
to  the  Cardinal  of  Winchester,  and  other 
plenipotentiaries  appointed  to  treat  about  a 
peace,  authorize  them  to  represent  to  those 
of  France, "  That  there  haan  been  moo  men 
slayne  in  these  wars  for  the  title  and  claime 
of  the  coroune  of  France,  of  oon  nacion  and 
other,  than  ben  at  thb  daye  in  bodi  landys, 
and  so  much  Christiene  blode  shede,  that  it 
is  to  grete  a  sorow  and  an  orrour  to  think 
or  here  it." — Rtmsb*s  FcuUra^  vol,  10,  p. 
724.     Hjsnbt. 


Johamte  la  PuceUe. 

"  £t  fut  demande  a  Johanne  la  P.  par 
aucuns  des  princes  la  estans  quelle  chose  il 
estoit  de  faire  et  que  bon  luy  sembloit  t 
ordonner.  LaqueUc  P.  respondit  quelle 
scavoit  bien  pour  vray  que  leurs  anciens 
ennemis  les  Anglois  venoient  pour  eulx  com- 
battre.  Disoit  oultre  que  au  nom  de  Dieu 
on  allast  hardiment  contre  eulx  et  que  sans 
faille  ilz  seroient  vaincus.  Et  ancuns  luj 
demanderent  ou  on  les  trouveroit,  et  elle 
dist  chevauchez  hardiement  on  aura  bon 
conduyt.  Adonc  tous  gens  darmes  se  mi- 
rent  en  battaille  et  en  bonne  ordonnance 
tirerent  leur  chemin  ayans  des  plus  ezpen 
hommes  de  guerre  montez  sur  fleur  de  cour- 
siers  allant  devant  pour  descouvrir  leurs  en- 
nemys  jusques  au  nombre  de  soixante  ou 
quati*e  vingtz  hommes  darmes,  et  ainsi  par 
certaine  longue  espace  chevaucherent,  et 
vindrent  par  ung  jour  de  Samedy  a  une 
grant  demye  lieue  pres  dung  gros  villaige 
nomme  Patay  en  laquelle  marche  les  des- 
susditz  coureurs  Francois  veirent  de  devant 
eulx  partir  ung  cerf,  lequel  adressoit  son 
chemin  droit  pour  aller  a  la  battaille  des 
Anglois  qui  ja  sestoient  mis  tous  ensemble, 
cestass  avoir  iceulx  venans  de  Paris  dont 
dessus  est  faicte  mencion,  et  les  autres  qui 
estoient  partis  de  Boysiency,  ct  des  marches 
dorleans.  Pour  la  venue  duquel  cerf  qui 
se  ferit  comme  dit  est  parmy  icelle  bataille 
fut  desditz  Anglois  esleve  ung  tres  grant 
cry  et  ne  scavoyent  pas  encores  que  leun 
ennemys  fiis6ent  si  pres  deulx,  pour  lequel 
cry  les  dessusditz  coureurs  Francois  furent 
acertainez  que  cestoient  les  Anglois."  ^ 
MoNST.  44. 

Decrees  against  the  Fugitives  from  the  Maid, 

In  RTifEB*8  Fcedera  are  two  proclama* 
tions,  one  **  Contra  Capitaneos  et  Soldarioi 
tergiversantes,  incantationibus  Puellie  ter 
rificatos ;"  the  other,  *'  De  fugitivis  ab  eX' 
ercitu,  quos  terriculamenta  PuellsB  exani« 
maverant,  arestandis." 


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Chinon. 

iNON  is  situated  near  where  the  Yienne 
tself  in  the  Loire.     Rabelais  was  born 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1^^^% 


Song  on  the  Battte  of  Azincour. 

*'  Deo  gratias  Anglia. 
Redde  pro  victorid. 

*€  Kynge  went  forth  to  Normandy, 
grace  and  mjtz  of  chjiralry ; 
rod  for  hym  wrouzt  manrlusly, 
efore  Englonde  may  calle  and  cry, 

Deo,  &c. 

sette  a  sege,  the  sothe  to  say, 
irflue  town,  with  royal  array, 
^une  he  wan,  and  made  a  fray 
Praunce  shall  rywe  tyl  domes  day. 

Deo,  &c. 

Q  for  sothe  that  Enyzt  comely, 
incourt  feld  fauzt  manly, 
w  grace  of  (rod  most  myzty 
d  bothe  felde  and  victory. 

Deo,  &c. 

Q  went  owre  Kynge,  with  all  his  oste, 
weFraunce  for  all  theFrensche  boste, 
ured  for  drede  of  leste  ne  moste 
;  come  to  Agincourt  coste. 

Deo,  &c. 

'e  Dukys  and  Early s,lorde  and  barone 
take,  and  slayne,  and  that  wel  sone, 
[>me  were  ledde  into  Lundone, 
joye  and  merth,  and  grete  renone. 

Deo,  &c. 

r  gracious  God  he  save  owre  Kynge, 
fple,  and  all  his  well  wyllinge  ; 
m  gode  lyfe,  and  gode  endynge, 
ire  with  merth  may  safely  synge, 

Deo,  &c. 

BuBlffBT. 


^^^'^^M^^^^/'^^^^^^^^^^v^^^ 


Corwen. 

OBWEN  is  a  small  town  on  a  vast  rock 
foot  of  the  Berwyn  hills,  and  famous 

ing  the  rendezvous  of  the  Welsh  forces 
Owen  Glendwr,    who   from   hence 

d  the  invasion  of  Henry  II.  1166. 


The  place  of  encampment  is  distinguished 
by  a  mound  of  earth,  and  the  sites  of  tents 
from  the  church  southward  to  the  village  of 
Cynwyd.  On  the  south  side  of  the  church 
wall  is  cut  a  very  rude  cross,  which  is  shown 
to  strangers  as  the  sword  of  Owen  Glyndwr. 
Near  the  porch  stands  a  pointed  rude  stone, 
called  Carreg  y  big  yn  y  fach  newlyd,  which 
it  is  pretended  directed  the  founder  to  place 
the  church  there.  The  river  Trystion  burst- 
ing through  the  hills  forms  Rhaider  Cynwyd, 
or  the  fall  of  Cynwyd.  The  Berwyn  moun- 
tains are  the  east  boundary  of  Corwen  vale. 
Their  highest  tops  are  Cader  Bronwen,  or 
the  White  Breast,  on  which  is  a  heap  of 
stones  surrounded  by  a  pillar ;  and  Cader 
Forwyn.  Under  their  sunmiits  is  said  to 
run  Fford  Helen,  or  Helen*s  Way ;  and 
about  them  grows  the  Rubus  Chamcemorus, 
cloud  berry,  or  knot  berry,  used  in  tarts.** 
— GrouGH*s  Camden. 


PlinUmon  and  Severn : — Mathraval^  Pennant 
MelangU^  and  St  MonaceUa, 

**  PuNLiMON,  where  it  bounds  Montgo- 
meryshire, on  that  side  pours  forth  the  Se- 
vern. Immediately  after  its  rise  it  forms 
so  many  meanders,  that  one  would  often 
think  it  was  running  back,  though  it  is  all 
the  while  advancing,  or  rather  slowly  wan- 
dering through  this  country.** 

Mathraval  is  upon  the  Warnway. 

**  In  Pennant  Melangle  church  was  the 
tomb  of  St.  Monacella  who  protecting  a  hare 
from  the  pursuit  of  Brocwell  Yscythbrog, 
Prince  of  Powis,  he  gave  her  land  to  found 
a  religious  house,  of  which  she  became  first 
Abbess.  Her  hard  bed  is  shewn  in  the  cleft 
of  a  neighbouring  rock.  Her  tomb  was  in 
a  little  chapel,  now  the  vestry,  and  her  image 
is  still  to  be  seen  in  the  churchyard  ;  where 
is  also  that  of  Edward,  eldest  son  of  Owen 
Gwynedh,  who  was  set  aside  from  the  suc- 
cession on  account  of  a  broken  nose,  and 
flying  here  for  safety,  was  slain  not  far  off, 
at  a  place  called  Bwlch  Croes  Jorwerth.  On 
his  shield  is  inscribed  *  Hie  jacet  Etward.* 
— Gouoh's  Camden, 


»♦ 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Victim  to  Apollo. 

"  At  Terracina,  in  Italy,  it  was  an  im- 
pious and  barbarous  custom,  on  certain  very 
solemn  occasions,  for  a  young  man  to  make 
himself  a  voluntary  sacrifice  to  Apollo,  the 
tutelar  deity  of  the  city.  After  having  been 
long  caressed  and  pampered  by  the  citizens, 
apparelled  in  rich  gaudy  ornaments,  he  of- 
fered sacrifice  to  Apollo,  and  running  full 
speed  from  this  ceremony,  threw  himself 
headlong  from  a  precipice  into  the  sea,  and 
was  swallowed  up  by  the  waves.  Csesarius, 
a  holy  deacon  from  Africa,  happened  once 
to  be  present  at  thb  tragical  scene,  and  not 
being  able  to  contain  his  zeal,  spoke  openly 
against  so  abominable  a  superstition.  The 
priest  of  the  idol  caused  him  to  be  I4>pre- 
hended,  and  accused  him  before  the  gover- 
nor, by  whose  sentence  the  holy  deacon, 
together  with  a  Christian  priest  named  Lu- 
cian,  was  put  into  a  sack  and  cast  into  the 
sea,  the  persecution  of  Dioclesian  then  rag- 
ing, in  300." — Lioes  of  the  Fathers^  &c.  by 
AXBAN  BUTLEB.  Dub.  1780. 

JSJaculation, 

"  St.  Malacht  used  in  his  walks  to  send 
up  short  inflamed  ejaculations  from  the  bow 
of  his  heart,"  says  S.  Bebmabd,  "  which  was 
always  bent." — Ibid. 

St.  Wene/ride 

^'This  name,  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  tongue, 
signifies  winner  or  procurer  of  peace ;  but 
in  the  British,  fair  countenance.  Thus  St. 
VV'infrid  called  himself  Boniface  in  foreign 
countries.^  Her  father,  whose  name  was 
Thevith,  was  very  rich,  and  one  of  the  prime 
nobility  in  the  country,  being  son  toEluith, 

'  "  Winfrid,  an  ubtaincr  of  concord,  or  a  win- 
pence.  Winifrid  an  Englishman  was  by  means 
of  Charles  the  Great  unto  Pope  Gregory  the 
Second,  made  Archbishop  of  Mayence,  and  of 
the  SHid  Pone  named  Boniface. 

"  Winuefrede:  the  name  of  a  woman  all  one 
in  signification.''    Ybrsteoan. 

J.  W.  W. 


the  chief  magistrate,  and  second  man  in  the 
kingdom  of  North  Wales,  next  to  the  King. 
Her  virtuous  parents  desired  above  all  things 
to  breed  her  up  in  the  fear  of  Grod,  and  to 
preserve  her  soul  untainted  amidst  the  cor- 
rupt air  of  the  world.     About  that  time  St. 
Beuno,  a  holy  priest  and  monk,  who  is  said 
to  have  been  uncle  to  our  saint  by  the  mo- 
ther, having  founded  certain  religious  housei 
in  other  places,  came  and  settled  in  that 
neighbourhood.    Thevith  rejoiced  at  his  ar- 
rival, gave  him  a  spot  of  ground  free  from 
all  burden  or  tribute,  to  build  a  church  on, 
and  recommended  his  daughter  to  be  in- 
structed by  him  in  Christian  piety.    When 
the  holy  priest  preached  to  the  people, 
Wenefride  was  placed  at  his  feet,  and  her 
tender  soul  eagerly  imbibed  his  heavenly 
doctrine,  and  was  wonderfully  aflfected  with 
the  great  truths  which  he  delivered,  or  ra- 
ther which   God  addressed  to  her  by  his 
mouth.     The  love  of  the  sovereign  and  in- 
finite good  growing  daily  in  her  heart,  her 
affections  were  quite  weaned  from  all  the 
things  of  this  world ;  and  it  was  her  earnest 
desire  to  consecrate  her  virginity  by  vow  to 
Grod,  and  instead  of  an  earthly  bridegroom, 
to  choose  Jesus  Christ  for  her  spouse.  Her 
parents  readily  gave  their  consent,  shedding 
tears  of  joy  and  thanking  God  forherholj 
resolution.     She  first  made  a  private  vow 
of  virginity  in  the  hands  of  S.  Beuno,  and 
some  time  after  received  the  religious  veil 
from  him,  with  certain  other  pious  virgins, 
in  whose  company  she  served  God  in  a  small 
nunnery  which  her  father  had  built  for  her, 
under  the  direction  of  S.  Beuno,  near  Holy 
Well.     Afler  this,  S.  Beuno  returned  to 
the  first  monastery  which  he  had  built  at 
Clynog  Vaur,  about  forty  miles  distant,  and 
there  soon  after  slept  in  our  Lord.     Afler 
the  death  of  S.  Beuno,  S.  Wenefrede  left 
Holy  Well,  and  afler  putting  herself  for  a 
short  time  under  the  direction  St.  Daifer, 
entered  the  nunnery  of  Gutherin  in  Den- 
bighshire, under  the  direction  of  a  very  holy 
abbot,  called  Elerius,  who  governed  there  a 
double  monastery.     After  the  death  of  the 
Abbess  Theonia,  S.  Wenefrede  was  chosen 


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to  Bocoeed  her.  Caradoc,  son  of  Alain, 
prince  of  that  country,  being  yiolently  fallen 
in  love  with  her,  gave  so  far  way  to  his 
brutish  passion  for  her,  that  finding  it  im- 
possible to  extort  her  consent  to  marrj  him, 
or  gratify  his  desires,  in  his  rage  he  one 
dtj  pursued  her,  and  cut  off  her  head,  at 
the  was  flying  from  him  to  take  refuge  in 
the  church  which  St.  Beuno  had  built  at 
Holy  Well.  Robert  of  Shrewsbury  and 
some  others  add,  that  Caradoc  was  swal- 
lowed up  by  the  earth  upon  the  spot ;  that 
in  the  place  where  the  head  fell,  the  won- 
derful well  which  is  seen  there  sprang  up, 
with  pebble  stones  and  large  parts  of  the 
rock  in  the  bottom  stained  with  red  streaks, 
and  with  moss  growing  on  the  sides  under 
the  water,  which  renders  a  sweet,  fragrant 
smell ;  and  that  the  mart3rr  was  raised  to 
life  by  the  prayers  of  St.  Beuno,  and  bore 
ever  after  the  mark  of  her  martyrdom  by  a 
red  circle  on  the  skin  of  her  neck." — Ibid, 
p.  112. 


^^^N^^'^^^^^^>^>^^^S^^^^^^» 


Saint  Aignan, 

^  Saikct  Aigman  nasquit  a  Yienne  en 
Dauphine,  de  parens  riches,  nobles,  et 
Chretiens,  et  fiit  frere  de  S.  Leonian,  pere 
(l*un  grand  nombre  de  Moynes.  La  chair, 
le  monde,  et  le  diable  luy  livrerent  en  la 
fleur  de  son  age  de  furieux  assauts,  pour 
lesquels  repousser,  il  delibera  de  quitter  le 
monde,  et  s*enrooler  sous  les  enseignes  de  la 
Croix,  bastissant  luy-mesme  un  petit  Her- 
mitage hors  la  ville ;  ou  il  vescut  quelque 
temps,  chery  et  caress^  de  Dieu,  mais  mes- 
priae  et  mocquc  dc  ses  concitoyens,  qui  ne 
poavoient  gouter  une  maniere  de  vie  si 
lustere  :  car  il  prioit  sans  cesse,  jeusnoit 
estroittement,  portoit  sur  son  corps  une 
tres-rude  cilice. 

**  Ayant  ainsi  passe  quelques  annees,  il 
fut  inspire  de  Dieu  d*aller  a  Orleans.  Ses 
i^res  et  singulieres  vertus  donnerent  incon- 
tinent une  odeur  si  souefue^  en  tons  les  en- 

'  I  find  '*  souef,  suavis,"  in  Mbnagb. — It  is 
^ridendy  the  same  in  signification. 

J.  W.  W. 


droits  de  la  ville,  que  chacun  et  particuli- 
erement  S.  Euvertre,  admira  son  humilite, 
sa  patience,  son  austerite,  et  pardessus  tout 
son  incroyable  charite,  de  sorte  que  n*en 
pouvant  rencontre  un  plus  digne,  il  le  nomma 
son  successeur.  Les  Grands  de  la  ville  ne 
s*y  accordans  pas,  en  porterent  deux  des 
meilleures  families  contre  luy.  S.  Euvertre 
procura  une  assemblee  generale,  pour  mon- 
trer  que  son  election  venoit  du  Ciel,  que 
Dieu  des  son  Etemite  Tavoit  ainsi  arreste, 
et  que  la  seule  vertu  du  venerable  A.  Ty 
avoit  induit ;  et  pour  plus  les  en  assurer,  il 
fit  une  proposition  qui  fut  trouvee  bonne  de 
toute  Tassemblee ;  c*est  que  Ton  mist  sur  un 
autel  les  noms  de  ceux  qu*ils  desiroient, 
avec  celuy  de  S.  A :  et  apres  avoir  employe 
la  nuict  en  prieres,  et  celebre  le  saincte 
Messe,  *  nous  envoyerons  (dit  il)  un  enfant 
prendre  les  billets,  celuy  qu*il  tirera  le  pre-> 
mier,  sera  instale  en  mon  lieu.  Si  cela  ne 
vous  suffit,  nous  prendrons  le  Psaulticr,  et 
le  livre  des  Evangiles,  pour  voir  si  tout  ne 
se  rapporte  pas.*  Cet  advis  eetant  genc- 
ralement  receu,  Ton  possa  le  nuict  en  orai- 
son,  et  npres  la  Messe,  que  celebre  S.  £. 
Ton  prend  un  petit  enfant  qui  ne  pouvoit 
encore  parler,  pour  aller  a  Tautel.  Le  pre- 
mier billet  qu*il  tira,  fut  celuy  S.  A.  au 
grand  estonnement  de  toute  TassistancCfdis- 
tinctement  par  trois  fois  le  proclama  Eves- 
que.  On  ouvre  le  Psaultier,  on  Ton  trouva 
de  prime  abord  ce  verset^  *  Bien  heureux  est 
celuy  que  vous  avez  eleu  et  etably,  il  de- 
meurera  en  vostre  maison/  Et  au  livre  des 
Evangiles,  on  y  rencontra  cos  paroles^*  Tu 
es  Pierre,  et  sur  cette  Pierre  je  bastiray 
mon  Eglise !  *  Et  pour  fermer  entierement 
Felection,  afin  que  chacun  n*en  doutast 
plus,  S.  E.  fit  ouvrir  TApocalypse,'  ou  Ton 
trouva :  '  Personne  ne  peut  mettre  un  autre 
fondement  que  celuy  deja  pose.*  A  ces  mi- 
racles si  manifestes  personne  n*osa  resister, 
voyant  palpablcment  la  volont^  divine,  tcU 
lement  que  S.  E.  la  sacra  aussi  tost. 

"  Apres  la  mort  done  de  S.  E.    S.  A.  prit 


'  The  verse  occurs  in  1  Cor.  iii.  11. 

J.  W.  W. 


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la  charge  de  TEglise  d*Orleans,  en  laquelle 
il  se  comporta  si  dignement,  que  comme  un 
vigilant  Jardinier,  il  arrache  de  tout  son 
diocese  les  herbes  dommageables,  et  y  en 
planta  de  bonnes  ;  prechant  d*un  zele  nom- 
pareil,  visitant  les  malades,  assistant  les 
vefues,  defendant  les  orphelins,  secourant 
les  pauvres  et  particulierement  les  prison- 
niers,  desquels  il  avoit  grand  soin.  Le 
Colonel  Agrapin  n*ayant  point  voulu  a  sa 
requeste  relacher  ceux  qu*il  tenoit,  allant  a 
TEglLse  une  pierre  tomba  sur  sa  tete,  qui 
le  blesse  si  fort  que  Ton  n*en  pouvoit  etan- 
cher  le  sang,  et  n'en  attendoit  on  que  la 
mort.  Cette  affliction  desiUa  ses  yeuz,  et 
le  faisant  souvenir  de  son  injuste  refus,  pro- 
testa  d*accorder  la  requeste  du  Sainct,  le- 
quel  par  le  signe  de  la  Croix  luy  restitua  sa 
premiere  sante :  et  de  la  est  provenu  le  pri* 
vilege  qu*ont  ses  successeurs  Eveques,  de 
delivrer  les  prisonniers  le  jour  de  leur  en- 
tree. Faisant  agrandir  une  Eglise  que 
S.  E.  avoit  batie,  le  Maitre  Masson  tombe 
du  faiste  en  bas,  et  se  froisse  tellement  les 
membres,  qu*il  en  tiroit  a  la  fin  S.  A.  j  ac- 
courut,  fit  le  signe  de  la  Croix  sur  luj,  et 
le  rendit  sain. 

'*  En  ce  temps  le  cruel  Attila  sortit  des 
Mers,  resolu  de  s*emparer  des  Gaules.  Le 
saint  prelat  prevoyant  que  cette  nuee  vien- 
droit  fondre  a  Orleans,  s*en  va  a  Aries  pour 
s^aboucher  avec  (Etius,  Lieutenant  General 
de  FEmpereur  Justinian  (!)  a  luy  demander 
secours,  et  comme  une  grande  fontaine  ar- 
rouse  les  terres  par  lesquelies  elle  passe, 
ains»  en  son  chemin  il  laissa  des  marques  de 
son  heureux  voyage,  guerissant  en  beau- 
coup  de  lieux  grand  nombre  de  malades. 
Entr*autrcs  estant  loge  une  nuict  en  la  mai- 
son  de  S.  Mammert  qui  avoit  perdu  la 
parole,  et  alloit  rendre  Fesprit,  et  ayant  prie 
le  long  de  cette  nuict,  il  le  guerit  sur  le 
matin,  tant  du  corps  de  de  Tame :  car  S.  M. 
se  voue  depuis  a  Dieu,  se  separa  de  sa  femme 
par  son  consentement  et  fut  Archivesque  de 
Vienne.  A  son  retour  la  viUe  fut  inconti- 
nent assiegee,  Attila  fermant  toutes  les 
issues,  et  battant  jour  et  nuict  la  muraille 
et  avoit  il  deja  partage  le  butin  de  la  ville,  et 


fait  amas  de  beaucoup  de  chariots.^  Comme 
les  citoyens  efilrayez  eurent  recours  a  lenr 
prelat,  luy,  sans  se  soucier,  pour  le  salut 
des  siens,  sortit  de  la  ville  et  parla  a  Attila. 
Mais  ne  Tayant  pu  flechir,  il  se  mit  en  pri- 
eres,  fit  faire  des  Processions,  et  porter  par 
les  rues  les  reliques  des  saints.  Un  Prestre 
s*en  estant  mocque,  disant,  que  ccla  n^avoit 
d9  rien  profite  aux  autres  villes,  tomba 
roide  mort  sur  la  place,  portant  par  ce  moyen 
la  peine  de  son  insolente  temerite.  Apres 
toutes  ces  choses,  il  commanda  aux  habitans 
de  voir  si  le  secours  n*arrivoit  point ;  ayant 
ete  respondu  que  non,  il  se  remet  en  prieres, 
et  puis  leur  fait  mesme  commandement : 
mais  n*appercevant  point  encore  de  secours, 
pour  le  troisieme  fois  il  se  prostema  a  terre, 
les  yeux  et  Fesprit  vers  le  Ciel.  Se  sen- 
tant  exauce,  il  fait  monter  a  la  guerite  et 
luy  rapporte-t-on  que  Fon  ne  voyoit  rien  si 
non  une  grosse  nuee  de  poussiere ;  11  asseure 
que  c*etoit  le  secours  d*(Etius  et  de  Teudo 
Roy  des  (roths,  Icsquels  tardans  a  se  montrer 
a  Farmee  d*Attilla,  S.  A.  fut  divinement 
transporte  en  leur  camp,  et  les  advertit  qne 
tout  estoit  perdu,  s*ils  attendoient  au  lende- 
main.  Us  parurent  aussi-tost,  et  forcerent 
Attila  de  lever  si  h&tivement  le  siege,  que 
plusieurs  des  siens  se  noyerent  dans  la  Loire, 
d*autres  s*entretuerent  avec  regret  d*avoir 
perdu  le  ville  :  et  non  contens  de  cette  vic- 
toire,  le  poursuiverent  si  vivement  avec  le 
R.  Mcronec,  que  se  vint  joindre  a  eux,  qu'Us 
le  defirent  en  bataille  rangee  pres  de  Cha- 
lons, jonchant  la  campagne  de  180,000 
cadavres.  On  ne  pent  rapporter  la  joye 
qu*eurent  lors  ceux  d^Orleans,  ny  Festime 
qu*ils  firent  de  leur  sainct  prelate  Fappellant 
Mur  de  France,  Protecteur  de  leur  ville,  et 
vray  Pere  de  tous  les  Citoyens;  lesquels 
furent  tous  conservez,  exceptez  quelques 
incredules,  qui  tombans  entres  les  mains  de 
Fennemy,  furent  traittez  avec  cruaute.  En 

'  From  here  is  quoted  in  the  notes  to  Joan  ^ 
Arcy  fifth  book,  p.  37,  on  the  lines, 

**  St.  Aignan's  shrine 
Was  throng'd  with  suppliants,  the  general  Toice 
Call'd  on  St.  Aignan's  name  again  to  save 
His  people,  as  of  yore,"  &c.  J.  W.  W. 


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cette  mesmc  annee  Dieu  le  combla  encore 
d*une  nouvelle  fayeor ;  car  coxnme  pour  les 
ravages  des  armees  la  famine  fiit  extreme, 
par  sea  prierea  la  terre  devint  si  fertile  en 
bleda,  vina,  et  autrea  provisiona,  que  par 
tout  son  Dioceae  Ton  ne  reaaentoit  plua  lea 
pertea  de  la  guerre.** 

Two  yeara  after,  on  November  17,  "  il 
paasa  de  cette  vie  laborieuae  en  une  pleine 
de  repoa.**  He  haa  a  Church  dedicated  to 
him  at  Orleana ;  and  on  June  14,  the  day 
he  delivered  the  city,  a  featival. 

From  Le  nouveau  parterre  desjleurs  des 
viet  des  Saints,  Par  Pbbb  Ribademeiba  de 
la  Compagnie  de  Jesus ;  M.  Andre  du  Yal 
Docteur  et  Prqfesseur  du  Ray  en  Theologie^ 
et  par  Jsam  BAUDonf  Historiographe  du 
Roy,     Lyons,  1666. 


Aberfraw} 

"Abebtbaw  Palace  is  aucceeded  by  a 
barn,  in  which  are  atonea  of  better  work- 
manship than  usual  in  auch  buildinga.  Here 
was  kept  a  copy  of  the  ancient  code  of  lawa. 
Kear  it  are  frequently  found  the  Glain 
Kaidr,  or  Druid  glass  rings.  Of  theae  the 
Tolgar  opinion  in  Cornwall  and  most  parts 
of  Wales  ia,  that  they  are  produced  by 
snakea  joining  their  heada  together  and  hia- 
sing,  which  forma  a  kind  of  bubble  like  a 
ring  about  the  head  of  one  of  them,  which 
the  reat  by  continual  hiaaing  blow  on  till  it 
comes  o£r  at  the  tail,  when  it  immediately 
hardens  and  resembles  a  glass  ring.  Who- 
ever found  it  was  to  prosper  in  all  his  un- 
dertakings. These  rings  are  called  Glain 
Kadroedh  or  Gemnue  Anguinae. 

Pliny  aaya,  *'  a  great  number  of  anakea  in 
tummer  rolling  together  form  themaelves 
into  a  kind  of  mass  with  the  saliva  of  their 
mouths  and  froth  of  their  bodies,  and  pro- 
duce what  is  called  the  anguinum  or  snake*a 
egg.    The  Druids  say,  this  by  their  hissing 


(I 


Like  the  lights 


Which  them  upon  Aberfiraw'a  royal  walla 
Are  waving  with  the  wind."    Madoc^  L  i. 

J.  W.  W. 


ia  borne  up  into  the  air,  and  must  be  caught 
in  a  mantle  before  it  reachca  the  earth. 
The  peraon  who  catches  it  must  escape  on 
horseback,  for  the  snakes  will  pursue  him 
till  they  are  stopped  by  a  river.  The  proof 
of  it  is,  if  it  floats  against  the  stream  even 
when  set  in  gold.  It  must  be  caught  in  a 
certain  period  of  the  moon. 

*'  On  a  little  hill  near  Holyhead  is  a  round 
chapel  of  St.  Fraid,  of  which  the  people  can 
give  no  account,  except  that  human  bodies 
and  stone  coffins  have  been  dug  up  in  it 
within  memory,  and  it  is  still  walled  round 
for  burial.  About  one  quarter  of  a  mile 
north  of  it  on  the  hill  overlooking  Holyhead 
are  the  remains  of  a  double  Cromlech  in  the 
same  direction  as  the  rest,  and  seeming  to 
have  been  considerable.  It  is  called  Tre- 
chen  Tre  rechthre.  Tradition  says  that  a 
very  profligate  debauch^  owner  of  the  ad- 
joining farms  of  Trergow  and  Pentros,  com- 
mitted great  excesses  at  these  stones  with 
his  mistresses,  and  at  last  in  a  fit  of  rage 
murdered  them  there.  Under  the  mountain 
that  overhangs  the  town  (Holyhead),  and 
is  properly  called  the  Head,  is  a  large  ca- 
vern in  the  rock,  supported  by  natural  pil- 
lars, called  the  Parliament  Houses,  accessi- 
ble by  boats,  and  the  tide  flows  into  it.  On 
its  top  is  Caer  Twr,  a  circular  stone  wall 
without  mortar,  surrounding  its  summit  ten 
feet  with  a  wall,  probably  a  pharos.  Seve- 
ral other  like  fortifications  appear  on  the 
tops  of  the  hills  on  the  coast  in  this  island. 
In  the  Church  of  Llanedan  a  reliquary  of 
very  ordinary  grit  stone  with  a  roof-like 
cover,  the  celebrated  Maen  Mordhwyd,  or 
stone  of  the  thigh,  is  now  chained  to  the 
church  walls,  having  defied  the  orders  of 
Hugh  Lupus  to  cast  it  into  the  sea,  whence 
it  returned  to  its  usual  place. 

^*  Llandyfrydog  is  remarkable  for  an  ac- 
cident that  befel  Hugh  Earl  of  Shrewsbury, 
in  one  of  his  invasions  here ;  his  dogs  put 
in  the  Church  one  night  run  mad,  and  the 
Earl  himself  died  miserably  in  less  than  a 
month  after.** — Goiigh*8  Camden. 


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Winifred's  WeU. 

"  At  the  bottom  of  St.  Winifred's  well 
are  several  round  stones  with  red  spots,  a 
kind  of  Jungermania  moss,  odoriferous, 
which  they  pretend  stained  with  her  blood, 
and  others  on  which  grows  a  long  odoriferous 
Bissus  lolithus,  called  her  hair." — Gough's 
Camden, 

Love  of  God, 

"  The  soul  of  one  who  serves  God,"  said 
St.  John  of  the  Cross,  "  always  swims  in 
joy,  always  keeps  holyday,  is  always  in  her 
palace  of  jubilation,  ever  singing  with  fresh 
ardour  and  fresh  pleasure  a  new  song  of 
joy  and  love. 

"  Perfect  love  of  God  (said  he)  makes 
death  welcome  and  most  sweet  to  a  soul. 
They  who  love  thus,  die  with  burning  ar- 
dours and  impetuous  flights,  through  the 
vehemence  of  their  desires  of  mounting  up 
to  their  beloved.  The  rivers  of  love  in  the 
heart,  now  swell  almost  beyond  all  bounds, 
being  just  going  to  enter  the  ocean  of  love. 
So  vast  and  so  serene  are  they  that  they 
seem  even  now  calm  seas,  and  the  soul  over- 
flows with  torrents  of  joy,  upon  the  point 
of  entering  into  the  full  possession  of  God. 
She  seems  already  to  behold  that  glory,  and 
all  things  in  her  seem  already  turned  into 
love,  seeing  there  remains  no  other  prepa- 
ration than  a  thin  web,  the  prison  of  the 
body  being  abeady  broken."  ^ 

Irish  at  Rouen, 

"  With  the  English  (at  the  siege  of  Roan) 
1600  Irish  Kernes  were  enrolled,  from  the 
Prior  of  Kilmainham,  able  men,  but  almost 
naked ;  their  arms  were  targets,  darts,  and 
swords,  their  horses  little  and  bare,  no  sad- 
dle, yet  never  the  less  nimble,  on  which 
upon  every  advantage  they  plaied  with  the 

*  This  is  from  his  "  Flamma  Vivi  Amorif," 
As  both  paragraphs  occur  in  Butler's  Lives  of 
the  Saints,  no  doubt  the  extracts  are  to  be  re- 
ferred tu  that  work.     See  under  November  24. 

J.  W.  W. 


French,  in  spoiling  the  country,  rifeb'ng  the 
houses,  and  carrying  away  children  with 
their  baggage,  upon  their  cowes  backs.'*— 
Speed,  p.  638. 


\^^^^^^^^s^^%^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Arrows. 

**  The  tempests  of  arrowes  still  whisling 
in  the  aire  sparkled  fire  in  their  fals  from 
the  helmets  of  the  French,  and  with  their 
steeled  heads,  rang  manie  thousands  their 
knels  that  doleful  day." — Speed.  At  Aii*- 
eour. 

Pomp  of  an  Army, 

"  And  surely  the  beauty  and  honourable 
horrour  of  both  the  armies,  no  heart  can 
judge  of,  unless  the  eye  had  scene  it,  the 
banners,  ensigns,  and  pennons  streaming  in 
the  ayre,  the  glistering  of  armours,  the  va- 
rietie  of  colours,  the  motion  of  plumes,  the 
forrests  of  lances,  and  the  thickets  of  shorter 
weapons,  made  so  great  and  goodlie  a  show." 
— Speed,  p.  632. 

Paul  the  Hermit, 

A.  G.  350.  *'  Dans  la  Basse-Thebaide,  il 
y  avoit  un  jeune  homme,  nomme  Paul,  que 
son  p^re  et  sa  m^re  avoient  laiss^,  k  Tage 
de  15  ans,  h^ritier  d'un  grand  patrimoioe; 
il  avoit  une  socur  maride,  et  demeuroit  avec 
elle.  Son  caract^re  etoit  doux  et  sensible, 
son  esprit  cultiv^  et  rcflechi ;  il  ^toit  savant 
dans  les  lettres  Grecques  et  Egyptiennes, 
aimoit  T^tude  et  la  retraite  ;  et  p^n6tr6  des 
grandes  v^rit^  de  la  religion,  il  trouvoit  le 
bonheur  dans  la  pratique  des  vertus  qu'elle 
prescrit.  La  persecution  Tobligea  k  chercher 
un  asyle  dans  des  montagnes  ddsertes;  il 
avoit  alors  23  ans.  Paul,  attendant  la  fin  de 
la  persecution,  s'affectionna  au  genre  de  vie 
solitaire  qu'il  avoit  embrass^par  necessite :  la 
crainte  le  conduisit  dans  un  desert,  rinclioa- 
tionTyfixa.  II  s'avan^oitchaquejourdansles 
montagnes,  et  ne  s'arretoit  que  lorsque  lafati- 
gue  Tobligeoit  k  prendre  quelque  repos.  Si 
la  contemplation  de  la  natiu'e  a  des  charmes 
pour  un  philosophe,  quelle  impression  vive 


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63 


>foDde  ne  doit-elle  pas  faire  sur  un 
>e  penetr^  de  Tidee  sublime  de  TEtre 
me  qui  a  tout  cree  ?  Sans  doute  un 
ne  peut  regarder  les  merveilles  de 
ers  qu'avec  les  transports  de  Tenthou- 
; !  Ayec  quel  respect  et  quel  atten- 
ment  ne  doit-il  pas  considerer  les 
^es  de  Dieu !  Les  cieux,  la  terre,  les 
mers,  tout  lui  parle  de  Dieu,  et  tout 
9uve  sa  sagesse  et  sa  puissance.  Paul, 
avoir  err^  long- temps,  rencontra  une 
gne  de  roche  au  pied  de  laquelle  ^toit 
»acieuse  caveme ;  il  j  entra,  et  trouva 
ip^ce  de  grand  sallon,  sans  toit,  om- 
d*un  majestuedx  palmier,  et  travers^ 
le  fontatne  d*une  eau  pure  et  trans- 
je^  formant  un  ruisseau  qui  s*alloit 
i  dans  les  campagnes,  et  dont  le  mur- 
invitoit  k  cette  reverie  vague,  d^las- 
t  paisible  et  delicieux  d*un  esprit  fa- 
par  une  longue  et  profonde  medita- 
Ce  fut  dans  cette  retraite  agreable 
aul  fixa  sa  demeure ;  ce  fut  \^  que, 
ill^  de  toutes  les  frivoles  passions  hu- 
S  oubli^  des  hommes,  mais  priant  pour 
;ul,  sans  soci^t^,  mais  ajant  Dieu  pour 
I  de  ses  pcns^es,  pour  objet  de  son 
et  de  ses  esp^rances,  il  connut  le 
et  le  bonheur  qu*elle  seule  peut  pro- 
II  mourut  fig^  de  113  ans.** — Amudes 
Verbiy  p.  119. 


*^^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^At^ 


Lines  to  M.  C} 

IT !  remember  tou  ! — poor  proof  it 

ere 

mdliest  recollection,  did  I  say 

rom  the  ready  smile  and  courtly  tones 

rorthless  forms  of  cold  civility 

art  has  tum*d,  and  thought  of  you, 

id  wishM 

le  rejider  will  call  tc»  mind  the  beautiful 
Idresoed  to  Mary.    Poem*,  p.  130.    One 

• 

IBT !  ten  chequer'd  years  have  past 
e  we  beheld  each  other  last ; 
Mary,  I  remember  thee, 
canst  thou  have  forgotten  me,"  &c. 

J.  W.  W. 


That  I  were  far  from  all  the  hollow  train, 
Seated  by  your  fire  side.    But  when  I  say, 
As  true  it  is, — for  blessed  be  my  God ! 
The  phrase  of  flattery  never  yet  defiled 
My  honest  tongue ; — that  at  the  evening  hour 
When  we  do  think  upon  our  absent  friends. 
Your  image  is  before  us ;  that  whenever 
With  the  first  glow  I  read  my  finished  song 
And  feel  it  good,  I  wish  for  your  applause. 
This  sure  might  prove  that  I  remember  you, 
Tho*  far  away,  and  mingling  with  a  world 
Ah  I  how  unlike ! — ^and  when  amid  that 

world 
My  soul  grows  sick,  and  Fancy  shadows  out 
Some  blessed  solitude  where  all  is  peace. 
And  life  might  be  the  foretaste  of  the  joys 
The  good  must  meet  in  heaven,  then  by  our 

home. 
Beside  our  quiet  home,  I  seem  to  see 
A  little  dwelling,  whose  white,  woodbined, 

walls 
Look  comfort,  and  I  think  that  it  is  yours.** 

Bristol  Nov.  6,  1797. 


Chant  for  the  Feast  of  St.  John  the  Evange" 
Usty  extracted  from  a  MS. at  Amiens^  written 
about  1250.    Bubnet*s  History  of  Music, 

**  BoN  Chrestien  que  Dieu  conquist 
En  Ion  battaille,  ou  son  fil  mist, 
Oiez  le  lechion  con  vous  list. 
Que  Jhesus  le  fil  Sirac  fist. 
Sainte  Eglise  partie  en  prie, 
Et  en  cette  feste  laissist, 
De  Saint  Jehan  que  Dieu  eslit, 
Le  cousin  germain  Jhesus  Crist, 
Qui  paroles  et  fais  escript. 
Lectio  libri  sapientise. 
Jhesus  nostre  boins  avoes 
Sapience  Dieu  est  nome. 

**It  is  easy  to  suppose,**  says  the  Abbe  Lb 
Beup,  "  that  the  design  of  those  who  esta- 
blished such  chants  in  some  of  the  Churches 
of  France,  was  to  distinguish  festivals  and 
holy  times,  by  the  ornaments  and  graces 
with  which  they  were  sung.** 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


French  Musical  Instruments} 

*^  The  instrument  which  most  frequently 
served  for  an  accompaniment  to  the  harp, 
and  which  disputed  the  preeminence  with 
it  in  the  early  times  of  music  in  France, 
was  the  viol ;  and  indeed,  when  reduced  to 
four  strings,  and  stript  of  the  frets  with 
which  viols  of  all  kinds  seem  to  have  been 
furnished  till  the  sixteenth  century,  it  still 
holds  the  first  place  among  treble  instru- 
ments under  the  denomination  of  violin. 

"  The  viol  played  with  a  bow,  and  wholly 
difierent  from  the  Vielle,  whose  tones  are 
produced  by  the  friction  of  a  wheel,  which 
indeed  perfoims  the  part  of  a  bow,  was  very 
early  in  favour  with  the  inhabitants  of 
France. — ^Bubnet. 


Charles  convinced  by  the  Maid. 

"  Chables  thought  proper  to  desire  the 
Maid  to  give  him  some  unquestionable 
proofs  of  her  being  the  messenger  of  God, 
as  he  might  then  entirely  confide  in  her  ad- 
vice, and  follow  her  instructions.  Joan  an- 
swered, '  Sire,  if  I  can  discover  to  you  your 
thoughts  which  you  confided  to  God  alone, 
will  you  firmly  believe  that  I  am  his  mes- 
senger?* Charles  said  he  would.  She  then 
asked  him  if  he  remembered  that  some 
months  before,  in  the  chapel  of  his  castle 
of  Loches,  he  privately  and  alone  humbly 
begged  three  gifts  from  heaven  ?  The  king 
remembered  very  well  his  having  made  re- 
quests to  God,  which  he  had  not  since  re- 
vealed even  to  his  confessor,  and  said  that 
he  would  no  longer  doubt  of  Joan^s  divine 
legation,  if  she  could  tell  him  what  those 
intreaties  were. 

"  *  Your  first  suit  was,  then,'  replied  Joan, 
*  that  if  you  were  not  the  true  heir  to  the 
crown  of  France,  God  would  please  to  de- 
prive you  of  the  courage  and  desire  of  con- 

'  This  is  used  up  in  the  notes  to  Joan  of  Arc, 
fifth  book,  p.  37,  on  the  line, 

**  No  more  the  merry  viol's  note  was  heard." 

J.  W.  W. 


tin  ding  a  war,  in  order  to  possess  it, 
had  already  caused  so  much  bloodsh 
misery  throughout  the  kingdom.  Yc 
cond  prayer  was,  that  if  the  great  tr 
and  misfortunes  which  the  poor  inhal 
of  France  have  lately  underwent,  w€ 
punishment  of  any  sins  by  you  comi 
that  he  would  please  to  relieve  the 
of  France,  that  you  might  alone  be  p 
ed,  and  make  expiation,  either  by  da 
any  torment  he  would  please  to  inflict, 
third  desire  was,  that  if  the  sins  of  th 
pie  were  the  cause  of  their  sufierin 
would  be  pleased  in  his  divine  me 
grant  them  pardon,  ahd  deliver  then 
the  pains  and  miseries  which  they 
been  labouring  under  already  above  i 
years.*  Charles  knowing  the  truth  of 
said,  was  now  fii*mly  persuaded  thi 
was  a  divine  messenger.*' 

Extracted  from  the  Aimals  ofNort 
by  John  Naoebejl,  Canon  and  Arch* 
of  the  Church  of  Notre  Dame  at  Eon 
the  Lady's  Magazine  for  1780. 

Fairy  Tree  at  Dompre? 

"  Being  asked  whether  she  had  eve 
any  fairies,  she  answered  no ;  but  th 
of  her  godmothers  pretended  to  have 
some  at  the  fairy  tree,  near  the  vilh 
Dompre." — Rapin,  from  Pasquieb. 


The  Maid  foretold  by  a  Nun. 

*'  Chables  being  informed  that  Jc 
Arc  was  coming,  declared  that  Mariad' 
non,  a  nun,  had  formerly  told  him  H 
would  arm  one  of  her  sex  in  defei 
France.** — Rapin. 


Fort  London, 

FoBT  London  was  built  upon  the  m 
the  church  of  the  Augustines. 


'  "  There  is  a  fountain  in  the  forest  ca 
The  fountain  of  the  fairies."  &c. 

Joan  of  Arc,    First  book,  p. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOH  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


65 


The  Maid  fettered, 

^  On  her  appearance  in  court,  she  com- 
plained that  irons  Iiad  been  put  on  her  legs, 
on  which  the  bishop  reminded  her  that  she 
often  attempted  to  escape  from  prison.** — 

KlQKRAL. 

The  Maid  throws  herself  from  a  Tower, 

^  She  was  charged  with  throwing  herself 
headlong  from  the  tower,  in  order  to  kill 
herself,  whilst  she  was  prisoner  at  Beaure- 
voir.  She  confessed  the  fact,  but  said  her 
design  was  not  to  kill  herself,  but  make  her 
escape." — Rapim 

Her  favourite  ScUitts. 

St.  Cathbbime  and  St.  Margaret  were 
her  fayourite  saints. 


^/^^WVWN^«^^\^V%^^^>^^«^» 


Franquet  d^  Arras. 

Upoh  being  charged  with  putting  to  death 
Franquet  d* Arras,  her  prisoner,  she  replied 
be  was  a  known  robber,  and  condemned  to 
die  bj  the  bailiff  of  Senlis. 

Paul  the  Hermit, 

Paul  the  Hermit  clothed  himself  with  the 
leaves  of  the  palm,  eat  the  fruits,  and  drank 
of  the  spring  beside  it. 

Dufy  of  Insurrection. 

^  Alob8  il  y  a  justice,  il  y  a  n^essite  que 

les  plus  intr^pides,  les  plus  capables  de  se 

derouer,  ceux  qui  se  croient  pouryus  au 

pn^mier  degre  d'energie,  de  chaleur  et  de 

force,  de  ces  vertus  gen^reuses  sous  la  garde 

desquelles  a  6t^  remis  le  d^pdt  d*une  con- 

ititution  populaire  que  tous  les  Fran^ais 

▼raiment  libres  n*ont  jamais  oubliee ;  il  y 

talors  justice  et  necessity  que  ceux  Ik,  con- 

vimcus  d*ailleurs  que  Tinspiration  de  leur 

propre  coeur,  ou  celle  de  la  liberty  elle- 

ii^e,  qui  leur  fait  entendre  plus  fortement 

^  tout  entreprendre;  il  y  a  justice  et  n^ces- 

nte  que  d*eux-mSmes  ils  s'investissent  de  la 


dictature  de  Tinstruction,  qu*ils  en  pren- 
nent  Tinitiative,  qu*ils  revetent  le  glorieux 
titre  de  conjures  pour  la  liberty  qu'ils  s*^ri- 
gent  en  magistrats  sauveurs  de  leur  conci- 
toyens." — Baboeuf. 

Scripture  JExttxtcts. 

*'  Fob  strong  is  his  right  hand  that  bend- 
eth  the  bow,  his  arrows  that  he  shooteth 
are  sharp,  and  shall  not  miss  when  they  be- 
gin to  be  shot  into  the  ends  of  the  world.** 
2  Esdras^  xvi.  13. 

^*  The  trees  shall  give  fruit,  and  who  shall 
gather  them  ? 

'^  The  grapes  shall  ripen,  and  who  shall 
tread  them  ?  for  all  places  shall  be  desolate 
of  men.'*— 2  Esdrasy  xvi.  25,  26. 

"  O  my  people,  hear  my  word :  make  you 
ready  to  the  battle,  and  in  those  evils  be 
even  as  pilgrims  upon  the  earth.** — 2  Es- 
draSy  xvi.  40. 

^*  And  the  angel  that  was  sent  unto  me — 
said, — Thinkest  thou  to  comprehend  tlie 
way  of  the  Most  High  ? 

"  Then  said  I,  Yea,  my  Lord.  And  he 
answered  me  and  said,  I  am  sent  to  show 
thee  three  ways,  and  to  set  forth  three  si- 
militudes before  thee ; 

*'  Whereof  if  thou  canst  declare  me  one, 
I  will  show  thee  abo  the  way  that  thou  de- 
sirest  to  see,  and  I  shall  show  thee  from 
whence  the  wicked  heart  cometh. 

"  And  I  said.  Tell  on,  my  Lord.  Then 
said  he  unto  me,  Oo  thy  way,  weigh  me  the 
weight  of  the  fire,  or  measure  me  the  blast 
of  the  wind,  or  call  me  again  the  day  that 
is  past." — 2  Esdras  iv.  1 — 5. 

But  if  the  Most  High  grant  thee  to  live, 
thou  shalt  see  after  the  third  trumpet,  that 
the  sun  shall  suddenly  shine  again  in  the 
night,  and  the  moon  thrice  in  the  day. 

And  blood  shall  drop  out  of  the  wood, 
and  the  stone  shall  give  his  voice,  and  the 
people  shall  be  troubled. 

**  And  even  he  shall  rule  whom  they  look 
not  for  that  dwell  upon  the  earth,  and  the 
fowls  shall  take  their  flight  away  together.** 
—2  Esdrasy  v.  4—6. 


I 


I — 

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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


**  Let  go  from  thee  mortal  thoughts,  cast 
away  the  burdens  of  man,  put  off  now  the 
weak  nature, 

"  And  set  aside  the  thoughts  that  are  most 
heavy  unto  thee,  and  haste  thee  to  flee  from 
these  times." — 2  Esdrtu,  xiv.  14,  15. 

"  Righteous  art  thou,  O  Lord,  when  I 
plead  with  thee :  yet  let  me  talk  with  thee 
of  thy  judgments :  wherefore  doth  the  way 
of  the  wicked  prosper  ?  wherefore  are  all 
they  happy  that  deal  very  treacherously  ? 

*'  Thou  hast  planted  them,  yea,  they  have 
taken  root :  they  grow,  yea,  they  bring  forth 
fruit." — Jer.  xii.  1,  2. 

"  How  long  shall  the  land  mourn,  and 
the  herbs  of  every  field  wither,  for  the  wick- 
edness of  them  Uiat  dwell  therein?" — Jer, 
xiu  4. 

**  Yea,  the  hind  also  calved  in  the  field, 
and  forsook  it,  because  there  was  no  grass. 

'^  And  the  wild  asses  did  stand  in  the  high 
places ;  they  snuffed  up  the  wind  like  dra- 
gons ;  their  eyes  did  fail,  because  there  was 
no  grass." — Jer,  xiv.  5,  6. 


Siege  of  Orleans  from  Daniel, 

**  Nous  avons  une  lettre  de  Gui  de  Laval 
^crite  k  Madame  de  Laval  sa  mbre,  et  ^ 
Madame  de  Yitr^  son  aieule,  signee  de  lui 
ot  de  deux  autres  de  ses  freres,  ou,  apr^s 
avoir  rapport^  de  cette  fille  diverses  choses 
cxtraordinaires  dont  il  avoit  ^te  t^rooin,  il 
njoute  ces  paroles :  et  semble  chose  toute 
divine  de  son  fait,  et  de  la  voir,  et  de  Touir." 
— P.  Daniel. 

At  the  attack  of  a  Boulevard  near  the 
Tournelles,  "  on  avoit  pr^par6  de  quoi  y  re- 
sister,  des  feux  d*artifice,  de  Teau  bouil- 
lante,  dcs  pierres  d*une  grosseur  extraordi- 
naire pour  faire  rouler  sur  les  assaillans. 
L*ordre  dans  la  defense  fut  admirable,  et  le 
courage  egal.  H  n*y  eut  pas  jusqu*  aux 
femmes  qui  n*y  fussent  employees.  Cdtoient 
elles,  qui  durant  Fassaut  fbumissoient  les 
feux  d'artifice,  et  charroient  les  pierres  sur 
le  pont,  nonobstant  celles  que  lea  ennemis 
faisoient  voler  de  toutes  parts.     H  y  eut 


m^e  de  ces  femmes  qui  se  mSl^rei 
les  soldats,  et  qui  combatterent  la 
la  main  sur  la  br^he.  Le  sire  i 
mourut  de  ses  blessures  le  lendei 
Tassaut." 

Among  those  who  threw  themsel 
Orleans,  Daniel  mentions,  ^'  Giresj 
valier  de  Rhodes,  Coarase  Grent 
Gascon,  Chapelle  Gentilhomme  de  '. 
gens  de  valeur  et  de  reputation 
guerre." 

^*  Le  principaux  ^toient  le  Comtc 
folc,  les  Seigneurs  Talbot,  de  Scale 
et  un  nomm^  Glacidas  ou  Clacidas 
m^rite  suppliant  k  la  naissance,  Yb 
parvenir  aux  premieres  charges  de  1 

Of  the  forts  he  says,  "  II  y  en  ai 
principales,  une  'k  la  porte  de  Sail 
qu*ils  nommoient  Paris :  la  second) 
appelld  les  douze  Pairs,  quails  noi 
Londres ;  et  la  troisi^me  en  un  en< 
pell6  le  Pressoir,  qu*ils  nomm^renl 
Us  s*emparerent  de  Tisle  appell^ 
magne,  qu*ils  fortifierent,  et  oh  ils 
pont  de  conmiunication,  pour  jo 
camp  de  la  Sologne  avec  le  can 
Beausse. 

L*artillerie  ^toit  tr^  bien  servit 
canonnier  Lorrain  appelle  comm 
Maitre  Jean,  s*y  distingua  par  son 
car  quoique  cet  art.  fikt  alors  encore 
forme,  ce  Canonnier  ne  manquoit  p 
ceux  sur  lesquels  il  tiroit.  II  y  eut 
sion  d*armes  le  jour  de  Noel ;  et  c 
les  assi^^s  en  etant  pries  par  les 
leur  envoy^rent  des  Musiciens  et  < 
eurs  d*instrumens  pour  cdl^brer  la 
une  de  leurs  Bastilles ;  mais  la  let 
pas  plutdt  passee,  que  les  hostilit^i 
menc^rent." — Ibid. 

Oath  of  Fastolp 

"  I  PBAT  you  sende  me  worde  w 
be  so  hardy  to  keck  agen  you  in  n 

'  See  Paston  Letters.     Note  on  the 

"  Fastolfe,  all  fierce  and  haughty  as  1 

Joan  cf  Are,    Book 

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And  sej  hem  on  my  half  that  they  shall  be 
qwjt  as  ferre  as  law  and  reason  wolle. 

"  And  yff  they  woUe  not  dredde  ne  obbey 
that,  then  they  shall  be  quyt  by  Blacberd 
or  Whyteberd,  that  ys  to  sey,  by  God  or 
the  Deyyll." — Fastolf. — Original  letters 
written  under  H.  VI.  and  R.  ILL.  edited  by 
John  Fenn. 


^^\^^W^^^^^^^^^^^k^^k^^te 


VUion  of  the  Maid  in  the  Chapel. 

^  Hahc  virginenif  contigit  pascendo  pe- 
cora  in  sacello  quodam  vilissimo,  ad  decli- 
nandam  pluviam  obdormire ;  quo  in  tempore 
risa  est  se  in  somnis  a  Deo  qui  se  ill!  osten- 
derat  admoneri. 

^  Haec  igitur  Janna  Pulcella  virgo,  cum 
magnam  gloriam  in  armis  esset  adepta,  et 
regnum  Francorum  magn&  ex  parte  deper- 
ditunif  e  manibus  Anglorum  pugnando  eri- 
poisset ;  in  su&  florenti  estate  constituta,  non 
lolum  se  morituram,  sed  et  genus  suae  mor- 
tis cunctis  prsedixit.** — Jacobus  Beboo- 
MSRsis  de  elari*  mid.  edited  by  Jo.  Rayisius 
TsxTOK.     Palais,  1521. 


^>i^>^S^^^S^*^I^S^*^S0^S^^^^*^»^S^ 


Breakifig  her  Sicord, 

^  CoNSECBATO  Rcgc  rcdintegratum  est 
belllgeran(U  desiderium  It  Jan&  subtristi, 
quod  ensem,  quern  tantoper^  amabat,  frcgis- 
set  qaando  paulo  yiolentius,  terrendi  tantum 
gratil,  quasdam  impudicas  foeminas  quate- 
ret,  quas  procul  a  castris  esse  antea  edixe- 
rat" —  Stephanus  Fobc atulus. — Quoted 
in  Hcroinae  nobilissimse  Joannse  Dare  Lo- 
^uiringa  Yulgo  Aureliansis  Puelle  Historia. 
Authore  Joanne  Hordal.  ser.  duels  Loth. 
Consiliario,  &c.     Ponti-Mussi.  1612. 


W^f^^W^^^^^^^^^W^fV^^^/V^Mk 


Boat  like  an  £agle, 

**  Aux  rayons  mourans  de  la  lumi^  pfile, 
Tons  les  yeux  ^tonnez  virent  sur  Fonde 

%ale 
Un  spacieux  Esquif  en  Aigle  fa^nn^ 
Et  dont  le  mast  superbe  est  de  Lis  couronn^ : 
liUt  qni  de  la  nature  heureusement  se  jouS, 
Hit  la  queuS  It  la  pouppe,  et  la  teste  k  la 

prou^. 


Le  jaune  ^lat  des  'Lis  dont  son  corps  est 

sem^ 
Jusque  sous  les  flots  mSme  est  en  plumes 

form^, 
Et  le  mobile  azur  de  ses  voiles  tremblantes 
Figure  k  tons  les  yeux  des  ailes  tremous- 

santes; 
On  croit  le  voir  voler,  tant  la  rame  et  le  vent 
S*accordent  k  mouvoir  cet  oyseau  decevant.** 
Chablemaqne  be  COUBTIII.^ 


Vision  in  the  Chapel, 

BoNFiNius,  lib  8  decadis,  "  Joanna  Gel- 
lica  Puella  dum  oves  pascit,  tempestate  co- 
acta  in  proximum  sacellum  confugit,  ibi 
obdormiens  liberandse  Grallise  mandalum  di- 
vinitus  accepit." — Hobdal. 

St  Cacilia, 

*^DiEBU8  ac  noctibus  (divo  Ambrosio 
teste)  k  divinis  colloquiis  orationeq;  minimi 
cessabat :  ita  ut  etiam  angelum  suum,  suiq; 
corporis  et  propositi  custodem,  seepius  vi- 
dere  et  alloqui  commeruerit.  Proposuerat 
quidem  Cascilia  virgo,  in  primis  divino  af- 
flata  spiritu,  quadam  suse  mentis  intcgritate, 
superato  omni  camis  aculeo,  constantissimo 
pectore  onminb  corpus  suum  a  contagione 
hominis  in  mortem  usque  servare.  A  pa- 
rentibus  itaq;  aliquamdiu  ante,  Valeriano 
cuidam  nobilissimo  Patritio,  acriq;  juveni 
Romano  desponsata  fuit  C.  virgo.  Ex  more 
sunt  dilatffi  nuptise.  Eratq;  ipsa  C.  quftdam 
incomparabili  pulchritudine,  ob  venustatem 
formee  plurimum  diligenda,  inerat  et  inge- 
nium  peregregium,  ac  sermo  blandus  et  dl- 
sertus,  modestissimusq.  Cumq;  tardius  nup- 
tisB  Cascilise  irent  in  votum,  ardentissimus 
juvenis  k  parentibus  conjugium  instantis- 
simb  expostulare  caepit.  C.  vero,  ut  prse- 
missum  est,  ad  camem  subtus  cilicio  indue- 
batur,  desuper  autem  vestibus  auro  contex- 
tis  tegebatur ;  nee  ut  optabat  amorem  sui 
cordis  in  deum  indiciis  evidentibus  poterat 

'  Did  the  serpent  of  Urgenda  produce  Cha- 
pelain's  dragon  and  this  eagle  ? 


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aperire.     Quid  multa?   venit  dies  in  qud 
thalamus  coUocatus  est ;  et  cantantibus  or- 
ganis,  ilia  in  corde  suo  soli  domino  hymnum 
decantabat,dicens,  ^Fiat  cor  mcum  et  coq)U8 
meum  domine  immaculatum,  ut  non  con- 
fundar.*     Et  biduanis  ac  triduanis  jejuniis 
orans,  commendabat  domino  quod  tiiuebat. 
Invitabat  angelos  precibus,  lacrymisq;  in- 
terpellabat  apostolos,  et  sancta  agmina  om- 
nia Christo  famulantia  exorabat,  ut   suis 
eam  deprecationibus  adjuvarent,  suamq;  do- 
mino pudicitiam  oommendarent.     Sed  cum 
haec  agerentur,  venit  nox  in  qud  suscepit 
unk  cum  sponso  suo  secreta  cubilis  silentia. 
Et  ut  erat  ingenio  celebri  vegeta,  sermoneq; 
diserto,  his  sermonibus  suavissimis  sponsum 
alloquitur.  *0  dulcissime  atq;  amantissime 
juvenis,  est  sccretum  quod  tibi  confitear; 
si  modo  tu  juratus,  asseras  tota  illud  obser- 
vantii  custodire.*    V.  illico  jurat,  se  illud 
nulld  ratione,  null&  necessitate  detegere. 
Tunc  ilia  ait,  ^Angelum  Dei  habeo  amato- 
rem,  qui  nimio  zclo  custodit  corpus  meum. 
Hie  si  vel  leviter  senserit,  quod  tu  me  pol- 
luto  amore  contingas,  statim  contra  te  fu- 
rorem  suum  exagitabit,  et  amittes  florem 
tuffi  gratissimie  juventutis.     Si  autem  cog- 
noverit,   quod  me   sincero  et  immaculato 
amore  diligas,  et  virginitatem  meam  inte- 
gram  et  illibatam  custodios,  ita  quoque  di- 
liget  te  sicut  et  me,  et  ostendet  tibi  gratiam 
suam.*  Ejus  igitur  verbis  suavissimis  et  sa- 
pientissimis,  ac  Dei  nutu  permotus  V.  spon- 
8U8,  illico  dixit,  *  Rect^  pi^  ac  sancte  dicis. 
Sed  si  vis  ut  credam  sermonibus  tuis,  os- 
tende  mihi  ipsum  angelum.   Et  si  ver^  pro- 
bavero  quod  angelus  Dei  sit,  confestim  quod 
hortatis  faciam.     Si  autem  virum  alium  di- 
ligis,  te  et  ilium  interficiam.*    Tunc  beata 
C.  dixit,  *Si  consiliis  meis  promittis  te  ac- 
quiescere,  et  pemiittas  te  purificari  fonte 
perenni,  et  credas  unum  deum  esse  in  cselis, 
vivum  et  verum,  poteris  eum  videre.'    Dicit 
ei  V.  *  Et  quis  erit  qui  me  purificet,  ut  ego 
angelum  videam  ? '  respondit  ei  C.  *  Est  Se- 
nior qui  novit  purificare  homines,  ut  mere- 
antur  videre  angelos/    Dicit  ei  V.  *  Et  ego 
ubi  hunc  inveniam  senera?'  respondit  C. 
'Ibis  in  tertium  ab  urbe  miliarium,  via  qusB 


Appia  nuncupatur :  illic  nonnullos  pauperes 
k  transeuntibus  aux ilium  expostulantes  in- 
venies,  de  quibus  mihi  semper  magna  cura 
extitit ;  eisdero  meam  in  primis  ex  nomine 
meo  dabis  salutationem,  dicens,  C.  me  ad 
vos  misit,  ut  sanctum  senem  Urbanum  mihi 
ostendatis,  quia  ad  ilium  habeo  secreta  qute 
perferam.  Hunc  tu  dum  videris,  indicabis 
quae  inter  nos  sunt  commentata.  Is  dum  te 
purificaverit  etiam  vestimentis  candidissimis 
te  induct.  Cum  quibus  mox  ut  hoc  cubi- 
culum  intraveris  indutus,  angelum  sanctum 
etiam  tui  amatorem  efiectimi,  invenies; 
qui  omnia  quseob  eo  poposceris  tibi  donabit/ 
Tunc  V.  accedens  omnia  quse  eadem  C. 
praedixerit  invenit.  Qui  Caeciliie  verba  Ur- 
bano  latitanti  in  sepulchris  referens,  gaudio 
magno  exhilaratus,  genibus  in  terri  pros- 
tratus,  manibus  expansis  cum  lacrymis  dixit. 
*  Domine  J.  C.  pastor  bone,  seminator  casti 
consilii,  suscipe  seminum  fructus,  quos  in 
C.  famulS  tu&  seminasti.  Domine  J.  C.  pas- 
tor bone,  C  famula  tua,  quasi  apis  mellifera 
tibi  deservit.  Nam  sponsum  quem  quasi  le- 
onem  ferocem  accepit,  ad  te  quasi  agnum 
mansuetissimum  destinavit.  Iste  hue  nbi 
credidisset  minimi  venisset.  A  peri  igitur 
mi  domine  cordis  ejus  januam  tu^  gratlA, 
ut  te  creatorem  suum  cognoscens,  diabolo 
et  idolis  ejus  renuntiet.*  Hsbc  et  his  siinilia 
sancto  episcopo  orante,  h  vestigio  ant€  ipsos 
senior  indutus  niveis  vestibus  apparuit,  qui 
in  manibus  tenebat  librum  aureis  Uteris 
scriptum.  Quem  videns  V.  mox  nimio  tre- 
more  correptus,  in  terram  quasi  exanimis 
cecidit.  Quem  senior  elevans  blandis  ser- 
monibus dixit,  *Fili  toUe  et  lege  hujus  co- 
dicis  textum  et  crede,  ut  purificatus  mere- 
aris  videre  sanctum  angelum  quem  tibi 
sponsa  tua  C.  repromisit.*  Scripturas  autem 
verba  haec  erant,  Unus  deus,  una  fides,  imum 
baptisma,  unus  deus  et  pater  omnium,  qui 
est  super  omnia  et  in  omnibus  nobis.  Se- 
nior autem  interrogans  V.  expostulavit  an 
adhuc  in  fide  hsesitaret,  cui  ille,  magn&  voce 
exclamans,  inquit,  *Nil  est  profectb  sub  c<rl« 
verius  quod  credi  queat.*  Turn  pontifex  U. 
y.  de  fidei  reguU  edoctum,  baptizatumq; 
ac  candidis  vestimentis  indutum,  Isetum  ad 


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lisit.  Reversus  igitur  V.  C.  orantem 
;ublculuin  invenit,  et  juxta  earn  an- 
domlni  stantcm,  pennis  fulgentibus 
abentem,  flammeoq;  aspectu  radian- 
ic  duas  coronas  aureas  gestantem. 
e  unam  C.  alteram  vero  V.  dedit,  in- 
,  *Istas  coronas  mundo  corde  et  im- 
ito  corpore  custodite,  quia  eas  de  pa- 
Dei  Tobis  attuli.  Et  hoc  vobis  erit 
3,  quia  ab  aliis  videri  minime  pote- 
lisi  quibus  castitas  ita  placuerit,  sicut 
)is  probatum  est  placuisse.*  ** — J.  P. 

»MEMSIS. 

suffered  martyrdom  under  Severus. 


•>/^^^^W^^^^N^^^S^^V\^^^^/\ 


hecy  (hat  the  Queen  of  Sweden  shall 
talk  Cheeky  ^. 

EB  some  hundred  lines  of  prophetical 
rric  upon  Christina  of  Sweden,  Sou- 
proceeds  : 

'entendra  parler  le  langage  d*Atique, 

ge  tout  ensemble,  et  doux  et  magni- 

lue, 

mes  aussi  beaux,  enchantant  les  es- 

•its, 

dans  le  Lycee  elle  Tavoit  apris. 
ntendra  parler  le  langage  d*Auguste, 
facilement,  aussi  bien,  aussi  juste, 

le  grand  Virgile,  ou  le  grand  Ciceron 
It  repass^  Teau  de  leur  faux  Acheron. 
Qtendra  parler  le  langage  de  France, 
;ant  de  justesse,  avec  tant  d'elegance, 
tant  d*ornemen8  que  ses  plus  grands 
itheurs 

t  ses  enyieux,  ou  ses  adorateurs. 
Qtendra  parler  le  langage  d'Espagne, 

la  gravite  qui  toujours  Taccompagne, 
nme  si  le  Tage  et  sa  superbe  cour 
at  reqeu  Fhonneur  de  luj  donner  le 
)ur. 

ntendra  parler  cette  langue  polie, 
alors  usera  la  fameuse  Italic, 
lYCC  tant  de  grace  et  de  facilite. 
en  verra  le  Tybre,  et  TAme  cpou- 
entd, 


On  Tentendra  parler  tous  ces  autres  Ian- 
gages, 

Dont  les  peuples  du  Nord  parlent  sur  leur 
rivages."  Axabic. 


^^/>^\/VS^^N/\/N/\*VN^^fc^*^^/'V\ 


St,  Margaret 

Op  St.  Margaret  I  find  recorded  by  Beb- 
ooMEif  SIS,  that  she  called  the  Pagan  Pnefect 
an  impudent  dog ;  that  she  was  thrown  into 
a  dungeon  where  a  horrible  dragon  swal" 
lowed  her ;  that  she  crossed  herself,  upon 
which  the  dragon  immediately  burst  and 
she  came  out  safe,  and  that  she  saw  the 
Devil  standing  in  the  comer  like  a  black 
man,  and  seized  him  and  threw  him  down. 


St  PetramOa, 

St.  Pstbontlla  was  daughter  of  the 
Apostle  Peter.  The  exceedin^:  beauty  of  the 
maid  alarmed  the  Apostle,  and  he  suffered 
her  to  be  very  ill,  till  she  could  not  rise 
from  her  bed  for  weakness.  It  chanced  that 
some  disciples  visited  him,  and  one  of  them 
called  Titus  asked  him  why,  as  he  cured  so 
many  persons  miraculously,  he  did  not  cure 
his  daughter.  Peter  replied  that  it  was 
better  not ;  but  reflecting  that  they  might 
suppose  it  was  for  want  of  the  powei:,  he 
said,  *'*'  Rise  Petronilla,  and  wait  upon  us,**  and 
the  maiden  rose  and  waited  upon  them  as 
in  health.  And  when  she  had  finished  wait- 
ing upon  them,  Peter  said,  *'  Go  to  bed  again, 
Petronilla,"  and  her  debility  returned. — 
Beboomensis. 


Speech  of  the  Maid  to  the  Children, 

**  VLmc  ubi  dicta  refert,  oculb  post  terga 

reflexis 
Despicit  ingentem  turbse  puerilis  acervum ; 
Infremuere  art  us,  lacrymisq;  effatur  obortis, 
O  claram  pubem,  o  longe  melioribus  annis 
Servandos  juvenes,  quos  non  manet  ista  pa- 

rentum 
Pauperies,  plcnie  o  fruituros  munere  pacis, 
Qua;  vobis  olim  nostro  Fata  sanguine  surget: 


70-  IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Eyocor  in  pugnam ;  dubio  sed  murmure  lie- 

vtim 
Nescio  quid  mentem  circunstrepit ;  baud 

mihi  tanto 
Curarum,  postquam  patrio  de  limine  veni, 
Incubuit  moles,  si  mens  pnesaga  sinistros 
Nuntiet  eventus,  si  vel  me  occnmbere  leto 
Sors  Telit,  bostilisve  manus  sub  yincnla  duci, 
Huic  aninue  impertite  preces  o  chara  juven- 

tus! 
Gemite  quod  vestrft  pro  libertate  puellam 
Non  pudet  armatA  toties  confligere  deztrl 
Nostra  Caledonias  sic  terrent  signa  cobortes, 
Ut  me  jamdudnm  rapido  deroTerit  igni 
Betbfortus,  pactoq;  suos  ezasperet  auro, 
In  nostrum  caput,  ut  captam  vel  funere 

mersam 
Aspiciant  Angli,  atq;  animos  formidine 

solvant. 
Haud  tamen  "k  coepto  desistam  munere,  do- 
nee 
Segreget  k  castris  qui  me  Deus  anna  coegit 
Sumere,et  usque  sequar  dominum  quocunq; 

vacantem.** 

Valbbandus  Vabaicius. 


AUain  Blanchard, 

**  Cautum  est  de  duobus  tamen  antistitis 
urbis,  videlicet  illo  vicario,  qui  contra  re- 
gem  excommunicationis  sententiam  teme- 
rari^  tulerat,  ut  scilicet  in  vinculis  regi  plec- 
tendus  daretur,  qui  post  urbis  deditionem, 
ut  dictum  est,  in  tenebris  et  carcere  miser^ 
vitam  finivit,  et  alio  quodam  Alano  Blaun- 
cbard,  qui  statim  dedito  Rothomago  cruci 
est  affixus/* — Titus  Livius*  Faro^Jidietuis, 


Etymology  of  Francus, 

**  Adonc  Francus,  qui  seul  maistre  com- 

mande. 
En  se  bravant  au  milieu  de  la  bande, 
Voulant  sa  main  d*une  lance  cbarger, 
D*Astyanax  en  Francus  fit  cbanger 
Son  premier  nom,  en  signe  de  vaillance, 
Et  des  soldats  fut  nororo^  Porte-lance, 
Phere'enchos,  nom  des  peuples  vaincus 
Mai  prononce  et  dit  depuis  Francui : 


Lance  qui  fut  It  nos  Francois  commune 
Depuis  le  temps  que  la  bonne  Fortune 
Fit  aborder  en  Gaule  ce  Troyen 
Pour  J  fonder  le  mur  Parisien." 

La  Fbahciadb. 


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Boyal  Privilege  ofpurchasifig  a  Prieoner 

in  France. 

**  Je  trouve  que  ce  fut  une  coustume 
ancienne  en  France,  que  toutesfois  et  quantes 
que  la  ran^on  de  guerre  excedoit  dix  milk 
livres,  le  prisonnier  appartenoit  au  Roy,  en 
pajant  par  luj  les  dix  mille  liTres  au  mais- 
tre du  prisonnier,  pour  le  moins  le  tire-je 
d*un  passage  qui  me  semble  It  ce  propos 
fort  notable.  Quand  Jeanne  la  Pucelle  fiit 
prise  devant  Compeigne  par  le  Bastard  de 
Vendosme,  qui  en  saisit  Messire  Jean  de 
Luxembourg,  Tun  des  principaux  faToris 
du  Due  de  Bourgougne,  TEvesque  de  Bean- 
yais  les  interpella  de  la  mettre  entre  ses 
muns,  a  fin  de  luy  faire  et  parfaire  sou 
proc^^  comme  ajant  est^  prise  en  et  sa 
dedaxis  de  son  diocese.  Pour  les  inyiter  I 
ce  faire  il  dit  que  le  Roy  Henry  ofiroit  de 
bailler  a  J.  de  Lux.  6000  livres,  et  assignes 
au  Bast,  de  V.  300  livres  de  rente  de  son 
estat.  Qui  n*estoit  point  peu  de  recompense 
Il  Tun  et  k  Tautre,  en  esgard  k  la  pauvrete 
et  disette  qui  estoit  proveniie  de  la  lon- 
gueur des  guerres :  puis  11  adjouste  dedans 
Facte  de  soromation  ces  mots ;  et  oii  par  la 
maniere  avant  dite,  ne  vueillent,  on  soient 
contens  d*obtemper  li  ce  que  dessus  com- 
bien  que  la  prise  d*icelle  femme  ne  soit  sem- 
blable  a  la  prise  du  roj  Princes,  ou  autres 
de  grand  estat,  lesquels  toutefois  se  pris 
estoient,  ou  aucun  de  tel  estat,  fut  Roy,  le 
Dauphin,  ou  autres  princes,  le  Roj  les 
pourroit,  s*il  vouloit,  selon  le  droict  usance 
et  coustume  de  France  avoir  mojennant 
10,000  livres,  le  dit  Evesque  et  requiertles 
dessusdits  au  nom  que  dessus  que  ladite 
Pucelle  luj  soit  delivree  en  baillant  seurete 
de  ladite  somme  de  dix  mil  francs,  pour 
toutes  choses  quelconque." — Des  Recherchet 
de  la  France^  D^Estiennb  Pasquibe,  4to. 
Paris,  1611. 


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71 


Tale  of  Charlemagne  and  his  Mistress. 

^' Francois  Petkabque,  fort  renomm^ 
entre  les  Poetes  Italiens,  diBCOurant  en  une 
epistre  son  voyage  de  France  et  de  TAlle- 
maigne,  nous  raconte  que  passant  par  la 
Tille  d*Aiz,  il  apprit  de  quelques  Prestres 
nne  histoire  proidOgieuse  qu*  ils  tenoient  de 
main  en  main  poar  tres  veritable.  Qui  es- 
toit  que  Charles  le  Grand  apres  avoir  con- 
queste  plusieurs  pays,  8*esperdit  de  telle 
fiQon  en  Tamour  d*une  simple  femme,  que 
mettant  tout  honneur  et  reputation  en  ar- 
riere,  il  oublia  non  seulement  les  affaires  de 
son  rojaume,  mais  aussi  le  soing  de  sa  pro- 
pre  personne,  au  grand  desplaisir  de  chacun ; 
estant  seulement  ententif  k  courtiser  ceste 
Dame:  laquelle  par  bonheur  commen^a  k 
s'aliter  d*une  grosse  maladies  qui  luy  ap- 
porta  la  mort.  Dont  les  Princes,  et  grands 
Seigneurs  fort  resjouis,  esperans  que  par 
ceste  mort,  Charles  reprendroit  comme  de- 
vant  et  ses  esprits  et  les  affaires  du  rojraume 
en  main :  toutesfois  il  se  trouva  tcllement 
infatue  de  cest  amour,  qu*encores  cheris- 
0oit-il  ce  cadaver,  Tembrassant,  baisant,  ac- 
colant  de  la  mesme  faQon  que  devant,  et  au 
lieu  de  prester  Toreille  aux  legations  qui 
luj  survenoient,  il  Tentretenoit  de  mille 
b^es,'  comme  s*il  eust  este  plain  de  vie.  Ce 
corps  conunenQoit  deja  non  seulement  k  mal 
ientir,  mais  aussi  se  toumoit  en  putrefac- 
tion, et  neantmoins  n'y  avoit  aucun  de  ses 
favoris  qui  luy  en  osast  parler :  dont  advint 
que  TArchevesque  Turpin  mieux  advis^ 
qae  les  autres,  pourpensa  que  telle  chose  ne 
pouvoit  estre  advenue  sans  quelque  sorcel- 
lerie.  An  mojen  dequoj  espiant  un  jour 
Theure  que  le  Roy  8*estoit  absente  de  la 
chambre  commen^a  de  foiiiller  le  corps  de 
toutes  parts,  finalement  trouva  dans  sa  bou- 
che  au  dessous  de  sa  langue  un  anneau  qu'il 

'  I  suppose  this  refers  to  the  phrase  *'  re- 
piltre  de  baya  quelqu'un."  See  Le  Duchat 
tpad  Menage  in  v.  who  quotes  from  the  Ro- 
MottRt  of  the  Rose. 

**  Ah  fere  vou$  bayet 

o  ct  <pii  ne  jteui  advenir** 

J.  W.  W. 


luy  osta.  Le  jour  mesme  Charlemaigne  re- 
toumant  sur  ses  premieres  brisees,  se  trouva 
fort  estonn^  de  voir  une  carcasse  ainsi  pu- 
ante.  Parquoy,  comme  s'il  se  fust  resveill^ 
d*un  profond  sommeil,  commanda  que  Ton 
Tensevelbt  promptement.  Ce  qui  fut  fait ; 
mais  en  contr*  eschange  de  ceste  folic,  il 
touma  tons  ses  pensemens  vers  TArcheves- 
que  porteur  de  cest  anneau,  ne  pouvant 
estre  de  \k  en  avant  sans  luy,  et  le  suivant 
en  tous  les  endroits.  Quoy  voyant  ce  sage 
Prelat,  et  craignant  que  cest  anneau  ne 
tombast  en  mains  de  quelque  autre,  le  jetta 
dans  un  lac  prochain  de  la  ville.  Depuis 
lequel  temps  on  dit  que  ce  Roy  se  trouve 
si  espris  de  Tamour  du  lieu,  qu*il  ne  desem- 
para  la  ville  d*Aix,  oii  il  bastit  un  Palais, 
et  un  Monastere,  en  Tun  desquels  il  parfit 
le  reste  de  ses  jours,  et  en  Tautre  voulut 
estre  ensevely,  ordonnant  par  son  testament 
que  tous  les  Empereurs  de  Rome  eussent  \ 
se  faire  sacrer  premierement  en  ce  lieu/* — 
Pasquieb. 


^^V%^rf^^^^^^^^«^^^^M^^^ 


Christening  of  Clovis, 

^^  Lbs  Prestres  vont  devant,  accompagnant 
la  croiz, 

Et  tout  Fair  retentit  d*harmonieuses  voiz. 

De  suite  apres  le  dais,  en  deux  files  ^ales, 

Marchent  d*un  grave  pas  les  Princesses  roy- 
ales. 

Le  Peuple  les  admire,  et  s*epand  k  Fentour, 

Et  de  confuses  voix  benit  cet  heureux  jour. 

Les  festons  ornez  d*or,  parent  les  portes 
doubles ; 

Le  passage  est  press^plein  d*agr^bles  trou- 
bles. 

Les  murs  sont  revestus  de  longs  tapb  divers, 

De  sable  et  de  rameaux  les  pavez  sont  con- 
verts. 

On  void  de  lieux  en  lleux,  dans  les  places 
publiques, 

De  grands  arcs  de  triomphe,  et  de  larges 
portiques. 

Oil  les  combats  du  Roy,  de  rang  sont  figurez, 

Dans  un  bel  ordre  ^al  de  cartouches  dorez. 

Eufin  la  belle  pompe  arrive  aux  portes  am- 
ples 


72 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


De  ce  temple  fameux,  le  plus  heureux  des 

temples, 
Qui  vid  laver  Terreur  des  antiques  Francois, 
Et  garde  encor  le  droit  de  sacrer  tous  nos 

Roys. 
Clovis  toume  ses  jeux  vers  ses  troupes  vail- 

lantes, 
Et  fait  entendre  aux  chefs  ces  paroles  char- 
mantes. 
Mes  compagnons,  dit  il,  roon  heur  est  im- 

parfait, 
Si  vous  ne  faites  tous  le  serment  que  j*ay 

fait. 
Je  m*en  vay  dans  ce  temple  ^  Christ  volier 

mon  ame, 
Qu*icy  de  vostre  Roy  Pexemple  vous  en- 

flamme. 
Vostre  ardeur  m*a  todjours  suiyy  dans  les 

combas, 
Quand  je  gagne  le  ciel,  ne  m*abandonnez 

pas. 

Qulttons,  genereux  Francs,  toute  Idole  pro- 
fane, 
Jupiter,  et  Mercure,  et  Pallas,  et  Diane. 
Qu*k  jamais  tous  ces  noms  soient  bannis  de 

nos  coeurs, 
Pour  suivre  le  seulDieu  qui  nous  a  fait  vain - 

queurs. 
Alors  paroist^  Lisois,  qui  devant  tous  s*a- 

vance. 
Nous  te  suivrons  par  tout,  6  gloire  de  la 

France, 
Dit  il  haussant  sa  voix.    Nous  quittons  les 

faux  Dieux 
Jadis  hommes  mortels,  et  pcu  dignes  de 

cieux. 
Nous  croyons  d*un  seul  Dieu  T^temellc 

puissance, 
Et  Christ  qui  d*une  Yierge  en  terre  prit 

naissance. 
Tous  reprennent  soudain,  nous  quittons  les 

faux  Dieux, 
Nous  te  suivons  en  terre,  et  te  suivrons  aux 

cieux. 
Ces  mots  sont  repetez  de  mille  voix  ensem- 
ble, [ble, 
Du  temple  resonnant  toute  la  vo^te  en  trem- 

'  Tout  cecy  est  de  rhistoire. 


Et  la  foule  Chrestienne,  6meu(3  en 

temps, 
De  joye  ^pand  des  pleurs,  et  des  c 

tans. 
Clovis  avec  Remy  s'ayance  vers  le 
On  y  void  tous  les  Francs  entrer  Ik 

emple. 
Aussi-tost  ^  genoux  ils  reverent  Is 
Tous  adorent  le  Verbe,  et  de  cceur  et 
Remy  commence'  un  chant,  les  pn 

secondent. 
Cent  Toix  benissent  Dieu,  les  orgu 

repondent." 

Clovis,  ou  La  France  Chi 
par  Desmarbsts. 


Letters  conveyed  by  Pilgrims 

Wfi  see  in  one  of  the  original  letti 
lished  by  Fenn,  how  little  intercou 
kept  up  between  one  part  of  the  li 
and  another ;  no  opportunity  perhapi 
occurred  of  sending  a  letter  from  I 
to  London,  unless  at  the  time  of  t 
Another  thing  strikes  us,  which  is, 
that  pilgrims  were  of  in  conveying 
gence. 

Fastolf, 

Hembt  Windsob  gives  a  bad  char 
Fastolf,  *'  hit  is  not  unknoon  that  cri 
vengible  he  hath  byn  ever,  and  for  tl 
parte  with  ante  pite  and  mercy.  I 
more  but  wide  et  corripe  eum,  for  t 
cannot  bryng  about  his  matiers  in  tl 
(world)  for  the  word  is  not  for  hym. 
pose  it  wolnot  chaunge  yetts  be  lil 
but  I  beseche  you,  sir,  help  not  to 
hym  onely,  but  every  other  man  yf 
any  mo  mysse  disposed." — Fbnn. 

In  1455  the  government  were  ii 
to  Fastolf,  £4083  15«.  7^rf.  for  co 
charges  during  his  services  in  '. 
"  whereof  the  sayd  F.  hiderto  hath  hi 
ther  payement  nor  assignacion.^ 


»♦ 


'  S.  Ilcmy  commenca  lo  Te  Deui 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


73 


Epitaph  by  Bellay. 

"  QuA8  polios  decuit  nostro  te  inferre  sepul- 
chro 
Petronilla,  tibi  spargimus  has  lacrimas. 
Spargimus  has  lacrimas,  moesti  monumenta 
parentis, 
£t  tibi  pro  thalamo  stemimus  hone  tu- 
mulum. 
Sperabam  genitor  taedas  prseferre  jogales, 

£t  titulo  patris  juDgere  nomen  avi. 
Heu  gener  est  Orcus,  quique,  O  dulcbsima, 
per  te 
Se  sperabat  avum,  desinit  esse  pater.** 

JOACHIMI  BbLLAI. 

Tramlation. 

**  I WBBP  upon  thy  grave — thy  grave,  my 

chUd! 
Who  shotdd*8t  have  wept  on  mine !  we  deck 

thy  tomb, 
This !  for  the  bridal  bed !     Thy  parents 

thought 
To  see  thy  marriage  day ;  thy  father  hoped 
From  thee  the  grandsire*s  name.    Alas,  my 

child. 
Death  has  espoused  thee  now  ;  and  he  who 

hoped, 
Mary!  O  dearest  yet!  the  grandsire*s  name 
From  thee,  has  ceas*d  to  be  a  father  now.** 

R.  S. 


^0^^y^'*^*^^*^>i^^^^>>^^S^S^>^^^*^<,^<,/\^ 


Greek  Epitaph  translated, 

^  Bkheath  in  holy  sleep  Nicander  lies, 
0  ta-aveller !  say  not  that  the  good  man  dies.*' 

I  have  translated  this  from  memory,  and 
believe  the  name  is  changed.^  January  14, 
1798. 

Epitaph. 

'^Tbe  quiet  virtues  of  domestic  life 

Were  his  who  lies  below ;  therefore  his  paths 

'  The  original,  ascribed  to  Callimachus  is  as 

fDlloWB, 

TpJi  Sawv  6  Air«iivof ,  'AxdvOto^^  Uphv  ^iirvov 
Kotuarai'  Ovfitrictiv  ai|  Xlvf  t^q  dyaOovQ. 

J.  W.  W. 


Were  paths  of  pleasantness,  and  in  that  hour 
When  all  the  perishable  joys  of  earth 
Desert  the  desolate  heart,  he  had  the  hope, 
The  sure  and  certain  hope,  of  joy  in  heaven.** 


^^^^^^^^^^^I^^^^^FN/^^^/S^V 


Epitcyifh, 

'*  The  tenant  of  this  grave  was  one  who 

lived 

Remembering  God,  and  in  the  hour  of  death 

Faith  was  his  comforter.    O  you  who  read. 

Remember  your  Creator  and  your  Judge, 

And  live  in  fear  that  you  may  die  in  hope.** 

R.S. 
Lamhs-Condait  Street, 
January  1,  1798. 


^^^^^^^^^l/^^^«^^^^^^^^>»/S* 


A  bad  Action  of  Henry  the  Fourth, 

1599.  *'  In  the  country  of  Mayne  was 
seen  a  peasant  named  Francis  TrouUlu,  aged 
thirty-five  years,  who  had  a  horn  growing 
upon  his  head,  which  began  to  appear  when 
he  was  but  seven  years  old.  It  was  shaped 
almost  like  that  of  a  ram,  only  the  wreath- 
ings  were  not  spiral  but  strait,  and  the  end 
bowed  inwards  towards  the  cranium.  The 
fore  part  of  his  head  was  bald,  his  beard  red, 
and  in  tufts,  such  as  painters  bestow  upon 
satyrs.  He  retired  to  the  woods  to  hide  this 
monstrous  deformity,  and  wrought  in  the 
coal  pits.  The  Mareschal  de  Laverdin  going 
one  day  a  hunting,  his  servants  spying  this 
fellow,  who  fled,  ran  after  him,  and  he  not 
uncovering  himself  to  salute  their  master, 
they  tore  off  his  cap,  and  so  discovered  his 
horn.  The  M.  sent  him  to  the  King,  who 
bestowed  him  upon  somebody  that  made 
money  by  shewing  him  to  the  people.  This 
poor  fellow  took  it  so  much  to  heart  to  be 
thus  bear-led  about,  and  his  shame  exposed 
to  the  laughter  and  censures  of  all  the  world, 
that  he  soon  after  died.** — Mezebat.  Hen- 
ry IV. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOB  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


PhUip  Avgwtus  reconciled  to  his  Queen. 

**  Philip  Augustus  had  put  away  his  wife 
Gklberge,  sister  to  the  King  of  Denmark, 
and  in  her  place  married  Mary,  the  daugh- 
ter of  the  Duke  of  Moravia.  The  King  of 
Denmark  pursued  vehemently  in  the  court 
of  Rome,  for  the  honour  of  his  sister  thus 
rejected.  Philip,  not  able  to  avoid  the  de- 
cision of  the  cause,  and  yet  resolute  not  to 
receive  Gelberge,  prepares  his  advocates  to 
show  the  reasons  which  had  moved  him  to 
put  her  away.  The  cause  was  to  be  pleaded 
before  the  Pope's  legate  in  the  great  hall  of 
the  Bishop's  palace  at  Paris ;  thither  they 
run  of  all  sides.  In  this  great  and  solemn 
assembly,  Philip's  advocates  pleaded  won- 
derfully well  for  him  against  his  wife,  but 
no  man  appeared  for  her.  As  the  cryer 
had  demanded  three  times  if  there  were  any 
one  to  speak  for  Grelberge,  and  that  silence 
should  be  held  for  a  consent,  behold  a  young 
man  unknowne  steps  forth  of  the  press,  and 
demanded  audience.  It  was  granted  him 
with  great  attention.  King  Philip  assenting, 
every  man's  ears  were  open  to  hear  this 
advocate,  but  especially  Philip's,  who  was 
touched  and  ravished  with  the  free  and  plaim 
discourse  of  truth  which  he  heard  from  the 
mouth  of  this  new  advocate,  so  as  they  might 
perceive  him  to  change  countenance.  After 
this  young  man  had  ended  his  discourse,  he 
returns  into  the  press  again,  and  was  never 
seen  more,  neither  could  they  learn  what 
he  was,  who  had  sent  him,  nor  whence  he 
came.  The  judges  were  amazed,  and  the 
cause  was  remitted  to  the  council.  Philip, 
without  any  stay  in  court,  goes  to  horse,  and 
rides  presently  to  Bois  de  Vincennes,  whither 
he  had  confined  Gelberge ;  having  embraced 
her  he  receives  her  into  favour,  and  passed 
the  rest  of  his  days  with  her  in  nuptial  love." 
— ^Db  Sebbes.  Philip  11. 1193.  Pontanus 
caUs  her  Ingeburga. 

Custom  on  the  Isle  of  Man. 

"  The  women  of  this  countrie,  (Isle  of 
Man,)  whensoever   they  goe  out  of  tlieir 


doore8,gird  themselves  about  with  the  wind- 
ing sheet  that  they  purpose  to  be  buried  in, 
to  shew  themselves  mindful  of  their  mor- 
tal itie.  Such  of  them  as  are  at  any  time 
condemned  to  die,  are  sowed  within  a  sack, 
and  flung  from  a  rock  into  the  sea."— ^ 
Prospect  of  the  most  famous  Parts  of  the 
World.   1646. 


Half 'Christened  Irish. 

"  In  some  comers  of  Connaught,  the  peo- 
ple leave  the  right  aimes  of  their  infants 
male  unchristened  (as  they  terme  it)  to  the 
end  that  at  any  time  afterwards,  they  might 
give  a  more  deadly  and  ungracious  blow 
when  they  strike;  which  things  doe  not 
onely  show  how  palpably  they  are  carried 
away  by  traditions  obscurities,  but  do  also 
intimate  how  full  their  hearts  be  of  invete- 
rate revenge." — Ibid. 


^^^\/S^VS/\^^^h^^^^^^^^^^/\^S» 


Cypresses. 

"  The  duration  of  the  cypress  is  equalled 
only  by  that  of  the  oak;  they  are  seldom 
seen  in  forests.  In  cemeteries  and  the  en- 
virons of  palaces,  six  feet  is  a  circumference 
not  unconmion,  with  a  height  proportioned 
to  a  pyramidal  shape." — ^Dai-la way's  Tro' 
vets. 

Turkish  Fountains. 

"  The  frequent  fountains,  all  built  by  use- 
ful piety,  are  placed  at  certain  distances,  and 
measure  plains  which  seem  to  widen  as  we 
advance.  In  those  situations,  if  not  pictu- 
resque, they  are  characteristic,  and  highly 
so,  when  connected  with  the  shade  of  an 
umbrageous  plane  tree.  It  was  interesting 
to  pass  one  of  these  at  mid-day,  and  to  re- 
mark the  devout  Mussulman,  after  his  ab- 
lutions, prostrating  himself  on  his  carpet, 
and  repeating  in  a  still  voice  those  addresses 
to  the  Deity  which  are  prescribed  by  his 
prophet." — Ibid. 


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75 


JEnehantment  of  Irish  Coward. 

^  At  their  first  onset  the  wilde  Irish  ut- 
tered the  word  Fharroh  with  great  accla- 
madon,  and  he  that  did  not  was  taken  into 
the  ayre  and  carryed  into  the  vale  of  Kerry, 
where  transform^  (as  they  did  beleeve)  he 
remained  untill  he  was  hunted  with  hounds 
from  thence  to  his  home.** — Qiuere  t  ^ 


<^w^^^^<^^^^^^^rf»^^^»* 


Images, 

Feb.  16.  The  earliest  buds  on  the  elm^ 
giring  a  reddishness  to  the  boughs. 

Feb.  26.  The  beech  preserves  its  leaves. 

The  motion  of  the  river  reflected  upon 
the  arch  of  the  bridge,  rolling  in  waves  of 
checquered  light. 

Feb.  28.  Withey  bed  red. 

We  think  the  mists  of  the  morning  hide 
some  beauty  from  us.  At  night  we  dread 
the  precipices  that  they  may  conceal.  Such 
is  the  difference  between  youth  and  age ! 

The  flame  in  passing  through  brass  bars 
becomes  green. 

March  3.  Bright  green  of  the  ivy.  Dark 
appearance  of  the  yew  trees  in  the  wood. 

Ruined  dwelling  house,  why  more  melan- 
choly than  the  ruins  of  the  castle,  convent, 
and  palace. 

Clattering  of  the  ivy  leaves  against  the 
tree  trunk. 

A  church  seen  at  night — ^its  solemn  mas- 
siness. 

The  buds  of  the  elder  appear  in  circular 
tufts. 

Whiteness  of  a  shower  swept  by  the 
wind. 

Large  buds  of  the  horse  chesnut  termi- 
nating each  branch. 

April  19.  White  blossoms  of  the  thorn 
like  snow,  without  one  green  bud. 

'  I  suppose  these  extracts  to  be  taken  from 
the  book  above  quoted,  A  Protpect,  ^c.  but  I 
haTe  not  the  means  of  verifying  the  Qu^re*s, 
In  a  note  to  J  nan  rf  Arc,  Southet  tells  us  the 
first  part  of  the  book  wants  a  title.  It  was 
printed  for  William  Humble,  in  Pope's  Head 
Place,  1646.— J.  W.  W. 


Condensation  of  vapour  over  the  waters. 
Not  a  bud  visible  on  the  mulberry  tree. 
April  22. 


*V^^WW^%^^^V^^^^^^%A^ 


Irish  Coward, 


"  Some  of  the  wilde  Irish  perswade  them- 
selves, that  he  who  in  the  barbarous  accla- 
mation and  outcry  of  the  souldiers,  which 
they  use  with  great  forcing  and  straining  of 
their  voyces,  when  they  joyne  battell,  doth 
not  showte  and  make  a  noise  as  the  rest  doe, 
is  suddenly  caught  from  the  ground,  and 
carried  as  it  were  flying  in  the  ayre,  into 
some  desert  vallics,  where  he  feedeth  upon 
grasse,  drinketh  water,  hath  some  use  of 
reason,  but  not  of  speech,  is  ignorant  of 
the  present  condition  he  stands  in,  whether 
good  or  bad,  yet  at  length  shall  be  brought 
to  his  own  home,  being  caught  with  the 
helpe  of  hounds  and  hunters." — Quare  f 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^.^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Mule  Monsters, 


**  AnticA  every  year  produceth  some 
strange  creature  before  not  heard  of,  per- 
adventure  not  extant.  For  so  Pliny  thinks, 
that  for  want  of  water,  creatures  of  all  kindes 
at  sometimes  of  the  yeerc  gather  to  those 
few  rivers  that  are  to  quench  their  thirst ; 
and  then  the  males  promiscuously  enforcing 
the  females  of  every  species  which  comes 
next  him,  produceth  this  variety  of  forms, 
and  would  be  a  grace  to  Africa,  were  it  not  so 
full  of  danger  to  the  inhabitants,  which,  as 
Salust  reports,  die  more  by  beasts  than  by 
diseases.** — Qiusre  f 


Apparition  of  Qffa, 

"  Not  farre  from  Bedford  sometime  stood 
a  chappell  upon  the  banke  of  Ouse,  wherein 
(as  Florilegus  affirmeth)  the  body  of  Ofia, 
the  great  Mercian  King,  was  interred,  but 
by  the  overswelling  of  that  river  was  borne 
downe,  and  swallowed  up ;  whose  tombe  of 
lead  (as  it  were  some  phantasticall  thing) 
appeared  often  to  them  that  seeke  it  not ; 


76 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


but  to  them  that  seeke  it  (saith  Rossc)  it  is 
inyisible/* — QiuBre  f 


^^^^AA/^^^^^^^^kA^^^^^^ 


Streams  of  GlamorganMhire, 

'*  Glamobgansuibe  —  upon  whose  hills 
you  may  behold  whole  herds  of  cattle  feed- 
ing, and  from  whose  rocks  most  cleare 
springing  waters  thorow  the  vallies  trick- 
ling, which  sportingly  doe  passe  with  a  most 
pleasant  sound,  and  did  not  a  little  revive 
my  wearied  spirits  among  those  vast  moun- 
tains ;  whose  infancie  at  first  admitted  an 
easie  step  over,  but  growne  unto  strength 
more  boldly  forbade  me  such  passage,  and 
with  a  more  steme  countenance  held  on 
their  journey  unto  the  British  seas.  Tave 
among  these  is  accounted  fur  a  chief/*  — 
Q^tBref 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>^^^^^^^^#t 


Strange  Cavern, 

"  But  things  of  strange  note  are  these, 
by  the  report  of  Giraldus,  who  affirmeth, 
that  in  a  rock  or  cliff  upon  the  sea  side  and 
Hand  Barry,  lying  near  the  S.  E.  point  of 
this  countie,  is  heard  out  of  a  little  chinke 
the  noise  as  it  were  of  smithes  at  their 
worke,  one  whiles  the  blowing  of  bellowes 
to  increase  the  heat,  then  the  stroakes  of  the 
hammer,  and  sound  of  the  anvile;  some- 
times the  noise  of  the  grindstone  in  grinding 
of  iron  tooles,  then  the  hissing  sparks  of 
steel-gads,^  as  they  ilie  from  their  beating, 
with  the  puffing  noise  of  flames  in  a  fur- 
nace." Whether  this  is  the  place  whereof 
Clemens  Alexandrinus  speaketh,  I  deter- 
mine not^  where  in  his  writings  he  hath 
these  words,  "  they  that  have  recorded  his- 
tories (saith  he)  doe  say  that  in  the  He  of 
Britaine,  there  is  a  certaine  hole  or  cave 
under  the  bottome  of  an  hill,  and  on  the 
top  thereof  a  gaping  chink,  into  the  which 
when  the  winde  is  gathered  and  tossed  to 
and  fro  in  the  wombe  or  concavitie  thereof, 

'  "  And  with  a  gad  of  steel  will  writ^^  thL«se 
words."  Tit,  Aiidron.  iv.  1.  See  Nares' 0/u«$. 
in  v.— J.  W.  W. 


there  is  heard  above  a  sound  of  c 
for  the  wind  being  driven  backe  i 
hole,  is  forced  to  make  a  loud  soun 
vent." — Qiuere  f 


^^^#^N^^^^^^A^^k^^^^«^^^W 


Mysterious  Inscription. 

"  Upom  the  same  shore,  on  the  t 
hill  called  Minyd-Margan,  is  erectei 
nument  inscribed  with  a  strange  chi 
and  as  strange  a  conceit  held  thereol 
by-dwellers  whose  opinions  are  pc 
that  if  any  man  reade  the  same  1 
shortly  after  die." — Qutere  f 


Welsh  Town  destroyed  by  Lightnini 
Welsh  Flo€Uing  Island, 

"  Just  over  against  the  river  C 
where  it  issueth  into  the  sea,  there 
times  stood  an  ancient  city  named  '. 
wey,  which  many  years  agoe  was  cor 
by  lightning,  and  so  made  utterly  d< 
Touching  those  two  other  miracles,  fai 
by  Giraldus  and  Gervasius,  that  oi 
high  hills  there  are  two  pooles  call 
Meares,  the  one  of  which  producetl 
store  of  fish,  but  all  having  onely  oc 
and  in  the  other  there  is  a  moveabh 
which  as  soon  as  a  man  treadeth  thei 
forthwith  floateth  a  great  way  off,  w 
the  Welsh  are  said  to  have  often  scap 
deluded  their  enemies  assailing  them 
matters  are  out  of  my  creed,  and 
thinke  the  reader  would  rather  beleevt 
than  to  goe  to  see  whether  they  be 
no." — Q^<tre  f 


^^«^^s^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


NoaKs  Arh, 


"  On  Mount  Ararat  (called  Lubar, 
descending  place)  is  an  abbey  of  Si 
gorie's  monks.  These  monkes,  if  anj 
beleeve  them,  say  that  there  remains 
some  part  of  the  arke,  kept  by  i 
which,  if  any  seeke  to  ascend,  carri< 
backe  as  farre  in  the  night,  as  the 
climbed  in  the  day." — Pubchas. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


77 


ExiracU. 

(C  ferns  .^tes,  Scythiam  Phosinque 
rigentem  [vina 

olit,  heu  magni  Soils  pudor !   hospita 
et  Attouitse  mactat  soUemnia  mensce, 

«tri  divumque  memor/* 

V.  Flaccus.  I.  43. 

B  is  sublime  pride,  but  not  in  character. 

"  Tu  sola  animos  mentemque  peruris 
i !  te  viriilem  videt  immunemq;  senectiB 
lis  in  ripa  stantem,  juvenesq;  vocan- 

tem."  Ibid.  v.  77. 

viri  mecum ;  dubiisq;  evincite  rebus 
neminisse  juvet,  nostrisq;  nepotibus 
instent.  Ibid,  v  248. 

^  Te  pai'vus  lituos  et  bella  loquentem 
ir,  sub  te  puerilia  tela  magistro 
or  ferat,  et  nostram  festinet  ad  has- 
tam.''  Ibid.  v.  268. 

"  AaifosciT  Acastum 
ntem  jaculis,  et  parmae  luce  coruscum." 

Ibid.  V.  486. 

!  tempest. 

[nanimns  spectat  pharetras  et  inutile 
robur 
itryoniades."  Ibid.  v.  G35. 

Skd  cceli  patienSjCumprima  per  altuui 
edit,  potui  c^uae  tantum  ferre  doloreni." 

Ibid.  V.  765. 

ivio  hasta  la  postrera  edad,  en  que 
iejo  troco  la  vida  con  la  muerte.  Fal- 
;1  cuer))o,  pero  su  fama  ha  durado,  y 
i  por  todos  lo3  anos,  y  siglos." — Ma- 


**  Jam  coeperat 
tarare  cornicen,  baubant  canes, 
ra  rebaubant,  territi  sudant  suis 
es  in  antris,  in  suis  vulpeculie 
*ererto8  codices  voWunt  suos, 
{inemq;  concoquunt  suam  vafrse ; 
)ri,  sed  atri  dentibus  vacant  lupi, 
t  parandis  in  canina  vulnera." 

PlA  HiLAJIIA. 


**Maon£  pater  Divum,  saevos  punire  Tyran- 

nos 
Hand  alid  ratione  velis,  cum  dira  libido 
Moverit  ingenium 'ferventi  tincta  veneno, 
Virtutem  videant,  intabescantq;  relicta. 
Anne  magis  Siculi  gemuerunt  a;ra  juvenoi, 
Et  magis  auratis  pendens  laquearibus  ensis 
Purpureas  subter  cervices  terruit,  *  Imus, 
Imus  prsecipites,*  quam  si  sibi  dicat,  et  intus 
Palleat  iufelix,  quod  proxima  ncsciat  uxor." 

Persius.  III.  35,  &c. 

"  QuiN  damns  id  superis,  de  magna  quod 

dare  lance 
Non  possit  magni  Messalse  lippa  propago : 
Compositum  jus  Aisque  animo,  sanctosq;  re- 

cessus 
Mentis,  et  incoctum  generoso  pectus  lioncsto, 
Haec  ccdo  ut  admovcam  teniplis,  et  farre 

litabo."  Ibid.  II.  71,  &c. 


Suicide  of  the  Spanish  Tyrannicide. 

"  Lucio  PisoN,  Pretor  de  la  Espaiia  Cite- 
rior,  con  imposiciones  nuevas,  y  mxxy  graves, 
que  inventb,  alboroto  los  animos  de  los  na- 
turales,  de  suerte,  que  se  conjuraron  y  her- 
manaron  contra  el.  Llegb  el  negocio  a  que 
un  labrador  Termestino  en  aquellos  campos 
le  dio  la  muerte.  Quiso  salvarse  despues 
de  tan  gran  hazana ;  pero  fue  descubierto 
por  el  cavallo  que  dexo  cansado  \  hallado  y 
puesto  a  question  de  tormento,  no  pudieron 
hazer  que  se  descubricsse  los  companeros  de 
aquella  conjuracion,  dado  que  no  negava 
tenerlos.  Y  sin  embargo,  por  rezelarse  que 
la  fuer^a  del  dolor  no  le  hiziesse  blandear, 
el  dia  siguiente,  sacado  para  de  nuevo  ator- 
mentarle,  se  escapo  entre  las  manos  a  los 
que  le  llevavan,  y  con  la  cabe(;a  dio  en  una 
pena  tan  gran  golpe,  que  rindio  el  alma. 
Tanto  pudo  en  un  rustico  la  fee  del  secrcto, 
y  la  amistad.  Esto  sucedio  en  Kspana  el 
ano  veinte  y  seis  de  Christo." — Mariana. 

Spaniard  stvallowed  up  like  Amphiaraus. 

"  Eli  enemigo  (Alman9or,  Capitan  de  Ab- 
derrahman  Key  de  Cordova)  tenia  sus  reales 


78 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


cerca  de  la  villa  de  Lara.  No  vinieron 
luego  a  las  manbs.  £1  Conde  (Feman  Gron- 
9alez)  cierto  dia  salio  por  su  recreacion  a 
ca^a,  J  en  seguimiento  de  un  j  avail  se 
aparto  de  la  gente  que  le  acompanava.  En 
el  monte  cerca  de  alii  un  hermita  de  obra 
antigua,  se  via  cubierta  de  yedra,  y  un  altar 
con  nombre  del  Apostol  San  Pedro.  Un 
hombre  santo,  llamado  Pelagio  o  Pelayo,  con 
dos  compaiieros,  deseo  de  vida  sossegada, 
avia  escogido  aquel  lugar  para  su  morada. 
La  subida  era  agria,  el  camino  estrecho,  la 
fiera  acosada,  conio  k  sagrado,  se  acogia  a  la 
hermita.  ^1  Conde  movido  de  la  devocion 
del  lugar,  no  le  qubo  herir,  y  puesto  de  ro~ 
dillas,  pedia  con  grande  humildad  el  ayuda 
de  Dios.  Vino  luego  Pelayo,  hizo  su  me- 
sura  al  Conde.  El  por  ser  ya  tarde,  hizo 
alii  noche ;  y  cenado  que  ovo  lo  poco  que 
le  dieron,  la  passo  en  oracion  y  lagrimas. 
Con  el  Sol  le  avbo  Pelayo  su  huesped,  del 
sucesso  de  la  guerra.  Que  saldria  con  la 
vitoria,  y  en  senal  desto,  antes  de  la  pelea 
se  veria  un  estrano  caso.  Bolvio  con  tanto 
alegre  a  los  sujos,  que  estavan  cuydadosos 
de  su  salud ;  declaro  todo  lo  que  passava. 
Encendieronse  los  animos  de  los  soldados  a 
la  pelea,  que  estavan  atemorizados.  Orde- 
naron  sus  hazes  para  pelear.  Al  punto  que 
querian  acometer,  un  Cavallero,  que  algu- 
nos  llaman  Pero  Con^alez  de  la  Puente  de 
Fitcro,  dio  de  espuelas  al  cavallo  para  ade- 
lantarse.  Abriose  la  tierra  y  tragole,  sin 
que  parcciesse  mas.  Alborotose  la  gente, 
espantada  de  aquel  milagro.  Avisoles  el 
Conde,  que  aquella  era  la  senal  de  la  vitoria 
que  le  diera  el  Hermitaiio  qae  si  la  tierra 
no  los  sufria,  menos  los  sufririan  los  contra- 
rios." — Ibid.  a.  d.  950 


«^tf^M/\/^/^/w\^^^^/^/^/w^^/^A 


Garci  Fbbnandez  murders  his  adulterous 
Wife,  and  marries  the  Servant  who  be' 
trayed  her} 

"  Gabci  Febn andez  (Conde  de  Castilla) 
se  dize  caso  con  dos  mugercs ;  la  una  se 

'  See  Poems  in  one  volume,  Gakci  Feiuiak- 
DEZ,  p.  441. 

''  In  an  evil  day,  and  an  hour  of  woe, 
Did  Garci  Femandex  wed,  &c."  —J.  W.  W. 


Uamo  Argentina,  de  cuya  i^sturs 
moro  al  tiempo  que  su  padre,  noi 
ble,  y  Frances  de  nacion,  la  traia  < 
ria,  juntamente  con  su  madre,a  { 
Seis  anos  despues,  estando  el  Cond 
rido  enfermo  en  la  cama,  o  por  i 
miento  que  le  tenia,  o  con  deseo  de  1 
se  bolvio  a  Francia  con  cierto  Fra 
temava  de  la  misma  romeria;  El 
brada  la  salud,  y  dexando  en  el  go> 
su  estado  a  Egidio,  y  a  Fernando, 
principales,  en  trage  disfrazado  ; 
aquella  parte  de  Francia  donde 
que  Argentina  morava.  Tenia  A 
una  antenada  llamada  Sancha,  qv 
suele  acontecer)  estava  mal  con  su  d 
Esta  con  esperanc^a  que  le  dieron 
con  el  C.  o  por  liviandad,  como  mu^ 
entrada  en  la  casa.  Mato  el  C.  en 
a  Argentina  y  al  adultero,  y  con  tai 
a  la  dicha  Sancha  consigo  a  Espana 
eronse  las  bodas  de  los  dos,  coe 
aparato  y  regozijo  en  Burgos.** — I 
982. 

Oood  OenitLS  fighting. 

^*  AcoNTEcio  en  aquella  batalla  ( 
Santistevan  de  Gormaz,  a  la  ribei 
Duero  982)  una  cosa  digna  de  i 
Feman  Antolinez,  hombre  noble  y 
voto,  oia  missa  al  tiempo  que  se 
de  acometer,  costumbre  ordinaria  si 
de  la  pelea ;  por  no  dezarla  comei 
quedo  en  el  tempio  quando  se  t 
anna.  Esta  piedad  quan  agradab 
a  Dios,  se  entendi6  por  un  milagr< 
vase  primero  en  la  Iglesia,  despuc 
dido  en  su  casa,  temia  no  le  afi 
como  a  cobarde.  En  tanto,  otro 
mejante,  es  a  saber,  su  Angel  bueno 
entre  los  primeros  tan  valientemc 
la  vitoria  de  aquel  dia  se  atribuyo 
parte  al  valor  de  il  dicho  Antoline 
firmaron  el  mUagro  las  seiiales  de  h 
y  las  manchas  de  la  sangre  que  se 
frescas  en  sus  armas  y  cavallo.  A 
licado  el  caso,  y  sabido  lo  que 
quedo  mas  conocida  la  inocencia  y 
de  Antolinez.** — Ibid. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


79 


I  beliere  the  storj,  but  not  the  miracle. 
Antolinez  had  a  friend  who  served  him  in 
time,  and  was  secret. 


ChrMan  Princess  married  to  the  Moor 
OheydaUa, 

**  Obsti>alla,  hijo  de  Aimahadio,  con 
ajuda  de  sus  parcialidades,  se  hizo  rej  de 
Toledo.  OtroB  le  llaman  Abdalla,  j  afir- 
man,  que  tuvo  por  muger  a  Dona  Teresa, 
con  Toluntad  de  Don  Alonso  su  hermano, 
rej  de  Leon,  gran  desorden  y  mengua  no- 
table. Lo  que  pretendia  con  aquel  casa- 
miento  era,  que  las  fuer^as  del  uno  j  del 
otro  reyno  quedassen  mas  firmes  con  aquella 
alian9a.  Demas,  que  se  presentava  ocasion 
de  ensanchar  la  Religion  Christiana,  si  el 
Moro  se  bautizava,  segun  lo  mostrava  que- 
rer  hazer.  Con  esto  enganada  la  donzella, 
file  llevada  Toledo,  celebraronse  las  bodas 
con  grande  aparato,  con  juegos,  y  regozijos 
J  combites,  que  duro  hasta  gran  parte  de 
la  noche.  Quitadas  las  meses,  ^  donzella 
fue  lleyada  a  reposar.  Vino  el  Moro  en- 
cendido  en  su  apetito  carnal.  Ella,  afiiera, 
dize,  tan  grave  maldad,  tanta  torpeza.  Una 
de  dos  causas  has  de  hazer,  o  tu  con  los 
tujos  te  bautiza,  y  con  tanto  goza  de  nues- 
tro  amor :  si  esto  no  hazes  no  me  toques. 
De  otra  manera,  teme  la  vengan^a  de  los 
hombres,  que  no  dissimularan  nuestra  a- 
frenta,  y  tu  engano,  y  la  de  Dios  que  buelve 
por  la  honestidad  sin  duda,  y  castidad  de 
los  Christianos.  De  la  una,  y  de  la  otra 
parte  te  apercibo  seras  castigado.  Mira  que 
la  Ittxuria,  peste  blanda,  no  te  lleve  a  des- 
penar.  Esto  dixo  ella.  Las  orejas  del  Moro, 
con  la  fuer^a  del  apetito  desenfrenado,  esta- 
van  cerradas,  hizole  fuer^a  contra  su  volun- 
tad.  Siguiose  la  divina  vengani^a,  que  de  re- 
pente  le  sobrevino  una  grave  dolencia.  En- 
tendio  lo  que  era,  y  la  causa  de  su  mal.  Embio 
a  Dona  Teresa  en  casa  de  su  hermano,  con 
grandes  dones  que  le  dio.  Ella  se  hizo  Monja 
en  el  monasterio  de  San  Pelagio  de  Leon,  en 
que  passo  lo  restante  de  la  vida  en  obras  pi- 
as,  y  de  devocion,  con  que  se  consolava  de  la 
afrenta  recibida.** — Ibid.  a.d.  1005. 


Palencia,  why  rebuilt. 
"  A  LO  ultimo  de  su  vida  hizo  el  Rey 
(Sancho)  que  se  reedificasse  la  Ciudad  de 
Palencia  por  una  ocasion  muy  grande.  Es- 
tava  de  anos  atras  por  tierra,  a  causa  de  las 
guerras,  solo  quedavan  algunos  paredones, 
montones  de  piedras,  y  rastros  dc  los  edi- 
ficios  que  alii  ovo  antiguamente  :  demas 
desto,  un  templo  muy  viejo,  y  grossero,  con 
advocacion  de  San  Antolin.  El  Rey  Don 
Sancho,  quando  no  tenia  en  que  entender ; 
a  costumbrava  acuparse  en  ca^a,  por  no  pa- 
recer  que  no  hazia  nada ;  demas,  que  el  ex- 
ereicio  de  monteria  es  k  proposito  para  la 
salud,  y  para  hazerse  los  hombros  diestros 
en  las  armas.  Sucedio  cierto  dia,  que  en 
aquellos  lugares  fue  en  seguimiento  de  un 
javali,  tanto  que  llegb  hasta  el  mismo  tem- 
plo, k  que  la  fiera  se  recogib,  por  servir  en 
quella  soledad  de  albergo  y  morada  de  fier- 
as.  El  Rey  sin  tener  respeto  a  la  santidad 
y  devocion  del  lugar,  pretendia  con  el  ven- 
ablo  herille,  sin  mirar  que  estava  cerca  del 
Altar,  quando  acaso  echb  de  ver  que  el  bra90 
de  repente  se  le  avia  entumecido,  y  falta- 
dole  das  fuercas :  Entendio  que  era  castigo 
de  Dios,  por  el  poco  respeto  que  tuvo  al 
lugar  santo ;  y  movido  deste  escrupulo  y 
temor,  invoc6  con  humildad  la  ayuda  de  San 
Antolin,  pidio  perdon  de  la  culpa  que  por 
ignorancia  cometiera.  Oyb  el  Santo  sus 
clamores,  sentio  a  la  hora  que  el  bra(;o  bol- 
vio  en  su  primera  fuercja  y  vigor.  Movido 
otrosi  del  milagro,  acordo  desmontar  el  bos- 
que,  y  los  matorrales,  a  proposito  de  edificar 
de  nuevo  la  Ciudad,  levantar  las  murallas, 
y  las  casas  partlculares.  Lo  mismo  se  hizo 
del  Templo,  que  le  fabricaron  magnifica- 
mente  on  su  Obispo,  para  el  goviemo  y 
cuydad  >  de  aquella  nueva  Ciudad." — Ibid. 
A.D.  1032. 


•^S/WS^k/N/V/\^S/\<'\/>^V/\/V/\/V^V 


One  good  effect  of  Ancestry, 

When  the  Moorish  king  (1285)  was  asked 
why  lie  raised  the  siege  of  Xeres  so  preci- 
cipately  fi^r  fear  of  King  Sancho,  "  respon- 
dio,  Yo  fui  el  primero  que  entronick  y  honr6 
la  familia  y  linage  de  Barrameda  con  titulo 


J  magestad  Real:  mi  enemigo  trae  descen- 
dencia  de  mas  de  quarenta  Reyes,  cuya  me- 
moria  tiene  gran  fuer9a  y  en  el  combate  a 
mi  pusiera  temor  y  espanto,  k  el  diera  atre- 
vimiento  y  esAier9o,  si  llegaranios  a  las  ma- 
nos." — Ibid. 

A  Servant  burnt  voluntarily  with  her 
MUtress, 

Aftbb  the  battle  of  Naxara,  Peter  the 
Cruel  had  D.  Urraca  de  Osorio  burnt  alive 
at  Seville,  "  execucion  en  que  sucedio  un 
caso  notable.  £n  la  laguna  propia  en  que 
07  esta  plantada  una  grande  alameda,  ar- 
maron  la  hoguera  una  doncella  de  aquella 
senora  por  nombre  Isabel  Davalos  natural 
de  Ubeda,  luego  que  se  prendio  el  fuego, 
se  metio  en  el  para  tenella  las  faldas,  porque 
DO  se  descompusiesse,  y  se  quemb  junta- 
mente  con  su  ama.  Hazaua  memorable,  se- 
nalada  lealtad !  conque  grandemente  se  a- 
crecento  el  odio  7  aborrecimiento  que  de 
atras  al  Rej  teniam." — Ibid. 


\It  faded  on  the  crowing  of  the  Coch, 

Hamlet.] 

In  the  beginning  of  the  night  (say  the 
Jews)  God  causeth  all  the  gates  of  heaven 
to  be  shut,  and  the  angels  stay  at  them  in  si- 
lence, and  sendeth  evil  spirits  into  the  world, 
which  hurt  all  they  meet;  but  after  mid- 
night they  are  commanded  to  open  the  same. 
This  command  and  call  is  heard  of  the  cocks, 
and  therefore  they  clap  their  wings  and  crow 
to  awaken  men,  and  then  the  evil  spirits  lose 
their  power  of  hurting,  and  in  this  respect 
the  wise  men  have  ordained  them  a  thanks- 
giving to  be  said  at  cock-crowing:  "Blessed 
art  thou  O  God,  Lord  of  the  whole  world, 
who  hast  given  understanding  to  the  cock." 

— PUBCHAS. 


From  Battinblm. 

I,  DEABEST  niece,  first  of  our  family 
Fled  from  the  treacherous  waves  and  storms 

of  life. 
Nor  ever  could  fair  skies  and  flattering  gales 


Tempt  me  again  to  trust  the  dangerous  sea. 
Still  does  the  tempest  beat  the  little  bark 
That  bore  me  here,  nor  mid  so  deep  a  night 
See  I  one  star  whose  friendly  ray  may  save 
The  mariner.  Make  you  then  for  the  port; 
Toil  for  this  holy  haven  I  Innocence 
And  virtue  will  assist ;  beloved !  here 
Is  comfort,  and  the  end  of  every  ill. 
And  I  have  hope  that  we  shall  one  day  here 
Beside  the  altar  hang  our  broken  sails, 
And  smile  together  at  the  distant  storm. 


Sentences, 

Ant  fellow  can  find  water  by  digging  for 
it ;  but  they  are  gif\«d  persons  who,  while 
they  4ire  walking,  can  point  out  the  hidden 
spring. 

He  has  no  more  ideas  of  poetry  than  a 
snail  of  a  fine  prospect. 

It  is  with  turnpike  roads  as  with  govern- 
ments :  th^  worse  the  road,  the  heavier  the 
tolls ;  the  worse  the  government,  the  more 
oppressive  the  taxes. 

"PuELL^  Aurelianensis  causa  adversariis 
oration ibus  disceptata.  Auctore  Jacobo 
Jolio.  Parisiis,  1609." 

These  declamations,  of  which  some  are 
metrical,  were  spoken  by  the  author's  pu- 
pils.    They  were  unreadably  dull. 


It  is  not  always  he  who  reads  the  most 
that  knows  the  most :  The  butterfly  sucks 
as  many  flowers  as  the  bee. 


v^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^r^^^^^ 


Extracts. 


**  AuxEBAT  hora  metus ;  jam  se  vertentis 

Olympi 
Ut  faciem,  raptosq;  simul  montesq;  locosq; 
Ex  oculis,  circumq;  graves  videre  tenebras; 
Ipsa  quies  rerum,mundiq;  silentia  terrent, 
Astraq;  et  eflusis  stellatus  crinibus  ether. 
Ac  velut  ignot&  captus  regione  viarum, 
Noctivagum  qui  carpit  iter,  non  aure  qui- 

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culifl,  noctisq;  metiu  niger  auget  u- 

imque 

iA,et  oocnrrens  umbris  majoribuB  arbor 

alitor  trepidare  viri.** — V.  Flac.  il 

iibreyifl,etteloyolucri  non  utilis  aer.** 
.  n.  ▼.  524. 


^»»«»v^««»^^^»»^^<^»^^^^^ 


lEK  I  see  the  most  enchanting  beauties 
irth  can  show  me,  I  yet  think  there 
ething  far  more  glorious ;  methinks 
%  kind  of  higher  perfection  peeping 
h  the  frailty  of  a  fiMse." — Owen  Fel- 

rm  knowledge  doth  but  show  us  our 
ice.  Our  most  studious  scrutinjr  is 
discovery  of  what  we  cannot  know, 
s  the  effect,  but  cannot  guess  at  the 
Learning  is  like  a  river,  whose  head 
ar  in  the  land,  is,  at  first  rising,  little 
sily  viewed :  but  still  as  you  go,  it 
with  a  wider  bank,  not  without  plea- 
id  delightful  winding,  while  it  is  on 
des  set  with  trees  and  the  beauties  of 
I  flowers.  But  still  the  farther  you 
it,  the  deeper  and  the  broader  His, 
ist  it  unwaves  itself  in  the  unfathom- 
\n :  there  you  see  more  water,  but  no 
10  end  of  that  liquid  vastness.** — ^Ibid. 

trgveriie.  Look  in  my  face. 

».  I  do. 

^ay,  in  my  eyes. 

!  view  *em  as  I  would  the  settmg  sun, 

!  to  die  at  midnight.** 

Lee,  Massacre  of  Paris, 

people- 


■e  like  flags  growing  on  muddy  banks, 

weak  thin  heads  blown  with  one  blast 

wind, 

1  will  shake  and  bend  themselves  one 

y." — Goft's  Orestes. 

od  comparison  badly  expressed. 

K  erat,  et  leni  canebant  ssquora  sul- 
^  Fi^c.  m.  V.  32. 


**Dat  pictas  auro  atque  ardentes  murice 

vestes, 
Quas  n^uit  telis  festina  vocantibus  austris 
Hypsipyle." — Ibid.  in.  v.  340. 

'^  QciPPE  nee  in  ventos,  nee  in  ultima  sol- 

vimur  ossa; 
Iramanetf'duratq;  dolor;  cum deinde  tre- 

mendi 
Ad  solium  ven^  Jovis,  questuq ;  nefandam 
Edocuere  necem,  patet  ollis  janua  leti, 
Atq;  iterum  remeare  licet ;  comes  una  so- 

rorum 
Additur,  et  pariter  terras  atq;  ssquora  lus- 

trant: 
Quisque  suos  sontes,  inimicaq  pectora  pcenis 
Implicat,  et  varift  meritos  formidine  pul- 

sant.** — Ibid.  m.  v.  383. 


^^^S^^^i^^i^^^^^^^^*^^^\^ 


^  Hamdbal.  How  would  the  slaves  have 
quaked,  had  they  but  seen 
The  fights  of  Trebid,  or  of  Thrasimene, 
Or  dreadful  Cannie  f 

Where  the  tired  sisters  bit  the  Roman  looms, 
As  if  their  hands  were  tir'd  with  cutting 
dooms. 

Bondkar,  Where  fourscore  valiant  sena- 
tors were  kill*d, 

The  blood  of  seventy  thousand  soldiers 
spillM; 

And  great  iBmilius*  death  our  conquest 
swell*d. 

Hannibal.  When  all  with  crimson  slaugh- 
ter covered  o'er. 

We  urged  our  horses  through  a  flood  of  gore; 

Whilst  firom  thebattlements  of  heaven's  high 
wall, 

Each  god  looked  down  and  shook  his  awful 
head. 

Mourning  to  see  so  many  thousands  fall. 

And  then  look'd  pale  to  see  us  look  so  red. 

Maherbal.  That  was  a  time  worthy  se- 
verest fate. 
When  victory  on  hills  of  heroes  sate. 
And  turned  her  eyes,  all  bloodshot,  on  the 

fray, 
And  laughed  and  clapt  her  wings,  and  blest 
the  day.** — Leb*8  Sophanisba. 


\ 


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Nothing  can  excel  the  sitblimitj  of  the 
last  three  lines,  or  the  absurdity  of  all  the 
rest. 

**  Thb  happiest  man  is  but  a  wretched  thing, 
That  steds  poor  comfort  from  comparison." 

Young's  Busiris. 

"  YouB  bright  helm 
Struck  a  distinguished  terror  through  the 

field; 
The  distant  legions  trembling  as  it  blazed." 

**  His  tall  white  plume,  which,  like  a  high*' 

wrought  foam. 
Floated  on  the  tempestuous  stream  of  fight, 
Shewed  where  he  swept  the  field."— Ibid. 


y^>^>^^*^^'^^^^^^^^^^^>^^^^ 


**  Feabau  gli  rispose  in  due  parole, 
Che  fark  quel  che  deve,  e  quel  che  suole. 

Orlando  JnnamorcUo, 


^\/^^^%#^^^^^^^^^^^>^^^^^A 


**  I  AM  compelled  to  suffer  ornaments ; 
To  put  on  all  the  shining  guilt  of  dress ; 
When  *tb  almost  a  crime  that  I  still  live  !*' 

**  Just  now  I  met  him,  at  my  sight  he  started. 
Then  with  such  ardent  eyes  he  wandered  o'er 

me. 
And  gazed  with  such  malignity  of  love, — 
Sending  his  soul  out  to  me  in  a  look 
Sa  fiercely  kind,  I  trembled." — Busiris, 


w^>>^^%/NA/\A/^^^AA/WS/^A^ 


**  AcGio  che  voi  diman,  piacendo  a  Dio, 
Che  sara  Marte  a  vintidui  d'Aprile. 
Partir  possiate." 

Italia  Liberata.  Trissino,  1.  2. 

**  Sbmpbe  sempre  Tavea  davanti  agli  occhi, 
Ramemorando  ogni  suo  minim'  atto, 
£d  ogni  suo  costume,  e  sempre  avendo 
Dentr'  alle  orecchie  il  suo  parlar  soave." 

Ibid.  1.  3. 


u 


Col  triplice  nemico  in  campo  aperto 
Pugnar  sovente,  e  riportar  la  palma : 
Vincer  se  stessi,  e  far,  che  premio  certo 
Sia  I'opra  sempre  al  forte  oprar  dell'  alma. 


Far,  che  nel  corpo  incrudelir  sia  merto, 
Far,  che  fuora  in  tempesta,  e  dentro  in 
calma 
Stiansi  lo  spirto,  e  in  quel,  che  k  sensi  spiace, 
Trovi  conforto,  e  compiacenza,'e  pace. 

"  Ruvide  vesti,  e  breve  sonno,  e  vitto 
Usar  semplice  e  parco,  e  parchi  accent!, 

Aitar  I'oppresso,  e  consolar  I'afilitto, 
E  ins^nar,  come  Dio  s'ami,  e  paventi, 

E  qual  torto  sentiero,  e  qual  sia  dritto, 
E  quai  dietro  al  piacer  yengan  tormenti, 

Son  di  qucsti  di  Dio  servi  ed  amici 

L'opre  men  belle,  e  i  piu  volgari  offici." 

FiUcaia. 


V\/VA/V\/\^/\/\/N/N/W%/\/\/\/\*» 


Moorish  Princesses  converted. 

▲.D.  1050.  **PoB  este  tiempo  dos  hijiis  de 
dos  Reyes  Moros  se  tornaron  Christianas,  j 
se  bautizaron.  La  una  fue  Casilda,  hija  de 
Almenon,  Rey  de  Toledo :  la  otra  Zayda, 
hija  del  Rey  Benabet  de  Sevilla.  La  ces- 
sion de  hozerse  Christianas  fue  deste  ma- 
nera.  Casilda  era  muy  piadosa  y  compas- 
siva  de  los  cautivos  Christianos  que  tenian 
aherrojados  en  casa  de  su  padre,  de  sugrande 
necessidad  y  mlseria.  Acudiales  secreta- 
mente  con  el  regalo  y  sustento  que  podia. 
Su  padre  avisado  de  lo  que  passava,  y  mal 
enojado  por  el  caso,  acecho  a  su  hija.  £n- 
contr6  la  una  vez  que  llevava  la  comida  para 
aquellos  pobres;  alterado  preguntola  lo  que 
llevava?  respondio  ella  que  rosas,  y  abierta 
la  falda  las  mostro  a  su  padre,  por  averse  en 
ellas  convertido  la  vianda.  Este  milagro  tan 
claro  fue  ocasion  que  la  donzella  se  quisi- 
esse  tomar  Christiana,  que  de  esta  suerte 
suele  Dios  pagar  las  obras  de  piedad  que  con 
los  pobres  se  hazen ;  y  fruto  de  la  miserl- 
cordia  suele  ser  el  conocimiento  de  la  ver- 
dad.  Padecia  esta  donzella  fluxo  de  sangre. 
Avisaronla,  fuesse  por  revelacion,  o  de  otra 
manera,  que  si  queria  sanar  de  aquclla  ado- 
lescencia  tan  grande,  se  banasse  en  el  lago 
de  San  Vicente,  que  esta  en  tierra  de  Bri- 
niesca.  Su  padre,  que  era  amigo  de  los 
Christianos,  por  el  deseo  que  tenia  de  ver 
Sana  a  su  hija,  le  embio  al  Rey  D.  Fernando, 
para  que  la  hiziesse  curar.     Cobro  en  ella 


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83 


a  salud,  con  banarse  en  aquel  la- 
es  recibio  el  bautismo,  segun  que 
nsado,y  enreconocimientode  tales 
olTidada  de  su  patria,  en  un  her- 
hizo  edificar  junto  al  lago,  passo 
iios  santamente.  En  vida  7  en 
i  esclarecidacon  milagrosqueDios 
su  intercession ;  la  Iglesia  pone 
ero  de  los  Santos  que  reynan  con 
I  el  cielo,  7  en  muchas  Iglesias  de 

le  haze  fiesta  a  quLnze  de  Abril. 
,  quier  fuesse  por  el  exemplo  de 
lUda,  o  por  otra  ocasion  sc  movio 

Christiana;  en  especial,  que  en 
aparecio  S.  Isidoro,  7  con  dulces 

8  palabras  le  persuadio  pusiesse  en 
con  brevedad  aquel  santo  propo- 

9  ella  parte  deste  negocio  al  Rey 
el  estava  perplexo,  sin  saber  que 

ebria  tomar.  Por  una  parte  no 
stir  a  los  ruegos  de  su  hija,  por 
i  la  indignacion  de  los  suyos,  si  le 
cia  para  que  se  bautizasse.  Acordo 
s  comunicar  el  negocio  con  D.A- 
»  del  Rey  D.  Fernando.  Concer- 
*  con  muestra  de  dar  guerra  a  los 
Eiesse  con  golpe  de  gente  entrada 
de  Sevilla,  7  con  esto  cautivasse 
A,  que  estaria  de  proposito  puesta 
pueblo  que  para  este  efecto  sena- 
cedio  todo  como  lo  tenian  trazado : 
bros  no  entendieron  la  traza,  7  la 
yada  a  Leon,  fue  instru7da  en  las 
pert«nece  saber  a  un  buen  Chris- 
autizada  se  Uamo  D.  Isabel.  Los 
cam  que  esta  senora  adelante  caso 
mo.  D.  Alonso,  en  sazon  quae  era 
i  Castilla.  D.  Pela70  el  de  Oviedo 
no  fue  su  muger,  sino  su  amiga." 

lA. 

la  Pena  de  los  JEnamorados} 

1090  Chriatiano  estava  cautivo  en 
Sua  partes  7  diligencia  eran  tales, 
termino  7  cortesia,  que  su  amo 

yems  in  one  vol.  p.  440. 

len  through  the  favouring  night 

■enada  took  her  flight,"  &c. 

The  Lover's  Hack.^J.  W.  W. 


hazia  mucha  confian^a  del  dentro  7  fuera 
de  su  casa.  Una  hija  8U7a  al  tan  to  se  le 
aficionb,  7  puso  en  el  los  ojos.  Pero  como 
quier  que  ella  fuesse  casadera,  7  el  mo^o 
esclavo,  no  podian  passar  adelante  como 
deseavan :  ca  el  amor  mal  se  puede  encu- 
brir,  7  temian  si  el  padre  della,  7  amo  del, 
lo  aabia,  pagarian  con  las  cabe9as.  Acor- 
daron  de  huir  a  tierra  de  Christianos,  reso- 
lucion  que  al  mo^o  venia  mejor,  por  bolver 
a  los  SU708,  que  a  ella  por  desterrarse  de 
su  patria :  si  7a  no  la  movia  el  deseo  de 
hazerse  Christiana,  lo  que  70  no  creo.  To- 
maron  su  camino  con  todo  secreto,  hasta 
llegar  al  penasco  7a  dicho,  en  que  la  mo9a 
cansada  se  puso  a  reposar.  En  esto  vieron 
assomar  a  su  padre  con  gente  de  acavallo, 
que  venia  en  su  seguimiento.  Que  podian 
hazer,  o  a  que  parte  bolverse  ?  que  consejo 
tomar?  mentirosas  las  esperan^as  de  los 
hombres  7  miserables  sus  intentos.  Acudi- 
eron  a  lo  que  solo  les  quedava  de  encum- 
brer  aquel  peiiol,  trepando  por  aquellos 
riscos,  que  era  reparo  assaz  flaco.  El  padre 
con  un  semblante  saiiudo  los  mando  abaxar : 
amenagava  les  sino  obedecian  de  executar 
en  ellos  una  tnuerte  mu7  cruel.  Los  que 
acompa&avan  al  padre  los  amonestavan  lo 
mismo,  pues  solo  les  restava  aquella  espe- 
ran^a  de  alcan^ar  perdon  de  la  misericordia 
de  su  padre,  con  hazer  lo  que  les  mandava, 
7  echarsele  a  los  pies.  No  quisieron  venir 
en  esto.  Los  Moros  puestos  apie  acometi- 
eron  a  aubir  el  peiiasco :  pero  el  mo^o  les 
defendio  la  subida  con  galgas,  piedras  7 
palos,  7  todo  lo  demas  que  le  venia  a  la 
mano,  7  le  servia  de  armas  en  aquella  deses- 
peracion.  El  padre  visto  esto,  hizo  venir 
de  un  pueblo  alii  cerca  vallesteros  para  que 
de  lexos  los  flechassen.  Ellos  vista  su  per- 
dicion,  acordaron  con  su  muerte  librarse  de 
los  denuestos  7  tormentos  ma7ores  que  te- 
mian. Las  palabras  que  en  este  trance  se 
dixeron,  no  a7  para  que  relatarlas.  Final- 
mente  abra^ados  entresi  fuertemcnte,  se 
echaron  del  peiial  abaxo,  por  aquella  parte 
en  que  los  mirava  su  cruel  7  saiiudo  padre. 
Desta  manera  espiraron  antes  de  llegar  a  lo 
baxo,  con  lastima  de  los  presentes,  7  aun 


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con  lagrimas  de  algunos  j  que  se  movian 
con  aquel  triste  espectaculo  de  aquellos 
mo^os  desgraciadoB,  y  a  pesar  del  padre, 
como  estavan,  los  enterraron  en  aqu^  mis- 
mo  lugar ;  constancia  que  se  empleara  mejor 
en  otra  hazaiia,  y  les  fuera  bien  contada  la 
muerte,  si  la  padecieran  por  la  virtud  y  en 
defensa  de  la  verdadera  religion,  y  no  por 
satisfacer  a  sus  apetitos  desenfrenados/* — 
Ibid. 


•^^^^MV^^fWVS/WS^^^^iA^ 


Aloadiu's  Paradise, 


*'  Betwbene  Orpha  and  Caramit  (in  Me- 
sopotamia, now  Diarbeth)  was  the  Paradise 
of  Aladeules,  where  he  had  a  fortresse,  de- 
stroyed by  Selim.  Men,  by  a  potion  brought 
into  a  sleep,  were  brought  into  this  supposed 
Paradise,  where,  at  their  waking,  they  were 
presented  with  all  sensual  pleasures  of  mu- 
sicke,  damosells,  dainties,  &c.  which  afler, 
having  had  some  taste  of  another  sleepie 
drink,  came  again  to  themselves,  and  then 
did  Aladeules  tell  them,  that  he  could  bring 
whom  he  pleased  to  Paradise,  the  place 
where  they  had  bin,  and  if  they  would  com- 
mit such  murders,  or  haughty  attempts,  it 
should  be  theirs.  A  dangerous  devise.  Ze- 
lim  the  Turke  destroyed  the  place.** 

^  In  the  N.  E.  parts  of  Persia  there  was 
an  old  man  named  Aloadin,  a  Mahumetan, 
which  had  inclosed  a  goodly  valley  situate 
betweene  two  hUles,  and  furnished  it  with 
all  variety  which  Nature  and  Art  could 
yeeld,  as  fruits,  pictures,  rilles  of  milk, 
wine,  honey,  water,  pallaces,  and  beautifuU 
damosells  richly  attired,  and  called  it  Pa- 
radise. To  this  was  no  passage  but  by  an 
impregnable  castle:  and  daily  preaching  the 
pleasures  of  this  Paradise  to  the  youth  which 
he  kept  in  his  court,  sometimes  would  minis- 
ter a  sleepy  drinke  to  some  of  them,  and 
then  conveigh  them  thither,  where  being 
entertained  with  these  pleasures  four  or  five 
days,  they  supposed  themselves  rapt  into 
Paradise ;  and  then  being  again  cast  into  a 
trance  by  the  said  drink,  he  caused  them  to 
be  carried  forth,  and  then  would  examine 
them  of  what  they  had  scene,  and  by  this 
delusion  would  make  them  resolute  for  any 


enterprise  which  he  should  appoint  them, 
as  to  murther  any  prince  his  enemy.  For 
they  feared  not  death,  in  hope  of  their  Ma- 
humetical  Paradise.  But  Haolon  or  Uhm, 
after  three  years*  siege,  destroyed  him  and 
this  his  Foole*s  Paradise*  About  a.  d.  1200. 
— PuBGHAS.  So  also  Maundsvilb,  p.  336, 
and  Marco  Polo,  Harris's  Col.  p.  599. 


^AAA/W^^«M^^^M^^^>^^W 


Inhabitanti  of  Jupiter, 

'*  Thebb  appeared  to  me  a  bald  head,  but 
only  the  upper  part  thereof,  which  was  bony; 
and  I  was  told  that  such  an  appearance  is 
seen  by  those  who  are  to  die  within  a  year, 
and  that  they  instantly  prepare  themsdves. 
The  inhabitants  of  that  earth  (Jupiter)  do 
not  fear  death,  except  on  this  accounti^  that 
they  leave  their  conjugal  partner,  their  chil- 
dren, or  parents,  for  they  know  that  thej 
shall  live  afler  death,  and  that  in  dying  thej 
do  not  quit  life,  because  they  go  to  Heaven ; 
wherefore  they  do  not  call  it  dying,  but  be- 
ing Heaven-niade.  Such  amongst  them  as 
have  lived  in  true  conjugal  love,  and  have 
taken  such  care  of  their  children  asbecometb 
parents,  do  not  die  of  diseases,  but  in  tran- 
quillity, as  in  sleep ;  and  thus  they  emigrate 
from  the  world  to  heaven.  The  age  to  which 
the  inhabitants  live  is,  on  an  average,  about 
thirty  years,  estimated  according  to  yean 
on  our  earth.  It  is  by  the  providence  of 
the  Lord  that  they  die  at  so  early  an  age, 
lest  their  numbers  should  increase  beyond 
what  that  earth  is  capable  of  supporting; 
and  whereas  when  they  have  fulfilled  those 
years,  they  do  not  suffer  themselves  to  be 
guided  by  spirits  and  angels,  like  those  who 
are  not  so  far  advanced  in  age,  therefore 
spirits  and  angels  seldom  attend  them  when 
arrived  at  their  thirtieth  year.  They  come  to 
maturity  also  sooner  than  on  our  earth;  even 
in  the  first  flower  of  youth  they  connect 
themselves  in  marriage,  and  then  it  is  their 
chief  delight  to  love  the  partnerof  such  con- 
nection and  to  take  care  of  their  children. 
Other  delights  they  indeed  call  delights  but 
respectively  external.** — Swedekbobg, cow 
ceming  the  Earths  in  our  Solar  Si/stem. 


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wmey  of  the  Jews  after  Death, 

COB  desired  to  be  buried  in  Canaan, 
BgTpt,  for  three  causes  (sajth  R. 
>iv  Tabchi),  because  he  foresaw  that 
lust  of  Egypt  should  be  made  lice ; 
>ecause  the  Israelites  which  die  out 
lan  shall  not  rise  againe  without 
un  of  their  rolling  through  the  deep 
len  yaults  of  the  earth ;  drdly,  least 
p^ptians  should  make  an  idoll  of  him. 

b€!tter  understanding  hereof,  let  us 
bat  is  said  out  of  the  book  Tanchum 
losition  of  the  Pentateuch)  concern- 
subject.  The  Patriarchs  (sayth  he) 
to  be  buried  in  Canaan,  because  they 
xe  there  buried,  shall  first  rise  in 

of  the  Messias.  And  R.  Hannaniah 
hat  they  which  die  out  of  Canaan 
dure  two  deaths  :  and  the  same  ap- 

Jer.  20,  where  it  is  said  Pashur 
^o  into  Babel  and  should  there  die, 
•e  be  buried.  *  What  ?'  quoth  R. 
^  shall  then  all  the  just  perish  which 
of  Canaan  ?'  *  No ;  but  God  will 
lem  Mechilloa,  that  is,  deep  clifls 
es  under  the  earth,  by  which  they 
iS  into  the  land  of  promise,  whither 
ey  are  come,  Grod  shall  inspire  into 
s  breath  of  life,  that  they  may  rise 
8  it  is  written  (Ezek.  zxzvii.  12), 
3pen  your  graves,  and  cause  you  to 
t  of  your  sepulchres,*  &c.  The  like 
m  in  their  Targum,  or  Chaldsean 
tation  of  the  Canticles :  when  thy 
all  rise.  Mount  Olivet  shall  cleave 
,  and  the  Israelites  which  have  been 
ill  come  out  of  the  same,  and  they 
ave  died  in  strange  lands,  coming 
t>y  holes  under  the  earth,  shall  come 
^  And  for  this  cause,  I  myself,*  sayth 
lor,  *  have  heard  the  Jews  say,  that 
es  some  of  the  wealthiest  and  de- 
among  them  goe  into  the  land  of 
that  their  bodies  may  there  sleep, 
«  freed  from  this  miserable  passage 
)  many  deep  seas  and  rough  moun- 

-PUBCHAS. 


Sabbath  of  the  Damned, 

**  Thxt  begin  their  sabbath  thus  soon  and 
end  it  also  later  than  the  just  time,  in  com- 
miseration of  the  purgatory  souls,  which 
begin  and  end  with  them  this  sabbath*s 
rest,  being  the  whole  week  besides  tor- 
mented in  that  fire.  Judas  himself,  in  ho- 
nour of  the  Christian  sabbath,  obtained  like 
priviledge;  witness  S.Brandon  in  the  legend 
(can  you  refuse  him  ?)  who  found  him  cool- 
ing himself  in  the  sea,  sitting  upon  a  stone 
which  he  had  sometime  removed  out  of  a 
place  where  it  was  needlesse  into  the  high 
way.  So  meritorious  even  in  Judas  is  any 
even  the  least  good  work.  There  did  Judas 
acquaint  Brandon  with  this  Sunday-refresh- 
ing of  the  hellish  prisoners,  and  desired  his 
holy  company  to  scare  away  the  Devils, 
when  they  should  after  Sunday  evensong 
come  to  fetch  him  again,  which  for  that  time 
Brandon  granted  and  performed.** — Ibid. 


llie  Bitterness  of  Death, 

"  The  Angel  of  Death,'*  say  the  Rabbis, 
"  holdeth  his  sword  in  his  hand  at  the  bed*s 
head,  having  on  the  end  thereof  three  drops 
of  gall.  The  sick  man  spying  this  deadly 
Angel,  openeth  his  mouth  with  fear,  and 
then  those  drops  fall  in,  of  which  one  kill- 
eth  him,  the  second  maketh  him  pale,  the 
third  rotteth  and  putrifieth.** — ^Ibid. 

Possibly  the  expression  to  taste  the  bitter- 
ness of  death  may  refer  to  this.^ 


>'SAM^/V^^^^M<WWWVS^V% 


Adam's  frst  Wife, 

**  Whbn  God  had  made  Adam,  and  saw 
it  was  not  good  for  him  to  be  alone,  he  made 
him  a  woman  of  the  earth  like  unto  him, 
and  called  her  Lilis.  These  disagreed  for 
superiority.  Lilis,  made  of  the  same  mould, 
would  not  be  underling,  and  Adam  would 
not  endure  her  hb  equal.  Lilis  seeing  no 
hope  of  agreement,  uttered  that  sacred  word 

*  See  1  Sam.  xv.  32,  **  Surely  the  bitterness 
of  death  is  past."— J.  W.  W. 


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Jehovah,  with  the  cabalistical  interpretation 
thereof,  and  presently  did  fly  into  the  air. 
Adam  plaining  his  case,  God  sent  three 
angels  after  her,  Senoi,  Sensenoi,  Sanman- 
geleph,  either  to  bring  her  back,  or  denounce 
unto  her,  that  a  hundred  of  her  children 
should  die  in  a  day.  These  overtook  her 
over  the  troublesome  sea,  where  one  day 
the  ^Egyptians  should  be  drowned,  and  did 
their  message  to  her.  She  refusing  to  obey, 
they  threatened  her  drowning  ;  but  she  be- 
sought them  to  let  her  alone,  because  she 
was  created  to  vex  and  kill  children  on  the 
eighth  day  if  they  were  men ;  if  women 
children,  on  the  twentieth  day.  They  never- 
theless forcing  her  to  go,  Lilis  swore  to 
them,  that  whensoever  she  should  find  the 
name  or  figure  of  those  angels  written  or 
painted  on  schedule,  parchment,  or  any 
thing,  she  would  do  infants  no  harm,  and 
that  she  would  not  refuse  that  punishment 
to  lose  a  hundred  children  in  a  day :  and 
accordingly  a  hundred  of  her  children  or 
young  devils  died  in  a  day.  And  for  this 
cause  doe  they  write  those  names  on  a  scroll 
of  parchment,  and  hang  them  on  their  in- 
fants* necks.    Thus  far  Bbn  Sib  a. 

**  In  their  chambers  always  is  found  such 
a  picture,  and  the  names  of  the  Angels  of 
Health  (this  office  they  ascribe  to  them)  are 
written  over  the  chamber  door.  In  their 
book  Brandspiegel,  printed  at  Cracovia, 
1597,  is  shewed  tlie  authority  of  this  history, 
collected  by  their  wise  men  out  of  those 
words,  "Male  and  female  create  he  them,*" 
compared  with  the  forming  of  Eve  of  a  rib 
in  the  next  chapter ;  saying  that  Lilis,  the 
former,  was  divorced  from  Adam  for  her 
pride,  which  she  conceived  because  she  was 
made  of  earth  as  well  as  he,  and  God  gave 
him  another,  flesh  of  his  flesh.** — Ibid, 


L_ 


Stone  that  produces  Water, 

"  At  Costantynoble  is  the  vesselle  of 
ston,  as  it  were  of  marbelle,  that  men  clepen 
Enydros,  that  evermore  droppeth  watre,  and 
fillethe  himself  everiche  zeer,  till  that  it  go 


over  above,  withouten  that  men  1 
withinne." — The  Voiage  and  Travai 
John  MawtdevUe, 


Images. 

April  23.  The  blossoms  swept  f 
fruit  tree  like  a  shower  of  snow. 

The  wood  was  in  the  shade,  but  a 
tops  peered  into  the  slant  beam, 
light  heads  rose  like  plumes  of  ven 

The  daw  below  sailed   unseen, 
light  fell  upon  his  glossy  wings.     A 
the  Rocks.' 

April  24.  The  brown  young  leav< 
walnut  scarcely  distinguishable  f: 
boughs. 

There  is  some  tree,  perhaps  the 
dog-wood,  whose  large  buds  shine 
ver,  showing  only  the  under  par 
leaves. 

In  a  wet  day,  I  observed  that  th 
rose  brighter.  On  remarking  this  to 
told  me  that  in  dull  days  the  wh 
were  very  bright;  in  clear  weather, 
colours  shone  most  visibly. 

May  14.  The  ash  is  still  unfoliaj 
cept  at  the  extremity  of  every  spra 
its  sharp  young  leaves  spread  in  ti 
stArs. 

The  oak  still  reddish  with  its 
buds. 

May  18.  The  oak  unfolds  its  lea\ 
rously  ;  they  droop  and  hang  loose 

I  observed  the  motion  of  the  cc 
like  the  sparkling  of  a  stream  in  tl 

In  Norfolk  they  call  the  flat  cou 
Broads.'    It  presents  a  kind  of  oc 

'  The  Rocks,  near  Ucfield  in  Susae 
was  therefore  written  probably  in  17 
he  again  visited  hii)  friend,  T.  P.  Lami 
Mountsfield  Lodge,  near  Rye.  See 
Correspondence,  vol.  1,  p.  290.  Sc 
curious  letters  of  this  date  are  still  in  e 

J.  ' 

*  I  think  this  is  a  mistake.  I  cerl 
ways  heard  the  word  used  in  the  sense 
FoRBY  in  his  VocabuLary  of  East  Angi 
lake  formed  by  the  expansion  of  a  riv€ 
country,  in  v.— J.  W.  W. 


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\  the   same  circular  distance,  the 
mding  down  of  the  horizon. 


■'%/'MS»%^^>^^^^^»^^^i^/^%»^» 


From  FiLicAiA. 


r !  Italy  I  oh  thou  whom  Fate 
with  beauty,  an  unhappy  gift, 
ly  dower  of  infinite  miseries, 
traces  by  the  hand  of  Sorrow  traced 
thy  front !  oh  that  thou  wert  less 
ir, 

iauteous,  or  more  strong,  that  they 
ho  now 

iigned  endearments  of  their  love  be- 
iiile 

e,  might  love  thee  less,  or  fear  thee 
lore. 

lould  we  not  behold  the  hostile  hosts 
id  squadrons  rushing  down  thy  Alps, 
dlic  herds  upon  the  banks  of  Po, 
ig  the  blood-8tain*d  waters.  Italy ! 
>uld  not  see  thee,  with  a  sword  not 
line, 

r  the  war,  and  from  a  foreign  bow 
ig  thine  arrows,  when  the  war  has 
eased, 
or  vanquishM  still  to  be  a  slave." 


■W^^^rf%^/%^^/^V^^^^^^^^W 


From  FuicAiA. 


RB  is  thine  own  right  arm,  O  Italy? 
)8t  thou  use  the  stranger*s  ?  he  who 
aids, 

>  attacks  thee  are  Barbarians  both, 
th  thine  enemies,  both  once  thy  slave, 
len  it  is  that  thou  rememberest 
>ld  illustrious  empire !  this  thy  faith, 
ighted  faith  to  Valour  I  Go,  divorce 
»nour*d  husband — go,  and  wed  thyself 
;h !  Adultress,  amid  blood  and  groans 
$9ing  arrows  take  thy  sleep — sleep  on 
*sword  wake  thee,  drowsy  as  thou  art, 
iked  in  thy  paramour*s  embrace, 
!  avenging  sword  awake  and  strike.** 


Barbarous  Superstitions. 

**  The  Patagonians  regard  the  milky  way 
as  the  hunting  forest  where  departed  souls 
delight  themselves  in  hunting  ostriches.** — 
Falkneb,  p.  115. 

**  The  Kamtshadales  make  of  the  rain- 
bow a  new  garment  for  their  aerial  spirit, 
edged  with  fringes  of  red-coloured  seal  skin, 
and  leather  thongs  of  various  gaudy  dies. 
They  explain  the  nature  of  storms  by  the 
shaking  of  the  long  and  crisped  hair  of  their 
aerial  spirit.** — Stbllee,  p.  64. 

**  The  Eopts  break  out  into  exultation 
at  the  appearance  of  an  earthquake,  as  they 
imagine  that  heaven  is  opened,  and  that 
every  celestial  blessing  is  going  to  alight  on 
the  land  of  Egypt.**—  Pococke,  vol.  1,  p.  195. 

**  The  Kamtshadales  account  for  earth- 
quakes by  the  driving  of  an  infernal  deity 
beneath  the  earth ;  the  earth  is  shaken,  they 
say,  when  the  dog  that  draws  the  sledge  of 
this  infernal  deity  scratches  his  fleas  or 
shakes  off  the  snow  from  his  hide.** — Stsl- 
LBE,  p.  267. 

*'  The  Colmucs  hold  the  lightning  to  be 
the  fire  spit  out  of  the  mouth  of  a  dragon, 
ridden  and  scourged  by  evil  Daemons,  and 
the  thunder  they  make  to  be  his  roarings.** 
— Paixas,  vol.  1,  p.  343. 

^*  Respectiko  storms,  the  people  of  Chili 
are  of  opinion  that  the  departed  souls  are 
returning  from  their  abode  beyond  the  sea, 
to  be  able  to  assist  their  relations  and 
friends.  Accordingly,  when  it  thunders 
over  the  mountains,  they  think  that  the 
souls  of  their  forefathers  are  taken  in  an 
engagement  with  those  of  the  Spaniards. 
The  roaring  of  the  winds  they  take  to  be  the 
noise  of  horsemen  attacking  one  another ; 
the  howling  of  the  tempest  for  the  beating 
of  drums,  and  the  claps  of  thunder  for  the 
discharge  of  muskets  and  cannons.  When 
the   wind   drives  the  clouds   towards  the 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


possessions  of  the  Spaniards,  thej  rejoice 
that  the  souls  of  their  forefathers  have  re- 
pulsed those  of  their  enemies,  and  call  out 
aloud  to  them  to  give  them  no  quarter. 
When  the  contrary  happens,  they  are  trou- 
bled and  dejected,  and  encourage  the  yield- 
ing souls  to  rally  their  forces  and  summon 
up  the  last  remains  of  their  strength.** — 
YxDAVRB,  p.  122.    Meiner, 

'*  SoMB  of  the  pagan  Arabs  believed 
that  of  the  blood  near  the  dead  person's 
brain  was  formed  a  bird  named  H&mah, 
which  once  in  a  hundred  years  visited  the 
sepulchre ;  though  others  say  this  bird  is  ani- 
mated by  the  soul  of  him  that  is  unjustly 
slain,  and  continually  cries  Osciini,  Oscihii, 
i.  e.  give  me  to  drink,  meaning  of  the  mur- 
therer*s  blood,  till  his  death  be  revenged ; 
and  then  it  flies  away.** — Salb. 

*^  Mohammed  having  hung  up  his  arms 
on  a  tree,  under  which  he  was  resting  him- 
self, and  his  companions  being  dispersed 
some  distance  from  him,  an  Arab  of  the 
desart  came  up  to  him  and  drew  his  sword, 
saying,  ^^Who  hindreth  me  from  killing 
thee?**  to  which  Mohammed  answered, 
**  God  I  **  and  Grabricl  beating  the  sword 
out  of  the  AraVs  hand,  Mohammed  took 
it  up,  and  asked  him  the  same  question— 
'*  Who  hindreth  me  from  lulling  theeP** 
the  Arab  replied,  **  Nobody  I**  and  imme- 
diately professed  Mohanunedism.** — Salb. 


a^^MW^^^^^^^AW^^^^^^O 


The  Lave  Langvage  of  Colours. 
From  AousTiM  db  Salazab  t  Tobbbs. 

O  sovBBBiOH  beauty,  you  whose  charms 

All  other  charms  surpass. 
Whose  lustre  nought  can  imitate 

Except  your  looking  glass. 

A  choir  of  nymphs,  the  planets  they 

Who  live  but  by  your  light. 
For  well  we  know  the  sun  bestows 

The  borrowed  rays  of  night. 

A  choir  of  graces  they,  for  sure 
That  title  they  obtain. 


K  they  are  graces  who  attend 
In  Cytherea*s  train. 

These  nymphs  by  various  colours  n 
Their  various  feelings  tell. 

For  Cupid,  though  the  boy  be  bluK 
Can  ju^e  of  colours  welL 

For  faith  and  constancy  they  blend 
With  white  the  azure  blue. 

To  show  the  tyranny  of  power 
Alone  the  8traw*s  pale  hue. 

A  constant  and  an  ardent  love 

In  fiery  tints  is  seen, 
And  hope,  that  makes  affection  swe< 

Displays  itself  in  green. 

The  mingled  red  and  white  display 
A  love  triumphant  there ; 

The  copper*s  cankerous  verdure  spc 
Love,  envy,  and  despair. 

A  faithful  and  devoted  heart, 
The  girdle's  circling  white. 

And  thus  a  simple  ribband  speaks 
A  woman*s  heart  aright. 

The  hue  of  bumish*d  gold,  so  bngh 
That  emulates  the  flame. 

The  gay  and  gorgeous  emblem  shm< 
Of  power  and  love  and  fame. 

O  sovereign  beauty,  you  whose  cha 

To  all  superior  shine ! 
Whatever  colour  pleases  you. 

That  colour  shall  be  mine. 

May,  16,  1798. 

\AncieHt  London  Pcutimee.'] 

**  Thb  youths  of  this  city  also  have 
on  holidays,  after  evening  prayer,  at 
nmsters*  doors,  to  exercise  their  wasters 
bucklers,  and  the  maidens,  one  of 
playing   on   a  timbrel,  in  sight  of 
masters  and  dames,  to  dance  for  gar! 
hanged  athwart  the  streets.     Which 
pastimes  in  my  youth  being  now  supprc 
worser  practises  within  doors  are  t 
feared." —  Stow. 

*  i.  e.  cudgels.  See  Na&eb'  Gitmctry  in  ir 
quotes  this  very  passage  firom  Stow'b  U 

J.  W. 


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The  Ten  Tribee. 

^  Ix  that  same  regioun  ben  the  moun- 
tajnes  of  Caspye  that  men  depen  Uber  m 
tlie  oontree.    Betwene  tho  mountajnes  the 
Jews  of  ten  lynages  ben  enclosed,  that 
men  depen  GoUie  and  Magothe,  and  their 
mowe  not  gon  out  on  no  side.     There 
weren  endoeed  22  kjrnges  with  hire  peple, 
that  duelleden  betwene  the  mountajnes  of 
Sjthje.     There  Ejng  Alisandre  chacede 
hem  betwene  tho  mountajnes,  and  there  be 
tboughte  for  to  endose  hem  thorghe  werk 
of  his  men.     But  whan  he  saughe,  that  he 
mjghte  not  don  it,  ne  brjng  it  to  an  ende, 
he  prejed  to  Grod  of  Nature,  that  he  wolde 
puforme  that  that  he  had  begonne.     And 
ille  were  it  so,  that  he  was  a  Pajneme  and 
not  worthi  to  ben  herd,  zit  Grod  of  his  grace 
closed  the  mountajnes   togjdre;  so  that 
thd  dwelleu  there,  alle  faste  jlokked  and 
oiclosedwith  highe  mountajnes  alle  aboute, 
ttf  onlj  on  o  sjde ;  and  on  that  sjde  is  the 
Me  of  Caspye,    Now  maj  sum  men  asken, 
sithe  that  the  see  is  on  that  o  sjde  wherfore 
go  thd  not  out  on  the  see  sjde,  for  to  go 
where  that  hem  Ijkethe?     But  to   this 
qnestiounlschal  answer,  that  see  of  Caspje 
gothe  out  be  londe,  undre  the  mountajnes 
lad  renneth  be  the  desert  at  o  sjde  of  the 
eontree ;  and  afbre  it  strecchethe  unto  the 
endes  of  Persie.     And  all  thoughe  it  be 
clept  a  see,  it  is  no  see,  ne  it  touchethe  to 
non  other  see,  but  it  is  a  lake,  the  grettest 
of  the  world.     And  thoughe  thei  wolden 
patten  him  into  that  see,  thd  ne  wjsten 
Jierer,  where  that  thd  scholde  arrjven,  and 
also  thej  conen  no  langage,  but  onlj  hire 
owne,  that  no  man  knowethe  but  thei,  and 
therefore  mowe  thd  not  gon  out.  And  also 
zee  schulle  undirstonde,  that  the   Jewes 
han  no  propre  lond  of  hire  owne  for  to 
dwellen  in,  in  alle  the  world,  but  onlj  that 
loud  betwene  the  mountajnes.     And   zit 
thd  zdden  tribute  for  that  lond  to  the 
Qneen  of  Amazoine,  the  whiche  makethe 
hem  to  ben  kept  in  cloos  fulle  diligentlj, 
that  thd  schalle  not  gon  out  on  no  sjde, 
bat  the  cost  of  hire  lond,  for  hire  lond 


marchethe  to  tho  mountajnes,  and  often  it 
hathe  befallen,  that  sume  of  the  Jewes  han 
gon  up  the  mountajnes,  and  avaled^  down 
to  the  valejes;  but  gret  nombre  of  folk 
ne  maj  not  do  so,  for  the  mountajnes  ben 
so  hje  and  so  str^ht  up,  that  thei  moste 
abjde  there,  maugre  hire  mjghte,  for  thei 
mowe  not  gon  out,  but  be  a  littille  issue, 
that  was  made  be  strengthe  of  men,  and  it 
lastethe  wd  a  4  grete  n^jle ;   and  afire  is 
there  zit  a  lond  alle  desert,  where  men 
maj  fjnde  no  watre,  ne  for  djggjnge,  ne 
for  non  other  thing,  wherfore  men  maj  not 
dwdlen  in  that  place:    so  is  it  fulle  of 
dragounes,  of  serpentes  and  of  other  yen j- 
mous  bestes,  that  no  man  dar  not  passe, 
but   zif  it  be  strong  wjntre.      And  that 
strejt  passage,  men  clepen  in  that  eontree 
Cljron ;  and  that  is  the  passage  that  the 
Queene  of  Amazoine  makethe  to  ben  kept ; 
and  thoghe  it  happene,  sum  of  hem,  be  for- 
tune to  gon  out,  thei  conen  no  manner  of 
langage  but  Ebrow,  so  that  thei  can  not 
speke  to  the  peple.   And  zit  nathdes,  men 
sejrn,  thd  schulle  gon  out  in  the  tjme  of  An- 
tecrist,  and  that  thei  schulle  maken  gret 
slaughtre  of  Cristene  men,  and  therfore  alle 
the  Jewes,  that  dwellen  in  die  londes,  ler- 
nen  alle  wejs  to  speken  Ebrew,  in  hope 
that  whan  the  other  Jewes  schulle  gon  out, 
that  thei  maj  undirstonden   hire   speche, 
and  to  leden  hem  into  Cristendom,  for  to 
destroje  the  Cristene  peple.  For  the  Jewes 
sejn  that  thei  knowen  wd,  be  hire  prophe- 
cjes,  that  thd  of  Caspje  schulle  gon  out 
and  spreden  thorghe  out  alle  the  world,  and 
that  the  Cristene  men  schulle  ben  undre  hire 
subjecdoun   als  longe  as  thei  han  ben  in 
subjeccioun  of  hem.    And  zif  that  zee  wil 
w jte  how  that  thei  schulle  f jnden  hire  weje, 
after  that  I  have  herd  seje,  I  schalle  telle 
jou  zou.     In  the  time  of  Antecrist,  a  fox 
schalle  make  there  his  trajne,  and  m jnen  an 

'  i.  e.  descended.  See  Menage  in  v.  AvalUr, 
It  is  an  old  Anglo-Norman  word  made  up  from 
the  Latin.    Spenser  and  Chaucer  both  use  it. 

''  Such  a  rain  from  heaven  'gan  availe." 

TroH,  and  Crtss.  Book  iii.— J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


hole,  where  Kyng  Alisandre  leet  make  the 
zates ;  ^  and  so  longe  he  schalle  myncn  and 
perce  the  erthe  til  that  he  schalle  passe 
thorghe,  towardes  that  folke;  and  whan  thei 
seen  the  fox,  thei  schuUe  have  gret  marveyUe 
of  him,  because  that  thei  saughe  never  suche 
a  best ;  for  of  alle  othere  bestes  thei  han 
enclosed  amonges  them,  saf  only  the  fox, 
and  thanne  thei  schullen  chasen  him  and  pur- 
suen  him  so  strcyte,  tille  that  he  come  to 
the  same  place  that  he  came  fro,  and  thanne 
thei  schullen  dyggen  and  mynen  so  strongly, 
tiUe  that  thei  fynden  the  zates  that  Kyng 
Alisandre  leet  make  of  grete  stones  and 
passynge  huge,  wel  symented  and  made 
stronge  for  the  maystrie,  and  tho  zates  thei 
schulle  breken,  and  so  gon  out,  be  fyndynge 
of  that  issue.** — Maundbville. 


Province  of  Darkness. 

"  In  the  kyngdom  of  Abcaz  is  a  gret 
marvaylle ;  for  a  provynce  of  the  contree, 
that  hathe  wel  in  circuyt  3  jomeyes,  that 
men  clepen  Hanyson,  is  alle  covered  with 
derknesse,  withouten  ony  brightnesse  or 
light ;  so  that  no  man  may  see  ne  here,  ne 
no  man  dar  entren  in  to  hem.  And  natheles 
thei  of  the  contree  seyn,  that  som  tyme 
men  heren  voys  of  folk,  and  hors  nyzenge, 
and  cokkes  crowynge,  and  men  witen  wel, 
that  men  dwellen  there ;  but  thei  knowc  not 
what  men,  and  thei  seyn  that  the  derknesse 
befelle  be  myracle  of  Grod ;  for  a  cursed 
Emperor  of  Persie  that  highte  Saures,  pur- 
suede  all  Cristene  men  to  destroye  hem,  and 
to  compelle  hem  to  make  sacrifises  to  his 
y  doles;  and  rood  with  grete  host,  in  alle  that 
ever  he  myghte,  for  to  confounde  the  Cris- 
tene men.  And  thanne  in  that  contree, 
dwelleden  manye  gode  Cristene  men,  the 
whiche  laften  hire  godes,  and  wolde  han  fled 
in  to  Grece:    and  whan  they  weren  in  a 

'  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  this  is 
the  old  form  for  gates.  It  is  a  corruption  of  the 
Anglo-Saxon  ^  and  y ,  as  may  be  seen  in  the  next 
extract,  and  is  not  said  to  be  found  except  in 
MSS.  written  after  the  twelfth  century. 

J.  W.  W. 


playn  that  highte  Megon,  anon  this  cursed 
Emperor  mett  with  hem  with  his  boost,  for 
to  have  slain  hem  and  hewen  hem  to  peces. 
And  anon  the  Cristene  men  kneleden  to  the 
grounde  and  made  hire  preyeres  to  God  to 
sokoure  hem,  and  anon  a  gret  thikke  clowde 
cam  and  covered  the  Emperor  and  alle  his 
boost,  and  so  thei  enduren  in  that  manere, 
that  thei  ne  mowe  not  gon  out  on  no  syde ; 
and  so  schulle  thei  ever  more  abyden  in 
darknesse  tille  the  day  of  dome,  be  the  my- 
racle of  God.  Also  zee  schulle  understonde 
that  out  of  that  lond  of  derknesse,  gothe  out 
a  gret  ryvere,  that  schewethe  wel,  that 
there  ben  folk  dwellynge  be  many  redy 
tokenes,  but  no  man  dar  not  entre  in  to  it." 
—Ibid. 


•^/'^^'^VN^^h^^V^^^W^^^^^V* 


The  Faery  Falcon. 


^*'  In  the  contree  of  litille  Ermonye  is  an 
old  castelle,  that  stont  upon  a  rocke,  the 
which  is  cleped  the  castelle  of  the  sparre- 
hawk,  that  is  bezonde  the  cytee  of  Layays, 
beside  the  town  of  Pharsipee,  that  belong- 
ethe  to  the  lordschepe  of  Cruk,  that  is  a 
riche  lord  and  a  gode  Cristene  man :  where 
men  fynden  a  spare-hauk  upon  a  perche 
righte  fair,  and  righte  wel  made,  and  a 
fayre  lady  of  Fayrye  that  kepethe  it,  and  who 
that  wil  wake  that  sparhauk  3  dayes  and  3 
nyghtes  (or  7)  withouten  companye  and 
withouten  sleep,  that  faire  lady  schal  zcven 
him  whan  he  hathe  don,  the  first  wyssche 
that  he  wil  wyssche  of  erthely  thinges,  and 
that  hath  been  proved  often  tymes.  And  o 
tyme  befelle  that  a  Kynge  of  Ermonye,  that 
was  a  worthi  knyght,  and  doughty  man,  and 
a  noble  prince  woke  that  hauk  som  tyme, 
and  at  the  ende  of  7  days  and  7  nyghtes, 
the  lady  cam  to  hym,  and  bad  him  wisschen, 
for  he  had  wel  disserved  it;  and  he  an- 
swered, that  he  was  gret  lord  ynow,  and 
wel  in  peece,  and  hadde  ynowghe  of  worldly 
ricchesse,  and  therfore  he  wolde  wisshe  non 
other  thing  but  the  body  of  that  faire  lady, 
to  have  it  at  his  wille ;  and  sche  answered 
hym,  that  he  knew  not  what  he  asked,  and 


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that  he  was  a  fool  to  desire  that  he 
e  not  have ;  for  sche  sejde  that  he 
e  not  aske  but  erthely  thing,  for  sche 
m  erthelj  thing,  but  a  gostlj  thing ; 
e  kjng  scjde  that  he  ne  wolde  asken 
iier  thing.  And  the  ladj  answerd, 
e  that  I  maj  not  withdrawe  zou  fro 
lewed  corage,  I  schal  zeve  zou  with- 
wjsschinge,  and  to  alle  hem  that 
*  com  of  zou.  Sire  kyng,  zee  schulle 
rerre,  withouten  pees,  and  allewejs 
9th  degree  zee  schulle  ben  in  subjec- 
>f  zoure  enemyes,  and  zee  scrhulle  ben 
3f  alle  godes.*  And  never  sithen, 
*T  the  Kyng  of  Ermonje,  ne  the 
e  weren  never  in  pees,  ne  ther  had- 
rver  sithen  plentee  of  godes ;  and  thei 
in  sithen  allewejes  undre  tribute  of 
irrazines.  Also  the  sone  of  a  pore 
roke  that  hauke  and  wisshed  that  he 
cheve (chevir^)  wel,  and  to  ben  happy 
rchandise.  And  the  lady  graunted 
and  he  became  the  most  riche  and 
ost  famouse  marchant  that  myghte 
I  see  or  oner  the ;  and  he  becam  so 
that  he  knew  not  the  1000  part  of 
s  hadde  ^  and  he  was  wysere  in  wiss- 
s  than  was  the  Kyng.  Also  a  knyght 
temple  wooke  there,  and  wyssched  a 
veremore  fulle  of  gold,  and  the  lady 
ted  him.  But  sche  seyde  him,  that  he 
iked  the  destruccioun  of  here  ordre, 
3  trust  and  the  affiance  of  that  purs, 
•r  the  grete  pryde,  that  thei  scholde 
;  and  so  it  was.  And  therfore  loke, 
te  him  wel,  that  schalle  wake ;  for  zif 
pe,  he  is  lost,  that  nevere  man  schalle 
iim  more." — Ihid.  from  the  History  of 
ine,  hy  John  of  Amu, 

Origin  of  the  Rose? 

ETWENB  the  cytee  and  the  chirche  of 
lem,  is  the  felde  Floridus,  that  is  to 

3e  mot  est  vieux,  et  signifie  venir  a  bent 
que  personne,  ou  de  quelque  chose,  et  s'en 
maitre.'*  Bichelet,  in  v. — J.  W,  W. 
e  poem,  TIf  Ro»,  p.  439.— J.  W.  W. 


seyne,  the  feld  florisched ;  for  als  moche  a 
a  fayre  mayden  was  blamed  with  wrong 
and  sclaundered,  that  sche  hadde  don  for- 
nycacioun,  for  whiche  cause  sche  was  demed 
to  the  dethe,  and  to  be  brent  in  that  place, 
to  the  whiche  sche  was  ladd.  And  as  the 
fyre  began  to  brenne  aboute  hire,  sche  made 
hire  preyeres  to  oure  Lord,  that  als  wissely 
as  sche  was  not  gylty  of  that  synne,  that  he 
wold  helpe  hire,  and  make  it  to  be  knowen 
to  alle  men,  of  his  mercyfuUe  grace ;  and 
whanne  sche  hadde  thus  seyd,  sche  entred 
into  the  fuyer,  and  anon  was  the  fuyr 
quenched  and  oute ;  and  the  brondes  that 
weren  brennynge,  becomen  white  roseres, 
fulle  of  roses ;  and  theise  weren  the  first 
roseres  and  roses,  bothe  white  and  rede, 
that  ever  ony  man  saughe.  And  thus  was 
this  maiden  saved  be  the  grace  of  God.** — 
Ibid. 


Ladt  Gbanqe.^ 

"  The  true  story  of  this  lady,  which  hap- 
pened in  this  century,  is  as  frightfully  ro- 
mantic as  if  it  had  been  the  fiction  of  a 
gloomy  fancy.  She  was  the  wife  of  one  of 
the  lords  of  session  in  Scotland,  a  man  of  the 
very  first  blood  of  his  country.  For  some 
mysterious  reasons,  which  have  never  been 
discovered,  she  was  seized  and  carried  off  in 
the  dark,  she  knew  not  by  whom,  and  by 
nightly  journeys  was  conveyed  to  the  High- 
land shores,  from  whence  she  was  transport- 
ed by  sea  to  the  remote  rock  of  St.  Kilda, 
where  she  remained  amongst  its  few  wild  in- 
habitants, a  forlorn  prisoner,  but  had  a  con- 
stant supply  of  provisions,  and  a  woman  to 
wait  on  her.  No  inquiry  was  made  after  her, 
till  she  at  last  found  means  to  convey  a  let- 
ter to  a  confidential  friend,  by  the  daughter 

•  For  this  strange  history,  see  Sir  Walter 
Scott's  note  in  Ice.  (vol.  iv.  p.  246,  Murray's 
edit.)  *'  She  had  become  privy  to  some  of  the 
Jacobite  intrigues  in  which  her  husband,  Lord 
Grange  (brother  of  the  Earl  of  Mar,  and  a  Lord 
of  Session,)  and  his  family  were  engaged." 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOB  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


of  a  catechist,  who  concealed  it  in  a  clue  of 
yam.  Information  being  thus  obtained  at 
Edinburgh,  a  ship  was  sent  to  bring  her 
off;  but  intelligence  of  this  being  received, 
she  was  conveyed  to  M^Leod's  island  of 
Herries,  where  she  died.** — ^BoewBix. 

Lanb  Buchanam  says,  *^It  was  supposed 
a  courier  was  despatched  over  land  by  her 
enemies,  who  had  arrived  at  St.  Kilda  some 
time  before  the  vessel.  When  the  latter  ar- 
rived, to  their  sad  disappointment,  they 
found  the  lady  in  her  grave.  Whether  she 
died  by  the  visitation  of  God,  or  the  wick- 
edness of  man,  will  for  ever  remain  a  se- 
cret ;  as  their  whole  address  could  not  pre- 
vail on  the  minister  and  his  wife,  though 
brought  to  Edinburgh,  to  declare  how  it 
happened,  as  both  were  afraid  of  offending 
the  great  men  of  that  country  among  whom 
they  were  forced  to  reside. 

**  A  poor  old  woman  told  me,**  he  adds, 
^  that  when  she  served  her  there,  her  whole 
time  was  devoted  to  weeping,  and  wrapping 
up  letters  round  pieces  of  cork,  bound  up 
with  yam,  and  throwing  them  into  the  sea, 
to  try  if  any  favourable  wave  would  wall 
them  to  some  Christian,  to  inform  some  hu- 
mane person  where  she  resided,  in  expec- 
tation of  carrying  tidings  to  her  friends  at 
Edinburgh.** 


A^\A/V^^^^l^\/V%^A^^A/V^^ 


Line» found  in  the  pocket  book  of  Mr,  Whitb- 
siDB,  a  Di99enting  Minister  of  Yarmouth^ 
reputed  mad^  who  destroyed  himself 

^  With  toilsome  steps  I  pass  thro*  life*s 

dull  road, 
Ko  pack-horse  half  so  weary  of  his  load ; 
And  when  this  dirty  journey  shall  conclude. 
To  what  new  realms  is  then  my  way  pur- 
sued? 
Say— does  the  pure-embodied  spirit  fly 
To  happier  climes,  and  to  a  better  sky  ? 
Or,  sinking,  does  it  mix  with  kindred  clay, 
And  sleep  a  whole  etemity  away  ? 
Or,  shall  this  form  be  once  again  renew*d. 
With  all  its  frailties  and  its  hopes  endued, 
Acting  once  more  on  this  detested  stage 


Passions  of  youth,  infirmities  of  age  ? 
Fve  read  in  Tully  what  the  ancients  thought, 
And  judged  unprejudiced  what  modems 

taught; 
But  no  conviction  from  my  reading  springs, 
Fm  dubious  in  the  most  important  thmgs. 
Tet  one  short  moment  will  in  full  explain 
What  all  philosophy  has  sought  in  vain ; 
Will  tell  me  what  no  human  wisdom  knows, 
Clear  up  each  doubt,  and  terminate  my  woes. 
Why,  l^en,  not  hasten  this  decisive  hour 
Still  in  my  view,  and  even  in  my  power  ? 
Why  should  I  drag  along  thb  life  I  hate 
Without  one  hope  to  mitigate  the  weight? 
Why  this  mysterious  being  forced  to  exist, 
When  every  joy  is  lost,  and  every  1m^ 

dismist? 
In  chains  of  darkness  wherefore  should  I 

stay, 
Andmoum  in  prison,  while  I  keep  the  kej  ?** 


WVMMWMMNMMAAA^A^^^^^ 


May'day  in  the  Highlands. 

**  It  was  a  custom,  till  of  late  yean, 
among  the  inhabitants  of  whole  districts  in 
the  north  of  Scotland,  to  extinguish  all 
their  fires  on  the  evening  of  the  last  day  of 
April.  Early  on  the  first  day  of  May,  some 
select  persons  met  in  a  private  place,  and 
by  turning  with  great  rapidity  an  augre 
in  a  dry  piece  of  wood,  extracted  what 
they  called,  Tein*>Egin,  the  forced  or  ele- 
mentary fire.  Some  active  young  men, 
one  firom  each  hamlet  in  the  district,  at- 
tended at  a  distance,  and  as  soon  as  the 
forced  fire  was  kindled,  carried  part  of  it, 
with  great  expedition  and  joy,  to  their  re- 
spective villages.  The  people  immediately 
assembled  upon  some  rock  or  eminence, 
lighted  the  Bel-tein,  and  spent  the  day  b 
mirth  and  festivity. 

**  The  ceremonies  used  upon  this  occa- 
sion were  founded  upon  opinions  of  which 
there  is  now  no  trace  remaining  in  tradition. 
It  is  in  vain  to  enquire  why  those  ignorant 
persons  who  are  addicted  to  this  supersti- 
tion, throw  into  the  Bel-tein  a  portion  of 
those  things  upon  which  they  regale  them- 


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on  the  first  of  May.  Neither  is 
inj  reason  assigned  bj  them  for 
I  branches  of  mountain  ash^  with 
I  of  flowers  and  heath,  which  they 
dth  shouts  and  gestures  of  joy,  in 
ion  three  times  round  the  fire.  These 
»  thej  afterwards  deposit  above  the 
f  their  respectiye  dwellings,  where 
main  till  they  give  place  to  others  in 
ceeding  year.  Bel-tein  is  a  compo- 
f  Bel,  a  rock,  and  Tein,  fire.  The 
y  of  May  is  called  La  Bel  Tein,  or 
of  the  fire  on  the  rock. 
i  kindle,  say  the  ancient  Scots,  the 
the  rock  to  welcome  the  sun  after 
eb  behind  the  clouds  and  tempests 
ark^  months ;  and  it  would  be  highly 
t  not  to  honour  him  with  titles  of 
when  we  meet  him  with  joy  on  our 
They  call  him  then,  An  Lo,  the  day, 
lis  Neav,  the  light  of  heaven. — ^Mac- 


Pharos  of  Alexandria. 

RABAT  Eskanderiah  est  le  Fhare  ou 
'Alezandrie.  Le  G^ographe  Persien 
it  3*.  parlant  d* Alexandrle  oii  ce  cli- 
imence,  dit  que  dans  cette  ville  qu* 
Ire  fit  bAtir  sur  le  bord  de  la  mer 
ran^  ce  grand  Prince  fit  construire 
■e  qui  passe  pour  Stre  une  des  mer- 
lu  monde ;  dont  la  hauteur  ^toit  de 
14es,  au  plus  haut  duquel  il  fit  placer 
lir  fait  par  art  talismanique,  par  le 
luquel  la  ville  d*Alexandrie  devoit 
I  consenrer  sa  grandeur  et  sa  puis- 
ant  que  cet  ouyrage  menreiUeux 
roit. 

Iques-uns  ont  ^critquc  lesyaisseauz 

▼oient  dans  ce  port,  se  voyoient  de 

dans  ce  miroir.   Quoi  qu*il  en  soit, 

rt  c^^bre  pamu  les  orientaux.  Les 

-in-Beltein,  the  split  branch  of  the 
le  rock. 

le  Armoricans  and  the  Gael  of  North 
called  the  winter,  and  particularl  v  tho 
f  November,  Mis-Du,  or  the  black 
— Lhutd.  Archm,  Brit. 


Persans  appellent  ce  Phare,  Le  Miroir  Alex- 
andre. Us  disent  que  la  fortune  de  la  ville 
y  ^toit  attach^,  parceque  c*^toit  un  Talis- 
man.**  ^D*Hs]lB£LOT. 


^'V^SA/W^^^^M^^  ^^^^W 


Oenova  mia^  ffc. 

**  Gbhova  mia,  se  con  asciutto  ciglio 

Lacero  e  guasto  il  tuo  bel  corpo  io  miro, 
Non  e  poca  pieta  d*ingrato  figlio. 

Ma  ribello  mi  sembra  agni  sospiro. 

La  maesta  di  tue  mine  ammiro, 
Trofei  della  costanza,  e  del  consiglio ; 

Ovunque  io  volgo  il  passo,  o*l  guard*  io 
giro, 
Incontro  il  tuo  valor  nel  tuo  periglio. 
Piu  val  d*ogni  vittoria  im  bel  sofirire ; 

E  contro  ai  fieri  alta  vendetta  fai 
Col  vederti  distrutta,  e  nol  sentire. 

Anzi  girar  la  liberta  mirai, 
E  baciar  lieta  ogni  rulna,  e  dire 

Ruine  si,  ma  servitu  non  mai.** 

Del  P.  Pastobuii. 


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Ruins  of  Moseley, 

Tatlob,  if  through  thy  shatter*d  fire-swart 
hall 
Unbowed  thou  wanderest,  and  with  tear- 
less eye, 
*Tis  not  that  thou  hast  seen  unmoved  its  fall, 
But  that  thou  feePst  it  were  a  crime  to 
sigh. 
Remain  it  so  thy  trophy,  until  all 
Thy  virtue  in  its  danger  shall  descry. 
To  suffer  well  is  more  than  victory. 
From  such  to  sufier  is  the  patriots  call. 
Soon  will  Desertion*s  ivy  wreaths  intrude 
Where  Hospitality*s  fresh  garlands  lay. 
But  long  shall  Freedom*s  awful  form  be 
view*d 
Amid  the  mouldering  monument  to  stray, 
Transported  kbs  each  stone,  and  proudly 
say 
Ruin  may  come,  but  never  Servitude.** 

Wm.  Tatlob,  Jun. 


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Vivea  conteTiio,  Sf^. 

YiTEA  contento  alia  capanna  mia 

In  povertade  industre,  in  dolce  stento, 
E  perche  al  canto,  ed  al  lavora  intento 

Qualche  fama  di  me  spander  s'udia. 

Vivea  contento  alia  capanna  mia. 

Fatto  percio  superbo  io  mi  nutria 

D*un  van  desio  d*abbandonar  Tarmento : 
Fui  negli  alti  palagi,  e  in  un  momento 

Senza  pregio  restai,  ne  piu  qual  pria 

Vivea  contento  alia  capanna  mia. 

Degli  anni  miei  perdendo  il  piu  bel  fiore, 
11  viver  lieto,  e  la  virtu  perdei ; 

L*ozio,  la  gola,  e  gli  aggi  ebber  Tonore 

Degli  anni  miei  perdendo  il  piu  bel  fiore  : 
Scorno  e  dolore,  i  giomi  tristi  e  rei 

M*  occupa  al  fine,  e  dico  a  tutte  Tore, 
Ah  I  s'io  pover  vivea,  or  non  avrei 
Scorno  e  dolore,  i  giomi  tristi  c  rei." 

FfiBDINANDO  FAaSEBINI. 

Translation. 

1  DWELT  contented  in  my  little  cot, 
Poor,  but  with  all  the  peaceful  comforts 

blest 
That  industry  can  give ;  my  name  was 

known 
As  one  who  laboured  well,  and  well*  could 

sing. 
I  dwelt  contented  in  my  little  cot. 
So  I  grew  vain,  and  cherished  idle  hopes 
To  quit  my  country  toil.  The  princely  domes 
I  sought,  and  in  a  moment  found  myself 
Unknown,  unnoted  there,  nor  now,  as  once, 
I  dwelt  contented  in  my  humble  cot. 
Destroying  the  fair  spring-tide  of  my  life, 
Virtue  I  lost,  and  lost  the  cheerful  heart, 
Sloth,  and  intemperance,  and  sorrow  came. 
Destroying  the  fair  spring-tide  of  my  life. 
Contempt  and  grief,  and  sad  and  guilty  days, 
Came  on  at  last,  and  every  hour  I  think, 
Ah  I  in  my  little  cot  I  8hould*^ot  know 
Contempt  and  grief,  and  sad  andguilty  days  I 

R.  S. 

Io  grido,  e  gridero,  finche  nu  senta 
L'Adria,  il  Tebro,  il  Tirren,  F Arno,  e'l 
Tesino, 


E  chi  primo  udira,  scuota  il  vicino, 
Ch'  e  periglio  comun  quel,  che  si  tenta. 
Non  val,  che  Italia  a'  picdi  altrui  si  pent*, 

E  obbliando  il  valor,  pianga  il  destino ; 

Troppo  innamora  il  bel  terren  Latino, 
E  in  disio  di  regnar  pietate  e  spenta. 
Invan  con  occhi  moUi,  e  goance  smorte 

Chiedi  perdon ;  che  il  suo  nemico  audace 
Non  vuole  il  suo  dolor,  ma  la  sua  morte. 

Fiaccia  il  soffrire  a  chi  *1  pugnar  non  piace. 
E  stolto  orgoglio  in  cosi  debil  8ort« 

Non  voler  guerra,  e  non  soffrir  la  pace. 

Cabix)  Mabia  Magoi. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^A/>i^^^k^ 


Images, 

Cet  of  the  bittern,  like  the  lowing  of  an 
ox,  or  as  William  Taylor  says,  a  cow  with 
a  cough,  three  or  four  times  successively. 

Sunset,  seen  through  a  grove  of  firs. 

What  is  the  grass  called  with  a  pink  blos- 
som? 

Evening  sunshine  on  a  hill  field,  seen 
through  and  over  clustered  trees. 

Glitter  of  the  poplar  in  wind  and  sun- 
shine. 

Green  light  of  the  evening  sky  where  it 
last  lingers. 

July  6.  In  the  College  Green  and  at  Red- 
land  the  row  of  lime  trees  already  begins 
to  shed  its  leaves. 

The  afternoon  was  cloudy,  the  sky  was 
partly  clear  over  the  channel,  and  the  clouds 
in  that  part,  though  heavy,  were  white  and 
brilliant.  The  water  lay  below,  a  sheet  of 
white  glory,  whose  boundary  was  only  made 
visible  by  the  less  radiant  line  of  shore  and 
horizon. 

July  15.  It  has  been  a  showery  afternoon,  I 
over  Kingsweston  the  clouds  lie  heavy,  yet 
hazy,  a  faint  yellow  tinge  over  their  base ; 
their  summits  like  distant  snow  in  sunshine. 
A  heavier  mass  of  dark  cloud  lies  nearer, 
spreading  to  the  lefk,  and  falling  in  nun  at 
Clevedon.  At  its  nearer  verge  beams  the 
white  glory  of  the  sun,  and  the  sky  still 
nearer  is  varied  with  the  waviness  of  clouds 
dazzling  white,  and  dark  spots  and  the  clear 


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»le  through  their  openings.  A  few 
since,  the  slant  rays  shot  down,  now 
itself  is  just  seen,  and  a  haziness 
ads  the  hearier  cloud,  and  the  dis- 
cloud is  less  distinct.  Now  all  is 
1  one  deepening  cloud,  and  the  dis- 
melted  into  a  faint  yellow  spread, 
earns  sloping  down  it,  and  this  light 
ntly  diminished  by  the  spreading 


SubfecUfor  Idylls, 

what  William  Taylor  has  told  me 
lylls  of  Gessner  and  Yoss,  and  the 
on  he  has  shown  me  of  one  by  Groe- 
n  tempted  to  introduce  them  here, 
also  can  seize  the  fit  objects  of  com- 
,  and  place  them  in  the  right  point 

age  wedding.  The  feelings  that  I 
r  Edmund  Seward'  experienced  in 
shire  that  evening;  even  the  scenery 
silently  suit.     A  hamlet  well  em- 

in  elms  amid  a  flat  coimtry :  the 
clear :  the  distant  bells.  The  tra- 
id  a  woman,  a  poor  married  woman, 
isit  from  Oxford  to  Godstow.  This 
y  in  hexameters, 
ned  mansion-house,^ — ^rather  going 

An  old  man  breaking  stones  on  the 

*  some  such  hard  labour)  must  be 

r  speaker,  who  remembered  its  old 

Or  would  it  not  be  well  to  make 

the  fine  old  house  at  Stowey,  being 
sed  by  a  young  heir — the  yew  trees 
n — ^the  casement  windows  altered 
orch  and  its  jessamine  destroyed? 

hospitality,  and  old  fashions,  and 
ivolence,  all  gone  together  ? 
uneral  of  a  young  man,  the  last  of 
ly.'    A  fine  young  man,  the  victim 

hey's  early  friend.  See  the  beautiful 
his  memory,  "  The  Dead  Friend." 
I  one  volume,  p.  131.  For  the  "  Wed- 
«  Engliih  Eclogues,  p.  158.-J.  W.W. 

E»gU$h  Eclogues,  "  The  Old  Mansion 
p.  149. 
.  p.  155. 


of  a  public  school  and  a  university.  The 
old  steward  to  relate  it. 

A  woman  going  to  see  her  son,  lying  in 
a  hospital  after  having  been  wounded  by 
the  French  stinkpots.* 

A  ruined  cottage.*  Its  story  not  to  be 
told  in  dialogue.  A  mother  and  her  daugh- 
ter once  dwelling  there.  The  girl  a  street- 
walker now — the  mother  dying  at  the  work- 
house. 

The  vices  of  the  poor  should  not  be  kept 
out  of  sight  when  their  miseries  are  exposed. 
I  think  an  eclogue  may  be  made  upon  an 
industrious  woman  afflicted  with  a  drunken 
bad  husband. 

The  ruined  cottage  has  matter  for  a  best 
poem.  The  path  overgrown — the  holyhock 
blooming  amid  weeds.  It  shall  be  related 
to  a  friend  whom  I  have  purposely  led  there 
in  an  evening  walk.  She  may  be  described 
as  when  a  girl  the  May  Queen.  The  idle 
fellows  standing  on  the  bridge  in  the  way 
to  church  would  look  up  from  the  water  as 
she  passed,  and  bid  her  good  to-morrow. 
Something  may  be  said  on  the  strange  want 
of  conscience  in  the  libertine. 


BaUads, 

Thb  murderer  made  to  touch  the  dead 
man*8  face.  No  blood  follows — no  miracle 
to  criminate.  He  is  left  alone  with  the  body. 
The  dead  man  then  lifU  up  his  head,  and 
looks  at  him.  They  find  him  mad  when 
they  return. 

There  dwells  a  maniac  in  a  castle,  its  lord. 
One  female  dwells  with  him,  young  and 
beautiful.  Her  he  had  married ;  another 
he  had  seduced.  On  his  wedding  day,  a  ra- 
ven, by  his  repeated  flights  about  the  hall 
window,  disturbed  the  guests.    They  go  to 

*  See  "  The  Sailor's  Mother,"  p.  152. 
"  It  was  no  ball,  Sir,  but  some  cursed  thing 
Which  bursts  and  burns,  that  hurt  him.  Some- 
thing, Sir, 
They  do  not  use  on  board  our  English  ships, 
It  is  so  wicked."  J.  W.  W. 

»  Ibid.  p.  156. 


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see  on  what  he  was  fixed,  and  find  the  corpse 
of  the  forsaken  one.  He  drinks  and  drinks, 
to  drown  his  agonies,  till  he  enters  the  bridal 
chamber ;  then  he  thinks  he  sees  her  spirit 
by  the  bridal  bed,  and  screams,  and  becomes 
a  madman — a  maniac.  The  wife  alone  re- 
mains with  him.     She  does  her  duty. 

One  of  the  Welsh  superstitions  is,  that  if 
a  murdered  person  has  been  secretly  buried, 
his  grave  may  be  discovered  by  a  lambent 
blue  flame,  which  hovers  over  it  till  the 
body  is  discovered. 


•^^^^^^w^^^^^^^^^^v^^^^ 


The  Primitive  Monks. 


"  Here  they  in  the  desarts  hoped  to  find 
rocks  and  stocks,  yea,  beasts  themselves, 
more  kind  than  men  had  been  to  them. 
What  would  hide  and  heat,  cover  and  keep 
warm,  served  them  for  cloathes,  not  placing 
(as  their  successors  in  after  ages)  any  holi- 
nesse  in  their  habit,  folded  up  in  the  af- 
fected fashion  thereof.  As  for  their  food, 
the  grasse  was  their  cloath,  the  ground 
their  table,  herbs  and  roots  their  diet  wild 
fruits  and  berries  their  dainties,  hunger 
their  sauce,  their  nails  their  knives,  their 
hands  their  cups,  the  next  well  their  wine 
cellar.  But  what  their  bill  of  fare  wanted 
in  cheer,  it  had  in  grace,  their  life  being 
constantly  spent  in  prayer,  reading,  mus- 
ing, and  such  like  pious  employments.  They 
turned  solitarinesse  itself  into  society,  and 
cleaving  themselves  asunder  by  the  divine 
art  of  meditation,  did  make  of  one  two  or 
more,  opposing,  answering,  moderating  in 
their  own  bosoms,  and  busy  in  themselves 
with  variety  of  heavenly  recreations.  It 
would  do  one  good  even  but  to  think  of  their 
goodness,  and  at  the  reboimd  and  second 
hand  to  meditate  on  their  meditations  For 
if  ever  poverty  was  to  be  envied,  it  was  here ; 
and  I  appeal  to  the  moderate  men  of  these 
times,  whether  in  the  heighth  of  these  wo- 
full  warres,  they  have  not  sometimes  wisht 
(not  out  of  passionate  distemper,  but  serious 
recollection  of  themselves)  some  such  pri- 
vate place  to  retire  unto,  where,  out  of  the 
noise  of  this  clamorous  world,  they  might 


have  reposed  themselves,  and  serve 
with  more  quiet.** — ^Fuujnt*8  Ckitrc 
tary. 


^^^^^^^MMM^^^AA^^A^A^^M 


BeJU  no  effectual  Charm  against  L 

ning, 

^  Thb  frequent  firing  of  abbey  ch 
by  lightning  confuteth  the  proud  mott 
monly  written  on  the  bells  in  their  sU 
wherein  each  bell  intitided  itself  to 
fold  efficacy. 

Funera  phmgo,      Men*s  death  I  tel] 

By  dolefull  knelL 

Fulgura  )  ^  Lightning  and  thi 

Fulmina  )         ^*  I  break  asunder. 

Sabbata  pango,      On  sabbath  all 

To  church  I  calL 

Excito  lentos.        The  sleepy  head 

I  raise  firom  bed. 

Dissipo  ventos.       The  winds  so  fier< 

I  doe  disperse. 

Paco  cruentos,       Men*8  cruell  rage 

I  doe  asswage. 
Whereas  it  plainly  appears  that  tbef 
bey  steeples,  though  quilted  with  be! 
most  cap-a-pee,  were  not  of  proof  a 
the  sword  of  God*8  lightning.  Tea, 
rally  when  the  heavens  in  tempest 
strike  fire,  the  steeples  of  abbeys  p 
often  their  tynder,  whose  firequent  bv 
portended  their  final  destruction.** — I 


^^^^^^^^%^^^^^^»^^>^^v^^» 


Statues  in  Dhahi. 


"  La  Tradition  fabuleuse  des  Orie 
porte,  qu*il  y  a  dans  Tisle  de  Dhahi  dc 
tucs  semblables  k  celles  des  Isles  fort 
lesquelles  ayant  les  mains  ^ev^es,  sen 
faire  signe  aux  voyageurs,  conune  pou 
dire,  Retoumez  sur  vos  pas ;  car  il 
plus  d*habitations  en  allant  plus  avai 
D*Hebbblot. 


^AAAM^^^^i^AA^^^A^^^^^ 


[Co/i/onttan  Paradise,'] 

'*  SoMB  of  the  southern  Califomians] 
their  Paradise  in  the  middle  of  the 


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the  elect  enjoy  a  coolness  that  they 
▼er  meet  with  in  their  burning  sands ; 
ey  supposed  Hell  to  be  in  the  hoUow 
mountains.** — Pbkousb. 


Piango  di  giqja,  jrc. 

fGO  di  gioja,  se  '1  Divin  rigore 
ibilmente  mi  flagella,  e  pace 
sento  in  me,  che  ogni  altro  ben  mi 
spiace, 

dolcezza  mi  si  schianta  il  core, 
i  d*un  finto  comico  dolore 
il  racconto,  in  lagrime  si  sface, 
ange  piu,  quanto  Tudir  piu  place 
placer,  la  doglia  sua  maggiore. 
itre  un  lieto  e  dolce  pianto  io  verso, 
ato  arbitrio  del  tacer  m*invola 
occulta,  ed  esclamo  al  Ciel  converso, 
ti  celesti,  se  la  gioja  sola 
nel  gaudio  entrar,  me  con  diverso 
gior  portento  anco  il  dolor  consola." 

FUJCAIA. 

Qual  Madrcy  Sfv, 

.  Madre  i  figli  con  pietoso  afietto 
,  e  d'amor  si  strugge  a  lor  darante, 
icia  in  fronte,e  Tun  si  stringe  al  petto, 
tien  su  i  ginocchi,  un  sulle  piante ; 
7e  a  gli  atti,  a  i  gemiti,  all*  aspetto 
roglie  intende  si  diverse,  e  tante, 
i  un  guardo,  a  quei  dispensa  un  detto. 
ride,  o  8*adira,  e  sempre  amante. 
'  noi  Provvidenza  alta  infinita 
ia,  e  questi  conforta,  e  quei  provede 
ascolta,  e  porge  a  tutti  aita, 
niega  talor  grazia,  o  mercede, 
I  sol,  perche  a  pregar  ne  invita, 
gar  finge,  e  nel  negar  concede.** 

FiLICAIA. 

Translation. 

ow  the  mother  views  with  transport 

meet 

hildren  crowding  roimd.  One  to  her 

>reast 

laspe,  another  on  her  knee  will  rest; 

:  she  finds  a  footstool  at  her  feet. 


She  in  their  lisping  words,  their  anxious  eyes. 
Their  gestures,  every  varying  wish  can 
read. 
And  if  she  smiles,  or  with  a  frown  denies. 
The  frown,  the  smile,  alike  from  love  pro- 
ceed. 
Even  so  the  all-wise  Providence  beholds 
The  children  of  the  earth,  and  hears  their 

prayers. 
Supplies  their  wants,  consoles  them  in 
their  cares. 
And  grants  the  boons  they  pray  for,  or  with- 
holds. 
That  other  prayers  may  make  more  earnest 

trial. 
Or  grants  a  blessing  even  in  denial.** 

R.S. 


<^>^^^^^v\^^\^^wvw^^s^  - 


Santa  Maria  Maddalemi,  piangente  neUa 
Orotta  di  Marsilia. 

^^  Antbo,  in  cui  visse  incognito  il  rigore 

Di  lei,  che  tanto  erro,  pianse  poi  tanto, 

Di  lei,  cui  letto  il  suol,  bevanda  il  pianto, 
Cibo  il  cordoglio  fu,  gioja  il  dolore. 
Antro  dall*  onda  di  quel  sacro  umore 

Piu,  che  da  gli  anni  logorato  e  infranto ; 

E  vol  silenzi  alpestri,  che  d*un  santo 
Orror  m*empiete,  e  mi  parlate  al  core : 
Io  col  guardo  v*ascolto,  e  udir  mi  sembra 

Ch*  ella  qui  giunse,  e  qui  ritenne  il  passo, 
E  qui  poso  le  affiticate  membra ; 

E  risponder  vorria,  ma*l  pianto,  ahi  lasso! 
M*abbonda  si,  che  *1  volto  mio  rassembra 

Per  doglia  un  fiume,  e  per  stupore  un 


sasso. 


u 


FiLlCAIA. 


Adites. 

"  Thb  tribe  of  Ad  were  descended  from 
Ad,  the  son  of  Aws  or  Uz,  the  son  of  Aram, 
the  son  of  Sem,  the  son  of  Noah,  who  after 
the  confusion  of  tongues,  setded  in  Al  Ah- 
k&f,  or  the  Winding  Sands '  in  the  province 

*  See  ThalabOf  where  part  of  this  material  is 
used  up. 

"  O'er  all  the  Winding  Sands 
The  tents  of  Ad  wore  pitch'd ; 


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of  Hadramaut,  where  Ltis  posterity  greatly 
multiplyed.  Their  first  king  was  Shedad, 
the  son  of  Ad,  of  whom  the  eastern  writers 
deliver  many  fabulous  things,  particularly 
that  he  finished  the  magnificent  city  his 
father  had  begun,  wherein  he  built  a  fine 
palace,  adorned  with  delicious  gardens,  to 
embellish  which  he  spared  neither  cost  nor 
labour,  proposing  thereby  to  create  in  his 
subjects  a  superstitious  veneration  of  him- 
self as  a  god.  This  garden  or  paradise  was 
called  the  garden  of  Irem,  and  is  mentioned 
in  the  '  Koran,  and  oflcn  alluded  to  by  the 
oriental  writers.  The  city,  they  tell  us,  is 
still  standing  in  the  desarts  of  Aden,  being 
preserved  by  Providence  as  a  monument  of 
divine  justice,  though  it  be  invisible,  unless 
very  rarely,  when  God  permits  it  to  be 
seen,  a  favour  one  Colabah  pretended  to 
have  received  in  the  reign  of  the  Khalif 
Mo&wiyah,  who  sending  for  him  to  know 
the  truth  of  the  matter,  Colabah  related  his 
whole  adventure ;  that  as  he  was  seeking  a 
camel  he  had  lost,  he  found  himself  on  a 
sudden  at  the  gates  of  this  city,  and  enter- 
ing it,  saw  not  one  inhabitant,  at  which  be- 
ing terrified,  he  stayed  no  longer  than  to 
take  with  him  some  fine  stones  which  he 
shewed  the  Khalif." — SitLE. 

Ths  note  says,>*  Ad  lefl  two  sons,  Shed- 
d&d  and  Sheddid,  who  reigned  jointly  after 
his  decease,  and  extended  their  power  over 
the  greater  part  of  the  world.  But  Sheddid 
dying,  his  brother  became  sole  monarch ; 
who  having  heard  of  the  celestial  paradise, 
made  a  garden  in  imitation  thereof  in  the 


Happy  Al  Ahkaf  then, 
For  many  and  brave  were  his  sons, 
His  daughters  were  many  and  fair." — i.  19. 

J.  W.  W. 

*  "  Hast  thou  not  considered  how  thy  Lord 
dealt  with  Ad,  the  people  of  Irem,  adorned  with 
lofty  buildings,  the  like  whereof  hath  not  been 
erected  in  the  land  ?  and  with  Thamud,  who 
hewed  the  rocks  in  the  valley  into  houses  ?  and 
with  Pharaoh,  the  contriver  of  the  stakes,  who 
had  behaved  insolently  in  the  earth,  and  multi* 
plied  corruptions  therein  ?" — JiToran,  ch.  89.  lite 
day  break. 


desarts  of  Aden,  and  called  it  Irem, : 
the  name  of  his  great-grandfather :  wh 
was  finished,  he  set  out  with  a  great  at 
dance  to  take  a  view  of  it ;  but  when 
were  come  within  a  day's  journey  of 
place,  they  were  all  destroyed  by  a  ten 
noise  from  heaven. 

**  They  say  Pharaoh  used  to  tie  thoe 
had  a  mind  to  punish,  by  the  hands 
feet  to  four  stakes  fixed  in  the  ground, 
so  tormented  them.'* 

A  fine  poem  might  be  made  upon 
story.  A  female  Arabian,  blameless 
miserable,  finds  herself  in  this  city; 
meets  one  inhabitant,  who  had  been  so  n 
better  than  his  countrymen,  that  when  i 
were  destroyed  and  thrown  into  hell 
was  left  alone,  a  wretched  man.  And  e' 
full  moon  Azrael  appeared  to  him  to  k 
if  he  were  willing  to  die,  and  the  wret< 
man,  though  death  was  his  hourly  v 
yet  durst  not  die.  The  angel  comes  a^ 
— she  falls  prostrate  before  him,  and  ; 
reward  he  drops  the  drops  of  bitter 
from  his  sword,  but  the  drops  of  death 
sweet  to  her,  and  she  expires  with  a  si 
The  Adite  then  takes  courage,  and  blc 
God,  and  dies. 

The    descendants  of  Ad  in  procea 
time  falling  from  the  worship  of  the 
God  into  idolatry,  God  sent  the  pro; 
HM  (who  is  generally  agreed  to  be 
ber)  to  preach  to  and  reclaim  them, 
they  refusing  to  acknowledge  his  misj 
or  to  obey  him,  God  sent  a  hot  and  si 
eating  wind,  which  blew  seven  nights 
eight  days  together,  and  entering  at  1 
nostrils,  past  through  their  bodies,  and 
stroyed  them  all,  a  very  few  only  exce] 
who  had  believed  in  Hiid,  and  retired 
him  to  another  place.    Schedad  is  also  a 
Iram  Ben  Omad. 


Le  i^phete  Houd. 

"  DiEU  le  destina  pour  precher  ^  ce 
pie  Tunite  de  son  essence,  et  pour  le 
tourner  du  culte  des  Idoles.     Ces  L 


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etoient  Sakiah,  quails  invoquoient  pour  avoir 
de  la  pluie:  Hafedhah,  k  qui  ils  recouroient 
pour  etre  preserve  de  mauvaises  rencontres 
pendant leurs voyages:  Razecah, quails croy- 
oient  leor  foumir  les  choses  necessaires  k  la 
Tie;  et  Salemah  qu'ils  imploroient  pour  le 
reoouvrement  de  la  sant^  quand  lis  Etoient 
malades.  Ces  Adites  habitoient  dans  TAra- 
bie  Heureuse  en  une  contree  nommee 
Aheaf,  mot  qui  signifie  en  Arabe  des  col- 
lines  de  sable.  Houd  pr^ha  inutilement  k 
ce  peuple  pendant  plusieurs  ann^,  jusqu*^ 
ce  que  Dieu  enfin  se  lassa  de  les  attendre 
I  penitence. 

"  La  premiere  punition  que  Dieu  leur 
envoya,  fut  une  famine  de  trois  ans  conse- 
cntifs,  pendant  lesquels  le  ciel  fut  ferm^ 
poor  eux.  Cette  famine  jointe  k  beaucoup 
d  autres  mauz  qu*elle  causa,  emporta  ime 
grande  partie  de  ce  peuple,  qui  etoit  le  plus 
fort,  le  plus  riche,  et  le  plus  puissant  de 
toute  TAjrabie. 

"  Les  Adites  se  voyant  reduits  k  une 
telle  extremity,  et  ne  recevant  aucun  secours 
deleursfausses  Divinity  resolurent  de  faire 
on  pelerinage  en  un  lieu  de  la  Province  de 
Hegiaz,ou  est  situde  presentement  laMecque. 
n  8*elevoit  pour  lors  en  ce  lieu  une  colline 
de  sable  rouge,  autour  de  laquelle  on  voy- 
oit  toujours  un  grand  concours  de  divers 
peoples ;  et  toutes  ces  nations,  tant  fideles 
qn*  infidelles,  croyoient  obtenir  de  Dieu,  en 
le  visitant  avec  devotion,  tout  ce  qu*elles 
loi  demandoient  concemant  les  besoins  et 
les  necessites  de  la  vie. 

**  Les  Adites  ayant  done  resolu  d*entre- 
prendre  ce  voyage  religieux,  choisirent  70 
hommes,  k  la  tete  desquels  ils  mirent  Mor- 
tadh  et  Elil,  les  deux  plus  considerables  per- 
lonnages  du  pays,  pour  s*acquitter  au  nom 
de  tout  le  peuple  de  ce  devoir,  et  obtenir 
du  ciel  par  ce  moyen,  la  pluie  sans  laquelle 
tout  etoit  perdu  chez  eux.  Ces  gens  etant 
partis,  arriverent  aupres  de  Moavie,  qui 
regnoit  pour  lors  dans  la  Province  de  He- 
giaz,  et  en  furent  tres-bien  re^us.  Us  lui 
exposerent  le  sujet  de  leur  voyage,  et  lui 
demanderent  la  permission  d*aller  faire  leurs 
devotions  "k  la  colline  rouge,  pour  obtenir 


de  la  pluye.  Morthad  qui  etoit  le  plus  sage 
de  cette  troupe,  et  qui  avoit  6i6  persuade 
par  les  predications  du  P.  Houd,  remontroit 
souvent  k  ses  compagnons,  qu*il  etoit  inu- 
tile d*aller  faire  des  prieres  en  ce  lieu-la, 
si  auparavant  on  n*adheroit  aux  verites 
que  le  P.  Houd  leur  prdchoit,  et  si  Ton  ne 
faisoit  une  serieuse  penitence  de  leur  peche 
d*incredulite.  Car  comment  voulez-vous, 
leur  disoit-il,  que  Dieu  repande  sur  nous 
la  pluie  abondante  de  sa  misericorde,  si 
nous  refusons  d*ecouter  la  voix  de  celui 
qu'il  a  envoye  pour  nous  instruire  ? 

"  Kil,  qui  etoit  des  plus  obstinds  dans  son 
erreur,  et  par  consequent  des  plus  contraires 
au  Prophete,  entendant  les  discours  de  son 
collegue,  pria  aussi-tot  le  Roi  Moavie  de  re- 
tenir  prisonnier  Mortadh,  pendant  que  lui 
et  les  siens  iroient  faire  leurs  prieres  sur  la 
colline.  Moavie  se  rendit  k  ses  instances, 
et  retenant  celui  ci  prisonnier,  permit  aux 
autres  poursuivre  leur  voyage,  et  d^accom- 
plir  leur  voeu. 

"  Kil  demeure  seul  chef  de  ces  fourvoyds, 
etant  arrive  avec  les  siens  sur  le  fieu,  fit  ainsi 
sa  priere :  Seigneur,  donnez  au  peuple  d* Ad 
de  la  pluye  telle  qu^il  vous  plaira ;  et  il  ne 
Teut  pas  plutot  achevde,  qu*il  parut  trois 
nuees  au  ciel,  Tune  blanche,  Tautre  rouge, 
et  la  troisieme  noire;  en  meme  temps  on 
cntendit  retentir  du  ciel  ces  paroles,  Choisis 
laquelle  tu  veux  de  ces  trois.  Kil  choisit  la 
noire,  qu^il  croyoit  la  plus  chargde  et  la  plus 
abondante  en  eau  dont  ils  avoient  une  ex- 
treme besoin ;  et  apres  avoir  fait  ce  choix, 
il  quitta  aussi-tot  cet  endroit,  pour  prendre 
la  route  de  son  pays,  se  flattant  du  succ^s 
heureux  qu'avoit  eu  son  voyage. 

'*  Aussi-tot  que  Kil  fut  arrivd  dans  la  val- 
ine de  Magaith,  une  des  contrdes  du  pays 
des  Adites,  il  donna  part  k  ses  coropatriotes 
de  la  reponse  favorable  qu*il  avoit  re9ue, 
et  de  la  nude  qui  devoit  arroser  bientot  toutes 
leurs  terres :  ces  peuples  insenses  sortirent 
tous  de  leurs  habitations  pour  la  recevoir ; 
mais  cette  nuee,  qui  n*etoit  grosse  que  de  la 
vengeance  divine,  ne  produisit  qu*un  vent 
tresfroidet  tres  violent  que  les  Arabes  appel- 
lent  Sarsar,  lequel  soufflant  pendant  7  nuits 


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et  7  jours  entiers,  extermina  tous  les  Infi- 
deles  du  pays,  et  ne  laissa  en  vie  que  le  P. 
Houd  avec  ceux  qui  Tavoient  ecoute,  et 
embrasse  la  foi." — D^Hebbelot. 


Hue  respicit  Atthar  in  Pendnameh 
**  Qui  mandatum  potentise  suae  dedit  vento. 
Ut  supplicium  meritum  populo  Adi  daret/* 

Paueos  Asiat  Com, 


Mahommedan  Purgatory} 

"  Abaf,  un  lieu  qui  est  entre  le  paradis 
et  Tenfer  des  Mahometans.** 

Some  deem  it  merely  a  veil  of  separation, 
some  a  strong  wall;  others  hold  it  to  be  **un 
purgatoire,  dans  lequel  demeurent  ceux  d*- 
entre  les  Fideles,  dont  les  bonnes  et  les  me- 
chantes  actions  sont  dans  une  telle  egalit^, 
qu*ils  n*ont  pas  assez  merite  pour  entrer  en 
Paradis,  ni  assez  demerit^  pour  etre  con- 
damnes  au  feu  de  TEnfer,  ils  Yoyent  de  ce 
lieu  la  gloire  des  bien  heureux,  ils  les  felici- 
tent  de  leur  bonheur;  mais  le  desir  ardent 
qu*ils  ont  de  se  joindre  k  eux,leiir  tient  lieu 
d*une  grande  peine. 

*^Mais  enfin  au  jour  du  Jugement  uni- 
versel,  lorsque  tous  les  hommes,  avant  que 
d'etre  jug&,  seront  cit^s  pour  rendre  hom- 
mage  k  leur  Createur,  ceux  qui  sont  enfer- 
mes  dans  ce  lieu,  se  prostemeront  devant 
la  face  du  Seigneur  en  Tadof ant ;  et  par  cet 
acte  de  religion  qui  leur  tiendra  lieu  de  me- 
rite, le  nombre  de  leurs  bonnes  oeuTres  ve- 
vant  k  surpasser  celui  des  mauvaises,  ils  en- 
treront  dans  la  gloire. 

"Saadi  dit,  touchant  ce  lieu  nommc  Araf, 
qu*il  paroit  un  enfer  aux  bienheureux,  et  un 
paradis  aux  damn^s.** — D*Hebbeix)t. 

»    —  "  Hath  not  Allah  made 
AI  Araf  in  his  wisdom  ?  where  the  sight 

Of  heaven  may  kindle  in  the  penitent 

The  strong  and  purifying  fire  of  hope, 
Till,  at  the  Day  of  Judgment,  he  shall  see 

The  Mercy-Gates  unfold."— T^a/afco,  xii.  34. 

J.  W.  W. 


The  Wise  MarCn  'Remarks  on  the  Pa 

"  Lamai,  dans  ses  opuscules,  rap 
qu*un  grand  prince  qu*il  ne  nomme  ] 
ayant  fait  batir  un  superbe  palais,  you 
faire  voir  k  tous  les  gens  d*esprit  et  di 
gout  de  la  ville ;  il  les  convia  pour  cet 
k  un  grand  festin  qu*il  leur  avoit  fait 
parer,  et  leur  denumda  apres  le  repa 
avoient  connoissance  de  quelque  b^ 
plus  magnifique,et  plus  parfait  dans  Vb 
tecture,  dans  les  ornements  ou  dans  les 
bles.  Un  chacun  des  convi^  se  con 
de  lui  temoigner  son  admiration,  et  d 
donner  des  louanges,  k  la  reserve  d*un 
lequel  menant  une  vie  plus  retir^  et 
austere,  etoit  du  nombre  de  ceux  qu 
Arabes  appellent  en  leur  langue  Zahi 
^^  Cet  homme  parla  fort  librement  au  pi 
et  lui  dit ;  Je  trouve  un  grand  defaut 
ce  batiment,  qui  consiste  en  ce  que  les 
dements  n*en  sont  pas  bous,  ui  les  mux 
sez  forts ;  de  sorte  qu'Azrael  y  pourr 
netrer  de  tous  cot^s,  et  le  Sarsar  '  y  pa 
alsement.  £t  comme  on  lui  montroi 
lambns  azures  et  dores  du  meme  palais^ 
Touvrage  merveilleux  surpassoit  encc 
richesse  de  la  matiere,  il  dit,  il  y  a  ic 
core  une  fort  grande  incommodit^; 
qu*on  ne  pent  point  bien  juger  de.ces 
rages,  k  moins  que  Ton  ne  soit  couchi 
renverse;  Youlant  signifier  par  cettema 
de  parler,  que  Ton  ne  connoissoit  jamais 
ces  choses  qu'au  lit  de  la  mort,  d'ou  IN 
decouvroit  seulement  alors  la  vanite. 

**  Le  discours  du  Zalied  donna  le  coi 
k  un  philosophe,  de  dire  au  meme  pr 
vous  avez  employ^  beaucoup  de  temps 
tir  ce  palais  de  boue  et  de  corruption 
vous  voyez  cependant  avoir  si  peu  de 
dit^ ;  quand  vous  Tauriez  ^eve  just 
ciel,  ne  savez-vous  pas  qu*il  sera  redu 
jour  en  poussiere  ?  Le  temps  qui  vous  d 
ici  deux  jours  de  repos  que  vous  emp 

*  "  The  walls  are  weak,  the  buUding  ill  sec 
Azrael  can  enter  in ! 
The  Sarsar  can  pierce  through, 
The  Icy  Wind  of  Death." 

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si  ma],  s'envolera  bientot  comme  une  fleche 
emportee  par  le  yent  des  vicissitudes  ordi- 
naires  du  monde,  sans  que  yous  puissiez  ja- 
mais le  recouvrer." — Ibid. 


Account  of  a  Suicide, 

Joseph  had  once  a  fellow-servant  who 
destroyed  himself.  The  night  previous  to 
his  suicide  he  alarmed  the  family,  and  when 
they  were  up,  said  there  were  robbers  in  the 
house.  The  spayed  bitch  howled  at  him 
strangely,  and  ran  round  him ;  in  the  morn- 
ing he  was  found  hanging.  He  was  coach- 
man, and  it  was  remarkable  that  one  horse, 
though  perfectly  docile  to  every  other  per- 
son, would  never  permit  him  to  touch  it, 
but  flung  and  reared,  and  even  wept  at  his 
approach. 

His  wife  siud  he  oflen  alarmed  her  at  night 
hj  saying,  *^The  robin  was  come!  he  heard 
the  robin,  and  must  go  T*  then  he  would  go 
to  the  hayloft  and  lie  there.  Was  this  in- 
sanity, or  the  delirium  of  guilt  ? — June  27, 
1798.  Martin  Hall,  Wegthury, 


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Oriental  Maxim*. 

^  Jb  crains  Dieu,  et  apres  Dieu,  je  ne 
crains  que  celui  qui  ne  le  craint  pas." 

**  n  n*y  a  point  d^asyle  d^une  surcte  plus 
grande  que  la  crainte  dc  Dieu.** 

^  L*orphelin  n*est  pas  celui  qui  a  perdu 
son  p^,  m«s  celui  qui  n*a  ni  science,  ni 
bonne  ^ucation.** 

^  Lorsque  T&me  est  prSte  k  partir,  qu*im- 
porte  de  mourir  sur  le  trone,  ou  de  mou- 
rir  sur  la  poussiere?'* 

**"  Qui  a  perdu  la  pudeur,  a  le  cceur  mort.** 

""  Lisez  les  poesies,  c*est  une  marque  de 
bonnes  inclinations.** 

**  Le  meilleur  remMe  dans  les  afflictions 
est  de  se  remettre  k  la  volont^  de  Dieu.** 

"  Si  vous  entendez  dire  k  quelqu*un  qu*- 
one  montagne  a  change  de  place,  vous  pouvez 
le  croire;  mais  si  Ton  vous  dit  qu*un  honmie 
a  chang^  de  moeurs,  n*en  croyez  rien,  car  il 
reioumera  toujours  k  son  naturel.** 


Pelican} 

**  Thb  pelican  makes  choice  of  dry  and  de- 
sert places  to  lay  her  eggs.  When  her 
young  are  hatched,  she  is  obliged  to  bring 
water  to  them  from  great  distances.  To  en- 
able her  to  perform  this  necessary  office, 
nature  has  provided  her  with  a  large  sac, 
which  extends  from  the  top  of  the  under 
mandible  of  her  bill  to  the  throat,  and  holds 
as  much  water  as  will  supply  her  brood  for 
several  days.  This  water  she  pours  into  the 
nest  to  cool  her  young,  to  allay  their  thirst, 
and  to  teach  them  to  swim.  Lions,  tigers, 
and  other  rapacious  animals  resort  to  these 
nests,  drink  the  water,  and  are  said  not  to 
injure  the  young.**  —  Smellie*8  Philosophy 
of  Natural  History. 


Harut  and  Marut. 


il 


Thb  angels  expressing  their  surprize  at 
the  wickedness  of  the  sons  of  Adam,  after 
prophets  had  been  sent  to  them  with  divine 
commissions,  God  bid  them  chuse  two  out 
of  their  own  number  to  be  sent  down  to  be 
judges  on  earth.  Whereupon  they  pitched 
upon  Hardt  and  Mariit,  who  exercised  their 
office  with  integrity  for  some  time,  till  Zo- 
hara,  or  the  planet  Venus,  descended  and 
appeared  before  them  in  the  shape  of  a  beau- 
tiful woman,  bringing  a  complaint  against 
her  husband.  As  soon  as  they  saw  her,  they 
fell  in  love  with  her,  and  endeavoured  to 
prevail  on  her  to  satisfy  their  desires,  but 
she  flew  up  again  to  heaven,  whither  the 
two  angels  also  returned,  but  were  not  ad- 
mitted. However,  on  the  intercession  of  a 
certain  pious  man,  they  were  allowed  to  chuse 
whether  they  would  be  punished  in  this  life, 
or  in  the  other ;  whereupon  they  chose  the 
former,  and  now  sufier  punishment  accord- 
ingly in  Babel,  where  they  are  to  remain 
till  the  day  of  judgment.  They  add,  that  if 
a  man  has  a  fancy  to  learn  magic,  he  may 


'  "  A  desert  pelican  had  built  her  nest 

In  that  deep  solitude,"  &c. — Thulaba^  v .  i. 

J.  W.  W. 


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go  to  them  and  hear  their  voice,  but  cannot 
see  them." — SAiiB. 

I  have  somewhere  seen  this  story  in  a 
better  form,  as  that  the  woman  was  only  a 
woman/  and  demanded  as  the  price  of  her 
acquiescence  to  be  taught  the  cabalistical 
name  of  God,  on  pronouncing  which  she  as- 
cended into  heaven. 

The  concluding  part  of  the  story  is  a  noble 
ground-work. 


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Jewish  Ideas  of  Messiah, 

"  E  por  que  tendo  o  Messias  ja  vindo,  se- 
gundo  esta  opiniao  ha  mais  de  1632  annos, 
ainda  em  tantos  annos  nenhum  Judeo  vio  a  o 
seu  Messias :  dizem  hunsqueandadesconhe- 
cido  perigrinando  pelolmundo.  Outros  que 
esta  as  portas  de  Roma  na  companhia  de 
muytos  pobres  pedindo  esmola.  Outros,  que 
esta  escondido  nos  montes  Caspios,  &  com 
tal  cautela,que  se  algum  Judeo  o  quizer  irla 
buscar,  o  rio  Sabatino  Iho  impede,  por  que 
chegando  algum  Judeo  as  suasmargens,con- 
verte  as  suas  aguas  em  pedras,  lancando  hum 
tal  chuveyro  de  pedradas  sobre  os  pobres 
Judeos,  que  ou  hao  de  ficar  alii  mortos ;  ou 
se  hao  de  retirar  deixando  a  o  seu  Messias 
la  dentro  no  seu  encanto.  Outros  conside- 
rando  que  os  montes  Caspios  estao  muyto 
pertos,  &  esta  fabula  do  rio  Sabbatino  se 
convencia  de  ridicula,  appelaram  para  o 
Paraiso,  dizendo  que  la  esta  o  Messias  entre- 
tido  na  companhia  de  Moyses  &  Elias,  para 
quequando  for  tempo,  Deos  o  mande  libertar 
a  OS  Judeos." — Sermam  do  Auto  da  Fe^ 
1705.     Pelo^  Arcebisp,  de  Cranganor, 


^M^^^SM^^^^Arf^^^^^^N^VM^^ 


Arabian  Scenery. 

*^  I  NOW,  for  the  first  time,  observed  an 
appearance  with  which  I  was  singularly 
struck,  but  which  became  afterwards  fa- 

1  Southey  adopted  this  form  in  Thalaba. 

<<  At  the  length 
A  woman  come  before  them ;  beautiful 
2Sohara  was,  as  yonder  erening  star."— iv.  9. 

J.W.W. 


I. 


miliar  to  me.  An  Arab,  whom  I  saw  ap- 
proaching at  a  distance,  upon  a  camel,  ap- 
peared to  move  through  the  air,  with  the 
gigantic  bulk  of  a  tower ;  although  he  was 
travelling  along  the  sand  like  ourselves. 
Several  travellers  mention  this  error  of  vi- 
sion, which  is  owing  to  a  peculiar  refraction 
produced  in  these  torrid  climates,  by  va- 
pours differing  greatly  in  their  nature  from 
those  which  fill  the  air  in  temperate  re- 
gions."  NiEBUHH. 

The  translator  remarks  *'  we  have  all 
observed  how  greatly  objects  are  magnified 
when  seen  through  mist." 

"  Wb  passed  two  of  those  vallies  so 
common  in  Arabia  which  when  heavy  rains 
fall,  are  filled  with  water,  and  are  then 
called  wadi,  or  rivers,  although  perfectly 
dry  at  other  times  of  the  year." — Ibid. 

"  The  only  vegetables  by  which  the  sandy 
and  barren  country  is  enlivened  are  a  few 
date  trees.  Houses  scattered  among  groves 
of  date  trees,  and  inhabited  only  in  the  sea- 
son when  the  dates  are  gathered. 

"  We  came  to  a  large  village  called  El 
Mahad,  standing  in  a  beautiful  valley  which 
receives  the  waters  that  fall  from  Mount 
Kema.  In  the  rainy  season  these  waters 
form  a  river,  which  spreads  into  several 
branches,  and  fertilizes  the  adjacent  lands, 
like  the  Nile. 

"  The  coffee  trees  were  all  in  flower  at 
Bulgosa,  and  exhaled  an  exquisitely  agree- 
able perfume. 

"We  observed  a  running  stream;  its 
channel  is  very  broad,  but  as  no  rain  had 
for  a  long  time  fallen,  the  stream  covered 
the  breadth  of  twenty  or  twenty-four  feet. 
In  this  place  it  runs  with  a  considerable  cur- 
rent, but  in  Tamama  it  spreads  into  a  shal- 
low lake,  and  is  lost  among  the  sands.  We 
now  drew  nearer  to  the  river,  of  which  a 
branch  was  dry,  and  having  its  channel  filled 
with  reeds  growing  to  the  height  of  twenty 
feet,  served  as  a  line  of  road,  which  was  a- 
greeably  shaded  by  the  reeds." — ^Ibid. 


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**  Hum  ribeiro,  que  com  suas  correntes  e 
daras  agoas  fazia  os  cora^oes  alegres  a  quern 
OS  assi  na  tiuha.** — PiiLMEiBiM. 

^*  HuMA  dona,  que  em  sua  presen^a  re- 
presentaya  ser  pessoa  de  merecimento,tendo 
tal  aparencia  e  autoridadeque  obrigava  todo 
homem  a  tratala  com  mais  acatamento  do 
que  suas  obras  mereciam." — Ibid. 


""  Hek  speech,  like  lovers  watchM,  was  kind 
and  low." — Gondibebt. 

^  Famine,  plague,  and  time 
Are  enemies  enough  to  human  life, 
None  need  o'ercharge  death^s  quiver  with 
a  crime.** 

^  Who  on  their  urged  patience  can  prevail. 
Whose  expectation  is  provok*d  with  fear  ?** 

**  Si/)w  seems  their  speed  whose  thoughts 
before  them  run.**  Ibid. 


^^^*«^^»^w^*^^^W^^^^»^V\/^ 


"  Wealth  is  the  conjurer*s  devil. 
Whom  when  he  thinks  he  hath,  the  devil 
hath  him.** — Hebbebt. 


^  "SIajle  not  thy  sport  abuses,  for  the  flj 
That  feeds  on  dung,  is  coloured  thereby. 


»» 


'^  Be  calm  in  arguing,  for  fierceness  makes 
Error  a  fault.** 

*^  Knesuno  ne*er  spoilt  silk  stocking.** 

**Thb  Sundays  of  man*s  life 
Thredded  together  on  Times  string. 

Make  bracelets  to  adorn  the  wife 
Of  the  eternal  glorious  king.** 

"  My  thoughts  are  all  a  case  of  knives 
Wounding  my  heart.**  Ibid. 

The  British  Church, 

**  Beauty  in  thee  takes  up  her  place, 
And  dates  her  letters  from  thy  face 
When  she  doth  write.** Ibid. 


**  The  wanton  lover  in  a  curious  strain 

Can  praise  his  fairest  fair. 
And  with  quaint  metaphors  her  curled  hair 

Curie  o*er  again. 

"  LoBD  hear  my  heart, 
Which  hath  been  broken  now  so  long, 
That  every  part 

Hath  got  a  tongue.** 

"  Wilt  thou  defei 
To  succour  me 
Thy  pile  of  dust,  wherein  each  crumb 
Says  *  come.*  **  Ibid. 

Qtmintologia  ! 

"  Whose  musk-cat  verse 
Voids  nought  but  flowers.** — Cleveland. 


The  motto  for  James  Doug1as*s  new  me- 
thod of  cutting  for  the  stone  is  "  Cit5,  tu- 
t^  jucunde !  ** 


That  reverend  and  faithfuU  ^linister  of 
the  word,  Dr.  Sibs,  late  preacher  unto  the 
Honourable  Society  of  Gray*slnn,  and  Mas- 
ter of  Katharine  Hall  in  Cambridge,  pub- 
lished a  4to  volume  of  sermons  on  the  4,  5, 
and  6  chapters  of  Solomon*s  Song,  1648,  en- 
titled "  Bowels  Opened.** 


"  CoMENz^  la  nina  (S.  Clara)  de  tiema 
edad  k  resplandecer  en  la  noche  del  mundo.^^ 
— Al  Villegas. 


Charles  the  Warlike. 

1477.  Cuables  the  Warlike,  Duke  of 
Burgundy,  was  defeated  and  slain  by  the 
Swiss  and  Germans  at  Nancy.  "Being 
overthrown  by  a  great  troop  of  lanciers,  and 
not  able  to  be  relieved  of  his  followers,  for 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


that  they  were  prisoners.  He  hacl  three 
wounds,  the  one  on  the  head,  the  other  in 
the  thigh,  and  the  third  in  the  fundament. 
The  Bourguignons  would  not  believe  that 
he  was  slain,  but  that  he  was  fled  into  Grer- 
manie,  and  that  he  had  vowed  to  do  seven 
years  penance.  There  were  some  among 
the  Bourguignons  which  sold  jewels,  horses, 
and  other  things  to  be  paid  when  he  should 
return ;  and  at  Burchselles,  in  the  diocesse 
of  Spierre,  in  Germany,  a  poore  man  beg- 
ging, they  thought  him  to  be  the  Duke,  who 
did  penance :  every  man  desired  to  see  him, 
and  he  received  good  alms.** — Gbimb8tonb*8 
History  of  the  Netherlands, 
This  was  the  Duke  defeated  at  Murat.^ 


WeUh  Churchyards, 

"  She  views 
The  heapy  church-yards,  where  should 

peaceful  sleep 
The  relics  of  the  dead. 
What  mouldering  bones  unhoused  above  the 

soil! 
The  sire  dislodged  by  burial  of  his  son  I 
The  child  by  her  that  bare  it !  rudely  thrown 
To  light  of  day. — 

Within  thy  region,  Cambria  I  never  shocked 
Beholds  the  visitant  of  churchyard  scenes 
Sights  so  inhuman.    There  green  turf  and 

flowers 
Cover  the  once  and  ever-loved  renuuns 
Of  kindred  and  of  friends,  flowers,  weekly 

shed. 
And  watered  with  soft  tears.  No  lengthened 

time 
Efiaces  their  remembrance  from  the  mind. 
No  season  from  the  spirit-soothing  rite 
The  tender  mourner  ever  can  restrain.** 

BooKEB*s  Malvern, 

"  Ik  a  civilized  country  one  would  natu- 
rally suppose  that  a  decent  attention  were 
paid  to  the  places  where  are  deposited  the 
remains  of  departed  friends ;  but  through- 

»  See  infra,  p.  109.— J.  W.  W. 


out  England  in  general,  how  shamefully  is 
this  pious  and  affectionate  duty  Delected! 
Our  cemeteries,  notwithstanding  the  awful 
purposes  to  which  they  are  consecrated,  are 
in  almost  every  parish,  either  common  tho- 
rough-fares, or  constantly  frequented  bj 
boys,  where  they  pursue  their  different 
sports  unmolested.  In  Wales  these  things 
are  not  suffered :  such  practices  would  justly 
be  deemed  a  profanation.  The  graves  in 
the  church-yards  there  are  neatly  covered 
with  turf,  and  in  many  places  planted  with 
evergreens.  Every  week  some  relative  or 
friend  visits  the  spot  where  sleep  the  objects 
of  regard,  to  see  that  it  has  sustained  no  in- 
jury, and  to  scatter  over  it  such  flowers  as 
may  happen  to  be  in  bloom.  The  author 
and  two  other  gentlemen,  in  a  tour  through 
Wales,  had  the  satisfaction  to  witness  this 
spirit-soothing  ceremony :  a  decent-looking 
female  was  seen  to  p^orm  it  with  everj 
sign  of  tenderness  and  sensibility.** 

Booker. 


^  *.  -V^  **,^/S^^  ^\^ 


The  Passing  Bell, 

^*  The  passing  bell  was  anciently  rung  for 
two  purposes ;  one,  to  bespeak  the  prayers 
of  all  good  Christians  for  a  soul  just  depart- 
ing; the  other,  to  drive  away  the  evil  spirits 
who  stood  at  the  bed*s  foot  and  about  the 
house,  ready  to  seize  their  prey,  or  at  least 
to  molest  and  terrify  the  soul  in  its  passage : 
but  by  the  ringing  of  that  bell  (for  Durandos 
informs  us,  evil  spirits  are  much  afraid  of 
bells)  they  were  kept  aloof;  and  the  soul, 
like  a  hunted  hare,  gained  the  start,  or  had 
what  is  by  sportsmen  called  law.  Hence, 
perhaps,  exclusive  of  the  additional  labour, 
was  occasioned  the  high  price  demanded  for 
tolling  the  greatest  bell  of  the  church ;  for 
that  being  louder,  the  evil  spirits  must  go 
farther  off*  to  be  clear  of  its  sound.** — En^ 
cychpisdia. 

Reservoir  of  Mareb, 

"  The  Sabeans  had  a  reservoir  or  bason 
for  water  which  was  anciently  famous  and 


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105 


oflen  heard  talked  of  in  Arabia; 
>dj  could  give  me  an  exact  descrip- 
it,  except  one  man  of  rank,  who 
n  bom  at  Mareb,  and  had  always 
3re.  He  told  me,  that  the  famous 
r,  called  bj  the  Arabs  Sitte  Mareb, 
UTOW  Tallej  between  two  ranges  of 
i  a  daj^s  journey  in  length.  Six  or 
iall  rivers  meet  in  that  valley,  hold- 
r  course  S.  and  S.  W.  and  advanc- 
L  the  territories  of  the  Imam.  Some 
rivers  contain  fishes,  and  their  wa- 
T  through  the  whole  year;  others 

except  in  the  rainy  season.  The 
res  of  hills  which  confine  this  valley, 
1  so  near  to  each  other  upon  the 
end,  that  the  intermediate  space 
crossed  in  five  or  six  minutes.  To 
the  waters  in  the  rainy  season,  the 
t  into  the  valley  was  here  shut  up 
h  and  thick  wall ;  and  at  outlets, 

which  the  water  thus  collected 
;  conveyed  in  the  season  of  drought 
the  neighbouring  fields,  three  large 
tes  were  formed  in  the  wall,  one 
lOther.  The  wall  was  fifly  feet  high, 
t  of  large  hewn  stones.  Its  ruins 
to  be  seen.  But  the  waters,  which 
Tly  used  to  confine,  are  now  lost 
be  sands,  after  running  only  a  short 
Thus  was  there  nothing  incredibly 
ul  in  the  true  account  of  the  Sabean 
r.  Similar,  although  much  smaller 
rs,  are  formed  at  the  i*oots  of  the 
OS  in  many  places  through  Yemen, 
nstantinople  is  a  vale,  the  entrance 
ch  is  likewise  shut  up  by  a  wall  to 
Jie  water,  which  is  conveyed  thence 
lucts  into  the  capital  of  the  Otto- 
jire. 

tradition  that  the  city  of  Mareb 
royed  by  a  deluge,  occasioned  by 
[en  bursting  of  the  wall,  has  entirely 
)f  a  popular  fable.  It  seems  more 
i  that  the  wall,  being  neglected,  fell 
y  into  disrepair  when  the  kingdom 
abeans  declined.  But  the  ruin  of 
I  proved  fatal  to  the  city  in  a  dif- 
ay.     The  neighbouring  fields,  when 


no  longer  watered  from  the  reservoir,  be- 
came waste  and  barren,  and  the  city  was 
thus  left  without  means  of  subsistence. 

'^  Mareb  was  known  to  the  ancients  as 
the  capital  of  the  Sabeans  by  the  name  of 
Mariaba.  In  its  neighbourhood  are  some 
ruins,  which  are  pretended  to  be  the  re- 
mains of  the  palace  of  Queen  Balkis.**  — 

NiBBUHB. 


«^^i^^^/»/»^^/W>^0^^/W 


Devotement  of  the  Arabs. 

"  Thb  Arabs  have  a  singular  way  of  dis- 
playing their  courage  in  engagements,  not 
unlike  the  devotement  to  the  infernal  gods 
among  the  ancients.  A  soldier  willing  to 
signalize  his  attachment  to  his  master,  binds 
up  his  leg  to  his  thigh,  and  continues  to  fire 
away  upon  the  enemy,  till  either  they  be 
routed,  or  he  himself  be  slain  upon  the  field 
of  battle.  I  could  take  this  only  for  a  fable 
when  it  was  first  told  me,  but  I  was  after- 
wards convinced  of  its  truth,  by  a  late  in- 
stance in  the  case  of  a  Schiech  of  Hasch- 
id-u  Bekil,  in  the  Imam's  service,  who 
devoted  himself  in  this  manner  in  a  battle 
against  his  own  countrymen.  Six  slaves 
chxirged  muskets  for  him,  which  he  continued 
to  fire  upon  the  enemy,  till,  being  at  last 
deserted  by  the  Imam^s  troops,  and  even 
by  his  own  servants,  he  was  cut  in  pieces.** 
—Ibid. 


<^^A^AA^MAM^^^«^^^\^^^te 


Sketches  of  Nature, 

"  Why  should  the  winter  always  be  pre- 
sented to  our  view,  like  chilling  old  age, 
muffled  up  in  fur  skin  ?" — Stranger,  Motto 
to  December, 

Thb  moon  bright  ere  the  daylight  is  gone. 
The  flaky  clouds  are  dark,  yet  they  appear 
not  heavier.  They  look  like  the  patches  of 
vegetation  on  the  sea  sand. 

The  martins. — Their  tails  are  forked ; 
they  flutter  at  their  nests  before  they  en- 
ter, showing  their  white  bodies,  and  often 
rise  up  and  hover  there,  then  dart  away  on 
arrowy  wing.  Their  notes  are  even  musical 
sometimes.    At  evening,  when  looking  from 


I 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


the  window,  the  murmuring  of  their  young 
is  pleasant — a  placid  sound,  according  with 
the  quietness  of  all  around. 

July  20.  Over  the  western  hill  it  is  like 
a  sea  of  glory,  the  mist  that  terminates  it 
graduates  into  clouds  of  illuminated  dark- 
ness, the  sun  shines  full  forth.  A  moun- 
tainous ridge  of  cloud  spreads  southwards, 
their  summits  whitened. 

July  22.  I  see  the  distant  hills  through  the 
rainbow;  and  now  it  falls  upon  Pill^  and  its 
white  church.  The  green  predominates, 
and  then  the  faint  reddishness.  It  travels 
with  the  clouds,  I  first  saw  it  tinging  Wal- 
ton Castle,  and  it  has  now  passed  completely 
over  Pill. 

A  line  of  dark  cloud,  a  blue  gray,  the  sun 
sinks  behind  it,  the  streaks  above  glowing, 
their  remoter  sides  a  brownish  red. 

July  23,  nine  o*clock.  I  never  saw  an 
evening  sky  more  beautiful.  It  rains.  The 
clouds  are  of  the  darkest  gray ;  but  through 
one  long  opening  the  sky  appears  of  the 
clearest  light,  a  yellow  whiteness. 

July  30.  The  with- weed,  or  white  con- 
volvulus, is  now  in  blossom.  Pestilent  as  it 
is  in  gardens,  I  cannot  but  like  it,  it  so 
clothes  the  bush  on  which  it  seizes,  and  its 
white  bell  flower  is  so  graceful. 

I  see  fern  growing  amid  the  moss  and  ivy 
of  an  old  wall.    Greenness  of  the  young  ivy. 

A  fine  red  dwarf  hoUihock  is  now  in  blos- 
som by  the  ruined  cottage  in  the  glen  be- 
low K.  Weston  hill.  A  beautiful  relic  of 
cultivation  among  nettles  and  weeds. 

The  roots  of  the  elms  at  Stapleton  are 
prodigiously  fine.  They  run  into  each  other, 
and  emboss  the  ground  like  some  cathedral 
roof.  Their  long  flutings  near  the  ground 
look  like  the  clusters  of  a  Gothic  column. 

Night.  The  light-leaved  poplars  now 
dark  as  a  cypress  grove. 

It  has  been  a  wet  day :  the  clouds  still 
hang  heavy,  though  whitely  shining  in  parts. 
The  distant  hill  is  a  mass  of  dark  blue. 

*  The  names  here  shew  us  where  Southey 
was  at  this  time  residing.  Pill  is  a  chapelry  in 
the  parish  of  Easton  in  Gordano,  and  Union  of 
Bedminster,  six  miles  from  Bristol.— J.  W.W. 


A  path  but  little  frequented — the  g 
a  darker  green,  not  worn  away. 


^^A^A^^^^^^^^VMMMWWW^ 


Poem  of  Tarafat. 

P.  8.  **  She  smiles  and  displays  her  br 
teeth  rising  from  their  dark-coloured  b; 
like  a  privet  plant  in  full  bloom,  wl 
pierces  a  bank  of  pure  sand,  moistened  y 
dew." 

42.  *^  I  shake  the  lash  over  my  ct 
and  she  quickens  her  pace,  while  the  su 
vapour  rolls  in  waves  over  the  bun 
cliflfs." 

64.  **  I  see  no  difference  between 
tomb  of  the  anxious  miser  gasping  ovei 
hoard,  and  the  tomb  of  the  libertine  lo 
the  maze  of  voluptuousness.  You  be 
the  sepulchres  of  them  both  raised  in 
heaps  of  earth,  on  which  are  elevated 
broad  piles  of  solid  marble,  among 
tombs  closely  connected.** 

101 .  "  The  muscles  of  our  chargers  qi 
as  soon  as  they  mingle  in  battle.** 

103.  "  Time  will  produce  events  of  w 
thou  canst  have  no  idea ;  and  he,  to  ^ 
thou  gavest  no  commission,  will  bring 
unexpected  news.**' — Moaixakat. 


*^^^^«^MA^^^^^^^W^^«^% 


Poem  of  Zkihair, 

The  canal  around  the  tent  mention 

P.  41.  **  He  made  a  fierce  attack, 

feared  the  number  of  tents,  where  D 

the  mother  of  vtdtures,  had  fixed  her : 


sion. 


tt 


59.  ** Experience  has  taught  me  the  e 
of  this  day  and  yesterday ;  but  as  K 
events  of  to-morrow,  I  confess  my  I 
ness.'* — Ibid. 


Poem  of  Lebeid. 

P.  11.  **  In  the  plains  which  non 
naked  a  populous  tribe  once  dwelt;  bi| 
decamped  at  early  dawn,  and  nothi 

*  This  is  the  motto  to  the  third  book  ^ 
/afca.-J.  W.  W. 


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107 


them  remains  but  the  canals  which  encircled 
their  tents,  and  the  Thumaam  plants  with 
which  they  were  repaired." 

15.  ^'  They  hastened  their  camels,  till  the 
sultry  vapour  gradually  stole  them  from 
thy  sight." 

34.  "  They  divide  the  waters  of  the  full 
stream,  whose  banks  are  covered  with  the 
plants  of  Kolaam.  Banks  which  a  grove  of 
reeds,  part  erect  and  part  laid  prostrate, 
overshades  or  clothes  us  with  a  mantle.** 

53.  **  When  the  flashes  of  the  noon-tide 
Tapour  dance  over  the  plain,  and  the  sultry 
mist  clothes  the  parched  hills.** 

62.  ^  On  many  a  cold  morning,  when  the 
freezing  winds  howl,  and  the  hand  of  the 
North  holds  their  reins,  I  turn  aside  theil* 
hlast  from  the  travellers  whom  I  receive  in 
my  tent." 

76.  "  To  the  cords  of  my  tent  approaches 
every  needy  matron." — Ibid. 


^^^^^^A^^^^^^^^^^k^^^v^^ 


Poem  of  Antara. 

P.  29.  **  She  turns  her  right  side,  as  if 
she  were  in  fear  of  some  large  headed 
screamer  of  the  night." 

70.  **  Then  I  knew  with  certainty,  that, 
b  so  fierce  a  contest  with  them,  many  a 
heavy  blow  would  make  the  perched  birds 
of  the  brain  fly  quickly  from  every  skull.** 
-Ibid. 


^^s^s^^-^s^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Poem  of  Amru. 

P.  40.  "  OcB  dark  javelins  exquisitely 
wrought  of  Karthlaran  reeds,  slender  and 
delicate.** 

79.  **  We  have  coats  of  mail  that  glitter 
like  lightning,  the  plaits  of  which  are  seen 
m  wrinkles  above  our  belts.  When  at  any 
time  our  heroes  put  them  off",  you  may  see 
their  skin  blackened  with  the  pressure  of 
the  steel." 

81.  ^  The  plaits  of  our  hauberks  re- 
semble the  surface  of  a  pool,  which  the  winds 
have  ruflled  in  their  course.** 


♦I 


Poem  of  Hareth. 

P.  64.  "  Thet  surprised  you  not  indeed 
by  a  sudden  assault,  but  they  advanced,  and 
the  sultry  vapour  of  noon,  through  which 
you  saw  them,  increased  their  magnitude.** 

74.  **  We  thrust  them  before  us  till  the 
muscles  of  their  thighs  were  breeched  in 
gore."  

i^ttii,  Modoc's  Brother's  Death. 

A.  D.  1143.  **  Shortlib  after  died  Run, 
the  Sonne  of  Prince  Owen  of  North  Wales,  a 
faire  and  a  goodlie  yoong  man,  whose  death 
when  it  came  to  his  father*s  eares  did  so 
trouble  him,  that  no  kind  of  plesure  could 
comfort  his  heavie  hart,  so  that  he  led  the 
night  in  teares  and  the  day  in  heavinesse. 
— PowKLL*s  History  of  Cambria, 


Character  of  HoeL 

A.  D.  1 145.  "At  this  time  Cadelh,  Mere- 
dyth  and  Rees,  the  sons  of  Grufiyth  ap  Rees 
ap  Theodor,  did  lead  their  powers  against 
the  castell  of  Gwys,  which  after  they  saw 
they  could  not  win,  they  sent  for  Howel, 
the  Sonne  of  Owen  Prince  of  North  Wales, 
to  their  succour,  who  for  his  prowesse  in 
the  field  and  his  discretion  in  considtation 
was  counted  the  floure  of  chivalrie,  whose 
presence  also  was  thought  onlie  sufficient  to 
overthrowe  anie  hold." — Ibid. 


Cynetha. 

"  III  the  year  1151,  O.  Gwyneth  tooke 
Cunetha,  his  brother  Cadwalhon  his  sonne, 
and  put  out  his  eies  and  gelded  him,  least 
he  should  have  children  to  inherit  part  of 
the  land.**— Ibid. 


Owen  CyveiUoc. 

**Ow«H  Ctvbilioc  married  Wenlhian  the 
daughter  of  O.  Gwy.**— Ibid. 


108 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Battle  of  Cexreoc} 

A.  B.  1165.  "  Ths  King  gathered  another 
armie  of  chosen  men  through  all  his  domi- 
nions, as  England,  Normandie,  Anjow,  Gas- 
coine  and  Gwyen,  sending  for  succours  from 
Flanders  and  Brytaine,  and  then  returned 
towardes  North  Wales,  minding  utterlie  to 
destroie  all  that  had  life  in  the  land,  and 
comming  to  Croes  Oswalt,  called  Oswalds- 
tree,  incamped  there.  On  the  contrarie 
side.  Prince  Owen  and  his  brother  Cadwal- 
lader,  with  all  the  power  of  North  Wales, 
and  the  Lord  Rees  with  the  power  of  South 
Wales,  and  O.  Cyverl  and  the  sonnes  of 
Madoc  ap  Meredjth  with  the  power  of 
Powys,  and  the  two  sonnes  of  Madoc  ap 
Ednerth  with  the  people  betwixt  Wye  and 
Seaveme,  gathered  themselves  togither  and 
came  to  Corwen  in  fkleymeon,  purposing  to 
defend  their  countrie.  But  the  King  un- 
derstanding that  they  were  so  nigh,  being 
wonderfuU  desirous  of  battell,  came  to  the 
river  Ceireoc,  and  caused  the  woods  to  be 
hewen  downe.  Whereupon  a  number  of  the 
Welshmen  understanding  the  passage,  un- 
knowing to  their  captaines,  met  with  the 
King*s  ward,  where  were  placed  the  piked 
men  of  all  the  armie,  and  there  began  a 
hote  skirmish,  where  diverse  worthie  men 
were  slaine  on  either  side ;  but  in  the  end 
the  King  wanne  the  passage,  and  came  to 
the  mountaine  of  Berwyn,  where  he  laie  in 
campe  certaine  daies,  and  so  both  the  armies 
stood  in  awe  each  of  other ;  for  the  King 
kept  the  open  plaines,  and  was  affraid  to  be 
intrapped  in  straits;  but  the  Welshmen 
watched  for  the  advantage  of  the  place,  and 
kept  the  King  so  straitlie,  that  neither  forrage 
nor  victuall  might  come  to  his  camp,  neither 
durst  anie  souldiour  stir  abroad:  and  to 
augment  their  miseries,  there  fell  such  raine 
that  the  King's  men  could  scant  stand  upon 
their  feete  upon  those  slipperie  hillcs.     In 

*  "  Dost  thou  not  remember,  brother, 
How  in  that  hot  and  unexpected  charge 
On  Keiriog's  bank,  we  gave  the  enemy 
Their  welcoming." 
Madoc  in  If«/e«,  part  L  ii.— J.  W.  W. 


the  end,  the  King  was  compelled  to  rel 
home  without  his  purpose,  and  that 
great  losse  of  men  and  munition  be 
his  charges.  Therefore  in  a  great  chol 
caused  the  pledges  eies,  whom  he  ha 
ceived  long  before  that,  to  be  put 
which  were  Rees  and  Cadwalhon  the  s( 
of  Owen,  and  Cynwric  and  Meredytl 
sonnes  of  Rees  and  other.** — Ibid. 


«^i/^Mi^^^K^k^^^^^^^^S^^^^^^ 


Dogs  know  the  Dog-kiUer. 

**  It  is  a  conmion  experience  that 
know  the  dog-killer ;  when  as  in  tim 
infection  some  petty  fellow  is  sent  01 
kill  the  dogs ;  and  that  though  they 
never  seene  him  before,  yet  they  wi 
come  forth  and  barke  and  flie  at  hin 
Lord  Bacoii*8  Sylva  Sylvamm. 


Ladies  drawn  by  Cows, 

"  PiACXNZA. — I  observed  in  this  to^ 
notable  peece  of  thriiliness  used  by  the 
tlewomen,  who  make  no  scruple  to  be  ca 
to  their  country-houses  near  the  ton 
coaches  drawn  by  two  cowes  yoaked  \ 
ther.  These  will  carry  the  Signora  a  p 
round  trot  unto  her  villa ;  they  affbrc 
also  a  dish  of  their  milk,  and  after  coU 
bring  her  home  again  at  night  wil 
spending  a  penny." 

The  Voyage  ofltaly^  by  Rich.  Las 
Gent,  who  travelled  through 
five  times,  as  tutor  to  several  c 
English  nobility  and  gentry.   Pr 
at  Paris,  1670. 


^^^^^^^^v^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Battle  of  MonJtargU. 

**  I  SAW  but  one  extraordinery  thii 
the  rest  of  the  way  to  Lyons,  an  ol 
scription  in  letters  of  gold,  upon  a  wc 
fabric,  a  mile  before  I  came  to  Monti 
importing,  that  the  English  being  encai 
here,  had  been  forced  to  raise  their 
before  Montargis,  by  reason  of  great  n 
nnd    sudden    inundations.     Some    oi 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


109 


French  historians  will  have  it,  that  it  was 
the  C.  de  Dunois  that  forced  the  English 
to  raise  the  siege  here ;  but  I  had  rather 
believe  publick  inscriptions  than  private 
flattery,  and  it  was  more  honourable  for  the 
English  to  be  overcome  bj  God  than  bj 
men/* — Lassels. 


Battle  of  Murat.    Duke  Charles  the 
Warlike. 

^  MuBAT. — I  was  told  here  that  the  Duke 
of  Burgundy,  seeing  his  army  defeated,  and 
himself  environed  on  one  side  by  the  lake 
here,  and  on  the  other  side  by  the  enemies 
conquering  army,  chose  rather  to  trust  him- 
lelf  to  the  lake  than  to  his  enemies.  Where- 
upon spurring  his  horse  into  the  lake,  one 
of  his  pages,  to  save  himself  also,  leaped  up 
behind  him  as  he  took  water.  The  Duke, 
out  of  fear,  either  perceived  him  not  at 
first,  or  dissembled  it  till  he  came  to  the  other 
side  of  the  lake,  which  is  two  miles  broad. 
The  stout  horse  tugged  through  with  them 
both,  and  saved  them  both  from  drowning,but 
not  both  from  death  ;  for  the  Duke,  seeing 
in  what  danger  his  page  had  put  him,  stabbed 
the  page  with  his  dagger.  Poor  Prince ! 
thou  mightest  have  given  another  offering 
of  thanksgiving  to  God  for  thy  escape  than 
this!"— Ibid. 


Crows — dutiful  Children, 

"  Is  Ezameron  it  is  said  that  the  mildnes 
of  the  crow  is  wonderfuU  :  for  when  the  old 
Crowes  in  age  be  both  naked  and  bare  of 
covering  of  fethers,  then  the  young  crowes 
hide  and  cover  them  with  their  fethers,  and 
gather  meate  and  feed  them.  And  some- 
time when  they  waxe  olde  and  feeble,  then 
the  young  crowes  underset  them,  and  reare 
them  up  with  their  wings,  and  comfort  them 
to  use  to  fly,  to  bring  the  members  that  be 
diseased  into  state  again.** 

From  a  book  written  by  Babthelmbw 
CrLAVTviLB,  a  Franciscan  Frier,  1 360.  Trans- 
lated by  Stephan  Batman,  Professour  in  Di- 
vinitie. 


Cock'roaches  exorcised, 

**  We  foimd  millions  of  cock-roaches  in 
the  bread  room;  it  is  necessary  a  man 
should  have  seen  them  with  his  own  eyes, 
to  have  an  idea  of  the  number  of  these  in- 
sects. These  pests  had  so  much  infested  the 
ship,  that  the  holy  father,  who  officiated  as 
chaplain,  was  obliged  to  have  recourse  to 
exorcisms  more  than  once.** — Journal  of 
D,  Francisco  Antonio  MavreUe^  in  the  Fr, 
La  Princesa,  1781.     In  La  Pebouse. 


Death  of  Bertrand  of  Clesquin, 

"  Bebtband  of  Clesquin  died  at  the  siege 
of  the  Castle  of  Rancon,  near  unto  Puy  in 
Auvergne ;  the  besieged  yielding  a^r- 
wards,  were  forced  to  carry  the  keies  of  the 
castle  upon  the  deceased  body  of  the  cap- 
tain.**— Montaigne,  book  i.  ch.  3. 


Arabian  Horses,^ 

**  The  Arabian  horses  are  divided  into 
two  great  branches ;  the  Kadischi,  whose 
descent  is  unknown,  and  the  Kochlani,  of 
whom  a  written  genealogy  has  been  kept 
for  2000  years.  These  last  are  reserved 
for  riding  solely,  they  are  highly  esteemed 
and  consequently  very  dear.  Tliey  are 
said  to  derive  their  origin  from  King  Solo- 
mon*s  studs.  However  this  may  be  they 
are  fit  to  bear  the  greatest  fatigues,  and 
can  pass  whole  days  without  food.  They 
are  also  said  to  show  uncommon  courage 
against  an  enemy.  It  is  even  asserted,  that 
when  a  horse  of  this  race  finds  himself 
wounded  and  unable  to  bear  his  rider  much 
longer,  he  retires  from  the  fray,  and  con- 
veys him  to  a  place  of  seciirity.  If  the 
rider  falls  upon  the  ground,  his  horse  re- 
mains beside  him,  and  neighs  till  assist- 
ance is  brought.  The  Kochlani  are  neither 
large  nor  handsome  but  amazingly  swift. 

*  This  is  quoted  in  the  notes  to  Thalabo'-^ 
'*  Lo !  at  his  side  a  courser  stood,"  &c. 
Sixth  Book.— J.  W.  W. 


110 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


The  whole  race  is  divided  into  several  fa- 
milies, each  of  which  has  its  proper  name. 
Some  of  these  have  a  higher  reputation 
than  others  on  account  of  their  more  an- 
cient and  imcontaminated  nobility.** 

NiEBUHB. 

The  Samiel} 

**  The  Samiel  prevails  only  on  the  con- 
fines of  the  great  desert,  where  the  agita- 
tion of  the  air  forms  a  current  for  the  va- 
pours which  are  raised  by  the  heat  of  the 
sun  from  that  parched  territory.  The  places 
the  most  exposed  to  this  destructive  wind 
are  the  banks  of  the  Euphrates,  and  some- 
times the  environs  of  Mecca,  when  the  north 
wind  blows  from  the  desert.  The  effects 
of  the  Samiel  are  instant  suffocation  to 
every  living  creature  that  happens  to  be 
within  the  sphere  of  its  activity,  and  imme- 
diate putrefaction  of  the  carcases  of  the 
dead.  The  Arabians  discern  its  approach 
by  an  unusual  redness  in  the  air,  and  they 
say  that  they  feel  a  smell  of  sulphur  as  it 
passes.  The  only  means  by  which  any 
person  can  preserve  himself  from  suffering 
from  the  noxious  blasts,  is  by  throwing 
himself  down  with  his  face  upon  the  earth, 
till  this  whirlwind  of  poisonous  exhalations 
has  blown  over,  which  always  moves  at  a 
certain  height  in  the  atmosphere.  Instinct 
even  teaches  the  brutes  to  incline  their 
heads  to  the  ground  on  these  occasions.** — 

NlSBUUB. 


^^^^^^^^A^^/\^^kA^^^^/\^«> 


Arabian  Atmosphere. 

**  A  CLEAB  sky  seldom  obscured  by  clouds 
renders  storms  very  unfrequent  in  the  plains. 
The  air  discharges  its  electric  matter  in 
globes  of  fire,  and  by  the  phenomena 
called  shooting  stars,  which  are  not  unfre- 

'  This  is  the  Shamytloy  or  wind  of  Syria,  ur 
Simoom.     See  notes  on  Thalaba — 

*'  The  blast  of  the  desert  came ; 
Prostrate  in  prayer,  the  pious  family 
Felt  not  the  smioom  pass." 

Book  second. — J.  W.  W. 


quent  and  of  considerable  bulk.  In  the 
most  arid  tracts,  near  the  sea,  the  dews  are 
singularly  copious.  But  notwithstanding 
this  humidity,  the  air  is  so  pure  that  the  in- 
habitants sleep  in  the  open  air.** — Ibid. 


M^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^«M 


Arabian  Birds^  Beasts^  and  Plants} 

**  Oil  the  lofly  hills  of  Arabia  Petrsea  are 
rock-goats.  The  plains  are  stocked  with 
gazelles,  and  this  beautiful  creature  is  so 
common  that  the  Arabian  poets  draw  from 
it  many  of  their  allusions  and  similitudes. 
In  the  sandy  tracks  are  numbers  of  those 
little  animals  called  jerboas,  Pharaoh*s  rats, 
whose  flesh  the  Arabians  eat  without  anj 
dislike. 

"  In  places  where  there  was  water,  we 
found  a  beautiful  variety  of  the  plover,  and 
sometimes  storks.  The  deserts  are  not 
without  ostriches,  which  are  called  by  the 
inhabitants  Thar  Edsjammel,  the  camel- 
bird.^  A  beautiful  lapwing,  called  Hudhad, 
is  also  common  on  the  shores  of  the  Persian 
Gulph.  Some  Arabians  have  been  pur- 
suoded  that  the  language  of  this  bird  roaj 
be  understood,  by  a  fabulous  tradition. 
The  vulture  is  very  serviceable,  clearing  the 
earth  of  all  carcases  which  corrupt  very 
rapidly  in  hot  countries.  He  also  destroys 
the  field-mice,  which  multiply  so  prodigi- 
ously in  some  provinces,  that  were  it  not 
for  this  assistance,  the  peasant  might  cease 
from  the  culture  of  the  fields  as  absolute]/ 
vain.  Their  performance  of  these  impor- 
tant services  induced  the  ancient  Egyptians 
to  pay  those  birds  divine  honours;  and 
even  at  present  it  is  held  unlawful  to  kill 
them  in  all  the  countries  which  they  fre- 
quent. 

The  Samarman,  or  Samarmog,*  is  thought 

*  The  reader  will  find  most  of  this  imagery 
worked  up  in  Thalaha.^S ,  W.  W. 

*  "  And  in  modem  Greek  Srpii9cKd/ii|Xo;.'* 

— POCOCKB. 

*  See  notes  to  the  third  book  of  Thalaha^ 
"  And  yonder  birds  our  welcome  visitants,"  &c 

J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Ill 


fttive  of  Korasan,  for  it  comes  an- 
x>  Arabia,  in  pursuit  of  the  swarms 
I,  of  which  it  destroys  incredible 
Mr.  Forskal  ranks  it  among  the 
and  calls  it  Turdus  Seleucus.  The 
one  by  this  bird  in  countries  ex- 
the  ravages  of  those  insects,  have 
;  to  several  ridiculous  and  super- 
ractices  in  Syria.  It  is  thought 
racted  from  Korasan  by  water, 
for  this  end  brought  from  a  dis- 
b  great  ceremony,  and  preserved 
!  reservoir  on  the  top  of  the  tower 
|ue.  When  this  water  fails,  the 
ts  of  Mosul  are  in  despair.  But 
rd*s  instincts  prompt  it  not  only 
n  locusts,  but  to  kill  as  many  of 
K>8sible,  it  naturally  follows  these 
the  course  of  their  passage, 
chjal  is  famous  for  two  beautiful 
rith  which  the  Highlanders  adorn 
nets,  and  to  preserve  which  unin- 
bird  it  seems,  leaves  a  hole  in  its 
id. 


^^r^*^\/s^^^\^^,^^^^^^^^'^*^»^ 


swarms  of  locusts  darken  the  air, 
ar  at  a  distance  like  clouds  of 
he  noise  they  make  in  flying  is 
md  stunning,  like  that  of  a  water- 
Termite  infests  Arabia,  it  is  there 
da. 

le  sandy  deserts  grows  a  plant  of 
lus  named  Moscharia  by  M.  For- 
!Coant  of  its  musky  smell.** — Ibid. 


»BBJA,  called  by  Sir  C.  Linnaeus, 
,  in  honour  of  Mr.  F.,  grows  in 

places  of  the  country.  It  has 
iers,  with  which  it  fixes  itself  so 
y  upon  stuffs  and  other  smooth 
it  it  is  torn  in  pieces  before  it  can 
ed. 

Volutella  is  a  very  extraordinary 
ig,  properly  a  long  slender  thread, 
oot  or  leaves,  which  entwines  it- 

trees ;    it  bears,  however,  a  sort 


of  flower,  and  berries  which  are  eaten  by 
children.  The  Merium  Obesum,  a  sort  of 
laurel-rose,  is  remarkable  for  a  singular 
bulb,  close  to  the  earth,  and  of  the  size  of 
a  man*8  head,  which  forms  all  its  trunk, 
and  out  of  which  the  branches  spring. 

'*  The  sandy  plains  are  almost  destitute 
of  trees,  only  a  few  palms  are  scattered 
here  and  there. 

"  The  Indian  fig-tree  is  very  common. 
The  tamarind  is  equally  useful  and  agree- 
able. It  has  a  pulp  of  a  vineous  taste,  of 
which  a  wholesome  refreshing  liquor  is 
prepared.  Its  shade  shelters  houses  from 
the  torrid  heat  of  the  sun,  and  its  fine  figure 
greatly  adorns  the  scenery  of  the  country. 
The  inhabitants  are  also  fond  of  raising 
over  their  houses  the  shade  of  the  Indian 
fig-tree. 

"  The  Elcaya  and  Keura  are  two  trees 
famous  for  their  perfume ;  the  former  is 
common  on  the  hills  of  Yemen,  and  the 
women  steep  its  fruit  in  water,  which  they 
use  for  washing  and  perfuming  the  head, 
the  second  bears  some  resemblance  to  the 
palm,  and  produces  flowers  of  a  rich  and 
delicious  smell.  These  flowers  are  sold  at  a 
high  price,  as  the  Keura  is  rather  a  scarce 
plant.  But  one  little  knot,  if  preserved  in 
a  cool  place,  will  long  continue  to  diffuse 
its  odours  through  a  whole  apartment. 

"  There  are  several  trees  or  shrubs  of 
the  genus  Mimosa.  One  of  these  trees 
droops  its  branches  whenever  any  person 
approaches  it,  seeming  as  if  it  saluted  those  . 
who  retire  under  its  shade.  This  route  hos- 
pitality has  so  endeared  this  tree  to  the 
Arabians,  that  the  injuring  or  cutting  of 
it  down  is  strictly  prohibited.  Another  of 
these.  Mimosa  Selam,  produces  splendid 
flowers,  of  a  beautiful  red  colour,^  with  which 
the  Arabians  crown  their  heads  on  the 
days  of  their  festivity.  The  leaves  of 
another,  Mimosa  Orfseta,  preserve  cameFs 

*  **  That  with  such  pride  she  tricked 
Her  glossy  tresses,  and  on  holy -day 
Wreathed  the  red  flower-crown  roimd 
Their  waves  of  glossy  jet  ?  " 

Tkalaba,  Book  third.— J.  W.  W. 


112 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


milk  from  becoming  sour,  so  that  it  retains 
all  its  sweetness  for  several  days. 

**  The  Indian  fig  tree  grows  to  a  great 
age,  the  new  shoots  from  the  branches  of 
the  primary  stem  continuing  to  nourish  the 
top  of  the  tree,  even  afler  the  parent  stock 
is  entirely  decayed. 

"  Of  pumpkins  and  melons  several  sorts 
grow  naturally  in  the  woods,  and  serve  for 
feeding  camels.  But  the  proper  melons  are 
planted  in  the  fields,  where  a  great  variety 
of  them  is  to  be  found,  and  in  such  abund- 
ance, that  the  Arabians  of  all  ranks  use  them, 
for  some  part  of  the  year,  as  their  principal 
article  of  food.  They  afford  a  very  agree- 
able liquor.  When  the  fruit  is  nearly  ripe, 
a  hole  is  pierced  into  the  pulp ;  this  hole  is 
then  stopped  with  wax,^  and  the  melon  lefl 
upon  the  stalk ;  within  a  few  days  the  pulp 
is,  in  consequence  of  this  process,  converted 
into  a  delicious  liquor." — Ibid. 


N/V>/S/WV»«^«*W»^/WV» 


Bhick  Stone  of  the  Kaba, 

^*  Ih  the  Kaba  is  the  famous  black  stone, 
said  to  have  been  brought  by  the  angel  Oa- 
briel  in  order  to  the  construction  of  that  edi- 
fice. It  was  at  first  of  a  bright  white  co- 
lour, so  as  even  to  dazzle  the  eyes  at  the 
distance  of  four  days*  journey ;  but  it  wept 
so  long  and  so  abundantly  for  the  sins  of 
mankind,  that  it  became  at  length  opaque, 
and  at  last  absolutely  black." — Ibid. 


ii^W^%^^\^NA/W^W\^N/\/\/VSi/ 


Well  of  Zemzem, 

"  EUoAR,  when  banished  by  her  master, 
set  Ismael  down  while  she  should  find  some 
wat^r  to  quench  his  thirst.  Returning  after 
an  unsuccessful  search,  she  was  surprised  to 
see  a  spring  bursting  up  between  the  cbild^s 
legs.  That  spring  is  the  present  well  of 
Zemzem." — Ibid. 

I  "  Whither  is  gone  the  boy  ? 
He  had  piercea  the  Melon's  pulp, 
And  closed  with  wax  the  wound,"  &c. 
Thalaba,  Second  Book.— J.  W.  W. 


Exposure  of  Prince  Edm 

A.  D.  938.  A  certain  court  loi 
to  Prince  Edwin,  the  king^s  bn 
cused  the  young  prince  of  being  < 
in  Alfred's  conspiracy.  The  kin^ 
dily  gave  ear  to  this  accusation, 
easily  induced  to  believe  that  a 
whose  favour  the  conspiracy  wa 
was  not  innocent.  It  may  be  tc 
not  sorry  to  find  him  guilty,  as  it 
an  opportunity  to  despatch  him  c 
way.  However,  he  would  not  pi 
death  publicly,  but  ordered  him 
posed  to  the  fury  of  the  waves,  L 
without  sails  or  rudder.  The  you 
went  on  board,  protesting  his  ij 
but  finding  the  king  inexorable 
himself  headlong  into  the  sea.  Hi 
who  was  put  on  board  with  him, : 
and  was  driven  on  shore  at  a  pL 
Whitsand,  on  the  coast  of  Picard; 
Stan  repented,  and  built  Middle 
called  Melton  Abbey,  in  Dorseti 
Rapin. 


Arabian  Hospitality. 

"  With  the  Arabs  either  a  roun 
laid  on  the  ground  for  a  small  coi 
large  coarse  woollen  cloths  for 
number  spread  all  over  the  room,  i 
ten  dishes  repeated  six  or  seven  ti 
laid  round  at  a  great  feast,  and  wl 
and  lambs  boiled  and  roasted  in  tl 
When  one  company  has  done,  an* 
round,  even  to  the  meanest,  till  a 
sumed.  And  an  Arab  prince  v 
dine  in  the  street  before  his  door, 
to  all  that  pass,  even  beggars,  in 
expression,  Bisimillah,  that  is  in  i 
of  God ;  who  come  and  sit  down,  i 
they  have  done,  give  their  Hai 

•  See  Speed's  remark,  "  He  bull 
monasteries  of  Midleton  and  Michehu 
the  most  part  such  seed-plots  were  e? 
the  furrows  of  blood."    P.  340. — J. 

*  "  Before  the  tent  they  spread  the 

Ibid.— J. 


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«» 


that  ijs,  God  be  praised ;  for  the  Arabs  are 
great  levellers,  put  every  body  on  a  footing 
with  them ;  and  it  is  by  such  generosity  and 
hospitality  that  they  maintain  their  interest. 

— POCOCKB. 


Palm  Tree, 

"  Thx  palm  or  date  tree  is  of  great  use 
in  this  country  (Egypt) ;  and  deserves  a 
pirticular  description.  For  three  or  four 
years  no  body  of  a  tree  appears  above 
ground,  but  they  are  as  in  our  green-houses. 
If  the  top  is  cut  off,  with  the  boughs  coming 
from  it,  either  then  or  afterwards,  the  young 
bad  and  the  ends  of  the  tender  boughs 
united  together  at  top,  are  a  delicate  food, 
lomething  like  chesnut^,  but  much  finer,  and 
is  sold  very  dear.  This  tree  being  so  fruit- 
ful, they  rarely  cut  off  the  top,  unless  the 
tree  is  blown  down;  though  I  have  been 
told,  that  part  of  it  may  be  cut  away  without 
hurting  the  tree.  The  boughs  are  of  a  grain 
like  cane;  and  when  the  tree  grows  larger, 
A  great  number  of  stringy  fibres  seem 
to  stretch  out  from  the  boughs  on  each 
ilde,  which  cross  one  another  in  such  a  man- 
ner that  they  take  out  from  between  the 
boughs  a  sort  of  bark  like  close  net-work  ; 
and  this  they  spin  out  with  the  hand,  and 
vith  it  make  cords  of  all  sizes,  which  are 
QOsitly  used  in  Egypt.  They  also  make  of 
it  a  sort  of  brush  for  cloaths.  Of  the  leaves 
they  tiaake  mattresses,  baskets,  and  brooms ; 
and  of  the  branches  all  sorts  of  cage-work, 
square  baskets  for  packing,  that  serve  for 
many  uses  instead  of  boxes ;  and  the  ends 
of  the  boughs  that  grow  next  to  the  trunk, 
heing  beaten  like  flax,  the  fibres  separate, 
and  being  tied  together  at  the  narrow  end 
they  serve  for  brooms.  These  boughs  do 
not  fall  off  of  themselves  in  many  years, 
^ea  after  they  are  dead,  as  they  die  after 
five  or  six  years ;  but,  as  they  are  of  great 
iwe,  they  commonly  cut  them  off  every 
jear  (unless  such  as  are  at  a  great  distance 
from  any  town  or  village),  leaving  the  ends 
of  them  on  the  tree,  which  strengthen  it 
much;   and  when  after  many  years  they 


drop  off,  the  tree  is  weakened  by  it,  and 
very  oflen  is  broke  down  by  the  wind ;  the 
diameter  of  the  tree  being  little  more  than 
a  foot,  and  not  above  eight  or  nine  inches 
when  the  ends  of  the  boughs  drop  off;  and 
if  the  tree  is  weak  towards  the  bottom  they 
raise  a  mound  of  earth  round,  and  it  shoots 
out  abundance  of  small  roots  along  the  side 
of  the  tree,  which-  increase  its  bulk  so  that 
the  earth  being  removed,  the  tree  is  better 
able  to  resist  the  wind.    The  palm-tree 
grows  vei7  high  in  one  stem,  and  is  not  of 
a  proportionable  bulk;  it  has  this  peculiarity 
that  the  heart  of  the  tree  is  the  softest  and 
least  durable  part,  the  outer  parts  being 
the  most  solid ;   so  that  they  generally  use 
the  trees  entire  on  the  tops  of  their  houses, 
or  divide  them  only  into  two  parts.    A  sort 
of  bough  shoots  out,  and  bears  the  fruit  in 
a  kind  of  sheath,  which  opens  as  it  grows. 
The  male  bears  a  large  bunch  something 
like  millet,  which  is  full  of  a  white  flower, 
and  unless  the  young  fruit  of  the  female  is 
impregnated  with  it,  the  fruit  is  good  for 
naught ;  and  to  secure  it,  they  tie  a  piece  of 
this  fruit  of  the  male  to  every  bearing  branch 
of  the  female.     The  fruit  of  the  date,  when 
fresh,  eats  well  roasted,  and  also  prepared 
as  a  sweet-meat :    it  is  esteemed  of  a  hot 
nature,  and  as  it  comes  in  during  the  win- 
ter, being  ripe  in  November,  Providence 
seems  to  have  designed  it  as  a  warm  food, 
during  the  cold  season,  to  comfort  the  sto- 
mach, in  a  country  where  it  has  not  given 
wine  ;  it  is  proper  to  drink  water  with  it  as 
they  do  in  these  countries,  and  so  it  be- 
comes a  good  corrective  of  that  cold  ele- 
ment.' ' — POCOCKE. 


Thebaic  Palm. 

"  III  the  upper  parts  of  Egypt  they  have 
a  palm  tree  called  the  Dome,  the  stem  does 
not  grow  high,  but  there  soon  shoot  out 
from  it  two  branches,  and  from  each  of 
them  two  others,  and  so  for  four  or  five 
times  each  branch  divides  into  two.  The 
leaf  is  of  a  semicirculai*  figure,  about  three 
feet  diameter,  and  is  very  beautiful.     The 


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fruit  is  oval,  about  three  inches  long  and 
two  wide.  The  flesh  on  it  is  about  a  quar- 
ter of  an  inch  thick;  but  it  is  dry  and 
husky,  having  something  of  the  taste  of 
ginger-bread ;  they  therefore  make  holes 
in  it  and  moisten  it  with  water.  Under 
this  there  is  a  shell,  and  within  that  a  large 
kernel  which  is  hollow  within ;  so  that, 
making  a  hole  through  it  when  it  is  green, 
it  serves  for  a  snuff-box,  and  turned  when 
dry  makes  very  fine  beads  that  have  a 
polish  like  marble.  They  are  much  used 
by  the  Turks,  who  bring  them  from  Mecca. 
I  have   called   it   the   Thebaic  palm." — 

FOCOCKE. 


Indians  of  Chili. 

**  The  Indians  of  Chili  are  no  longer  those 
Americans  who  were  inspired  with  terror 
by  European  weapons.  The  increase  of 
horses,  which  are  now  dispersed  through 
the  interior  of  the  immense  deserts  of  Ame- 
rica, and  that  of  oxen  and  sheep  which  has 
also  been  very  great,  have  converted  these 
people  into  a  nation  of  Arabs,  comparable 
in  every  respect  ta  those  that  inhabit  the 
deserts  of  Arabia.  Constantly  on  horseback, 
they  consider  an  excursion  of  200  leagues 
as  a  very  short  journey.  They  march,  ac- 
companied by  their  flocks  and  herds,  feed 
upon  their  flesh  and  milk,  and  sometimes 
upon  their  blood  ; '  and  cover  themselves 
with  their  skins,  of  which  they  make  hel- 
mets, cuirassea  and  bucklers.  Hence  it  ap- 
pears that  the  inti'oduction  of  two  domestic 
animals  has  had  a  decisive  influence  upon 
the  manners  of  all  the  ti'ibes  which  inhabit 
the  country  from  St.  Jago  to  the  Straits  of 
Mogellan.  All  their  old  customs  are  laid 
aside;  they  no  longer  feed  on  the  same 
fruits,  nor  wear  the  same  dress ;  but  have 
a  more  striking  resemblance  to  the  Tartars, 
or  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  banks  of  the 
Red  Sea,  than  to  their  ancestors  who  lived 
two  centuries  ago." — La  Fsbouss. 

*  I  have  been  assured  that  they  sometimes 
bleed  their  oxen  and  horses,  and  drink  their 
Uood. 


Port  des  Frcmgais. 

"  Port  des  Franqais,  on  the  north-west 
coast  of  America.  The  Bay  is  perhaps  the 
most  extraordinary  place  in  the  world.  To 
form  a  conception  of  it,  let  us  suppose  a 
bason  of  water,  of  a  depth  in  the  middle 
that  could  not  be  fathomed,  bordered  bj 
peaked  mountains  of  an  excessive  height, 
covered  with  snow,  without  a  blade  of 
grass  upon  this  immense  collection  of  rodu 
condemned  by  Nature  to  perpetual  sterility. 
I  never  saw  a  breath  of  airruflle  the  surface 
of  this  water ;  it  is  never  troubled  but  bj 
the  fall  of  enormous  pieces  of  ice,  which 
continually  detach  themselves  from  five 
different  glaciers,  and  which,  in  falling, 
make  a  noise  that  resounds  far  in  the  moun- 
tains. The  air  is  in  this  place  so  very  calm, 
and  the  silence  so  profound,  that  the  mere 
voice  of  a  man  may  be  heard  half  a  league 
off,  as  well  as  the  noise  of  some  sea-biids 
which  lay  their  eggs  in  the  cavities  of  these 
rocks." — Pebouse. 


Duty  of  a  Conqueror, 

"  C'est  ii  un  Conquerant  ^  reparer  une 
partie  des  maux  qu*il  a  fait.  Je  definis 
ainsi  le  droit  de  conquSte :  un.  droit  n^- 
cessaire,  legitime,  et  malheureux,  qui  laisse 
toujours  k  payer  une  dette  immense,  pour 
8*acquitter  envers  la  nature  humaine."— 
Montesquieu,  lib.  10,  ch.  4. 


Copy  of  a  Letter  from  a  Farmer^  a  Zkatghter^ 

1798.* 

"  Deab  Miss, 
**  The  energy  of  the  races  prompts  me 
to  assure  you  Uiat  my  request  is  forbidden, 
the  idea  of  which  I  had  awkwardly  nou- 
rished, notwithstanding  my  propensity  to 
reserve.  Mr.  T.  will  be  there.  Let  me 
with  confidence  assure  you  that  him  and 

'  I  think  this  queer  letter  is  given  in  Espbi* 
Ella's  Lelien^  but  I  cannot  immediately  light 
up*m  the  reference. — J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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brothers  will  be  very  happy  to  meet  you 
and  brothers.  Us  girls  cannot  go  for  rea- 
sons. The  attention  of  the  cows  claims 
our  assistance  in  the  evening.  Unalterably 
yours. 


Raiseiac  and  his  Son, 

"■  Lf   the  wars  which    King  Ferdinand 
made  against  tbe  widow  of  John,  King  of 
Hungary,  about  Buda,  a  man-at-arms  was 
ptrticularly  noted  of  all  men  for  so  much 
as  in    a  certiun  skirmish  he  had  shewed 
exceeding  prowess  of  his  body ;  and  though 
unknown,  being  slain,  was  highly  commen- 
ded and  much  bemoaned  of  all ;    but  yet 
of  none  so  greatly  as  of  a  German  lord 
called  Raiseiac,  as  he  that  was  amazed  at 
80  rare  vertue.     His  body  being  recovered 
and  had  off,  this  lord,  led  by  a  common 
curiositie,  drew  neere  unto  it,  to  see  who 
it  might  be,  and  having  caused  him  to  be 
disarmed,  perceived  him  to  be  hb  own  sonne ; 
which  known  did  greatly  augment  the  com- 
passion of  all  the  camp ;   he  only,  without 
framing  word,  or  closing  his  eyes,  but  earnest- 
ly viewing  the  dead  body  of  his  son  stood 
still  upright,  till  the  vehemencie  of  his  sad 
sorrow,  having  suppressed  and  choaked  his 
rital  spirits,  felld  him  stark  dead  to  the 
ground.** — ^Montaigne,  b.  1.  ch.  2. 


Charles,  Duke  of  Burgujidy. 

*^  Cabolus  Pugnax,  that  great  Duke  of 
Burgundy,  made  H.  Holland,  late  Duke  of 
Exeter,  exiled,  runne  after  his  horse  like  a 
Uckey,  and  would  take  no  notice  of  him.^ 
CoMDiBS.    BuBTOii*8  Anot,  of  Melancholy. 


^#N«^  ^^%A^/S^^^^%A/V«^^^ 


Massacre  of  Saint  Bartholomew, 

^  Sdr  le  quai  du  Louvre  au  bas  d*une 
fenStre  dont  la  vue  donne  sur  la  riviere,  on 
a  mis  une  inscription  relative  au  massacre 
de  la  Saint  Barth^lemi.  C*est  de  cette  fe- 
nStre  que  Tinfilme  Charles  IX.  d*ex6crable 


memoire,  a  tire  sur  le  peupic  avcc  une  ca- 
rabine.* L'histoire  dit  que  ce  meurtrier  tirait 
par  la  fenetre  de  sa  chambre  sur  ses  mal- 
heureux  sujets,  qui  pour  eviter  le  massacre 
cherchaient  k  traverser  la  Seine  a  la  nage.** 
— Fragments  sur  Paris,  par  Meter.  Tra- 
duits  de  VaUemarid,  par  Dumoubiez. 


Master  of  Merry  Disports, 

"  In  the  feast  of  Christmas  there  was  in 
the  king*8  house,  wheresoever  he  was  lodged, 
a  lord  of  misrule,  or  master  of  merry  dis- 
ports ;  and  the  like  had  ye  in  the  house  of 
every  nobleman  of  honour  or  good  worship, 
were  he  spiritual  or  temporal.  Among  the 
which  the  Maior  of  London  and  either  of  the 
Sheriffs,  had  their  several  Lords  of  Misrule, 
ever  contending,  without  quarrel  or  offence, 
who  should  make  the  rarest  pastimes  to  de- 
light the  beholders.  These  lords  beginning 
their  rule  at  Alhallond  Eve,  continued  the 
same  till  the  morrow  after  the  feast  of  the 
Purification,  commonly  called  Candlcroas- 
day.  In  all  which  space,  there  were  fine 
and  subtle  disguisings,  masks  and  mumme- 
ries, with  playing  at  cards  for  counters  nails 
and  points,  more  for  pastimes  than  for  gain.** 
— Stow*8  Survey, 


Christmas  Evergreens, 

"  Against  the  feast  of  Christmas,  every 
man*8  house,  as  also  their  parish  churches, 
were  decked  with  holm,  i  vie,  bays,  and  what- 
soever the  season  of  the  year  afforded  to 
be  green.  The  conduits  and  standards  in 
the  streets  were  likewise  garnished.  Among 
the  which  I  read  that  in  the  year  1444,  by 
tempest  of  thunder  and  lightning,  on  the 
1  st  of  February,  at  night,  Paul's  steeple  was 
fired,  but  with  great  labour  quenched ;  and 
towards  the  morning  of  Candlemas-day,  at 
the  Leaden-hall,  in  Comhill,  a  standard- 
tree  being  set  up  in  the  midst  of  the  pave- 
ment, fast  in  the  ground,  nailed  full  of 
holme  and  ivie,  for  disport  of  Christmas  to 
the  people,  wafl  uptorn   and  cast  down  by 


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the  malignant  spirit  as  was  thought,  and 
the  stones  of  the  pavement  all  about  were 
cast  in  the  streets  and  into  divers  houses, 
so  that  the  people  were  sore  agast  at  the 
great  tempests/* 


Easter  Tree, 

"  In  the  week  before  Easter,  had  ye  great 
shows  made,  for  the  fetching  in  of  a  twisted 
tree  or  with,  as  they  termed  it,  out  of  the 
woods,  into  the  king*s  house ;  and  the  like 
into  every  man*s  house  of  honour  or  wor- 
ship." 

May  Day? 

"  In  the  month  of  May,  namely  on  May- 
day in  the  morning,  every  man,  except  im- 
pediment, would  walk  into  the  sweet  mea- 
dows and  green  woods,  there  to  rejoice  their 
spirits  with  the  beauty  and  savour  of  sweet 
flowers,  and  with  the  noise  of  birds,  prais- 
ing God  in  their  kind. 

"  And  for  more  notable  example  hereof 
Edw.  Hall  hath  noted,  that  King  Henry 
VIII.  as  in  the  3rd  of  his  reign  and  divers 
other  years,  so  namely  in  the  7th  of  his  reign, 
on  May-day  in  the  morning,  with  Queen 
Catharine  his  wife,  accompanied  with  many 
lords  and  ladies,  rode  a  maying  from  Green- 
wich to  the  high  ground  of  Shooter's  Hill ; 
where  as  they  passed  by  the  way  they  es- 
pied a  company  of  tall  yeomen  clothed  all 
in  green,  with  green  hoods,  and  with  bows 
and  arrows  to  the  number  of  200.  One 
being  their  chieflain  was  called  Robin  Hood, 
who  required  the  King  and  all  his  company 
to  stay  and  see  his  men  shoot,  whereunto 
the  King  granting,  Robin  Hood  whistled 
and  all  the  200  archers  shot  off,  loosing  all 
at  once.  And  when  he  whistled  again,  they 
likewise  shot  again.  Their  arrows  whistled 
by  crafl  of  the  head  so  that  the  noise  was 
strange  and  loud,  which  greatly  delighted 
the    King,    Queen,    and    their    company. 

*  See  some  striking  remarks  in  Espriella'b 
Letteri,  Letter  xiii.  vol.  i.  p.  147,  third  edit. 

J.  W.  W. 


Moreover  this  Robin  Hood  desired  the  King 
and  Queen  with  their  retinue  to  enter  the 
green  wood,  where  in  arbours  made  with 
boughs  and  decked  with  flowers,  they  were 
set  and  served  plentifully  with  venison  and 
wine  by  Robin  Hood  and  his  men  to  their 
great  contentment,  and  had  other  pageants 
and  pastimes,  as  ye  may  read  in  my  said 
author. 

*^  I  find  also  that,  in  the  month  of  Maj, 
the  citizens  of  London,  of  all  estates,  lightly 
in  every  parish,  or  sometime  two  or  three 
parishes  joining  together,  had  their  several 
Mayings,  and  did  fetch  in  May-poles,  with 
divers  warlike  shews,  with  good  archers, 
moricc  dancers,  and  other  devices  for  pas- 
time all  the  day  long;  and  towards  the 
evening  they  had  stage  plays  and  bonefires 
in  the  streets." — Ibid. 


Festival  Bonfires. 

"  In  the  months  of  June  and  July,  on 
the  vigils  of  festival  days,  and  on  the  same 
festival  days  in  the  evenings  after  the  sun- 
setting,  there  were  usually  made  bonefires 
in  the  streets,  every  man  bestowing  wood 
or  labour  towards  them.  The  wealthier  sort 
also  before  their  doors,  near  to  the  said 
bonefires  would  set  out  tables  on  the  vigils, 
furnished  with  sweet  bread  and  good  drink, 
and  on  the  festival  days  with  meat  and 
drink  plentifully;  whereunto  they  would 
invite  their  neighbours  and  passengers  also 
to  sit  and  be  merry  with  them  in  great  fii- 
miliarity,  praising  God  for  his  benefits  be- 
stowed on  them,  these  were  called  bone- 
fires, as  well  of  good  amity  amongst  neigb- 
bours,  that  being  before  at  controversie, 
were  there  by  the  labour  of  others  recon- 
ciled, and  made  of  bitter  enemies  loving 
friends ;  as  also  for  the  virtue  that  a  great 
•fire  hath,  to  purge  the  infection  of  the  air." 
—Ibid. 

VigU  of  St.  John  Baptist,  jr. 
"  On  the  vigil  of  St.  John  Baptbt,  and 
on  Saint  Peter  and  Paul  the  Apostles,  every 


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man*«door  being  Bhadowed  with  green  birch, 
long  fennel,  St.  John*8  wort,  orpin,  white 
lillies,  and  such  like,  garnished  upon  with 
beautiful  flowers,  had  also  lamps  of  glass, 
with  oil  burning  in  them  all  the  night. 
Some  hung  out  branches  of  iron  curiously 
wrought,  containing  hundreds  of  lamps 
lighted  at  once,  which  made  a  goodly  shew.** 
-Ibid. 


Midsummer  Watch. 

**B£8u>B8  the  standing  watches,  all  in 
bright  hamesa,  in  every  ward  and  street  in 
this  city  and  suburbs,  there  was  also  a  march- 
ing watch,  that  passed  thro  the  principal 
itreets  thereof;  to  wit,  from  the  little  conduit 
bj  Pauls  gate^  through  West  Cheap,  by  the 
Stocks,  through  Comhill,  by  Leaden  Hall  to 
Aldgate ;  then  back  down  Fen  Church  street 
lod  by  Grasse  Church,  about  Grasse  Church 
conduit,  and  up  Grasse  Church  street  into 
Comhill,  and  through  into  West  Cheap 
again,  and  so  broke  up.  The  whole  way 
ordered  for  this  marching  watch  extended 
to  3200  Taylor*s  Yards  of  a  size,  for  the 
furniture  whereof  with  lights,  there  were 
appointed  700  cressets,  500  of  them  being 
found  by  the  companies,  the  other  200  by 
the  chamber  of  London.  Besides  the  which 
lights,  every  constable  in  London,  in  num- 
ber more  than  240  had  his  cresset;  the 
charge  of  every  cresset  was  in  light  2s,  4d. 
and  every  cresset  had  two  men,  one  to  bear 
or  hold  it,  another  to  bear  a  bag  with  light 
and  to  serve  it.  So  that  the  poor  men 
pertaining  to  the  cressets  taking  wages,  be- 
sides that  every  one  had  a  strawen  hat  with 
ft  badge  painted,  and  his  breakfast,  amount- 
ed in  number  to  almost  2000.  The  march- 
ing watch  contained  in  number  about  2000 
men ;  part  of  them  being  old  soldiers,  of 
skill  to  be  captains,  lieutenants,  Serjeants, 
corporals,  &c.  Whifflers,  drummers  and  fifes, 
standard  and  ensign  bearers,  demilaunces 
on  great  horses,  gunners  with  hand  guns  or 
half  hakes,  archers  in  coats  of  white  fustian, 
signed  on  the  breast  and  back  with  the  arms 


of  the  city ;  their  bows  bent  in  their  hand 
with  sheafs  of  arrows  by  their  sides ;  pike 
men  in  bright  corslets,  burganets,  &c.  Hal- 
bards,  the  like  the  billmen  in  almain  rivets,' 
and  aprons  of  mail  in  great  number. 

"  There  were  also  divers  pageants,  mor- 
ris dancers,  constables,  the  one  half  which 
was  120  on  St.  Johns  eve,  the  other  half 
on  St.  Peters  eve,  in  bright  harness,  some 
overgilt  and  every  one  a  jornett*  of  scarlet 
thereupon  and  a  chain  of  gold,  his  bench 
man  following  him,  his  minstrels  before  him 
and  his  cresset  light  passing  by  him,  the 
waits  of  the  city,  the  maiors  officers,  for  his 
guard  before  him,  all  in  a  livery  of  woosted 
or  sea  jackets  party-coloured;  the  maior 
himself  well  mounted  on  horseback,  the 
sword  bearer  before  him  in  fair  armour, 
well  mounted  also,  the  maiors  footmen  and 
the  like  torch  bearers  about  him  ;  bench 
men  twain  upon  great  stii-ring  horses  fol- 
lowing him.  The  sheriffs  watches  came 
one  after  the  other  in  like  order,  but  not 
so  large  in  number  as  tlie  maiors ;  for 
where  the  maior  had  besides  his  giant,  three 
pageants,  each  of  the  sheriffs  had  besides 
their  giant  but  two  pageants ;  each  their 
morris  dance  and  one  bench  man,  their 
officers  in  jackets  of  woosted,  or  sea  party- 
coloured  differing  from  the  maiors  and  each 
from  other,  but  having  harnessed  men  a 
great  many,  &c. 

"This  Midsummer  watch  was  thus  ac- 
customed yearly,  time  out  of  mind,  until 
the  year  1539,  in  which  year  on  8th  May 
a  great  muster  was  made  by  the  citizens  at 
the  Miles  end,  all  in  bright  harness  with 
coats  of  white  silk  or  cloth  and  chains  of 
gold,  in  three  great  battles  to  the  number 
of  15,000 ;  which  passed  through  London  to 
Westminster,  and  so  through  the  Sanctuary, 

'  The  reader  will  find  many  of  these  terms 
explained  in  Thorn's  edition  of  Stow's  Survey ; 
but  he  candidly  confesses  his  ignorance  of  "  al- 
main rivets."  It  is  easier  to  conjecture  the 
meaning  than  to  supply  authority  fur  it. 

J.  W.  W. 

'  '^De  ritalien  gittmaia,  Et  ce  mot  Italien 
signifie  proprement  une  veste  militaire  pour  un 
jour  de  bataille."    Menage  in  v. — J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERAKY  COMPOSITION. 


mnd  round  about  tbe  Park  of  St.  James, 
and  returned  home  through  Oldbom. 

"  King  Henry  tlien  con^dering  the  great 
charges  of  the  citizens  for  the  furniture  of 
this  unusual  mustor  f^irbad  the  marching 
watch  proTided  for  at  Midsummer  that 
year ;  which  being  once  laid  down,  was  not 
raised  again  till  the  rear  154S,  the  2nd  of 
Edward  VI.  Sir  John  Gresham  then  beii^ 
Maior,  who  caused  the  marvhing  watch  bc»ih 
on  the  ere  of  St,  John  Baptist  and  of  St- 
Peter  the  Apo$tle^  to  be  n^riTed  and  set 
fortli,  in  as  conwlr  orxier  as  it  had  been  ac- 
customed,  which  watch  was  also  beautified 
bj  the  numWr  of  mor^  than  *X>  demilances 
and  light  horse  men,  prepared  by  the  citi- 
ictts  to  be  «»t  inui  Scotland,  for  the  rescue 
of  the  town  of  HadiUngton. 

**  ITiis  watch  a0ording  a  great  cavalcade 
and  si^cndid  show,  bn>ught  ab«r^!ar>ce  of 
*W  ^K^gnvs  U^g^nher,  and  not  a  iew  of  the 
lighter  SH^^rt^  such  as  n^ues.  pickpurse*. 
^juarrdlcrs  whore«H>ngv^rs.  and  drunkank, 
which  was  Kmnd  to  hare  much  izK>:«Te> 
niciHNN  ThereRvre  in  the  rear  15<>5i,  Sir 
TtHw\a.<  Kow,  Maiivr^  with  the  univ^iNad  vx«- 
5^^nt  of  the  alvlertiHHv  a^rved  tx>  Ut  it  a>ide, 
<W  that  year  at  U>a.<i,  jukI  in  the  ivxm 
thcTXHvt^  to  ha^nc  a  suWtantial  stan.Ving  watcii 
tx^  the  sAtVtY  anvi  i^rv^srratk^a  <m*  the  citr. 
llie  M*Kxr  hiius.>lf  als^.  Khi^  at  this  ti:i> 
*.>  weak  th*t  h.^  .vuia  m>t  iv>  in  kb  own 
jHH^^i^  tho  K.xxvnW  iKNiUAinuxl  :he  Q«>e«i 
wul  .xMinoil  with  this  ix^>J«,kvn,     Rut   it 

It.  ami  that  it  wa*  h^nr  ,4.^.uTe  ux  kax.^  a 
S!''^  ^*'^^    >Vh.^m^v>n  th.^  XUvw  ^t 

r*'  t*k^  ja^xs  aiul  tK>«ii  h.HKWLv^r!! 
^>^ii  tx>  Iv  Uhl  a.i.k.  ^^>^v^v.h  u 


Lord  Maior,  and  his  brethren  the  Aldermen, 
containii^  the  manner  and  order  of  a  march- 

ing  waick  in  the  city  iqKm  the  evoi  aoeuf- 
tomed,  in  commendatioiw  whereof,  namelj, 
in  times  of  peace  to  be  used,  he  hath  words 
tothnefiRsd.  Tke  artifioers  of  sundry  schIs 
tker^  wefl  aei  awork,  none  but  rich 

helped,  old  soldien, 
fifes  and  ensign 
bearers,  with  sodi  like  men,  meet  for  the 
princes  serrice,  kept  in  lire,  wherein  the 
safety  and  defence  <^  erery  commonweal 
cvxi^steth.  Armour  and  weapons  being 
yearly  occupied  in  thb  wise,  the  citizens  hid 
of  their  own,  readily  prepared  ftHT  any  need ; 
aheiena  by  intermission  hoeoi^  annorers 
are  out  of  work,  soldiers  out  <^  ure,  wea- 
pons oxergrown  with  foulness,  few  or  none 
good  being  proTided,**  &c — Ibid. 


Kaih 


i  hwvft  i.^^„        .     r  ^**^^  »T^  tJits  cj:t 


•^^^   ^^  1>CC«  U*st  .w^      T  '^"^  ^^''^ 

^  ^^^^^^i  tx^  ^r  iv>^,  iN^u^ri;^, 


^w^>ii.  a,>>,^  xtv 


^Mfc^kt^Mfim^,^^, 


Bard^Tmnr-ade  Sports. 

'^  Is  t^  month  of  August,  about  the  feast 
of  St.  Bartholomew  the  apostle,  before  the 
Lord  Makw«  Aldermen  and  Sherifis  of  Lon- 
don, placed  ID  a  large  tent  near  unto  Clerk- 
envelL  of  old  time  were  dirers  days  spent 
in  ike  pastime  of  wrestlii^;  where  the  offi- 
cers of  the  city,  nam^y,  the  sheriffs,  ser- 
pe^juit^  and  yeomen,   the  porters  of  the 
Kite's  Unam  or  we^h  house  (now  no  such 
me&>  and  otker  of  tke  city  were  challengers 
of  ail  men  in  tke  saborbs  to  wrestle  for 
gmmes  ap{v>inted,  and  on  other  days  be- 
tore  tke  s^id  Maior,  Aldermen  and  Sherifis 
in  Fensbury  field  to  skooC  die  standard, 
Ivrwad  azTviw  and  fi%ht,  for  games.  But  now 
of  late  xesars  tke  wrestling  is  only  prac- 
ti:$ed  on  Bartkc^omew  day  in  tke  afternoon ; 
a2>d  tke  sk^x^ii^  sonw  tkree  or  fi>ur  dsjf 
after  in  one  attemoon  and  no  more.   ¥iliat 
$kv>ttM  I  sf^odk  of  tke  ancient  daOy  ezer- 
'  r^!>ei^  in  tke  long  bow  by  dtisens  of  thb  citj, 
>K>w  ahftct^t  c^cdLolT  kit  off  and  forsaken?  I 
overpass  it«  tor  by  tke  means  of  closing  in 
of  oocuBKXK  givH^nds,  our  arckers  for  want  of 
T\>>ea  t\>  skvvx  abrcmd,  cre^  into  bowling 
^^7^^  ai^i  vvrdixiary  dicing   bouses,  near 


J  c 


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119 


rhere  they  have  room  enough  to  ha- 
eir  money  at  unlawful  games,  where 
them  to  take  their  pleasures." — Ibid, 
was  one  of  the  great  uses  of  publlck 
in  former  time,  namely,  for  game  and 
e,  rather  than  for  drinking  excessiye- 
;  now  of  a  long  while  the  pleasure  and 
i  of  these  houses  is  chiefly  fuddling 
souring  vast  quantities  of  wine  and 
i  stout,  and  brandy. 


Shrove  Tuesday, 

BBT  year  on  Shrove  Tuesday,  the 
boys  do  bring  cocks  of  the  game  to 
laster,  and  all  the  forenoon  they  de- 
hemselves  in  cock-fighting.  Ailer 
all  the  youths  go  into  the  fields  to 
t  the  ball.  The  scholars  of  every 
have  their  ball  or  bastion  in  their 
The  antient  and  wealthy  men  of  the 
»me  forth  on  horseback,  to  see  the 
»f  the  young  men  and  to  take  part  of 
iasure  in  beholding  their  agility.** — 
spheh  in  Stow.^ 


^^^»M^i^^^^»^^W^^«^^.^^^fc^ 


Lent  Fridays^ 

^ZBT  Friday  in  Lent,  a  fresh  company 
Dg  men  comes  into  the  field  on  horse- 
ind  the  best  horsemen  conduct  the 
Then  march  forth  the  citizens  sons, 
her  young  men  with  disarmed  lances 
ields,  and  there  they  practice  feats  of 
Many  courtiers  likewise  when  the 
yeth  near,  and  attendants  on  noble- 
9  repair  to  these  exercises,  and  while 
)e  of  victory  doth  inflame  their  minds, 
lew  good  proof  how  serviceable  they 
be  in  martial  affairs.** — Ibid. 

e  reader  will  find  these  extracts  snb- 
to  Stow*8  Survey.— J,  W.  W. 
SocTHET  has  headed  it  from  Stow:  but 
original  Latin  of  Stephanides,  or  Fitz- 
Q,  it  is  "  Singulis  diebm  dominicii  in  Quad- 
Hi."— J.  W.  W. 


Easter  Water-tilts, 

"  In  Easter  holydays,  they  fight  battles 
on  the  water ;  a  shield  is  hanged  on  a  pole, 
fixed  in  the  midst  of  the  stream.  A  boat 
is  prepared  without  oars,  to  be  carried  by 
violence  of  the  water,  and  in  the  forepart 
thereof  standeth  a  young  man  ready  to  give 
charge  upon  the  shield  with  his  lance ;  if  so 
be  he  break  his  launce  against  the  shield, 
and  doth  not  fall,  he  is  thought  to  have 
performed  a  worthy  deed ;  if  so  be  without 
breddng  his  launce  he  runneth  strongly 
against  the  shield,  down  he  falleth  into  the 
water,  for  the  boat  is  violently  forced  with 
the  tide.  But  on  each  side  of  the  shield 
ride  two  boats,  furnished  with  young  men, 
which  recover  him  that  falleth,  as  soon  as 
they  may.  Upon  the  bridge,  wharfs  and 
houses,  by  the  river  side,  stand  great  num- 
bers to  see  and  laugh  thereat.** — Ibid. 


Slimmer  Holiday  Evenings. 

**  In  the  holydays  all  the  summer  the 
youths  are  exercised  in  leaping,  dancing, 
shooting,  wresting,  casting  the  stone,  and 
practising  their  shields.  The  maidens  trip 
with  their  timbrels,  and  dance  as  long  as 
they  can  well  see.  In  winter,  every  holy- 
day,  before  dinner,  the  boars  prepared  for 
brawn  are  set  to  fight,  or  else  bulls  or 
bears  are  baited.** — Ibid. 


Whittington*s  Epitaph^  St.  Michaels^ 
Ventrie  Ward, 

**  Ut  fragrans  Nardus 
fam&  fuit  iste  Richardus, 
Albificans'  villam 
qui  juste  rexerat  illam. 
Flos  mercatorum 
Fundator  presbyterorum. 
Sic  &  egenorum, 
testis  sit  cetus  eorum. 


*  Anglic^  Whittington,  i.  e.  whiting-town. 


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Omnibus  exemplum, 
barathrum  yincendo  morosuDi. 
Condidit  hoc  templum 
Michaelifl,  quam  specioaum ! 
Regia  spes  &  prea : 
divinis  res  rata  turbis. 
Fauperibufl  Pater  extiteiat 
Major  quater  urbis,^ 
Martius  hunc  yicit, 
En  I  annos  gens  Ubi  dicit. 
Finiit  ipse  dies, 
sis  sibi  Christe  quiea.    Amen.** 

Stow. 


^^^^'^^^^^^^^A^^^^^A^^V^ 


St  PauTs  Buck, 


'*  Sib  William  Baud,  knight  the  drd  of 
Edward  I.,  1274,  on  Candlemas-daj,  grant- 
ed to  Harvey  de  Borham,  Dean  of  Pauls, 
and  to  the  chapter  there,  that  in  considera- 
tion of  22  acres  of  ground  or  land,  bj  them 
granted  within  their  manor  of  Westlej,  in 
Essex,  to  be  inclosed  into  his  park  at  Cu- 
ringham,  he  would  for  ever,  upon  the  feast 
day  of  the  Conversion  of  Paul,  in  winter, 
give  unto  them  a  good  doe,  seasonable  and 
sweet :  and  upon  the  feast  of  the  Comme- 
moration of  St.  Paul,  in  summer,  a  good 
buck,  and  offer  the  same  at  the  high  altar; 
the  same  to  be  spent  among  the  canons  re- 
sidents. The  doe  to  be  brought  by  one  man, 
at  the  hour  of  procession,  and  through  the 
procession  to  the  high  altar;  and  the  bringer 
to  have  nothing.  The  buck  to  be  brought 
by  all  his  meyney  in  like  manner,  and  they 
to  have  paid  unto  them  by  the  church  12 
pence  only,  and  no  more  to  be  required. 

"  Now  what  I  have  heard  by  report  and 
have  partly  seen,  it  followeth :  On  the  feast 
day  of  the  Commemoration  of  St.  Paul,  the 
buck  being  brought  up  to  the  steps  of  the 
high  altar  in  Pauls  Church,  at  the  hour  of 
procession,  the  dean  and  chapter  apparelled 
in  coaps  and  vestments,  with  garlands  of 
roses  on  their  heads,  they  sent  the  body  of 

*  This  epitaph  is  not  in  the  copy  of  Stow 
before  me.  These  lines  are  evidently  defective. 
Weevkr,  in  his  Funeral  Montunenti,  calls  it 
"  craxed  and  imperfect,"  p.  407. — J.  W.  W. 


the  buck  to  baking,  and  had  the  head  fixed 
on  a  pole,  bom  before  the  cross  in  their 
procession,  until  they  issued  out  at  the 
west  door,  where  the  keeper  that  brought 
it  blowed  the  death  of  the  buck,  and  then 
the  homers  that  were  about  the  city  pre- 
sently answered  him  in  like  manner;  for 
the  which  pains  they  had  each  man,  of  the 
dean  and  chapter,  4d,  in  money  and  their 
dinner.  And  the  keeper  that  brought  it, 
during  his  abode  there,  for  that  service, 
meat,  drink,  and  lodging,  at  the  dean  and 
chapters  charges,  and  Sd,  in  money  at  his 
going  away,  together  with  a  loaf  of  bread, 
having  the  picture  of  St.  Paul  upon  it 

**  There  was  bdonging  to  the  church  of 
St.  Paul,  for  both  the  days,  two  special 
suits  of  vestments,  the  one  imbroidered 
with  bucks,  the  other  with  does.** — Ang^tt 
16,  1798,  Hereford. 


^i«v^M/w^«m^^^rf^^^««wv^ 


Ostrick'eggSj  how  hatched} 

**  Wb  read  in  an  old  Arabian  manuscript 
that  when  the  ostrich  would  hatch  her  eggs, 
she  does  not  cover  them  as  other  fowls  do, 
but  both  the  male  and  female  contribute  to 
hatch  them  by  the  efficacy  of  their  looks 
only  f  and  therefore  when  one  has  occasion 
to  go  to  look  for  food,  it  advertises  its  com- 
panion by  its  cry,  and  the  other  never  stirs 
during  its  absence,  but  remains  with  its  eyes 
fixed  upon  the  eggs,  till  the  return  of  its 
mate,  and  then  goes  in  its  turn  to  look  for 
food.  And  this  care  of  theirs  is  so  neces- 
sary, that  it  cannot  be  suspended  for  a  mo- 
ment ;  for  if  it  should,  their  eggs  would  im- 
mediately become  addle.** — Harrt8*8  Coi' 
lect.ofVoy,  T.YAJHSLBBBy  Relat,  d^Hgypte^ 
p.  103. 

Thb  is  said  to  emblem  the  perpetual  at- 
tention of  the  Creator  to  the  universe. 

'  The  note  book  which  furnishes  these  ax* 
tracts  has  been  kindly  lent  to  me  by  Mrs. 
Southey.— J.  W.  W. 

*  "  Oh !  even  with  such  a  look,  as  fiiUes  say, 
The  mother  ostrich  fixes  on  her  egg,"  &c. 
Thalaba,  book  iu.  p.  24.— J.  W.  W. 


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121 


Oladiaiarg,  why  suppressed, 

OEK  the  Emperor  Honorius,  when 
tius,  a  Christian  poet,  had  endea- 
to  obtain  the  abolition  of  the  gladia- 
pectacles,  Telemachos,  a  hermit  of 
t,  i^^peared  in  the  amphitheatre.  As 
the  combat  had  begun,  he  descend- 

a  dignified  simplicity,  inflamed  by 
t  of  benevolence  and  holj  zeal,  into 
la,  and  endeavoured  to  prevent  the 
flits  from  murdering  each  other, 
ictators,  enraged,  rose  and  stoned 
srhaps  there  may  be  some  who  will 
lined  to  ridicule  the  simplicity  of 
lified  man,  though  had  it  been  the 

heathen  philosopher,  they  would 
mired  and  cited  it  as  exemplary, 
hos,  however,  was  the  last  sacrifice 
accursed  custom.  Honorius  was 
forbad  the  games  of  the  gladiators, 
n  that  period  they  were  entirely 
1. — Stolbbro*8  Travels. 
h  has  another  name,  Almachius. 


V'>^N^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M^^«^ 


eath  of  AlVs  Sons  celebrated. 

Persians  observe  a  festival  in  me- 
the  death  of  Hassan  and  his  bro- 
I  sons  of  Hali,  who  were  killed  by 
ear  Bagdad.  It  begins  on  the  2drd 
st,  and  lasts  ten  days,  during  which 
uare  is  adorned  with  lights,  and  a 
ner  or  streamer,  near  which  a  Mul- 
iest  gets  up  into  a  pulpit  to  preach, 
es  a  most  hideous  noise.  All  the 
Its  of  that  quarter  go  to  hear  him, 
ed  and  blue  silk  gowns,  as  a  token 
r.  The  women  supply  the  Mullahs 
eatmeats  and  rose-water,  to  cool 
en  they  are  heated  with  preaching, 
of  the  ten  days,  they  set  a  figure 

which  they  call  Omar,  on  an  ass, 
*  having  led  them  about  the  town, 

the  poor  ass,  and  set  fire  to  the 
rhey  are  fully  persuaded  that  dur- 

ten  days,  the  gates  of  heaven  stand 
lly  open,  and  that  all  Mussulmen, 


who  happen  to  die  at  this  season,  go  directly 
to  heaven." — Gebisixi.  Bboughton^s  Diet, 
of  all  Religions. 


**^/w^%^^^\^^^^*^^/^/s/^/v^« 


Feast  of  Lights. 

"  Han ucA  or  Channuccah,  the  feast  of 
lights,  or  feast  of  dedication,  an  annivefsary 
festival  among  the  Jews,  in  memory  of  Ju- 
das Maccabaeus^s  repairing  and  dedicating 
anew  the  temple  and  altar,  which  had  been 
plundered  and  prophaned  by  Antiochus  Epi- 
phanes.  It  was  observed  on  25th  of  the 
month  Cisleu,  and  was  continued  eight  days. 
On  the  first  day  they  light  one  lamp,  on  die 
second,  two,  and  so  on  to  the  eighth  day, 
when  they  light  eight  lamps.  The  occasion 
of  this  is  as  follows.  The  enemies  having 
prophaned  the  city  and  temple,  were  driven 
out  by  Jonathan  and  his  sons.  Upon  his 
return,  he  found  there  was  not  oil  enough 
leA;  to  light  the  lamps  of  the  great  branch 
for  more  than  one  night,  but  by  a  miracle 
it  lasted  eight.** — ^Brouohtom. 


St.  Peter  ad  Vincula.— Lammas  Day.^ 

"  The  first  of  August  was  celebrated  in 
honour  of  Augustus,  who  on  that  day  had 
been  saluted  with  that  name,  and  so  given 
occasion  to  change  the  name  of  the  month 
from  Sextilis  to  August.  Eudoxia,  wife  of 
Theodosius,  having  made  a  journey  to  Je- 
rusalem, was  there  presented  with  the  fet- 
ters which  St.  Peter  had  been  loaded  with 
in  prison.  These  she  presented  to  the  Pope, 
who  afterwards  laid  them  up  in  a  church 
built  by  Theodosius  to  the  honour  of  St. 
Peter.  She  also  obtained  a  decree  of  her 
husband,  that  the  first  of  August  should  be 
kept  holy  in  remembrance  of  St.  Peter's 
bonds,  thinking  it  unreasonable  that  a  hea- 
then emperor  should  have  a  holy  day.** — 
Ibid. 

Certainly  July  and  August  ought  to  be 
christened. 

*  This  day  has  another  remarkable  name,  the 
GuLE  of  August.  See  Spblman  in  v. — J.  W.  W. 


i 


122 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


^*  This  daj  is  called  Lammas  daj,  from  a 
conceit  the  people  had  that  St.  Peter  was 
patron  of  the  lambs,  because  our  Saviour 
said  to  him,  '  Feed  my  lambs.*  Upon  which 
account  they  thought  the  mass  of  this  day 
very  beneficial  to  make  their  lambs  thrive.** 
—Ibid. 


Egregori  of  the  Book  of  Enoch, 

*'  Thb  Egregori,  or  watching  angels,  to 
the  number  of  200,  having  fallen  in  love 
with  the  daughters  of  men,  on  account  of 
their  excellent  beauty,  descended  on  the 
top  of  mount  Hermon.^  Their  princes  were 
twenty,  Semiazas  the  chief.  In  the  year  of 
the  world  170,  they  took  themselves  wives, 
and  conmiitted  leudness  with  them  till  the 
flood,  in  which  time  the  women  bore  to 
them  three  generations.  The  first  was  the 
giants ;  they  begat  the  Nephilim,  they  the 
Eliud.  Their  chief  taught  them  the  force 
of  poisonous  roots  and  herbs.  Azalzel,  the 
art  of  working  metals  and  precious  stones, 
also  of  making  swords,  and  other  instru- 
ments of  war.  Pharmarus,  charms  and  in- 
cantations. Chobabiel  (astrology,  Araciel), 
the  signs  of  the  earth.  Sampsich,  those  of 
the  sun.  Sariel,  those  of  the  moon;  and  in 
like  manner  each  of  them  revealed  certain 
secrets  to  their  wives  and  children.  But 
impiety  and  all  manner  of  corruption  in- 
creasing upon  the  earth,  the  four  archangels, 
by  the  command  of  God,  bound  the  princes 
of  those  transgressors,  and  threw  them  into 
the  abyss,  there  to  remain  till  the  day  of 
j  udgemen  t.** — Ibid. 

*^  Tub  angel  Raphael  was  commissioned 
to  heal  the  earth  of  the  wounds  caused  by 
the  secrets  these  Egregori  had  revealed. 
GabriePs  charge  was,  to  destroy  the  giants. 
Michael  was  commanded  to  bind  Semiazas 
and  his  companions,  and  to  lead  them  to  the 
uttermost  parts  of  the  earth,  where  they 
were  to  be  confined  for  seventy  generations, 

*  See  Abp.  Lawrence's  edit,  of  the  Book  of 
Enoch,  vii.  7.  p.  6  —J.  W.  W. 


till  the  consummation  of  all  things,  when 
they  were  to  be  thrown  into  the  gulph  of 
fire.  Uriel  was  sent  to  Noah,  to  warn  and 
instruct  him.** — ^Ibid. 


River  Dee,  and  Ceirioc. 

"  Deb,  a  river  deep  and  swift ; 
It  seems  as  it  would  rive  the  rocks  alone. 
Or  undermine  with  force  the  craggie  clift 
To  Chester  runs  this  river  all  along, 
With  gushing  streame  and  roring  water 

strong; 
On  both  the  sides  are  bankes  and  hilles  good 

store. 
And  mightie  stones  that  makes  the  river  rore. 
It  flowes  with  winde,  although  no  raine  there 

bee, 

And  swelles  like  sea  with  waves  and  foam- 
ing flood; 
A  wonder  sure,  to  see  this  river  Dee 
With  winde  alone  to  waxe  so  wyld  and  wood, 
Make  such  a  sturre  as  water  would  be  mad, 
And  shewe  such  life  as  though  some  spreete 

it  had. 
A  cause  there  is,  a  nature  for  the  same, 
To  bring  this  flood  in  such  straunge  case 

and  frame.' 
And  still  on  rocke  the  water  runnes,  you  see, 
A  wondrous  way,  a  thing  full  rare  and 

straunge, 
That  rocke  cannot  the  course  of  water 

chaunge. 
For  in  the  streame,  huge  stones  and  rocks 

remayne, 
That  backward  might  the  flood  of  force  con- 

strayne.'* 
Chubchtabd*s  Worthines  of  Wales. 

He  calls  Ceirioc,  Keeryock. 

"  A  raging  brooke  when  rayne  or  snowe  is 
great.** 

*  "  There  is  a  poolo  in  Meryonetbsbiere  of  3 
myle  long,  rageth  so  by  storm  that  it.  makes 
this  river  flowe." 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


123 


Coracles. 

The  Coracles  are  still  used  in  some  parts 
of  Wales.*  "  They  are  generally  5^  feet 
long,  and  4  broad ;  their  bottom  is  a  little 
rounded,  and  their  shape  nearly  oval.  These 
,  boats  are  ribbed  with  light  laths,  or  split 
'  twigs,  in  the  manner  of  basket  work,  and 
tre  covered  with  a  raw  hide,  or  strong  can- 
Tss,  pitched  in  such  a  mode  as  to  prevent 
their  leaking.  A  seat  crosses  just  above 
the  centre,  towards  the  broader  end.  They 
seldom  weigh  more  than  between  20  and 
30  pounds.  The  men  paddle  them  with  one 
hand,  while  they  fish  with  the  other;  and 
when  their  work  is  completed,  they  throw 
the  coracles  over  their  shoulders,  and  with- 
out difficulty  return  with  them  home. 

^  Riding  through  Abergwilly,  we  saw  se- 
yend  of  these  phcenomena  resting  with  their 
bottoms  upwards,  against  the  houses,  and 
res^nbling  the  shells  of  so  many  enormous 
turtles ;  and  indeed  a  traveller  at  the  first 
▼lew  of  a  coracle  on  the  shoulders  of  a 
fisherman,  might  fancy  he  saw  a  tortoise 
walking  on  his  hinder  legs.** — Wtndham. 


^WW^S/WSM^/WV«/>^«V\^ 


Old  Woman  of  Berkeley.^ 

**▲.!>.  852.  Circa  dies  istos,  mulier  quse- 
dam  malefica,  in  villa  quae  Berkeleia  dici- 
tor,  degens,  guise  amatrix  ac  petulantise, 
flagitiis  modum  usque  in  senium  &  auguriis 
Don  ponens,  usque  ad  mortem  impudica 
permansit.  Hsc  die  quadam  cum  sederet 
ad  pnmdium,  comicula  quam  pro  delitiis 


'  They  are  sUU  commonly  used  on  the  Severn 
tod  the  Wye.  As  a  b<»y  I  could  manage  one 
dexterously  in  fishing,  and  have  often  carried 
it  across  my  shoulders.  Herodotus  first  men- 
tions them,  see  Clio.  c.  194.  And  it  is  carious 
that  Captain  Keppel  ascended  the  Euphrates  in 
jut  such  another  conveyance  :  See  Travels, 
vol  i.  p.  192.  This  note  is  used  up  in  Madoc 
in  Wales,  xiii.  p.  848.— J.  W.  W. 

'  I  do  not  feel  Justified  in  omitting  such  ex- 
tracts as  this,  though  used  up,  like  others,  in 
Southxt's  works.     See  the  ballad,  p.  454. 

J.  W.  W. 


,  pascebat,  neacio  quid  garrire  coepit.  Quo 
audito,  mulieris  cultellus  de  manu  excidit, 
simul  &  facies  pallescere  coepit,  &  emisso 
rugitu,  Hodi^  inquit,  accipiam  grande  in- 
commodum,  hodi^;  ad  sulcum  idtimum, 
meum  pervenit  aratrum.  Quo  dicto,  nun- 
cius  doloris  intravit.  Muliere  verb  percunc- 
tata  ad  quid  veniret,  Afiero,  inquit,  tibi  filii 
till  obitum,  &  totius  familise  ejus  ex  subita 
ruina  interitum.  Hoc  quoque  dolore  mulier 
permota,  lecto  protinus  decubuit,  graviter 
infirmata.  Sentiensq;  morbum  subrepere 
ad  vitalia,  liberos  quos  habuit  superstites, 
monachum  videlicet  &  monacham  per  Epis- 
tolam  invitavit.  Advenientes  autem  voce 
singultiente  alloquitur.  Ego,  inquit,  o  pueri, ' 
meo  miserabili  fato  dsemoniacis  semper  ar- 
tibus  inservivi.  Ego  omnium  vitiorum  sen- 
tina,  ego  illecebrarum  omnium  fui  magistra. 
Erat  tamen  mihi  inter  hssc  mala,  spes  ves- 
trse  religionis,  quae  meam  solidaret  animam 
desperatam,  vos  expectabam  propugnatores 
contra  dsemones,  tutores  contra  ssevissimos 
hostes.  Nunc  igitur  quoniam  ad  finem  vitsB 
perveni,  rogo  vos  per  materna  ubera  ut  mea 
tentetis  alleviare  tormenta.  Insuite  me  de- 
functam  corio  cervino,  ac  deinde  in  sarco- 
phago  lapideo  supponite,  operculumque  fer- 
ro  &  plumbo  constringite,acdemum  lapidem 
tribus  cathenis  ferreis  &  fortissimis  circun- 
dantes,  clericos  quinquaginta  psalmorum 
^cantores,  &  tot  per  tres  dies  presbyteros 
missarum  celebratores  applicate,  qui  feroces 
lenigent  adversariorum  incursus.  Ita  si  tri- 
bus noctibus  secura  jacuero  quarto  die  me 
infodite  humo.  Factumq;  est  ut  praeceperat 
illis.  Sed,  proh  dolor !  nil  preces,  nil  lacry- 
msB  nil  demimi  valuere  cathense.  Primis 
enim  duabus  noctibus,  cum  chori  psallen- 
tium  corpori  assistebant,  advenientes  dse- 
mones  ostium  Ecclesise  confregerunt  ingenti 
obice  clausum,  extremasq;  cathenas  negotio 
levi  dirumpunt.  Media  autem,  quae  fortior 
erat,  illibata  manebat.  Terti&  autem  nocte, 
circa  gallicinium,  strepitu  hostium  adven- 
tantium,  omne  monasterium  visum  est  It 
fiindamento  moveri.  Unus  ergo  dtemonum 
&  vultu  cseteris  terribilior,  &  staturft  emi- 
nentior,  januas  Ecclesise  impetu  violento 


124 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


concussas  in  fragmeDta  dejecit.  Direxerunt 
clerici  com  laicis,  metu  steterunt  omnium 
capilli  &  psalmorum  concentus  defecit.  Dae- 
mon ergo  gestu  ut  videbatur  arroganti  ad 
sepulchrum  accedens,  &  nomen  mulieris 
modicum  ingeminans,  surgere  imperavit. 
Qud  respondente,  quod  nequiret  pro  vincu- 
lis,  Jam  malo  tuo,  inquit,  solveris;  &  pro- 
tinus  cathenam  quae  cseterorum  ferociam 
dsemonum  deluserat,  velut  stuppeum  vin- 
culum rumpebat.  Operculum  etiam  sepul- 
chri  pede  depellens,  mulierem  palam  omni- 
bus ab  ecclesia  extraxit,  ubi  pro  foribus 
niger  equus  superb^  hinniens  videbatur, 
uncis  ferreis,  &  clavis  undique  confixus, 
super  quem  misera  mulier  projecta,  ab  ocu- 
lis  assistentium  evanuit.  Audiebantur  ta- 
men  clamores  per  quatuor  fere  miliaria  hor- 
ribiles  auxilium  postulantes.  Ista  itaq;  qu«B 
retuli  incredibilia  non  erunt,  si  legatur  beati 
Gregorii  dialogus,  in  quo  refert,  hominem 
in  ecclesi&  sepultam  k  dsemonibus  foras  ejec- 
tum.  Et  apud  Francos  Carolus  Martellus 
insignis  vir  fortitudinis,  qui  Saracenos  Gal- 
lias  ingressos,  Hispaniam  redire  compulit, 
exactis  vitae  suae  diebus,  in  Ecclesia  beati 
Dionjsii  legitur  fuisse  sepultus.  Sed  quia 
patrimonia,  cum  decimis  omnium  fere  Ec- 
clesiarum  Galliie,  pro  stipendio  commilito- 
num  suorum  mutilaverat,  miserabiliter  a 
malignis  spiritibus  de  sepulchro  corporaliter 
avulsus,  usque  in  hodiernum  diem  nusquam 
comparuit." — Floret  Uistoriarumy  by  Mat- 
thew OF  Westmiksteb. 

The  story  of  Guntram'  is  in  this  book, 
and  it  adds,  that  he  applied  the  treasures 
so  found  to  the  uses  of  the  Church. 

St  Patrick's  Purgatory.^ 

"  Miles  quidem  Hoenus  nomine  qui  mul- 
tis  annis  sub  Rege  Stephano  militaverat, 

»  See  the  story  Quoted  in  note  to  "  The  Vi- 
sion of  the  Maid  of  Orleans,"  p.  76. 

J.  W.  W. 

•  See  ballad,  "  St.  Patrick's  Purgatory,"  p. 
425,  where,  in  **  Sir  Owen,"  the  reader  will  easily 
recognise  "  Hoenus."— J.  W.  W. 


licenti&  It  rege  impetrati,  profectus  est  in 
Hyberniam  ad  natale  solum,  ut  parentes  vi- 
sitaret.   Qui  cum  aliquandiu  in  regione  ilia 
demoratus  fuisset,  cepit  ad  mentem  redu- 
cere  vitam  suam  adeb  flagitiosam ;  quod  ab 
ipsis  cunabulis,  incendiis  semper  vacaverat 
&  rapinis,  &  quod  magis  dolebat,  se  eccled- 
arum  fuisse  violatorem,  &  rerum  ecclesias- 
ticarum  invasorem,  praeter  multa  enormia, 
quae  intrinsecus  latebant  peccata.     Miles 
igitur  pcenitentia  ductus  ad  episcopum  quen- 
dam  iUius  regionis  accessit ;   cui  cum  pec- 
cata sua  devotus  per  ordinem  detulisset,  in- 
crepavit  eum  graviter  Episcopus,  asserens 
ilium  nimis  divinam  clementiam  offendisse ; 
unde  miles  multum  contristatus,  Deo  con- 
dignam  facere  poenitentiam  cogitavit.   Cum 
autem  Ep.  ut  justum  sibi  videbatur,  vellet 
ei  injungere,  poenitentiam,  miles  respondit, 
Dum  igitur  ut  asseris,  factorem  meum  tarn 
graviter  ofiendi,  poenitentiam  assumam.  Om- 
nibus poenitentiis  graviorem,  &  ut  peccato- 
rum  meorum  merear  remissionem  accipere, 
Purgatorium  S.  Patricii  volo  intrare.    De 
hoc  quoq;  Purgatorio  &  ejus  origine  quod 
sequitur  tradunt  veteres  historiae  Hyber- 
nenses. 

**  Magnus  Patricius  dum  in  Hybemii 
verbum  Dei  praedicaret,  &  multis  ibi  mira- 
culorum  signis  choruscaret,  bestiales  illius 
patrias  homines,  terrore  infemalium  tor- 
mentorum^  ac  Paradysi  amore  gaudiorum, 
It  mortuis  studuit  revocare.  Sed  ipsi  piano 
sermone  affirmabant,  se  non  conversuros  ad 
Christum,  nisi  oculat&  fide  prius  conspice- 
rent  quae  promisit.  Unde  dum  B.  P.  pro 
salute  populi  in  jejuniis,  vigiliis  &  orationi- 
bus  positus,  Dominum  precaretur  propen- 
sius,  pius  Dei  filius  apparens  ei,  duxit  eum 
in  locum  desertum,  &  ostendit  illi  speluncam 
rotundam  &  obscuram  intrinsecus,  &  dixit, 
Quisquis  veraciter  poenitens  &  in  fide  cod- 
stans,  hanc  speluncam  ingressus  fuerit,  spa- 
tio  unius  diei  ac  noctis  ab  omnibus  m  e& 
purgabitur  peccatis,  quibus  in  tot&  viti  sa& 
Deum  offendit;  atq;  eam  ingrediens,  non 
solum  tormenta  malorum,  sed  si  in  Dei  di- 
lectione  constanter  perseveraverit,  videbit 
&  gaudia  beatorum.     Sic  Domino  dispa- 


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125 


rente  S.P.  tam  pro  domini  apparitione  quam 
pro  speluncse  ostensione  Ifetus,  sperabat  mi- 
serum  Hybemue  populum  se  ad  fidem  Ca- 
tholicam  conversurum ;  et  in  loco  illo  con* 
festim  oratorium  con8truen8,speluncam  quae 
in  cemiterio  est,  ante  frontem  eccleflisB  cir- 
cumdedit,  &  januam  cum  seris  apposuit,  ne 
quia  earn  sine  ejus  licenti&  introiret.  Ca* 
nonicos  regulares  loco  illo  introduxit,  & 
Priori  ecclesiai  claTem  custodiendam  com- 
miait,  statuens  ut  quicunq;  Purgatorium  in- 
^edi  Toluerit,  ab  episcopo  loci  licentiam 
habeat,  &  cum  literis  episcopi  accedat  ad 
Priorem,  &  ab  eo  instructus  Purg.  intret. 
Multi  aatem  in  diebus  Patricii  Purg.  intra- 
verunt,  qui  rcversi,  testati  sunt  se  tormenta 
graria  pertulisse,  &  gaudia  magna  ibidem 
k  inenarrabilia  conspexisse. 

**Milite  itaq;  supradicto,  angnstios^  nimis 
ab  episcopo  licentiam  postulante  Purg.  ex- 
periendi,  cum  ilium  cognovisset  £p.  inflexi- 
bilem,  tradidit  ei  literas  suas  ad  Priorem 
loci,  mandans  ut  cum  illo  ageret,  sicut  fieri 
•olet  cum  illis  qui  purgatorium  ingredi  de- 
poscunt.  Prior  autem  visis  literis,  militem 
b  ecclesiam  perduxit,  ubi  per  dies  quinde- 
cim  orationibus  devotus  instabat ;  &  illis  sic 
diebus  elapsis,  man^  Miss&  ^  Priore  cele- 
brate, sacHl  communione  militem  commu- 
aivit,  adductumque  ad  speluncse  introitum, 
iqa4  eum  benedictft  aspersit,  &  aperto  ostio 
dixit,  Ecce  nunc  intrabis  in  nomine  Jesu 
Christ],  &  per  concavitatem  speluncce  tam 
diu  ambulabis,  donee  in  campum  exiens,  a- 
viam^  inyenies  artificiosissim^  fabricatam, 
quam  cum  ingressus  fueris,  statim  ex  parte 
Dei  nuntios  habebis,  qui  tibi  pi^  quod  facies 
mdicabunt.  Vir  autem  ille  virilem  gerens 
aoimum,  ad  pugnam  demonum  audacter 
prompit,  atq;  omnium  se  orationibus  com- 
mendans,  frontem  suam  vivificse  Crucis  signo 
moniyit,  &  intrepidus  portam  iotravit;  & 
oetio  post  eum  obserato,  Prior  cum  proces- 
none  ecclesiam  repetivit. 

^  Miles  itaq;  per  speluncam  audacter  pro- 


■  Neither  Spelmak  nor  Du  Canob  explain 
the  word,  nor  am  I  sure  that  they  refer  to  it  in 
the  tense  it  is  here  used.    See  in  t. — J.  W.  W. 


grediens,  lumen  paulatim  totius  claritatis 
amisit,  sed  tandem  paryo  lumine  apparente 
ad  campum  prsedictum  pervenit  &  aulam. 
Lux  ibi  non  erat,  nisi  qualis  in  vesperft  hie 
habetur.  Aula  parietes  non  habebat,  sed 
columnis  erat  per  gjrum  subnixa,  ut  claus- 
trum  solet  monachorum:  ingressusq;  cam  & 
intus  seden8,oculos  studios^  hue  illucq;  con- 
vertit,  admirans  illius  pulchritudinem  & 
structuram.  Ubi  cum  paululum  solus  se- 
disset,  ecce  quindecim  yiri  quasi  religiosi  & 
nuper  rasi,  albisq;  yestibus  induti,  r^iam 
intrayerunt,  &  salutantes  eum  in  nomine 
Dei  consederunt.  Tunc  aliis  tacentibus, 
unus  loquebatur  cum  ipso,  dicens,  Benedic- 
tus  sit  Deus  Omnip.  qui  bonum  tibi  propo- 
situm  inspirayit,  ut  pro  peccatis  tuis  Purg. 
hoc  intrares.  sed  nisi  te  yiriliter  habeas,  cor- 
pore  &  anim&  simul  peribis.  Mox  enim,  ut 
banc  domum  fuerimus  egressi,  multitudo 
aderit  spirituum  immundorum,  qui  tibi  gra- 
yia  inferentes  tormenta,  minabuntur  inferre 
grayiora.  Promittent  se  ducturos  te  ad  por- 
tam qu&  intrasti,  si  te  decipere  possint  ut 
reyertaris :  sed  si  tormentorum  afflictione 
yictus,  yel  minis  territus,  seu  promissione 
deceptus,  assensum  eis  prsebueris,  in  cor- 
pore  pariter  &  anim&  peribis.  Si  yero  fortis 
in  fide,  spem  totam  in  Domino  posueris,  ut 
nee  tormentis  nee  minis,  nee  promissionibus 
eorum  adquiey  eris,  sed  corde  integro  eos  con- 
tempseris,  ab  omnibus  purgaberis  delictis,  & 
tormenta  malorum  yidebis,  &  requiem  simi- 
liter bonorum.  Et  quotiescunq;  te  cruciaye- 
rint  inyoca  Dom.  Jes.  Christum,  &  per  invo- 
cationem  hujus  nominis  statim  liberaberis  k 
quocunq;  tormento,  in  quo  eris,  tecum  hie 
amplius  esse  non  possumus  sed  Deo  te  Om- 
nipotent! conunendamus. 

^*  Miles  itaq;  Ik  yiris  solus  relictus  ad  no- 
yi  generis  militiam  se  instruere  csepit.  cumq; 
intrepidus  pugnam  dsBmonum  expectaret, 
subito  coepit  circa  domum  tumultus  audire, 
ac  si  omnes  homines  qui  in  mundo  simt,  ciun 
animalibus  ac  bestiis  strepuissent,  &  post  hor- 
ridum  sonum  sequitur  terribilior  yisus  dae- 
monum;  cccpit  enim  undiq;  demonum  defor- 
mium  innumera  multitudo  in  aulam  irruere, 
&  militem  deridendo  salutare.    Alii  homi- 


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nes,  inquiunt,  qui  nobis  serviunt,  non  nisi 
post  mortem  ad  nos  veniunt,  sed  tu  nostram 
Bocietatem,  cui  studios^  deservisti,  in  tan  turn 
honorare  desideras,  quod  vivens  corpus  tuum 
decemis  &  animam  commendare.  Hue  ve- 
nisti  ut  pro  peecatis  tormenta  sustineres  ? 
habebis  nobiscum  pressuras  &  dolores.  Ye- 
runtamen  pro  eo  quod  nobis  curios^  minis- 
tr&sti,  si  reverti  volueris  ad  portam  quam 
intrasti,  te  ducemus  illssum,  ut  gaudiens 
in  mundo  vivas  &  omne  quod  eorpori  tuo 
suave  est,  poenitus  non  amittas.  Han:  ideo 
dsmones  dixerunt  quia  terrore  eum  &  blan- 
ditiis  decipere  voluerunt.  Sed  miles  Christi, 
nee  terrore  concutitur  nee  blandimento  se- 
ducitur,  dum  sequo  animo  ita  eos  contemp- 
sit,  quod  tacit^  sedens  nee  unum  verbum 
respondit.  At  dsemones  se  contemni  in- 
dignantes,  rogum  in  aul&  ingentis  incendii 
succenderunt,et  manus  militis  pedesq;  colli- 
gantes,  in  ignem  eum  projecerunt,  uncis  fer- 
reis  hue  illucq;  per  incendium  detrahentes: 
&  ille  in  ignem  missus  cum  prius  grave  tor- 
mentum  sensisset,  nomen  J.  Christi  invo- 
cavit  dicens  J.Chsiste  misbresb  mbi.  Ad 
hoc  quoque  nomen  incendium  rogi  ita  ex- 
tinctum  est,  ut  nee  totius  rogi  scintilla  unica 
appareret;  quod  cemens  miles  in  animo  pro- 
posuit  ut  eos  de  caetero  non  formidaret,  quos 
invocato  Christi  auxilio  vinci  conspexit. 

*^  Relinquentes  verb  aulam  dsemones,  mi- 
litem  diutius  per  vastam  regionem  quandam 
detraxerunt.  Nigra  erat  terra,  &  regio  te- 
nebrosa.  Traxerunt  eum  dsemones  illuc 
recto  tramite,  quo  sol  oritur  in  sstate,  quo 
convertent-es  coepit  miles  quasi  vulgi  totius 
orbis  miseros  ejulatos  audire.  Tandem  'k  dsB- 
monibus  tractus,  in  campum  pervenit  Ion- 
gum  &  latum,  miseriis  ac  dolore  perplenum, 
cujus  longitudo  non  potuit  transvideri.  Cam- 
pus ille  hominibus  utriusq;  sexiis  &  setatb 
diversse,  nudis  &  in  terr&  jacentibus  ventri- 
bus  deorsum  versis,  plenus  erat,  quorum  cor- 
pora simul  &  membra  clavis  ferreis  &  igni- 
tis  in  terram  usque  transfixis,  miserabiliter 
torquebantur.  Aliquando  autem  prse  dolo- 
ris  angustii  terram  comedebant,  clamantes 
&  ejulantes,  Parce,  parce.  Miserere,  misere- 
re ;  cum  qui  sui  miseretur  poenitus  non  ad- 


esset.  Dsemones  etiam  super  miseros  cur- 
rentes,  gravibus  eos  flagris  csedebant,  &  mi- 
liti  dicebant,  Haec  tormenta  quae  vidcs  sen* 
tiendo  patieris,  nisi  nobis  adquiescas,  ut  ad 
portam  per  quam  in tr&sti,  revertaris,  ad  quam 
si  volueris,  pacific^  deduceris.  Sed  ille  ad 
mentem  revocans  qualiter  ipsum  Deus  alibi 
liberavit,  credere  eis  omninb  contempsit 
Tunc  dsemones  in  terram  eum  prostemen- 
tes,  ad  modum  aliorum  coufigere  conati  sunt, 
sed  invocato  n.  J.  Christi,  nihil  amplius  in 
loco  illo,  illi  facere  potuerunt.  In  alium 
campum  militem  trahentes  dsemones,  banc 
ibidifierentiam  conspexit,  quod  sicut  in  cam- 
po  superiori,  homines  afflicti  ventres  habue- 
runt  deorsum  versos,  ita  in  hoc  campo  dor- 
sa  solo  hsBrebant.  Dracones  autem  ignei 
super  quosdam  sedent«s  &  dentibus  eos  ig- 
neis  corrodentes  modo  miserabili  affligebant; 
aliorum  quoq;  colla,  brachia  &  corpora  ser- 
pentes  igniti  circumcingentes,  deformibos 
rostris  suis,  eorum  corda  extrahere  cona- 
bantur.  Dsemones  prseterea  super  singulos 
cursitantes  &  flagris  asperrimis  caedentes, 
miseros  graviter  cruciabant,  nee  unquam  I 
fletu  &  ejulatu  afflicti  cessabant.  Inde  tra- 
hentes militem  dsemones  in  alium  poenalem 
campum,  invenit  ibi  tantam  utriusq;  sexib  & 
setatis  diversse  multitudinem,  ut  totius  orbb 
plenitudinem  vincere  crederetur.  Alii  ibi 
pendebant  in  flammis  sulphureis,  igneis  ca- 
thenis  per  pedes  &  tibias  immissis,  &  capiti- 
bus  ad  ima  demissis,  alii  per  manus  &  bra- 
chia, alii  per  capillos  &  capita,  alii  pendebant 
in  flammis  igneis  in  uncis  ferreis  &  ignitis  per 
oculos  &  nares,  alii  per  aures  &  fauces,  alii 
per  testiculos  &  mamillas;  nee  inter  fletus 
mberos  universorum  &  ejulatus  flagella  de- 
monum  defuerunt.  Cumq;  militem  hie  sicnt 
in  aliis  poenis  inimici  torquere  voluissent,  no- 
men Christi  invocavit  &  illaesus  evasit. 

*'Ab  illo  poenali  loco,  dsemones  militem  im- 
pellentes  venerunt  ad  rotam  quandam  fer. 
&  ig.  cujus  radii  &  canthi  uncis  fer.  &  ig- 
erant  undiq;  circumfixi :  in  quibus  homines 
pendentes,  It  flanmia  tetri  sulphureiq;  in- 
cendii, quae  a  terra  surgebat,  graviter  ure- 
bantur.  Hanc  enim  rotam  dae.  tanUl  agilita- 
te  impingebant  vectibus  quibusdam  ferreis, 


:][aammibtis,  acdiversis  repletam  bul- 
ls metallis,  homines  conditionis  &  u- 
setatis  continentem,  quorum  quidam 
quidam  usq;  supercilia  &  oculos,  alii 
id  labia  &  colla,  alii  ad  pectus  usq;  & 
,  alii  ad  genua  usq;  &  crura,  alii  ma- 
lam  vel  pedem,  alii  ambas  manus  & 
n  caldariis  tenebant,  &  omnes  prss 
angusti&  vociferabant  ac  miserabili- 
iabant,  &  cum  coepissent  dsem.  mili- 
Q  aliis  submergere,liberatus  est  Chris- 
ne  invocato. 

de  dsem.  militem  in  montemexcelsum 
ntes,  ostenderunt  ei  utriusq;  sexils 
8  &  8Btatb  diverssB  multitudinem  co- 
,  qui  omnes  nudi  sedebant,  &  super 
pedum  curvati,  &  ad  aquilonem  con- 
[uasi  mortem  perterriti  expect-abant; 
nibitb  ventus  turbinis  vchementis,  ab 
le  veniens,  ipsos  onmes  &  cum  eis  mi- 
j-ripuit,  &  in  aliam  mentis  partem, 
len  frigidum  &  foetidum,  flentes  & 
antes  projecit,  &  cum  de  aqu&  fri- 
D&  surgere  conarentur,  Dsm.  super 
cnrrentes,in  ipso  omnes  flumine  sub- 
nnt,  at  miles  Christi  nomen  invoca- 
onfestim  in  alift  se  rip&  inyenit.  Tunc 
Uum  contra  austrum  trahentes  &  os- 
tes  flammam  teterrimam  &  foetore  sul- 
plenam,  de  puteo  quodam  ascenden- 


tarn  angustiam  sensit  &  miseriam,  ut  diu  ob- 
litus  sit  sui  adjutoris.  sed  Deo  tandem  ilium 
respiciente,  nomen  J.  Christi  inyocavit  & 
protinus  vis  flammse  eum  in  aerem  sursum 
leyavit,  ubi  in  descensione  putei  aliquamdiu 
attonitus  stetit.  Sed  ecce  novi  d».  ex  ore 
put«i  prorumpentes,  dixerunt,  £t  tu  qui  hie 
stas,  cui  socii  nostri,  dixerunt  hunc  esse  in- 
femum,  non  ita  fore  scias  ;  nam  consuetu- 
dinis  nostrsB  est  semper  mentiri,  ut  quos  de- 
cipere  non  possumus  per  verum,  decipiamus 
per  falsum,  hie  non  est  infernus,  sed  nunc 
te  ad  infernum  ducimus. 

'*  Trahentes  igitur  militem  hostes  novi, 
cum  tumultu  horrisono  ad  flumen  quoddam 
foetidum,  latissimum,  ac  totum  flamm&  sul- 
phureo  incendio  coopertum  dsemonumq; 
multitudine  repletum,  dtcentium  ei,  quod 
sub  flumine  illo  esset  infernus.  Pons  verb 
protendebatur  ultra  fiumen,  in  quo  tria  qua- 
si impossibilia  videbantur  :  unum  quod  ita 
lubricus  erat  ut  etiam  si  latus  esset,  nullus 
vel  yix  aliquis,  in  eo  pedem  figere  posset, 
aliud  quod  adeo  strictus  erat,  quod  nullus 
in  eo  stare  vel  ambulare  Talebat:  tertium 
quod  ita  altus  est  &  k  flumine  remotus,  quod 
horrendum  erat  deorsum  aspicere.  Oportet 
te  inquiunt  ds.  super  pontem  hunc  ambu- 
lare, &  ventus  ille  qui  projecit  alias,  te  flu- 
men  projiciet  in  istud,  &  confestim  It  sociis 


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incedere,  Tocibus  sub  prophanis  ita  horrid^ 
aerem  concusserunt,  quod  stridore  illo  ma- 
gis  erat  attonitus  quam  illatione  tormento- 
rum  quae  prius  fuerat  a  dsemonibus  perpes- 
8us.  Alii  hostes,  qui  sub  ponte  in  flumine 
eraut,  uncos  suos  ferreos  &  ignitos  projece- 
runt  ac)  ilium,  sed  militem  tangere  nequi- 
verunt.  &  sic  demum  secur^  processit  quia 
nihil  sibi  contrarium  invenit. 

"  Miles  itaq;  invictus  jam  liber  factus  ^ 
vexatione  Spirituum  immundorum,  vidit 
ante  se  murum  altum  &  in  aerem  evectum, 
mirabilis  &  structurse  impreciabilis,  in  quo 
portam  unam,  sed  tamen  clausam  cemebat. 
Hsec  metallis  ac  pretiosis  ornata  lapidibus 
splendore  admirabili  radiabat.  Ad  quam 
cum  miles  appropinquaret,  contra  ipsum  a- 
qusB  tantse  suavitatis  odor  ei  occurrens  ex- 
ivit,  ut  viribus  corporis  resumptis,  tormcnta 
quae  pertulerat  sibi  in  refrigerium  verteren- 
tur.  Egressa  est  autem  contra  eum  veni- 
entem,  cum  crucibus,  cereis/  &  vexillis,  ac 
velut  palmarum  aurearum  ramis,  tam  ordi- 
nata  processio,  quod  nunquam  t4Jis  visa  fu- 
erat in  hoc  mundo.  Sequebantur  prsedicta 
de  omnibus  ordinibus,  utriusq;  sex{Ls  ho- 
mines, quorum  archiepiscopi  alii,  &  episcopi 
&  abbat^s,  monachi  &  presbyteri,  ac  singu- 
lorum  ecclesiae  graduum  ministri,  qui  omnes 
sacris  vcstibus,  &  suis  ordinibus  congruis 
induti,  militem  cum  jucundd  veneratione 
susceperunt,  atq;  cum  concentu  harmo- 
nise inauditse  infra  portam  secum  feliciter 
conduxerunt.  Finite  itaq;  concentu  duo 
archiepiscopi  cum  eo  loquentes  benedixe- 
runt  Deum,  qui  tant&  constantly  in  tormen- 
tis  per  qusB  transiit  &  quse  pertulit,  ejus 
animam  confirmavit.  Illis  igitur  militem  per 
patriam  conducentibus,  invenerunt  &  illi  os- 
tenderunt  prata  amoenissima,  diversis  flori- 
bus,  fructibusq;  &  herbarum  arborumq; 
multiformium  decorata,  ex  quorum  suavi- 
tatis  odore,  ut  sibi  visum  est  vivere  potuis- 
set.  Nox  illam  aliquando  non  obnubulat, 
quia  semper  coelesti  qu&dam  claritate  &  in- 
efiabili  splendore  coruscat.  Tantam  ibi  ho- 


*  See  Dv  Canoe,  under  Cereus  Pauhalit, 

J.  W.  W. 


minum  utriusque  sexils  vidit  muUitudinem, 
quantam  residuum  saecidi  credidit  continerc 
non  posse.  Chori  choris  per  loca  astiterunt 
ac  dulcis  harmonise  concentu,  Creatorem  om- 
nium laudaverunt.  Alii  quasi  reges  coron& 
incedebant.  Alii  amictu  aureo  induti  vide- 
bantur,  nonnulli  variis  indumentis  erant 
decorati,  juxta  quod  unusquisq;  in  ssecolo 
utcbatur.  Singuli  de  propria  felicitate  gau- 
debant,  singuli  de  aliorum  liberatione  & 
gaudio  exultebant.  Omnes  qui  militem  in- 
tuebantur,  de  ejus  adventu  Dominum  bene- 
dicebant,  &  de  ejus  ereptione  k  mortois 
congaudebant.  Non  estum  non  irigus  ibi 
aliquis  sentiebat,  nee  quicqnam  quod  offen- 
dere  posset  vel  nocere,  videbat. 

**  Tunc  sancti  pontifices  qui  militi  patriaro 
tam  prseclaram  ostenderant,  dixerunt  ei, 
Quoniam  misericordid  Dei  ad  nos  iUsBsus 
pervenisti,  ratioiiem  k  nobis  audire  debes, 
de  singulis  quse  vidisti.  Fatria  hsec  terres- 
tris  est  Paradisus :  unde  pro  peccatis  suis 
ejectus  est  homo  primus,  hinc  verb  expul- 
sus  in  miseriam  iUam  projectus  est  in  qtt& 
homines  moriuntiir,  ex  cujus  came  nos 
omnes  propagati,  et  in  peccato  originali 
omnes  nati,  per  fidem  Dni.  nst.  J.  Christi, 
quam  in  baptismat^  suscepimus,  ad  hunc 
Paradysum  reversi  sumus,  &  quoniam  post 
fidei  susceptionem,  innumeris  actualibus 
sumus  implicati  peccatis,  non  nisi  per  pur- 
gationem  peccatorum  &  afflictionem  pcent- 
rum  hue  potuimus  pervenire.  Poenitentiam 
enim  quam  ante  mortem  vel  morientes  sus- 
cepimus, &  in  sseculo  non  peregimus,  in  locis 
quae  vidisti  poenalibus,  juxta  modum  & 
quantitatem  culparum  per  tormenta  restant 
luenda.  Omnes  enim  qui  hie  sumus,  in 
locis  illis  poenalibus  fuimus  pro  peccatis,  & 
omnes  quos  in  poenis  vidisti,  prseter  eos  qui 
infra  os  putei  Infernalis  existunt,  ad  banc 
requiem  pervenient,  et  tandem  salvi  fient 
Onmi  namq;  die  inde  aliqui  purgati  ad  nos 
veniunt,  quos  in  banc  requiem,  sicut  &  fe- 
cimus  te,  introducimus  venientes,  nee  nos- 
trum aliquis  novit  quam  diu  hie  moratonis 
sit.  Per  missas  verb,  psalmos,  elemosjnas, 
&  orationes  ecclesise  generalis,  &  per  speci- 
alia  amicorum  auxilia,  aut  purgandorum  tor- 


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igantur,  aut  de  ipsis  suppliciis  ad 
nsferentur,  donee  penitusliberen- 
3  ut  vides  hie  in  magna  quiete 
nondum  tamenad  supemam  eceli 
kseendere  somns  digni.  Transi- 
\  post  spatium  k  Deo  singulis  eon- 
in  Paradjrsum  ecelestem,  sicut 
iderit. 

e  prsesules  venerandi,  militem  in 
Milivem  dueentes  jusserunt  ut  as- 
-sum.  Quo  eum  aspiceret,  inter- 
iijusmodi  eoloriscoelum  esset,  res- 
in quo  stetit?  Qui  respondit, 
le  esse  atfH  in  fornace  ardentis. 
int  quod  nunc  vides  introitus  est 
sstis  Paradjsi ;  quando  enim  ali- 
is  recedunt,  bine  in  ccelum  as- 
&  quamdiu  hie  manemus,  quoti- 
pascit  nos  cibo  ctslesti  Deus,  & 
Mtfcamur  cibo,  nobiscum  senties 
ido.  Yix  sermone  finito,  &  ecce 
lis  flamnue  ignis  de  ccelo  descen- 
am  totam  cooperuit,  &  quasi  per 
er  capita  singulorum  subsidens, 
mum  tota  in  eis  intravit.  Unde 
im  dulcedinis  in  corde  simul  k 
nsit  suavitatem,  quod  vix  intel- 
d  vivus  an  mortuus  fuisset ;  sed 
I  momento  transivit.  Sed  miles 
i  mansisset,  si  ibi  his  deliciis  frui 
Sed  post  talia  tantaq;  jucunda  ei 
runtur.  Quoniam,  inquiunt  sancti 
A  requiem  beatorum,  ut  deside- 
rmenta  malorum  nunc  pro  parte 
i,  oportet  te  jam,  ut  per  eam  viam 
as,  revertaris.  Si  autem,  quod 
yixeris,  amod5^  ad  sssculum  re- 
Bti  quanta  te  expectant  tormenta; 
^  yixeris  &  religios^  securus  esto, 
id  nos  pervenies  quando  de  cor- 
s.  In  isto  quoque  reditu  quo 
rteris,  nee  dsemonum  tormenta 
,  quia  dse.  ad  te  non  audebunt 
aec  tormenta  te  poterunt  quae 
tere.    Tunc  miles  flens  &  ejulans 

etiam  Gneci  dicunt  dxcipri,  ita  La- 
bar^  loquentcs  amodb,  id  est,  ab  hoc 
HutTimi  Lexicon  in  v.  Modo, 

J.  W.  W. 


ait,  hinc  discedere  non  valeo,  quia  valde 
timeo  ne  per  fragilitatem  humanse  miseriae 
aliquid  delinquam,  quod  me  impediat  hue 
redire.  Non,  inquiunt,  sicut  tu  vis  crit, 
sed  sicut  ille  qui  et  nos  et  te  fecit  voluerit, 
ita  fiet.  Moerens  igitur  &  lugens  miles  ab  eis 
reducitur  ad  portam  &  eo  contra  voluntatem 
suam  egresso,  clauditur  porta  post  ipsum. 

"  Miles  igitur  Oenus  vi&  qua  venerat, 
reyersus  ad  aulam  prsefatam  pervenit.  Sed 
dsemones  quos  in  ipso  reditu  suo  vidit, 
quasi  timentes  eum  fugerunt,  &  tormenta 
per  quae  transiit,  ei  nocere  nequiverunt,  & 
confestim  cum  aulam  intrasset,  occurrunt  ei 
quindecimvirisupradicti  glorificantesDcum 
qui  tantam  illi  contulerat  constantiam  in 
tormentis.  Oportet  te,  inquiunt  militi,  ut 
quantotius  hinc  ascendas,  jam  enim  in  pa- 
tri&  tu&  clarescit  aurora,  &  nisi  portam 
Prior  aperiens,  te  invenerit,  de  reditu  tuo 
desperans,  obseratd  port&,  ad  ecclesiam  re- 
yertetur.  Sicq;  miles  benedictione  percept &, 
ab  eis  ascendcre  festinavit,  et  hor&  e&dem 
qua  portam  Prior  aperuit  miles  ei  festi- 
nus  yeniens  obviavit.  Quem  cum  Christi 
laudibus  Prior  suscipiens  in  ecclesiam 
perduxit,  ubi  cum  per  dies  quindecim  in 
oratione  permansisset,  signaculum  crucis 
accepit,  et  in  terram  sanctam  devotus  pro- 
ficiscens,  sepulchrum  Dni.  cum  locis  aliis 
yenerabilibus,  in  sancta  contemplatione  pe- 
tivit.  Et  inde  expleto  laudabiliter  peregri- 
nationis  yoto,  reversus,  regem  Stephanum 
Dominum  suum  adiit,  consulturus,  ut  ejus 
consilio,in  sanctae  religion  is  ordine  reliquum 
yitae  suae  expleret,  ac  Regi  Regum  omnium 
de  caetero  militaret.  Contigit  autem  eo 
tempore  quod  Genrasius  Ludencis  ccenobii 
Abbas,  Rege  Anglorum  St^phano  donante, 
locum  ad  Abbatiam  construendam  in  Ily- 
berni&  obtineret.  Qui  monachum  suum 
nomine  Gilebertum  ad  Regem  direxit,  ut 
ab  eo  locum  susciperet,  et  ibi  construeret 
Abbatiam.  At  Gilebertus  ad  Regem  ye- 
niens, conquestus  est  nimis  quod  patriae 
illius  linguam  non  noyit.  Sed  inquit  Rex, 
bonum  tibi  interpretem  Deo  auxiliante  in- 
yeniam,  &  yocato  milite  Oeno,  jussit  Rex 
ut  cum  Gileberto  iret,  &  cum  ipso  in  Hj- 


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bemi&  remaneret.  Quod  miles  gratanter 
annuens  cum  dicto  Gileberto  remansit,  & 
satis  ei  devotus  ministrans,  monachalem 
habitum  suscipere  voluit ;  quia  semis  esset 
quem  Dns.  praeelegit.  Transeuntes  autem  in 
Hjbemiam  Abbatiam  construxerunt.  Ubi 
miles  Oenus  interpres  monachi,  deTotus 
extitit  &  in  omnibus  agendis  minister  fidelis. 
Quandocumq;  vero  monachus  solus  alicubi 
cum  milite  fuit,  de  statu  purgatorii  &  poenis 
mirabilibus  quas  viderat  &  experto  didice- 
rat  curios^  ab  eo  qus&sivit.  At  ille  qui 
nunquam  audire  potuit  de  purgatorio  loqui 
quin  prorumperet  in  fletum  amarissimum, 
coepit  sub  sigillo  secreti  amico,  pro  edifica- 
tione,  ea  qusB  audierat,  yiderat  &  experi- 
mentis  didicerat  enarrare,  affirmans  sese 
omnia  corporeis  oculis  conspexisse.  Hujus 
autem  monachi  industria  &  diligentia,  hujus 
militis  experientia  redacta  est  in  Scriptu- 
ram,  simul  cum  relatione  episcoporum  re- 
gionis  &  aliorum  religiosorum,  qui  causd 
justitiffi  perhibuerunt  testimonium  veritati. 
— Matthew  Pabis. 


Vision  of  Thurcillus, 

A.D.  1206.  THUBCiiiLus,  a  poor  man  of 
Tidstude  in  the  diocese  of  London,  was  ac- 
costed at  his  work  bj  Julianus  Hospitator, 
and  told  to  hold  himself  in  readiness  to  see 
his  patron,  St.  James,  that  night.  He  went 
home,  washed  the  head  and  feet  of  two  poor 
female  guests,  whom  his  wife  had  received, 
then  laid  himself  down  in  ^*  stratu  suo,  quem 
seorsum  ab  uxore  ob  continentiam  prsepa- 
raverat."  When  all  the  family  were  asleep. 
Sunt  Julian  came,  and  shaking  the  man, 
said,  *  Lo  I  I  am  come  as  I  promised,  for  it 
is  time  that  we  should  go.  Let  thy  body 
rest  in  the  bed,  for  thy  spirit  only  is  about 
to  depart  with  me,  and  lest  the  body  should 
appear  dead  I  will  send  into  it  a  vital 
breath.* 

So  they  went  eastward,  and  when,  they 
had  reached  the  middle  of  the  world  en- 
tered a  church,  ample  and  grand,  open  like 
a  cloister,  and  its  roof  supported  only  by 
three  pillars.  In  the  middle  was  something 


like  a  large  Baptistery,  whence  a  great 
flame  ascended  that  burnt  not,  but  illumina- 
ted the  church  and  all  around  as  with  a  per- 
petual noon-day  splendour.  This  proceeded 
from  the  tithes  of  the  righteous.  Here  St 
James  met  him. .  The  church  was  built  by 
the  intercession  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  that 
all  souls,  when  newly  departed,  might  come 
there  for  their  doom,  untouched  by  the 
fiends.  A  wall  was  on  the  north  side  onlj. 
^In  h&c  ergo  Basilic^  S.  Marise  quae  congre- 
gatio  Animarum  dicitur,  multas  vidi  animas 
justorum  ex  omni  parte  Candidas,  vultusq; 
quasi  adolescentium  habentes.  Extra  mu- 
rum  aquilonalem  eductus  conspexi  animas 
plurimas  muro  vicinius  astantes,  maculis 
albis  &  nigris  respersas,  quarum  qusdam 
plus  candoris  quam  nigredinis,  quaedam  e 
contrario  similitudinem  prseferebant  lUe 
vero  qusB  candidiores  erant  muro  vicinius 
adhserebant  &  quse  longius  a  muro  dista- 
bant,  nihil  in  se  candoris  habent«s,  ex  om- 
ni parte  deformes  apparebant.** 

Near  this  wall  was  a  cavity,  the  en- 
trance of  Hell,  whence  a  most  foul  and 
fetid  smoke  arose  into  the  faces  of  the  souls, 
tod  Thurcillus  was  incommoded  by  the 
stink  so  that  he  coughed  twice,  and  they 
who  were  near  his  body  say  that  that 
coughed  twice  also  at  the  same  times ;  for 
this  smoke  proceeded  from  the  tithes  that 
were  withheld,  and  Thurcillus  had  cheated 
the  Church  ;  so  he  confessed,  repented,  and 
was  forgiven. 

Eastward,  the  fire  of  Purgatory  blazed 
between  two  walls,  it  terminated  in  a  cold 
salt  lake,  from  whence  a  bridge,  covered 
with  stakes  and  nails,  led  to  the  Moun- 
tain of  Joys.  On  the  mountain  stood  a 
magnificent  church,  large  enough,  as  it  ap- 
peared, to  hold  all  the  inhabitants  of  the 
earth  ;  St.  Nicolas  superintends  this  pur- 
gatory, and  in  due  time  dismisses  the  souls : 
but  they  who  attempt  to  pass  the  bridge 
unaided  by  their  own  alms,  or  the  masses 
of  their  relatives  and  friends,  are  cut  and 
lacerated  dreadfully  by  the  stidces  and  sharp 
iron,  and  what  they  catch  at  to  save  them 
pierces  them,  and  they  oflen  fall  and  roU 


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^nterhooks  to  the  bottom  of  the 
&in ;  but  when  at  last  thej  reach 
h  beyond,  thcj  remember  not  the 
thej  have  passed. 
IS  Paulus  Apostolus,  ad  finem 
tentrionalis  residere  coepit,  intrk 
,  &  extrk  murum  ex  opposito 
Diabolus  cum  suis  satellitibus  re- 
Puteus  autem  flammivomus,  qui 
tei  gehennalis,  secus  pedes  diaboli 
t.  Qusedam  vero  libra  8equ&  lance 
i  affixa  erat  super  murum  inter 
ab.  cujus  pars  media  dependebat 
>ectum  Diaboli  exterius.  Habcbat 
duo  pondera  majus  &  minus, 
tida  &  quasi  aurea,  &  D.  similiter 
;inea  &  obscura.  Accesserunt 
se  ex  toto  nigrse  cum  magno  timore 
.tione  una  post  alteram,  singulsB 
3nem  operum  suorum  ibidem 
norum  &  malorum,  nam  pondera 
Muderabantsingularum  opera  ani- 
«cundum  quod  fecerant  bonum 
m.  Cum  ergo  statera  se  versus 
naret^  per  suorum  librationem 
I,  tollebat  Ap.  animam  illam  & 
t  eam  per  portam  orientalem,  qus 

erat  Basilic®  in  ignem  Purgato- 
llic  crimina  expiaret.  Cum  verb 
rae  se  ad  diabolum  inclinaret  & 
raret,  mox  ille  cum  satellibus  suis 
liseram  nimis  ejulantem,  patremq; 
latrem,  qui  eam  ad  seterna  genue- 
mta  maledicentem,  rapientes,  cum 
;hinno,  prtecipitabant  in  foveam 
Q  &  flammivomam  quae  secus  pedes 
»rantis  erat.  De  hujusmodi  libra- 
orum  &  malorum,  in  Sanctrm. 
riptis  siepius  reperitur. 

Sunday  the  devils  have  their 
sport ;  the  damned  see  them  sit- 
ed hot  seats,  and  they  are  made 

their  earthly  follies  and  crimes  ; 

man  acted  over  his  haughtiness 
cilious  manner,  and  as  he  looked 
faction  on  his  coaiiy  robes,  they 
irments  of  fire, 
hunc  adductus  est  miles  quidam 

suam  in  csedibus  innocentum  & 


tomeamentis  peregerat  &  rapinis.  Ilic  om- 
nibus armis  militaribus  armatus,equo  niger- 
rimo  insidebat,  qui  piceam  flammam  cum 
foetore  &  fumo  per  os  &  nares,  cum  urgere- 
tur  calcaribus,  in  supplicium  sui  sessorls 
efflabat.  Sella  equi  clavis  igneis  &  pra?Ion- 
gis  erat  undique  prsefLxa.  Lorica  &  galea, 
scutum  &  ocrese  ex  toto  flammantia  nimio 
sui  pondere  militem  graviter  onerabant ; 
sed  non  minori  cruciatu  eum  meduUitus  ex- 
urebant. 

The  adulterer  and  adulteress  act  over 
again  their  loathed  lewdness  to  the  sport  of 
the  devils ;  then  vent  their  mutual  hatred 
by  mangling  each  other. 

There  is  little  worth  remarkin<j  in  the 
remainder  of  the  vision.  Adam  is  rather 
finely  imagined  as  beholding  the  events  of 
the  world  with  mingled  grief  and  joy  ;  his 
original  garment*  of  glory  gradually  reco- 
vering its  lustre  as  the  number  of  the  elect 
increases  till  it  be  fulfilled. — Matthew 
Paris. 


Disappearance  of  St.  John. 

**  When  St.  John  was  99  yeare  old, 
thenne  cam  our  Lord  with  hys  dyscyples  to 
hym  and  said,  come  my  frende  to  me,  for  it 
is  tyme  that  thou  come,  ete  and  be  fed  atte 
my  table  with  thy  bretherne.  Tlienne  Saynt 
John  aroos  up  and  said  to  our  Lord  Jhu. 
Cryst,  that  he  had  desired  it  longe  tyme, 
and  began  to  goo.  Thenne  said  our  Lord 
to  hym,  on  Sonday  next  coniyng  thou  shalt 
come  to  me.  That  Sonday  the  peple  came 
alle  to  the  chyrche,  whiche  was  founded  in 
hys  name  and  consecrate  on  that  one  side 
of  Ephesee ;  and  fro  mydnyght  forth  he 
ceassed  not  to  preche  to  the  people  that  they 
shold  establysshe  them  and  be  stedfast  in 
the  Crysten  faith  and  obeyssaunt  to  the 
commandemens  of  God. 

"  And  after  thys  he  said  the  masse,  and 
howselyd  and  comuned  the  peple,  and  after 
that  the  messe  was  fynysshed  he  bade  & 
dyde  do  make  a  py  tte  or  a  sepulture  to  fore 

>  See  Third  Series,  p.  679.— J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


the  aulter,  and  after  that  he  had  taken  hjs 
leve  and  comanded  the  peple  to  God,  he 
descended  doun  into  the  pjtte  or  sepulture, 
and  helde  up  hys  handes  to  heven  and  said, 
'  Swete  Lord  Jhesu  Crjste  I  jelde  me  unto 
thj  desyre  and  thanke  the  that  thou  hast 
Touchedsauf  to  calle  me  to  the,  yf  it  plaise 
the,  receyve  me  for  to  be  with  my  bre- 
them,  with  whom  thou  hast  sumoned  me, 
opene  to  me  the  yate  of  the  lyf  permana- 
ble,  and  lede  me  to  the  feest  of  thy  wel  and 
best  dressed  metes.  Thou  art  Cryst  the 
sone  of  the  lyvynge  God,  whyche  by  the 
conumdement  of  ye  Fader  hast  saved  the 
world.  To  the  I  rendre  and  yelde  grace 
and  thankynges  world  wythouten  ende, 
thou  knowest  wel  that  I  have  desired  the 
withal  my  herte.  After  that  he  had  made 
hys  prayer  moche  amerously  and  piteously, 
anon  cam  upon  hym  grete  clerenes  and 
light,  and  so  grete  brightness  that  none 
myght  see  hym. 

**  And  whan  thys  lyght  and  bryghtnes 
was  goon  and  departed,  ther  was  nothynge 
founde  in  the  pytte  or  grave  but  manna, 
whiche  cam  spryngyng  from  under  up- 
wards, lyke  as  fonde  in  a  fontayn  or  spryng- 
ynge  welle  where  moche  peple  have  ben  de- 
liverd  of  many  diseases  and  sekenesses  by 
the  merytes  and  prayers  of  thys  gloryous 
saynt.  Sonmie  saye  and  afierme  that  he 
deyed  without  payne  of  deth,  and  that  he 
was  in  that  clerenes  bom  into  heven  body 
and  sowle,  whereof  God  knoweth  the  cer- 
taynte.** — ^From  The  Oolden  Legend. 


■»^M»^^»V^^W»»^<MM»|i>^/«^» 


St,  Agneis  Name  explained. 

'*  AoNBS  is  said  of  agna,  a  lambe,  for  she 
was  humble  and  debonayr  as  a  lambe ;  or 
of  agno,  in  Greke  whyche  is  to  saye  de- 
bonayr and  pyteous,  for  she  was  debonayr 
and  mercy ful ;  or  Agnes  of  agnoscendo,  for 
she  knewe  the  waye  of  trouthe,  and  after 
thys  Saynt  Austyn  saith,  trouthe  is  opposed 
ayenst  vanyte,  falsenes  and  doublenes,  for 
thyse  thre  thyngis  were  taken  from  her,  for 
the  trouthe  that  she  had.** — Oolden  Legend. 


St.  Patrick*s  Purgatory. 

Ths  Grolden  L^end  varies  the  disco 
ry  of  St.  P.'s  Purgatory.    "  Thenne  by 
commaundement  of  God   Saynt   Patr 
made  in  therthe  a  grete  circle  with 
stafie,  and  anone  therthe  after  the  quant 
of  the  cercle  openyd  and  there  appyere 
grete  pytte  and  a  deep,  and  S.  P.  by 
revelacion  of  God  understood  that  th 
was  a  place  of  purgatorye,  into  whiche  i 
somever  entred  therein  he  shold  never  hi 
other  pcnaunce  ne  fele  none  other  paj 
and  there  was  shewed  to  hym  that  mi 
shold  entre  whiche  shold  never  retoui 
ne  come  ageyn,  and  they  that  shold 
toume  shold  abyde  but  fro  one  mome 
another  and  no  more.** 


^^^/%^^h^#^S^^^S^'VN/W\/S^S* 


Standard  of  the  Dragon. 

**  When  Aurel.  Ambros.  the  British  ki 
was  in  the  way  between  life  and  dea 
there  appeared  a  star  of  marvellous  gre 
ness  and  brightness,  having  only  one  bes 
in  which  was  seen  a  fiery  substance  af 
the  similitude  of  a  dragon,  which  Mer 
expounded  to  signify  Uther  Pendragi 
who  after  his  brother*s  death,  obtaining  t 
crown,  in  remembrance  of  that  star  ^  *  jw 
fabricari  duos  dracones  ex  auro,  ad  draco 
similitudinem ;  quern  ad  radium  stelis  i 
spexerat ;  qui  ut  mir&  arte  fabricati  fi 
riint,  obtulit  unum  in  ecclesi&  prinue  se 
Yuintonise,  alterum  vero  sibi  ad  ferendi 
in  prsslio  detinuit.  Ab  illo  ergo,  die  vo< 
tus  est  Uther  pen  dragon,  quod  Britann: 
lingu&  caput  draconis  appellamus;*  whi 
in  like  sort  the  Saxons  called  for  the  am 
cause,  bfxak  Hepeb,  and  this  dragon  was  us 
''pro  vexillo  per  regem  usque  hodiV*  ^  sa 
Mathew  Westmonasteriensis,'  who  lived 
the  time  of  EJng  Edward  L,  and  this  d] 
gon,  or  not  much  unlike,  is  one  of  the  re| 
supporters  at  present. 

'*  When  the  Britons  invited  the  Sazo 
or  ancient  Westphalians,  to  their  aid.  He 


>  Geff.  Mon. 


»  P.  18a 


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gist  and  Horaa,  being  their  leaders,  acknow- 
ledged none  other  ensigns'  but  **  puUom' 
eqainum  atrum,  quae  fuerunt  vetustissima 
Saxoniae  arma  ;**  not  without  a  manifest  allu- 
sion unto  their  name  of  Westphali,  valen  or 
phalen,  or  (as  we  in  English  have  made  it) 
foal,  signifying  a  colt^  and  west,  importing 
those  who  dwelt  on  the  west  side  of  the 
riyer  Visurgis  or  Weser ;  which  arms  their 
kindred  that  remained  in  Germanj  changed 
into  contrary  colours,  and  their  posterity, 
which  encr^ued  in  England  forsook  for 
other  different  arms  upon  their  first  redu- 
cing unto  Christianity.  For  I  find  that  "  in 
beilo'  apud  Beorford  in  vexillo  ^thelbaldi 
erat  aureus  draco,**  which  is  not  unlikely  to 
have  been  borrowed  by  imitation  or  chal- 
lenged by  conquest  from  the  Britons.** — 
HaAAiiB*8  Collection  of  CwrUnu  DiscaurseSy 
from  a  paper  by  Mr,  James  Ley^  on  the  an^ 
Uquity  of  arms  in  England. 

This  dragon  was  used  by  Edward  HI., 
when  was  it  laid  aside  ? 


^^•n^^^^^^S^^J^^t^^^i^^y^^i^^i^ 


Three  Ranks  of  Poets. 

**  Thekb  were  three  kinds  of  poets,  the 
one  was  Prududd,  the  other  was  Teuluror, 
the  third  was  Klerwr.  All  these  three  kinds 
had  three  sereral  matters  to  treat  of.  The 
Prududd  was  to  treat  of  lands,  and  praise 
of  princes,  nobles,  and  gentlemen,  and  had 
his  circuit  amongst  them.  And  the  Teulu- 
ror did  treat  of  merry  jests,  and  domestical 
pastimes  and  affairs,  and  had  his  circuit 
amongst  the  countrymen,  and  his  reward 
according  to  his  calling.  And  the  Klerwr 
did  treat  of  inyective  and  rustical  poetry, 
differing  from  the  Prududd  and  Teuluror, 
and  his  circuit  was  amongst  the  yeomen  of 

*  Ybrstboak  says  that  Hengistus  was  o 
**  Angria  in  Westphalia,  vulgarly  of  old  time 
called  WestJitUiin^y"  and  that  his  *'  wapen  or 
wmes  was  a  leapmg  white  horse,  or  Hengst,  in 
%nd^e\d."—RntUutiano/D9cay9d  JnUUigsnce, 
^  120^-J.  W.  W. 

*  AlbertDs  Crantsins  de  Saxonia. 

*  Mat.  West.  p.  273. 


the  country.** — Jonss  in  Hbabivb*b  CoUeC' 
Hon. 


w>^^^^^^^»w<^^^/»^^«» 


Royal  Mode  of  Burial. 

**  Wb  must  not  forget  the  auncyent  man- 
ner of  the  sepulture  of  kings  in  this  realme, 
and  how  they  have  ben  honored  and  adorned. 
The  corps  preciously  embalmed  hath  been 
apparelled  in  royal  robes  or  estate,  a  crowne 
and  diadeame  of  pure  gould  put  uppon  his 
head,  having  gloves  on  his  hands,  howlding 
a  septer  and  ball,  with  rings  on  his  fingers, 
a  coller  of  gould  and  precious  stones  round 
his  neck,  and  the  body  girt  with  a  sword, 
with  sandalles  on  his  leggs,  and  with  spurrs 
of  gould.  All  his  atchevements  of  honor 
and  arms  caryed  up  and  offered,  and  theyre 
tombe  adorned  therewith.** — Sib  William 
Dbtuick,  Oarter,  in  HBABifB*s  Collection. 


^AAAM^MA^^i^^w^^^Nrf^^^^ 


Noble  Mode  of  Burial. 

^  It  doth  appeare  by  the  white  booke  in 
Guildhall,  that  before  the  tyme  of  E. 
Edward  III.  at  the  buriall  of  barons,  one 
armed  in  the  armour  of  the  defunct,  and 
mounted  uppon  a  trapped  horse,  should  car- 
rye  the  banner,  shield,  and  helmet  of  the 
defunct.  About  that  tyme  begane  the  use 
of  Herses,  composed  all  of  wax  candles,^ 
which  they  by  a  Latin  name  called  Castra 
Doloris.^ — Lbt,  in  H. 

By  Sir  W.  Dethick*s  paper,  the  custom 
appears  to  have  continued  much  later : — 
'*  In  the  tyme  of  King  Henry  YIII.  and  in 
the  third  year  of  his  reigne,  I  find  that  the 
Lord  William  Courteny  had  his  majestys 
gracious  letters  patents  to  be  Earle  of  Devon ; 
but  he  was  not  created.  Neverthelesse  the 
K.  would  that  he  should  be  enterred  as  an 

«  <*  Hbbob.    Tunllajibulata.    Pieces  de  boU 

3IU  Bont  dans  les  Eglises  oil  Pon  pose  des  chan- 
eliers  ou  de»  eierges^  quand  on  y  veut  mettre 
beaucoup  de  lominaires."  Richelet  in  y.  Du 
Cakoe  explains  it  by  "  Candelabrum  EeeUsiatti' 
cum ;"  and  "  Cattrum  Dolorit "  by  "  Ferttrum." 
I  think  that  under  the  words  **  Heru**  and 
**  Hearst"  there  is  some  confusion  in  Todd's 
Johnson,  Nares,  and  Richardson. — J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


earle,  which  was  prepared  in  all  sorts  ac- 
customed ;  and  further,  that  Sir  Edmund 
Carrewe,  knt.  was  in  compleat  armor,  and 
coming  ryding  into  the  church,  alighted  at 
the  quier,  and  was  conducted  by  two  knights, 
having  his  axe  in  his  hand,  with  the  poynt 
downward,  and  the  heralds  going  before  him. 
In  that  sort  he  was  delivered  to  the  bishop, 
to  whom  he  offered  the  axe,  and  then  he 
was  conveyed  to  the  revestrie,  &c." 

A  plague  upon  their  &c.s,  unless  a  man 
had  Coke*s  talent  at  interpreting  them. 


Epitaphs  on  Hichard  I. 

"  To  the  glorie  of  K.  Richard  Cceur  de 
Lion  I  have  founde  these  : 
'  Hie  Richarde  jaces,  sed  Mors  si  cederit 

armis, 
Victa  timore  tui,  cederet  ipsa  tuis.* 


»M 


"  IsTius  in  morte  perimit  formica  Leonem. 
Pro  dolor,  in  tanto  funere  mundus  obit." 

"An  English  poet,  imitatinge  the  epi- 
taphe  made  on  Pompey  and  his  children, 
whose  bodyes  were  buried  in  diverse  coun- 
treys,  made  these  following  of  the  glory  of 
this  one  kinge  divided  in  three  places  by  his 
funeralL* 

"  Viscera  Garceolum,  corpus  fons  servat 
Ebraudi, 
Et  cor  Rothomagum,  magne  Richarde 
tuum! 
In  tria  dividitur  unus  qui  plus  ftiit  uno, 
Non  uno  jaceat  gloria  tanta  loco." 

Camden  in  H, 

'  The  annexed  extract  from  Speed  will  ex- 
plain the  several  names. 

"  Commanding  further  that  when  he  was 
dead  his  bowels  should  be  buried  at  Charron^ 
among  the  rebellious  Po\ct(min$,tL&  those  who  had 
only  deserved  his  worst  parts ;  but  his  heart  to 
bo  mterred  at  Roatiy  as  the  city  which  for  her 
constant  loyalty  had  merited  the  same  ;  and  his 
corps  in  the  church  of  the  nunnerie  at  Font- 
llverard  in  Gaico'i^ney  at  the  feet  of  his  father 
King  Henry,  t<^»  whom  he  had  been  some  time 
disobedient*.''— Great  Britaine,  p.  529,  folio. 

J.  W.  W. 


On  Henry  II, 

Fob  King  Henry  Ilnd.  I  find  this : 

"  Rex  Henricus  eram,  mihi  plurima  regna 
subegi, 
Multipliciq;  modo  Duxq;  Comesq;  fui. 
Cum  satis  ad  votum  non  essent  onmia  terne 
Climata,  terra  modo  sufficit  octo  pedum. 
Qui  legis  hsec,  pensa  discrimina  mortis,  et  in 
me 
Humanse  speculum  conditionis  babe." 

"  Sufficit  hie  tumulus  cui  non  suffioerat 

orbis. 
Res  brevis  ampla  mihi,  cui  fuit  ampla 

brevis." 

**BuT  this  one  verse  uppon  his  death  com- 
prised as  much  matter  as  many  long  lynes 
to  the  glorye  of  himself  and  his  successor, 
Song  Richard  I. 

"  Mira  cano,  sol  occubui  t,  nox  nulla  sequuta.** 

Camdbn  in  H. 


vw\/^A>^/^^^^^AA/v«AA/^/^/^« 


On  Rhees  ap  Gt/ffydh* 

Fob  Rhees  ap  Gruffith  ap  Rhees  ap  The- 
odor,  Prince  of  South  Wales,  renowned  in 
his  time,  these  funerall  verses  were  made 
amongst  other.' 

**  Nobile  Cambrensis  cecidit  diadema  de- 
coris. 

Hoc  est.  Rhesus  obi  it,  Cambria  tota  gemit 
Subtrahitur,  sed  non  moritur,  quia  semper 
habetur 

Ipsius  egregium  nomen  in  orbe  novum. 
Hie  tegitur,  sed  detegitur,  quia  famaperennis 

Non  sinit  illustrem  voce  latere  ducem : 
Excess!  t  probitate  modum,  sensu  probitatem, 

Eloquio  sensum,  moribus  eloquium."* 

Camsek. 


On  Richard  I. 

♦*  At  Pont  Everard,  where  Richard  I.  wa« 
enterred  with  a  gilt  image,  were  these  six 

«  They  are  quoted  to  "  Madoc  in  Wales,"  rii. 
p.  345.-J.  W.W. 


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185 


ent  verses  written  in  golden  letters, 
ning  his  greatest  and  most  glorious  at- 
iments ;  as  his  victory  against  the  Si- 
{,  his  conquering  of  Cjprus,  the  sink- 
'  the  great  galeasse  of  the  Saracens, 
iking  of  their  convoj,  which  in  the 
>arts  is  called  a  Carvana,  and  the  de- 
ig  of  Joppe  in  the  Holy  Land  against 

bitur  hoc  tumulo,  rex  auree,  laus  tua, 

tota 

rea,  materiss  convenient^  not&. 

tua  prima  fuit  Siculi,  Cyprus  altera, 

Dromo 

tia,  Carvana^  quarta,  suprema  Jope. 

-essi  Siculi,  Cyprus  possundata,  Dromo 

rsus,  Carvana  capta,  retenta  Jope/* 

',  sharpe  and  satyrical  was  that  one 
which,  by  alluding,  noted  his  taking 
lalices  from  churches  for  his  ransom, 
»lace  of  his  death  which  was  called 
z: 

riste  tui  calicis  pnedo,  fit  pr»da  Ca- 
luzis.** 


^^MM^^^^^i^v^%«%A^^MAA/s^ 


4VAKICU8,  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells, 
ring  prelate,  which  laboured  most  for 
ideeming  King  Richard  when  he  was 
'e  in  Austria,  had  this  epitaph,  for  that 
s  alwayes  gadding  up  and  down  the 
,  and  had  little  rest : 

tpes  erat  mundo  per  mundum  semper 
eundo ; 

suprema  dies,  fit  tibi  prima  quies." 

Camden. 


«^#^«A^tf^'^M^^^^^«AAAA^A 


On  King  John. 

IS  epitaph  on  King  John  proceeded, 
[Camden,  firom  a  viperous  mind : 

;lia  sicut  adhuc  sordet  f»tore  Johannis, 
da  fkdatur,  f^dante  Johanne,  gehen- 


\SL 


or  the  Graleasses,  see  Third  Series,  p.  309. 
» is  the  Greek  and  Latin  form  of  the  word. 
LkJtTiKi  Lex.  in  v.  For  the  Caravan,  see 
uios  in  V.  Caravanna,  and  Carvanus. 

J.  W.  W. 


On  Richard  11. 

Kino  Richard  IL  had  for  his  kingdom  a 
tomb  erected  at  Westminster  by  King  Henry 
v.,  with  this  rude  glosing  epitaph  : 

'*  Frudens  et  mundus  Richardus  jure  se- 

cundus. 
Per  fatum  victus  jacet  hic  sub  marmore 

pictus ; 
Yerax  sermone  fuit  et  plenus  ratione : 
Corpore  procerus,  animo  prudens  ut  Ho- 

merus. 
EcclesisB  favit,  elatos  suppeditavit, 
Quemvis  prostravit  regalia  qui  violavit, 
Obruit  haereticos  et  eorum  stravit  amicos : 
O  Clemens  Christe  tibi  devotus  fuit  iste, 
Yotis  Baptists  salves  quem  protulit  iste.** 

Camdbn. 


«\/\AM^^^\/\/V^^Mrf^%/\A^>^^*' 


TalboCs  Sword. 

"  Talbot's  sword,*'  says  Camden,  "  was 
found  in  the  river  of  Dordon,  and  sold  by 
a  pesant  to  an  armourer  of  Burdeaux,  with 
this  inscription,  but  pardon  the  Latine,  for 
it  was  not  his,  but  his  camping  chaplain  : 

"  Sum  Talboti  M.iin.c.xijn. 
Pro  vincere  inimicos  meos.** 


Viceroy*s  Epitaph. 

**  This  was  written  for  Don  Pedro  of  To- 
ledo, viceroy  of  Naples,  wickedly,**  says 
Camden,  '*  detorted  out  of  the  Scripture : 

"  Hic  est 
Qui  propter  nos  et  nostram  salutem,  des- 
cendit  ad  inferos.* 


»» 


*^/»^/N^^»^^^^^^^^»^^^^^^^ 


Bishop  Valentine.^ 

"  Bishop  Valentine 
Lefl  us  example  to  do  deeds  of  charity ; 
To  feed  the  hungry,  clothe  the  naked,  visit 

'  It  can  hardly  be  necessary  to  r^fer  the 
reader  to  Feb.  14,  in  Butx^er's  Liues  of  the 
Sainti ;— but  it  may  be  to  refer  him  to  Jan.  29, 
on  St.  Francis  de  Saks.— J.  W.  W. 


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The  weak  and  sick,  to  entertain  the  poor, 
And  give  the  dead  a  Christian  funeral ; 
These  were  the  works  of  piety  he  did  prac- 
tise, 
And  bade  us  imitate ;  not  look  for  lovers 
Or  handsome  images  to  please  our  senses.** 
B.  Jonson:  a  Tale  of  a  Tub. 


^r>A/^^^^^^^^^«^%^^«^N^^Ni^W^ 


WaleStfrom  the  Polycromeon. 

"  Enqltshed  by  one  Trevisa,  vycarye  of 
Barklye,  from  the  Latin  of  dan  Ranulph, 
monk  of  Chestre,  symply  emprynted  newe, 
and  sette  in  forme  by  me,  Wynkin  de 
Woorde.** 

"  Wales  now  is  called  Wallia, 

And  somtyme  it  hete  Cambria; 

For  Camber,  Brutus  sone. 

Was  prynce,  and  there  dyde  wone. 

Then  Wallia  was  to  mene, 

For  Gwalaes  the  queue, 

Kynge  Ebrayens  chylde. 

Was  wedded  thyder  mylde, 

And  of  that  lorde  Gwalon, 

Withdraweth  of  the  sonn 

And  put  to  1.  i.  a. 

And  thou  shalt  fynde  Wallia, 

And  though  this  londe 

Be  moche  lesse  than  Englonde, 

As  good  glebe  is  one  as  other, 

In  Uie  doughter  as  in  the  moder.** 

^  Of  the  commodytees  of  the  londe  of 
Wales : 

**  Though  that  londe  be  luyte. 

It  is  fulle  of  come  and  of  firuyte. 

And  hath  grete  plente,  I  wys, 

Of  fleshe  and  eke  of  fyshe. 

Of  beestes  tame  and  wylde. 

Of  horse,  sheep,  and  oxen  mylde ; 

Good  londe  for  all  seedes. 

For  com,  gras,  and  herbes  that  spredes. 

There  ben  woodes  and  medes, 

Herbes  and  floures  there  spredes. 

There  ben  ryvers  and  welles, 

Valeyes  and  also  hylles. 

Valeyes  brynge  forth  flood. 

And  hylles  metals  good. 


Cool  groweth  under  londe, 

And  gras  above  at  the  honde. 

There  lyme  is  copyous, 

And  slattes  for  hous. 

Hony  and  mylke  whyte. 

There  is  deynte  and  not  lyte. 

Of  braket  mete  and  ale, 

Is  grete  plente  in  that  vale ; 

And  all  that  nedeth  to  the  ly ve 

That  londe  bryngeth  forth  ryve. 

But  of  grete  rychesse  to  be  drawe. 

And  close  numy  in  shorte  sawe. 

It  is  a  comer  small, 

As  though  God  fyrst  of  all 

Made  that  londe  so  fele. 

To  be  selere  of  all  hele. 

Wales  is  deled  by 

A  water  that  hete  twy. 

North  Wales  from  the  southe 

Twy  deled  in  places  full  couthe ; 

The  south  hete  Demecia, 

And  the  other  Yenedocia. 

The  fyrst  shotheth  and  arowes  beres ; 

That  other  deleth  all  with  speres. 

In  Wales  how  it  be. 

Were  somtyme  courters  thre. 

At  Carmarthyn  was  that  one. 

And  that  other  was  in  Mone, 

The  thyrde  was  in  Powysy. 

In  Pengwem  that  now  is  Shrowsbury* 

There  were  bysshops  seven. 

And  now  ben  foure  even. 

Under  Saxons  all  at  the  honde 

Somtyme  under  prynces  ef  the  londe.** 

**  Of  maner  and  rytes  of  the  Walshmen 

'*  The  maner  lyvynge  of  the  londe 
Is  well  dyverse  from  Englond 
In  mete  and  dryke  and  clotynge 
And  many  other  doyng. 
They  be  cloteth  wonder  well 
In  a  sherte  and  in  a  mantell. 
A  crysp  breche  well  fayne 
Bothe  in  wynde  and  in  rayne. 

*  See  Blakewat'b  Histnry  ofShrewdmryy  to 
i.  p.  5.  He  quotes  Gir.  Cambrensis,  *^  Locj 
ubi  nunc  castrum  Slopesburite  situm  est,  on 
Pengwern,  i.  e.  caput  alneti,  Tocabator.''— Cdi 
bri<e  Deseriptio,—~S .  W.  W. 


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137 


clothynge  thej  be  bolde 
ii  the  weder  by  ryght  colde. 
it  shetes  alwaye 
ore  in  tbis  araje 
foo  fyght,  pleye  and  lepe, 
,  sytte,  lye  and  slepe. 
it  surcot,  gown,  cote  and  kyrtell, 
It  jopen,  tabarde,  clock  or  bel, 
It  lace  and  chaplet  that  here  lappes, 
It  bode,  hatte  or  cappes, 
rayd  gon  the  segges 
waye  with  bare  legges. 
:epe  non  other  goynge 
1  they  mete  with  the  kynge. 
rowes  and  short  speres 
yght  with  them  that  hem  deres. 
jrght  better  yf  they  neden 
they  go  than  whan  they  ryden. 
e  of  castell  and  tour 
ake  wood  and  mareis  for  socour. 
they  seen  it  is  to  doo 
itynge  they  wole  be  a  goo. 
sayth  they  ben  varyable 
and  not  stable. 
I  axe  why  it  be 
>nder  for  to  see 
I  men  put  out  of  londe 
out  other  wolde  fonde, 
for  nought  at  this  stonde 
many  woodes  ben  at  gronde. 
)on  the  see  amonge 
{tels  buylded  stronge. 
in  maye  dure  longe  tfil  ete  (?) 
re  well  comune  mete, 
m  ete  and  ben  murye 
t  grete  curye, 
te  brede  colde  and  bote 
J  and  of  ote ; 
lakes  rounde  and  thynne 
semeth  so  grete  kynne. 
ley  ete  brede  of  whete, 
de  they  done  ones  ete. 
ive  gruell  to  potage 
^e  is  kynde  to  companage, 
tter  mylke  and  chease 
endlonge  and  comer  wese, 
esses  they  ete  snell 
it  maketh  them  drynke  well, 
id  ale  that  hath  myght 


Theron  they  spende  daye  and  nyght; 

Ever  the  reder  is  the  wyne 

They  holde  it  the  more  fyne. 

Whan  they  drynke  at  the  ale 

They  telle  many  a  lewde  tale ; 

For  whan  drynke  is  an  hondl3mge 

They  ben  full  of  janglyng: 

At  mete  and  after  eke 

Her  solace  is  salte  and  leke. 

The  husbonde  in  his  wyse 

Telleth  that  a  grete  pryse 

To  gyve  a  caudron  wiUi  grewelle 

To  them  that  sytten  his  mele 

He  deleth  his  mete  at  the  mele 

And  gyveth  every  man  his  dele 

And  all  the  overpluse 

He  kepeth  to  his  owne  use. 

Therfore  they  have  woo 

And  mysshappes  also, 

They  eten  bote  samon  alway 

All  though  physyke  saye  nay. 

Her  houses  ben  lowe  with  all 

And  made  of  gerdes  small, 

Not  as  in  cytees  nyghe 

But  for  esonder  and  not  to  hyghe. 

Whan  all  is  eaten  at  home 

Then  to  theyr  neyghbours  wyll  they  rome 

And  ete  what  they  may  fynde  and  se 

And  then  tome  home  aye. 

They  lyfe  is  ydell  that  they  ledes 

In  brennynge  slep3mge  and  suche  dedes. 

Walshmen  use  with  theyr  myght 

To  weshe  theyr  gestes  feet  a  nyght ; 

Yf  he  weshe  theyr  feet  all  and  somme, 

Then  they  knowe  that  they  be  welcome. 

They  lyve  so  easely  in  a  route 

That  selde  they  bere  purs  about. 

At  theyr  breche  out  and  at  home 

They  honge  theyr  money  and  combe. 

It  is  wonder  they  be  se  hende 

And  hath  a  crak  at  the  nether  ende, 

And  without  ony  core 

Make  theyr  wardroppe  at  the  dore. 

They  have  in  grete  maugery, 

Harpe,  tabour  and  pipe  for  mynstralcie. 

They  bere  corps  with  sorowe  grete 

And  blow  lowde  homes  of  gheet. 

They  prayse  fast  troyan  blode, 

For  therof  came  all  theyr  brode. 


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Neyghe  kynde  they  wyll  be 

Though  they  passen  an  C.  degre. 

Above  other  men  they  wyll  them  dyght, 

And  worship  prestes  with  theyr  might, 

As  angels  of  heven  ryght ; 

They  worship  servaunts  of  Grod  almight. 

Oft  gyled  was  this  brode 

And  yerned  batall  all  for  wode, 

For  Merlyns  prophecye 

And  oft  for  sortelegye. 

Best  in  maners  of  Brytons 

For  companye  of  Saxones 

Ben  torned  to  better  ryght 

That  is  knowen  as  clere  as  lyght. 

They  tyllen  gardens  felde  and  downes 

And  drawe  them  to  good  townes 

They  ryde  armed  as  wole  good 

And  go  ihosed  and  ishood 

And  sytten  fayre  at  theyr  mele 

And  slepe  in  beddes  fayre  and  fele, 

So  they  seme  now  in  mynde 

More  Englyshe  than  Walshe  kynde. 

Yf  men  axe  why  they  nowe  doo  so, 

More  than  they  wonte  to  do. 

They  lyven  in  more  pees 

Bycause  of  theyr  ryches. 

For  they  catell  slake 

Yf  they  used  oft  wrake 

Drede  of  losse  of  theyr  gode 

Make  them  now  styll  of  mode. 

All  in  one  it  is  brought 

Have  nothynge  &  drede  nought. 

The  poete  say th  a  sawe  of  preef, 

The  foteman  singe  th  before  the  theef  ^ 

And  is  bolder  on  the  waye 

Than  the  horsman  ryche  and  gaye.** 

**  Of  the   mervaylles   and  wonders   of 
Wales. 

"  There  is  a  pooU  at  Brechnok 
Therein  of  fyssche  is  many  a  flok 
Oft  he  chaungeth  his  hewe  on  top 
And  bereth  above  a  gardyn  crop. 

*  The  allusion  is  to  Juvenal's  line, 

"  Cantabit  vacuus  coram  latrone  viator." 

Sat.  X.  32. 

I  should  state  here  that  it  would  encumber  the 
page  too  much  to  explain  all  the  antiquated 
words  of  this  extract. — J.  W.  W. 


Oft  tyme  howe  it  be 

Shap  of  hous  there  shalt  thou  se. 

Whan  the  pool!  is  frore  it  is  wonder 

Of  the  noyse  that  is  there  under. 

Yf  the  prynce  of  the  londe  bote 

Byrdes  synge  well  mery  note 

A^s  meryly  as  they  can 

And  syngen  for  none  other  man.** 


"WiWVVVWW>«/V>^/N/«*x 


Wind-guarded  Cavern, 

"  In  the  countree  aboutc  Wynchestre  is 
a  denne  or  a  cave,  out  of  that  cave  blow- 
eth  alway  a  stronge  wynde  so  that  no  man 
maye  endure  to  stand  before  that  denne  or 
cave.** — Polychronycon, 


St.  Magnus^  Dance. 

"  Anno  gratias  1012 :  Cum  in  villd  qu&- 
dam  Saxonise  nomen  Colewiz,  in  qu4  est 
Ecclesia  beati  Magni  martyris,  in  vigili^ 
dominicse  nativitatis  parochia  convenisset, 
ut  obsequiis  interesset  divinis,  presbyter 
nomine  Robertus,  de  more  primam  missam 
solenniter  inchoavit^,  et  ecce  12  viri  cum 
tribus  foeminis  in  coemiterio  choreas  du- 
centes,  et  seculares  cantilenas  perstre- 
pentes,  adeb  presbyterum  impediebant,  ut 
ipse  cantantium  tumultus,  inter  sacro- 
sancta  solemnia  altius  resonaret.  Cantus 
corum  talis  erat ;  *  Equitabat  homo  per  syl- 
vam  frondosam,  ducebat  sibi  Meswindam 
formosam,  quid  stamus,  cur  non  imus  P* 
Denique  cum  k  Roberto  presbytero  man- 
datum  habercnt,  ut  tacerent,  et  ipsi  silere 
contempsissent,  imprecatus  est  presbyter 
iratus,  dicens,  placeat  Deo  et  S.  Magno  ut 
ita  cantantes  permaneatis  usque  ad  annum 
evolutum.  Quid  ergo  ?  verba  sacerdotb 
pondus  adeb  habuerunt  ut  Azo  ejusdem 
presbyteri  filius,  sororem  suam  qus  Avs 
dicebatur,  ciun  aliis  cantantem,  per  bra- 
chium  arripiens  ut  eam  abstraheret,  cum 
recedere  non  potuit,  brachium  k  corpcre 
avulsit,sed  inde  gutta  sanguinis  non  exivit. 
Ipsa  itaq;  per  totum  annum  cum  ceteris 
permansit,    et    choreas    ducens    cantavit. 


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139 


uvia  super  illos  non  cecidit,  non  frigus, 
n  calor,  non  fames,  non  sitis,  nee  lassi- 
do  illos  affecit.  Indumenta  eorum  vel 
Iceamenta  non  sunt  attrita,  sed  quasi 
cordes  jugiter  cantaverunt.  Prius  ad  ge- 
a,  ac  demum  usque  ad  femora  in  terram 
nersi  fuerunt.  Tandem  evoluto  anno, 
srebertus  Coloniensis  Archiep.  k  nodo 
o  manus  eorum  ligabantur  absolvit,  et 
te  altare  S.  M.  Magni  reconciliavit.  Filia 
esbjteri  cum  aliis  duobus,  continub  spi- 
um  exhalavit.  Cseteri  tribus  diebus  et 
ctibus  dormierunt,  aliqui  postea  obie- 
Dt,  quidam  verb  psnam,  raembrorum 
orum  tremore  prodiderimt.'' — Mat.  of 
'ettmiiuter. 


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Eagle  of  Snowdon. 

"  In  montanis  de  Eryri  aquila  fabulosa 
iquentat,  qu»  qu&libet  quintd  ferifi  lapidi 
idam  insidens  fatali,  ut  interemptorum 
davere  famem  satiet,  bellum  eodem  die 
tor  ezpectare  ;  lapidemq;  prsedictum  cui 
nsuevit  insidere,  jam  prope  rostrum  pur- 
ado  pariter  et  exacuendo  perfor&sse.** — 
EAiJ>us  Ceanbrensis, 


^A^^iA^^^^^^'^^^^^^^^^^* 


Descent  of  EUdore, 


^  Pabum  autem  ante  haec  nostra  tempora 
ndlt  his  in  partibus,**  (near  Abertawe), 
es  memoratu  non  indigna,  quam  sibi  con- 
isse  prsesbjter  Elidorus  constantissime 
erebat.  Cum  enim  puerilis  innocentis? 
odecimum  jam  ageret  annum,  quoniam 
ait  Salomon  radix  literarum  amara  est, 
anquam  fructus  sit  dulcis;  puer  Uteris 
iictus,  ut  disciplinam  subterfugeret  et 
rbera  crebra  pneceptoris,  in  concaT& 
vii  cujusdam  rip&  se  fugitivus  occulta- 
;  cumq;  ibidem  bis  sole  revoluto  jejunus 
itinub  jam  latitasset,  apparuerunt  ei  ho- 
inculi  duo,  statures  quasi  pigmese,  di- 
ktes,  Si  nobiscum  venire  volueris,  in  ter- 
Q  ludis  et  deliciis  plenam  te  ducemus. 
louens  ille  surgensque  secutus  est  per 
m  primb   subterraneam  et  tenebrosam 


usque  in  terram  pulcherrimam,  fluviis  et 
pratis,  silvis  et  planis  distinctissimam,  ob- 
scuram  tamen,  et  aperto  solari  lumine  non 
illustratam. 

**  Erant  ibi  dies  omnes  quasi  nebulosi, 
et  noctes  lunss  stellarumq;  absenti&  teter- 
rimse.  Adductus  est  puer  ad  regem,  eiq; 
coram  regni  curi&  prsesentatus,  quem  cum 
diu  cum  admiratione  cunctorum  rex  intui- 
tus  esset,  tandem  eum  filio  suo,  quem  pue- 
rum  habebat,  tradens  assignavit.  Erant 
autem  homines  statures  minimse,  sed  pro 
quantitatis  captu  valdb  compositse;  flavi 
omnes  et  luxuriante  capillo,  muliebriter 
per  humeros  com&  demissd.  Equos  habe- 
bant  sues  competentes  modicitati,  lepora- 
riis  in  quantitate  conformcs.  Nee  carne 
vescebantur,  nee  pisce,  lacteis  plerunque 
cibariis  utentes,  et  in  pultis  modum  quasi 
croco  confectis.  Juramenta^  eis  nulla ;  nihil 
enim  ade6  ut  mendacia  detestabantur. 
Quoties  de  superiori  hemispherio  reverte- 
bantur,  ambitiones  nostras,  infidelitates  et 
inconstantias  expuebant.  Cultus  eis  reli- 
gionis  palam  nullus ;  veritatis  solum,  ut 
videbatur,  amatores  prsecipui  et  cultores. 

"  Solebat  autem  puer  ille  ad  nostrum 
hemisphaerium  pluries  ascendere;  interdum 
per  viam  qu&  venerat,  interdum  per  aliam  : 
primo  cum  aliis,  et  postea  per  se,  solumq; 
matri  suss  se  committebat ;  patriae  modum, 
gentisq;  naturam  et  statum  ei  declarans. 
Monitus  igitur  k  matre  ut  auri,  quo  abun- 
dabat  regio  munus  ei  quandoque  referret, 
pilam  auream,  qu&  regis  filius  ludere  con- 
sueverat,  ab  ipso  rapiens  ludo,  per  viam 
solitam,  ad  matrem  deproperans,  cursim 
asportavit,  et  cum  ad  ostium  domus  pa- 
ternse,  populi  tamen  illius  non  absque  se- 
quela jam  pervenisset,  intrare  festinavit, 
pes  hsesit  in  limine,  et  sic  intrk  tectum  ca- 
denti,  matre  ibidem  sedente,  pilam  h  manu 
elapsam  duo  pigmaei  k  vestigio  sequentes 
arripu^e,  exeundo  in  puerum  sputa,  con- 
temptus    et    derisiones    emittentes.    Ipse 

-  — 

*  *^  It  hath  be^n  observed  of  the  old  Cornish 
language,  that  it  afforded  no  forms  of  oaths,  no 
phrases  to  swear  in."  Halbs  of  Eaton ^  vol.  ii. 
p.  152.— J.  W.  W. 


I 


140 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


yero  resurgens  ad  seq;  reversus,  mir&  facti 
confunditur  erubescentid,  et  matris  pluri- 
mum  consilia  devovens  ac  deteatans,  cum 
vi&  redire  pararet,  quam  assueverat,  ad 
aquae  descensum  hypogeumq;  meatum  cum 
pervenisset,  aditus  ei  jam  nuUus  apparuit, 
cum  tamen  per  anni  fer^  spacium  inter 
aquae  prsedictse  ripas  viam  inutilis  explo- 
rator  inquireret.  Sed  quoniam  ea  quae  ratio 
Don  mitigat  temporis  interdum  mor&  mi- 
tescunt,  et  diutumitas  sola  laxatos  hebetat 
plerumq;  dolores,  siquidem  malis  multis 
finis  de  tempore  venit,  demum  tamen  ab 
amicis  et  matre  praecipu^  vix  revocatus 
sibiq;  restitutus  et  Uteris  denuo  datus,  tan- 
dem processu  dierum  in  sacerdotii  gradum 
est  promotus." — Gib.  Camb, 


Welsh  Beavers} 

**  Inter   universos  Cambriae  seu  etiam 
Loegriae  fluvios,  solus  hie,  (Teivi)  castores 


habet."— Ibid. 


'W\/N/V\/\/\/W>/WWN/\/^ 


Welsh  Lances. 

**  Sunt  autem  his  in  partibus  (Ardudwj) 
lanceae  longissimae.  Sicut  enim  arcu  prae- 
valet  Sudwallia,  sic  lanceis  praevalet  Vene- 
dotia :  adeb  ut  ictum  hlU:  lance&  cominus 
datum  ferrea  loricae  tricatura  minimi  sus- 
tineat/* — Ibid. 


«^«^^\/\/V^^^^\/>A/N^V%A^^^V%/\ 


Bardsey.* 

"  Jacet  autem  extra  Lhyn  insula  mo- 
dica  quam  monachi  inhabitant  religio- 
sissimi,  quos  Caelibes  vel  Colideos  vocant. 
Ilacc  autem  insula  vel  ab  aeris  salubritate 
quam  ex  Hiberniae  confinio  sortitur :  vel  po- 
tiusa  liquo  ex  miraculo  ex  Sanctorum  meri- 

*  See  Madac  in  Wales,xn.  p.  345.  Drayton 
alludes  also  to  the  Beavers  of  the  Towy.  See 
l*olyvlbwn.—J,  W.  W. 

»  "  To  Bardsey  was  the  Lord  of  Ocean  bound ; 
Bardsey,  the  holy  islet,  on  whose  soil 
Did  many  a  chief  and  many  a  saint  repose." 
Modoc  in  Walei,  xiii.  p.  347.— J.  W.  W. 


tis,hoc  mirandum  habet,  quod  in  e& 
praemoriuntur,  quia  morbi  in  e4  ri 
et  rarb  vel  nunquam  hie  nusquam 
nisi  long&  senectute  confectus.  Ha 
En  hit  Cambrice  vocatur,  et  lingus 
ic&  Berdesey;  et  in  e&  ut  fertur 
sanctorum  sepulta  suiit  corpora.**- 


^^^ikA^/SA^S^^^^^^^/^^^^^^* 


Animal  Fidelity, 

'*  In  hie  e&dem  silvft  de  Colesl 
terfecto  juvene  quodam'^  Cambn 
exercitum  pnedicti  regis  (Hen.  2.] 
unte,  leporarius  ejusdem  inventus 
octo  fer^  dies  absque  cibo  domini 
non  deseruisse,  sed  illud  k  canibus, 
avibus  prorsus  indemne  fideliter  < 
randil  in  bruto  dilectione  consen 
Ibid. 


^^^^^^^^^^^NM^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Owen  CyveUioc  excommumcai 

**  Oenum  de  Cavelioc  quia  sol 
Walliae  principes  Archipraesuli  cun 
suo  non  occurrerat,  excommuni< 
Oenus  iste  prae  aliis  Cambriae  pri 
et  linguae  dicacis  extiterat  et  in  te 
moderamine  ingenii  perspicacis.** — 


MA^\/SA/\^^^^^^^%^iM/\^^k^^^k 


St.  Patrick* s  Purgatory, 

"  Est  lacus  in  partibus  Ultonif 
nens  insulam  bipartitam,  cujus  pai 
probatae  religionis  Ecclesiam  habei 
tabilis  vald^  est  et  amoena,  An 
visitatione  Sanctorumq;  loci  illiuf 
frequently  incomparabiliter  illustra 
altera  hispida  nimis  et  horribilis,  s 
tjnoniis  dicitur  assign  ata,  quae  ut  vi 
cacodaemonum  turbis  et  pompis  fe 
per  manet  exposita.  Pars  ista  nov< 
foveas  habet. — Hie  autem  locus  I 
rium  Patricii  ab  incolis  vocatur."— 


'^^.^/S/V^/X^^^N/N/N^/^^tA/N/NA^ 


St.  Patricks  Horn. 

"Vidimus  inGwallia,  Hibernensc 
lum  (mendicum)  quendam,  comu  q 


roEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


141 


,  qaod  S.  Patricii  fuisse  dicebat,  pro 
s  in  collo  gestantem.  dicebat  autem 
rentiam  Sancti  illias,  neminem  ausum 
tare.  Com  igitur,  Hibernico  more, 
itanti  populo  comu  porrigeret  oecu- 
,  sacerdoB  quidam  Bemardus  no- 
e  manibus  ejus  illud  arripuit,  et  orb 
IS  angulo,  aeremq;  impellens  sonare 
[ui  et  eidem  hor&  multis  astantibus, 
dem  aure  tenus  paralytic^  retorto, 
passione  percussus  est.  Cum  enim 
is  eloquii  prius  eztitisset,  et  dela- 
iguam  detractor  habuisset ;  sermonis 
ret  statim  amisit  usum." — ^Ibid. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^X 


King  Henry  III*s  Perjury, 

,  Rex  quia  juraverat  cum  Edwardo 
^nito  suo  et  Baronagio  provisiones 
nses  se  inviolabiliter  servaturum,  et 
erat  eum  jam  jur&sse  taliter,  metu- 
)dammod6  notam  perjurii  misit  ad 
secret^,  rogans,  ut  ab  hoc  se  jura- 
absolveret,  quod  facillim^  impetra- 
7ontin.  of  Mat.  Paris. 


^^^%/^^^^^k^^^^^^^AAiM^^ 


Monastic  Life. 

TI88IMA  enim  est  professio  vestra. 
transit,  par  Angelb  est,  Angelicse 
3uritati.      Non  enim  sol^  vovistis 

sanctitatem,  sed  omnis  sanctitatis 
onem,     et    omnis    consummationis 

Non  est  vestrum  circk  communia 
A  languere,  neque  hoc  solum  atten- 
lod  pnecipiat  Deus,  sed  quid  yelit, 
;es  quse  sitYoluntas  Dei  bona  et  be- 
ns et  perfecta.  Aliorum  est  enim  Deo 

vestrum  adhierere ;  aliorum  est 
jredere,  scire,  amare,  revereri ;  ves-*^ 

t  sapere,  intelligere  cognoscere,  frui. 

*        *         *        «        * 

10  enim  Deus  est,  nunquam  minus 
t  quam  cum  solus  est.  Tunc  enim  li- 
litur  gaudio  suo ;  tunc  ipse  suus  est 

frnendum  Deo  in  se  et  se  in  Deo; 
luce  veritatis,  in  sereno  mundi  cor- 
^  patet  sibi  pura  conscientia,  et  li- 

infundit  afiecta  de  Deo  memoria : 


et  vel  illuminatur  intellectus  et  bono  suo 
fruitur  affectus,  vel  seipsum  deilet  bumanse 
fragilitatis  defectus.  Propter  hoc,  secundum 
formam  propositi  vestri  habitantes  in  cselis 
potius  quam  in  cellis,  excluso  k  vobis  toto 
seculo,  totos  Yos  inclusistis  cum  Deo.  Cel- 
IsB  siquidem  et  celi  habitatio  cognatse  sunt, 
quia  sicut  celum  et  cella  ad  invicem  viden- 
tur  aliquem  habere  cognationem  nominis, 
sic  et  pietatis.  A  cselando  enim  caelum  et 
cella  nomen  habere  videntur,  et  quod  cic- 
latur  in  celis  hoc  et  in  cellis;  quodgeritur 
in  cselis  hoc  et  in  cellis.  quidnam  est  hoc  ? 
vacare  Deo,  frui  Deo.  Quod  cum  secundum 
ordinem  pi6  et  fideliter  celebratur  in  cellis, 
audeo  dicere,  sancti  Angeli  Dei  cellas  ha- 
bent  pro  cselis,  et  sequ^  delectantur  in  cellis. 
ac  in  cselis.  Nam  cum  in  celU  jugiter  cseles- 
tia  actitatur,  caelum  cellae  et  sacramenti 
similitudine,  et  pietatis  afiectu,  et  similis 
operis  efiectu  proximum  efficitur ;  nee  jam 
spiritui  oranti,  vel  etiam  k  corpore  exeunti, 
k  cell&  in  caelum  longa  vel  difficilis  via  in- 
venitur.** — DiviBebnabdi  de  Vita  Solitaria 
adfraires  de  Monte  Dei, 


Arnold  of  Brescia, 

'*  Abnaldum  loquor  de  Brixia,  qui  uti- 
nam  tam  sanas  esset  doctrinae,  quam  dis- 
trictae  est  vitae.  Et  si  vultis  scire,  homo  est 
neque  manducans  neque  bibens,  solo  cum 
diabolo  esuriens  et  sitiens  sanguinem  ani- 


marum. 


*  * 


Nescio  an  melius  salubriusve 
in  tanto  discrimine  rerum  egere  valeatis, 
quam  juxta  Apostoli  monitum  (1  Cor.  5.) 
auferre  malum  ex  vobis,  quamquam  amicus 
sponsi  ligare  potius  quam  fugare  curabit,  ne 
jam  discurrere  et  eo  nocere  pluH  possit.  Hoc 
enim  dominus  Papa  dum  adhuc  esset  apud 
nos,  ob  mala  quae  de  illo  audiebat  fieri,  scri- 
bendo  mandavit,  sed  non  fuit  qui  faceret 
bonum.  Denique  si  capi  vulpes  pusillas  de- 
molientesvineam  scripturascdubriter  monet, 
(Cant.  2.)  num  mult6  magis  lupus  magnus 
et  ferus  religandus  est,  ne  Christ!  irrumpat 
ovilia,  oves  mactet  et  perdat  ?" — Bebnabdi 
JEpist.  ad  Episcopum  Constantiensem, 
A  merciful  hint  from  a  saint  to  a  bishop. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Purgatory. 

'*  HiEHETici  non  credunt  ignem  purgato- 
rium  restare  post  mortem,  sed  statim  animam 
solutam  k  corpore,  vel  ad  requiem  transire, 
vel  ad  damnationem.  Quserant  ergo  ab  eo 
qui  dixit,  quoddam  peccatum  esse,  quod 
neque  in  hoc  seculo,  neque  in  futuro  remit- 
tetur,  cur  hoc  dixerit,  si  nulla  manet  in 
futura  remissio  purgatione  peccati?" — St. 
Bebnaed. 


Zisca*s  Stratagem. 

"  Upon  a  certain  time  his  enemies  set 
upon  him  in  a  rough  place,  where  no  battell 
could  be  fought  but  on  foot  only,  whereupon 
when  his  enemies  were  lighted  from  their 
horses,  Zisca  commanded  the  women  which 
customablj  followed  the  host,  to  cast  their 
kerchiefes  upon  the  ground,  wherein  the 
horsemen  were  intangled  bj  their  spurres, 
and  were  slaine  before  they  could  unloose 
their  feet."—  Historie  of  the  Church,  by 
Master  Patbick  Stmson,  late  Minister  at 
Striveling  in  Scotland.  1634. 


^^^^^^^^^r^^^^^^^^^/>/>^^ 


St.  Theresa. 


"  I  HAVE  seen  some  of  the  works  of  St. 
Theresa,  wrote  with  her  own  hand ;  the  cha- 
racter is  legible,  large,  and  indifferently 
fair.  Donna  Beatrix  Carillo,  who  is  her 
kinswoman*s  niece,  keeps  them  very  choicely. 
It  was  she  that  shewed  them  to  me.  They 
consist  of  a  collection  of  letters.  I  do  not 
believe  they  were  ever  printed.  There  is  a 
great  deal  of  perfection  in  them,  and  through- 
out may  be  discovered  a  certain  air  of  chear- 
fulness  and  sweetness  of  nature,  which  suffi- 
ciently declares  the  character  of  that  great 
saint.'* — Countess  Danois*  Letters  from 
Spain. 

Eagle  made  young. 

**  Austen  saith,  and  Plinie  also,  that  in 
age  the  eagle  hath  darkncsse  and  dimnesse 
in  eien,  and  hevinesse  in  wings,  and  against 


this  disadvantage  she  is  taught  by  kinde  to 
seeke  a  well  of  springing  water,  and  then 
she  flyeth  up  into  the  aire  as  farre  as  she 
may,  till  she  be  full  hot  by  heat  of  the  aire 
and  by  travaile  of  flight,  and  so  then  bj 
heate  the  pores  be  opened,  and  the  feathers 
chafed,  and  she  falleth  sideinglye  into  the 
well  and  there  the  feathers  be  chaunged 
and  the  dimnesse  of  her  eien  is  wiped  awaj 
and  purged,  and  she  taketh  againe  her 
might  and  strength.** 

This  will  explain  a  passage  in  the  Jeru- 
salem Conquistada. 


Rainbow  and  Olow^worm^s  Effects, 

"  Whebe  the  rainbow  toucheth  the  tree, 
no  caterpillars  will  hang  on  the  leaves; 
where  the  glow-worm  creepeth  in  the  night, 
no  adder  will  go  in  the  day.*' — John  Lillt, 
Epilogue  to  Campaspe. 


Mexican  Gods.^ 

"  Ometeuctjli  and  Ombcihuatl.  —  The 
former  was  a  god  and  the  latter  a  goddess, 
who  dwelt  in  a  magnificent  city  in  heaven, 
abounding  with  delights,  and  there  watched 
over  the  world,  and  gave  to  mortals  their 
wishes;  Ometeuctli  to  men,  and  Omeci- 
huatl  to  women.  They  had  a  tradition 
that  this  goddess  having  had  many  children 
in  heaven,  was  delivered  of  a  knife  of  flint ; 
upon  which  her  children  in  a  rage  threw  it 
to  the  earth,  from  which,  when  it  fell,  sprung 
sixteen  hundred  heroes ;  who,  knowing  their 
high  origin,  and  having  no  servants,  all 
mankind  having  perished  in  a  general  cala- 
mity, agreed  to  send  an  embassy  to  their 
mother,  to  intreat  her  to  grant  them  power 
to  create  men  to  serve  them.  The  mother 
answered,  that  if  they  had  had  more  ex- 
alted sentiments,  they  would  have  made 
themselves  worthy  to  live  with  her  eternally 

*  See  lAadoc  in  Attlan,  ix.  p.  378,  where  other 
extracts  are  given  in  the  notes  ft\>m  Torque* 
mada,  Clavigero,  &c. — J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


143 


1 


in  heaven :  but  since  they  chose  to  abide 
upon  the  earth,  she  desired  them  to  go  to 
Mictlanteuctli,  god  of  hell,  and  ask  of  him 
one  of  the  bones  of  the  men  that  had  died ; 
to  sprinkle  this  with  their  own  blood,  and 
from  it  thej  would  have  a  man  and  a  wo- 
man, who  would  afterwards  multiply.    At 
the  same  time  she  warned  them  to  be  upon 
their  guard  agunst  Mictlanteuctli,  who  i^r 
giving   the  bone  might  suddenly  repent. 
With  these  instructions  from  his  mother, 
Xolotl,  one  of  the  heroes,  went  to  hell,  and 
afler  obtaining  what  he  sought,  began  to 
run  towards  the  upper  surface  of  the  earth, 
upon  which  Mictlanteuctli  enraged,  pur- 
sued him,  and  being  unable  to  come  up  with 
him,  returned  to  hell.    Xolotl  in  hb  pre- 
cipitate flight  stumbled,  and  falling,  broke 
the  bone  into  unequal  pieces.     Gathering 
ihem  up  again,  he  continued  his  flight  till 
he  arrived  at  the  place  where  his  brothers 
awaited  him ;  when  they  put  the  fragments 
mto  a  vessel,  and  sprinkled  them  with  their 
blood,  which  they  drew  from  difierent  parts 
of  their  bodies.     Upon  the  fourth  day  they 
beheld  a  boy,  and  continuing  to  sprinkle 
with  blood  for  three  days  more,  a  girl  was 
likewise  formed.  They  were  both  consigned 
to  the  care  of  Xolotl,  to  be  brought  up,  who 
fed  them  with  the  milk  of  the '  thistle.    In 
that  way  they  believed  the  recovery  of  man- 
kind was  effected  at  that  time.     Thence 
took  its  rise,  as  they  affirmed,  the  practice 
of  drawing  blood  from  different  parts  of  the 
body  so  common  among  these  nations,  and 
they  believed  the  diflerences  in  the  stature 
of  men  to  have  been  occasioned  by  the  in- 
equality of  the  pieces  of  the  bone." 

^  ToNATRicLi  and  Meztli,  names  of  the 
sun  and  moon,  both  deified  by  these  nations. 
They  said,  that  after  the  recovery  and  mul- 
tiplication of  mankind,  each  of  the  above- 
mentioned  heroes  or  demigods  had  among 
the  men  his  servants  and  adherents ;  and 
that  there  being  no  sun,  the  one  that  had 
been  having  come  to  an  end,  the  heroes 
assembled  in  Teotihuacan,  around  a  great 
fire,  and  said  to  the  men,  that  the  first  of 


them  that  should  throw  themself  into  the 
fire  would  have  the  glory  to  become  a  sun. 
Forthwith  one  of  the  men,  more  intrepid 
than  the  rest,  called  Nanahuaztin,  threw 
himself  into  the  flames  and  descended  to 
hell.  In  the  interval,  while  they  all  re- 
mained expecting  the  event,  the  heroes  made 
wagers  with  the  quails,  locusts,  and  other 
animals,  about  the  place  of  the  sky  where 
the  sun  would  first  appear ;  and  the  animals 
being  mistaken  intheir  conjectures,  were  im- 
mediately sacrificed.  At  length  the  sun  arose 
in  that  quarter  which  from  that  time  forward 
was  called  the  Levant ;  but  he  had  scarcely 
risen  above  the  horizon,  when  he  stopped, 
which  the  heroes  perceiving,  sent  to  desire 
him  to  continue  his  course.  The  sun  re- 
plied, that  he  would  not,  until  he  should  see 
them  all  put  to  death.  The  heroes  were  no 
less  enraged  than  terrified  by  that  answer ; 
upon  which  one  of  them  named  Citli,  taking 
his  bow  and  three  arrows,  shot  one  at  the 
sun ;  but  the  sun  saved  himself  by  stooping. 
Citli  aimed  two  other  arrows,  but  in  vain. 
The  sun,  enraged,  turned  back  the  last  ar- 
row, and  fixed  it  in  the  forehead  of  Citli, 
who  instantly  expired.  The  rest,  intimi- 
dated by  the  fate  of  their  brother,  and  un- 
able to  cope  with  the  sun,  resolved  to  die 
by  the  hands  of  Xolotl ;  who,  after  killing 
all  his  brothers,  put  an  end  to  his  own  life. 
The  heroes  before  they  died  left  their  cloaths 
to  their  servants ;  and  since  the  conquest 
of  these  countries  by  the  Spaniards,  certain 
ancient  garments  have  been  found,  which 
were  preserved  by  the  Indians  with  extra- 
ordinary veneration,  under  a  belief  that 
they  had  them  by  inheritance  from  those 
ancient  heroes.  The  men  were  aflccted 
with  great  melancholy  upon  losing  their 
masters,  but  Tezcatlipoca  commanded  one 
of  them  to  go  to  the  house  o£  the  sun.  and 
from  thence  to  bring  music  to  celebrate  his 
festival ;  he  told  him  that  for  his  journey, 
which  was  to  be  by  sea,  he  would  prepare 
a  bridge  of  whales  and  tortoises,  and  de- 
sired him  to  sing  always  as  he  went  a  song 
which  he  gave  him.  This,  the  Mexicans 
said,  was  the  origin  of  the  music  and  danc- 


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ing  with  which  they  celebrated  the  festivals 
of  their  gods.  They  ascribed  the  daily 
sacrifice  which  they  made  of  quails  to  the 
Sim,  to  that  which  the  heroes  made  of  those 
birds;  and  the  barbarous  sacrifices  of  human 
victims,  so  common  afterwards  in  these 
countries,  they  ascribed  to  the  example  of 
Xolotl  with  his  brethren. 

**  They  told  a  similar  fable  of  the  origin 
of  the  moon.  Tezcociztecal,  another  of  those 
who  assembled  in  Teotihuacan,  following 
the  example  of  Nanahuatzin,  threw  himself 
into  the  fire ;  but  the  flames  being  some- 
what less  fierce,  he  turned  out  less  bright, 
and  was  transformed  into  the  moon.** 

"  Tbzcatldpoca. — This  was  the  greatest 
god  adored  in  these  countries,  after  the  in- 
visible Grod,  or  Supreme  Being.  His  name 
means  Shining  Mirror,  from  one  that  was 
affixed  to  his  image.  He  was  the  Grod  of 
Providence,  the  soul  of  the  world,  the  cre- 
ator of  heaven  and  earth,  and  master  of  all 
things.  They  represented  him  always  young, 
to  denote  that  no  length  of  years  ever  dimi- 
nished his  power.  They  believed  that  he 
rewarded  with  various  benefits  the  just, 
and  punished  the  wicked  with  diseases  and 
other  afiiictions.  They  placed  stone  seats 
in  the  corners  of  the  streets,  for  that  god  to 
rest  upon  when  he  chose  it,  and  upon  which 
no  person  was  ever  allowed  to  sit  down. 
Some  said  that  he  had  descended  from  hea- 
ven by  a  rope  made  of  spiders*  webs,  and 
had  persecuted  and  driven  from  these  coun- 
tries the  grand  priest  of  Tula  Quetzalcoatl. 
His  principal  image  was  of  teotl,  divine 
stone,  which  is  a  black  shining  stone,  like 
black  marble,  and  was  richly  dressed.  It 
had  golden  ear-rings,  and  from  the  under 
lip  hung  a  crystal  tube,  within  which  was  a 
green  feather,  or  a  turquoise  stone,  which 
at  first  sight  appeared  to  be  a  gem.  His 
hair  was  tied  with  a  golden  string,  from 
the  end  of  which  hung  an  ear  of  the  same 
metal,  with  the  appearance  of  ascending 
smoke  painted  on  it,  by  which  they  in- 
tended to  represent  the  prayers  of  the  dis- 
tressed.   The  whole  breast  was  covered  with 


massy  gold.  He  had  bracelets  of  gold  upon 
both  his  arms,  an  emerald  in  the  navel,  and 
in  his  lefl  hand  a  golden  fan,  set  round  with 
beautiAil  feathers,  and  polished  like  a  mir- 
ror, in  which  they  imagined  he  saw  eyeiy 
thing  that  happened  in  the  world.  At  other 
times,  to  denote  his  justice,  they  represented 
him  sitting  on  a  bench  covered  with  a  red 
cloth,  upon  which  were  drawn  the  figures 
of  skulls  and  other  bones  of  the  dead :  upon 
his  left  arm  a  shield  with  four  arrows,  and 
his  right  lifted  in  the  attitude  of  throwing 
a  spear ;  his  body  dyed  black,  and  his  head 
crowned  with  quail  feathers.** 

'*  HuiTZiLOPOCHTU,  or  Mexitli,  was  the 
Grod  of  War ;  the  deity  the  most  honoured 
by  the  Mexicans,  and  their  chief  protector. 
Of  this  god  some  said  he  was  a  pure  spirit, 
others  that  he  was  born  of  a  woman,  but 
without  the  assistance  of  a  man,  and  de- 
scribed his  birth  in  the  following  manner. 
There  lived,  said  they,  in  Coatepec,  a  place 
near  to  the  ancient  city  of  Tula,  a  woman 
called  Coatlicue,  mother  of  the  Ceutzon- 
huiznahuis,  who  was  extremely  devoted  to 
the  worship  of  the  gods.  One  day  as  she 
was  employed,  according  to  her  usual  cus- 
tom, in  walking  in  the  temple,  she  beheld, 
descending  in  the  air,  a  ball  made  of  various 
feathers.  She  seized  it,  and  kept  it  in  her 
bosom,  intending  afterwards  to  employ  the 
feathers  in  decoration  of  the  altar;  but 
when  she  wanted  it  after  her  walk  was  at 
an  end,  she  could  not  find  it,  at  which  she 
was  extremely  surprised,  and  her  wonder 
was  very  greatly  increased  when  she  began 
to  perceive  from  that  moment  that  she  was 
pregnant.  Her  pregnancy  advanced  till  it 
was  discovered  by  her  children,  who,  al- 
though they  could  not  themselves  suspect 
their  mother*s  virtue,  yet  fearing  the  dis- 
grace she  would  suffer  upon  her  delivery, 
determined  to  prevent  it  by  putting  her  to 
death.  They  could  not  take  their  resolu- 
tion so  secretly  as  to  conceal  it  from  their 
mother,  who,  while  she  was  in  deep  afflic- 
tion at  the  thoughts  of  dying  by  her  own 
children,  heard  an  unexpected  voice  issue 


)EAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITIOK. 


14^ 


inb,  saying,  *  Be  not  afraid,  mo- 
liall  save  joii,  with  the  greatest 
ourself  and  glorj  to  me.*  Her 
i  sons,  guided  and  encouraged 
er  Cojolxauhqui,  who  had  been 
enlj  bent  upon  the  deed,  were 
on  the  point  of  executing  their 
m  Huitzilopochtli  was  bom  with 
is  left  hand,  a  spear  in  his  right, 
of  green  feathers  on  his  head ; 
adorned  with  feathers,  and  his 
and  thighs  streaked  with  blue 
«>on  as  he  came  into  the  world, 
a  twisted  pine,  and  commanded 
dldiers  called  Tochancalqui,  to 
Cojolxauhqui,  as  the  one  who 
e  most  guilty ;  and  he  himself 
e  rest  with  so  much  fury,  that, 
heir  efibrts,  their  arms  or  their 
le  killed  them  all,  plundered 
,  and  presented  the  spoils  to  his 
[ankind  were  so  terrified  by  this 
from  that  time  they  called  him 
terror,  and  Tetzauhteotl,  terri- 

tue  was  of  gigantic  size,  in  the 
man  seated  on  a  blue  coloured 
the  four  comers  of  which  issued 
flakes.  His  forehead  was  blue, 
was  covered  with  a  golden  mask, 
sr  of  the  same  kind  covered  the 
lead.  Upon  his  head  he  carried 
crest,  shaped  like  the  beak  of  a 
his  neck  a  collar,  consisting  of 
>f  the  human  heart ;  in  his  right 
e  blue  twisted  club ;  in  his  left 
which  appeared  five  balls  of 
iposed  in  the  form  of  a  cross, 
le  upper  part  of  the  shield  rose 
g  with  four  arrows,  which  the 
retended  to  have  been  sent  to 
leaven  to  perform  those  glorious 
h  we  have  seen  in  their  history. 
IS  girt  with  a  large  golden  snake, 
1  with  various  lesser  figures  of 

,  woman-bom.  who  from  the  womb, 
aortal  sire,  leapt  terrible, 
yenger  of  his  mother's  fame." 
r  in  Aitlany  ix.  p.  S78.— J.  W.  W. 


animals,  made  of  gold  and  precious  stones, 
which  ornaments  and  insignia  had  each 
their  peculiar  meaning.  They  never  deli- 
berated upon  making  war  without  imploring 
the  protection  of  this  god  with  prayers  and 
sacrifices,  and  ofi*ered  up  a  greater  number 
of  human  victims  to  him  than  to  any  other 
of  the  gods." 


^%A^^^S/\^^^^k^^^^^^^^^^^A 


The  Thirteen  Rarities  of  Britain. 

"  Dtbnwtii,  i.  e.  white  handle,  the  sword 
of  Ryzerc  the  generous,  which,  when  drawn 
out  of  the  sheath,  would  become  a  flame 
from  the  handle  to  its  point. 

"  Len  Arthur,  Arthur's  veil,  in  Cornwall, 
whoever  wore  it  would  see  every  body,  and 
nobody  see  him. 

**  The  coat  of  Padam,  which  would  fit  a 
noble,  but  one  of  mean  birth  it  would  not. 

"  The  mantle  of  Tegau  would  not  fit  an 
unchaste  woman,  nor  cover  her;  but  it 
would  cover  a  chaste  one  to  the  ground. 

"  The  knife  of  Lawvrodez,  which  would 
serve  twenty-four  persons  round  the  diflfe- 
rent  tables. 

"  The  dish  of  Ryzerc  the  scholar,  what- 
ever might  be  desired  upon  it  would  be 
found  ready  dressed. 

'*  The  chessboard  of  Gwenzolan,  the  tables 
of  silver,  and  the  men  of  gold,  and  they 
would  play  of  themselves  when  the  dice 
were  thrown. 

"  The  whetstone  of  Tudeno,  which  would 
sharpen  the  weapon  of  the  brave,  and  blunt 
the  coward's. 

"  The  horn  of  Br&n,  the  liquor  desired 
would  be  found  in  it. 

**  The  halter  of  Cludno,  the  horse  that 
should  be  desired  would  be  found  in  it. 

"  The  cauldron  of  Dyrnoc,  in  which  the 
meat  of  a  coward  would  never  be  done 
enough,  but  that  of  the  hero  would  be  ready 
instantly. 

**  The  car  of  Morgan  Mwynvawr,  whoever 
went  in  it  would  be  instantly  in  whatever 
place  he  desired. 

"  The  Barged  (what  is  that  ?)  of  G wyzno. 
If  the  provision  of  one  person  was  put  in  it, 


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the  provision  of  an  hundred  men  would  be 
found  therein  when  opened. 
Given  me  bj  William  Owen. 


wv^v^^^/s^^^%^^^^^»^/w 


The  Deaf  Serpent. 

'*  A  8BBPEKT,  whiche  that  aspidis 
Li  cleped,  of  his  kinde  hath  this, 
That  he  the  stone  noblest  of  all 
The  whiche  that  men  carbuncle  call, 
Bereth  in  his  heed  above  on  high, 
For  whiche  whan  that  a  man  by  slight. 
The  stone  to  W3mne,  and  him  to  dante, 
With  his  carecte  him  wolde  enchante. 
Anone  as  he  perceiveth  that, 
He  lejth  downe  his  one  ear  all  plat 
Unto  the  ground,  and  halt  it  fast ; 
And  eke  that  other  eare  als  faste 
He  'shoppeth  with  his  taille  so  sore, 
That  he  the  wordes,  lasse  or  more. 
Of  his  enchantement  ne  hereth. 
And  in  this  wise  himselfe  he  skiereth. 
So  that  he  hath  the  wordes  wajved. 
And  thus  his  eare  is  nought  deceived.** 

GOWEK. 

Does  not  "  the  deaf  adder,  that  heareth 
not  the  voice  of  the  charmer,  charm  he  never 
so  wisely,**  allude  to  some  snake  that  cannot 
be  enticed  by  music,  as  thej  catch  them  in 
Egypt  f  and  hence  this  ingenious  mode  of 
stopping  his  ears. — ^R.  S. 

'*  QcBTZALCOATL.  This  was  among  the 
Mexicans,  and  all  the  other  nations  of  Ana- 
huac,  the  god  of  the  air.  He  was  said  to 
have  been  once  high  priest  of  Tula.  They 
figured  him  tall,  big,  and  of  a  fair  com- 
plexion, with  an  open  forehead,  large  eyes, 
long  black  hair,  and  a  thick  beard.  From 
a  love  of  decency,  he  wore  always  a  long 
robe ;  he  was  so  rich  that  he  had  palaces 
of  silvex  and  precious  stones ;  he  was  thought 
to  possess  the  greatest  industry,  and  to  have 
invented  the  art  of  melting  metals  and  cut- 
ting gems.   He  was  supposed  to  have  had  the 

*  Qy.  stoppeth  ?  [Quoted  to  ThaUba,  ixth 
Book,  p.  286.- J.  W.  W.] 


most  profound  wisdom,  which  he  c 
in  the  laws  which  he  left  to  manki 
above  all,  to  have  had  the  most  r 
exemplary  manners.  Whenever  h< 
ed  to  promulgate  a  law  in  his  kinj 
ordered  a  crier  to  the  top  of  the  i 
Izatzitepec  (the  hill  of  shouting), 
city  of  Tula,  whose  voice  was  heai 
distance  of  three  hundred  miles, 
time,  the  com  grew  so  strong  that 
ear  was  a  load  for  a  man ;  gourds 
long  as  a  man*s  body :  it  was  unii 
to  die  cotton,  for  it  grew  natural! 
Isolours,  and  all  other  fruits  and  se 
in  the  same  abundance,  and  of  e: 
nary  size.  Then,  too,  there  was  i 
dible  number  of  beautiful  and  sweei 
birds.  All  his  subjects  were  ricl 
sum  up  all  in  one  word,  the  Mexic 
gined  as  much  happiness  under  th 
hood  of  Quetzalcoatl,  as  the  Gr 
under  the  reign  of  Saturn,  whom  tl 
can  god  likewise  resembled  in  t 
which  he  suffered.  Amidst  all  this 
rity,  Tezcatlipoca,  I  know  not  for  i 
son,  wishing  to  drive  him  from  th 
try,  appeared  to  him  in  the  form  < 
man,  and  told  him  that  it  was  thi 
the  gods  that  he  should  be  takei 
kingdom  of  Tlapalla.  At  the  same 
offered  him  a  beverage,  which  Que 
readily  accepted,  in  hopes  of  obtaii 
immortality  after  which  he  aspired, 
no  sooner  drank  it,  than  he  felt  hi 
strongly  inclined  to  go  to  Tlapalls 
set  out  immediately,  accompanied 
of  his  subjects,  who  on  the  way  ent 
him  with  music.  Near  the  city  of 
tillan,  he  felled  a  tree  with  stone 
remained  fixed  in  the  trunk ;  and  m 
nepantla,  he  laid  his  hand  upon  a  st 
lefl  an  impression,  which  the  Mexica 
ed  the  Spaniards  afler  the  conques 
his  arrival  at  Cholula,  the  citizens 
him,  and  made  him  take  upon  him 
vemment  of  their  city.  Besides  the 

*  Claudian  in  Ruf.  p.  29.    [This  re 
to  lib.  i.  V.  209,  &c.— J.  W.  W.] 


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nreetncss  of  his  manners,  the  aversion 
;wed  to  all  kinds  of  cruelty,  insomuch 
16  could  not  bear  to  hear  the  very 
on  of  war,  added  much  to  the  afiec- 
ntertalned  for  him  by  the  inhabitants 
)lula.  To  him  they  said  they  owed 
knowledge  of  melting  metals,  their 
)y  which  they  were  ever  afterwards 
led,  the  rites  and  ceremonies  of  their 
»n,  and  even,  as  some  affirmed,  the  ar- 
nent  of  their  seasons  and  calendar. 
(Ver  being  twenty  years  in  Cholula,  he 
ed  to  pursue  his  journey  to  the  ima- 
'  kingdom  of  Tlapalla,  carrying  along 
tim  four  noble  and  virtuous  youths. 
!  maritime  province  of  C!oatzacoalco, 
missed  them,  and  desired  them  to  as- 
he  Cholulans  that  he  would  return  to 
rt  and  direct  them«  The  Cholulans, 
respect  to  their  beloved  Quetzalcoatl, 
le  reins  of  government  into  the  hands 
se  young  men.  Some  people  sud  that 
idenly  disappeared,  others  that  he  died 
that  coast ;  but  however  it  might  be, 
alcoatl  was  consecrated  as  a  god.  Bar- 
>men  offered  up  their  prayers  to  him, 
er  to  become  fruitful. — Quetzalcoatl, 
aid,  cleared  the  way  for  the  god  of 
because  in  these  countries  rain  is  ge- 
f  preceded  by  wind." 
en  Cortes  came  "  the  shippes  they 
pinion  was  the  god  of  the  ayre  called 
dcoualt,  whiche  came  with  the  temples 
backe,  for  they  dayly  looked  for  him.** 
iq.o/the  Weast  India, 


TMoc} 

LALOC,  Otherwise  Tlalocateuctli,  mas- 
paradise,  was  the  god  of  water.  They 
him  fertilizer  of  the  earth,  and  pro- 
of their  temporal  goods.     They  be- 
he  resided  upon  the  highest  moUn- 
irhere  the  clouds  are  generally  formed, 
18  those  of  Tlaloc,  Tlascala,  and  To- 


»r  Tlaloe  and  Aiauh^  see  the  xiith  sec* 
;  Madoc  in  AsU&n,  p.  385.— J.  W.  W. 


luca,  whither  they  often  went  to  implore  his 
protection.  The  ancients  also  believed  that 
in  all  the  high  mountains  there  resided  other 
gods,  subaltern  to  Tlaloc.  They  all  went 
under  the  same  name,  and  were  revered  not 
only  as  gods  of  water,  but  also  as  the  gods 
of  mountains.  The  image  of  Tlaloc  was 
painted  blue  and  green,  to  express  the  dif- 
ferent colours  that  are  observed  in  water. 
He  held  in  his  hand  a  rod  of  gold,  of  an 
undulated  and  pointed  form,  by  which  they 
intended  to  denote  the  lightning. 

"  In  the  inner  part  of  the  greater  temple 
of  Mexico,  there  was  a  particular  place  where 
they  supposed  that  on  a  certain  day  of  the 
year  all  the  children  which  had  been  sacri- 
ficed to  Tlaloc,  came,  and  invisibly  assisted 
at  the  ceremony.'* 


Aiavh, 

*'  AiAUH  is  one  of  the  names  of  the  water 
goddess,  the  companion  of  Tlaloc.  TheTlas- 
calans  called  her  Matlalcueje,  that  is,  clothed 
in  a  green  robe ;  and  they  gave  the  same 
name  to  the  highest  mountain  of  Tlascala, 
on  whose  summit  are  formed  those  stormy 
clouds  which  generally  burst  over  the  city 
of  Angelopoli.  To  that  summit  the  Tlasca- 
lans  ascended  to  perform  their  sacrifices, 
and  offer  up  their  prayers.** 


St  John, 

"  If  it  were  worth  while  to  unravel  the 
fable  of  the  caldron  of  oil,  perhaps  it 
might  appear  to  be  an  African  tale  that 
rose  out  of  a  confusion  of  the  names  of 
the  island.  The  Phoenicians,  Syrians,  and 
Jews  used  to  call  the  island  Batraos,  which 
signified  turpentine,  gum  exuding  from  pines 
and  other  trees,  for  which  this  and  the  other 
islands  of  the  Cyclades  were  famous.  The 
resinous  juices  called  turpentines  are  ob- 
tained from  some  trees  by  incision,  and  re- 
ceived into  bats  or  vats,  in  trenches,  and 
afterwards  freed  from  their  impurities  b}* 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERABY  COMPOSITION. 


straining,  boiling,  distilling,  and  so  on.  The 
process  is  not  always  favourable  to  the  health 
of  such  as  are  engaged  in  it.  How  easy  to 
an  African  lip,  a  confusion  of  terms,  as  bat, 
bath,  botmon,  botamo,  albotim,  balneum,  and 
so  on ;  and  how  natural  to  an  enthusiast,  a 
confusion  of  coppers,  persecutions,  and  the 
miracle  of  escaping  unhurt.**-^RoBiif80if. 
Hiit.  of  Baptism. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^w 


Christian  Symbols, 

'*  A  ULLT  on  a  tomb  denotes  a  virgin  or 
a  confessor,  and  a  palm-branch  signifies  a 
martyr.** — ^Robikson. 


^^W^^^^^^^^f^^M^^^^^i^^ 


Peruvian  Bark* 


"  There  is  a  famous  tree  known  in  seve- 
ral provinces  of  South  America  under  the 
name  of  quina'quinoj  and  in  the  province 
of  Maynas,  on  the  banks  of  the  river  Ma- 
rannon,  under  that  of  Tatchi.  A  fragrant 
resin  distills  from  the  trunk  by  means  of  an 
incision.  The  seeds,  called  by  the  Spaniards 
Pepitas  de  quina-quina^  have  the  form  of 
beans,  or  of  flat  almonds,  and  are  enclosed 
in  a  kind  of  doubled  leaf,  between  which 
and  the  leaf  is  found  a  little  of  the  same  re- 
sin that  distills  from  the  tree.  Their  chief 
use  is  to  make  fifllnigations,  which  are  re- 
puted cordial  and  wholesome,  but  their  re- 
putation is  much  less  now  than  formerly. 

'^  This  tree  grows  plentifully  in  several 
provinces  of  high  Peru.  The  natives  make 
rolb  or  masses  of  the  resin,  which  they  sell 
at  Potosi  and  Chucuisaca,  where  they  serve 
not  only  to  fumigate  or  perfume  with,  but 
also  for  several  other  uses  in  physic,  some- 
times under  the  form  of  a  plaster,  sometimes 
under  that  of  a  compound  oil  made  from 
the  resin.  This  substance  is  supposed  to 
promote  perspiration,  strengthen  the  nerves, 
and  to  restore  the  motion  of  the  joints  in 
gouty  people,  by  barely  carrying  in  the 
hand,  and  continually  handling  it. 

^  The  stalk  is  triangular,  furrowed,  and 


pithy,  emitting  branches  alternately,  with  a 
leafy  wing  running  along  every  angle,  like 
a  three-edged  sword  blade,  terminating  here 
and  there  in  a  rounded  form.  These  wings 
are  thick,  and  curiously  veined.  When 
steeped  in  hot  water,  in  order  to  expand 
them,  they  become  covered  all  over  with  a 
white  powdery  substance.** — Trans,  of  the 
Linmean  Soc,  vol.  3. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^MA^^i^^A^^ 


New  England  Fasts  and  Thanksgivings. 

^  There  is  one  distinguishing  character- 
istic in  the  religious  character  of  the  New 
Englanders  which  we  must  not  omit  men- 
tioning ;  and  that  is  the  custom  of  annuallj 
celebrating  fasts  and  thanksgivings.  In  the 
spring,  the  governors  of  the  several  New 
England  States,  except  Rhode  Island,  issue 
their  proclamations,  appointing  a  day  to  be 
religiously  observed  in  fasting,  humiliation, 
and  prayer,  throughout  their  respective 
States,  in  which  the  predominating  vices, 
that  particularly  call  for  humiliation,  are 
enumerated.  In  autumn,  after  harvest,  that 
gladsome  era  in  the  husbandman*s  life,  the 
governors  again  issue  their  proclainatioDS, 
appointing  a  day  of  public  thanksgiving, 
enumerating  the  public  blessings  received 
in  the  course  of  the  foregoing  year,  lliis 
pious  custom  originated  with  their  venerable 
ancestors,  the  first  settlers  of  New  England, 
and  has  been  handed  down  through  the  suc- 
cessive generations  of  their  posterity.  A 
custom  so  rational,  and  so  happily  calculated 
to  cherish  in  the  minds  of  the  people  a  sense 
of  their  dependence  on  the  Great  Benefac- 
tor of  the  world  for  all  their  blessings,  it  is 
hoped  will  ever  be  preserved." — Wihtei- 

BOTHAM. 


^««W«MAA^^«^MMMAAA«^VW 


Du  Ouesclin. 

"Bbrtrahd  du  Guesclin  had  been  «1- 
wayes  a  most  valiant  knight,  and  one  highly 
renowned  in  all  histories.  After  he  bail 
performed  many  worthy  enterprizes  ever  to 
his  fame  and  honour,  he  niaried  with  abeau- 
tifuU  lady,  named  Tiphania,  descended  oft 


DBAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


149 


r.  After  which  mariage,he  grow- 
i  and  diBContinue  his  former  ex- 
mes,  as  he  sate  discoursing  with 
e  gentlj  began  to  blame  and  re- 
declaring  that,  before  their  ma- 
allowed  the  warres,  wherein  he 
ed  the  cheifest  reputation,  and 
;her  suted  with  the  nature  nor 
rue  gentleman  to  lose  the  least 
honour  wonne  before,  bj  over 
ting  a  new-made  choise.  As  for 
she,  who  ought  to  shine  bj  the 
ince  of  your  fame,  I  shall  account 

low  dejected  if  you  give  over  a 
'ell  begun,  and  lose  your  spirits 
love,  wer  it  to  one  more  worthy 
fe. 

wordes  did  so  neerely  touch  the 
it  hee  began  againe  to  follow 
rein  he  carried  himselfe  so  va- 
\,  they  did  well  and  worthily  at- 
>  him,  to  stand  as  a  stout  rampier 
,  in  the  very  sharpest  times  of 

evermore  made  a  meere  barre 
,  against  the  hottest  invasions  of 
1.  By  vertue  of  his  valour,  king 

having  reconquered  most  part 
ritories,  whiche  had  been  insulted 
eigne  of  the  preceding  kings,  al- 
e  head  against  that  valiant  £d- 
med  the  Black  Prince,  and  Prince 
nd  disappointed  all  his  hopes.   It 
t  re-established  Henry  II.  king 
in  his  kingdom,  in  despight  of  all 
uid  English  forces.  Hee  was  also 
table  of  France  by  king  Charles 
Ide  him  in  such  endeared  affec- 
s  valour,  that  having  bestowed 
on  him  in  his  life  time,  afler  his 
id  him  so  much  honour,  as  to  let 
>ied  at  S.  Denis,  at  tho  feete  of 
nbe  which  this  king  had  prepared 
umselfe.*'— TVeoffitry  of  An,  and 


«^/»<WWM^^»A^^^^W^W»«W^» 


Arabian  Vipers. 

rus  avoucheth,  that  those  vipers 
d  in  the  provinces  of  Arabia,  al- 


though they  do  bite,  yet  their  biting  is  not 
venomous,  because  they  doe  feede  on  the 
baulme  tree,  and  sleepe  under  the  shadow 
thereof." — Treatwy,  jrc. 


^^^^S^^^A/^^^^^^^^^^M^M^ 


Reason  far  Wearing  Spectades, 

'*  I HAVB  heard  of  a  great  lord  in  Spaine, 
that  would  alwaies  eate  cherries  with  his 
spectacles  on  his  nose,  onely  to  make  them 
seeme  the  bigger  and  more  nourishing.** 

Ibid. 


«^^AA^i^^^M^^^^^%^A^^kA^ 


St.  PatricVs  Purgatory. 

'*  QcjB  quidem  Trophonii  fabula  mihi 
adeo  videtur  similis  ei,  quse  de  Patricii  au- 
tre, quod  est  in  Hybemi&,  fertur,  ut  altera 
ex  alter&  nata  credi  possit.  Tametsi  non 
desunt  etiam  hodi^  permulti,  qui  descen- 
dant, sed  prius  triduano  evicti  jejunio,  ne 
capita  Sana  ingrediantur.  Qui  descenderunt 
aiunt  sibi  ridendi  libidinem,  in  omni  vitft 
ademptam.** — Erasmus. 


^>^^/VS/V\^/>/SMAAA^M^^* 


John  the  Baptist. 

'*  Whsu  John  was  about  thirty  years  of 
age,  in  obedience  to  the  heavenly  call,  he 
entered  on  his  ministry,  by  quitting  the 
hill  country,  and  going  down  by  the  wilder- 
ness to  the  plains  of  Jordan,  by  proclaim- 
ing the  kingdom  of  God,  the  near  advent  of 
the  Messiah,  and  the  necessity  of  preparing 
to  receive  him  by  laying  aside  sin  and  su- 
perstition, and  by  an  exercise  of  universal 
justice ;  and  lastly,  by  identifying  the  per- 
son of  Jesus  as  the  Messiah.  He  distributed 
various  rules  of  righteousness  among  the 
different  classes  that  attended  his  ministry. 
He  said  to  soldiers.  Do  violence  to  no  man ; 
he  exhorted  publicans  to  avoid  exaction; 
and  he  taught  the  people  benevolence.  Let 
him  that  hath  two  coats  impart  to  him  that 
hath  none ;  and  he  directed  all  to  Jesus  as 
Master  and  Lord,  in  manifesting  whom  his 
ministry  was  to  cease.   His  dress  was  plain. 


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hiB  diet  abstemious,  and  his  whole  deport- 
ment grave,  serious,  and  severe. 

*^  It  is  uncertain  bj  what  means  John 
obtained  an  interview  with  Herod,  but, 
certain  it  is,  be  reproved  him  for  living  in 
adultery  with  Herodias  his  brother  Philip*8 
wife,  and  his  language  was  that  of  a  man 
who  well  understood  civil  government,  for 
he  considered  law  as  supreme  in  a  state,  and 
told  the  king,  1/  is  not  lawful  far  thee  to  have 
thy  brother's  uri/e,  Herodias  was  extremely 
displeased  with  John  for  his  honest  free- 
dom, and  determined  to  destroy  him,  but 
though  she  prevailed  on  the  king  to  impri- 
son him,  yet  she  could  not  persuade  him  to 
put  him  to  death.  Two  great  obstacles 
opposed  her  design.  Herod  himself  was 
shocked  at  the  thought,  for  he  had  observed 
John,  was  convinced  of  his  piety  and  love 
of  justice,  he  had  received  pleasure  in  hear- 
ing him,  and  had  done  many  things  which 
John  had  advised  him  to  do,  and  as  there 
is  a  dignity  in  innocence,  the  qualities  of 
the  man  had  struck  him  with  an  awe  so 
deep  and  solemn  that,  tyrant  as  he  was,  he 
could  not  think  of  taking  away  the  life  of 
John.  Herod  also  dreaded  the  resentment 
of  the  public,  for  he  knew  the  muUUude  held 
John  as  a  prophet,  Herodias,  therefore, 
waited  for  a  favourable  opportunity  to  sur- 
prise the  king  into  the  perpetration  of  a 
crime,  which  neither  justice  nor  policy 
could  approve,  and  such  an  one  she  found 
on  the  king's  birth-day.  The  story  is  at 
large  in  the  gospel.  Dreadful  is  the  con- 
dition of  a  country  where  any  one  man  is 
above  controul,  and  can  do  what  this  ab- 
solute king  did !  whether  he  felt,  or  only 
pretended  to  feel,  great  sorrow,  the  fact 
was  the  same,  lie  sent  an  executioner^  and 
commanded  the  head  of  the  prophet  to  be 
brought^  and  John  was  assassinated  in  the 
prison, 

''  The  murder  did  not  sit  easy  on  the  re- 
collection of  Herod,  for,  soon  afler,  when 
he  heard  of  the  fame  of  Jesus,  his  conscience 
exclaimed,  it  is  John  whom  I  beheaded,  he 
is  risen  from  the  dead  I  Certainly  John  the 
Baptist  will  ripe  from  the  dead,  and  Herod  \ 


the  tetrarch  must  meet  him  befcnre  an  ua* 
partial  judge,  who  will  reward  or  pamsh 
each  according  to  the  deeds  done  in  the 
body.  In  the  present  case,  the  judge  htth 
declared  the  character  of  John.  Johm  wos 
a  burning  and  a  shining  light.  Among  them 
that  are  bom  of  women^  there  hath  not  risen 
a  greater  than  John  the  Baptist. 

*^  Jesus  speaking  of  the  ill  treatment  of 
John,  implies  that  posterity  would  do  hii 
character  justice ;  and  true  it  is  the  chil- 
dren of  wisdom  have  justified  John.  But 
mankind  have  entertained,  according  to 
their  various  prejudices,  very  different  opi- 
nions of  that  in  which  his  work  oonasted. 
The  Jews  praise  his  rectitude,  and  pity  his 
fate,  for  John  was  their  countiyman,  and 
they  hated  Herod.^  The  Arabians  celebrate 
his  abstemiousness,  and  say  Providence 
avenged  his  death.'  The  Catholics  have  in- 
vented a  thousand  fables,  and  placed  to 
his  account  the  origin  of  monachiam,  and 
the  working  of  miracles.  They  have  put 
him  among  their  gods,  consecrated  watersi 
built  baptisteries  and  temples  to  his  honoar, 
assigned  him  a  day  in  the  calendar,  called 
themselves  by  his  name,  collected  hb  pre- 
tended relics,  adorned  them  with  silver  and 
gold  and  jewellery,  and  wholly  overlooked 
that  which  made  John  the  greatest  that  had 
been  bom  of  women.*  How  deplorable  » 
it,  that  in  the  seventeenth  century,  in  the 
enlightened  kingdom  of  France,  such  a  man 
as  Du  Fresne,  of  extensive  literature,  of 
amiable  manners,  an  instructor  of  all  Eu- 
rope in  matters  of  antiquity,  ahould  dis- 
grace his  pen  by  publishing  a  treatise  to 

"  *  Joseph  Gorion.  1.  5.  cap.  45.  Gana  Tie- 
mach  David,  i.  xxt.  2.  Herodes  Johannem  »• 
cerdotem  maximum,  eo  quod  ipsum  redarsruisset 
occidlt  gladio,cum  multis  aUissapientibus  Israel, 
&c.» 

"  •  Koran,  chap.  3,  ch.  17,  note  6.  Joh.  Hea* 
ric.  Hottingeri  Historia  Oriental,  ex  variis  Ori- 
ental, monument.  coUecta.  Tiguri.  1651.  cap.  9. 
Muhammedis  geneal.  p.  86.  96.  Beidhavi.  Zud- 
haschari.  Kesseua,  &uc.  D'Herbelot.  Bibl.  Jalu* 
Ben  Zacnaria." 

<*  *  Barun.  Annal.~Acta  Sanct.  ^Faciandi 
Antiq.  Christ." 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


151 


t  his  native  city  of  Amiens  was  in 
1  of  that  precious  relic  the  head  of 
the  Baptist,  found  at  Jerusalem, 
I  Constantinople,  discovered  again 
,y  of  Emesa,  then  transported  to 
carried  again  to  Constantinople, 
I  French  found  it  when  thej  took 
and  whence  thej  oonve/ed  it  to 
rhere  it  is  now  enshrined  in  all 
of  saintship.*^  ^ — ^Robihsoh^s  JETiit 


^^N^VN^^^^^^^V^^^^^^'^W* 


Education  of  Chivalry, 

>HTOif8  jusqu  it  Tenfance  de  celui 
iestinoit  it  devenir  Chevalier.  D^ 
;  atteint  FAge  de  sept  ans,  on  le  re- 
mains des  femmes,  poor  le  oonfier 
les.  Une  ^ucation  m&le  et  ro- 
ir^paroit  de  bonne  heure  aux  tra- 
a  guerre,  dont  la  profession  ^toit 
ue  celle  de  la  Chevalerie.  Au  d^- 
lecoors  patemels,  une  infinite  de 
Princes  et  de  ch&teaux  offroient 
I  toujours  ouvertes,  oii  la  jeune 
recevoit  les  premieres  le9ons  du 
i*elle  devoit  embrasser ;  et  mdme 
«8  oii  la  gen^rosit^  des  Seigneurs 
t  abondamment  it  tous  ses  besoins. 
onrce  ^it  la  seule,  dans  cessi^- 
iureux,  oii  la  puissance  et  la  lib^- 
Souverains,  ^alement  restrelntes, 
point  encore  ouvert  une  route  plus 
>Ius  utile,  pour  quiconque  vouloit 
r  k  la  defense  et  it  la  gloire  de 
et  de  leur  couronne.  S^attacher 
3  iUustre  Chevalier  n*avoit  rien, 
[nps-lit,qui  piit  avilir,  ni  d^grader : 
idre  service  pour  service ;  et  Ton 
ssoit  point  les  raffinemens  d*une 
I  plus  subtile  que  judicieuse,  qui 
us^  de  rendre  it  celui  qui  vouloit 
ment  tenir  lieu  de  p^re,  les  ser- 
m  pk«  doit  attendre  de  son  fils. 


t^  hbtorique  da  ehef  de  S.  Jean  Bap- 

des  preuTes  et  des  remarques  par 

1  Fresne,  Sr.  da  Cange.    Paris.  Cfra- 


Si  Ton  trouve  que  je  fais  aux  sidles  dont 
je  parlc  plus  d'honneur  qu*ils  ne  m^tent, 
en  leur  attribuant  des  id^  si  saines  et  des 
sentimens  si  vertucux,  on  peut  chercher 
dans  la  vanit^  des  m^es  sidles  la  source 
de  cet  usage:  mais  il  faudra,  du  moins, 
avouer  que  la  vanit^  concouroit  alors  au 
bien  public,  et  qu*elle  imitoit  la  vertu.** — 
MhnoireM  sur  Fancienne  Chevalerie^  par 
Saihtx-Palatb. 

Palace  Pomp  of  the  Barane. 

'*  L*BSPXGa  d*ind^pendance  dont  avoient 
joui  les  hauts  Barons,  au  commencement  de 
la  troisi^e  race,  et  T^tat  de  leurs  Maisons, 
compost  des  m^es  officiers  que  celle  du 
Roi,  furent  pour  leurs  successeurs  comme 
des  titres  qui  les  mettoient  en  droit  d*imi- 
ter,  par  le  faste  de  ce  quMls  appelloient  leur 
Cour,  la  splendeur  et  la  magnificence  qui 
n*appartenoient  qu*  it  la  dignite  Royale* 
D*autres  Seigneurs  subaltemes,  par  une  es- 
p^e  de  contagion  trop  ordinaire  dans  tous 
les  sidles,  en  cherchant  de  plus  en  plus  it 
se  rapprocher  de  ceux-ci,s*efforcoient  ^de- 
ment d*41ever  T^tat  de  leurs  maisons.  On 
trouvoit  dans  un  ch&teau,  dans  un  monas- 
t^re,  des  offices  semblables  it  ceux  de  la 
cour  d*un  Souverain ;  et  comme  le  Roi  com- 
mettoit  ces  offices  aux  Princes  de  son  sang, 
les  Seigneurs  distribuoient  aussi  de  pareilles 
dignites  it  leurs  parens ;  qui  de  leur  c6t^  re- 
gardoient  ces  places  sous  le  meme  point  de 
vde,  et  trouvoient^  en  les  acceptant,  de  quoi 
satisfaire  la  vanite  dont  ils  se  repaissoientJ 


tf 


Ibid. 


«^^<V>/«^<^»^»W^<^^^^»^M% 


Pages, 

"  Lbs  premiss  places  que  Ton  donnoit 
it  remplir  aux  jeunes  gens  qui  sortoient  de 
Tenfance,  ^ient  celles  de  Pages,  Yarlets  ou 
Damoiseaux;  noms  quelquefois  communs 
aux  ecuyers.  Les  fonctions  de  ces  Pages 
^toient  les  services  ordinaires  des  domes- 
tiques  aupr^  de  la  personne  de  leur  mattre 
et  de  leur  mattresse :  ils  les  aocompagnoient 


^  la  chasse,  dans  leurs  yoyages,  dans  leurs 
visites  ou  promenades,  faisoient  leurs  mes- 
sages, et  meme  les  servoient  k  table,  et  leur 
versoient  k  boire." — Ibid. 

LWnwur  de  Dieu  et  dcs  Dames, 

"  I^ES  premieres  lemons  qu'on  leur  don- 
noit  regardoient  principalement  Tamour  de 
Dieu  et  des  Dames,  c*est  k  dire,  la  religion 
et  la  galanterie.  Si  Ton  en  croit  la  chro- 
nique  de  Jean  de  Saintre,  c*etoit  ordinaire- 
ment  les  Dames  qui  se  chargeoient  du  soin 
de  leur  apprendre,  en  meme  terns,  leur  ca- 
techisme  et  Tart  d*aimer.  Mais  autant  la 
devotion  qu*on  leur  inspiroit  ^toit  accom- 
pagn^e  de  puerility  et  de  superstitions,  au- 
tant Tamour  des  Dames,  qu*on  leur  recom- 
mandoit,  ^toit-il  rempli  de  raffinement  et  de 
fanatisme.  II  semble  qu*on  ne  pouvoit,  dans 
ces  siccles  ignorans  et  grossiers,  presenter 
aux  hommes  la  religion  sous  une  forme  as- 
sez  materielle  pour  la  mettre  k  leur  portde; 
ni  leur  donner,  en  meme  temps,  une  idee  de 
Tamour  assez  pure,  assez  m^taphysique, 
pour  prevenir  les  exc^  dont  etoit  capable 
une  Nation  qui  conservoit  par- tout  le  ca- 
ract^re  impetucux  qu^elle  montroit  k  la 
guerre. 

"  Pour  mettre  le  jeune  novice  en  ^tat  de 
pratiquer  ces  bizarres  lemons  de  galanterie, 
on  lui  faisoit  de  bonne  heure  faire  choix 
de  quelqu*une  des  plus  nobles,  des  plus 
belles  et  des  plus  vertueuses  Dames  des 
Cours  qu'il  frdquentoit ;  c*dtoit  elle  k  qui, 
comme  k  T£tre  souverain,  il  rapportoit  tous 
ses  sentimens,  toutes  ses  pens^es  et  toutes 
ses  actions.  Get  amour,  aussi  indulgent  que 
la  religion  de  ce  temps-I^  se  pretoit  et  s*ac- 
commodoit  k  d*autres  passions  moins  pures 
et  moins  honnetes.** — Ibid. 


»/W>/W>^«^>^^VS^^rf»/V^/V>^ 


The  Amusements  of  the  Pages, 

**  Les  jeux  m6mes,  qui  faisoient  partie 
de  Tamusement  des  el^ves  contribuoient  en- 
core k  leur  instruction.    Le  godt  naturel  k 


leur  fige,  d^imiter  tout  ce  quails  voyoient 
faire  aux  personnes  d'un  Age  plus  avanc^ 
les  portoit  k  lancer  conune  eux  la  pierre  on 
le  dard,  k  d^fendre  un  passage  que  d*autre8 
essayoient  de  forcer;  et  faisant  de  leurs 
chaperons  des  casques  ou  des  bacinets,  ils  se 
disputoient  la  prise  de  quelque  place;  ils 
prenoient  un  avant-gout  des  dificrentes  es- 
p^ces  de  Toumois,  et  comraen9oient  i  se 
former  aux  noble  cxercices  des  Ecuyers  et 
des  Chevaliers.*' — Ibid. 


■wwvwwwwv/v/v^wv^^ 


Ceremony  on  quitting  Pagehood, 

**  Avaut  que  de  passer  de  T^tat  de  Page 
k  celui  d'Ecuyer,  la  religion  avoit  introduit 
une  espece  de  c^r^onie  dont  le  but  etoit 
d'apprendrc  aux  )eunes  gens  Tusage  qu'ilt 
devoient  faire  de  T^p^e,  qui  pour  la  pre- 
mise fois  leur  ^toit  remise  entre  les  mains. 
Le  jeune  Gentilhomme,  nouvellement  sorti 
hors  de  Page^  4toit  present^  k  Tautel  par 
son  p^re  et  sa  m^re,  qui  chacun  un  cierge 
k  la  main  alloient  k  Toffrande.  Le  Pretre 
celebrant  prenoit  de  dessus  Tautel  une  ^p^ 
et  une  ceinture,  sur  laquelle  il  faisoit  plu- 
sieurs  benedictions,  et  Tattachoit  au  cdt^  du 
jeune  Gentilhomme  qui  alors  commen^oit 
k  la  porter." — ^Ibid. 


Blackbird  and  Woodlark 

The  blackbird  is  a  solitary  bird,  fre* 
qucnting  woods  and  thickets,  chiefly  of 
evergreens,  such  as  pines,  firs,  &c.  especially 
where  there  are  perennial  springs,  which 
afford  it  both  shelter  and  subsistence.  Thej 
begin  to  warble  earlier  than  any  other 
birds,  and  their  most  obvious  character  is 
timorousness. 

The  woodlark  sings  during  the  night. 

R.S. 

Ladders  blackened, 

"  At  the  attempt  to  surprise  Geneva 
1602,  the  ladders  on  which  the  scalade  was 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERAEY  COMPOSITION. 


performed  were  blackened,  to  prevent 
being  perceiTed." —  Urdeertal  Hitiory. 


FkUip  DtAt  of  MUan. 
'mur  nicceeded  to  the  dukedom  of 
1  .  .  .  .  upon  the  murder  of  hia  brother 

Haria.  He  mirried  Beatrix,  widov 
icino.  Philip,  tit  this  time,  iraatcarue); 
tj  years  of  age,  and  she  was  about 
'-eight,  but  pmaessed  of  all  the  re- 
I  of  her  husband's  authoritj,  m  well  as 
h.  The  disproportion  there  was  be- 
I  their  agea  had  disgusted  Philip  so 
,  (hat  he  had  absUuned  from  her  bed. 
ca  not  i4)pear  that  the  ladj  resented 
■rovocation  in  anj  indecent,  or  indeed 
mate  manner ;  and  she  bad  even  sub- 
d  to  Eerre  him  in  the  most  menial 
s.  Unfortnnatelj  for  her,  she  eoier- 
]  ■■  an  attendant  one  Oroinbelti,  a 
r  man  accompliahed  in  the  arts  of  mu- 
ancing,  and  the  other  embellishments 
ire  mott  acceptable  at  a  court.  Philip 
lering  her  life  as  an  obstacle  to  his 
lire,  accused  her  of  criminal  converaa- 
vith  this  youth  ;  and  though  nothing 
.  be  worse  founded  than  the  charge, 
in  enchanted  utensils  were  pretended 

found  under  her  bed.  Upon  this  vil- 
a  pretext  the  duuhess  was  seized  and 
led  prisoner  in  the  Castle  of  Binasco. 
joiith  was  imprisoned  at  the  same 
-,  and,  according  to  common  report, 
ofthemwereput  to  the  torture.  What- 
might  be  in  this,  it  is  certain  that  he 
ortured  ;  and  unable  to  withstand  the 

of  the  pain,  he  confessed  the  criuii- 
I,  for  which  both  of  them  were  con- 
ed  to   death,  after  being  confronted 

each  other.  On  this  occasion  the 
less  shewed  an  invincible  constancy, 
reproached  Orombelli  with  his  weak- 

in  yielding  to  tortures  to  confess  a 
lood ;  and  in  the  most  solemn  and  af- 
ig  manner  she  called  God  to  witness 
er  innocency,  only  she  implored  his 
in  for   having  yielded  to  the  Arch- 


bishop of  Milan  in  persuading  her  to  so 
unequal  a  match.  She  declared  she  never 
had  resented  the  Duke*s  abstaining  from 
her  bed,  and  she  mentioned  the  great  for- 
tune and  acquisitions  she  had  brought  Phi- 
lip, concluding  that  she  the  less  regretted 
ber  death,  bei:ause  she  had  preserved  her 
innocenue.  Having  finished  the  pathetic 
declaration,  OrombcUi  was  put  to  death  be- 
fore her  eyes,  and  she  followed  him  with 
the  most  heroic  constancy.  By  the  ac- 
counts of  all  historians  she  was  a  woman  of 
a  very  exalted  character,  and  no  reproach 
remains  upon  her  memory,  but  the  inequa- 
lity of  her  mateh  with  Philip.  The  young 
man  was  so  perfectly  conscious  of  his  own 
innocence,  that  he  might  have  escaped  when 
the  was  made  prisoner,  but  instead  of  that 
he  came  as  usual  to  court,  and  declared  he 
knew  nothing  of  the  matter,  though  his 
friends  told  him  of  his  danger.  Soon  after 
the  execution  of  the  Duchess,  the  Dnke 
brought  to  his  court  a  young  Milanese  lady, 
whom  he  had  ravished  some  time  before." 
—Ibid. 

Murderert  of  Makdm. 
A.D.  94. "  Malcolm  king  of  Scots  died  by 
the  hands  of  robbers.  In  the  churchyard 
of  Glamis  stands  a  carved  stone,  referring 
to  the  circumstances  of  this  assassination. 
A  centaur  and  a  wolf  denote  the  barbarity 
of  the  conspirators,  while  two  fishes  express 
the  fate  of  these  murtherers.  While  they 
tried  to  escape,  the  snow  misled  them ;  they 
wandered  to  the  lake  of  Forfar,  the  ice 
broke,  and  they  all  perished  miserably. 
Many  ontifiue  weapons  lately  found  in 
draining  that  lake  confirm  this  account, 
and  near  these  there  were  found  brass  pots 
and  pans,  probably  part  of  the  plunder  of 
Malcolm's  palace." — ^Pbhitakt.  Artdmn. 


The  Form  lued  al  Ike  Fiuural  of  the  Greek 

Emprrort. 

"  AiTEB  the  body  bad  lain«n  state,  and 

had  received  the  salutes  of  the  patricians. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


the  senators,  and  the  great  officers,  the 
Master  of  the  Ceremonies  cried  aloud,  '  Be 
gone,  O  Emperor,  the  King  of  kings,  the 
Lord  of  lords  demands  you.*  On  which 
the  attendants  raised  the  body  and  carried 
it  to  the  church  of  the  Apostles,  where  the 
High  Chamberlain  with  his  own  hands  put 
on  its  shroud,  and  lowered  it  into  the  im- 
perial tomb.** — CoDiNiJS.  Andrews, 


St  RommUl} 

**  1006.  St.  Robhtald  founded  the  Ca- 
maldules  in  Italy.  He  fled  from  Spain, 
because  the  Spaniards,  to  make  sure  of  his 
relics,  were  going  to  murder  him.** — St. 
Foix.  Andrews, 


^^^>W^^^^»^^^^^^^^^^'%^^>^ 


Bloody  Soil  near  Battle, 

**  Expect  not  here  I  should  insert  what 
William  of  Newbury  writeth,  that  not  far 
from  Battail  Abby,  in  the  place  where  so 
great  a  slaughter  of  the  Englishmen  was 
made,  ailer  any  shower,  presently  sweateth 
forth  very  fresh  blood  out  of  the  earth,  as 
if  the  evidence  thereof  did  plainly  declare 
the  voice  of  blood  there  shed,  and  crieth 
still  from  the  earth  unto  the  Lord.** — ^Ful- 


ler. 


Vmv^^^>^^^»^^w%^^w^^^ 


St  Keyne's  WeU.^ 

'*  I  Know  not  whether  it  be  worth  the  re- 
porting, that  there  is  in  Cornwall,  near  the 
parbh  of  St.  Neots,  a  well  arched  over  with 
the  robes  of  four  kinds  of  trees,  withy,  oak, 
elm,  and  ash,  dedicated  to  St.  Ke3me.  The 
reported  vertue  of  the  water  is  this,  that 
whether  husband  or  wife  come  first  to  drink 
thereof,  they  get  the  mastery  thereby.** — 
Ibid.  

Wars  in  Wales, 

"  I  AM  much  affected  with  the  ingenuity 
of  an  English  nobleman,  who  following  the 

»  See  the  Ballad,  D.  436.— J.  W.W. 
«  Ibid.  p.  446. —J.  W.W. 


camp  of  King  Henry  III.  in  these  ptrto 
(Carnarvonshire),  wrote  home  to  his  friendf 
about  the  end  of  September,  1245,  the  naked 
truth  indeed,  as  followeth ;  *  We  lie  in  our 
tents  watching,  fasting,  praying  and  frees- 
ing.  We  watch  for  fear  of  the  Welshmen, 
who  are  wont  to  invade  us  in  the  night; 
we  fast  for  want  of  meat,  for  the  half-peny 
loaf  is  worth  five  pence ;  we  pray  to  God 
to  send  us  home  speedily ;  we  freeze  for 
want  of  winter  garments,  having  nothing 
but  thin  linen  betwixt  us  and  the  wind.**— 
Ibid. 


Atf>/VN/%^^^^^»\^^^^^V^S^ 


Temple  of  Quetudcoatl, 

**  The  temple  of  Quetzalcoatl  differed 
from  the  rest  in  form,  it  being  round,  the 
others  all  quadrangular.  The  door  of  this 
sanctuary  was  the  mouth  of  an  enormoixi 
serpent  of  stone,  armed  with  fangs.  Some 
Spaniards,  tempted  by  curiosity  to  go  into 
that  diabolical  temple,  afterwards  confessed 
the  horror  which  they  felt  upon  entering  it" 


Mexican  Funerals, 

**  As  soon  as  any  person  died,  certain 
masters  of  funeral  ceremonies  were  caHec^ 
who  were  generally  men  advanced  in  years. 
They  cut  a  number  of  pieces  of  paper,  with 
which  they  dressed  the  dead  body,  and  took 
a  glass  of  water  with  which  they  sprinkled 
the  head.  They  then  drest  it  in  a  habit 
suitable  to  the  rank,  the  wealth,  and  the 
circimistances  attending  the  death  of  the 
party.  If  the  deceased  had  been  a  warrior, 
they  clothed  him  in  the  habit  of  Huitzilo- 
pochtli. 

*'  With  the  habit  they  gave  the  d^  t 
jug  of  water,  which  was  to  serve  on  the 
journey  to  the  other  worid,  and  also  at  suc- 
cessive different  times,  different  pieces  of 
paper,  mentioning  the  use  of  each.  On 
consigning  the  first  piece  to  the  dead,  thej 
said,  *  By  means  of  this  you  will  pass,  with- 
out danger,  between  the  two  mountains 
which  fight  against  each  other.*     With  the 


MixhatTt  CAotr.' 

ofGilbettioeCiHtertiuiiiiins 
stood  on  St.  Micbael's  Mount.  On  one  cor* 
ner  of  the  battlement*  of  the  tower  above  ia 
a  stone  niche,  called  St  Michael'a  Chair, 
nhich  gives  all  women  that  venture  to  ait 
in  it  the  auperioiitj  over  their  huabauda.** 

CjtMDBIf. 


DEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERABT  COMPOSITION. 


aaid, '  B7  nteam  of  ttiia  jon  will 
ut  obatniction  along  the  road 
efended  by  the  great  acrpent.* 
Jiird,  '  'By  tbia  70U  will  go  le- 
ngh  the  place  where  there  ia  the 
[ochitonal.*  The  fourth  waa  a 
irt  throagh  the  eight  deaerta; 
irough  the  eight  hilla ;  and  the 
given  in  order  to  paaa  without 
rh  the  aharp  wind ;  for  the/  pre- 
t  it  waa  necessary  to  past  a  place 
hecajan,  where  a  wind  blew  ao 
t  to  tear  up  rocka,  and  ao  sharp, 
like  a  knife ;  on  which  account 
Mi  all  the  habita  which  the  de- 
worn  during  life,  their  anna  and 
ehold  goods,  in  order  that  the 
ia  fire  might  defend  them  from 
'  that  terrible  wind.  One  of  the 
moat  ridiculooi  ceremonies  at 
aa  the  killing  a  tecbichi,  a  do- 
^uped,  resembling  a  little  dog, 
my  the  deceased  in  their  journey 
ler  world.  They  fixed  a  Btring 
leck,  believing  that  necessary  to 
>  pass  the  deep  river  of  Chiuhna- 
Ncw  Watera.  They  buried  the 
r  burned  it  along  with  the  body 
iter,  according  to  the  kind  of 
hich  be  died.  While  the  maalers 
moniea  were  lighting  up  the  fire 
iie  body  was  to  be  burned,  the 
its  kept  singing  in  a  melancholy 
fler  burning  the  body,  they  ga- 
Bshea  in  an  earthen  pot,  amongst 
irding  to  the  circumptancea  of  the 
they  put  a  gem  of  more  or  less 
sh  they  said  would  serve  him  in 
heart  in  the  other  world.  They 
(  earthen  pot  in  a  deep  ditch,  and 
lays  after  made  oblations  of  bread 


were  firmly  persuaded,  that  with- 
guide  aa  tbe  techicbi,  it  would  be 
to  get  through  some  dangerous 
h  led  to  the  other  world." 


Con,  OifOK  of  Ok  Sm. 

"AMOHodieinfaabitaiitsoftheNew  World 
B  common  and  general!  received  opinion  waa 
embraced  with  them,  that,  at  the  beginning 
of  the  world,  from  the  Seplentrionalt,  or 
Northern  parts,  there  came  a  man  cidled 
Con  or  Conon,  who  had  no  bones  in  hia 
whole  body,  and  therefore  went  verie  quicke 
and  lightly,  much  shortening  the  wayes, 
abasing  the  hills  and  mountaines,  and  n  ' 
ing  the  lowe-layd  Tallies  onelie  wilh  his 
word  and  will,  and  named  himselfe  to  be  the 
Sonne  of  the  sunne. 

"  lliis  man  filled  the  earth  with  men 
women,  which  be  produced,  giving  unto 
them  divers  fruites,  and  other  Uiiogs  neces- 
sary for  humane  life.     But  by  a  displea 
sure  ha  received  from  them,  bee  converted 
tbe  earth,  which  bee  before  had  freely  given 
them,  into  a  drie  and  barren  sand,  and  looke 
away  the  raine  also,  that  it  should  nevi 
more  showre  downe,  nor  moisture  any  plac 
Yet  as  pittying  their  miaery,  he  led  them 
rivers  only,  to  the  end  that  they  might  cc 
serve  themselves,  in  watering  the  groui 
by  theyr  owne  paine  and  labour. 

"  At  length  came  one  Pachamo,  who  n 
likewise  sonne  both  to  the  aunne  and  moone, 
and,  having  expelled  or  banished  Conon, 
converted  those  men  into  cattea,  and  afler- 
ward  created  other  men.  The  people  tooke 
this  man  to  be  a  god,  and  so  he  was  gene- 
rally  reputed,  untill  the  Christians  came 
into  those  countries,  havbg  erected  a  very 
good  temple  unto  him,  ncare  to  Lima,  it 
beeing  the  most  renowned  in  all  those  lands : 

>  See  the  Ballad,  p.  431.— J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


because  of  extraordinarj  devotion  there 
used,  in  regard  of  oracles  and  answeres 
which  di veils  gave  to  priests  and  sacrificers 
there  dwelling  in  divers  places." — 7V«i- 
surie^  &c. 

Henry  Holland. 

"  Hehrt,  Duke  of  Exeter,  though  he  had 
married  the  sister  of  Edward  IV.  was  re- 
duced to  such  want  as  to  be  seen  begging 
his  bread  in  rags  and  barefoot  in  Flanders. 
After  the  battle  of  Barnet,  where  he  fought 
bravely  against  Edward  IV.  he  was  not  to 
be  found  till  his  body  was  cast  upon  the 
coast  of  Kent,  as  if  he  had  been  shipwreckt.** 
— Camden. 


«^\^i^i^S/>/\^W\^^VS^^l/V/V>/\/^ 


Hankford^s  Oak* 

"  In  Monkley  Church,  Devonshire,  is  a 
monument  for  Sir  William  Hankford,  Chief 
Justice  of  the  King*8  Bench,  of  whom  the 
Devonshire  historians  pretend  that  he  was 
the  person  who  imprisoned  Prince  Henry, 
son  of  Henry  IV.  and  that  fearing  his  dis- 
pleasure when  King,  he  retired  to  his  seat 
here,  and  charging  the  keeper  of  his  park 
to  kill  any  man  in  his  night  walk  that  would 
not  tell  him  who  he  was,  he  went  into  the 
park  under  those  circumstances,  and  was 
killed.  A  tree  near  which  this  accident  is 
said  to  have  happened  is  still  called  Hank- 
ford's  oak." — GouGH. 


VW%/S/\/>/VA<%/V>/W\M/S>N/V^S« 


Turkish  Astronomy, 

**  From  the  mufli  to  the  peasant  it  is  ge- 
nerally believe<l  that  there  are  seven  hea- 
vens, from  which  the  earth  is  immoveably 
suspended  by  a  large  chain ;  that  the  sun  is 
an  immense  ball  of  fire,  at  least  as  big  as  a 
whole  Ottoman  province,  formed  for  the 
sole  purpose  of  giving  light  and  heat  to  the 
earth ;  that  eclipses  of  the  moon  are  occa- 
sioned by  a  great  dragon  attempting  to  de- 
vour that  luminary ;  that  the  fixed  stars 
hang  by  chains  from  the  highest  heaven. 
These  absurdities  are,  in  part,  supported  by 


the  testimony  of  the  Koran."— Eton's  Swr- 
vey  of  the  Turkish  Empire, 


V^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M«* 


A  Succubus, 


*'In  Germanic,"  said  Lutheb,  '*  was  here- 
tofore a  noble  familie,  which  were  bom  of 
a  Succubus,  and  fell  out  thus : 

^  A  gentleman  had  a  fair  young  wife 
which  died,  and  was  also  buried.  Not  long 
after  the  gentleman  and  his  servant  Ijing 
together  in  one  chamber,  his  dead  wife  in 
the  night  time  approached  into  the  chamber, 
and  leaned  herself  upon  the  gentleman's 
bed,  like  as  if  shee  had  been  desirous  to 
speak  with  him.  The  servant^  seeing  the 
same  two  or  three  nights  one  after  another, 
asked  his  master  whether  he  knew  that 
every  night  a  woman  in  white  apparel  came 
unto  his  bed.  The  gentleman  said,  *  No : 
I  sleep  soundly,*  said  he,  *•  and  see  nothing.' 
When  night  approached,  the  gentleman  con- 
sidering the  same,  laie  waking  in  bed.  I1ien 
the  woman  appeared  unto  him  and  canie 
hard  to  his  bed  side.  The  gentleman  de- 
manded who  she  was  ?  Shee  answered,  *  I 
am  your  wife."  Hee  said,  '  My  wife  is  dead 
and  buried.'  Shee  said, '  True ;  by  reason 
of  your  swearing  and  sins  I  died ;  but  if  you 
would  take  mee  again,  and  would  also  ab- 
stain from  swearing  one  particular  oath, 
which  commonly  you  use,  then  would  I  bee 
your  wife  again.'  Hee  said,  *  I  am  content 
to  perform  what  you  desire.'  Whereupon 
his  dead  wife  remained  with  him,  ruled  his 
hous,  laie  with  him,  ate  and  drank  with  him, 
and  had  children  together.  Now  it  fell  out, 
that  on  a  time  the  gentleman  had  guests, 
and  his  wife  after  supper  was  to  fetch  out  of 
his  chest  som  banquetting  stuflT:  shee  stay- 
ing somewhat  long,  her  husband,  forgetting 
himself,  was  moved  thereby  to  swear  his 
accustomed  oath ;  whereupon  the  woman 
vanished  that  instant.  Now  seeing  shee  re- 
turned not  again,  they  went  up  into  the 
chamber  to  see  what  was  becom  of  her. 
There  they  found  the  gown  which  shee  wore, 
half  lying  within  the  chest  and  half  without 
But  shee  was  never  seen  afterwards. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


157 


"  The  Prince  Electx)r  of  Saxon,  John 
Frederick,  having  received  advertisement  of 
this  strange  accident,  sent  thereupon  pre- 
sently unto  me,**  said  Luther,  **  to  have  my 
opinion  what  I  held  of  tliat  woman  and  of 
the  children  which  were  begotten  and  bom 
of  these  two  persons :  whereupon  I  wrote 
to  his  highness,  that  in  mj  opinion  neither 
that  woman,  nor  those  children  were  not 
right  human  creatures,  but  divels." — Da. 
Maetiii  Luth£s*8  Divine  Discourses  tU  his 
Table,  Sfv,  translated  by  Captain  Henrie 
BelL    1652. 


•N^^^^/S^S^^^y^/S^^^^^^^/N^/S** 


The  Nix. 


^  The  Divel  casteth  before  the  eies  a 
blaze  or  a  mist,  and  so  deceiveth  people, 
insomuch  that  one  thinkcth  hee  lietb  by  a 
right  woman,  and  yet  is  no  such  matter. 
But  inasmuch  as  children  or  divels  are  con- 
ceived in  such  sort,  the  same  are  very  hor- 
rible and  fearful  examples  in  that  Satan  can 
plague  and  so  torment  people  as  to  beget 
children.  Like  unto  this  is  it  also  with  that 
which  they  call  the  Nix  in  the  water,  who 
draweth  people  unto  him,  as  maids  and  vir- 
gins, of  whom  hee  begetteth  divels  children." 
-Ibid. 


•^^^^^^/\/V\^^^^^^^SA^«t^/S> 


Kiilcrops, 

**  The  Divel  can  also  steal  children  away, 
as  sometimes  children  within  the  space  of 
six  weeks  after  their  birth  are  lost,  and  other 
children  or  changelings  laid  in  their  places. 
Of  the  Saxons  they  were  called  Kiilcrops. 

^  Eight  years  since,'*  said  Luther,  '*  at 
Dessaw,  I  did  see  and  touch  such  a  changed 
child,  which  was  twelve  years  of  age,  hee 
bad  his  eies  and  all  members  like  another 
childc.  Hee  did  nothing  but  feed,  and 
would  eat  as  much  as  two  clowns  or  thresh- 
ers were  able  to  eat.  When  one  touched 
^  then  it  cried  out ;  when  anie  evil  hap- 
pened in  the  hous  then  it  laughed  and  was 
joiful ;  but  when  all  went  well,  then  it  cried 
and  was  verj  aad.  I  told  the  Prince  of 
Anhalt,  if  I  were  Prince  of  that  countrie, 


so  would  I  venture  homicidium  thereon, 
and  would  throw  it  into  the  river  Muldaw. 
I  admonished  the  people  dwelling  in  that 
place  devoutly  to  pray  to  God  to  take  away 
the  divel ;  the  same  was  don  accordingly, 
and  the  second  year  after  the  changeling 
died.*'— Ibid. 

"  In  Saxonia,  near  unto  Halberstad,  was 
a  man  that  also  had  a  Killcrop,  who  sucked 
the  mother  and  five  other  women  drie,  and 
besides  devoured  very  much.  This  man 
was  advised  that  hee  should  in  his  pilgrim- 
age at  Halberstad  make  a  promise  of  the 
Killcrop  to  the  Virgin  Marie,  and  should 
cause  him  there  to  be  rockd.  This  advice 
the  man  followed,  and  carried  the  change- 
ling thither  in  a  basket ;  but  going  over  a 
river,  being  upon  the  bridge,  another  divel 
that  was  below  in  the  river  called,  and  said 
'KUlcrop!  Killcrop!'  Then  the  childe  in 
the  basket,  which  never  before  spake  one 
word,  answered  *Ho!  ho!*  The  divel  in 
the  water  asked  further,  '  "Whither  art  thou 
going !  *  the  child  in  the  basket  said,  '  I  am 
going  towards  Halberstad  to  our  loving  mo- 
ther, to  be  rocked.'  The  man  being  much 
affrighted  thereat-,  threw  the  childe  with  the 
basket  over  the  bridge  into  the  water;  where- 
upon the  two  divels  flew  away  together,  and 
cried  ^  Ho !  ho !  ha !  *  tumbling  themselves 
one  over  another,  and  so  vanished. 

^  Such  changelings  and  Kiilcrops,**  said 
Luther,  **  supponit  Satan  in  locum  vero- 
rum  filiorum  ;*  for  the  divel  hath  this  power, 
that  hee  changeth  children,  and  in  stead 
thereof  laieth  divels  in  the  cradles,  which 
prosper  not,  only  they  feed  and  suck :  but 
such  changelings  live  not  above  eighteen  or 
nineteen  years.  One  of  these  more  fowleth 
itself  in  the  excrements  than  ten  other  chil- 
dren do,  so  that  the  parents  are  much  there- 
with disquieted,  and  the  mothers  in  such  sort 
are  sucked  out,  that  afterwards  they  are  able 
to  give  suck  no  more.  Such  changelings," 
said  Luther,  "  are  also  baptized,  in  regard 
that  they  cannot  bee  known  the  first  year, 
but  are  known  onely  by  sucking  the  mothers 
drie.- 


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IDEAS  AN1>  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Queen  Christina. 

**  La  reinc  Chrbtine,  en  quittant  la  cou- 
ronne  pour  se  livrer  plus  enti^ment  aux 
gens  de  lettres,  ressemble  k  cette  femme  qui 
se  fit  arracher  deux  belles  dents  pour  plaire 
k  son  amant,  qui  se  disoit  toujours  dpris  de 
son  &me  seule,  et  inaccessible  k  tous  ses 
charmes  cxt^ieurs ;  mais  sa  nuutresse  ^tant 
moins  belle,  il  ne  Faima  plus.** — Madame 
Neckeb. 


\^^\A/^^^/\^^^h^^h^^^^(^^^ 


Drums  of  Captivei  Skins. 

"  In  some  provinces  thej  flead  the  cap- 
tives taken  in  war,  and  with  their  skins  co- 
vered their  drums,  thinking  with  the  sound 
of  them  to  affright  their  enemies;^  for  their 
opinion  was,  that  when  their  kindred  heard 
the  rumbling  noise  of  those  drums,  thej 
would  be  immediately  seized  with  fear  and 
put  to  flight.** — Gabcilasso. 

Parents  eat. 

**  What  was  most  abominable  above  all, 
was  a  custom  amongst  some  Indians  to  eat 
the  flesh  of  their  parents,  so  soon  as  they 
were  dead,  accounting  it  a  part  of  their  re- 
spect and  duty  to  bury  and  intomb  them 
within  their  own  entrails,  which  they  boiled 
or  roasted  according  to  the  quantity ;  if  the 
body  was  lean  and  extenuated,  they  boiled 
the  flesh  to  make  it  the  more  tender;  and  if 
it  were  gross  and  fleshy,  then  it  was  roasted : 
and  for  the  bones,  they  buried  them  with 
some  ceremony,  either  in  the  holes  of  rocks, 
or  the  hollow  trees.** — Ibid. 


^AMMAAA^AAA^^>^/^^^^^H» 


7^  Inca  Royal  Bounty. 

**  In  process  of  time  the  Inca,  willing  to 
enlarge  the  privileges  of  his  people,  gave 
them  permission  to  bore  their  ears,  though 
not  so  wide  as  the  Incas.** — Ibid. 

'  See  anecdote  of  Zisca,  third  series,  p.  381. 
This  extract  is  quoted  to  the  lines, 

*'  He  stript  the  skin,  and  formed  of  it  a  drum, 
Whose  sound  affrighted  armies." 

Madoe  in  Aitlan,  xiii.  p.  389.— J.  W.  W. 


Peruvian  Ideas  of  the  Moon. 

'*  Whbh  they  observed  the  moon 
to  grow  dark  in  her  eclipse,  they  sai 
was  sick;  and  when  she  was  totally  obs( 
that  she  was  dead;  and  then  they  fearc 
she  should  fall  from  heaven,  and  overv 
and  kill  them,  and  that  the  world  shoi 
entirely  dissolved.  With  these  appr 
sions,  to  soon  as  the  moon  enterei 
eclipse,  they  sounded  their  trumpeti 
comets,  beat  their  kettles,  symbals,  ai 
the  instruments  which  could  make  noii 
sound ;  they  tied  their  dogs  in  string: 
beat  them  till  they  cried  and  howled;  s 
that  with  their  voices  they  called  upc 
moon,  who  having  received  certain  se! 
from  them,  was  very  inclinable  to  he 
to  their  call,  and  that  all  these  variet 
sounds  together  served  to  rouse  and  «% 
her,  being  fallen  into  a  drowsiness  and 
ber  which  her  sickness  had  caused 
then  they  made  their  children  cry  an 
*•  Mama  Quilla,*  or,  '  Mother  Moon,  d 
dye,  lest  we  all  perish.*' — Ibid. 

• 

'^CoNCEBNnfo  the  spots  in  the  moon 
conceived  another  fable  more  ridiculou 
the  former,  and  may  be  compared  wit) 
which  the  more  refined  ancients  fran 
Diana,  and  that  the  moon  was  a  hui 
though  this  seems  more  bestial  and  al 
for  they  feignd  that  a  certain  fox,  i 
the  moon  so  beautiful,  fell  enamour 
her,  and  that  his  love  gave  him  wings 
which  he  ascended  heaven,  and  being 
to  embrace  the  moon,  she  closed  and 
so  close  to  the  fox,  that  ever  since  that 
the  spots  have  appeared  in  the  brigl 
of  her  body.** — Ibid. 


0/  the  Sun. 

"  Whbit  they  saw  the  sun  set  with 
sea,  as  they  may  every  night  observe 
westward  from  the  coast  of  Peru,  thr 
sied  that  the  waters  were  parted  by  the 
of  his  fire  and  heat ;  and  that  being  a 
swimmer,  he  plunged  himself  into  thei 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOE  LITEEAEY  COMPOSmoST. 


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0/Thander. 
OitB  of  their  fkblei  is,  tlut  the  Maker 
1  things  bath  placed  in  Heaven  a  rirgin, 
daughter  of  a  king,  holding  a  bucket  of 
T  in  her  hand,  for  refreihment  of  the 
1  when  occasion  requires ;  and  that  tome- 
sher  brother  knocking  upon  this  bucket, 
ei  thunder  and  lightning  to  proceed  from 
lhe«e  noi«ei  thej  bbj  are  effects  of  the 
>nt  nature  of  man,  but  hail  and  rain  and 
r,  falling  with  leu  noise  and  impetuoiit;, 
nore  agreeable  to  the  gentle  nature  of  a 
lan.     On  this  tale  the  following  poem 

"  Pulchra  Njinpha, 
Frater  tutu 
Umam  tuam 
Nunc  infringit, 
Cujus  ictus 
Tonat,  fulget, 
Fulminatque. 
Sed  tu  Njmpba 
Tuam  Ijmpham 
Fundena  pluis, 
Interdumque 
Grandinem  leu 

Mundi  factor 

Pacha  camac ' 

Tiracocha 

Ad  hoc  munus 

Te  aufficit 

Et  prafeciL" 
he  original  metre  is  preserred  in  these 
ei.— Ibid. 


FiM  Sunt, 
Tu  Indians  of  Culbua  did  beleeve  that 
gods  had  made  the  world  thej  knew  not 


On  refamne  to 
tha  words  "Pdcfu  Cuae"  are  omitted  here. 
Spanish  inteipreCation  is,  "  £1  Dim  ;■»  le 
ii."     See  Ubro  ii.  lom.  L  p.  54.     Ed.  Ida- 


how  :  and  that  sinci 
were  past,  and  that  the  fift  and  last  is  the 
Bunne  which  nowgiveth  light  unto  the  world. 
"  The  first  Bunne  (fonoolh)  perished  hj 
water,  and  all  living  creatures  therewith. 
The  second  fell  from  heaven,  and  with  the 
fall  slew  all  living  creatores,  and  then  were 
manjgiantaintbecountrj.  The  third  sunne 
was  consumed  b;  fire  ;  and  the  fourth  hj 
tempest  of  aire  and  winde ;  and  then  man- 
kinde  perished  not,  but  was  turned  into  apes. 
Yet  when  that  fourth  sun  perishd,  all  was 
tumd  into  darkness,  and  so  continued  five 
and  twenty  jears:  and  at  the  fifteenth  yecre 
God  did  form  one  man  and  woman,  who 
brought  forth  children,  and  at  the  end  of 
other  ten  jeara  appeared  this  fifl  sunne  new- 
Ij  borne,  which  after  their  reckoning  is  now 
in  this  jear  1612,  918  jears  since.  Three 
daje  after  this  sun  appeared,  they  held  that 
all  the  gods  did  die,  and  that  these  which 
since  they  worship,  were  bom  in  process  of 
time." — PiimcB  as. 


Omtiu  of  CliaHti  I.'t  Fale. 
"  The  bust  of  King  Charles  I.  carved  by 
Bamini,  as  it  was  brought  in  a  boat  upon 
the  Thames,  a  strange  bird,  the  like  whereof 
the  bargemen  had  never  seen,  drop'd  a  drop 
of  blood,  or  blood  like  upon  it,  which  lefl  a 
stain  not  to  be  wiped  off" — Adbiet. 

"CouHiBL  SharingtoD  Talbot  was  at  Not- 
tingham when  King  Charles  I.  did  set  up 
his  standard  upon  the  top  of  the  tower  there. 
He  told  me,  that  the  first  night  the  wind 
blew  it  so,  that  it  hung  down  almost  hori- 
zontal, which  some  did  take  to  be  an  ill 
omen."— Ibid. 

"  Th>  da;  thai  the  Long  Parliament  be- 
gan, 1641,  the  sceptre  fell  out  of  the  figure 
of  King  Charles  in  wood,  in  Sir  *—  Trcn- 
cbard's  hall  at  Wullich  in  Dorset,  as  they 
were  at  dinner  in  the  parlour." — Ibid, 

'  In  theeditionuf  AnBBBT'iMi«*lloni«now 
b«roreme,  Bvo.  17B4, "  Tbonias"  is  the  sinuune. 
J.  W.  W. 


160  IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Omen  of  Protector  Somerset s  Fate. 

"These  is  a  tradition  which  I  have  heard 
from  persons  of  honour,  that  as  the  Protector 
Seymour  and  his  dutchess  were  walking  in 
the  gallery  at  Sheen,  in  Surrey,  both  of  them 
did  see  a  hand  with  a  bloody  sword  come 
out  of  the  wall.  He  was  aflerwards  be- 
headed."—Ibid. 

Ominous  Fly  of  Fire, 

"  The  Lady  Viscountess  Maidstone  told 
me  she  saw  as  it  were  a  fly  of  fire  fly  round 
about  her  in  the  dark,  half  an  hour  before 
her  lord  died.  He  was  killed  at  sea ;  and 
the  like  before  her  mother-in-law,  the  Coun- 
tess of  Winchelsea,  died.  She  was  then  with 
child."— Ibid. 


Corps*  Candles} 

"Whew  any  Christian  is  drowned  in  the 
river  Dee,  there  will  appear  over  the  water 
where  the  corps  is,  a  light,  by  which  means 
they  do  find  the  body.  And  it  is  therefore 
called  the  holy  Dee."— Ibid. 

King  Arthurs  Cave, 

"One  of  the  legends  of  Arthur's  posthum- 
ous fame  is,  that  there  is  in  Merlin's  hill  a 
cave,  the  mouth  of  which  many  have  seen 
at  a  distance ;  but  when  they  approached 
the  place  where  they  supposed  it  to  be  situ- 
ated, they  have  not  been  able  to  find  it. 
Once  indeed  a  venerable  stranger  enquired 
for  the  hill,  and  having  by  his  skill  in  magic 
walked  directly  to  'the  cavern,  he  came  to 
a  narrow  passage,  which  was  obstructed  by 
a  wheel  in  perpetual '  motion,  placed  there 
by  the  art  of  Merlin.  The  stranger  atten- 
tively surveyed  the  machine  for  a  short  time; 
took  a  book  from  his  bosom,  read  out  of  it 
a  few  words,  unintelligible  to  those  who 

*  The  reader  should  refer  to  the  whole  Letter 
on  the  CanhtL'uHun  Ciirph,  or  Corps-Candles  in 
Wales.  It  is  addresMd  to  Mr.  Baxter.  See  p. 
231  of  the  Miscellanies — J.  W.  W. 


watched  his  motions,  and  then  touched  the 
wheel  with  his  wand.  Immediately  it  stood 
still,  and  the  stranger  passed  beyond  it 
When  he  returned,  he  read  another  sentence 
from  his  book,  and  the  wheel  resumed  its 
motion.  He  then  told  the  wondering  peo- 
ple that  he  had  been  to  view  King  Arthur 
and  his  knights  of  the  round  table,  who  were 
laid  asleep  in  that  cave  by  the  enchantments 
of  Merlin.  At  a  set  time  the  magician  would 
rouse  them  from  their  sleep,  when  they  would 
rush  forth,  drive  out  the  Saxons,  and  insti- 
tute a  Shiboleth  to  distinguii>h  the  genuine 
descendants  of  the  ancient  Britons,  over 
whom  Kins:  Arthur  would  rei<rn  with  tran- 
scendant  dignity  and  splendour.  The  stran- 
ger departed,  and  no  one  from  that  day  bts 
been  able  to  fiiid  the  entrance  of  the  cave.** 
— Mrs.  Morgan's  Tour  to  Mil/ord  Haven. 
Merlin's  Hill  is  by  Caermarthen. 


Herb  of  Orpheus. 

"  Upon  the  mountain  Pangeas  grows  an 
herb  which  is  called  the  harp,  upon  this  oc- 
casion. The  women  that  tore  Orpheus  in 
pieces,  cast  his  limbs  into  the  river  Hebms, 
and  his  head  being  changed,  the  whole  body 
was  turned  into  the  shape  of  a  dragon.  But 
as  for  his  harp,  such  was  the  will  of  Apollo, 
it  remained  in  the  same  form,,and  from  the 
streaming  blood  grew  up  the  herb  which  was 
called  the  harp,  which  during  the  solemnity 
of  the  sacrifices  to  Bacchus,  sends  forth  t 
sound  like  that  of  a  harp  when  played  upon. 
At  which  time  the  natives  being  covered 
with  the  skins  of  young  hinds,  and  waving 
their  thyrsuses  in  their  hands,  sing  a  hymn, 
of  which  these  are  part  of  the  words, 

"And  then  shalt  thou  be  wise, 
When  Folly  does  thy  brain  surprise." 

As  Clitonymus  reports  in  his  third  book  of 
tragical  relations." — Flutabch. 


««\^^»^^^^^^^«>^^^^^^i^^^w^^ 


Herb  that  Starves  Tigers, 

"In  the  Ganges  grows  an  herb  resembling 
bugloss,  which  the  natives  bruise  and  keep 


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Ibe  juice  tbtj  charilj.  With  thi*  juice  IQ 
llie  dead  of  the  aight  thej  go  and  besprinkle 
ihe  tiger's  deiu,  the  Tertue  of  which  is  snch 
tfa*t  the  tigan  not  being  kble  to  itir  fortli 
\>j  reuoD  of  the  itroog  seent  of  the  Juice, 
ve  ittrved  to  deslh.'* — Il»d. 


Rnwr  imd  Beii  that  hate  Slep-Mo&ert. 

"  Ufoh  the  mountun  M^entis,  near  the 
riTCr  Ljcormas,  grows  a  flower  called  the 
vhite  violet,  which  if  jon  do  but  Qune  the 
word  atcpdame,  presently  dies  awaj. 

On  the  mountain  Brixaba  near  the  Tanais 
grows  an  herb  bj  the  barbarians  colled 
FhTjia,  not  tulike  our  common  rue,  which 
if  the  son  of  a  former  mother  have  it  in  hia 
possession,  he  can  never  be  injured  b;  bis 
ttfp-dame.  It  chieflj  grows  near  the  place 
vkich  is  called  Boreas's  den,,  and  being 
fathered,  u  colder  than  snow.  But  if  anj 
•tcp-dame  be  forming  a  design  against  her 
wn-in-law,  it  sets  itself  on  fire,  and  sends 
Girth  a  bright  flame.  B7  which  means  thcj 
who  are  thus  warned,  avoid  the  danger  the; 
m  in.-— Ibid. 


Reed  that  diteovert  Gviil. 
"  In  the  river  Phasia  grows  a  reed  which 
ii  called  Leucophjllus,  or  the  reed  with 
the  white  leaf.  This  reed  is  found  at  the 
dawning  of  the  morning  light,  at  what  time 
the  lacrificea  are  offered  to  Hecate,  and 
this  too,  b;  the  djvtne  inspiration  of  Pan 
at  the  beginning  of  the  spring,  when  thej 
vbo  are  tronbled  with  jealous  heads  gather 
ibis  reed  and  strew  it  in  their  wires'  cham- 
Wn  to  keep  them  chaste.  And  the  nature 
of  the  reed  b  such,  that  if  any  wild  extra- 
vagant person  happens  to  come  rashlj  in 
jiuik  into  the  room  where  it  lies,  he  pre- 
Hntlj  become*  deprived  of  his  rational 
thnighti,  and  immediately  confesses  what- 
*>tx  be  has  wickedly  done  and  intended  to 
in.  At  what  time,  the;  that  are  present 
U  hear  htm  la;  hold  of  him,  sow  falm  up  in 
*  Hck,  aud  throw  him  into  a  hole,  called 


The  Little  Mouth  of  the  Wicked,  which  is 
round  like  the  mouth  of  awell;  which  after 
thirty  da;9  empties  the  body  into  the  lake 
Mteotis,  that  is  full  of  worms,  where  of  a 
sudden  the  bod;  is  seized  and  torn  to  pieces 
by  several  vultures  unseen  before,  nor  is  il 
known  from  whence  the;  come." — Ibid. 


Midaive*'  Magic, 
"  A  VKBT  singular  belief  prevailed  not 
man;  ;eara  ago  in  these  parts  (about  Lang- 
holme  in  Scotland) ;  nothing  less  than  that 
the  midwives  had  power  of  transferring  part 
of  the  primeval  curse  bestowed  on  our  great 
first  mother,  from  the  good  wife  to  her  hus- 
band. I  saw  the  reputed  ofispringAf  such 
a  labour,  who  kindly  came  into  the  world 
without  giving  her  mother  the  least  uni 
nets,  white  the  poor  husband  was  roa 
with  agony  in  his  uncouth  and  unnatural 
pains."' — Pbhhaht's  Hehridet. 


FJamborai^h  Head. 
"  Thi  vast  height  of  the  precipices,  and 
the  »nia>ing  grandeur  of  the  caverns  which 
open  on  the  north  side,  giving  wide  snd 
solemn  admission,  through  moBt  exalted 
arches,  into  the  body  of  the  mounts  ' 
together  with  the  gradual  decline  of  light, 
the  deep  silence  of  the  place  unless  in- 
terrupted by  the  striking  of  the  oar,  the 
collision  of  a  iwelling  wave  agunst  the 
sides,  or  the  loud  Sutter  of  the  pigeons 
affiighted  from  their  nests  in  the  distant 
roof,  afford  pleasures  of  scenery  which 
such  formations  as  this  alone  can  yield. 
These  also  are  wonderfully  diverMfied  {  in 
I  parts  the  caserns  penetrate  far,  and 
in  darkness,  in  others  are  pervious, 
and  give  a  romantic  passage  by  another 
opening,  equally  superb.  Many  of  the 
rocks  are  insulated,  of  a  pyramidal  (b 
and  soar  to  a  great  height.  The  basea  of 
,  are  solid,  but  in  some  pierced  through 
arched.  All  are  covered  with  the 
dungof theinnumerableflocksofnuf^Vtr]  \ 


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birds,  which  resort  here  annuallj  to  breed, 
and  fill  every  little  projection,  every  hole 
which  will  give  them  leave  to  rest.  Mul- 
titudes were  swimming  about ;  others  swarm- 
ed id  the  air,  and  stunned  us  with  the 
variety  of  their  croaks  and  screams.  Kitti- 
wakes  and  herring-gulls,  guillemots  and 
black  guillemots,  auks,  puffins,  shags  and 
corvorants  are  among  the  species  which  re- 
sort hither.  The  notes  of  aU  sea-fowl  are 
most  harsh  and  inharmonious.  I  have 
have  often  rested  under  rocks  like  these, 
attentive  to  the  various  soimds  over  my 
head ;  which,  mixed  with  the  deep  roar  of 
the  waves  slowly  swelling  and  retiring  from 
the  vast  caverns  beneath,  have  produced  a 
fine  effect.  The  sharp  voice  of  the  gulls, 
the  frequent  chatter  of  the  guillemots,  the 
loud  notes  of  the  auks,  the  scream  of  the 
herons,  together  with  the  deep  periodical 
croak  of  the  corvorants,  which  serves  as  a 
bass  to  the  rest,  have  often  furnished  me 
with  a  concert,  which,  joined  to  the  wild 
scenery  surrounding  me,  afforded  in  an 
high  degree  that  species  of  pleasure  which 
results  from  the  novelty  and  the  gloomy 
mijesty  of  the  entertainment." — Fbjxjxast's 
Arctic  Zoology, 


Northern  LighU, 

"  Thst  are  the  constant  attendants  of 
the  clear  evenings  in  all  these  northern 
blands,  and  prove  great  reliefs  amidst  the 
gloom  of  the  long  winter  nights.  They 
commonly  appear  at  twilight,  near  the  ho- 
rizon, of  a  dun  colour,  approaching  to  yel- 
low; sometimes  continuing  in  that  state 
for  9everal  hours  without  any  sensible 
motion ;  afler  which  they  break  out  into 
streams  of  stronger  lights,  spreading  into 
columns,  and  altering  slowly  into  ten  thou- 
sand different  shapes,  varying  their  co- 
lours from  all  the  tints  of  yellow  to  the 
obscurest  russet.  They  often  cover  the 
whole  hemisphere,  and  ^en  make  the  most 
brilliant  appearance.  Their  motions  at 
these  times  are  most  amazingly  quick ;  and 


they  astonish  the  spectator  with  the  rapid 
change  of  their  form.  They  break  out  in 
places  where  none  were  seen  before,  skim- 
ming briskly  along  the  heavens;  are  sud- 
denly extinguished,  and  leave  behind  an 
uniform  dusky  tract.  This  again  is  bril- 
liantly illuminated  in  the  same  manner,  and 
as  suddenly  left  a  dull  blank.  In  certain 
nights  they  assume  the  i^pearance  of  vast 
columns,  on  one  side  of  the  deepest  yellow, 
on  the  other  declining  away  till  it  becomes 
undistinguished  from  the  sky.  They  have 
generally  a  strong  tremulous  motion  from 
end  to  end  which  continues  till  the  whole 
vanishes.  In  a  word,  we  who  only  see  the 
extremities  of  these  northern  phenomena, 
have  but  a  faint  idea  of  their  splendour  and 
their  motions.  According  to  the  state  of 
the  atmosphere  they  differ  in  colours ;  thej 
often  put  on  the  colour  of  blood,  and  make 
a  most  dreadful  appearance.  The  rustic 
sages  become  prophetic,  and  terrify  the  ga- 
zing spectators  with  the  dread  of  war,  pes- 
tilence, and  famine. 

"  About  the  Icy  Sea.  The  Aurora  Bo- 
realis  is  as  common  here  as  in  Europe,  and 
usually  exhibits  similar  variations;  one 
species  regularly  appears  between  the  north- 
east and  east,  like  a  luminous  rainbow,  with 
numbers  of  columns  of  light  radiating  from 
it :  beneath  the  arch  is  a  darkness,  through 
which  the  stars  appear  with  some  brilliancj. 
This  species  is  thought  by  the  natives  to  be 
a  forerunner  of  storms.  There  is  another 
kind,  which  begins  with  certain  insulated 
rays  from  the  north,  and  others  firom  the 
north-east;  they  augment  little  by  little, 
till  they  fill  the  whole  sky,  and  form  a 
splendour  of  colours  rich  as  gold,  rubies, 
and  emeralds,  but  the  attendant  phenomena 
strike  the  beholders  with  horrors,  for  thej 
crackle,  sparkle,  hiss,  make  a  whistling 
sound,  and  a  noise  even  equal  to  artificial 
fireworks.  The  idea  of  an  electrical  cause 
is  so  strongly  impressed  by  this  description, 
that  there  can  remain  no  doubt  of  the  origin 
of  these  appearances.  The  inhabitants  sajt 
on  this  occasion,  it  is  a  troop  of  men  furi- 
ously mad  which  are  passing  by.    Everj 


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163 


■uck  with  terror  i  even  the  dogs 
en  are  seiied  with  euch  dread, 
■ill  tall  on  the  ground  and  be- 
reable  till  the  cauM  ia  over." — 


AU  Sold*-  Dag. 
^lutam  at  Naples  on  All  Souli' 
row  open  the  chamel  houtes, 
with  torches,  and  decked  out 

flower;  pageHitr}r  of  Hay-daj ; 
)w  crowds  through  these  vaults 
e  cofEns,  omj,  the  bodies  of  their 

relations.  The  floors  are  di- 
beds  like  a  gardeo,  and  under 

of  earth  the  corpses  are  laid  in 
session.  The  place  a  perfectlj 
!  soil  is  rather  a  pounded  stone 
and  parches  up  the  flesli  com- 
twelveuionth;  when  that  period 
he  bod;  is  taken  up,  dressed  in 
tiabit  and  fixed  like  a  statue  in 
my  retain  a  horrid  resemblance 
ej  were  when  animated,  and 
strong  marks  of  agon;  in  their 
atures." — Swdibuhhe. 

I  cnstomaiT  at  Salerno,  till  a 
jnod  held  in  the  15th  Centui; 
and  abolished  the  practice,  on 
U  Souls  toproride  a  sumptuous 
■at  and  beds  in  ererj  house, 
ds  from  purgator;  might  come, 
Y,  and  afterwards  take  a  nap. 
:  whole  night,  the  house  was 
by  its  inhabitants,  and  that  fa- 
oked  upon  as  Bfcursed  b;  Uea- 
ise  table  the  smallest  remnant 
was  to  be  seen  the  next  mom- 
he  proprietor  returned.  .  Tills 
!nt  seldom,  if  ever  befell  them, 
acted  feast  drew  togelher  sll  the 
the  country,  who  weut  from 
luse,  revelling  without  control, 
g  off  what  thej  had  not  time  to 
hile  the  master  of  the  house  was 
R  in  the  cold  churcL" — Ibid.    - 


PousonuM  Qhott-lumnUd. 

"  Paosanus,  in  the  heat  of  his  lust,  sent 
for  Cleonice,  a  free-bom  virgin  of  Byzan- 
tium, with  an  inteotion  to  have  enjoyed 
her ;  but  when  she  came,  out  of  a  strange 
sort  of  jealousy  and  provocation,  for  which 
he  could  give  no  reason,  stabbed  her.  Hiis 
murder  was  attended  with  iHghtful  viuons, 
insomuch  that  his  repose  in  the  night  was 
not  only  interrupted  with  the  ^ipeannce  of 
her  shRpe,  but  still  he  thought  he  heard 
her  uttering  these  lines : 

'  To  execution  go,  the  gods  are  Just, 

And  rarely  pardon  murder  joiu'd  with 
lust.' 
After  this,  the  apparition  still  haunting 
him,  he  suled  to  Psycopompeion,  in  Here- 
clea,  and  by  propitiations,  charms,  and 
dirges,  called  up  the  ghost  of  the  damsel ; 
which,  appearing  before  him,  told  him  in 
few  words  that  he  should  be  free  from  all 
his  afirightt  and  molestations  upon  his  re- 
turn to  Lacedtemou;  where  he  was  no 
sooner  arrived  but  he  died." — Plutarch. 
Coacenuag  lueh  u>hom  Qod  ii  ttoa  to  puniik. 

Pausanias  says,  he  weut  to  Phlgalea,  to 
the  Arcadian  avocators  of  souls. 


EfftOM  of  a  Danigui*  death. 
"  Dbubtkics  related  that  about  Britain 
there  were  many  small  and  desolate  islands, 
some  of  which  were  called  the  Isles  of 
damons  and  demy  gods ;  and  that  he  him- 
self, at  the  command  of  the  emperor,  sailed 
tp  the  nearest  of  those  places  for  curiosity 
sake,  where  he  found  few  inhabitants,  but 
that  they  were  all  esteemed  by  the  Britons 
as  sacred  and  divine.  Not  long  aAer  he 
was  arrived  there,  be  said,  the  ur  and  the 


and  thunder ;  which  at  length  ceasiog,  he 
says,  the  inhabitants  told  him  that  one  of 
the  demons  or  demy-gods  was  deceased. 
For  as  a  lamp,  says  he,  while  'tis  lighted, 
offends  nobody  with  its  scent,  but  when  'tis 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDDiS  FOR  LTTERAKY  COIvrPOSITION. 


extingubhed  it  sends  out  such  a  scent  as  is 
nauseous  to  everybodj;  so  these  great 
souls,  whilst  thej  shine,  are  mild  and  gra- 
cious, without  being  troublesome  to  anj 
body;  but  whenthej  draw  to  an  end,  they 
cause  great  storms  and  tempests,  and  not 
seldom  infect  the  air  with  contagious  dis- 
tempers. They  say,  farther^  that  Saturn  is 
detained  prisoner  in  one  of  those  islands, 
where  he  keeps  fast  asleep  in  chains,  and 
that  he  has  several  of  those  daemons  ioar  his 
valets  and  attendants.** — Fi.utajich.  Whif 
the  Oracles  cease. 


^/WW^AA^^^^WS/VN/VV/W 


WoT'engine* 

^  When  Archidamus  the  son  of  Agesi- 
laus,  beheld  a  dart  to  be  shot  from  an  en- 
gine, newly  brought  out  of  Sicily,  he  cried 
out,  O  Hercules !  the  valour  of  man  is  at 
an  end. — Ibid. 


^WN/N^^^^N^^^^^'^^^^WX^ 


Sleeping  Naked, 

**  In  1387,  William  of  Wykeham  visited 
the  priory  of  Selbome.  Among  other  com- 
plaints, he  says,  *  it  has  been  evidently 
proved  to  him  that  some  of  the  canons, 
living  dissolutely  after  the  flesh,  and  not 
after  the  spirit,  sleep  naked  in  their  beds 
without  their  breeches  and  shirts,*  *  absque 
femoralibus  et  camisiis,*  he  enjoins  that 
these  culprits  shall  be  punished  by  severe 
fasting,  especially  if  they  shall  be  found  to 
be  faulty  a  third  time ;  and  threatens  the 
prior  and  sub-prior  with  suspension  if  they 
do  not  correct  this  enormity. 

**  The  rule  of  not  sleeping  naked  was  en- 
joined the  Knights  Templars,  who  also 
were  subject  to  the  rules  of  St.  Augustine.** 
— GuKTLEBi,  Hist  TemplariaruoL 

**  He  also  forbids  them  foppish  ornaments, 
and  the  affectation  of  appearing  like  beaux 
with  garments  edged  with  costly  furs,  with 
fringed  gloves,  and  silken  girdles  trinmied 
with  gold  and  silver.** — ^White*8  Antiqid* 
ties  of  Selbome, 


Charles  of  Burgundy. 

^  Credulity  proceeds  from  a  m 
integrity;  a  vice  more  honest  tl 
the  overthrow  and  death  of  the  gn 
of  Burgundy,  who  committed  a  m 
of  his  army  to  an  earle  whom  he 
merly  strucken.** — SA]fi>T*8  Ovid, 


•>V>^^VW>/>«V>/>/\/>/S/W\/S/VN 


Gyalbertui  Beech, 

'*  Mabillon  tells  us  in  his  Itin 
the  old  Beech  at  Yillambrosa,  to 
flourishing,  and  greener  than  an; 
rest,  under  whose  umbrage  the 
Eremit  Gualbertushad  his  cell.** — ] 
Silua, 

''  Whilb  we  condemn  the  beecl 
we  must  not  omit  to  praise  the  ma 
fats  our  swine  and  deer,  and  hath 
families  even  supported  men  wit] 
Chios  endured  a  memorable  si^ 
benefit  of  this  mast ;  and  in  som 
France  they  now  grind  the  Buck' 
it  affords  a  sweet  oil  which  the  po4 
eat  most  willingly.  But  there  is 
ther  benefit  which  this  tree  prese 
that  its  very  leaves,  being  gathen 
the  fall,  and  somewhat  before  they  i 
bitten,  afford  the  best  and  easi( 
tresses  in  the  world  to  lay  under  o 
'  instead  of  straw;  because,  besides  t 
demess  and  loose  lying  together,  t 
tinue  sweet  for  seven  or  eight  ye 
before  which  time  straw  becomes  m 
hard.  They  are  thus  used  by  di' 
sons  of  quality  in  Dauphine  ;  and 
zerland  I  have  sometimes  lain  on 
my  great  refreshment  So  as  of 
it  may  properly  be  said — 

'  The  wood*s  an  house ;  the  leavei 
Silva  domus,  cubilia  frondes.**— 

] 

'  ^aybQ  k  fayiXv, 

*  That  is,  the  "  mast."  Camde 
Buckinehamshire  from  the  Bde^  i.  e.  1 
tree,    ft  is  pure  Anglo-Saxon. — J.  "V 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Jefr  l«  Jamt. 
"Thk  most  celebrated  work  of  Ali  ii  iDti- 
tuled  Je&  we  Jame;  it  ii  writteo  npoo 
pircluDeDt  in  mjaterioiu  cboracters  iater- 
■uied  with  figiu«B,  wherein  are  couched 
in  the  grand  events  that  are  to  happen 
from  the  b^inning  of  Miulemanitoi  to  the 
end  of  the  world.  Thia  parchment  i*  de- 
po«ited  ID  the  bandi  of  those  of  hia  family, 
lud  even  to  this  time  nobody  fans  Atey- 
pbered  it  in  any  lort  of  manner  but  Jaafer 
Sadek,  for,  as  for  the  entire  explication  of 
it,  that  is  re«erved  for  the  twelM  Imam, 
who  ii  snnuuned  b;  way  of  excellence  the 
Mohdi,  or  grand  directs." — Ockuit,  S.  of 


Egyplum  Alma>»adi. 
"Tom  Abb£  Fluche,  in  hia  HIatory  o!  the 
Heavens,  maintains,  and  I  believe  with  rea- 
■on,  that  the  Egyptian  grotesque  figures, 
lor  example,  a  man  widt  a  dog's  head,  && 
a  sort  of  almanacks  indicating  the 
of  the  iocreaM  of  the  Nile,  &c.  Aj 
the  French  have  now  in  their  almanack, 
apposite  to  every  day  in  the  year,  a  plant, 
imal,  or  an  instrument  of  husbuidry, 
it  wonld  if  engraved  resemble  not  a  little 
Egyptian  almanaii.  It  is  curious  to 
obaerve  how  very  ancient  fashions  and 
pneticei  are  revived." — MacLaDuii.Zoni 
Dngkirm. 

Halidag*  origiaaUj/  Aumane. 
LniaET  in  bis  Annales  PoUtiques,  vol.2, 
p.  180,  an«r  qiproTing  very  much  of  the 
abolition  of  several  holidays  which  had  re- 
coitly  taken  place  (in  t7T0),maint>unBthat 
DO  blame  can  attach  to  those  who  in  troduced 
1  great  number  of  holidays  {  their  motive, 
be  says,  was  humanity,  not  superstition  ; 
for  at  that  time,  the  common  people  were 
Ntfi,  *  adscript^  glebK,*  whose  labour  was 
mirely  for  the  beneUt  of  the  master,  who 
gtTe  them  little  more  than  bare  mainte- 
tttice.  It  certainly  waa,  therefore,  humane 
'Ddiminiih  the  number  of  working  daya  at 
I IW  time;  but  now  that  the  common  people 


are  free,  it  is  necessary  to  increase  them,  as 
they  have  in  general  even  by  industry  little 
enough  to  support  themaelvea." — Ibid. 


Seaimu  ailertd. 

"  It  is  long  since  matij,  of  whom  I  am 
one,  have  muntained,  that  the  seasons  are 
altered ;  that  it  is  not  so  hot  now  in  sum- 
mer as  when  we  were  boys.  Others  laugh 
at  this,  and  say  that  the  supposed  altera- 
tion proceeds  from  on  alteration  in  our- 
selvea,  from  our  having  become  older  and 
consequently  colder. 

"In  I7S3  or  1784,  in  the  course  of  a  con- 
versation I  had  with  mj  brewer,  who  is  very 
intelligent  and  eminent  tn  his  way.  he  msin- 
taiaed  that  an  alteration  had  taken  place. 
This  observation  he  mode  from  a  variety 
of  circumstances ;  the  diminution  of  the 
nunber  of  swallows,  the  coldncaa  that  at- 
tends nun,  the  alteration  in  the  hours  of 
labour  at  the  time  of  sowing  barley,  which 
a  great  many  years  ago  was  a  work  per- 
formed very  early  in  the  morning,  on  ac- 
count of  the  intenaeness  of  the  heat  after 
the  sun  had  been  up  for  some  time.  He 
added  that  for  many  years  past  be  had 
found  that  the  barley  did  not  malt  aa  for- 
merly, and  the  period  be  fixed  on  was  the 
year  in  which  the  earthquake  at  Lisbon 
happened. 

"  I  was  much  surprised  at  this  la^t  obser- 
vation, and  did  not  pay  much  attention  to 
It  till  last  summer,  when  I  happened  to  read 
Les  Annales  Folitiqucs  of  Linguct,  a  very 
scarce  book,  which  I  was  sure  my  brewer 
had  never  read  ;  for  there  to  my  astonish- 
ment I  found  the  very  same  opinion,  with 
this  additional  fact,  that  in  Champagne, 
where  he  was  born,  they  have  not  been  able 
since  that  earthquake  to  moke  the  same 
wine.  He  saya  too  that  he  has  aeen  the 
title-deeds  of  several  eatatea  in  Ficardy, 
which  proved  that  at  that  time  they  had  a 
number  of  excellent  vineyards,  but  that  now 
no  Euch  crop  can  be  reared  there.  He  also 
attempts  to  account  philosophically  for  that 
earthquake  having  such  effects." — Ibid, 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Murder  of  Fergus} 

'*  FcBOUsius  m.  periit  yeneno  ab  lutore 
dato.  Alii  scribunt,  cum  uxor  ssepe  expro- 
brasset  ei  matrimonii  contemptum,  et  pelli- 
cum  greges,  neque  quicquam  profecisset, 
tandem  noctu  dormientem  ab  e&  strangula- 
tum.  Quiestione  de  morte  ejus  habit&  cum 
amicorum  plurimi  inaimularentur,  nee  quia- 
quam  ne  in  gravissimis  quidem  tormentis 
quicquam  fateretur,  mulier  alioqui  ferox  tot 
innoxiorum  capitum  miserta  in  medium  pro- 
cessit ;  ac  ^  superiore  loco  caedem  k  se  fac- 
tam  confessa,  ne  ad  ludibrium  superesset, 
pectus  cultro  transfodit :  quod  ejus  factum 
▼ari^  pro  cujusque  ingenio  est  acceptum, 
ac  perinde  sermonibus  celebratum.*' — ^Bu- 

CHAHAlf. 


**k/W\#S^MAAA^^^tfW^^'^^>% 


Dog'rihbed  Indian  Woman* 

'*  On  the  11th  January  (1772)  as  some 
of  my  companions  were  hunting,  they  saw 
the  track  of  a  strange  snow-shoe,  which 
thej  followed ;  and  at  a  considerable  dis« 
tance  came  to  a  little  hut,  where  they  dis- 
covered a  young  woman  sitting  alone.  As 
they  foxmd  that  she  understood  their  lan- 
guage, they  brought  her  with  them  to  the 
tents.  On  examination,  she  proved  to  be 
one  of  the  Western  Dog-ribbed  Indians, 
who  had  been  taken  prisoner  by  the  Atha- 
puscow  Indians,  in  the  summer  of  1770 ; 
and  in  the  following  summer,  when  the  In- 
dians that  took  her  prisoner  were  near  this 
part,  she  had  eloped  from  them,  with  an  in- 
tent to  return  to  her  own  country ;  but  the 
distance  being  so  great,  and  having  after 
she  was  taken  prisoner  been  carried  in  a 
canoe  the  whole  way,  the  turnings  and  wind- 
ings of  the  rivers  and  lakes  were  so  nume- 
rous that  she  forgot  the  tra^k ;  so  she  built 
the  hut  in  which  we  found  her,  to  protect 
her  from  the  weather  during  the  winter,  and 
here  she  had  resided  from  the  first  setting 
in  of  the  fall. 

**  From  her  account  of  the  moons  past 

*  See  the  "  Wife  of  Fergus,"  a  Mono-drama. 
Poemtf  p.  lll.-*J.  W.  W. 


since  her  elopement,  it  appeared  that  she 
had  been  near  seven  montlis  without  seeing 
a  human  face ;  during  all  which  time  she 
had  supported  herself  very  well  by  snaring 
partridges,  rabbits,  and  squirrels ;  she  had 
also  killed  two  or  three  beavers,  and  some 
porcupines.  That  she  did  not  seem  to  have 
been  in  want  is  evident,  as  she  had  a  small 
stock  of  provisions  by  her  when  she  was 
disco«vered,  and  was  in  good  health  and  con- 
dition ;  and  I  think  one  of  the  finest  women, 
of  a  real  Indian,  that  I  have  seen  in  anj 
part  of  North  America. 

**  The  methods  practised  by  this  poor 
creature  to  procure  a  livelihood  were  truly 
admirable,  and  are  great  proofs  that  neces- 
sity b  the  real  mother  of  invention.  When 
the  few  deer  sinews  that  she  had  an  oppor- 
tunity of  taking  with  her  were  all  expended 
in  making  snares  and  sewing  her  clothing, 
she  had  nothing  to  supply  their  place  but 
the  sinews  of  the  rabbits*  legs  and  feet; 
these  she  twisted  together  for  that  purpose 
with  great  dexterity  and  success.  The  rab- 
bits, &c.  which  she  caught  h\  those  snares 
not  only  furnished  her  with  a  comfortable 
subsistence,  but  of  the  skins  she  made  a  suit 
of  neat  and  warm  clothing  for  the  winter. 
It  is  scarcely  possible  to  conceive  that  a 
person  in  her  forlorn  situation  could  be  so 
composed  as  to  be  capable  of  contriving  or 
executing  any  thing  that  was  not  absolutelj 
necessary  to  her  existence ;  but  there  were 
sufficient  proofs  that  she  had  extended  her 
care  much  farther,  as  all  her  clothing,  be- 
side being  calculated  for  real  service,  shewed 
great  t4iste,  and  exhibited  no  little  varietj 
of  ornament.  The  materials,  though  rude, 
were  very  curiously  wrought,  and  so  judi- 
ciously placed  as  to  make  the  whole  of  her 
garb  have  a  very  pleasing,  though  rather 
romantic  appearance. 

**  Her  leisure  hours  from  himting  hsd 
been  employed  in  twisting  the  inner  rind 
or  bark  of  willows  into  small  lines,  like  net- 
twine,  of  which  she  had  some  hundred  fa- 
thoms by  her;  with  this  she  intended  to 
make  a  fishing- net  as  soon  as  the  spring  ad- 
vanced.  It  is  of  the  inner  bark  of  willows 


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tviited  in  thb  mumer  thftt  t&e  Dog-ribbed 
Indiins  nuJie  their  fisliing  nets. 

"  Five  or  six  incbee  of  an  iron  hoop  made 
into  m  knife,  and  the  shank  of  an  arrow-head 
or  iron,  which  Berred  her  at  an  awl,  were 
lU  the  metaJa  thia  poor  woman  had  with 
her  when  she  eloped ;  and  with  tbese  imple- 
ment! ihe  had  made  herself  complete  snow- 
iboea,  and  several  other  useful  articles. 

"  Her  method  of  making  a  fire  was 
eqnallj  singular  and  curious,  having  no 
otiier  materials  for  that  purpose  than  two 
hard  anlphurous  stones.  These,  ^  long 
friction  and  hard  kuocking  produced  a  few 
qiarks,  which  at  length  communicated  to 
touchwood ;  but  as  this  method  was 
attended  with  great  trouble,  and  not  always 
with  success,  she  did  not  Buffer  her  fire  to 

I  out  all  1^  winter. 

"  When  the  Atbapuscow  Indians  took 
this  woman  prisoner,  they,  according  to  the 
Tsal  custom  of  those  savages,  surprised 
Iter  and  her  part;  in  the  night,  and  kiUed 
every  soul  in  the  tent  except  herself  and 
three  other  young  women.  Among  those 
trhcan  they  killed  were  her  father,  mother, 
md  hnsband ;  her  young  child,  four  or  five 
hs  old,  riie  concealed  in  a  bundle  of 
clothing,  and  took  with  her  undiscovered  in 
the  night ;  but  when  she  arrived  at  the  place 
where  the  Athapuscow  Indians  hod  lefl  their 

'  Ca,  which  was  not  far  distant,  the  j  began 
examine  her  bundle,  and  finding  the 
diild,  one  of  the  women  took  it  from  her, 
ud  killed  it  on  the  spot. 

"  This  last  piece  of  barbarity  gave  her 
nch  a  disgust  to  those  Indiana,  that  not- 
withstanding the  man  who  took  care  of  her 
treated  her  in  erery  respect  as  his  wife,  and 
WIS,  she  said,  remarkably  kind  to  and  even 
Gnd  of  ber ;  so  far  was  she  from  being  able 
to  reconcile  herself  to  any  of  the  tribe  that 
■he  rather  cbose  tc  expose  herself  U>  misery 
wd  want  than  lire  in  ease  and  affluence 
Uiong  persona  who  had  so  cruelly  murdered 
kr  infant.  The  poor  woman's  relation  of 
tliii  shocking  story,  which  she  delivered  in 
(very  affecting  manner,  only  excited  laugh- 
ht  among  the  savages  of  my  party. 


"  The  singularity  of  the  circnmslanee, 
the  comeliness  of  her  person  and  her  ap- 
prored  accomplishments,  occasioned  a 
strong  contest  between  several  of  the  In- 
dians of  my  party  who  shoald  have  ber  for 
awife;  and  the  poor  girl  was  actually  won 
and  tost  at  wrestling  by  near  half  a  score 
different  men  the  same  evening.  Mj  guide, 
Halonabbee,  who  at  that  time  had  no  less 
than  seven  wives,  all  women  grown,  besides 
a  young  girl  of  eleven  or  twelve  years  old, 
would  have  put  in  for  the  prise  also,  had 
not  one  of  hia  wives  made  him  ashamed  of 
it,  by  telling  him  that  he  had  already  more 
wives  than  he  could  properly  attend.  This 
piece  of  satire,  however  true,  proved  fatal 
to  the  poor  girl  who  dared  to  make  so  open 
a  declaration  ;  for  the  great  man,  Malonab- 
bee,  who  would  willingly  have  been  thought 
equal  to  eight  or  ten  men  in  tverj  respect, 
took  it  as  such  an  affront  that  he  fell  on  her 
with  both  hands  and  feet,  and  bmised  her 
to  such  a  degree,  that,  after  lingering  some 
time  she  died." — HBUtHs's  Jourarg  to  the 
NorOieni  Oeeaa, 


Trett,  Sre. 

"Tee  trees  are  pine,  larch,  juniper,  pop- 
lar, birch,  and  bush-willow,  growing  very 
high,  and  alder. 

"  Gooseberries  spread  along  the  ground 
like  vines,  the  fruit  most  plentiful  and  best 
on  the  under  branches,  owing  to  the  re- 
flected heat  from  below,  and  the  shelter. 
They  thrive  in  stony  and  rocky  ground, 
exposed  to  the  sun.  Cranberries.  Heath- 
berries  grow  close  to  the  ground,  a  favour- 
ite food  of  many  birds  that  migrate  there 
in  summer,  particularly  the  grey  goose. 

"Dewater-berriesbestin  swampyground 
covered  with  moss.  The  plant  is  not  very 
unlike  the  strawberry,  but  the  leaves  larger. 
Out  of  the  centre  of  the  plant  shoots  a  single 
stalk,  sometimes  seven  or  eight  inches  high, 
and  each  plant  only  produces  one  berry, 
which  at  some  distance  resembles  a  straw- 
berry ;  but  not  so  conical.  Some  have  three 
or  four  lobes,  some  nearly  twenty.    Currans 


168 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


red  and  black,  in  moist  not  swampy  groand, 
best  in  small  vallies,  between  the  rocks. 
Strawberries  very  fine,  and  raspberries  best 
where  the  soil  has  been  burnt.  Blueberries 
on  bushes  which  grow  to  eighteen  inches  or 
two  feet,  but  generally  much  lower ;  a  fine 
plum  bloom.  Hips  in  such  quantities  as  to 
make  the  spots  where  they  grow  look  quite 
red  at  a  distance." — Ibid. 


Birds. 
**  The  brown  fishing  eagle.  Snowy  owl, 
a  bird  that  follows  the  hunter  all  day  long, 
and  seizes  the  fowls  he  shoots.  Ravens 
of  richest  black,  tinged  with  purple  and 
violet  hues.  The  rufied  grouse.  Delicate 
brown,  varied  prettily  with  black  and  white, 
hawk-like  tail,  of  orange,  barred  with  black, 
brown,  and  white,  and  often  spread  like  a 
fan.  A  ruff  of  glossy  black  feathers,  tinged 
with  rich  purple  round  the  neck,  which 
they  can  erect.  In  winter  they  are  usually 
found  perched  on  the  pine  branches,  and 
easily  taken.  Their  nests  generally  at  the 
root  of  a  tree,  twelve  or  fourteen  eggs.  It 
is  remarkable,  and  perhaps  peculiar  to  these 
birds,  that  they  clap  their  wings  with  such 
force,  that  at  half  a  mile  distance  it  re- 
sembles thunder.  The  sharp-tailed  grouse 
dive  through  the  snow.  Red-breasted  thrush, 
of  sweet  song.  Larks.  Sand  martins.  Bit- 
terns.  Pelicans.   Swans.** — Ibid. 


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[^OldAge  the  North' IndiojCs  Misfortune,'] 

**  Old  age  is  the  greatest  calamity  that  can 
befall  a  North  Indian ;  for  when  he  is  past 
labour  he  is  neglected  and  treated  with  great 
disrespect,  even  by  his  own  children.  They 
not  only  serve  him  last  at  meals,  but  gene- 
rally give  him  the  coarsest  and  worst  of  the 
victuals ;  and  such  of  the  skins  as  they  do 
not  choose  to  wear,  are  made  up  In  the  clum- 
siest manner  into  clothing  for  their  aged  pa- 
rents ;  who,  as  they  had,  in  all  probability, 
treated  their  fathers  and  mothers  with  the 
same  neglect,  in  their  turns  submitted  pa- 
tiently to  their  lot,  even  without  a  murmur. 


knowing  it  to  be  the  common  misfortune 
attendant  on  old  age ;  so  that  they  may  be 
said  to  wait  patiently  for  the  melancholj 
hour  when,  being  no  longer  capable  of  walk- 
ing, they  are  to  be  left  alone,  to  starve  and 
perish  for  want.  This,  however  shocking 
and  unnatural  it  may  i^pear,  is  so  common 
that  among  those  people  one-half  at  least  of 
the  aged  persons  of  both  sexes  absolutelj 
die  in  this  miserable  condition.** — ^Ibid. 


[^North  and  South'Ttidians"  Name  for  (he 
Aurora  BorecdisJ] 

*'  Tub  North  Indians  call  the  Aurora  Bo- 
realis  Ed-thin,  that  is,  deer ;  and  when  that 
meteor  is  very  bright,  they  say  that  deer  is 
plentiful  in  that  part  of  the  atmosphere ; 
but  they  have  never  yet  extended  their  ideas 
so  far  as  to  entertain  hopes  of  tasting  those 
celestial  animals.  Their  ideas  in  this  respect 
are  founded  on  a  principle  one  would  not 
imagine.  Experience  had  shown  them  that 
when  a  hairy  deer-skin  is  briskly  stroked 
with  the  hand  in  a  dark  night,  it  will  emit 
many  sparks  of  electrical  fire,  as  the  back 
of  a  cat  will.  The  idea  which  the  Southern 
Indians  have  of  this  meteor  is  equally  ro- 
mantic, though  more  pleasing,  as  they  be- 
lieve it  to  be  the  spirits  of  their  departed 
friends  dancing  in  the  clouds;  and  when 
the  Aurora  Borealis  is  remarkably  bright, 
at  which  time  they  vary  most  in  colour, 
form,  and  situation,  they  say  their  deceased 
friends  are  very  merry." 


i«WWW\/^^«^W^MAM/W^^W• 


[^Fairies  called  Nant-e'TiaJ] 
"  Thet  are  very  superstitious  with  respect 
to  the  existence  of  several  kinds  of  fairies, 
called  by  them  Nant-e-na,  whom  they  fre- 
quently say  they  see,  and  who  are  supposed 
by  them  to  inhabit  the  different  elements  of 
earth,  sea,  and  air,  according  to  their  seye- 
ral  qualities.  To  one  or  other  of  these  fai- 
ries they  usually  attribute  any  change  in 
their  circumstances,  either  for  the  better  or 
worse.** — ^Ibid. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 

kSHghted,  uid  then  put  \u,  he  came  out  in 
B  few  houn  ill  unazed,  sad  told  strange 
BtorieB  of  his  going  under  ground,  &c.  To 
prevent  this  delusion  for  the  future,  the  lords 
juBtices  caused  the  frjen  to  depsxt,  and  laid 
the  hole  open  and  exposed  to  the  air." — 
r-ry  >■  irr  i     1  Adouraile  CuTvuiHa,  RaritieM,  amd  Wtnidert 

laeiairt  of  rratet.]  -    r.     ■     j   . 

^  -r  ■>  „  Ettghnd,  ^. 

poem  in  HaUujt's  Collection,  called 
lel  of  English  Folicie,  saja, 
re  of  Wales,  Christ  Jeiu  most  us 
keepe 
,  make  not  our  childers  cbtlde  to 


Irith  Gold  and  Siloer  Sfinei.'] 


Iver  and  golde  there  is  the  oore,  - 
;tIi«wildeIrish,though  tbeybepoore, 
7  are  rude,  and  can  thereon  do  skill ; 
;  if  we  had  their  peace  and  good  will 
ae  and  6ne,  and  metal  for  to  pure, 
le  Irish  might  we  fiode  the  ourei 
Ijondon  sutii  a  juellere, 
brought  from  thence  golde  oore  to 

of  was  f^ned  mettal  good  and  cleoe, 
f  touch,  no  better  could  be  scene." 


Si.  PeUricU*  Purgatorg. 
OCT  the  latter  end  of  king  James,  the 
'thematterwas  discovered  by  theEarl 
:  and  the  Lord  Chancellor,  who,  de- 
a  know  the  truth,  sent  some  persons 
ity  to  inquire  exactly'  into  it :  who 
hU  this  miraculous  cave  descending 
)  the  bottom  of  hell.was  no  other  but 
cell  digged  out  of  the  rockj  ground, 
:  ttj  windows  or  holes,  so  as  the  door 
hut,  it  was  utterly  dark,  being  of  so 
epth  that  a  tall  man  could  not  stand 
in  it;  and  of  no  greater  capacity  than 
six  or  seven  persons.  Now  when 
ire  to  go  this  pilgrimage,  he  was  kept 
and  watching  \)j  the  fi7ers,  and  told 
ful  storiet,  to  that  being  thoroughly 


[  The  Ironlonet  of  TVicunum.] 
"  Tbb  people  of  Tucuman,  whom  the  Spa- 
niards c^l  Irontones,  fix  the  bodies  of  the 
enemies  they  kill,  in  rows  to  the  trunks  of 
trees,  for  a  terror,  that  the  borderers  maj 
not  dare  to  go  over  to  hunt  in  their  liber- 
ties."— F.  Nicholas  del  Techo. 


Hg  Snuail,  or,  the  EmhajOtd  Itland. 

"  Akban-Mobe,  the  largest  of  the  south 
blesof ArTan.onthccoiuitof Galwaj.  Here 
several  of  the  ancient  Irbh  saints  were  bu- 
ried, whence  the  island  obtained  the  name 
of  Arrannanoim.  The  inhabitants  are  still 
persuaded  that  in  a  clear  day  ihey  can  see 
from  this  coast  Hy  Brasail,  or  the  inchnnlcd 
island,  the  paradise  of  the  Pagan  Irish,  and 
concerning  which  they  relate  a  number  of 
romantic  stories." — CoUecbmea  da  Rebut 
Hibemicu.  Beaofobd's  Ancietit  Topagra' 
phy  of  IreUmd. 


"  Tbe  old  Irish  say  great  part  of  Ireland 
was  swallowed  by  the  sea,  and  that  the 
sunken  part  Q&ea  rises,  and  is  to  be  seen 
on  the  horiEDU  frequently  from  the  northern 
coast.  On  the  north  west  of  the  island,  this 
part  so  appearing  is  called  Tir-lludi,  or  the 
city  of  Hud ;  that  it  contains  a  city  which 
onca  possessed  all  the  riches  of  the  world, 
the  key  of  which  lies  buried  under  some 
druidical  monument." —  CoUecUattOt  No.  14. 
Int.  p.  S2,     Vau^kcet. 

Wheh  Mr.  Burton  went  in  search  of  the 
Ogham  monument  on  Callan  mountain,! 7S5, 


170 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


^  the  common  people  coald  not  be  conyinced 
that  the  search  was  made  afler  an  inscrip- 
tion, but  after  an  enchanted  key  that  lies 
with  the  interred  hero  Conane  (the  monu- 
ment is  called  Conane*s  tomb),  which  when 
found  will  restore  an  enchanted  city  sunken 
on  the  neighbouring  shore  of  the  Atlantie 
sea,  to  its  former  splendour,  and  convert 
the  hideous  moory  heights  of  Callan  moun- 
tain into  rich  fruitful  plains.  Their  imagi- 
nations=  are  heated  in  this  gloomy  aweful 
wild,  expecting  also  great  riches  whenever 
this  city  is  discovered." — Coll,  No»  14. 
Notes,  p.  529. 

This  resurging  part  of  the  island  is 
called  O  Breasal,  or  O  Brazil.  The  royal 
island.  Colonel  Yallancey  says  it  is  evi- 
dently the  lost  city  of  Arabian  story,  vbited 
by  their  fabulous  prophet,  Houd.  He  com- 
bines if  with  the  remarks  of  Whitehurst  upon 
the  Giant*s  Causeway,  and  suspects  it  al- 
ludes to  the  lost  Atlantis,  which  Whitehurst 
thinks  perhaps  existed  there. 

Is  that  very  extraordinary  phenomenon, 
seen  from  Sicily,  ever  seen  on  the  Irish 
coast — the  palace  of  Morjaine  le  Fay  ?  If 
so,  an  actual  apparition  explains  the  tale.^ 


VS«W^W>^/VW«A«V>/WVNot 


[Xtf  Capitaine  Bonrg-de-BarJ] 

"Lbs  Anglois  detenoient  prisonnier  en 
leur  bastille  un  Capitaine  FranQois  nonmi^  le 
Bourg-de-Bar,  lequd  estoit  enferr^  par  les 
pieds  d'un  gros  et  pesant  fer,  tellement  qu*il 
ne  pouvoit  aller,  et  estoit  souvent  visits  par 
un  Augustin  Anglois  Confesseur  de  Talbot, 
maistre  dudit  prisonnier.  Le  dit  Augustin 
avoit  accoustum^  de  luy  donner  k  manger, 
et  ledit  de  Talbot  se  fioit  en  luy  de  le  bicn 
garder  comme  son  prisonnier,  esperant  d'en 
avoir  une  grosse  finance,  ou  delivrance  d*au- 
tres  prisonniers.  Done  quand  cet  Augustin 
vid  les  Anglois  se  retirer  ainsi  hastivement, 
il  demeura  avec  ledit  prisonnier  en  intention 

^  Soothe  t's  conjecture  is  quite  correct.  See 
notes  on  Madoc  in  Wales,  xi.  p.  342,  where  most 
of  this  is  giyen. — J.  W.  W. 


de  le  mener  apr^  ledit  de  Talbot  son  mais- 
tre, et  le  mena  par  dessous  le  bras,  bien 
demy  U'uct  d*arc  de  distance,  mais  ils  n*ens- 
sent  jamais  peu  atteindre  les  Anglois.  Lore 
iceluy  Bourg  voyant  les  Anglois  s*en  aller 
en  grand  desordre,  reconnut  bien  qu'ils 
avoient  du  pire,  si  prit  TAugustin  a  bona 
poings,  et  luy  dit  qu*il  n*iroit  plus  avant, 
et  que  s*il  ne  le  portoit  jusques  a  Orleans, 
il  luy  feroit  oii  feroit  faire  desplaisir.  £t 
combien  qu*il  y  eut  tousjours  des  Anglois 
y  Francois  qui  escarmouchoient  encore, 
toutesfois  eet  Augustin  par  force  et  con- 
trainte  le  porta  sur  ses  espaules  jusques  a 
Orleans.*'  Quaref  P.  Daniel.  ■  130. 

ITke  Maid  aitd  the  Voice.^ 
Said  the  maid,  "  En  nom  Dieu  je  s^aj 
bien  ce  que  vous  pensez,  et  voulez  dire  de 
la  voix  que  j'ay  ouye  touchant  vostre  Sacre, 
et  je  le  vous  diray.  Je  me  suis  mise  en 
oraison,  en  ma  maniere  accoustum^,  je  me 
complaignois,  pour  ce  qu*on  ne  me  vouloit 
pas  croire  de  ce  que  je  disois ;  et  lors  la 
voix  me  dit,*Fille  va,  va,  je  seray  a  ton  aydc, 
val'  Et  quand  cette  voix  me  vient,  je  suis 
tant  resjouye  que  merveilles.  Et  en  disant 
lesdites  paroles,  elle  levoit  les  yeux  au  cicl, 
en  monstrant  signe  d*une  grande  exulta- 
tion."—Ibid.  133. 


^^^^^^^^^^^v^^^^^^^v^*^^^ 


IRichemonfs  Humamii/J] 

RiCHEMONT,  when  he  took  Saint  Severe, 
"  Fit  nourrir  plus  de  cent  enfans  que  les 
meres  avoient  laissez,  les  unes  prises,  et  les 
autres  enfuyes,  et  fit  amener  des  chevres 
pour  les  allaiter." — ^Ibid.  372. 


*^  ^  *i^t^^M*»*K*K*Ww*WWW^"VWV»» 


Dagcherfs  Soul /ought  for. 
'*  Ansoalds,  revenant  de  son  Ambassade 
de  SicilC)  aborde  a  une  petite  lie,  et  ea- 


*  See  note  on  "  Joan  of  Are,**  p.  24,  wher«  it 
is  said  that "  Richemont  has  left  an  honourable 
name,  though  he  tied  a  prime  minister  up  in  s 
sack,  and  threw  him  into  the  riTer."  P.  Dakul 
is  the  authority.— J.  W.  W. 


lomme  Jeu,  et  parlant  des  G&ul««  «t 

da  Boi  Dtkgobert,  Jeui  lui  dit,  qu'aiuit  H& 

;i  de  prier  Dieu   pour  I'Ame  de   cc 

Prince,  il  «volt  tq,  Bur  la  mer,  des  Diablei 

tioient  le  Roi  Dftgobert  lie  snr  ito  E«- 
iliuf,  et  le  menoient,  en  le  batUnt,  aux  ma< 

de  Vulcaio.  Que  Dagobert  crioit, 
•pptUant  a  ton  leconrs  S.  Deois,  S.  Uau- 
nee,  et  S.  Martin,  lea  priant  de  te  delivrer 
<t  de  le  conduire  dans  le  lein  d' Abraham. 
Co  SaioU  coumrent  aprea  lee  diaUef,  leur 
uneli^rent  cette  Ame,  et  I'eminen^rent  au 
Cid,  en  chantant  de«  verseta  dea  Paeaumea." 
lliia  legend  ia  sculptured  on  the  monu- 
ment of  Dagobert  I.  Threior  dei  Anii- 
failei  de  la  Covromu  de  France.  1745. — 
T.  ],  ^.  11. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


171 


Pacton  of  CharU>  V.  of  France. 
At  the  uDclion  of  Charlea  V.  the  twelve 
pten  are  represented  each  atretcbnig  out 
hii  right  hand  towarda  the  king. 


"  Tbb  white  horse  waa  the  mark  of  bo- 
•ereigntf.  Margaret,  daughter  of  James, 
^ing  of  Scotland,  is  represented  on  one  when 
(he  entered  Toara  as  the  future  Dauphin  ess. 
Her  head-dress,  and  that  of  her  female  at- 
lendanla,  is  the  coeflure  pointue,  which  was 
fuhiooable  almnst  during  two  centuries.  It 
it  thus  shaped.  From  the  top  falls  a  long 
while  robe,  hanging  strait  to  the  elbow,  and 
there  thrown  over  the  arm.  No  hair  is  vi- 
uble,  nor  anj  thing  between  the  face  and 
ksL  Their  wusts  are  short,  exocttj  as  thej 
■hould  be  to  render  the  form  most  graceful, 
Irag  sleeves,  and  the  dresses  long.  A  white 
bindkerchief,  or  rather  sash,  crosses  the 
■hoiilden,  and  meets  upon  the  breaat,  under 
which  the  gown  comes  up,  straight  bordered 
•bore.  The  neck  quite  bare,  and  unoma- 
nented.  1436.  The«e  figures  please  me 
toBch."— T.  2.  Planche,  156.  See  Traa. 
•tf  Comminei.  p.  6,  note  upon  the  Ezcett  of 


Thick  Heads  in  BrazU. 

"Blockbbuis  and  loggerheads  are  i 
request  in  Brasil,  and  helmets  are  of  little 
use,  everj  one  having  an  artificialized  n 
turall  morion  of  hii  head ;  for  the  Brasilia) 
heads,  some  of  them  are  as  hard  as  the  wood 
that  growes  in  their  countrjt,  for  they  c 
not  b«  broken,  and  the;  have  them  so  hard 
that  ours  in  comparison  of  theirs  are  lil 
pompion ;  and  when  thej  will  injure  anj 
white  man,  thej  call  him  soft  head,  so  that 
hard-head  and  block-head,  termes  of  ri 
proach  with  ua,  attributed  to  them  would 
be  taken  for  terms  of  honour  and  gentle- 
man-like qualifications.  This  propertj  thej 
purehaaed  bj  art,  with  going  bare-headed, 
which  is  a  certain  waj  to  attain  unto 
qualitj  of  a  Brasillan  chevalier,  and  to  har- 
den the  tender  head  of  any  Priscian,  be  jond 
the  fear  of  breaking,  or  needing  the  imper- 
tinent ptaister  of  pedantic  mountebanks. 

"  The  Indians  of  Iliapaniola,  the  skuls  of 
their  heads  are  so  hard  and  thick,  that  the 
Spaniards  agreed  that  the  head  of  an 
dian,  although  bare,  was  not  to  be  struck, 
for  fear  of  breaking  their  swords.*' — Bdl- 
wB»'g  Man  Tratuformd,  or  TIte  ArtificiaU 
Changeling.  1654. 


Dirty-headed  Irish. 
"To  what  use  or  purpose  should  that 
superfluous  crop  of  bur  serve?  or  what 
emolument  it  can  bring,  none  can  see,  u 
lesse  it  be  to  breed  lice  and  dandro,'  al^er 
the  manner  of  jour  Irish ;  who,  as  thej  are 
a  nation  estranged  from  anj  human  excel- 
lencj,  scarce  acknowledge  anj  other  nae  of 
their  huire  than  to  wipe  their  hands  from 
the  fat  and  dirt  of  their  meales,  and  any 
otfaerfllth,forwhich  cause  thej nourishlong 
fealt  locks,  hanging  down  to  their  shoulders, 
which  thej  are  wont  to  use  instead  of  nap- 
kins, to  wipe  their  greasie  fingers." — BtJL- 


'  This  ia  evidenlly  the  old  form  of  "dan- 
driff,"i.e.  scurf;  from  the  AngloSaxon"  Tun/' 
a  letter,  and  Drop,  filth.— J.  W.  W.  1 


172 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Welsh  Raggednets, 

**  ScHTR  Mawbicb,  akiiA  the  Berclaj 
Fra  the  gret  bataill  held  hjs  way, 
With  a  gret  rout  of  Walls  men, 
Qubareuir  thai  jeid  men  mycht  thum  ken. 
For  thai  wele  ner  all  nakjt  war, 
Or  lynnjn  clathys  had  but  mar.** 

Tlu  Bruce f  book  idiir  p.  417. 

PSnkerton  says,  "  this  anecdote  of  the 
Welch  in  the  fourteenth  century  is  curious. 
They  appeared  naked  even  toScotish  pea- 
sants,*' 


Chivalrous  Speech. 

The  Douglas,  '^  Lordihgs,  he  said,  sen  it 
is  sua 
That  we  hafi*  chasyt  on  sic  maner. 
That  we  now  cummyn  ar  sa  ner. 
That  we  may  not  eschew  the  fycht, 
Hot  giff  we  fouly  tak  the  flycht } 
Lat  ilkane  on  his  leman  mene ; 
And  how  he  mony  tym  has  bene 
In  gret  thrang  and  Weill  cummyn  away ; 
Think  wc  to  do  rycht  sua  to  day.** 

Ibid,  book  zv.  346. 


Heart  of  Bruce. 

Douglas,    "  The  Bruce*s  heart,  that  on 
his  breast 
Was  hinging,  in  the  field  he  kest. 
Upon  a  penny-stone  cast  and  more, 
And  said,  Now  fass  thou  fobth  befobb 

As  THOU  WAS  WOHT  IN  FIELD  TO  BB 
And  I  SHALL  FOLLOW  OB  ELSE  DIE.** 

Ibid.  XX. 


^^^•'<^VN^^\/^^^/S^/^^^^/\^«* 


Sun  and  Sea  Worship, 

**  Thb  Emperors  of  Peru  extended  at  last 
their  dominions  beyond  the  bounds  of  their 
local  superstition.  They  set  out  with  their 
arms  and  mission  from  a  country  where  the 
sun  was  very  welcome,  and  imposed  the 
worship  of  their  father,  the  sun,  on  all  the 


mtions  they  subjugated,,  with  great  success 
as  long  as  sun-wcn^hip  held  good.  But  at 
length  they  came  to  a  people  who,^  situated 
on  a  rocky  coast  in  a  sultry  climate,  could 
Bot  in  conscience  submit  to  adore  a  being 
almost  msupportable,  and  conseqviently  odi- 
ous to  them;  and  durst  propose  to  their 
conquerors  to  quit  their  irrational  idolatry, 
and  to  worship  with  themselves  their  mother 
and  goddess  the  sea,  the  inexhausted  giver 
of  good  things.** — Letter  from  North  AmS' 
rica,  in  a  Pochet  of  Prose  and  Verse,  being  a 
Selection  from  the  Literary  IVoductions  of 

AUEXANDEB  EbLLBT, 

Men  Ornamented,  not  Women. 

"  A  TOUNG  man  among  the  Indians  is 
dressed  with  visible  attention  ;  a  warrior  is 
a  furious  beau,  and  a  woman,  the  Asiatic, 
the  European,  the  African  DoQ,  is  with 
them  a  neglected  squat  animal,  whose  hair 
is  stroked  over  those  glistening  eyes  it  dares 
not  uplifl,  and  who  seldom  uses  its  aspen 
tongue^^  and  when  k  does,  is  scarcely  loud 
enough  to  be  heard.  When  we  reproach 
the  Indians  on  this  account,  they  point  to 
their  animated  woods,  and  tell  us  that  they 
see  not  whence  we  have  picked  up  a  con- 
trary practice;  but  that  they  themselves 


^  ^  After  answering  many  of  the  lady's  ques- 
tions, ho  looked  into  Uie  yard  through  the  win- 
dow very  earnestly,  where  an  aspen  tree  grew. 
The  lady  asked  him, '  What  he  was  looking  at 
so  earnestly  V  He  asked  her, '  What  tree  she 
called  that  in  the  yard  V  She  said,  <  It  was  a 
quaking  asp.'  He  replied  in  broken  English, 
*  Indian  no  call  him  quake  asp.'  '  What  then?' 
asked  the  inquisitive  nostess.  '  Woman  tongue, 
Woman  tongue,'  answered  the  sagacious  war- 
rior, *  never  still,  never  still,  always  go.'  "— 
Hunter's  Memmrt  of  hia  Captivity  ammig  tkt 
North  American  Indiantf  p.  376. 

I  mentioned  this  soon  after  the  publication  of 
Hunter's  book  to  a  Welsh  friend,  who  told  me 
that  the  aspen  poplar  bore  the  same  name  among 
the  Cymry,— "  Tafod  y  Mtrehen;'  or  Wamau't 
Tongue,  This  was  on  the  Conwav,  and  I  noted 
it  down  at  the  time ;  but  I  do  not  find  it  in  Rich- 
ard*8 Welsh  Dictionary."— J.  W.  W. 


)EAS  AND  STTTDIES  FOR  LITBRABY  COMPOSITION. 


their  leMon  from  wbat«Ter 
d  Uiem,  from  the  birdi  ftud  the 
i  males  are  lavithl;  adorned  id 
)f  their  females,  from  the  gaj 
Lhe  turkj  cock,  and  the  onu- 

heod  of  the  atag  "— K«T.f  .mr 


"Haivi  of  an  Old  Indian.'^ 
es,  "  tliat  in  the  bappj  daji  of 
11  lored  or  feared  bj  all ;  that 
abawk  bis  enem;r  ^id  could  not 
e ;  that  ererj  river  was  then  an 
ind  ererj  squih  he  met  a  wife ; 
I  he  was  gro*rD  old,  ever;  one 
omed  him ;  the  deer  bounded 
i)  erring  aim,  and  tbe  girls  co- 
Klxes  repoliiTelj  at  hii  ap- 
was  he  taj  longer  permitted 
grace  the  glorious  file  of  war : " 
udes  with  ardent  wishes,  "  that 
e  had  never  disclosed  bun,  or 
im  with  that  power  of  renova- 
«med  M  improperlj  granted  to 
la  snake." — Ibid. 


Wo  TrOia  JFtghlag. 

rriors  of  two  tribea  of  American 

accidentlj  on  the  banks  of  a 
und  thejr  were  strangers  to  one 
le  of  the  parties  demands  of  the 
liej  were  and  what  about,  and 
answer  their  name,  and  that 
anting  of  beavers ;  and  being 
D  their  turn,  answered,  that 
iras  immaterial,  but  that  their 

to  hunt  men.  TVe  are  men, 
tediale  replj,  go  no  further, 
ut  off  bj  agreement  to  a  small 
1  river,  deitrojed  their  canoes 
I,  and  fonght  till  onlj  a  few  of 
nntera  remained  alive,  and  but 
an  hunters,  who  was  spared  to 


1 1  iDipect  orieinated, — "  The  Old 
hia  Qrandun?'— Pmhi,  p.  134. 
J.  W.  W. 


carr^  to  his  nation  an  account,  that  he  had 
met  with  a  tribe  who  could  hunt  men  better 
than  his  own." — Ibid. 


Teraphim.* 
"  Tub  manner  how  the  Teraphim  were 
made  is  fondl;  conceited  thus  among  the 
Rabbles.  The;  killed  a  man  that  was  a 
first  bom  son,  and  wrung  off  bis  head,  and 
seasoned  it  with  salt  and  spices,  and  wrote 
upon  a  plate  of  gold,  th«  name  of  an  un- 
deane  spirit,  and  put  it  nnder  the  head  upon 
a  trail,  and  lighted  candles  before  It,  and 
worshipped   it,"  —  Godwth'i  Mote*  and 


De/mive  Fire. 
1159.  Hbdkt  n.  "  dertroied  tbe  strong 
castell  of  Gerberie,  except  one  turret,  which 
his  eouldiera  could  not  take,  by  reason  of 
the  fire  and  smoke  which  staide  and  kept 
them  from  it." — HouHiaiit. 


Hauy  the  Sftoad't  Cmtlty. 

1165.  Herbi  in  his  attempt  upon  Wales 
"  did  justice  on  the  sons  of  Rice  or  Rees, 
and  dso  on  the  sonnes  and  daughters  of 
other  noble  men  that  were  hu  complices 
verie  rigorousUe ;  cansmg  the  eles'  of  the 
^lonng  striplings  to  be  pecked  out  of  their 
heads,  and  their  noies  to  be  cut  aSor  slit ; 
and  tiie  eares  of  the  joong  gentlewomen  to 
be  stuSed. 

"  But  yet  I  find  in  other  authors  that  in 
this  jouroie  King  Uenrie  did  not  greatlie 

■  Quoted  in  "  Thalaba,"  Book  II.,  5,  on  the 

"  A  teraph  stood  against  the  cavern  side,"  Ac. 
Pmihi,  p.  324. 
>  This  is  quoted  to  "  Madoc  in  Wales,"  B.  11., 
"  David,  saest  then  never 
Those  ejreless  spectres  hy  ibj  bridal  bed  ?"  &c. 
Potmi,  p.  317 J.  W,  W. 


174  IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


prevaile  against  his  enemies,  but  rather  lost 
manie  of  his  men  of  warre,  both  horssemen 
and  footmen ;  for  by  his  severe  proceeding 
against  them,  he  rather  made  them  more 
eger  to  seek  revenge,  than  quieted  them  in 
anie  tumult." — Ibid. 


^^^^s/sy%^^^^^^^^^^^^^s^^^^^ 


Boards  Head, 


"  Upon  the  daie  of  young  Henry's  coro- 
nation. King  Henry  the  father  served  his 
Sonne  at  the  table  as  sewer,  bringing  up  the 
bore's  head  with  trumpets  before  it,  ac- 
cording to  the  manner.** — Ibid. 


i^W^»»WWM^S^»<^»»»>/»/W»^ 


Fresh  Meat  strange  Diet  for  England, 

Qtueref 

**  1172.  In  Ireland,  evill  diet  in  eating  of 
fresh  flesh  and  drinking  of  water,  contrarie 
to  the  custome  of  the  Englishmen,  brought 
the  flix  and  other  diseases  in  the  King*s 
armie,  so  that  manie  died  thereof,  for 

Gravissimum  est  imperium  consuetudinis.** 

Ibid. 


^^^^^^^^k^^^^^^^^^^NAA^ 


u 


Henry  the  Second  stript  when  Dead, 

1189.  Immbdiatblt  upon  his  death, 
those  that  were  about  him  applied  their 
market  so  busilie  in  catching  and  filching 
awaie  things  that  laie  readie  for  them,  that 
the  King's  corps  laie  naked  a  long  time,  till 
a  child  covered  the  nether  parts  of  his  body 
with  a  short  cloke,  and  then  it  seemed  that 
his  surname  was  fulfilled  that  he  had  from 
his  childhood,  which  was  Shortmantell,  being 
so  called,  because  he  was  the  first  who 
brought  short  clokes  out  of  Anjou  into 
England. — Ibid. 


His  Epitaph, 

To  the  epitaph  of  Henry  IL  these  con- 
cluding lines  are  in  Holinshed,  p.  27 : 


*'  Quod  potes  instanter  operare  bonuin,  qui 
mundus 
Transit,  et  incautos  mors  inopina  rapit 

To  the  other  couplet  this  is  affixed : 

**  Tumuli  regis  superscriptio  brevis  exoi 
nat.*' 

Both  are  thus  translated, 

**  Of  late  King  Henrie  was  my  name, 

which  conquerd  manie  a  land, 
And  diverse  dukedoms  did  possesse, 

and  earledoms  held  in  hand. 
And  yet  while  all  the  earth  could  scarse 

my  greedie  mind  suffice. 
Eight  foot  within  the  ground  now  serves 

wherein  my  carcase  lies. 
Now  thou  that  readest  this,  note  well 

my  force  with  force  of  death, 
And  let  that  serve  to  shew  the  state 

of  all  that  yeeldeth  breath. 
Doo  good  then  here,  foreslowe  no  time, 

cast  off  all  worldlie  cares, 
For  brittle  world  full  soone  dooth  faile, 

and  death  dooth  strike  unwares.** 

Another. 

**  Small  epitaph  now  serves  to  decke 
this  toome  of  statelie  king : 

And  he  who  whilome  thought  whole  earl 
could  scarse  his  mind  content. 

In  little  roome  hath  roome  at  large 
that  serves  now  life  is  spent.** 


«W>/W«A/^WN/\/>/W>/W^%^ 


The  Lady  Breme, 

"  We  read  in  an  old  historic  of  Fland< 
written  by  one  whose  name  is  not  know 
but  printed  at  Lions  by  Guillaume  Roui 
1562,  that  the  Lady,  wife  to  the  LordM 
liam  de  Breuse,  presented  upon  a  time  u 
the  Queenc  of  England  a  gift  of  four  hi 
dred  kine  and  one  bull,  of  colour  all  wh 
the  eares  excepted,  which  were  red.  . 
though  this  tale  may  seem  incredible,  yc 
we  shall  consider  that  the  said  Breuse  ^ 
a  Lord  Marcher,  and  had  goodlie  posi 
sions  in  Wales  and  on  the  mju*8he8,  in  wl 


I 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERAHT  COMPOSITION. 


19  the  moat  part  of  the  peoples  nib- 
»>iisuteth  in  cattell,  it  mvf  carrie 
b«  more  likelihood  of  truth.  Touch- 
death  of  the  Mud  ladie,  ho  aaith, 
bin  eleven  daies  after  (he  was  corn- 
to  priaon  heere  in  England,  in  the 
of  Windsor,  ahe  waa  found  dead, 
Detwixt  her  eons  legs,  who  likewise 
ead,  sate  directlie  up  againat  a  wall 
chamber,  wherein  thej  were  kept 
rd  pitance.  As  the  fame  went  the; 
aiahed  to  death.  William  de  Breuae 
escaped  into  France.  a.D.1210.'" — 


WeUh  Monk  Hatred. 
B  Gr*t  abbeie  or  frierie  that  u  read 
beene  erected  there  (in  Walea)  unce 
>lution  of  the  noble  house  of  Bangor, 
avonred  not  of  Romiih  dr^s,  waa 
r  Gw^,  which  wta  builded  in  the 
146.  Afterwarda  theie  venulne 
i  like  bees,  or  rather  crawled  like 
IT  all  the  land,  and  drew  in  with 
eir  lowaie  religion,  tempered  with  I 
i  how  manie  millions  of  abomina- 
lavtng  utterlie  forgotten  the  lesson 
jnbrosius  Telesinus  (Q^r.TalieaNn  ?} 
ght  them  (who  writ  in  the  yeare 
en  the  right  Chriatian  faith  (which 
of  Arimathea  taught  the  ile  of 
I  reigned  in  this  land,  before  the 
jid  blood thiratie  monke  Augustine 
.  it  with  the  poison  of  Romish  er- 
B  certeine  ode,  a  part  whereof  are 
w  verses  iniuing. 
*  Gwae'r  offeiriad  bjd, 
!f  ja  angreiSUa  gwji, 

Ac  aj  phregetha : 
jwae  nj  cheidw  ej  gail, 
Ic  ef  jn  vigail, 

Ac  njs  areilia : 
!}wae  mj  theidw  ej  dheuMd, 
ihae  bleidhie  Rhlefeniaid, 

Ai  flbn  greirppa." 


ITins  in  English,  almost  word  for  word, 

"  Wo  be  to  that  prcest  ybome, 

That  will  not  cleanelie  weed  his  come 

And  preach  hia  charge  among : 
Wo  be  to  that  shepheard,  I  sue. 
That  will  not  watch  hia  fold  alwue 

As  to  his  office  dooth  belong : 
Wo  be  to  him  that  dooth  not  kecpe 
From  ravening  Romiah  wolves  his  sheepe 

With  atafie  and  weapon  strong." — Ibid. 


Onmd  Strgeanti/  Temtre  of  Brieiuton. 

"  BxmsTON,  in  Dorsetahire,  was  held  in 
Grand  Sergeant;  hj  a  prett;  odd  jocular 
tenure ;  viz.  b;  finding  a  man  to  go  before 
the  Kings  armj  for  fortj  i»j*  when  he 
should  make  war  m  Scotland  (some  records 
aa;  in  Walea),  bareheaded  and  barefooted, 
in  Uls  shirt  and  linnen  drawers,  holding  in 
one  hand  a  bow  without  a  string,  in  the 
other  an  arrow  without  feathers." — Gib- 
bon's Canidat. 

This  ma;  be  alluded  to  in  Madoc.* 


Arabian  AnitnaU. 
"  In  the  places  where  we  generally  rested 
Brefoundthejerboa,the  tortoise,  the  lizard, 
and  some  serpents,  but  not  in  great  number. 
There  is  also  an  immense  quantity  of  anaila 
attached  to  the  thorny  planta  on  which  the 
camels  feed.  Near  the  few  springs  of  water 
are  found  wild  rabbits,  and  the  track  of  the 
antelope  and  the  ostrich  are  fret^uently  dia- 
coverable." — Baowns'a  TravtU  in  Afriett, 
Egypt,  tatd  Syria. 


Mitftd. 

"  Wb  diamonnted  and  seated  ourselvea, 

as  is  usual  for  strangers  in  thia  country,  on 

a  mUjed,  or  place  used  for  prayer,  ai^oining 


176 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


the  tomb  of  a  Marahvt,  or  holj  persoQ.  In 
a  short  time  the  chiefs  came  to  congratu- 
late us  on  our  arrival,  with  the  grave  but 
simple  ceremony  that  is  in  general  use 
among  the  Arabs.  They  then  conducted  us 
to  an  apartment,  which,  though  not  very 
commodious,  was  the  best  they  were  pro- 
vided with." — Ibid. 


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King  of  the  Crocodiles. 

"  The  people  at  Isna  in  Upper  Egypt  have 
a  superstition  concerning  crocodiles  similar 
to  that  entertained  in  the  West  Indies;  they 
say  there  is  a  king  of  them  who  resides  near 
Isna,  and  who  has  ears  but  no  tail ;  and  he 
possesses  an  uncommon  regal  quality,  that 
of  doing  no  harm  (*  The  king  can  do  no 
wrong.*)  Some  are  bold  enough  to  assert 
that  they  have  seen  him.** — Ibid. 


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CameL 
Thb  camel  called  ship  of  the  land. 


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Catnelsfor  Souls* 

"  Axi  affirmed  that  the  pious,  when  they 
come  forth  from  their  sepidchres,  shall  find 
ready  prepared  for  them  white-winged  ca- 
mels, with  saddels  of  gold.  Here,**  says 
Sale,  **  are  some  footsteps  of  the  doctrine  of 
the  ancient  Arabians,** 


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Lake  JHHoaca, 


*'  JuvAT  de  lacu  Intiticacd,  falsb  vulgb 
Titicac&  dicto,  aliquid  promere,  qui  in  su- 
pem&  provinci&  Feruan&  Collao  medius  ja- 
cet.  In  hunc  flumina  plus  decem,eaque  satis 
ampla  confluunt;  exitum  habet  unum,eum- 
que  non  vald^  latum,  sed,  ut  opinio  est,  pro- 
fundissimum,  quem  nequc  ponte  jungere 
profunditas  et  latitudo  sinunt,  neque  tut5 
scaphis  trajici  rapidi  infem^  vortices  pati- 

»  See  Poeiw,  p.  437,  for  the  Ballad.— J.  W.  W. 


untur.  Trajicitur  tamen,  miro  ingenio  et 
Indorum  proprio ;  ponte  prorsus  junoeo  ip- 
si  aqus  commisso,  nullis  fulcris  nixo,  aed  in 
modum  suberis  ponte  supematante,  ac  pre 
levitate  materis  nunquam  merso ;  est  vero 
trajectio  facillima  et  tutissima.  Occupat 
lacus  ipse  circuitum  bis  mille  quadringenta 
stadia ;  longus  est  fer^  nongenta,  latus 
ubi  maxim^  ducenta  et  vigintL  Insulas 
habet  olim  habitatas  et  fertiles,  nunc  de- 
sertas,  producit  uberrima  junci  genus,  quod 
indigenie  Totoram  vocant,  cujus  plurimus 
ipsis  usus  est;  nam  et  cibus  est  suibus,  ju- 
mentis,  ipsisq;  hominibus  perjucundus,  et 
domus  et  focus  et  vestis  et  navigium,  et  om- 
nia pen^  vitiB  humane  subtidia  una  Totora 
Uris  prestat,hoc  enim  accolarum  est  nomen. 
li  ade6  se  ab  hominum  cieteronim  consor- 
tio  et  opinione  alienarunt,  ut  interrogati  ali- 
quando,-  qui  sint,  serib  responderint,  se  non 
homines  esaef  sed  Uros,  quod  genus  ab  hn- 
mano  diversum  esse  sentirent.  Urorum  re- 
perti  sunt  populi  integri  in  medio  lacu  ha- 
bitantium  scaphis  quibusdam  j  unceis,  quibns 
inequitant,  simul  connezis,  et  ex  un&  aliqnii 
rupe  aut  stipite  religatis.  Unde  interdum 
solventes  totua  populus  subitb  patriam  mu- 
tat.  Itaque  aliquando  conquisitus  populus 
urorum  hesternis  sedibus  commutatis,  ac  ne 
vestigio  quidem  relicto,  facile  vestigantium 
studium  curamque  irrisit.** — ^Acosta  deNa" 
turd  Novi  Orbis, 


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Trichomata'ParastasiSy  or^  Athenian  Wig- 
gery^  No.  119,  Bishopsgate'Street-witkin, 
three  doors  from  the  London  Tavern. 

"  Ross,  by  great  labour  and  at  vast  ex- 
pence,  has  exerted  all  the  genius  and  abili- 
ties of  the  first  artists  in  Europe,  to  com- 
plete his  exhibition  of  ornamental  hair  in 
all  its  luxuriant  varieties,  and  particularly 
the  Sultana  head  dress,  so  much  admired  on 
the  queen*8  birth-day. 

"  In  this  exhibition  the  elegance  of  nature 
and  convenience  of  art  are  so  combined,  aa 
at  once  to  rival  and  ameliorate  each  other. 
The  room  is  secluded  from  the  view  of  im- 


IDEAS  AND  STUD[ES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


177 


jurioiitj,  where  hit  fair  pstroos 
emiptedlj  ezamiiiB  the  effect  of 
■esies  oD  Poupec  of  all  complex- 
j  %  trial  on  thenuelvea,  blend  the 
Inta  with  tbeir  own. 
g  on  public  ftTonr,  he  confidently 
t  whole  fsBhionable  world  to  U 
of  unexunpled  bute  ud  ezcel- 
lar,  Thwrtdas  AMgtui  1,  1799. 


tUent  motive,  perhaps  of  niper> 
st  have  impelled  the  founder*  of 
he  choice  of  a  mort  unpromising 
^niej  erected  their  habitations 
■tone,  in  a  plain  about  two  milei 
ne  mile  broad,  at  the  foot  of  three 
unt«in9 :  the  loil  is  a  rock ;  the 
I  of  the  holj  well  of  Zemsem  is 
rackish ;  the  pastures  are  remote 
3tj,  and  grapes  are  transported 
sntj  miles  from  the  gardens  of 


AhdiA  Molalleb. 
randfather  of  Mahomet  was  Ab- 
eb,  the  son  of  Hashem,  a  wealthy 
lus  citizen,  who  relieved  the  dis- 
nine  with  the  supplies  of  com- 
eccB,  which  bad  been  fed  bj  the 
af  the  father,  wai  saved  by  the 
the  son.  The  kingdom  of  Yemen 
t  to  theChristian  princes  of  Abjs- 
ir  vassal  Abrahah  was  provoked 
lit  to  avenge  the  honour  of  the 
the  holy  citj  was  invested  bj  a 
;[rfiaats  and  an  arm;  of  Africans. 
ras  proposed,  and  in  the  first  an- 
e  grandfather  of  Mahomet  de- 
e  restitution  of  his  cattle:  'And 
Abrahah,  *  do  jon  not  rather  em* 
emencj  in  fkvour  of  jour  temple, 
tve  threatened  to  destroy.'  'Be- 
llied the  btrepid  chief,  '  the  cat- 
own  :  the  Caaba  belongs  to  the 


gods,  and  tlia/  will  defend  their  bouse  from 
injur;  and  sacrilege.'  The  want  of  provi- 
sions, or  the  valour  of  the  Koreiih,  com- 
pelled the  Abyssinians  to  a  disgraceful  re- 
treat ;  their  discomfiture  has  been  adorned 
with  a  miraculous  flight  of  birds,  who  show- 
ered down  stones  on  the  heads  of  the  infi- 
dels, and  the  deliverance  was  long  comme- 
morated by  the  lera  of  the  elephant.  The 
glory  of  Abdol  Motalleb  was  crowned  with 
domestic  happiness  ;  his  life  was  prolonged 
to  the  age  of  1 10  years,  and  he  became  the 
father  of  six  daughters  and  thirteen  sons. 
His  best  beloved,  Abdallah,  was  the  most 
beautiful  and  modest  of  the  Arabian  youth ; 
and  in  the  first  night,  when  he  consummated 
his  marriage  with  Amina,  of  the  noble  race 
of  the  Zahrites,  two  hundred  virgins  are 
said  to  have  expired  of  jealousy  and  despair. 
Mahomet,  the  only  son  of  Abdallah  and  Ami- 
na, was  bom  at  Mecca,  four  yeara  afler  the 
death  of  Justinian,  and  two  months  after 
thedefeat  of  the  Abyssinians,  whose  victory 
would  have  introduced  into  the  Caaba  the 
religion  of  the  Christians." — Ibid.  aj).  169. 


Flight  of  Mohammtd, 
"  Thb  Eoreishites  had  long  been  jealous 
ofthe  pre-eminence  of  the  family  of  Hosheni. 
Thdr  malice  was  coloured  with  the  pretence 
of  religion :  in  the  age  of  Job,  the  crime  of 
impiety  was  punished  by  the  Arabian  ma- 
gistrate, andMahometwasguilty  of  desert- 
ing and  denying  the  national  deities.  But 
so  loose  was  the  policy  of  Mecca,  that  the 
leaden  of  the  Koreish,  instead  of  accusing 
a  criminal,  were  oompelled  U>  employ  the 
measures  of  perauasion  or  violence.  They 
repeatedly  addressed  Abu  Taleb  in  the  style 
of  reproach  and  menace.  '  Thy  nephew  re* 
viles  our  religion;  he  accuses  our  wise  fore- 
fathers of  ignorance  and  folly ;  silence  him 
quickly,  lest  he  kindle  tumult  and  discord 
in  the  city.  If  he  persevere,  we  shall  draw 
our  swords  against  him  and  his  adherents, 
and  thou  wilt  be  responsible  fbr  the  blood 
of  thy  fellow-citiceos.'     The  weight  and 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


moderation  of  Abu  Taleb  eluded  the  yio- 
lence  of  religious  fftctioD;  the  mo«t  helpless 
or  timid  of  the  disciples  retired  to  Ethiopia, 
and  the  prophet  withdrew  himself  to  vftrious 
places  of  strength  in  the  town  and  country. 
As  he  was  still  supported  bj  bii  famil]',  the 
rest  of  the  tribe  of  Koreish  engaged  them- 
selres  to  renounce  tdl  intercourse  with  the 
children  of  Hashem,  neither  to  buj  nor  sell, 
neither  to  many  nor  to  give  in  marriage, 
but  to  pursue  them  with  implacable  enmity, 
till  they  should  deliver  the  person  of  Ma- 
homet to  the  justice  of  the  gods.  The  de- 
cree was  suspended  in  the  (^ba  before  the 
eyes  of  the  nation ;  the  meuengers  of  the 
Koreish  pursued  the  Musulmsn  exiles  in  the 
heart  of  Africa :  they  beai^d  the  prophet 
and  his  most  faithful  followers,  intercepted 
their  water,  and  inSamed  their  mutual  ani* 
mosity  by  the  retaliation  of  injuries  and  in- 
sults. A  doubtful  truce  restored  the  appear- 
ances of  concord ;  till  the  death  of  Abu  Ta- 
leb  abandoned  Mahomet  to  the  power  of  his 
enemies,  at  the  moment  when  he  was  de- 
prived of  hii  domestic  comforts  by  the  loss 
of  his  faithful  and  generous  Cadijoh. 

"  Abu  Sophian,  the  chief  of  the  branch 
of  Ommiyah,  succeeded  to  the  principality 
of  the  republic  of  Mecca.  A  zealous  votary 
of  the  idols,  a  mortal  foe  of  the  line  of  Ha- 
shem, he  convened  an  assembly  of  the  Ko- 
reisbites  and  their  nllies,  to  decide  the  fate 
of  the  apoitle.  His  imprisonment  might  pro- 
voke the  despair  of  his  enthusiasm ;  uid  the 
exile  of  an  eloquent  and  popular  fanatic 
would  diffuse  the  mischief  through  the  pro- 
vinces of  Arabia.  His  death  was  resolved ; 
and  they  agreed  that  a  tword  from  each  tribe 
should  be  buried  in  his  besrt,  to  divide  the 
guilt  of  his  blood  and  baffle  the  vengeance 
of  the  Hashemites.  An  angel  or  a  spy  re- 
vealed their  conspiracy,  and  flight  was  the 
only  resource  of  Mahomet.  At  the  dead  of 
night,  accompanied  by  his  friend  Abubeker, 
he  silently  escaped  ftvro  his  boose ;  tlie  aa- 
sasuns  watched  at  the  door,  but  they  were 
deceived  by  the  figure  of  AJl,  who  reposed 
on  the  bed,  and  wa»  covered  with  the  green 
vestment  of  the  apostle.     The  Koreish  re- 


spected the  piety  of  the  heroic  youth  j  but 
some  verses  of  Ali  which  are  still  extant,u- 
hibit  an  interesting  picture  of  his  snxict;, 
his  tendemesB,  and  his  religious  con6deiice. 
Three  days  Mahomet  and  his  companion  were 
concealed  in  the  cave  of  Thor,  at  the  dis* 
tance  of  a  league  from  Mecca;  and  in  lbs 
close  of  each  evening,  they  received  from  the 
BOn  and  daughter  of  Abubeker  a  secret  gup- 
ply  of  inlelligence  and  food.  The  diligence 
of  the  Koreish  explored  every  haunt  in  tie 
neighbourhood  of  the  city ;  they  arrived  xt 
the  entrance  of  the  cavern,  but  the  prori- 
dential  deceit  of  a  spider's  web  and  a  pi- 
geon's nest  i*  supposed  to  convince  tben 
that  tbe  place  was  solitary  and  inviolate. 
'  We  are  only  two,'  said  the  trembling  Abu- 
beker.' '  There  is  a  third,'  relied  the  jro- 
fbet,  *  it  is  God  himself.* 

"  No  sooner  was  the  pursuit  abated,  thss 
the  two  frigitives  issued  from  the  rock,  and 
mounted  their  camels ;  on  the  rood  to  Me- 
dina they  were  overtaken  by  the  emissaries 
of  the  Koreish ;  they  redeemed  theuiselies 
with  prayers  and  promises  from  their  band: ; 
in  this  eventful  moment,  the  lance  of  sn 
Arab  might  have  changed  the  histoiy  of  the 
world ." — GiBBow. 


Arrival  at  Medtna. 
"  Mbsika,  or  the  city  known  under  tbe 
name  of  Yatfaieb,  before  it  was  sanctified 
by  the  throne  of  the  Frt^bet,  was  divided 
between  the  tribes  of  the  Charegites  and 
the  Awsites,  whose  hereditary  feud  was  re- 
kindled by  the  slightest  provocations :  two 
colonies  of  Jews,  who  boasted  a  sacerdotal 
race,  were  their  humble  allies,  and  without 
converting  the  Arabs,  they  introduced  the 
taste  of  science  and  religion,  which  distin- 
guished Medina  aa  tbe  City  of  the  Book. 
Some  of  her  noblest  dtisene,  in  a  [ulgrimsge 
to  the  Caaba,  were  converted  by  the  preach- 
ing of  Mahomet ;  on  their  r«tum  they  dif- 
fused the  belief  of  God  and  his  Prt^het,  sid 
the  new  alliance  was  ratified  by  their  d«f»i- 
tiea  in  two  secret  and  nocturnal  interriew 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOB  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


on  A  hill  in  the  auborbi  of  Mecca.  In  the 
fiKt,  ten  Char^ites  and  tvo  AwtiUfl  united 
is  futh  uid  love,  proteated  in  the  nime  of 
thor  wiTCB,  their  children,  and  their  absent 
brethren,  thM  thej  would  for  ever  profess 
the  creed  ftod  obserre  the  precepts  of  the 
Koran.  The  Mcond  was  a  political  auocU- 
tion,  the  6rtt  vital  spark  of  the  empire  of 
the  Saraceni.  Seventj-three  men  and  two 
women  of  Medina  held  a  solemn  confereDce 
with  Mahomet,  hij  kinsmen,  and  his  dlsci- 
jde* ;  and  pledged  themselvos  to  each  other 
bj  a  mutiul  oftth  of  fidelity.  Tbey  pro- 
niaed  in  the  naioe  of  the  citji  that  if  he 
■bould  be  banished,  they  would  receive  him 
u  ■  coDfederate,  obej  bim  as  a  leader,  and 
defend  htm  to  the  last  eztremitj,  like  their 
wive*  and  children.  '  But  if  you  are  re- 
called bj  jour  country,'  tbej  asked  with 
t  flattering  anxiety,  *  will  jou  not  abandon 
your  new  allies  f  '  All  thingt,'  replied  Ma- 
bomet  with  a  smile,  *  are  now  common  be- 
tween us ;  yoar  blood  is  as  my  blood,  your 
rub  as  my  ruin.  We  ore  bound  to  each 
other  by  the  ties  of  honour  and  interest.  I 
imyonrfriend,and  the  enemy  of  your  foes.' 
'  But  if  we  are  killed  in  your  service,  what,' 
exclaimed  the  deputies  of  Medina,  *  will  be 
our  reward  ?'  '  Paeaoisb,"  replied  the  Pro- 
phet 'Stretch  forth  thy  hand.'  Hestretched 
it  forth,  and  they  reiterated  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance and  fidelity.  Their  treaty  was  rati- 
I  Ged  by  the  paople,  who  unanimously  em- 
I  braced  the  profession  of  Islam ;  they  re- 
!  joiced  in  the  eaile  of  the  Apostle,  but  they 
trembled  for  his  safety,  and  impatiently  ex- 
pected his  arrival.  Ailer  a  perilous  and 
Hfud  journey  along  the  sea-coast,  he  halted 
U  Koba,  two  miles  from  the  city,  and  made 
kii  public  entry  into  Medina,  siiteen  days 
■fter  his  fiight  from  Mecca.  Five  hundred 
of  the  citizans  advanced  la  meet  him  ;  he 
*u  hailed  with  acclama^ons  of  loyalty  and 
dno^D.  Mahomet  was  mounted  on  a  she 
cunel,  an  umbrella  shaded  his  head,  and  a 
tuiban  was  unfurled  before  him  to  supply 
■he  deSuenoy  of  a  standard.  His  bravest 
•iiKiplea,  who  had  been  scattered  by  the 
norm,  aMcmbled  round  his  person ;  and  the 


equal,  though  various  merit  of  the  Moslems 
was  distinguished  by  the  names  of  Moha- 
gerians  and  Aniars,  the  fugitives  of  Mecca 
and  the  auxiliaries  of  Medina.  To  eradi' 
cate  the  seeds  of  jealousy  Mahomet  judi- 
ciously coupled  his  principal  followers  with 
the  rights  and  obligations  of  brethren,  and 
when  Ali  found  himself  without  a  peer,  the 
prophet  tenderly  declared  thai  he  would  be 
the  companion  and  brother  of  the  noble 
youth.  The  expedient  was  crowned  with 
success  i  the  holy  fraternity  was  respected 
in  peace  and  war;  and  the  two  parties  vied 
wiUi  each  other  in  a  generotu  emulation  of 
courage  and  fidelity.  Once  only  the  con- 
cord was  slightly  ruSod  by  an  accidental 
quarrel;  apatriot  of  Medina  arraigned  the 
insolence  of  the  strangers,  but  the  hint  of 
their  expulsion  was  heard  with  abhorrence, 
and  his  own  son  most  eagerly  ofiered  to  lay 
at  the  Apostle's  feet  the  bead  of  his  father." 


"  Lb  Nil — tantot  fleuve  tranquille,  U  suit 
leutement  te  cours  que  la  nature  et  Tart 
lui  ont  trac£ ;  taotct  torreat  imp^tueux, 
rougi  des  sables  de  I'Ethiopie,  il  se  gonfle, 
francbit  ses  bords,  domine  sur  les  campagnes, 
et  couvre  de  see  flots  un  espace  de  deux 
cents  lieues." — Satabt. 


"  Lb  Lotus  est  one  nymphee  particulihre 
It  I'Egypte,  qui  croit  dins  les  ruisseoux  et 
au  bord  des  lacs.  II  y  en  a  de  deux  espi- 
ces,  I'une  &  fleur  blanche,  et  I'autrc  )k  fleur 
bleufttre.  Le  calice  du  lotus  s'epanouit 
comme  celui  d'une  Urge  tulippe,  et  rfpand 
ane  odeur  suave,  approchante  de  celle  du 
lis.  La  premiere  esp^e  produit  une  ra- 
cine  ronde,  semblable  k  une  pomme  de  terre. 


'  The  reader  is  rtferrad  to  R.  Ditpa'b  JUat- 
Imtfmi  ifih4  iMui  of  tht  AncitnU,  and  Tamara 
AfMm.-J.W.W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Les  habitans  des  bords  du  lac  Menzale  8*en 
nourrissent.  Les  ruisseauz  des  enyirons 
de  Damiette  sont  couverts  de  oette  fleur 
majestueuse,  qui  s^^l^ye  d*environ  deux 
pieds  au-dessus  des  eauz.  Le  lotus  ne  se 
trouve  point  sur  les  grands  canauz  du  Nil, 
mais  dans  les  ruisseauz  qui  trayersent  Tin- 
t^eur  des  terres.** — ^Ibid. 


•^^^^^^^^^V^^^^^\^^^N^^^ 


Palm, 

^  Lb  superbe  dattier  dont  la  tite  flexible 
se  penche  mollement  comme  celle  d*une 
belle  qui  s*endort,  est  couronn^  de  ses  grap- 
pes  pendantes.** — Dafard  el  Hadad.    Sa- 

VAXT. 


Sycamore  Fig-tree  of  Egypt* 

"  Lb  sycomore  d'Egypte  produit  une  fi- 
gue  qui  croit  sur  le  tronc  de  Tarbre,  et  non 
k  rextr^mit4  des  rameaux.  On  la  mange, 
mais  elle  est  un  peu  s^che.  Get  arbre  de- 
vicnt  fort  gros  et  tr^  touffu.  Rarement  il 
s*^^ye  droit.  Ordinairement  il  se  courbe 
et  devient  tortueux.  Ses  branches  8*etend- 
ant  borizontalement  et  fort  loin  donnent  un 
bel  ombrage.  Sa  feuille  est  decoupee,  et 
son  bois  impr^gn^  d*un  sue  amer  n*est  point 
sujet  k  la  piqiire  des  insectes.  Le  syco- 
more  yit  plusieurs  sidles.** — SAyABT. 

He  speaks  of  it  as  growing  with  palm 
trees  on  the  sides  of  the  Nile. 


>^^^^^^M^^S^^V^^^^^V^^fV^^ 


Delia  Scenery, 

^  Unb  surface  immense,  sans  montagne, 
sans  coUine,  couple  de  canaux  innombrables 
et  couyerte  de  moissons;  des  sjcomores 
toufius  dont  le  bois  indestructible  prot^e 
la  cabane  de  terre  oii  le  laboureur  se  retire 
rhiyer,  car  F^t^  il  dort  sous  Tombrage ;  des 
dattiers  rassembl^s  en  for^t,  ou  ^pars  dans 
la  plaine,  couronn^  au  sommet  de  grappes 
6normes  dont  le  fruit  ofire  un  aliment  sucr^ 

*  See  KiTTO's  CyeUmttdia  of  Biblical  Liiera- 
tur$,  in  y.  Shikmnth.^i.  W.  W. 


et  salutaire ;  des  cassiers,  dont  les  branches 
flexibles  se  parent  de  fleurs  jaunes,  et  por- 
tent une  silique  connue  dans  la  m^ecine; 
des  orangers,  des  citronniers  que  le  ciseta 
n*a  point  mutilds,  et  qui  ^tendant  leurs  ra- 
meaux parfum^  forment  des  yoiites  impe- 
netrable aux  rayons  du  soleil :  yoilik  les 
principaux  arbres  que  Ton  rencontre  dsDS 
le  Delta.  L*hiyer  ne  les  d^pouille  point  de 
leurs  feuilles.  lis  sont  pai^  toute  Tannee 
comme  aux  jours  du  printemps.** — ^Ibid. 


«<yw»*^«<VVWVWWW>»w» 


Women  Swimming. 

"  Lbs  filles  descendent  du  yillage  pour 
layer  leur  linge  et  puiser  de  Teau.  Toutes 
font  leur  toilette.  Leurs  cruches  et  leurs 
yStemens  sont  sur  le  riyage.  Elles  se  frot- 
tent  le  corps  ayec  le  limon  du  Nil,  s*y  pr^- 
cipitent  et  se  jouent  parmi  les  ondes.  Plu- 
sieurs sont  yenues  k  la  nage  autour  de  notre 
bateau  en  nous  criant  ila  sidi  at  maidi. 
Seigneur,  donne-moi  un  medin.  Elles  na- 
gent  ayec  beaucoup  de  grace.  Leurs  che- 
yeux  tress^  flottent  sur  leurs  ^paules. 
Elles  ont  la  peau  fort  brune,  le  teint  h&l^ 
mais  la  plupart  sont  tr^-bien  faites.  La 
facility  ayec  laquelle  elles  se  soutienoent 
contre  la  rapidity  du  courant,  fait  yoir  com- 
bien  Texercice  donne  de  force  et  de  sou- 
plesse  aux  personnes  les  plus  delicates.** — S. 


^^^^^^>/wwwwwwwwv^ 


Balm, 

"  Lb  bamier  est  une  plante  qui  produit 
une  gousse  pjramidale,  k  plusieurs  loges, 
couleur  de  citron,  et  remplie  de  graius 
musqu^.  Cuite  ayec  de  la  yiande,  cette 
gousse  ofire  une  nourriture  saine  et  d'un 
goiit  tr^-agr^ables.  Les  Egyptiens  en  font 
grand  usage  dans  leurs  ragoiits.** 

Indian  Millet 

**  Lb  dourra  ou  millet  d*Inde,  est  une 
plante  ^ey^e  k  feuille  de  roseau.  H  porte 
une  panicule  qui  renferme  beaucoup  de 
grains  dont  les  laboureurs  font  du  pam.** 


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lOeU  oftkt  Nile. 
"  Nova  TOgntniB  entre  des  ilea  dont  !'• 
berbe  eat  trta-Iiaute,  et  oil  I'on  mSne  paltre 
let  bufflca.  Un  ber^r  asiis  sur  le  eou 
da  premier  de  la  troupe,  descend  dans  le 
fleaTe,  fait  daquer  loii  fooet,  et  dlrige  la 
nurche,  tout  le  tnnipeaD  suit  b  la  file,  et 
nige  en  ineaglKQt>en  le  lieu  du  p&turage. 
Di  vmuMent  I'onde  de  leurs  Urges  na- 
Manz.  Cei  animaux  Tivent  dam  le  Nil 
pendant  lea  cbalenra.  Us  t'j  pVmgeiit 
juaqa'aiu  £paale»,et  puuent  fherbe  tendre 
le  \aag  de  ks  bord*.  Lea  feinellea  dounent 
en  abondancc  nn  lait  graa,  avec  le^uel  on 
bit  d'ezcellent  beurre." 


Egyptian  Qroett. 
"  Lei  environs  de  HellS  o&ent  de  apa- 
denx  eocloa,  oil  lea  orangera,  lea  citroaniers, 
Ie«  grenadier!  plant^  boiu  ordre,  croiEsent 
fart  hauta  et  fort  toofTua.  Leurs  brancbes 
eDtielaceel  forment  de  riants  berceaiuc,  su 
denna  deaqnels  lea  ajcomores  et  lea  pal- 
miera  £l%vent  leur  feuillage  d'un  verd  fonce. 
Dei  ruiueaox  j  coulent  parmi  des  touSea 
lie  baailic '  et  de  rotiers.  Je  ne  puis  Toua 
exprimer  combien  il  eat  doux.  Lonque  le 
ciel  eat  embrSaf  dea  feux  de  la  canicule,  de 
reajnrer  un  air  frua  aooa  eea  ombrtgea  en- 
cbant^.  Cest  nne  Tolapt^  qui  so  sent 
I  qu'on  ne  pent  la  d£crire.  L'odeur 
de  la  flenr  d'orange  m£l£e  aux  suavea  ^a- 
Ditlonl  dea  plan  tea  balsam  iques,  i^Teille 
doucement  lea  sena  engourdia  par  la  cba- 
lenr,  et  fut  couler  dans  I'fime  lea  plus  agr£- 
ables  KUMtions. 


Dirgt  cf  Ommia. 

"  Lbs  Uoak  aont  dea  chanta  £l^aqnet, 

tA  Ton  pleure  la  mart  d'uD  b£roa,  on  lea 

malheuri  de  ratnoar.      Abulfeda  noua   a 

axuerrf  U  fin  d'un  Moal  cbant^  par  Om- 


"  1^  baaOk  en_ 
hot  qn'en  Franoe,  et' 
■Un  odoriflnnMs." 


mia  aur  le  bord  de  la  foaae  oil  aea  nereux 
avoient  ii&  jett&  aprte  la  d^fajte  de  Beder. 

"  N'ai-je  pas  aesez  pleur^  fur  lea  noblea 
fila  dea  Frincea  de  la  Mecque  I 

"  A  la  TUe  de  leura  oa  bria^,  aemblable 
i  la  tourterelle  cacb£e  dans  la  for^t  pro- 
fonde,  j'ai  rempli  I'air  de  mea  gjmiaaemens. 

"  M^ea  infortun^es,  le  front  proatem^ 
centre  terre  m£leE  tos  soupirs  k  mea  pleura. 
Et  vouB,  femmes  qui  auiTez  les  convois, 
cbantez  des  hymnes  fun^bres  entrecoup^  de 
longs  sanglota.  Que  sont  devenus  ik  Beder, 
lea  princes  du  peuple,  les  chefs  dea  tribua  F 

**Le  vieox  et  le  jeune  guerrier  j  aont 
concb^a  nnda  et  aana  vie. 

"  Combien  la  Mecqoe  aura  cbangf  de 
facet 

"  Cea  plaines  desol^es,  ces  deserts  sau- 
TKgea,  aemblent  eux-m&nea  partager  ma 
douleur." — Sat  a  ki. 


Tht  Cutbm  of  Florida. 

Thb  first-bom  mole  ia  sacrificed  tbere. 

An  European  ia  settled  and  married 
among  the  Floridans ;  bia  child  is  to  be  sa- 
crificed. There  ma;  be  a  struggle  between 
auperatition  and  maternal  lore  in  bis  wife. 
The;  escape  together.  Will  this  make  a 
pla/F 


ELQira'a  snfferings.    Dunstsu  and  Priest 
villainj.     Here  also  the  afler-ator;  is  the 

beat. 

The  Conqneit  of  Lisbon. 
The  Battle  of  AljubarrotM. 
Edmund  Ironside, 


The  DtOriietion  of  tlu  Bom  iXiww/.' 
Thahika,  the  child  wbote  mother  pe- 
rishes with  the  Adite  in  the  garden  of  Irem, 


This  ia  the  originBl  gltetch  of  the  poei 

das  tooffisa  agr£-     For  parlicnlsTS  tbe  reader  ia  referred  to  t1 
Pretaoe  of  the  coUectad  Edition.    Doro,  or  Do 


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18  destined  to  destroy  this  nursery  of  evil 
magicians  under  the  roots  of  the  sea.  Tho 
scene  he  there  witnessed  is  well  calculatied 
to  produce  a  complete  self  devotement  to 
the  service  of  (jod» 

Cannot  the  Dom  Danael  be  made  to 
allegorize  those  systems  that  make  the 
misery  of  mankind  ? 

Previous  to  the  great  work,  Thamama 
goes  to  the  Simorg  to  learn  his  wisdom,  and 
to  Babel,  where  H&rut  and  Mfirut  suffer 
unseen. 

It  would  be  well  to  make  Thamama*s 
most  painful  obstacles  arise  from  those  do- 
mestic feelings  which  in  another  would  be 
viJrtue» 

He  may  destroy  the  palace  of  Aloadin. 

Cannot  the  Province  of  Darkness  be  in- 
troduced here  ?  and  the  situation  of  the  ten 
tribes  ? 

The  simplicity  of  Arabian  manners  will 
contrast  well  with  the  magnificent  ma- 
chinery. We  may  also  go  to  Persia,  for 
the  voluptuousness  of  nature. 

Wealth,  Power,  and  Priestcraft  form  the 
Trinity  of  Evil.  Old  Simorg- Anka  gives 
him  the  philosophy  of  history. 

Perhaps  the  death  of  Thamama  should 
conclude  the  poem,  as  the  only  adequate 
reward.  Besides,  he  must  sacrifice  so  much 
as  to  make  it  the  only  desirable  one. 

Now  I  can  see  a  little  way.  Book  1. 
The  garden  of  Irem,  and  preparing  his  young 
mind.  2.  An  old  Arab  finds  the  lonely 
boy.  His  life,  and  growing  love.  He  is 
summoned  to  his  destination,  first  to  the 
mountains  of  E&f,  where  the  Simorg  exists, 
then  to  H&rut  and  M&rut. 

Aloadin  must  be  connected  with  the  evil 
magicians :  one  who  by  voluptuous  indul- 
gences trains  up  devoted  slaves.  This  is 
plain  enough. 

Oneiza,  after  he  has  left  her  on  his  mis- 
sion, is  thrown  in  his  way  by  the  Magicians. 
She  must  die.    Then  will  Uie  conclusion  be 


daniel,  is  mentioned  in  the  continuation  of  the 
Arabian  Tales  as  a  seminary  for  evil  magicians, 
under  the  roots  of  the  sea. — J.  W.  W. 


thus. — He  is  told  to  ask  his  reward,  and  ex- 
presses resignation  to  the  wiU  of  God,  whose 
will  18  right.  Then  the  Sansar,  the  icj 
wind  of  Death  pervades  him,  and  he  is 
welcomed  in  Paradise  by  Oneiza*8  houri 
form. 

The  seal  of  Solomon  and  the  buckler  of 
Ben  Giaour  would  be  useftd,  but  they  have 
been  made  so  trite.  There  will  be  much  to 
avoid  in  this  poem.  Magnitude  has  been 
oft^n  mistaken  for  sublimity;  and  it  will 
not  be  easy  to  find  a  new  way  of  destroying 
an  enchanter's  den.  Perhaps  the  know- 
ledge of  the  ineffable  name  will  be  the  best 
talisman. 

Here  the  incident  may  be  introduced  of 
one  about  to  commit  a  midnight  murder, 
when  a  sudden  light  falls  upon  him.  Will 
it  not  be  best  to  make  this  happen  to  Tha- 
mama, when  about  to  assassinate  one  of 
those  whom  it  is  his  mission  to  destroy? 
Let  it  be  Aloadin. 

The  perpetual  wind  which  rushing  out  of 
a  cavern  renders  it  unenterable,  may  guard 
the  entrance  to  the  Domdanyel. 

The  account  of  Port  des  Fran^ais  in  Pe- 
rouse's  Voyage  is  a  sublime  picture,  vol.  8, 
p.  254.  Thamama  may  either  find  the  de- 
scent from  such  a  place ;  or  it  will  be  better 
to  bring  him  there  after  he  has  lost  Oneiza, 
and  let  him  thence  depart  with  some  strange 
boatman,  or  without  a  boatman.  Almost,  I 
think,  Cadman*s  ship  might  come  for  him. 

He  shall  go  without  a  talisman,  and  Hi- 
rut  and  Marut  may  tell  him  that  the  just 
man  needs  none.  From  them  he  falls  b 
with  Aloadin,  book  5.  There  let  him  find 
Oneiza,  afid  dwell  with  her  in  the  delight- 
ful realm  of  Cashmeer,  forgetful  of  his  call. 
The  Sultan  hears  of  her  beauty,  and  sends 
for  her ;  this  will  partake  of  the  evils  to  be 
destroyed.  He  resists  the  messengers. 
Oneiza,  in  endeavouring  to  save  him,  is  mor- 
tally wounded,  and  he  led  away  prisoner. 
A  horde  of  Tartars  may  deliver  him,  and 
from  them  he  reaches  the  bay :  or  better, 
let  him  reach  the  sea,  and  the  vessel  carrj 
him  to  that  desolate  haven.  This  should 
end  the  8th  book. 


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183 


0  the  «vili  of  ef  tablubed  sjatemi  be 
iII^oHzed  t  Can  Humuuoa  »ee  them 
!  rndnu  where  the  Magiciuugtrrern? 
nuf  be  »  boge  gladiatoriaa  sport  or 
ice.  How  can  the  mental  murder  of 
naakind  be  prcKoted  F  Can  the  ex- 
«  of  wealth  aad  want  be  ahown  equall  j 
to  virtue  and  bappineu — of  course 
Ijrneceswr;  to  the  powers  of  the  Dom- 
•ii  I  do  not  think  thia  can  be  done 
Danner  fit  for  poetrj. 
le  Domdanyel.  Should  it  be  a  neit  of 
lU — a  labjrinth  of  apartmeuta — where 
Id  Magicians  unite  the  cruelties  of  iu- 
an,  or  Mexican  priests,  with  the  vices 
berius  7  If  I  could  make  Opinion,  a 
,  ita  dreadful  guard.  All  thia,  the  mun 
)f  the  poem,  will  be  the  most  difficult 
ecute,  and  I  fear  the  least  interesting 
executed.  When  Thamama  first  ap- 
,  thej  attempt  to  buj  his  friendship. 
lim  be  led  to  a  harem,  but  pass  rapidlj 
the  temptations,  which  he  scorns.  Let 
leans  used  to  terrif;f  him  be  undefined, 
ae  ignotum  pro  magnifico.*  All  maj  be 
Jished  bj  hia  bare  appearance  in  the 

ifaonld  think  the  Upas  might  be  intro- 

L 

idman's  ship  may  do  excellentlj  thus. 

e  who  have  perished  in  attempting  the 

itnre  of  theDoam-danyel,  fell  by  their 

Euilt ;  yet,  for  that  the  attempt  was 

,  their  punishment  ia  temporary  :  they 

0  carry  future  adventurers,  and  be  rc- 

d  whenever  one  succeeds. 

le  Turk's  receipt  for   making  poison 

a  red  hured  Christian  lad  may  be  tried 

ater  in  the  pelican's  nest. 
rtde  from  a  dead  head. 
xhaf»  Alis  Jetr  we  Jame  may  be  cou- 
d.     Were  I  a  Mohammedan  I  should 
inly  adopt  the  Persian  heresy. 
Idols  of  Ad.     Pride  of  Shedad  the 
Houd's  denunciations.    Uoud  sees 
id  release  the  camel.     The  garden 
!,  and  palace  supplied  with  water  by 
^nudros  stone.  The  wise  man's  remarks 


on  the  palace.  Drought.  Uorthdh  and  Kil 
sent  to  Uecco.    Ketum  of  Eil  with  the 

2.  The  Dom  Daniel.  The  magicians 
watchiog  ten  lighta,  kindled  for  the  family 
of  Hodeirah :  eight  are  extinguished,  and 
while  thej  watch,  another  goes  out.  They 
make  a  Teraphim  to  enquire  whether  the 
dangerous  one  is  destroyed.  They  make 
poison  from  a  red  headed  Christian,  and  send 
one  of  their  emissaries  to  destroy  Tholaba 
with  it. 

The  light  in  the  Dom  Daniel  comes  from 
a  great  serpent's  eyes.  They  nurse  earth- 
quakes, and  feed  volcanoes  Ihere. 

The  Teraphim  cannot  see  into  the  gar* 
den  of  Irem. 

The  Upas  thus.  Oneof  the  Dom-Daniel 
pupils  reigns  in  Java.  A  complete  system 
of  slavery  and  beastly  luxuries.  Thalaba 
lands  there.  They  ore  at  war,  and  to  make 
an  effectual  wei^wn-poison,  kill  the  red- 
headed Christian,  that  a  poison  tree  may 
spring  up,  OS  from  Cerberus.  It  is  this 
Sulbut  who  sends  forOneiza;  and  to  him 
Thalaba  is  led  a  prisoner.  The  incidents 
follow  thus  therefore,  Hirut  and  MArut — 
Simorg — Aloadin — his  retirement — Java. 

The  Simoom  must  save  Thalaba,  when, 
as  he  is  praying,  a  murderer  comes  to  kill 

Of  the  souls  of  the  wicked  there  may  be 
this  plan.  They  endure  no  punishment  till 
the  day  of  judgment,  but  assist  the  evil 
principle,  thut  by  winning  if  possible  the 
universe,  they  may,  by  possessing  them- 
selves of  power,  escape  punishment!  This 
system  may  be  explained  to  Thalaba  by  the 
spirit  of  Nimrod  on  the  site  of  Babel. 

Adam  is  shown  to  Thalaba  and  his  gar- 
ment of  glory. 

3.  Thalaba's  life  and  love.  His  summons. 
Burying  Abdaldar.  Thalaba  observes  hia 

ring  and  its  characters.  Hewears  it,  though 
cautioned  against  it  as  dangerous.  In  the 
morning  they  find  the  body  of  the  magician 
dug  up,  and  the  ensuing  night  Thalaba  is 
awakened  by  a  Genius,  who  attempts  to  rob 
him  of  the  ring.     Then  follows  the  partoral 


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part  of  the  poem, — ^its  relief.  A  locust  is 
dropt  by  the  bird  close  to  Thalaba  and 
Oneiza.  He  looks  at  the  hieroglyphics  on 
its  forehead^  and  reads,  **  When  the  sun  shall 
be  darkened  at  noon,  journey  to  the  east*** 
A  total  eclipse  soon  takes  place* 

A  succession  of  extraordinary  appear** 
ances  before  Thalaba  enters  the  garden  of 
Aloadin.  The  meteorous  appearance — the 
enchanted  fountains — and  the  way  through 
the  mountain  pass. 

Sinking  under  severe  cold  on  Caucasus, 
Thalaba  is  stimulated  by  seeing  a  cedar 
erect  itself  against  the  pressure  of  the  snow. 
A  wedding  procession  passes  him  after 
he  has  lost  Oneixa. 

With  Adam  are  the  Prophets  and  Mar- 
tyrs. They  are  nourished  by  odours.  Trees 
of  gold  and  silver* 

Oriental  despotism  and  devastation  in 
Java.    Hidden  com  pits. 

"  Arbor  triste  de  dia**-^  emblem  of  virtue 
in  adversity. 

Thalaba  makes  the  spirit  bring  him  the 
bow  and  the  quiver  of  Hodeirah.  This 
makes  Moath  and  Oneisa  believe  him. 

He  goes  on  a  dromedary  to  Kaf.  Mor- 
gan*s  Algiers.  102. 

One  of  the  magicians  offers  himself  as  a 
guide  to  Babylon.  In  the  desert  they  see 
the  sand  columns.  The  magician  tempts 
Thalaba  to  use  his  ring  and  summon  demons 
to  his  aid— 4ie  himself  is  overwhelmed. 

4.  Thalaba  proceeds  till  he  comes  to  the 
sea.  He  takes  up  a  shell,  and  the  charac- 
ters thereon  tell  him,  to  seek  H&rut  and 
M&rut  at  Babylon,  and  learn  from  them  the 
talisman  requisite  for  his  success.  He  meets 
a  man  who  offers  himself  as  a  guide — it  is 
Lobaba.  He  leads  him  into  the  desert,  and 
tempts  him  to  demand  aid  of  the  genii  by 
his  ring.  A  moving  column  overwhelms 
him.  Ruins  of  Babylon.  Spirit  of  Nimrod. 
H&rut  and  M&rut. 

As  he  is  about  to  pull  off  his  ring,  that 
Lobaba  may  read  it,  a  fly  stings  his  finger, 
and  it  instantly  swells. 

When  the  magician  tells  Thalaba  that 
only  his  ring  protects  him,  he  throws  it 


away,  and  says  he  needs  no  protector  but 
God. 

6.  Bagdat.  Babylon.  Nimrod.  Mohareb 
comes  up,  and  it  appears  that  he  also  seeb 
the  angels.  Discovering  Thalaba*s  niission, 
he  attacks  him,  and  his  horse  carries  him 
away. 

2.  A  few  connecting  lines  to  open  with. 
More  preparation  for  the  catastrophe. 

4.  Desert  sufferings.  Water  appearance. 
Solomon.    Light  worse  than  heat« 

5.  Pelican*s  nest.    Babylon  as  it  was. 

The  spirits  of  those  who  have  failed  re- 
late each  to  Thalaba  how  he  perished. 
Hints  in  the  Arabian  account  of  the  Pyra- 
mids. 

After  the  Simorgr*-in  the  frozen  bay,  the 
Northern  lights* 

Mohareb  and  Thalaba  contend  by  the 
bitumen  springs.  Into  these  Thalaba  flings 
his  ring,  and  afterwards  strikes  Mohareb. 

Talisman  in  the  garden  of  Aloadin. 

Qy.  Would  it  be  disgusting  to  destroy 
Oneiza  by  a  vampire,  and  haunt  ThaUbs 
with  her  vampire  corpse  ?  Something  like 
the  apparition  in  Donica  might  release  him. 

The  appearance  of  Nimrod  must  be  trans- 
planted* It  comes  too  near  the  argumenta- 
tive dialogue  with  Lobaba. 

Zohak  defends  the  cavern  of  the  angds. 

6.  Thalaba  finds  a  horse  caparisoned,  who 
comes  to  him.    Meteor.     Springs. 

4.  The  shell  incident  must  be  altered.  I 
wished  to  make  it  of  the  same  class  of  mi- 
racles, of  natural  agents  supematurally  act- 
ing, as  the  locust.  But  it  b  flat  and  verjr 
bad.  Either  a  voice  from  the  darkness,  or 
the  appearance  of  his  father^a  spirit 

Returning  from  the  chase  home,  Thalaba 
sees  some  one  going  firom  his  house,  and  it 
is  the  Angel  of  Death. 

Moath  must  reappear. 

Zohak  is  said  to  have  built  Babylon. 

7.  Survey  of  the  garden,  with  a  view  to 
escape.    Mountains.   Burnet*'    River  Fall 

I  This  implies  a  reference  to  BuBNZT'i  Tki- 
oria  Sacra  TeUuriSy—not  for  its  philosophy,  but 
for  its  beauty,  a  great  fitvourite  with  Southey 
and  Wordsworth.— J.  W.  W. 


[DEAS  AtTD  STIJCIES  FOR  LITERAST  COMPOSITION. 


i«n  goee  to  dettroj  Aloadia.  The 
ral  light.  A  Toice  stating  that 
inst  be  inrdTed  in  the  general 
1  of  the  Mrceren.  The  wind 
ThaUba  and  Oiuiza,  ■■  in  an 
ar,  and  places  them  beyond  the 

leatroctiiHi  of  the  Aditei  must  be 
fixed  for  taking  poweuion  of  the 
1  garden.    Tbu  the  whole  mul- 
aaaembled. 
lao  must  call  on  Aawad  when  he 

}om  Daniel  the  image  of  Eblia  ib 
eah  and  blood,  like  life,  a  giant 
ing  np  with  one  hand  the  arch  of 
whoae  waTes  roll  above  the  only 

0  thii  image  Thalaba  thruit*  the 
B  waten  burst  in — but  an  egg  of 
ads  him,  and  buojs  him  to  the 
the  sea. 

)k  should  coDtain  a  view  of  fUtu- 
ry'  suggested  a  paradise  wholly 
I — trees  of  light  growing  in  a  soil 
palaces  of  water  refracting  all  rich 
Che  Uohammedan  Paradise  might 
run  oTer  bj  the  Simorgh,  u  what 
izpected,  but  which  was  only 
i  the  gross  conceptions  of  man- 
e  wicked  should  lie  in  sight  of 
wiib  no  torture,  save  the  tKdium 
■  existence,  and  enry. 

demands  of  the  assembled  ytmtliB 
len,  Who  will  do  a  deed  of  danger 
'aradiae  eternally  as  his  reward, 
as  Thalaba — and  duhes  ont  his 
h  a  dob.  Then  a  darkness  falls 
jarden,  invoWing  those  who  seek 
Um.  He  only,  with  Oneiza,  sees 
id,  and  escapes. 
raa  treated  with  cruelty.     "  Uli 

dicta  fjns  attendentes,  verbera- 
ita,  ut  aliqnando  reliquerunt  eum 
uum."  Ismael  Ebn-Aly.  Maracei. 

to  conclude  with  "  who  comes 

1  Sir  H.  Davy.  Ue  says  in  the  pre- 
L*  then  also  in  habits  of  most  frequent 
V  inlenxmiMwithDaTy,"  &c.p.  ui, 

J.W.W. 


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from  the  bridal  chamber  f  it  is  Airael,  the 
Angel  of  Death. 

Eighth  to  begin, 'Now  go  not  tothetombs, 
old  man — there  is  a  maniac  there.'  Vampire. 
Departure  again  upon  the  mistion.  Seicnre 
of  Thalaba.    Java.     Mohareb. 

Ehawla  ougbt  to  be  brought  forward  in 
these  middle  books.  May  she  not  deliver 
np  Thalaba  to  the  emissarie*  of  Mobareb  F 

How  to  conrey  Thalaba  to  Java  f  Should 
he  be  aelied  by  alare  merchants.  If  it  were 
not  an  island,  he  should  be  pressed  as  a 
■oldier.  But  if  it  could  be  effected  by  the 
agency  of  Ehawla,  that  were  best.  Thus 
tiien. — At  night  a  light  in  a  bouse,  Ehawla 
gpbning  threads  fine  as  the  silkworms,  and 
singing  unknown  words.  She  tells  Thalaba 
to  twist  it  round  bis  bands,  and  it  binds 
him  in  unbreakable  fetters.  Then  ehe  di-ags 
him  to  Java,  for  as  only  his  own  act  could 
fetter  him,  so  also  can  his  own  act  effect 
his  ruin,  and  the  attempt  is  by  tear  to  pro- 
duce apostacy. 

Ehawla  alone  surviTes  the  appearance 
of  the  Upas,  but  her  power  ceases  over 
Thalaba.     Then  the  journey  to  Eaf. 

The  Paradise  Book.  First  the  Moham- 
medan hell  and  heaven,  and  all  their  pre- 
liminaries— "  types,  BbadowB,  unrealities." 
Then  a  gradation  of  heavens,  and  the  ascent 
of  mind  from  earth  to  the  management  of 
the  elements,  uid  the  power  of  creation. 

9.  Dungeon  sufferings  —  in  view  of  the 
execution  place.  'Arbor tristedadia.'  The 
stars  consulted,  and  the  result,  that  Moha- 
reb's  death  must  precede  Thalaba's,  pre- 
serves faim.  Terror  and  repentance  of 
Maimnna. 

7.  Were  it  better  to  make  a  shining  plate 
on  the  forehead  of  Aloadin  the  talisman? 
and  the  bird,  the  evil  spirit  hovering  over 
him  to  convey  him  at  last  body  and  soul 
to  bell? 

A  boy  seized  at  the  moment  of  birth  by 
Khawla.  His  veins  exhausted  and  filled 
with  the  blood  of  Thalaba.  On  him  they 
try  the  means  of  death,  and  all  in  vain. 
Then  Khawla  consults  the  Demons,  and 
Maimnna  the  stars.     The  one  is  terrified 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


and  made  penitent,  the  other  is  told — and 
with  the  agony  of  constraint — ^the  poison 
from  the  Christian. 

The  plan  of  the  ninth  must  be  new  mo- 
delled. Will  this  be  better — for  Mohareb 
to  discover  that  his  death  must  precede 
Thalaba's,  and  therefore  to  preserve  his? 
and  lest  the  sisters  should  destroy  him,  he 
restores  Abdaldar*s  ring. 

The  conversion  of  Maimuna  happens  on 
that  mysterious  night  when  all  things  wor- 
ship God. 

In  the  last  book,  when  Thalaba  has  left 
the  choice  of  his  reward  to  heaven,  the  spi- 
rits of  both  his  parents  appear,  and  he  knows 
that  his  death-hour  is  arrived. 

5.  Mohareb  may  endeavour  to  convert 
Thalaba.    Tale  of  Zohak  in  a  few  lines. 

6.  Zohak  affected  by  the  ring  on  Thala- 
ba*8  return. 

6.  The  Paradise  of  Aloadin  should  mock 
Mohammed*s  as  much  as  possible. 

A  son  of  Okba  to  be  slain  by  Thalaba. 
One  bred  up  to  sorcery.  Thalaba  hesitates 
with  pity.  He  sees  his  name  written  on  the 
Table  of  Destiny — ^the  Destroyer :  and  the 
young  victim  pleads  that  his  father  ruined 
him ;  and  Thalaba  knows  the  name  of  Ho- 
deirah^s  murderer. 

Mohareb  in  the  Domdaniel  flies  from 
Thalaba  and  clings  around  the  knees  of  the 
giant  idol  for  protection.  Thalaba  strikes 
the  image. 

The  moment  Maimima  looses  the  chain 
of  Thalaba  her  repentance  is  accepted. 
They  find  themselves  in  her  cavern,  and  all 
the  appearances  of  old  age  fall  upon  the 
pardoned  sorceress.    Her  death  follows. 

Cold.  Tom's*  show»  of  fiery  snow  in  the 
sunshine. 

Thalaba  finds. a  young  woman,  a  damsel, 
in  an  ice  palace.  It  is  the  daughter  of 
Okba,  hidden  there  by  her  father^  where 
none  but  one  with  the  soul-purchased  ring 
can  enter,  because  from  any  other  visitor 

'  This  alludes  to  his  brother,  the  late  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Southey,  R.N.  As  before  ob- 
served, he  was  in  the  habit  of  noting  remark- 
able appearances  and  images.— J.  wTw. 


he  has  foreseen  her  death.  She  practises 
magic  innocently,  knowing  no  ill — ^forming 
figures  of  snow,  that  can  exist  each  but  for 
a  day.  She  loves  Thalaba — ^but  when  she 
names  her  father,  he  knows  the  name,  and 
is  commanded  to  kill  her,  to  root  up  the 
race.  This  he  refuses  to  do,  and  his  diso- 
bedience is  not  accounted  as  sinful.  But 
she  is  transformed  into  one  of  the  green 
birds  of  paradise,  and  hovers  over  him  on 
his  way.  Her  voice  becomes  soothing  and 
affectionate ;  like  the  note  of  the  dove,  it  is 
the  tone  of  happiness,  of  tenderness,  not  of 
gaiety. 

The  Simorgh  preserves  somewhat  of  his 
oracular  character  by  rejoicing  in  the  ap- 
proaching downfall  of  sorcery,  and  predict- 
ing the  ^ture  destruction  of  other  evils  is 
enormous.  Then  he  informs  Thalaba, 
darkly,  of  his  way,  and  warns  him.  Dogs 
are  to  draw  him  over  the  frozen  plains  and 
glaciers — each  with  a  mark  on  the  fore- 
head— these  are  they  who  have  failed.  *'  Open 
not  thine  eyea  at  the  outcry  thou  wilt  hear.* 
The  Domdanielites  follow  and  lash  the  dogs 
to  madden  them  and  drive  them  down  the 
precipice.  The  bandage  is  torn  violently 
from  his  eyes ;  he  is  allowed  to  look,  if  he 
can  be  firm.  Hodeirah*s  spirit  defends  him, 
and  drives  away  the  aggressors.  When  at 
the  bay,  the  dogs,  bloody  and  foaming,  ask 
their  reward.  He  gives  them  the  bidden 
answer,  *  God  reward  ye!*  and  they  die, 
and  are  removed  to  Paradise. 

The  prison  walls  of  Thalaba  thrown  down 
by  the  Termites. 

Maimuna  goes  for  the  human  wax.  It 
is  the  mysterious  night.  The  Gouls  are 
lying  powerless  by  the  grave,  and  she  sees 
within  the  spirit  of  the  dead,  and  the  hun- 
dred-headed worm  that  never  dies,  and  that 
only  on  this  night  ceases  to  torment  the 
widied. 

The  crime  of  allowing  oppression  must 
strongly  be  stated  to  justify  Uie  Upas.  Thus 
the  red  headed  Christian  may  have  been 
espoused  to  a  damsel  whom  Mohareb  h^s 
taken  for  his  seraglio,  and  she  may  escape 
and  cry  out  to  the  people. 


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187 


The  wand  of  Maim  una  breaks  in  the  dun- 
geon.    It  mast  be  introduced  as  her  spindle. 

In  the  garden  of  Okba*8  daughter,  a  foun- 
tain of  fire  supplies  the  want  of  the  8un*s 
warmth,  and  rolls  its  rivulet. 

After  Maimuna  enters  the  dungeon,  the 
scene  through  the  remainder  of  the  book 
must  continue  there.  No  threat,  no  voice, 
no  token,  only  the  threatening  of  silence 
and  the  loss  of  power.  From  the  prison 
bars  they  see  the  red-haired  Christian  led 
to  execution,  and  Maimuna*s  fear  explains 
what  they  are  going  to  make  of  him,  and  to 
do  with  her. 

10.  llie  prison  walls  thrown  down  by  the 
Termites.  The  wind  incloses  them  as  in  a 
car,  and  they  alight  in  the  ice-cave.  Death 
of  Maimuna.    Laila. 

4.  The  ring  disables  Zohak  as  well  as  the 
charm  of  Mohareb* 

Okba  comes.  When  Thalaba  refuses  to 
kill  Laila,  he  triumphs,  and  thinks  Thalaba 
has  forfeited  all  claim  to  God*8  protection, 
and  attempts  to  kill.  Laila  runs  to  stop 
the  blow,  and  receives  it,  and  thus  the  pro- 
phecy is  accomplished,  and  Thalaba  the 
occoiian  of  her  death. 

11.  Green  Bird.  Simorg.  Journey.  Voy- 
age. 

At  the  entrance  of  the  Domdaniel,  Laila 
leaves  him,  and  then  speaks  and  requests 
one  return  for  her  affection :  it  is,  that  he 
will  pray  to  Grod  to  pardon  her  father.  His 
sword  most  not  strike  Okba,  and  thus  his 
character  will  rise  as  he  subdues  the  feeling 
of  revenge. 

The  boatmen  warn  him  each  of  the  dan- 
ger by  which  he  perished. 

11.  Demons  ready  to  down- thrust  the 
tottering  avalanch.  Others  below  that  like 
angels  spread  a  cloud  to  receive  him,  and 
call  on  Thalaba  to  leap  and  save  himself. 
On  these  Oneiza  darts  with  Sulfagar, — ^the 
two-pointed  sword  of  All  snatched  from  the 
ttmom^  of  heaven. 

The  balance  in  which  the  Japanese  pil- 
grims are  suspended,  should  precede  the 
sledge  journey.  A  permitted  trial.  It 
Would  have  a  good  effect  to  make  him  go 


through  the  ceremony  of  interment,  and 
transplant  that  idea  fit>m  St.  Patrick*s  pur- 
gatory. 

The  sunbeams  should  clothe  him — and 
thus  his  garment  of  glory  gives  him  light 
through  the  way  of  darkness.  This  will  be 
fine  at  sunrise,  and  after  his  prayer. 

Khawla  attacks  him  by  the  fire,  to  pre- 
vent his  getting  the  sword.  He  hurls  her 
into  it.  Okba.  Mohareb.  At  the  moment 
when  Mohareb,  subdued,  clings  to  the  knees 
of  the  great  idol|  Hodeirah  and  Zeinab  ap- 
pear. 

Before  he  mounts  the  sledge,  the  dogs 
must  implore  him,  if  he  can  fear,  to  return 
in  time  for  his  sake  and  for  theirs,  and  they 
must  weep  with  fear. 

10.  The  prophecy  will  be  better  from 
Azrael,  that  Laila  or  Thalaba  must  die. 

The  cavern,  like  S.  Catherine*s.  The 
frozen  bay.     Northern  lights. 

It  must  not  be  told  who  the  green  bird  is, 
till  she  speaks  herself. 

Thalaba  must  have  his  bow,  it  must  there- 
fore be  mentioned,  book  8,  be  found  again 
in  Maimuna^s  cave,  and  supply  the  place  of 
the  club,  book  10. 

11.  Entrance.  Speech  of  Laila.  Prayer 
of  Thalaba.  The  sun  beams.  Dark  way. 
Glow-worm  beast.  Helmet.  Dropping 
Pass.  The  great  serpent.  Then  the  fire 
and  the  sword,  and  tiie  death  of  Khawla, 
and  the  battle  with  Mohareb.     Okba. 

Thalaba  throws  his  rbg  into  the  sea — as 
faith  is  the  talisman. 

There  must  be  a  great  descent.  Two 
Dive*s  hold  a  chain  over  it :  they  are  com- 
pelled to  let  down  Thalaba,  blaspheming. 

12.  I  must  light  a  torch  miraculously  to 
guide  him  through  the  dark  way — ^it  is  more 
fit  for  painting  than  the  sunbeams. 

The  alarm  must  be  given,  and  the  whole 
army  of  magicians  assembled. 

The  sword  in  the  fire  lies  on  the  white 
ashes  of  Hodeirah. 

The  fire  shall  clothe  Thalaba  and  pro- 
tect him. 

The  Simorg  tells  Thalaba  that  the  talis- 
man is  in  the  heart  of  the  Great  Image. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERABT  COMPOSITION. 


Funeral  ceremoniei  biieflj'  run  over  at 
the  death  of  M«imiim. 

7.  Night  MDutementi  of  liucnr/.  Per- 
fumed li^ts.    Truuparent  dreu. 

6.  FerBian  lilies. 

Tbe  Mareb  TeserroiTf  and  the  punishmeiit 
of  Tbamud  alluded  to. 

Euphrates  esteemed  unholj  water  bj  the 
Moslem. 

3.  Oneiza  must  sport  with  the  bow  and 

N.  fi.  Shedad  was  the  first  King  of  Ad. 

Certain  lines  to  this  purport:  the  Evil 
Power  maj  fence  themselves  ronnd  with 
dangers,  but  wisdom  and  courage  may  sub- 
due them  all — so  God  in  bis  jusdce  had 
appointed. 

When  Thalaba  is  taken,  Mumnna  calls  a 
spirit,  and  enquires  what  they  can  do  with 
him.  The  answer  is,  "  In  the  city  of  Mo- 
hareb  thou  shalt  secure  thy  safety." 

9.  The  Angels  to  manifest  themselves. 
Their  situation,  and  garment  of  glory  bright- 
ening as  the  atonement  proceeds. 

All  must  be  rewritten  from  his  speech  to 
the  Simorg  to  his  actual  entrance  into  the 
Domdanie).     It  is  flat  and  common. 

The  inscription  which  whoso  reads  will 
die.  It  is  on  the  original  throne  of  Nim- 
rod.  He  reads  it,  "  Search  and  find."  He 
overturns  it,  and  discovers  a  key.  It  is  in 
an  island  where  a  grievous  superstition 
reigns.  An  ever-living  old  woman,  Super- 
stition, is  the  priestess.  Child  sacrifices, 
and  the  dying  dropt  down  a  gulph,  whose 
iron  doors  nerer  open  but  to  let  in  a  victim, 
like  the  Venice  prison.  The  boat  takes  him 
there.  The  people  rejoice,  and  tell  him  of 
the  inscription,  which  he  must  read,  for  it 
is  the  remedy.  It  is  a  torch  he  finds — the 
holy  light  of  enquiry ;  and  he  must  first 
subdae  the  giant  Opinion.  He  allegory 
must  be  nowhere  naked;  and  the  Koran 
ought  to  be  his  shield. 

A  boat  in  a  brook :  a  Peri  belmswoman. 
Thou  wilt  go  with  me.  The  brook  becomes 
a  river,  rough  and  wide  :  Wilt  thou  go  with 
me  f  The  river  enters  the  sea ;  Darest  thou 
go  wiUi  me  ? 


The  dogs.  But  a  quiet  journey.  Sceoery 
like  that  delightful  print  in  Heame.  Ice 
and  firs  and  potdar  islands.  The  dogs  keep 
the  prayer  hours,  and  turn  to  Mecca.  No 
terror  to  be  excited,  only  a  stratagem  to 
waken  curiosity. 

He  should  know  the  Peri  before  he  tnuti 
ber ;  therefore  he  must  deliver  her  from  a 
Dive. 

At  sea.  Let  the  spirit  of  Moath  pitt 
him,  to  indicate  the  old  man's  death. 

Thus,  the  throne  of  Nimrod  is  the  altar. 
At  the  hour  of  sacrifice  comes  Thalaba  to 
read  the  inscription.  The  Giant,  aeetBg 
that  he  dies  not,  attempts  to  kill  him.  Iha- 
laba  cleaves  him  down  with  the  axe  of 
sacrifice. 

How  then  to  employ  the  arrow*  T  Hiih, 
the  first  foe  must  be  the  old  and  faithful 
servant  of  the  Queen,  bewitched  so  u  to 
be  her  enemy.     He  must  be  taken,  not 

It  most  be  Leoline  who  uses  tlie  axe  of 

sacrifice. 

Jan.  20,  ISOO.  Agun  to  be  recast ! 

The  Leoline  and  Lady  story  is  clumsy— 
is  like  a  third  arm — a  young  sLxtb  Goger. 
The  strike  of  extermination  must  smite  it 

At  landing,  terrors  and  the  funeral.  Then 
a  display  of  the  Mohammedan  paradise. 
Types,  &c  Art  thou  satisfied  with  this  F 
lien  the  true  progressive  heaven.  At  once 
the  glory  is  extinguished,  and  the  dread 
descent  before  him. 

A  gaunt  and  ghastly  figure  gnard*  two 
iron  doors.  Of  what  is  not  seen,  for  etei^ 
nal  mists  are  round  them ;  nor  is  he  seen, 
for  the  senqih  guide  approacbea,  and  atk> 
if  yet  t  and  a  dead  voice  only  answers,  tht 
hour  is  not  yet  bom  : — "  meanwhile  rest  in 
the  sunbeam." 

Here,  dreanu  of  futurity,  and  tbe  angel 
song  of  Oneiza,  and  the  passing  spirit  of  old 
Moath :  from  this,  the  voice  awakes  hin- 
The  gates  unfold  at  his  stroke.  Within  i> 
darkness  and  the  far  gleam  of  fires,  and  aounds 
that  terrify;  and  a  strong  fiood  of  wind  im* 
pells  him  in,  and  the  gates  with  a  thandci- 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITEBART  COMPOSITION. 


ISO 


we  him  in,  and  then  the  light  be- 

aore  Tirid,  ud  the  dive*  mppeu  dis- 

>oD  the  ubjM. 

■th,  a  brook,  a  mountun,  the  mut 
ita  foot  There  joamej.  Thou  wilt 

e  tree ;  there  lift  th;  *oic«  and  aak. 

e  flouriiheB  on  ihe  aide  Irtmi  the  mitt; 

;hi  all  blaated  on  one  tide  bend  for- 

om  the  p<naon. 

«  den  ghould  be  the  ipirita  of  Ab- 

■nd  Lobaba,  all  agonj  irith  fear. 

•r  in  a  cavern  where  the  tide  onteni. 

be  brink  of  the  descent  a  skeleton, 

in  held  bj  no  hand,  nor  teen  whence 

«d*. 

irachute  of  six  living  wingt,  lome- 

'  Ezekidiim,  and  a  lamp  dropt  down 

«  fire  to  the  foul  ur- 
ic the  damsel  of  the  boat  t  my  rea- 

11  aak,  and  Ibej  ought  to  know. 

ng  the  onmcceMfnl  adventurer!  waa 

>.  He  failed  becatue  Miriam,  faiamii- 

etained  him.     She  therefore  ii  con- 

l  to  waft  the  (iiture  deatrojer.    He 

he  door  of  entrance. 

Thaleiba — alleratioiu. 
uluab'*  feet  washed  b;  Tbalaba  and 

Abdaldar  first  attempt  by  magic  to 
the  boy,  as  bj  holding  hia  hand  and 
to  him  a  soDg  in  words  unintelligible; 
king  of  the  melon  juice,  and  breath- 
>n  it  a  spell,  then  giving  it  to  Tba- 
he  dagger  attempt  should  not  be  till 
ad  failed. 

garden  of  Irem  is  necessary,  "not 
B,  not  on  earth."  May  he  live  there 
wtU)  fais  mother.  Her  natural  death 
tbegap.  Or  shall  I  place  the  twelfth 
here  to  instruct  himF 


whole  praceanon  description  may  be 
Ted  to  Kdiama,  before  the  chariot 
[eniaat.  When  Maimnoa  has  un- 
liis  chain,  a  new  conclusion  must  be 


found :  her  lover  need  not  cease  till  she  has 
placed  him  where  she  foundhim;  or  an  earth* 
quake  may  throw  open  tho  gates,  to  show 
her  the  power  of  Allah,  and  then  the  whirl- 
wbd  waft  them. 

Lobaba  should  not  be  killed  as  he  is ;  let 
him  ride  ofi',  so  is  the  faith  of  Thalaba  more 
proved  and  pure. 


Fbdro  the  i/iut.' 

The  character  of  Pedro  after  the  murder 
of  Inez  is  well  adapted  for  the  drama,  just 
but  cruel ;  his  heart  hardened  by  sufiering 
and  indulged  revenge,  yet  still  doating  a, 
the  dead. 

The  death  of  Goniales  and  Coetlo  is  to 
horrible,  nor  is  there  anything  in  the  story 
dramatic.  PachecDeacq>ed,onUiatciTCum< 
stance  a  tale  may  be  grafted. 

Pacheco  has  lost  hii  sight  by  lightning,  or 
in  battle.  He  labours  under  the  agonies  of 
remorse.  The  priest,  to  whom  be  has  con- 
fessed, enjoins  him  to  say  certain  prayera  in 
the  place  where  be  had  committed  the  crime; 
for  thus  disfigured,  there  was  no  danger  of 
discovery. 

A  high  reward  has  been  ofiered  for  Pa- 
checo. A  Portugneze  noble  has  stripped  hit 
wife  and  daughter  of  their  posseuions,  and 
offered  to  restore  them  as  the  price  of  the 
daughter's  prostitution.  She  comes  to  Coim< 
bra  to  demand  justice.  Here  is  matter  for 
a  good  scene.  Pedro  is  much  affected  by  her 

Pacheco  begs  alms  of  his  daughter.  She 
bids  him  remember  her  and  her  father  ii 
his  prayers.  He  knows  her  then,  but  will 
not  make  himself  known. 

The  priest  who  had  confessed  Pacheco  be- 
trays bim,  and  tendt  an  emissary  to  inform 
Pedro  that  be  it  in  Coimbra,  and  receives 
the  reward.  Pacheco  it  thrown  into  prison. 

The  noble  whom  Leonor  has  accused  is 

■  Tha  reader  will  connect  this  mt«Dded  drama 
wiChLiiCatu,aiid  Sadnick  llu  Lai  i>f  1^*  Cethi. 
He  Bhould  likewise  consult  W.S.Iuidor'spoems 
on  the  Bubject.-J.  TV.  W. 


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sent  for  by  Pedro  to  answer  the  accusation. 
He  first  informs  her  of  her  father^s  impri- 
sonment, and,  irritated  by  Pedro,  offers  to 
force  the  prison  and  deliver  him,  if  Leonor 
will  be  his.  A  fine  scene  may  be  made  when 
the  high-minded  Leonor  tells  him  how  her 
heart  might  have  been  won,  and  how  she 
could  have  loved. 

Pedro  sends  his  own  confessor  to  prepare 
Pacheco  for  death.  His  remorse  and  resig- 
nation affect  the  priest ;  he  begs  for  his 
daughter*s  sake  to  die  privately.  The  priest 
intercedes  with  Pedro;  this  last  request  af- 
fects him,  but  he  is  inexorable. 

The  day  on  which  the  corpse  of  Inez  is 
crowned  is  fixed  for  the  death  of  Pacheco. 
The  tortures  are  ready  for  him  when  that 
ceremony  shall  be  over.  At  this  moment, 
when  the  soul  of  Pedro  is  susceptible  of  the 
strongest  feelings,  Leonor  comes  with  the 
children  of  Inez  to  intercede,  her  last  hope. 
She  succeeds.  The  noble  offers  his  hand,  and 
is  refused.  Leonor  expresses  her  determi- 
nation to  live  with  her  mother,  and  at  her 
death  to  enter  a  convent.  Pacheco  becomes 
a  monk. 

It  opens  with  her  accompanying  priest  ac- 
quunting  Pedro*s  confessor  with  her  busi- 
ness, and  requiring  his  assistance.  This  gives 
her  character  and  his.  Leonor  comes.  The 
interview.  As  she  leaves  the  king,  Pacheco 
comes  in,  to  the  place  where  Inez  was  mur- 
dered. He  sends  away  his  guide.  Scene  be- 
tween him  and  the  king,  who,  hearing  he  is 
come  to  pray  there,  tells  him  to  pray  for  him, 
and  to  curse  the  murderers.  This  may  be 
very  striking. 

Leonor  confronted  with  the  noble.  She 
sees  Pacheco,  and  knows  him  not.  Arrival 
of  the  informer.  Pedro  enquires  out  how  he 
knew  him,  and  sends  to  put  the  treacherous 
priest  to  death. 

News  of  his  imprisonment.  The  noble's 
offer.  Her  friendly  priest  relates  to  her  that 
he  has  vbited  him.  She  goes  to  attend  him 
in  the  dungeon.  The  confessor  sees  him  first. 
He  intercedes,  but  in  vain. 

It  will  not  well  make  a  fiflh  act.  The 
coronation.    Her  last  and  successful  effort. 


The  noble*s  offer.  Then  she  tells  him  how 
she  could  have  loved. 

The  conclusion  does  not  follow  from  the 
previous  circumstances,  one  great  fault.  The 
story  admits  of  good  scenes,  but  nothingverj 
striking  in  effect ;  it  would  make  an  excel- 
lent drama,  but  hardly  for  the  mob. 

Pedro  Coelho  and  Aivaro  Gonial vez  were 
the  murderers  who  suffered.  Diogo  Lopes 
Pacheco  was  afterwards  pardoned,  on  proof 
of  not  having  been  an  accomplice.  The  Spa« 
niard  emigrants  given  up  to  Pedro  the  Cruel 
by  the  Cruel  Pedro  were  Pedro  Nunes  de 
Guzman,  Mem  Rodriguez  Tenono,  Ferman 
Gudiel  de  Toledo,  and  Fortun  Sanches  Gal- 
deron. 

Vicente  Amado,  a  Franciscan,  was  the 
confessor  of  Pedro. 


Tlie  Days  of  Quben  Mabt. 

The  reign  of  Queen  Mary  is  a  good  pe* 
riod  for  a  play.  Sir  Walter,  a  young  man  of 
fortune,  is  a  convert  to  the  reformed  reli* 
gion.  He  has  been  bred  up  with  the  pro^ 
pect  of  marrying  Mary,  a  neighbouring  heir- 
ess, and  they  are  strongly  attached  to  each 
other.  Sir  Walter  has  a  cousin,  his  next  heir, 
who  knows  his  opinions,  and  envies  his  for- 
tune. 

Mary  is  a  zealous  Catholic,  but  every  wa/ 
amiable;  and  her  confessor  a  sincere,  piouS) 
excellent  man. 

The  man  who  converted  Walter  possesses 
the  honourable  and  honest  spirit  of  Gilbert 
Wakefield.'  He  must  be  elderly,  and  when 
the  play  opens,  in  prison. 

Mary  and  her  confessor  both  abhor  per- 
secution. He  may  have  suff*ered  it  under 
Henry  VIII.  Walter's  friend  is  burnt,  and 
he  accompanies  him  to  the  stake,  though  Mar; 
and  her  confessor  intreat  him  not  to  incur 
suspicion. 

*  "  He  had  a  fearless  and  inflexible  honesty 
which  made  him  utterly  regardless  of  all  dang^i 
and  would  have  enabled  him  to  exult  In  mar^ 
dom."  See  Esfriblla'b  Ltttgrt,  voL  L  p.  4l» 
third  edit.- J.  W.  W. 


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191 


The  couain  excitea  persecution  agaiDst 
him.  The  confeMor,  attached  to  him  from 
his  joath  ap,  seeks  by  cTcrj  means  to  save 
him.  He  urges  an  immediate  marriage  to 
lull  mspicion,  on  the  usual  terms  of  educat- 
ing the  children.  Marj  too  is  willing.  Here 
tfae  bigotrj  should  be  whollv  on  Walter's 
side ;  but  he  conseuts ;  at  that  instant  he 
is  apprehended. 

His  trial  aod  enthusiastic  courage.  The 
(^iportune  death  of  the  queen  preserves  him. 
I  un  afraid  that  this  storj,  like  Fedro, 
rither  affords  the  opportunitj  of  excellent 
scenes,  than  for  a  general  effect ;  and  the 
conclusion  b  not  arising  from  the  storj.  It 
is  like  cutting  the  knot,  the  "  Deus  inter- 
But  there  are  four  dramatic  characters, 
and  neither  of  them  hackneyed ;  the  mar- 
tjT,  Walter,  the  good  and  enlightened  con- 
feswr,  and  Mary,  so  pious,  so  affectionate. 
Catholicism  is  a  good  system  for  women, 
perhaps  for  all  of  us  irhen  stripped  of  iu 
tricks,  and  in  Mary  it  should  assume  its  most 
favourable  appearance. 

Walter's  principles  are  not  known  when 
the  drama  opens.  Stephen,  hia  couxin,  sus- 
pects them,  and  discovera  them  when  he  iu- 
fomig  him  of  hia  friend's  arrest. 

Thus  it  might  commence.  It  is  Walter's 
birtb-day.  His  coming  of  age,  if  the  spec- 
tacle be  useful.  However,  he  is  engaged  in 
nliering  some  of  his  tenants,  when  Mary 
meets  him  in  her  walks.  He  shows  uneasi- 
ness. The  confessor  seeks  him,  to  say  that 
he  has  perceived  his  change  of  opinion,  and 
to  advise  him  prudence. 

A  good  scene  might  be  made  when  Wal- 
ler and  Mary  listen  to  an  account  of  a 
martyrdom. 

But  is  there  enough  of  plot?  1.  To  make 
Waller's  religion  known.  2.  To  hurry  him 
on  by  endeavouring  to  save  his  friend.  3. 
To  the  execution.   4.  To  his  own  arrest. 

The  third  might  conclude  with  great  ef- 
fect. Mary  and  her  confessor  beholding 
'rom  a  lai^  window  the  procession  to  the 
•take  They  close  the  window  when  the 
'•ggots  are  kindled,  and  pray  for  bis  soul. 


The  light  is  seen  through  tite  window,  and 
the  Te  Deum  heard. 

The  progress  of  Walter's  mind  is  fine.  At 
Urst  uneasy ;  by  opposition  and  danger  made 
more  enthusiastic,  but  almost  wishing  for 
contented  ignorance ;  worked  up  by  the 
death  of  his  friend  almost  to  the  desire  of 
martyrdom ;  half  yielding  to  love  and  pru- 
dence; then  persecuted  himself,  and  settling 
into  a  calm  and  Christian  fortitude. 

It  should  be  on  a  holyday,  and  by  the 
Church.  The  martyr  should  be  urging 
him  to  absent  himself,  but  be  called  away 
(to  be  arrested).  Mary  leads  him  in. 
comes  out  abruptly,  as  though  he  were  ill. 
The  confessor  follows  him  to  know  why  f 
Stephen's  newa.  '  Beware  of  that  man  !' 
says  the  priest. 

The  marriage  was  to  take  place  on  his 
coming  of  age.  Mary  affectionately  en- 
quires why  he  is  so  changed  ?  Then  the 
scene  with  the  priest.  He  speaks  of  old 
Sir  Walter's  goodness.  When  Walter  wa- 
vers, Stephen  comes  with  an  account  1 
the  Lutheran  is  confined. 

A  dungeon  scene  where  the  confessor 
beseeches  the  condemned  not  to  drive  o 
Walter  to  martyrdom.  Surly  virtue,  an 
the  spirit  of  an  early  martyr  in  a  subsequent 
interview  with  Walter. 

Night.  Walter  walking  on  the  placi 
execution.  Mary  and  the  confessor.  And 
then  the  proposal  of  immediate  marriage. 
This  coming  from  her  will  make  a  power- 
ful scene.  His  arrest.  The  confessor  sent 
with  all  speed  to  court  to  state  his  expected 


The  objections  to  this  subject  are,  that  a 
modem  audience  would  not  sympathize 
with  Walter,  and  that  a  Lord  Cbamberlab 
would  fancy  more  was  meant  than  ex- 
pressed. 

It  wants  show  and  atage  effect  Some 
might  be  produced  by  hearing  the  church 
music  in  the  first  scene. 

Stephen  should  be  a  bigotled  and  violent 
Roman   Catholic,  deceiving  himself  as 


There  a 


t  be  a  scene  in  which  Mary  ( 


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discovers  the  heresj  of  Walter.  This  must 
be  earlj. 

Walter  may  hear  her  singing  the  hymn 
to  the  Virgin  in  her  oratory.  This  will  be 
excellent  in  effect.  He  betrays  himself  to 
Stephen,  irritated  by  his  violence. 

The  confessor  should  have  been  a  monk 
of  Glastonbury.  That  he  may  have  seen 
the  last  abbot  executed. 

A  late  illness  of  Mary  may  have  pre- 
vented their  marriage.  It  should  open  on 
his  birth-day,  and  that  on  Lady-day.  Mary 
stopping  at  his  mansion  on  her  way  to  mass. 

When  Mrs.  Palmer  was  burnt  to  death, 
and  ran  all  flaming  into  the  streets,  Edith  ^ 
saw  her.  Their  attention  was  drawn  by 
the  howling  of  the  dogs  who  saw  her  on 
fire.  In  the  execution  of  Gilbert,  or  the 
related  martyrdom,  this  circumstance  will 
be  very  striking. — WesUmnf^  April  1799. 

Cintra,  October  10,  1800. 

1.  Gilbert  arrives  for  refuge,  his  daugh- 
ter dead,  her  husband  Seward  imprisoned. 
Father  Francis  enters ;  an  enquiry  for  news 
leads  to  a  talk  upon  the  growth  of  heresy, 
in  which  the  able  priest  discovers  the  latent 
Lutheran.  Gilbert  retires  to  rest.  Then 
comes  his  character  by  Sir  William. 

Francis  comes  to  tell  Lady  Margaret, 
Sir  Walter's  mother,  that  Mary  is  coming  to 
visit  her,  because  the  next  day  there  will  be 
an  execution. 

Latimbs  at  the  stake  appeared  in  a 
shroud  when  the  executioner  had  taken  off 
his  prison  garments.^ 

'  That  is,  the  late  Mrs.  Southey. 

^  Fox,  the  martvrolog^t,  telb  that  Master 
Latimer  was  brought  forth  *'  in  a  poor  Bristol 
frieze  frock,  all  worn,  with  his  buttoned  cap, 
and  a  kerchief  on  his  head,  all  readv  to  the  fii«, 
a  new  long  shroud  hanging  over  his  hose  down  to 
the  feet. — And  being  stripped  to  his  shroud,  he 
seemed  as  comely  a  person  to  them  that  were 
there  present,  as  one  should  lightly  see:  and 
whereas  in  his  clothes  he  appeared  a  witnered 
and  crooked  silly  old  man,  he  now  stood  bolt  up- 
rieht,  as  comely  a  father  as  one  might  lightly 
behold." — Tkg  Martjfrdom  of  RidUy  and  Latimer, 
A.  D.  1555.  J.  W.  W. 


Sfibfectsfor  Little  Poems. 

Inscription  for  a  tablet  by  the  Hamp- 
shire Avon.^  The  flags*  sword-leaves ;  the 
six-legged  insect;  the  fireshness  of  run- 
ning water,  noticed.  From  the  near  hill 
you  see  the  ocean,  to  which  the  river  is 
running.  The  trite  allusion, — where'er  we 
go,  we're  journeying  to  the  tomb.  But 
this  is  not  the  less  true  for  being  trite. 

Lakthoht,  an  Inscription,  noting  it  ai 
the  death-place  of  St.  David. .  Knowing 
this,  though  the  vale  be  not  more  beauti- 
ful, yet  it  will  be  seen  with  more  delight 

GnAij)U8,  his  visit  to  Lanthony  may 
furnish  a  kind  of  Greek  sonnet.  The  cause 
that  led  him,  and  the  effect  of  his  going, 
how  useful  to  me  six  hundred  years  after- 
wards. 

Friendship,'  it  should  be  slow  of  growth. 
The  flower  that  blossoms  earliest  fades  the 
first.  The  oak  utters  its  leaves  timorously, 
but  it  preserves  them  through  the  winter. 

Thb  Clouds,  a  descriptive  musing ;  and 
from  this  window  I  have  rich  subjects ;  fan- 
tastic resemblances.  So  our  hopes  change, 
and  so  they  disappear. 

In  1795  I  saw  the  body  of  a  poor  msn 
in  Clare  Street,  carried  on  a  board,  who 
had  been  begging  the  preceding  day,  and 
having  neither  money  nor  home,  laid  down 
by  a  lime-kiln  (it  was  in  March,)  and  wss 
suffocated.  An  inscription  by  the  lime- 
kiln may  tell  this,  and  give  advice  to  the 
reader,  whether  rich  or  poor. 

SuRELT  a  fine  inscription  might  be  writ* 
ten  for  Sea-mills,  upon  the  wretched  man 
who  destroyed  himself  there. 

*  Two  Inscriptions  will  readily  occur  to  the 
reader.  One,  For  a  Cavern  that  overlmtks  tht  River 
Avon ;  the  other,  For  a  Tablet  on  the  Banks  oft 
Stream. — Poems,  p.  170. 

*  This  is  worked  up  in  eleventh  sonnet,  Feemsy 
p.  108.  J.  W.  W. 


cS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERART  COMPOSITION. 


tbu  ii  subject  enongh  for 
lie  bover,  the  porch,  the 
ndiy,  tbc  jBrd  horse-chei' 
tliry,  M  laf  grandmother 
uhanges  now,  colloquially 
.o  catch  the  sound  of  A»b- 
>eak  of  the  familj  burjing- 
.  kJIchen,  the  black  boanled 
at  picture-bible.  What  a 
•a  the  old  bird  and  beast 
I  had  that  book  I  an  old 
bistorj  hu  such  fine  lies. 
'  the  whale  in  it. 

drinking   tlie  poiton.    A 


at  Fensbiirst,  faj  the  oik 
Philip  Sidney's  birth.  So 
1  but  tbe  memory  of  the 


e,'  an  emblem,  and  some- 
's way.  Kingdoms  should 
well,  but  only  strict  there ; 
borne  than  anywhere  else. 
J  lose  our  asperities  as  we 
,  we  should  be  serious  in 
lay  be  cheerful  in  age,  and 


f  paint  thee  like  a  blue- 
id,  icicle-bearded  old  mnn, 
low-ball ;  but  they  should 
ruddy  faced  old  boy,  ait- 
Btmas  fire. 

a  thought  The  present 
, ;  but  in  remembrance  the 
of  fatigue  will  increase  its 


"  For  a  Tablet  acPens- 
ily  tree,"  Poemi,  p.  129. 


Ily  Tree,"  Po 
I  Sonnet  xt.  I 


<>,  p.  109. 
J.W.  W. 


Thbkb  is  a  marine  on  board  the  Royal 
George  who  persuaded  his  father  to  mur- 
der his  mother,  and  then  turned  king's  < 
dence  against  him,  and  had  him  hung. 
'Jliis  will  make  a  very  diabolical  ballad. 
This  man  is  benighted,  and  falls  in  with  a 
traveller  in  the  dark.  The  voice  strikes 
him  as  familiar ;  and  when  the  moon  ap- 
pears he  sees  tbe  very  face  of  his  father, 
for  it  is  a  devil  in  the  corpse.  He  leads 
him  t«  the  wheel  where  his  father  had  suf- 
fered, and  fixes  him  there. 

SoHHKT.     A  ship  returning  to  port,* 

Not  into  tbe  grave,  O  my  soul!*  not 
into  the  grave  shouldst  thou  descend  to 
contemplate  thy  friend.  Raise  thyself  to 
that  better  world,  thy  birthright,  and  com- 
mune with  him  there. 

A  CHARACTEB  has  occurTed  to  me,  ad- 
mirably fine  in  the  grotesque  magic.  A 
little  man  gifted  with  the  power  of  extend- 
ing all  bis  limbs  to  any  length ;  who  can 
stretch  bis  neck  and  look  in  at  the  window 
of  the  highest  tower ;  and  when  walking 
under  a  precipice,  can  put  up  his  hand  in- 
to the  ^i^le's  nest  Is  tic  on  the  bank  of  a 
river  P  he  lengthens  his  legs,  and  steps 
across.  The  story  should  conclude  v  ' 
his  diladng  his  mouth,  and  swallowing 
somebody. 

These  is  a  lie  in  the  life  of  St.  Isidore" 
which  may  perhaps  make  a  ballad.  A  n: 
who  could  find  no  surety  for  his  rent  i 
pealed  to  the  saint,  pledging  his  word 
the  landlord  before  his  tomb,  and  praying 
if  be  failed  that  Isidore  might  punish  him 
The  fellow  however  could  not  pay  it,  and 
BO  run  away  one  night.  His  road  lay  by 
the  church  of  St.  Andrew,  wherein  Isidore 
was  buried,  and  he  was  miraculously  kept 

4  WOTkedU] 

'  See  ihe  exquisiti 
Edmand  Seward,  Pr> 

•  See  the  Ballad," 
&e.  Pmixi,  p.  433. 


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all  night  running  round  and  round  the 
church,  while  he  thought  he  was  getting 
on  his  way.  In  the  morning  the  landlord 
found  him ;  he  repented,  prayed  for  for- 
giTeness,  worked  harder,  and  paid  the  debt. 

Dona  Ana  Mabia  Remesal  promised, 
on  the  wedding  day  of  her  sister  Mariana, 
to  give  a  sum  of  money  towards  the  ca- 
nonization of  St.  Isidore.  She  either  for- 
got her  Yow  or  neglected  it.  Maria  de  la 
Cabera,  the  wife  of  Isadore,  appeared  to  her 
with  an  Alguazil  and  a  black  dog,  as  she 
lay  in  her  bed,  and  arrested  her  for  this 
debt.  They  let  her  go,  however,  on  her 
sincere  promise  of  speedy  payment.  This 
will  make  a  tolerable  ballad.  Let  her  be 
called  from  the  company  on  the  wedding 
evening,  and  led  to  the  tomb  of  St.  Isidore, 
to  pass  the  night.  It  should  be  the  bride- 
groom who  makes  the  vow. 

Onb  of  my  war  poems  may  be  made  upon 
that  description  of  Jemappe  given  me  by 
Carlisle,  expressing  joy  for  the  event,  with 
an  abhorrence  of  the  war  principle. 

Anothbb  must  be  upon  this  story.  At  the 
evacuation  of  Toulon,  a  husband,  his  wife, 
and  infant  were  attempting  to  escape  in  the 
last  boat.  The  husband  had  got  in,  when 
they  pushed  off.  The  wife  flung  her  child 
to  him.  The  child  fell  short,  and  sunk,  and 
the  mother  leapt  after.  Tom'  told  me  this 
on  the  authority  of  an  eye-witness. 

Thb  treatment  of  Colonel  Despard,'  de- 
scribed as  in  a  dramatic  fragment.  Related 
abroad  as  a  proof  of  foreign  tyranny  to  an 
Englishman. 

Inscription  in  a  forest.,'  near  no  path ;  who 
reads  it  has  most  like  been  led  by  the  love 
of  nature,  and  he  may  enjoy  the  beauties  of 

*  His  brother,  Captain  Thomas  Southey, — 
often  mentioned. 

*  See  Ebpriblla's  L«t(«rt, vol.  iii.  p.  95,  third 
edit. 

*  See  Inscriptions,  p.  172.  J.  W.  W. 


scenery  more  by  knowing  another  has  felt 
them.  If  it  has  pleased  thee  to  be  told  of 
this,  cleanse  the  moss  and  weeds  from  the 
tablet ! 

EcLoouB.  The  witch.^  A  man  nailing  a 
horse-shoe  at  his  door.  Tales  of  the  old 
woman,  and  superstitions. 

Eclogue.  A  winter  evening.  Children 
and  their  grandmother.  They  beg  for  a 
story.  A  ghost  story.  My  motber*s  accoimt 
of  Moll*  Bees*s  murder,  and  the  remorse  of 
the  murderer,  that  led  him  to  accuse  him- 
self. A  gibbet  and  a  ghost  are  easily  added. 

HiSTOBT,*  the  painful  feelings  it  excites. 
The  historic  Muse  appears.  She  speaks  of 
Greece,  of  Rome,  Holland,  Padilla,  and  the 
many,  martyrs  of  freedom ;  then  personallj 
addresses  the  poet. 

Obmia,  a  Monodrama,  where  did  the  For- 
tugueze  writer  find  the  story  ?  She  enters 
her  husband*s  tent  at  midnight,  and  his  sur- 
prise must  be  expressed  by  her. 

The  death  of  Malcolm*s  murderers.  A 
ballad. 

What  can  be  made  of  the  story  of  St  Ro- 
muald  ?  ^  Should  it  be  a  ballad  showing  how 
a  man  might  be  too  good  P 

Mbs.  Wilson's*  story  of  the  dog.  A  gen- 
tleman sat  up  in  a  haunted  house  at  Dublin 
with  a  great  dog.  The  dog  growled  at  first, 
his  anger  increased,  at  last  he  leaped  at  a 
particular  part  of  the  wall,  then  round  and 
round  the  room  ran  raging,  and  leapt  again 
at  the  same  place,  then  pawed  at  the  door 
furiously.   The  man  let  him  out,  he  rushed 

•  See  English  Eclogues,  Poems,  p.  154. 

•  Ibid.  "The  Grandmother's  Tale,"  p.  150. 

•  See  Poemi,  p.  140,  "  History." 

f  See  BaUad,  "  St.  Bomuald/^  Poemty  p.  456. 
'  She  was  tne  old  oocunaut  of  Greta  BaO, 
and  the  kind  friend  of  all  tne  children. 

J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


I9A 


ad  tlie  man  found  him  in  the  gar- 
i  room  below,  leaping  at  the  same 
wall.  He  himself  neither  saw  nor 
hing,  but  declared  he  would  not 
undergo  another  night  of  such 
!1ie  dog  lay  gasping  with  exhauB- 
fbaming  so  that  his  master  wai 
ice  tempted  to  shoot  him  in  com- 
"his  will  be  better  told  dramati- 


n  young  man  departing  from 


0  for  the  first  time  to  LoDdon, 
isfa  stuff  for  an  eclogue. 

tj  costom  of  interment  makes  the 
>ad  friend  more  unpleasant.  We 
e  grave,  corruption,  and  worms, 
ould  be  better. 

)u  wish,  when  reading  of  foreign 
«  their  beauties  F  Itisamdan- 
;  to  be  among  strangers !  ' 

1  fo?  Gerald."  What  the  verdict 
n,  what  he  thought  himielf.  Pos- 
God  will  judge  him. 

,  their  lot  after  death  ?  Do  their 
nat«  other  bodies  f  or  are  tbey 
d  to  a  better  world  ?  Were  the 
'Stem  true,  it  would,  I  think,  ex- 
from  afuture  life;  for  what  coD- 
of  identity  could  be  restored  to 
an  the  soul  system,  or  indeed  any 
J  must  grow  up  somewhere,  else 
'  be  like  the  beasts  that  perish. 

ill  may  he  believe  that  the  affairs 
ruled  by  fatality,  else  would  not 
one  so  inferior  have  ruined  thy 
ou  the  while  living  and  warning. 
The  Catos,  &c. 

a,  in  love  with  a  fencer,  is  said  to 
[lio  Tnvelkr'a  Botum,"  Pmiu,  p. 


have  been  cured  with  a  potion  of  hb  blood. 
This  will  make  a  ballad.  For  the  lewd  em- 
press substitute  a  maiden,  and  let  the  potion 
effect  a  cure, — by  producing  death. 

Thi  good  old  Customs,  and  the  Cause  of 
Religion  and  Order,  a  song,  addressed  to 
all  the  confederate  powers,  each  stanza  re- 
citing for  what  they  are  fighting,  and  con- 
cluding with  the  same  burthen.' 


Edwabd  the  ConrissoB  took  off  a  tax, 
because  he  saw  the  devil  dancing  upon  the 
money  which  had  been  raised  by  it. 

InscRipnoM  under  the  bust  of  Fox. 

Tbi  devil  bath  not  always  bad  hia  due. 
He  hath  the  credit  of  a  murder,  but  not  of 
a  battle ;  the  murder  is  committed  by  the 
instigation  of  the  devil — the  victory  by  the 
favour  of  Providence.  Then  the  tax  story 
of  king  Edward  Confessor. 

The  present  war  was  undertaken  to  pre- 
vent the  people  from  being  affected  by  the 
Jacobinical  principles  instilled  into  them. 
The  story  of  Cortex's  purge. 


I  DO  Qot  love  books  that  affect  me  strong- 
ly, at  least  if  the  effect  be  long.  The  siuf- 
deTt  pathetic  is  pleasurable.  Lines  sent  with 
some  such  book  as  the  Letters  from  Lau- 


St.  ViBCmTt  Rodtt. 
It  occurs  to  me  that  I  could  write  a  fine 
local  poem  upon  this  subject   It  might  be- 
gin by  saying  why  I  ought  to  celebrate  them. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


The  camp,  mj  cavern,  the  legend  of  the 
building  to  which  there  leads  no  path,  Cook*8 
folly  and  its  tale,  the  suicide  at  Sea- Mills. 
Trenchard  and  Gordon.  Chatterton.  Bris- 
tol, too,  might  have  its  fame.  And  Ashton 
might  be  mentioned.  The  hot  wells,  and 
those  who  come  to  die  there. 


»V>W«/VA[MM/«A/>^«^««MMMM/\B 


The  devil  once  came  to  St.  Antonj  to 
ask  why  people  abused  him  for  all  their 
wickedness,  when  their  own  corrupt  nature 
was  the  cause.    Applied  to  Pitt. 

The  glow-worm. 

Sonnet  to  the  pocket-handkerchief  of 
one's  mistress.^ 

Eclogue.  The  spirit  of  a  monk  and  a 
devil.  The  monk  stiffly  refusing  to  go  with 
the  fiend,  a  wandering  angel  hears  the  dis- 
pute ;  it  is  concluded  by  allowing  the  monk 
his  own  psalm-singing  heaven. 

An  old  woman*8  snuiT-box.' 

Love  elegy.  On  Delia*8  hair.  What 
Cupid  makes  of  it.  Happy  the  comb,  the 
barber,  the  curling-paper.  The  bear  who 
died  for  his  grease.' 

Sonnet  on  an  old  quid  of  tobacco.' 

Love  elegy.  The  poet  has  stolen  a  lock 
of  Delia's  hair,  and  finds  he  has  spoilt  her 
wig.* 

Stx^hs,  dip  your  gossamer  pencils  in  her 
cheek,  to  tinge  the  rose ;  scent  the  violets 
with  her  breath.  Gnomes,  bring  up  your 
diamonds  to  ripen  from  her  eye-beams.  Sa- 
lamanders, bask  in  her  looks.  Light  from 
her  eye,  the  glow-worm.  Nymphs,  catch 
her  tear  to  make  pearls.* 

•  The  reader  will  find  all  these  hints  worked 
up  in  Th«  AmaUfry  Foenu  of  Abel  Shufflebottom, 
pp.  114—416. 

*  These  are  probably  worked  up  under 
"  Snuff,"  p.  161.  J.W.  W. 


MAEULLEde  Stilimene.  The  Turks  under 
Soliman  Bassa  attacked  Coccin,  the  capital 
of  the  isle.  They  forced  the  gate,  the  com- 
bat was  fierce  in  the  gateway,  and  the  wo- 
men fought.  Marulle  was  wounded  by  the 
same  blow  that  slew  her  father  the  gover- 
nor. She  seized  his  shield  and  buckler,  and 
repelled  the  foe.  On  the  morrow  the  Ve- 
netian commander  arrived  to  relieve  the 
isle,  and  found  them  safe.  In  the  name  of 
the  senate  he  adopted  Marulle,  desired  her 
to  choose  among  his  captains  a  husband, 
and  promised  a  dowry  from  the  state.  '^  A 
good  captain,"  she  replied,  '*  might  be  a  bad 
father,  and  that  the  field  of  battle  was  not 
the  place  to  choose  a  husband."  This  story 
has  suggested  to  me  the  idea  of  dramatizing 
in  single  scenes  such  subjects  as  are  not  in 
themselves  enough  for  whole  plays.  Didra- 
mas. 

When  the  Turks  were  on  the  point  of 
taking  Sigeth,  1566,  an  Hungarian  was 
about  to  kill  his  wife,  to  preserve  her  from 
violation.  She  bids  him  not  have  the  guilt 
of  murder,  arms  herself,  goes  with  him  to 
battle,  and  dies  with  him.  A  Didrama.— 
Imp,  Hist.  p.  692. 


VS^kA^^k^^^^'^^^A^^VW^^'^* 


Little  Poems. 


Sancib  de  Navarre.  Sancho,  king  of 
Navarre,  was  slain  in  combat  by  Gonzalto, 
Count  of  Castille.  Theresa,  sister  of  the 
slain,  wife  of  the  king  of  Leon,  vowed  re- 
venge. To  get  him  into  her  power,  she  en- 
tered into  a  treaty  of  marriage  for  him  and 
her  sister  Sancie.  Gronzales  repaired  to  Na- 
varre to  the  marriage.  Gercias,  the  king,  an 
accomplice  in  Theresa's  plot,  seized  him  on 
his  arrival,  fettered  and  dungeoned  him. 
Sancie  visited  him  in  prison,  kept  her  plight- 
ed faith,  delivered  and  married  him. 

Le  Moyne.    La  Galerie,  p.  150. 

Constance.  Barri  de  S.  Annez,  her  hut- 


band.     St.  Foiz.     Fraiu^oise  de  Cezeley. 
Dune  de  Barrj.    La  Galerie,  p.  298. 

Thb  Americun  Indians*  death-song. 

The  Peravian's  dirge  over  the  body  of 
his  father,  stolen  from  the  Spaniards*  ce- 
metery. 

Halcyons,  a  Monodrama. 

Thb  oak  of  the  forest.^  Ita  trunk  was 
strong,  and  the  swine  fed  under  its  boughs ; 
Imt  the  ivy  clung  round  it,  and  as  the  oak 
decayed,  the  woodman,  instead  of  lopping 
iway  the  parasite  plant,  hewed  off  its  broad 
boughs. 

Mtthological  sketches.  Greenland. 
Lipland.  Japan.  N.  American.  Celtic. 
The  last  little  known,  the  rest  new  to  poetry. 

Also  characteristic  poema  of  their  man- 
ners. 

A  LADT  stayed  to  dress  herself,  instead 
of  going  to  church  in  time.  Mass  was  half 
orer  as  she  came  to  the  church  door,  and  a 
troop  of  little  devils  were  dancing  on  her 
long  train. 

St.  Jambs  of  Nisibis  was  abused  by  some 
joong  girls  washing  at  a  fountain.  He  made 
them  all  old  and  ugly. 

IsscsipnoN  for  the  prison-room  of  Sa- 
vsge. 

• 

Thb  glow-worm.  Shines  in  the  dark, — 
like  certain  men  of  letters.  ^  With  love,  the 
light  of  love.**    Exposed  to  danger,  &c. 

Knvo  WiLLiAM*s  Cove.  Torbay.  Where 
he  landed.    The  precedent. 

The  ebb  tide^  more  rapid  than  the  flood, 
— so  with  human  happiness  and  human  yir- 
tae. 

'  See ''  The  Oak  of  our  Fathers,"  Poems,  p.  12a 
«  See  Poemi^  p.  230.  J.  W.  W. 


Ibscbiption.  Taunton  and  Judge  Jef- 
feries.* 

Fob  the  market-place  at  Rouen. 

Fob  Old  Sarum.^  Addressed  to  a  fo- 
reigner. What  must  be  the  privileges  of 
English  subjects,  when  the  old  pauper  there 
sends  two  Members  to  Parliament ! 

Fob  St.  Domingo  and  ^Ir.  Pitt. 

To  a  book-worm,  that  had  eat  my  Sid- 
ney's Arcadia.  Why  not  go  to  such  and 
such  books. 

The  weathercock.  Could  I  copy  thee,  I 
also  might  ornament  the  church. 

Fob  where  Jane  Shore  died. 

EcixnauB.  Describing  the  new  clergyman 
of  a  village,  as  contrasted  with  his  prede- 
cessor. 

Baixad.  The  single  combat  between 
the  dog  and  the  murderer  of  his  master. 

The  pig.*  Not  ugly.  His  eyes,  pignsnies, 
that  see  the  wind.  His  ears.  His  tail  curled 
like  hop- tendrils,  or  a  lady*s  hair.  Aptitude 
of  parts.  Pig  a  philosopher,  and  without 
prejudices.  What  is  dirt  ?  Berkleian  hy- 
pothesis sublimely  introduced.  Pig  a  de- 
mocrat, and  right  obstinate.  Pig  an  aristo- 
crat, seeking  to  profit  himself  dirtily.  Man 
not  so  wise  in  life,  not  so  useful  in  death. 
Pig  the  victim  of  society.  Wild  boar.  Pig 
unfortunate.  The  sow-gelder*8  horn.  Tythe 
pig,  learned  pig,  brawn  pig,  pig*s  chitter- 
lins,  black  puddings.  Smell  of  the  bean- 
flowers.  Bacon.  Pig*s  ringed  nose,  ear- 
rings, but  the  pig  does  not  conceive  his  to 
be  an  ornament.    Pig*s  yoke,  his  cravatt, 

'  See  Inscription, "  For  a  Monument  at  Taun- 
ton," p.  172. 

*  See  Espbiella's  Letten,  voL  i.  p.  55,  third 
edit 

«  See  "  The  Pig,  a  colloquial  Poem,"  p.  162. 

J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERABT  COMPOSITION. 


pillory,  or  necklace.  IHg'i  pettjtoei.  Pigi 
gtink,  there  ia  do  sUnk.  Offer  the  pig  thj 
ameUing-botde.  Moaei  the  pig'*  friend.  Hii 
face,— see  it  rouged  mth  saltpetre,  and 
dresaed. 

Mdeic, — m;  own  feelinga.  The  harp,  the 
organ.  Militarj  muaic,  its  damned  abuse. 
The  female  Toice.  Stage  sioging,  how  loath- 


I  wovu>  not  live  over  my  youth  agMn.' 
Its  puns  are  real,  its  pleaturea  unsatiifac- 
tory.     Fear  and  uncertainty  damp  all  its 

A  JJTTLS  while,  and  I  shall  be  at  home. 
If  I  had  loat  thee,  ao  wearily  ahould  I  en- 
dure life  as  now  this  absence. 

Thb  old  woman'a  anafT-box,  the  moat  in- 
nocent aenauality,  and  the  laat,  perhapa  too 
the  great«at  advantage  as  yet  of  Columbus's 
discovery.  The  fine  lady's  snaff;  the  fine 
gentleniao's ;  the  doctor'a ;  the  schoolmu- 
ter's  i  but  the  old  woman  reconciles  me  to 
it.    Snuff*  the  only  way  of  aatisfying  the 


A  woiun-SBiiTAKT  of  Mra.  Lockyers, 
about  eight  years  ago,  delivered  heraelf  of 
a  dead  child, — it  was  supposed  and  admitted 
on  her  trial, — whose  body  ahe  waa  discovered 
burning  at  night.  This  will  balladize.  A 
madwoman  in  the  snow. 

Tbb  bee,  a  fool,  because  be  doea  not  want 
the  honey,  and  because  he  will  be  plundered 
ofit.» 

A  WASP  trying  to  0y  through  the  window. 

To  a  troublesome  tooth. 

Rraonia  a  pig'a  nose.  The  pork  must 
give  up  aonie  of  hia  natural  rights  to  enjoy 


i.  p.  161. 
J.W.W. 


the  protection  of  society.  Piggy  gnu 
ungratefully.  Kemember  your  atye, 
grains,  your  wash.  Betides,  you  are  k 
fnl! 

FnsBu'e  pictures. 

Uabt  HaiBs'i  Female  Biography. 

Thb  barber.  What  would  be  tlu 
gentleman  and  fine  lady  without  him 
counsellor,  the  schoolmaster,  the  judge 
company  the  judge's  asaertiona  wou' 
confuted,  but  with  the  wig  on  1  Wi 
hia  wig  he  is  Jove  without  bia  thunder. 
nua  unceatuaed,  Fhoebua  vnbeamed. 
portance  of  the  barber  in  society. 


A  POEM  upon  the  necessity  of  writ 
poem.  Like  Uendofa's  sonnet,  doi 
writing  upon  it,  but  to  conclude  wit 
point  that  so  life  passes  in  resolving  h 

It  was  my  faith  that  the  spirits  of 
men  beheld  the  earth,  and  received 
fame  with  delight,  deriving  happinesa 
the  welfare  of  their  friends,  poateritj 
country.  Hampden  and  Sidney !  may 
believe  this, — or  would  not  the  sight  of 
land  inflict  a  pang  to  the  beatified  pa 
II  ampden  and  Sidney !  it  is  so ;  ye  b 
the  patriot's  effort,  ye  look  to  hb  trii 
and  the  regeneration  of  your  native  1 

To  a  dancing  bear.'  The  slave  trat 
guments.  The  animal  ia  happier  tl 
wild.  He  would  have  been  killed  if  h 
not  been  taught  to  dance.  As  an  in 
animal,  it  ia  right  to  make  him  oonb 
to  our  uae.  Everything  was  made  for 
now  what  can  tite  bear  be  made  for,  e 
to  dance,  and  for  his  pomatum  t  Bs 
Not  the  owner's  in  terest  to  injure  him ; 
he  is  not  bul«d. 

*  Ibid.  p.  1S3.-J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


A  toAii.  A  coxcomb  fool-foced  jack-a- 
tapts  naVing  huQ  Ugly  and  useleM I 

Odb  to  Recoverj.* 

latcKimoa.    Bangor.    Hk  DUHacre. 

HoPB, — a  mixed  being,— a  aort  of  deni- 
deril,  (porting  with  the  igntB-fatniu,  bnoy- 
iog  the  wrecked  sailor  to  prolong  bis  pain, 
lie  tormentor  of  Tantalua. 

Thx  Spaniard  who  killed  Piso.    Ballad. 

AaaocAK  aong  during  Ihe  thnnder'ttorm.* 

BiBTH  of  Sommona.    Codom.    A  Japa- 


The  aeagnll.  As  be  riaes  on  the  warea, 
K>  ahonld  man  ride  nnmffied  on  the  atorm 
offbrtune. 

To  a  volnnteer  who  conceivet  himself  the 
Bnowqiarte  of  the  corporati<KL  Half  comic 
till  the  elooe,— that  in  death  his  foUjr  will  be 
preferable  to  their  guilt. 

AxKBPrBAW.    Inscription. 

Inacaimoii.     Evesham.     Montford. 

Camiu.    Narrative. 

To  the  memor7  of  Camoeni. 

Tan  sugar  maple. 

Odb.    Bodrigo  in  the  enchanted  tower. 

A  TEATBLLBB  rcduced  to  find  amiuement 

>  Sm  Ponu,  p.  IS3.  '  Ibid.  p.  133. 


in  his  own  resourcea,  compared  to  a  bear  in 
winter  sucking  his  paws. 

FiBUi  of  corn  in  a  wet  season.  Deicrip- 
tive  aoimet, — and  the  point,  alas  t  how  smaU 
will  be  the  aixpennjr  loaf  I 

The  lyrical  manner  elucidated  in  an  ode 
upon  a  Gooseberry  Pie.'  Growth  of  the 
wheat,  and  its  processes.  Whence  the  water 
came.  Hie  sugar  and  slave  trade.  The 
fmit  And  didst  thou  scratuh  thy  tender 
anna,  &c.  0  gatherer  t 

A  BALIOD  of  the  devil  walking  abroad  to 
look  at  his  stock  on  earth,— counting  the 
young  of  the  viper,  — aeeing  a  navy, — a  re- 
view,— going  to  cburcli, — and  at  last,  bear- 
ing the  division  in  the  House  of  Commons.* 


AiUTOBi  sonnets,  by  Abel  Shufflebot- 
tom,'  A  query  whether  he  has  not  a  double 
identity,  because  he  sees  his  Delia  though 
she  is  ikr  away. 

DiBOB  of  the  American  widow  by  the 
mourning  war-pole.* 

EcLoarB.  The  long  road-elms  on  the 
common  near  Wellington  cut  down.  They 
were  the  only  shelter.  A  man,  who  was  car- 
rying his  child,  and  his  wife  sat  on  the  trunk 
□f  one,  and  the  boughs  rose  over  them,  and 
gave  the  last  shadow  of  the  yet  unwithered 

Mt  forefathers.  A  deeply  interesting 
poem  of  domestic  feelings  might  be  made 
under  this  Utie. 

SoNO  of  the  Old  Chikkaash  to  his  grand- 
son, by  the  monrning  war-pole  of  his  aon,* 

'  Ibid.  p.  126,  "  A  Pindaric  Ode." 
*  Ibid.  p.  114. 


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I  wouu>  I  were  that  reverend  gentleman, 
with  gold-laced  hat  and  golden-headed  cane, 
that  hangs  in  Delia^s  parlour.  For  Delia 
sits  opposite  him,  and  his  eyes  are  alwajs 
fixed  on  her  unblamed.^ 

Sonnet.  A  pigeon.  It  is  pleasant  to  see 
his  pouting  breast,  and  the  rainbow  gloss  of 
his  neck,  and  his  red  feet,  and  his  tumbling 
in  the  air;  but  pleasanter  to  see  his  feet 
sticking  up  through  a  pie-crust. 

Sonnet.  The  rainbow.  Did  not  that 
bow  of  the  covenant  confirm  us  that  the 
world  should  no  more  be  destroyed  hj  water? 
England!  thy  navy  would  not  be  permitted 
to  exist,  for  a  three-decker  might  defy  the 
deluge. 

Draw  not  the  picture  of  Delia  I  thou 
wilt  make  me  detest  thee  as  a  blasphemer, 
and  thou  wilt  tempt  all  the  world  beside  to 
idolatry.^ 

Delia  playing  cup  and  ball, — methought 
my  heart  was  the  ball,  and  the  point  on  which 
she  caught  it,  Cupid*s  arrow  .^ 

Insckiption.    Kenwith  Castle. 


Images, 

Green  of  the  copse-covered  hill,  broken 
like  the  waters  of  a  still  lake. 

Evening.  A  flight  of  small  birds  only 
visible  by  the  glitter  of  their  wings. 

In  the  evening  the  harshest  sounds  are 
harmonised  by  distance.  The  very  bark  of 
a  far-off  dog  is  musical. 

August  25.  It  is  the  plane  that  hangs 
down  its  globular  seeds. 

The  swan  in  swimming  arches  back  his 


>  Pmhu,  p.  114. 


*  Ibid.  p.  134. 
J.  W.  W. 


serpent  neck,  and  reclines  his  head  between 
his  wings.  His  wings  are  a  little  opened, 
as  sail-like  to  catch  the  wind;  his  breast 
protruded  like  a  prow.  This  bird  is  beau- 
tiful from  its  colour  and  habits ;  for  it  is 
clumsy  in  shape,  and  of  most  foul  physiog- 
nomy ;  there  is  such  a  makishness  in  its  eje 
and  head,  as  well  as  neck. 

^'  The  swan  arch*d  back  his  snakey  neck, 

And  his  proud  head  reclined 
Between  his  wings,  now  half  unclo8*d 

Like  sails  to  catch  the  wind. 

The  waters  yielded  to  his  breast, 

Protruded  like  a  prow, 
And  still  they  roar'd  as  strong  he  oar*d 

With  sable  feet  below."— For  Rudiger? 

The  leaves  of  the  holly  are  prickly  only 
when  they  are  within  reach  of  cattle ;  higher 
up  they  preserve  their  waviness,  but  are 
smooth,  more  tapering,  as  having  lost  their 
angular  points,  and  ending  in  a  point  Some 
of  the  mid-height  leaves,  with  the  taper 
shape  of  the  upper  ones,  retain  three,  two, 
or  one  point.  The  leaf  is  very  beautiful,  the 
middle  fibre  beautifully  varying  by  its  lighter 
hue  from  the  dark  glossy  green.  The  lower 
side  is  pale- grey bh,  and  shows  th^  thickness 
of  the  leaf.^ 

Beautiful  appearance  of  an  ash  when 
the  moon  shines  through  it,  particularly  its 
edge. 

The  moon  seems  to  roll  through  the  rifled 
clouds. 

The  insect  that  makes  a  six  spotted  shade 
is  not  a  spider.  It  has  four  long  legs,  and 
two  short  ones  in  front.  It  seems  to  use 
the  long  legs  like  oars. 

Oct.  2.  The  ivy  now  begins  to  blossom, 
the  flower  appears  globular.  What  is  afler- 
wards  the  berry,  is  now  of  an  olive  colonr, 

»  See  Ballad,  p.  420.   The  reader  wUl  observe 
that  these  stanzas  were  not  used,  p.  420. 
<  Ponw,  p.  129.  J.  W.  W. 


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and  pointed  in  the  middle.  The  calix  of 
each  is  a  greyer  green,  the  anthers  a  greyish 
yellow.  The  smell  of  a  bush  is  very  plea- 
nut  ;  but  closely  observed,  it  has  an  oily 
Kent,^  not  disagreeable,  and  yet  powerful 
enough  to  half  offend.  The  bees  swarm  over 
these  blossoms,  probably  because  the  only 
ones  at  this  time  of  year. 

MoRNiKo.  Mist  shower  from  the  elms, 
and  thick-leaved  trees. 

Whitekess  of  the  rocks  occasioned  by 
the  lichens. 

Toe  grass  grey  with  dew. 

Oct.  10.  Rich  appearance  of  the  fern  in 
the  wood* 

The  acorns  brown  ripe,  or  ripeningyeUow. 

Op  the  various  trees,  I  observe  only  the 
ash  uniform  in  its  fading  colour,  pale  yel- 
lowing green.  Its  leaves  rise  very  beautr- 
iiiily,  light  as  a  lady*s  plumes. 

A  PATH  so  little  frequented,  that  the 
leaves  lay  on  it  untrodden,  light  as  they  had 
fallen. 

The  horse-chesnut  rich  in  autumn. 

Im  the  forest  of  Dean,  I  saw  no  trees 
more  richly  varied  than  the  beech,  standing 
•ingly,  and  with  room  to  spread. 

Tub  leaves  of  the  reed  spread  out  straight 
on  the  wind,  like  ship  streamers. 

The  darker  and  the  more  tempestuous  the 
night,  the  more  luminous  the  sea  to  leeward 
of  the  vesseL 

A  VESSEL  when  first  seen  at  sea,  appears 
to  be  ascending. 

Odd  i^pearanoeof  the  cobwebs  in  a  frosty 
morning. 


Iir  a  hoar  morning  the  cattle  track  their 
feeding  path  by  their  breath  thawing  the 
frost. 

A  CLOUDED  morning  after  snow.  The  line 
of  hill  scarcely  to  be  distinguished  from  the 
sky  by  being  lighter. 

Rime  on  the  trees. 

Sparkluvo  of  the  snow. 

White  frost  on  the  stone  wall,  but  none 
on  the  moss  in  its  interstices,  as  though  the 
force  of  v<^table  life  repelled  it. 

Move  where  you  will  at  sea,  the  long  line 
of  moonlight  still  meets  your  eye. 

When  the  wind  follows  the  sun,  it  omens 
fair  weather,  and  vice  vers&. 

April  25.  The  petals  of  the  pilewort  grow 
white  when  overblown.  The  first  buds  of 
the  ash  are  black,  they  then  redden,  and 
appear  not  unlike  the  valerian  fiower,  a 
cluster  of  red  seeds. 

The  horse-chesnut  buds  covered  with 
gum,  and  woolly  within. 

The  cry  of  the  bat  comes  so  short  and 
quick,  as  to  be  felt  in  the  6ar  like  a  tremu- 
lous touch. 

At  evening  the  reflection  of  the  bridge 
on  the  water  was  strong  as  reality,  and 
blended  with  the  bridge  into  one  pile. 

I  SAW  a  stream  that  had  made  its  way 
through  the  foot  of  an  old  tree,  which  thus 
formed  a  strange  bridge, — an  arch  above  it. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  images  I  ever 
noticed  was  the  reflection  of  a  mast  on  the 
river  at  evening.  Its  yellow  colours  were 
vivid  as  life, — it  waved  like  a  coiling  ser- 
pent, and  the  huge  tail  seemed  to  roll  up 
as  the  monster  were  menacing. 


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Bats  love  the  water.  I  observe  them 
dipping  their  breasts  like  the  swallow. 

An  ash  growing  up  for  some  four  feet 
along  a  rock,  so  that  the  stem  was  half 
trunk,  half  root.^ 

On  the  way  to  Moreton  Hamstead,  we 
crossed  a  little  bridge  of  one  plank.  The 
bough  of  a  hazel  had  been  broken  and  bent 
down  to  the  post  at  the  other  end  as  a  rail. 
It  had  recovered,  and  branched  out,  so  that 
the  rail  grew. 

MooNLioHT.  A  sheep  feeding  on  the  edge 
of  a  bank.     It  was  a  strange  sight. 


Joan  of  Arc. 

The  Seine.  Treasury  of  Antient  and 
Modem  Times,  p.  74. 

Washing  at  meals.  Robin  Hood.  Ben 
Jonson.     Chenier.     Coryat. 

Merovingian  kings.     Boileau. 

DuGuesclin.  Treasury  of  An.  &c.  Mon- 
taigne. 

Talbot*s  sword.     Camden. 

Battle  of  Montargis.     Lassels. 

The  love  education  of  chivalry  may  be 
well  given  by  Conrade,  describing  his  de- 
votion to  Agnes. 

Archery  must  be  attended  to.  Scotch 
Encyc. 

The  nuns  singing  may  afiect  the  maid. 
B.  9. 

Helplessness  of  men  in  complete  armour 
when  on  the  ground.  Battle  of  Pavia.  Gor- 
don's Tacitus,  V.  1,  p.  219;  v.  3,  p.  100. 

Hooks  to  pull  the  man  from  off  the  horse. 
Lyttleton's  Henry  II.  v.  1,  p.  297. 

Peasantry  building  huts  in  churchyards, 
in  hopes  of  protection  from  the  place.  Lyt 
V.  2,  p.  135. 

*  The  classical  reader  will  call  to  mind  a  simi- 
lar image  in  Sallust. "  £t  forte  eo  loco  grandis 
ilex  coaiuerat  inter  saxa,  paullulikm  mode  prona, 
dein  flexa  atque  aucta  in  altitudinem,  quo  cuncta 
gignentium  natura  fert,*'  &c.— B<//.  Jug,  xciii. 

J.  W.  W. 


Vavasor.     Lyt  v.  3,  p.  84. 

There  is  in  Mrs.  Dobson's  Life  < 
trarch  a  fine  trait  of  a  country  expo 
enemies,  taken  from  one  of  his  letten 
peasant  drives  his  flock  with  a  lance 

Beech  oil. 

In  the  Bruce,  king  Edward  is  callec 
Schyr  Edouard  the  king. 

**  Then  was  that  gallant  heart  of  Doi 
pierced.*' 
The  Bruce.  Barnes.  Qy.  Ms 

Gallantry  in  war.    The  Douglas. 
The  Irish  Kernes.  Bulwer's  Art  d 
ling.  ^ 

Shield  made  a  boat  of. 
Hippocras.     Belleau. 
Foot  armour  lighter  than  horse  ar 
Commines. 

A  good  contrast  to  La  Hire's  pra; 
Carlos  Magna. 
St.  Catharine.     Agostinho  da  Cnu 
And  now  the  knights  of  France  difb 
&c. 

'*  En  esto  es  mi  parecer 

Que  en  cavallo  no  te  fies ; 
Por  lo  qual  has  de  entender 

Que  de  ninguno  confies 
Tu  lymosna,  y  bien  hazer. 

JEl  CavaUero  Determinado^  writt 
French  by  Ouves  de  uiMaechb; 
lated  by  Hernando  de  Acuna.  Bare 
1565.  It  is  the  advice  of  Understand 
the  knight  before  he  enters  upon  his  o 
with  Atropos. 

Lambrequins,  ribbands  embroiderer 
silver  and  gold,  which  hung  from  the 
ets  of  the  knights, — long  enough  t< 
over  the  crupper.  Sovereigns  wore . 
in  them. 

White  wand  of  capitulation.  231, 
Du  Guesclin. 

The  editors  of  the  Memoires  for  f 
History  say  that  it  was  conunon  for  toi 
purchase  from  the  nearest  ruffian  th 
vilege  of  collecting  the  harvest  fro: 
little  land  they  durst  cultivate.  £v 
Hire  received  £1200  from  the  peo 
Amiens  for  such  a  security. — Tom.  5,  ] 


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1 


When  Salisbury  left  England,  the  Duke 
of  Orleans  ^  pria  ce  Comte  qu'il  ne  voulust 
fkire  aucune  guerre  en  ses  terres,  ny  a  ses 
snbjets,  veu  qu'il  estoit  prisonnier,  et  qu*il 
ne  se  pouvoit  defendre,  et  dit-on  qu*il  luy 
promit  et  octroya  sa  requeste.*^ — Mem.  torn. 
7,  p.  73.     Jeuville  is  spelt  YeuviUe. 

In  an  attack  upon  **  le  boulevart  du  bout 
da  pont  d'Orleans,  les  Francois  les  abbat- 
toient  des  eschelles  dedans  les  fossez,dont  ils 
ne  se  pouvoient  relever,  attendu  qu*on  jet- 
toit  sur  eux  cercles  liez  et  croisez,  cendres 
Tives,  chaux,  gresses  fondues  et  eau& 
chaudes,  que  les  femmes  d*Orleans  leur  ap- 
portoient :  et  pour  rafraischer  les  Francois 
da  grand  travail  qu'ils  soufiroient,  les  dites 
femmes  leur  bailloient  vin,  viandes,  fruicts, 
Tinugre  et  toiiiulles  blanches ;  et  aussi  leur 
portoient  des  pierres  et  tout  ce  qui  pouvoit 
servir  a  la  defense,  dont  aucunes-  furent 
Teaes  durant  Tassaut,  qui  repoussoient  a 
coups  de  lances  les  Anglois  des  entrees  du 
boulevart,  et  les  abbatoient  es  fossez." — 
Mem.  tom.  7,  p.  80. 

The  Dukes  of  Burgundy  and  Luxem- 
bourg urged  Bedford  to  leave  the  Orlean- 
nois  in  peace,  at  the  request  of  the  people 
themselves,  who  asserted  that  this  had  been 
promised  their  Duke,  90.  His  refusal  of- 
fended Burgundy,  and  made  him  withdraw 
bis  troops. 

**  II  y  eut  un  Carme  docteur  en  theolo- 
gie,  bien  aigre  homme,  qui  luy  dit,  que  la 
saincte-escriture  defendoit  d*ajouter  foy  "k 
telles  parolles,  si  on  ne  monstroit  signe ;  et 
elle  respondit  pleinement,  qu*elle  ne  vouloit 
pas  tenter  Dieu,  et  que  le  signe  que  Dieu 
luy  avoit  ordonn^,  c'estoit  lever  le  siege  de 
devant  Orleans,  et  de  mener  le  Roy  sacrer 
i  Reims.  B  y  eut  un  autre  Docteur  en 
theologie,  de  I'ordre  des  Freres  Prescheurs 
qoi  luy  va  dire,  Jeanne  vous  demandcz  des 
gens  d*armes,  et  si  vous  dites,  que  c*est  le 
pUisir  de  Dieu  que  les  Anglois  laissent  le 
Royaume  de  France  et  s*en  aillent  en  leur 
pays,  si  cela  est,  il  ne  faut  point  de  gens 
d*armes;  car  le  seul  plaisir  deDieu  les 
peut  destruire,  et  faire  aller  en  leur  pays. 


L 


A  quoy  elle  respondit  qu*  elle  desmandoit 


des  gens,  non  mie  en  grand  nombre,  les- 
quels  combattroient  et  Dieu  donneroit  la 
victoire."  99. 

Jean  Dolon  was  her  esquire.  Her  page 
'*  un  bien  gentilhomme  nomm^  Louis  de 
Comtes,  dit  Imerguei.** 

When  the  heralds  were  detained  and 
threatened  to  be  burnt,  Dunois  sent  to 
threaten  reprisals  on  his  prisoners :  '*Mais 
lesdits  Anglois  en  renvoyerent  seulement 
un,  auquel  elle  demanda  que  dit  Talbot  ? 
et  le  Heraut  respondit,  que  luy  et  tons  les 
autres  Anglois  disoient  d*elle  tons  les  maux 
qu*ils  pouvoient,  en  Tinjuriant,  et  que  s*ils 
la  tenoient,  ils  la  feroient  ardoir.  Or  t*en 
retoume  luy  dit-elle  et  ne  fais  doute  que  tu 
ameneras  ton  compagnon,  et  dis  a  Talbot, 
que  s*il  s*arme,  je  m*armeray  aussi,  et  qu*il 
se  trouve  en  place  devant  la  ville,  et  s'il  me 
peut  prendre,  qu*il  me  face  ardoir,  &  si  je 
le  desconfis,  qu*il  face  lever  les  sieges  et 
8*en  aillent  en  leur  pays."*  112. 

When  St.  Loup  was  attacked,  the  Eng- 
lish retired  "  au  clocher  de  FEglise.  11  y 
eut  la  des  Anglois  audit  clocher  qui  se  des- 
guiserent,  et  qui  prirent  des  habiUemens  de 
Prestres  ou  de  gens  d'Eglise,  pour  par  ce 
moyen  se  sauver,  lesquels  neantmoins  on 
voulat  tuer,  mais  ladite  Jeanne  les  garda  et 
preserva,  disant  qu*on  ne  devoit  rien  de- 
mander  aux  gens  d*£glise.  Duquel  bon 
success  furent  a  cette  heure  (de  vespres) 
rendues  graces  et  louanges  a  Dieu  par 
toutes  les  Eglises,  en  hymnes  et  devotes 
oraisons,  avec  le  son  des  cloches,  que  les 
Anglois  pouvoient  bien  oiiyr.**   117. 

At  Patay.  *'  Le  Due  d'Alen^on  dit  a  la 
Pucelle,  Jeanne,  voila  les  Anglois  en  ba- 
taille,  combatrons  nosP  Et  elle  demanda 
audit  Due,  avez-vous  vos  esperons  ?  Lors 
le  Due  luy  dit  comment  da,  nous  en  fautdra- 
t-il  retirer,  ou  fuir  ?  et  elle  dit  nenny ;  en 
nom  Dieu  allez  sur  eux,  car  ils  s^enfuiront, 
et  n*arresteront  point  et  seront  deconfits, 
sans  guerres  de  perte  de  vos  gens ;  et  pour 
ce  faut-il  vos  esperons  pour  les  suivre.**  p. 
142. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Thx  Bizth  book  concludes  with  tbeir 
setting  sail,  the  Mventli  op«m  with  fome 
balf'dozen  liueg  in  this  manner : 

"  Now  go  your  wij  ye  goodly  company, 
God  and  good  angels  guide  ye  on  your 

then  immediately  to  the  action.  They  find 
Cadwallon,  with  the  reniuns  of  the  colony 
unong  the  kills.  The  priest  had  stimulated 
the  Uexicsns  to  attack  them,  some  interfer- 
ence in  rescuing  a  victim  may  be  imagined. 
Coatel  informs  Lincoya  in  time  of  the  me- 
ditated attack.  The  death  of  Cynetha  must 
be  told  in  this  book,  and  perhaps  the  ac- 
count how  Lincoya  escaped  when  destined 
to  sacrifice  by  the  aid  of  his  Mexican  mis- 
tress Coatel.  I  love  to  keep  the  story  flow- 
ing on  in  one  unbroken  tide  of  time  if 
possible ;   but  this  cannot  here  be  done. 

Madoc  therefore  proposes  peace  again  to 
the  Axtecas,  by  a  prisoner,  Tlalala;  the 
fierce  enthusiast  promises  to  bear  his  pro- 
posal, and  oppose  it ;  this  man  is  a  sav^e 
UeguluB.  TezoEoraoc,  priest  of  Mexitli, 
deniands  a  white  sacrifice.  Tlalala  and 
Ocelopan  devote  themselves  to  bring  one. 
They  go  to  the  mountain  settlements,  and 
lie  in  wait.  They  find  Caradoc,  sleeping, 
but  as  they  are  about  to  seiie  htm  the  wind 
sweeps  over  his  harp,  and  they  believe 
him  divinely  protected.  Young  Hoel  ap- 
proaches. Him  they  catch  up.  Madoc 
beholds  and  follows — the  alarm  is  given, 
and  the  Welsh  haslen  to  his  assistance ;  but 
an  ambush  was  prepared,  and  Madoc  and 
the  child  are  both  conveyed  away.  Hoel 
ia  caverned  among  the  rocks  that  bonier  the 
lake,  a  victim  to  TIaloc;  here  be  is  left  to 
perish,  for  the  stone  is  never  rolled  from 
the  mouth  of  the  cavern,  except  when  a  vic- 
tim ia  thrust  in.    Coatel  discovers  another 


The  reader  will  obserre  that  these  lines 
the  Secund  Fart  of  "Madoc"  as  it  now 
stands,  f onni, p.  359.  Itisnottboughlneces. 
sary  by  the  Editor  to  mark  off  all  the  alura- 
tionsroade.—J.W.W. 


entrance,  and  preserves  him.    During  the 
time  of  peace  she  may  have  learnt  aooK    I 
Welsh,  enough  to  be  understood. 

Madoc  it  reserved  for  the  gladiatoriao 

sacrifice.  Ocelopan  and  Ttalala  both  claim 
the  combat;  the  lot  decides  it  in  favoui 
of  Ocelopan,  and  he  is  killed.  Tlalala  then 
engages  him.  An  attack  is  now  made  on 
the  Aztecas.  Teiozomoc  is  for  instantly 
killing  the  prisoner,  but  Tlalala  iniisti  on 
having  him  preserved  to  continue  the  com- 
bat. To  this  Huitziton  lends  his  weight,  in 
hopes  of  yet  conciliating  matters,  and  Coa- 
nocotiin,  the  king,  from  a  noble  spirit 
Madoc  is  therefore  bound.  The  battle  il 
dreadful,  but  the  Welsh  are  repelled  bj 
multitudes  who  throng  though  to  certain 
death.  They  pass  the  night  on  the  field, 
and  on  the  morrow  again  renew  the  battle, 
when  Madoc  appears  among  them.  Duiing 
the  confusion  of  the  night  Coatel  bad  cut 
bis  bands,  conveyed  him,  to.  the  cavern,  and 
given  him  a  canoe,  in  whii-b  he  had  es- 
caped with  Hoel  over  the  lake. 

Elen  is  wandering  at  midnight  along  the 
opposite  shore,  half  deranged,  when  they 
land. 

In  this,  the  great  engagement,  Mervyn 
ia  captured  and  led  away  to  immediately  be 
sacrificed.  The  discovery  of  her  sex  con- 
fuses them;  and  Caradoc,  who  enters  the 
temple  in  the  hope  of  rescuing  Madoc,  finds 
his  own  Senena  stretched  on  the  altar. 

The  appearance  of  Madoc  appeases  the 
Webb,  and  he  makes  them  retire.  Hit  es- 
cape astonishes  the  Aztecas.  Huitziton  and 
Tnjatzin  the  old  priest,  father  of  Coatei, 
argue  that  it  is,  if  not  a  miracle,  certainly 
a  proof  that  the  strangers'  God  is  the  la- 
perior  one.  Coanocotzin,  who  is  somewhat 
of  a  Capaneus,  and  Tezozomoc,  who  is  a 
thorough  priest,  suspect  treachery.  They 
assemble  together  all  who  had  access  to  the 
temple,  and  propose  a  test  similar  to  the 
water  of  jealousy.  Coatel's  fears  betray 
her,  and  she  is  immediately  sacrificed. 

Lincoya  is  sitting  with  an  old  Peruviar 
among  the  mountains,  when  the  tidinp 
reach  him ;  be  sits  stunned  with  the  grief- 


IDEAS  AKD  STUDIES  FOR  LITERAET  COMPOSITION. 


panion,  to  emploj  or  divert  bis  bot- 
Ues  to  him  &  l^eni)  like  thftt  tn  tbe 
Souli,  he  listen!  wiib  deep  atten- 
i  enquires  if  the  journe;  be  long? 
xins  he  is  told.  There  is  a  shorter 
:  youth  exclaimed,  and  leapt  down 

i^tecas  assemble  their  whole  force 
1  their  eoemiei.     An   earthquake 

nuuij  of  them,  and  whilst  Tezo- 
nd  the  inferior  priests  are  perform- 
un  rites  upon  a  mountun,  a  volca- 
ition  kills  them ;  intimidated  by 
Aitecas  take  counsel  together,  and 
ce  of  Huitziton  prevails.     Tlalala 

it  violently  and  vainly ;  be  then 
e  tidings  to  the  WcUh,  and  chal- 
ladoc  first,  and  on  hia  refusal,  any 
Uowera,  but  the  challenge  is  every 
iufed.  At  the  moment  the  Aitecaa 
leir  emigration,  in  the  presence  of 
,  he  destroys  himself  on  the  grave 
■iend  Ocelopan.  So  Madoc  is  left 
isioD  of  the  land,  without  an  ene- 


:  Eighth  Book,  the  Aitecas  attempt 
the  ships  of  Madoc.  The  attaclc 
by  night     Tlalala  is  then  taken 

leavers  to  be  described,  where  Ma- 
a  alone  along  tbe  Towys'  winding 

idelity  of  the  dog,  onght  not  to  be 
n.  I  love  dogs,  and  would  wil- 
ke  this  to  Peru,  if  I  could  make  htm 

thing  may  be  made  out  of  the 
'  Gftr,  and  the  Eagle  of  Snowdon. 
tory  of  Elidore  may  be  alluded  to, 

in  a   simile  between    its  sunless 
1  the  clouds  of  Peru, 
e  Third  Book,  the  scurry  should 
be  described;  there  it  room  for  a 
1  description, 
lection   of   a   dead   friend,    when 

and  useful,  though  painful  even  to 
Cadwallon  and  Gnetha. 
sorry  must  not  be  introduced.  One 


might  ^t  with  Lucretius,  but  the  Toyage 
in  loo  short,  and  then  it  were  not  an  invi- 
tmg  circumstance. 

Coatel  faints  when  led  to  the  altar,  and 
is  sacrificed  senseless;  in  that  dreadful 
hour  Nature  was  kind. 

Place  of  shelter  among  the  monntuns, 
compared  to  that  where  Manuel  was  dO' 
feated.  From  KnoUea'i  very  interesting 
account. 

Burning  the  ships.  The  alarmed  eagle 
from  his  mountain-nest  gazed  on  the  mid- 
night splendour. 

Will  it  lessen  the  fitness  of  the  poem  to 
suppose  a  marriage  between  Madoc  and 
Elen  T  Her  meeting  him  on  the  shore  of 
the  lake  after  his  escape  affords  a  fine  op- 
portunity for  discovering  afiTection. 

At  Merthyr,  I  saw  the  furnace  fires  re* 
fleeted  upon  the  clouds  at  night.  This  it 
a  good  image  for  the  burning  (he  ships. 

In  the  engagement  by  the  ships  tbe  co- 
racles and  water  pilgrimages  may  be  men- 
tioned. 

The  probation  of  a  savage  on  the  banks 
of  the  Oronoco  can  be  briefly  told  by  Tla- 
lala. Relaljng  how  his  father  slew  one  in 
the  gladiatorlan  Bacri6ce,  after  having  him- 
self taken  bim  prisoner. 

Tbe  traditions  respecting  tbe  Mammuth, 
and  the  race  of  strangers  mentioned  in  that 
Spanish  account  of  Peru. 

The  Eighth  Book  had  better  begin  thus : 
Tlalala  is  brought  a  prisoner  from  tbe 
ships,  he  bod  lain  in  wut  to  kill  'one  of  the 
Welsh,  and  had  been  taken.  The  ships 
should  be  bnrnt.  Some  books  afterwards  by 
Madoc  himself  after  his  release,  to  show 
bit  resolution  of  remaining  in  tbe  country. 

When  Tlalala  comes  with  ofiers  of  peace, 
he  finds  Azllan  in  an  uproar.  It  is  (he 
festival  of  tbe  arrival  of  the  gods,  and  no 
sign*  of  their  arrival  are  eeen ;  all  is  con- 
sternation. Tezozomoc  comes  from  hit 
nine  months'  fast,  and  asks  a  white  victim. 

The  iires  are  blazing,  and  tbe  victims 
ready  to  be  thrown  in.  The  priests  call 
on  their  gods,   and  gaah  themtelvcs,  and 


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fants*  blood ;  first  with  the  insect  ointment. 
The  intoxication  of  joy  succeeds. 

The  unction  must  be  reserved  for  the 
mountain  sacrifice. 

The  pond  Ezapan  is  made  thick  with 
blood. 

The  gods  must  not  aorrive  till  the  white 
yictims  are  taken. 

Funeral  of  Ocelopan,  and  Coanocotzin. 

Night  marked  by  the  fire  flies,  the  flames 
growing  brighter,  and  the  smoke  unseen  in 
the  darker  atmosphere.  Tezozomoc  has 
seen  Mexitlb's  mother,  who  tells  him  how 
to  invite  the  gods.  Ocelopan  and  Tlalala 
devote  themselves,  and  drink  each  other*s 
blood.  Then  Tezozomoc  feels  the  passing 
Deity.  The  priests  shout  they  come,  and 
the  victims  are  thrown  into  the  fire. 

The  Flyers  and  the  dance  of  Yucatan  at 
the  coronation  of  Huitziton. 

The  banner  of  the  nation  to  be  taken 
from  Mexitlis*  shield. 

Ocelopan  seizes  Hoel  and  runs  away 
with  him.  Madoc  follows,  and  is  seized; 
but  Ocelopan,  without  waiting  for  them, 
hastens  on  to  Aztlan  with  the  child.  Pro- 
cession to  the  sacred  cavern  by  the  lake, 
hymn  to  Taloc,  and  congratidations  to  the 
child  who  is  destined  to  the  joys  of  Talo- 
can,  the  cool  paradise.  Hoel,  tired  of  cry- 
ing, is  amused  by  the  pomp.  Coatel  has 
been  sent  with  the  temple-girls  to  gather 
flowers  for  the  shrine  of  Coatlantona ;  she 
has  separated  from  them  when  she  disco- 
vers the  way  into  the  cavern.  From  a  rock 
she  may  see  the  procession ;  and  she  may 
be  led  to  find  out  the  secret  entrance  by 
the  cries  of  the  child. 

Afler  the  escape  of  Madoc,  the  Peru- 
vians perform  the  ceremony  of  driving 
away  calamity. — OarciUuo^  p.  258. 

Ocelopan  and  Tlalala  both  insist  that 
Madoc  shall  die  by  the  gladiatorian  sacri- 
fice. Tlalala  tells  how  his  father  took  pri- 
soner a  chief  who  had  passed  the  probation 
(Robertson),  and  who  had  made  a  drum  of 
his  enemies*  skin  (Garcilaso) ;  that  he  killed 
him  in  the  gladiatorian  sacrifice,  and  be- 
sought the  gods  for  a  son  who  might  follow 


his  example,  and  that  the  gods  had  heird 
him.  The  priests  think  it  will  encourage 
the  people  to  see  a  stranger  killed  in  single 
combat.  Coanocotzin  gives  Madoc  a  sword. 
The  combat  and  death  of  Ocelopan.  At- 
tack made  by  the  whole  Welsh  force. 

Book  5.  Elen  may  ask  to  see  HoeTs 
grave. 

Book  6.  The  religious  rites  before  their 
embarkation  described.  On  such  a  depir- 
ture  both  Y.  Flaccus  and  Camoens  have 
written.    That,  however,  matters  not. 

The  harp  heard  by  Tlalala  compared  to 
the  music  of  the  herb  that  sprung  from  the 
blood  of  Orpheus. 

Could  I  not  with  some  efiect  introduce 
the  excommunication  of  Owen  Cyveilioc  ? 

Wherever  Harold  penetrated  into  Wales, 
he  erected  stone  pillars,  remuning  in  Gi- 
raldus*s  time,  thus  inscribed :  Hic  ruiT  vic- 
tor Haraldus.    This  should  be  noticed. 

Compared  with  the  other  Europeans,  the 
Welsh  were  called  unarmed.  This  should 
be  noted.  And  the  wisdom  of  Madoc  may 
borrow  the  armour  of  the  Saxons. 

Cornage*  tenure  noticed. 

The  ships  were  galleys. — Lyt  8.  91. 

Coatel  in  passing  to  the  temple  of  Coat* 
lantona  sees  Madoc  lying  bound.  That 
end  of  the  town  is  deserted.  She  cuts  his 
bonds,  leads  him  to  Hoel,  and  refuses  to 
accompany  their  flight,  thinking  of  her  fa- 
ther. They  cross  the  lake ;  and  at  landing 
find  Elen  on  the  bank.  Gwenlhian  is  watch- 
ing her  brother's  arms;  ready  to  destroj 
herself  with  hia  sword,  if  danger  should 
approach. 

Perhaps  the  narrative  of  Madoc*s  escape 
should  be  an  afler  relation  by  himself.  In 
this  case  the  eleventh  book  would  open 
with  Elen  wandering  along  the  water  side. 

Mervyn  is  with  Gwenlhian.  Madoc  takes 
the  boy  to  the  battle — **  I  was  a  stripling 
such  as  thou  art — at  Corwen.**     The  suffu- 

*  See  Du  Canoe  in  v.  Ccmagiumy  et  Tentrt 
per  eomagium.  In  Cowel's  words,  "  The  scr* 
vice  of  which  tenure  is  to  blow  a  horn  when  an/ 
invasion  of  the  northern  enemy  is  perceived," 
in  v.— J.  W.  W. 


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non  of  fear  is  mistaken  for  the  glow  of  cou- 
rage, and  Mervjn  goes  to  fight. 

Lincoya  is  armed  like  the  Welsh.  Of 
the  battle,  the  chief  incidents  are  the  death 
of  Coanocotzin  and  the  capture  of  Mervjn. 

On  the  YOjage,  flying  fish. 

Book  2.  The  isocratic  system  briefly 
shown  by  Cadwallon. 

12.  Funeral.  Coronation.  Coatel.  Lin- 
coya. 

I  belidye  afler  all  it  will  be  better  not  to 
identify  Madoc  with  Mango  Capac,  and 
consequently  not  lay  the  scene  in  Peru. 

A  miracle.  The  broken  idol  of  Mexitli 
u  found  one  morning  whole  in  the  temple 
at  Patamba,  and  the  banner  of  the  nation 
above  it. 

It  was  the  voice  of  a  bird  that  occasioned 
the  migration  of  the  Aztecans.  This  bird 
should  be  supposed  the  spirit  of  Coano- 
cotzin. 

13.  Aztlan.  Ceremony  of  driving  away 
calamity.  Ambassadors  from  Huitziton, 
warning  Madoc  to  depart.  They  follow 
him  to  the  ships,  which  he  then  bums. 

The  ships  must  not  be  burnt.  It  would 
be  too  like  other  poems ;  and  the  descrip- 
tion of  the  fire  would  interfere  with  that  of 
the  volcano,  for  which  all  my  combustible 
ideas  ought  to  be  reserved. 

The  ships  should  be  pulled  to  pieces,  and 
vessels  made  of  them  to  act  upon  the  lake, 
like  the  galleys,  by  force  of  their  beaks. 

10  and  11.  Kenric  should  be  in  the 
battle. 

3.  Shoal  of  porpoises  before  the  tempest. 
Their  leaping. 

Water  -  spout  —  Le  Nouveau  Monde. 
CMani.  19.  102.  P. 

Becalm  him. 

14.  Close  of  the  century.  Hymn  at  sun- 
set The  mountain  sacrifice.  The  eruption. 
The  earthquake. 

The  troops  assembled  to  march  the  first 
morning  of  the  new  century.  The  pond.  The 
unction.     The  prisoners*  breast  the  altaV. 

6.  Dr.  Beddoes  suggested  that  Madoc 
ihould  recommend  Emma  to  Rodri  and 
Llewelyn.     Certainly. 


2.  Somewhat  of  Madoc*s  early  character 
should  be  given.    The  buds  of  genius. 

Something  fine  may  be  made  of  the  last 
interview  between  Madoc  and  Huitziton. 
Madoc  should  have  saved  the  ashes  of  the 
kings  and  heroes,  and  give  them  to  the 
emigrating  monarch.  This  should  soften 
him;  his  father's  urn;  and  they  should 
separate  with  feelings  of  afiection. 

Effect  of  the  century's  termination.  Ves- 
sels broken,  lights  extinguished,  women 
and  children  veiled  with  aloe-leaves  and 
shut  up.  The  priests  bathe  in  the  pond 
Ezapan.  Unctions  of  scorpion-poultice  and 
that  of  infants*  blood.  Hymn  at  sunset. 
Procession  to  the  mountain.  The  prisoner. 
Topographical  description. 

The  birds  fluttering  about  during  the 
night  earthquake. 

15.  Aztlan.  The  storm  abates,  the  Welsh 
put  out  their  galleys  to  assist  the  Aztecans. 
Huitziton  resolves  to  emigrate — the  omen 
drawn  from  the  bird.  Tlalala  goes  to  Azt- 
lan, and  takes  possession  of  the  house  where 
he  was  bom.  His  wife  and  child  have  been 
saved.  He  refuses  all  ofiers  of  friendship, 
and  only  requests  a  weapon  to  die  with. 
This  at  length  he  seizes;  then  veib  her 
face,  alluding  to  the  late  rites,  and  stabs 
himself. 

Huitziton  kindles  a  fire  in  a  perfectly 
calm  day,  to  direct  his  emigration  the  way 
the  smoke  takes.  It  leads  by  Aztlan.  Ma- 
doc brings  the  ashes  himself.  Huitziton 
requests,  if  ever  Patamba  should  reappear, 
that  respect  may  be  shewn  to  the  remains 
of  Coanocotzin. 


^>^MA/^^/v^M«w«/wv^M/^^ 


Ilanquel  must  be  noticed  in  the  earlier 
books. 

14.  Hymn  to  the  warriors*  dead,  to  inter- 
cede with  the  sun.  Coanocotzin  and  Oce- 
lopan  particularized,  so  shall  they  not  be 
debarred  the  joy  of  vengeance. 

A  monk  wants  to  go  with  Madoc. 

7.  Would  this  increase  the  interest  The 
victim  to  be  a  female ;  the  offering  to  Te- 
teoinan.      The  anachronism  matters  not. 


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She  is  to  be  shot  with  arrows.  Her  bro- 
ther comes  to  the  Welsh,  and  goes  with 
them  to  Aztlan.  He  rushes  to  save,  or  ra- 
ther revenge  her,  and  the  Welsh  take  his  part. 

Some  of  the  North  American  tribes  held 
annually  the  Festival  of  the  Dead,  when 
thej  dug  up  all  who  had  died  in  the  pre- 
ceding year  and  set  food  before  them.  This 
will  make  a  strong  scene ;  and  here  I  can 
find  a  wife  for  Cadwallon.  A  young  widow 
about  to  be  compelled  to  an  unwelcome 
marriage. 

The  lake  islands,  floating  gardens,  and 
dwellings. 

The  sacrifice  of  the  first-bom.  There 
must  be  a  book  in  which  Madoc  converts 
his  Indians  from  Paganism.  It  may  hinge 
upon  this  sacrifice.  The  high-prie8t  of  the 
tribe  may  be  a  good  man.  His  daughter 
may  have  a  child,  and  attempt  to  conceal 
it,  so  that  her  punishment  for  this  impiety 
may  affect  hiiq.  And  what  with  his  in- 
fluence, and  that  of  Madoc,  the  idols  over- 
thrown. 

In  Garcilaso,  History  of  Florida,  is  an 
instance  where  the  death  of  the  chief  occa- 
sioned the  defeat  of  the  Indians. — P.  202. 

Afler  reading  Grarcilaso^s  Floridan  His- 
tory, I  find  it  was  not  a  place  for  Euro- 
peans to  fix  in.  South  America  will  be 
better.  Up  the  great  river,  and  somewhere 
iu  the  interior  of  that  continent.  Brazil, 
or  Paraguay,  or  El  Dorado. 

7.  The  opening  lines  lyrically  to  group 
sea  scenery,  describing  all  the  characteristic 
appearances,  and  voyage  feelings. 

A.D.  715.  Sacara,  the  Spanish  governor 
of  Merida,  when  the  Moors  took  that  town, 
is  said  to  have  sailed  in  search  of  the  For- 
tunate Islands. 

Carlos  Magno,  p.  23,  a  speaking  bird ; 
but  not  understandable,  like  the  guide  of 
Huitziton. 

David*s  tyranny.  A  woman's  cruelty 
murdering  the  innocent  reptile  that  she 
fears. 

Madoc  goes  up  the  Mississippi  certainly. 


It  is  difficult  to  weave  into  one  thread 
the  two  actions.  The  reformation  of  the 
friendly  tribe — ^with  the  external  war.  The 
Priests  must  be  the  link. 

The  Pathocas  are  the  auxiliar  tribe.  Eri- 
lyab  their  chief,  a  man  well  minded,  but  too 
weak  to  be  virtuous.  His  son,  Rajenet,  b 
a  sullen  and  crafty  savage,  hostile  to  the 
Welsh  from  jealousy ;  and  because  Gwen- 
Ihian  is  refused  to  him.  He  therefore  leaguej 
in  secret  with  the  Aztecans. 

Gwenlhian  must  marry  a  savage.  I  know 
only  his  name — Herma ;  but  he  must  de- 
serve her. 

Melamin  is  the  wife  of  Cadwallon.  How 
he  wooed  her  must  be  told  to  Madoc,  be- 
cause it  will  be  a  less  interruption  than  that 
at  any  other  time,  and  because  I  want  a 
child  bom  about  the  period  of  Madoc^s  re- 
turn. This  boy  the  priest  Dithlal  claims 
as  a  sacrifice.    He  leagues  with  Rajenet 

In  the  great  danger,  when  all  hands  are 
called  out  to  rescue  Madoc,  Rajenet  oflers 
to  remain  and  guard  the  women.  Herma 
does  the  same  from  suspicion ;  thus  the 
one  is  signalized,  and  the  other  got  rid  of. 

The  priestcraft  of  Dithial  should  all  be 
exposed ;  his  coward  confession  marks  him 
an  under  character  to  Tezozomoc. 

Immediate  possession  of  the  crown  is  one 
of  Rajenet's  motives.  Erilyab  is  half  tempt- 
ed by  superstition ;  and  the  promij^e  that 
Aztlan  will  remit  all  tribute  if  he  will  as- 
sist to  turn  out  the  strangers.  Conscious 
of  his  own  unworthiness,  he  at  last  shall 
give  up  all  his  authority,  and  so  rise  into 
respectability. 

Herma  is  the  victim  who  escapes.  Book  7. 

The  Pathoca  chief  priest  is  not  a  rogue. 
He  should  be  father  of  Melamin.  His  name 
Uraraja. 

Erilyab  shall  be  a  woman ;  hating  the 
Aztecans  for  her  husband*s  death. 

The  new  characters  then  are  Erilyab, 
Rffjenet,  Herma,  Melamin,  Uraraja,  Dithial. 
The  seven  old  ones  make  the  whole  num- 
ber of  prominent  savages  amount  to  thir- 
teen. 


[DEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


,d  GwenlluaD  must  be  brought 
iMgronnd. 

iture  of  Mtdoo  mtut  not  be  at 
ime  witli  that  of  Uoel. 
seen  the  print  of  a  snake-itatne 
in  TacBtan.  It  maj  be  managed 
a  the  idol,  and  make  Dithial  tams 
ipent  and  pass  him  for  the  de- 
•itj.  Madoc  ihonld  kill  him. 
:aed  victim  is  Melamin.  To  her 
■ralloa  goes  to  seek  an  alliance. 
ince  the  colore  of  Uadoc  hap- 


on  shows  Madoc  an  infMit  of  but 
■,  the  first  bom  of  the  colonj', 
at  himself  and  Uelomin.    After 

of  Herma,  all  being  peaceable, 

accompanied  him  to  his  own 
-this  if  rambling.  AlW  the  re- 
le  mouniains,  the;  go  to  form  an 
Hie  mode  of  entering  a  village. 
let.  Quits  North  American  sa- 
[elamin  first  seen  bj  her  hus- 
r-pole.  Then  the  festiral  of  the 
I  their  return  Melamin  accom- 
brother.  Reverence.  Gratitude 
a  love.  CToetha  most  be  kept 
tie  longer,  that  her  atteotions  to 
lalf  win  CadwaUon's  heart.  Hie 
tship  uf  Canada.  Books  7  and  8, 
D  of  7,  as  now. 

follows  thus,  Dithial  demands 
's  child  for  the  snake  idol.  He 
Iream.  He  comes  again  the  next 
thcr  Rajenet  eomes,  and  demands 
rab's  name.  For  the  snake  idol 
n  life,  and  at  night  seized  one 
Hi,  nnder  protection  of  the  Cam- 
1  been  refused.  The  mother  tells 
A  cavern  u  the  temple ;  at  the 
he  great  serpent  sunning  himself, 

kct  of  fascinating.     Madoc  kills 

'(  demand  of  GwenDuan. 

.  Areligiousceremonjofnaming 

it  shoiUd  be  done  on  Cynetha's 


grave.  This  ought  to  be  as  solemn  and 
striking  as  possible.  During  the  after  fes- 
tival, Tlalala's  attempt  on  Caradoc:  and 
here  we  fall  into  the  great  road. 

Book  11  will  than  be  the  present  8th, 
and  on  12,  13. 

14  (the  11th).  When  Hadoe  reaches  the 
settlement,  he  finds  Dithial  a  prisoner,  Ra- 
jenet  dead.  Thej  had  seized  the  oppor- 
tunitj  of  making  their  own  terms.  Meaning 
to  secure  the  women  as  hostages.  The  dog 
killed  Rajenet,  and  with  Herma  auccessfullj 
defended  them.  The  inweaving  this  throws 
the  battle  and  capture  of  Aztlan  to  book 
15.     The  twellUi  remains  for  book  16. 

Book  17.  The  town  purified.  Dithial's 
confession.  The  resignation  of  Eriljab. 
Herma's  marriage.  £leao  f  I  think  so. 
I.  During  that  ceremony  the  war-em- 
Csradoc  retires  in  envious  re- 
collection  to  the  lake  banks.  Senena  fol- 
lows, and  avows  herself.  Some  moonlight 
scene.    Some  song  that  he  had  taught  her. 

19.  The  great  lake-battle,  now  in  13.  14 
makes  20. 

21.  The  close.  Hanquel  and  her  child 
nutj  have  escaped,  and  be  by  Tlalala  ltd 
to  Madoc. 

June  6, 1801,  Lisbon. 

Certunlj  to  Bardsej,  and  there  the  In- 
terview with  LlewelTu  should  be ;  be  has 
watched  his  uncle,  uid  follows  in  a  cora- 
cle. 

Were  not  some  Adamites  in  England 
then,  who  died  for  want  of  food — as  Jane 
Shore  is  fabled  to  have  perished.  One  of 
these  Madoc  might  relieve  in  death,  and 
thus  be  tuned  lo  answer  a  volunleer  priest 
angrily. 

The  Welsh  Indians  have  a  Bible.  Madoc 
will  onlj  preach  what  the  feelings  of  min 
instinctively  assent  to ;  the  rest  he  leaves 
for  tunes  of  reason.    Surely  this  u  wisdom. 

Tlaiala's  first  feeling  religious  on  his 
esc^ie  Irom  the  lake.  Note  Aguilar's  re- 
lease firam  the  Indians. 

Cowmeny  of  the  peace  at  Astlan,  and 
incensing  Madoe. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


At  Huitziton*8  coronation  the  Paste-Idol 
ground  to  powder  and  given  to  be  drank. 

October  4,  1801.^  Sentence  of  annihila- 
tion pronounced  upon  Caradoc  and  Senena. 
The  song,  book  4,  and  the  harp  incident, 
are  transferable  to  Madoc  himself. 

Nor  can  the  Cadwallon  and  Melamin 
story  enter.    It  ii  too  episodical. 

Out  with  Ririd !  he  is  good  for  nothing. 


No  rupture  before  Madoc*8  return,  only 
the  gathering  of  the  storm.  Cadwallon*8 
narrative  therefore  communicates  little,  only 
the  escape  of  Herma.  The  arrival  of  Ma- 
doc is  while  the  treason  is  preparing. 

Book  8.  Therefore  an  interview  with 
Coanocotzin,  wherein  no  ground  for  sus- 
picion appears,  except  that  the  King  intreats 
Madoc  to  remove.  The  demand  of  the  child 
for  sacrifice  follows;  and  the  capture  of 
Madoc  is  concerted  between  Tezozomoc, 
Dithial,  and  Rajenet. 

I  think  there  might  be  a  brother  of  Hoit- 
ziton,  'cui  nomen  Hiolqui,*  a  young  man 
deeply  attached  to  Madoc,  and  in  his  ab- 
sence learning  much  from  Cadwallon,  his 
own  inclination  rather  favoured  by  the  wis- 
dom of  his  elder  brother.  Him  I  would 
attach  to  Gwenlhian ;  and  when  Hoitziton 
announces  war  to  Madoc,  the  elder  of  in- 
tellect should  with  all  affection  and  feeling 
and  justice  refuse  to  quit  the  Welsh,  with 
whom  he  has  lived,  and  to  bear  arms  either 
against  or  with  them.  He  should  kill  Ra- 
jenet In  the  subsequent  defeat  of  the  Az- 
tecans,  a  heavy  grief  possesses  him,  and 
thus  the  interest  of  pity  is  excited  in  Gwen- 
lhian.   After  the  earthquake  he   should 

■  See  Preface  to  collected  edition  of  Poemt  :— 
"  It  was  my  wish  before  Madoc  could  be  con- 
sidered as  completed,  to  see  more  of  Wales  than 
I  had  yet  seen.  This  I  had  some  opportunity 
of  doing  in  the  autumn  of  1801.  with  my  old 
friends  and  schoolfellows,  Charles  Wynn  and 
Peter  Ehnslev."  P.  x.  As  I  transcribe  this, 
the  news  reaches  me  that  Mr.  Wynn  is  no  more. 
Hit  name  and  Southey's  are  indissdubly  con- 
nected together."— J.  W.  W. 


abandon  all  to  share  hifi  brother's  suf 
but  on  the  emigration,  Hoitziton  coi 
him  as  his  King.  His  brother,  n 
acted  the  father's  part  toward  him, 
dearest  and  nearest  friend  to  renia 
a  fraternal  tie  is  thus  established  I 
Hoitziton  and  Madoc  by  the  man 
Gwenlhian  and  Hiolqui,  and  nothing 
love  can  be  suflered  in  the  poem. 

Helhua  sleeps  in  the  Field  of  the 
before  the  Great  Serpent  puts  on  li 
is  warned  against  the  strangers. 


^f^^^'ti^^^'^^^S^^^S^*^*,^'^^^^'^^ 


The  Kalettdar, 


The  death  of  Henry  V.  The  h 
denunciation  at  the  siege  of  Dreux 
tells  him  how  beautiful  he  remember 
country,  how  happy  the  people.  A  s 
and  war  the  text. 

Crecy. — This  must  be  a  moralit; 
the  Prince's  crest.  The  only  existing 
of  that  slaughter ! 

Wallace,  an  ode.*— The  populace  e: 
as  he  goes  to  execution,  and  telling 
rebellion  and  outlaw  life  and  hiding 
Lay  on  him  the  whole  weight  of  sv 
famy.    Then  burst  out. 

Bosworth,  a  ballad. — A  woman  ex] 
her  husband  from  that  fight,  and  thi 
inconsequence  to  her  of  the  public  c 

Mary  Magdalen. — ^A  musing  on  tl 
quisite  picture  of  Corregio. 

Lady  Day. — A   Socinian  hymn 
Virgin.  Catholic  nonsense  alluded  to. 
man's  evening  hymn.  The  Protestant 
extreme  here.    What  object  more 
interesting  than  the  Mother  of  Jesui 

St.  John  will  furnish  two  poems, 
tale  of  the  robber,  and  moralizings 
last  advice,  "  Love  one  another." 

Milton. — A  hymn  to  the  memory 
blind  republican. 

Rape  of  the  Sabines. — The  part  < 
history  to  dwell  upon  is  the  reconcJ 


»  See  "  King  Henry  V.  and  the  He 
Dreux."— Pnemi,  p.  432. 
•  See  «  Death  of  Wallace."— Ibid.  p. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


211 


two  armies.  Like  David,  I  would 
listory  instruct  mankind. 
Battle  of  Murat  affords  matter  for  a 
em.  On  the  anniversary  of  the  fight 
Holland  thinks  he  knows  a  mendi- 
Igrim  bj  the  pile  of  bones.  The  beggar 
(,  so  more  to  humble  himself,  relates 
torj  to  the  man  whom  he  had  once 
ned.  His  obstinate  ambition,  escape 
the  lake,  and  murdering  the  page, 
nded  fugitive,  he  is  healed  bj  a  Be- 
a  young  woman,  Swiss,  who  had  lost 
rothed  husband  in  the  wars  he  had 
ned  ;  she  is  one  whom  religion  has 
ted;  and  whose  holy  resignation 
agony  in  him;  he  resolves  to  be 
no  more,  and  on  the  day  of  the  fight 
y  to  visit  the  pile  of  bones,  the  mo- 
t  of  his  wickedness.  It  is  remark- 
lat  this  pile  should  have  been  de- 
:  on  the  anniversary  of  that  day. 
cour. — ^The  ruinous  effects  in  Eng- 
'that  successful  war. 
tiers. — Glory.  Detail  of  the  conse- 
s  of  such  a  battle.     The  field  of 

The  distant  wife. 
Conversion  of  St.  Paul. — Conviction 
on  him.  But  who  does  not  feel  the 
monitor  at  times  P  Paul  the  hermit 
tke  a  fine  serious  narrative, 
story  of  St.  Agnes  is  very  fine.  I 
>elieved  the  miracle,  for  the  rest  must 

/ecilia*8  is  an  amusing  story.  One 
bave  invented  it  for  its  singularity, 
an  odd  angel — a  kind  of  angelic  in- 
Heywood  would  have  been  puzzled 
to  class  him.  I  must  not  forget  that 
ble  picture  by  Carlo  Dolce,  at  Sir 
rt  Blackwood*s.  Is  it  possible  for 
to  equal  it  ? 

be  Dii  Manes,  a  Christian  hymn. 
sa. — The  progress  of  religious  en- 
OL     This   should  be  in   Spenser*s 

itmas. — ^But  Good  Friday  will  be  a 
day  for  serious  musings  on  Christi- 
o  condense  the  moral  and  political 
of  Christ.    Christmas  must  be  cheer- 


ful, anti-puritanical,  half  catholic.  I  hate 
puritan  manners. 

Of  my  former  poems  I  must  remove  the 
New  Year's  Ode,  the  First  of  December, 
and  the  Hymn  to  the  Penates. 

The  first  of  April. — Can  I  not  make  a 
kind  of  satyrical  poem  ?  as,  contending  for 
the  prize  of  Folly,  and  exposing  the  serious 
follies  of  mankind. 

Easter. — I  should  think  the  development 
of  my  own  religious  opinions  might  make 
an  interesting  poem.  If  not,  one  might  in- 
dulge the  fullness  of  those  devotional  feel- 
ings, which  here  every  thing  seems  to  curb. 
Why  are  they  so  little  understood,  and  so 
generally  professed  only  by  weak  enthusi- 
asts, who  render  them  ridiculous ;  or  knaves, 
who  render  them  suspected  ?  Perhaps  Easter 
were  the  best  day  for  a  Millenarian  hymn. 

The  Confirmation  of  Magna  Charta  by 
Henry  HI.  Narrative  blank  verse.  It 
might  conclude  with  a  solemn  repetition  of 
the  curses  denounced  against  those  who 
should  violate  the  charter. 

The  Discovery  of  America,  an  ode. — ^Be- 
neficial to  Europe,  not  for  its  gold,  not  for 
the  conversion  of  some  savages,  but  because 
liberty  found  shelter  there,  and  returned 
from  thence. 

John  the  Baptist. -^Herodias  requesting 
his  head.     Narrative  full,  and  declfunatory. 

Pultowa.^  Patkul.  The  future  fortunes 
and  reputation  of  Charles,  an  invective  ode. 

Llewelyn,  an  historic  ode. — The  prophecy 
alluded  to.  Glory  of  the  defeated  King,  yet 
the  event  fortunate  for  Wales. 

For  Lammas  Day. — Some  particulars  may 
be  found  in  the  Transactions  of  the  Society 
of  Antiquaries  of  Scotland,  vol.  1,  p.  92, 
Cadell,  relative  to  the  customs  in  Mid  Lo- 
thian on  that  day. 

Topographical  books  should  always  be 
consulted. 

In  voL  4  of  Plutarch's  Morals  is  a  Pagan 
vision  of  a  future  state,  in  the  tract  con- 
cerning those  whom  God  is  slow  to  punish. 

»  See  "  The  Battle  of  Pultowa."— Powwi,  p. 
124.— J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


I  should  like  to  give  it  in  a  note  to  S.  Fa- 
trick's  Furgatorj,  but  for  its  length. 

December. — The  senate  passed  a  decree 
to  make  the  year  begin  in  that  month,  be- 
cause Nero  was  bom  in  it ! — ^Tacitus,  book 
xiii.*   Gordon,  yoI.  2,  p.  516. 

L* Almanac  chantant  de  M.  Nan. 

L*Ann^e  sacr^e  de  Fierre-Juste  Sautel, 
Jesuite. 

La  Madelaine  au  Desert  de  la  Sainte- 
Beanme,  en  Frovence,  par  Fierre  de  St. 
Louis.  Un  chef-d'ceuvre  etonnant  de  ridi- 
cule et  de  mauvais  godt,**  sajs  the  A.  Sa- 
batier. 

The  Death  of  Joan  of  Arc  must  be  a  re- 
gular drama. 


/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^w^^^* 


Noteifwr  Thalahcu 

F<HSON  from  a  red-headed  Christian. — 
Garcilasso,  1,3;  Nieuhoff,  97,  2.  "  Three 
ounces  of  a  red-haired  wench.*  *  Dogs  roll 
in  a  putrid  carcase ;  yet  the  skin  of  man 
absorbs  the  poison. — Garcilasso,  2,  3.  Mad 
dogs  perhaps  analogous;  yet  red  hair  a 
beauty  then. — Absalom. 

Ornaments.  Incas*  liberality  to  their 
subjects.    Savages. — Kellet,  p.  114. 

Jugglers.  Tavernier.  Query,  the  science 
of  the  priests. 

Northern  Lights.  There  is  a  passage  in 
Tacitus  certainly  descriptive  of  this  pheno- 
menon.— Pennant.  R.  B.  account  of  pro- 
digies.   Noise  of  the  rising  sun,  3.  C.  25. 

Polygamy  perhaps  the  radical  evil  of  the 
east.  Domestic  slavery  leading  to  the 
opinion  that  despotism  was  equally  neces- 
sary in  a  state  as  in  a  family.  Something 
like  polygamy  among  the  Jews. 

Persians  —  why  better  than  the  Turks 
with  the  same  government  and  religion? 
painting  allowed,  and  wine;  more  litera- 
ture ;  courteous  to  Europeans,  so  as  to  be 
called  the  Frenchmen  of  the  East. 


*  I  think  there  is  a  mistake  here.  The  two 
passages  in  the  "  Annals"  occur,  lib.  xv.  c.  74, 
lib.  xvi.  12.  In  the  first,  the  words  are  ''  Men- 
sis  quoque  Aprilis  Ntronig  cog^omentum  acci- 
peret."  In  tne  second, "  Aprilem  eumdemque 
Neroneum.''—J.  W.  W. 


Arabia.    Query,  if  reclaimableP 
from  the  Arab  his  horse,  and  he  mi 
take  himself  to  the  pastoral  state. 

Camel.  Professor  Heering*s  letl 
introducing  them  at  die  Cape. — M 
Magazine,  January  1800..  He  foi^e 
this  animal  seems  made  by  nature 
level  country  only. 

Slavery  of  women.  Vashti  and 
suerus. 

Balm.  Martyrs*  blood  at  Beder. — 
Magno.  p.  44,  61.  The  balsam  of 
braz.    Sympathetic  powder. — Sir  K.  ] 

Fatalism.  The  story  of  Solomon, 
follies  in  England.  The  marked  for 
in  Carlos  Magno,  255.  Inoculation  st 
but  beauty  the  most  saleable  comm 
and  thus  interest  sets  aside  the  creec 

Nightingale.  Grongora.  Strada.  A 
lips.   Crashaw. 

Palace  of  Irem.    Grongora.    Escu 

Magical  travelling.  History  of 
Guadalupe,  p.  246.  The  woman  wh 
her  husband  the  devil  was  coming  fc 
The  Frenchman*s  scheme  for  gettin 
of  the  whirl  of  the  world;  rising 
Paris,  and  dropping  down  at  the  anti 
— Jehan  Molinet,  181. 

Superstition  of  emitted  light.  Yi 
cellos,  211,  229.  Dee  lights.  ( 
candles.  Is  Moses's  forehead  the  foi 
of  this  ?  The  primary  light  which  k 
them  P  The  Mohammedans  write  of 
his  shining  hand. 

The  balance  of  the  dead. — Carlos  A! 
287. 

Bird-parasol.  Anchieta.  The  one-: 
man  in  the  Margarita  Philosophica. 

Magic. — ^English  Chaplain,  3,  C14). 

Bird  of  the  Brain.     Seat  of  the 
Otaheitean  opinion. 

A  good  mock-philosophic  note  mij 
made  upon  the  changes  produced  i 
earth  by  the  falling  in  of  the  Dom-E 
The  origin  of  the  Maelstrom  prov 
have  been  this.  Increase  of  cdd^  a 
those  regions,  the  rush  of  ihe  water 

*  Lovd  Dreghom,  &c. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LIXERARY  COMPOSITION. 


213 


it  out  a  great  portion  of  the  central 
lence  no  yineyards  in  England  as 
y.  Consequences  from  the  im- 
IVLBJitity  of  steam  thus  generated. — 

• 

I  was  the  Dom-Daniel  formed.  The 
on  of  the  earth  from  the  sun  took 
1  consequence  of  the  war  in  heavem 
evil  and  his  angels  were  projected 
le  fluid  mass ;  but  the  heavier  bo- 

this  projectile  motion  necessarily 
!  outermost,  and  in  their  whirling 
d  the  evil  spirits  into  the  centre, 
their  breath,  naturally  warm,  and 
ore  heated,  formed  the  central  ca- 
-  air-bubbles  in  the  fused  earth, 
they  burrowed  they  made  volcanos ; 
>untains  in  which  these  craters  are 

being  only  the  mole-hills  which  they 
lip. 

**  And  thus  they  spend 
tie  wick  of  Ufe*s  poor  shallow  lamp, 
ring  tricks  with  nature,  giving  laws 
ant  worlds,  and  trifling  in  their  own.** 

COWPEB. 

je. — Olearius.     Parrot. — ^Bruce. 
itions.     The  Moor»  prohibited  the 
baths. 

>kba  fulfilling  the  prophecy.    Dam- 
Curious  prophecy,  that  worked  its 
:complishment* 
na,  the  Portuguese  phrase  for  a  cox- 

>me  Jews  have  a  diminutive  opinion 
book  of  Esther,  because  the  word 
i  is  not  to  be  found  in  all  the  extent 
;:-— FuLLEB.  Triple  Reconciler,  131. 
mon — whom  many,  sajs  Gaffarel, 
nconsiderately  reckon  among  the 
d. 

ing  carriages  would  be  the  best  mode 
clling  in  Arabia. 

Ldamson*8  Senegal.  An  account  of 
ostriches. 

>iaz,  p.  4,  sajs,  that  in  some  of  his 
«  they  sufiered  so  much  from  thirst 
leir  lips  and  tongues  had  chaps  in 
rith  dryness. 


"  FuoiT  Hinda  speculatores  canitiei  mes 
Cepitq;  eam  fastidium   ab  inclinatione 
capitis  mei. 
Ita  mos  est  Diabolis,  ut  fugiant 
Ubi  apparuerint  stellsB  volantes.** 

Yahya  Ehn  Said.     Abtd  Phartffuii. 


^^s^s^^^^^^^^r^^>y^^fs^^^^0^^^^ 


From  the  Koran. 

"  Fbab  the  fire,  whose  fewel  is  men  and 
stones  prepared  for  the  unbelievers." — 
Ch.  2. 

"  Verilt  those  who  disbelieve  our  signs, 
we  will  surely  cast  to  be  broiled  in  hell 
fire.  So  often  as  their  skins  shall  be  well 
burned,  we  will  give  them  other  skins  in  ex- 
change, that  they  may  take  the  sharper  tor- 
ment.*'—Ch.  4. 

**  There  is  no  kind  of  beast  on  earth, 
nor  fowl  which  fliethwith  its  wings,  but  the 
same  is  a  people  like  unto  you ;  we  have 
not  omitted  any  thing  in  the  book  of  our 
decrees;  then  unto  their  Lord  shall  they 
return.*'— Ch.  6. 

"  With  him  are  the  keys  of  the  secret 
things,  none  knoweth  them  besides  himself: 
he  knoweth  that  which  is  on  the  dry  land, 
and  in  the  sea ;  there  falleth  no  leaf  but 
he  knoweth  it;  neither  is  there  a  single 
grain  in  the  dark  parts  of  the  earth,  neither 
a  green  thing,  nor  a  dry  thing,  but  it  is 
written  in  the  perspic\U)us  book." — Ch.  6. 

"  It  is  he  who  hath  ordained  the  stars 
for  you,  that  ye  may  be  directed  thereby 
in  the  darkness  of  the  land,  and  of  the  sea." 
— Ch.  6. 

**  He  would  not  open  his  lip  to  speech, 
or  sufier  the  fish  of  reply  to  swim  in  the 
sea  of  utterance." — Bahab-Damush. 

"  Bt  wheedling  and  coaxing,  she  pre- 
vailed upon  him  to  remove  the  cover  from 
the  jar  of  secrecy,  and  pour  the  wine  of 
his  inmost  thoughts  into  the  cup  of  rela- 
tion."— Ibid. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


"  Fartheb,  the  light-footed  steed  of 
the  pen  has  not  found  permission  to  pro- 
ceed on  the  plain  of  prolixity.** — Ibid. 

"  The  Jonas  of  day  descends  into  the 
belly  of  the  whale  of  the  west." — Ibid. 


«^^^^Srf%i^S/SX^/SA^^/S/\/S/S/S^««N^^\ 


"  La  manana  desterrava 
Con  azotas  de  luz,  la  noche  esaura.** 

David. 

'*  Absai^m. — Hasta  los  hombros  pende  su 

cabello 
Mas  que  el  oro  de  Arabia  roxo,  y  bello.** 

**  Cai>a  ano  qual  renuevo  lo  cortava 
A  damas  se  vendia  para  omato.** 

David. 


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"  This  conversation  resembles  the  falla- 
cious appearance  of  water  in  a  desart,  which 
ends  in  bitter  disappointment  to  the  stag 
parched  with  thirst.** — Sacontaui. 


ti 


Absai<om  so  absolutely  fair — 
He  farre  puff*d  up,  died  wavering  in  the 

air, — 
A  growing  gallows  grasping  tumid  hope. 
The  wind  was  hangman,  and  his  hairs  the 
rope." 

LoBD  Stiblime.  Doomsday,  6th  Hour, 


••>/S/V\/N/>/S/W^«W\/SA/W>^ 


*^  M0BAMMEDB8  vinum  appellabat  ma- 
trem  peccatorum  ;  cui  sententise  Hafez, 
Anacreon  ille  Fersarum,  minime  ascribit 
suam ;  dicit  autem 

*  AcBB  illud  (vinum)  quod  vir  religiosus 
matrem  peccatorum}  vocitat. 


■  "  But  Thalaba  took  not  the  draught ; 
For  riffhtly  he  knew  had  the  prophet  Torbidden 
^at  beverage,  the  mother  of  sin,"  &c. 
Thalaba,  Book  tI.  p.  25.— J.  W.  W. 


Optabilius  nobis  ac  dulcius  videtur, 
Virginia  suavium.*  ** 

Poeseos  Asiat.  Ci 


»4 


Ji7VBi«is,  qui  post  mortem  ob  liber 
tem  suam  vivit, 
Sicut  pratum  post  imbris  efiusionem ' 
cit." 

In  Ubro  Hamasa.  Poes^  i 


"  ViDi  in  hortulo  violam, 
Cujus  folia  rore  splendebant ; 
Similis  erat  flos  ille  (puellae)  cei 

habenti  oculos 
Quorum  cilia  lacrymas  stillant.** 

Ebu  Rumi.  Poeseoij  < 


**  Iludb  ignem  ilium  nobis  liquidum, 
Hoc  est,  ignem  ilium  aquas  similem  a 

H 

^^Medicinam  (vinum)  quae  somni  orig 
affer.**— Ibid. 


•««%M^%,'^^ 


"  Ebadicet  te  Deus,  ignave  miles ; 
Nunquam  te  irrigent  matutinas  nubis  g 
Neu  fundat  pluviam  nubes  super  don 

tribiis, 
Ubi  tu  commoraris,  neu  virescant  e 

colles ! 
Indulsti,  0  fill  Bader,  ignominisD 
Pallium,  nee  te  deserent  ilium  seci 

miserise. 

De  Antane  et  Ablas  amori 

SibW. 

^^A  DULCIBU8  Hafezi  numeris  stilla 
mortalitatis  aqua.*' — Hafbz, 


**  His  fingers,  in  beauty  and  slende 
appearing  as  the  Yed  ^  Bieza,  or  like 

' ''  The  miraculously  shining  hand  of  M* 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


215 


of  the  sun,  being  tinged  with  Hinna,  seemed 
branches  of  transparent  red  coral.** — IntrO' 
dtutum  to  the  Bahar-Demush,  or  Ckarden  of 
KMowUdgeyhy^isAJxytOoJAJLU.  Translated 
by  Scott* 

^  Mr  joints  and  members  seemed  as  if 
tbej  would  separate  from  each  other,  and 
the  bird  of  life  would  quit  the  nest  of  mj 
body.- 

^  The  bird  of  my  soul  became  a  captive 
in  the  net  of  her  glossy  ringlet.'*  * — ^Bahab- 
Dakush. 


^f^^^^^^N^^WS^^^^^^^^^A^^^ 


"  Shb  had  laid  aside  the  rings  which  used 
to  grace  her  ankles,  lest  the  sound  of  them 
should  expose  her  to  calamity.** — Asiatic 
Researches. 


Thb  grave  of  Francisco  Jorge,  the  Ma- 
ronite  martyr,  was  visited  by  two  strange 
birds,  white,  and  of  unusual  size.  They 
emblemed,  says  Yasconcellos,  the  purity 
and  the  indefatigable  activity  of  his  soul. 


tf^^h«^^^>^/^^/^%^^^^^^«^^^^» 


Pastoral  Poetry, 

Pastobal  poetry  must  be  made  inter- 
esting by  story.  The  characters  must  be 
such  as  are  to  be  found  in  nature;  these 
must  be  sought  in  an  age  or  country  of 
•imple  manners. 

The  shepherds  and  shepherdesses  of  ro- 
msBoe  are  beings  that  can  be  found  no- 
where. Such  a  work  will  not,  tiierefore, 
be  pastoral,  but  it  will  be  something  better. 
It  will  neither  have  pastoral  love  nor  pasto- 
ral verses. 

'  Are  these  merely  metaphorical  ?  or  do  they 
allude  to  the  *'  perched  birds  of  the  brain  "  of 
tke  Moalkkat  —  the  Pa^  Arabs'  belief?  was 
it  from  a  wish  to  conciliate  these  Pagans,  that 
the  seals  of  the  blessed  are  said  to  animate  green 
birds  in  the  grores  of  paradise  ? 

Parrots  are  called  in  the  Bahar-Danush  '*  the 
green  vested  resemblers  of  heaven's  dwellers." 

So  again  "  the  bird  of  understanding  fled 
from  the  nest  of  my  brain. 


I  think  a  good  story  may  be  made  of 
Robin  Hood — my  old  favourite.  It  must 
have  forest  scenery,  forest  manners,  and 
outlaw  morality.  Should  he  be  the  prin- 
cipal character,  or  like  the  Arthur  of  Spen- 
ser— a  kind  of  tutelary  hero  ? 

Some  tale  of  feudal  tyranny  may  be 
grafted  on;  perhaps  made  the  principal 
action.    A  neif  with  an  evil  lord. 

The  age  of  Robin  Hood  is  in  every  point 
favourable.  The  royal  authority  was  Inx 
enough  to  allow  any  undue  power  to  a  dis- 
tant lord.  The  crusading  spirit  abroad, 
some  little  heresy  also  in  the  world ;  chi- 
valry in  perfection  ;  and  practical  equality 
in  Sherwood. 

Perhaps  the  old  system  of  wardship  would 
be  the  best  hinge.  For  the  first  time  I  wish 
for  my  law  books. 

But  with  all  this,  what  becomes  of  the 
pastoral  ?  Every  thing,  however,  that  is 
good  in  the  pastoral  may  still  be  retained. 
Scenes  of  natural  beauty,  and  descriptions 
of  simple  life. 

The  popular  belief  of  fairies,  goblins, 
witches,  and  ghosts,  and  the  Catholic  saint- 
system  render  any  machinery  needless. 

It  is  difficult  to  avoid  a  moral  anachron- 
ism. We  can  go  back  to  old  scenery  and 
old  manners,  but  not  to  old  associations. 
In  this  subject  I  shall  not  much  feel  this 
defect.  There  is  no  difficulty  in  thinking 
like  Robin  Hood ;  and  persecuted  affection 
must  feel  pretty  much  the  same  in  all  ages. 

In  this  I  can  introduce  the  fine  incident 
of  my  schoolboy  tale.  AfYer  long  absence 
a  young  man  approaches  his  native  castle, 
and  finds  it  in  ruins.  It  is  evening;  and 
by  the  moonlight  he  sees  a  woman  sitting 
on  a  grave.  His  beaver  is  down.  She  runs 
to  him,  and  calls  him  father;  for  it  is  his 
sister,  watching  her  father*s  grave,  a  maniac. 


W^^'WSM^^^^^'VN/S/'^S/V^^ 


Extr€Lcts, 

^*  Ai>MiB*D  and  lost,  just  welcom*d  and  de- 

plor*d, 
Cam*st  thou,  faur  nymph,  to  wake  delight 

and  grief; 


216 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERABT  COMPOSITION. 


Like  Lapland  summers,  with  each  beautj 

stored, 
Transient  like  them,  and  exquisitely  brief?'* 

Mrs.  West's  elegy  on  a  young  lady  who 
died  soon  after  her  marriage. 


"Whobvbb  casts  up  his  eyes  loseth  the 
idea  of  Paradise.** 

In  the  inscription  over  the  portal  of  the 
famous  mausoleum  at  Com.  ChardiiL 


«M«WW/\/SA/^«M/«M>VNA«<^\» 


"  O  QUAM  verenda  micat  in  oculis  lenitas ! 
Minantur  ct  rident  simuL* 


It 


Chinese  ode,  in  Sir  W.  Jones*8  **  Poeseos 
Asiatics  Coomientarii.** 


The  Silkworm. 

^MiLLB  legunt  releguntq;  vias,  atq;  orbibus 

orbes 
Agglomerant,  cseco  donee  se  carcere  claudant 
Sponte  su4.** — ^Vida. 


la  Poets. 

"  Hat7d  longum  tales  ideo  Isstantur,  et  ipsi 
Ssepe  suis  superan  t  monumentis,  illaudatique 
Extremum  ante  diem  foetus  fleyere  caducos, 
Viventesq;  suae  viderunt  funera  famsB.** 

Ibid. 


'V^A/V\^^^^^^^^V^^%^/SA^ 


"  QuANDO  fuer^a  a  Saul  humano  rito 
En  ella  entrar,  con  habitos  caydos 
For  pagar  lo  que  deve  al  appetito'* 

David,  del  Doctob  Jacobo  Uziel. 


Humilitj/* 

**  A  TATTEB*i>  cloak  that  pride  wean  when 
deform*d.** — Gbbib. 


^^i^^\A''\A^^^^V\^^A/S^^^V 


L 


^  But  I  have  sinuous  shells,  of  pearly  hue 
Within,  and  they  that  lustre  have  imbibed 


In  the  8un*s  palace-porch;   where,  when 
unyoked  [wave. 

His  chariot  wheel  stands  midway  in  the 
Shake  one,  and  it  awakens ;  then  apply 
Its  polish*d  lips  to  your  attentive  ear, 
And  it  remembers  its  august  abodes 
And  murmurs  as  the  ocean  murmurs  there  "' 

Ibid. 

**  And  the  long  moon-beam  on  the  hard 

wet  sand 
Lay  like  a  jasper  column  half  uprear*d.** 

Ibid. 

**  Nob  is  there  aught  above  like  Jove  him- 
self, [fizt, 
Nor  weighs  against  his  purpose,  when  once 
Aught   but,  with  supplicating  knee,  the 

prayers. 
Swifler  than  light  are  they,  and  every  face 
Though  diflerent,  glows  with  beauty :  at  the 
throne  [kind. 

Of  mercy,  when  clouds  shut  it  from  mao- 
They  fall  bare-bosomed ;    and  indignant 
Jove  [voice 

Drops  at  the  soothing  sweetness  of  their 
The  thunder  from  his  hand.** — ^Ibid. 


"  Anrsi,  dans  ce  cachot^  dans  ce  s^oor  da 

crime, 
Oii  la  mort  s^essayait  k  fraper  sa  victime, 
Dieu  laissait  ^haper,  de  son  sein  glorieuXf 
Un  rayon  du  bonheur  dont  on  jouit  aux 

Cieux. 
Telle,  en  un  souterrein,  une  faible  ouver- 

ture 
Labse  entrer  sous  la  voCite,  une  lumi^ 

pure, 
Dont  le  mobile  ^clat,  dans  Tombre  repandu, 
Rejouit  le  captif  sur  la  terre  ^tendu.** 

Lb  Svibb. 

Applied  to  one  solitary  and  cherished 
hope,  the  simile  is  striking. 


*  The  reader  will  reoollpct  that  Wordsworth 
has  the  same  imae^.  The  next  image  Southej 
once  told  me  he  thought  almost  unequaUed. 

J.  W.  W. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


217 


•*  Tout  cet  appareil  de  dehors, 
Le  train,  les  honneurs,  les  thresors, 
ant  ce  qui  est  a  Tarbre  un  verdoyant 
llage: 
lie  en  connoist  le  prix  et  s^ait  bien 

s'en  servir; 
tans  se  plaindre  an  Ciel,  sans  plojer 
sous  Toragc 
He  les  quitte  au  Tent,  qui  les  luj 

Tient  ravir.** 
Lb  Motive.  La  Femme  Forte, 

'oB  n*e8t  que  la  bile  ^laircie 
*un  corps  lourd  obscur  et  brutal ; 
*Argent  k  nos  yeux  si  fatal, 
1  est  que  T^ume  endurcie/* — ^Ibid. 


^^^^^^iM^^^^^A^^^^^^^/^'^^ 


jrare  Mede  est  mort. 

Abradates 
intenant  encore  son  Ombre  entre  les 
Qorts 

IX  quil  a  yaincTi  suit  les  Ombres  er- 
antes 
net  Panthea. 

Le  Moths.  La  OdUerie, 


VR  Jbone  Webetown  thar  was  slayne. 

uhen  be  dede  wis,  as  ye  her, 

and  intill  hys  coffer 

yr  that  hym  send  a  lady, 

le  luffyt  per  drouery.^ 

aid  quhen  he  had  yemyt  a  yer 

r,  as  a  gud  batchiller, 

rrenturs  castell  off*  Dowglas 

o  kep  sa  peralous  was ; 

mycht  he  weill  ask  a  lady 

mours  and  hyr  drouery.'* 

The  Bruce,  B.  8,  p.  488. 


^«^bA^A^iA^ta^/v^/^/w^/^^/^^ 


aer  n*est  plus  qu*un  cercle  aux  yeux 
5S  Matelots  [flots." 

Ciel  forme  un  d6me  appuy^  sur  les 
p  Nouceau  Monde,  par  M.  Lb  Suibb. 

■  drouery  y  is  not  in  a  Tiew  of  marriage, 
rm  is  old  French. 


"  Du  sommet  d*un  rocher  precipitant  ses 

flots, 
Une  cascade  au  loin  fait  mugir  les  dchos, 
Tombe,  ^ume  et  bouillonne,  et  son  eau 

tourment^e 
Semble  se  disperser  en  poussi^re  argentic.** 

Lb  Suibb. 

The  silver  dust  of  the  waters. 

"  Sa  ceinture  ^louit  par  le  jeu  varil 
Du  feu  des  diamans  avec  For  maril.** — Ibid. 


\^/\/x^MiA^^^^h^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


**  Lb  bon  sens  8*eclost  de  ses  levres  de  rose 

Comme  sort  un  bon  fruit  d*une  agreable 

fleur.** — Lb  Motbb.  La  Femme  Forte, 


" Thukdeb — 

it  grones  and  grumbles 
It  rouls  and  roars,  and  round-round-round 
it  rumbles.*' 

Stlybstbb*s  Du  Bartas, 


Freedom, 

I  HAVE  seldom  met  with  a  nobler  burst 
in  any  poem  than  in  "  The  Bruce.'*  After 
describing  the  oppressive  government  of 
''  Jhone  the  Balleoll, 

"  A !  fredome  is  a  nobill  thing ! 
Fredome  mayse  man  to  haifi*  liking ; 
Fredome  all  solace  to  man  giffis : 
He  levys  at  ese,  that  frely  levys  I 
A  noble  hart  may  haiff*  nane  ese 
Na  ellys  nocht  that  may  him  plese, 
Gyfi*  fredome  failyhe ;  for  fre  liking 
Is  yharnyt  our  all  othir  thing. 
Na  he,  that  ay  base  levyt  fre. 
May  nocht  knaw  weill  the  propyrte 
The  angyr,  na  the  wrechyt  dome 
That  is  cowplyt  to  foule  thryldome.** 

Buke  1,  p.  225. 


^^s^^^^^\/w%^w*^/ww^ 


"  Restabat  cura  sepulchri ; 
Quo  foderem  ferrum  deerat :  miserabile 
corpus 


\ 


1 


218 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Frondibus  obtexi,  puerum  nee  ab  ubere 

Yulsi, 
Sicut  erat  foliis  t^tur,  funusq;  paratur 
Heu  nimis  incertum  et  primis  violalnle 

ventis.** — Bussibebs. 


A  OaUery. 

*•*•  UifB  porte  d^airain  s*ouyre  alors  en  deux 

pails. 
Le  lieu  vaste  revolt  les  avides  regards. 

Vers  le  bout  ^oign^  que  Toeil  k  peine  acheve, 
La  votite  semble  basse,  et  le  pav^  8*^eve. 
Le  lambris  qui  les  suit  vers  un  but  limits 
Diminue  k  T^al  d*un  et  d*autre  cost^.** 

Cloyis. 


^k/^'WNi'«^^'«^i'^A^^^A^^WV\ 


**  To  vi  con  apariencia  manifiesta 
que  no  fue  el  respuesta  por  41  mismo, 
mas  por  algun  espiritu  compuesta : 
como  si  alguna  furia  del  abismo 
al  sabio  las  entranas  le  rojera, 
6  como  que  le  toma  parasismo 
con  los  mismos  efectos  :  y  tal  era 
la  presencia  del  viejo  quando  vino 
a  danue  la  respuesta  verdadera. 
Andaba  con  furioso  desatino 
torciendose  las  manos  arnigadas, 
los  ojo8  bueltos  de  un  color  sanguine : 
las  barbas,  antes  largos  y  peynadas, 
Uevaba  vedijosas  y  rehueltas^ 
couio  de  fieras  sierpes  enroscadas : 
las  rocas,  que  con  mil  nudosas  bueltas 
la  cabeza  prudente  le  cenian, 
por  este  j  aquel  hombro  lleva  sueltas : 
las  horrendas  palabras  parecian 
salir  por  una  trompa  resonante, 
y  que  los  yertos  labios  no  movian,*^ 

L.  Lbonabdo. 


"  Old  bed-rid  age  laments 
Its  many  winters,  or  does  wish  *em  more, 
To  have  more  strength  to  fight,  or  less  to 
die." 

SonTHBBi«B*8  Persian  Prince. 


^*  O  CALL  me  home  again,  dear  Chief  I  and 

put  me 
To  joking  foxes,  milking  of  he-goats. 
Pounding  of  water  in  a  mortar,  laving 
The  sea  dry  with  a  nut-shell,  gathering  all 
The  leaves  are  fallen  this  autumn,  making 

ropes  of  sand, 
Catching  the  winds  together  in  a  net. 
Mustering  of  ants,  and  numbring  atoms ; 

aU 
That  hell  and  jou  thought  exquisite  tor- 
ments, rather 
Than  stay  me  here  a  thougbt  more.     I 

would  sooner 
Keep  fleas  within  a  circle,  and  be  accomp- 

tant 
A  thousand  year  which  of  *em  and  how  far 
Outleap*d  the  other,  than  endure  a  minute 
Such  as  I  have  within." 

Bbn  JoNSOii.  The  DevU  is  an  Ast. 


*^A^^^^^v^^^s^^^^^A/^^,/^^^ 


"  Hbbe  is  Domine  Picklock 
My  man  o*  law,  sollicits  all  my  causes, 
Follows  my  business,  makes  and  compounds 

my  quarrels 
Between  my  tenants  and  me ;  sows  all  my 

strifes 
And  reaps  them  too ;  troubles  the  countrj 

for  me, 
And  vexes  any  neighbour  that  I  please.** 
B.  J.  The  Staple  of  News. 


Conscience. 

'*  Poor  plodding  priests,  and  preaching  friars 

may  make 
Their  hollow  pulpits  and  the  empty  iles 
Of  churches  ring  with  that  round  word : 

but  we 
That  draw  the  subtile  and  more  piercing 

air 
In  that  sublimed  region  of  a  court. 
Know  all  is  good  we  make  so,  and  go  on 
Secur'd  by  the  prosperity  of  our  crimes.** 

B.  J.  Mortimer's  Fall 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


219 


B  con  noi  Tamor  della  Tirtu, 
non  basta  ad  evitar  le  colpe 
Imeno  a  punir  le. 
)n  del  Cielo,  che  diventa  castigo 
n*abusa,  il  piu  crudel  tormento 
lo  i  malvagi,  e  il  conservar  nel  core, 
alor  dispetto, 

lei  giusto,  e  dell*  onesto  i  semi.'* 
Metastasio.  IssipUe. 


^^r^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m 


>scTATioN  in  a  weake  minde,  makes 
greater,  and  a  good  less  :  but  in  a 
I  minde,  it  digests  an  evill  before  it 
ind  makes  a  future  good  long  before 
** — Db.  Jos.  Hall*8  MedUationM  and 
1617. 


tf^^^^^^^^k^^^^^A^^^^^^^^^V 


B  heart  of  man  is  a  short  word,  a 
ibstance,  scarce  enough  to  give  a 
I  meale ;  jet  great  in  capacitie,  yea, 
ite  in  desire,  that  the  round  globe 
rorld  cannot  fill  the  three  corners 
-Ibid.^ 

I  suspect  to  have  suggested  Quarles* 
1. 


VM^>WM^^M^^^^^^AAM^A^to 


BI8TIAN  societie  is  like  a  bundle  of 
layed  together,  whereof  one  kindles 

Solitary  men  have  fewest  provo- 
to  evill,  but  againe  fewest  incitations 

So  much  as  doing  good  is  better 
t  doing  evill,  will  I  account  Chris- 
[m1  fellowship  better  than  an  Ere- 
and  melancholike  solitarinesse.** — 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"^N^^V^^ 


inde  n*a  point  de  longues  injustices.** 

M.  DB  Sbvionb. 


^VMS^A/MWM^^N««iA«^VNM^ 


Scripture  JSztracts. 

HOLD  I  have  made  thee  this  day  a 
d  city,  and  an  iron  pillar,  and  brazen 

See  infri,  p.  222— J.  W.  W. 


walls  against  the  whole  land,  against  the 
kings  of  Judah,  against  the  princes  thereof, 
against  the  priests  thereof,  and  against  the 
people  of  the  land. 

^  And  they  shall  fight  agunst  thee,  but 
they  shall  not  prevail  against  thee ;  for  I 
am  with  thee,  saith  the  Lord,  to  deliver 
thee.**— JeremiiaA,  chap.  i.  18,  19. 

'*  Thb  lion  is  come  up  from  his  thicket, 
and  the  destroyer  of  the  Gentiles  is  on  his 
way;  he  is  gone  forth  from  his  place  to 
make  thy  land  desolate,  and  thy  cities  shall 
be  laid  waste  without  an  inhabitant. 

**  For  this  gird  you  with  sackcloth,  la- 
ment and  howl ;  for  the  fierce  anger  of  the 
Lord  is  not  turned  back  from  us. 

"  And  it  shall  come  to  pass  at  that  day, 
saith  the  Lord,  that  the  heart  of  the  king 
shall  perish,  and  the  heart,  of  the  princes ; 
and  the  priests  shall  be  astonbhed,  and  the 
prophets  shall  wonder.** — Ibid.  chap.  iv.  7, 
8,  9. 

"  I  BEHELD,  and  lo,  there  was  no  man, 
and  all  the  birds  of  the  heavens  were  fled. 

"  I  beheld,  and  lo,  the  fruitful  place  was 
a  wUdemess,  and  all  the  cities  thereof  were 
broken  down  at  the  presence  of  the  Lord 
and  by  his  fierce  anger.'* — Ibid.  chap.  iv. 
25,  26. 

"  Fob  thus  hath  the  Lord  of  hosts  said. 
Hew  ye  down  trees  and  cast  a  mount  against 
Jerusalem;  this  is  the  city  to  be  visited*, 
she  is  wholly  oppression  in  the  midst  of  her. 

**  As  a  fountain  casteth  out  her  waters, 
so  she  casteth  out  her  wickedness :  violence 
and  spoil  is  heard  in  her ;  before  me  con- 
tinually is  grief  and  wounds. 

"  Be  thou  instructed,  O  Jerusalem,  lest 
my  soul  depart  from  thee  ;  lest  I  make  thee 
desolate,  a  land  not  inhabited.** — Ibid.  chap, 
vi.  6,  7,  8. 

"  And  the  carcases  of  this  people  shall  be 
meat  for  the  fowls  of  the  heaven,  and  for 
the  beasts  of  the  earth ;  and  none  shall  fray 
them  away.** — Ibid.  chap.  vii.  33. 


220 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


(( 


Death  is  come  up  into  our  windows 
and  is  entered  into  our  palaces,  to  cut  off 
the  children  from  without,  and  the  joung 
men  from  the  streets.** — Ibid.  chap.  ix.  21« 

*^  Sat  unto  the  King  and  to  the  Queen, 
humble  yourselves,  sit  down  ;  for  your  prin- 
cipalities shall  come  down,  even  the  crown 
of  your  glory. 

"  Lift  up  your  eyes  and  behold  them  that 
come  from  the  North :  where  is  the  flock 
that  was  given  thee,  thy  beautiful  flock  ? 

^*  Can  the  Ethiopian  change  his  skin  or 
the  leopard  his  spots  ?  then  may  ye  also  do 
good,  that  are  accustomed  to  do  evil." — 
Ibid.  chap.  xiii.  18.  20.  23. 

"  MoBBovEB  I  will  take  from  them  the 
voice  of  mirth  and  the  voice  of  gladness, 
the  voice  of  the  bridegroom  and  the  voice 
of  the  bride,  the  sound  of  the  millstones  and 
the  light  of  the  candle." — Ibid.  chap.  xxv. 
10. 


'*  If  thou  art  read  in  amorous  books,  thou*lt 

find 
That  Cupid*B  arrow  has  a  golden  head. 
And  *twas  a  golden  shaft  that  wounded 

them."  Mat.    The  Old  Couple. 

"  Over  their  marriage  bed  Til  write  their 

ages. 
And  only  say,  here  lies  Sir  Argent  Scrape, 
Together  with  his  wife  the  Lady  Covet. 
And  whosoever  reads  it,  will  suppose 
The  place  to  be  a  tomb,  no  marriage  bed. 
To  fit  them  for  an  Hymenasal  song. 
Instead  of  those  so  high  and  spirited  strains 
Which  the  old  Grecian  lovers  used  to  sing, 
ril  sing  a  quiet  dirge,  and  bid  them  sleep 
In  peaceful  rest,  and  bid  the  clothes,  instead 
Of  earth,  lie  gently  on  their  aged  bones.** 

Ibid. 


"  Well,  let  it  be  a  riddle  I 
I  have  not  so  much  wit  as  to  expound  it, 
Nor  yet  so  little  as  to  lose  my  thoughts, 


Or  study  to  find  out  what  the  DO-reason 
Of  a  young  wenches  will  b.**  Ibid. 


'*  Like  the  black  and  melanchollck  yew- 
tree. 
Dost  think  to  root  thyself  in  dead  men's 

graves^ 
And  yet  to  prosper?" 

John  Wbbsteb,  The  White  DevU^ 
or  Vittoria  Corombona. 


Ahrap  aril  Key  rsro  yirog  koto,  yaia  ica- 

Tol  fitv  halfAoviQ  doty  Acoc  fuyaXa  lia 

*E^Xo2,   eri^OSytoi,  ^vXaicec  dyt/ruy  ay- 

0<  pa  ^vKaooHOiv  re  ^ixat  icai  o)(€r\ta 

*Hepa  kooafieyoi,  irayTif  i^otrutyretix  alav> 
nXwo^orai'  Kal  Tsro  ycpac  f^aoikny'iov 
ioxpy'^*  Hesiob. 

"  Kal  rol   fuy   \i(piooiy    viro   oferip^vt 

dafuyriQf 
Bfjoay  ec  thputtvra  ^6fioy  Kpvipi  at^ao, 
Nutyv/Jiyoi'  BdyaTog  Be  koI  ixfrayXnc  rtp 

ioyfac 
ErXc  /leXac,  Xa^irpoi'  ^  IXnroy  ^aoc  ♦«- 

Xloior  Ibid. 


VX/VS/S'^^VS^^VVWW^/W^^ 


**  Each  small  breath 
Disturbs  the  quiet  of  poor  shallow  waters. 
But  winds  must  arm  themselves  ere  the  Uirgi 

sea 
Is  seen  to  tremble. — Pray  your  pardon,  Sir, 
I  must  not  throw  away  my  courage  on 
A  cause  so  trivial.** 

William  Habikgton.  The  Queen 
of  Arragofu 


IIbbcules  when  left  by  the  Argonauts : 

**  Tacitumq;  pudet  potuisse  relinqui.** 
V.  Flaccus,  lib.  iv.  57. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


221 


uiTBS  humeros  spatiosaque  pectoris 

isa 

it"  Ibid.  V.  244. 

)ater  orantes  cssorom  Tartariu  um- 
*aa 

caT&  tandem  ad  meritsB  Bpectacula 
ignsB 

t;  samminigreflcuntculminamontis.** 

Ibid.  V.  258. 

f  must  have  imitated  these  lines,  but 
I  excelled  them.    This  man*8  demo- 
is  always  attributed  to  pique, — as  if 
could  not  have  made  him  a  repub- 

lo. 
us  et  in  scopulos,  et  monstris  horrida 
istra 

IS  jubet  ire  vias ;  heu  multa  moran- 
im, 

temque  preces,  inclusaque  pectore 
erba.**  Ibid.  v.  370. 

'  8ubit4  resides  socios  formidine  Jason 
pitat,  rumpitq;  moras,  tempusq;  ti- 
lendL-  Ibid.  v.  626. 


EzACTO  Isetus  certamine  victor 
e  gramineo  consederat,  arbore  fultus 
les  humeros. 

-  adhuc  per  membra  calet,  creberq;  re- 
urrit 

IS,  et  placidi  radiant  in  casside  vultus.** 
CuLUDiAN.  171  Prob.  et  Olyb.  Cons, 
V.  113,  &c. 

rupurr  visu,  suspensaq;  gaudia  vocem 
issam  tenuere  diu.**      Ibid.  v.  234. 


DOC  killing  Coanocotzin. 


Ultbix  manus  mucrone  furenti 


ur. 


f« 


Ibid.  In  Rvff.  II.  v.  233. 


"  ExuviA  tibi  Indus  erant,  primusq;  solebas 
Asperacomplecti  torvum  post  preliapatrem, 
Signa  triumphato  quoties  flexisset  ab  Istro 
Arcte&  de  strage  calens,  et  poscere  partem 
De  spoliis,  Scjthicosve  arcus,  aut  rapta  Gre- 

lonis 
Cingula,  vel  jaculum  Daci,  vel  frena  Suevi. 
nie  ^  coruscanti  clipeo  te  ssepe  volentem 
Sustulit  arridens,  et  pectore  pressit  anhelo 
Intrepidum  ferri,  galeae  nee  triste  timentem 
Fulgur,  et  ad  summas  tendentem  brachia 

cristas.** — Ibid.  De  HI,  Cons,  Honor, 

v.  23,  &c. 

"  Hos  tibi  virtutum  stimulos,  hsec  semina 

laudum, 
Hsec  exempla  dabat.**  Ibid.  y.  59. 

^*  Illi  justitiam  confirmaverc  triumphi ; 
Frsesentes  docuere  Deoa.'*  * 

Ibid.  iv.  Cons,  Honor,  v.  98. 


«^/V^/NA^^k^WSAyN^SM^/W^^ 


^^  M£TV£lfDA  VOluptaS 

mti,  pulcherq;  timor.**       Ibid.  v.  363. 


John  Bunyan  of  his  Pilgrim* s  Progress, 

*^  It  came  from  mine  own  heart,  so  to  mj 

head. 
And  thence  into  mj  fingers  trickled ; 
Then  to  my  pen,  from  whence  immediately 
On  paper  I  did  dribble  it  daintily.** 


"  MusiCK  is  nothing  else,  but  wild  sounds 
civilised  into  Time  and  Tune.  Such  the 
extensiveness  thereof,  that  it  stoopeth  as 
low  as  brute  beasts,  yet  mounteth  as  high 
as  angels.  For  horses  will  do  more  for  a 
whistle  than  for  a  whip,  and  by  hearing 
their  bells,  gingel  away  their  weariness.*' — 

FUIXEB. 

"  Instahs  de  bonheur — goiites  d*avance 
par  Fespoir  de  les  voir  renaitre,  goiites  apr^ 
qu*ils  se  sont  ^oul^s,  par  le  souvenir  qui 
les  perp^tue.*' — Voy.  du  J,  Anacharsis, 

Motto  for  Christmas  or  May  day. 

I  Thalala.  [This  18  evidently  intended  to  re- 
fer  to  Madoc  in  AUlan,  ix.     See  Putins,  p  377. 

J.  W.  W.] 
*  Conquests  of  the  French. 


i 


i 


222 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


"  Noi  erayam  lungb*  essol  mare  anchora, 

Come  gente  ch*aspetta  8U  camino, 
Che  va  col  cuor,  et  col  corpo  dimora.*' 

Dante,  Purgatorio. 


#«A^^^k^^^^  ^^^AiAi^VSA^^^^ 


tf 


"  EvBN  in  laughter  the  heart  is  sorrow- 
ful, and  the  end  of  that  mirth  is  heaviness. 
— Proverbs f  chap.  xiv.  13. 


Bishop  Hall  ^  has  stolen  from  Hugo  de 
Anima.  Qu ables'  Emb.  p.  5 1 .  "  The  heart 
is  a  small  thing,  but  desireth  great  matters. 
It  is  not  sufficient  for  a  kite*s  dinner,  yet 
the  whole  world  is  not  sufficient  for  it.** 


•«^^^W^>S^^^^^S/«^^^MM^^^^^% 


»» 


'*  Au !  where*s  that  pearl  portcullis  that 
adom*d 
Those  dainty  two-leaved  ruby  gates  P 

QUABLES. 


**  El  canonizar  los  yerros,  y  los  defectos, 
es  cerrar  la  puerta  a  su  correccion." — Bib- 
lioteca  Eapafiola, 


"  Heaven  is  the  Magazin  wherein  He  puts 

Both  good  and  evil ;  FrayV  is  the  key  that 
shuts 

And  opens  this  great  treasure  :  *tis  a  key 

Whose  wards  are  Faith  and  Hope  and  Cha- 
rity. 

Wouldst  thou  prevent  a  judgement  due  to 
sin? 

Turn  but  the  key  and  thou  mayest  lock  it  in. 

Or  wouldst  thou  have  a  blessing  fall  upon 
thee? 

Open  the  door  and  it  will  shower  on  thee. 

Qoables. 


M 


^*  Ambition  hath  now  sent 
Thee  on  her  frothy  errand ;  Discontent 
Fays  thee  thy  wages."  Ibid. 

»  See  mprh,  p.  219 — J.  W.  W. 


^  Why,  we  must  fight,  I  know  it,  an 

for't. 
It  was  apparent  in  the  fiery  eye 
Of  young  Verdone ;  Beaupre  looked) 

shook  toOf 
Familiar  signs  of  anger.  They're  bot 

fellows, 
Try'd  and  approved." 

Beaumont  and  Fletchi 
Litde  French  Lawye 


"  On  trouve  dans  le  livre  de  Que 
livre  tant  condamn^)  une  comparaisc 
mante.  L'&me  du  juste  est,  dit-il, 
le  printems ;  cette  saison,  qui  nous 
charmante,  ne  produit  rien :  elle  n'e 
able  que  par  les  esp^rances  qu*eU 
donne :  c'est  ainsi  qu'est  la  vie  de  I 
juste.'* — Mad.  Neckeb. 


^*  La  craintedu  p^ril,  m^e  de  tant  de 

Za  Coloml 

"  L'aspect  impr^vu  de  tant  de  Cas 
D'etonnement,d*efiroi,  peint  ses  regaj 

lans; 
Ses  mains  du  choix  des  fruits  se  form 

^tude, 
Demeurent  un  moment  dans  la  meme  a 


**  Ici,  d*nn  verd  brillant  le  jour  peig 

nues; 
Lk,  des  colonnes  d*eau  dans  les  ain 

nues, 
Fortant  les  fiots  aux  cieux,  retomboi< 

les  mers.'* 

*^  FouB  en  combler  les  voeux,  le  Ciel 

seconde. 
Fait  planer  sur  les  airs  un  peuple 

Tonde ; 
Etceshdtesdes  flots,  en  oiseaux  tram 
Qui  f^yoient,  par  essains,  nos  P^h 

fames, 
Comme  un  nuage  ^pab  dans  leurs  ^ 

biment." 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


223 


"  EiTTREPBEiiDBE  un  projet  sans  peser  les 

hazards, 
D*im  vulgaire  g^nie  annonce  rimprudence ; 
Craindre  des  maux  prevus  est  manquer  de 


Constance. 


n 


Ibid. 


^  SovDAnt  les  cbeyeuz  blancs  du  yieOlard 

qu*elle  suit, 
Brillent,  comme  un  pbosphore  au  milieu  de 

U  nuit.-  Ibid. 

**  Tbs  montagnards  fougeux,  leur  casque  oii 
pour  ciniier 

Des  Yautours  encbain^  rendent  un  cri  ter- 
rible, 

Troublent  de  TEspagnol  le  courage  invin- 
cible." Ibid. 


"  0!  Qun>  solutis  est  beatius  curis 
Cam  mens  onus  reponit,  ac  peregrino 
Lahore  fessi,  venimus  larem  ad  nostrum 
Desideratoq;  acquiescimus  lecto!** 

Catul. 

This  motto  might  serve  for  another  Hymn 
to  the  Penates. 


'*./S/VS.^^\/VW% 


"'  El  fulminante  acero  resplandece, 
Que  trine  el  fuerte  brai;o  al  pecho  aplica, 

Qual  lengua  de  serpiente,  que  parece, 
Que  el  movimiento  en  tres  la  multiplica.** 

Eli  Macabbo.^ 


[iVore/  way  of  crossing  a  River,'] 

^  Thb  Turks  having  been  attacked  in  a 
place  where  thej  were  much  exposed,  Ata- 
pakun  charged  the  Romans  at  the  head  of 
^  bravest  soldiers,  to  give  the  others  time 
to  cross  the  river.  He  gave  eminent  proofs 
for  awhile  of  his  courage  and  conduct :  but 
^hen  he  saw  that  there  was  another  armj 

'  Hie  portion  of  Ideas  and  Studies  famished 
J^  by  Mrs.  Soothey  ends  with  this  extract. 
^  iaie  of  the  volume  is  August  10, 1798,  but 
ituuiy  extracts  of  more  recent  date  are  inter- 
'  W.W. 


of  the  enemy  beyond  the  Meander,  which 
slew  all  those  who  appeared  before  them, 
his  ardour  abated,  and  he  sought  a  place 
where  he  might  pass  the  stream  with  less 
danger.  Finding  none  fordable,  he  placed 
himself  in  his  buckler,  as  in  a  boat,  making 
use  of  his  sword  for  a  rudder,  and  holding 
the  bridle  of  his  horse,  who  swam  behind, 
gained  the  other  side  of  the  river." — Uni- 
versal History, 


%/\/V%A^^^^^^^«^^SAM^^^A^^» 


[Night  in  Ilgypt.] 

**  La  nuit  avoit  abaisse  ses  ombres  sur 
la  terre ;  mais  ici  elles  ne  sont  point  cpaisses, 
imp^netrables.  C*est  un  voile  transparent 
qui  ne  couvre  les  objets  qu^k  moiti^.  On 
apper9oit  k  travers,  Tazur  d*un  ciel  serein 
et  un  nombre  infini  d*^toiles  qui  brillent  au 
firmament.  Elles  ont  une  lumi^re  plus  ccla- 
tante,  et  paroissent  plus  grandes  que  dans 
les  climats  temp^res.  La  nuit  en  Egypte  a 
mille  charmes  que  nous  eprouvons  rarement 
en  Europe.  Jamais  d*^paisses  tencbres  ne 
couvrent  son  front.  Le  souffle  des  tem- 
pStes  n*en  trouble  point  la  tranquillity.  Des 
deluges  d*eau  ne  la  rendent  point  Timage 
du  chaos.  Le  vent  tombe  ordinairement 
avec  le  soleil.  La  nature  demeure  dans  un 
calme  parfait.  Cest  alors  que  Thomme  qui 
aime  la  contemplation,  pent  se  livrer  sans 
trouble  a  Tetude  de  son  Stre ;  c*est  alors 
que  Tastronome  qui  lit  dans  les  cieux,  jou- 
issant  de  la  vue  d*un  firmament  sans  nuages, 
peut  suivre  le  cours  des  astres  k  travers 
rimmensit^  de  I'espace." — Savabt. 


<^»^/VN^/V<^V»^A<MV^»^^<^ 


[Sherbet.] 

^  SoBBET  Tient  du  mot  Arabe  chorb^  qui 
signifie  breuvage.  C*est  le  nectar  des  Orien- 
taux.  II  est  compost  de  jus  de  citron,  de 
Sucre  et  d*eau,  dans  laquellc  on  a  fait  dis- 
soudre  des  p&tes  parfum^,  compost  avec 
les  excellens  fruits  de  Damas.  On  y  mele 
ordinairement  quelques  gouttes  d*eau  rose. 
Cette  boisson  est  tres  agr^ble.** 


^Produce  of  the  Desert,'] 

"  Cette  ^tendue  ne  pr^scnte  aux  regards 
qu'un  sable  sterile.  On  rencontre  settlement 
dans  les  enfoncements  des  rochers,  et  sur  le 
bord  des  torrens  d'hiver,  un  peu  de  verdure, 
des  acacias  qui  produisent  la  gomme  ara- 
bique,  le  s^me,  du  bois  de  scorpion,  dont  la 
racine  tortueuse  est  renomm^  contre  la 
piqiiure  de  cet  insecte,  et  quelques  autres 
plantes.  Les  autruches,  les  chamois,  les 
gazelles  et  les  tigres,  qui  leur  font  une 
guerre  continuelle,  habitent  les  antres  des 
rochers  et  bondissent  k  travers  ces  sables, 
oii  ils  trouvent  k  peine  quelques  brins 
d*herbe.  On  j  rencontre  des  cailloux  de 
diverses  couleurs,  rouges,  gris,  noirs,  bleus, 
et  tons  d*un  grain  extrSmement  fin;  leur 
surface  expos4e  a  Fair  est  ondee  et  rabo- 
teuse :  celle  qui  repose  sur  le  sable  est  polie 
et  brillante." 


^/V\/\/\/WN/N/WVS^^^^^K^^» 


[The  Flight  of  Mahomet'] 

"  Perhaps  the  Koreish  would  have  been 
content  with  the  flight  of  Mahomet^  had 
they  not  been  provoked  and  alarmed  by  the 
vengeance  of  an  enemy,  who  could  intercept 
their  Syrian  trade  as  it  passed  and  repassed 
through  the  territory  of  Medina.  Abu  So- 
phian  himself,  with  only  thirty  or  forty  fol- 
lowers, conducted  a  wealthy  caravan  of 
1000  camels:  the  fortune  or  dexterity  of 
his  march  escaped  the  vigilance  of  Maho- 
met ;  but  the  chief  of  the  Koreish  was  in- 
formed that  the  holy  robbers  were  placed  in 
ambush  to  wait  his  return.  He  dispatched 
a  messenger  to  his  brethren  of  Mecca,  and 
they  were  roused  by  the  fear  of  losing  their 
merchandize  and  their  provisions,  unless 
they  hastened  to  his  relief  with  the  military 
force  of  the  city.  The  sacred  band  of  Ma- 
homet was  formed  of  313  Moslems,  of  whom 
seventy-seven  were  fugitives*  and  the  rest 
auxiliaries  :  they  mounted  by  turns  a  train 
of  seventy  camels  (the  camels  of  Yathreb 
were  formidable  in  war)  :  but  such  was  the 
poverty  of  his  first  disciples  that  only  two 


could  appear  on  horseback  in  the  field.  In 
the  fertile  and  famous  vale  of  Beder,  three 
stations  from  Medina,  he  was  informed  bj 
his  scouts  of  the  caravan  that  approached 
on  one  side,  of  the  Koreish,  100  horse  850 
foot,  who  advanced  on  the  other.  After  a 
short  debate,  he  sacrificed  the  prospect  of 
wealth  to  the  pursuit  of  glory  and  revenge ; 
and  a  slight  intrenchment  was  formed  to 
cover  his  troops  and  a  stream  of  fresh  water 
that  glided  through  the  valley.  '  0  God,* 
he  exclaimed,  as  the  numbers  of  the  Koreish 
descended  from  the  hills,  '  0  God,  if  these 
are  destroyed,  by  whom  wilt  thou  be  wor- 
shipped on  the  earth  ? — Courage,  my  chil- 
dren, close  your  ranks ;  discharge  your 
arrows,  and  the  day  is  your  own.*  At  these 
words  he  placed  himself,  with  Abubeker, 
on  a  throne  or  pulpit,  and  instantly  de- 
manded the  succour  of  Gabriel  and  3000 
angels.  His  eye  was  fixed  on  the  field  of 
battle ;  the  Mussulmans  faint«d  and  were 
pressed :  in  that  decisive  moment  the  Pro- 
phet started  from  his  throne,  mounted  his 
horse,  and  cast  a  handful  of  sand  into  the 
air  ;  *  Let  their  faces  be  covered  with  con- 
fusion.* Both  armies  heard  the  thunder  of 
his  voice ;  their  fancy  beheld  the  angelic 
warriors ;  the  Koreish  trembled  and  fled ; 
seventy  of  the  bravest  were  slain,  and  seventy 
captives  adorned  the  first  victory  of  the 
faithful.  The  dead  bodies  of  the  Koreish 
were  despoiled  and  insulted ;  two  of  the 
most  obnoxious  prisoners  were  punished 
with  death,  and  the  ransom  of  the  others, 
4000  drams  of  silver,  compensated  in  some 
degree  the  escape  of  the  caravan.  But  it 
was  in  vain  that  the  camels  of  Abu  Sophian 
explored  a  new  road  through  the  desert 
and  along  the  Euphrates  ;  they  were  over- 
taken by  the  diligence  of  the  Mussulmans, 
and  wealthy  must  have  been  the  prize,  if 
20,000  drams  could  be  set  apart  for  the 
fifth  of  the  Apostle.** — Gibbon. 

In  the  stony  province  the  camels  were 
numerous,  but  the  horse  appears  to  have 
been  less  common  than  in  the  Happy  or  the 
Desert  Arabia, 


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i  Fight  of  the  Koreish.} 

sntment  of  the  public  and  pri- 
lulated  Abu  Sophian  to  collect 
XK)  men,  700  of  whom  were 
lirasses  and  200  were  mounted 
z:  3000  camels  attended  his 
his  wife  Henda,  with  fifteen 
ecca,  incessantly  sounded  their 
Qimate  the  troops,  and  to  mag- 
tness  of  Uobal,  the  most  popu- 
the  Caaba.  The  standard  of 
bomet  was  upheld  by  950  be- 
iisproportion  of  numbers  was 
rming  than  in  the  field  of  Be- 
r  presumption  of  victory  pre- 
t  the  divine  and  human  sense 
tie.  The  second  battle  was 
lount  Ohud,  six  miles  to  the 
Una ;  the  Koreish  advanced  in 
I  crescent,  and  the  right  wing 
ras  led  by  Caled,  the  fiercest 
sessfiil  of  die  Arabian  warriors. 
Mahomet  were  skilfully  posted 
ity  of  the  hill ;  and  their  rear 
by  a  detachment  of  fifty  arch- 
tight  of  their  charge  impelled 
e  centre  of  the  idolaters,  but 
it  they  lost  the  advantage  of 
,  the  archers  deserted  their 
ifussulmans  were  tempted  by 
3beyed  their  general  and  dis- 
'  ranks.  The  intrepid  Caled 
cavalry  on  their  fiank  and 
ed  with  a  loud  voice,  that  Ma- 
tin. He  was  indeed  wounded 
ith  a  javelin,  two  of  his  teeth 
ed  with  a  stone;  yet  in  the 
iilt  and  dismay,  he  reproached 
ith  the  murder  of  a  prophet, 
le  friendly  hand  that  staunched 
I  conveyed  him  to  a  place  of 
>nty  martyrs  died  for  the  sins 
:  *  they  fell,*  said  the  apostle, 
:h  brodier  embracing  his  life- 
>n.*  Their  bodies  were  man- 
ihuman  females  of  Mecca,  and 
.bu  Sophian  tasted  the  entrails 
e  tmcle  of  Mahomet.** — Ibid. 


Mamthon. 

^^  Ik  these  plains  the  neighings  of  horses 
are  heard  every  night,  and  men  are  seen 
fighting ;  and  those  who  purposely  come  as 
hearers  or  spectators  into  these  plains  suffer 
for  their  curiosity ;  but  such  as  are  acci- 
dentally witnesses  of  these  prodigies  are  not 
injured  by  the  anger  of  the  demons.**  — 
Fausanias. 


^A/W^^^^^/\/>^^^^^^S^^VS^^ 


"  I  HAVB  heard  from  a  certain  Cyprian 
botanist,  that  the  ebony  does  not  produce 
either  leaves  or  fruit,  and  that  it  is  never 
seen  exposed  to  the  sun ;  that  its  roots  are 
indeed  under  the  earth,  which  the  Ethio- 
pians dig  out,  and  that  there  are  men  among 
them  skilled  in  finding  the  place  of  its  con- 
cealment.**— Ibid. 


^^^^^^^^^^A^AMM^^^h^^^ 


{^Perversion  of  Etymology  by  the  Meccatu-'i 

^*  The  idolatrous  Meccans  deduced  the 
names  of  their  idols  from  those  of  the  true 
God;  deriving,  for  example,  All&t  from 
Alia ;  al  Uzza  from  al  Aziz,  the  mighty ; 
and  Manat  from  al  Mannan,  the  bountiful.* 
— Sale. 


%A^^«^^^^^^^^^^^^rfM%^MWW« 


{Dew  Water  ofFerrea,"] 

**  Of  these  Islands  (the  Canaries)  the  last 
is  called  Ferrea,  in  which  there  is  no  other 
water  that  may  be  drunke,  but  onely  that 
is  gathered  of  the  deawe,  which  continually 
distilleth  from  one  onely  tree,  growing  on 
the  highest  banke  of  the  iland,  and  falling 
into  a  rounde  trench  made  ^ith  man*s 
hand.** — Fetbr  Mabtts. 

*  This  is  used  up  on  the  lines  in  Thalaba : 

*<  The  Ethiop,  keen  of  scent, 
Detects  the  ebonv, 
That  deep  inearth'd  and  hatine  light, 
A  leafless  tree  and  barren  of  all  fruit, 
With  darkness  feeds  its  boughs  of  ravin  grain." 
First  Book,  22.   Poems,  p.  217.— J.  W.  W. 


\ 


IHuman  Faggots.'] 

"  Lf  Guadaloupe. — Entering  into  their 
inner  lodgings,  thej  found  faggottes  of  the 
bones  of  mens  amies  and  legges,  which  they 
reserve  to  make  heades  for  their  arrowes, 
because  they  lack  iron." — P.  Maettb. 


^*^^^^^^^f^%^>^^t^^^0^^%0S^^^ 


[Deaik  of  Titnanthes.'] 

*^  The  statue  of  the  Cleonsean  Timanthes, 
who  contended  with  men  in  the  Pancratium, 
and  was  victorious,  was  made  by  the  Athe- 
nian Myron.  They  report  that  Timanthes 
died  in  the  following  manner :  after  he  had 
withdrawn  himself  from  athletic  exercises, 
on  account  of  his  age,  he  used  every  day  to 
bend  a  large  bow,  for  the  purpose  of  making 
trial  of  his  strength.  Happening,  however, 
to  take  a  journey,  he  omitted  this  exercbe 
during  his  absence  from  home,  and  on  his 
return  attempted  to  bend  his  bow  as  usual, 
but  finding  that  his  strength  failed  him,  he 
raised  a  funeral  pile  and  threw  himself  into 
the  fire." — Pausakias. 


l^Story  of  SmihynuuJ] 

"  Thb  country  of  Euthymus  was  Locris 
in  Italy,  near  the  promontory  Zephyrium, 
and  his  father  was  called  Astycles ;  though 
the  natives  of  this  place  affirm  that  he  was 
bom  of  the  river  Csecinas,  which  bounding 
Locris  and  Rhegium,  affords  a  wonderful 
circumstance  with  respect  to  grasshoppers, 
for  the  grasshoppers  within  Locris,  as  far 
as  to  the  river  Csecinas,  sing  like  other 
grasshoppers,  but  in  the  parts  beyond  this 
river  they  do  not  sing  at  all. 

*'  Euthymus  was  crowned  in  boxing.  His 
statue  was  the  work  of  Pythagoras,  and  is 
worthy  of  inspection  in  the  most  eminent 
degree.  Euthymus,  after  this,  passing  over 
into  Italy,,  fought  with  a  hero,  of  whom  the 
following  particulars  are  related.  They  say 
that  Ulysses,  during  his  wanderings  afler 
the  destruction  of  Troy,  among  other  cities 
of  Italy  and  Sicily,  which  he  was  driven  to 


by  the  winds,  came  at  length  to  Temcssa 
with  his  ships.  Here  one  of  his  associates 
having  ravished  a  virgin,  in  consequence  of 
being  heated  with  wine,  he  was  stoned  to 
death  by  the  inhabitants  for  the  action. 
But  Ulysses,  who  considered  his  death  as 
of  no  consequence,  immediately  set  sail  and 
lefl  the  place.  The  dsemon,  however,  of 
the  murdered  man  did  not  at  any  time 
cease  from  cutting  off  the  inhabitants  of 
Temessa  of  every  age,  till  the  Pythian  deity 
ordered  them  to  propitiate  the  slain  hero, 
to  consecrate  a  temple  to  him,  and  devote 
to  him  every  year  the  most  beautiful  virgiii 
in  Temessa.  When  all  this  was  performed 
agreeable  to  the  mandate  of  the  god,  they 
were  no  longer  afflicted  through  the  wrath 
of  the  diemon.  But  Euthymus,  who  hap- 
pened to  arrive  at  Temessa  at  the  time  in 
which  they  sacrificed  after  the  usual  manner 
to  the  daemon,  having  learned  the  particu- 
lars of  this  affair,  requested  that  he  might 
be  admitted  within  the  temple  and  behold 
the  virgin.  Hb  request  being  granted,  as 
soon  as  he  saw  her  he  was  at  first  moved 
with  pity  for  her  condition,  but  afterwards 
fell  in  love  with  her.  In  consequence  of 
this,  the  virgin  swore  that  she  would  cohabit 
with  him  if  he  could  rescue  her  from  the 
impending  death :  and  Euthymus,  anniog 
himself,  fought  with  the  daemon,  conquered 
him,  and  drove  him  out  of  the  country ;  and 
afterwards  the  hero  vanished  and  merged 
himself  in  the  sea.  They  farther  report, 
that  in  consequence  of  the  city  being  freed 
through  Euthymus  from  this  grievous  cala^ 
mity,  his  nuptials  were  celebrated  in  a  very 
splendid  manner.  I  have  likewise  heard 
still  farther  concerning  this  Euthymus,  that 
he  lived  to  extreme  old  age,  and  that  having 
avoided  death,  he  departed  after  some  other 
manner  from  an  association  with  mankind. 
Indeed,  I  have  even  heard  it  asserted,  by  a 
seafaring  merchant,  that  Euthymus  is  alive 
at  present  at  Temessa,  and  such  are  the 
reports  which  I  have  heard :  but  I  also  re- 
member to  have  seen  a  picture,  which  was 
painted  very  accurately  after  an  ancient 
original.    In  this  picture  there  were  the 


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7011th  Sybaris,  the  river  Calabrus,  the  foun- 
tain Caljca,  and  the  cities  Hera  and  Te- 
messa.  The  daemon  too  was  represented  in 
this  picture,  who  was  vanquished  bj  Euth j- 
mus.  His  colour  was  vehemently  black, 
and  his  whole  form  was  terrible  in  the  ex- 
treme. He  was  clothed  with  the  skin  of  a 
wolf,  and  the  name  Lybas  was  given  to  him 
in  the  inscription  on  the  picture.** — ^Ibid. 


^^^^^^^^^^^»^y^>^^^^^^^^^w 


[^Descent  of  Amphiaraus.'] 

**  As  you  go  from  Potniae  to  Thebes,  you 
will  see  on  the  right  hand  of  the  road  an 
bclosure,  not  very  large,  and  in  it  certain 
pillars.  They  are  of  opinion  that  the  earth 
opened  in  this  place  to  Amphiaraus ;  and 
they  say  that  birds  will  not  sit  on  these 
pillars,  nor  grass  grow,  nor  any  tame  or 
lavage  animal  feed  in  this  place.** — Ibid. 

{^Vipers  and  the  Balsam  Tree,'] 

^  Thb  balsam  tree  is  nearly  of  the  same 
aze  as  a  sprig  of  myrtle,  and  its  leaves  are 
like  those  of  the  herb  sweet -marjoram. 
Vipers  take  up  their  residence  about  these 
plants,  and  are  in  some  places  more  nume- 
rous than  in  others ;  for  the  juice  of  the 
balsam  tree  is  their  sweetest  food,  and  they 
are  delighted  with  the  shade  produced  by 
its  leaves.  When  the  time  therefore  arrives 
for  gathering  the  juice  of  this  tree,  the  Ara- 
bians come  into  the  sacred  grove,  each  of 
them  holding  two  twigs.  By  shaking  these 
they  put  to  flight  the  vipers  ;  for  they  are 
unwilling  to  kill  them,  because  they  con- 
lider  them  as  the  sacred  inhabitants  of  the 
balsam ;  and  if  it  happens  that  any  one  is 
wounded  by  a  viper,  iJie  wound  resembles 
that  which  b  made  by  iron,  but  is  not  at- 
tended with  any  dangerous  consequences ; 
for  these  animids  being  fed  with  the  juice 
of  the  balsam  tree,  which  is  the  most  odo- 
riferous of  all  trees,  their  poison  becomes 
changed  from  a  deadly  quality  into  one 
^hidtk  produces  a  milder  effect.** — Ibid. 


So  also  ^  the  inhabitants  of  Helicon  say 
that  none  of  the  herbs  or  roots  which  are 
produced  in  this  mountain  are  destructive 
to  mankind.  They  add,  that  the  pastures 
here  even  debilitate  the  venom  of  serpents; 
so  that  those  who  are  frequently  bit  by 
serpents  in  this  part  escape  the  danger  with 
greater  ease  than  if  they  were  of  the  nation 
of  the  Psylli,^  or  had  discovered  an  antidote 
against  poison.**— Ibid. 

"Thb  nature  of  the  pastures  contributes 
in  no  small  degree  to  the  strength  of  the 
venon)  in  serpents.  For  I  once  heard  a 
Phoenician  say  that  in  the  moimtainous 
parts  of  Phcenicia  the  roots  that  grow  there 
render  the  vipers  more  fierce.  The  same 
person,  too,  farther  added,  that  he  saw  a 
viper  pursue  a  man,  who  fled  to  a  tree  for 
shelter,  and  that  the  viper  blew  its  venom 
against  the  tree  to  which  the  man  had  es- 
caped, and  by  this  means  caused  his  death.** 
—Ibid. 


^«S/^WW^^^V^«^M^MM^A 


[^Nightingales  of  Orpheui  Tonnb!] 

"  The  Thracians  say  that  the  nightingales 
which  build  their  nests  about  the  sepulchre 
of  Orpheus  sing  sweeter  and  louder  than 
other  nightingales.** — Ibid. 


^A/VS/>/S/W>/V>/Nr>>/WS/S/W/V«^ 


[Eurynomus.] 

"  EuBTTfOMrs,  according  to  the  Delphic 
interpreters  of  sacred  concerns,  is  one  of 
the  demons  belonging  to  Hades,  and  who 
eats  the  flesh  of  dead  bodies,  so  as  to  leave 
the  bones  quite  bare.  His  colour,  as  he 
appears  in  the  picture  at  Delphos,  is  be- 
tween azure  and  black,  and  like  that  of 


*  An  African  people,  serpent  charmers,  like 
their  descendants.  —  Ubrod.  It.  173.  Plimt 
speaks  to  the  fact,  lib.  vii.  c.  2,  xxviii.  c.  3,  and 
LucAK 's  lines  are  well  known : — 

**  Gens  unica  terms 
Incolit  k  SJBTO  serpintum  innoxia  morsii 
Marmaridffi  Psylli." — Fhart,  ix.  891. 

J.  W.  W. 


228 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


flies  which  infest  meat.    He  shews  his  teeth, 
and  sits  on  the  skin  of  a  vulture.** — ^Ibid. 


«^^^^^^^^^^^/VS^^^^«i^/\A^ 


IThe  Sycamore  of  J^gypt."] 

"  Thb  sycamore  which  in  Arabic  is 
called  Giomez,  is  of  the  height  of  a  beech, 
and  bears  its  fruit  in  a  manner  quite  dif- 
ferent from  other  trees.  It  has  them  on 
the  trunk  itself,  whicb  shoots  out  little 
sprigs  in  form  of  grape  stalks,  at  the  end 
of  which  grow  the  fruits  close  to  one  ano- 
ther, almost  like  bimches  of  grapes.  The 
tree  is  always  green,  and  bears  fruit  seve- 
ral times  in  the  year,  without  observing 
any  certain  seasons ;  for  I  have  seen  some 
sycamores  that  have  given  fruit  two  months 
after  others.  The  fruit  has  the  figure  and 
smell  of  real  figs,  but  is  inferiour  to  them 
in  the  taste,  having  a  disgustful  sweetness. 
Its  colour  is  a  yellow,  inclining  to  an  oker, 
shadowed  by  a  flesh  colour.  In  the  inside 
it  resembles  the  common  figs,  excepting 
that  it  has  a  blackish  colouring,  with  yel- 
low spots.  This  sort  of  tree  is  pretty  com- 
mon in  Egypt.  The  people,  for  the  greater 
part,  live  upon  its  fruit,  and  think  them- 
selves well  regaled  when  they  have  a  piece 
of  bread,  a  couple  of  sycamore  figs,  and  a 
pitcher  filled  with  water  from  the  Nile.** — 

NOBDBN. 


%^^^^^^^^^^A^^^^^^^%^v^ 


[^Locusts."] 

**  Thb  locusto  are  remarkable  for  the 
hieroglyphic  that  they  bear  upon  the  fore- 
head.^ Their  colour  is  green  throughout 
the  whole  body,  excepting  a  little  yellow 
rim  that  surrounds  their  head,  and  which 
is  lost  at  the  eyes.  This  insect  has  two 
upper  wings,  pretty  solid.  They  are  green, 
like  the  rest  of  the  body,  except  that  there 
is  in  each  a  little  white  spot.    The  locust 

1  The  reader  should  refer  to  the  magnificent 
passage  in  Thalaba — 

<<  For  these  mysterious  lines  were  legible — 
When  the  sun  shall  be  darkened  at  noon, 
Son  of  Hodeirah  depart." 

Third  Book,  34.  Poena,  p.  242.— J.  W.  W. 


keeps  them  extended  like  great  sails  of  a 
ship  going  before  the  wind.  It  has  besides 
two  other  wings  underneath  the  former, 
and  which  resemble  a  light  transparent 
stufi^,  pretty  much  like  a  cobweb,  and  which 
it  makes  use  of  in  the  manner  of  smack 
sails,  that  are  along  a  vesseL  But  whea 
the  locust  reposes  herself,  she  does  like  a 
vessel  that  lies  at  anchor ;  for  she  keeps 
the  second  sails  furled  under  the  others." 
—Ibid. 


^^^/VW>^^^^^^^^^tf^^^^WW 


IThe  DareirtL] 

*^  Thb  Dareira  is  a  kind  of  gnat,  with 
which  the  water  sometimes  is  almost  all 
covered  towards  the  evening.  I  take  it 
for  that  sort  of  insect  that  the  bats  go  in 
quest  of  upon  the  Nile«  for  their  prey.**— 
Ibid. 

[^American  Indian  name  for  the  Small  Pox.] 

**  Thb  American  Indians  call  the  small- 
pox OonatkquAra,  imagining  it  to  proceed 
from  the  invisible  darts  of  angry  fate, 
pointed  against  them,  for  their  young  peo- 
ple*s  vicious  conduct.** — ^Adaib. 

lYo  He  Wah  the  Author  of  V^etation.] 

^  To  inculcate  on  their  young  people 
that  Yo  He  Wah  is  the  author  of  vegeta- 
tion, they  call  the  growth  of  vegetables 
Wahr&ah,  moved  by  Yohewah.  In  like 
manner,  Wah-kh  signifies  that  the  fruits 
are  ripe,  or  moved  to  their  joy  by  Yohe- 
wah.**—Ibid. 

[^Magic  Rain  StoneJ} 
**  The  Indian  magi,  who  are  to  invoke 
Yo  He  Wah,  and  mediate  with  the  supreme 
holy  fire  that  he  may  give  seasonable  rains, 
have  a  transparent  stone  of  supposed  great 
power  in  assbting  to  bring  down  the  rain, 
when  it  is  put  in  a  basin  of  water ;  by  a 
reputed  divine  virtue,  impressed  on  one  of 
the  like  sort,  in  time  of  old,  which  comma- 
nicates  it  circularly.  This  stone  would 
sufier  a  great  decay,  they  assert,  were  it 
even  seen  by  their  own  laity ;  but  if  by 


IS  AND  STUDIES  FOB  LITEEABY  COMPOSITION. 


mid  be  utterlj  despoiled  of 
innicative  power." — Ibid. 

ie  Prophefi  CarbuneU.'} 
1  prophet  who  lived  ia  Tjm- 
DOcle  aetr  u  big  u  an  ^g, 
i  he   found  where  &  great 

dead ;  and  that  it  sparkled 
JEing  lustre,  u  to  il]iiniinat« 

houae,  like  stroog  fla»he«  of 
ning,  to  the  great  terror  of 
dunt  not  upon  anj  account 
ilreadful  fire-darting  place, 
den  death.  When  he  died 
rith  him  according  to  cui- 


ke  North  Aiiteriean  Indimu.'] 
compels  the  widow,  through 
of  her  weeds,  to  re&Mn  all 
r  and  diversions,  at  the  pen- 
Teas,  aod  likewise  to  go  with 
ithout  the  privilege  of  oil  to 
e  nearest  kinsmen  of  the  de- 
l  keep  a  very  watchful  eye 
ct  in  this  respect.  The  place 
also  calculated  to  wake  the 
for  he  is  inlombed  io  the 
•r  bed  ;  and  if  he  was  a  war 
bliged  for  the  first  moon  to 
me  under  bis  mourning  wnr- 
deeked  with  all  his  martial 
nuat  be  beard  to  cry  wiih 
a.'  But  none  of  them  are 
month's  supposed  religious 
or  sweats,  and  wastes  them 
;   for  they  are  allowed  no 


>  <•  By  the  door 
,  the  head  and  biancbes  ahom, 
ree  with  many  a  weapon  bai^, 
nr-pola,  and  bis  mniiimieat. 
Diver  moulder'd,  hii  itoae.axe, 
D  greea  with  moss,  his  bow- 

M  wind."— 

ks.— Erit(wb,Ti.  Pomii.p.  336. 
J.W.W. 


"  The  war-pole  is  a  small  peeled  tree 
punted  red,  the  top  and  boughs  cut  off 
short.  It  is  fixt  in  the  ground  oppocite  to 
his  door,  and  all  his  implements  of  war  arc 
hung  on  the  short  bongbs  of  it  till  they  rot." 
—Ibid. 

[  Tie  Spirit*  ij/"  rteir  Dead.] 
"  Tbodqh  they  imagine  the  report  of 
guns  will  send  off  the  ghoita  of  their  kin- 
dred that  died  at  home  to  their  quiet  place, 
yet  they  Grmly  believe  that  the  spirits  of 
those  who  are  killed  by  the  enemy,  without 
equal  revenge  of  blood,  find  no  rest ;  and 
at  night  haunt  the  bouses  of  the  tribe  to 
which  they  belonged ;  but  when  that  kin- 
dred duty  of  retaliaticm  is  justly  executed, 
they  immediately  get  ease,  and  power  to 
fly  away." — Ibid. 


ITie  While  CircU.} 
"  Thi  Indiaoi  use  the  same  ceremonies 
to  the  bones  of  their  dead  as  If  they  were 
covered  with  th^  former  skin,  flesh,  and 
ligaments.  It  is  but  a  few  diiys  since  I 
saw  some  return  with  the  bones  of  nine  of 
their  people,  who  bad  been  two  mnnths  be- 
fore killed  by  the  enemy.  They  weie  tied 
in  white  deer-skins'  separately;  and,  when 
carried  by  the  door  of  one  of  the  houses  of 
their  family,  they  were  lud  down  t^posite 
to  it  till  the  female  relations  convened  with 
flowing  hair,  and  wept  over  them  about 
half  an  hour.  Then  they  carried  them 
home  to  iLeir  friendly  magazines  of  morta- 
lity, wept  over  them  again,  and  then  buried 
them  with  the  usual  solemnities.  The 
chieftain  carried  twelve  short  sticks  tied 
together,  in  the  form  of  a  quadrangle,  so 
that  each  square  consisted  of  three.  The 
sticks  were  only  peeled,  withoat  any  paint- 
ing ;  but  there  were  swan  feathers  tied  to 
each  corner.     They  called  that  frame  the 

*  "  Soon  the  mountaineers 
Saw  the  while  deer-skin  ghrond,''  &c. 
Madoc  in  Wales. —The  Peace  Pottm,  p.  333. 
J.  W.  W. 


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White  Circle,  and  placed  it  over  the  door 
while  the  women  were  weeping  over  the 
bones." — Ibid. 


*>^t^^*^,^>-^^k^^S^^^^^^^^*^^ 


Interment  of  their  Kindred  *«  Bones, 

**  When  anj  of  tbem  die  at  a  distance, 
if  the  company  be  not  driven  and  pursued 
by  the  enemy,  they  place  the  corpse  on  a 
scaffold,  covered  with  notched  logs  to  se- 
cure it  from  being  torn  by  wild  beasts  or 
birds  of  prey.  When  they  imagine  the 
flesh  is  consumed,  and  the  bones  are  tho- 
roughly dried,  they  return  to  the  place, 
bring  them  home,  and  inter  them  in  a  very 
solemn  manner." — Ibid. 


[North  American  Indians*  Funeral.'] 

**  Thet  laid  the  corpse  in  his  tomb  in  a 
sitting  posture,  with  his  feet  towards  the 
east,  his  head  anointed  with  bear*s  oil,  and 
his  face  painted  red,  but  not  streaked  with 
black,  because  that  is  a  constant  emblem 
of  war  and  death.  He  was  drest  in  his 
finest  apparel,  having  his  gun,  and  pouch, 
and  trusty  hiccory  bow,  with  a  young  pan- 
ther's skin  full  of  arrows,  along  side  of  him, 
and  every  other  useful  thing  he  had  been 
possessed  of,  that  when  he  rises  again  they 
may  serve  him  in  that  track  of  land  which 
pleased  him  best  before  he  went  to  take 
his  long  sleep.  His  tomb  was  firm  and 
clean  inside ;  they  covered  it  with  thick 
logs,  so  as  to  bear  several  tiers  of  cypress- 
bark,  and  such  a  quantity  of  clay  as  would 
confine  the  putrid  smell,  and  be  on  a  level 
with  the  rest  of  the  floor.  They  often  sleep 
over  those  tombs,  which  with  the  loud  wail- 
ing of  the  women  at  the  dusk  of  the  even- 
ing and  dawn  of  the  day,  on  benches  close 
by  the  tombs,  must  awake  the  memory  of 
their  relations  very  often.  And  if  they  were 
killed  by  an  enemy,  it  helps  to  irritate  and 
set  on  such  revengeful  tempers  to  retaliate 
blood  for  blood.** — A. 

[The  Warrior* 8  Rejoicing  Day.'\ 
**  In  the  time  of  their  rejoicings  they  fix 
a  certain  day  for  the  warriors  to  be  crowned. 


for  they  cannot  sleep  sound  or  eas 
an  old  title  while  a  new  or  highe 
due.  On  that  long  wished  for  daj 
appear  on  the  field  of  parade,  as 
cheerful  as  the  birds  in  spring, 
martial  drums  beat,  their  bloody 
are  displayed,  and  most  of  the  yoc 
pie  are  dancing,  and  rejoicing  for 
sent  success  of  their  nation,  and 
return  and  preferment  of  their  frie 
relations.  Every  expectant  war 
that  joyful  day  wears  deer-skin 
scenes  painted  red,  his  body  is  i 
with  bear's  oil,  a  young  softened  ot 
is  tied  on  each  1^,  a  long  collar  of  £ 
feathers  hangs  round  his  neck,  and 
is  painted  with  the  various  streak 
rainbow.  Thus  they  appear,  whei 
the  old  magi  come  forth,  holding  \ 
white  wands  and  crowns  as  there  t 
riors  to  be  graduated :  and  in  a  f 
posture,  they  alternately  deliver 
oration  with  great  vehemence  of  ex] 
chiefly  commending  their  strict  obc 
of  the  law  of  purity,  while  they  at 
nied  the  beloved  ark  of  war,  which 
the  supreme  chieftain  to  give  tl 
victory ;  and  they  encourage  the 
continue  to  tliirst  afler  glory  in  i 
of  their  brave  ancestors,  who  die 
in  defence  of  their  country.  At  i 
elusion  of  their  orations,  one  of  tl 
calls  three  times  with  a  loud  voio 
the  warriors  by  his  new  name,  or  ^ 
and  holds  up  the  white  crown 
sceptre  or  wand.  He  then  gladly 
and  runs  whooping  to  and  aroui 
three  times.  One  of  the  old  belo^ 
puts  the  crown  on  his  head  and  t] 
into  his  hand,  then  he  returns  to  hi 
place,  whooping  with  joy.  In  like 
they  proceed  with  the  rest  of  the  i 
warriors,  concluding  with  thb  strc 
tion, — *  Remember  what  you  are'- 
title — according  to  the  old  beloved 
The  crown  is  wrought  round  with 
feathers  of  a  swan  at  the  lower  en* 
it  surrounds  his  temples,  and  it  is  c 
weaved  with  a  quantity  of  white  < 


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make  it  sit  easy,  and  appear  more  beauti- 
ful ;  to  this  part  that  wreathes  his  brows, 
the  skilful  artist  warps  close  together  a 
ringlet  of  the  longest  feathers  of  the  swan, 
and  turning  them  carefully  upward  in  an 
uniform  position,  he  ties  them  together 
with  deers*  sinews,  so  as  the  bandage  will 
not  appear  to  the  sharpest  eyes  without 
handling  it.  It  is  a  little  open  at  the  top, 
and  about  fifteen  inches  high.  The  crowns 
they  use  in  constituting  war-leaden  are  al- 
ways worked  with  feathers  of  the  tail  of  the 
cherubic  eagle,  three  or  four  inches  higher 
than  the  other.** — ^Ibid. 


,^^VN^^\AA/^^^/W%^^^^/V% 


{^Si^ing  of  Muley  IshmaeL'] 

'*  Mni^T  Ishmael,  who  in  the  beginning 
of  this  century  reigned  or  tyrannized  at 
Morocco,  used  to  remark  that  *'  were  a 
number  of  rats  put  into  a  basket,  they 
would  certainly  eat  their  way  out  unless 
the  basket  were  continually  shaken.*** — 
Chemibk. 

lArab  Cure  for  Ottn'shot  Wounds.'] 

**  Thb  Arabs  attempt  to  heal  all  simple 
and  gun-shot  wounds,  by  pouring  fresh 
batter,  almost  boyling  hot,^  into  the  part 
affected.  And  I  have  been  credibly  in- 
formed that  numbers  of  persons  have  been 
cored  by  this  method.**—  Shaw. 

[^Moorish  Customs  after  Meat,] 

^  Thb  Moors  know  not  the  use  of  table- 
cloths, forks,  or  spoons ;  their  meal  ended, 
they  lick  their  fingers,  and  wipe  them  on 

'  "  The  treating  wuunds  with  oil,  and  that 
poared  in  hot,  in  consequence  of  which  the  ma- 
jority of  those  wounded  by  gun-shots  died; 
prevailed  nniTersally  in  the  European  armies, 
till  niperaeded  by  Ambrose  Paree,  that  distin- 
gauhed  French  surgeon  to  the  French  kings, 
who,  being  a  Protestant,  would  have  perished 
io  St.  Bartholomew's  massacre,  had  he  not  been 
saved  from  it  by  the  contriyance  of  Charles  IX. 
bimaelf." — Kote  to  Macbride's  Viattiuironf  p. 
462.    Third  Edit.— J.  W.  W. 


their  clothes,  which  they  wash  when  dirty. 
Those  who  keep  negro  slaves,  call  them, 
and  rub  their  hands  in  their  hair ;  or  if  a 
Jew  happens  to  be  present,  they  make  a 
napkin  of  his  garments.** — Chehisb. 


«^i^A^^N^A^A^k^«^^^^^V^^^ 


•  {The  Seven  Songs  of  Hasan  Casa,] 

Rouif  D  the  gallery  of  the  tomb  of  Abas 
n.  at  Com,  runs  sl  frize,  divided  equally 
into  cartridges  of  azure,  wherein  are  writ- 
ten, in  large  characters  of  gold,  seven  songs 
in  distichs,  made  by  the  learned  Hasan  Caza, 
the  first  in  honour  of  Mahommed,  the  others 
of  Ali. — From  Chabdin. 

The  first  Song. 

**  I  salute  the  glorious  Creature  of  whom 
the  Sun  is  but  the  shadow !  Master-piece 
of  the  Lord  of  human  creatures !  great  Star 
of  Justice  and  Religion ! 

"  Infallible  expounder  of  the  four  books,' 
Conductor  of  the  eight '  Mobiles,  Governor 
of  the  seven*  Parts,  Chief  of  the  Faithful ! 

"  Doctor  of  that  knowledge  which  is*  in- 
fused into  the  Prophets !  royal  Hero  cele- 
brated by  twelve^  successors  I  Though  the 
Veil  should  be  taken  away,  yet  would  not 
my  belief  be  encreased.  Light  of  God! 
Illuminating  Soul  of  Prophecy  !  Guide  of 
true  believers ! 

**  The  first  object  of  God,  when  he  be- 
thought himself  of  sending  his  orders  to 

•  "  The  Pentateuch,  the  Psalter,  the  Gospel, 
and  the  Alcoran,  the  Mahometans  bBlieving  that 
these  books  ever  were,  and  always  shall  be,  the 
rule  of  their  faith." 

'  **  The  heavens  of  the  planets  of  the  Primum 
MobUe." 

*  **  The  seven  climates  which  was  the  ancient 
diyision  of  the  earth." 

'  *'  It  is  in  the  original, '  Doctor  in  the  know- 
ledge of  the  prophets  who  knew  not  their  ABC;' 
for  the  Mahometans  affirm  that  Mahomet  was 
so  ignorant  in  human  learning,  that  he  could 
not  read ;  to  the  end  they  might  the  better  horn 
thence  conclude  that  his  knowledge  was  super- 
natural." 

'  **  The  twelve  heirs  and  successors  of  Maho- 
met, the  last  of  which  was  carried  to  heaven, 
and  shall  return  to  confound  the  reign  of  the  un- 
faithful" 


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earth,  and  Embassador,  Centre  of  divine  se- 
crets concerning  what  is  past  and  to  come, 
who  has  caused  the  acknowledgment  of  Grod 
to  shine  forth  out  of  the  darkness  of  errors, 
as  the  Morning  goes  before  the  Sun,  before 
he  mounts  the  horizon,  thwart  a  dark  night. 

*'  Principal  Type  of  things  created  I  In- 
strument of  the  creation  of  the  world,  the 
highest  of  the  race  of  Adam  I  Soul  of  the 
great  Apostles  and  Messengers  I 

**  Thou  art  that  Lord,  through  whom  one 
verse  in  Uie  Alcoran  promises  the  fulfilling 
of  our  desires.  Thou  art  that  Sun  through 
whom  another  verse  tells  the  sovereign 
beauty  shall  be  seen.  Light  of  eyes !  Crown 
of  prophecy  I  Idol  of  the  Angel  (xabriel  I 

^*  Thou  art  in  the  world  a  world  of  virtue 
and  dignity.  Thou  art  upon  the  earth  a 
sun  of  majesty  and  grandeur. 

**  The  Sea  is  not  rich  and  liberal,  but  by 
the  gifts  of  thy  munificent  hands.  The  An- 
gel Treasurer  of  Heaven  reaps  his  harvest 
in  the  fertile  gardens  of  the  purity  of  thy 
nature. 

'*  Moses,  who  divided  the  sea,  b  the  por- 
ter of  the  throne  of  thy  justice.  Jesus,  the 
Monarch  of  the  fourth  Heaven,  ke^ps  guard 
before  the  veil  of  the  throne  of  thy  glory. 

**That  incomprehensible  Painter,  who 
drew  the  Mole  at  one  stroke  of  his  pencil 
koun-fikoun,^  never  made  so  fair  a  por- 
traiture as  the  globe  of  thy  visage. 

*'  From  thy  descent  into  the  cradle  to  the 
last  day  of  thy  life,  the  Angels  who  register 
words  never  heard  thee  speak  a  word  which 
did  not  ravish  Grod  himself  with  joy. 

**  No  man,  in  whatsoever  condition  he  is, 
can  resemble  God  so  much  as  thou  dost. 
But  if  there  could  be  an  image  to  represent 
Grod  as  he  is,  it  could  be  no  other  than  thy- 
self, that  Embassador  whom  out  of  bis  ex- 
traordinary clemency  he  sent  to  the  Earth. 

**  Happy  and  holy  is  the  man  who  believes 
all  that  Grod  has  spoken  in  the  Alcoran,  ac- 
cording to  the  sense  which  his  Prophet  has 
observed  in  the  Book  of  his  sentences.  If 
he  should  be  compared  with  any  other  ex- 

*  **  Let  it  be  so,  and  it  was  so."    Gren.  1. 


alted  being,  there  could  not  be  found  a  more 
perfect  exemplar  than  MahometJ* 

The  Second  Song. 

**  O  unexpressible  man,  who  hast  no  equal 
but  Mahomet,  the  elect  Prophet,  God  has 
assigned  upon  thy  love  *  the  dowry  of  the 
ladies  of  Paradise. 

**  The  Primum  Mobile  would  never  dart 
the  ball  of  the  Sun  through  the  trunk  uf 
Heaven,  were  it  not  to  serve  the  morning 
out  of  the  extreme  love  she  has  for  thee. 

"  What  is  the  power  of  the  Stars  and  Des- 
tiny in  comparison  of  thine  ?  and  what  if 
the  light  of  the  Sun  compared  with  that  of 
thy  understanding  ?  Destiny  does  but  exe- 
cute thy  commands.  The  Sun  is  enlightened 
by  the  beams  of  thy  knowledge. 

^^  When  the  numerous  train  of  thy  Ma- 
jesty goes  in  its  pomp,  we  see  the  sphere' 
bound  to  the  hand  of  the  Captain  that  guides 
it,  like  a  little  bell  at  the  neck  of  a  mule. 

Let  not  Hercules  vaunt  any  more  the 
force  of  his  courage ;  for  who  would  endure 
a  fiy  to  brave  it  upon  the  wings  of  the  great 
Phenix  of  the  East  ? 

''Had  Hercules  seen  the  valour  of  thy  arm 
in  one  action,  assuredly  the  Bird  of  his  Soul 
would  have  broken  the  cage  of  his  body,  and 
fled  for  fear. 

'*  The  inunense  sea  of  thy  merit  tosses  up 
surges  above  the  heavens,  and  upon  this  sea 
of  virtue  the  tempests  of  adversity  cause  no 
more  disorder  than  rushes  in  the  water. 

"  If  thy  glory  be  weighed  in  the  balance 
of  exalted  sense,  the  highest  mountains 
weighed  against  it  would  appear  no  more 
than  the  seed  of  lentils. 

''  In  the  great  career  of  happiness,  (where 
the  transports  of  those  who  run  the  race 

*  *'  The  Persians  affirm  that  Aly  was  the 
handsomest  person  that  ever  was,  and  that  his 
beauty  was  unconceivable;  for  which  reasoo  the 
painters  usually  cover  his  face  with  a  veil,  and 
will  not  let  it  be  seen.  But  what  the  poet  here 
speaks  of  Haly  signifies  that  the  blessed  in  hea- 
ven account  it  their  chiefest  felicity  to  be  belored 
by  him." 

•  "  Or  fortune.  The  sense  is,  thou  knowest 
how  to  turn  the  world  at  thy  pleasure,  as  a  mule 
turns  the  little  bell  that  hangs  at  his  neck." 


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nuke  them  like  horses  that  get  the  bit  in 
their  teeth,  and  throw  their  riders, 

"  And  causes  them  with  the  force  of  their 
sirars  to  prick  an  artery,  at  what  time  the 
,  Angel  of  Death  comes  like  a  fatal  physician 
to  take  them  by  the  arm  of  the  soul.) 

**■  Thou  shalt  escape  this  rude  career  as  the 
Sun  passes  on  from  the  east.  They  shall 
carry  before  thee  the  honourable  standard 
<A  the  supreme  majesty,  and  behind  thee  the 
spoils  as  marks  of  the  victory. 

''And  in  this  race,  were  all  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  world  as  brave  as  Hercules,  the 
most  undaunted  of  them  would  not  have  the 
courage  to  stand  a  moment  before  thee. 

**•  Oiod  shall  create  a  Body  ^  of  Air  that 
shall  cry  with  a  loud  voice  on  his  behalf, 
Victory  I  victory  I  there  is  none  so  stout  as 
Aly!  there  is  no  sword  like  to  Sulfagar,^ 
that  Heroes  sword  with  two  points.** 

The  Third  Song. 

•*  Thou  from  whose  purity  the  Heaven  of 
Unsinfulness  draws  its  lustre,  the  Sun  is 
made  a  crown  of  Glory  of  the  shadow  of  thy 
Umbrello. 

''Jesus,  the  great  Chymist,  made  use  of 
the  earth  of  the  portal  of  thy  prudence,  for 
red  sulphur,  of  which  he  composed  the  Tak- 
sir  and  the  stone  ^  Phale,  by  means  whereof 
he  understood  all  things,  and  healed  all  men. 

"The  eternal  Painter  painted  a  great 
many  images,  and  brought  to  light  a  great 
many  ideas,  with  a  design  to  form  thy  lovely 
countenance,  but  he  found  none  that  came 
near  thy  beauty. 

"  The  Faulcon  of  thy  Umbrello  having 
extended  his  wings,  has  found  the  birds^  of 
the  seventh  Heaven  nestling  under  the  large 
feather  of  thy  left  wing. 


'  Renown  or  fame. 

^  "  Sulphagar  is  the  name  of  Haly's  sword, 
which,  the  Mahomedans  say,  divides  Itself  at  the 
«Qd  with  two  points." 

'  Stones  of  divination.  The  Mahometans  say 
tbat  when  Jesus  Christ  was  living,  physic  fiou- 
riabed  in  its  highest  degree  of  excellency,  and 
tiutt  God  gave  him  so  many  secrets  of  that  art, 
that  he  raised  the  dead,  and  penetrated  the  very 
thoughts  of  men." 

*  "  That  is  to  say,  the  greatest  Prophet." 


"  Whoever  has  sealed^  his  heart  with  thy 
love,  has  found  that  his  heart  is  become  a 
mine  of  precious  stones. 

"  The  most  powerful  Creator  of  all  things 
admired  upon  the  sixth  day  of  the  creation 
that  superiority  of  excellency  which  thou 
hast  above  all  his  other  creatures. 

"  Upon  the  memorable  day  of  thy  victory, 
the  sweat  of  thy  hands  was  to  thy  enemies 
a  profound  deluge  that  swallowed  *em  up 
like  the  sea. 

"  Thou,  Vulture  of  the  heavenly  constel- 
lation, didst  fly  upon  the  blood  as  a  dog  upon 
the  water. 

"  Insipid  Poet,  who  comparest  to  the  Sea 
the  sweat  of  the  hand  of  thy  Hero  I  Thou 
art  astonished  at  the  thought  that  comes  into 
thy  head,  that  the  sea  which  resembles  that 
sweat  is  (Hie  blue  Sea  (Heaven). 

"  Whoever  has  lifted  up  the  hand  of  Ne- 
cessity toward  the  Portal  of  thy  beneficence, 
he  has  it  always  returned  back  full  of  what 
he  desired. 

"  O  divine  and  sacred  Host,  who  givest 
the  Saints  to  drink  out  of  the  bason  of  Pa- 
radise, to  speak  something  in  thy  praise,  we 
must  needs  say  that  Nature  is  only  adorned 
and  enriched  by  thee. 

"  A  thousand  and  a  thousand  years  toge- 
ther the  Heavens,  considering  the  high  price 
of  thy  pure  essence,  beheld  the  water  of  the 
fountain  of  Paradise  muddy  in  comparison 
of  that. 

"  As  well  God  as  Mahomet  has  always 
found  thy  opinion  the  most  just :  the  one 
gave  thee  a  sword  with  two  points,  the  other 
a  most  incomparable  virgin. 

"  Had  not  thy  perfect  being  been  in  the 
idea  of  the  Creator,  Eve  had  been  eternally 
a  virgin,  and  Adam  a  batchelor.** 

The  Fourth  Song. 

"  Great  Saint,  who  art  the  true  mansion 
of  God,  as  the  Prophet  teaches  in  the  Book 
of  his  sentences,  thou  art  also  the  Kebleh 

'  '^  A  figure  taken  from  the  custom  of  the  Per- 
sians to  seal  their  mines  with  the  king's  seal  and 
of  his  officers,  because  all  mines  belung  to  the 
king." 


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of  the  world  and  of  religion,  the  soul  of  the 
world  of  Mahomet. 

*'  Thy  mouth  is  tlie  treasure  of  sublimest 
sense,  thou  hast  placed  thy  mouth  upon  the 
fountain  of  understanding  and  knowledge, 
which  is  the  mouth  *  of  Mahomet. 

"Thou  art  the  Pontiff  who  art  only  found 
worthy  to  enter  into  the  sanctuary  of  the 
great  Prophet,  and  only  capable  to  stand 
upon  the  foot-pace  of  Mahomet. 

"  The  hearts  which  thy  victorious  sword 
continually  leads  to  the  true  Religion,  are 
the  flowers  with  which  the  vapours  of  the 
ocean  of  thy  puissance  cover  the  garden  of 
Mahomet. 

"  Since  the  Sphere  of  the  Law  has  been 
illuminated  by  several  stars,  the  Moon  never 
appeared  so  clear  and  bright,  till  when  thou 
tookest  upon  thee  the  Empire  of  the  Hea- 
ven of  Mahomet. 

"  The  Angel  Gabriel,  messenger  of  truth, 
every  day  kisses  the  groundsil  of  thy  gate, 
as  being  the  only  way  that  leads  to  the 
throne  of  Mahomet 

"  Thy  grandeur  above  all  human  possibi- 
lity is  an  impossible  comparison ;  but  if  any 
thing  may  compare  with  it,  it  must  be  the 
power  and  authority  of  Mahomet. 

"  O  sovereign  King,  if  in  the  celebrating 
thy  praises,  I  should  study  upon  what  once 
the  wise  Hassan  did  in  the  time  of  Maho- 
met, 

"  I  should  not  dare  to  presume  to  praise 
thy  majesty,  since  God  himself  has  spoken 
thy  eulogy  by  the  mouth  of  Mahomet. 

"  The  explication  of  thy  being  cannot 
proceed  iroi^  the  tongue  of  mortal  men, 
unless  we  except  what  has  been  spoken  of 
thee  by  Mahomet. 

"  But  it  is  not  the  same  thing  with  the 
unfolding  ofbur  own  wants,  for  that  is  need- 
less with  thee.  Thou  knowest  what  they 
are,  and  thou  knowest  also  that  I  am  the 


'  "  An  allusion  to  the  kiss  which  the  Mahu* 
metans  say  that  Mahomet  gave  Halv,  when  he 
publicly  appointed  him  his  heir  and  succesifor, 
and  is  a  prophane  imitation  of  the  manner  of 
Christ's  giving  his  Holy  Spirit  to  his  Apostles." 


devoted  slave  of  thy  house  and  of  thefamilj 
of  Mahomet. 

"  My  soul  desires  to  fly  to  thee,  pressed 
by  the  obligations  which  I  have  to  men ;  do 
me  some  favour  that  may  deliver  me  from 
my  obligations  to  men,  I  conjure  thee  bj 
the  soul  of  Mahomet. 

"  Turn  not  away  thy  compassionate  ind 
favourable  looks  from  my  countenance.  0 
love  of  my  heart,  cast  a  tender  glance  upon 
me,  O  heart  of  the  heart  of  Mahomet 

The  fifth  Song. 

"  Minister  especial  elected  of  Grod  for  the 
master  of  the  faithful,  thou  art  the  soul  of 
the  Prophet  of  God.  We  ought  not  to  give 
thee  any  other  name,  O  Master  of  ike 
faithful ! 

"  Thy  always  victorious  arm  has  brought 
under  the  yoke  the  heads  of  the  most 
haughty  heroes  of  the  age,  O  Master  of  the 
faithful  I 

"  The  treasures  which  Nature  hides  ind 
those  with  which  it  covers  the  universe,  are 
without  lustre  and  price,  to  what  thou 
liberally  bestowest  upon  us,  O  Master  of 
the  faithful ! 

"  The  sparkling  rubies  cover  themsclres 
with  earth  in  the  hollow  of  the  mine, 
ashamed  of  their  not  being  bright  enough 
to  be  put  into  thy  treasures,  O  Master  of 
the  faithful  I 

"  I  will  not  say  what  was  the  difference 
between  the  gentle  Zephirus  and  the  breath 
of  t-hy  mouth,  which  refreshes  the  soul  and 
the  heart,  O  Master  of  the  faithful ! 

"  All  that  Jesus  did  with  his  breath  was 
an  emblem,  but  afterwards  this  is  all.  That 
was  an  emblem  which  signified  what  mira- 
cles were  to  be  wrought  by  the  words  of 
thy  mouth,  O  Master  of  the  faithful  t 

^*  How  can  an  understanding  so  short  and 
confused  as  mine  represent  the  excellency 
and  price  of  thy  majesty,  O  Master  of  the 
faithful ! 

"  The  Universal  Spirit,  with  its  sublime 
knowledge,  cannot  arrive  at  the  portal  of 
thy  wondrous  essence,  O  Master  of  the 
faithful ! 


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there  a  place  more  exalted  than 
ligh  throne  of  Grod,  I  would  affirm 
by  place,  O  Master  of  the  faith- 

we  may  give  thee  praises  worthy 
r,  it  behoves  us  to  depaint  thy 
[  essence:  but  for  that  reason 
is  impossible  to  praise  thee  ac- 

0  thy  merit,  O  Father   of  the 

art  all  that  thou  deservedst  to 

ivho  can  comprehend  thy  merit, 

be  thy  God?  O  Master  of  the 

>eg  all  as  poor  beggars  at  the  gate 
eneficence,  and  the  kings  of  the 

in  the  number  of  those  beggars, 

of  the  faithful ! 

3rice  of  thy  favours  surpasses  the 
of  human  understanding.  The 
thy  majesty  and  thy  glory  is  too 

the  shoulders  of  human  under- 

The  sixth  Song. 

r  of  an  unconceivable  puissance, 
ands  of  Providence  are  executed 
iers.     Thou  canst  turn  with  thy 
e  the  vast  celestial  sphere. 
Sun,  under   whose   shadow  and 

1  omens  Nature  rolls,  is  but  a  glit- 
un  of  the  clasp  of  thy  girdle, 
temal  fountain  of  which  the  visible 
not  so  much  as  a  single  drop,  is 
a  drop  to  the  sea  of  thy  bounty, 
an  wit,  that  divided  the  world  into 
s,  is  no  more  with  thee  than  an 
lust.     He  divides  his  knowledge 
iegrees,  but  how  many  degrees  are 
to  be  a  canton  of  thy  knowledge. 
Superiour  of  the  College*  of  the 

Gabriel,   with   all  his   art  and 
e,  is  but  a  meer  scholar  to  thee, 
erses  of  the  Alcoran,  which  assure 
e  favour  and  mercy  of  God,  were 
heaven  for  thy  sake. 

Mahometans  say  that  God  created 
by  the  ministry  of  angels,  which  is 
n  the  theology  of  the  Jews." 


^*  *Tis  too  small  a  praise  of  thy  ineffable 
power  to  call  it  the  zenith  of  power,  since 
the  zenith  is  no  more  than  the  nadir  of  the 
power  of  thy  porter. 

"  These  two  stars,  which  are  the  eyes  of 
the  world,  are  two  globes,  which  not  having 
been  thfmght  beautiful  enough  to  make  a 
part  of  the  structure  of  thy  mansion  were 
placed  at  the  avenues. 

"  The  famous  bird  which  is  placed  over 
the  roof  of  thy  palace  raises  from  the  earth 
the  nine  vaults  of  heaven  like  a  grain  of 
wheat. 

"  Whatever  the  gulph  of  predestination 
encloses,  its  wonders  and  its  prodigies  came 
not  to  light,  nor  were  made  manifest  but 
by  thy  commandment. 

"  The  humble  slave  of  thy  grandeur,  poor 
Hassan,  employs  himself  day  and  night  every 
year,  every  month  in  the  country  of  Amul 
to  sing  thy  praises. 

**  Devoutly  he  prostrates  his  face  to  the 
earth  at  the  gate  of  thy  glorious  palace ;  he 
exposes  to  thy  eyes  a  sick  heart,  of  which  he 
implores  from  thee  the  cure. 

**  Can  a  man  conceal  his  distemper  from 
a  wholesome  remedy  ?  Certainly  it  is  no 
piece  of  wisdom  for  a  man  to  conceal  his 
distemper  from  an  infallible  and  sovereign 
cure. 

The  seventh  Song. 

"  Glorious  city  of  Nedgef,  since  thou  art 
become  the  mansion  of  the  son  of  the  faith, 
thy  territory  is  become  more  honourable 
than  the  country  of  Zemzem  and  Mecca  the 
holy. 

**  Nedgef  is  the  true  Kabeh*  for  people 
that  seek  the  truth,  because  the  adamant  of 
religion  has  there  his  habitation. 

*'  Which  is  also  the  son  of  pure  belief, 
the  Master  of  the  faithful,  the  Governor  of 
the  kingdom  of  the  love  of  Gk>d,  the  chief 
of  the  citizens  of  the  heavenly  Babylon. 

"  O  destroyer  of  heresy,  thou  art  the 
secretary  of  the  commandments  of  divine 

*  "  The  house  of  Abraham,  to  which  the 
Alcoran  commands  pilgrimage  once  in  a  man's 
life." 


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inspiration,  the  judge  of  things  commanded 
or  forbidden. 

'*  If  the  idea  of  thee  the  most  noble  in 
divine  sense  were  not  in  the  world,  the 
world  would  be  but  an  imperfect  and  sense- 
less figure. 

*'  Supreme  majesty,  who  hast  augmented 
the  lustre  of  the  supreme  throne,  all  crea- 
tures incessantly  praise  thy  name. 

**  The  sun  is  less  than  an  atom  in  the 
heaven  of  assemblies  where  thou  art  ho- 
noured :  and  the  atoms  are  greater  than  the 
sun,  upon  those  places  of  the  earth  where 
thou  hast  wrought  thy  miracles. 

"  The  crown  of  Grerashid^  is  cloudy  and 
tarnished  before  the  heron  tuft  of  thy  tur- 
ban. The  throne  of  Fereydon  is  a  wooden 
bench  in  comparison  of  thy  seat. 

**  The  glory  of  Solomon,  who  was  the 
glory  of  the  earth,  was  a  small  thing  in  com- 
parison of  thee,  because  it  was  only  borrow- 
ed of  the  durable  glory  of  thy  servant  Sel- 
mon. 

"  The  infallibility  of  Predestination  de- 
pends only  upon  thy  conduct :  she  is  so  mo- 
dest as  never  to  set  her  foot  before  thine. 

*'  *Tis  a  sin  to  compare  thee  with  man, 
for  how  can  a  lump  of  earth  pretend  to  com- 
pare with  a  diamond  of  the  clearest  water  P 

**  Human  wit  cannot  find  a  man  equal  to 
thee,  but  by  turning  toward  Mahomet.  This 
b  our  firm  and  clear  faith,  and  I  say  no 
more. 

"  They  cry  with  a  loud  voice  upon  the 
gates  of  Paradise  to  those  that  come  to  visit 
thy  highness,  you  that  have  repented  and 
are  become  good  people,  receive  your  salary, 
entering  there  for  ever. 


N^^^^k/^^^^^N^A^^^A^^^^* 


[Indian  Notion  of  European  Faithlesiness,'] 

**  Lbs  Sauvages  ne  connoissent  ni  le  tien, 
ni  le  mien,  car  on  pent  dire  que  ce  qui  est 
h  Tun  est  k  Tautre.  Lors  qu*un  Sauvage 
n*a  pas  reiissi  'k  la  chasse  des  castors,  ses 


*  "  The  ancient  kings  of  Persia  of  the  first 
race  and  monarchs  of  the  last." 


confreres  le  seoourent  sans  en  ^tre  priez. 
Si  son  fusil  se  creve  ou  se  casse,  cbacun 
d*eux  8*empresse  k  lui  en  ofifrir  un  autre. 
Si  ses  enfans  sont  pris  ou  tuez  par  les  en- 
nemis,  on  lui  donne  autant  d*esclaves  qa'il 
en  a  besoin  pour  le  faire  subsister.  H  n*j 
a  que  ceux  qui  sont  Chretiens,  et  qoi  de- 
meurent  aux  portes  de  nos  villes,  chez  qui 
Targent  soit  en  usage.  Les  autres  ne  vea- 
lent  ni  le  manier,  ni  m^e  le  voir,  ils  Tap- 
pellent  le  Serpent  des  Francois.  Ils  disent 
qu*on  se  tug,  qu*on  se  pille,  qu*on  se  diffame, 
qu*on  se  vend,  et  qu*on  se  trahit  parmi  noiu 
pour  de  Targent;  que  les  maris  vendent 
leurs  femmes,  et  les  meres  leors  filles  pour 
ce  metal.  lis  trouvent  etrange  que  les  uns 
ayent  plus  de  bien  qne  les  autres,  et  que 
ceux  qui  en  ont  le  plus,  soient  estimez  da- 
vantage  que  ceux  qui  en  ont  le  moins. 
Enfin,  ils  disent  que  le  titre  de  Sauvages, 
dont  nous  les  quidifions,  nous  conviencbt)it 
mieux  que  celui  d*hommes,  puis  qu*il  n*y  a 
rien  moins  que  de  Thomme  sage  dans  toutes 
nos  actions.  Ceux  qui  ont  ^t^  en  France 
m*ont  souvent  tourment^  sur  tous  les  maui 
qu*ils  y  ont  vu  faire,  et  sur  les  desordres 
qui  se  commettent  dans  nos  villes,  pour  de 
Targent.  On  a  beau  leur  donner  des  raisons 
pour  leur  faire  connoitre  que  la  propriety 
des  biens  est  utile  au  muntien  de  la  Society ; 
ils  se  moquent  de  tout  ce  qu*on  pent  dire 
sur  cela.  Au  reste,  ils  ne  se  qnerellent, 
ni  ne  se  battent,  ni  ne  se  volent,  et  ne  m^- 
disent  jamais  les  uns  des  autres.  lis  se 
moquent  des  Sciences  et  des  Arts,  ils  m 
raillent  de  la  grande  subordination  quails 
remarquent  parmi  pons.  lis  nous  traitent 
d*esclave8,  ils  disent  que  nous  sommes  des 
miserables  dont  la  vie  ne  tient  k  rien,  que 
nous  nous  degradons  de  notre  condition,  en 
nous  reduisant  k  la  servitude  d*un  seul 
homme  qui  pent  tout,  et  qui  n*a  d*antre 
loi  que  sa  volenti ;  qne  nous  nous  battons 
et  nous  qnerellons  incessamment,  que  les 
enfans  se  moquent  de  leurs  peres,  que  nous 
ne  sommes  jamais  d*accord ;  que  nous  nous 
emprisonnons  les  uns  les  autres,  et  que 
m^me  nous  nous  detruisons  en  public.  H^ 
s*estiment  au  delk  de  tout  ce  qu*on  pent 


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i'lmaginer,  et  all^raent  pour  toute  raisoxi, 
qo^iJa  sont  uasai  grands  maitres  les  um  que 
ks  antres,  parce  que  les  homines  ^tant 
petris  d*un  meme  limon,  il  ne  doit  point  y 
SToir  de  distinction,  ni  de  subordination 
CDtre  eux.  Us  pretendent  que  leur  oon- 
tentement  d*esprit  surpasse  de  beaucoup 
DOS  richesses ;  que  toutes  nos  Sciences  ne 
Talent  pas  celle  de  savoir  passer  la  vie  dans 
one  tranquillite  parfaite ;  qu*un  homme 
'  n*e8t  homme  chez  nous  qu*autant  qu*il  est 
riche.'  Mais  que  parmi  eux,  il  faut  pour 
etre  homme  avoir  le  talent  de  bien  courir, 
chasser,  pechcr,  tirer  un  coup  de  fleche  et 
de  fusil,  conduire  un  canot,  savoir  faire  la 
gaerre,  connoitre  les  forets,  vivre  de  pen, 
coDstruire  des  cabanes,  couper  des  arbres, 
et  savoir  faire  cent  lieues  dims  les  bois  sans 
aatre  guide  ni  provision  que  son  arc  et  ses 
fleches.  Us  disent  encore  que  nous  sommes 
des  trompeurs  qui  leur  vendons  de  tres- 
mauvaises  marchandises  quatre  fois  plus 
qu'elles  ne  vaient,  en  echange  de  leurs  cas- 
tors ;  que  nos  fusils  cr^vent  k  tout  moment 
et  les  estropient,  apres  les  avoir  bien  payez. 
Je  voudrois  avoir  le  tems  de  vous  raconter 
toutes  les  sottises  qu*ils  disent  touchant  nos 
manieres,  il  y  auroit  de  quo!  m*occuper  diz 
oa  douze  jours.'* — La  Hontan. 


^»^^»^^^»^^^^^^^^^>^^^^^^rf» 


[^Circassian  Gentlemen,'] 

^  Cbux  qui  tiennent  parmi  eux  (les  Cir- 
ctssiens)  le  rang  de  gentils-hommes,  sont 
tout  le  jour  sans  rien  faire,  demeurent  assis 
et  parlent  fort  peu." — Tavsbnieb. 

[Superstition  relative  to  (he  Indian  Crocodile.'] 

^  Trb  Indian  Crocodile  is  easily  tamed. 
Some  of  the  Malays  at  Batavia  are  so  su- 
perstitious as  to  imagine  that  such  a  croco- 
dile is  their  brother  or  sister.  They  endea- 
vour, therefore,  to  save  some  of  their  pro- 
visions, that  they  may  every  day  carry  food 
to  the  crocodile,  which  approaches  at  their 
calL" — FoBSTBB*s  Note  to  Fra  PaoUno  dti 
San  Bartolome&s  Voyage  to  the  East  In- 
dies, 


[Phantoms^  or  Estantiguas^  about  MundaJ] 

'*  Or  dia,  como  tengo  dicho,  se  yen  im- 
pressas  senales  de  despojos,  de  armas  y  ca- 
vallos;  y  ven  los  moradores  encontrarse  por 
el  aire  esquadrones,  oyense  vozes,  como  de 
personas  que  acometem :  estantiguas  llama 
el  vulgo  Espanol  a  semejantes  aparencias,  o 
fantasmas,  que  el  vaho  de  la  tierra,  quando 
el  Sol  sale,  h  se  pone  forma  en  el  aire  baxo, 
como  se  ven  en  el  alto  las  nubes  formadas 
envariasfiguras,  y  semejan^as." — ^Memdoza. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^«^^^^^ 


Hawks  of  Noroega, 

**  The  Hawks  of  Noroega  keep  alive  the 
last  bird  which  they  catch  in  a  winter  day, 
that  he  may  keep  ijieir  feet  warm  at  night, 
and  at  morning  they  let  him  go,  and  ob- 
serve which  way  he  flies,  that  they  may  not 
himt  in  that  quarter,  not  wishing  to  hurt 
him  for  the  comfort  he  has  given  them.** — 
Arte  de  Furtar, 


«^^i^^AAM^M^^iM^^^v^^^^ 


[  Vision  of  the  two  Jesuits.] 

1576.  Two  Jesuits  were  going  from  S. 
Vicente,  in  Brazil,  to  N.  Senhora  da  Con- 
Qei^am  de  Itanhae.  **  Fazendo  seu  caminho 
estes  Religiosos,  fechouse  a  noite,  &  come- 
caram  a  ver  ao  longe,  como  distancia  de 
tres,  ou  quatro  legoas  pella,  mesma  praia, 
hum  fogo  grande,  et  afastados  delles  outros 
menores,  que  deziam  ser  onto,  outros,  doze, 
a  modo  de  figuras  humanas ;  cuja  vista  co- 
mecou  a  metellos  em  medo  &  espauto;  mas 
apagouse  presto  &  desapareceo.  Porem 
quanda  menos  cuidavam,  tornarom  a  ver  o 
mesmo  portento  mais  temeroso,  &  pello 
mesmo  modo,  &  tam  perto  de  si,  que  clara- 
mente  enxergavam  ser  a  maneira  de  hum 
corpo  humano,  o  qual  lan^ava  da  cabe<;a 
grandes  chamas  de  fogo,  como  se  cada  qual 
dos  cabellos  della  fora  a  luz  de  huma  grande 
tocha,  mas  de  diversa  cor  :  ficaram  atonitos 
OS  Padres  a  vista  de  couza  tam  horrcnda, 
mas  com  mais  excesso,  quando  viram  que 
abrindo  as  costas  despedia  de  dentro  das 


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entranhas  huma  labarede  de  fogo,  nem  mais 
nem  menos,  que  a  de  fomalha  dos  engenhos 
de  a^uquar,  quando  mais  a  cesa  &  rigurosa : 
&  da  mesma  maneira  apareciaS  os  fogos  das 
outo,  ou  doze  figuras  humanas,  posto  que 
de  estatura  menor,  que  representavam  mo- 
^08  de  quinze  annos  de  idade :  estes  hiam 
como  bailando  &  fazendo   festa,  a  figura 

maior  em  circuito. Huns  diziam  que  de- 

via  de  ser  certas  pessoas,  de  quem  se  dizia 
que  morrerao  em  mao  estado ;  outros  que 
eram  avizos  de  Decs,  &  outras  cousas  se- 
melhantes.  O  certo  h^  que  com  estas  figu- 
ras costuma  o  Senhor  mostramos  as  penas 
do  inferno,  pera  horror  &  freio  de  pecca- 
dores,  quando  as  veem,  ou  em  si,  ou  pin- 
tadas,  quais  estas  logo  andaram  em  painel 
pella  terra,  et  foram  mandados  a  Portu- 
gal, com  espanto  de  lodos." — Vida  do  P. 
Joseph  Anchieta.  Lisboa,  1672. 


/N/VNA/VS/VA/VNA/^^^M/VWW 


\_Effect  of  Exorcism,'] 

**  Nam  sei  que  tinha  com  esta  praya  o 
inimigo  infernal ;  parece  pretendia  com  sens 
rigores  fazer  difficultozo  o  caminho  da  ro- 
maria  da  Senhora.  Por  huma  parte  della 
caminhava  Joseph  outra  noite,  em  compan- 
hia  de  alguns  Romeiros,  quando  a  des  boras 
Ihe  aparece  outra  vizam  tambemespantosa; 
huma  figura  de  hum  homem  armado  em 
fogos,  metido  em  prisoens  de  cadeas,  & 
grilhoens  de  fogo.  A  vista  desta  vizam 
horrenda,  nam  poderam  sosterse  em  pe  os 
companheiros  de  puro  horror,  &  pegados 
as  vestiduras  de  Joseph,  gritavam  que  Ihe 
acudisse;  assi  o  fez  o  Padre,  &  dizendo 
certos  exorcismos  da  santa  Igrcja,  desapa- 
recco  a  vizara  &  se  meteo  no  mar." —  Vida 
do  Anchieta. 


Arandela, 

**  A  Thing  in  the  shape  of  a  funnel,  fas- 
tened to  the  thick  end  of  a  lance  to  defend 
the  man*s  hand,  thought  to  have  been  in- 
vented at  Arundel  in  Sussex,  and  thence 
to  have  its  name.    It  is  also  a  sort  of  band 


worn  by  women  made  after  that 
and  therefore  so  called.  Others,  wi 
probability,  say  the  word  is  Arabicl 
NEBAS*  Dictionary* 


^h^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^i/^^^ 


Bauson  or  Bausana. 

**  A  FIGURE  made  like  a  man  and 
with  straw,  used  formerly  to  set  < 
where  the  garrison  was  weak,  to  : 
appear  stronger ;  and  from  these  in 
statues  applied  to  signify  a  fool,  o 
stupid  person,  or  one  that  stands  g 
any  thing  as  if  he  were  out  of  his 
—Ibid. 


MA^^i^iA^^kA^k^^^^^^^^^^*^<M 


[^Chotdtries.'] 

"  FoRTtNES  are  expended  in  1 
choultries  on  the  roads  for  the  ac 
dation  of  travellers,  who  there  find 
from  the  injuries  of  the  weathe; 
Hindoos  esteem  such  actions  as  vex 
ing  to  the  gods.  The  choultries 
Gothic  construction,  and  in  the  ma 
no  wood  is  made  use  of.  They  co 
consist  of  one  large  apartment,  whic 
times  is  divided  into  two,  withou 
door  or  window,  and  entirely  opei 
south,  with  a  vaulted  gallery  all 
close  to  the  building,  which  b  alwf 
a  wood.  All  choultries  have  a  tan 
small  pagoda  dedicated  to  PoUear, 
traveller  may  perform  his  prayers  ai 
tions  before  he  pursues  his  journey 
pitality  extends  so  far  in  some^ 
choultries  as  to  regale  the  travel 
congee,  a  liquor  made  of  rice  and 

SONMERAT. 


Bramitu, 

**  Their  persons  are  held  so  sac 
they  cannot  be  punished  with  death 
commission  of  any  crime  whatever, 
bramin  has  merited  death,  his  eyes 
out,  but  he  is  permitted  to  live, 
a  bramin  is  one  of  the  five  great  ani 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


>le  sins;  *nd  the  Veduna  ordwi 
ever  U  guiltj  of  lucli  a  murder 
rorm  A  pilgrimage  of  tweire  years, 
ms,  and  carrying  the  «kull  of  the 
out  of  which  he  i»  obliged  to  eat 
c  all  that  is  given  him.  This  time 
he  is  to  bestow  large  alms,  and 
:mple  to  the  god  of  the  murdered 
sect." — Ibid. 


Heejaderke't  Ufarrioffe  Apportiox- 

.Tin  Hebhsiekkb,  ainsi  nommf  )i 
n  village  de  Holande  d'oit  il  itoit, 
I  Haerlem  1S74  %£  de  loixante- 
Ajrant  beaucoap  travullS  pen- 
I  vivoit,  il  mourut  asaez  riche ;  et 
ier  quelque  memoire  de  lui,  il  le- 
»n  testament  de  quoi  marier  tous 
me  fills  du  village  d'oil  il  £toit. 
fut  k  condition  que  le  jour  des 
marif  et  la  marine  evec  tous  les 
boient  danger  sur  sa  fosse.  Ce 
ratiquoit  si  religieusement.  It  ce 
issQra,  qu'  encore  que  le  change- 
religion  arrlv^  en  ces  pais-1^  e&t 
ilir  et  abbatre  toutes  les  croix 
ieres,  les  babitans  neanmoins  de 
rke  n*ont  jam^B  voulu  permettre 
,t  celle  qui  est  sur  la  fosse  de  ce 
aquelle  est  de  cuivre,  et  leur  sert 
un  titre  pour  jouir  de  la  dot  et  de 
in  faite  h  lenrs  fiUes." — Entretient 
'U*,  j(V.  del  Peintrei,  par  Pbli- 

le  iocubuB  tale  the  circumstance 
by  witches  (if  decency  be  pos- 
T  have  a  striking  effect.  "  Dolo- 
(u  insignis  fi-igidiutis." 


[Marvellmu  Carbuncle.'] 
ABTHOLOHED  lays,  that  he  "  saw 
le  of  the  king  of  Pegu  so  bright 
lark  place  it  made  all  the  bystan- 


ders' bodies  transparent,  so  penetrating  won 
its  splendour." — Seobbdos  daNahtreta. 

One  of  those  rascally  quack  books  mode 
up  by  modem  ignor&ace  from  old  impu- 
dence. 

[_Siberian  EaHh-l 
"  Some  of  the  Siberian  tribes,  when  ^ey 
travel,  carry  a  small  bag  of  their  native 
earth,  the  taste  of  which,  they  suppose,  will 
preserve  them  from  all  the  evils  of  a  foreign 
sky." — Gmeur. 


iWhite  BoyM.1 
"  BcsBT  used  to  call  his  favourite  scho- 
lars his  white  boys."— Wbfe  (aFoKi>,Tol.  1, 
p.  29. 


[MiraeU  of  Franciico  de  Ptada.'] 
"  A  ifiBACLE  is  told  by  Vieyra,  of  Saint 
Francisco  de  Paula,  that  when  King  Fer- 
dinand of  Naples  laid  on  an  oppressive  tax, 
he  broke  a  piece  of  the  money  so  collected, 
before  him,  and  blood  came  out  of  it." — 
Cmret.  Brai.  t.  16,  p.  106. 


Idea*,  j-c. 

A  DSBTDL  chapter  might  be  written  upon 
historical  errors,  or  rather  falsehoods. 

The  pillars,  which  Procopius  mentions, 
of  the  Canaanites,  fall  under  this  head. 
They  may  be  classed  with  the  written  co- 
lumns of  Shem  and  Jubal. 

Thebb  might  be  a  new  Pilgrim's  Pro- 
gress written,  allegorizing  the  journey  of 
life.  Knight-errantry  would  not  be  an 
unfit  basis, — as  thus  the  first  stages  might 
be  passed  as  a  child  under  protection  of  the 
Sage  PhusLs,  who  brings  him  safely  by  the 
perilous  passes  where  Small-Pox,  Measles, 
&c.  are  the  custom,  each  of  course  allego- 
rized. The  ceremony  of  knighting  might 
mark  manhood.     Th?n  woulil  be  ^e  fields 


.JC 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


of  infancy,  the  hills  of  manhood,  and  the 
vale  of  age.  Marriage  would  be  joining 
company  for  the  journey. 

New  governors  always  popular,  because 
the  people  have  hope  in  them  as  they  have 
in  new  physicians. 

November  10,  1804. 

I  have  this  evening  proposed  to  Long- 
man to  edite  the  works  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney, 
proposing  to  write  a  Life,*  an  Essay  on  the 
Arcadia,  and  another  on  his  metres. 

The  first  Essay  should  be  upon  what  may 
be  called  the  middle  period  of  Romance. 
Biondi  in  Italy.  Grombauld  in  France. 
Why  these  things  succeeded  to  pure  chiv- 
alry. The  literary  character  of  Elizabeth's 
reign. 

In  the  second,  a  history  of  English  metre. 
Specimens  of  hexameters  in  French,  Spa- 
nish, and  Italian,  and  corresponding  speci- 
mens of  my  own  to  every  practical  metre 
which  Sir  Philip  has  used. 


W^^rf^^^l^^^^A'^^^^^^^^'^^ 


What  can  be  made  of  Judaism  in  Por- 
tugal f 

Gabriel  has  brought  up  his  son  Henrique 
in  the  religion  of  his  forefathers,  but  not  his 
daughter  Violante.  The  Confessor  there- 
fore, who  is  a  good  man,  has  no  suspicion. 

D.  Duarte,  son  of  an  inquisitor,  is  in  love 
with  Yiolant-e.  The  father  is  an  avaricious 
hard  hearted  man,  and  has  set  his  eye  upon 
Gabriers  possessions,  knowing  him  to  be  a 
New  Christian.  He  is  also  superstitious. 
Bring  in  the  belief  in  the  books  which  dis- 
cover hidden  treasures,  and  make  him  post- 
pone the  seizure  of  Gabriel,  while  Gabriel 
by  his  knowledge  goes  at  midnight  to  secure 
one. 

This  scene,  if  laid  in  a  nunnery  garden, 
might  connect  another  plot  of  some  nun  in 

'  This  Life,  nearly,  if  not  quite,  complete,  is 
in  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  C.  C.  Southoy.  His 
father  put  it  into  my  hands  many  years  ago, 
knowing  my  love  for  Sir  P.  Sidney's  character 
and  works. — J.  W.  W. 


love  with  the  English  captain, — and 
the  inquisitor  might  be  made  to  as& 
her  escape  by  preparing  ladders,  &c. 
may  be  Duarte*8  sister 

Fountain  in  Epinu, 

*'  In  Epire  is  a  fountain,  intensely 
Dip  into  it  a  torch  and  it  will  kindle  it 
in  a  kindled  torch,  and — wonderful — i 
quench  it.** 

'*  About  two  leagues  from  Room  wi 
a  round  hill  to  the  left,  called  in  Tu 
Gedeen-gedmaze,  which  signifies  that 
ever  goes  up  never  returns,  which  the 
sians  say  was  the  fate  of  a  page  sent  \ 
Schaah  Abbas  with  a  lighted  torch  i 
hand.  However  this  be,  it  is  certain 
easy  matter  to  ascend  this  place,  be 
the  whole  hill  consists  of  sand,  whi 
shiiled  from  place  to  place  by  the 
and  must  soon  tire  whoever  attem{ 
climb  it.** — BxLL. 


^Ai/^^^^^^»^^^^A^«A^WS<>V*^^ 


Traditions  in  Bretagne. 

"  JoN  Gaut  t  Taw  (John  and  his 
is  a  kind  of  daemon,  who  in  the  night 
ries  five  lighted  candles  on  his  five  fii 
and  whirls  them  about  with  great  rap 
The  repeated  cry  of  the  cuckoo  indl 
the  year  of  marriage.  They  dip  the  i 
of  children  into  certain  wells  ;  if  the 
sinks  to  the  bottom,  the  child  infa 
dies  before  the  expiration  of  a  year : 
swims,  it  is  a  sign  that  the  child  will  1 
long  time,  and  the  wet  shirt  is  put  o 
poor  creature  to  preserve  it  from  ever] 
of  evil.  In  one  place  a  number  of  s 
are  told  about  a  small  black  staff,  wh 
changed  into  a  black  dog,  an  eagle,  or  t 
In  another,  they  believe  that  eagles,  I 
command  of  a  genius,  carry  men  u[ 
the  air.  A  sudden  noise,  three  time 
pcated,  foretells  an  impending  misfui 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION.  241 


ctumal  howling  of  a  dog  is  a  cer- 
etoken  of  death.  In  the  roaring  of 
ant  main  by  night,  and  in  the  whis- 
the  wind,  they  hear  the  voice  of 
1  persons  demanding  a  grave.  Sub- 
>us  treasures  are  guarded  by  giants, 
and  fairies.  Some  of  these  hob- 
are  called  Teuss :'  the  Teuss  Ar- 
ippears  in  the  shape  of  a  dog,  a  cow, 
i  other  domestic  animal,  and  per- 
l  menial  services.  The  blood  freezes 
Dg  the  dreadful  tales  about  the  Car 
ifCariqiiel  Ancou,*  which  is  covered 
rinding  sheet,  and  drawn  by  skele- 
rhe  rumbling  of  its  wheels  is  heard 
person  is  on  the  point  of  dying, 
the  castle  of  Morlaix  there  are  a 
of  little  manikins,  not  above  a  foot 
bo  from  time  to  time  dry  a  large 
r  of  gold  in  the  sun.  Whoever  mo- 
pproaches  them  receives  as  much 
in  hold  in  one  hand:  but  he  who 
'ith  a  sack  to.  fill  it  with  gold,  is  ill 
and  sent  away  empty  handed.** — 
.T*8  Voyage  dans  le  Fihisterre,  M, 
Tarch^  1801. 


w^^^^^^^'^^W^A^^^^^'^A* 


[Moorish  Lust'] 

44.  *^  In  Carpetaniso  finibus,  multas 
I  moniales  Benedictinae,  ne  viola- 
i  Mauris,  "k  Deo  consecutsB  sunt  ut 
.bsorberentur ;  quaedamque  campa- 
tutis  die!  horis,  qu&  vocante  venie- 
preces,  auditur.** — Luitpband,  p. 


BXB  writer,  Julianus  in  Adversariis, 
es  the  wonder.  "  Frequentes  in 
un  HispanisB  locis  audiuntur  subtus 
lonitus  campanarum,  ubi  creduntur 
onasteria  sacrarum  Yirginimi,  qusB 
'ent  in  salacium  Maurorum  manus, 
t  k  terr&  sorberi,  ut  in  jugis  Car- 


^ELLOUTlEa,  Dietvonnairsds  la  Langut 

,  in  V.  "  Teiis." 

bid.  in  w.  CarrighelL  &c.  Anemi, 

J.  W.  W. 


petanis  prop^  Margalizam  in  Carpetania,  in 
templo  S.  Quiteris,  et  etiam  alibi.** — Notes^ 
p.  129. 

[7%e  bursting  of  the  Harp  Strings."] 

Ah  Irish  Priest  at  Lisbon  said,  *'  that 
when  his  father  died  the  strings  of  his  harp 
all  burst  at  once  with  a  noise  like  thunder.** 


(( 


Sword  of  Attila. 

Gladio  utebatnr  Attila,  ut  ipse  puta- 
bat,  divinitus  ei  misso :  namque  dum  qu&- 
dam  npcte  perquietem  vidisset  se  k  Marte 
armari,post«rodie  quidam  ex  gregariis  roili- 
tibus  detulit  ad  eum  ensem  in  campo  pa- 
tenti,  dum  vestigium  cujusdam  vitulse  sau- 
ciatflB  insequeretur,  forte  fortun&  repertum. 
Qu8B  res  fidem  praecedentis  sui  soronii,  non 
modic6  confirmavit.** — Olah,  in  Attil. 


^^fSyS^^i^iy^^^^i^i^^i^^^^S^^S^ 


[Shades  of  Battle,] 

Aftsb  the  great  defeat  of  Attila,  *'  tridub 
armorum  fragorem  iisdem  vestigiis  audi- 
tum  pugnantium  clamorem,  umbris  perti- 
naci  contentione  post  mortem  in  pugn& 
perstantibus.** — ^Rodbb  Tolet. 


[Sailor's  Ghost- Cry.] 

Mahoel  db  Sousa  b  Sbpulveda  and  his 
companions.  **  Ab  infortunio  dum  se  miseri 
ad  viam  parant,  silentio  noctis  nautica  er- 
rantium  ibidem  animarum  exaudita  celeus- 
mata.** — Maitbus. 


[Field  of  Stones.] 

Thbbb  is  said  to  be  a  field  in  Shropshire 
covered  with  stones,  which,  though  often 
cleared  away,  are  always  reproduced. 


^^V^^^^^^'W^^^^^^V^^^^^ 


[Omen  of  the  Coronation  Stone.] 
**  Thb  famous  coronation  stone-  was  said 
to  make  a  strange  noise  when  any  of  the 


B 


242 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


true  line  of  Milesians  were  crowned,  but 
otherwise  it  was  silent.** — 0*Hau/>ban. 


^>i^^^s^^^^^>^^^^i^^sr*i^^^^ 


IStone  with  SmeU  of  a  CarpteJi 

In  Crediton  church  is  one  stone  remark- 
able, because  it  has  the  smell  of  a  corpse. 


«^vw^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


IThe  Virtue  of  Wickliffe's  Dust.} 

«*  I  HAVE  heard,'*  says  Fuller,  "  that  the 
brook  near  Lutterworth  in  Leicestershire, 
into  which  the  ashes  of  the  burnt  bones  of 
WickliflTe  were  cast,  never  since  doth  drowne 
the  meadow  about  it.  Papists  expound  this 
to  be  because  God  was  well  pleased  with 
the  sacrifice  of  the  ashes  of  such  an  heretick. 
Protestants  ascribe  it  rather  to  proceed  from 
the  virtue  of  the  dust  of  such  a  reverend 
martyr.** — Good  Thoughts  in  Bad  Times. 


«^F^  ^^^^^^^^^^^/^^^^^%^^ 


IBattle  Stone-field.'] 

Akin  to  this  is  a  Spanish  story.  A  great 
battle  was  fought  between  the  Castros  and 
the  Laras.  The  field  of  battle  was  smooth 
and  free  from  stones,  but  from  that  hour 
stones  appeared ;  and  it  is  now  so  rocky 
that  no  horseman  can  pass  safely,  nor  man 
on  foot  without  care  and  fear :  there  where 
the  deaths  were  most  niunerous,  the  rocks 
are  thickest. — Coronica  del  R.  D.  Alonso, 
p.  341. 


^^S^^^^F^^^0^^0^^^^^^S^^^ 


[^Self'renufval  of  the  Executioner^  s  Falchion."] 

**  What  shall  we  say  to  this  prodigious 
thing,  which  the  executioners  of  justice 
upon  malefactors,  whom  we  cannot  name 
without  horror,  find  to  be  true  too  often ; 
namely,  that  when  any  such  malefactor  is  to 
be  delivered  into  their  hands,  the  sword  or 
faulchion,  that  they  are  wont  to  use  in  this 
business,  removes  itself,  no  man  coming  so 
much  as  near  it :  as  it  is  at  large  discoursed 
of  by  Lavaterus  in  his  book  de  Spectris, 
and  Natalis  Taillepied,  in  his  treatise  de 


TApparition  des  Esprit^.** — Gaztabel, 
heard  of  Curiosities, 


m^i^^^^^^^t^^^^^^^^^^^^fSi^i^^^f^ 


Locrine, 


**  Cbafti  mon  for  sothe  he  wes ; 
He  wrohte  her,  withoute  les. 
Tuo  merveilles  grete  y  wys, 
Wrokynghole  that  on  clepud  ys 
Sikerlich  without^  gyle. 
Biside  Glastingbury  a  myle. 
A  t;hapele  that  other  ys 
That  over  the  erthe  hongeth  thus. 
From  the  erthe  tuenti  fet, 
The  leynthe  for  sothe  last  yet. 
Of  seint  Susanne,  wythoute  les 
The  chapele  ycleped  wes.*' 

Chronicle  of  JEngland^  v.  12 


^Deadly  Venom  of  the  Salamander^ 

"  VsNSNUM  Salamandri  tam  grave, 
arborem  tetigit,  poma  omnia  veneno  t 
rimo  inficit;  et  qui  ex  eis  edant  st 
emoriantur.*'  — Plin.  1.  29,  c.  4.' 


[^Mysterious  Name  of  Rome.] 

'*  Rome  had  an  elder  and  mystei 
name,  which  it  was  death  to  pronounoi 
F.  DE  OcAMPo,  1 .  20. 1 2.     On  what  clai 


authority  P 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K^^^^^^^fc* 


ICader  Idris.] 

"  On  the  very  summit  of  Cader  '. 
there  is  an  excavation  in  the  solid  rock 
sembling  a  couch ;  and  it  is  siud  that  ^ 
ever  should  rest  a  night  in  that  seat, 
be  found  in  the  morning  either  dead,  ra 
mad,  or  endued  with  supernatural  geo 
— Davibs.  Celtic  Researches. 


*  These  are  not  Pliny's  exact  words,  I 
suspect,  a  note  made  up  ftt>m  them.  Th 
fercnee  is  correct.  It  is  well  known  in  1 
that  the  Musk  Rat  will  infect  a  whole  b 
Madeira.— J.  W.  W. 


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243 


[^Innda  Viventium.'] 

jj>iT8  sajs,  *'  there  is  an  isle  in  a  lake 
h  Munster  called  Insula  Yiventium, 
i  no  one  can  die  in  it.  When  the 
Guits  are  mortally  sick,  and  would 
die  than  linger  on  in  misery,  they 

into  a  boat  and  wafted  over  to  the 
isle,  where,  as  soon  as  they  land, 
pire."  "  This  is  the  same,"  says  Led- 
as  the  Icelandic  Udainsaker,  or  Land 
[mmortals,  of  which  Bartholine  tells 

it  b  situated  in  North  Iceland,  that 
Jves  believe  no  one  can  die  there, 
;h  labouring  under  a  deadly  sickness, 
I  is  carried  out  of  its  precincts ;  and 
Tefore  the  inhabitants  have  deserted 
ing  all  the  terrors  of  death,  without 
g  the  prospect  of  release.** 


%A/V«A^^^k^^i^^^^«^^.^^AM 


AfjfiOQ  *Ovttpu>y» 

coBDTHO  to  Pythagoras  the  ^rjfWQ 
ty,  the  People  of  Dreams,  are  souls 
ire  collected  in  the  milky  way.  This, 
lomas  Taylor,  admirably  elucidates 
aes  in  Odyss.  zxiv.  1 1 .  [ManichsBan. 
isobre.  T.  1.  144.] 

itrav  *€lfuav»  re  poaQ  Kat  Aivicd^a 

irpnyy 

tp  fitkioio  irvXac,  koX  hriyiov  oytipuv 
aljj/a  ^KovTO  jcar*  atrtpohiXov  Xei- 

-e  ralttffi  ;f/v^at,  eiZuXa  Kafiovruv, 

Is  evident  from  hence  that  the  souls 
uitors  passed  through  the  galaxy,  or 
ts  of  the  blessed,  according  to  the 
ncient  theology;  and  I  doubt  not 
mer  describes  in  these  lines  the  com- 
1  progression  of  an  impure  soid  till 
as  its  original  habitation  in  the  stars, 
lin  begins  to  gravitate  to  this  terrene 
' — Restoration  of  the  Platonic  The" 


^^^^A/^^^»A^^^^^^^k^/«^/^^* 


Virtue  of  Pulverized  Testicles,'] 

EQUB  est  verum  quod  dicunt  rustic!, 
bi  per  violentiam  quis  sectus  est,  non 


possit  celebrare,  nisi  testes  siccos  pulveri- 
zatod  gerat  in  burso.**  —  Gloss,  to  the  Par- 
tidas. 

What  an  ingredient  for  a  philtre  I 

[^Poisonous  Tree  of  the  Celebes.] 

"  There  is  a  tree  in  the  isle  of  Celebes 
which  poisons  whomsoever  lies  under  its 
western  shade,  unless  he  gets  into  the  shade 
of  its  eastern  side,  which  is  the  antidote.** 
— Diooo  J>B  CouTO,  4.  7.  8. 


JElden  Hole. 

'*  It  is  reported  that  several  attempts 
have  been  made  to  fence  the  hole  round  with 
a  stone  wall,  as  the  manner  of  the  fences  are 
all  over  the  country ;  but  it  has  been  all  in 
vain ;  what  they  built  up  in  the  day  would 
be  pulled  down  in  the  night,  so  it  is  vain 
to  try  the  securing  it.  This  the  people  tell 
us.** — Mrs.  Fienne8*8  MSS, 


[^Cold-blooded  Unchanter.] 

One  might  make  an  enchanter  cold- 
blooded— because  the  son  of  an  incubus — 
ex  frigiditate  seminis}  Unfeeling  accord- 
ingly and  long-lived.  A  good  personage 
for  a  tale  of  Gothic  superstition. 


[Poxoer  of  Music, 

'*  TiETiE  tantafuer^a  la  musica  que,  como 
muchos  auctores  gravissimos  y  aprovados 
escriven,  una  fuente  de  Alexina  al  taiier  de 
la  vihuela  se  mueve  y  salta  como  cosa  biva.** 
— Fernan  Nunez.  Qlos.  a  las  Tredentas  de 
J.  d,  Af, 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^A 


[Origin  of  Mandrakes,] 

Mandrakes  were  supposed  to  spring  un- 
der a  gibbet  from  the  blood  of  Uie  male- 
factor. 

»  See  supri,  p.  236.— J.  W.  W. 


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IHeadUss  Men.'] 

Hbrrera  (1.  2.  12)  tells  a  storj  of  two 
of  Columbus*8  companions,  when  they  were 
in  want  of  food  at  Isabella.  Going  through 
one  of  the  streets,  they  saw  a  party  of  men 
whom  they  supposed  to  be  newly  come  from 
Castile,  with  swords  by  their  side,  y  rebo^- 
dos  eon  tocos  de  camino,  muffled  as  was  then 
the  mode.  Upon  saluting  and  asking  them 
whence  they  came,  the  strangers  pulled  off 
their  hats,  and  their  heads  in  them,  and  dis- 
appeared. 


[^Babe  crying  in  the  Womb.'] 
A  WOMAN  in  the  isle  of  Orleans,  1661,  in 
a  time  of  signs  and  tokens  heard  the  babe  cry 
in  her  womb. — Chaslsyoix.  St.  Fbakce, 
tom.  2,  p.  102. 


^^^^^^'^^^^^«^«#^^^\AA^^^^^ 


[^Afonk  and  Fish  Mortality.] 

**  On  the  borders  of  Burgundy  a  small 
lake  belonging  to  a  convent,  which  con- 
tains no  more  fish  than  there  are  monks  in 
that  convent,  and  these  so  sympathize,  that 
whenever  a  monk  sickens  and  dies,  a  fish 
sickens  and  dies  also,  and  floats  on  the  wa- 
ter.**— ^Fb.  Marco  de  Gaudalajare.  Sscp. 
de  lot  MoriscoSy  p.  68. 


^^^^^^^^^hAA^^  ^« 


\_Sepvlchre  Knocking.] 

A  KNOCKiNO  is  heard  in  the  sepulchre  of 
S.  Victorian  in  Aragon  whenever  the  abbot 
or  one  of  the  monks  is  to  die. — Ibid. 


^^^^»^^^^^*^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


^Bachelors'  Buttons.*] 
**It  was  an  old  custom  among  countrymen 
to  try  whether  they  should  succeed  with 

*  I  suppose  this  to  be  a  note  on  the  words, 

"  'TIS  in  his  butttmt  he  will  carry  it,** 

in  the  Merry  Wives  of  Windaor,  Act  iii.  Scene  ii. 
Within  my  own  recollection,  both  in  Shrop- 
shire  and  Staffordshire,  this  old  custom  was 
common  enough.— J.  W.  W. 


their  mistresses  by  carrying  bachelors*  but- 
tons (the  flower  of  the  Lychnis  kind  so 
called)  in  their  pockets.  They  judged  of 
their  good  or  bad  success  by  their  growing 
or  not  growing  there.** — Note  to  Shakespeare. 
Bo6wsix*8,  vol.  8,  p.  114. 


» ^#^^^^^^A^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


j^atage  ^upersttftfonsr. 

l^Earthquakes  at  Tongataboo.] 

**  At  Tongataboo  they  account  for  their 
frequent  earthquakes,  by  supposing  the 
island  rests  upon  the  shouldei's  of  a  verj 
powerful  deity  called  Mowee,  who  has  sup- 
ported it  for  such  a  length  of  time  as  ex- 
ceeds their  conceptions.  This  heavy  burden 
often  exhausts  his  patience,  and  then  he 
endeavours,  but  in  vain,  to  shake  it  off; 
which,  however,  never  ffuls  to  excite  s 
horrid  outcry  over  the  whole  country,  that 
lasts  for  some  time  after  the  shock  is  over, 
and  we  have  sometimes  seen  them  endea- 
vour to  quell  his  discontent  and  reduce  him 
to  good  behaviour,  by  beating  the  ground 
with  large  sticks. — Tongaloer,  the  god  of 
the  sky,  and  Fenoulonga,  of  the  rain,  thej 
suppose  to  be  males.  Besides  these,  thej 
have  a  great  many  others  of  both  sexes, 
over  earth,  sea,  and  sky,  each  acting  is 
their  proper  sphere,  and  sometimes  coun- 
teracting one  another,  according  as  interest 
or  inclination  leads  them.  They  also  ac- 
knowledge the  existence  of  a  great  number 
of  strange  gods,  calling  them  by  the  general 
name  of  Fyga,  among  whom  they  rank  ours 
as  the  greatest;  and  when  they  think  it 
will  answer  their  purpose,  they  will  readily 
acknowledge  him  as  far  wiser,  and  in  every 
respect  better  than  theirs,  having  taught  us 
to  make  so  much  better  ships,  tools,  cloth, 
&c.  than  they  have  ever  been  able  to  do. 
Besides  these,  they  imagine  every  indivi' 
dual  to  be  under  the  power  and  control  of 
a  spirit  peculiar  to  himself,  which  they  call 
Odooa,  who  interests  himself  in  all  their 
concerns,  but  is  little  regarded  till  angry, 
when  they  think  he  inflicts  upon  them  all 
the  deadly  disorders  to  which  they  are  sub- 


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ject ;  and  then,  to  appease  him,  the  rela- 
tions and  other  connections  of  the  afflicted 
person,  especially  if  he  be  a  chief,  run  into 
all  the  inhuman  practices  of  cutting  off 
their  little  fingers,  beating  their  faces,  and 
tabooing  themselves  from  certain  kinds  of 
food." 

**  A  TOUKO  woman  gave  us  an  affecting 
account  of  the  fate  of  one  of  Moomooe*8 
sons.  The  youth,  it  seems,  lived  at  some 
distance  from  Noogollifva,  where  the  father 
lies  sick,  and  by  order  of  whom  he  was  sent 
fur,  under  pretence  of  having  his  little  fin- 
gers cut  oir,  a  custom  common  here,  and 
done  with  a  view  to  appease  the  anger  of 
the  Odooa,  that  the  sick  person  may  re- 
cover, but  in  fact  that  he  might  be  strangled. 
Upon  the  arrival  of  Colelallo,  he  was  sa- 
luted in  a  cordial  manner  by  his  elder  bro- 
ther, Toogahowe,  and  soon  after  went  to 
sec  his  father,  whose  attendants  seized  upon 
him  with  a  view  to  strangle  him  instantly  ; 
when  he,  guessing  their  intention,  said,  if 
they  would  use  gentler  means  he  would 
submit  to  his  father*s  will ;  but  they  con- 
tinuing their  violence,  he  by  a  gi*eat  exer- 
tion beat  them  off.  Three  feejee  men  were 
then  called,  and  these  being  joined  by  a 
sister  of  the  unfortunate  Colelallo,  they  ac- 
complished his  death." — Missionary  Voyage, 

The  Egyptians  had  this  custom  also.  Are 
not  all  sacrifices  vicarious  ? 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^0^^^^^^^ 


**  Thet  believe  the  immortidity  of  the 
soul,  which  at  death,  they  -say,  is  immedi- 
ately conveyed  in  a  very  large  fast  sailing 
canoe  to  a  distant  country  called  Doob- 
ludha,  which  they  describe  as  resembling 
the  Mahometan  Paradise.  They  call  the 
god  of  this  region  of  pleasure  Higgolayo, 
and  esteem  him  as  the  greatest  and  most 
powerful  of  all  others,  the  rest  bemg  no 
better  than  servants  to  him.** — Ibid. 


•^^^AA^M^A^^^i^/^"^^^^^ 


Otarxttb.  The  general  name  for  Deity 
ia  all  its  ramifications  is  Eatooa«    Three 


are  held  supreme.  Tane,  the  Father;  Oro- 
mattow,  the  Son ;  Taroa,  the  Bird,  the  Spi- 
rit. This  stinks  of  the  Methodist.  Their 
other  greater  gods  they  call  Fwhanow-po, 
bom  of  night.  Among  these  are  the  names 
Orohho,  Oehawhow,  Tamma,  Toaheite,  Va- 
veah.  Each  family  has  its  Tee,  or  guar- 
dian spirit;  he  is  supposed  to  be  one  of 
their  departed  relatives,  who  for  his  supe- 
rior excellencies  has  been  exalted  to  an 
Eatooa.  They  suppose  this  spirit  can  in- 
fiict  sickness  or  remove  it;  and  preserve 
them  from  a  malignant  deity  also  called 
Tee,  who  has  no  power  but  upon  earth, 
and  is  always  employed  in  mischief. 

AVhen  the  spirit  departs  from  the  body, 
they  have  a  notion  it  is  swallowed  by  the 
Eatooa  bird,  who  frequents  their  morais, 
and  passes  through  him,  in  order  to  be  pu- 
rified, and  be  united  to  the  Deity. — Ibid. 


•^^^^^^%^^\^^\^M/V^^%'>^^ 


*'  In  the  beginning,  Tane  took  Taroa  and 
begat  Avye  freshwater,  Atye  the  sea,  Awa 
the  water-spout,  Matai  the  wind,  Arye  the 
sky,  and  Po  the  night,  then  Mahaiina  the 
sun,  in  the  shape  of  a  man  called  Oeroa 
Tabooa.  He  had  by  Townoo  the  thirteen 
months.  Then  she  returned  to  earth,  and 
Oeroa  embraced  a  rock  called  Poppoharra 
Harreha,  which  conceived  a  son  named  Te- 
tooboo-amata-hatoo,  after  which  the  rock 
returned  to  its  original  state,  and  the  father 
of  the  months  himself  died,  and  went  to 
dust  The  son  he  left  embraced  the  sand 
of  the  sea,  which  conceived  the  brother  and 
sister  Tee  and  Opeera;  then  he  also  re- 
turned to  earth.  Tee  and  Opeera  married ; 
she  fell  sick  at  last,  and  requested  her  hus- 
band to  heal  her ;  she  would  in  his  illness 
do  the  same  for  him ;  and  thus  they  should 
both  live  for  ever.  But  Tee  let  her  die, 
and  married  her  and  his  daughter,  Oheera- 
Reene-Moonoa.  Their  children  peopled 
the  earth.**— Ibid. 


•»>/VWS#VW^V**VWS'W>« 


**  Thbt  believe  the  stars  are  the  children 
of  the  sun  and  moon.    When  the  sim  and 


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moon  are  eclipsed,  they  suppose  them  in 
the  act  of  copiilation.  When  a  star  shoots, 
it  is  the  Eatooa.  They  put  great  confidence 
in  dreams,  and  suppose  in  sleep  the  soul 
leaves  the  body  under  the  care  of  the  guar- 
dian angel,  and  moves  at  large  through  the 
region  of  spirits.  Thus  they  say,  my  soul 
was  such  a  night  in  such  a  place,  and  saw 
such  a  spirit.  When  a  person  dies,  they 
say  his  soul  is  harre  Po,  gone  to  the  night** 
—Ibid. 


«V%/V^^PWVWVS/^W^V>M^ 


**Thbt  entertain  a  high  idea  of  the  power 
of  spirits.  In  the  beautiful  and  romantic 
view  of  Taloo  harbour,  the  remarkable 
peaked  mountain  is  said  to  be  but  a  part  of 
the  original  one.  Some  spirits  from  Ulietga 
had  broken  off  the  other  half,  and  were 
transporting  it  down  the  bay  in  order  to 
carry  it  away  with  them,  but  being  over- 
taken by  the  break  of  day,  they  were  obliged 
to  drop  it  near  the  mouth  of  the  harbour, 
where  it  now  stands  conspicuous  as  a  rock, 
— for  these  spirits  walk  and  work  by  night.** 
—Ibid. 


•'X/N/XM^^VS/WW^^^V^MW^ 


[^NotioTU  in  the  Kingdom  of  Benin.] 

**  Les  habitans  du  Royaume  de  Benin, 
en  Afrique,  reconnoissent  un  Dieu  qui  re- 
compense ou  punit,  selon  le  bien  ou  le  mal 
qu*on  a  fait.  Bs  croyent  que  Tombre  du 
corps  est  un  etre  r^el,  qui  nous  accompagne 
jMtns  cesse,  qui  se  rend  k  son  gre  visible  ou 
invisible,  et  par  qui  Dieu  est  instruit,  li  no- 
tre  mort,  de  nos  bonnes  et  de  nos  mauvaises 
actions.** — Saintfoix. 


v»/s/</N/>.»«'w<r«»v»/wvWMW» 


{Maldivt  Ingenuity.'] 

Thb  inhabitants  of  the  Maldives — '*  de 
Testoupe  du  Cocos  ils  font  des  chemises  en- 
tieres  avec  les  manches  et  les  quartiers,  d*un 
mesme  tissu,  aussi-bien  que  des  demi-vestes.** 
— Anciennee  Relations. 


L 


\_Self -performing  Insintmeni.1 

**A  MANUSCRIPT,**  says  Mr.  Marsden,**b 
now  lying  before  me,  containing  the  ad- 
ventures of  two  princes  who  were  sent  by 
the  king  their  father  to  obtain  for  him  the 
possession  of  an  extraordinary  self-perform- 
ing instrument  of  music,  whose  enchanting 
air  he  had  heard  in  a  dream.** — Asiatic  Re- 


searches. 


^««^^^V^/W\MA«V\/VN^«WWS^^ 


[^Processional  Music  of  the  Idol  of 
Juggernaut.'] 

"  Under  the  idol  of  Juggernaut,  when 
he  rides  abroad  in  his  procession,  sit  the 
king*s  wives,  *  which,  af^r  their  manner, 
play  on  all  instruments,  making  a  most 
sweet  melody.*  *' — Linschoten. 


^MAAA^tAA^VA/V^N<V>/«A«N«^ 


[Offspring  of  Menu.] 

^*  The  sons  of  Marichi,  and  of  all  the 
other  Richis,  who  were  the  offspring  of 
Menu,  are  called  the  companies  of  Pitris  or 
forefathers. 

"  They  are  elsewhere  called  the  proge- 
nitors of  mankind,  and  the  patriarchs  in- 
habiting the  moon.** — Inst,  of  Menu. 


From  the  Hindoo  Mythology.     Sonnerat. 

"  The  Andon  is  the  visible  world:  it  is 
composed  of  one  sun,  one  earth,  planets,  and 
stars.  The  whole  is  surrounded  with  s 
round  and  very  thick  shell.  The  Andons 
are  innumerable,  and  ranged  one  upon 
another,  very  much  in  the  manner  of  piling 
eggs.- 


MWMMMW^^^^V^^^^h^^^^^ 


**  Satialooam  is  the  Paradise  of  Brah* 
ma,  the  Yaicondon  of  Yichenou,  the  Caila- 
son  of  Eswara.** 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^•^^f^^^^ 


*'  The  virtues  are  divided  into  two  classest 
which  must  not  be  confounded.  The  one 
is  called  Pravarty,  and  the  other  Nivarty. 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION.  247 


The  first  contains  two  articles,  called  Ische- 
tam  and  Bourtam.  Ischetam  comprehends 
all  actions  done  in  religious  ceremonies;  but 
the  building  of  temples,  chouUrie^  digging 
tanks,  planting  rows  of  trees,  &c.  all  such 
good  works  are  called  Bourtam.  Those 
who  practise  them  will  die  at  the  time  that 
the  sun  advances  towards  the  south,  and 
the  night  of  a  day  when  the  moon  is  in  her 
second  quarter.  After  their  death  they 
will  find  themselves  in  the  world  of  the 
moon,  where  they  will  be  happy  according 
to  their  deserts. 

^  The  soul  in  the  state  of  Nivarty  bums 
with  the  fire  of  wisdom.  Its  power  anni- 
hilates the  action  of  the  senses,  and  this 
soul  enters  into  the  immensity  of  the  uni- 
versal being.  All  men  in  the  state  of  Ni- 
varty will  die  at  the  time  that  the  sun  takes 
his  course  towards  the  north,  and  the  morn- 
ing of  the  day  when  the  moon  is  in  the  first 
quarter.  Raised  by  the  sunbeams,  the  soul 
will  go  to  the  paradise  of  Brahma,  called 
Satialogam,  where  it  will  enjoy  those  inex- 
pressible delights  possessed  by  the  gods. 
The  matter  of  which  it  is  composed  becomes 
subtile,  and  is  changed  into  an  universal 
body,  and  the  faculty  of  this  casual  body  is 
destroyed  by  the  wisdom  of  the  soul.  From 
this  delightful  place  it  goes  to  the  Sorgon ; 
from  whence  the  followers  of  Yichenou  pass 
into  the  Yaicondon,  and  the  followers  of 
£swara  into  the  Cailason." 

**  Dbvbndrbn  is  king  of  the  Deverkels 
or  demigods.  The  Sorgon  is  his  paradise. 
He  supports  the  east  part  of  the  universe. 
He  is  represented  covered  with  eyes,  with 
four  arms,  holding  a  hook,  a  coulichou,  and 
mounted  on  a  white  elephant.  Devendren 
had  many  wars  to  sustain  against  the  giants, 
enemies  of  the  gods.  Alternately  conque- 
ror and  conquered,  he  has  at  several  times 
been  driven  out  of  the  Sorgon ;  and  it  was 
only  by  the  protection  of  Brahma,  Yichenou, 

'  The  Choultry  or  Madan,  is  a  repository  of 
stone,  covered  with  a  vault,  adorned  on  all  sides 
with  acalptnre,  and  built  in  temples  to  shew  the 
dirmitv. 


and  Eswara,  that  he  at  last  destroyed  the 
giants,  and  remained  peaceable  possessor  of 
the  Sorgon. 

"  Aguini,  god  of  fire,  second  of  the  Dever- 
kels. He  supports  the  south-east  part  of 
the  universe,  and  is  represented  with  four 
arms,  holding  in  two  a  crit ;  his  head  sur- 
rounded with  flames,  and  mounted  on  a 
ram. 

**  Yamen,*  god  of  death,  and  king  of  hell, 
governs  the  south,  a  terrible  figure  holding 
a  staff*  and  mounted  on  a  buffalo. 

**  Niroudi,  king  of  the  demons,  and  bad 
genii,  supports  the  south-west.  He  is  car- 
ried on  a  giant*s  shoulders,  and  holds  a 
sabre 

**  Yarounin,  god  of  the  sea,  supports  the 
west,  he  rides  a  crocodile  with  a  whip. 

**  Yayou,  god  of  the  wind,  supports  the 
north-west.  His  weapon  a  sabre,  his  beast 
an  antelope. 

"  Couberen,  god  of  wealth,  the  north,  on 
a  white  horse  with  plumes. 

**  Isanien,  equipped  like  Eswara,  and 
also  on  an  ox,  supports  the  north-east.** 


**  Chourixit,  Sandrien,  Anguaraguen, 
Bouda,  Barasouadi,  Soura,  and  Sani,  are 
the  Sun,  Moon,  Mars,  Mercury,  Jupiter, 
Yenus,  and  Saturn,  demigods  as  well  as 
planets ;  each  presiding  over  one  day  of  the 
week.  Sani  is  the  god  who  punishes  men 
during  their  life-time,  he  approaches  only 
to  hurt  them.  The  Hindoos  fear  him  much, 
and  address  prayers  to  him.  He  is  blue, 
quadrimontf,  and  rides  a  raven.  Two  ser- 
pents form  a  circle  about  him.** 

"  Thirty -THBEB  courous  of  Deverkels, 
all  pure  spirits,  all  sons  of  Cassiber  and 
Adidi  inhabit  the  Sorgon.  A  courou  is 
100  lacks ;  a  lack,  100,000.  They  are  di- 
vided into  tribes,  called 

**  1.  Yassoukels.   These  are  only  eight  in 

*  '*  Two  forms  inseparable  in  unity 
Hath  Tamen ;  even  as  with  hope  and  fear 
The  soul  regardeth  him  doth  ne  appear,"  &c. 
The  Curse  of  Keharoa, — Fadalun,  xxiii.  13. 
Poemn,  p.  621.— J.  W.  W. 


number.  Perhaps,  and  probably  the  pro- 
tectors of  the  octagon  world. 

"  2.  Maroutoukels.     Only  two. 

"  3.  Guinerers.    Grods  of  music. 

'*  4.  Guimbourouders.     Of  singing. 

"  5.  Chidders. 

"  6.  Vitiaders. 

**  7.  Guerouders.  They  have  .wings,  and 
their  noses  are  like  the  eaglets  beak.  Viche- 
nQu  rides  on  a  Gueronder. 

"  8.  Grindouvers,  famous  for  their  beauty. 
They  have  wings,  and  love  to  fly  in  the  air 
with  their  wives. 

"  9.  Fidourdevadegals ;  protectors  of  the 
dead.  The  only  tribe  that  is  adored  and 
supplicated.*' 

'*  Thb  Calls  and  Poudaris  are  tutelary 
divinities,  protectresses  of  cities.  Each 
city  has  its  own.  They  delight  in  blood, 
and  some  of  them  in  human  sacrifice.  They 
are  not  immorialt  of  giant  stature,  many- 
armed,  their  heads  surrounded  with  flames. 
Several  fierce  animab  are  also  placed  under 
their  feet." 

*'  Or  the  giants,  or  bad  genii,  are  five 
tribes. 

**  1.  Achourecp,  of  whom  some  have  go- 
verned the  world,  a  favour  they  obtained 
by  their  penances. 

"  2.  Rachadars,  who  have  often  subjected 
the  world  under  the  government  of  some  of 
their  kings.  But  these  monarchs,  abusing 
the  power  given  them  by  the  greater  gods, 
were  punished  by  Vichenou  and  Eswara. 

'*  3.  Bonders,  or  Boudons,  attendants  and 
guards  of  Eswara. 

**  4.  Caleguejers.  The  most  powerful 
race  of  giants.     They  inhabit  the  Padalon. 

**  5.  Guingerers,  endowed  with  extra- 
ordinary strength.  They  serve  the  Achou- 
rers  as  soldiers,  and  inhabit  also  the  Pada- 
lon. 

**  Many  of  these  malicious  genii  are  con- 
demned to  wander  on  the  earth  after  their 
decease,  on  account  of  their  bad  actions ; 
and  cannot  quit  it  but  by  collecting  the 
prayers  the  Indians  make  to  the  gods ;  so 


that  they  get  near  those  who  are  praying, 
and  endeavour  to  confound  them ;  that 
they  may  omit  some  of  the  ceremonies  pre- 
scribed by  their  ritual.  It  is  by  ihis  means, 
and  not  by  their  own  works,  that  they  can 
find  grace  before  the  Lord.  When  they 
have  collected  a  suflicient  quantity  of  pray- 
ers, they  are  permitted  to  change  their  na- 
ture ;  and  then  from  wandering  unfortunate 
genii  they  become  souls,  passing  into  the 
bodies  of  men,  and  by  this  change  enjoy- 
ing the  happiness  promised  to  the  latter. 
Li  order  to  prevent  such  surprbe  is  the 
reason  that  the  Indians,  in  beginning  the 
divine  service,  repeat  a  prayer,  and  fling 
water  three  times  over  the  lef^  shoulder, 
which  is  the  only  part  where  the  genii  can 
attack  them.** 

*'  Thbt  believe  also  in  spirits,  attribut- 
ing the  same  qualities  to  them  which  we 
give  to  hobgoblins.  They  name  them 
Mouni,  or  Cateri,  or  Pichache.  They  have 
no  body,  but  take  what  form  they  please. 
It  is  particularly  during  the  night-time 
that  they  roam  to  hurt  mankind,  endea- 
vouring to  lead  astray  travellers  to  preci- 
pices, wells,  and  rivers;  transforming  them- 
selves into  Will-o*-the-wisps,  houses,  men, 
or  animals,  to  conceal  the  danger  into  which 
they  are  conducting  the  traveller.  To  make 
them  propitious,  the  Indians  erect  colossal 
statues  to  their  honour,  and  pray  to  them." 

*'  Thb  wicked  will  be  flung  into  hell,  a 
place  beneath  the'  earth,  near  the  south, 
called  Padalam.  Rivers  of  fire,  horrible 
monsters,  destructive  arms,  infectious  in- 
sects, and  all  sorts  of  evils  are  concentered 
in  this  terrible  comer.  After  the  dc^Ui  of 
these  unfortunate  people,  the  Emaguinguil- 
liers,  the  giant  servants  of  Yamen  drag 
them,  tied  and  bound  with  cords ;  they  are 
beat,  whipt,  and  trod  under  foot;  thej 
walk  on  points  of  iron ;  their  bodies  shall 
be  picked  by  crows,  and  gnawn  by  dogs; 
and  they  shall  be  flung  into  a  burning  riter. 
It  is  not  till  after  these  cruelties  have  been 
exercised  upon  them  that  the  ministers  of 


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rill  conduct  them  before  Yunen. 
corruptible  and  severe  judge  will 
1  them  according  to  the  faidts  thejr 
omitted.  Those  who  have  despised 
es  of  religion  shall  be  cast  on  heaps 
ig  arms,  and  suffer  this  torment  as 
iara  as  they  have  hairs  on  their  bo- 
"hose  who  insult  the  Bramins  and 
in  high  office,  shall  be  cut  in  pieces, 
ers  shall  be  forced  to  embrace  a 
lade  hot  with  fire.  Those  who  fail 
duty,  who  do  not  take  care  of  their 
and  who  abandon  them  to  roam 
shall  be  continually  torn  by  the 
Those  who  do  hurt  to  men,  or  who 
[lals,  shall  be  cast  from  precipices 
rmented  by  wild  beasts.  Those  who 
b  reverenced  thejr  parents,  nor  the 
^  shall  burn  in  a  fire  whose  flames 
e  to  10,000  yogenais.  Those  who 
used  old  men  and  children  shall  be 
t  furnaces.  Those  who  have  slept 
&y  time  with  lewd  women  shall  be 
3  walk  on  thorns.  Slanderers  and 
&torf,  stretched  upon  beds  of  red- 
shall  be  obliged  to  eat  excrements.^ 
ihall  serve  for  food  to  the  worms. 
ho  rob  the  Bramins  shall  be  sawed 
the  middle  of  their  bodies.  Those 
n  motives  of  vanity  slay  cows  and 
imals  in  the  sacrifices,  shall  be  beat 
ivil.  False  witnesses  shall  be  Anns 
i  top  of  high  mountains.  Lastly, 
ual,  the  idlers,  and  those  who  have 
pity  on  the  poor  and  miserable, 
flung  into  burning  caverns  f  shall 
ed  under  mill-stones,  and  trod  un- 
.  by  elephants ;  and  their  bruised 
t  flesh  shall  serve  for  food  to  those 
All  these  miserable  sinners  shall 
i  this  manner  during  many  thou- 
rs ;  and  their  imperishable  bodies, 
I  divided  by  torments,  shall  re-unite 
as  quicksilver.  They  afterwards 
condemned  to  a  new  life,  during 


i  Kings,  xviii.  27;  Isaiah,  xxxvi.  12. 
that  these  disgusting  expressions  are 
.—J.  W.  W» 


which  their  torments  shall  be  lengthened, 
and  by  an  effect  of  the  Divine  power  they 
shall  find  themselves  again  in  the  seed  of 
man.  This  seed  diffused  in  the  womb, 
shall  be,  during  a  whole  night,  like  mud. 
The  fifth  day  it  shall  be  like  globules  of 
water.  In  the  fourth  month,  the  sinews  of 
the  foetus  shall  be  formed.  In  the  fifth,  he 
shall  experience  hunger  and  thirst.  In  the 
sixth,  an  epidermis  shall  cover  his  body. 
In  the  seventh,  he  shall  be  sensible  of  mo- 
tions. He  will  inhabit  ti»e  right  side  of  his 
mother,  and  be  nourished  by  the  suction  of 
the  nourishment  she  takes.  Reduced  to 
flutter  in  his  excrements,  the  worms  shall 
bite  him;  the  sharp  nutriture  and  warm 
water  which  his  mother  drinks  will  give 
him  acute  pains.  He  will  suffer  much  in 
his  birth ;  and  when  bom  will  be  still  sub- 
ject to  infinite  pains.  It  is  thus  that  this 
painful  birth  shall  be  renewed,  till  these 
unhappy  creatures  have  the  courage  to  give 
themselves  up  entirely  to  the  practice  of 
virtue." 

^  All  souls  whom  a  violent  death  has- 
tens to  the  grave,  except  those  who  perish 
in  a  war,  or  in  defence  of  their  gods  or 
their  country,  remain  wandering  and  ram- 
bling upon  the  earth  as  long  a  time  as  they 
were  destined  to  live  in  the  bodies  they 
lately  animated.  They  can  be  judged  only 
after  this  interval.** 

"  Ir  the  destiny  of  the  soul  has  been  so 
unfortunate,  that  it  is  doomed  to  animate 
the  body  of  an  animal,  it  will  successively 
pass  into  different  disguises  of  this  kind, 
except  some  fortunate  circumstance  deli- 
vers it  from  this  deplorable  state ;  because 
an  animal  cannot  perform  a  meritorious  act. 
Those  fortunate  circumstances  are,  the  sight 
of  a  deity,  whether  in  his  temples  or  in  the 
streets  during  the  ceremony  of  a  procession. 
Sometimes  the  sight  alone  of  a  holy  place 
may  operate  for  the  deliverance.  At  this 
epocha  the  soul  passes  into  the  body  of  & 
man,  and  thus  wanders  from  body  to  body 
till  it  becomes  perfectly  pure.** 


i 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


^  Thb  gods  and  the  giants  desiring  to 
procure  themselves  immortality,  after  the 
counsel  of  Vichenou,  transported  the  moun- 
tain of  Mandrig^iri  into  the  sea  of  milk,  to 
get  the  Amourdon :  they  surrounded  it  with 
the  serpent  Addissechen,  and  drawing  it 
alternately,  some  by  the  head  and  some  by 
the  tail,  they  turned  the  mountain  topsy- 
turvy, that  they  might  change  the  sea  into 
butt«r.    They  drew  it  with  such  swiftness, 
that  Adissechen,  overcome  with  weariness, 
could  no  longer «6upport  the  fatigue;  his 
body   trembled,    his    thousand    shivering 
mouths  made  the  earth  resound  with  his 
hissings ;  a  torrent  of  flame  issued  from  his 
eyes;    his   thousand   tongues,   black   and 
hanging,  palpitated  ;  and  he  vomited  a  ter- 
rible poison,  which  in  an  instant  spread 
itself  every  where.    Vichenou,  more  intre- 
pid than  the  other  gods  and  giants,  who  fled, 
took  the  poison,  and  rubbed  his  body  with 
it,  which  immediately  became  blue.     It  is 
in  commemoration  of  this  event,  that  in 
almost  all  the  temples  dedicated  to  him, 
they  represent  him  of  a  blue  colour.     The 
gods  and  giants  returned  to  their  work; 
they  laboured  during  a  thousand  years,  afler 
which  the  mountain  sunk  by  degrees  into 
the  sea.    Yichenou  then  took  the  form  of  a 
tortoise  of  an  extraordinary  size,  went  into 
the  sea,  and  easily  lifted  up  the  sunk  moun- 
tain.    All  the  gods,  after  having  given  him 
praises,  united  to  turn  the  mountain.     At 
last,  after  many  ages,  the  cow  Camadenou 
came  out  of  the  sea  of  milk,  as  also  the 
horse  Outchisaravam,  and  the  white  ele- 
phant Ariapadum,  and  the  tree  Calpaga 
Vroucham.     Their  labours  also  produced 
three  goddesses,  Latchimi,  goddess  of  riches, 
wife  of  Yichenou ;  Sarasouadi,  goddess  of 
sciences  and  harmony,  whom  Brahma  took 
to  his  wife ;  and  Moudevi,  goddess  of  dis- 
cord and  misfortune,  with  whom,  for  good 
reason,  no  person  would  trouble  themselves ; 
for  the  Indians  suppose,  that  whoever  is 
under  her  influence  will  never  have  a  grain 
of  rice  to  appease  his  hunger.     She  is  re- 
presented green,  mounted  on  an  ass,  carry- 
ing a  banner  in  her  hand,  on  which  a  raven 


is  punted.  Those  animals  are  given  her  is 
attributes,  because  they  are  held  infamous 
by  the  Gentoos.  The  physician  Danoo- 
vandri  afterwards  came  out  from  the  bottom 
of  the  sea  with  a  vase  full  of  Amourdon. 
Yichenou  distributed  it  among  the  gods 
alone ;  and  the  giants,  who  saw  themselves 
disappointed,  furious  for  having  been  de- 
ceived, dispersed  themselves  over  the  earth, 
preventing  homage  being  paid  to  any  deity 
whatever,  and  exercised  all  kinds  of  cruelty 
to  make  themselves  adored.** 

'*  Yichehou  assumed  the  form  of  a  wo- 
man, under  the  name  of  Moyeni,  to  seduce 
the  giants  and  take  the  Amortam  from  them. 
Eswara  was  so  struck  with  her  beauty,  that 
he  could  not  resist  his  desires,  and  became 
with  her  the  father  of  Ayenar.  The  Gentoos 
esteem  this  son  of  Eswara  and  Yichenou  as 
the  protector  of  the  world,  of  good  order, 
and  of  the  police ;  but  they  do  not  rank 
him  with  gods  of  the  first  class.  They  build 
small  temples  to  him  in  the  woods,  com- 
monly at  a  distance  from  the  highway,  bnt 
never  in  towns.  He  is  known  by  the  quan- 
tity of  horses  made  of  dried  earth,  which 
they  consecrate  to  him,  and  are  placed  with- 
out side  the  temple,  but  under  cover.  It 
is  not  permitted  to  pass  near  those  temples 
in  a  carriage,  on  horseback,  or  on  foot  with 
shoes  on.  He  is  the  only  god  to  whom 
sanguinary  offerings  are  made;  kids  and 
cocks  being  sacrificed  to  him.** 

"  Latchimi,  the  wealth-giver,  the  mother 
of  the  world,  the  perfectly  beautiful,  had  bj 
her  husband  Yichenou,  Manmadin,  god  of 
love,  a  child  in  figure  like  Cupid,  carrying 
a  quiver  on  his  shoulders,  and  a  bow  and 
arrow  in  his  hand;  but  his  bow  is  of  sugar 
cane,  his  arrows  of  all  sorts  of  flowers,  and 
he  is  mounted  on  a  parroquet.  Although 
an  infant,  they  have  given  him  a  wife  called 
Radi,  which  signifies  Debauch ;  they  repre- 
sent her  as  a  beautiful  woman,  on  her  knees, 
on  horseback,  throwing  a  dart.** 

"  Eswara  unites  in  himself  both  sexes, 


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251 


Parvadi  is  only  a  part  of  himself, 
and  greatest  of  his  sons  is  PoUear. 
les  over  marriages.  The  Indians 
house,  without  having  first  carried 
on  the  ground,  which  they  sprinkle 
and  throw  flowers  on  it  everj  day. 

0  not  invoke  it  before  Ihej  under- 
enterprize,  they  believe  that  Grod 

1  them  forget  what  they  wanted  to 
e,  and  that  their  labour  will  be  in 
!e  has  an  elephant*s  head,  and  rides 
It  in  the  pagodas  they  place  him 
2stal  with  his  legs  almost  crossed, 
dways  put  before  the  door  of  his 
This  rat  was  a  giant,  Gudje-mouga- 
!>n  whom  the  gods  had  bestowed 
ity,  as  well  as  great  powers ;  which 
i,  and  did  much  harm  to  mankind, 
ntreated  by  the  sages  and  peni- 
leliver  them,  pulled  out  one  of  his 
1  threw  it  against  the  oppressor. 
1  entered  the  giant*s  stomach,  and 
r  him.  He  immediately  changed 
ito  a  rat,  as  large  as  a  mountain, 
I  to  attack  PoUear:  who  sprung 
ck,  telling  him,  that  hereafter  he 
er  be  his  carrier.  The  Hindoos, 
adoration  of  this  god,  cross  the 
t  the  fist,  and  in  this  manner  give 
s  several  blows  on  the  temples : 
t  always  with  the  arms  cro^-ised, 
hold  of  their  ears,  and  make  three 
ns,  bending  the  knee ;  after  which, 
*  hands  joined,  they  address  their 
!>  him,  and  strike  their  forehead, 
e  a  great  veneration  for  this  deity, 
lage  they  place  in  all  temples, 
ghways,  and  in  the  country  at  the 
ime  tree,  that  all  the  world  may 
opportunity  of  invoking  him,  be- 
undertake  any  concern,  and  that 
may  make  their  adorations  and 

to  him  before  they  pursue  their 


second  son  of  Eswara  is  Soupra- 

hom  his  father  produced  from  the 

middle  of  his  forehead,  to  destroy 

Soura-Parpma.     This  last,  by 


strength  of  penances,  had  obtained  the  go- 
vernment of  the  world  and  immortality; 
but  became  so  wicked  that  God  was  obliged 
to  punish  him.  He  sent  Soupramanier,  who 
fought  him  unsuccessfully  for  ten  days ;  but 
at  last,  making  use  of  the  Velle,  anns  which 
he  had  received  from  his  father,  he  cut  the 
giant  in  two.  These  two  parts  changed,  one 
into  a  peacock,  and  the  other  into  a  cook. 
Soupramanier  gave  them  a  better  heart,  and 
from  that  moment  they  paid  homage  to 
Eswara.  He  enjoined  the  peacock  always 
to  carry  him,  and  the  cock  to  be  always  in 
his  standard." 

"  VAntBYBaT,  the  third  son  of  Eswara, 
was  created  from  his  breath,  to  overthrow 
the  pride  of  the  Deverkels  and  the  Peni- 
tents, and  to  humble  Brahma,  who  had 
vaunted  that  he  was  the  greatest  of  the 
three  gods.  Vairevert  pulled  off  one  of 
Brahma^s  heads,  and  received  the  blood  of 
all  the  Deverkels  and  Penitents  in  the  skull; 
but  afterwards  brought  them  to  life  again, 
and  gave  them  purer  hearts.  This  is  the 
god  who  by  Eswara*s  command  will  come 
to  destroy  the  world  at  the  end  of  the  ages. 
He  is  blue,  three-eyed,  with  two  tusks  like 
crescents,  a  collar  of  heads  round  his  neck, 
falling  on  his  stomach ;  his  girdle  is  made 
of  serpents, 4iis  hair  of  a  fire  colour,  bells 
are  on  hb  feet,  he  rides  a  dog.*' 

"  Thb  fiflh  incarnation  of  Vichenou  was 
in  a  Bramin  dwarf,  under  the  name  of 
Vamen;  it  was  wrought  to  restrain  the 
pride  of  the  giant  Bely.  The  latter  afler 
having  conquered  the  gods,  expelled  them 
from  Sorgon.  He  was  generous,  true  to 
his  word,   compassionate   and  charitable.' 

*  "  Their  talk  was  of  the  city  of  the  days 
Of  old,  Earth's  wonder  once,  and  of  the  fame 
Of  Baly  its  great  founder,  -  he  whose  name 

In  ancient  story  and  in  poet's  praise, 
Liveth  and  flourisheth  for  endless  glory, 

Because  his  might 
Put  down  the  wrong,  and  age  upheld  the 
right,"  &c. 

The  Curse  of  Kehama,— The  City  of 
Bely,  XV.  4.— J.W.  W. 


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Yichenou,  under  the  form  of  a  yerj  little 
Bramin,  presented  himself  before  him  while 
he  was  sacrificing,  and  asked  him  for  three 
paces  of  land  to  build  a  hut.  Belj  ridi- 
culed the  apparent  imbecUitj  of  the  dwarf, 
in  telling  him,  that  he  ought  not  to  limit 
his  demand  to  a  request  so  trifling;  that 
his  generosity  could  bestow  a  much  larger 
donation  of  land.  Yamen  answered,  that 
being  of  so  small  a  stature,  what  he  asked 
was  more  than  sufficient  The  prince  imme- 
diately granted  his  request,  and  to  ratify 
his  donation,  poured  water  into  his  right 
hand ;  which  was  no  sooner  done,  than  the 
dwarf  grew  so  prodigiously,  that  his  body 
filled  the  uniyerse.  He  measured  the  earUi 
with  one  pace,  and  the  heayens  with  an- 
other,^ and  then  summoned  Bely  to  giye 
him  his  word  for  the  third.  The  prince  then 
recognized  Vichenou,  adored  him,  and  pre- 
sented his  head  to  him :  but  the  god,  satis- 
fied with  his  submission,  sent  him  to  goyem 
Pndalon,  and  permitted  him  to  return  annu- 
ally to  the  earth,  on  the  day  of  the  full  moon 
in  November,  the  anniyersary  of  his  over- 
throw, to  witness  the  fireworks  and  illu- 
minations, a  sight  of  which  he  was  very 
fond." 

"  Pabassousama  was  only  one  part  of 
Vichenou.  He  declared  war  against  the 
kings  of  the  race  of  the  sun,  defeated  them 
all,  and  gave  their  kingdom  to  the  Bramins. 
He  would  afterwards  have  retired  into  a 
corner  of  the  country  he  had  presented 
them,  to  pass  his  days  in  tranquillity,  but 
none  of  the  Bramins  would  permit  him : 
and  finding  no  asylum  on  the  earth,  he  re- 
tired on  the  Grants,  whose  foundation  was 
washed  by  the  waves.  It  was  there  that  he 
called  Varounin,  god  of  the  sea,  begging 
him  to  withdraw  his  waters,  in  order  to 

'  The  classical  reader  will  call  to  mind  Ho- 
mer's description  of  strife,  Iliad,  A.  443. 

Oipavtfi  Iffrripi^t  Ktipti,  Kdi  M  xOovl  fiaivii. 
With  which  may  be  compared  the  words  in 
the  Btwk  of  Wisdom,  *'  It  touched  the  heaven, 
but  it  stood  upon  the  earth."  xviii.  16. 

J.  W.  W. 


give  him  a  place  he  could  inhabit ;  he  onlj 
desired  the  space  of  an  arrow's  flight,  which 
he  would  shoot.  Yarounin  consented,  bat 
the  penitent  Narader,  witness  of  the  pro- 
mise he  had  just  given,  made  him  sensible 
of  his  imprudence,  by  assuring  him,  that  it 
was  Vichenou  himself,  and  that  he  would 
send  his  arrow  beyond  all  the  seas;  in 
which  case  Varounin  would  not  know  what 
to  do  with  his  waters.  Varounin,  lament- 
ing at  not  being  able  to  recall  his  promise, 
ran  speedily  to  Yamen,  god  of  death,  b^;ging 
his  assistance  in  this  dilemma.  To  oblige 
him,  Yamen  changed  himself  into  a  white 
ant,  called  Karia  among  the  Indians,  who, 
in  the  night  time  came  when  Parassourama 
was  asleep,  and  by  favour  of  the  darkness 
gnawed  his  bow-string  in  such  a  manner,  ss 
to  leave  jiist  string  enough  to  keep  the  bow 
stretched.  Parassourama,  not  perceiving 
the  trick  played  him,  repaired  in  the  morn- 
ing to  the  sea  shore ;  he  put  an  arrow  to  his 
bow,  which  he  was  preparing  to  shoot  with 
all  his  strength ;  but  in  drawing  the  string, 
to  give  it  more  elasticity,  it  broke  in  such 
a  manner,  that  the  arrow  could  not  go  fsr. 
The  land  over  which  it  passed  dried,  and 
formed  the  country  of  Malealon,  which  we 
call  the  coast  of  Malabar.  Parassourama 
recaUing  to  mind  the  ingratitude  of  the 
Bramins,  cursed  them,  and  imposed  this  lot 
upon  them,  that  if  a  Bramin  should  die  on 
this  new  spot  of  earth,  he  should  return  to 
earth  again,  in  the  shape  of  an  ass.  There- 
fore no  Bramin*8  residence  is  to  be  seen  on 
this  proscribed  coast.  According  to  the 
Tamoul  tradition,  this  god  still  lives  on  the 
Malabar  coast.  They  represent  him  a  ter- 
rible  and  disagreeable  figure.  On  the  Coro- 
mandel  coast  he  is  painted  green,  with  a 
more  agreeable  countenance,  holding  in  one 
hand  a  hatchet,  and  a  fan  of  palm  leaves  in 
the  other." 

*'  Masiatajlb'  was  wife  of  the  penitent 

'  All  these  materials  were  of  course  oollecied 
for  the  **  Curse  of  Kehama. "  This  is  quoted  to 
•the  lines. 

*^  It  chanced  that  near  her,  on  the  river  brink, 


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li,  and  mother  of  Farassourama. 
commanded  the  elements,  but 
»erve  that  empire  longer  than 
IS  pure.  One  day,  while  she 
I  water  out  of  a  tank,  and,  ac- 
er  custom,  was  making  with 
rth  a  bowl  to  carrj  it  to  the 
w  on  the  surface  of  the  water 
)f  Grandouers,  who  were  flying 
i.  Struck  with  their  charms, 
her  heart.  The  earth  of  the 
L,  and  the  water  mixed  again 
ihe  tank.    From  this  time  she 

0  make  use  of  a  vase.  This 
overed  to  Chamadaguini  that 
deriated  from  purity,  and  in 
his  rage  he  ordered  his  son  to 
de  place  where  criminals  were 

1  to  behead  her.  This  order 
1,  but  Farassourama  was  so 
d  for  the  loss  of  his  mother, 
iguini  told  him  to  take  up  the 
ten  the  head  upon  it,  which  he 
nd  repeat  a  prayer  in  her  ear, 
^ht  him,  and  his  mother  would 
»  life.    The  son  ran  eagerly  to 

he  was  ordered,  but  by  a  very 
der,  he  joined  the  head  of  his 
e  body  of  a  Farichi  who  had 
d  for  her  crimes :  a  monstrous 
rhich  gave  to  this  woman  the 
xidess  and  the  vices  of  a  crimi- 
Idess  becoming  impure  by  such 
AS  driven  from  her  house,  and 
I  kinds  of  cruelties.  The  De- 
lving the  destruction  she  made, 
'  in  giving  her  the  power  to 
U-pox,  and  promising  her  she 
plored  for  that  disorder. — Ma- 

great  goddess  of  the  Farias, 
r  above  the  Deity.  To  honour 
re  a  custom  of  dancing  with 
>f  water  on  their  heads,  placed 

red  form  of  Marriataly  stood ; 
idol  roughly  hewn  of  wood, 
,  and  mean,  and  rude ; 
ess  of  the  poor  was  she ; 
I  regarded  ner  with  piety." 
TA«  Curte,  IL  8.— J.  W.  W. 


one  above  another,  lliese  pots  are  adorned 
with  the  leaves  of  the  Margosier,  a  tree  con- 
secrated to  her.  Fearing  her  son  Farassou- 
rama would  no  longer  adore  her,  she  prayed 
the  Deverkels  to  grant  her  another  child, 
and  they  gave  her  Catavareyen ;  the  Farias 
divide  their  adoration  between  his  mother 
and  him.  Mariatale  is  by  many  authors 
called  the  devil  Ganga.  I'hey  sacrifice  he- 
goats  to  her.** 

*^  YiCHBicou  resides  in  the  sea  of  milk,  in 
contemplative  repose,  throned  on  Addis- 
sechen,  or  Seja,  the  thousand-headed  ser- 
pent who  supports  the  universe.  They 
reckon  seven  seas : '  1 ,  of  salt ;  2,  of  butter ; 
3,  of  tain,  or  curdled  milk;  4,  of  calon,  the 
liquor  drawn  from  the  palm  ;  5,  of  the  ser- 
pent; 6,  of  water;  7,  of  milk,  which  they 
call  tirouparcadel.** 

**  Thb  two  Rachaders,  Ragou  and  Que- 
dou,  were  metamorphosed  into  snakes,  one 
red,  the  other  black.  They  are  enemies  to 
the  Sun  and  Moon,  who  prevented  them 
from  swallowing  a  portion  of  the  Amortam. 
Eclipses  happen  when  they  attack  them.** 

'*  Devendben,  in  the  figure  of  a  handsome 
man,  one  day  went  to  find  a  courtesan,  to 
prove  if  she  would  be  faithful  to  him.  He 
promised  her  great  rewards,  and  she  received 
him  well  during  the  whole  night.  Deven- 
dren  counterfeited  death,  and  the  courtesan 
was  so  prepossessed  of  the  truth,  that  she 
absolutely  would  be  burned  with  him,  though 
they  represented  to  her  that  he  was  not  her 
husband.  As  she  was  going  to  precipitate 
herself  into  the  flames,  Devendren  awoke, 
acknowledged  the  deceit,  took  her  for  his 
wife,  and  carried  her  into  his  paradise.** 

**  Mammadhv  once  dared  to  shoot  his  ar- 

*  In  the  extract  from  Kindersley,  Poems, 
p.  610,  there  is  some  little  difference.     The 
quotation  is  to  the  line, 
**  Yea,  the  seven  earths,  that,  each  with  its  own 
ocean,"  &c«  Mount  Calumy,  xix.  6. 

J.  W.  W. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


rows  at  Eswara.  The  god  darted  flame  from 
the  eje  in  his  forehead,  and  consumed  him 
to  ashes.  Afterwards  he  restored  him  to 
life.- 

'*  AaouNiN,  a  lame  Deverkel,  conducts  the 
chariot  of  the  sun.  The  chariot  is  supported 
at  one  end  bj  Mount  Merou,  the  rest  is 
sustained  by  the  air.  There  is  only  one 
wheel.  It  is  drawn  by  seven  green  horses. 
The  Yalaguilliers,  to  the  number  of  60,000, 
follow  the  sun  in  his  twelve  chambers,  ador- 
ing him,  and  singing  his  praise. 

**The  mountain  Merou  is  composed  of 
8,000  small  mountains.  It  is  of  gold,  in  the 
middle  of  the  earth.  The  gods  alone  can 
go  there.  With  this  mountain  they  churned 
the  sea  of  milk  to  make  the  Amortam.**^ 

*'TAKniisoneof  thetenBrahmas.  Thir- 
teen of  his  daughters  married  the  Penitent 
Cassiapen.  Of  these  Adidi  was  mother 
of  the  Deverkcls ;  Singinde,  of  Ragou  and 
Quedou ;  Yinde,  of  Arounin  the  lame ;  Ca- 
trou,  of  all  snakes ;  Arite,  of  twelve  lovely 
daughters,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Arambe,  is 
the  dancer  of  the  Deverkels.** 


•^^^^^^^^^^^^^A^^kA^^^Wt 


"  Thbt  believe  that  we  receive  from  the 
moon  a  certain  vital  water  which  gathereth 
and  disposeth  itself  in  the  brain,  descending 
thence,  as  from  a  source,  into  all  the  mem- 
bers for  their  functions.** — Besnisb. 

*'  All  the  Avatars  were  of  a  dark-blue 
colour,  to  mark  their  celestial  descent.** — 
Maurice. 

*'  Mata,  or,  as  the  word  is  explained  by 
some  Hindu  scholars,  thejirtt  inclination  of 
the  Oodhead  to  diversify  himself  (%\xQ\i  is  their 
phrase),  by  creating  worlds^  is  feigned  to  be 
the  mother  of  universal  nature,  and  of  all 
the  inferior  gods;  as  a  Cashmirian  informed 

'  Oa  "  The  Amreeta-cap  of  immortality,'*  see 
Notes  to  "  Curse  of  Kehama,*'  Po9m$^  p.  624. 

J.  W.  W. 


me,  when  I  asked  him  why  Cama^  or  Love, 
was  represented  as  her  son.** — Sib  W.  Johbs. 

*'  The  appropriate  seat  of  Mahadeva  (Es- 
wara) was  mount  Cailisa,  every  splinter  of 
whose  rocks  was  an  inestimable  gem.  His 
terrestrial  haunts  are  the  snowy  hills  of 
Himalaya^  or  that  branch  of  them  to  the 
east  of  the  Brahmapuira,wh.ich  has  the  name 
of  Chandrasic^harcL,  or  the  Mountains  of  the 
Moon.**  —Ibid. 

*'  There  the  sun  shines  not,  nor  the  moon 
and  stars.  These  lightnings  flash  not  in  that 
place:  how  should  even  fire  blaze  there f 
Ood  irradiates  all  this  bright  substance,  and 
by  its  effulgence  the  universe  b  enlightened. 
— From  the  Yqjurveda.     Asiat.  R. 

This  may  be  finely  applied  to  £swara*8 
glory  throne. 

'  Hsec  ait,  et  sese  radiorum  nocte  suorum 
Claudit  inaccessum.'  **  Cojlumbds. 

*'  Jambu  is  the  Sanscrit  name  of  a  deli- 
cate fruit,  called  J&man  by  the  Muselmans, 
and  by  us  rose-apple :  but  the  largest  tnd 
richest  sort  is  named  Amrita,  or  Immortal; 
and  the  mythologists  of  Tibet  apply  the  same 
word  to  a  celestial  tree  bearing  ambrosial 
fruit,  and  adjoining  to  four  vast  rocks,  from 
which  as  many  sacred  rivers  derive  their  se- 
veral streams.** — ^Ibid. 

It  is  odd  that  Sir  W.  Jones  makes  no  re- 
mark upon  this  resemblance  to  the  inunor- 
talizing  milk,  or  tree  of  life. 

**  Gabuda,  whom  Vishnu  rides,  is  often 
painted  with  the  face  of  a  beautiful  youth, 
and  the  body  of  an  imaginary  eagle.  Uis 
name  is  better  spelt  Garura.  He  is  the  ra- 
tional eagle.** — Ibid. 

*'  Kids  are  still  offered  to  Cali,  the  wife 
of  Siva,  to  palliate  the  cruelty  of  the  slaugh- 
ter which  gave  such  offence  to  Buddha.  The 
Brahmans  inculcate  a  belief  that  the  poor 
victims  rise  in  the  heaven  of  Indra,  where 
they  become  the  musicians  of  his  band. 


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^  Formerly  haman  sacrifices  were  made 
to  this  goddess,  and  bulls  and  horses.** — 
Ibid. 

Capardin,  wUh  thick  hair,  is  a  title  of  Es- 
wara. 

Thst  suppose  that  the  Sphinx,  or  Singh 
as  thej  call  her,  will  appear  at  the  end  of 
the  world  so  huge,  as  at  the  instant  of  her 
birth  to  seize  on  an  elephant.  This  tradi- 
tion was  related  bj  a  Pundit  to  Colonel 
Pearse.  Sir  W.  Jones  conceives  the  sculp- 
ture representing  it  to  be  intended  for  a 
lion, — so  Sif^h  means,  so  several  Bramins 
told  him  who  had  seen  it.  Yet  if  the  draw- 
ing of  the  colonel  be  correct,  the  female 
breasts  are  visible. 


^^^•^^S^^^FS^t^^^^^S^^^^^n^ 


Oriental  Images. 

^  Hbb  eyes  appear  like  moons  eclipsed, 
which  let  /all  their  gathered  nectar,  through 
ptin  caused  by  the  tooth  of  the  furious  dra- 
goQ." — Sotigs  of  Jayadeva, 

"  Spbbad  a  string  of  gems  on  those  two 
soft  globes ;  let  the  golden  bells  of  thy  zone 
tinkle,  and  proclaim  the  mild  edict  of  love. 
Say,  O  damsel,  with  delicate  speech,  shall 
I  (lye  red,  with  the  juice  of  alactaca,  those 
beautiful  feet,  which  will  make  the  full- 
blown land-lotus  blush  with  shame.** — Ibid. 

**Ain>  Radha,  with  timid  joy,  darting 
ber  eyest  on  Govinda,  while  she  musically 
sounded  the  rings  of  her  ankles,  and  the 
bells  of  her  zone,  entered  the  mystic  bower 
of  her  only  beloved.*' 

**Hi8  locks,  interwoven  with  blossoms, 
were  like  a  cloud  variegated  with  moon- 
beams.** 

**  Place  now  a  fresh  circle  of  musk,  black 
u  the  lunar  spots,  on  the  moon  of  my  fore- 
bead,  and  mix  gay  flowers  on  my  tresses, 
with  a  peacock*8  feathers,  in  graceful  order. 


that  they  may  wave  like  the  banners  of 
Cama.** 

He  applauds  another  who  dances  in  the 
sportive  circle,  **  whilst  her  bracelets  ring,  as 
she  beats  time  with  her  palms.** 

"  If  powder  of  sandal  wood  finely  levi- 
gated be  applied  to  her  breasts,  she  starts, 
and  mistakes  it  for  poison.** — Ibid. 


**  I  MTSBLF  never  was  not,  nor  thou,  nor 
all  the  princes  of  the  earth ;  nor  shall  we 
ever  hereafler  cease  to  be.*' — Kbeeshna,  in 
the  Bhagvat  Geeta. 

*'  As  the  soul  in  this  mortal  frame  findcth 
infancy,  youth,  and  old  age,  so  in  some  fu- 
ture frame  will  it  find  the  like.** — Ibid. 

"  The  former  state  of  beings  is  unknown, 
the  middle  state  b  evident,  and  their  future 
state  is  not  to  be  discovered.  Why,  then, 
shouldst  thou  trouble  thyself  about  such 
things  as  these?** — Ibid. 

'*  Let  the  motive  be  in  the  deed,  and  not 
in  the  event.** — Ibid. 

"  Pebfobm  thy  duty,  abandon  all  thought 
of  the  consequence,  and  make  the  event 
equal,  whether  it  terminate  in  good  or  evil; 
for  such  an  equality  is  called  Yog,** — Ibid. 

"  Although  thou  wert  the  greatest  of  all 
offenders,  thou  shalt  be  able  to  cross  the 
gulf  of  sin  with  the  bark  of  wisdom.** — Ibid. 

**  The  man  who,  performing  the  duties  of 
life,  and  quitting  all  interest  in  them,  placeth 
them  upon  Brahm  the  Supreme,  is  not  taint- 
ed by  sin ;  but  remaineth  like  the  leaf  of  the 
lotus,  unaffected  by  the  waters.*' — Ibid. 

The  Yogee  of  a  subdued  mind  is  com- 
pared *^  to  a  lamp,  standing  in  a  place  without 
wind,  which  waveth  not.** — Ibid. 


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^I  OLADL.T  inspire  those  who  are  con- 
stantly employed  in  my  service,  with  that 
use  of  reason  by  which  they  come  unto  me ; 
and  in  compassion  I  stand  in  my  own  na- 
ture, and  dissipate  the  darkness  of  their  ig- 
norance with  the  light  of  the  hunp  of  wb- 
dom." — ^Ibid. 

The  crop  of  heads  on  their  deities  is 
merely  a  pdpable  metaphor  of  **  the  eternal 
God  whose  countenance  is  turned  on  every 
side." — Ibid. 

**  As  a  single  sun  illuminateth  the  whole 
world,  even  so  doth  the  spirit  enlighten  every 
body."— Ibid. 

^  There  are  these  three  passages  to  Na- 
rak  (the  infernal  regions),  lust,  anger,  and 
avarice,  which  are  the  destroyers  of  the  soul : 
wherefore  a  man  should  avoid  them;  for, 
being  freed  from  these  gates  of  sin,  at  length 
he  goeth  the  journey  of  the  Most  High." — 
Ibid. 


«^^^^^^^^%^^^h^^^^^^^^ 


'*  Whence  should  men  out  of  place  have 
wealth,  which  makes  others  give  way  to  the 
fangrooms  of  their  horses  ?  Whence  should 
they  procure  white  umbrellas  with  long 
sticks,  horses,  elephants,  and  a  troop  of  at- 
tendants ?" HiTOPADESA. 


W^SMA^^^k^MA^AAA^^^A^ 


**  Before  the  sun  had  put  on  his  crown 
of  rays." — Life  of  Creeshna, 

"  Tht  anger  was  but  mercy,  which  gave 
us  an  occasion  of  beholding  thy  power." — 
Ibid. 


*A^M/«AMAM^MMMM«^V^W^ 


*'  Hell,  called  Temalogu,  is  a  large  fiery 
cellar,  where  there  are  fiery  leeches." — Let' 
tere  to  the  Dan.  Mies, 


^VWW^^^^S^^^^A^^^^A^ 


**  Thou  art  pleasanter  than  sweet  Samar- 
cand  in  her  Tallies  of  jonquils." — Translated 
from  the  Persian  and  Arabic  by  the  author 
of  Gebir. 


"  FciT  Vizier  NodhamoU  Mole  unio  i 
laris,  quern 
Ck>nflavit  (Deus)  misericors  ex  nobi 
Apparuit  et  non  agnovere  tempora  pi 

ejus  .•  .     .     . 

Quare  ilium  illis  invidens,  in  coi 
iterum  reposuit." 
Shablo*ddaula.  Abul-Phara 

"The  Banyans,"  says  Herbert,  ' 
that  at  the  last  judgment  the  eun  wil 
hie  light  like  purling  brimstone'*     P. 

"  When   those   two   damsels  dep 
musk  was  diffused  from  their  robes, 
eastern  gale  sheds  the  scent  of  clove 
flowers." — AifRiOLKAis.  Moallakat 

Sand-hills  oflen  mentioned.  " 
bosom  of  a  vale  surrounded  with  hillo 
spiry  sand." — "  Let  me  weep  at  the  w 
brance  of  our  beloved,  at  the  sight 
station  where  her  tent  was  raised  I 
edge  of  yon  bending  sands." 

**  Her  bosom  was  smooth  as  a  min 
like  the  pure  egg  of  an  ostrich  of  a  y el' 
tint  blended  with  white,  and  nourishe 
stream  of  wholesome  water  not  yet  distm 
What  meaning  has  this  ? 

'*  Her  long  coal-black  hair  decorat 

'  RoDALETN  GrORDOK  CUMMIKO  in  \ 
Yeart  of  a  Hunter's  Life  in  the  Fur  InU 
South  Africa f  speaks  of  the  ostrich  ib 
used  for  water-vases  by  the  **  bush-gii 
Bakalahari  women  who  belong  to  the  in 
ing  Bechuana  tribes  of  the  Kalahari  desi 
VoL  I,  p.  113.  I  do  not  know  wheth* 
can  be  used  in  illustration,  neither  do '. 
what  authority  is  due  to  the  book  quote 
rodotus,  in  the  old  time,  and  Bruce,  ii 
recent  days,  told  stories  equally  won 
which  have  turned  out  true.  One  canno 
ever,  but  lament  that  Mr.  Cumroing's  ni 
should  be  so  needlessly  blood-stained  as 
times— neither  is  mawkish  sentimentaBi 
to  be  admired.—J.  W.  W. 


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257 


thick  and  diflfused  like  bunches  of 
clustering  on  the  palm  tree." 

LMQ  both  as  white  and  as  smooth  as 
3m  of  a  young  palm,  or  a  fresh  reed, 
ig  over  the  rivulet.** 

rmiEUD,  seest  thou  the  lightning?  the 

it  gleams  like  the  lamps  of  a  hermit, 

the  oil  poured  on  them  shakes  the 

•J  which  they  are  suspended.** — Ibid. 


IB  Betele  maketh  the  mouth  and  lips 
^rmillion  colour,  and  the  breath  sweet 


easing 


»« 


— ^Bbsmisb. 


well  becomes  thee,  who  art  soft  as 
»h-blown  Mallica,  to  fill  with  water 
lals  which  have  been  dug  round  these 

shrubs.** — Sacomtala. 

r  friend  Priyamvada  has  tied  this 
I  of  bark  so  closely  over  my  bosom 
gives  me  pain.** — Ibid. 

IB  venerable  sage  must  have  an  un- 
heart,  since  he  has  allotted  a  mean 
^ment  to  so  lovely  a  girl,  and  has 
1  her  in  a  coarse  mantle  of  woven 
-Ibid. 

>w  then  I  deliver  to  the  priests  this 
of  fresh  Cusa  grass,  to  be  scattered 
the  place  of  sacrifice.** — Ibid. 


«^^^kMA^^^^^^^tf^%^^WV^^ 


[BBB  has  been  a  happy  omen.  The 
Brahman  who  ofiiciat^  in  our  mom* 
Tifice,  dropped  the  clarified  butter 
h  his  sight  was  impeded  by  clouds  of 
I  into  the  very  centre  of  the  adorable 


lOTHBB  prest  the  juice  of  Lacsha,  to 
er  feet  exquisitely  red.** 


"  The  delighted  genii  have  been  collect- 
ing, among  the  trees  of  life,  those  crimson 
and  azure  dyes,  with  which  the  celestial 
damsels  tinge  their  beautiful  feet, — and  they 
now  are  writing  thy  actions  in  verses  wor- 
thy of  divine  melody.'* — Ibid. 


When  S.  Roberto  reformed  the  Bene- 
dictines at  Molismo,  part  of  the  regular 
business  of  the  day  was  **  cortar  folhas  de 
palma,  &  tecer  dellas  os  habitos  que  tra- 
ziad.** — Brito,  Chro,  de  Osier. 


HoDOBS  speaks  of  peacocks  in  abun- 
dance, *^  which,  sitting  on  the  vast  horizon- 
tal branches,  and  displaying  their  varied 
plumage  to  the  sun,  dazzle  the  eyes  of  the 
traveller  as  he  passes.** 


*'  A  Rbtshbb  whose  austerities  were  such 
that  he  subsisted  entirely  on  the  drops  of 
milk  which  fell  from  the  mouths  of  calves 
in  the  act  of  calving.** — Life  of  Creeshna, 

**  Thb  two  children  learned  to  walk  to- 
gether, either  round  their  beds,  or  by  hold- 
ing a  calTs  tail  in  their  hands.** 

*^  Thus  did  the  Gopias  admire  him  who 
had  on  a  yellow  robe,  a  peacock*s  feather 
on  his  head,  a  brilliant  rosary  round  his  neck, 
and  a  flute  on  his  lip.* 


1* 


**  Thb  peacocks  on  the  house-tops  were 
rejoicing  and  singing  in  the  smoke  which 
arose  from  the  constant  burning  of  aroma- 
tics  in  such  quantity  as  to  form  a  cloud  that 
resembled  the  rainy  season.** 

''  Oh  her  sitting  down  or  rising  up,  the 
Devates  became  mad  with  admiration  at  the 
tinkling  that  proceeded  from  the  golden 
bells  that  adorned  her  feet  and  ankles.** — 
Ibid. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Sonnets. 

Uhlbss  strikingly  good,  immediately  for- 
gotten. They  please  us  like  the  scenery  of 
a  tame  country ;  we  look  with  pleasure  upon 
a  green  field,  and  the  light  ash  that  bends 
over  its  hedges,  and  the  grey  alders  along 
its  clear  brook  side.  But  the  next  copse, 
or  the  little  arch  that  spans  the  brook,  ef- 
faces the  faint  impression  ;  and  they  in  their 
turn  yield  to  the  following  picture.  But 
the  woods  of  the  Wye,  and  the  rocks  of 
Avon,  even  these  we  long  remember,  and 
years  will  scarcely  blunt  the  recollection  of 
the  Tagus,  and  the  heights  of  Lisbon,  and 
the  thousand-fold  beauties  of  Cintra. 

Kbtt  has  well  observed  the  likeness  of 
the  sonnet  to  the  Greek  epigrauL 

Upon  amatory  poems  a  general  condem- 
nation may  be  past.  It  is  unfortunate  that 
men  will  write  nonsense,  as  well  as  talk  it, 
to  the  women,  with  whom  they  amuse  them- 
selves; this  is  little  honourable  to  the  com- 
mon sense  of  either  sex.  Cupid  was  very 
well  in  his  day,  on  a  cameo  or  a  bas-relief, 
but  his  bastard  descendants  are  insufferable 
that  figure  in  a  song  or  sonnet  on  an  up- 
holsterer*s  shop  card,  or  a  hair-dresser^s 
shop  sign  at  a  watering-place. 

PBBsoNAii  sonnets  form  a  large  class ; — 
lords,  dukes,  kings,  queens,  and  poets  have 
had  their  share.  Of  these,  the  most  are 
utterly  worthless ;  some  only  useful  as  hints 
to  the  literary  history  of  the  times — like  our 
old  introductory  verses — mementos  of  who 
and  who  associated  together— of  the  names 
we  know. 


•^^^^M^^'^^^^W\/\/W\/\/Ni#\ 


LUerary  Ohservationt. 

At  the  revival  of  letters,  almost  every 
poet  was  proud  of  imitating  the  ancients  ; 
the  manner  and  the  matter  were  new  to  an 
unlearned  people,  and  they  produced  a  bet- 
ter taste. 

CoPTiNQ  from  obscure  writers.    If  there 


be  a  gem  in  the  dunghill,  it  is  well  to  se- 
cure it  and  set  it  whcire  its  brilliancy  may 
be  seen.  More  often  the  rudiments  of  a 
thought  are  found — the  seed  that  will  only 
vegetate  in  a  good  soil,  and  must  be  wanned 
by  the  sun  into  life  and  blossom.  So  in 
this  Milton  has  done — he  has  quickeneid 
grub  ideas  into  butterfly  beauty. 

Tus  heroic  writers  of  these  countries 
must  not  be  meted  by  the  Epic  measure; 
they  are  as  our  Drayton  and  Daniel  in  their 
plans.  Writers  that  never  can  be  popular 
yet  ought  not  to  be  despised.  The  analogy 
indeed  of  language  fails.  Ours  has  been 
the  slow -growing  oak;  theirs  of  so  rapid  a 
growth,  that  it  never  has  exceeded  sapling 
strength.  This  is  disadvantageous.  A  little 
rust  would  hide  the  poorness  of  the  medal. 

Poetical  ornaments.  These  are  not 
enough.  If  the  groundwork  be  bad,  they 
are  like  the  rich  colouring  of  a  dauber*s  pic- 
ture, like  the  jewels  that  bedizen  a  clunisy 
church-idol.  To  lard  a  good  story  with 
prettinesses,  were  like  periwigging  and  pow- 
dering the  Apollo  Belvidere — and  dr^ng 
the  Venus  of  Florence  in  a  hoop. 

Im  poetry,  as  in  painting,  mediocrity  b 
probably  attainable  by  all.  In  these  coun- 
tries the  poets  resemble  missal -painters  ;•— 
their  colours  often  rich,  their  pencilling  de- 
licate ;  but  no  knowledge  of  design  or  per- 
spective, and  often  as  deformedly  incorrect 
in  outline  as  the  pictures  of  the  Mexicaiu. 
There  are  masons  enough,  but  no  architect. 
They  have  raised  huge  edifices,  but  faced 
them  with  a  confused  mixture  of  mud  and 
marble. 

Devotional  poetry  usually  unsuccess- 
ful, not  because  the  subject  is  bad,  but  be- 
cause it  has  usually  been  managed  by  block- 
heads. 

Nabrativb.  Milton.  Klopstock.  Gete- 
ner.  Bodmer.  G.Fletcher.  St.Isidro.  Be 
Antony -poems.  Vida.  Sannazarius.  Mariuo. 


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Htmhs.  Surely  no  worse  a  subject  than 
old  Pagan  faith. 

MrsTicAL.  The  Orientals.  Crashaw.  St. 
Teresa. 

AU.BGOBT.  Ph.  Fletcher.  John  Bunyan 
the  Great.     Calderon. 

But  Poperj  has  culled  the  absurdities, 
and  magnified  them  as  in  a  solar  microscope. 
The  Real  Presence,  the  Immaculat«  (Con- 
ception ;  without  the  genius  of  Quarles,  or 
eren  Herbert,  thej  are  tenfold  more  ridi- 
cqIoub.     Ledesma.    The  Nun  of  Mexico. 

Thb  early  poets  must  not  be  translated. 

Because  they  are  not  worth  translating. 

Because  we  haye  no  language  wherein  to 
translate  them.  That  of  Chaucer  is  too 
rugged,  and  almost  as  difficult  Modern 
versification  would  be  like  an  attempt  to 
polish  freestone.  It  would  but  caricature 
the  grossness  of  old  ideas. 


Arf^'^%^^N^^W^^^'^^^%^^^^^NMi^ 


Modem  Latin. 


At  the  reriyal  of  letters  it  was  fashion- 
able to  be  a  scholar.  Latin  was  more  spo- 
ken, and  more  written,  than  now.  It  was 
the  q>t8tolary  and  colloquial  language  of  the 
learned. 

ITie  modem  languages  were  scarcely 
formed.  There  were  no  conyentional 
phrases  of  poetry ;  no  beaten  road  which 
the  imitator  might  follow. 

The  mediocre  poets,  as  in  their  vema- 
colar  works,  haye  such.  Have  the  better 
ones  speculated  amiss  ?  Would  Vida  Fra- 
castoriiis — aboye  all,  Flaminius,  haye  been 
now  so  generally  known,  had  they  written 
in  Italian?  Could  Erasmus  haye  made 
Datch  readable? 

Tet  among  the  modern  Latinists  is  no 
one  poet  of  great  and  original  genius.  The 
reason  is  obyious. 

The  Jesuit  system  had  its  influence.  A 
<^ab  composed  of  all  nations  conspiring  for 
uniyersal  rule.     A  common  language  was 


necessary ;  and  it  has  eyer  been  the  plan 
of  priestcraft  to  keep  the  people  ignorant. 

A  writer  of  original  genius  must  wield 
language  at  his  will.  The  syntax  must  bend 
to  him.  lie  must  sometimes  create — ^who 
else  are  the  makers  of  language  ? 

Much  as  I  shall  do,  much  will  remain. 
Many  a  pleasant  bye-path  remains,  into 
which  chance  may  lead  the  future  trayeller. 
Many  a  store  of  hidden  treasure  is  to  be 
found  among  the  mouldering  libraries. 
Many  a  conquest  yet  to  be  made  from  the 
worms  and  spiders.  I  omit  no  labour ;  but 
the  traveller  of  most  anxious  curiosity  wants 
a  guide.  I  am  not  parsimonious ;  but  there 
are  bounds  which  independence  must  not 
pass.  Grod  has  giyen  me  abundant  talents, 
which  haye  not  been  buried ;  but  from  so- 
ciety I  haye  not  received  capital  enough  to 
produce  interest. 


[^Spanish  Bombast,'] 

"  Tu  auras  les  conceptions  grandes  et 
hautes,  et  non  monstrueuses  ny  quintes- 
sencieuses  comme  sont  celles  des  Espag- 
nols.  n  faudroit  a  un  Apollon  pour  les 
interpreter,  encor  il  y  seroit  bien  empesch^ 
ayec  tons  ses  oracles  et  Trepieds.** — Ron- 
SABD.  Pre/,  to  the  Franciade,  p.  25 


VN/\/WW«MA/SM<'WWWV>ff 


[Outcast.'] 

Is  our  word  outcast  in  any  way  traceable 
to  Hindostan  ? 


[Gothic  GeiuusJ] 

Gothic  genius  improved  every  fiction 
which  it  adopted.  Like  torch-light  in  a 
cathedral,  its  strong  lights  and  shades  made 
every  thing  terrible,  and  as  it  were  living. 
See  now  the  Seven  Sleepers. 

"  In  the  weste  syde  of  Germania  is  a 
people  called  Scribonius,  that  hath  snowe 
all  the  somer  tyme,  and  eteth  rawe  flesshe, 
and  ben  clothed  in  ghoot  buck  skynnes. 
In  thoyr  countrees  whan  the  nyght  is  short 


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men  may  see  all  the  nyght  the  sonne  hemes. 
And  after,  in  the  winter,  whan  the  daje  is 
short,  tho  men  se  the  lyghte  of  the  sonne, 
yet  the  sonne  is  not  seen.  Item,  faste  be- 
syde  that  people,  under  the  clyflfof  Occean, 
is  a  denne  under  an  hyghe  stone.  Therin 
slepen  seven  men,  and  have  long  slept,  and 
ben  hole  and  sounde  in  bodye  and  clothynge 
and  all  withouten  wemme,^  for  whiche  cause 
the  comyn  people  have  them  in  grete  wor- 
shyp  and  reverence.  They  are  supposed 
Romayns  by  theyr  clothynge.  There  was 
a  man  somtyme  that  for  covetyse  wolde 
strype  one  of  them,  and  have  his  clothyng, 
but  forwith  his  arme  waxed  all  drye.  It 
may  be  that  God  lyste  to  kepe  them  so  hole 
and  sounde,  for  mysbyleved  men,  in  tyme 
to  com3mge,  sholde  thrughe  them  be  con- 
verted and  tourned  to  good  byleve." — Polt/- 
cronicoriy  vol.  i.  p.  26. 


^^k^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^,^ 


[Similyy — Metaphor^ — Machinery^  ^.] 

''  As  simily  is  dilated  metaphor,  so  ma- 
chinery is  dilated  personification.**  The 
Sailor  at  San  Miguels.  Milton  has  not 
used  machinery — for  the  supernatural  pow- 
ers are  the  characters  of  his  poems,  the 
agents  themselves,  not  the  wire-workers. 

{Int>entory  of  Orijalva's  Treasure.^ 

"  In  the  inventorie  of  the  treasure  that 
Grijalva  brought  from  his  wars,  are 

"  A  whole  harness  of  furniture  for  an 
armed  man,  of  gold  thlnne  beaten. 

"Another  whole  armour  of  wood,  with 
leaves  of  golde,  garnished  with  little  black 
stones. 

"  Four  pieces  of  armour  of  wood,  made 
for  the  knees,  and  covered  with  golden  leafe. 

"  The  armour  wherewith  the  Indians  of 
Tabasco  defend  themselves  are  targets  and 

*  FoRBT,  in  his  Vocabulary  of  East  Anglia, 
explains  it,—'*  A  small  fretted  place  in  a jgar- 
mont."  It  is  pure  Anglo-Saxon.  See  "  Bos- 
worth,"  in  V.  "  Worn — to<fm — loam." 

J.  W.  W. 


8kulle8,made  of  woodeor  barke  of  trees,  and 
some  of  gold  very  thinne. 

"  In  the  inventory  of  presents  reserved 
for  the  K.  of  Spaine  : 

"  A  helmet  of  woode,  champed  with  golde, 
and  besette  with  stones,  and  at  the  bevier 
five-and-twentie  belles  of  golde,  and  upon 
the  toppe  a  greene  birde,  with  his  eyes, 
beake,  and  feete  of  golde. 

"A  sallet^  of  flaunches  of  golde,  and  belles 
rounde  aboute  it,  decked  with  golde. 

**  A  targatte  of  woode  covered  with  leather, 
beset  round  about  with  belles  of  Latton,  and 
the  bossc  in  the  midst  was  planched  with 
gold,  and  there  was  engraved  upon  the  same 
'  Vitsilopuchtli,  god  of  the  warres,*  and  also 
foure  heades  set  crosswise,  whiche  heades 
were  of  a  lion,  a  tigre,  an  eagle,  and  an  owie, 
very  lively  made  with  feathers.** 


A^k^h/N^^^V^^^^^^^^tf^^/V^^V 


[St.  Peter,  the  Sailor's  Patron,} 

"  And  beyng  at  sea,  Cortes  willed  all  his 
navie,  as  the  use  is,  to  have  S.  Peter  for  their 
patrone,  warning  them  alwayes  to  follow  the 
admirall,  wherein  he  went,  bycause  he  car- 
ried light  for  the  night  season  to  guide 
them  the  way.** 

ILong  Hair  of  the  Indians.'] 
"  Ordinarily  the  Indians  wear  long  hair, 

and  on  their  solemne  feastes  and  in  wars 

they  use  their  hair  platted  and  bound  about 

their  forheads. 

"  The  heare  of  their  heades  platted  and 

bound   aboute  their  foreheads,   like  unto 

women.** 


[Censering  of  CortezJ] 
**  Teudilli,  according  to  their  usance,  did 
his  reverence  to  the  captains,  burning  frank- 
incense and  little  strawes  touched  in  bloud 
of  his  own  bodie.    And  at  Chiauiztlan,  the 

*  i.e.  Acasaue  or  head-piece.     See  Nabks' 
Gloss,  in  V.  ana  Menage  sub  v.  Salade. 

J.  W.  W. 


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»ke  a  little  chafjngdishe  in  his  hande 
si  into  it  a  certAine  gume,  whyche  sa- 
1  in  sweete  smel  much  like  unto  fran- 
ise,  and  with  asencerhe  smoked  Cortez 
be  ceremonye  they  use  in  theyr  salu- 
I  to  theyr  gods  and  nobilitie.** 


Kings'  Presents, 

[ant  skinnes  of  beast  and  foule,  cor- 
ind  dressed  in  their  feathers  and  in 

wenty-four  targets  of  gold  feathers, 
it  with  pearl,  both  curious  and  gallant 
hold.     Five  targets  of  feathers  and 


HB  woodde  whereof  they  make  their 
IT  and  targettes  is  verye  hard  and 
I,  for  they  use  to  toast  it  at  the  fire.** 

o  send  a  shield  and  an  arrow  was  the 
of  defiance.** — Tobqubm,  vol.  1,  p.  128. 
he  temple  and  palace  courts  so  polished, 
hey  actually  shone  like  burnbhed  gold 
ver  in  the  son.** — Ibid,  p.  251. 


[  Writers  of  Comedy."] 

iTaiTBES  of  comedy  are  very  apt  to 
J  and  overstrain,  in  complacency  to  the 
lent  of  their  audience,  of  whom  the 
est  part  could  not  find  out  the  jest,  if 
!  within  nature.  They  must  under- 
delicacy,  and  the  just  bounds  of  wit, 
ish  natural  beauties ;  but  they  can  see 
*st  of  a  mufi*  as  big  as  a  barrel,  of  a 
:irk*  as  large  as  a  towel,  and  if  thoughts 
retched  in  proportion,  they  will  mis- 
the  extravagance  for  humour,  or  wit, 
th ;  and  the  writer  acquires  the  re- 
Ion  of  an  excellent  poet.** — Ou>- 
r. 


A  muslin  neckcloth  carelessly  put  on, 
'he  manner  in  which  the  French  officers 
Jieir  cravats  when  they  returned  from  the 
of  Sieenkirk."—  Gross's  Diet,  of  tht  Vul- 
mgue,  in  v. — J.  W.  W. 


From  ViujsGAS. 

"  Emouoh,  enough,  old  Winter ! 
Thou  workest  to  annoy  us 
With  cold,  and  rain,  and  tempest 
When  snows  have  hid  the  country. 
And  rivers  cease  to  flow. 
The  flocks  and  herds  accuse  thee. 
And  even  the  little  ermine 
Complains  of  thee,  old  Winter  I 
For  thou  to  man  art  freezing. 
And  his  white  fur  is  warm. 
The  beasts  they  crouch  in  cover. 
The  birds  are  cold  and  hungry, 
The  birds  are  cold  and  silent. 
Or,  with  a  weak  complaining. 
They  call  thee  hard,  old  Winter ! 
But  not  to  one,  old  Winter ! 
Thy  tyranny  extends ; 
For  I  have  wine  and  music, 
The  cheerful  hearth  and  song.** 

March  3rd,  Prospect  Place,  1797. 


Xartfa  and  Fatima. 

La  maiiana  de  San  Juan, 
Al  punto  que  alboreava. 
Gran  fiesta  hazen  los  Moros 
For  la  Vega  de  Granada : 
Rebolvienda  sus  cavallos 
Jugando  van  de  las  lan^as, 
Ricos  pendones  en  ellas 
Labrados  por  sus  amadas ; 
Ricas  aljubas  vestidas 
De  oro  y  seda  labradas ; 
El  Moro  que  amores  tiene 
Alii  bien  se  senalava ; 
Y  el  Moro  que  no  los  tiene 
For  tenerlos  trabajava. 
Mirando  las  damas  Moras 
De  las  torres  del  Alhambro, 
Entre  las  quales  avia 
Dos  de  amor  muy  lastimadas 
La  una  llaman  Xarifa, 
La  otra  Fatima  se  llama. 
Solian  ser  muy  amigas 
Aunque  agora  no  se  hablan  ; 
Xarifa  Uena  de  cclos 
A  Fatima  le  hablava, 


! 


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Haj  Fatima  hermans  mia 
Como  estas  de  amor  tocada ! 
Solias  tener  color ; 
Veo  que  agora  te  falta. 
Solias  tratar  amores 
Agora  estas  de  callada. 
Fero  si  los  quieres  yer 
Asomate  a  essa'yentana, 
T  veras  a  Abindarraez 

Y  su  gentileza  y  gala. 
Fatima  como  discreta 
Desta  manera  se  habla, 
No  estoj  tocada  de  amores 
Ny  en  mi  vida  los  tratara ; 
Si  se  perdio  mi  color 
Tengo  dello  justa  causa, 
For  la  muerte  de  mi  padre 
Que  Malique  Alabez  matara. 

Y  si  amores  jo  quisiera 
Esta  hermana  confiada 
Que  alii  veo  cavalleros 
En  aquella  Vega  Uana 

De  quien  pudiera  servir  me, 

Y  ddlos  ser  muy  amada 
De  tanto  valor  7  esfuen^o 
Como  Abindarraez  alabas. 
Con  esto  las  damas  Moras 
Fusieron  fin  a  su  habla. 

Translation. 

On  the  morning  of  St.  Juan, 
When  the  sun  was  in  the  east, 

In  the  plain  before  Granada, 
Did  the  Moors  begin  their  feast. 

Now  thej  spur  their  stately  coursers, 
Now  their  banners  they  unfold. 

By  their  favourite  ladies*  labours 
All  adom*d  with  silk  and  gold. 

He  who  has  obtained  a  mistress 
Seeks  applause  before  her  eyes. 

And  the  youth  who  is  without  one 
Now  to  gain  a  mistress  tries. 

From  the  towers  of  the  Alhambra 
Many  a  lady  saw  the  sport ; 

Two  were  there  by  Love  subjected. 
Maidens  of  the  Moorish  court. 

Fatima  and  fair  Xarifa, 
They  were  ardent  friends  before. 


Now  they  shunnM  each  other's  conv 
For  they  now  were  friends  no  moi 

To  her  comrade  spake  Xarifa — 
Jealous  thoughts  were  in  her  brei 

*^  Fatima !  ah  my  poor  sister. 
How  art  thou  by  Love  possessed ! 

*'  Once  your  cheeks  were  fresh  and  bio 
Pale  and  sickly  is  your  brow — 

Once  in  love -tales  you  delighted — 
You  of  love  are  silent  now. 

*«  Would  you  therefore  see  the  past) 
Draw  towards  this  window  near, 

You  may  see  Abindarraez 
And  his  gallant  carriage  here.** 

Fatima,  for  she  was  prudent, 
Thus  the  jealous  maid  address'd- 

*'  Love-tales  I  have  never  heeded, 
Nor  am  I  by  love  po8ses8*d. 

*'  If  my  cheeks  have  lost  their  coloi 
I  have  cause  enough  for  pain 

For  the  slaughter  of  my  father, 
Who  by  Alabez  was  slun. 

"  And  of  this  be  sure,  my  sister. 
If  my  heart  were  tum*d  to  love. 

Many  cavaliers  are  yonder, 
AVho  are  mine  if  I  approve. 

**  Gallant  as  Abindarraez, 
He  whose  merits  you  allow.** 

So  the  Moorish  maiden  answer*d. 
And  they  ceased  their  converse  n 


^»/S»»^<^^»<<^^^».^>»MVMW»» 


Xd  gran  Perdida  de  Alhama, 

*'  Y  POB  alegrarse  un  dia,  se  p; 
(el  Rey  Chico)  con  otros  principales 
leros  por  la  ciudad,  por  dar  alivi( 
penas,  rodeando  de  sus  Zegris  y  Go 
le  vino  una  triste  nueva,  como  era 
Alhama  por  los  Christianos.  Con 
embaxada,  el  Rey  Chico  ayna  pen, 
sesoj  como  aquel  que  quedava  hered 
Reyno.  Y  tanto  dolor  sintio,  que  i 
sagero  que  la  nueva  le  traxo  le  man 
tar,  y  descavalgando  de  unamula  en 
yva  passeando,  pidio  un  cavallo,  en 
subio  y  muy  apriessa  se  fue  al  Alfa 


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1  gran  perdida  de  Alhama.  Y 
Alhambra,  mando  tocar  sua  trom- 
pierra  7  emafiles,  para  que  con 
!  juntasse  la  gente  de  guerra  j 
80Corro  de  Alhama.  La  gcnte 
toda  se  junta,  al  son  bi^licoso  que 
as  trompetas.  Y  preguntandole 
e  para  que  los  mandava  juntar, 
enal  de  guerra,  el  respondio  que 
.  socorro  de  Albama  que  avian 
I  Christianos.  Entonces  un  Al- 
I  le  dixo.  *  For  cierto,  Rey  que 
3a  muj  bien  toda  su  desrentura, 
dldoa  Alhama,  y  merecias  perder 
ejno,  pues  mataste  a  los  nobles 
Abencerrages,  7  a  los  que  que- 
08  mandaste  desterrar  de  tu 
r  loqual  se  tomaron  Christianos, 
smos  agora  te  hazen  la  guerra ; 
los  Zegris  que  eran  de  Cordova, 
iado  dellos.  Pues  agora  y^  al 
i  Alhama,  y  di  a  los  Zegris  que 
;an  en  semejante  desventura  que 
esta  embaxada  que  al  Rey  Chico 
la  perdida  de  Alhama,  7  por  lo 
loro  yiejo  Alfaqui  le  dixo  repre- 
o  por  la  muerte  de  los  Abencer- 
ixo  aqual  Romance  antiguo  tan 
Bure  el  Re7,  que  dize  en  Arabigo 
ance  mu7  dolorosamente,  desta 


ivase  el  Re7  Moro 
iudad  de  Granada, 
IS  puertas  de  Elvira  ^ 
s  de  Bivarambla, 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

le  fueron  venidas 
lama  era  ganada, 
as  echo  en  el  fuego, 
nsagero  matara. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

^er  will  find  this  translation,  and 
Alcayde"  in  the  notes  to  the  Chroni' 
Id.  Bat,  as  that  work  has  become 
IS  the  translations  there  ^ary  some* 

these  original  draughts,  I  have 
ight  to  print  them  here.    See  Chro- 

371.-J.W.  W. 


**  Descavalga  de  una  mula 

Y  en  un  cavallo  cavalga, 
Por  el  Zacatin  arriba 
Subidi  se  avia  al  Alhambre. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

"  Como  en  el  Alhambre  estuvo, 
Al  mismo  punto  mandava 
Que  se  toquen  sus  trompetas 
Los  anafiles  de  plata. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama  I 

**  Y  que  las  caxas  de  guerra 
A  priessa  toquen  al  arma, 
Porque  lo  oygan  sus  Moriscos 
Los  de  la  Vega  y  Granada — 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

"  Los  Moros  que  el  son  oyeron 
Que  el  sangriento  Marte  llama, 
Uno  a  uno  y  dos  a  dos 
Juntado  se  ha  gran  batalla. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

"  Alli  hablo  un  Moro  viejo, 
Desta  manera  hablava : 
Para  que  nos  llamas  Rey, 
Para  que  es  este  llamada  ?  * 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama  t 

'*  Aveys  de  saber  amigos 
Una  nueva  desdichada. 
Que  Christianos  con  braveza 
Ya  nos  ban  fanado  a  Alhama. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

**  Alli  hablo  un  Alfaqui 
De  barba  crecida  y  cana ; 
Bien  se  te  emplea  buen  Rey 
Buen  Rey  bien  se  te  emplea. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama  I 

^*  Mataste  los  Bencerrages 
Que  era  la  flor  de  Granada. 
Cogiste  los  Tomadizos 
De  Cordova  la  nombrada. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 

"  Por  esso  mereces  Rey 
Una  pena  bien  doblada — 
Que  te  pierdas  tu  y  el  Reyno 

Y  que  se  pierda  Granada. 

Ay  de  mi  Alhama ! 


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Translation, 

Through  the  city  of  Granada 
Swift  the  Moorish  monarch  hastened, 
From  the  portals  of  Elvira 
To  the  gate  of  Bivarambla. 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 

He  had  letters  that  Alhama 
Had  been  taken  by  the  Christians ; 
In  the  fire  he  threw  the  letters, 
And  he  cut  the  bearer's  head  off. 

Ah!  alas  Alhama! 

Quick  he  from  his  mule  dismounted, 
Quick  the  monarch  leapt  on  horseback ; 
Through  the  Zacatin  he  hasten'd, 
Hastened  eager  to  the  palace. 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 

Soon  as  he  was  in  the  palace. 
At  the  instant  he  commanded 
That  the  trumpets  should  be  sounded 
And  the  clarions  of  silver. 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 

And  he  bade  the  drums  of  battle 
Beat  to  arms  their  loud  alarums. 
That  the  Moors  might  hear  the  summons 
0*er  the  plain  and  through  the  city. 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 

The  Moors  who  heard  the  loud  alarums 
Hastened  where  the  monarch  summoned. 
One  by  one  and  two  by  two, 
They  have  formed  a  huge  battalion. 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 

Then  an  aged  Moor  address'd  him — 
Thus  did  he  address  the  Monarch — 
"  Wherefore,  Monarch !  hast  thou  call'd  us, 
Wherefore  is  this  lamentation  ?** 

Ah!  alas  Alhama. 

*^  Friends,  you  have  to  learn  the  tidings. 
Evil  tidings  of  misfortune. 
For  the  Christians  have  surprized  us. 
They  have  won  from  us  Alhama." 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 

"  Then,"  exclaim'd  an  old  Alfaqui, 
One  whose  beard  was  long  and  hoary, 
"  You  have  acted  well,  good  Monarch, 
Good  Monarch,  you  have  acted  well. 

Ah !  alas  Alhama ! 


"  You  have  kill'd  the  Bencerrages, 
The  strength  and  glory  of  Granada. 
You  have  foster'd  here  the  strangers. 
Runaways  from  their  Cordova. 

Ah  I  alas  Alhama ! 

"  Therefore,  King,  thou  hast  deserved  this, 
Ay,  and  sorrows  doubled  on  thee ; 
Hast  deserved  to  lose  Granada, 
And  to  perish  with  thy  kingdom." 

Ah !  alas  Alhama  I 
May  6,  1798. 


^^^/NyV^^^V^^^^A^ii/^^^^^^ 


La  Perdida  de  Alhama, 

"  EsTB  Romance  se  hizo  en  Aravigo  cd 
aquella  occasion  de  la  perdida  de  Alhama ; 
el  qual  era  en  aquella  lengua  muy  doloroso 
y  triste,  tanto  que  vino  a  vedarMe  en  Gra- 
nada, que  no  se  cantasse,^  porque  cada  vez 
que  lo  cantavan  en  qualquiera  parte  pro- 
vocava  a  Uanto  y  dolor,  aunque  despues  se 
canto  otro  en  lengua  Casteliana  de  lamijme 
materiii  que  dezia. 

'*  Fob  la  ciudad  de  Granada 
El  Rey  Moro  se  passea, 
Desde  la  puerta  de  Elvira 
lUegava  a  la  plaza  nueva. 
Cartas  le  fueron  venidas 
Que  le  dan  muy  mala  nueva, 
Que  era  ganada  el  Alhama, 
Can  batalla  y  gran  pelea. 
El  Rey  con  aquestas  cartas 
Grande  enojo  recibiera, 
Al  Moro  qui  se  las  traxo 
Mando  cortar  la  cabeza ; 
Las  cartas  pedazos  hizo. 
Con  la  Sana  que  le  ciega, 
Descavalga  de  una  mula 
Y  cavalga  en  una  yfgvn. 
For  la  calle  del  Zacatin 


'  The  same  prohibition  was  made  agaioKt  the 
"  Ran*-de*  VacneSj  cet  air  si  cheri  des  Suiztses 
Qu'il  fut  defcndu,  sous  peine  de  mort,  de  le  jouer 
oans  leura  troupes,  parce  qu'il  fieut  fSondre  en 
larmes,  deserter  ou  mourir  ceux  qui  Penten* 
daient,  tant  il  excitait  en  eux  I'ardent  desir  de 
revoir  leur  pays."— Roosseau,  Dietionnain  <U 
Muxique,  v.  Musique, — J,  W.  W, 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


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Al  Albambra  se  subiera. 
Trompetas  mando  tocar 

Y  las  cazas  de  pelea : 
Porque  lo  ojeran  los  Moros 
De  Granada  y  de  la  Vega ; 
Uno  a  uno  j  dos  a  dos, 
Gran  esquadron  se  hiziera. 
Quando  los  tuoiera  juntos, 
Un  Moro  alii  le  dixera ; 

*  Para  que  nos  llamas  Rej 
Con  trompa  j  caxa  de  guerra  ?  * 

*  Avrejs  de  saber  mis  Moros, 
Que  tengo  una  mala  nueya, 
Que  la  mi  Cuidad  de  Alhama 
Ya  del  Rej  Fernando  era. 
LfOs  Christianos  la  ganaron 
Con  muy  crecida  pelea.* 
Alii  hablo  un  Alfaqui 
Desta  suerte  le  dixera 

'  Bien  se  te  emplea  buen  Rej — 
Buen  Rey  muy  bien  se  te  emplea- 
Mataste  los  Bencerrages 
Que  era  la  flor  desta  tierra, 
Acogiste  los  Tomadizos 
Que  de  Cordova  yinieran 

Y  ansi  mereces  buen  Rey 
Que  todo  el  Reyno  se  pierda 

Y  que  se  pierda  Granada 

Y  que  te  pierdas  en  ella.'" 


^^^^N^S/^^^^M^^A^^AAM^^ 


Moro  Alcayde^  Moro  Alcayde,  Sfc. 

**  Moao  Alcayde,  Moro  Alcayde, 
£1  de  la  yellida  barba, 
£1  Rey  te  manda  prender 
Por  la  prendida  de  Alhama, 

Y  cortorte  la  cabeza 

Y  ponerla  en  el  Albambra. 
Porque  a  ti  castigo  sea 

Y  otros  tiemblen  en  miralla ; 
Pues  perdiste  la  tenencia 
De  una  ciudad  tan  preciada. 
£1  Alcayde  respondia 
Desta  manera  les  habla ; 
Cayalleros  y  hombres  buenos 
Los  que  regis  a  Ghranada, 
Dezid  de  mi  parte  al  Rey 
Como  no  le  deyo  nada. 


Yo  me  estava  en  Antequera, 
£n  las  bodas  de  mi  hermana ; 
(Mai  fuego  queme  las  bodas 

Y  quien  a  eUas  me  llamava !) 
£1  Rey  me  dio  la  licencia, 
Que  yo  no  me  la  tomaya. 
Pedilla  por  quinze  dias 
Diomela  por  tres  semanas : 
De  averse  Alhama  perdido 

A  mi  me  pesa  en  el  alma ; 
Que  si  el  Rey  perdio  su  tierra 
Yo  perdi  mi  honra  y  fama. 
Perdi  hijos  y  muger 
Las  cosas  que  mas  amava. 
Perdi  una  hija  donzella 
Que  era  la  flor  de  Granada. 
£1  que  la  tiene  cautiva 
Marquez  de  Caliz  se  llama : 
Cien  doblas  le  doy  por  ella, 
No  me  las  estima  en  nada. 
La  respuesta  que  me  han  dado 
Es,  que  mi  hija  es  Christiana, 

Y  por  nombre  le  avian  puesta 
Dona  Maria  de  Alhama. 

£1  nombre  que  ella  tenia 
Mora  Fatima  se  llama. 
Diziendo  assi  el  buen  Alcayde, 
Lo  Uevaron  a  Granada, 

Y  siendo  pucsto  ante  el  Rey 
La  sentencia  le  fue  dada 
Que  le  corten  la  cabeza 

Y  la  lleven  al  Albambra. 
Executose  la  justicia 

Ansi  como  el  Rey  lo  manda. 

Translation, 

^*  MooB  Alcayde,  Moor  Alcayde, 
With  the  long  and  flowing  beard. 
The  King  has  sent  us  to  arrest  thee 
For  the  capture  of  Alhama. 
He  has  bade  us  cut  thy  head  ofl*, 
And  expose  it  on  the  palace, 
That  others  may  behold  and  fear." 
Then  the  old  Aicayde  answered. 
Thus  in  answer  did  he  say, 
**  Cavaliers  and  gentle  Moslem, 
Honourable  of  Granada ! 
Tell  the  King  for  me,  I  pray  you, 
I  have  not  deserved  to  die. 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


I  was  gone  to  Aotequera, 
To  the  marriage  of  my  liater, 
(Pestilence  upon  the  marriage, 
And  on  those  who  ask*d  me  there !) 
I  had  license  from  the  Monarch, 
License  more  than  I  had  taken ; 
I  for  fifteen  days  petitioned, 
He  allowed  me  twenty-one. 
And  indeed  my  soul  is  sorry 
For  the  capture  of  Alhama, 
If  the  King  has  lost  his  city, 
I  have  lost  my  fame  and  honour, 
I  have  lost  my  wife  and  children. 
All  that  I  on  earth  loved  best. 
I  have  lost  a  damsel  daughter. 
Once  the  flower  of  Moorish  maids  ; 
To  the  Count  of  Calis  for  ransom 
I  a  hundred  doblas  offered. 
But  the  answer  he  retum*d  me 
Was  that  she  was  tum*d  a  Christian. 
And  the  name  that  they  had  given  her 
Donna  Maria  de  Alhama. 
This  the  name  of  my  dear  daughter, 
Fatima,  the  Moorish  maid  I  ** 
Thus  ezclaimM  the  good  AJcayde. 
Then  they  took  him  to  Granada, 
And  they  brought  him  to  the  King ; 
Sentence  then  was  past  upon  him, 
Instantly  to  cut  his  head  off* 
And  expose  it  on  the  palace. 
Sentence  was  performed  upon  him. 
As  the  monarch  had  decreed. 

Sale  la  EstreUa  de  Venus^  ffc, 

"  Salb  la  Estrella  de  Venus 
Al  tiempo  que  el  sol  se  pone 
Y  el  enemiga  del  dia 
Su  negro  manto  descoge. 

"  Y  con  ello  un  fuerte  Moro 
Semcjante  a  Rodamonte 
Sale  de  Sydonia  ayrado 
De  Xeres  la  vega  corte. 

'*  Por  do  entra  Guadalete 
Al  mar  de  Espana,  y  por  donde 
De  santa  Maria  el  Puerto 
Recibe  faraoso  nombre. 


"  Desesperado  camina, 
Que  aunque  es  de  linage  noble 
Lo  deza  su  Dama  ingrata 
Porque  se  snena  que  es  pobre. 

^  Y  aquella  noche  se  casa 
Con  un  Moro  feo  y  torpe 
Porque  fue  Alcaydc  en  SevOla 
Del  Alcazar  y  le  Torre. 

**  Quexavase  gravamente 
De  un  agravio  tan  inorme, 

Y  a  sus  palabras  la  vega 
Con  el  Eco  le  responde. 

"  Zayda  dize  mas  ayrada 

Que  el  mar  que  las  naves  sorbe, 

Mas  dura  e  inexorable 

Que  las  entranas  de  on  monte. 

'*  Como  permites  cruel 
Despues  de  tantos  favores. 
Que  de  prendas  que  son  mias 
Agena  mano  se  adome  ? 

*^  Es  possible  que  te  abraces 
A  las  cortezas  de  un  roble 

Y  dexes  al  arbor  tuyo 
Desnudo  de  fruto  y  flores  ? 

'*  Dexaste  un  pobre  muy  rico 

Y  un  rico  muy  pobre  escoges 

Y  las  riquezas  del  cuerpo 
A  las  del  alma  antepones  ? 

^  Dexas  al  noble  Gasul, 
Dexas  seys  ailos  de  amores, 

Y  das  la  mano  a  Albenzayde 
Que  a  penas  no  le  conoces  ? 

[Here  the  division  into  stanzas  endi 

*^  Alha  permita  enemiga 
Que  te  aborrezca  y  le  adores, 
Que  por  celos  lo  sospires 

Y  por  ausencia  le  llorcs. 

Y  en  la  cama  lo  afastidies 

Y  que  a  la  mesa  le  enojes, 

Y  que  de  noche  no  duermas 

Y  de  dia  no  reposes, 

Ni  en  las  Zambras  ni  las  fiestas 
No  se  vista  tus  colores, 
Ni  el  almayzal  que  le  labres 
Ni  la  manga  que  le  hordes, 

Y  sc  ponga  el  de  su  amiga 


IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


267 


Con  U  cifra  de  ra  nombre 
T  para  verle  en  las  canas 
No  conaienia  que  te  assomes, 
A  la  poerta  ni  yentana 
Para  que  mas  te  alborotes 

Y  si  le  has  de  aborrecer 
Que  largos  anos  le  gozes, 

Y  si  mucho  le  quisieres 

De  yerle  muerto  te  assombres 
Que  es  la  major  maldicion 
Que  te  pueden  dar  los  hombres. 

Y  pl^a  Alba  que  suceda 
Quando  la  mano  le  tomes. 
Con  esto  llego  a  Xerez 

A  la  mitad  de  la  noche, 
Hallo  el  palacio  cubierto 
De  luminarias  y  Yozes. 

Y  los  Moros  fronterizos 
Que  por  todas  partes  corren 
Con  mil  hachas  encendidas 
Con  las  libreas  conformes. 
Delante  del  dcsposado 

En  los  estribos  se  pone, 
Que  tambien  anda  a  cavallo ; 
Por  honra  de  aquella  noche  : 
Arrojado  le  ha  una  lan9a 
De  parte  a  parte  passole. 
Alborotose  la  pla^a, 
Desnudo  el  Moro  su  estoque 

Y  por  in  medio  de  todos 
Para  Medina  bolviose. 


v* '^^sAM4^/^/wv«/^/s/^/w\/^^«« 


Par  la  plaqa  de  San  Lucar,  Sfc. 

Por  la  pla^a  de  San  Lucar 
Galan  passeando  vicne 
£1  animoso  Gaztd 
De  bianco  morado  7  verde : 
Quierese  partir  gallardo 
A  jugar  canas  a  Gelues 
Que  haze  fiestas  su  Alcalde 
Por  las  pazes  de  los  Rejes. 
Adora  un  Abencerraga 
Reliquia  de  los  valientes 
Que  mataron  en  Granada 
Los  Zegries  7  Gomeles. 
Por  despedirse  7  hablalle 
Buclve  7  rebueive  mil  vezes, 


Penetrando  con  los  ojos 
Las  venturosas  paredes. 
Al  cabo  de  una  hora  de  anos 
De  esperan^as  impaciente 
Viola  salir  a  un  balcon 
Iliziendo  loa  anoe  brevea. 
Arremetio  su  cavallo 
Viendo  aquel  sol  que  amanece, 
Hiziendo  que  se  arrodille 

Y  el  suelo  en  su  nombre  bese. 
Con  Yoz  turbada  le  dize. 

No  es  possible  sucederme 
Coea  triste  en  esta  ausencia 
Viendo  assi  tu  vista  alegre. 
Alia  me  llevan  sin  alma 
Obligacion  7  parientes 
Bolverame  mi  cu7dado 
Por  ver  si  de  me  le  tienes 
Dkme  una  empresa  en  memoria, 

Y  no  para  que  me  acuerde 
Sino  para  que  me  adome 
Guarde,  acompane,  7  esfuercc. 
Celosa  esta  Lindaraxa 

Que  de  celos  grandes  muere 
De  Za7da  la  de  Xeres 
Porque  su  Gazul  la  quiere, 

Y  de  esto  la  han  informado 
Que  por  ella  ardiendo  muere : 

Y  assi  a  Gazul  le  respondc, 
Si  en  la  guerra  te  sucede 
Como  mi  pecho  dessea 

Y  el  tu7o  falso  merece. 
No  bolveras  a  San  Lucar 
Tan  ufano  como  sueles 

A  los  ojos  que  te  adoran, 
Ya  los  que  mas  te  aborrecen. 

Y  plegue  a  Alha  que  en  las  canas 
Los  enemigos  que  tienes 

Te  tiren  secretas  lanQas, 
Porque  mueras  como  micntes, 

Y  que  tra7gan  fuertes  jacos 
Debaxo  los  Alquiceles 
Porque  si  quieres  vengarte 
Acabes  7  no  te  vengues. 
Tus  amigos  no  te  a7uden, 
Tus  contrarios  te  atropellen, 

Y  que  en  hombros  dellos  saigas 
Quando  a  servir  Damas  entres. 

Y  que  en  lugor  de  llorarte 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Las  que  enganas  7  entretienes 
Con  maldiciones  te  ajuden, 

Y  de  tu  maerte  se  huelguen. 
Piensa  Gazul  que  se  burla, 
Que  es  proprio  del  inocente, 

Y  al^andose  en  los  estribos 
Tomarle  la  mano  quiere. 
Miente  le  dize  Senora 

El  Moro  que  me  rebuelre, 
A  quien  estas  maldiciones 
Le  vengan  porque  me  venguen. 
Mi  alma  aborrece  Zayda 
De  que  la  amo  se  arrepiente, 
Malditos  sean  los  anos 
Que  la  servi  por  mi  suerte. 
Dexome  a  mi  por  un  Moro 
Mas  rico  de  pobres  bienes : 
Esto  que  oye  Lindaraxa 
Aqui  la  paciencia  pierde. 
A  este  punto  passo  un  page 
Con  sus  cayallos  ginetes,^ 
Que  los  llcvaya  gallardos 
De  plumas  y  de  jaezes, 
La  Ian9a  con  que  ha  de  entrar 
La  toma,  y  fuerte  arremete 
Haziendola  mil  pedai^os 
Contra  las  mismas  paredes. 

Y  manda  que  sus  cavallos 
Jaezes  y  plumas  truequen, 
Los  verdes  truequen  leonados 
Pura  entrar  leonado  en  Grelues. 

m 

From  LuFEECio  Leonardo. 

The  sun  has  chased  away  the  early  shower, 
And  on  the  misty  mountains*  clearer  height 
Pours  o*er  the  clouds  atilant  his  growing 
light. 
The  husbandman,  loathing  the  idle  hour, 
Starts  from  his  rest,  and  to  his  daily  toil 
Light-hearted  man  goes  forth,  and  pa- 
tient now 
As  the  slow  ox  drags  on  the  heavy  plough, 
With  the  young  harvest  fills  the  reeking 
soil. 


'  See  Third  Series,  p.  538.   Our  word  "  Jen' 
«et."— J.  W.  W. 


Domestic  love  his  due  return  awaits 
With  the  clean  board  bespread  with  coun- 
try care. 
And  clust*ring  round  his  knee  his  children 

play. 
His  days  are  pleasant  and  his  nights  secure. 
Oh,  cities !  haunt  of  power  and  wretch- 
edness. 
Who  would  your  busy  vanities  endure  !** 

June  l^h,  1797,  at  W.  Millers, 
Christ  Church. 

BAETdLOME  LeONAJUK). 

Extract /ram  an  Epistle. 

^^  Ever  as  the  river  swifl  and  silent  flows 
Towards  the  ocean,  I  am  borne  adown 
llie  quiet  tide  of  time.  Nought  now  remams 
Of  earlier  years ;  and  for  the  years  to  come, 
Their  dark  and  undiscoverable  deeds 
Elude  the  mortal  eye.     Beholding  thus 
How  daily  life  wains  on,  so  may  I  learn 
Not  with  an  unprovided  mind  to  meet 
That  hour  when  death  shall  gather  up  the 

old 
And  withered  plant,  whose  season  is  gone  by. 
The  spring  flowers  fade,  the  autumnal  fruits 

decay, 
And  grey  old  Winter,  with  his  clouds  snd 

storms. 
Comes  on :    the  leaves,  whose  calm,  cool 

murmuring 
Made   pleasant  music  to  our  green-wood 

walks, 
Now  rustle  dry  beneath  our  sinking  feet 
So  all  things  rise  and  perish ;  we  the  while 
Do  with  a  dull  and  profitless  eye  behold 
All  this,  and  think  not  of  our  latter  end. 
My  friend  I  we  will  not  let  that  soil,  which  oft 
Impr^nate  with  the  rains  and  dews  of 

Heaven, 
Is  barren  still  and  stubborn  to  the  plough, 
Emblem  our  thankless  hearts,  nor  of  our 

God 
Forgetful,  be  as  is  the  worthless  vine 
That  in  due  season  brings  not  forth  its  fruit 
Thinkest  thou  that  God  created  num  alone 
'i'o  wander  o*er  the  world  and  ocean  waste, 


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he  blasting  thunderbolt  of  war  ? 

s  his  being's  end  ?  Oh,  how  he  errs 

his  godlike  nature  and  his  God 

orly,  basely,  blasphemously  deems ! 

ler  actions  and  for  nobler  ends, 

ter  part,  the  deathless  and  divine, 

ade.     The  fire  that  animates  my 

ast 

t  be  quenched.     And  when  that 

ast  is  cold 

jctinguishable  fire  shall  burst 

ighter  splendour.     Till  that  hour 

ive, 

t  to  my  better  part,  my  Friend, 

f  lot  to  live,  and  thro*  the  world 

of  human  praise,  pass  quietly, 
tern  Despot,  he  whose  silver  towers 
sk  an  emulous  splendour  to  the  sun, 
too  poor  for  Sin*8  extravagance, 
toe,  like  the  air  and  light  of  Heaven, 
ccessible,  at  every  heart 

admittance.    Wretched  fool  is  he, 
t)*  the  perils  of  the  earth  and  waves 

for  gold  I  a  little  peaceful  home 
all  my  wants  and  wbhes,  add  to  this 
:  and  friend — ^and  this  is  happiness.*' 

L4^  Christ  Church. 


WdiUa  y  el  CabaUo. — Tbtabte. 

[ntANDO  estaba  una  Ardilla 
n  generoso  Alazan, 
i  docil  k  espuela  y  rienda 
idestraba  en  galopar. 

iendole  hacer  movimientos 
1  velocea,  y  a  compas, 
1  mui  poca  cortedad 
aquesta  suerte  le  dixo  ; 

Senor  mio 
^e  ese  brio, 
rigereza 
'  destreza. 
To  me  espanto ; 
tue  otro  tanto 
lo  hacer,  y  acaso  mas. 

Yo  sol  viva 
oi  activa ; 


Me  meiico, 
Me  paseo, 
Yo  trabajo 
Subo  y  baxo ; 
No  me  estoi  quieta  jamas. 

"  El  paso  detiene  entonces 
El  buen  Potro,  y  mui  formal. 
En  los  terminos  siguientes 
Respuesta  a  la  Ardilla  da : 

**  Tantas  Idas, 

Y  venidas, 
Tantas  vueltas 

Y  revneltas, 
(Quiero  amiga 
Que  me  diga) 

Son  de  alguna  utilidad  ? 

**  Yo  me  afano ; 
Mas  no  en  vano. 
S^  mi  oficio ; 

Y  en  servicio 
De  mi  Dueno 
Tengo  empeno, 

De  lucir  mi  habilidad. 

"  Con  que  algunes  escritorcs 
Ardillas  tambien  seren. 
Si  en  obras  frivolas  gastan 
Todo  el  calor  natural.** 


TrarukUion, 

A  SQUiRBEL  sat  and  eyed  a  horse. 
Who  answering  to  the  rein, 

Stept  stately,  or  with  rapid  course 
Went  thundering  o*er  the  plain. 

The  squirrel  marked  his  varied  pace. 
His  docile  strength  and  speed. 

Then,  with  a  pert  conceited  face. 
He  thus  adcbress'd  the  steed. 

"  Your  swiftness,  and  form. 
Your  grace,  Mr.  Horse, 
And  your  state  that  I  see, 
Astonish  not  me, 
Because  I  can  equal  your  best. 

**  So  active  am  I, 
I  can  run,  I  can  fly. 


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i 


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Aboye  and  below, 
Here  and  there  I  can  go, 
All  action,  and  never  at  rest.** 

The  horse,  who  heard  the  strange  address, 

Look*d  scornfully  aside, 
Then  paused,  and  listen*d  to  his  speech. 

And  gravely  thus  replied : 

"  Your  vaultings  in  air. 
Your  bounds  here  and  there, 
I  pray  you,  my  friend, 
In  what  do  they  end, 
The  use  of  all  this  let  me  know  ? 

"  It  is  not  in  vain 
That  I  move  o*er  the  plain, 
I  speed  to  fulfil 
My  govemor*s  will, 
And  in  this  my  ability  show.** 

Some  certain  writers,  squirrel-like. 

The  steed*8  advice  may  fit, 
Who,  when  by  Nature  gifted  well, 

In  trifles  waste  their  wit. 


WWV>/\/\/W>/>^/WN^^^^» 


ISea' Captain* 8  Exclamation.'] 

"  I,  Anthony  James  Pye  MoUoy, 
Can  make,  break,  disrate,  and  destroy.** 

This  was  the  usual  exclamation  of  this  gal- 
lant captain  of  the  '*  Caesar,**  as  he  walked 
the  deck. 


[iSirc  and  Baron.] 

**  These  ancient  barons  afiected  rather 
to  be  stiled  by  the  name  of  Sire  than  Ba- 
ron, as  Le  Sire  de  Montmorencie,  Le  Sire 
de  Beauvin,  and  the  like.  And  the  Baron 
cf  Coney  carried,  to  that  purpose,  this  rithme 
in  his  device, 

*  Je  ne  suis  Roy  ne  Prince  aussi 
Je  suis  le  Sire  de  Coney.*  '* 

Selden. 


^^^^^^v^^^/^^^^^^M^^^^^fX 


Ridiculous  appearance  of  the  names  in 
V.  Varanius  : — Pipinius  heros.  Talebotus. 
Ilongrefibrtus.     Scallus. 


**  Nec  cuiquam  Bethfortiadum  de  ] 

pepercit. 
Tum  Talebotream  loquitur  Sufibrt 


aurem. 


^WS^^^^^^^^V^^-'^^^^WVN^ 


{^Richard  Beauchampf  Earl  of  Warm 

**  It  was  Richard  Beauchamp,  Eai 
Warwick,  whom  Dunois  defeated,  boi 
1380.  *  Whether  we  consider  him  as  f 
dier  or  statesman,*  says  Fenn,  ^  he  wai 
of  the  most  considerable  personages  o 
time.  In  1 408  he  visited  the  Holy  Sepn 
at  Jerusalem,  and  on  his  journey  tb 
acquitted  himself  with  the  greatest  v 
at  tournaments,  and  other  acts  of  valo 
the  courts  of  several  princes.*  ** 

Extracts. 

**  Em  quern  se  unis  por  natureza 
Com  a  niur  severidade  a  mdr  brandur 

Ultssi 


««/S/V^»/W/V/V»/N^«ry\^<%/V<S<N<» 


**  SiLENcio  y  soledad,  ministros  pur 
De  alta  contemplacion,  tened  el  velc 
A  profanos  sentidos  inferiores.** 

B.  Leonak 


^^^^^^s^^^^^^^^ww^v^w^* 


Lance  heads  gilt.  '^  Outro  Ihe  1 
huma  facha  d*armas  com  o  ferro  dou 
— Palmeirim. 

^  E  FORQUE  nestes  encontros  qoe 
tres  lan^as,  que  trazia,  o  quinto  se  di 
esperando  Ihe  viesse  outra.  Albayii 
mandon  dar  d*algumas,  que  tcnha  pel 
pessoa,  porque  as  vezes  justava,  e  era ; 
e  o  ferro  dourado.** — Ibid. 


The  sound  of  the  drum  called  l| 
French  Palalalalan. — Pasquieb. 

Fuller  observes,  that  *^  though ' 
be  the  best  sauce  for  victoric,  yet  nj 
not  be  more  than  the  meat.** 


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271 


JO  vivo  vixit,  quo  pereiinte  perit." 

JOANMIS  AUBATI. 


^0^90^^^^>^^^^^^^^^^S^^^>^ 


**  Such  a  stream 
old  have  lulled  the  traveller  to  sleep, 
at  its  beauties,**  &c. 

SlDMET.   P.  68. 


lUDO  el  rayo  de  la  ardiente  espada.** 

Lop£  DB  Vega. 

tared  the  lightning  of  his  fierj  sword.** 


^^^fc^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^^/V^^ 


:.  viiiita  el  Llugar  con  llanto  tiemo 
onde  la  hermosa  virgen  Caterina 
poeo  con  el  Esposo  etemo 
a  Angelica  Rachel  siendo  madrina, 
I  Esposo,  que  el  nevado  invierno 
3  cubrio  con  escarcha  matutina 
i  tiene  los  ojos  de  palomas 
labio  de  lirio  vierte  aromas.** 

LoFB  DE  Vega. 

i  ViRGBM  fue  Madrina  en  los  despo- 
!  Caterina  y  Christo.** 


I  body  of  Clovis,  son  of  Chilperic, 
Predegondahad  murdered  and  thrown 
ie  river,  was  known  by  the  fisher- 
ho  found  it  by  the  long  hair.^ 

Mezerat. 


1445,  a  young  man  flourished  of  un- 
m  talents  and  acquirements.  Mon- 
t  suspects  him  to  be  Antichrist,  be- 
one  of  the  signs  of  the  times  when 
irist  should  appear,  is,  that  men  and 
I  shall  change  dress,  alluding  to  the 
— Pasquieb. 


loted  on  those  lines  in  **  Joan  of  Arc,'' 

niiarlesy  and  hide  thee  in  a  woman's  garb, 
keae  long  locks  will  not  disgrace  thoe 
en!"  Book  iii.,  Poemsy  p.  23. 

J.W.W. 


**  QUISQUIS 

Vos  labor  ezercet,  fructu  minuente  la- 
borem.'* 
Qidnque  Martyres.  Framcisi  Bbncu. 


^  Late  undantem  dant  sparsa  incendia 
lucem.**~MicH.  IIospitalius. 

'*  SuADET  inire  preces,  et  mentem  inferre 

beatis 
Sedibtur—Ihid. 

**  Iljjb  mihi  satis,  ille  diu  vixisse  videtur, 
Cujus  honesta  fuit  non  turpis  clausula  vita;.** 
Ibid. 

"  With  that  came  Melyn  upon  a  great 
black  horse,  and  sayde  to  King  Aithur,  *  Ye 
have  never  done.  Have  ye  not  done  ynough. 
Of  3  score  000,  ye  have  left  on  lyve  but 
15,000,  it  is  tyme  for  to  saye  No  I  for  God 
is  wrothe  with  you  that  you  wyll  never 
have  done.*** — Mori  Arthur,  chap.  15. 


\^WM^^^^^^«i^^^^^^^^^^^M 


*'  So  an  Herauld  rod  as  nigh  Sir  Gareth 
as  he  could,  and  there  he  saw  written  about 
the  helme  in  golde, — *This  is  Sir  G.  of 
Orkney.*  *' — Amadu  of  QauL. 

'*  Amd  anon  he  was  aware  of  a  K.  armed, 
walking  his  horse  easily  by  a  wood  side,  and 
his  shield  laced  to  his  shoulder.** — Ibid. 

**  Then  the  King  of  the  burning  S.  stept 
forward,  and  lifting  up  his  arm  as  if  he  would 
strike  the  Cynoccphal  on  the  top  of  his  head, 
seized  with  hb  left  hand  on  tjie  shield,  which 
he  pulled  to  him  with  so  much  strength, 
that  plucking  it  from  his  neck,  he  brought 
him  with  his  nose  to  the  groimd.** — Ibid, 
p.  84. 


^^^^^w^^^r^^^^s^^^SAA/^^ 


From  Rebolledo.  Pamaso,  9. 182.  N.  xzvii. 

With  what  a  deafening  roar  yon  torrent 

rolls 
Its  weight  of  waters  from  the  precipice 


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IDEAS  AND  STUDIES  FOR  LITERARY  COMPOSITION. 


Whose  mountain  mass  darkens  the  hollow 

▼ale! 
Yet  there  it  falls  not,  for  the  eternal  wind 
That  sweeps   with  force   compressed  the 

winding  straits, 
Scatters  the  midway  stream,  and  borne  afar. 
The  heavy  mist  descends,  a  ceaseless  shower. 
Methinks  that  Eolus  here  forms  his  clouds, 
As  Yulcan,  amid  Etna*s  cavem*d  fires. 
Shapes  the  red  bolts  of  Jove.     Sure  if  some 

sage 
Of  elder  times  had  journey *d  here,  his  art 
With  many  a  mystic  fable  shadowing  jtruth, 
Had  sanctified  this  spot,  where  Man  might 

learn 
Wisdom  from  Nature,  marking  how  the 

stream 
That  seeks  the  yalley*s  depth,  borne  up- 
ward joins 
The  clouds  of  heaven,  but  from  its  height 

abased 
When  it  would  rise,  descends  to  earth  in 

rain/* 
Feb,  4M,  1798.    Lamb's  C.  Street. 


V\^^%^^%^^%^^^^V^%^WS^V«^^A 


From  the  Condb  db  Rbbollbdo. 
Not  long  this  fearful  conflict  shall  endure 
That  arras  the  air  with  lightning,  that  over- 
spreads 
Earth  with  its  horrors,  making  the  firm  globe 
Tremble.     Not  long  these  terrors  shall  en- 
dure 
That  seem  as  they  appaird  the  fires  of 

heaven. 
For  Night  approaches  now,  preserving 

Night, 
And  War  will  sleep  in  darkness.     But  the 

Chief 
Stretch*d  forth  his  hand,  and  bade  the  Sun 

stand  still 
On  Gibeon,  and  thou.  Moon,  over  the  vale 
Of  Ajilon,  till  vengeance  be  compleat. 
And  wherefore  did  the  Harmonies  of  Heaven 
Cease  at  the  voice  of  Joshua  ?  the  Most  High, 
He  who  is  Just,  suspended  Nature's  laws. 
That  Kings  might  meet  the  meed  they  me- 
rited. 
Jan,  30,  1798. 


From  L.  Leonardo.  I.  73.  11. 

Thou  art  determined  to  be  beautiful. 
Lysis !  and,  Lysis,  either  thou  art  mad 
Or  hast  no  looking-glass.     Dost  thou  not 

know 
Thy  paint-bepla8ter*d  forehead,  broad  tod 

bare, 
With  not  a  grey  lock  left,  thy  mouth  so  blacky 
And  that  invincible  breath.     Rightly  we 

deem 
That  with  arandom  hand  blind  Fortunedeals 
The  lots  of  life.  To  thee  she  gave  a  boon, 
That  crowds  so  anxiously  and  vainly  wish, 
Old  age,  and  left  in  thee  no  trace  of  youth, 
Save  all  its  folly  and  its  ignorance. 
Jan,  2,  98. 


From  L.  Leonardo.  Y.  1,  18.  HI. 

Content  with  what  I  am,  the  sounding 

.names  ^ 

Of  Glory  tempt  not  me ;  nor  is  there  ought 
In  glittering  Grandeur  that  provokes  one 

wish 
Beyond  my  peaceful  state.     What  Uiough 

I  boast 
No  trapping  that  the  multitude  adore 
In  conunon  with  the  great,  enough  for  me, 
That  naked,  like  the  mighty  of  the  earth, 
I  came  into  the  world ;  and  that,  like  me, 
They  must  descend  into  the  grave,  the  house 
For  all  appointed.    For  the  space  between, 
What  more  of  happiness  have  I  to  seek 
Than  that  dear  woman*8  love  whose  truth 

I  know. 
And  whose  fond  heart  is  satisfied  with  me. 
1  Jan.  1798. 


From  B.  Leonardo.  V.  2. 187.  X. 

Fadius,  to  think  that  God  hath  in  the  lines 
Of  the  right  hand  disclosed  the  things  to 

come. 
And  in  the  wrinkles  of  the  skin  pourtrayU 
As  in  a  map,  the  way  of  human  life. 
This  is  to  follow  with  the  multitude 
EiTor  and  Ignorance,  their  common  guides. 
Yet  surely  I  allow  that  God  has  placed 


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ate  in  our  own  hands,  or  evil  or  good, 
as  we  make  it.     Tell  me,  Fabius, 
lot  a  king  thyself,  when  envying  not 
dt  of  kings,  no  idle  wish  disturbs 
}uiet  life,  when,  a  self-governed  man, 
ws  exist  to  thee ;  and  when  no  change 
which  the  will  of  Heaven  may  visit 
hee 
reak  the  even  calmness  of  thy  soul. 

31«/  Dec.  97. 
Lamb's  Conduit  Street, 


Futura, 

January  13,  1803. 
lo  is  it  that  so  prefers  cities  that  he 
>t  live  in  the  country,  and  loves  London 
f  all,  for  the  sake  of  man  the  philoso- 
' — ^yet  even  in  London  lives  retired, 
iting  in  shade,  and  quiet,  and  retire- 
—in  solitude  ?  oh  no !  but  his  acts  of 
re  so  secretly  bestowed  that  they  are 
It  atithe  time,  though  keenly  felt  and 
*emembered  afWwards — a  good  Me- 
it  ?  The  king  is  afraid  of  him,  and 
f  his  own  authority  ordered  him  to  be 
•yed.  Oh,  a  Jacobin ;  away  with  him 
•.  Aris ! — ^no,  not  by  law  and  a  trial — 
gainst  law  by  confinement — not  by  a 
•martial,  but  by  Mr.  Tiffin. 
W.  Yeo  and  the  Soldier.  The  Sol- 
lad  gone  into  the  field  to  do — what  ? 
rou  a  classic  reader — ^have  you  had 
mefit  of  a  liberal  education  ? — to  do 
'  As  in  praesenti  had  done  in  the  entry.* 
rhat  goeth  into  the  mouth  defileth,  but 
id.  The  soldier  swore  when  he  got 
ayonet ;  but  the  recording  angel  put 
ath  down  among  his  good  things.  So, 
ith  reverence  be  his  title  spoken. 


Keswick,  Saturday  Evening, 
June  11,  1808. 

Portugal  Delivered, 
B  Siege  of  Lisbon;  the  election  at 
)ra ;  the  battle  of  Aljubarrota. 
e  of  the  finest  incidents  would  be  the 


disappearance   of  Nuno  after  the   battle, 
when  he  went  to  save  his  brother. 

For  a  poetical  hero,  there  is  Vasco  Lo- 
beira,  and  his  Oriana  may  supply  that  fe- 
male interest  to  the  story  which  is  all  it 
wants. 

26  Nov,  1814. 

I  HAVE  this  day  made  up  my  mind  to 
take  the  subject. 

2^  March,  18191 

The  weight  of  this  poem  will  depend  upon 
two  characters.  Nuno  Alvarez,  who  is  the 
ideal  of  chivalry,  full  of  joy,  hope,  enthu- 
siastic patriotism,  and  enthusiastic  devotion ; 
and  his  brother,  twenty  years  older  than 
himself,  who  had  been  a  father  to  him,  and 
is,  from  a  deep  sense  of  duty,  with  the 
Spaniards :  satisfied  that  their  cause  is  just ; 
utterly  dissatisfied  with  their  conduct — the 
perfect  example  of  a  good  and  wise  man  in 
such  circumstances.  Hated  by  the  popu- 
lace of  his  own  country ;  hated  by  most  of 
the  Spaniards,  but  respected  by  Juan  and 
Joam,  though  disliked  by  one,  and  feared 
by  the  other ;  and  loved  and  reverenced  by 
Nuno,  and  by  all  who  know  him  well.  Be- 
fore the  battle  he  takes  leave  of  Juan,  and 
while  the  event  is  doubtful,  executes  his 
long  meditated  purpose  of  hiding  himself 
from  the  world.  His  daughter  is  Lobeira*s 
love. 

If  this  character  can  be  developed  as  it 
is  conceived,  I  think  it  will  be  the  best  de- 
lineation that  I  shall  ever  have  made. 


In  Aragon  no  vassal  of  the  crown  could 
be  buried  without  the  king*s  leave ;  the  per- 
mission implying  that  he  had  discharged  his 
loyalty. 

Sisters  of  Helicon — yours  is  a  thankless 
service ;  he  who  rears  the  olive  of  Pallas 
is  well  repaid — or  the  grain  of  Ceres — ^your 
votaries  receive  only  a  barren  laurel  to  wave 
over  their  graves. 

*  This  note  of  exclamation  is  in  the  original 
MSS.  and  is  evidently  intended  to  point  to  the 
time  elapsed  since  the  preceding  entry. 

J*  W.  W^« 


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I  wish  I  were  as  young  as  thee,  my  own 

dear  Margaret — 
For  some  things  I  full  fain  would  learn,  and 

some  full  fain  forget. 

Ramiro} 

Mt  old  folios ;  why  do  you  for  ever  read 
them  P  a  song  of  songs  to  come,  and  the 
burden  Barbara !  Barbara ! 


The  Man  in  the  Moon  is  dead,  and  who 
shall  succeed  him  ?  Some  say  Mr.  Game- 
rin  is  set  out  to  take  possession  ;  others  that 
the  planets  are  to  elect  *  *  then  thinks  he 
has  a  fair  chance,  being  sure  of  Mercury 
and  Venus ;  others  say  Lord  Melville,  be- 
cause a  brass  face  is  the  best  complexion  ; 
or  Lord  *,  because  he  wants  a  place,  and 
this  would  be  conspicuous  enough  to  suit 
him.  Mr.  Addington,  for  he  who  is  so  ex- 
cellent a  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  would 
make  a  most  excellent  Man  in  the  Moon. 
Bonaparte ;  but  he  is  afraid  of  the  Crescent. 
Or  the  Duke  of  York — because  in  Holland 
he  80  often  shifted  his  quarters,  I  dreamt 
this  this  morning  July  3,  1804. 


^^v^^v^^/w^^^/^/>^^^vs/s/^ 


Ideas,  ifv. 

How  the  Bishop  of  Bremen  went  to  Hell 
by  water. 

The  Dominican  dipping  for  gold  in  a 
volcano. 

The  sepulchre  that  fits  every  body  ;  he 
who  has  measured  himself  thereby  never 
more  feels  fatigue. 

The  babe  bom  in  the  grave. 

Inspiration  of  Hafiz. 

The  Mistress  of  Don  Manuel  Ponce  de 
Leon  let  fall  her  glove  into  the  circus  where 
there  were  lions ;  the  knight,  though  un- 
armed, leaped  down  and  picked  it  up ;  but 
as  she  stooped  to  receive  it,  he  dashed  the 
glove  in  her  face. 

St.  Endeus,  King  of  Ireland. 

Escape  of  Ferran  Gonzalez  from  Leon. 

'  Sae  Poems,  p.  442.— J.  W.  W. 


But  these  conjectures  all  are  all  false, 
And  ril  tell  you  the  true  one  to  end  them; 

The  Devil  had  torn  his  blue  pantaloons, 
Ajid  he  sent  for  a  taylor  to  mend  them. 

OWBH   PaBFIT.- 

A.  D.  988.  Vladimar  sent  to  Constantine 
Porphyrogenitus,  to  demand  baptism,  and 
the  Emperor^s  sister,  Helena,  in  marriage — 
else  he  threatened  to  march  on  from  Theo- 
dosia,  which  he  had  just  taken.  Constan- 
tine sent  priests  and  the  lady.  The  Rus- 
sian then  restored  his  conquests,  made  bis 
people  be  baptized  by  thousands  in  the 
Dnieper,  and  threw  Peroun  into  the  river 
with  the  rest  of  the  idols. 

Ballad  from  Count  Stolberg*s  story  of  the 
foundation  of  Rapperschweil ;  a  traveller 
admiring  the  town ;  and  a  burgher  telling 
him  what  a  chance  it  was  whether  there 
should  be  a  town  there  or  a  gibbet ;  making 
it  the  scene  of  the  wife's  adultery.  The 
end  that  the  town  makes  the  place  the 
better,  and  the  story  no  whit  th^  worse. 

A  good  monodrama  may  be  made  of  Hi- 
milcon,  the  Carthaginian  general,  who,  after 
losing  a  victorious  army  in  Sicily  by  pesti- 
lence, returned  alone,  related  to  the  people 
what  he  had  done,  what  suffered,  accused 
the  Gods,  and  then  retiring  into  his  apart- 
ment slew  himself. 

The  Dew'  that  falls  on  St.  John's  night 
is  supposed  to  have  the  virtue  to  stop  the 
plague. — Bruce. —  Connect  this  with  the 
Witch  and  the  Well  of  Rogoes. 

Give  me  the  May-green  of  hope,  or  the 
healthy  June  appearance  of  the  trees  in  their 
full  life-beauty ;  not  Autumn—  hectic  co- 
lours that  foretell  the  fall. 


'  This  was  a  cripple  tailor,  who  lived  in  a 
cut  de  sac,  or  close  court,  at  Bristol.  He  sud- 
denly disappeared  one  fine  day,  and  was  neTer 
heard  of  more.  All  sorts  of  conjectures,  of 
course,  were  made  relative  to  his  flight. 

J.  W.  W. 

'  Brand,  in  his  "  Popular  Antiquities,"  quotes 
the  following  from  an  ancient  calendtf  of  the 
Romish  Church. 

"  24  June.  The  Nativity  of  John  the  Baptist. 
Dew  and  new  leaves  in  estimation," 

J.  W.  W. 


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276 


iX^c  Mrfrpoi. 

*h  history — its  atrocious  character. 
holomew*s  Day.  Damiens.  Iron 
[c.  Shame  afler  shame,  and  this 
ipstart,  the  consummation, 
(oiling  Well.  Mary,  I  cannot  now 
thee,  but  thou  shalt  see  a  type — a 
as  calm  and  a  spirit  as  troubled 

ptions  for  Major  Cartwright*s  Hie- 
on. — Alfred. 


Oarcin,  son  of  Oarci  Ferrandez. 

id  his  mother  were  in  the  town  of 
evan,  he  went  hunting  rabbits  with 
b  King,  who  lived  in  Gk>rmaz,  and  in 
the  king  fell,  e  descubrio  *  *  *.  At 
i  Count*s  carver,  in  cutting  up  the 
)r  his  supper,  laughed.  Aba  asked 
1  the  story  of  the  king*s  fall  was 

^reed  with  this  Moor  to  poison  her 
rhich  he  was  to  be  apprized  by  a 
straw  sent  down  the  river;  and 
marry  him  and  give  him  the  land. 
arera*s  lover,  Sancho,  informed  the 
rho  made  his  mother  drink  of  the 
cup,  sent  down  the  straw,  and 
e  Moorish  King,  whose  name  was 
lie,  or  Mahomad  Almohadio. 
)rpe8. 

Rodrigo.^  But  for  this  I  want  the 
)nica,  and  the  Conde  de  Mora*s 
Toledo,  both  being  lying  books  of 
igination,  unless  they  are  belied. 


Chrintmas  Tale. 

iTMAS  tale,  this  Christmas  time, 
Williams  Wynn,  you  ask  of  me, 
gin.  Dear  Williams  Wynn, 
istmas  tale  for  thee. 

»lay  at  cards  this  Christmas  time — 
cheat,  dear  W.  W.  it  is  a  sin,  &c. 

See  Poemi,  p.  441.— J.  W.  W. 


The  three  illustranda  arc  the  doctrine  of 
Plato*s  ec^diXa — so  all  things  sinful  are 
only  copies  of  their  prototypes  in  the  mind 
of  the  *IiAaQ  whose  name,  after  the  Per- 
sian custom,  I  write  upside  down — the  om- 
nipotence of  law,  and  the  sin  of  cheating 
at  cards. 

The  Lady  Cheatabell,  playing  at  hunt 
the  Knave  out  of  town,  packed  the  cards, 
and  gave  herself  the  Knave  of  Hearts,  being 
Jack.  From  that  time  forth  at  midnight  the 
Knave  himself  haunted  her.  The  bloody 
Heart  first  came  into  the  room,  and  he  after 
it — also  with  his  nose.  She  goes  to  a  con- 
jurer :  he  calls  up  the  Queen  of  Hearts,  as  a 
superior  spirit,  but  he  is  outwitted— every- 
thing yields  to  law.  He  was  Jack,  and  takes 
everything ;  wherefore  he  wins  the  Queen, 
and  both  spirits  haunt  the  Lady  Cheatabell. 
Again  the  conjuror  is  consulted — ^he  calls 
up  the  Kjiave  and  Queen  of  Spades,  and  ties 
them.  When  they  see  each  other,  both  par- 
ties stop,  both  become  powerless  and  mo- 
tionless— and  thus  the  Knave  is  hunted  out 
of  town,  or  laid  in  the  Red  Sea — si  placet 

Inscriptions, 

WoBURNE — The  Duke  of  Bedford. 
Smithfield — the  Martyrs. 


Man-in-ihe-Moon  Thought. 

This  man-in-the-moon  thought  might  be 
extended  into  a  good  satire. 

Journey  there  upon  a  night  mare,  who 
was  begotten  by  Pegasus  upon  El  Borak. 

The  goddess  of  the  moon ;  young  and 
lovely  when  I  arrived.  Her  change  to  old 
age. 

All  the  lost  things  there;  but  some  things 
recovered  from  thence. 

Candidates  for  the  manship,  Mr.  Phillips 
among  the  rest.  But  Bonaparte  sends  up 
one,  and  he  immediately  declares  war  a- 
gainst  England. 

Inventory  of  things  found  there. — The 
Decades  of  Livy,  &c.  Lord  Nelson*s  dying 
orders. 


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Fire  Flies,  ^c, 

*^  QuAM  multiplex  cincindelarum  diver- 
sitas  noctu  stellarum  instar  passim  coUu- 
centium !  Alise  bruchi  magnitudine  alarum 
jactatione,  alise  soils  ex  oculis  lucem  vibrant, 
qu8B  libro  legendo  sufficiat.  Qusedam  soils 
natibus  splendorem  edunt.  Vermes  quoque 
majusculi  toto  corpore  coruscant.  Ligna, 
arundines,  arborum  folia,  plantarum  radices, 
postquam  computruere,  in  territoriis  maxime 
humidis,  adamantum,  pjroporum,  smarag- 
dorum,  chrysolithorum,  rubinorum,&c.  more 
lucem  yiridem,  rubram,  flavam,  cseruleam 
noctu  spargunt,  mirumque  in  modum  oculos 
oblectant." — Dobbizhoff^b,  tom.  ii.  p.  389. 


[Indian  WomatCs  defence  of  Child'murderJ] 

An  Indian  woman,  who  had  just  put  to 
death  her  new-bom  daughter,  thus  defended 
herself  to  Gumella,  afler  patiently  listening 
to  all  his  reproaches  : — "  Would  to  Grod  I 
father, — ^would  to  God  that  my  mother,  when 
she  brought  me  into  the  world,  had  had  love 
and  compassion  enough  for  me  to  have  spared 
me  all  the  pains  which  I  have  endured  till 
this  day,  and  am  to  endure  till  the  end  of 
my  life  I  If  my  mother  had  buried  me  as 
soon  as  bom,  I  should  have  been  dead,  but 
should  not  have  felt  death,  and  she  would 
have  exempted  me  from  that  death  to  which 
I  am  unavoidably  subject,  and  as  well  as 
from  sorrows  that  are  as  bitter.  Think, 
father,  what  a  life  we  Indian  women  endure 
among  these  Indians !  they  go  with  us  with 
their  bows  and  arrows,  and  that  is  all.  We 
go  laden  with  a  basket,  with  a  child  hang- 
ing at  the  breast,  and  another  in  the  basket. 
These  go  to  kill  a  bird  or  a  fish ;  we  must 
dig  the  earth,  and  provide  for  all  with  the 
harvest.  They  return  at  night  without  any 
burden ;  we  must  carry  roots  to  eat,  maize 
for  their  chicha.  Our  husbands  when  they 
reach  home,  go  talk  with  their  friends ;  we 
must  fetch  wood  and  water  to  prepare  their 
supper.  They  go  to  sleep ;  we  must  spend 
great  part  of  the  night  in  grinding  maize, 
to  make  their  drink.    And  what  is  the  end 


of  our  watching!  they  drink  the  chicha,  b- 
toxicate  themselves,  beat  us  to  a  jelly,  take 
us  by  the  hair  of  the  head,  and  trample  as 
under  foot.  Would  to  God  I  father,  that 
my  mother  had  buried  me  as  soon  as  she 
bore  me  into  the  world !  Thou  knowest  that 
all  this  is  true,  for  it  is  what  daily  passes 
before  your  eyes ;  but  our  worst  evil  you 
do  not  understand,  because  you  cannot  feel 
it.  After  serving  her  husband  like  a  slave, 
the  poor  Indian  sees  him  at  the  end  of 
twenty  years  take  a  girl  for  his  wife,  who 
is  without  understanding :  he  loves  her,  and 
though  she  beats  our  children  and  maltreats 
us,  we  cannot  complain,  for  he  cares  nothing 
for  us,  and  loves  us  no  longer.  The  young 
wife  rules  everything,  and  treats  us  as  her 
servants,  and  silences  us,  if  we  presume  to 
speak,  with  the  stick.  Can  then  a  woman 
procure  a  greater  blessing  for  her  daughter 
than  to  save  her  from  all  this,  which  is  worse 
than  death  I  Would  to  God  I  father,  I  saj, 
that  my  mother  had  shown  her  love  to  me 
in  burying  me  as  soon  as  I  was  born ;  mj 
heart  would  not  have  had  so  much  to  en- 
dure, nor  my  eyes  so  much  to  weep !" 

This  he  says  he  has  translated  literallj 
from  the  Betoye  language,  as  it  was  uttered 
to  him. 


[^Germ  of  the  Tale  of  Paraguay  J] 

A  FABTT  of  Spaniards  were  gathering  the 
herb  of  Paraquay  on  the  south  bank  of  the 
Rio  Empa]ado,and  having  gathered  all  thej 
could  find,  sent  three  of  their  number  over 
the  river,  to  see  if  any  trees  were  on  the 
other  side.  There  were  found  a  hut  of  the 
savages,  and  a  plantation  of  maize.  Terrified 
at  supposing  that  the  whole  forest  swarmed 
with  savages ;  they  lurked  in  their  huts, 
and  sent  to  the  Reduction  of  S.  Joachim, 
requesting  that  a  Jesuit  would  come  in  search 
of  these  savages,  and  reduce  them.  Dobriz- 
hofier  went  with  forty  Indians,  crost  the 
Empalado,  searched  the  woods  as  far  as  the 
Monday^  miri,  and  on  the  third  day  traced 
out  by  a  human  footsteps  little  hovel  con- 
taining a  mother,  a  son  in  his  twentieth,  and 


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adaughter  in  her  fifteenth  year.  Being  asked 
where  the  rest  of  their  horde  were,  they  re- 
plied, tiiey  were  the  only  suryivors !  the 
small-pox  had  cutoff  all  the  rest.  The  youth 
had  repeatedly  searched  the  woods  in  hopes 
of  finding  a  wife,  but  in  vain.  The  Spaniards 
also  for  two  years  had  been  employed  in  that 
part  of  the^untry  herb  gathering  and  they 
confirmed  his  assertion,  that  it  was  utterly 
uninhabited. 

The  missionary  asked  them  to  go  with  him 
to  the  Reduction :  the  mother  made  but 
one  objection,  she  had  tamed  three  boars, 
who  were  like  dogs  to  her.  If  they  got 
into  a  dry  place,  or  should  be  exposed  to  the 
sun,  having  always  lived  in  the  thick  shade, 
they  would  infallibly  perish.  ^*  Hanc  soli- 
citadinem  quseso,  animo  ejicias  tuo,  reposui ; 
cordi  mihi  forechara  animalcula,nil  dubites. 
Sole  estuante  umbram,  ubi  ubi  demum,  cap- 
tabimus.  Neque  lacunae,  amnes,  paludes  ubi 
refrigeruntur  tua  hiec  corcula  unquam  dee- 
runt." 

Here  they  had  lived  in  a  place  infested 
by  all  sorts  of  insects  and  reptiles,  with  no- 
thing but  muddy  water  for  their  drink.  Alces 
(tntas),  deer,  rabbits,  birds,  maize,  the  roots 
of  the  mamUo  tree,  was  their  food.  They 
spun  the  threads  of  the  caraquata  for  their 
deaths  and  hammocks.  Honey  was  their 
damty.  The  mother  smoked  through  a  reed; 
the  son  chawed.  He  had  a  shell  for  a  knife. 
Sometimes  he  used  a  reed.  But  he  had  two 
bits  of  an  old  knife,  no  bigger  each  than  his 
thumb,  fastened  with  thread  and  wax  to  a 
wooden  handle,  which  he  wore  in  his  girdle. 
With  them  he  made  his  arrows  and  traps, 
and  opened  trees  to  get  the  honey.  They 
had  no  vessels  to  boil  anything,  and  there- 
fore used  the  herb  cold,  gourds  being  their 
only  cups  or  pots.  The  women  both  wore 
their  hiunmock  by  day.  The  youth  a  man- 
delion  (lacema),  girt  with  a  cord,  it  was 
from  hb  shoulders  to  the  knee,  and  his  gourd 
of  tobacco  hung  from  the  girdle. 

Dobrizhofier,  not  liking  the  girFs  trans- 
parent dress,  gave  her  a  cloth,  which  she 
turbaned  round  her  head.  He  gave  the 
brother  perizomala — drawers,  which  incon- 


venienced him  terribly,  for  else  he  could 
climb  trees  like  a  monkey.  All  wore  the 
hair  loose.  The  man  had  neither  bored  his 
lip,  nor  wore  any  feathers.  They  had  no 
earring,  but  they  wore  a  string  of  wooden 
pyramidal  beads,  very  heavy  and  very  noisy. 
Dobrizhofier  asked  if  they  were  to  fi'ighten 
away  the  gnats,  and  gave  a  gay  string  of 
beads  in  their  place.  They  were  both  tall 
and  well  made.  The  girl  would  have  been 
called  beautiful  by  any  European  ;  she  was 
like  a  nymph  or  driad.  ITiey  were  rejoiced 
rather  than  terrified  at  the  sight  of  Dobriz 
and  his  party.  They  spake  Guarani,  but  as 
imperfectly  as  may  be  supposed. 

The  man  had  never  seen  other  woman ; 
the  girl  never  other  man,  for,  just  before 
her  birth,  her  father  had  been  killed  by  a 
tyger.  The  girl  gathered  fruits  and  woixl, 
through  thorns  and  reeds,  in  a  di*eadful 
country.  Not  to  be  alone  at  this  employ- 
ment, she  usually  had  a  parrot  on  her  shoul- 
der, a  monkey  on  her  arm,  fearless  of  tygers, 
though  the  place  abounded  with  them  (they 
knew  her)  ;  yet  tygers  are  there  more  dan- 
gerous than  in  the  savannahs,  where  cattle 
are  plenty. 

They  were  clothed,  treated  with  especial 
kindness,  and  sent  often  to  the  woods,  in 
hopes  of  saving  their  health,  and  few  weeks 
as  usual  brought  with  it  a  severe  seasoning, 
rheum,  loss  of  spirit,  appetite,  and  flesh. 
In  a  few  months  the  mother  died,  a  happy 
death,  in  full  belief  and  faith  of  a  Happy 
hereafter.  The  maid  withered  like  a  flower, 
and  soon  followed  her  to  the  grave,  and  *^nisi 
vehementissime  fallor,  ad  caelum." 

There  was  not  a  dry  eye  at  her  burial. 
The  brother  recovered ;  he  also  got  through 
the  small-pox  remarkably  well,  and  no  fear 
was  now  entertained  for  him.  He  was  in 
high  health,  chearful  and  happy,  content  in 
all  acts  of  religion ;  every  body  loved  him. 

An  old  Indian  Christian  with  whom  the 
youth  lived,  told  Dobrizhofier  he  thought 
him  inclined  to  derangement-,  for  every  night 
he  said  his  mother  and  sister  came  to  him, 
and  said,  "  Thee  be  baptized,  for  we  are 
coming  for  you."      Dobrizhofier  spoke  to 


f 


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him ;  he  affirmed  the  same  thing,  and  that 
he  could  have  no  rest  for  their  warning. 
But  he  was  still  in  high  health,  and  still 
cheerful.  Dobrizhofier  was  struck  by  the 
strangeness  of  the  story ;  he  baptized  him 
at  ten  o*clock  on  June  23,  the  eve  of  St.  John 
the  Baptist,  and  in  the  evening,  without  the 
slightest  apparent  indisposition,  the  youth 
fell  asleep  in  the  Lord." — Dobrizhoffbb, 
Hist,  of  the  Abipanes. 


Missionary  Poems, 

Vandebkemp,  epitaph. 
A  Greenland  eclogue. 
Bavians  Kloof,  epitaph. 
Surinam. 


Feby.  16,  1814. 
Hbbbebt'  called  me  back  this  morning  on 
Castrigg,  near  Tom*s  old  lodging,  to  look  at 
"  something  very  curious."  It  was  merely 
an  icicle  formed  by  the  drippingof  the  water 
through  a  hollow  bank,  and  reaching  the 
road,  so  that  it  became  a  little  pillar.  The 
thing  was  not  above  three  or  four  inches 
long,  but  I  was  repaid  for  the  trouble  of 
turning  back,  for  it  shaped  itself  presently 
into  an  allegorical  vision : — a  splendid  hall, 
supported  (chapterhouse  like)  by  one  central 
pillar,  glittering  like  cut  glass,  and  rendered 

*  His  wonderful  boy,  of  whom  he  wrote  to 
Neville  White,—"  The  severest  of  all  afflictions 
has  fallen  upon  me.  I  have  lost  my  dear  son 
Herbert  —  my  beautiful  boy  —  beautiful  in  in- 
tellect and  disposition  ;  he  who  was  everything 
which  my  heart  desired.  God's  will  be  done! " 
—MS.  Letter,  17th  April,  1816. 

J.  W.  W. 


brilliant  by  a  light  within  it,  like  Abdaldar's 
ring ;  but  upon  nearer  inspection  the  pillar 
was  of  ice,  and  the  light  which  gave  its  bril- 
liance was  all  the  while  conBuming  it. 

Now  as,  V8B  mihi  I  the  expected  marriage 
of  the  princess  must  operate  aa  a  tax  upon 
my  poor  brain,  may  I  not  thank  Herbert 
and  his  icicle  for  a  feasible  and  striking  plan. 
Begin  with  such  a  vision ; — then  answer  the 
reproach  for  obtruding  thoughts  of  morta- 
lity and  death  on  such  an  occasion,  and  pro- 
ceed in  a  high  strain  of  religious  philosophj, 
to  show  in  what  manner  death,  as  it  must  be 
the  last  thing  of  life,  becomes  also  the  best 
In  this  way  William  I.  may  best  be  intro- 
duced, and  those  of  the  ancestors  of  those 
whose  names  bear  a  fair  report  in  history, 
or  seem  likely  to  be  written  in  the  book  of 
life. 


April  11th,  1814.  News  arrived  of  Buo- 
naparte*s  having  consented  to  retire  upon 
a  pension. 

Immediate  feelings.  Personal  retro- 
spect. 

Buonaparte*s  partizans.  His  sole  ex- 
cuse the  specific  madness  which  is  produced 
by  the  possession  of  uncontrolled  power. 
Causes  of  the  Revolution.  The  sins  of  the 
fathers,  &c.  Henry  IV.'s  conformity  per- 
haps a  mortal  blow  to  religion  in  France. 
Moral,  political,  and  military  profligacy. 
Practical  reforms  make  men  happier,  better, 
and  wiser.  In  the  church  abolish  vows  of 
celibacy,  and  confession. 

April  13.  Begin  with  the  Duke.  **  Quern 
virum,"  &c.  Alexander,  Frederic,  Blucher, 
Platoff,  and  so  end  with  the  prince. 


)LLECmONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF  ENGLISH  LITERATURE 

AND  POETRY. 


Astrea} 


[IR  Philip  Sidney  tacked  toge- 
ther the  pastoral  and  the  epic 
romance.  D*Urfe  has  united 
them.  He  has  done  this  with 
t  skill,  and  involved  the  fates  of  his 
berds  and  his  heroes,  so  as  to  form  a 
•constructed  whole. 

lis  romance  has  one  wearying  and  in- 
ortable  fault.  Love  questions  after  the 
en^al  fashion  are  continually  arising; 
let  speeches  are  made  pro  and  con,  like 
?laidoyen  Historiques  of  Tristan.  It 
[so  too  much  dialogue^which  was  thought 
$piritual  in  its  day,  but  which  is  very 
and  very  worthless, 
lave  read  Astrea  in  a  detestable  trans- 
Q,  in  which  there  is  not  a  single  beauty 
ipression.  These  "  persons  of  quality  '* 
r  by  any  accident  stumble  upon  one ; 
f  where  you  meet  vulgarisms  and  bar- 
ms, French  idioms  and  their  own  idiot- 
Ilcre  are  some  instances  of  a  strange 
)f  wortls. 

lover  has  stabbed  himself  mortally !  **  he 
It  the  last  gasp,  yet  hearing  the  lamen- 
n  of  his  shepherdess,  and  knowing  her 
S  did  call  unto  her.  She,  hearing  a  faint 
w  voice,  went  towards  him.  Oh !  bca- 
,  how  the  sight  of  him  did  amitse  hur." 
i.  p.  185. 


)  )uthey  read  over  the  Aitnea  again  in  his 
'  days,  with  great  delight.  It  was  on  his 
iring  an  early  edition  of  the  original. 

J.  W.  W. 


**Mandragne  the  witch,  finding  them  both 
dead,  cursed  her  art,  hated  all  her  demons, 
tore  her  hair,  and  extremely  grieved  at  the 
death  of  these  two  faithful  lovers,  and  her 
own  contentment^  &c. 

A  lover  has  resolved  upon  suicide :  *'  and 
but  for  Olimbom,  perhaps  I  had  served  my 
own  turn;  for  he  was  so  careful  of  me,  that 
I  could  not  do  any  thing  to  myself,  but  gave 
me  so  many  diverting  reasons  to  the  con- 
trary, that  he  kept  me  alive,"  &c.  Part  i. 
p.  417. 

An  instance  of  extraordinary  i<^norance 
seems  to  mark  this  "  person  of  quality"  for 
a  woman.  P.  i.  p.  12,  is  a  picture  of  Saturn, 
throughout  which  he  is  spoken  of  in  the  fe- 
minine gender,  and  called  a  hag.  Ko  man 
could  be  so  uneducated  as  t6  have  made 
these  blunders.  It  appears  too  that  she  be- 
gan to  translate  the  book  before  she  had 
read  it,  for  p.  12,  mention  is  made  of  the 
den  of  an  old  Mandrake.  I  marked  this 
place  with  a  note  of  astonishment  and  n 
Quid  diabolusf  but  after  a  while  it  ap- 
peared that  Mandragne  is  the  name  of  a 
sorceress. 

This  is  probably  the  book  in  which  Sterne 
found  the  tomb  of  the  two  lovers. 

What  magic  there  is,  is  good ;  it  is  the 
central  point  to  which  every  thing  tends. 
All  the  strangers  come  to  the  fountain,  or 
are  sent  by  the  oracle,  and  the  whole  is  well 
managed.  I  scarcely  ever  read  a  work  of 
fiction  in  which  the  events  could  so  little  be 
foreseen. 

La  Fontaine  valued  this  book  above  all 
others,  except  Marot  and  Kabclais ;    and 


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here  it  was  that  he  studied  his  rural  de- 
scriptions. 

"This  pastoral  romance,"  says  Gifford, 
"  which  once  formed  the  delight  of  our 
grandmothers,  is  now  never  heard  of,  and 
would  in  fact  exhaust  thepatience  and  weary 
the  curiosity  of  the  most  modest  and  indefa- 
tigable dcYOurer  of  morals  at  a  watering 
place,  or  a  boarding  school/* — ^B.  J.  vol.  Vi 
p.  394,  &c. 

"  Astrea,**  Gifford  says,  **  bears  a  remote 
or  allegorical  allusion  to  the  gallantries  of 
the  court  of  Henry  FV." — Ibid. 


Pharamond. 

Whoever  was  the  inventor  of  the  French 
heroic  romance,  Calprenade  is  the  writer  who 
carried  it  to  its  greatest  perfection. 

(Les  Trois  Sidles,  tom.  i.  p.  230.  Le  seul 
nom, — ^le  mSme  genre.)  * 

It  is  the  fault  of  the  romances  of  chivalry 
that  they  contain  so  many  adventures  of  the 
same  character,  one  succeeding  the  other, 
which  have  no  necessary  connection  with  the 
main  story,  and  which  might  be  lefl  out 
without  affecting  it ;  in  fact  they  are  in  the 
main  made  up  of  these  useless  episodes.  The 
fault  of  Calprenade  is  of  an  opposite  charac- 
ter :  he  ran  into  the  other  extreme,  and  his 
three  romances  for  variety  of  adventures 
and  character,  and  for  extent  and  intricacy 
of  plot,  are  perhaps  the  most  extraordinary 
works  that  have  ever  appeared.  There  is  not 
one  of  them  which  would  not  furnish  the 
plots  for  fifty  tragedies,  perhaps  for  twice 
the  number,  and  yet  all  these  are  made  into 
one  whole.  For  this  kind  of  invention,  cer- 
tainly he  never  has  been  equalled. 

The  old  romances  gave  true  manners, 
though  they  applied  them  to  wrong  times ; 
but  the  anachronism  was  of  little  import-. 
Every  thing  in  them  was  fiction.  A  double 
sin  was  committed  by  the  French  romancers 
in  chusing  historical  groundwork,  and  in 

'  This  evidently  is  the  beginning  and  the 
end  of  an  intended  extract. — J.  W.  W. 


Frenchifying  the  manners  of  all  ages 
cially  in  the  abominable  fashion  of  fi 
ter  writing.  Story  is  involved  within 
like  a  nest  of  boxes ;  or  they  come  on 
another,  so  that  you  have  always  to  g 
to  learn  what  has  happened,  and  th 
business  seldom  goes  on  ;  this  was 
able  from  the  prodigious  ntunber  of  c 
ters  which  were  introduced. 

Pharamond  was  the  romance  wh 
composed  with  most  care ;  but  he  c 
live  to  finish  it.  Seven  parts  of  the 
he  printed ;  the  remainder  were  ad( 
M.deYaumoriere.  The  story  is  by  no 
80  ably  conducted  as  in  the  former  ] 
perceived  the  great  inferiority  before 
the  cause  of  it. 

Oyron  le  Courtays, 

Thb  utter  want  of  method  in  thii 
makes  it  appear  as  if  it  consbted  of  \ 
metrical  romances  transposed. 

It  begins  with  an  adventure  of  Bn 
Brun,  an  old  knight  above  120  years 
who,  though  he  had  not  borne  arms  fo 
years,  comes  to  Kamelot  to  try  whetl 
knights  of  the  present  time  were  as  g 
those  of  his  days.  He  stands  qmniain  i 
Falamedes,  Gravaine,  and  many  other 
honours  Tristan,  Sir  Lancelot,  and 
Arthur  enough  to  take  a  spear  ag^ainsl 
and  overthrows  them  all  like  so  man 
dren. 

Then  follows  an  adventure  of  Trisfe 
Falamedes,  which  is  in  Mort  Arthui 

Gyron  now  appears.  He  goes  (whei 
does  not  appear)  to  Maloane,  the  c« 
his  friend  Danayn  le  Roux.  The  h 
Maloane  twice  tempts  him,  but  in  vain, 
go  to  a  tournament.  Sir  Lac,  the  fri 
K.  Meliadus,  falls  in  love  with  the  lac 
waylays  her  after  the  tournament,  an 
her  from  her  guard  of  twenty -five  ki 
Gyron  (who  is  all  this  while  unknow 
indeed  supposed  to  be  dead,)  wins  he 
from  him ;  but  Sir  Lac's  love  for  h< 
now  inflamed  him,  his  heart  gives  y 


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imptation,  and  he  leads  her  to  a  foun- 
n  the  forest.  As  he  is  dbarming  him- 
9  commit  the  sin,  his  sword  drops  into 
ater,  and  in  taking  it  out  he  is  struck 
le  motto,  ^  LoyaaUe  passe  taut  y  faid" 
i  hoKnit  taut  et  decait  tous  hammes  de^ 
queis  elle  se  kerberge,'*  Upon  this,  his 
rse  for  having  sinned  even  in  thought 
:h,  that  he  stabs  himself;  the  lady  pre- 
I  him  from  repeating  the  blow.  After 
rj  adventures,  Danayn  finds  them  in  this 
don,  Icams  the  whole  truth,  and  loving 
n  better  than  ever  for  this  his  courtesy, 
is  termed,  takes  him  home  to  Maloane, 
e  he  is  soon  healed.  A  great  deal  by 
)f  episode  is  related  of  Hector  le  Brun 
.  Meliadus. 

ere  are  no  other  divisions  than  of  chap- 
but  what  maj  be  called  the  second  part 
on  this  story.  Gyron  sends  Danayn  to 
;  him  his  damsel ;  he  carries  her  oflf  for 
df ;  is  pursued;  overtaken  at  last,  and 
ted  after  a  desperate  battle.  Gyron, 
rh  he  had  resolved  to  kill  him,  spares 
6r  courtesy,  and  then  rescues  him  from 
nt  immediately  after.  The  incidental 
are  a  story  of  Gralahalt  le  Brun,  with 
1  in  his  youth  Gyron  had  been  compa- 
and  a  curious  adventure  which  befab 
s  sans  pitie,  in  which  he  finds  the  bodies 
bus  and  the  damsel  of  Northumberland 
bouse  cut  in  the  rock,  and  learns  their 
ry  from  the  son  of  Febus,  a  very  old 
who  dwells  there,  leading  a  life  of  pe- 
i  with  his  son,  the  father  of  Gyron,  but 
n  knows  not  his  birth, 
ten  comes  agood  adventure  of  the  knight 
paauTj  in  the  valley  of  Serfage,  where 
m  le  Nolr  makes  serfs  of  every  body 
enters.  This  is  an  excellent  adventure, 
the  sequel  we  are  referred  to  the  ro- 
«  of  Meliadus. 

mayn  delivers  Gyron  and  his  damsel, 
had  been  betrayed,  and  was  tied  to  a 
to  suffer  from  the  severity  of  the  wea- 
in  the  cold  country  of  Sorolois.  Tliey 
econciled,  separate  each  on  adventure, 
ire  both  made  prisoners.  Here  too,  we 
eferred  to  Meliadus  for  their  relea^  ; 


the  *'  Latin  book  £rom  which  this  is  trans- 
lated saying  no  farther.**  And  the  romance 
ends  with  a  chapter  in  which  Galinans  le 
Blanc,  son  of  Gjrron  and  the  damsel,  who  is 
bom  the  chapter  before,  defeats  the  best 
knights  of  the  Round  Table  one  after  an- 
other ;  but  he  is  a  wicked  knight,  having 
been  brought  up  by  the  false  traitor  who 
imprisoned  his  father. 

Everywhere  the  knights  are  represented 
as  children  to  those  of  Uterpendragon*s  days. 
The  prowess  of  these  worthies  exceeds  in 
hyperbole  any  thing  in  E^plandian.  They 
make  nothing  of  singly  attacking  large  ar- 
mies, and  killing  giants  with  a  blow  of  the 
fist. 

I  think  I  can  perceive  that  oftentimes  he 
who  began  one  of  these  adventures  planned 
it  as  he  went  on ;  and  often  ended  with  a 
different  feeling  of  character  from  that  which 
he  began  with. 

I  never  read  a  romance  so  completely  free 
from  all  impurity  of  thought  or  word.  Yet 
what  morals  does  it  indicate  I  Gyron  acts 
from  no  other  principle  than  that  of  cour- 
tesy; and  his  damsel,  whom  he  married, 
Danayn  carries  off  as  his  concubine. 

Monnon  de  la  Selve,  or,  Hennor  de  la 
Selve,  as  the  name  is  sometimes  printed,  the 
son  of  a  forester,  seems  to  be  the  original 
of  Braggadochio. 


\/NA/W«AA>W«<«AA«WM\/S'\/« 


Meliadus  de  Leannoys. 


This  book  professed  to  have  been  written 
by  the  author  of  the  Brut,  at  the  request  of 
King  Henry  of  England,  and  recompiled 
from  the  Latin,  in  which  it  had  been  rudely 
and  confusedly  written  by  Mabtre  Rusticien 
de  Pise,  at  the  desire  of  King  Edward  of  Eng- 
land. What  is  curious,  is,  that  it  was  to  have 
been  about  Palamedes,  and  in  the  name  of 
Palamedes  the  author  says  he  begins  it.  He 
brings  Esclabor,  the  faUier  of  the  knight, 
from  Babylon  to  Rome,  and  from  Rome  to 
Northumberland  ;  and  having  thus  got  to 
King  Arthur,  nothing  more  is  said  about 
him.  A  few  desultory  adventures  of  K.  Pha- 


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ramond  by  the  Morhoult  d*Irland,  brings  on 
the  stage  K.  Meliadus,  and  the  Bon  Cheva- 
lier saru  paauTy  the  two  heroes  of  the  book. 
Many  tales  of  their  heroism  and  of  their  ri- 
vaby  are  related,  just  in  the  manner  of  the 
episodes  in  G3rron,  so  much  so  indeed,  as  to 
identify  the  author,  and  the  business  of  the 
first  half  of  the  book  ends  in  a  tournament, 
where  they  take  difierent  sides,  and  in  which, 
on  the  whole,  the  Chevalier  is  most  fortu- 
nate. The  manner  in  which  each  speaks  of 
his  rival  is  always  very  fine,  in  the  noblest 
spirit  of  chivalry. 

Meliadus  falls  in  love  with  the  Queen  of 
Scotland,  and  forcibly  carries  her  off,  out  of 
King  Arthur*s  dominions ;  for  which,  he  is 
attacked  in  his  own  kingdom,  conquered  by 
the  prowess  of  the  Bon  Chevalier  saru  paour^ 
and  taken.  Arthur  imprisons  him.  His  con- 
finement is  more  rigorous  than  the  king 
either  intended  or  knew.  Meantime  Arthur 
falls  sick :  his  vassals  go  to  war  with  each 
other,  and  Ariohan,  a  terrible  Saxon,  at  the 
suggestion  of  some  of  them  invades  Logres. 
The  king  recovers,  and  sends  to  all  his  liege 
men.  The  Chevalier  sans  paour  refuses  to 
come,  saying,  Arthur  has  disgraced  and  in- 
jured all  chivalry  by  hb  imprisonment  of 
the  best  knight  living.  In  consequence  of 
this  Meliadus  is  delivered.  He  accepts  the 
defiance  of  Andhar,  and  concludes  the  war 
by  defeating  him.  When  the  author  had  got 
thus  far,  he  filled  up  the  rest  of  his  book 
with  any  stories  which  came  into  his  head 
about  the  round  table.  Galchad  le  Brun, 
Segurades,  Gyron,  Tristan,  &c.  are  intro- 
duced without  the  slightest  connection  of 
time,  place,  or  any  thing  else,  and  the  whole 
ends  with  the  death  of  Meliadus,  in  the  words 
wherein  it  is  related  in  Tristan. 


Tristan, 

This  Romance  has  disappointed  me,  it  is 
very  inferior  to  Meliadus.  The  characters 
are  in  many  instances  so  discordant,  and  the 
leading  circumstances  of  the  story  so  little 
consonant   not  merely  with  our  ordinary 


morals,  but  oiu*  ordinary  feelings,  t 
general  effect  of  the  book  is  far  froi 
pleasant.  There  is  something  vile 
ducing  that  love  on  which  the  whole 
turns — by  a  philtre, — in  making  b 
heroes  live  in  adultery, — and  in  \ 
worthy  usage  of  the  second  Yseult 
everlasting  fault  of  the  romancers  i 
ficing  the  character  of  one  hero  to  < 
the  fame  of  another,  is  carried  to  a  gi 
gree  here.  With  the  creatures  of  1 
creation  an  author  may  do  what  he  i 
it  is  a  literary  crime  to  take  up  i. 
whom  others  have  represented  as  a 
of  prowess  and  of  worth,  and  to  engri 
upon  him  and  stain  him  with  dis 
Palamedes  is  better  conceived  th 
other  personage  in  the  book. 


^'N^^^VS^^k/^^^/^^A^^^^^'V* 


Sainct  Chreaal} 


Joseph  of  Arimathea  ung  gentii 
chevalier.  He  was  shut  in  prison  a 
gotten  there  for  forty-two  years 
food.  But  Vespasian,  the  son  of  Ti 
ing  cured  of  leprosy  by  the  S.  V< 
went  against  Jerusalem  to  revenge  tl 
of  our  Lord,  and  he  opened  the  prisoi 
was  a  great  pillar,  and  there  found 
alive  and  well,  for  our  Lord  had 
him,  and  he  thought  he  had  slept  froj 
Friday  till  the  Sunday  following. 

P.  14.  Joseph  prays  "  nudz  co 
nudz  genoulx." 

14.  The  prophet  David  taken  \ 
by  Nebuchadnezzar. 

18.  Christ  consecrates  Joseph  th 
bishop,  and  the  mystery  of  trans 
tiation  is  shown  in  a  miracle  as  hid 
the  doctrine ;  for  he  is  made,  ver; 

>  *'  Yet  true  it  is,  that  lone;  before  tba 
Hither  came  Joseph  of  Arimathy, 
Who  brought  with  him  the  Holy  Gi 
(they  sav), 
And  preach't  the  truth ;  but  since  it  g 
did  decay." 

Spender.  Faerie  Qveene,  T 

J.  V 


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lis  wQl,  to  diflinember  a  beautifxil 
10  appears  in  the  Ciborium.^  The 
aks  like  a  cake,  and  it  lies  on  the 
:e  a  piece  of  bread,  but  becomes  a 
tin  when  he  pats  it  to  his  mouth, 
nt  il  le  vit  si  le  cuyda  traire  hors 
jche,  mais  il  ne  peust.  Et  quant 
e  eel  enfant  si  luj  fut  advis  que 
ulceurs  que  langue  d*homme  pour- 
mer,  ne  penser,  estoyent  en  son 

Et  si  nestoyt  mye  le  chastel  de 
le  ne  desclos  (f)  ains  estoit  tout  en- 
de  moult  riches  murs  quarres  de 
rermeil  et  vert  et  bis  et  blanc.*' 
Car  celiuj  seroit  plain  de  trop  folle 
!  qui  oseroit  monstre  mensonge  en 
chose  comme  est  ceste  saincte  hys- 
5  le  vray  Crucifix  fist  et  escripvit 
Dpre  main,  et  pour  ce  doit  il  estre 

plus  grant  honneur.**  He  then 
our  Saviour  only  wrote  twice  in  his 
ife,  according  to  the  Scriptures, 
composed  the  Lord^s  prayer,  and 
:  woman  was  taken  in  adultery, 
trouvons  si  hardy  clcrc  qui  dye 
u  fist  oncques  cscripture  puis  la 
ion,  ne  mais  la  saincte  escripture  du 
reaal  seullement,  et  qui  vouldroit 
puis  11  eust  fait  autre  escripture  de 

il  seroit  tcnu  a  menteur,  et  si  dy 

seroit  de  trop  folle  hardyesse  qui 
3  vouldroit  mettre  en  si  haulte 
ame  est  ceste  hystoire  que  le  filz  de 
n*ipvit  luy  mesmes  de  sa  propre 
is  que  il  eust  mis  la  mortelle  vie 
evestu  la  mageste  celestielle ! " 
[IS  of  this  kind  have  obtained  au- 
i  the  Sanscrit,  and  things  as  impu- 
he  Romish  Church, 
le  same  story  of  the  tree  of  life  as 
lot  du  Lac. 

Celicolen. 

re  Robert  de  Berron  "  qui  ceste 
ranslata  de  latin  en  fran^oys.'" 


iiim,  appellant  Scriptores  Ecclesias- 
Ordo  Bomanus  tegimen  et  uwbraculum 
— Du  Cange,  in  v.— J.  W.  W. 


95.  JosepVs  wife,  soon  after  her  arrival 
in  England,  lay  in  in  a  richly  built  castle. 
He  was  called  Galaad,  and  when  he  grew 
up,  Galaad  le  fort,  and  therefore  the  castle 
in  which  he  was  bom  was  called  Galleford ; 
which  is  probably  the  etymology  of  OuUd- 
ford  in  this  romance. 

101.  **  Messire  Robert  de  Bosrou  que 
ceste  histoire  translata  de  latin  en  fran^oys 
par  le  commandement  de  Saincte  Eglise.** 

This  book  makes  no  reference  to  the  le- 
gend concerning  Glastonbury,  though  it  is 
in  the  days  of  King  Luce. 

Its  dreams  and  types  very  much  in  the 
manner  of  the  Gesta  Romanorum. 

145.  In  the  apartment  with  the  S.  Greaal 
appears  a  chess  board  with  pieces  of  ivory 
and  gold.  Gawain  plays  the  ivory,  and  the 
gold  play  themselves  and  check  mate  him. 

150.  Perceval*s  uncle,  the  hermit,  has  a 
mule  which  belonged  to  Joseph  of  Arima- 
thea  when  he  was  in  Pilate*s  service ! 

169.  Perceval.  "  En  toute  le  monde 
neust  len  sceu  trouves  ung  plus  beau  che- 
valier que  luy,  plus  gros,  ne  mieulx  quarre 
de  bras  corps  et  jambes.'* 

37.  K.  Euelach— Pygmalion!  Oh  the 
difference  between  a  Grecian  and  a  monkish 
imagination  1 

47-2.  A  wild  phoenix. 

89.  Joseph,  with  148  companions,  sailed 
from  Babylon  to  Great  Britjun  upon  Jo- 
seph's shirt,  which  he  took  off  for  that  pur- 
pose and  spread  upon  the  water.  The  night 
was  fair  and  serene,  and  the  sea  fair  and 
peaceable  and  without  tempest,  and  the 
moon  shone  bright,  and  it  was  in  the  month 
of  April,  on  Easter  eve,  when  they  embarked, 
or  emshirted,  to  speak  more  properly,  and 
at  break  of  day  they  arrived  in  England, 
this  being  in  every  respect  the  most  re- 
markable passage  that  ever  was  made  from 
the  Persian  gulf. 

The  conclusion  of  the  first  part  refers  to 
Merlin,  Lancelot,  Tristan,  and  other  books 
of  the  Round  Table,  of  which  I  take  this  to 
be  one  of  the  latest. 

136.  A  guillotine  invented  for  love  of 
Gawain,  Lancelot,  anil  Perceval,  by  Lor- 


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gueilleuse  Pucelle.  It  was  literally  for  love 
of  them, — for,  as  she  could  have  no  joy  of 
them  in  life,  she  was  determined  to  have  joy 
of  them  in  death,  and  so  in  her  chapel  she 
prepared  four  magnificent  coffins  for  them 
and  for  herself.  Gawain  was  her  guest, 
and  by  good  fortune  this  pious  Pucelle  was 
so  proud  that  she  never  asked  any  guest  his 
name ;  so  she  took  him  into  the  chapel  and 
showed  him  the  coffins,  and  told  him  why 
they  were  made,  and  then  showing  him  some 
relics,  she  made  him  observe  her  device, 
which  was  that  when  she  had  these  knights 
here  she  would  lead  them  to  adore  these 
relics,  and  as  soon  as  they  had  put  their 
heads  through  the  window  by  which  they 
were  to  be  seen,  she  would  then  take  out  a 
peg,  and  a  knife,  sharp  as  a  razor,  would 
fall  upon  their  necks. 

Through  great  part  of  this  book  the  name 
is  written  Parlevaulx — but  at  the  close 
Perceval.  Is  this  proof  of  two  authors  ? 
Sic  opinor. 

Ships  and  sepulchres  the  favourite  ob- 
jects of  the  author*s  fancy. 

Few  or  no  moralizations  in  the  second 
part,  which  seems  to  be  by  a  diffisrent  hand, 
or  perhaps  by  many.  The  first  is  clearly 
one  man*s  work,  and  very  Gestaiah, 

**  How  Parlevaulx  had  a  tub  made  ready, 
and  made  all  the  knights  of  the  Sire  des 
Mares  be  beheaded  before  him,  so  that  their 
blood  should  run  into  the  tub ;  and  how  he 
had  the  Sire  des  Mares  drowned  in  this  tub 
in  the  blood  of  his  knights.** 

Loheant,  the  only  son  of  Arthur  and 
Guenever,  had  a  custom  that  whenever  he 
killed  a  man  he  lay  down  to  sleep  upon  his 
body.  He  was  taking  his  nap  one  day  upon 
a  giant  whom  he  had  just  demolished,  when 
Sir  Keux,  the  seneschal  came  by,  and  for 
the  sake  of  getting  credit,  killed  him  in  his 
sleep,  then  cut  ofi*  the  giant*s  head  and 
carried  it  to  court,  to  claim  the  merit  of 
having  slain  him  and  revenged  Loheac. 
But  a  damsel  had  seen  all.  165. 


L^Opere  Magnamme  dei  due  TrUtanL,  Cava- 

LIERI  DEIXE  TaVOLA  RiTOKDA,  Co'l  PH- 

vilegio  del  tommo  Powtefice  et  deJV  ilbu' 

triss,  Senato  Veneio  per  anni  xx. 

In  Yeuetia  per  Michele  Tramezmo  1555. 

The  first  part  is  made  from  the  French 
romance,  with  an  interpolation  about  the 
birth  of  the  second  Tristan,  parts  of  which 
the  author  did  not  bear  in  mind  when  he 
returned  to  the  thread  of  the  original 
story. 

P.  173.  So  good  a  journey  that  she  was 
not  more  than  four  months  going  from  Corn- 
wall to  Britanny. 

Don  Chehai,  my  old  acquaintance,  is 
called. 

229.  Here  is  the  old  knight  firom  Giron. 

The  second  part  is  original,  and  very 
worthless. 

22.  ^  Ella  cavalco  su  un  bonissimo  ca- 
vallo  Armellino  come  neve,  co  crini  k  coda 
faUiy  ch*era  maraviglia  k  vederlo  ?  ** 

64.  A  lady  who  has  been  long  ill  grows 
fat  with  joy  afler  her  recovery,  so  that  in 
the  course  of  a  day  it  is  perceptible,  and 
she  is  complimented  upon  it. 

114.  **  La  Infanta  et  Taltre  signore  le 
trassero  Telmo  di  testa,  et  li  nettarono  fl 
viso  con  le  maniche  delle  loro  camicie.** 
Had  they  no  handkerchiefs,  that  shift  sleeves 
were  used  for  this  purpose  ?  Again,  171, 
"  cosi  cavatoli  Telmo  gli  ascuigaron  il  volto 
con  le  lor  sottili  maniche  delle  camicie.** 

1 76.  From  Cornwall  to  Camelot  a  journey 
of  1000  leagues ! 

193.  King  Tristan  asks  why  King  Arthur 
took  a  castle  from  a  certain  Phebus,  in  which 
quarrel  he  is  about  to  fight  a  combat  in  the 
King*s  cause.  ^*  Sire  rispose  Don  Galasso, 
per  due  cause  principali,  la  prima  perche 
Phebro  era  infidcle  inimico  della  nostra 
santa  fede  catholica.  Non  me  ne  dite  piu, 
rispose  il  Re,  che  questa  basta.** 

207.  Coarse  and  witless  satire  upon  the 
Portugueze.  The  Spanish  geogn^hy  in  this 
book  is  correct. 

236.  Elisandro,  performing  his  vigil  be- 
fore knighthood,  past  the  night  agreeabij, 


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^  Dondimeno  il  peso  dell*  arme  havra  fatta 
roperation  sua  su  le  cami  et  su  Tossa  de 
Elisandro.** 

245.  "  La  salsa  de  S.  Bernardo" — a 
phrase  for  hunger. 

250.  All  the  women  fall  in  love  with  the 
inexorable  Tristan  at  first  sight,  and  one  of 
them  dies  of  love  in  the  course  of  an  hour  or 
two. 

Perceval  le  Oalloyt, 

Thb  Preface  calls  it  **  ung  ancicn  livre 
intitule  Lhystoire  de  Perceval  le  gallois 
faict  en  ryme  et  langaige  non  usite,  les- 
quelz  ilz  avoient  faict  traduyte  de  rjme 
en  prose  et  langaige  moderne  pour  im- 
printter.** 

The  prologue  states  that  Philip,  Count  of 
Flanders,  gave  orders  to  bring  to  light  the 
life  and  chivalrous  deeds  of  Percival  "sujvan  t 
le  chronique  diceluj  Prince  et  traictie  du  S. 
Graal.**  Both  he  and  his  chronicler  died  be- 
fore this  could  be  accomplished ;  and  a  long 
time  after  Madame  Jehanne,  Countess  of 
Flanders,  seeing  the  beginning  of  the  Chro- 
nicle, and  knowing  the  intention  of  Count 
Philip  her  "  ayeul,"  ordered  **ung  sien  fa- 
milierorateur**  named  Mennessier  ^Hraduire 
et  achever**  this  work.  The  which  he  did, 
but  because  his  language  and  that  of  his 
predecessor  is  not  in  usage  in  our  conmion 
French  but  ^*  fort  non  acoustumete  estrange,** 
to  satisfy  the  desires,  pleasures,  and  will  of 
the  princes,  lords,  and  others  following  the 
mother  tongue  of  France,  I  have  employed 
myself  ^  a  traduire  et  mectre  de  Rithme  en 
prose**  the  book,  following  closely  according 
to  my  possibility  and  power  the  sense  of  my 
predeoessor-translators. 

Was  the  metrical  Romance  then  in  Flem- 
iih  or  in  Walloon  ? 

P.  71-2.  ^^  Le  Roy  commande  que  les 
mangonneaulx  que  vault  a  dire  les  pion- 
niers.** 

Perceval  in  this  romance  is  without  one  of 
the  virtues  which  the  S.  Greall  imputes  to 
him. 

fil  28.  A  lady  at  a  tournament  **  fort  coin- 


tement  proprement  vestue  et  par  especial 
manches  serrees  et  estroictes  portoit,  par- 
quoy  les  aultres  la  nommerent  lapucelle  aux 
manches  estroictes.** 

30.  "  Le  superlatif  du  tounioy.** 

44.  Arthur*s  mother  turns  out  to  be  alive 
in  this  romance,  living  in  a  castle,  where 
Gavain  by  great  adventure  discovers  her. 
Mother  and  son,  however,  meet  afterwards 
with  great  unconcern. 

67.  Gawain  cut  off  a  man*s  head — **  ac- 
taignit  ung  de  telle  sorte  que  la  teste  envois 
par  terre,  qui  si  doulcement  et  vistement 
fust  decolle,  que  bien  petit  ne  sentit  les- 
pee.** 

71.  **  Tristan  qui  jamais  ne  rist.** 

1 12.  Afler  a  long  battle, — **  il  est  assez  a 
croire  et  a  considerer  que  les  deux  cheval- 
liers  furent  lors  fort  foibles  et  petit  vertueux, 
car  tant  avoient  de  sang  perdu  qua  grand 
peine  se  soubstenoient.** 

126.  A  chapter  begins  thus — "  Icy  fine  et 
fault  le  compte  delescu,** — but  no  tale  of  a 
shield  has  been  told. 

133.  A  chess  board,  where  one  set  play 
themselves.  It  seems  they  were  made  at 
London. 

146.  Fighting  with  a  knight  whose  sword 
breaks,  Perceval  throws  away  his  own  sword, 
and  proposes  to  finish  the  battle  with  fists, 
so  they  set  to  and  box,  knock  one  another*s 
helmets  ofi*  (not  considering  the  knuckles), 
and  then  hammer  away  at  the  face  and  the 
teeth,  till  the  knight  loses  his  wind  and 
yields.  This  is  the  only  boxing  match  I 
have  met  with. 

There  are  no  regular  squires  in  these  ro- 
mances. 

155.  ^  Ne  peult  homme  estre  du  Dyable 
deceu  du  jour  quil  le  graal  veu  aura;  ne 
s^auroit  telle  voye  tenir  quil  puist  faire  ung 
peche  mortel.*' 

157.  A  huntsman  **  bien  botte  dugnes 
bottes  dengleterre.** 

175.  "  Le  beau  descongneu  is  Guiglaius,** 
son  of  Gavain. 

177.  **  Gauchier  de  Doudain  qui  ceste 
hystoire  nous  a  commemoree.** 

196.  Here  we  have  the  Dame  de  Male- 


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hault,  whose  brother  is  here  made  the  king 
of  the  hundred  knights. 

196.  "  Les  oysillons  chantent  en  leur  latin 
divers  mottetz  en  leur  ramage." 

At  the  end  Perceval  has  a  brother  called 
Agloal — the  author  forgetting  that  all  his 
brothers  had  been  killed  at  the  beginning, 
lie  turns  hennit,  and  when  he  dies  the 
Graal  and  the  Lana  and  "  le  digne  tailloir 
dargent**  are  carried  up  to  heaven  with  his 
soul. 

There  are  some  good  adventures  of  Ga- 
van,  whose  history  takes  up  as  great  a  part 
of  the  work  as  Perceval's.  One  of  these 
represents  him  as  behaving  very  ill.  This 
story  is  grossly  inconsistent,  strangely  so ; 
but  on  the  whole  the  author  considers  him 
as  a  perfect  knight. 

Perceval  is  by  no  means  a  hero  who  at- 
tracts the  reader ;  he  is  far  too  indifferent 
to  his  plighted  BlancheAeur. 


QUARLBS.^ 

"  The  darling  of  our  plebeian  judgement* » 
that  is,  such  as  have  ingenuity  enough  to 
delight  in  poetry,  but  are  not  sufficiently 
instructed  to  maie  a  right  choice  and  dis- 
tinction."— Phillips. 

Phillips  erroneously  says  that  the  em- 
blems are  a  copy  from  Hermannus  Hugo's 
original. 

School  of  the  Heart 

Introduc. 
"TuRH  in,  my  mind,  and  wander  not  abroad, 
Here's  work  enough  at  home." 

"  Self-knowledge  'twixt  a  wise  man  and  a  fool 
Doth  make  the  difference." 

"  Hast  thou  an  ear 
To  listen  but  to  what  thou  shouldst  not 
heai  ?" 


*  No  chronological  order  is  observed  in  these 
extracts,  but  they  are  given  as  they  appear  to 
have  been  written. — J.  VV.  W, 


**Thy  composure 
Is  spirit  and  immortal ;  tliine  inclosure 
In  walls  of  flesh  is,  not  to  make  thee  debtor 
For  house-room  to  them,  but  to  make  them 
better." 

6.  "  Take  notice  of  thine  heart 

Such  as  that  is,  the  rest  is,  or  will  be, 
Better  or  worse,  blame-worthy,  or  fault- 
free." 

10.  The  serpent  says, — 

"  The  knowledge  thou  hast  got  of  good 

and  ill. 
Is  of  good  gone  and  past,  of  evil  present  still.' 


•11  H 


16. "  Oh  that  thou  didst  but  see  how  blind 
thou  art, 
And  feel  the  dismal  darkness  of  thy  heart" 

17.  "  How  wouldst  thou  hate  thyself,  if 
thou  didst  know 
The  baseness  of  those  things  thou  prizestso.** 

19.  "'Tis  as  good  forbear, 

As  speak  to  one  that  hath  no  heart  tohetr." 

21.  "  Stretching  their  strength,  they  lay 
their  weakness  bare." 

"  That  glittering  crown 
Cn  which  thou  gazest,  is  not  gold,  but 

grief; 
Tiiat  sceptre,  sorrow." 

35.  *^  The  whole  round  earth  Is  not  enough 

to  fill 
The  heart's  three  corners,  but  it  craveth 

still. 
Only  the  Trinity,  that  made  it,  can 
Suifice  the  vast  triangled  heart  of  man." 

40.  ^^  And  antedate  my  own  damnation 
by  despair." 

56.  **  The  stains  of  sin  I  see 

Are  oaded^  all,  or  dyed  in  grain." 

*  Woaded. — R.  S.  [I  had  noted  another  in- 
stance of  this  word,  but  as  this  ^eet  goes 
through  the  press  I  cannot  find  it. 

J.  W.  W.] 


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65.  **The  sacrifice  which  I  like  best,  is  such 
As  rich  men  cannot  boast,  and  poor  men 
need  not  grutch." 

72.  **  Some  things  thou  knowest  not ; 
misknowest  others ; 
And  oil  thy  conscience  its  own  knowledge 
smothers.** 

96.  A  stanza  describing  the  lily  ends  thus, 

**  Can  there  be  to  thy  sight 
A  more  intire  delight  ?  " 

144.  ^'  He  that  doth  fear  because  he  loves, 
will  never 

Adventure  to  offend, 
But  always  bend 
His  best  endeavours  to  content  his  friend." 

151.  Play  upon  vowels,  consonants,  &c. 

154.  "  And  ergos^  drawn  from  trust  and 
confidence. 
Twist  and  tie  truths  with  stronger  conse- 
quence 
Than  either  sense  or  reason ;  for  the  heart, 
And  not  the  head,  is  fountain  of  this  art.*' 


v^W^A^^^^^V^^fWH^/^^^^^w 


QuABLES.     Feast  for  Warms.  1642. 

To  the  Reader.  "  My  mouth*s  no  diction- 
ary; it  only  serves  as  Uie  needful  interpre- 
ter of  my  heart.*' 

P.  10.  "What  mister  word  is  that?** 

13.  **  Then  all  was  whvtty  and  all  to  prayer 
went.** 

24.  Charity. 

**  Chill  breasts  have  starved  her  here,  and 

she  is  driven 
Away,  and  with  Astrea  fled  to  heaven.** 

26.  "  Thus  all  on  sudden  was  the  sea 
tranquill, 
The  heavens  were  quiet,  and  the  waves 
were  still." 

30.  Argument, — 

**  "Within  the  bowels  of  the  fish 
Jonah  laments  in  great  anguish." 


40.  The  king  of  Nineveh. 

"  He  reared  his  trembling  corps  again. 
His  hair  all  filthy  with  the  dust  he  lay  in." 

"  Respectless  of  his  pomp." 

40-1.  Popish  austerities  and  Puritan 
cant. 

63.  "  it  no'te  avaU." 

78.  Mors  Tua. 

JEsther. 

P.  105.  "  The  city  wonders  when  a  body 
names  thee." 

110."  When  time,  that  endeth  all  things, 
did  assuage 
The  burning  fever  of  Assuerus*  rage. 
And  quiet  satisfaction  had  assign*d 
Delightful  julips  to  his  troubled  mind.*' 

111.  —  "  those  kingdoms  be  but  ill  be- 
blest 

Whose  rule's  committed  to  a  young  man's 
breast." 

112.  An  exultation  for  the  peace  and 
prosperity  of  Britain ! 

1 15. "  When  God  had  with  his  all-produc- 
ing blast 
Blown  up  the  bubble  of  the  world." 

124.  "  'Tis  not  the  spring-tide  of  an  high 
estate 
Creates  a  man  (though  seeming)  fortunate : 
The  blaze  of  honour.  Fortune's  sweet  ex- 
cess. 
Do  undeserve  the  name  of  happiness. 
The  frown  of  indisposed  Fortune  makes 
Man  poor,  but  not  unhappy.  He  that  takes 
Her  checks  with  patience,  leaves  the  name 

of  poor. 
And  lets  in  Fortune  at  a  backer  door. 
Lord,  let  my  fortunes  be  or  rich  or  poor. 
If  small,  live  less  account,  if  great,,  the 


more. 


fi 


131.  "  The  way  to  bliss  lies  not  on  beds 
of  down. 
And  he  that  had  no  cross  deserves  no 


crown. 


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Here,  I  think,  Penn  found  his  title.^ 

Job, 

P.  179.  Satan's  account  of  his  employ- 
ment on  earth.  A  stroke  of  satire,  hardly 
to  have  been  looked  for  here. 

185.  Alexander. 

**  Wouldst  thou  by  conquest  win  more  fame 

than  he  ? 
Subdue  thyself;  thyselfs  a  world  to  thee." 

But  this  whole  Meditation  is  impressive 
as  well  as  characteristic. 
206.  Meditation  8. 

213.  **  What  refuge  hast  thou  then,  but 

to  present 
A  heart  inricht  with  the  sad  complement 
Of  a  true  convert,  on  thy  bended  knee 
Before  thy  God,  t'atone^  thy  God  and 

thee." 

234.  *^  To  Athens,  gown'd,  he  goes,  and 
from  that  school 
Returns  unsped,  a  more  instructed  fool." 

234.  "  The  swelling  of  an  outward  for- 
tune can 
Create  a  prosperous,  not  a  happy  man. 
A  peaceful  conscience  is  the  true  content. 
And  wealth  is  but  her  golden  ornament." 

234.  '^  I  am  to  God,  I  only  seem  to  man." 

All  these  scriptural  poems  of  his  are  di- 


'  The  title  alluded  to  is  his  No  Cross  no 
Crown,  Uc.  1682.  8vo.  It  is  Jeremy  Taylor 
that  says  (I  quote  memoriter),  "  Every  person 
shall  in  some  sort  bear  his  cross,  and  it  is  not 
well  with  those  who  do  it  not.'* 

'  This  is  the  old  sense  of  the  word.  I  in- 
stance  the  following,  not  found  in  Nareb'  GIom, 
or  elsewhere, 

*'  Which  union  must  all  divers  things  attonej'*&Lc. 
Lord  Brooke,  Treat,  of  Monarchie, 

**  And  if  some  kind  wight  goe  not  to  attone 
My  surly  master  with  me,  wretched  maid, 
I  shall  be  beaten  dead." 

Browne,  Britannia  $  PastaraU, 

J.  W.  W. 


vided  into  short  sections,  followed  each  by 
a  meditation. 

Samson, 
Justification  in  the  preface  of  certsiD 
passages  at  which  **  extreme  severity  might 
shock." 

P.  268.  **  Even  when  her  bed-rid  faith 
was  grown  so  frail. 
That  very  hope  grew  heartless  to  prevail." 

276.  —  "  some  false  delusion  that  possest 
The  weakness  of  a  lonely  woman's  breast." 

278.  **  her  breathless  tongue  dbjoins 
Her  broken  words." 

282.  A  catalogue  of  birds,  &c.  in  the  man- 
ner of  Chaucer  and  Spenser. 

"  The  cuckoo,  ever  telling  of  one  tale." 

313.  Luxuries  of  the  table. 
Viper-wines  mentioned  as  aphrodisiacs. 
327.  Some  of  his  oddities  in  the  descrip- 
tion of  Samson  killing  the  Philistines. 

355.  **  Where  Heaven  doth  please  to 

ruin,  human  wit 
Must  fail,  and  deeper  policy  submit ; 
There  wisdom  must  be  fooFd,  and  strength 

of  brain 
Must  work  against  itself,  or  work  in  vain." 

"  the  silly  ass*s  bone. 
Not  worth  the  spuming." 

365.  Gold, — ^why  so  rarely  produced  by 
nature. 

381.  Here  is  Cowley's  conceit,  speaking 
of  the  temple  which  Samson  pulled  down, 
the  ruins,  he  says, 

'*  with  an  unexpected  blow. 
Gave  every  one  his  death  and  burial  too." 

382.  The  concluding  Meditation. 

SioiCs  Sonnets. 
This  is  a  paraphrase  of  Solomon's  Song, 
cut  into  shreds  of  four  couplets,  in  which  1 
have  not  found  a  single  line  or  expression 
worth  noting. 


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289 


SiaiCt  Elegies^  wept  by  Jeremie  the 
Prophet, 

This  is  a  paraphrase  of  the  Lamentations, 
m  el^es  of  six  couplets.  And  he  follows 
the  Hebrew  form,  bj  beginning  them  al- 
phabeticallj. 

P.  445.  "  My  joys  are  tum*d  to  sorrows, 
backt  with  fears. 
And  I,  poor  I,  lie  pickled  up  in  tears.** 

An  Alphabet  of  Elegie»  upon  Dr,  AUmer, 

Ix  the  same  form  as  the  Lamentations, 
eoDcluded  with  an  alphabetical  epitaph, — 
m  which,  however,  he  leaves  out  X  and  Z, 
and  makes  I  and  U  stand  each,  as  in  the 
dictionary,  for  two  letters. 

Elegy  on  Dr,  Wilson  of  the  Rolls, 

The  dedication,  to  Robert,  son  of  Sir 
Julius  Cesar,  is  very  striking. 

P.  505.  *'  My  passion  has  no  April  in  her 
eyes. 
I  cannot  spend  in  mists ;  I  cannot  mizzle; 
Mj  fluent  brains  are  too  severe  to  drizzle 
Slight  drops,  my  prompted  fancy  cannot 

shower 
And  shine  within  an  hour.** 

"  let  such  perfume 
Sospicious  lines  with  skill,  whilst  I  presume 
On  strength  of  nature.*' 

Spirit  and  etnl  he  uses  as  monosyllables. 

MUdreiadoi,     To  the  Memory  of  Mildred, 
Lady  Luekyn. 

In  this  poem  he  has  imitated  the  manner 
of  Phineas  Fletcher. 
The  epitaph  is  in  shape  of  an  hour-glass. 

Ooicoigne, 

Thb  affair  in  which  he  was  taken  prisoner 
must  be  that  which  is  so  misrepresented  in 
Grimestone's  History,  p.  558.  See  also  P. 
Bor.  i.  504,  where,  though  still  with  an  in- 
jorious  suspicion,  the  matter  is  better  ex- 
pbuned.  And  the  Commentarios  of  D.  Ber- 
Qtrdino  de  Mendoza,  ff.  250. 


He  uses  went  for  gone.  Fruits  of  War, 
61. 

"  Is  wit  now  went  so  wandering  from  thy 
mind?** 

As  in  the  first  edition  of  his  "  Hundred 
sundry  Flowers,  1572,**  the  account  of  his 
shipwreck  is  called  **  last  voyage  into  Hol- 
land in  March,**  it  appears  that  he  had 
visited  that  country  before. 


••/V«/W^^V«/«MAy\/\/\/N/V>^>> 


TixaU  Poetry,^ 

Preface. 

"  To  some  persons  this  volume  will  al- 
ways be  interesting;  in  some  libraries  it 
will  always  preserve  a  place ;  to  some  fami- 
lies it.will  always  be  precious.** 

P.  7.  On  the  death  of  a  child, — 

— "  God  created  such  immortal  flowers 
To  grow  in  his  own  paradise,  not  ours.** 

37.  A  good  specimen  of  continuous  trip- 
lets. 

57.  A  glass-bell  in  a  pendant.  This 
seems  (if  I  understand  the  verses)  to  have 
been  really  worn  as  an  ear-ring,  and  as  a 
lover's  gift. 

65.  A  glass  concave  on  one  side,  convex 
on  the  other, — a  sportive  piece  of  furniture. 

100.  **  Is  this  the  house  to  which  none 
ever  came 
Unwilling  or  unwelcome.*' 

Mbs.  Thimalbt. 

140.  "The  dead  man*s  thumb  of  azure  blew.*' 

What  meadow-flower  is  thb  ? 

218.  "  Long  waiting  Love  doth  passage  And 
Into  the  slow-believing  mind.** 

Sidney  Godolfhin. 

These  lines  bear  a  religious  application 
also. 

221.  — "so  highly  happy  in  his  love.** 

*  The  poetry,  of  course,  takes  its  name  from 
the  place.  It  was  edited  by  Arthur  Clifford, 
Esq.  Edinb.  1813.  4to.— J.  W.  W. 


m 


V 


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249.  "  Go  to  the  dull  churchyard,  and  see 
Those  hillocks  of  mortality ; 
Where  proudest  man  is  only  found 
By  a  small  swelling  in  the  ground.** 

266.  A  poem  of  rich  absurdity  upon  the 
house  of  Loretto. 

352.  How  little  must  this  editor  have 
read,  not  to  know  that  the  cocoa  tree  was 
intended. 

389.  Stonyhurst.  It  was  Sir  E.  Sher- 
bume*s  seat.  Mr.  Weld  gave  it  in  1794  to 
the  English  Jesuits  of  Liege,  on  their  mi- 
gration to  England. 


Thomas  Tusser.     Dr,  Mawr's  edition, 

P.  22.  Hbbeb  has  a  copy  of  Tusser  with 
MS.  notes  by  Gabriel  Harvey. 

25.  Lord  Molesworth  in  1723  said  that 
this  book  should  be  read,  learnt  by  heart, 
and  copied  in  country  schools. 

vii.  "  By  practise  and  ill -speeding 
These  lessons  had  their  breeding.** 

zxxv.  **  Sit  down,  Robin,  and  rest  thee.** 

xL  A  pretty  stanza,  but  it  tells  what 
everybody  knows. 

Here  is  the  opinion  stated  that  the  sick 
feel  the  ebb  and  flow.^ 

8.  **  For  best  is  the  best,  whatsoever  ye 
pay.- 

28.  *      '*  Hog  measeled  kill. 

For  Fleming  that  will.** 

39.  **  Thy  measeled  bacon-hog,  cow,  or 

thy  boar. 
Shut  up  for  to  heal,  for  infecting  thy 

store; 
Or  kill  it  for  bacon,  or  souse  it  to  sell 
ForFleming,  that  loves  it  so  daintily  well.** 

41.  *'  Be  sure  of  vergis,  a  gallon  at  least. 
So  good  for  the  kitchen,  so  needful  for 
beast.** 


*  See  Tht  Doctor,  &c.  <<  The  Soaniards 
think  that  all  who  die  of  chnmic  diseases, 
breathe  their  last  during  the  ebb."  P.  207. 
One  volume.— J.  W.  W. 


63.  Strawberries  seem  to  have  required 
more  care  in  winter  then  than  now.  Was 
this  needless  care  ?  or  had  the  plant  not 
yet  become  acclimated  ? 

85.  What  trees  are  meant  by  raisins? 
can  this  word  be  used  for  vines  ?  I  think 
not,  because  grapes,  white  and  red,  are 
mentioned  in  the  same  list. 

86.  ^*  Dame  Profit  shall  give  thee  reward 
for  thy  pain.** 

88.  Cattle  fed  in  the  winter  upon  lop- 
pings ;  and  sheep,  during  snow,  upon  misle- 
toe  and  ivy. 

96.  This  mutilation  of  fillies  seems  no 
longer  to  be  practised.  One  is  glad  to  find 
any  barbarous  practice  fall  into  disuse. 

102.  Swans,  a  part  of  the  live  stock,  110. 

109.  And  peacocks. 

126.  Number  of  dogs,  a  plague  to  the 
farmer. 

131.  Use  of  leeks  in  March. 

132.  *^  No  spoon-meat  no  belly  full,  la- 
bourers think.** 

138.  "  Save  step  for  a  stile,  of  the  crotch 


of  the  bough.** 

172.  "  Where  chamber  is  sweeped,  and 
wormwood  is  strewn. 
No  flea  for  his  life  dare  abide  to  be 
known.**' 

181.  The  safiron  plot  served  for  bleach- 
ing ground  in  winter. 

183.  **  Grant  harvest-lord  more  by  a 
penny  or  two. 
To  call  on  his  fellows  the  better  to  do  \ 
Give  gloves  to  thy  reapers,  a  largess  to  cry, 
And  daily  to  loiterers  have  a  good  eye.** 

188.  **  The  better  thou  thrivest,  the  glad- 
der am  I.** 

190.  Lent-provision :  salt  fish,  and-- 

**  Go,  stack  it  up  dry, 
With  pease-straw  between  it,  the  safer  to 
lie.** 


*£. 


•  See  Second  Series,  p.  637. — J.  W.  W. 


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291 


The  Fletchers. 


)  Fletcher  (the  father  I  suppose) 
slved  in  some  factious  opposition  to 
id,  the  Provost  of  King's  CJoUege ; 
fessed  the  slander  and  falsehf)od  of 
rges  he  had  assisted  in  bringing 
iiim.  There  are  several  letters  upon 
ter  among  the  Laytsduwne  MS.  p. 
23,  19  and  seq. 

122,  No.  65,  59.  Dr.  Fletcher  to 
irghlej,  of  his  intention  to  write  in 
e  history  of  the  Queen's  times,  with 
i  of  it. 

216,  Na  112,  39.  Some  merchants, 
to  Rusnia,  represent  that  if  some 
\  in  Dr.  Fletcher's  History  of  Rus- 
not  expunged,  their  trade  will  be 
The  book  was  accordingly  sup- 
good  remarks  on  both  by  Sir  Eger- 
dges  in  the  Preface  to  his  Genevan 
of  the  Theatrum  Poetarum.* 
»   also   he   observes,   and   I  think 
Jiat  Kirke  White  seems  sometimes 
come  nearest  to  the  manner  of  Giles 
p. 


Dbattow. 

e  original  preface  to  the  Heroical 
I,  he  gives  his  reason  why  he  ob- 
ot  the  person's  dignity  in  the  dedica- 
lach  couple :  "  Seeing  none  to  whom 
dedicated  any  two  epistles,  but  have 
fites  overmat<;hed  by  them  who  are 
»  speak  in  the  epistles,  however  the 
in  dedication,  yet  in  respect  of  their 
in  my  devotion,  and  the  cause  be- 
cited,  I  hope  they  suffer  no  dispa- 
nt,  seeing  every  one  is  the  first  in 
articular  interest,  having  in  some 
•ted  the  complexion  of  the  epistles 
character  of  their  judgments  to 
[  dedicate  them,  excepting  only  the 
dness  of  the   person's  passion,   in 

3Ta.  From  the  press  of  Bonnant,  1824. 
»py  before  me,  Sonthey  has  carefully 
this  Preface.— J.  W.  W. 


those  points  wherein  the  passion  is  blame- 
ful. Lastly,  such  manifest  difference  being 
betwixt  every  one  of  them,  where,  or  how- 
soever they  be  marshalled,  how  can  I  be 
justly  appeached  of  unadvisement  ?"  This 
part  of  the  preface  was  omitted  in  the  later 
editions. 

He  apologized  also  for  his  notes,  saying 
that  he  had  introduced  the  matters  histori- 
cal, which  required  such  explanation,  be- 
cause "  the  work  might  in  truth  be  judged 
brainish,  if  nothing  but  amorous  humour 
were  handled  therein." 

The  dedications,  of  which  he  speaks,  are 
in  a  very  affected  style.  From  that  to  Ed- 
ward, Earl  of  Bedford,  we  learn  that  he 
was  first  bequeathed  to  the  noble  lady,  his 
countess,  ^*  by  that  learned  and  accomplished 
gentleman.  Sir  Henry  Goodere  (not  long 
since  deceased),  whose  I  was  whilest  he  was, 
whose  patience  pleased  to  bear  with  the  im- 
perfections of  my  heedless  and  unstayed 
youth.  That  excellent  and  matchless  gen- 
tleman was  tbe  first  cherisher  of  my  muse, 
which  had  been  by  his  death  left  a  poor 
orphan  to  the  world,  had  he  not  before  be- 
queathed it  to  that  lady  whom  he  so  dearly 
loved." 

Mary,  the  French  Queen,  was  dedicated 
to  Sir  H.  Goodere :  and  then  to  "  the  happy 
and  generous  family  of  the  Goodere's  "  he 
"  confesses  "  himself  "  to  be  beholding  for 
the  most  part  of  his  education." 

To  his  most  dear  friend.  Master  Henry 
Lucas,  son  to  Edward  Lucas,  Esq.  he  says, 
*'  Sir,  to  none  have  I  been  more  beholding 
than  to  your  kind  parents,  far  (I  must  truly 
confess)  above  the  measure  of  my  deserts. 
Many  there  be  in  England  of  whom,  for 
some  particularity,  I  might  justly  challenge 
greater  merit,  had  I  not  been  born  in  so 
evil  an  hour,  as  to  be  poisoned  with  that 
gall  of  ingratitude."  This  seems  to  mean 
that  he  had  met  with  unkind  or  ungrateful 
treatment. 


**  Yet  these  mine  own  ;  I  wrong  not  other 

men. 
Nor  traffic  farther  than  this  happy  clime, 


\ 


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Nor  filch  from  Fortes  (?)*  nor  from  Fe- 

trarch*8  pen, 
A  fault  too  common  In  this  latter  tune. 
Divine  Sir  Fhilip,  I  avouch  thy  writ, 
I  am  no  pick-purse  of  another^s  wit." 

Sonnet  to  Sir  Anthony  Cooke. 

In  the  preface  to  the  Foly  Olbion,  he 
complains  of  this  great  disadvantage,  that 
"  verses  are  wholly  deduced*  to  chambers, 
and  nothing  esteemed  in  this  lunatic  age 
but  what  is  kept  in  cabinets,  and  must 
only  pass  by  transcription." 


Vv^%^^^%^^^%^^^/%^^^^^^^^^'« 


See  Fhillips'  Theatrum  Poetarwn, 

Matthias  published  at  Naples,  1826, 
**  H  Cavaliero  della  Croce  Rossa,  recato  in 
verso  Italiano,"  from  Spenser. 

"  And  golden-mouthed  Drayton  musical, 
Into  whose  soul  sweet  Sydney  did  infuse 
The  essence  of  his  phcenix-feathered  muse." 
Fitz-Geffbby*8  Life  and  Death  of 
DrahCj  p.  10. 


^/\/VV^/\A^/\/V/>/\^/W«««AAA 


George  Wither. 

**  Thb  Great  Assizes  holden  in  Famassus, 
1643,"  a  squib  upon  the  Diumals  and  Mer- 
curies, is  ascribed  to  him,  for  **  its  good 
sense  andheavy  versification." — D*Israbli*8 
Quarrels  of  Authors j  vol.  2,  p.  254. 

**■  Fleasb  your  Majesty,"  said  Sib  John 
Dbnhaji,  **  do  not  hang  G.  Wither,  that  it 
may  not  be  said  I  am  the  worst  poet  alive! " 

Lansdoume's  MS.  No.  846.  "  A  peti- 
tion of  George  Wither  to  the  House  of 
Commons,  that  he  might  be  restored  to  li- 
berty, and  appointed  searcher  of  Dover." 
Though  bound  up  with  MS.  this  petition  is 
printed. 

*  Southey  has  put  a  qnsere,  with  Des  Porte» 
in  the  margin.  No  doubt  the  French  poet,  Fhi- 
lip des  Fortes,  is  alluded  to.— J.  W.  W. 

'  Quaere?  rtrduced.— R.  S. 


In  the  debate  upon  sending  Mr.  Howard 
to  the  Tower,  for  the  letter  which  he  had 
circulated  (1675),  Mr.Mallett  said, "  There 
is  another  precedent,  of  Withers  the  poet, 
which  if  true  does  us  justice." — Pari  HuL 
vol.  4.  p.  749. 

Compare  his  conduct  during  the  Flague 
with  Van  Helmont*s,  an  enthusiast  of  a 
different  kind.    See  p.  12. 

"  Whoeveb,"  says  Fhilups,  "  shall  go 
about  to  imitAte  his  lofty  style,  may  boldly 
venture  to  ride  post  and  versify." 

Ben  Jonson  (vol.  8,  p.  7-9)  satirizes 
Greorge  Wither,  and  in  a  way  which  shows 
him  to  have  been  a  popular  writer  at  that 
time. 

The  plates  in  his  emblems,  first  ap- 
peared in  a  book  with  this  title ;  '*  Gab. 
Rollenhagii  Emblematum  Centurie,"  2  vols. 
Cologne,  1613.    MTherson's  Catalogue.' 

Sib  William  Davbnant. 

"  Quabeels  of  Authors^'' yo\.%  p.  212.  An 
account  of  the  Attacks  on  Gondibert,  in 
which  D*Israeli  has  committed  two  extra- 
ordinary blunders :  he  speaks  of  the  poem 
as  published  when  Charles's  Court  gave 
the  law — and  supposes  Dr.  Donne  to  have 
been  one  of  his  four  ironical  vindicators. — 
p.  230-1. 

There  are  some  verses  by  Charles  Cotton 
(Chalmers,  vol.  6,  p.  748)  in  answer  to  some 
in  the  Seventh  Canto  of  the  Third  Book  of 
Gondibert,  directed  to  his  Father.  This 
canto  has  not  been  published,  but  seven 
stanzas  of  it  are  prefixed  to  these  verses 
of  Cottons. 

Gondiberiy  p.  92.  An  irreverent  allu- 
sion to  the  Resurrection,  not  in  accord  with 
the  feeling  of  the  poem. 

*  I  may  observe  here,  that  Southey  had  a 
long  cherished  wish  of  editing  a  collected  edi* 
tion  of  Wither's  Foeros.  He  expressed  himself 
to  this  intent  on  the  imperfect  republicatioB  of 
them  by  Giitch.— J.  W.  W. 


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293 


here  the  early  lawyer  mends  his  pace, 
whom  the  earlier  client  waited  long/* 

Gandibcrtj  p.  104. 

that  in  cloysters  only  seals  her  eyes, 
1  youth  thinks  folly,  age  as  wbdom 
wns, 

by  not  knowing  her,  outlive  the  wise ; 
jits  cities,  but  she  dwells  in  thrones." 

lb.  p.  119. 

er  a  loud  belFs  toll  rather  commands 
Q  seems  to  invite  the  persecuted  ear." 

lb.  p.  183. 

**  That  lucky  thief, 
!aven*s  dark  lottery  prosperous  more 
an  wise) 

roped  at  last,  by  chance,  for  Heaven's 
lief, 

throngs  undoes  with  hope,  by  one 
awn  prize." 


w^'^^^V>^\/^^^^^^^/^%^^^^/\^ 


Assuretnce. 

these,  whom  Heaven's  mysterious 
boice  fetched  in, 

;kly  attain  devotion's  utmost  scope ; 
Aving  sofUy  mourned  away  their  sin, 
f  grow  so  certain  as  to  need  no  hope." 

lb.  p.  185. 

Here  too,  as  in  G.  Herbert,  a  pre- 
that  religion  will  take  its  way  to 
ea. 

**  Common  faith — ^which  is  no  more 
ong  opinion  to  religion  grown." 

"  For  love  and  grief  are  nourished 
£st  with  thought." 

6,  In  favourof  a  universal  monarchy. 

^  If  you  approve  what  numbers  law- 
1  think, 

d,  for  number  cancels  bashfulness. 
nes  from  which  a  king  would  blush- 
g  shrink, 
shing  senates  act  as  no  excess." 

b  how  much  feeling  might  he  write 


294.  Political  feeling. 

329-332.  He  would  have  the  good  labour 
to  acquire  wealth  and  power,  as  the  means 
of  beneficence. '  See,  too,  his  preface,  p.  19, 
20.  51. 

A  just  remark  in  his  preface  (p.  2),  that 
"  story,  wherever  it  seems  most  likely,  grows 
most  pleasant." 

6.  As  if  Du  Bartas  ranked  at  that  time 
above  Ariosto  in  public  opinion. 

13.  A  fine  passage,  contrasting  the  phi- 
lanthropy of  the  Christian  religion  with  the 
Jewish  and  Gentile  religions. 

26.  A  remarkable  passage  concerning  wit, 
not  however  taking  it  in  Barrow's  sense,  but 
in  its  earlier  and  wider  acceptation. 

40.  Conscientious  writers  become  for  that 
reason  voluminous.  A  very  just  observa- 
tion. 

Hobbes's  answer  to  this  preface  is  full  of 
excellent  remarks  upon  poetry  and  lan- 
guage. 

"  His  private  opinion  was  that  religion  at 
last  (e.  g.  a  hundred  years  hence)  would 
come  to  settlement,  and  that  in  a  kind  of 
ingenious  Quakerism."  —  Aubrby's  Notes. 
Boswell's  Mfdone*8  Shakespeare^  vol.  3,  p. 
284. 

**  He  was  buried  in  a  coffin  of  walnut 
tree.  Sir  J.  Denham  said  it  was  the  finest 
coffin  he  ever  saw." — Ibid.  p.  283. 

See  Sfemce's  Anecdotes.  82. 

"Though  Sir  William  Davenant  wanted 
that  poetical  invention  which  can  alone  con- 
tinue to  interest,  he  was  a  very  subtle 
thinker,  had  great  conmiand  of  polished  and 
harmonious  language,  and  could  express 
ideas,  difficultly  conceived  by  others,  with 
an  extraordinary  union  of  conciseness  and 
clearness.  This  is  not  the  primary  purpose 
of  poetry  ;  but  still  it  is  very  valuable  and 
very  instructive." — Sib  Egertom.  Preface 
to  PkUUps^  p.  xviii. 


46 


Tkeatrum  Poetarum,  Part  2,  p.  20,  No. 


J 


I 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


Da  YEN  ANT  was  encouraged  to  bring  out 
his  musical  entertainment,  when  all  plays 
were  prohibited,  "by  no  less  a  person  than 
Sir  John  Maynard." — Hawkims,  History  of 
Musicj  Yol.  4,  p.  322. 


Mason. 

HoRACB  Walpolb,  Leiterty  vol.  2,  p.  101. 
"  Mr.  Mason  has  published  another  drama, 
called  Caractacus;  there  are  some  incan- 
tations poetical  enough,  and  odes  so  Greek 
as  to  have  Ycry  little  meaning." 

Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  271.  "The  version  of 
Fresnoy  I  think  Uie  finest  translation  I  ever 
saw.  It  is  a  most  beautiful  poem  extracted 
from  as  dry  and  prosaic  a  parcel  of  verses 
as  could  be  put  together.  Mr.  Mason  has 
gilded  lead,  and  burnished  it  highly.*' 

Ibid.  p.  343.  **  I  AM  very  sorry  Mr.  Ma- 
son concurs  in  trying  to  revive  the  associ- 
ations. Methinks  our  state  is  so  deplora- 
ble, that  every  healing  measure  ought  to 
be  attempted,  instead  of  innovation." — See 
also  p.  3^4-5. 

Pebci VAL  Stoc&dale  (3fe»iiotr«,  vol.  2,  p. 
88,)  says  of  the  Heroick  Epistle, "  a  piece  of 
finer  and  more  poignant  poetical  irony  never 
was  written.  It  was,  I  will  venture  to  say, 
foolishly  given,  by  many  people  to  Mason : 
it  was  totally  different  from  his  manner; 
its  force,  its  acuteness,  its  delicacy,  and 
urbanity  of  genius  prove  that  he  was  inca- 
pable to  write  it ;  yet  he  was  absurdly  and 
conceitedly  offended  with  those  who  sup- 
posed him  to  be  the  author  of  it :  that  poet, 
who  was  certainly  very  little  above  medi- 
ocrity, fancied  that  his  abilities  and  his  fame 
were  grossly  injured  by  the  mistaken  sup- 
position." 

Walpole,  vol.  4,  p.  236,  bears  witness  to 
the  truth  of  Mr.  Mainwaring*s  assertion, 
that  authorship  created  no  jealousy  or  va- 
riance in  Mason  towards  Gray. 


•*  It  so  happened,  some  how  or  othei 
Mason  never  took  a  predominant  poss* 
of  the  public  mind.  Perhaps  he  wat 
sidered  too  fiowery  ;  though  that  is  i 
objection  commonly  made  by  the  p( 
voice.  He  often  wrote  with  great  hiu 
and  polish,  and  there  is  a  great  th 
imagination  in  his  Klfrida  and  Caraci 
but  there  is  some  indefinable  failure 
true  tone." — Sni  Egerton  Bbtdgbs, 
biography  J  vol.  1,  p.  132. 

Cole  says  of  him,  that  he  was  est 
at  college  to  be  one  of  the  chief  oma 
of  the  University.  Cole  was  sorry  tl 
had  shown  himself  "  so  much  of  a  part 
in  the  Heroic  Epistle,  as  I  had  a 
veneration  for  his  character,"  he  s 
ResHtiUOy  vol.  3,  p.  75. 

Hannah  Mobb.  '*  I  was  much  affec 
the  death  of  poor  Mason.  The  Bid 
London  was  just  reading  us  a  som 
had  sent  him  on  his  seventy-second 
day,  rejoicing  in  his  unimpaired  sti 
and  faculties  :  it  ended  with  saying  t 
had  still  a  muse  able  to  praise  his  S 
and  his  God,  when  the  account  of  his 
came.  It  was  pleasing  to  find  his  la 
etical  sentiments  had  been  so  devo 
would  that  more  of  his  writings  hi 
pressed  the  same  strain  of  devotion,  t 
I  have  no  doubt  of  his  having  been  { 
disposed ;  but  the  Warburtonian  schc 
not  favourable  to  a  devotional  spi] 
used  to  be  pleased  with  his  turn  of  o 
sation,  which  was  rather  of  a  peculiar 
— Memoirs^  vol.  3,  p.  16. 

**  Elfbida  overcame  all  our  commo 
judices  against  the  ancient  form  of  tr 
especially  against  the  chorus.  Mr.  C 
therefore  deserves  praise  for  introduc 
the  stage,  under  his  direction,  so  el^ 
performance  ;  and  as  a  proof  of  the  sk 
judgment  with  which  he  has  ender 
to  render  it  a  pleasing  exhibition  to 
class  of  the  spectator,  we  must  add,  for 
formation  of  our  distant  readers,  that 


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icived  with  a  much  warmer,  more 
and  more  laBting  approbation  than 
even  the  most  sanguine  admirer  of 
1  could  have  expected  from  a  work 
le  author  never  intended  for  the- 
"epresentation.** — Monthly  Review^ 
December,  1772,  p.  486. 

onnection  with  Lord  Holderness, 
I.  Walpolb's  Letters^  vol.  1,  p.  329. 

igious  conduct  to  Murray  the  book- 
Cbok£R*8  Boswcll,  vol.  4,  p.  152. 

lusseus  to  an  unnatural  strain  of 
ivhich  is  that  of  Lycidas,  adds  a 
inatural  pathos,  and  has  yet  the 
fault  of  making  Spenser,  Milton, 
ucer  address  Pope  as  one  who  had 
them. 

CUBITS  lyric  measure  of  his  consists 
ets  of  four  or  five,  alternately,  but 
^ntinuously.  Sometimes  he  begins 
longer,  sometimes  with  the  shorter 
[lie  Ode  to  a  Water  Nymph  is  in  a 
reeable  metre.  The  rhymes  are 
,  but  the  arrangement  of  the  lines 
*  four  and  two  of  five  feet,  then  two 
nd  two  of  four,  and  so  alternately 
the  poem ;  the  versification  being 
lus.  That  to  an  JBolian  harp  is  in 
quatrain  of  two  fours  and  two  fives, 
a  good  ear  for  versification,  which, 
,  is  not  so  apparent  in  blank  verse ; 
lainly  he  had  not  a  good  ear  for 
inless  a  broad  provincial  pronunci- 
d  corrupted  it.  I  am  far  from  ob- 
o  imperfect  rhymes  when  they  are 

dbposed ;  but  they  offend  the  ear 
when  it  is  made  to  rest  upon  them, 
xample  (Ode  x.  for  Music),  employ 

in  a  couplet  which  closes  a  stanza 
there  is  no  rhyme  to  either  of  these 

"The  larks*  meridian  ecstasy." 

ee  our  tears  in  Mober  shower 

r  thb  shrine  of  glory  pour." — P.  54. 

(ill.  Cp.  63,  must  be  to  the  Duchess 
nshire. 


There  is  a  manliness  in  his  moral  poems 
— as  in  the  Elegy  to  a  young  Nobleman, 
for  example.  93.  The  movement  of  his 
continuous  quatrains  is  always  pleasing. 

97.  An  amusing  example  of  what  popu- 
larity is — Mason  felt  that  Garrick  was  pre- 
ferred to  him  as  a  poet !  which  yet  lie  never 
was,  nor  could  have  been. 

103.  A  pleasing  acknowledgment  that  he 
was  too  much  elated  with  applause. 

105.  Epistle  to  Hurd.  Here  he  relates 
his  deliberate  choice  of  an  artificial  and  gor- 
geous style — ^because  Shakespeare  precluded 
all  hope  of  excellence  in  any  other  form  of 
drama. 

112.  "  hills  sublime 

Of  mountain  lineage." 

His  own  birthday  Sonnets  in  old  age  are 
in  a  very  pleasing  and  natural  strain. 

243.  "and  all  that  browse. 

Or  skim  or  dive,  the  plain,  the  air,  the  fiood." 

This  is  the  latest  example  I  remember  of  an 
old  construction,  more  artificial  than  pleas- 

248.  A  fashion  of  white  palisades  tipped 
with  gold  and  red. 

"  Gothic  now. 
And  now  Chinese,  now  neither,  and  yet  both." 

This  had  passed  away  before  my  memory. 
248.  A  curious  example  of  a  receipt  in 
verse, — how  to  mix  colours  for  painting  a 
fence  green. 

244.  His  opinion  expressed  of  the  manner 
in  which  such  subjects,  in  themselves  essen- 
tially unpoetical,  and  antipoetical,  should  be 
poetically  treated. 

252.  "  Alas !  ere  we  can  note  it  in  our 

song. 
Comes  manhood*s  feverish  summer,  chill'd 

full  soon 
By  cold  autumnal  care,  till  wintry  age 
Sinks  in  the  frore  severity  of  death." 

262.  Gray^s  admiration  of  Keswick,  ex- 
pressed in  verse  by  Mason. 

264. "  That  force  of  ancient  phrase,  which 
speaking,  paints ; 


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And  is  the  thing  it  sings." 
275.  His  contempt  of  fountains, 

"  that  toss 
In  rainbow  dews  their  crystal  to  the  sun.** 

280.  A  pleasing  passage : 

"  Yes,  let  me  own. 
To  these,  or  classic  deities  like  these, 
From  very  childhood  was  I  prone  to  pay 
Harmless  idolatry." 

The  last  book  of  the  Grarden  is  in  every 
respect  miserably  bad.  Bad  in  taste,  as  re- 
commending sham  castles  and  modern  ruins ; 
bad  in  morals,  as  endeavouring  to  serve  a 
political  cause  by  a  fictitious  story,  which, 
if  it  had  been  true,  could  have  nothing  to 
do  with  the  right  or  wrong  of  the  American 
war, — and  bad  in  poetry,  because  the  story 
is  in  itself  absurd.  Not  the  least  absurd 
part  is  the  sudden  death  of  the  lady  at  seeing 
her  betrothed  husband,  whom  she  was  nei- 
ther glad  nor  sorry  to  see ;  and  the  descrip- 
tion of  the  facies  Hippocratica  is  applied  to 
a  person  thus  dying  in  health,  youth,  and 
beauty. 

See  in  Book  i.  for  his  love  of  painting  as 
well  as  poetry. 

392.  An  excellent  description  of  the  Eng- 
lish Boulingrin  from  the  Encyclopedia. 


Poetical  Recreations^  Sfc,  Part  /.  by  Mbs. 
Jane  Babker.  Part  IL  by  severed  Oeu' 
tlemen  of  the  Universities^  cmd  others. 
1688. 

P.  12.  A  very  pretty  expression  villain- 
ously applied : 

"  From  married  men  wit's  current  never 

flows, 
But  grave  and  dull  as  standing  pond  he  grows ; 
Whilst  the  other.,like  a  gentle  streamdoes  play 
With  this  worWs  pebbles  which  obstruct  his 

wayJ** 

21.  '*  Here  plants  for  health  and  for  de- 
light are  met, 
The  cephalic  cowslip,  cordial  violet ; 


Under  the  diuretic  woodbine  grows 
The  splenetic  columbine,  scorbutic  i 

As  scurvy  epithets  as  were  ever  app 
fair  lady  to  fine  flowers. 

24.  Pretty  lines  to  a  rivulet : 

"  Yet,  gentle  stream,  thou*rt  stil 
same, 
Always  going,  never  gone : 
Yet  dost  all  constancy  disclaim. 
Wildly  dancing  to  thine  own  murm 
tuneful  song, 
Old  as  Time,  as  Love  and  Beauty  } 

31.  Her  skill  in  medicine. 

39.  "  For  I  can  only  shake,  but  nc 
off  my  chain.** 

Fashion  of  portraits  in  her  youth 

"  Even  when  I  was  a  child. 
When  in  my  picture's  hand 
My  mother  did  command 
There  should  be  drawn  a  laurel-l 
Lo  then  my  Muse  sate  by  and  i 
To  hear  how  some  the  sentence  did  < 
Saying  an  apple,  bird,  or  rose 
Were  objects  which  did  more  I 
My  childish  years  and  no  less  childis 

41 .  ^*  their  modish  wit  to  me  dot 
Butasan  engyscopc^  to  view  yours  thr 

101.  Some  odd  anatomical  verses 
seems  to  have  studied  physic  with  a  i 
practise  it. 

Her  most  delightful  and  excelle 
mance  of  Seepina  was  in  the  press. 

Part  2. 

P.  161.  Bt  this  dialogue  concerni 
prohibition  of  French  wines,  it  appea 
barrels  were  broached  in  the  stre 
rather  staved. 

212.  Bonny  Moll  and  Black  Bess 
serious  imitation  of  VirgiPs  Eclogue 


*  There  is  no  difficulty  in  this  word 
have  no  authority  to  quote  for  it  at  h 
J.  W.  W. 


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250.  "^  Alas !  how  yain  and  useless  all 
things  proYe 
When  entered  in  damn*d  Cupid^s  school 
To  leam  his  precepts  and  his  rules.'* 

275.  James  U. 

"  Who,  Noah's  lawful  heir, 
Succeeded  in  the  boundless  empire  of  the 
Flood." 

277.  Apotheosis  of  Charles  U. 

^  Safely  he  cuts  the  thundering  skies, 
Adom'd  with  new  imperious  joys ; 
Toung  angels  kiss  each  tender  limb. 
And  fondly  call  him  cherubim, 
His  Saviour  and  his  Sire  embrace  him  as  he 
flies!" 


HCBDIS. 

The  Favourite  Village. 

P.  5.  **  Youth  and  age 

And  sexes  mingled  in  the  populous  soil. 
Till  it  overlooks  with  swoln  and  ridgy  brow 
The  smoother  croft  below." 

5.  **  Say,  ancient  edifice,  thyself  with 

years 
Grown  gray,  how  long  upon  the  hill  has 

stood 
Thy  weather-braying  tower,  and  silent 

mark'd 
The  human  leaf  inconstant  bud  and  fall? 
The  generations  of  deciduous  man. 
How  often  hast  thou  seen  them  pass  away  ?" 

1 1 .  — ^*  the  slow -marching  sabbath,  by  the 

Devoted  ill  to  frivolous  excess. 

Or  dedicated  fondly  by  the  grave 

To  endless  exercise  of  pious  toil. 

Has  here  no  hurried,  and  no  loitering  foot. 

Abridged  of  levity  and  indisposed 

To  miike  salvation  slavery,  to  yawn 

Till  latest  midnight  o'er  the  long  discourse. 

It  interdicts  not  recreation  sweet." 

16.  —  "  dear  village,  sometimes  let 

me  stand 


The  ding-dong  peal  of  thy  twain  beUs  remote 
To  hear." 

20.  "  What  time  the  preying  owl  with 
sleepy  wing 
Swims  o'er  the  corn-field  studious." 

23.  *^It  shaU  not  grieve  me  if  the  gust  be 
free. 
And,  to  withstand  its  overbearing  gale, 
I  lean  upon  the  tide  of  air  unseen. 
For  pleasant  then  across  the  vale  below 
Fleet  the  thin  shadows  of  the  severed 
cloud." 

26.  Bathing. 

**  suspended  thus 
Upon  the  bosom  of  a  cooler  world." 

27.  This  personification  of  Ocean  as  a 
wolfish  monster,  though  it  arises  naturally, 
is  carried  to  an  absurd  extravagance. 

34.  The  shepherd — 

"Accustomed  in  the  rear  of  his  slow  flock 
To  creep  inert." 

35.  A  very  pleasing  trait  of  himself.  He 
used  to  let  the  wheatears  out  of  their  traps, 
and  leave  their  price  for  their  ransom. 


(( 


40.  —  "  or  grazmg  ox 

His  dewy  supper  from  the  savoury  herb 
Audibly  gathering." 

53.  "  Far  ofi*  resounds  the  shore-assailing 

deep. 
Sleeping  wit!i  rude  concuss'o     he  loose 

beach. 
Harshly  sequacious  of  his  refluent  surge." 

57.  "Raking  with  harsh  recoil  the  pebbly 
steep." 

73.  "And  the  scorch'd  eyelid  intervention 
asks 
Of  handkerchief  uplifted,  doubled  news, 
Hand  iU  at  ease,  or  tipsey-footed  screen." 

81.  "a  vast  expanse. 

Save  where  the  frowning  wood  without  a  leaf 
Rears  its  durk  branches  on  the  distant  hill. 


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Or  hedge-row,  ill-discem*d,  with  dreary 

length 
Strides  o*er  the  vale  encumbered,  or  lone 

church 
Stands  vested  weatherward  in  snowy  pall. 
Conspicuous  half,  half  not  to  be  discerned.** 

89.  The  robin  in  winter — 

**  beneath  my  chair 
Sit  budge,  a  feathery  bunch." 

91.  Children,  it  seems,  in  his  village,  wear 
paper  ornaments  on  their  heads  and  skirts 
when  they  go  to  sing  Christmas  carols  early 
in  the  morning. 

111.  Oolden  primrose — the  only  false 
epithet  I  have  found. 

The  Relapse. 

156.  A  sweet  passage  about  his  sister. 

158.  His  own  boyhood. 

159.  The  man  of  war. 

177.  His  contented  state  of  mind. 
Sir  Thomas  More. 

234.  "  Poet  like, 

She  could  not  sleep  for  thinking,  but  stole 

out 
To  ring  the  chimes  of  fancy,  undisturbed. 
In  the  still  ear  of  morning.'* 

296.  "  What  is  death 

To  him  who  meets  it  with  an  upright  heart  ? 
A  quiet  haven,  where  his  shattered  bark 
Harbours  secure,  till  the  rough  storm  is  past. 
Perhaps  a  passage,  overhung  with  clouds 
But  at  it«  entrance ;  a  few  leagues  beyond 
Opening  to  kinder  skies  and  milder  suns, 
And  seas  pacific  as  the  soul  that  seeks  them.'* 

Elsewhere  Hurdis  intimates  that  he  was 
doubtful  whether  the  soul  sleeps  after  death, 
or  passes  into  an  intermediate  state.  But 
how  certainly  to  all  appearance  might  the 
voyage  in  Kehama  be  traced  to  this  passage 
— if  I  had  read  it  before  that  i)oem  was 
written. 

As  Hurdis  followed  Cowper,  so  poor  Ro- 
maine  Joseph  Thorn  followed  him,  and  imi- 
tated the  worthless  Adriano  in  the  not  more 
worthless  Lodon  and  Miranda. 

This  poor  fellow,  who  was  clerk  to  a  Bris- 


tol merchant^  quarrelled  with  him.  After 
the  quarrel  he  went  to  the  merchant's  house, 
in  Park  Street,  and  being  admitted,  walked 
up  to  him  and  addressed  him  thus — **  Sir, 
did  you  ever  read  Churchill's  Epistle  to  Ho- 
garth ?"  and  without  waiting  for  an  answer, 
**  I'll  write  a  severer  satire  than  that  upon 
you,  Sir  ! "  Mr. took  him  by  the  col- 
lar, carried  him,  for  he  was  about  five  feet 
two,  to  the  street  door,  and  dropped  him 
over  the  steps  into  the  street. 

The  poor  poet  got  a  situation  afterwards 
in  a  merchant  vessel,  and  died  on  the  coast 
of  Africa,  a  victim  to  the  climate. 


John  Ltlt. 


In  a  catalogue  I  see  "  Lyly's  Euphues  and 
Lucella,  Ephoebus,  and  Letters  rendered 
into  modem  English,  1716." 

Britain's  Remembrancer  (G.  Wither), 
canto  2,  p.  42.  Green  and  Lily's  fashion 
gone  by. 

There  is  in  his  Euphues  occasionally  a 
vulgarity  such  as  in  Swift's  Polite  Conver- 
sations ;  and  there  are  also  conceited  and 
vapid  discussions  like  those  in  Madame  Scu- 
dery's  Romances. 

Euphues,  the  Anatomy  of  Wit,  Ed.  1607. 

To  the  Gentlemen  Readers — "  We  com- 
monly see  the  book  that  at  Easter  lyeth 
bound  on  the  stationer's  stall,  at  Christmas 
to  be  broken  in  the  haberdasher's  shop.  It 
is  not  strange  when  as  the  greatest  wonder 
lasteth  but  nine  days,  that  a  now  work 
should  not  endure  but  three  months.  Gen- 
tlemen use  books  as  gentlewomen  handle 
their  fiowers ;  who  in  the  morning  stick 
them  in  their  heads,  and  at  night  strew 
them  at  their  heels.  Cherries  be  fulsome 
when  they  be  thorough  ripe,  because  thej 
be  plenty  ;  and  books  be  stale  when  they  be 
printed,  in  that  they  be  common." 

**  In  my  mind  Printers  and  Tailors  are 
chiefly  bound  to  pray  for  Gentlemen ;  the 
one  hath  so  many  fantasies  to  print,  the 
other  such  sundry  fashions  to  make,  that 


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the  pressing-iron  of  the  one  is  never  out  of 
the  fire,  nor  the  printing-press  of  the  other 
at  anjr  time  lyeth  still. 

^He  that  cometh  to  print  because  he 
woukd  be  known,  is  like  the  fool  that  cometh 
into  the  market  because  he  would  be  seen.** 

It  seems  by  his  address  to  the  Oxonians 
IS  if  he  had  been  rusticated  for  three 
fears. 

^  B.  —  he  thought  himself  so  apt  to  all 
things,  that  he  gave  himself  almost  to  no- 
thing but  practising  of  those  things  com- 
monlj  which  are  incident  to  these  sharp 
wits,  —  fine  phrases,  smooth  quips,  merry 
taunts,  using  jesting  without  mean,  and 
abasing  mirth  without  measure.** 

"  —  so  rare  a  wit  would  in  time  either 
breed  an  intolerable  trouble,  or  bring  an 
incomparable  treasure  to  the  commonweal.** 

"  —  thy  bringing  up  seemeth  to  me  to 
be  a  great  blot  to  the  lineage  of  so  noble  a 

*'  The  greenest  beech  bumeth  faster  than 
the  driest  oak.** 

"  The  dry  beech  kindled  at  the  root 
lever  leaveth  until  it  come  to  the  top^ 

*'*'  The  Pestilence  doth  most  rifest  infect 
iie  clearest  complection.** 

"  You  convince  my  parents  of  peevish' 
test  in  making  me  a  wanton.** 

^  —  to  the  stomach  quatted^  with  dainties, 
il  delicates  seem  queasy.** 

"They  that  use  to  steal  honey  burn  hem- 
ock  to  smoak  the  bees  from  their  hives.** 

The  wise  husbandman — '^  in  the  fattest 
fld  most  fertile  ground  soweth  hemp  be- 
bre  wheat,  a  grain  that  drieth  up  the  su- 
perfluous moisture,  and  maketh  the  soil 
Qore  apt  for  com.** 

•*  Swathe-cloutes.** 

**  Suspecting  that  Philantus  was  corrival 
rith  him,  and  cockmate^  with  Lucilla.** 

^  Rise  rather,  Euphues,  and  take  heart 

'  See  Kabes'  Gtou,  in  v.  It  means,  of  course, 
ttkiteti,  glutted, 

*  Nares  in  V.  8up]>o8es  it  to  be  a  corruption 
>f  eopesmate,  quotine  this  and  the  passage  re- 
erred  to  bolow.  l£x>ker  used  eopesmate  more 
han  once.— J.  W.  W, 


at  grass  (f)^^  younger  thou  shalt  never 
be.** 

**  I  now  taking  heart  at  grass  to  see  her 
so  gamesome.** 

•*  They  that  begin  to  pine  of  a  consump- 
tion, without  delay  preserve  themselves  upon 
cullisses.  He  that  feeleth  his  stomach  in- 
flamed with  meat,  cooleth  it  eilsoons  with 
conserves.** 

**  In  that  thou  cravest  my  aid,  assure  thy- 
self I  will  be  thy  finger  next  thy  thumb.** 

^*  Neither  being  idle,  nor  well  employed, 
but  playing  at  cards.** 

^^  Though  thou  have  eaten  tlie  seeds'  of 
rocket,  which  breed  incontinency,  yet  have 
I  chewed  the  leaf-cress  which  maintaineth 
modesty.*' 

**  Instead  of  silks  I  will  wear  sackcloth; 
for  owches,  and  bracelets,  leeref  and 
caddur^ 

"  I  farce  not  Philantus  his  fury,  so  I  may 
have  Euphues  his  friendship.** 

*^  —  pinched  Philantus  on  the  parson's 
8ide.**«  (?) 

—  Gloss-worm  for  glow-worm.^ 

**  —  Vulcan — ^with  his  pawlt  foot.*' 

*^  I  brought  thee  up  like  a  coakes,  and 
thou  hast  handled  me  like  a  cockscombe.** 

"  Euphues  is  content  to  be  a  craven  and 
cry  creake; — though  Curio  be  old  huddle 
and  twang.     Ipse  he" —  (?) 

^^  Judging  all  to  be  pinglers^  that  are  not 
coursers.** 

**  What  greater  infamy  than  to  confer 
the  sharp  wit  to  the  making  of  lewd  son- 
nets to  the  idolatrous  worshipping  of  their 
ladies,  to  the  vain  delights  of  fancy,  to  all 

»  See  Nares  in  v.  Simply  a  corruption,  I 
suspect,  from  the  IFrench. 

*  "  The  use  of  rocket  stirreth  up*bodi]y  lust, 
especially  the  seed."— Johnson's  Gerarde,  p. 
248. 

*  Both  probably  signify  here  some  coarse 
kind  of  twist,  or  lace.  The  latter  is  used  by 
Shakespeare.    See  Nares  in  v. 

*  Ibid,  in  v.  Side,  Ben  Jonson  speaks  of  '*  a 
tide  sweeping  gown."  New  Inn, 

^  Ibid,  in  v. 

*  Ibid,  in  v.  ''  prubably  a  labouring  horse." 
The  pingle  was  the  enclosure,  or  boosy-pas- 
ture,  close  tt>  the  homestead.— J.  W.  W. 


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kinds  of  vice,  as  it  were  against  kind  and 
course  of  nature." 

"  —  either  rouse  the  deer  or  unpearch  the 
pheasant/* 

**  —  stand  in  a  mammering  whether  to 
depart  or  not." 

"  —  if  tall  they  term  him  a  hmgis,  if  short 
a  dwarf." 

"  —  if  she  be  well  set,  they  call  her  a 
bosse^  if  slender  a  hazel  twig." 

**  —  their  lawns,  their  lee/ekieSy^  their 
ruffs." 

"  Be  not  like  the  Englishman,  which  pre- 
ferreth  every  strange  fashion  before  the  use 
of  his  country." 

^'  I  would  not  that  all  women  should  take 
pepper  in  the  m)8e,  in  that  I  have  disclosed 
the  legerdemain  of  a  few." 

Snuff  was  not  then  known,  —  but  here 
is  an  expressed  fact  equivalent  to  tahirig  it 
in  snuff', 

"  —  the  oak  will  soon  be  eaten  with  the 
worm,  the  walnut  tree  never." 

"  —  were  not  Milo*s  arms  hrawn'faUen 
for  want  of  wrestling  ?" 

N.  1 .  Servants  who  were  unfit  for  any 
thing  else  appointed  to  take  care  of  the 
children.  An  ill  custom  of  which  he  com- 
plains. 

Fade  always  for/ade.* 

N.  3,  4.  —  Extemporaneous  speaking. 

O.  Oxford  described  (as  Athens)  in  his 
dajs,  as  a  very  profligate  place. 

O.  3.  Servants  beaten. 

His  notions  of  gentle  education. — P.  2. 

"  Cock  mates^'*  playmates. 

"  Querrelhus,'"    Manvary  crafYs. 

"  Abject,'*  for  reprobate. 

**  —  surely  if  conscience  be  the  cause  thou 
art  banished  the  court,  I  account  thee  wise 
in  being  so  precise,  that  by  the  using  of 

virtue  thou  may  est  be  exiled  the  place  of 

*     t* 
vice. 


'  Here  a  part  of  female  dress,  but  what  does 
not  appear.  Halliwell  quotes  leefekyn  from 
Palsgrave *s  AcoUittus,  as  a  term  of  endearment. 
—J.  W.  W. 

•  See  The  Doctor,  5tc.  1  vol.  edit.  p.  479.— 
J.  W.  W. 


Was  Lyly  a  Puritan  when  he  wrote  this 
first  part  ? 

U.  2.  —  Ladies  of  the  Court. 

This  also  has  a  Puritan  air. 

**  By  experience  we  see  that  the  adamant 
cannot  draw  iron  if  the  diamond  lie  bj  it.** 


Euphues  and  his  England, 

"  Euphues**  was  his  first  work. 

"  The  very  feather  of  an  eagle  is  of  force 
to  consume  the  beetle." 

**  Hens  do  not  lay  eggs  when  they  chick 
but  when  they  cackle,'* 

Dedication  to  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
to  the  Ladies  and  Gentlewomen  of  Eng- 
land. 

**  Euphues  had  rather  lie  shut  in  a  Ladj*8 
coffer  than  open  in  a  scholai**8  study." 

"  —  the  grisping  of  the  evening." 

'*  —  a  hermitage  where  a  mouse  was 
sleeping  in  a  cat*s  ear  !** 

*^  —  the  thrush  never  singeth  in  the  com- 
pany of  the  nightingale." 

*'  Nothing  shall  alter  my  mind,  neither 
penny  nor  pater-noster." 

**  —  Coming  home  by  Weeping  cross.** 

**  Every  stool  he  sat  on  was  Penniless 
bench."  3 

Philanthus  is  made  to  say  *^  the  English 
tongue,  which,  as  I  have  heard,  is  almost 
barbarous." 

England  "  marvellously  replenished  with 
people." 

**  Thou  doest  me  wrong,  in  seeking  a  scar 
in  a  smooth  skin." 

Bees  '*  delight  in  sweet  and  sound  mu- 
sic, which  if  they  hear  but  once  out  of  tune, 
they  fly  out  of  sight." 

F.  3.  This  whole  account  of  the  bees 
oddly  fabulous. 

The  tortoise  taken  for  the  torpedo  — 
plainly. 

"  —  as  the  viper  tied  to  the  bough  of 
the  beech  tree,  which  keepeth  him  in  a  dead 


'  See  Nares'  GUtu,  on  Wttping  Crou  and 
Pennileu  Bench.  The  latter  is  wdl  known  to 
all  Oxonians.— J.  VV.  W. 


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ugh  he  b^in  with  a  sweet  slum- 

ou  be  bewitched  with  eyes,  wear 
df  a  weasel  in  a  ring,  which  is  an 
ent  against  such  charms.** 

Salamander,  being  a  long  time 
i  in  the  fire,  at  last  quencheth  it.** 
;here  is  but  one  Phoenix  in  the 

is  there  but  one  tree  in  Arabia 
he  buildeth.** 

fortunate  Philantus !  bom  in  the 
he  moon,  and  as  like  to  obtain  thy 
.e  wolf  to  eat  the  moon.** 
aking  a  cooiing'Card  against  wo- 

loyers  are  cooled  with  a  card  of 

Bgrw** — this  word  is  opposed  to  a 

e  fairer  the  stone  is  in  the  toad*s 
more  pestilent  her  poison  b  in 

Is.** 

lat  talk,  the  more  it  is  seasoned 

phrases,  the  less  it  savoureth  of 

mg. 

lighted  to  hear  her  speak  —  he 

-  by  the  blood  in  this  sort.    If,**  &c. 
determined  hab  nab  ^  to  send  his 

t  Johns,**  the  same  as  Sweet  Wil- 

r  me,  I  am  neither  of  his  counsel, 

e  that  have  once  been  bitten  with 
,  never  after  feel  any  sting  either 
;p,  or  the  hornet,  or  the  bee.*' 
i  is  no  beast  that  toucheth  the 
eon  the  bear  hath  breathed.** 
lightingale  is  said  with  continual 
to  sing,   to  perish  in  her  sweet 


London  Bridge  the  pride  of  the 


I. 


ite  in  Tk€  Doctor ^  &c.  1  vol.  edit.  p. 

r.w. 

Sweet-John  and  also  the  Sweet- Wil- 
th  comprehended  under  one  title,  that 
Armeria,'*  &c. — Johnson's  Gerarde, 
.W.W. 


"  Mastiffs,  except  for  necessary  uses 
about  their  houses,  as  to  draw  water,  to 
watch  thieves,  &c.  And  thereof  they  de- 
rive the  word  mastiff— of  ma«c  and  thief.**  (?) 

**  Mineral  pearls  (?)  in  England,  which 
is  most  strange,  which  as  they  are  for  great- 
ness and  colour  most  excellent^  so  are  they 
digged  out  of  the  mainland,  in  places  far 
distant  from  the  shore.** — Ibid. 

B.  b.  1,  2.  The  English  ladies  described, 
in  ironically  praising  them  for  what  he 
wished  them  to  be. 

B.  b.  3.  Lords  and  Grentry.    (See  p.  70.) 

**  —  this  I  would  have  Uiee  take  for  a 
fiit  answer.** 

Lyly. 

**  Tboth,  I  am  of  opinion  he  is  one  of 
those  hieroglyphical  writers,  that  by  the 
figures  of  beasts,  plants  and  of  stones,  ex- 
press the  mind,  as  we  do  in  A  B  C.** — 
Nash,  Summer's  Last  WiU,  Old  Plays,  vol. 
iv.  p.  33. 


^A/W>/WVW\^/WN/W^/«/V^> 


Thomas  Goff. 

Three  excellent  tragedies.  Second  edit. 
1656. 

The  verses  in  this  volume  generally  (as 
in  Spanish)  begin  with  a  small  letter. 

Rhyme  is  frequently  introduced. 

The  Turks  talk  like  Pagans,  and  drink 
wine. 

P.  9. "  Am  I  not  Emperor  ?  he  that  breathes 
a  No 
Damns  in  that  negative  syllable  his  soul.** 

20.  —  "  shute'^  the  French  word,  I  sup- 
pose, but  made  English,  and  thus  spelt. 

74.  "  These  are  too  fairly  promised  to  be 
meant.** 

75.  "  These  men*s  examples,  were  we  faint 
and  loath. 

Would  set  sharp  spurs  unto  our  slow -paced 

wrath. 
And  whet  our  dull  edged  anger.** 

91.  *^  Cruel,  yet  honest,  and  austerely 
good.** 


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94.  —  **  when  day  is  past, 

And  the  full  fancies  of  mortality 
Busy  in  dreams.** 

98.  —  to  "  ruinate." 

99.  —  **"  Blest  mortals,  had  that  mother 
Strangled  her  other  infant,  white-faced  day, 
And  brought  forth  only  night  1** 

106.  Bajazet,  in  his  dying  rant,  threat- 
ens to— 

**  Besiege  the  concave  of  this  universe. 
And  hunger-starve  the  gods.** 

107.  —  "  excorporate.** 

112.  **  Oh,  I  could  be  a  holy  Epicure 
In  tears  and  pleasing  sighs.** 

129.  "  Beauty  I  my  Lord, — *tb  the  worst 

part  of  woman, 
A  weak  poor  thing,  assaulted  every  hour 
By  creeping  minutes  of  defacing  time, 
A  superficies  which  each  breath  of  care 
Blasts  off;  and  every  humorous  stream  of 

grief 
Which  flows  from  forth  these  fountains  of 

our  eyes, 
Washeth  away — as  rain  dothwinter*s  snow.*'- 

There  is  much  beauty  in  the  rest  of  this 
speech  also. 

—  "and  in  ourselves,  yea,  in  our  own  true 

breasts. 
We  have  obedience,  duty,  careful  love.** 

132.  —  "  in  what  part  of  heaven 
ShaU  she  be  stellifiedr 

143.  One  who  personates  the  Ghost  of 
the  Father  says  to  the  Son — 

**  Know  all  the  torments  that  the  fabulous 

age 
Dream*d  did  afHict  deceased  impious  ghosts. 
Heart-biting  hunger,  and  soul-searching 

thirst. 
The  ne*er-consumed,  yet  ever-eaten  prey 
That  the  devouring  vulture  feeds  upon, 
Are  not  such  tortures  as  our  off8pring*8 

crimes : 


They,  they  sit  heavy  on  us,  and  no  date 
Makes  our  compassionate  affection  (afflic- 
tion P)  cease.** 

—  "  O  thou,  hereditary  ulcer.** 

146.  "  Think  you  my  mind  is  waxy,  to 
be  wrought  into  any  fashion  P** 


158.  "  No  sooner  shall  the  Ttfcian  (?) 
splendid  Sol 
Open  heaven*s  casements,  and  enlarge  the 
day.** 

160.  A  pretty  speech  of  a  princess  about 
to  be  given  in  marriage. 

167.  "  Bellonaand  Erynnes  scourge  us  om 
Should  wars  and  treasons  cease,  why  our 

own  weight 
Would  send  us  to  the  earth,  as  spreading 

arms 
Make  the  huge  trees  in  tempest  for  to 

split.*' 

—  *'  the  slaughterman  to  pasture  goes 
And  drags  that  oxe  home  first  whose  bulk 

is  greatest, 
The  lean  he  still  lets  feed.** 

173.  Amuratt  says,  when  the  sky  is  filled 
with  blazing  stars  and  comets, 

"  How  now,  ye  Heavens,  grow  you 
So  proud,  that  you  must  needs  put  on 

curPd  lodes. 
And  clothe  yourselves  in  periwigs  of  fire  ?** 

176.      **  The  Heavens  are  turned  court 
ladies. 
And  put  on  other  hair  besides  their  owo.** 

**  If  we  want  light,  we'll  from  our  Whin- 
yards 
Strike  fire  enough  to  scorch  the  Universe.** 

177. "  How  well  this  weight  of  steel  befits 
my  strength.** 

1 84  —  "  you  leave  the  earth 

Not  as  you  went,  but  by  compulsion 

dragg'd. 
Still  begging  for  a  morrow  from  your 

grave. 


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803 


And  with  such  shifts  you  do  deceiye  your- 

selves. 
As  if  you  could  deceive  mortality." 

"  Death  leads  the  willing  by  the  hand, 
But  spurs  the  headlong  on,  that  dare  com- 
mand.'* 

205.  ''  Electro,  Have  I  not  lost  a  father  P 
Yes,  yes,  and  would  a  river  of  fresh  tears 
Turn  Lethe's  stream,  and  bring  him  from 

the  wharf" 
With  a  north-gale  of  windy-blowing  sighs, 
I  could  expire  my  soul,  become  all  tears." 


208.  **  This  hand  shall  rip  her  breast. 
And  search  her  inpartt^  but  I'll  find  it 

out**     286. 

209.  ''  The  saddest  tale 
That  ever  burden'd  the  weak  jaws  of  man." 

223.  ^  Let  your  tongues  be  percullised  in 
your  jaws." 

225. ""  By  Heaven's  Parliament."  When 
was  this  written  ? 
229.  Person  used  for  part,  as  in  a  play. 

231.  "  This — O  what  thing's  enough 
To  be  an  attribute  to  term  her  by — 
The  Clytemnestra." 

232.  **  And  when  my  heart  was  tympan- 
ixed  with  grief, 

Thou  lavedst  out  some  into  thy  heart 

from  mine. 
And  keptst  it  so  from  bursting." 

250.  **  Murder-heap'd 

Corpse  upon  corpse,  as  if  they  meant  to  invite 
All  Hell  to  supper  on  some  jovial  night." 

When  Orestes  and  Pylades  are  about  to 
kill  each  other,  Orestes  says — 

^And  let  thy  r^>icr  drink  blood  greedily. 
As  if  it  loved  it,  cause  it  is  thy  friend. 


*  *'  Duller  shouM'st  thou  be,  than  the  fat  weed 
That  roots  itself  in  ease  on  Lethe's  wharf, 
Wouki'st  thou  not  stir  at  this." 

SUAKBSPEARK,  HamUt.—  J,  W.  W. 


Ply.  Why  then,  dear  friend,  I  thus  erect 

this  arm 
And  will  be  strong  to  thee,  as  thou  to 

me. 

262.  *^  Our  life  consists  of  air,  our  state 
of  wind, 
All  things  we  leave  behind  us,  which  we  find. 
Saving  our  faults." 

These  are  marvellous  plays  for  their  atro- 
cious horrors ;  one  wonders  that  a  scholar 
should  have  produced,  and  Oxford  encou- 
raged them.  But  the  author  was  not  want- 
ing in  parts  of  a  certain  kind. 


'SA^A^^^t^i^^^^^^^^/^k^^VV 


Hbbbick.' 


Phillips  says  of  Herrick  that  he  was  not 
"  particularly  influenced  by  any  nymph,  or 
goddess,  except  hb  maid  Pru.  That  which 
is  chiefly  pleasant  in  these  poems,  is  now 
and  then  a  pretty  flowery  and  pastoral  gale 
of  fancy ;  a  vernal  prospect  of  some  hill, 
cave,  rock,  or  fountain  ;  which,  but  for  the 
interruption  of  other  trivial  passages,  might 
have  made  up  none  of  the  worst  poetic 
landscapes." 

Of  all  our  poets  this  man  appears  to  have 
had  the  coarsest  mind.  Without  being  in- 
tentionally obscene,  he  is  thoroughly  filthy, 
and  has  not  the  slightest  sense  of  decency. 

'  *'  In  Herrick  the  southern  spirit  becomes 
again  the  spirit  of  the  antique.  In  the  very 
constitution  of  his  imaeinatiun  he  was  a  Greek 
— yet  he  sang  in  no  fa&etto  key — his  thoughts 
were  instinct  with  the  true  classical  spirit :  and 
it  was,  aa  it  were,  by  a  process  of  translation 
that  he  recast  them  in  English  words.  It  is 
to  this  circumstance  that  we  are  to  attribute 
his  occasional  license.  His  poetry  hardly  lay 
in  the  same  plane  with  the  conventional  part 
of  our  Protestant  morality :  but  his  genius 
never  stagnates  near  the  marsh.  In  his  poetry 
we — 

Recognize  that  Idyl  scene 

Where  all  mild  creatures  without  atce, 
Amid  field  flowers  and  pastures  green 

Fulfil  their  being's  gentle  law.'* 

R.  M.  MlLMBS. 

Ediub.  Rev.  Oct.  1849,  p.  414.— J.  W.  W. 


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In  an  old  writer,  and  especiallj  one  of 
that  age,  I  never  saw  so  large  a  proportion 
of  what  maj  truly  be  called  either  trash  or 
ordure. 

The  reprint  of  1825  (250  copies)  has 
in  the  title-page  a  wreath  with  the  motto 
perennis  et/rngrans.  A  stinking  cabbage- 
leaf  would  have  been  the  more  appropriate 
emblem.  This  is  a  mere  reprint,  which  has 
faithfully  followed  all  the  gross  blunders  of 
the  original. 

F.  8.  "  When  laurel  spirts  in  the  fire, 
and  when  the  hearth 
Smiles  to  itself,  andgilds  the  roof  with  mirth.*' 

60.  Farewell  to  sack — ^because  his  head 
cannot  bear  it. 

62.  False  teeth  used  in  his  time. 

70.  Some  unkind  usage  from  Williams^ 
then  Bishop  of  Lincoln. 

93.  May-day  customs. 

97.  Endymion  Porter,  his  friend  and 
**  chief  preserver." 

109.  Welcome  to  sack. 

Frequent  allusions  to  strawberries  d 
cream. 

Metre,  116,  137,  241,  247,  278. 

136.  Love  of  music. 

139.  Harvest-home. 

150.  To  Anthea. 

Hatred  of  Devonshire,  154,  201. 

156-8.  Slovenly  rhymes. 

165.  The  codpiece  served  for  a  pocket. 

177.  Christmas—"  The  full  twelve  holy- 
days." 

179.  "A  man  prepared  against  all  ills  to 
come, 
That  dares  to  death  the  fire  of  martyrdom." 

This  feeling  was  not  forgotten. 

204.  "  For  no  black-bearded  vigil  from 
thy  door 
Beat^  with  a  buttoned^  staff  the  poor. 


'  See  vol.  ii.  p.  22.  R.  S.    The  words  occur 
in  his  own  epitaph. 

"  So  I,  now  having  rid  my  way, 
Fix  here  my  button'd  stafle  and  stay,"  &c. 

J.  W.  W. 


But  from  thy  warm  love-hatching  gatei 

each  may 
Take  friendly  morsels,  and  there  stay 
To  sun  his  thin-clad  members,  if  he  lil 
For  thou  no  porter  keep*st  who  strikes. 

233.  Even  his  fairy  poems  are  fil 
Never  was  any  man*s  mind  more  thorou| 
unclean. 

243.  "  Thou  sent*st  to  me  a  true-loT 
knot ;  but  I 
ftetum'd  a  ring  of  jimmals,*  to  imply 
Thy  love  had  one  knot,  mine  a  triple  t; 

260.  Imitation  of  Ben  Johnson — ^w 
he  often  imitates. 

280.  To  his  Tomb-maker.  Certainb 
verses  are  not  in  accord  with  the  chart 
which  he  gives  himself  here. 

Vol.  2. 

10.  To  a  primrose. 

13.  "  If  so  be  a  toad  be  laid 
In  a  sheep-skin  newly  flaid. 
And  that  tied  to  man.    *Twill  sever 
Him  and  his  affections  ever." 

15.  Metre,  158,211. 

23.  The  Night  piece. 

30.  Abride's  household  duties  annou 
to  her.  Importance  of  spinning  in  dom 
economy. 

58.  The  bracelet. 

60.  His  return  to  London. 

66.  His  Grange. 

90.  Prue's  epitaph. 

92.  "  Wash  your  hand^,  or  else  the 
Will  not  tend  to  your  desire ; 
Unwasht  hands,  ye  maidens,  know 
Dead  the  fire,  though  ye  blow." 

122.  Charms. 

123-4.  Candlemass  ceremonies. 
169.  The  tears  to  Thamesis. 
171.  Twelfth  Night. 
185.  A  girPs  boai*ding-school  at  Pul 
The  mistress  he  calls  the  reverend  rect 

*  See  Nares'  Cloa.  in  v.  who  quotes 
passage. — J.  W.  W. 


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805 


His  Litany. 

The  Thanksgiving. 


^^  The  Jews  their  beds  and  ofEces  of 
.se 

north  and  south,  for  these  clear  pur- 
ees, 

an*s  uncomely  froth  might  not  molest 
rays  and  walks,  which  lie  still  east 
a  west." 

ick  has  noticed  more  old  customs 
gar  superstitions  than  any  other  of 
its,  and  this  is  almost  the  only  va- 
lis  verses.  I  question  whether  any 
oet  ever  thought  it  worth  while  to 
e  so  many  mere  scraps,  and  of  such 
Lsh. 

eems  to  have  been  a  man  of  coarse 
ial  temper,  who  was  probably  kept 
profession  from  any  scandalous 
d  may  have  shown  some  restraint 
fe,  though  there  is  so  very  little  in 
uage. 

s  is  not  any  other  of  our  old  poets 
little  deserves  the  reputation  which 
>btained. 

ick  is  the  coarsest  writer  of  his  age. 
I  Habington  may  deserve  to  be  called 
est.* 

»ibly,  Sonthey  has  been  somewhat  se- 
the  versesof  Herrick,— and  it  is  one  of 
r  few  instances  in  which  (on  such  a 
might  be  inclined  to  dififer  with  my 
1  father-in-law.  At  all  events,  like 
ne,  Herrick  was  ready  to  confess  his 
-as  ready,  perhaps,  as  Beza  or  Buchan- 
Hmskti,  wnose  early  verse  every  well  in- 
reader  may  call  to  mind.  Certainly 
'  early  years,  the  coarseness  of  Herrick 
ipon  the  tympanum,  but  I  cannot  forget 

lis  Prater  for  Absolution. 

those  my  unbaptized  rhymes, 
In  my  wdd  unhallowed  times ; 
rery  sentence,  clause,  or  word, 
s  not  inlaid  with  thee,  my  Lurd, 
re  me,  God,  and  blot  each  line 
f  my  book  that  is  not  thine. 
',  'mongst  all,  thou  find'st  here  one 
ly  thy  benediction, 
one  of  all  the  rest  shall  be 
lory  of  my  work  and  me." 

V..1.  ii.  p.  202. 


Sir  William  Denny. 

**  PsLECANiciuiuM,  or  the  Christian  Advi- 
ser against  self-murder,  together  with  a 
Guide,  and  the  Pilgrim's  Pass  to  the  Land 
of  the  Living."   1653. 

In  the  Prooeme  he  says,  "  ^line  ears  do 
tingle  to  hear  so  many  sad  relations,  as 
ever  since  March  last,  concerning  several 
persons  of  divers  rank  and  quality  inhabit- 
ing within  and  about  so  eminent  a  city,  as 
late-famed  London,  that  have  made  away 
and  murdered  themselves." 

"  The  Author  chose  rather  the  quickness 
of  verse,  than  more  prolix  prose  (with 
Gk>d*s  blessing  first  implored)  to  disenchant 
the  possessed;  following  divinely-inspired 
David's  example  to  quiet  Saul  with  the 
melody  of  his  harp." 

look, 


ti 


Not  on,  but  in  this  Thee-c.mcerning  book." 

P.  10.    Fade  for/ade. 

12.  A  notion  that  the  nightingale  sings  all 
night,  to  keep  herself  awake,  lest  the  slow- 
worm  should  devour  her. 

In  their  infancy  I  taught  my  children  the 
following 

"  Grace  for  a  Child. 

"  Here  a  little  child  I  stand, 

Heaving  up  my  either  hand : 

Cold  as  paddocks  though  they  be, 

Here  I  lift  them  up  to  thee, 

For  a  benizon  to  fall 

On  our  meat,  and  on  us  all.  Amen." 

Ibid.  p.  237. 

In  some  sense,  certainly,  his  Nohle  N umbers  Bre 
a  Palinodia,  and  there  we  find  him  at  his  own 
Confessional.  As  for  example,  with  the  Cross 
and  the  B«x)k-  of  Books  before  him  : — 

"  Thy  Crossn,  my  Christ,  fixt  'fore  mine  eyes 

sho'd  be. 
Not  to  adore  that,  but  to  worship  thee. 
So,  here  the  remnant  of  my  days  I'd  spend, 
Reading  Tht  Bible,  and  my  Book :  so  end." 

Ibid.  p.  249. 

He  had  learnt,  it  would  seem,  with  a  penitent 
and  contrite  heart  to  look  only  to 

God's  Blessing. 

"  In  vain  our  labours  are,  whatsoe- re  thoy  be. 
Unless  God  gives  the  Benedicite !  "—J.  VV.  W. 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


35.  In  the  Manudaction  to  the  Second 
Book,  he  supposes — "  thy  desperate  inten- 
tions are  diverted,  thy  fury  allayed,  and 
that  a  more  sober  temper  hath  reduced  thee 
to  better  inclinations  by  his  former  verse." 

36.  "  Taking  their  Q  from  his." 
Metre,  36,  104,  140,  286,  2d2,  293. 
45.  '' In  hiW  OT  hyme  r  ^ 

70.  "  Have  a  care  of  solitude,  if  thy 
thoughts  be  not  good  enough  to  keep  thee 
company." 

73.  *^  Tlie  diamond  casements  of  the 
sight." 

^*  That  innamorata  did  not  doubt  but 
continual  suit  would  mollify  his  mistress* 
heart,  who  presented  her  the  figure  of  his 
mind,  made  in  the  form  of  an  eye,  dropping 
tears  upon  a  heart,  with 

S(gpe  cadende*^ 

80.  "  Wax  tapers  burn  and  leave  sweet 
fume, 
While  candles  with  ill  scent  consume." 

Were  tapers  and  candles  thus  distin- 
guished at  that  time  ? 

92.  "  Sneezing  is  very  wholesome,  for 
it  agitateth  the  spirits  of  the  brain,  and  is 
very  good  against  paralytic  Infirmities." 

169.  "  And  apish  novelty  that  pleaseth 
men." 

173.  Ficqueiring  explained. 

202.  "Through  furzy  queaches  thou  must 
go. 

"  These  are  growths  of  furres  (surely 
furze)  so  thick  as  it  is  very  hard  to  enter 
into  them,  much  more  difficulty  is  it  to  get 
through." 

268.  The  basilisk  dies  if  he  hears  a  cock 
crow. 


Ckarlbs  Cotton,  in  Chalmers. 

712.    Hb   bargains    at    St.    Albans    for 
four  horses  which  take  his  carriage  to  the 


'  HymCy  Angvlui,     Brompt.  Pan?,  in  v.  See 
Albert  Way's  note.     It  is  pure  Anglo-Saxon. 

J.  W.  W. 


Peak  in  four  days  for  £9.     The 
would  have  been  only  three  apparei 
for  hindrances  on  the  road. 

723.  Ale— 

"  What,  must  it  be  purl'd  f      No,  j 
best  plain." 

He  gives  sixpence  a  bottle  for  this  i 
best  Cheshire  hum, 

725.  His  breakfast  is — 
—  "a  draught  of  ale,  sugar  and  s 


Beaumont  and  Fletcheb, 

1633.  "  On  Twelfth  Night  the 
feasted  the  King  at  Somerset  Hoi 
presented  him  with  a  Play,  newly  i 
long  since  printed,  the  *  Faithful 
herdess,"  which  the  King's  Players  i 
the  Robes  she  and  her  Ladies  act< 
Pastoral  in  the  last  year." —  Stb 
Letters,  vol.  1,  p.  177.     Gabbabd. 

Dryden's  praise  of  Beaumont  an 
cher's  "  Essay  of  Dramatic  Poesy,' 
Plays,  vol.  1. 

Addison  took  his  Vellum  from  a 
ter  in  the  "  Scornful  Lady,"  (Beanm 
Fletcher,  vol.  1,  p.  294,  N.),  and  a  s 
the  "School  for  Scandal"  has  its 
hint  in  the  same  play. 

"  My  head  is  bn 
With  a  parenthesis  in  ev^y  corn 

Cibber'a  blunder ;  good  as  M( 
Kelly's  "  Philip  vows  aside." — Setc\ 
SympsotCs  Edition,  vol.  2,-  p.  129. 

**  —  this  same  Prologue  usual  to 
Is  tied  to  such  an  old  form  of  petiti 
Men  must  say  nothing  now  beyond  c 
sion. 


•  Common  as  the  name  is,  I  beliere 
mologv  is  unknown.    Gkosb  explains 
in  wnich  wormwood  has  been  mfosed 
and  bitters  drunk  warm."  —  Diet,  of 
Tongue.     It  probably  refers  to  the  ou 
fluids  when  mixed.— J.  W.  W. 


».- 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


807 


The  cloaks  we  wear,  the  legs  we  make,  the 

place 
We  stand  in,  must  be  one ;  and  one  the  face, 
Nor  altered,  nor  exceeded ;  if  it  be, 
A  general  -biss  hangs  on  our  levity."* 

P.  to  the  Hum,  Lieutenant, 

"  The  King's  vice^  (?) 
The  siirs  as  universal  as  the  sun  is. 
And  lights  an  everlasting  torch  to  shame 
me."  Ibid.  p.  62. 

With  all  the  grossness  of  these  plajs, 
thej  are  much  above  the  dramas  of  Dry- 
den's  age  in  their  tone  of  morals,  as  of  lan- 
guage. How  would  this  passage  for  exam- 
ple, liave  been  endured  by  Charles  the 
Second's  court  P 

Li  the  ^^  Faithful  Shepherdess,"  rhymes 
are  occasionally  (but  rarely)  introduced, — 
as  by  Daniel. 

Vol.  3, 

P.  127.  ANOTQBBgood  blundering  emen- 
dation. 

^^  RamuTis  branches 
Which  stuck  in  entries,  or  about  the  bar 
That  holds  the  door,  kill  all  enchantments." 

The  joint  editors  agree  in  reading  Ram- 
son's — ^the  wild  garlic  (ramps),  as  if  gai'lic 
were  a  tree.  The  word  is  Rowan  sans 
doubt. 

*^  Three  hours  of  precious  time ! " 

EpiU^ue  to  the  Loyal  Subject, 

This  then  the  time  of  performance. 

In  the  Prologue  to  "  Rule  a  Wife,"  &c. 
the  ladies  are  desired,  if  the  poet  should 

"  Slip  aside 
Sometimes  lasciviously,  if  not  too  wide," 

to 

"  —  hold  their  fans  close,  and  then  smile 
at  ease." 

Dyce  printed  **  Demetrius  and  Enanthe," 

*  The  old  reading," device,"  is,  no  doubt,  the 
true  one;  that  is,  his  "  eDsign  armorial,"  as 
^lawm  explains  it.  The  passage  occurs  in 
Activ.  Sc.  ii.-J.  W.W. 


by  Fletcher. — 245.  Russell  SMrru's  Cat. 
2«.     1830. 

Prologue  to  the  Chancer, 

—  "  Ingenious  Fletcher  made  it,  he 
Being  in  himself  a  perfect  comedy ;  * 
And  some  sit  here,  I  doubt  not,  dare  aver 
Living  he  made  that  house  a  theatre 
W^hich  he  pleased  to  frequent." 

Ibid. 

"  Wb  do  entreat  that  you  would  not 
Expect  strange  turns  and  windings  in  the 

plot: 
Objects  of  state,  and  now  and  then  a  rhyme. 
To  gall  particular  persons  with  the  time." 

Chances^  p.  73. 

"  By  Britain,  Metheglin  and  Peeter^^ 

This,  which  puzzles  the  commentators, 
may  perhaps  be  the  Peterman, — strong  beer 
of  Louvain. 

Bloody  Brother.  118.     Some  couplets. 

Is  the  W^ife  for  a  Month  by  Beaimiont 
and  Fletcher?  for  the  Prologue  says,  "  Our 
noble  friend  who  writ  this." 

It  appears  by  the  Prologue  that  the 
Lover's  Progress  is  not  printed  as  Fletcher 
left  it. 

Lover's  Progress,  p.  397.  A  woman  is 
called  "  a  good  fellow." 

A  few  rhymes  in  Boadicea,  and  in  the 
Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle. 

The  Prologue  to  the  Knight  of  the  Burn- 
ing Pestle  is  in  imitation  of  the  Euphues 
style,  probably  in  ridicule  of  it,  though  not 
likely  so  to  be  understood. 

Sympson  must  have  been  a  very  dull  man 
to  have  supposed  that  there  was  anything 
malicious  in  the  comic  imitations  of  Spenser 
in  this  play. 

Vol.  7,  p.  239.  Maid  in  the  Mill.  An 
egregiously  absurd  note  upon  the  word 
mother,  Theobald's  emendation  being  evi- 
dently right. 

'  Dyce  supposes  it  to  be  a  corruption  of  Pedro 
Simon.  See  note  in  loc.  Act  iv.  So  iii.  Vol.  7, 
p.  297.-J.  W.  W. 


308 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


Vol.  9.  Prologue  to  the  Coronation. 
**  A  WOMAN,  once,  in  a  Coronation,  may 
With  pardon  speak  the  Prologue,  give  as 

free 
A  welcome  to  the  theatre,  as  he 
That  with  a  little  beard,  a  long  black  cloak, 
With  a  starch'd  face  and  supple  leg,  hath 

spoke 
Before  the  play  the  twelve  month/* 

P.  99.  "  You  must  not  look  for  down  beds 

here. 
Yet  there  be  many  lightsome  cool  Star 

chambers, 
Open  to  every  sweet  air." — Sea  Voyage, 

Vol.  10. 

P.  81.  Two  lines  which  are  used  as  an 
epitaph  in  country  churchyards : 

"  The  world's  a  city  full  of  straying  streets. 
And  death's  the  market-place  where  each 


one  meets. 

129.  **  The  most  remarkable  point  in 
which  kings  differ 
From  private  men,  is,  that  they  not  alone 
Stand  bound  to  be  in  themselves  innocent, 
But  that  all  such  as  are  allied  to  them 
In  nearness  or  dependence,  by  their  care 
Should  be  free  from  suspicion  of  all  crime." 

Thierry  and  Theodoret. 

The  stage  read  wholesome  lectures  to 
kings,  even  in  days  of  arbitrary  principles. 

365.  Beaumont's  letters  to  Ben  Jonson, 
from  the  country. 

Gifford,  for  the  sake  of  extolling  the  Sad 
Shepherd,  abuses  the  Faithful  Shepherdess.^ 
— B.  J.  vol.  6,  p.  306. 

WaUer, 

Maboarbt  Fox  writes  thus  to  Waller : 

"  London,  25th  of  4th  Month,  1698. 
**  Dear  Friend, 

^*  I  should  have  been  glad  to  have  seen 


'  There  were  three  works  in  my  younger  days 
I  used  to  sigh  for  the  completion  of : — Ae  Fatii 
of  Ovid,  the  Story  of  Cambuscan  Holdy  and  The 
Faithful  Shepherr.eu.-J.  W.  W. 


thee  before  I  had  returned  to  my  o 
habitation ;  understanding  that  the 
made  choice  of  that  blessed  truth  1 
bear  T^^itness  to,  I  cannot  but  say,  it 
that  thou  hast  chosen  the  better  part 
if  thou  abide  in  and  obey,  it  will  n« 
taken  from  thee.  I  perceive  by  so 
ters  from  thee,  which  I  have  hear 
that  there  is  a  work  of  God  begun 
inward  man,  where  He  works  in  hid 
the  new  creation  in  Christ  Jesus,  n 
unto  righteousness,  holiness,  and  pui 
A  brief  Collection  of  remarkable  J 
and  Occurrences  relating  to  the  Birti 
cation^  Life^  Conversion,  Travels,  S 
and  Sufferings  of  that  ancient,  emim 
faithful  Servant  of  the  Lord,  Margm 
but  by  her  second  Marriage  Margar 
1710,  8vo.  p.  532. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^s^ 


Samuel  Bishop,  Poetical  Works, 

P.  xvii.  TowNLET,  under  master 
Taylor's,  when  Bishop  was  on  the 
form,  was  the  author  of  **  High  Lift 
Stairs."  Garrick  had  so  high  an  opi 
him,  that  he  submitted  all  his  own  w 
his  correction. 

xxiii.  Woodward,  a  schoolfellow 
shop's,  and  assisted  by  him  in  con 
**  the  Seasons,"  which  was  designed 
stage,  and  to  have  been  exhibited  in 
of  splendour  at  that  time  unexi 
Woodward  had  two  favourite  projec 
was,  to  bring  out  this  superb  pantc 
and  the  other  to  introduce  his  blai 
vant,  whom  he  had  instructed,  with 
pains,  to  play  Othello.  He  was  disap] 
in  both. 

xxvi.  A  perfect  slave  to  the  8cho< 
the  election  day  he  generally  supplie< 
100  compositions. 

xxvii.  Warren,  Bishop  of  Bang 
patron 

8.  "  Ofl  Fancy,  prompted  by  con 
To  urge  an  half-form'd  tear  be 

And  Hope,  that  made  her  bosom 
Finish'd  the  pearl,  and  down  il 


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309 


t« 


»i 


This  reminds  me  of  poor  Trauma*8 '  tear 
in  bis  poem : 

"  Then  from  its  diamond  sluice  o*er  rubies 

ran. 
That  deck  the  fair  one*s  cheek,  and  as  it  fell, 
Mj  napkin  caught  the  dear  delicious  pearl. 

138.  ^^  Bland  Hospitality  her  happiest 
sway 
To  Sunday  owes ;  for  Sunday  is  her  daj. 

146.  "  Let  there  be  light,"  one  only  voice 
could  say, 
\\Tien  Nature  first  beheld  emerging  day ; 
But  what  light  m,  must  all  unknown  remain. 
Till  the  same  Voice,  with  equal  power,  again 
Bid  intellectual  light  more  strongly  rise. 
And  God*«  whole  glory  beam  on  human  eyes." 

204.  "  Kick  up  a  Ten -toe  trot,  and  ride 
on  Shanks*s  mare." 
216.  An  old  song  of  the  Man  in  the  Moon, 

"  Which  tells  us  how  he  swills  his  claret, 
And  feasts  on  powdered  beef  and  carret." 

229.  Some  frivolous  gentry  of  the  present 
day 
In  alphabetic  buchles  shine  away." 

I  remember  some  like  an  M  about  1788 
or  1790. 

229.  "  Your  children  living,  and  your 

grandsires  dead. 
Loved  while  they  thumbed,  and  tasted  as 

they  read, 
The  Hombook*s  best  edition.  Gingerbread." 

Vol.  2. 

P.  122.  *^  A  CHAMBER,  trim  as  trim  can  be, 
A  bed,  snugg,  with  a  double  G."  ?? 

129.  *^  One  semblance  more  of  me,  God 
knows. 
The  Broomstick,  too  exactly,  shows ; 
By  bands,  long!  long!  perhaps  to  last, 
*Tis,  like  myself,  to  Birch  bound  fast. 
And  shall  things  ever  thus  remain  ? 
Tis  fair  to  hope,  though  not  complain. 
I  bear  meanwhile  what  must  be  borne ; 
And  when  to  a  mere  stump  Pm  worn, 

'  James  Jennings  is  ibc  authur  here  alluded 
to.-J.  W.  W. 


Let  this  eulogium  on  my  tomb  stick, 
*"  Here  lies  the  model  of  a  Broomstick.* 

Corrige  iodes, 

246.  "  Hail !  great  reformer  of  men*8 
shoes! 
Thou  Fashion,  who  with  silken  noose 

So  daintily  dost  provide  *em ! 
Were  Wisdom's  self  ten  times  as  wise, 
She  could  add  nothing  to  shoe-ties. 

Save  petticoats  to  hide  *em." 

271.  "  Youth  has  unruliness,  and  age  un- 
rest." 

The  only  modern  author  in  whom  I  have 
observed  this  word. 

387.  The  last  in  the  book,  and  one  of  the 
last  which  he  composed,  **  he  considered  as 
descriptive  of  his  own  situation  in  the  school." 

"  Genius,  too  oft,  beneath  Adversity's  frown. 
Drudges,  laborious ;  vigorous,  yet  kept 

down: 
Never  advanced,  though  never  at  a  stay ; 
Keeps  on,  perhaps  shines  on,  but  makes  no 

way! 
So  fares  the  mettled  steed,  in  harness  bound, 
To  drag  some  ponderous  engine  round  and 

round. 
His  toil  is  generous  effort ;  but  'tis  still 
Strength,  perseverance,  progress — ^in  a  mill." 

I  know  no  other  poet  who  crowds  so  many 
syllables  into  a  verse.  How  his  ear  could 
allow  of  this,  I  know  not.  His  domestic 
poems  breathe  a  Dutch  spirit,— by  which  I 
mean  a  very  amiable  and  happy  feeling  of 
domestic  duties  and  enjoyments. 


^v\^^«^^^^^^^^«^^^^^v^^^ 


Prior. 

Queen  Anne  "  doubts  whether  Mr.  Prior's 
birth  will  entitle  him  to  the  office  of  envoy, 
but  will  give  him  any  other  situation  that 
Lord  Oxford  shall  reconunend." — LanS' 
downe  MSS.  No.  1236,  146. 

Sfmrpe's  Edition. 

P.  29.  "  With  fancied  rules  and  arbitrary 
laws, 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


Matter  and  motion  he  restrains, 
And  studied  lines  and  fictious  circles 
draws, 

Then  with  imagined  sovereignty 
Lord  of  his  new  hypothesis  he  reigns." 

44.  Asgill. 
50.  Horace 

**  Snatched  their  fair  actions  from  degrading 

prose, 
And  set  their  battles  in  eternal  light.'* 

98.  De-  Witted. ,  Here  b  this  wicked  word. 


Speiuer. 

Unfinished  parts,— or  rather,  indica- 
tions of  what  the  remaining  books  were  to 
contain. 

Fradubio  and  Freslissa.    B.  1,  c.  2,  xliii. 

"  We  may  not  change,  quoth  he,  this  evil 

plight, 
Till  we  be  bathed  in  a  living  well." 

Final  action  of  the  poem.  B.  L  c.  1 1,  vii. 

**  Fair  Goddess,  lay  that  furious  fit  aside. 
Till  I  of  wars  and  bloody  l^Iars  do  sing. 
And  Briton  fields  with  Sarazin  blood  be- 

dide, 
*Twixt  that  great  Faery  Queen  and  Paynim 

king, 
That  with  their  horror  heaven  and  earth  did 


ring 


«« 


Though  he  very  rarely  carries  on  the  sen- 
tence from  one  stanza  to  another,  he  seems 
fond  of  carrying  on  the  sound,  and  continu- 
ing the  rhyme,  or  at  least  repeating  the  word 
at  the  beginning  of  one  stanza  with  which 
the  last  ended.  Some  link  of  allusion  or  of 
sound  he  evidently  liked  to  introduce. 

Guyon  was  one  who 

— **  knighthood  took  of  good  Sir  Huongs 
hand. 
When  with  king  Oberon  he  came  to  Faery 
Land."  2,  1,  vi. 

Spenser*s  feeling  concerning  suicide.    2, 
1,  Iviii. 
Concerning  burial.  2,  1,  Iviii.   1,  10,  xlli. 


Sansjoy  b  a  person  who  must  have 
intended  to  be  brought  forward  agaii 

If  the  allegorical  names  were  alwi 
happy  as  in  the  instances  of  Una  ani 
essa,  the  effect  would  be  altogether  so. 
they  are  good  in  themselves,  and  the; 
nificance  not  too  apparent. 

Sir  Hudibras.  2,  2,  xvii. 

2,  3,  xzvi.  A  hemistich  in  the  las 
2,  8,  Iv. 

2,  4,  xli.  A  line  of  twelve  syllables 
penultimate. 

3,  4,  xxxix.  Hemistich,  seventh  lie 

**  As  Arthegall  and  Sophy  now  been 
noured."  2,  9, 

Arthegall.  3,  3,  xxvli. 
B.  3,  c.  2,  St.  iv.  An  oversight^ — ( 
instead  of  the  Red  Cross  Knight. 

"  Achilles*  arms  which  Arthegall  did 

3,  2,  X 

In  the  Bernardo  of  Bernardo  de  Bi 
na,  the  hero  wins  the  armour  of  Ac 
C.  9. 

Angela,  the  martial  queen  of  die  A 
whose  armour  Britomart  wears.  3,  • 

•  •  •• 

Vl.-VlU. 

B.  3.  An  oversight  concerning  Flo 
c.  1 .  Prince  Arthur,  Guyon,  and  Brit 
see  her  flying  from  the  Foster,  follow 
and  separate.  Britomart  passes  the 
in  Malecasta  Castle,  proceeds  on  hei 
and  encounters  and  wounds  Marinel 
And,  c.  5,  Prince  Arthur  meets  her  < 
who  tells  him  that  she  had  left  the  Co 
consequence  of  MarinePs  wound. 

In  the  Ruins  of  Time,  he  speaks  • 
Paradise 

—  **  which  Merlin  by  his  magic  si 
Made  for  the  gentle  Squire  to  entert 
His  fair  Belphoebe.**  52! 

"  OuB  posterity  within  few  yeai 
hardly  understand  some  passages  i 
Faery  Queen,  or  in  Mother  Hubbar 
other  talcs  in  Chaucer,  better  known 
day  to  old  courtiers  than  to  young  stud 
— Jackson,  3,  746. 

Pasquicr  had  the  same  notion  tha 


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dels  were  as  unfixed  as  they  had  been  be- 
fore his  time. 

Kbnt  is  said  to  have  frequently  declared 
"  that  he  caught  his  taste  in  gardening  from 
reading  the  picturesque  descriptions  of 
Spenser.  However  this  may  be,  the  designs 
which  he  made  for  the  works  of  that  poet, 
are  an  Incontestable  proof  that  they  had  no 
effect  upon  his  executive  povrers  as  a  pain- 
ter.— Notes  to  MasoTis  English  Oarden^  vol. 
i.  p.  395. 

Nor  on  his  imaginative^  Mr.  Burgh  might 
have  added. 

I  think  the  versification  of  the  Protha- 
lamioo  an  Epith.  was  formed  upon  some  of 
Bernardo  Tasso*s  Canzoni.  See  vol.  i.  p. 
dJ,  118. 

Mother  Hubbard's  Tale  was  published 
separately  in  12mo.  1784,  "with  the  obso- 
lete words  explained." 

"  Dn  hem  in  zijn  luister  zien  wil,  leze 
slechta  zijn  eigen  bruilofsdicht;  het  geen 
alle  my  bekende  epithalamien  overtreft." — 
Bnj>BBDiGK.  Notes  to  his  Essay  on  Tragedy, 
p.  173. 

FopB  says,  "  After  my  reading  a  canto  of 
Spenser,  two  or  three  days  ago,  to  an  old 
lady  between  seventy  and  eighty,  she  said 
that  I  had  been  showing  her  a  collection  of 
pictures.  She  said  very  right.  And  I  know 
not  how  it  is,  but  there  is  something  in 
Spenser  that  pleases  one  as  strongly  in  one*s 
old  age  aa  it  did  in  one*s  youth.  I  read 
the  Faery  Queen  when  I  was  about  twelve, 
with  a  vast  deal  of  delight ;  and  I  think  it 
gave  me  as  much  when  I  read  it  over  about 
a  year  or  two  ago." — Spencb*8  Anecdotes,  p. 
86. 

Bjxdsbdiok  (ut  supra,  174)  says,  "  Em- 
blemata  en  Allegorien  waren  eeuwen  lang 
t'  troetclkind  onzer  Natien.  Ik  sta  toe  dat 
beide  nuttig  zijn,  en  hare  verdienste  en 
scboonheden  hebben ;  maar  zy  toonen  de 
eeuw  van  scherpzinnighcid,  niet  van  het 
Dichterlijk  gevoel,  en  dus,  niet  die  der 
Poezy.- 


"  Spenser  (Sib  Egebton  Brtdges  says) 
gave  rise  to  no  school  of  imitators, — unless 
we  attribute  to  his  example  the  translations 
of  Ariosto  and  Tasso  by  Harrington  and 
Fairfax." 

His  peculiar  language  was  the  probable 
cause.  But  no  poet  has  produced  more  ef- 
fect in  kindling  others. 

"  The  literary  characters  of  men  of  infe- 
rior genius  are  made  by  the  character  of  the 
age  in  which  they  live ;  and  the  main  fea- 
tures of  their  writings  ai*e  entirely  of  that 
artificial  form  :  but  master  minds*  impose 
their  own  shapes  and  colours  upon  their 
compositions,  which,  if  tinged  with  any  marks 
of  theu*  age,  only  betray  them  in  subordi- 
nate parts.  If  Spenser^s  designs  and  cha- 
racters took  the  costume  of  days  of  dii- 
valry,  the  prima  stamina  of  his  poem,  his 
main  thoughts  and  language  are  founded  on 
the  truths  of  universal  nature." — Sih  E. 
Brtbgbs,  Theat,  Poet.  p.  34. 

Beagoadochio  is  to  be  found  in  Gyron 
le  Courtoys,  and  I  think  also  in  "  Peele's 
Old  Wives'  Tale ;"  but  certcs  in  Gyron. 

Stmpson  concludes  his  notes  on  B.  and  F. 
by  saying,  '*  This  is  my  first  essay  in  criti- 
cism, and  its  good  or  ill  success  will  either 
encourage  me  in,  or  deter  me  from  prose- 
cuting an  edition  of  Spenser,  toward  which 
I  have  these  several  years  been  collecting 
materials.  And  as  I  wish  to  see  a  good  edi- 
tion of  that  fine  poet,  so  I  would  invite  all 
the  learned  and  ingenious  part  of  the  world 
to  contribute  their  assistance  toward  the  ef- 
fecting of  it.  For  I  am  persuaded,  that 
Spenser  will  make  a  figure  no  way  inferior 
to  the  best  Greek  or  Roman  writers,  when 
published  like  them,  cum  notis  variorum'^ 

Pageants  and  court  masques  accustomed 
the  |>eople  to  such  personifications  as  Spen- 
ser's. 

Lord  Chatham's  sister,  Mrs.  Anne  Pitt, 
^*  used  often  in  her  altercations  with  him  to 
say,  *  that  he  knew  nothing  whatever,  ex- 
cept Spenser's  F.  Queen.'     And  no  matter. 


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says  Burke,  how  that  was  said,  for  whoever 
relishes  and  reads  Spenser,  as  he  owght  to 
be  read,  will  have  a  strong  hold  of  the  Eng- 
lish language."  —  Habdt's  Life  of  Lord 
CharlemoiU^  vol.  ii.  p.  286. 

Sib  K.  Diobt  published  Observations  on 
the  twenty -second  stanza  in  the  ninth  canto 
of  the  second  book  of  Spenser's  F.  Queen. 
1644. 

"  Ip  it  were  put  to  the  question  of  the 
Water  Rhymer's  works  against  Spenser's,  I 
doubt  not  but  they  would  find  more  suf- 
frages ;  because  the  most  favour  common 
vices,  out  of  a  prerogative  the  vulgar  have 
to  lose  their  judgments,  and  like  that  which 
is  naught." — B.  Jomson,  Discoveries,  vol.  ix. 
p.  174. 

1780.  "Johnson  told  me  he  had  been 
with  the  king  that  morning,  who  enjoined 
him  to  add  Spenser  to  his  lives  of  the  poets. 
I  seconded  the  motion.  He  promised  to 
think  of  it,  but  said  the  booksellers  had  not 
included  him  in  their  list  of  the  poets." — 
Hannah  Mobe,  vol.  i.  p.  175. 

1759.  Two  editions  of  the  Faery  Queen,* 
published  by  Upton  and  Church. — Monthly 
Review,  vol.  xx.  p.  566-7. 

Ditto,  vol.  XXX.  p.  33.  Spenser  blas- 
phemed by  Michael  WodhuU  and  his  re- 
viewers. 

Ditto,  vol.  xliii.  p.  306. "  The  Faery  Queen 
is  frequently  laid  down  almost  as  soon  aa  it 
is  t4iken  up  !  because  it  abounds  with  loath- 
some passages ! " 

Ditto,  vol.  xliv.  p.  265.  The  tiresome  uni- 
formity of  his  measure ! 

Ditto,  vol.  lii.  p.  111.  Specimen  of  the 
Faery  Queen  in  blank  verse,  canto  1,  1774. 
See  the  Review. 

Ditto,  vol.  Ix.  p.  324.  Prince  Arthur,  an 
allegorical  romance.  The  story  from  Spen- 
ser. 2  vols.  1778.  (prose.) 

When  Hobace  Wali»ole  was  planning  a 
bower  at  Strawberry  Hill,  he  said,  "  I  am 


almost  afraid  I  must  go  and  read 
and  wade  through  his  allegories  ai 
ing  stanzas,  to  get  at  a  picture, 
vol.  iii.  p.  25. 


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May. 

1633.  "On  Monday  after CandU 
the  gentlemen  of  the  inns  of  court  p 
their  masque  at  court :  they  wer 
in  number,  who  rode  through  the  i 
four  chariots,  and  twb  others  to  cf 
pages  and  musicians,  attended  by 
dred  gentlemen  on  great  horses,  as 
as  ever  I  saw  any.  They  far  ex< 
bravery  any  masque  that  had  form 
presented  by  those  societies,  and  p 
the  dancing  part  with  much  appla 
their  company  there  was  one  Mr. 
Gray's  Inn,  whom  all  the  women 
men  cried  up  for  as  handsome  a  m 
Duke  of  Buckingham.  They  were 
at  court  by  the  king  and  queen,  r 
given  them,  only  this  one  accidei 
Mr.  May  of  Gray's  Inn,  a  fine  poe 
translated  Lucan,  came  athwart 
chamberlain  in  the  banquetting  h' 
he  broke  his  staff  over  his  shoul 
knowing  who  he  was :  the  king  pre 
knew  him,  for  he  calls  him  his  poet 
the  chamberlain  of  it,  who  sent  foi 
next  morning,  and  fairly  excuse 
to  him,  and  gave  him  fifty  pounds 
I  believe  he  was  the  more  indulge 
name's  sake." — Gebbabd,  Siraffbt 
vol.  i.  p.  207. 

RiCHABDSON. 

Pambla.  "  I  know  not,"  says  La 
Montagu  (vol.  iv.  p.l  12),  "under' 
stellation  that  foolish  stuff  was  wi 
it  has  been  translated  into  more  1 
than  any  modem  performance  I  e 
of!"  And  she  proceeds  to  relate 
able  example  of  its  influence  in  II 

Apology  for  the  life  of  Mrs. 
Andrews,  in  which  the  many  fals 
a  book  culled  Pamela  are  exposed 


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Johnson^s  character  of  him. — Crokbr*8 
Boswell,  vol.  iii.  p.  9L 

^'  I SECOLLECT  an  anecdote  (says  Sia  John 
IIeeschel,  in  the  opening  address  to  the  sub- 
scribers to  the  Windsor  and  Eton  public 
library,  of  which  the  learned  knight  is  pre- 
sident) told  me  by  a  late  highly  respected 
inhabitant  of  Windsor,  as  a  fact  which  he 
could  personally  testify,  having  occurred  in 
a  village  where  he  resided  several  years,  and 
where  he  actually  was  at  the  time  it  took 
place.  The  blacksmith  of  the  village  had 
got  hold  of  Richardson*s  novel  of  ^  Pamela, 
or  Virtue  Rewarded,*  and  used  to  read  it 
aloud  in  the  long  summer  evenings,  seated 
on  his  anvil,  and  never  failed  to  have  a  large 
and  attentive  audience.  It  is  a  pretty  long- 
winded  book ;  but  their  patience  was  fully 
a  match  for  the  author's  prolixity,  and  they 
fairly  listened  to  it  all.  At  length,  when 
the  happy  turn  of  fortune  arrived  which 
brings  the  hero  and  heroine  together,  and 
sets  them  living  long  and  happily,  according 
to  the  most  approved  rules,  the  congrega- 
tion were  so  delighted  as  to  raise  a  great 
ihout,  and,  procuring  the  church  keys,  ac- 
tually set  the  parbh  bells  a  ringing." 

Tbe  Card,  2  vols.  1755.  Motdhly  Review^ 
No.  xii.  1755,  p.  117,  a  satire  upon  Rich- 
ardson chiefly. 

The  History  of  Sir  Charles  Grandison, 
ipiritualised  in  part,  a  Vision;  with  Reflex- 
ions thereon,  by  Theophila.  —  Ibid.  Sept. 
No.  Ix.  vol.  xxiii.  p.  255. 

Brooke  in  his  Juliet  Grenville,  says  of 
Pamela  and  its  title :  "  Can  virtue  be  re- 
warded by  being  united  to  vice  ?  Her  mas- 
ter was  a  ravisher,  a  tyrant,  a  dissolute,  a 
barbarian  in  manners  and  principle.  *  I 
admit  it,*  the  author  may  say;  'but  then  he 
was  superior  in  riches  and  station.*  In- 
deed, Mr.  R.  never  fails  in  due  respect  to 
such  matters ;  he  always  gives  the  full  value 
to  title  and  fortune.** — Ibid.  No.  1.  p.  19. 

Brooke  blames  him  for  "  undressing  the 


sex. 


M 


*'  RiCHARD80M*8  works  are  more  admired 
by  the  French  than  among  us.  To  the  ge- 
nerality of  readers,  if  characters  are  ever 
so  naturally  drawn,  they  will  not  appear  to 
be  so,  if  they  are  improperly  drest.  Fo- 
reigners, who  are  not  acquainted  with  our 
language  and  our  customs,  are  unprejudiced 
by  Richard6on*s  defect  in  expression  and 
manners,  which  are  so  very  striking  to  our- 
selves as  to  conceal  much  of  his  very  great 
merit  in  other  respects.** — Mas.  Carter  to 
Mrs.  M.  vol.  ii.  p.  322. 

Beattis  allows  that  many  parts  in  the 
first  volumes  of  Clarissa,  which  seem  wea- 
risome, and  he  had  almost  said  nauseating 
repetitions,  might  possibly  please,  upon  a 
second  or  third  reading,  when  we  are  ac- 
quainted with  all  the  characters  and  all  the 
particulars  of  the  story.  But  few,  he  says, 
can  afibrd  leisure  for  this. — Life  of  Beat- 
tis, vol.  i.  p.  29. 

H.  Walpole  stopped  at  the  fourth  vol. 
of  Sir  Charles  Grandison.  **I  was  so  tired 
of  sets  of  people  getting  together,  and  say- 
ing, *Pray,miss,  with  whom  are  you  in  love?* 
and  of  mighty  good  young  men,  that  convert 
your  Mr.  M s  in  the  twinkling  of  a  ser- 
mon.**— Letters^  vol.  i.  p.  322. 

Ibid,  vol.  ii.  p.  100.  The  town  called  a 
child  of  Mrs.  Fitzroy*s,  at  whose  house  the 
great  loo  parties  were  held,  Pcim-ela. 

The  natural  of  modern  novel,  H.Walpole 
said,  was  a  kind  of  writing  which  Richard- 
son had  made  to  him  intolerable. — Ibid, 
vol.  iii.  p.  27. 

**Nou8  en  avons  un  modele  prodigieux 
dans  le  roman  Anglais  de  Clarisse,  ouvrage 
qui  fourmille  de  genie ;  tons  les  person- 
nages  qu*on  y  sait  parler  ou  ccrire,  ont  leur 
style  et  leur  langage  d*eux,  qui  ne  ressem- 
blent  nullement  aux  autrcs.  Cette  difl<Sr- 
ence  est  observ^e  jusque  dans  les  nuances 
les  plus  fines,  les  plus  dclicates,  les  plus  im- 
perceptibles ;  c*e8t  un  prodige  continuel  aux 
yeux  du  connaisseur ;  aussi  Clarisse  est 
peiit-ctre  Touvrage  le  plus  surprenant  qui 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


soit  jamais  sorti  des  mains  d^hommes,  et  il 
n*est  pas  6tonnant  que  ce  roman  n^ait  eu 
qu*un  succ^  m^iocre.  Le  vrai  sublime 
n*est  fait  que  pour  Stre  senti  de  quelques 
ftmes  privildgices ;  il  ^chappe  aux  yeux  de 
la  multitude,  s*il  ne  lui  est  indiqu^  ou 
transmis  par  tradition.** — Grimm,  Corres- 
pondance  Littiraire,  torn.  i.  p.  14. 


Randoiph. 

Stobt  of  a  plagiarism  from  him.  Ladj 
M.  W.  Montagu.  4.  194. 

P.  37.  '*  Live  well,  and  then  how  soon  so- 
e*er  thou  die, 
Thou  art  of  age  to  claim  etemitj.** 

91.  —  "yonder  man  of  wood  that  stands 
To  bound  the  limits  of  the  parish  lands.** 

His  brother  Robert,  noticing  his  origin- 
ality, says, 

"  Here  are  no  remnants  tortured  into  rime, 
To  gull  the  reeling  judgement  of  the  time ; 
Nor  any  state  reversions  patch  thy  writ, 
Glean*d  from  the  rags  and  frippery  of  wit.** 

4. "  Thou  several  artists  dost  employ  to 

show 
The  measure  of  thy  lands,  that  thou  mayst 

know 
How  much  of  earth  thou  hast ;  while  I  do 

caU 
My  thoughts  to  scan  how  little  *tis  in  all.** 

22.  Bulls*  guts  must  bend  their  bows. 

—  "intendunt  taurino  viscere  nervos.** 

Claudian. 
Was  it  so  ? 

42.  "  Hath  Madam  Devers  dispossest  her 
spirit?** 

Davies  it  should  be,  the  never  so  mad  a 
lady,  of  whom  so  good  a  story  is  told  by 
Peter  Heylyn. 

43.  "  My  physiognomy  two  years  ago 
By  the  small-pox  was  marr*d,  and  it  may  be 
A  finger*s  loss  hath  spoiVd  my  palmistry. 

47.  Ward,  the  pirate, 

— "  he  that  awed  the  seas, 
Frighting  the  fearful  Hamadryades ; 


»» 


That  ocean-terror,  he  that  durst  outbrtTe 
Dread  Neptune*s  trident,  Amphitrite's 


wave. 
His  lost  finger.  54,  106. 

55.  **  For  to  my  Muse,  if  not  to  me, 

Fm  sure  all  game  is  free, 
HeaTen,  earth,  are  all  but  parts  of  her 
great  royalty.** 

56,  To  Ben  Jonson, — 

"  Wilt  thou  engross  thy  store 
Of  wheat,  and  pour  no  more, 
Because  their  bacon -brains  have  such  a  task 
As  more  delights  in  mast?** 

"  Thou  canst  not  find  them  stuff 
That  will  be  bad  enough 
To  please  their  palates.** 

121.  "  Iniquity  aboundeth,  though  pure 
zeal 
Teach,  preach,  huff^  pufiT,  and  snuff  at  it, 

yet  still. 
Still  it  aboundeth.** 

Muses'  Looking^  Glass, 

121.  ^*  Had  we  seen  a  church, 

A  new-built  church,  erected  North  and 

South, 
It  had  been  something  worth  the  wondering 

at.**— Ibid. 

123.  '^  It  was  a  zealous  prayer, 
I  heard  a  brother  make  concerning  play- 
houses. 
Bur,  For  charity  what  is  it  ? 
Bui,  That  the  globe. 

Whereon,  quoth  he,  reigns  a  whole  world 

of  vice 
Had  been  consumed :  the  Phoenix,  burnt 

to  ashes. 
The  Fortune,  whipt  for  a  blind  whore; 

Black  Fryars, 
He  wonders  how  it  scaped  demolishing 
rthe  love  of  Reformation.  Lastly,  he  wisli'd 
The  Bull  might  cross  tlie  Thames  to  the 

Bear  Garden 
And  there  be  soundly  baited.** — Ibid. 

135.  "  ITiere  was  a  time, 

(And  pity  'tis  so  good  a  time  had  wings 


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To  flj  away !) — when  reverence  was  pjud 
To  a  gray  head." — Ibid. 

150.  **  Thou  man  of  sin  and  shame,  that 
sewest  cushions 

Unto  the  elbows  of  iniquity  I'* — Ibid. 

151.  "Fond  fools 
Promise  themaelves  a  name  from  building 

churches. 
Or  anj  thing  that  tends  to  the  Republic ; 
Tia  the  Re-private  that  I  study  for." 

Ibid. 

157.  "  There  is  not 

Half  so  much  honour  in  the  pilot*8  place 
As  danger  in  the  storm.    Poor  windy  titles 
Of  dignity  and  offices  that  puff  up 
The  bubble  pride  till  it  swell  big  and  burst, 
What  are  they  but  brave  nothings  P 

Ibid. 

184.  '*  All  our  thoughto 

Are  bom  between  our  lips.     The  heart  is 

made 
A  stranger  to  the  tongue,  as  if  it  used 
A  langvage  Uiat  she  never  understood." 

Ibid. 

"  Wit  is  grown  a  petulant  wasp 
And  stings  she  knows  not  whom,  nor  where, 
nor  why." — Ibid. 

188.  "Now  verily  I  find  the  devout  Bee 
May  suck  the  honey  of  good  doctrine  thence. 
And  bear  it  to  the  hive  of  her  pure  family, 
Whence  the  prophane  and  irreligious  spider 
Gathers  her  impious  venom." — Ibid. 

1 93.  Fiction  of  the  Muse*s  Looking  Glass. 

206.  Languages  of  birds. 

324.  Wordsworth's  Pedlar. 

844-5.  Commendatory  verses  in  Latin  and 
English  by  Edward  Hide, — to  the  Jealous 
Lovers.     Is  this  Clarendon  ? 

352.  "  I  HAVB  lived  a  dunghill  wretch. 
Grown  poor  by  getting  riches,  mine  own 

torture, 
A  rust  unto  myself  as  to  my  gold. 

Jealous  Lovers, 

355.  "  Hereafter  I  will  never 

^Vear  any  thing  that  jingles,  but  my  spurs." 

Ibid. 


Randolph  died  in  his  27th  year.   1634. 


W£B8TEB. 

Theeb  is  in  his  Appius  and  Virginia  a 
fine  example  of  the  passionate  use  of  fami- 
liar expressions.  Virginius  describing  the 
privation  suffered  in  the  army,  says 

"  This  three  months  did  we  never  house 

our  heads 
But  in  yon  great  star-chamber; — never 

bedded 
But  in  the  cold  field  beds." 

Old  Plays,  v.  364. 

"  If  you  be  humane,  and  not  quite  given 
o'er 
To  fui-8  and  metal."— Ibid.  366. 


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FuLK  Grevill,  Lobd  Bbooke. 

His  papers  were  left  to  "  his  friend  IMr. 
Michael  Malet,  an  aged  gentleman  in  whom 
he  most  confided,  who  intended,  what  the 
author  purposed,  to  have  had  them  printed 
altogether  ;  but  by  copies  of  some  parts  of 
them  which  happened  into  other  hands,  some 
of  them  came  first  abroad,  each  of  his  works 
having  had  their  fate,  as  they  singly  merit 
particular  esteem,  so  to  come  into  the  world 
at  several  times." 

Upon  Mr.  Malet^s  death,  the  trust  de- 
volved on  Sir  J.  M.  and  he  gave  the  li- 
censed copy  of  the  Poems  of  Monarchy  and 
Religion  to  the  Editor,  who  signs  himself 
H.  H.  and  who  says  *^  that  the  Reader  may 
be  more  fully  informed  of  the  Author  and 
his  workings,  and  how  they  are  related  to 
each  other,  we  must  refer  to  that,  wherein 
besides  his  friend  Sidney*s  life,  he  gives  ac- 
count of  his  own,  and  of  what  he  had  writ- 
ten." 

117.  Northern  kings,  he  thinks,  ought  to 
trust  to  their  own  inheritances, — ^the  staple 
rent  of  their  demesnes  ;  at  least  they  must 
supply  their  necessities  by  Parliaments ;  if 
they  taxed  the  people  (i.  e.  by  their  own 
authority)  they  would  be  easily  overthrown. 


316 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


12L  He  thinks  foreign  ambassadors  an 
unnecessary  charge  to  the  state,  and  an  im- 
proper imitation 

*^  Of  that  long-breathed  encroaching  Court 
of  Rome." 

144.         "  That  manj-headed  separation, 
Which  irreligious  being,  yet  doth  bear 
Religion*8  name, — affects  her  reputation. 
And  which  (as  it  is  now  used  everywhere 
Becomes  the  ground  for  each  ambitious 

thought. 
And  shadow  of  all  actions  that  be  naught. 

Her  name  being  dearer  far  than  peace  and 
wealth. 

Hazard  for  her  of  freedom,  life,  and  goods ; 

Welcome  as  means  to  everlasting  health, 

Hope,  with  no  mortal  power  to  be  with- 
stood."' 

Pmuups  speaks  of  a  third  tragedy,  Mar- 
cus Tullius  Cicero,  and  says  truly  that  in 
all  his  works  ^*  is  observable  a  close,  myste- 
rious, and  sententious  way  of  writing ;  with- 
out much  regard  to  elegancy  of  style,  or 
smoothness  of  verse/* 

When  Buckingham  in  the  fifteenth  year 
of  James,  wished  to  be  Lord  High  Admiral, 
in  place  of  Nottingham,  then  very  old.  Sir 
F.  Greville,  afterwards  Lord  Brooke,  and 
Sir  John  Cooke,  afterwards  Secretary  of 
State,  projected  to  do  great  service  to  the 
King,  by  introducing  a  new  model  of  the 
office  of  the  navy  under  the  new  admiral. 

In  the  preface  to  Chamock^s  Naval  Ar- 
chitecture, is  a  full  account  of  this  scheme 
of  reform,  the  effect  of  which  was  to  put  an 
end  to  one  system  of  shameful  jobbery  by 
introducing  another  that  was  just  as  bad. 

^*  Th£  world  is  in  great  measure  indebted 


'  Other  numerous  extracts  from  Lord  Brooke's 
poems  are  interspersed  amongst  Southey's  nu- 
nicruus  Common-Place  Books.  He  considered 
him  the  most  thoughtful  and  the  most  difficult 
of  our  poets, — an  opinion  in  which  I  altogether 
concur— J.  W.  w. 


to  Sir  Fulk  Greville  for  Speed's  Works.**— 
Malcolm's  Londimvm^  vol.  3,  p.  299.' 

"  A  MOUBNnvo  Song  of  six  parts,  for  the 
death  of  the  late  Honble  Sir  Fulke  Gre- 
ville, Knt.  composed  according  to  the  rules 
of  art,  by  M.  P.  Batch,  of  Music.  1689.**— 
Hawkius*  H,  Music,  vol.  4,  p.  28. 

D*l8BABU  says  the  pages  cancelled  in  his 
original  volume,  contained  a  poem  on  Reli- 
gion, and  that  Laud  ordered  this  expurga- 
tion. He  states  not  his  authority.  I  am 
glad  to  find  there  has  been  nothing  lost 

H.  Walpolb  (Letters,  vol.  2,  p.  72)  "saw 
a  very  good  and  perfect  tomb  at  Alcester 
of  Sir  Fulke  Greville*s  father  and  mother." 


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FOBD. 

His  friend  Wm.  Sihgleton  in  some  com- 
mendatory verses,  says 

*'  I  speak  my  thoughts,  and  wish  unto  the 

stage 
A  glory  from  thy  studies ;  that  the  age 
May  be  indebted  to  thee,  for  reprieve 
Of  purer  language.** 

*  It  Is  due  to  honest  old  Fuller  to  give  the  ex* 
tract  following :  — "  John  Speed  was  bom  at 
Farrington,  in  this  county  (Cheshire),  as  his  own 
daughter  hath  informed  me ;  he  was  first  bred 
to  a  handicraft^  and,  as  I  take  it,  to  a  Tkylor.  I 
write  not  this  for  ^u, but  mine  awn  discrace,  when 
I  consider  how  far  his  Industry  haUi  outstript 
my  Ingenious  Education,  Sir  Fulk  Grevillb, 
a  great  favourer  of  learning,  perceiving  how  his 
wide  sout  was  stuffed  with  too  narrow  an  occupa* 
tion,  first  wrought  his  enlargement,  as  the  said 
Author  doth  ingeniously  confess  (in  his  De- 
scription of  Warwickshire,  Margin),  *  Whose 
'merits  to  meward  I  do  acknowledge  in  setting 
this  hand  free  from  the  daily  employments  of 
a  manual  trade,  and  giving  it  his  liberty  thus  to 
express  the  inclinationof  my  mind,  himself  being 
the  procurer  of  my  present  Estate.' " —  Wofikie$f 
p.  181.  Folio.- J.  W.  W. 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


317 


FlorUel  de  Niquea^  and  the  latter  books  of 

Amadis. 

There  cannot  be  a  worse  book  than  this 
in  point  of  style,  but  in  point  of  lofty  and 
generous  sentiment,  there  can  hardly  be  a 
better. 

We  may  form  a  more  impartial  judgment 
of  these  romances  than  Cervantes  did.  They 
had  certainly  become  a  pest  in  his  age. 
They  have  now  acquired  a  value  from  time, 
and  form  a  curious  part  of  literary  history, 
not  as  relating  to  Spain  alone,  but  to  all 
Europe. 

Whenever  I  have  had  opportunity  of 
comparing  the  French  with  the  Spanish, 
I  have  found  that  all  which  is  indecent  is 
French. 

L.  Iz.  ff.  353.  After  much  ill  has  been 
prophesied,  the  princes  who  have  been  dis- 
endianted,  say,  *^  Puis  donques  que  nous  n*y 
pouvons  mettre  remede,  nous  ne  devons  de- 
sister  k  nous  resjouir  a  faire  bonne  chere,  et 
quand  il  plaira  k  Dieu  il  nous  fera  entendre 
sa  volonte.** 

There  is  nothing  of  this  in  the  Spanish. 
It  is  a  French  feeling. 

Sp.  fT.  98.  Anaxartes  slips  a  letter  into 
Oriana*s  sleeve. 

Fr.  416.  ^*  Tela  inconveniens  avons  veu 
avenir  de  nostre  temps ;  je  m*en  raporterois 
bien  a  plusieurs  peres  &  meres  qui  ont  mis 
lean  enfans  trop  jeunes  en  Religion,  pen- 
sant  les  divertir  des  affections  mondaines, 
mais  parvenus  en  aage,  ont  bien  monstre 
qu*ilz  en  estoyant  plus  desireux  que  ceux 
qui  ne  bougent  ordinairement  des  bancquets 
et  mondaines  assembles.**  Not  in  the  Spa- 
nish. 

L.  z.  ff.  62.  Herb  is  Joseph  Hume*s 
phrase,  **  A  ce  que  je  voy  Darinel,  dit  il, 
Toos  nous  rendez  k  tous  nostre  change.** 

ff.  68.  Falangis,  —  ^*  II  se  fait  plusieurs 

'  See  DiTNLOp's  Hi§tory  of  Fiction,  vol.  2,  p. 
144.  "  El  deceno  libro  de  Amadis,  que  es  el 
^nica  de  Don  Florizel  de  Niquea,  hijo  de  Ama- 
b  de  Grecia."     VaUadolid,  1632.— J.  W.  W. 


torts  au  monde,  que  Ton  veut  debattre  par 
raison,  et  quelquefois  a  tort  centre  droit, 
moyennant  les  promesses  que  les  Chevaliers 
font  souvent,  sans  s^avoir  quoy  ne  com- 
ment.*' 

flf.  128  in  the  original. 

"  Senor  Cavallero,  (to  Florisel)  bien  co- 
nozco  segun  vuestras  palabras,  que  con  mas 
razon  os  paresce  venir  vos  a  mi  demanda, 
que  yo  para  la  defender  puedo  tenermas 
assi  son  las  cosas  deste  mundo  que  muchas 
sinrazones  son  con  mas  razon  guardadas  que 
se  quieren  ofiendes,  y  muchas  vezes.  Mas 
los  cavallcros  por  no  quiebrar  sus  palabras, 
defienden  lo  que  con  mal  titulo  sus  obras 
quieren  Uevar  adelante.** 

French  87,  Spanish  138.  King  Arthur  in 
his  enchanted  state. 

126.  The  best  cosmetic  was  that  with 
which  Urganda  provided  Amadis,  and  which 
he  used  every  day. 

228.  —  in  a  tempest — ^  le  pire  de  la 
trouppe  estoit  lors  fort  bon  Chrestien.'* 

239.  "  Mes  Seigneurs,  le  Dieu  souverain 
architecte  de  ce  monde,  nous  y  fait  jouer 
les  tragedies  tristes  et  sanglantes  quand 
il  luy  plaist,  puis  les  comedies  et  farces  joy- 
euscs,  quand  son  divin  vouloir  le  porte." 

Not  in  the  Spanish. 

265.  The  kings  who  could  not  come  to 
Constantinople  to  be  present  at  the  mar- 
riage of  Florisel  Lucida,  Filangis  and  Anax- 
artes, at  the  Emperor  of  Rome,  sent  their 
effigies. 

Book  xi.  RooBL  and  Ageailan  of  Colchos. 

24.  The  breed  went  on  improving  in 
natural  course. 

197.  When  Niquea  is  lost,  Amadis  of  G. 
thinks  it  impossible  she  should  have  died 
without  his  receiving  some  notice  of  it  from 
her  spirit,  or  from  some  heavenly  influence. 

277.  Agesilan  better  fitted  to  personate 
a  woman,  because  his  hand  was  ^*  blanche  et 
mollette.** 

417.  From  time  to  time  the  Sages  con- 
veyed Amadis  to  the  Fountain  of  Youth. 

585.  Means  used  by  Alquif  and  Urganda 
to  prolong  the  lives  and  vigour  of  the  race. 


Book  xii.  Agesilan  of  Colchos. 

46.  Arthur  enchanted  with  Amadis  and 

Oriana. 

168.  All  who  saw  the  Infanta  Fortune, 
then  a  little  girl,  "  presageoyent  a  bonne 
raison  qu*elle  seroit  un  jour  le  basilic  de  la 
nature  humaine  pour  tons  ceux  qui  oseroy- 
ent  prendre  la  hardiesse  de  contempler  sa 

diviuite." 

169.  The  Sages  gave  them  a  conserve 
made  from  the  fruit  of  the  tree  of  life  in 
Paradise,  which  added  100  years  to  the 
natural  term  of  life. 

447.  Graiande,  the  Infanta  of  Sparta, 
had  her  hair  dressed  to  imitate  a  spider's 
web,  with  a  diamond  in  the  centre,  and  a 
circle  of  rubies  round  it. 

Book  xiii.  Sylvbs  de  la  Selva. 

Ep.  to  Caterine  de  Cleremont,  Contesse 
de  Retz.  She  understood  Greek,  and  spoke 
Latin  to  the  king's  physician  when  he  at- 
tended her.  Francis  I.  recommended  his 
courtier  to  read  these  books. 

19.  The  great  city  of  Russia. 

44.  "  Aussi  devez  vous  entendre  qu'en 
ce  temps  Ik  tous  enfans  non  seulement  des 
Princes  mais  de  sages  gentils-hommes  es- 
toyent  instruicts  k  la  cognoissance  des  let- 
tres  et  de  nager^  pour  les  inconveniens  que 
souvent  par  voyes  lointaines  et  divers  en- 
combriers  ils  pourroyent  encourir." 

252.  Before  arming  for  a  combat,  "ayans 
prins  la  souppe  en  vin." 

Book  xiv.  Stlvbs  de  la  Selva.  Cham- 
bery  1575. 

Some  verses  on  the  back  of  the  title- 
page  say — 

"  II  estoit  tant  corrompu  qu'on  n'avoit 
Moyen  aucun  de  le  pouvoir  entendre." 

The  translator  says  he  had  put  into 
French  the  three  preceding  books,  "  dont 
Toriginal  Castillan  des  mains   d'une  Da- 


moiseUe  de  la  feu  royne  Alienor  estoit  tumbi 
^s  miennes  apres  avoir  est^  recherche  enviin 
par  Tespaoe  de  plus  de  dix  ans,  tant  en  son 
pays  natural  d'Espugne  qu'en  le  Flandre." 

**  il  y  a  en  iceux  Romans  fabuleux 

en  apperence,  autant  de  verite  occulte,  qu'en 
la  plus  part  des  histoires  &  cronique  de  men- 
songe  manifeste.  Car  Ik  gisent  des  mysteres 
de  science  secrette,  naturelle  et  louable." 

A  Preface  pretends  to  expound  the  alle- 
gories. 

437.  —  for  a  tournament,  **  leurs  espies 

fussent  sans  fil." 

460.  " avecques  lances  mom^es  et 

les  esp^  rabbatues.**' 

L.  XV.  D'SiLVBS  de  la  Selva. 

This  book  is  an  interpolation.  Query, 
French  ? 

178.  White  art. 

209.  "  Us  monstroyent  n'estre  pas  des 
Chevalier  k  la  douzaine." 

320.  "  En  quoy  il  estoit  autant  excellent 
que  boufon  que  Ton  puisse  voir,  et  ne  rc- 
sembloit  aux  plaisanteurs  de  ce  temps  qui 
brocardent  et  piquent  tantost,  I'un,  tantost 
I'autre,  en  quoy  ce  qui  est  le  pis,  les  princes, 
qui  devroyent  punir  ou  k  tout  le  moins  re- 
primer  rimpudence  de  tels  boufons  et  go- 
dissours,^  y  prenent  plaisir,  et  y  passent  le 
temps,  voire  mesmes  les  incitent  k  du^  w- 

jure. 

367.  A  religious  dispute.  A  Jew  iffbo 
has  been  knighted  for  his  services  to  th« 
Emperor. 

L.  xvi.  Sfebamowi)  &  Amadis  d'Astrc. 

151.  Two  rivals.  Whoever  can  first  pass 
a  gate  guarded  by  a  serpent  and  touch  the 
princess  first,  is  to  have  her  to  wife.  They 
kill  each  a  serpent,  and  touch  her  at  the 
same  instant. 

547.  Orgoglion — a  giant 


»  This  is  now  becoming  a  modem  feminine 
accinnplinhment.— J.  »* .  W. 


»  The  reader  of  Ivauhot  will  readily  under- 
stand these  terms.— J.  W.  W. 

»  That  is  Caudisseur,  explained  by  CoT- 
ORAVE,  A  J$aster,  a  FUwUr,  a  Gibtry  in  v.  Kd. 
Howell.-J.  W.  W. 


ENaLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


319 


681.  Whj  women  feel  more  in  absence 
laa  men. 

778.  Amadis  d^Astre  asks  from  his  mis- 
'ess,  the  Infanta  Rosaliana,  the  lef^  sleeve 
f  her  chemise,  ^  oomme  celle  qui  est  la 
[us  prochaine  du  coeur.*' — She  withdraws, 
)d  has  it  cut  off  for  him. 

L.  xviL  Sfekamond  &  Amadis  d'Astre. 

This  was  translated  from  the  Italian, — 
i  says  the  **  Privilege." 

The  Dizain  prefixed  impudently  asserts 
lat  the  first  books  were  originally  French. 

Que  Des  Essara,  par  diligent  ouvrage^ 
.  retourn^  en  son  pi*emier  langage  ; 
it  soit  certain,  qu*Espagne  en  cest  afiaire 
ognoLstra  bien  que  France  k  Fuvantage 
Jibien  parler  autant  comme  au  bien  foire.** 

Chap.  1.  The  magician  Dragosine  having 
rown  fond  of  the  Infanta  Fortune,  after  she 
id  carried  her  off  from  her  husband,  Prince 
ucendus,  provides  her  with  an  enchanted 
lirror,  in  which  she  may  at  any  time  see 
im.  Alquife  and  Urgande  send  another  such 
►  Lucendus, — and  they  are  not  long  before 
ley  discover  that  when  both  are  looking  in 
lese  mirrors  at  the  same  time,  they  can  not 
ily  see  each  other,  but  hear,  and  conse- 
uently  converse,  ff.  4. 

ff.  93.  The  giant  Scaranfe  says  to  Lucen- 
08, — "  Malheureuse  et  vile  creature,  com- 
lent  prendray-je  vengeance  de  toy  ? — ce 
e  sera  pas  en  te  faisant  mourir  de  la  plus 
ruelle  mort  qu*homme  s^auroit  endurer, 
ois  qu*un  tel  homonceau  que  toy  ha  bien 
se  m'outrager,  et  presume  d*entrer  au  com- 
at  contre  moy,  comme  si  Tescrevics  pre- 
iimQit,ou  vouloit  mordre  une  baleine.  Mais 
i  suis  delibere  de  faire  ce  qui  je  ne  fis  onc- 
ues,ii  s^avoir  de  te  combattre  corps  k  corps : 
e  que  je  ne  feray  pas,  pour  te  faire  hon- 
leur,  mais  pour  mon  plaisir,  pour  me  jouer 
ie  Foy,  tout  ainsi  que  fait  le  chat  de  sa  sou- 
i«,  sachant  qu'il  ne  pent  perdre  sa  proye." 

1 16.  **  lis  devisereirt  longuement  ensem- 
ble, maia  h  la  fin  les  Nains  s*ennuyerent  de 
ever  la  face  pour  le  regarder  en  parlant  k 
uy,  de  maniere  que  la  col  leur  en  faisoit 


grand  mal,  et  le  Geant  pareillement  se  lassa 
de  regarder  si  bas  en  devisant  avec  eux." 

438.  Two  bears  attack  the  ladies, — "  Da- 
ride  voulant  fuir  &  ne  se  pouvant  resouldre 
k  laisser  ses  pantoufles  k  a  trousser  sa  robbe 
qui  Tempeschoit  a  courir — au  premier  pas 
qu'elle  fit,  tomba." 

439.  —  **  laissans  leurs  pantoufles  qui  les 
empeschoient." 

L.  xviii.  Sr£RAM0in>  &  Amadis  d'Astre. 

14.  Prince  Don  Arlange,  when  his  mis- 
tress, the  Infanta  Sestoliana,  was  carried 
away,  ^  vouloit  mourir,  ou  la  regagner,  en- 
cores qu*elle  fust  trani^rt^e  en  enf^r,  com- 
me Euridice;  combien  qu*il  pensast  que 
plustost  on  Teust  transportce  au  ceil,  pour 
ce  quMl  disoit  que  si  elle  eust  estc  en  enfer, 
elle  eust  tellement  adoucy  le  visage  et  res- 
jouy  le  coeur  des  damnez  per  le  nioyen  de 
sa  divine  beaute,  que  ce  lieu  eust  est^  im 
paradis,  non  pas  un  enfer."  * 

224.  Enchanted  damsels.  Time  had  stood 
still  with  them  during  their  enchantment. 
**  La  maniere  qu*elles  se  monstroicnt  aussi 
belles  et  freschcs  qu*elles  estoient  devant 
qu'elles  fussent  enchantees :  leurs  veste- 
ments estoient  seulement  tant  envieilliz  qu*a 
grande  peine  leur  tenoyent  ils  dessus  le  dos.** 

L.  Ixix. 

1.  Don  Arlange.  "C*estoit  grande  pitie 
de  le  voir  et  entendre:  pour  ce  qu'il  ne 
nommoit  autre  que  sa  dame,  8*estimant  in- 
fortune  sur  tons  les  hommes  du  nionde,  et 
fut  reduit  en  tel  point,  que  invoquant  sou- 
vent  sa  dame  bien  aim^e  qui  possedoit  son 
ame  et  ne  la  retrouvant,  ains  la  tenant  pour 
perdue,  il  disoit  au  monde  qui  luy  deman- 
doit  qu^il  estoit,  je  suis  un  Chevalier  sans 
ame.  Parquoy  il  faisoit  rire  un  chacun, 
considerant  qu*il  avoit  perdu  le  sens  et  la 
raison  avec  sa  dame,  et  pour  ceste  cause  il 

*  ^'  Qoin  ipscne  stnpu^re  domus,  atque  intima 
Lethi 
Tartara,  cceruleosque  implexie  crinibus  angues 
Eumenides,  tenuitque  inhians  tria  Cerberus  ora» 
Atque  Ixiunii  cantu  rota  constitit  orbis." 

ViRQ.  Georg.  iii.  481.— J.  W.  W. 


1 


fut  appelle  de  tous  ceux  qui  le  voyoient  et 
entendoient  parler,  le  Chevalier  sans  ame.** 

2.  ^*  Monsieur,  luy  ditt  TEscuyer,  quand 
bien  vous  voudriez  alter  en  Enfer  et  de- 
mourer  avecques  les  damnes,  je  ne  vous 
abandonneray  jamais.  Ce  sage  et  amiable 
escuyer  fut  cause  que  ce  pauvre  et  desol^ 
Prince  ne  perdit  da  tout  le  sens :  car  il  le 
consoloit  souvent,  et  quand  il  disoit  quelque 
chose  hors  de  raison,  il  le  reprenoit  et  luy 
monstroit  sa  faute.  Ce  neantmoins,  il  ne 
luy  peut  jamais  oster  de  la  fantasie  qu*ayant 
transform^  son  ame  en  sa  dame  bien  aimee, 
et  la  luy  ayant  bailie  en  sa  puissance,  veu 
que  sa  dame  estoit  perdue,  il  fallolt  pareille- 
ment  inferer  de  Ik,  que  son  ame  estoit  per- 
due et  egar^e." 

46.  —  "  pource  que  le  niartel  amoureux 
ne  cessoit  point  de  leur  battre  le  coeur." 

1 88.  Constantinople  besieged  by  the  Pagan 
king. 

^*  Lcs  dances  et  festes  estoyant  si  ordi  • 
naires,  que  plusieurs  que  avoyant  men^ 
grande  feste  le  soir  de  devant,  avec  leurs 
dames,  estoient  portez  le  lendemain  morts 
dedant  la  ville,  k  cause  des  continuelles  es- 
carmouches  des  ennemis.** 

Brussels  before  the  battle  of  Waterloo. 

L.  XX. 

261.  FuLioANT,  an  enchanter,  and  of  the 
race  of  the  giants,  rides  a  giraffe.  Oronzia, 
the  Amazon,  kills  him. 


Bbbnard*8  Zr^eq/'ilfaft.  1683.  16th  edition. 

Epistle  to  the  reader. 

Doubts  which  prevented  certain  grand 
jury  gentlemen  from  bringing  in  their  Billa 
Vera  against  some  suspected  witches. 

He  published  a  Guide  to  Grand  Jurymen 
in  cases  of  Witchcraft,— being  himself  a  full 
believer;  in  twenty-eight  chapters.  "  The 
death  of  five  brethren  and  sisters  lately  con- 
demned and  executed  for  witches,  one  more 
yet  remaining,  formerly  brought  before  a 
J^dge,  and  now  in  danger  to  be  questioned 


again,  hath  moved  me  to  t-ake  this  pains ; 
not  to  prevent  justice,  nor  to  hinder  legal 
proceedings,  but  that  I  may  not  be  mistaken 
nor  wronged  as  I  was  once,  and  more  should 
have  been,  had  not  the  wisdom  and  good- 
ness of  so  reverend  a  judge  (Denham)  ac- 
cepted graciously  of  my  upright  apologj 
against  vain  accusers.** 

He  made  a  petition  which  Judge  Denham 
approved,  and  he  now  repeats  it  the  thir- 
teenth time,  that  a  Divine  should  be  ap- 
pointed to  instruct  the  prisoners  daily: 
**  Twelve  pence  a  quarter  of  one  parish 
with  another  in  our  county  (Somerset), 
would  encourage  some  compassionate  hoi/ 
man  thereunto.**  And  that  there  be  **  means 
to  set  them  also  on  work,  that  they  might 
get  somewhat  for  food  and  for  raiment.** 

The  Meditation  for  the  Prisoners  seems 
to  have  been  imitated  by  Bunyan.  And  so 
has  a  passage  in  the  Epistle  Dedicatory 
been,  in  the  beginnuig  of  the  Holy  War. 

16.  One  of  tlie  principal  informers,  or 
enemies  of  virtue  is  "  Scrupulosity.**  "  This 
is  an  unsociable  and  snappish  fellow:  he 
maketh  sins  to  himself  more  than  the  law 
condenmeth,  and  liveth  upon  fault-finding. 
Weaker  Apprehension  is  his  father,  and 
Mrs.  Understanding  his  mother,  and  an 
Uncharitable  Heart  his  nurse.** 

23.  Sir  Silly,  one  made  all  of  good  mean- 
ing, who  will  qualify  the  fact  by  thinking 
no  harm,  or  intending  well.  ^'  This  Sir  Sill/ 
is  he  that  maketh  simple  souls  plead  good 
meaning  for  all  their  foolish  superstitions, 
blind  devotions,  and  licentious  merriment" 

79.  No  power  can  make  that  sin  which 
God  hath  not  shewn  to  be  so.  This  is  for- 
cibly put  in  his  odd  way. — 80. 

123.  "  Covetousness,  thou  art  here  in- 
dited by  the  name  of  C,  in  the  Town  of 
Want,  in  the  County  of  Never-full,  that 
from  the  day  of  thy  first  being  thou  hast 
been  the  root  of  all  evil.  Thou  art  also 
indited  for  bribery,  extortion,  oppressions, 
usury,  injustice,  cozenage,  unmercifulness, 
and  a  multitude  of  outrageous  villanies.** 

129.  Master  Church*s  evidence  against 
Covetousness. — 1 46. 


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131.  Master  Commonweal*s. 

132.  Master  Household's. 

136.  Master  Neighbourhood's.  149,  150. 

137.  Master  Goodwork's. 

There  is  quite  as  much  wit  in  this  book 
as  in  the  Pilgrims  Progress^  and  more  cu- 
rious traits  of  the  times, — ^but  it  wants  the 
charm  of  story. 

139.  Poverty's  depopulation  of  estates. 
144. 

142.  What  companions  made  Poverty 
poor. 

216, 7.  This  also  Bunyan  has  imitated  in 
the  poem  prefixed  to  his  Second  Part. 


Sir  Philip  Sidney, 

Dban  Lockier  thought  Sannazari's 
**  Arcadia**  had  given  the  hint  to  him, — 
but  only,  as  it  appears,  as  being  written  in 
prose,  interspersed  with  verses. — Spencb's 
Anecdoiesy  p.  158. 

DsATTON  calls  "  the  noble  Sidney" — 

**  That  herse'  (?)  for  numbers  and  for  prose, 
That  throughly  paced  our  language,  as  to 

shew 
The  plenteous  English  hand  in  hand  might 

,   go 
With  Greek  and  Latin ;  and  did  first  reduce 

Oar  tongue  from  Lilly's  writing,  then  in  use. 

Talking  of  stones,  stars,  plants,  of  fishes, 

flies, 

Phiying  with  words  and  idle  similies. 

As  the  English  apes,  and  very  zanies  be 

Of  every  thing  that  they  do  hear  and  see. 

So,  imitating  his  ridiculous  tricks, 

They  speak  and  write  all  like  mere  lunatics. 

P.  548. 

See  the  Theatrum  Poetarum, 


»i 


BmATTON,  in  the  Preface  to  the  "Barons' 
War,"  calls  Spenser  **  our  first  great  re- 
former," i.e.  of  verse. 

'  The  meaning  is  doubtful  here.  It  would  seem 
to  imply  the  same  as  the  Latin  Felix,  and  the 
Greek  o  uacapirnc,  as  applied  to  the  departed. 

J.  W.  W. 


Pbele  says — 
"  And  you  the  Muses,  and  the  Graces  three, 
You  I  invoke  from  Heaven  and  Helicon ; 
For  other  patrons  have  poor  poets  none 
But  Muses  and  the  Graces  to  implore. 
Augustus  long  ago  hath  left  the  world ; 
And  liberal  Sydney,  famous  for  the  love 
He  bare  to  learning  and  to  chivalry. 
And  virtuous  Walsingham  are  fled  to 
Heaven."  Vol.  ii.  p.  220. 

Ben  Jonson  said  that  Sydney  had  an 
intention  to  have  transformed  all  his  "  Ar- 
cadia" to  the  stories  of  King  Arthur. — HaW' 
thomden  Extracts^  p.  85. 

This  is  impossible.  He  might  have 
thought  of  composing  a  poem  or  romance 
on  those  stories. 

Ben  says  his  daughter,  the  Countess  of 
Rutland,  was  nothing  inferior  to  her  father 
in  poetry. — Ibid.  p.  89. 

See  there  an  anecdote  concerning  her  and 
Overbury. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney  was  no  pleasant  man 
in  countenance,  his  face  being  spoiled  with 
pimples,  and  of  high  blood ;  and  rare  Ben 
said  this,  and  that  "my  Lord  Lisle,  now  Earl 
of  Worstevy  his  eldest  son  (?)  resembleth 
hun."— Ibid.  p.  90.^ 

Laino  observes,  that  Ben  Jonson  was 
only  thirteen  when  Sydney  died,  and  was 
very  unlikely  to  know  any  thing  of  his 
personal  appearance. 

His  mother,  "  after  she  had  the  little 
pox,  never  shewed  herself  in  court  there- 
afler,  but  masked." — ^Ibid.  p.  95. 

His  niece,  Lady  Mary  Wroth.  "  unwor- 
thily married  to  a  jealous  husband." — Ibid, 
p.  94. 

"  Shortlt  you  shall  hear  news  from 
Damaetas,"  is  used  in  one  of  Dryden's  come- 
dies, as  an  allusion  which  the  audience 
would  understand. — WUd  Gallant.  Plays, 
1.38. 

'  As  far  as  I  recollect,  Lord  Brooke,  in  his 
Life  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  not  only  speaks  of  his 
*'  neglected  dress,  and  fomiliar  manners,  but 
inward  greatness." — Beprint  by  Sir  Egertom 
Brtdges,  vol.  i.  pp.  15,  16. — J.  W.  W. 


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Hannah  More  says  in  a  letter,  (2, 131), 
^*  I  do  almost  think  the  Tyburn  Chronicle 
a  more  interesting  book  than  Sydney's  *  Ar- 
cadia;* for  however  cheap  one  may  hold  the 
morals  of  the  heroes  of  the  former  work,  it 
exhibits  a  delineation  of  the  same  strong 
passions  which  actuated  ^  Macedonia's  mad- 
man and  the  Swede,*  and  furnishes  out  the 
terrible  catastrophes  to  tragedies,  only  ope- 
rating with  a  difference  of  education,  cir- 
cumstances, and  opportunity.** 

Could  she  ever  have  read  his  *  Arcadia,' 
or  even  looked  into  it  ?  or  did  she  talk  after 
Horace  Walpole  ? 

Baketti  says  there  are  some  hundred 
pastoral  dramas  (Italian,)  still  to  be  found 
in  the  collections  of  the  curious.  "  But  as 
pastoral  life  never  existed  but  in  the  inno- 
cent imagination  of  love-sick  girls,  pastoral 
plays  could  never  allure  the  many,  and  sup- 
port themselves  long.** — Monthly  Review^ 
vol.  39,  p.  58. 

The  "  Gentle  Shepherd**  disproves  this. 

HoBACB  Walpole  had  "  the  billiard- 
sticks  with  which  the  Countess  of  Pem- 
broke and  Arcadia  used  to  play  with  her 
brother.  Sir  Philip.** — Letters^  vol.  4,  p.  85. 


Cowper, 

Sib  £.  Bbtdoes,  Recollections  of  Fo' 
reign  Travel^  &c.  vol.  1,  p.  242,  says, — 
**  His  taste  lay  in  a  smiling,  colloquial,  good- 
natured  humour  ;  his  melancholy  was  a 
black  and  diseased  melancholy,  not  a  grave 
and  rich  contemplativeness.** 


Robert  Chreen. 

"Fob  to  do,** — a  common  mode  of  ex- 
pression with  him,  and  "  For-because.** 
Stage  directions,  2,  67, 42. 

Vol.  2. 

P.  306.  Fashions  of  female  dress. 


Bishop  Reynolds, 

Thebe  is  in  his  manner  a  resemblance 
both  to  Burton  and  Barrow.  It  is  an  ac- 
cumulative style. 


Johnson, 

"  It  is  surprising  that  Johnson,  whose 
own  mind  had  been  necessarily  turned  to 
the  archaiology  of  our  language,  by  having 
fulfilled  the  Herculean  task  of  an  English 
Dictionary,  did  not  seem  to  have  himself 
much  relish  for  our  old  poetical  writers. 
The  fact  is,  that  he  loved  ratiocination  in 
poetry  rather  than  imagination,  that  is,  he 
preferred  ingenious  and  vigorous  versifica- 
tion to  poetry.** — SirEgerton  Brydges^Prt' 
face  to  the  Theai,  Poett,  xvii. 


Cltattcer. 

Is  supposed  to  have  been  the  son  of  Ri- 
chard Chaucer,  vintner,  who  gave  to  the 
church  of  St.  Mary,  Aldermary,  "one  tene- 
ment in  a  street  called  the  Old  Royal,  in 
the  parish  of  St.  Michael,  per  annum  £60 
towards  the  maintenance  of  a  priest ;  gave 
also  to  the  same  church  his  tenement  and 
and  tavern,  with  the  appurtenance  in  the 
Royal-street,  the  corner  of  Kerion-lane,— 
and  was  buried  in  that  church.*'  —  Mal- 
colm's London,  vol.  ii.  p.  329-30,  from 
Stowb. 

A  miniature  of  him  in  a  vellum  MS.  of 
his  poems  in  the  Museum. 

The  Squire's  Tale  "is  said  to  be  com- 
plete in  Arundel  House  library." — Phil- 
lips. 

A  supplement  to  it  by  John  Lane,  Theatf' 
Poet,  (xxiii.)  liv.* 

"  The  Prince  and  Coryphaeus,  generally 
so  reputed,  till  this  age,  of  our  English 
poets ;  and  as  much  as  we  triumph  over 

'  Sir  Eobrton  Brtdoks'  Gknevan  Edit,  ii 
here  referred  to.  The  reader  will  find  there  an 
RccouDt  of  John  Lane.  —J.  W,  W. 


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l-fashioned  phrase  and  obsolete  words, 
r  the  first  refiners  of  the  English  lan- 
."—Ibid.* 

ETDBN  (Preface  to  his  Fcibles)  says, 
^e  oflen  heard  the  late  Earl  of  Leices- 
Y  that  Mr.  Cowley  himself  was  of  opi- 
hat  Chaucer  was  a  dry  old-fashioned 
lot  worth  reviving ;  and  that  having 
dm  over  at  my  lord's  request,  he  de- 
i  he  had  no  taste  of  him.* 
his  fact,  says  Sib  J.  Hawkins,  is  as 
It  to  account  for  as  another  of  the 
kind.  Mr.  Handel  made  no  secret  of 
ing  himself  totally  insensible  to  the 
enoes  of  Purcell's  compositions." — 
Mus.  voL  ii.  p.  105. 


LoM  Buckhurst. 

the  close  of  Ferrex  and  Porrex  is 

plain  advice  to  Elizabeth  that  she 

1  settle  the  succession.    The  author's 

ion  cannot  be  mistaken,  but  I  believe 

not  been  before  observed. 


•V\/S/WS/VN/N^/^%^/V/\/V\/\/^ 


George  Peele. 

78.  "Fame— that — 

aiming  conquests,  spoils,  and  victories, 

t  glorious  echoes  through  the  farthest 

rorld." 

"  Dub  on  your  drums. 
My  lusty  western  lads ! " 

L  ^But  if  kind  Cambria  deign  me  good 

ispect, 

ake  me  chiefest  Brute  of  western 

►Vales." 

f ellen  says  this. 

Sinoe  Chaucer  liv'd,  who  yet  lives,  and 
et  shall. 

the  sacred  relics  of  whose  rhyme 
et  are  bound  in  zeal  to  offer  praise." 

Daviel^B  MusaphUu9,--J  W.  W. 


131.  "  Patience  doth  conquer  by  out-suf- 
fering all." 

150.  "  Mild  b  the  mind  where  honour 
builds  his  bower : 
And  yet  is  earthly  honour  but  a  flower." 

169.  "  Barons,  now  may  you  reap  the  rich 

renown 
That  under  warlike  colours  springs  in  field. 
And  grows  where  ensigns  wave  upon  the 

plains." 

The  Old  Wives'  Tale  is  truly  an  Old 
Wife's  Tale  dramatized, — an  original  and 
happy  thought. 

I  think  Iluanebango  is  as  likely  to  have 
given  Spenser  a  hint  for  Braggadochio,  as 
the  brothers  are  to  have  been  the  origin  of 
Comus. 

Vol.  2. 

P.  72.  — "  not  by  the  course  of  heaven, 
By  frail  conjectures  of  inferior  signs. 
By  monstrous  floods,  by  flights  and  flocks  of 

birds. 
By  bowels  of  a  sacrificed  beast. 
Or  by  the  figures  of  some  hidden  art ; 
But  by  a  true  and  natural  presage. 
Laying  the  ground  and  perfect  architect 
Of  all  our  actions  now  before  thine  eyes. 
From  Adam  to  the  end  of  Adam's  seed." 

73.  "O  Heaven,  protect  my  weakness  with 
thy  strength." 

"  ravish  my  eai*thly  sprits, 
That  for  the  time  a  more  than  human  skill 
May  feed  the  organons  of  all  my  sense ; 
That  when  I  think,  thy  thoughts  may  be  my 

guide. 
And  when  I  speak,  I  may  be  made  by  choice 
The  perfect  echo  of  thy  heavenly  voice." 

This  is  in  a  speech  of  David's  to  Solomon. 

74.  The  eagle. 

"With  eyes  intentive  to  bedare^  the  sun." 
101.  "  The  twenty-coloured  rainbow." 

*  See  Nares*  Gloss,  in  v.  dare,  I  may  add 
to  the  Quotations  there,  "fall  down  as  dared 
larks,"  from  the  Third  Part  of  the  Homily  against 
Peril  of  Idolatry,  p.  235.- J.  W.  W. 


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124.  **  And  thrive  it  so  with  thee,  as  thou 
dost  mean : 
And  mean  thou  so  as  thou  dost  wish  to 
thrive." 

142.  **From  thence  to  Rome  rides  Stukelj 
all  aflaunt." 

158.  "  Our  fair  Eliza,  or  Zabata  fair.** 

He  gives  as  a  reason  for  annexing  the 
Tale  of  Troy  to  hb  farewell  to  Norris  and 
Drake  on  their  Portugal  voyage,  "  that  good 
minds,  inflamed  with  honourable  reports  of 
their  ancestry,  may  imitate  their  glory  in 
highest  adventures ;  and  my  countrymen, 
famed  through  the  world  for  resolution  and 
fortitude,  may  march  in  equipage  of  honour 
and  arms  with  their  glorious  and  renowned 
predecessors  the  Troyans.** 

172.  "  You  follow  Drake  by  sea,  the 
scourge  of  Spain, 
The  dreadful  dragon,  terror  to  your  foes, 
Victorious  in  his  return  from  Inde, 
In  all  his  high  attempts  unvanquish*d.** 

193-210-11.  Elizabeth*s  champion.  Sir 
Henry  Lea,  resigning  the  championship  to 
the  Earl  of  Cumberland.  1590. 

204.  Sir  Fulk  Grevile. 

205.  "  And  haste  they  make  to  meet,  and 
meet  they  do. 

And  do  the  thing  for  which  they  meet  in 
haste.** 

210.  Elizabeths  birth-day. 

"  The  day,  the  birth-day  of  our  happiness. 
The  blooming  time,  the  spring  of  England*s 
peace.** 

221.  "  Harmgton,  well  letter*d  and  dis- 
creet, 
That  hath  so  purely  naturalized 
Strange  words,  and  made  them  all  free  de- 
nizens.** 

221.  "the  fairest  Phaer* 

That  ever  ventured  on  great  Virgil's  works.** 


*  See  Wood's  Athemt  Oxon.  in  v.  Thomas 
Phayer,  He  translated  "  Nine  Books  of  Vir- 
gU's  -Sneidos."- J.  W.  W. 


225.  "  I  laid  me  down,  laden  with  manj 
cares, 

(My  bedfellows  almost  these  twenty  years.)** 

226.  "  Fast  by  the  stream  where  Thames 
and  Isis  meet. 

And  day  by  day  roll  to  salute  the  sea, 
For  more  than  common  service  it  perforin'd 
To  Albion*s  Queen,  when  foemei\,  shipt  for 

fight. 
To  forage  England  plough*d  the  ocean  up, 
And  slonk  into  the  channel  that  divides 
The  Frenchman*s  strond  from  Brit4un*8  fishj 

towns.** 

226.  "  Sleeping  or  waking  as  alone  I  lav, 
Mine  eyes  and  ears  and  senses  all  were 

served 
With  every  object  perfect  in  his  kind.** 

266.  A  character  of  the  watermen.' 


V>^^^^^A^\^^^N/\/\/H/«/W'tai 


Daniel, 

Ben  Jonson  disliked  him,  merely,  Giflford 
thinks,  from  a  difference  in  taste.  Ben 
Jonson,  vol.  i.  p.  155,  N. 

Ben  Jonson,  vol.  viii.  p.  278,  N.  VoL  ▼• 
p.  250-1,  N.  and  proof  in  the  text. 

In  his  volume  of  "  Certain  Small  Works" 
heretofore  divulged,  and  now  again  cor- 
rected and  augmented,  is  a  prefatory  poem 
to  the  reader,  which  is  not  in  the  edition  of 
his  poetical  works, — ^nor  in  Anderson.  It 
falls  a  little  into  Wither*s  pedestrian  strain, 
but  has  value  for  its  feeling,  as  well  as  for 
contributing  to  the  poet*s  own  hbtory. 

It  shows  that  he  bestowed  much  afler- 
correction  upon  his  poems,  so  that  the  edi- 
tions ought  to  be  carefully  compared.^ 

*  The  third  volume  of  Pbblb's  works  was 
published  by  Mr.  Dyce  in  1839.  It  contains 
Sir  Clyomon  and  Sir  Clamydes,  An  Ecli^< 
Gratulatory,  Speeches  to  Queen  Elizabeth  ti 
Theobalds,  and  the  Anglorum  Ferije. 

*  See  Southey's  remarks  on  "  welMangiiaeed 
Daniel,"  in  hiBBrUish  Poets,  p.  572.— J.W.W. 


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Sir  WiUiam  Temple. 

Johnson  once  said  that  he  had  formed 
his  style  upon  that  of  Sir  W.  Temple,  and 
upon  Chambers^s  Proposal  for  his  Dictionary. 

"And  Sir  W.  Temple  supposed  he  had 
formed  his  upon  Sandys^s  View  of  the  State 
of  Religion." — Cbokeb's  BosweU^  vol.  i.  p. 
196. 


Ben  Jonson. 


Vol.  2. 


P.  453.  GiFFORD  supposed  Crispinus  to 
have  been  intended  for  Marston,  whom 
(voL  i.  p.  517)  he  very  much  disparages. 

456.  The  alternate  verses  in  which  king 
Darius  is  ridiculed  here,  are  not  unlike  some 
of  Dryden*s  tragic  snip-snap  dialogues  in 
tragedy. 

490.  A  faun  or  fawne,  I  suppose,  is  sy- 
Donimous  with  a  fawner. 

Vol.  3. 

P.  54.  "That  for  her  own,  great  Caesar's, 
and  the  pub* 
Lie  safety." 

162.  Ded.  to  the  Fox.  His  notion  of  the 
good  poet. 
164.  Abuses  of  the  stage. 

206-7.  —  "  Came  you  forth 

Empty  of  rules  for  travel  ? 

Per.  Faith,  I  had 

Some  common  ones,  from  out  that  vulgar 

grammar    . 
Which  he  that  cried  Italian  to  me,  taught 
me." 

The  commentators  hav^  not  looked  for 
that  grammar  and  its  rules. 

391.  Bride-ale,  a  note  showing  that  Gif- 
ford  did  not  know  what  the  word  means. 

454.  Going  away  in  snuff  (in  anger)  Gif- 
ford  thinks  alludes  to  the  offensive  manner 
in  which  a  candle  goes  out.  I  rather  think 
it  refers  to  a  sudden  emotion  of  anger,  seiz- 
ing a  man  as  snuff  takes  him  by  the  nose.^ 

'  See  the  extract  from  Someks'  Traetiy  in 
Second  Series,  p.  654.— J.  W.  W. 


Vol.  4. 

GiFFOBD  coidd  not  have  looked  at  Lady 
Wroth*8  book. 

Alchembt.     £p.  to  the  Reader. 

Dances  and  antic  marring  the  drama  at 
that  time. 

S.  EvBEMOND,  vol.  3,  p.  207-8,  praises 
Sejanus  and  Catiline,  and  condemns  all 
other  English  tragedies.     See  the  passage. 

"  It  appears  that  he  read  Greek  invari- 
ably, not  by  quantity,  but  accent."  Vol.  5, 
p.  339,  N.  In  the  text  that  occasions  this 
note,  the  line  is, 

"  Old  Master  Gross  sumam^d  AycXaoroc," 

— which  yet  would  read  by  quantity,  if  the 
true  reading  of  the  preceding  word  should 
be  surnamgd.  But  Gifford  says  it  was  his 
invariable  rule. 

His  contempt  of  romances,  with  which 
he  oddly  classes  Pantagruel.  Vol.  5,  p.  346 ; 
8,  p.  416-7. 

The  metre  in  his  Ode  to  himself  (vol.  5, 
p.  442),  a  ten-lined  stanza,  is  sufficiently 
varied  by  the  different  length  of  the  lines, 
though  the  rhymes  are  in  couplets. 

P.  417.  Gifford  assents  to  O.  Feltham's 
criticism, 

"  When  was  there  ever  laid 

Before  a  chambermaid 
Discourse  so  weighed,  as  might  have  served 

of  old 
For  schools  when  they  of  love  and  valour 

told?" 

Now  though  the  discourse  is  very  ill  laid 
considering  some  of  the  company,  the  ob- 
jection certainly  does  not  hold  good  with 
regard  to  the  Chambermaid,  who  is  what 
Ben  Jonson  remembered  female  domestics 
to  be,  upon  the  same  footing  as  pages  in  the 
family.  The  one  in  this  play  is  the  friend 
and  companion  of  her  mistress,  and  thought 
a  fit  wife  for  a  nobleman  at  the  end  of  the 
drama. 

Vol.  6. 

P.  2.  The  actors,  when  the  Magnetic 
Lady  was  first  represented,  introduced  so 


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many  oaths,  that  they  were  called  before 
the  High  Commission  Court,  and  severely 
censured.  As  the  author  was  sick  in  bed, 
they  boldly  laid  the  fault  on  him.  Jonson 
however  completely  justified  himself  from 
this  atrocious  charge,  as  did  the  Master  of 
the  Revels,  on  whom  they  had  next  the 
audacity  to  lay  it :  and  the  players  then 
humbly  confessed  that  they  had  themselves 
interpolated  the  offensive  passages. 

11.  "I  have  heard  the  poet  say  that  to  be 
the  most  unlucky  scene  in  a  play  which 
needs  an  interpreter." — Induction  to  the 
MagTietic  Lady, 

250.  Giflford  says  he  was  a  careful  reader 
of  the  Polyolbion,  and  in  the  Sad  Shepherd 
an  occasional  imitator. 

222.  Inigo  Jones  satirized. 

Vol.  7. 

P.  19.  GiFFOBD  thinks  Milton*8  Arcades 
*'  a  very  humble  imitation  of  Ben  Jonson*s 
masques." 

36-7.  Dances  described  in  the  Masques. 
39.  65.  108.  157.  324-5. 

16.  A  double  echo  finely  managed  in  a 
song. 

79.  Masque  scenery.  302.  Splendour.  328. 

^*  Sit  now,  propitious  aids. 
To  rites  so  duly  prized, 
And  view  two  noble  maids 
Of  different  sex,  to  Union  sacrificed." 

Masque  of  Hymen^  53. 

77.  Gifford  calls  "  the  attention  of  the 
reader  to  the  richness,  elegance,  and  match- 
less vigour  of  Jonson*s  prose,"  upon  occasion 
of  a  very  beautiful  passage,  which  he  does 
not  perceive  to  be  an  imitation  of  Sydney's 
manner. 

94.  It  only  cost  the  masquers  about  £  300 
a  man  for  that  on  Lord  Haddington's  mar- 
riage. 

114.  Dedication  of  a  Masque  to  P.  Henry. 

151.  Bel-Anna,  James's  Queen,  a  name 
in  which  he  plainly  remembered  Bclphoebe. 

Gifford  says  it  is  evident  that  Jonson  had 
made  some  progress  in  a  work  intended  to 
celebrate  the  ladies  of  Great  Britain. 


164.  Allusions  to  Morte  d'Arthu 

165.  And  to  Meliadus,  which  Gi£ 
his  note,  seems  not  to  understand. 

265.  In  the  Golden  Age  Restored 
up  Grower  and  Lidgate  with  Chauc 
Spenser. 

269.  The  first  folio  which  Ben 
superintended  himself  has  "  come  < 
us  one  of  the  correctest  works  th 
issued  from  the  English  press." 

274.  Excellent   personifications 
Masque  of  Christmas. 

298.  Dr.  Aikin  has  called  Ben 
**  this  once  celebrated  author ! "  and 
of  the  prevalent  coarseness  of  tedio 
sions ! 

305.  "  The  tail  of  a  Kentish  man.* 
this  was  still  a  current  jest. 

311.  G.  Chalmers'  glorious  conf^ 
of  Titan  with  Tithonus. 

315.  His  Comus. 

320.  Gifford  thinks   Swift  took 
hence,   and   not  from   Philostratui 
Swift  is  likely  to  have  read  Philost 

322.  The  first  Masque  in  which 
bore  a  part. 

334.  Ben  Jonson  wishes  to  obtai 
knowledge  of  Welsh. 

335.  Velhy,  "an  interjection  of  si 
Heyday!  So!"  &c.  Thus  in  Gifford 
Valho  me  Dios  is  the  Portuguese  e3 
tion. 

348.  Praise  of  the  Welsh. 
366.  Heber  has  an  autograph  MS 
Masque  of  the  Metamorphosed  Gip: 

Vol.  8. 

P.  31.  Antimasqubb. 

"  Neither  do  I  think  th 

A  worthy  part  of  presentation, 

Being  things  so  heterogene  to  all  d 

Mere  by-works,  and  at  best  outlanc 

things." 

43.  "  Bright  day's  eyes^'  and  "  th< 

*  The  reader  should  see  how  Hawei 
of  "  moral  Gower,"  and  Chaucer,  and  " 
Lydgate.  the  monk  of  Bury,"  in  The  P< 
Pleature,  Capitulo  xiv.— J.  W.  W. 


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This  odd  inversion  is  in  some  very 
rerses. 

The  description  of  the  two  loves, 
nd  Anteros,  is  that  they  were  both 
and  winged ;  with  bows  and  quivers, 
IS,  breeches,  buskins,  gloves,  and  pe- 
ilike. — Love's  Welcome  at  Bolsover. 

In  the  dedication  to  his  Epigrams 
9  them  the  ripest  of  his  studies. 

To  my  bookseller.  He  requests  that 
*k  may 

**  thus  much  favour  have 
upon  thy  stall  till  it  be  sought : 
fered,  as  it  made  suit  to  be  bought, 
ive  my  title-leaf  on  posts  or  walls, 
cleft  sticks  advanced  to  make  calls, 
rmers,  or  some  clerklike  serving  man 
Mirce  can  spell  the  hard  names;  whose 
knight  less  can.*' 

On  Sir  John  Roe.     His  own  anti- 

n  of  death.  A  fine  manly  strain.  170. 

Repentance  for  some  ill  deserved 

• 

To  Playwright : 

wright,  convict  of  public  wrongs  to 

en, 

private  beatings,  and  begins  again. 

inds  of  valour  he  doth  shew  at  once, 

in*8  brain,  and  passive  in  his  bones.** 

His  invitation  to  supper. 

He  did  not  understand  French :  this 
8  by  his  verses  to  Silvester. 

His  opinion  of  the  military  and  legal 
lions. 

Complained  of  as  a  dangerous  per- 


His  prayer. 

^*  The  gladdest  light  dark  man  can 
ipon.** 
To  Brome ; 

"  those  comic  laws 
I,  your  master,  first  did  teach  the 
age.** 

Admission  that  he  has  overpraised 
lersons. 

Ode  to  himself : 
What  though  the  greedy  fry 
e  taken  with  false  baits 


Of  worded  balladry 
And  think  it  poesy  ?  ** 

418-19.  What  the  fire  destroyed. 

442.  To  the  Painter.  His  own  person 
described. 

446.  Wager  upon  his  weight. 

448.  Giiford  does  not  see  that  this  piece 
relates  to  the  former. 

452.  To  the  Lord  Keeper  Williams. 

459.  Charles  sent  him  £  100  in  his  sick- 
ness, 1629. 

Vol.  9. 

P.  4.  Ben  Jonson  and  the  Earl  of  New- 
castle. 

6.  Lord  Falkland. 

78.  Gifibrd*s  praise  of  his  Pindarics.  But 
N.  B.  that  word  was  not  prefixed  to  it  by 
Jonson.  9. 

17.  It  appears  by  this  note  that  the  edition 
is  not  so  complete  as  Gifford  might  and 
ought  to  have  made  it. 

27.  An  Epistle  Mendicant. 

35.  In  this  Epithalamion  he  seems  to  have 
had  Spenser  in  mind. 

37.  Porting  for  carrying} 

43.  Laureate*s  petition  to  King  Charles. 

47.  Sir  Ken.  Digby — a  sad  conceit 

95.  A  divided  rhyme : 

"  when  or 
Diana*s  grove,  or  altar,  with  the  bor- 
-Dring  circles  of  swift  waters,**  &c. 

161.  Envious  criticism  in  his  age,  and  suc- 
cess of  worthless  works.  162. 

169-70.  His  own  memory. 

172.  A  vicious  tinsel  style  in  vogue.  173. 

1 74.  ^*  Dabbling  in  verse  had  helped  to 
advance  men  both  in  the  law  and  gospel ;  but 
poetry  in  this  latter  age  hath  proved  but  a 
mean  mistress  to  such  as  have  wholly  ad- 
dicted themselves  to  her,  or  given  their 
names  up  to  her  family.** 

176.  His  opinion  of  precocious  talents. 

*  Milton  uses  "  ported  spears,"  Paradite 
Lo$t,  book  iv.  p.  980 ;  and  Fuller  in  his  Wor- 
thiesy  speaks  of  Shropshire  coals  as  '*  easily 
ported  by  boat  into  other  shires."  Shropthire, 
p.  l,folio.-J  W.W. 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


177.  Rough  and  smooth  poets,  the  scab- 
rous and  silkjr  style. 
180.  Of  his  own  style. 

183.  Lord  Bacon.  184-5. 

184.  Prose  writers,  Bishop  Grardiner  call- 
ed admirable  as  such — "now  things  daily  fall, 
wits  grown  downward,  and  eloquence  grows 
backward ;  so  that  he  (Bacon)  may  be 
named  and  stand  as  the  mark  and  &ic/iij  of 
our  language." 

"  If  there  was  any  fault  in  his  language,** 
says  Dryden,  **  it  was  that  he  weaved  it  too 
closely  and  laboriously,  in  his  comedies 
especially." — Essay  on  Dramatic  Poesy,  p. 
Ixxv.  See  there  for  Dryden's  opinion  of 
Ben  Jonson. 

See  Censura  Literaria,  vol.  1 ,  p.  94. 

Monthly  Review,  vol.  15,  p.  198,  Month. 
Cat.  for  Aug.  1756,  Whalley*s  Ben  Jonson, 
"  To  say  that  we  look  upon  this  as  the  best 
edition  of  Ben  Jonson^s  works,  will  be  say- 
ing enough  for  an  article  of  this  kind." 


Metastasio. 

One  great  absurdity  the  dramatists  of 
this  school  proceed  upon  as  a  postulate,  that 
as  the  same  passions  exist  in  all  times  and 
places,  the  same  situations  are  possible  in  all. 

Vol.  5. 

P.  395.  A  VBBT  beautifiil  sonnet. 

There  is  the  same  set  of  characters  in  all 
his  dramas ;  he  always  represents  intricate 
situations,  contending  duties,  and  heroic 
virtue. 

No  Csesarerian  poet  could  have  presented 
better  examples  or  loftier  morality  to  an 
imperial  audience. 

Vol.  10. 

P.  340-1.  Imjubt  done  to  the  drama  when 
the  music  is  made  the  principal  part,  and 
the  poetry  must  subserve  it. 

341.  His  censure  oi  hramwas, 

374.  His  office  left  him  no  leisure  for  a 
prose  work  upon  his  own   art,   which  he 


wished  to  compose,  and  in  which  the  impe- 
rial commands  frequently  interrupted  him. 
He  had  plainly  no  sinecure  as  Poeta  Ce- 
sareo! 


^^^•^^^^>i^S^^^0*^*i^^*i^^^^S^i^^ 


Lord  Sterunb. 


'  Drumm OND  says,  "  This  much  I  will  ssj, 
and  perchance  not  without  reason  dare  saj, 
if  the  heavens  prolong  his  days  to  end  his 
day,  he  hath  done  more  in  one  day  thsn. 
Tasso  did  all  his  life,  and  Bartas  in  his  two 
weeks,  though  both  the  one  and  other  be 
most  praiseworthy."  —  Extracts  from  the 
Hawthorden  MSS.  p.  28. 

Ibid.  p.  31.  Drummond*s  notes  for  an 
elegy  upon  him.  Here  it  appears  that  tbe 
supplement  to  the  Arcadia  is  by  him. 

^  Factions  breaking  loose 
Like  waters,  for  a  time  by  art  restrain*d, 
Their  bounds  once   pass*d,  which  do  all 
bounds  dfsdain.** 

Alexandrcean  Tragedy,  p.  128. 


Dbtden. 

Cougbbvb  (Dedication  to  his  Plays)  says, 
"  I  have  frequently  heard  him  own  with 
pleasure,  that  if  he  had  any  talent  for  Eng- 
lish prose,  it  was  owing  to  his  having  often 
read  the  writings  of  the  great  Archbishop 
Tillotson." 

An  atrocious  assertion  in  some  Remarb 
on  Johnson*s  Life  of  Milton,  extracted  from 
the  Memoir  of  T.Hollis,  that  Dryden  "wM 
reprehensible  even  to  infamy  ybr  Aii  oim 
vices,  and  the  licentious  encouragement  be 
gave  in  his  writings  to  those  of  others."-' 
Monthly  Review,  vol.  62,  p.  483. 

Essay  of  Dramatic  Poesy. 

Crites  says  in  this  Essay,  **  it  conoemed 
the  peace  and  quiet  of  all  honest  people* 
that  ill  poets  should  be  as  well  silenced  •* 
seditious  preachers,  xxxi. 

P.  xxxii-i.  Contemporaries  whom  he  cen- 
sures. 

xlix.  Cleveland.  He  seems  greatly  to 
have  disliked  him. 


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the  quefltioQ  had  been  stated  who 
est,  the  French  or  English,  forty 
I  should  have  adjudged  the  ho- 
ur own  nation;  but  since  that 
ave  been  so  long  together  bad 
that  we  had  no  leisure  to  be 


n 


*« 


laid  with  relation  to  the  drama, 
poet  in  the  description  of  a  beau- 
n,  or  a  meadow,  will  please  our 
a  more  than  the  place  itself  can 
sight.** 

y  we,  who  are  a  more  sullen 
le  to  be  diverted  at  our  plays,  so 
French),  who  are  of  an  airy  and 
r,  come  hither  to  make  them- 
3  serious.  And  this  I  conceive 
reason  why  comedies  are  more 
us  and  tragedies  to  them.** 
tempt  to  show  that  rhymed  plays 
;lish  fashion. 

.  His  definition  of  humour. 
Sect  of  the  Rebellion  on  poetry, 
Restoration. 

Well  sdd  and  shown  that  Shake- 
.  if  bom  now  would  not  equal 

* 

ok  verse  is  acknowledged  to  be 
a  poem,  nay  more,  for  a  paper 
but  if  too  low  for  an  ordinary 
r  much  more  for  tragedy  I 
e  woots  f  his  customers.**  ^ 
raw  miching  boy.'*' 
invincibly  ignorant  as  a  town- 
l  a  new  play.** 

t  stands  in  ambush,  like  a  Jesuit 
;uaker,  to  see  how  his  design  will 

ith  a  wannion^  to  you.** 

suspect,  is  a  shtng  term,  i.  e.  his 
9  known  customers :  to  wit,  zu  wiaen, 

J.  W.  W. 
Q  Johnson  says  that  micher  is  used 
)m  Counties  for  a  truant  boy.  The 
mlet  naturally  occur,  *'  Marry  this 
aalicho ;  it  means  mischief."  Act 
.  W.  W. 

day  this  word  used  by  Latimer, 
)eare,  Ben  Jons^jn,  &c.  &c.  remains 
.    See  Richardson  and  Nares  in 


60.  *^  How  my  heart  quops*  now,  as  they 
say.** 

83.  Epilogue.  *'To  make  regaUo*  out  of 
common  meat.** 

Dedication  to  the  Rival  Ladies. 

His  own  stile. 

Desires  an  academy  to  fix  the  language. 

Blank  verse,  leading  to  foolish  inver- 
sions. 

Waller,  Denham,  Davenant  praised  for 
rhyme. 

Prologue  on  Prologues. 

115.  **  Ck>ward8  have  courage  when  they 

see  not  death, 
And  feeble  hares  that  sculk  in  forms  all  day. 
Yet  fight  their  feeble  quarrels  by  the  moon- 

Sght.** 

This  is  a  false  application :  those  quarreb 
are  not  feeble  to  them. 

15  L  **rm  too  unlucky  to  converse  with 

men, 
m  pack  together  all  my  mischiefs  up. 
Gather  with  care  each  little  remnant  of  *em. 
That  none  of  *em  be  left  behind ;  thus 

loaded, 
Fly  to  some  desert,  and  there  let  them  loose. 
Where  they  may  never  prey  upon  mankind.** 

187.  "  *Tis  the  greatest  bliss 

For  man  to  grant  himself  all  he  dares  wish ; 
For  he  that  to  himself,  himself  denies, 
Proves  meanly  wretched,  to  be  counted 
wise.'* 

197.  "  Why  should  we  in  your  mercies 

still  believe. 
When  you  can  never  pity  though  we  grieve  I 
For  you  have  bound  yourselves  by  harsh 

decrees, 
And  those,  not  you,  are  now  the  deities.** 

Dedication  to  Indian  Emperors. 
"  The  favour  which  heroic  plays  have 
lately  found  upon  our  theatres,  have  been 


y.    It  is  needless  to  add  another  guess  amongst 
many. — J.  W.  W. 

*  ''  And  lord  so  that  his  herte  'gan  to  ^uappe 
Hearing  her  come,  and  shorte  for  to  siko." 
Chaucer,  Troilu$  and  Cremde,  iii.  ad  init, 

J.  W.  W. 


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wholly  derived  to  them  from  the  counte- 
nance and  approbation  they  have  received 
at  court." 

See  what  he  says  of  beauty  here !  and 
his  vile  adulation  I 

See  too  his  Defence  of  his  Essay  on  Dra- 
matic Poesy,  prefixed  to  this  play. 

249.  "  As  if  our  old  world  modestly  with- 
drew, 
And  here  in  private  had  brought  forth  a 
new!" 

262.  "  Andye  small  stars,  the  scattered 
seeds  of  light." 

264.  **  Arise,  ye  subtle  spirits  that  can 

Bpy; 

When  love  is  entered  in  a  female's  eye ; 
You  that  can  read  it  in  the  midst  of  doubt, 
And  in  the  midst  of  frowns  can  find  it  out ; 
You  that  can  search  those  many  comer'd 

minds 
Where  women's  crooked  fancy  turns  and 

winds ; 
You  that  can  love  explore  and  truth  im- 

pa)*t, 
MTiere  both  lie  «feffpe#f  hid  in  woman's  heart." 

Cortes  says, 

269.  "  If  for  n;iyself  to  conquer  here  I 
came. 
You  might  perhaps  my  actions  justly  blame : 
Now  I  am  sent,  and  am  not  to  dispute 
My  Prince's  orders,  but  to  execute." 

266.  "  Cydippe.yVh&t  is  this  honour  which 

does  love  controul  ? 
"  Cortes.  A  raging  fit  of  virtue  in  the 
soul, 
A  painful  burden  which  great  minds  must 

bear, 
Obtain'dwith  danger,  and  possest  with  fear." 

269.  Montezuma  to  his  gods : 

"  HI  fate  for  me  unjustly  you  provide ; 
Great  souls  are  sparks  of  your  own  heavenly 

pride, 
That  lust  of  power  we  from  your  godhead's 

have, 
You're  bound  to  please  those  appetites  you 

gave." 


276.  Enter  Cortes  alone,  in  a  night  gown. 

^^  All  things  are  hush'd,  as  Nature's  self  iaj 
dead, 

The  mountains  seem  to  nod  their  drowsy 
head. 

The  little  birds  in  dreams  their  songs  re- 
peat. 

And  sleeping  flowers  beneath  the  night  dew 
sweat ; 

Even  Lust  and  Envy  sleep ;  yet  Love  denies 

Rest  to  my  soul,  and  slumber  to  my  eyes." 

All  b  in  keeping  here,  the  costume,  the  de- 
scription, and  the  character  I 

287.  "  As  callow  birds. 
Whose  mothers  killed  in  seeking  of  the  prejt 
Cry  in  their  nest,  and  think  her  long  away, 
And  at  each  leaf  that  stirs,  each  breath  of 

wind, 
Gape  for  the  food  which  they  must  never 

find." 

302.  Montezuma. 

"  whensoever  I  die. 
The  Sun,  my  father,  bears  my  soul  on  high ; 
He  lets  me  down  a  beam,  and  mounted 

there, 
He  draws  it  back,  and  pulls  me  through  the 


air. 


»• 


The  absurdity  of  making  the  Peruvians 
and  Mexicans  at  war  scarcely  seems  absurd 
in  this  most  preposterous  plan ;  so  utterly 
has  all  truth  and  character,  feeling,  time, 
and  place  been  disregarded. 

Vol.  2. 

Secret  Love,  or  the  Maiden  Queen. 

"  Owned  in  so  particular  a  manner  by  his 
Majesty,  that  he  has  graced  it  with  the  title 
of  his  play  ;  and  thereby  rescued  it  from  the 
severity  (not  to  say  malice)  of  its  enemies."* 

In  this  play  there  are  eight  female  charac- 
ters and  only  three  male. 

P.  19.  ^*  I  am  more  and  more  in  love  with 
you  1  A  full  nether  lip,  an  out-mouth,  that 
makes  mine  water  at  it.  The  bottom  of 
your  cheeks  a  little  blub,  and  two  dimples 
when  you  smile." 

Dryden  had  no  reverence  for  his  great 


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wesson ;  if  he  had,  he  would  not  have 
the  name  of  Florimel  for  one  of  the 
1  in  this  play. 

logue  by  a  Person  of  Quality. 

men  of  business  must  in  policy 
(h  a  little  harmless  poetry, 
t  would  else  grow  up  to  knavery. 
I  a  bird  of  music,  or  of  prey ; 
ting,  she  strikes  at  all  things  in  her  way ; 
this  birdlime  once  but  touch  her  wings, 
i  nex  t  bush  she  sits  her  down  and  sings.*' 

Martin  Mar-all.  115-6.  Phrases  of  re- 
itroduction,  vertuoso^  you  have  reasouy 

• 

ipest.  209. 

wo  winds  rise;  ten  more  enter  and 
At  the  end  of  the  dance,  three  winds 
the  rest  drive  Alon.  Anto.  Gonz.  off." 
-3.  The  weapon  salve  used. 
.  Tritons — sound  a  calm  I 


Massingbb. 

>TD  in  a  note  in  the  St,  James's 
ziney  vol.  2,  p.  38,  says  of  Massinger, 
recently  published  by  T.  Davies), 
he  is  a  poet  who  wants  only  to  be 
hat  he  may  be  admired  !**  Contrast 
ith  Goldsmiths  contemptuous  review 
same  edition ! 

I  AT  many  of  our  readers  are  ignorant 
»r  what,  this  Massinger  was,  is  a  cir- 
ance  which  we  may  safely  take  for 
!d ;  and  which,  too,  supersedes  the  ne- 
'  of  our  saying  much  more  concerning 
the  poet  or  his  works.  Had  he  pos-* 
more  merit  he  had  been  better  known. 
*  it  therefore,  if  we  only  add,  that  he 
»ntemporary  with,  or  rather  somewhat 
han  Shakespear;  that  he  wrote  many 
long  since  forgotten;  and  that  this 
I  of  liis  works  is  even  unworthy  the 
epute  in  which  Massinger  may  be  still 
)y  some  readers."  ( !  I ) — Monthly  -Re- 
^ol.  xxi.  p.  176. — CoxetPT's  edition. 


^Cbiticai.  Reflections  on  the  Old  English 
Dramatic  Writers,  intended  as  a  Preface  to 
the  Works  of  Massinger,  addressed  to  Gar- 
rick.    6d.    Davies." 

"  Wb  doubt,  however,  that  Massinger, 
together  with  many  others  of  the  once 
famed  English  poets,  have  already  pro- 
ceeded too  far  on  the  road  to  oblivion  ever 
to  be  brought  back,  whatever  may  be  the 
endeavours  of  their  few  remaining  friends 
for  that  purpose.  Spenser,  Jonson,  Beau- 
mont, Fletcher,  Massinger,  Randolph,  and 
others  who  figured  in  the  days  of  Elizabeth, 
James,  and  Charles  I.  are  now  almost  as 
little  known  or  read  as  Chaucer,  Lydgate, 
Grower,  and  that  pithie  Poete  Maister  Tho' 
mas  SkeUone,  Notwithstanding  which  it 
must  be  acknowledged,  there  are  great 
beauties  and  excellencies  in  the  ingenious 
cotemporaries  above  mentioned ;  particu- 
larly in  Spenser,  whom  we  are  truly  sorry 
to  put  into  the  list.  His  genius  was  per- 
haps equal  to  any  that  ever  appeared  in 
this  or  any  other  country  ;  but  that  kind  of 
allegory  and  stanza  in  which  he  unhappily 
wrote,  are  now  totally  out  of  fashion,  and 
probably  will  never  be  revived."  (!!!)  — 
Ibid.  vol.  xxiv.,  p.  200. — See  Ibid.  vol.  Ix., 
p.  480. 

**  Skilful  Massinger, 
Thou  known,  all  the  Costilians  must  confess 
Vego  de  Carpio  thy  foil,  and  bless 
His  language  can  translate  thee,  and  the  fine 
Italian  wits  yield  to  this  work  of  thine.** 

Sib  Aston  Cockaihb. 

"CoMMENDATOBT  Verses  to  the  Emperor 
of  the  East/* — Massingbb,  1,  clxi. 

Vol.  1. 

P.  7.  GiTPOBD  shews  a  want  of  ear  here. 
The  word  may  just  as  well  be  pronounced 
persevSre  as  pers€ver. 

15.  Mason  an  imitator  oflen  of  Massin- 
ger. Gifford  says,  "  he  may  be  right,  but 
in  this  instance  Mason  remembered  Tacitus, 
not  Massinger.** 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


66.  **  This  tottered  world."  Is  this  the 
same  word  as  tattered,  or  may  it  not  mean 
shaken,  crazed  ? 

7L  **  Peevish."  Does  it  not  rather  mean 
weak  and  fretful  than  foolish  ? 

Dedicatio  s  to  the  **  Unnatural  Combat." 

To  his  "  much*  honoured  friend,  An- 
thony Sutleges,  of  Oakham,  in  Kent,  Esq." 

"  Your  noble  father,  Sir  Warham  S. 
(whose  remarkable  virtues  must  be  ever 
remembered)  being,  while  he  lived,  a  mas- 
ter, for  his  pleasure,  in  poetry,  feared  not 
to  hold  converse  with  divers  whose  neces- 
sitous fortunes  made  it  their  profession, 
among  which,  by  the  clemency  of  his  judge- 
ment, I  was  not  in  the  last  place  admitted. 

**  I  present  you  with  this  old  tragedy, 
without  prologue  or  epilogue ;  it  being  com- 
posed in  a  time  (and  that,  too,  peradven- 
ture,  as  knowing  as  this,)  when  such  by- 
ornaments  were  not  advanced  above  the 
fabric  of  the  whole  work." 

Vol.  1. 

Massingbb  oflen  weakens  his  verse  by 
attenuating  words  which  it  is  the  character 
of  our  speech  to  compress. 

160.  "  —  let  me  glory  in 

Your  action^  as  if  it  were  my  own." 

163. 
"  To  thy  petfectiotUy  but  that  they  are,"  &c. 

"  Duke  of  Milan.**  Dedication  to  the 
Lady  Katharine  Stanhope. 

"  —  there  is  no  other  means  left  me  (my 
misfortunes  having  cast  me  on  this  course) 
to  publish  to  the  world,  (if  it  hold  the  least 
good  opinion  of  me),  that  I  am  your  Lady- 
8hip*s  creature.'* 

259.  **  In  the  management  of  preparatory 
hints,  Massinger  surpasses  all  his  contem- 
poraries. He  seems  to  have  minutely  ar- 
ranged all  the  component  parts  [of  his  plots] 
before  a  line  of  the  dialogue  was  written.** 

266.  Gifibrd  well  observes,  ^*  that  those 
vigorous  powers  of  genius  which  carry  men 
far  beyond  the  literary  state  of  their  age. 


do  not  enable  them  to  outgo  that  of  its 


manners. 

276.  "  If  thou  wouldst  work 

Upon  my  weak  credulity,  tell  me  rather 
That  the  earth  moves,  the  sun  and  stars 
stand  still." 

274.  Aviary  for  aerie,  which  Gifibrd 
charges  upon  poor  M.  Mason  was,  I  dare 
say,  a  printer's  blunder. 

Vol.  2. 

P.  7.  Indicatioh  of  ill-will  towards  Buck- 
ingham. 119. 

8.  A  captious  note  of  Giflbrd,  as  if  he 
did  not  know  what  is  meant  by  dUtoMt 
manners. 

6.  Specimens  of  the  old  editions. 

1 1 . "  0  shame !  that  we  that  are  a  populous 
nation, 
Engaged  to  liberal  nature  for  all  blessings 
An  island  can  bring  forth ;  we  that  have 

limbs 
And  able  bodies ;  shipping  arms  and  trea- 
sure, 
The  sinews  of  the  war,  now  we  are  ca]l*d 
To  stand  upon  our  guard,  cannot  produce 
One  fit  to  be  our  Greneral." 

Was  Buckingham  meant  here  also  P 

86,  n.  Remember  is  colloquially  used  m 
this  sense. 

123.  Dedication.  Renegado  to  Lord  Ber- 
keley, the  great  patron  it  here  appears,  of 
dramatic  literature.     See  the  passage. 

429.  Dedication  to  the  Great  Duke  of 
Florence.     See. 

Vol.  3. 

Deoigatioh  to  Maid  of  Honour. 
«    To  Sir  Fr.  Foljambe,  and  Sir  Th.  Bland, 
"  I  had  not  to  this  time  subsisted,  but  tlist 
I  was  supported  by  your  frequent  courte- 
sies and  favours." 

1 1 .  Not  clear  that  M.  Mason  is  not  right. 

ISO.       —  *'  You  are  a  king,  and  that 
Concludes  you  wise ;  your  will,  a  powerful 

reason 
Which  we,  that  are  foolbh  subjects,  muit 
not  argue. 


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Lt  in  a  mean  man  I  should  call  foUj, 
or  majesty  remarkable  wisdom.** 

ation  to  Emperor  of  tbe  East.  1631. 
it  being  so  rare  in  this  age  to  meet 
e  noble  name,  that,  in  fear  to  be 
I  of  levity  and  weakness,  dare  ex- 
ilf  a  friend  or  patron  to  contemned 

rue — at  Ck>urt. 

rst  not,  Sir,  at  such  a  solemn  feast, 
i  grave  matter  with  one  scurrilous 

#  • 

•ured  that  no  passage  might  appear 
t  the  Queen  without  a  blush  might 
r.** 

Tax-projectors. 


iIabam.    Dedication.    Reputation 

Dger  during  his  life,  and  when  this 

published  in  1659. 

Gifford  did  not  know  how  heirs 

pronounced  as  a  dissyllable. 

Mi  of  our  old  writers  abridged  the 

aster,    and   pronounced  only  the 

tter,  e.g. 

[.  Luke*B  suit.    The  action  twenty 

Duchess  or  Newcastle. 

iKiK  says  she  was  one  of  the  most 
id  voluminous  writers — at  least  of 
ipon  record.  Her  works  at  length 
ig  to  thirteen  folios,  ten  of  them  in 
Hbis  enormous  mass  of  her  writings 
*  completely  consigned  to  oblivion, 
>ably  scarcely  any  English  scholar 
IS  read  more  of  them  than  a  few 
criptive  of  melancholy  quoted  in 
nnoisseur,**  (No.  69,)  and  praised 
heir  desert. 

kin  himself  has  written  much  more 
ity ;  and  his  daughter.  Miss  Lucy, 
nuch, — and  nothing  so  good. 


Poems  and  Fancies.     1653. 

**  Wife  off  my  tears  with  handkerchiefs  of 
praise.** 

Epistle  Dedicatory. 

*^  Spin  a  garment  of  memory  to  lap  up 
my  name.** 

**  Vanity  is  so  natural  to  our  sex,  as  it 
were  unnatural  not  to  be  so.** 

"  Poetry  which  is  built  upon  fancy,  wo- 
men may  claim  as  a  work  belonging  most 
properly  to  themselves :  for  I  have  observed 
that  their  brains  work  usually  in  a  fantasti- 
cal motion ;  as  in  their  several  and  various 
dresses ;  in  their  many  and  singular  choices 
of  cloths  and  ribbons,  and  the  like ;  in  their 
curious  shadowing  and  mixing  of  colours  in 
their  wrought  works, — and  divers  sorts  of 
stitches  they  employ  their  needle ;  and 
many  curious  things  they  make,  as  flowers, 
boxes,  baskets  with  beads,  shells,  silk,  straw, 
or  any  thing  else;  besides  all  manner  of 
meats  to  eat ;  and  thus  their  thoughts  are 
employed  perpetually  with  fancies ;  for 
fancy  goeth  not  so  much  by  rule  and  me- 
thod as  by  choice.** 

She  understood  no  language  but  her  own, 
"  not  French,  although  I  was  in  France  five 
years.  Neither  do  I  understand  my  own 
native  language  very  well,  for  there  are 
many  words  I  know  not  what  they  signify.** 

**  The  passions  are  like  musical  instru- 
ments :  when  they  play  concords,  the  mind 
dances  in  measure  the  saraband  of  tranquil- 
lity.'*    P.  51. 

123.  **  I  must  intreat  my  Noble  Readers 
to  read  this  part  of  my  Book  very  slow,  and 
to  observe  very  strictly  every  word  they 
read,  because  in  most  of  these  Poems,  every 
word  is  a  Fancy.  Wherefore  if  they  lose 
by  not  marking,  or  skip  by  too  hasty  read- 
ing, they  will  intangle  the  sense  of  the  whole 
Copy.** 

128.  Nature*s  Oven. 

*^  The  Brain  is  like  an  Oven,  hot  and  dry. 
Which  bakes  all  sorts  of  Fancies,  low  and 

high. 
The  Thoughts  are  wood,  which  Motion  sets 

on  fire, 


1 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  IIISTOKY  OF 


The  Tongue  a  Peele  which  draws  forth  the 

Desire. 
But  thinking  much,  the  Brain  too  hot  will 

grow, 
And  bums  it  up ;  if  cold,  the  Thoughts  are 

Dough. 

128.^^  Life  scumms  the  Cream  of  Beauty 
with  Time's  spoon. 
And  draws  the  Claret  wine  of  Blushes  soon.** 

135.  In  Nature's  Grange, 

"  Cows  of  Content,  which  gave  the  Milk  of 

Ease, 
Curds  prest  with  Love  which  made  aFriend- 

ship-Cheese, 
Cream  of  Delight  was  put  in  Pleasure's 

Churn, 
Where  in  short  time  the  Butter  of  Joys 


come. 

139-40.  Nature's  City. 

"  The  Citizens  are  worms,  which  seldom  stir. 
But  sit  within  their  shops  and  sell  their 

ware. 
The  Moles  are  Magistrates  who  imdermine 
Each  one's  estate,  that  they  their  wealth 

may  find." 

"  The  lazy  Dormouse  Gentry  doth  keep 
Much  in  their  houses,  eat,  and  drink,  and 
sleep." 

**  The  Peasant  Ants  industrious  are  to  get 
Provisions  store,  hard  labours  make  them 
sweat." 

"  But  after  all  their  husbandry  and  pains. 
Extortion  comes  and  eats  up  all  their  gains, 
And  Merchant  Bugs  of  all  sorts,  they 
Traffick  on  all  things,  travel  every  way." 

154.  Fairies 

"  Making  the  father  rich  whose  child  they 
keep." 

155.  Ilodmandod  shells. 

138.  She  seems  to  believe  in  fairies. 
148.  The  centre  of  the  earth  their  king- 
dom. 

146.  "Tlicn  on  her  wings  doth  Fame 
those  actions  bear, 


Which  fly  about,  and  carry  'em  every 

where. 
Sometimes  she  overloaded  is  with  all, 
And  then  some  down  into  Oblivion  fall." 

190.  "  When  he  was  mounted,  fast  awaj 
they  went 
In  the  full  gallop  of  a  good  intent." 

Her  atomical  poems  are  comical  enough. 
What  is  most  remarkable  is  the  strange 
looseness  of  language,  as  to  any  thing  like 
syntax  or  rhyme. 

19.  **  Motion  is  the  life  of  all  things." 

31.  The  fancy  of  her  atoms  explained. 

38.  Shadow  and  Echo.  Never  was  fancj 
more  poetically  conceived,  or  unpoetically 
expressed.  It  may  have  suggested  Sir 
Egerton's  fine  sonnet. 


Pepys  says  in  his  Diary ^  May  30th, 
"  To  see  the  silly  play  of  my  Lady  New- 
castle's, called  the  *  Humorous  Lovers,'  the 
most  silly  thing  that  ever  came  upon  a  stage. 
I  was  sick  to  see  it ;  but  yet  would  not  but 
have  seen  it,  that  I  might  better  understand 
her." 


'X/VAM/W^A^^^M^WW^M^^W 


Sir  T.  BrowH. 

Hannah  More  once  read  through  a  shelf 
of  books  at  Hampton.  In  her  list  of  them 
she  enumerates  Sir  Thomas  Brown's  "very 
learned  miscellanies,  (and  eke  very  ob- 
scure),"— and  this  is  all  her  comment! 
Mem,  vol.  2,  p.  198. 


Beattie, 

^  Our  party  (at  the  Bishop's,  Fulham,) 
consists  of  Dr.  Beattie,  and  Mrs.  Kennicott; 
the  former  gentle  and  amiable,  but  in  a  low, 
broken-spirited  state.  We  have  formed 
quite  a  friendship.  He  has  taken  much  to 
me,  I  believe,  chiefly  because  I  cordiallj 
sympathize  with  him  on  the  death  of  hii 
son,  the  Edwin  of  his  **  Minstrel." — Mem- 
vol.  2,  p.  341. — Hannah  Morb. 

*  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  as  is  well  known,  wM 
one  of  Southey's  favourite  authors.— J.  W.  W. 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


SS5 


'^vieWf  V.  44,  p.  286.  When 
z  was  published,  the  Reviewer 
would  not  by  any  means  have 
e.  The  Minstrers  progress  to 
1  cannot  possibly  be  so  enter- 
practice  in  it.  To  represent 
nerant  life ;  to  invent  amusing 
pressive  of  the  might  of  his 
er  the  natural  and  moral  evils 
urb  the  peace  of  families  where 
ned,  and  over  all 

red  ills  that  watch  his  way* 

ily  be  a  glorious  field  for  fancy 
What,  for  instance,  could  be 
r  than  the  MinstreFs  soliciting 
t  at  the  door  of  Spleen  or  Ava- 
y  the  heart  of  one,  and  opening 
ther  ?  The  description  of  so 
at  objects  would  greatly  ani- 
ersify  the  poem.** 

ays,  "For  energy  of  words,  vi- 
icription,  and  apposite  variety 
Dryden's  *  Feast  of  Alex- 
•erior  to  any  Ode  of  Horace  or 
xtant." — Monthly  Review^  vol. 

athos  of  Homer  is  frequently 
Pope,  and  that  of  Virgil  very 
ebased  by   Dryden."  —  Ibid. 


iBSKrNE  says  to  Boswell  (1761) 
try  about  Aberdeen.  "The 
ind  is  dismal ;  long  gloomy 
the  extended  ocean,  are  the 
;ts  that  present  themselves, 
egion  seems  as  if  made  in  di- 
)n  to  descriptive  poetry.  You 
rith  none  of  the  lengthened 
f  vales,  and  dashing  streams 
I  in  the  raptured  poet*s  eye 
145. 


»» 


lys  truly  enough,  that  "  among 
f  poets  we  may  sometimes  ob- 
irity  of  genius,  which  is  pro- 
!>ned  by  their  imitating   one 


But  he  wanted  dates  before  him  when  he 
coupled  Donne  and  Cowley  as  contempo- 
raries, who  introduced  the  irregular  mea- 
sures and  **  childish  witticisms,"  about  the 
middle  of  the  last  century.  And  also  when 
he  says,  that  at  the  time  when  Cowley  had 
infected  the  whole  nation  with  witticism, 
Milton  arose. — "Discussions,  Moral  and 
Critical." — Monthly  Review,  vol.  69,  p.  38. 


Churchill, 

"  Blotting  and  correction  was  so  much 
his  abhorrence,  that  I  have  heard  from  his 
publisher,"  says  D'l8HAEu,"he  once  ener- 
getically expressed  himself,  *■  it  was  like 
cutting  away  one*s  own  flesh.* 


f» 


"  I  have  heard,  that,  after  a  successful 
work,  he  usually  precipitated  the  publica- 
tion of  another,  relying  on  its  crudeness 
being  passed  over  by  the  public  curiosity 
excited  by  its  better  brother.  He  called 
this  getting  double  pay.  But  Churchill  was 
spendthrift  of  fame,  and  enjoyed  all  his  re- 
venue while  he  lived.  Posterity  owes  him 
little,  and  pays  him  nothing." — Curiosities 
of  Literature,  vol.  3,  p.  129. 

PiNKEBTON  says,  (Lett,  of  Lit.,  p.  369), 
"  Churchill's  works  have  passed  through 
more  editions,  and  are  more  read  in  Scot- 
land than  in  England,  which  shews  that  the 
love  of  that  country  for  liberty  is  superior 
even  to  the  most  inveterate  national  preju- 
dices." 


Shenstone. 

D^IsBAELi  says  that  he  educated  the  na- 
tion into  that  taste  for  landscape  gardening 
which  has  become  the  model  of  all  Europe." 
— Curiosities  o/  Literature,  p.  5. 

See  the  whole  article. 

Huix*8  Select  Letters. 

P.  2.  Shenstone,  1736,  to  Mr.  D. 
"  I  am  at  present  in  a  very  refined  state 
of  indolence  and  inactivity.    Indeed  I  make 


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little  more  use  of  a  country  life  than  to  live 
over  again  the  pleasures  of  Oxford  and  jour 
company.** 

**  —  I  aim  at  rendering  my  letters  as  odd 
and  fantastical  as  possible,  but  when  I  write 
to  a  person  of  your  elegant  character,  my 
compliments  degenerate  into  downright 
truths." 

Miss  F — a  to  Shenstone.    1745. 

P.  13.  '*  Mrs.  A.  says,  though  you  cut  off 
your  hair,  she  believes  your  ears  will  re- 
main, and  wishes  nothing  so  much  as  an 
opportunity  to  pinch  *em.** 

17.  **  Tell  Mrs.  A.  my  ears  make  great 
shoots,  and  such  as  may  tempt  her  hand 
egregiously :  but  if  I  am  metamorphosed 
into  an  Ass  entirely,  I  will  come  and  sere- 
nade her  in  a  morning,  when  she  has  been 
up  late  the  night  before.** 

51.  "  —  during  the  winter  season  he  de- 
scribes himself,  as  being, — ^without  any  af- 
fectation— *  the  dullest  of  the  sons  of  men,' 
altogether  in  what  *  I  think  they  call  Swiss 
Meditation,  that  is,  thinking  upon  no- 
thing.* •» 

110.  DucHBSs  or  Somerset.  ^Mr.  Lind- 
sey,  my  Lord's  chaplain,  (who,  by  the  way 
is  a  very  good  judge,  and  a  pretty  sort  of 
man,)  prefers  his  (Shenstone's)  Ode  on 
Autumn  to  almost  every  modem  perform- 
ance." 

115.  Shekstonb  to  Lady  Luxborough. 

"  Notwithstanding  the  supposed  quali- 
fications of  the  Glums  and  the  Gawries 
excite  one's  curiosity,  the  book  does  not, 
I  think,  deserve  a  place  in  your  Ladyship's 
library,  and  I  would  not  have  you  purchase 
It.  It  makes  two  vols,  in  12mo,  price  6«. 
It  came  into  my  way,  so  I  read  it,  giving  it 
just  attention  enough  to  let  it  amuse  me 
with  the  imaginary  scenes  it  describes." 
17.  His  Ode  on  Rural  Elegance. 
I  calculated  the  subject  as  well  as  I 

nothing   but   common-place  thoughts.     I 
thmk  most  of  my  verses  smell  ofnothing 


but  field-flowers,  and  considering  how  I 
spend  my  time,  they  can  scarce  do  other- 
wise." 

156.  The  Gamester. 

Shenstone  says — "  I  never  yet  had  any 
opinion  of  the  genius  of  Mr.  Moore,  and  I 
hardly  think  I  shall  alter  my  sentiments  oo 
account  of  this  performance." 

175.  Oct.  25,  1753. 

^*  I  am  now  in  some  sort  of  doubt  con- 
cerning my  snuff-box,  whether  to  have  it 
repaired  in  the  cheapest  way,  with  a  figured 
tortoise-shell  on  the  top,  and  a  plain  tor- 
toise-shell on  the  bottom  ;  or  to  exchange 
the  gold  of  it,  and  have  a  figured  tortoise- 
shell  box  with  a  gold  rim,  like  yours  with  a 
gilt  one,  only  in  the  shape  of  an  oblong 
square,  a  little  rounded  at  the  comers.  I 
shoidd  have  no  thoughts  of  this,  but  that  my 
own  seems  too  Uttie  and  unmanly ^ 

191.  ^*  I  am,  as  the  phrase  is,  deeply  pe- 
netrated by  the  civility  of  your  neigh- 
bour." 

227.  March  21,  1755,  to  Graves. 

'*  There  is  nothing  that  I  can  less  forgive 
the  world  than  your  want  of  leisure.  Do 
not  misinterpret  me,  or  take  amiss  what  I 
say.  I  know  you  to  be  infinitely  more 
happy  than  myself,  who  am  cloyed  with  it ; 
but  it  would  add  something  to  my  happi- 
ness, if  not  to  your  own,  that  you  had  more 
vacant  spaces,  or  intervals  of  time,  to  em- 
ploy in  those  refined  amusements  for  which 
you  are  so  exquisitely  qualified.** 

228.  *^  As  to  sun-dials,  I  never  much  af- 
fected the  things  themselves,  nor  indeed 
any  mottos  with  which  I  have  seen  them 
inscribed.*  Perhaps  this  indifference  may 
arise  from  no  very  commendable  sources; 
a  reflection  upon  my  own  want  of  proficiency 
in  mathematics,  and  an  habitual  conscious- 
ness of  my  own  waste  of  time.  However,  I 
have  oflen  had  thoughts  of  placing  a  slight 
one  somewhere  upon  my  premises,  for  the 


*  Had  Shenstone  been  a  member  of  AU -Souls, 
instead  of  Pembroke,  he  would  have  remem- 
bered the  beautiful  motto  on  the  Dial  thew:— 
Pbreumt  et  impiitam tub  !  I  could  never  pats 
it  without  tuwiing  back !— J.  W.  W. 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


837 


inscribing  it  with  a  couple  of  lines 
rgil— 

rit  interea,  fugit  irreparabile  tempus, 
dam  capti  circumyectamur  amore/ 

lines  in  Virgil  afford  me  that  sort 
ore  which  one  receives  from  melan- 
lusic;  and  I  believe  I  am  often 
rith  the  turn  and  harmony  of  his 
ons,  where  a  person  less  attached 

can  discover  no  great  beauty.** 

1755. 
hough  I  first  embellished  my  farm, 

eye  to  the  satisfaction  I  should  re- 
3m  its  beauty,  I  am  now  grown  de- 

upon  the  friends  it  brings  me,  for 
icipal  enjoyment  it  affords;  I  am 
to  find  them  pleased,  and  enjoy  its 

by  reflection.  And  thus  the  dur- 
t  of  my  pleasure  appears  to  be,  at 

of  the  social  kind.** 

Sfencb  to  Shenstpne.     1758. 

rour  works  oflen  gave  me  the  great- 
rare,  not  only  from  their  spirit  and 
iy  but  from  the  good  heart  that  shines 
roughout  them.  Whatever  excel - 
ii  writer  possesses,  and  to  whatever 
this  is  the  true  sun,  that  gives  the 
gilding  of  all  to  his  compositions ; 
1  must  give  me  leave  to  say,  that 

the  most  sunshiny  writer  of  this 
it  ever  warmed  me.** 

1759. 

f  his  employments  was  ** perplexing 
ningham  artists  with  sketches  for 
ments  in  their  manufactures,  which 
/  not  understand.** 
Percy  was  translating  Ovid. 

DoDsunr  to  Shenstone. 

-sfield.  A  gun  fired  from  the  top 
cliff,  creates,  by  the  reverberation 
•eport  amongst  other  rocks,  a  loud 
thunder,  two  or  three  times  repeat- 
re  it  dies  away ;  but  even  this  echo, 
ably  to  the  pride  and  grandeur  of 
of  the  place,  will  not  deign  to  an- 


swer a  smaller  voice  than  that  of  a  musket. 
With  a  culverin  I  suppose  it  would  hold  a 
noble  dialogue.** 

93.     1749. 

'*  I  lead  the  unhappy  life  of  seeing  no- 
thing in  the  creation  so  idle  as  myself.  I 
am  continually  piddling  in  little  matters 
about  my  farm.** 

Vol.  2. 

Nov.  20, 1762.     Shekstone  to  Anon. 

"  My  dearest  friend, — It  is  a  very  sur- 
prizing and  a  cruel  thing,  that  you  will  not 
suppose  me  to  have  been  out  of  order^  afler 
such  a  neglect  of  writing  as  can  hardly  be 
excused  on  any  other  score.  I  cannot>,  in- 
deed, lay  claim  to  what  the  doctors  call  an 
acute  disease,  but  dizziness  of  head,  and 
depression  of  spirits  are  at  best  no  trivial 
maladies,  and  great  discouragements  to 
writing.  There  is  a  lethargic  state  of  mind 
that  deserves  your  pity,  not  your  anger : 
though  it  may  require  the  hellebore  of  sharp 
reproof.  Why,  then,  did  you  not  employ 
this  pimgent  remedy  before  the  disease  was 
gone  so  far?  But,  seriously,  I  pass  too 
much  of  that  sort  of  time,  wherein  I  am 
neither  toell  nor  ill,  and  being  unable  to 
express  myself  at  large,  am  averse  to  do  so 
by  halves.** 

P.  4.  "  Mr.  Percy  and  his  wife  spent  a 
good  part  of  the  week  here,  and  he  also 
would  needs  write  a  description  of  the  Lea- 
sowes.  I  am  more  and  more  convinced  that 
no  description  of  this  place  can  make  any 
figure  in  print,  unless  some  strictures  upon 
gardening,  and  other  embellishments,  be 
superadded.** 

15.  To  Whistler. 

**  I  used  to  think  this  a  kind  of  distinc- 
tion between  Mr.  Graves  and  you,  that  the 
one  had  the  knack  of  making  his  virtues 
unenvied,  and  the  other  of  rendering  (what 
I  perhaps  unjustly  termed)  his  weaknesses 
amiable.  I  am  almost  afraid  of  inserting 
this,  lest  it  should  seem  to  injure  the  super- 
lative esteem  I  have  of  you :  but  I  must 
add,  that  I  consider  a  mixture  of  weaknesses, 
and  an  ingenuous  confession  of  them,  as 


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the  most  engaging  and  sociable  part  of  any 
character.** 

44.  WHI8TI.BB  to  Shenstone. 

**  Alas !  for  our  poor  friend  Cobb ! 

*  Who  now  shall  sit  with  countenance  se- 

renCf 
The  inoffensive  judge  of  sacred  song, 
At  once  becalmed  with  Port  and  Poetry, 
While  the  great  Somenrille  attunes  his 

lays.'** 

'*  Mr.  Shenstone  considered  merely  as  an 
author,  had  the  uncommon  felicity  of  at- 
tracting the  love  of  his  readers,  and  those 
who  from  readers  had  the  happiness  of  be- 
coming acquainted  with  him  as  a  man, 
never  felt  any  diminution  of  that  precon- 
ceived esteem  for  him,  inspired  by  his 
works.** — Monthly  Review^  vol.  41,  p.  156. 
On  the  edition  of  his  works,  1769. 

**  —  his  writings,  for  the  most  part,  have 
undoubtedly  very  considerable  merit.** 

Cunningham  was  his  direct  imitator. — 
Cowper  in  one  or  two  pieces.  But  he 
long  reigned  as  the  model  for  magazine 
poetry. 

The  MofMy  Review  (vol.  61,  p.  316,) 
thinks  that  Shenstone  perhaps  might  tit  for 
the  more  amiable  partof  Columclla*s  picture 
in  Greaves*s  book  so  called. 

'*  —  I  have  been  eagerly  reading  Mr. 
Shcnstone*8  letters,  which,  though  contain- 
ing nothing  but  trifles,  amused  me  extreme- 
ly, as  they  mention  so  many  persons  I  know, 
particidarly  myself.** — H.  Walpolb,  vol.  3, 
p.  285. 

**  I  FELT  great  pity,  on  reading  these  let- 
ters, for  the  narrow  circumstances  of  the 
author,  and  the  passion  for  fame  that  he 
was  tormented  with ;  and  yet  he  had  much 
more  fame  than  his  talents  entitled  him  to. 
Poor  man  t  he  wanted  to  have  all  the  world 
talk  of  him,  for  the  pretty  place  he  had 
made,  and  which  he  seems  to  have  made 
only  that  it  might  be  talked  of.  The  first 
time  a  company  came  to  see  my  house,  I 
felt  his  joy.  I  am  now  so  tired  of  it,  that 
I  shudder  when  the  bell  rings  at  the  gate. 


It  is  as  bad  as  keeping  an  inn,  and  I  am 
often  tempted  to  deny  its  being  shown,  if 
it  would  not  be  ill-natured  to  those  that 
come,  and  to  my  housekeeper.  I  own  I 
was  one  day  too  cross.  I  had  been  plagued 
all  the  week  with  staring  crowds.  At  ltd 
it  rained  a  deluge.  Well,  said  I,  at  least 
nobody  will  come  to-day.  The  words  were 
scarce  uttered,  when  the  bell  rang.  A  com- 
pany desired  to  see  the  house.  I  replied, 
tell  them  they  cannot  possibly  see  the  house; 
but  they  are  very  welcome  to  walk  in  the 
garden.**— Ibid.  p.  286. 


Connoinewr, 

P.  2.  CorFBB-HousBS  of  that  time,  1754. 

Garraway's,  the  brokers. 

Batson*s,  the  physicians. 

St.  Paul*s,  the  hack-clergy. 

Chapter  Coffee-house,  the  bookseUers. 

6eorge*s,  like. 

The  Bedford,  which  was  what  Button^s 
had  been  — .    The  wits. 

White*s,  what  it  stiU  is. 

25.  Our  army  and  navy  officers  sneered 
at^  as  deficient  in  courage.  A  very  notice- 
able passage.  Vol.  2,  198-9.  Ignorance  of 
sea  officers. 

41.  The  World.— -Hi-chosen  vignette  for 
that  paper. 

Printers  ornaments  often  misapplied. 

Their  use  in  filling  up  blanks. 

43.  When  the  present  manager  (P)  of 
Drury  Lane  first  came  upon  the  stage,  a  new 
set  of  types,  two  inches  long,  were  cast  on 
purpose  to  do  honour  to  his  extraordinary 
merit. 

44.  Improved  in  the  Spectator  in  ap- 
pearance. 

45.  Decorations  for  books  becoming  ne- 
cessary. 

48.  ^  Perhaps  our  fine  gentlemen  maj 
imagine,  that  by  oonTincing  a  lady  that  ihe 
has  no  soul,  she  will  be  less  scrupulous  about 
the  disposal  of  her  body.** 

51.  '*  I  have  often  observed  with  wonder 
the  neglect  of  learning  that  prevails  among 
the  gentlemen  of  the  army ;  who,  nolwith- 


standing  their  shameful  deticiencj  in  the 
main  requisite,  are  generally  proposed  as  the 
most  exact  models  of  good  behaviour  and 
standards  of  politeness." 

80.  Storj  of  Shylock  from  a  story  in  G. 
Letl*s  Life  of  Sixtus  V. 

97.  A  picture  in  the  seraglio  of  the  Grand 
Turk*8  favourite  mistress !  t 

136.  Londoners*  Sunday  amusements. 

For  some  part  of  this  summer  Banelagh 
was  opened  on  Sunday  evenings. 

170.  Drinking  table  beer  out  of  the  same 
mug  with  a  friend. 

173.  Suburban  villas.     Summer  houses. 

179.  French  stile  of  declamation  on  our 
stage  in  the  generation  before  Garrick. 

181.  Stage  pomp  of  the  last  age,  and  not 
yet  there  exploded. 

184.  At  the  Robin  Hood  Society/^  I  have 
seen  a  tailor  a  Stoic,  a  shoemaker  a  Flato- 
nist,  and  a  cook  an  Epicurean.** 

Vol.  2. 

P.  2.  Mackjjii*8  school  for  discussion  ? 
He  called  himself  the  Martin  Luther  of  the 
age  I     4.  The  ladies  would  not  speak  then. 

3.  A  new  cap,  or  petenkar  f 

5.  Pieces  of  political  application  revived 
at  the  time  of  the  rebellion. 

43.  Hoaxes  k  la  Theodore  Hook. 

100.  A  beau-parson. — ^*  Out  of  his  car 
nonicals,  his  constant  dress  b  what  they  call 
par8on*8  blue,  lined  with  white,  a  black  satin 
wantcoat,  velvet  breeches,  and  silk  stock- 
ings ;  and  his  pumps  are  of  dog-skin,  made 
by  TuU.** 

104.  **  Persons  of  fashion  cannot  but  la- 
ment that  the  Sunday  evening  tea  drinkings 
at  Ranelagh  were  laid  aside,  from  a  super- 
stitious regard  to  religion.** 

131-2.  Certainly  this  censure  is  designed 
for  the  Rambler. 

134.  Their  mottos. 

136.  I  remember  to  have  seen  a  curious 
table,  by  the  assistance  of  which  the  most 
illiterate  might  amuse  themselves  in  com- 
posinghexameters  and  pentameters  in  Latin. 

A  sneer  at  the  poor  Water-Poet,  of  whom 
they  had  read  nothing. 


144.  *^  The  Chinese  taste,  which  has  al- 
ready taken  possession  of  our  gardens,  our 
buildings,  and  our  furniture,  will  also  soon 
find  its  way  into  our  churches :  and  how 
elegant  must  a  monument  appear  which  is 
erected  in  the  Chinese  taste,  and  embel- 
lished with  dragons,  bells, /M^ocb,  and  man- 
darins I  ** 

147.  Tall  staves.  The  walking  sticks  in 
fashion,  1755.  Hunting  poles.  Vol.  3,  p. 
140,  1756. 

161.  "  The  orthodox  vicar  once  a  week 
wraps  himself  up  in  piety  and  virtue  with 
his  canonicals,  which  qualities  are  as  easily 
cast  off  again  as  his  surplice ;  and  for  the 
rest  of  the  week  he  wears  the  dress  as  well 
as  the  manners  of  his  fox-hunting  patron.** 
Vol.  3,  59-60. 

1 70.  The  Wandsworth  double  post  chaise, 
and  the  Hampton  long  coach. 

176.  One  woman  "  swallows  in  an  ocean 
of  Bristol  milk  ?  with  as  little  remorse  as 
she  would  so  much  small  beer.** 

191.  False  censure  of  alliteration. 

197.  Fashion  of  abuse  on  the  Thames. 

200.  Naval  chaplains  needed  reforma- 
tion. 

219.  His  privy  study. 

Vol.  3. 

P.  20.  The  country  it  seems  still  bred  a 
race  of  lowly  retainers.  "  Almost  every 
family  supports  a  poor  kinsman,  who  hap- 
pening to  be  no  way  related  to  the  estate, 
was  too  proud  of  his  blood  to  apply  himself 
in  his  youth  to  any  profession,  and  rather 
chose  to  be  supported  in  laziness  at  the 
family  seat.  They  are,  indeed,  known  per- 
haps to  be  cousins  to  the  squire,  but  do  not 
appear  in  a  more  creditable  light  than  his 
servants  out  of  livery;  and  sometimes  actu- 
ally submit  to  as  mean  offices  of  drudgery 
as  the  groom  or  whipper-in.** 

91.  If  this  paper  is  Cowper*s,  I  wonder  at 
it,  it  is  in  so  disagreeable  a  spirit. 

92.  Walnuts  in  sack. 

96.  ▲.  D.  1756.  Ridiculous  fashion  of 
wearing  cabrioles  and  windmills  on  the 
head!    140. 


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108.  Authors  who  live  by  the  pen  well 
justified. 

112.  **  Brushing  the  dust  from  my  black 

141.  Groihio  or  Chinese  taste. 
201.  Cricket  not  regarded  as  on  amuse- 
ment for  gentlemen. 

210.  Neglect  of  Churches. 

Velvet  altar  pieces,  and  shabby  clergy- 
men in  pulpits  with  rich  velvet  cushions. 

211.  Struggle  between  the  Old  and  New 
Version  of  the  Psalms,'  as  between  the  old 
and  new  style. 

Old  and  new  tunes  also,  and  itinerant 
psalm-singers  in  every  county,  as  propa- 
gandists. 

212.  Service  waiting  for  the  squire. 

213.  Display  of  new  fashions  at  church. 


'V^^'^^^^^IA^WW^^^^^^^V 


The  St,  James's  Magazine,    By  Robsst 
Llotd,  a.  M.  1762. 

P.  vii.  Had  the  plan  of  this  Magazine 
been  more  enlarged  it  could  never  have 
wanted  an  occasional  support  from  the  cor- 
respondence of  young  gentlemen  of  sixteen, 
great  geniuses  of  no  education,  and  great 
scholars  of  no  genius. 

What  it  is  not  to  contain. 

Friends  on  whom  he  relies. 

18.  Lloyd's  character  of  Churchill. 

13.  His  own  feelings,  perhaps^  in  this 
picture  of  a  rake. 

25.  Conversation  at  Will's  in  Swifl's  time. 

SO.  Swift's  opinion  that  society  was  at  the 
best  in  the  peaceable  part  of  Charles  the 
First's  reign. 

81.  His  own  feelings  here. 

91.  Charles  Emily's  poem  first  (I  sup- 
pose) published  here. 

118.  A  letter  (original)  of  Swift's,  curi- 
ously showing  his  feelings  concerning  mar- 
riage. 

■  Bp.  Bbvbridob's  Drfmtes  of  th»  Book  of 
Ptalmi.  published  in  1710,  is  probably  the  most 
▼aluable  relic  of  this  well-known  Btnigglp.  It 
is  reprinted  in  Home's  edition  of  his  Works, 
▼oL  i.  p.  613,  Au;.— J.  W.  W. 


127.  *^  None  are  permitted  to  wear  swords 
at  Bath." 

138.  A  reflection  on  British  courage,  bj 
B.  Thornton. 

189.  ••  The  bravery  of  a  man  fighting 
a  duel  with  himself,  without  second  or 
antagonist,  vulgarly  called  self-murder."— 
Tbobnton. 

140.  An  author's  nine  lives  disposed  of. 
Poor  Lloyd  must  have  remembered  this  in 
his  last  days ! 

150.  Imitations  in  Aureng-Zebe  of  Sam- 
son Agonistes. 

156.  Gibbeting. 

'*  Such  spectacles  may  frighten  crows, 
But  never  scared  a  thief." — C.  Dams. 

188.  The  experiment  of  introducing  news 
did  not  answer,  and  was  immediately  dis- 
continued. 

190.  Tullius  and  Tarquin.  I  suspect  that 
this  has  been  falsely  ascribed  to  Dryden. 
There  are  too  many  expletives  in  it  for 
him  to  have  used  at  that  age. 

205.  The  Rubric  Posts— still  in  use. 

219.  The  Poetry  Professors.  An  tin- 
lucky  second  sight  in  contempt  of  Scotch 
poets. 

**  Harvey's  drunken  prose,"  properly 
enough  so  called,  tiiough  perhaps  mawdUn 
might  be  the  better  epithet,  the  soft  mood 
of  semi-drunkenness. 

265.  Thornton's  announcement  of  his 
Plautus.  Colman  intended,  Terma  sug- 
gested the  thought. 

292.  The  quatrain  said  not  to  be  a  new 
elegiac  measure,  but  heroic  verse,  *^  and  to 
be  met  with  in  Dryden's  Ann.  Mirabilts, 
and  all  through  the  long  and  tedious  poem 
of  Davenant's  Grondibert." 

343.  A  sneer  at  Gray,  Mason,  and  White- 
head.    Churchill.  345,  6. 

363.  An  essay  to  show  that  ancient  poe- 
try cannot  be  relished  in  translations. 

374.  Lloyd  on  his  own  undertaking. 

878.  A  sneer  at  uneducated  poets. 

886.  Denis. 

388.  His  own  style. 

383.  Gilb.  West  sneered  at. 


ENGLISH  LITERATUKE  AND  POETRY. 


841 


Verse  properlj  recommended  for 


Is  this   R— d  B — J  Beiulej  or 
? 

etry  worn  out. 

contrast  to  Wordsworth's  sonnet, 
dake  a  Ldcestershlre^  woman  by  the 
t,  and  the  beans  will  rattle  in  her 

rj  that  the  mayor  is  chosen  there 
w.  The  candidates  sit  in  a  semi- 
ach  with  his  hat  fiill  of  beans  in  his 
he  is  the  mayor  from  whose  hat  the 
!  first.* 

complete  translation  of  Racine  pro- 
f  the  editor  to  be  given  in  the  course 
ork — a  certain  portion  every  month, 
ily  paged.  Was  it  to  be  his  own  ? 
it  done? 

lonest  satire  on  Churchill,  Colman, 
m,  and  Lloyd  here.    115-6-8. 
55.  Is  this  W.  C,  Ck)wp€r  P 
The  price  of  the  Mag.  (1«.)  was 
ned  of.     The  London,  Royal,  and 
y&ng  only  sixpence. 
Shepherd's  lamentation  over  Lloyd's 

7- 

Coleman's  Ep.  to  Lord  Pulteney. 


Teahslatioh  by  Denis  from  a  MS. 
f  Cazotte's. 
'hurchill    Severely  condemned    by 


enty  of  these  in  this  connty ,"  says  Ful- 
ipecially  about  Barton  ta  tA«  Bean*,**  &c.; 
\er  the  proTerb,  BtarfBelly  LeiceUet' 
}  adds,  ''Those  in  the  neighbouring 
use  to  say  merrily,  '  Shake  a  Leices- 
yeoman  by  the  collar,  and  you  shall 
i  beans  rattle  in  his  beUy.'  fiut  those 
smile  at  what  is  said  to  rattle  in  their 
rhUst  they  know  good  silver  ringeth  in 
:ketu'*'-Wanhie*,  ^.  125-6,  folio, 
eadine  this  odd  custom,  one  naturally 
mind  3ie  old  titles  of ''  Rex  Fabaruro,^' 
de  la  Feve,"— "  Rejr  de  Havas,'*  Ac. 
lkdb's  Pop,  Ant.  vol.  i.  pp.  16, 17,  275, 
I.    Reprint.  J.  W.  W. 


63.  Blackmore  well  criticised. 

109.  Johnson  and  his  imitators — well 
characterised  by  Lloyd. 

112.  Unjust  to  Whitehead. 

118.  Praise  of  acting  at  school. 

The  Jesuits  seem  to  have  been  of  this 
opinion. 

Rector  of  Chellington,  Bedfordshire,  he 
published  a  volume  of  poems  by  subscrip- 
tion. 

121.  This  Rogers  says  that  Cowley's  odes 

^  Shall  please  while  wit  can  pleasure  bring. 
And  Lee  and  Young,  great  masters  of  sub- 
lime. 
Arrest  applause  to  the  last  pulse  of  time.** 

149.  Mason  or  Warton  lampooned  here  f 
in  an  imitation  of  Boileau. 

166.  William  Ellis  the  great  ballad-singer 
of  that  day. 

182.  A  pleasing  poem  of  Lloyd's — in  his 
better  mind. 

187.  This  ode,  secundum  artem,  is  signed 
L.,  but  it  is  exactly  what  W.  C.  promised 
in  the  last  volume,  p.  125.  And  I  take  it 
to  be  his. 

201.  Poor  Lloyd  seems  now  to  have  ad- 
mitted any  thing,  however  worthless,  in  any 
way. 

209.  Potter's  speech  against  the  repeal  of 
the  Jews'  Bill, — ^from  his  own  MSS. 


Sterne. 

In  Almon's  ^  Life  and  Correspondence 
of  Wilkes,"  vol.  5,  pp.  7-20,  are  some  let- 
ters from  Sterne's  widow  and  daughter  to 
Wilkes.  Sterne  left  them  in  distress.  He 
died  £1100  in  debt;  his  effects  did  not  pro- 
duce above  £400.  All  the  widow  had  was 
an  estate  of  £40  a  year,  out  of  which  she 
engaged  to  pay  the  rest.  A  collection  was 
made  for  them  in  the  race-week  at  Tork ; 
it  produced  £800.  He  sold  the  copyright 
of  his  sermons,  but  was  to  have  what  co- 
pies they  could  get  subscribers  for. 

WiLKBS  and  Hall  (Stevenson),  promised 


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342 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OP 


to  write  Sterne's  life  for  their  benefit,^but 
though  often  pressinglj  reminded  of  it,  nei- 
ther of  them  performed  their  promise. 

Almon  says,  the  wife  and  daughter  had 
retired  to  France  during  his  life,  "  rather 
than  live  in  England  under  the  daily  pro- 
vocations of  an  unkind  husband."  ^ 

Miss  Sterne  intimates  that  Eugenius  was 
designed  for  Hall. 


^^^N^^^^^^^^^^^^^'*^'^^*^'^^ 


Hebvbt*8  Contemplations  on  the  Night 
done  into  blank  verse,  after  the  manner  of 
Dr.  Young,  by  T.  Newcomb,  M.A. 

Monthly  Review,  vol.xvi.  p. 289.  (175.) 

Praised — as  also  Mr.  Newcomb,  at  con- 
siderable length.  "  To  conclude,  where 
the  Meditant  surpasses  the  Poet,  the  former 
is  perhaps  so  inimitable,  that  the  latter  loses 
his  honour;  but  when  he  excels  his  ori- 
ginal, he  certainly  merits  our  applause." 
And  they  wish  him  to  give  the  other  medi- 
tations in  the  same  manner. 

But  the  MonJOdy  Review,  vol.  Ixii.  p.  425, 
says  of  Hervey,  "  a  profusion  of  metaphors 
was  the  chief  characteristic  of  his  lan- 
guage ;  and  the  Shibboleth  of  Puritanism 
was  the  capital  distinction  of  his  theology. 
His  object  was  to  soften  the  harsh  features 
of  a  Cdvinistic  creed,  by  mixing  it  with  the 
gay  and  splendid  colouris  of  eloquence." 

• 

ToPLADT  published  two  of  his  Sermons, 
and  said  in  the  Preface, — ^**  With  Hervey 

*  This  is  contradicted  in  Sterne's  own  Let- 
ters. See  Letter  li.  vol.  ix.  p.  150.  The  follow- 
ing strong  passage  occurs  in  Letter  xci.  to  Miss 
Sterne :  "  I  am  unhappy ;  thy  mother  and  thy- 
self at  a  distance  from  me,  and  what  can  com- 
pensate for  such  a  destitution  ?  For  God's  sake 
persuade  her  to  come  and  fix  herself  in  Eng- 
land, for  life  is  too  short  to  waste  in  senaration, 
and  while  she  lives  in  one  country,  and  I  in  an- 
other, many  people  will  suppose  it  proceeds 
from  choice.  Brides,  I  want  thee  near  me, 
thou  child  and  darling  of  my  heart ! "  Vol.  x. 
p.  40.— J.  W.  W. 


in  their  hands,  his  delighted  readers  veil 
nigh  find  themselves  at  a  loss  which  tkej 
shall  most  admire,  the  sublimity  and  sweet- 
ness of  the  blessed  truths  he  conveys,  or 
the  charming  felicity  of  their  conveyance.*' 
— Monthly  Review^  vol.  41,  p.  471. 

How  Toplady,  who  wrote  a  good  manlj 
style,  could  say  this,  is  marvellous.  Her- 
vey*s  resembles  a  confcctioner^s  shop,  jut 
before  Twelfth  Day. 


^>  M/w^/v^/v^/v^Wv^/v^/^/«^ 


JBrowUm 

Chdbchill,  vol.  iL  p.  174,  N. 

His  Estimate  ran  through  seven  ediUoiu 
in  one  year.  ^*  His  insatiable  vanity,  dogms- 
tism  and  arrogance  rendered  him  disgusting 
to  others,  and  a  tonnent  to  himself."  Yet 
this  ill-natured  writer  confesses  that  he  ob- 
derstood  the  theory  of  composition,  and  that 
his  Dissertation  on  the  Rise,  Union,  and 
Power,  the  Progression,  Separation,  and 
Corruptions  of  Poetry  and  Music,  evinces  a 
thorough  acquaintance  with  the  subjects  on 
which  he  treats. 

One  pamphleteer  abused  him,  ^  that,  with 
an  eye  to  preferment,  he  had  officiously 
strained  all  his  powers  and  faculties,  to  make 
the  people  appear  sole  authors  of  their  omi 
calmnities."  The  same  opponent  says,  ^  who- 
ever casts  an  eye  on  the  existimator*s  scantj 
page  and  overgrown  margin,  will  pronounce 
at  once  that  nobody  understands  the  value 
of  three  and  sixpence  better  than  he.**  All 
which  the  M.  Review  (April  1758)  appears 
to  commend. 

The  next  article  is  upon  the  second  toI. 
of  the  Estimate  (vol.  xviii.  p.  354).  It  ifl 
thoroughly  malignant;  and,  if  the  writer  had 
any  reason  for  suspecting  the  real  state  of 
Brown's  mind,  might  almost  deserve  to  be 
called  murderous,  P.  374. 


«A^^/^^/w^^^/^/'^^^^i^^^AA 


Glover. 

^^Mbs.  Yates  usually  selected  his  Med^ 
for  her  benefit." — N.  CttUBciiiiJi,  yoL  iJ- 
p.  367. 


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1761.  **Mm.  Glotbb  has  pnb- 
:>ng-hoarded  M«dea,  as  an  intro- 
tlie  House  of  Ck)inmon8 ;  it  had 
proper  to  usher  him  from  school 
iyersit J.  There  are  a  few  good 
ouch  conduct,  and  a  quantity  of 
kd  trochucs,  that  scarce  speak 
id  jet  have  no  rhjme  to  keep 
T  in  countenance.  If  his  chariot 
i  Temple  Bar,  I  suppose  he  will 
the  Straits  of  Thermopylie,  and 
id  of  his  first  speech  before  it« 
.  WAI.POI.B,  vol.  2,  p.  31 1. 


^0^^^^»f^^^^^i^*J^^^^^^^*^tm 


Aietuide. 

ie  publication  of  his  *^Ode  to 

7  Gentlemen  of  England,**  the 

Review**  said  he  **  well  deser- 

stiled  the  Poet  of  the  C!om- 


t^^^»^^^*^^^^>^f^*^f^t0*^f 


OMimiih. 


wing  his  **  Beauties  of  English 
2  vols.  6«.),  "*  Monthly  Review,** 
491,  his  preface  is  called  unac- 
and  uncouth,  and  his  introduc- 
'ations  on  the  several  poems, "  still 
ig-headed,  more  singular,  more 
ad  more  absurd.**  Thomson,  in 
I  of  this  mighbf  critic^  is  a  verbose 
sd  poet,  and  Shenstone's  **  Pas- 
ids,**  have  neither  learning  nor 
;  but  his  ^  Schoolmistress**  b 
s  happinesses  in  which  a  poet  ex- 
7  Gay*8  burlesque  pastorals  are 
mer  of  Theocritus.  Who  that 
asms  can  forbear  crying  out  with 
srd  in  Virgil, 

lent  Domini,  audent  cum  talia 


m 


used  to  offer  Goldsmith  every 
;>ower  as  to  his  works,  i.  e.  in  sug- 
endments. 

my  *  Hermit,*  **  said  Goldsmith, 
1,  Cradock,  cannot  be  amended.** 
occasion  '*  to  pay  a  journey  to 


Wakefield.  As  my  business  then  lay 
there,**  said  he,  ^  that  was  my  reason  for 
fixing  on  Wakefield  as  the  field  of  action.*' 
Cbai>ock*8  Mem.  vol.  4,  p.  286. 

Goldsmith  makes  Miss  Richland  argue 
*^  that  severity  in  criticisms  is  necessary,** 
and  says,  ^  It  was  our  first  adopting  the 
severity  of  French  taste,  that  has  brought 
them  in  turn  to  taste  us.** — Oood'mUured 
Man, 

Dbdicatioh  of  '*  She  Stoops  to  Conquer,** 
to  Johnson. 

**  I  have  particularly  reason  to  thank  you 
for  your  partiality  to  this  performance. 
The  undertaking  a  comedy  not  merely  sen- 
timental, was  very  dangerous,  and  Mr.  Ck)l- 
man,  who  saw  this  piece  in  its  various  stages, 
always  thought  it  so.** 


^^/w^v^w^^^w^Mv^^^. 


On  the  publication  of  his  "  Fatal  Sis- 
ters,** "  Descent  of  Odin,**  and  **  Triumph 
of  Odin,'*  the  "Monthly  Review,  (1768), 
vol.  38,  p.  408,  says — "  These  turn  chiefly 
on  the  dark  diableries  of  the  Gothic  times ; 
and  if  to  be  mysterious  and  to  be  sublime 
be  the  same  thing,  these  deep- wrought  per- 
formances must  undoubtedly  be  deemed  so. 
For  our  parts  we  shall  for  ever  regret  the 
departure  of  Mr.  Grays  muse  from  that 
elegantly  moral  simplicity  she  assumed  in 
the  "  Country  Churchyard.'* 

MA8oxf*8  edition.  "  The  whole  collection 
is,  for  a  writer  of  Mr.  Gray*s  poetical  pow- 
ers and  propensities,  singularly  small.  His 
muse,  though  certainly  the  most  enthusiastic 
admirer  of  Nature,  has  gathered  a  mere 
nosegay  from  her  breast, — an  assemblage, 
indeed,  of  imconmion  and  highly-flavoured 
flowers ;  but  it  is  in  a  wilderness  of  this 
kind  that  we  wish  to  range  at  large.** — 
Monthly  Review^  vol.  52,  p.  377 

Ibid.  vol.  53,  p.  102.  His  Elegy  said  here 
to  be  imitated  from  one  by  Gay.    Here  is 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  fflSTORY  OP 


a  former  dictum  contradicted  then.  ^  It 
is  observable,  that  sublimity  of  genius  has 
been  generally  attended  with  a  strong  af- 
fection for  tiie  demonry  of  the  ancient 
northern  fable.  Milton  was  particularly 
fond  of  it.  It  was  the  study  of  his  youth, 
and  the  dream  of  his  age.  This  passion 
seems  natural.  There  is  something  su- 
blime in  the  Celtic  mythology, — ^in  the  idea 
of  ancient  hordyhood,  and  the  feats  of  for- 
mer times,  that  is  peculiarly  adapted  to  a 
natural  grandeur  of  imagination.  In  the 
mythology  of  the  Greeks  every  thing  seems 
little,  seems  puerile  in  comparison.  Hence 
Mr.  Gray*s  strong  attachment  to  every 
thing  that  breathed  of  the  former.  The 
hall  of  Odin  was  heaven  itself  to  him  ( ! ! ), 
and  Ossian  *  the  very  demon  of  poetry.* " 
1775. 

"  Not  long  since,"  says  Cbadock,  (vol.  1, 
p.  184),  *^  I  received  a  very  kind  message 
from  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bright  of  Skeffington 
Hall,  in  Leicestershire,  to  inform  me  that 
he  had  wished  to  deposit  with  me  all  the 
remaining  papers  and  documents  of  Mr. 
Gray,  as  bequeathed  to  him  by  Mr.  Ston- 
hewer;  but  that  he  found  they  had  all 
been  carried  to  Rome  inadvertently  by  a 
Jcarned  editor!" 

Gray  made  a  little  book  (of  his  own 
travels,  I  suppose),  with  delineations  of 
woods,  rivers,  and  remarkable  buildings  on 
each  side  of  the  road." — Cbadock,  vol.  2, 
p.  131. 

Beattib  gives  a  very  amiable  account  of 
him. — Life  of  Beattie,  vol.  1,  p.  65. 

Tub  notes  to  the  two  Pindarics,  first 
printed  in  the  Glasgow  edition,  Beattie 
thought  more  copious  than  were  necessary. 
"  But  I  understand,"  he  says,  "  he  is  not  a 
little  chagrined  at  the  complaints  which 
have  been  made  of  their  obscurity,  and  he 
tells  me  that  he  wrote  these  notes  out  of 
spite."— Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  104. 


*'  Thb  next  best  thing,  after  instructiiig 
the  world  profitably,  is  to  amuse  it  inno- 
cently. England  has  lost  that  num  (Graj) 
who  of  all  others  in  it  was  best  qualified  for 
both  these  purposes ;  but  who  from  earlj 
chagrin  and  disappointment  had  imbibed  a 
disinclination  to  employ  his  talents  beyond 
the  sphere  of  self-satisfaction  and  improre- 
ment." — Mason  to  Beattie. — Ibid,  vol  1) 
p.  206. 

^  Mb.  Dillon  writes  me  word,  that  Mison 
says  he  is  tempted  to  throw  his  Life  of  Mr. 
Gray  (which  is  now  finished,  or  nearly  so), 
into  the  fire,  so  much  is  he  dissatisfied  with 
the  late  decision  on  literary  property."— 
Beattib,  vol.  1,  p.  346. 

"  Times,"  Wednesday,  23d  Dec.  1835.- 
At  a  sale  of  autographs,  ^*  Gray*s  assign- 
ment of  his  two  Odes,  the  *  Progress  of 
Poetry,'  and  the  '  Bard,'  for  forty  guineas. 
29  June,  1757.  Mr.Wilks,  M.P.,  purchased 
this  for  eight  guineas.  (Mason  relates  that 
Gray  was  "  too  high-minded  to  receive  re- 
muneration for  hb  productions.)" 

Gbat  and  Walpole  wrote  from  Italy  a 
little  in  the  style  of  Erskine  and  Boswell. 

"  I  AGBEE  with  you  (George  Montagu), 
most  absolutely  in  your  opinion  about  Graj. 
He  is  the  worst  company  in  the  world. 
From  a  melancholy  turn,  from  living  re- 
clusively,  and  from  a  little  too  much  dig- 
nity, he  never  converses  easily.  All  his 
words  are  measured  and  chosen,  and  formed 
into  sentences.  His  writings  are  admirable; 
he  himself  is  not  agreeable." — H.  Walpole. 
Letters^  vol.  1,  p.  194. 

**  Gbat  says  very  justly,  that  learning 
never  should  be  encouraged ;  it  only  draws 
out  fools  from  their  obscurity."  —  Ibid, 
vol.  1,  p.  407. 

**  Ahb  you  know  I  have  always  thought 
a  running  footman  as  meritorious  a  being 
as  a  learned  man.     Why  is  there  more 


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having  travelled  one*s  eyes  over  so 
UQB  of  paper,  than  in  having  car- 
i*8  1^8  over  80  manj  acres  of 
"-^Ibid. 

Ladj  Ailesburj  has  been  much  di- 
Euid  so  will  you  too.  Gray  is  in 
ighbourhood.  My  Lady  Carlisle 
is  extremely  like  me  in  his  manner, 
nt  a  party  to  dine  on  a  cold  loaf  (?), 
ed  the  day.  Lady  Ailesbury  pro- 
never  opened  his  lips  but  once,  and 
f  said, '  Yes, my  lady,  I  believe  so.'" 
rol.  2,  p.  159. 

kT  has  translated  two  noble  incan- 
rom  the  Lord  knows  who,  a  Danish 
ho  lived  the  Lord  knows  when, 
e  to  be  enchased  in  a  history  of 
bards,  which  Mason  and  he  are 
but  of  which  the  former  has  not 

I  word  yet,  and  of  which  the  lat- 
e  rides  Pegasus  at  his  usual  foot- 

II  finish  the  first  page  two  years 
-Ibid,  vol.2,  p.  239. 

T  has  added  to  his  Poems  three 
Odes  from  Norway  and  Wales, 
jects  of  the  two  first  are  grand  and 
|ue,  and  there  is  his  genuine  vein 
but  they  are  not  interesting,  and 
Ike  his  other  poems,  touch  any  pas- 
ur  human  feelings,  which  he  mas- 
vill  in  his  former  pieces,  are  here 
ted.  Who  can  care  through  what 
a  Runic  savage  arrived  at  all  the 
L  glories  they  could  conceive,  the 
felicity  of  boozing  ale  out  of  the 
an  enemy  in  Odin's  Hall  ?  Oh, 
t  now,  perhaps,  these  Odes  would 
d  at  many  a  contested  election." — 
.  3,  p.  234. 

13,  1771.  "  I  HAVB,  I  own,  been 
Dcked  at  reading  Gray's  death  in 
irs.  In  an  hour  that  makes  one 
ly  subject  of  complaint,  especially 
Dne  with  whom  I  lived  in  friend- 
1  thirteen  years  old." — Ibid.  vol.  3, 


^*  Grat  never  wrote  any  thing  easily  but 
things  of  humour.  Humour  was  his  natu- 
ral and  original  turn ;  and  though  from  his 
childhood  he  was  grave  and  reserved,  his 
genius  led  him  to  see  things  ludicrously  and 
satirically ;  and  though  his  health  and  dis* 
satisfaction  gave  him  low  spirits,  his  melan- 
choly turn  was  much  more  affected  than 
his  pleasantry  in  writing." — Ibid.  vol.  4, 
p.  14. 

"  It  may  so  happen,  that  a  writer,  from 
a  happy  circumstance,  may  acquire  a  repu- 
tation as  just  as  it  is  instantaneous.  This 
was  the  case  with  the  late  Mr.  Gray,  who, 
by  his  happening  to  be  conversant  in  fa- 
shionable company,  gained  a  complete  cen- 
tury in  point  of  reputation.  For  though 
fashionable  writers  are  most  justly  set  in 
opposition  to  good,  the  very  epithet  imply- 
ing that  their  works  will  not  last,  yet  fa- 
shion is  now  and  then  in  the  right,  as  well 
as  other  fools." — ^Finkzston.  Letters  of  Li' 
terature,  p.  103. 

"  I  EVEN  admire  Mr.  Gray's  plan  of  wear- 
ing mustachios  for  a  considerable  time,  to 
show  that  he  despised  every  possibility  of 
ridicxile." — ^Pinkebton,  Lett,  of  Lit,  p.  264. 

Lionel  and  Clarissa, 

"  Lady  Mary,  I  have  been  telling  him  of 
the  poem  my  late  brother.  Lord  Jessamy, 
made  on  the  mouse  that  was  drowned. ' 

Col,  Oldboy,  Ay,  a  fine  subject  for  a 
poem  ;  a  mouse  that  was  drowned  in  a  — . 

Lady  M.  Hush,  my  dear  Colonel,  don't 
mention  it!  To  be  sure  the  circumstance 
was  vastly  indelicate ;  but  for  the  number 
of  lines  the  poem  was  as  charming  a  mor- 
sel ; — I  heard  the  Earl  of  Punley  say,  who 
understands  Latin,  that  it  was  equal  to  any 
thing  in  Catullus." 


^^^/^^^^^^/ww^'^/W^^/^/v^ 


Young, 

What  Mrs.  Carter  (to  Mrs.  M.  vol.  1,  p. 
72),  says  of  Rousseau  is  more  applicable  to 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


Young,  ^^  He  seems  to  have  strong  princi- 
ples of  virtue,  but  in  him  it  seems  such  an 
uncomfortable  and  ever  dismal  virtue,  as 
strikes  one  in  some  such  manner  as  if  one 
was  to  enter  into  a  noble  apartment  hung 
with  bbck.** 


VVN/WVN/V/VWWS«WW\/S^ 


Thomson, 

A  BUBLBSQUB  retum  from  the  fox  chase 
originally  in  the  Seasons,  but  omitted  in 
later  editions,  and  restored  by  Aikin  in  1778, 
and  recommended  for  omission  agun  by  the 
Monthly  Review,  as  not  in  keeping  with  the 
rest  of  the  poem. 


M^/S/S/W^^^^^^^^^^V^^^^V^ 


Fieldtng. 

HoBACB  Walfolb*8  Letters,  vol.  1,  p. 
204. 


Chtmherland. 

In  the  Natural  Son,  Jack  Hustings  brings 
a  brace  of  trout,  the^r«/  he  had  taken  that 
season, — and  presently  he  asks  whether 
birds  are  plenty,  and  says,  "  Fll  come  and 
brush  the  stubbles  for  thee  in  a  week  or  two*s 
time.'* 

Dbdicatioxi  of  the  Brothers  to  the  Duke 
of  Grafton. 


^*^^^^^»^*^^^^»^S^S^^  'WV^N^SA 


Steele. 

An  admirable  description  of  flirting  and 
cleaning  windows. — Conscious  Lovers^  p. 
54. 


*\/>^^^/VA^V^i^./\^^,^^/^^/V* 


Fairies. 

"  A  VIRTUOUS  well,  about  whose  flowery 

banks 
The  nimble  footed  fairies  dance  their  rounds 
By  the  pale  moonshine,  dipping  oftentimes 
Their  stolen  children,  so  to  make  them  free 
From  dying  flesh,  and  dull  mortality." 

Bbaumont  and  Fletcher,  Faithful 
Shepherdess^  p.  112. 


Strange  Conceit 

SiB  Gbobgb  Macuoizb  (Essays,  79) 
has  as  odd  a  conceit  as  that  of  Quarlet  sod 
Hugo.  **  It  is  strange,**  he  says,  *'  that  the 
Jew  should  not  from  the  triangular  archi- 
tecture of  his  own  heart  conclude  the  Tri- 
nity of  the  Gkxlhead,  whose  temple  it  was 
appointed  to  be.** 


*!*****  ■*-f*i^r*w*W^"VW*Wy^''M>w 


Metre. 

Oytd  wrote  Getic  verses  in  Latin  mea- 
sure.— Pont.  iv.  xiii.  19.* 

And  from  a  like  feeling  the  monks  wrote 
Latin  rhymes. 


Bishop  Kbn*8  Poewu 

Dedication. — He  seems  to  have  regard- 
ed his  successor's  fate  as  judicial — ^which  I 
am  sorry  to  see. 

''  The  dolorous  remnant  of  his  days.** 

P.  3.  Philhymno  he  calls  himself. 

State  earthquakes. 

5.  **  Before  the  pheasant  cocks  began  their 
crows.'* 

30.  The  Virgin  Mary— 
"Swadlinghimby  the  lightof  his  own  rays!" 

32.  "  In  her  soil  arms  the  boundless  babe 
embraced.** 


All  this  is  full  of  Catholic  passion. 
59.  The  innocents 

"  Vehicled  in  their  own  vital  flame.** 

The  Milky  Way  their  memorial 

Lucifer  and  Satan  are  diflereni  devils  in 
his  poems. 

86.  The  Abaddons. 

112.  Bekebub  fermenting  hell — as  thun- 
der spoils  barrels  of  wine. 


'  The  lines  here  alluded  to  are, 
**  Ah  pudet !  et  Getioo  scripsi  sermone  UbeUom, 
^  Structaque  sunt  noatris  Wbura  verba  modis. 
Et  placul,  gratare  mihi,  cspique  Poetie 
Inter  inhumanos  nomen  habere  Getas ! " 

EpUt.  tx  Ponto.-^J,  W.  W. 


1 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


847 


I 


192.  Poetry  the  language  of  man  before 
the  falL 

193.  The  PatriarehB  made  sacred  pas- 
torals  and  sonnets. 

197.  How  the  Curetes  ovemaised  his  cry. 

200.  Poets  in  heaven. 

234.  ''  Unappeasable  as  hell.**  ^ 

274.  "•  Oft  with  his  tears  he  ballasted  his 
boat" 

God  who  always  tenders  hearts  contrite. 

276.  "Men  fierce  as  fiends  they  wor- 
shipped." 

He  always  writes  massacre — ^the  French 
pronunciation. 

Vol.2. 

P.  5.  "  Whesb  Beelzebub  sits  broiling 
on  his  throne.** 
*^  On  Asafaetida  the  whole  was  built.** 

14.  "  Desptdr  no  disappointment  ever 
knows, 
No  fear,  surprize,  or  danger  undergoes : 
Despair  feels  no  ambition,  no  disgrace. 

What  eTary  saint  of  resignation  boasts. 
Despair  is  all  that  to  infernal  ghosts, 
Jehovah  conquers  all  things  but  despair.** 

17.  Mammon  in  a  gold  cage. 

20.  Dragon,  and  the  remoras,  and  the  sy- 
rens. 

23.  Catching  torpedoes. 

The  storm. 

69.  The  author's  prophecy  concerning 
himself  by  the  name  of  Kennes. 

76.  Lines  which  Pamell  has  certainly 
imitated  in  the  Hermit. 

90-1.  Satan  disgnbing  himself. 

98.  **  Satan  riding  a  snake,**  and 

**  Turning  die  brute*s  own  sting  to  spur  its 
flight.** 

Lucifer*s  palace. 

129-30.  Edmund  released  by  natural 
magic 

138.  *'  Man 

His  youthful  heat  and  strength  for  sin  en- 

'  No  doubt  the  allusion  is  to  Prov.  xxvii. 
20 :  **  HeU  and  destmction  are  never  fuU/'  and 
Habbaknk,  ii.  5.— J.  W.  W. 


Grod  has  the  caput  mortman  of  his  age.** 

Edmund,  p.  339. 

'*  Soon  as  morn  rising  on  its  wings  of  light 
Takes  o*er  the  world  its  instantaneous  flight.** 

I  think  he  had  Chamberlain*s  lines  in  his 
mind, 

*'  The  sun  on  light*s  dilated  wings  had  fled 
To  wake  the  western  villagers  from  bed.** 

Edmund,  291. 

**  Hilda,  who  kept  death  always  in  her  eye, 
In  sickness  nothing  had  to  do  but  die. 
With  a  sweet  patience  she  endured  her  pain.** 

293-4.  Hilda*s  death  passionate,  and  at 
the  same  time  most  fantastic.^ 

Maggi*s  verse  may  be  applied  to  Een*s 
devotional  poems. 

*'  Belle  d*afietti  piii  che  di  pensieri.** 

Tom.  2,  p.  26. 
And  these  also, 

**  Piii  che  gPingegni  alter! 
Ama  i  cuori  divoti,  e  n^  suoi  canti 
Yal  per  esser  Poeta  essere  Amanti.** 

Ibid. 


^\^^v^^^/wv^^^^^^s/w 


Matthew  Stevenson. 

Author  of  Norfolk  Drollery,  or  a  Com- 
pleat  Collection  of  the  newest  Songs,  Jo- 
vial Poems,  and  Catches,  &c.  1673.  So 
says  Nichols — ^but  this  title  seems  rather  to 
designate  a  collection. 


Robert  Wolseley, 

YouHGEB  son  of  Sir  Charles  Wolseley  of 
Stafibrdshire.  The  father  was  one  of  Crom- 
well*s  lords,  and  the  son  took  an  active  and 
honourable  part  in  the  Revolution.  He 
went  as  envoy  to  Brussels  in  1693. 

He  wrote  the  preface  to  Roche8ter*s  Ya- 
lentinian. 


'  The  edition  here  referred  to  is  that  of  W. 
Hawkins,  2  vols.  Bvo.  1721.  The  copy  before 
me  is  marked  by  Southey  throughout.  He  gave 
it  to  me  in  1834.— J.  W.  W. 


Frederick  Calvert^  Lord  Baltimore, 
1731—1771. 

This  odd  man,  whose  character  may  well 
be  suffered  to  sleep  with  him  in  the  grave, 
published, 

1.  A  Tour  to  the  East,  in  1763-4,  with 
Remarks  on  the  City  of  Constantinople  and 
the  Turks.  Also  Select  Pieces  of  Oriental 
Wit,  Poetry,  and  Wisdom,  by  the  Lord 
Baltimore.    London,  1767,  8vo. 

2.  Gaudia  Poetica,  Latinft,  Anglic^  et 
Gallic^  Lingu&  composita.  A**.  1769.  Au- 
gustfe  Litteris  Spathianis,  1770,  surmounted 
by  a  baron*s  coronet,  with  the  initials  F.  B. 
This  is  dedicated  in  Latin  to  Linnaeus,  who 
repaid  the  compliment  with  the  grossest 
flattery. 

3.  Ccelestes  et  Liferi.  Yenetiis.  Typis 
C.  Palese,  1771,  4to. 

Copies  of  these  last  works,  which  are  ex- 
ceedingly rare,  were  in  the  collection  of 
Isaac  Keed. 


John  OlanviU. — Broad  Hinton,  Wilis, 

1664. 

Hb  published,  1.  Some  Odes  of  Horace 
imitated  with  relation  to  his  Majesty  and 
the  Times,  1690.  2.  Poems  dedicated  to 
the  Memory  and  lamenting  the  Death  of 
her  late  sacred  Majesty  of  the  Small  Pox, 
1695.  3.  A  Plurality  of  Worlds,  translated 
from  the  French,  1688. 


Sir  Thomas  Higgons. — Shropshire, 
1624-1691. 

One  of  the  few  Cavaliers  whose  services 
wererewardedaftertheRestoration.  Charles 
II.  knighted  him,  and  gave  him  a  pension 
of  £500  a  year,  and  gifts  to  the  amount  of 
X4000.  In  1669  he  was  sent  envoy  extra- 
ordinary to  invest  the  Duke  of  Saxony 
with  the  Order  of  the  Garter,and  about  four 
ye^  afterwards  went  envoy  to  Vienna. 

He  married  the  famous  widow  of  Robert 
Earl  of  Essex,  and  delivered  an  oration  at 


her  funeral,  September  16,  1656.  Oratione 
funebri,  a  marito  ipso,  more  priseo  laudata 
fuU,  is  part  of  her  epitaph.  The  copies  of 
this  pamphlet  were  industriously  collected 
and  destroyed.  But  Mr.  Granger,  who  had 
seen  one,  was  fully  persuaded  by  it  of  her 
innocence. 

He  published,  besides  this  funeral  ora- 
tion, 1656,  2.  A  Panegyric  to  the  King, 
1660.  3.  The  History  of  Isoof  Bassa,  1684, 
and  translated  The  Venetian  Triimiph. 

On  his  return  home  from  one  of  his  em- 
bassies, he  took  the  road  along  the  coast  of 
France,  and  in  his  audience  of  the  King 
told  him  that  the  French  were  hard  at 
work  in  raising  a  naval  force,  and  pointed 
out  the  danger  to  England.  Listead  of  at- 
tending to  the  intelligence,  Charles  severely 
reprimanded  him  for  talking  of  things  which 
it  was  not  his  business  to  meddle  with. 


^^^^^^^^^«^^^^K/«^^«^iA^^w 


BemL  Higgons.— 1670-1735. 

TouMOBB  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Higgons  hj 
Bridget  his  second  wife ;  true  to  the  Stuart 
family,  he  accompanied  James  into  France. 
He  published  a  volume  of  Historical  and 
Critical  Remarks  on  Burnetts  History ;  and, 
2.  A  short  View  of  the  English  History, 
with  Reflections  Political,  Historical,  Civil, 
Physical,  and  Moral,  on  the  Reigns  of  the 
Kings,  their  Characters  and  Manners,  their 
Successions  to  the  Throne,  and  all  other  re- 
markable Incidents  to  the  Revolution  1688. 
Drawn  from  authentic  Memoirs  and  MSS. 
1727. 

John  Evelyn, — Sayes  Court,  near  Deptford, 

1654-1698. 

Son  of  the  Sylvan  Evelyn.  He  wrote  the 
Greek  Poem  which  is  prefixed  to  the  second 
volume  of  his  father's  work,  and  translated 
Rapin's  Gardens,  Plutarch*s  Life  of  Alex- 
ander, and  the  History  of  the  Grand  Vizien 
Mahomet  and  Achmet  Coprogli,  and  of  the 
three  last  Grand  Seigniors,  their  Sultanas 
and  chief  Favourites,  with  the  most  secret 
Intrigues  of  the  Seraglio.  1677.  Svo. 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


349 


Edward  Howard^  Eighth  Earl  of  SuffM. 

173L 

This  nobleman,  who  had,  according  to 
Horace  Walpole,  some  derangement  of  in- 
tellect, published  Miscellanies  in  Prose  and 
Verse,  by  a  Person  of  Quality,  1725,  8vo. ; 
the  greater  part  of  which  he  reprinted  under 
the  title  of  Musarum  Delicise  in  1728.  This 
volume  contains  some  Sapphick  verses,  which 
the  bookseller  acquaints  us  were  so  called 
*^  not  because  thej  are  written  in  the  num- 
bers which  Sappho  made  use  of,  but  merely 
upon  account  of  the  fineness  and  delicacy 
of  the  subjects." 

Horace  Walpole  has  preserved  a  curious 
anecdote  of  this  man  (vol.  4,  Parkers  edition, 
p.  133,  note). 

An  advertisement  prefixed  to  his  last 
publication  announces  that  speedily  will  be 
published  Alcander,  or  the  Prince  of  Ar- 
cadia, by  the  same  author,^ 

The  Musarum  Delicise  is  a  scarce  book, 
many  of  the  copies  having  been  burnt  by 
his  lordship*8  executors. 

Park,  YoL  4,  p.  136,  gives  an  extract. 
Upon  a  Beau — but  it  cannot  be  a  charac- 
teristic one.  From  the  volume  of  a  mad 
man  something  that  marks  him  may  surely 
be  selected. 


^^^%/^^^^^^^^S/^^^^^^tfS^ 


John  Lord  Cuit8.—1706. 

SoK  of  Richard  Cutts,  Esq.  of  Matching 
in  Essex,  and  made  Baron  of  Growran  in  Ire- 
land, one  of  the  lords  justices  general,  general 
of  the  forces  in  that  kingdom,  and  governor 
of  the  isle  of  Wight 

Marlborough  called  him  a  Salamander, 
from  his  having  escaped  in  a  most  tremen- 
dous action  with  part  of  the  French  army. 

A  good  specimen  in  Parkas  Royal  and 
Koble  Authors,  vol.  5,  p.  222. 


«^^^^^^^^^^^^/v^»^^\^^^^^»w» 


Abel  Evans, 

Ohe  of  the  Oxford  wits  enumerated  in 
the  well  known  distich : 

'  Quaere  ?  Was  not  this  the  name  of  Pope's 
epic?— R.  S. 


**  Alma  novem  genuit  celebres  Rhedycina 
poetas, 
Bubb,  Stubb,  Cobb,  Crabb,  Trap,  Young, 
Carey,  Tickell,  Evans." 

He  wrote  a  volume  of  Pastorals,  six  of  which, 
or  rather  twelve,  were  preserved  by  Isaac 
Reed,  and  by  him  communicated  to  Mr. 
Nichols*s  Collection.  They  have  more  merit 
than  is  usually  to  be  found  in  such  poems ; 
but  are  by  no  means  equal  to  Gay*s,  who 
succeeded  better  in  sport  than  his  serious 
predecessors  Phillips  and  Dr.  Evans. 


Gloster  Uiefley.— 1702-1774. 

This  worthy  man,  who  was  descended 
from  Ridley  the  Martyr,  was  born  at  sea  on 
board  the  Gloucester  East  Indiaman.  He 
published  the  Life  of  his  ancestor,  and  a 
Review  of  Philips's  Life  of  Cardinal  Pole, 
one  of  those  insidious  works  of  the  Roman 
Catholics  which  it  is  necessary  to  watch  and 
to  confute.^  His  eldest  son  was  the  author 
of  the  Tales  of  the  Genii,  a  book  which  it  is  to 
be  hoped  will  always  continue  to  be  printed. 


Joseph  Trappy  Cherington^  Gloucestershire, 

1669-17**. 

Dr.  Trapp  was  the  first  professor  of  po- 
etry at  Oxford,  and  like  many  other  profes- 
sors in  other  things,  professed  what  he  cer- 
tainly did  not  practise.  He  published  his 
lectures  under  the  title  of  Prctlectiones  Fo' 
etica;  four  volumes  of  Sermons;  Abramule, 
a  tragedy;  some  controversial  treatises 
against  the  Papists  and  Methodists,  which 
are  said  to  have  much  merit ;  and  sundry 
miscellaneous  productions  both  in  prose  and 
verse.  But  his  best  or  worst  known  works 
are  a  Latin  version  of  the  Paradise  Lost, 
and  a  blank  verse  translation  of  Virgil. 

See  this  Virgil,  for  surely  it  must  have  been 

'  Gloucester  Ridley's  Sermons  On  the 
Dimnity  and  Optrationt  of  th§  Holy  Ghost , 
preached  at  Lady  Moyes's  lecture,  are  some  of 
the  very  best  on  the  subject. — J.  W.  W. 


350 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  HISTORY  OF 


over-abused.  So  bad  as  Pope*8  Homer  k 
cannot  bj  any  possibility  have  been,  i.  e.  it 
cannot  so  misrepresent  and  debase  the  ori- 
ginal. 


^^^^^N^^I^I^S^^W^^^^lA^^ 


John  Howe. 

Mb.  Nichols  has  transcribed  an  account 
of  this  gentleman,  which  deserves  retran- 
scription.  (Nichols*  Collection,  vol.  1,  p.  209.) 


^^^k/VS^<'^^^^M#^^^hM^AM^^ 


Thomas  Lord  LytOeton.— 17 U'l779. 

PoBMS  by  a  young  Nobleman  of  distin- 
guished abilities,  lately  deceased,  4to.  1780. 
These,  according  to  Mr.  Park,  are  admitted 
to  be  his.  The  Letters  published  as  his 
are  said  to  have  been  written  by  Mr.  Combe. 

The  remarkable  story  of  his  death  is  cer- 
tainly believed  in  the  family. 

Mr.  Park  has  published  his  portrait  I 
never  saw  a  countenance  so  thoroughly  ex- 
pressive of  a  debauched  heart. 


Sneyd  Davies, — 1769. 

Fkllow  of  King's  College,  Cambridge, 
rector  of  Kingsland  in  Herefordshire,  pre- 
bendary of  Litchfield,  archdeacon  of  Derby, 
and  D.  D. 


Sir  Thomas  jBunitf^— 1753. 

YoiwGBST  son  of  the  bishop,  consul  at 
Lisbon,  and  afterwards  king's  seijeant,  and 
judge  of  the  Common  Pleas.  A  volume  of 
his  Poems  was  printed  in  1777. 

It  is  recorded  of  him  in  the  days  of  his 
levity,  that  his  father  one  day  seemg  him 
uncoihmonly  grave,  asked  what  he  was  me- 
ditating ?  "  A  greater  work,**  replied  the 
son,  "  than  your  lordship's  History  of  the 
Reformation.**  *•  What  is  that,  Tom  ?** 
"  My  own  Reformation,  my  lord.**  **  I  shall 
be  heartily  glad  to  see  it,**  said  the  bishop, 
**  but  almost  despair  of  it.**  It  was  how- 
ever accomplished. 

He  edited  his  father*s  History  of  his  own 
l^mes,  and  was  concerned  in  the  Grumbler, 


and  in  travesting  the  first  book  of  Pope's 
niad  with  Ducket,  under  the  title  of  Ho- 
merides,  by  Sir  Diad  Dqggrel :  for  which 
Pope  put  him  in  the  Dunciad. 


Benfamin  Stmingjleet,—169*^''177L 

*'I  HAVE  lately,**  says  Gbat,  **made  sn  ac- 
quaintance with  this  philosopher,  who  lires 
in  a  garret  in  the  winter,  that  he  may  sup- 
port some  near  relations  who  depend  upon 
him.  He  is  always  employed,  consequently 
(according  to  my  old  maxim)  always  happji 
always  cheerful,  and  seems  to  me  a  worthj, 
honest  man.  His  present  scheme  is  to  seod 
some  persons  properly  qualified  to  reside  a 
year  or  two  in  Attica,  to  make  themselves 
acquainted  with  the  climate,  productions, 
and  natural  history  of  the  country,  that  we 
may  understand  Aristotle,  Theophrastos, 
&c.  who  have  been  Heathen  Greek  to  us  for 
so  many  ages ;  and  this  he  has  got  proposed 
to  Lord  Bute,  no  unlikely  person  to  put  it 
in  execution,  as  he  is  hiinself  a  botanist.** 

See  Gentleman*s  Magazine,  1776,  p.  162. 
496,  and  for  1777,  p.  440.  See  also  what 
Pennant  says  of  him,  prefixed  to  hb  British 
Zoology,  vol.  4. 


Walter  Pcpe.—Fawsle^^  NorikampUm* 
shire^  1714. 

Wai-tbb  Popb  was  elected  from  West- 
minster to  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  1645, 
but  removed  to  Oxford,  where  he  was  suc- 
cessively scholar,  fellow,  and  dean  of  Wsd- 
ham.  In  1658,  when  he  was  junior  proctor, 
an  attempt  was  made  ta  abrogate  the  statute 
for  wearing  caps  and  hoods ;  he  frustrated 
it,  and  this  he  called  the  most  glorious  action 
of  his  life.* 

■  Watt,  in  the  Bibliolhtca  Brttonntca,  says 
he  was  bom  about  1702.  He  was  grandton  to 
the  Bishop.— J.  W.  W. 

*  '<  Believe  me,"  says  Cumbkruotd,  *'  there 
is  much  good  sense  in  old  distinctions.  When 
the  law  lays  down  ite  foil-bottomed  periwig,  yon 
will  find  less  wisdom  in  bald  pates  than  you  sre 


ENGLISH  LITERATURE  AND  POETRY. 


851 


Ue  was  half  brother  to  Bishop  Wilkins, 
and  one  of  the  first  fellows  of  the  Royal  So- 
cietj.  His  publications  were  numerous  and 
unimportant;  but  his  Old  Man*8  Wish  is 
one  of  those  ballads  which  are  never  likelj 
to  lose  their  estimation  and  popularity. 

One  of  his  works  deserves  mention,  his 
Moral  and  Political  Fables,  ancient  and 
modem ;  done  into  measured  Prose,  inter- 
mixed with  Rhyme.  1698.  By  measured 
prose,  blank  verse  is  meant,  in  which  a 
couplet  is  occasionally  introduced.  Daniel 
had  done  this  before  him,  and  done  it  far 
better. 

I  have  seen  also  the  same  thing  in  Spa- 
nish. 

Nichols,  vol.  I,  p.  173.  The  Old  Man's 
Wish. 

But  see,  if  possible,  for  the  enlarged  edi- 
tion, in  twenty  stanzas,  published  in  folio, 
1693,  under  the  title  of  the  Wish. 


^^^"^^F^^^^^^^^^^^^F^^rs^^ 


WUUam  Dsncom^tf.— 1689-1769. 

Hb  published,  1.  a  translation  of  Racine's 
Athaliah.  1722.  2.  Lucius  Jimius  Brutus, 
a  Tragedy.  1735.  3.  The  Works  of  Horace, 
in  English  Verse,  by  several  Hands.  1757, 
2  Tols.  8vo.  A  second  edition  in  four  vo- 
lumes iq)peared  in  1762.  He  edited  the 
Works  of  Mr.  Needier  in  1724.  2.  The 
Poems  of  Hughes,  his  brother-in-law,  1735. 
3.  The  Miscellanies  of  Jabez  Hughes.  4. 
The  Works  of  Samuel  Say,  1745 ;  and,  5. 
Seren  Sermons,  by  Archbishop  Herring. 


^V«^«MM«^^iAMAMA^^^^kA^ 


Thamoi  ^<ftoan&.— 1699-1758. 

AuTHOB  of  the  Canons  of  Criticism.     In 
he  dark  age  of  English  poetry,  Edwards 

drareof.'' — ChoUrieMan,  This  passage  is  else- 
rhere  referred  to  by  Sonthey.  I  may  add  from 
hi  GulCt  Ham'Bookf  "  Come,  come;  it  would 
A  bat  a  bald  world,  but  that  it  wears  a  peri- 
^.'^  p.  48.  Reprint  by  J.  N.  1812. 
•  J.W.W. 


li 


had  feeling  enough  to  admire  and  study  the 
great  masters  of  the  art.  Though  one  of 
nine  children,  he  had  the  misfortune  to  be 
the  last  of  his  family. 

The  metre  of  the  ode  in  these  selections 
is  singular. 


•^V>M/>rWW^^^M^^WW\ 


Knightley  Chetwood, — Coventry ^  1720. 

Dr.  Chetwood  was  chaplain  to  James  IL 
who  nominated  him  Bishop  of  Bristol,  but 
abdicated  the  kingdom  before  his  election 
passed  the  seals.  He  was  made  Dean  of 
Gloucester,  and  went  abroad  with  Marl- 
borough as  chaplain  to  the  English  forces. 
The  Dissertation  prefixed  to  Dryden*s  Vir- 
gil in  1697,  is  his. 


W^^^^^^^^^/^^^^^^'^^^y^^ 


CharUs  Drtfden.— 1704, 

Dbti>xn*8  eldest  son.  He  was  usher  of 
the  palace  to  Pope  Clement  XI.  and  was 
drowned  in  the  Tliames,  near  Windsor. 


iAA^^k^A^A^^h^VM^^%''^%^^ 


Thomas  Cateshy,  Lord  Paget— 1742. 

He  died  before  his  father,  the  first  Earl 
of  Uxbridge.  He  published  an  Essay  on 
Human  Life,  which  was  printed  in  a  sup- 
plement to  Pope*s  Works,  1757 ;  and  is  said 
by  Mr.  Park  to  be  perhaps  the  closest  imi- 
tation of  that  poet's  ethical  essays.  And  a 
volume  of  Miscellanies  in  Prose  and  Verse, 


1741. 


^^MAMAAMAA^MM^W^^^WW 


Joseph  Spence, — 1768. 

A  VBBT  amiable  man,  who  was  drowned 
in  his  own  fish  pond.  In  the  Tales  of  the 
Genii  his  character  is  drawn  under  the 
clumsy  name  of  Phesoi  Ecneps,  1.  e.  Jo- 
seph Spence  read  backwards. 


i 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES,  AND 
FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


Letters  from  England  by  a  Spaniard, 

FAK  better  mode  of  exposing 
folly  than  by  novels. 

The  journals  of  my  own  tours 
shall  be  given  with  characteristic 
minuteness,  in  a  lively  stile  and  fiill  of  all  the 
anecdotes  that  I  have  collected.  They  will 
derive  a  Spanish  cast,  from  drawing  general 
conclusions  from  single  circumstances,  and 
from  the  writer^s  wish  to  find  the  English 
as  much  upon  a  level  with  his  own  country- 
men as  he  can. 

Thus  the  theatre  affords  him  an  oppor- 
tunity of  retaliating  the  contempt  ezprest 
by  Englishmen  of  the  Spanish  stage.  A 
strolling  play  may  equal  my  Coruna  exhi- 
bition. 

The  Catholic  may  in  his  turn  deride  re- 
formed worship,  the  vital  Christianity  cant. 
The  Quaker  silence  may  be  described  as 
striking  him  with  awe — till  a  speaker  rose. 

Astonishment  at  the  taxes.  Stopt  win- 
dows. 

Heretical  intolerance.  Elizabeth^s  perse- 
cution of  the  Puritans.    Birmingham  riots. 

Apostle  Spoons. 

Horses*  tails  and  ears. 

Wall  bills  in  London.  Persons  lost.  Re- 
wards for  apprehending  murderers.  Quack 
bills.     Debating  societies,  &c.  &c. 

Fashions.  The  pudding  cravatts  invent- 
ed to  hide  a  poultice.  Two  watches.  Many 
under-waistcoats  and  the  coat  at  the  same 
time  dragged  back  over  the  shoulders. 
Hands  in  the  coat-pockets.  Bandalores. 
Padded  coats  to  look  broad-breasted. 


Door  brass  for  the  8ervant*s  fingers,  the 
clean  custom  of  a  dirty  people. 

Novel  prospects.  Hedges.  Hay-making. 
Country  houses. 

The  Spanish  sheep  produce  good  wool : 
the  English  good  mutton. 

I  have  heard  two  instances  of  the  mis- 
chief done  by  wasps ;  the  one  in  Hereford- 
shire,— ^a  gentleman  and  his  wife  in  a  one- 
horse  chair  were  attacked  in  a  bye-road  bj 
a  nest  of  these  insects.  They  were  over- 
turned, and  escaped  with  little  injury.  The 
horse  died  in  consequence  of  the  stings. 
Mr.  Howe  knows  a  lady  who  with  her  child 
was  attacked  in  the  same  way ;  her  bosom 
was  full  of  them,  but  she  recovered.  My- 
self once  suffered  five  stings  at  once.  An 
odd  circumstance  happened  at  Mr.  LamVs' 
— a  wasp*s  nest  was  taken  by  the  usual  me- 
thod of  suffocation,  and  brought  into  the 
parlour  to  show  the  family.  They  went  out 
to  walk,  and  left  it  there.  By  the  time  they 
returned,  the  wasps  were  recovered,  and 
they  found  them  all  flying  about  the 
room. 

Dr.  Hunter's  Museum.  I  can  borrow 
Carlisle's  book. 

Crimping.    Pressing. 

State  of  the  poor.    Laws  of  settlement 

Universities.  The  seminaries  of  our  cler- 
gymen. 

Excellent  roads  in  England ;  their  dis- 
advantages not  obvious.  The  servants  who 
go  to  summerize  in  the  country  with  their 


■  This  was  his  early  friend,  T.  P.  Lamb,  Esq. 
of  Mountsfield  Lodge,  near  Bye. — J.  W,  W. 


J 


ANECDOTES  AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


353 


upt  the  women.  An  emulation 
extravagance  is  excited.  The 
re  carried  to  the  great  towns, 
idered  scarce  and  dear  on  the 

>lic8'  defence  of  relics,  of  cere- 
"ship,  of  regulated  convents,  of 
r  a  cheerful  Sunday.  Prayers 
,  do  they  not  produce  a  good 
the  living? 
b  absolution. 

ish  have  no  business  to  abuse 
cessions  and  cruelty.  The  East 
I  West.  The  scalping  in  Ame- 
1.  Never  let  them  abuse  Alva, 
iglish  atrocities  have  been  al- 
rated  by  petty  rascals;  there 
>thing  to  counterbalance  it  in 
ter,  as  in  Corte»— even  in  Fi- 
lming. Glencoe. 
rkable  instance  of  honour  in  the 
oner,  in  Richard  II.*s  reign, 
ing. 

plumbs.  If  this  were  a  dead 
lid  a  Frenchnum  to  me, — ^what 
tiquarian  make  of  that  phrase? 


^^^F^^^^S^^^^^^W^'W^^W^^^^* 


s  thy  disease — a  consumption  ? 
rtain  messenger  of  death ;  but 
df  all  the  baylifis  sent  to  arrest 
lebt  of  nature,  none  useth  his 
th  more  civility  and  courtesie." 
Sermon — Life  out  of  Death. 

iDUM. — Dr.  Fothergill  intended 
>retty  large  collection  of  Quaker 
e  Meeting  to  which  he  then  be- 
Peter's  Court,  Westminster." — 
inecdotes. 

ESPKTELLA.^ 

ipiric  cbirurgians  in  Scotland 
•ney  to  the  Picts  Wall  the  be- 
Bvery  summer ;  to  gather  vul- 
ts,  which  they  say  grow  plenti- 

necessary  to  note  what  is  worked 
tters  referred  to.— J.  W.  W. 


fully  there,  and  are  very  effectual,  being 
sown  and  planted  by  the  Romans  for  chi- 
rurgical  uses. — R.  B.  Adm.  Curios. 

GoNDOMAB  bade  a  Spanish  post  who  was 
returning  to  his  own  country  remember  him 
to  the  sun,  for  it  was  a  long  time  since  he 
had  seen  him  here,  and  he  would  be  sure  to 
find  him  in  Spain. — R.  B. 

Fanatics  at  Newbury. — Adm.  Curios.., 
p.  12. 

Gabst  AN  o. — Cyclopmdia. 

'^  RsoNUM  Diabolorum,"  was  a  phrase  ap- 
plied to  England,  and  common  in  uncon- 
sidcring  foreigners*  mouths.  —  Preface  to 
MoLESwoBTH^s  Account  of  Denmark. 

London  consumes  butcher*s-meat  to  the 
amount  of  seven  millions  sterling  annually. 

A  CALF  fed  for  the  London  market  is  said 
to  consume  as  much  milk  as  would  make  a 
hundred  weight  of  cheese. 

Thebb  is  a  Committee  of  Art  or  of  Tast« 
who  decide  upon  the  designs  sent  in  for 
public  monuments.  The  best  artists  will  not 
enter  into  such  a  competition,  very  properly 
not  chusing  to  trust  their  reputation  to  the 
opinion  of  men  whom  they  may  not  deem 
competent  judges.  An  inferior  one  will  send 
in  several  designs,  speculating  upon  the 
doctrine  of  chances,  and  the  speculation  an- 
swers.   There  is  a  monument  to  Captain 

,  in  St.  PauFs,  of  which  the  history  is 

thb.  Ross  sent  in  several  designs.  The 
Conunittee  pitched  upon  one,  which  was  not 
the  best ;  fixed  upon  one  figure,  also  not  the 
best  of  the  design  which  they  had  chosen ; 
and  then  desired  him  to  put  just  such  ano- 
ther figure  on  the  other  side, — so  then  they 
are  like  an  admiral's  two  supporters ! 

Mbs.  Wilson'  remembers  the  time  when 

*  The  kind  friend  of  the  children  before  men- 
tioned.—J.  W.  W. 


A  A 


the  people  of  this  place  did  not  know  what 
an  idmanack  was.  She  knew  the  parties. 
Two  men  at  work  were  accosted  bj  an  ac- 
quaintance, who  told  them  he  was  going  to 
Kendal  on  purpose  to  see  an  ahnanack,  which 
was  to  tell  every  thing  about  the  weather. 
They  desired  him  to  let  them  know  when 
he  came  back  what  sort  of  thing  it  was ; 
and  his  account  on  his  return  was  :  — 
**  Whjjwhj, — I  know  not; — it  maffles  and 
talks :  howsoever  l*se  been  considering  that 
Ck)llop-Monda7  will  be  on  a  Tuesday  next 
year." 

If  a  man  be  found  at  work  in  the  Christ- 
mas week  in  Kendal,  his  fellow -tradesmen 
lay  violent  hands  on  him,  and  carry  him  on 
a  pole  to  the  alehouse,  where  he  is  to  treat 
them. 

Cbokeb  told  me  that  some  of  his  coun- 
trymen brought  a  man  before  the  magi- 
strate for  murder,  because  one  with  whom 
he  had  quarrelled  and  fought,  died  in  the 
course  of  the  same  evening.  It  appeared 
upon  enquiry  that  the  deceased  had  com- 
plained of  a  pain  in  his  bowels,  and  that 
they  to  relieve  him  had  determined  upon 
spreading  the  gripe.  The  way  this  was 
effected  was  by  laying  the  patient  on  his 
back,  and  then  putting  a  plank  on  his  belly 
upon  which  all  the  company  stood  and 
jumped. 

Fajlm  Soap, — which  Patey,  Butts  and 
Co.  recently  removed  from  Ball- Alley,  Lom- 
bard Street^  to  No.  12,  Three  Kings  Court, 
in  the  same  street,  think  it  an  indispensable 
part  of  "  their  duty  to  inform  their  friends 
and  the  public  that  they  have  brought  this 
preparation  to  the  utmost  zenith  of  excel- 
lence. It  is  manufactured  wholly  from 
Palm  Oil, — which  is  so  vinous  and  nutritious 
that  the  natives  of  Asia  take  it  internally 
from  choice." 

William  HuTCHmsoN,  when  be  was  in 
Rome,  skaitcd  on  the  Tyber,  to  the  great 
astonishment  of  the  Romans. 


TuBNEB  knew  a  Londoner  who  had  kept 
a  retail  spirit-shop,  and  retired  into  the 
adjoining  county  when  he  had  made  a  for- 
tune, to  enjoy  himself.  This  man  used  to 
amuse  himself  by  having  one  puncheon  filled 
with  water,  and  measuring  it  off  by  pints 
into  another. 

He  knew  another  retired  cit  who  nsed 
every  day  to  angle  in  his  round  wash-band* 
basin  sized  fish-pond  for  gold-fish.  One 
fish  be  knew,  because  it  bad  once  lost  its  eje 
in  being  caught, — and  he  used  to  say,  "^  Curse 
that  fellow,  this  is  the  fifth,  sixth,  &c.  time 
that  I  have  caught  him  this  season."  It  used 
to  provoke  him. 

At  Bishop*s  Middleham  a  man  died  widi 
the  reputation  of  a  water-drinker ;  and  it 
was  discovered  that  he  had  killed  himself 
by  secret  drunkenness.  There  was  a  Roman 
Catholic  hiding-place  in  the  house,  the  en- 
trance to  which  was  from  his  bed-room;  he 
converted  it  into  a  cellar ;  and  the  quantity 
of  brandy  which  he  had  consumed  was  ascer- 
tained. 

Valehtinb's  Day.  Two  hundred  and 
fifty  valentines  delivered  at  Keswick  from 
the  post-office,  1813.  The  post-woman  is 
given  their  produce  as  a  gratuity,  (they  are 
one  penny  each),  and  last  year  she  received 
fifty  shillings.  In  London  they  are  said  to 
double  the  receipt  of  the  twopenny  post  on 
that  day.  Long  Nanny,'  the  postwoman,haB 
a  whole  box-full,  which  were  either  directed 
to  persons  who  have  left  Keswick,  or  were 
refused  to  be  taken  in. 

Or  the  Arundel  marbles,  many  were  sto- 
len while  they  lay  at  Arundel  House  in  the 
Strand,  or  cut  and  worked  up  by  masons. 
Theobald  cut  some  into  slabs  for  his  house 
at  Lambeth,  and  converted  part  of  a  column 
into  a  roller  for  his  country  house  in  Berk- 
shire. A  colossal  Apollo  (whose  head  is  at 
Oxford)  and  an  entire  small  obelisk,  are  said 

1  This  was  the  post-woman  of  the  day,  is 
might  easily  be  inferred.— J.  W.  W. 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


355 


led  under  the  houses  in  Arundel 
he  upper  part  of  the  Parian  Chro- 
aining  forty-five  lines,  is  believed 
)een  worked  up   in   repairing  a 

^BBHAND  Jacob  had  a  pleasant 
ravelling  in  the  earlier  part  of  his 
).  As  soon  as  the  road  became 
^ood,  and  the  fine  weather  began 
le  and  his  man  set  off  with  a  port- 
ind  without  knowing  whither  they 
5.  Towards  evening,  when  they 
village,  they  inquired  if  the  great 

I  books,  and  had  a  good  library : 
answer  was  in  the  affirmative.  Sir 
id  sent  his  compliments,  that  he 
to  see  him ;  and  then  he  used  to 
e  was  disposed  to  move  farther, 
lanner  he  travelled  through  the 
part  of  England,  scarcely  ever 
t  an  inn  unless  when  town  or  vil- 
not  afford  one  person  civilized 

be  glad  to  see  a  gentleman  and  a 
-NiCHOL8*8  Anecdotes, 

pointment  of  the  four  canon  resi- 
of  York  Cathedral  is  in  the  gifl 
1,  who  is  obliged  by  statute  to  give 
t  canonry  to  the  first  man  he  sees 
vacancy  capable  of  taking  it. — 

f  after  Mr.  Robins*s  murderer  was 
:ar  Stourbridge,  a  noted  party  of 
3  assembled  under  his  gibbet,  and 
health !  The  first  Sunday,  more 
KX)  persons  came  to  see  him  hang- 
ns ;  and  a  kind  of  wake  continued 
recks  for  ale  and  gingerbread,  &c. 
information  of  Rosanna,  who  is 
»ncerted  at  remaining  in  ignorance 

II  the  country  knows  but  herself, 
de  a  drawing  of  the  scene ;  but  I 
to  say  she  would  rather  see  the 

Rosanna  is  an  old  servant,  too 
six  miles  to  see  the  sight. 

'lam,  near  Naworth  Castle,  was 
>h: 


"  John  Bell  of  Brekenbrow  ligs  under  this 

stean. 
Four  of  mineeen  sons  laid  it  on  my  weam.' 
I  liv*d  all  my  days  but  [without]  shirt  or 

strife, 
I  was  man  of  my  meat,  and  master  of  my 

wife. 
If  thou*st  done  better  in  thy  time  than  I 

have  done  in  mine. 
Take  the  stean  off  o*  my  weam,  and  lay  it 

upon  thine." 

Mr.  Beaupre  Bell  sent  to  the  Antiquarian 
Society  a  Latin  version,  which  is  trjily  a 
masterpiece  of  mistranslation, — that  is,  of 
that  sort  of  translation  which  effectually  de- 
stroys the  life,  spirit,  and  essence  of  an  ori- 
ginal. 

**  Ipse  Caledoniis  Bellus  bene  notus  in  oris 
Mole  sub  h&c,  nati  quam  posuere,  cubo. 
Mensa  parata  mihi,  mihi  semper  amabilis 
uxor, 
Et  placidae  noctes,  et  sine  lite  dies. 
Heus,  bone  vir !  siquid  fecisti  rectius  istis, 
Hoc  marmor  tibi  do  quod  tegat  ossa  li- 
bens." 

These  is  in  the  Bodleian  a  tract  describing 
"  The  most  dangerous  and  memorable  ad- 
venture of  Richard  Ferris,  one  of  the  five 
ordinary  messengers  of  her  Majesty*s  cham- 
ber, who  departed  from  Tower  Wharf  on 
Midsummer  day  last  past,  with  Andrew  Hill 
and  William  Thomas,  who  undertook  in  a 
small  wherry  boat  to  row  by  sea  to  the  city 
of  Bristowe,  and  are  now  safely  returned.*' 
Upon  accomplishment  of  this  voyage,  "The 
mayor  of  Bristow,  with  his  brethren  the  al- 
dermen, came  to  the  waterside,  and  wel- 
comed us  most  lovingly,  and  the  people  came 
in  great  multitudes  to  see  us,  in  so  much 
as,  by  the  consent  of  the  magistrates,  they 
took  our  boat  from  us,  not  suffering  us  once 

'  Stick  him  V  ('  weam,  is  a  common  expres- 
sion in  Cumberland.  The  etymology  of  the 
word  is  the  same  as  that  of  Womb.  'Iceland. 
Vomb.  Dan.  Vom.  See  Sciiilter's  Thesaur,  in 
v.  Wamboy  JuNii  Glots.  in  Evangel.  Vers.  Goth, 
and  Kilt  AN  A  in  v.  Wamhet^s.—J*  W.  W. 


\ 


to  meddle  with  it,  in  respect  that  we  were 
all  extreame  weary,  and  carried  our  said 
boat  to  the  high  cross  in  the  city;  from 
thence  it  was  convayed  to  the  Town  House, 
there  locked  safe  all  night.  And  on  the 
next  morning  the  people  of  the  city  gather- 
ed themselves  together,  and  had  prepared 
trumpets,  drums,  fyfes,  and  ensigns,  to  go 
before  the  boat,  which  was  carried  upon 
men*s  shoulders  round  about  the  city,  with 
the  waites  of  the  said  city,  playing  orderly 
in  honour  of  our  rare  and  dangerous  attempt 
atchieved.  Aflerwards  we  were  had  to 
Maister  Maior^s,  to  the  aldermen  and  she- 
riffs* houses,  where  we  were  feasted  most 
royally,  and  spared  for  no  cost  at  the  time 
that  we  remained  there." — British  BtbUo^ 
grapher,  vol.  ii.  p.  552. 

When  the  Sunderlins  were  on  Mont  An- 
ver  (?),  passing  the  day  at  Blairs  Tower  (?) 
to  see  the  Mer  de  Glace,  up  came  Lord  Pa- 
get, the  Marquis  of  Worcester,  and  his  bro- 
ther, Lord  C.  Somerset,  in  dresses  made  for 
the  excursion.  They  looked  at  the  glacier, 
agreed  nem.  con.  that  it  was  **  damn*d  cu- 
rious,** turned  on  their  heels,  and  walked 
down  again.** 

Thsrs  were  in  the  room  of  an  officer  at 
an  inn  at  Durham,  twenty-four  pair  of  boots, 
twelve  pair  of  shoes,  and  four  pair  of  slip- 
pers. 

At  Leybum  I  saw  written  up  over  a 
shop,  **  Bride  cakes  and  funeral  biscuits.** 

At  Bentham,  a  village  on  the  road  from 
Settle  to  Lancaster,  "  Leeches  sold  here,** 
at  the  bakers  and  pastry  cooks. 

A  Doo  at  Congreve  went  regularly  every 
Sunday  toPenkridge  church,  during  a  whole 
year  that  the  church  was  under  repair,  and 
if  he  could  get  in,  past  the  proper  time  in 
the  family  pew. 

A  MAN  who  held  his  head  remarkably 
nigh,  walked  against  one  who  was  hurrying 


along,  and  knocked  him  down.  The  other 
got  up  and  coolly  said,  **  Who  the  devil 
sent  you  to  London  without  a  martingale?" 

£100  was  sent  to  a  Mr.  Averell  m  Ire* 
land,  anonymously,  to  be  laid  out  according 
to  his  judgment  among  the  poorest  mission- 
aries who  instructed  the  people  in  Irish.  It 
came  from  a  Quaker,  by  the  language.  Ave- 
rell, who  had  been  pestered  with  anonymoas 
letters,  not  knowing  the  hand,  refused  to 
take  it  in.  It  was  returned  to  the  Dead 
Letter  Office,  and  being  in  due  time  opened 
there,  was  again  returned  to  him. 

NoNB  but  the  wearer  can  tell  where  the 
shoe  pinches,  says  the  proverb.  In  like  man- 
ner, none  else  can  tell  where  it  JUs. 

The  age  of  puberty  is  the  dangerous  age 
in  colonies  aa  well  as  in  individuals. 

It  is  a  good  anecdote  of  histrionic  feeling 
that  Booth  hated  Cato  the  most  of  all  the 
Romans. — Aabon  Hux,  vol.  ii.  p.  364. 

George  Smfih  Green,  a  watchmaker  at 
Oxford,  published,  somewhere  about  1750- 
60,  a  specimen  of  a  new  version  of  Paradise 
Lost,  into  blank  verse  (?),  '^  by  which  that 
amazing  work  is  brought  somewhat  nearer 
the  summit  of  perfection.** 

Locusts,  why  so  numerous?  Other  crea- 
tures lay  as  many  eggs,  and  yet  do  not  mul- 
tiply to  the  annoyance  of  mankind.  Is  the 
link  destroyed  that  should  have  checked 
them? 

The  blood  of  the  Jews,  like  that  of  the 
Goths,  is  a  strong  blood.  For  wherever 
there  is  a  cross  of  it,  the  cast  of  the  Mosaic 
features  predominates. 

Johnson  once  heard  a  fisherman  who  was 
skinning  an  eel,  curse  it  because  it  would 
not  lie  still.  lie  noticed  it  as  a  striking  in- 
stance of  human  insensibility  and  inconsi- 
deration. 


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*  Johnson  tells  a  story  of  a  man  who  was 
standing  in  an  inn  kitchen  with  his  back  to 
the  fire,  and  thus  accosted  the  person  next 
him :  *'  Do  you  know,  Sir,  who  I  am  P" — 
"  No,  Sir,"  said  the  other,  "  I  have  not  that 
advantage.** — **  Sir,"  said  he,  "  I  am  the 
great  Twalmley,  who  invented  the  new  flood- 
gate iron,** — that  is,  the  box-iron  with  the 
sliding  door,  or  ironing  box,  flat  heaters 
alone  having  till  then  been  used,  or  possibly 
the  box-iron  with  the  door  and  bolt. 

The  cross  by  the  wayside  a  memento, 
which,  often  as  it  is  passed  with  indiflerence, 
must  often  excite  a  salutary  thought ;  and 
he  who  condenms  it  as  a  superstitious  me- 
morial, would  do  well  to  examine  whether 
there  is  not  in  his  own  frame  of  mind  more 
of  Bectarianism  than  of  Christianity. 

*^  The  heathens,**  says  South,  ^*  attributed 
a  kind  of  divinity  or  godhead  to  springs, 
because  of  that  continual  inexhaustible  ema- 
nation firom  them,  resembling  a  kind  of  in- 
finity.**—VoL  iL  p.  639. 

OcB  common  laurel  was  first  brought  into 
the  Low  Ckmntries,  1576,  (together  with  the 
horse-chesnut)  firom  Constantinople,  as  a 
present  from  David  Unguad,  the  Imperial 
ambassador  in  Turkey,  to  Clusius  the  bo- 
tanist. It  was  sent  to  him  by  the  name  of 
Trabison-Curmasi,  i.  e.  the  Date  of  Trebi- 
Bond,  but  he  named  it  Lauro-Cerasus. — Ma- 
son, Note  to  the  English  Garden, 

JosiAH  Coin>EH  knew  a  man  who  began 
to  doubt  the  Scripture  in  general,  because 
he  did  not  think  it  possible  that  Nebuchad- 
nezzar could  have  lived  seven  years  upon 
grass.  And  to  ascertain  this  point,  he  set 
about  grazing  himself,  and  persevered  in  it, 
by  his  own  account,  a  whole  week,— which 
was  six  days  longer  than  Edward  Williams, 
^but  then  the  bard*s  was  only  a  politico- 
economical   experiment.     How  it  agreed 

*A]]  the  Anecdotes  I  have  marked  with  an 
asterisk  have  been  -used  up  either  in  Espriella^s 
l^ters,OT  The  Doctor,  &c.— J.  W.  W. 


with  his  digestion,  I  did  not  learn,  but  his 
doubts  were  satisfied,  and  he  became  firom 
that  time  a  zealous  professor. 

Josiah  Conder  once  heard  Huntington 
the  S.S.  in  the  pulpit  examine  St.  Paul  and 
St.  James  concerning  their  imputed  difi*er- 
ence  of  doctrine.  "  My  dear  Paul,*'  he 
said,  '*  and  my  dear  James,**  and  so  carried 
on  the  imaginary  dialogue  in  a  colloquial 
and  familiar  style,  suited  to  his  congrega- 
tion, but  never  bordering  upon  vulgarity. 
At  last  the  examiner  brought  St.  James  to 
a  point  which  gave  him  occasion  to  exclaim, 
**  Why  you  are  of  the  same  opinion  as  Paul 
after  all !  **  —  "  To  be  sure  I  am,**  replied 
James;  ^*the  only  difference  is,  that  we 
were  speaking  to  difierent  persons,  under 
different  circumstances.** 

In  1815  I  saw  written  on  the  walls  in 
London,  ^*  God  save  Napoleon  I  No  im- 
posing kings  by  a  foreign  army  !  ** — **  No 
commissioners  of  hackney  coaches  !**  in  an- 
other place. 

Among  the  odd  things  in  the  f<treets  at 
that  time,  was  an  eagle  at  the  comer  of 
Pall  Mall  and  St.  James*s  Street, — a  beggar 
walking  with  a  ship  on  his  head, — and  an- 
other mendicant  without  legs  or  thighs, 
drawn  in  a  low  cart  by  two  dogs  abreast, — 
and  a  monkey  playing  upon  a  tambourine. 

1815.  Waterloo  gown  pieces, — in  which 
the  word  made  the  pattern,  or  the  pattern 
(rather)  the  word. 

♦  Wellington  door-knocker,  designed  by 
Bray,  ironmonger,  of  Cranbourn  Street, 
Leicester  Square,  claims  the  attention  of 
the  nobility  and  gentry,  as  well  deserving 
notice,  by  bearing  a  public  tribute  of  respect 
to  the  hero  of  Waterloo. 

I  HBAB  of  a  goose  feeder,  who  has  made 
a  large  fortune. 

Among  the  carriages  which  are  going  out 
to  Hayti,  according  to  order,  is  one  for  some 
duke  who  has  chosen  two  hyenas  for  his 
supporters. 


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Anecdotes  for  the  Letters. 

*  I  DIKED  with  a  Vital  Christianitj  Parson, 
a  fellow  whose  face  was  wrinkled  into  one 
everlasting  smile.  He  said  he  had  been 
expending  all  his  money  in  charity  and 
religious  purposes.  He  explained  this  to 
mean  erecting  an  organ  in  his  chapel  at 
London. — "  And  I  shall  think  mjself  badly 
off,  if  it  does  not  bring  me  in  fifty  per 
cent.**  Sittings  are  hired  in  these  chapels, 
and  where  there  is  the  best  music  there  is 
there  most  custom. 

*  Me.  Sbvebnb  was  told  by  one  of  his 
parishioners,  that  the  fairy  rings  were  made 
by  the  Fairies,  that  the  Fairies  were  never 
seen  now,  but  they  used  to  be  seen  in  the 
olden  times — in  the  times  of  the  scriptures. 
**  Nay,"  said  Mr.  Severne,  "  you  never  read 
of  them  in  the  scriptures."  "  Oh,  yes  you 
do,  Sir.  I  hear  you  read  of  them  almost 
every  Sunday  —  of  the  Scribes  and  the 
PAartsees." 

*  Mb.  Hobltn  said  that  many  of  his  pa- 
rishioners he  never  heard  of  but  when  they 
came  up  to  be  buried. 

At  Falmouth  the  Sexton  found  coal  in 
<ligging  A  grave ;  he  concluded  it  must  be 
a  mine,  and  ran  with  the  news  and  the 
specimen  to'  the  clergyman.  JThe  surgeon 
explained  it,  they  had  stolen  a  French  pri- 
soner who  died,  and  filled  his  coffin  with 
coal  that  the  bearers  might  not  discover 
its  emptiness. 

*  At  Falmouth  the  clergyman  was  desired 
to  bury  a  man.  "  Why,  John,"  said  he  to 
the  sexton,  we  buried  this  very  man  ten 
years  ago."  They  referred  to  the  register 
and  found  it  so,  a  mock  funeral  had  been 
made  for  him  that  his  relations  might  re- 
ceive his  rents. 

Mebthtb  Ttdvil.  When  the  forge-men 
want  a  day*s  drinking  they  find  out  that  the 
Devil  has  appeared  to  one  of  them,  in  con- 


sequence of  which  nobody  will  t< 
the  forge  the  next  day.  A  mast 
these  visits  of  his  Satanic  Majestj 
quent  and  so  troublesome,  that  a 
declared  he  would  turn  off  the  i 
who  should  see  the  Devil.  One  fc 
the  ghost  of  a  waggon  with  a  grea 
it,  in  a  place  where  no  mortal  wagg 
have  got. 

A  Welshman  here  had  500 
boxes  made  at  Birmingham  with 
scription  in  Welsh,  **  He  is  an  En^ 
take  care   of  him."     The  man  1 
cheated  by  an  Englishman. 

Thbbb  are  several  weddings  the 
Sunday.  The  brid^room  leads  t 
by  a  pocket-handkerchief  to  chui 
ceded  by  a  harper.  At  a  funeral ' 
always  several  hundred  followers. 

A  MADMAN  was  couvcyed  from 
Bedlam.  They  slept  in  the  Boro 
he  suspected  whither  they  were  ta) 
He  rose  before  sun-rise  — went  tc 
— and  told  the  keepers  there  that 
day  he  should  bring  him  a  patiei 
that  in  order  to  lead  him  willing! 
been  persuaded  that  I  am  mad,  ace 
I  shall  come  as  the  madman.  He 
very  outrageous  when  you  seize 
you  must  clap  on  a  strait  waistcoa 
cordingly  the  sane  man  was  imprist 
the  lunatic  returned  home.  He  c 
room  full  of  his  relations  and  friei 
the  story  with  exceeding  glee,  an* 
diately  relapsed  into  his  madnes 
other  roan  had  a  strait  waisteoat  i 
four  days  before  he  was  exchange 

At  Merthyr,  Danvers  used  a 
poll-parrot  for  an  extinguisher. 

The  Pool  smugglers  who  were 
the  most  cruel  murder  I  remembei 
read  of,  told  the  judge,  who  dw. 
the  guilt  of  muri^er,  that  **  nobo4 
have  a  greater  abhorrence  of  mur 


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:  thej  had  only  killed  some  Cus- 
se  officers.** 

ibridgc,  while  the  Sexton  was  show- 
le  church,  somebody  brought  him 
of  a  townsman*8  death.  ^'  Is  he 
he  dead  at  last  ?  thank  God  for 
be  best  piece  of  news  Tve  heard 
f  a  day.**  He  was  asked  why  he 
ad  at  the  man*s  death  ?  *'  Why  ** 
d,  ^^  he  has  left  me  five  shillings 
bion  that  I  bury  him  m  a  particu- 
r  of  the  church-yard.*' 

from  Abergavenny  we  entered  into 
bion  with  a  well  dressed  man  in 
le  most  delightful  spots  I  had  ever 
^e  were  on  the  edge  of  a  wooded 
ountain  stream  in  its  bottom — the 
*Jk  mountains  in  view.  **  Here  ** 
^  is  the  finest  spot  in  the  kingdom 
—such  a  situation  I — ^water  at  com- 
a  canal  near  —  and  a  railroad  to 
lals  to  the  door.**  The  fellow*s 
ea  of  a  fine  situation  was  to  esta- 
lanufactory. 

NS  the  clergyman  at  Pill  sent  to  a 
I  for  his  Easter  dues.  They  amount- 
>  shillings.  The  man  returned  for 
hat  he  **  could  not  then  pay  the 
ut  on  the  Saturday  next  he  should 

pay  and  would  bring  it.**  The 
>w  had  offended  a  servant  who  had 

over  his  master,  Wilkins,  and  pre- 
>on  him  to  put  him  in  the  Bishops* 
[ere  the  fees  and  expences  daily  in- 
ind  when  Saturday  came,  amounted 

which  he  could  not  pay.  He  was 
and  carried  to  Ivelchester :  it  was 
eason  — he  lay  upon  straw  in  the 
le  was  seventy-eight — died  there, 

buried  in  the  grave  with  a  felon 

been  hanged.  Mr.  Kifl  related 
inverses  this  evening.  He  had  as- 
[  the  facts.  June  26, 1799.-— Smart, 
s  name,  a  tyler,  the  debt  was  two 

the  law  charges  £30,  and  more, 
way  and  was  taken  on  venturing 


to  see  his  wife.     His  wife  was  seventy- 
four.* 

Walking  from  Sapey  to  Ledbury  with 
Edmund  Seward,  he  pointed  out  a  cottage 
on  a  common.  The  cottager  had  planted 
two  apple  trees  before  his  door  on  the  com- 
mon, to  him  important  in  valne  as  furnish- 
ing him  with  cyder.  The  manor  came  to  a 
clergyman,  and  he  went  with  a  man  to  cut 
down  the  trees. 

*  Returning  to  Brixton  I  saw  two  in- 
stances of  English  credulity.  A  woman  was 
shown  for  a  wild  Indian.  I  heard  her  singing 
in  a  true  cracked  St.  Gileses  voice.  A  child 
was  shown  as  the  most  surprizing  large  child 
that  ever  was  seen  :  *twas  a  four  years 
body,  backward  in  mind,  exhibited  for  one 
of  eighteen  months  forward  in  body. 

*  At  Bristol  I  saw  a  shaved  monkey  shown 
for  a  fairy ;  and  a  shaved  bear,  in  a  check 
waistcoat  and  trowsers,  sitting  in  a  great 
chair  as  an  Ethiopian  savage.'  This  was 
the  most  cruel  fraud  I  ever  saw.  The  un- 
natural position  of  the  beast,  and  the  dam- 
nable brutality  of  the  woman-keeper  who 
sat  upon  his  knee,  put  her  arm  round  his 
neck,  called  him  husband  and  sweet-heart, 
and  kissed  him,  made  it  the  most  disgusting 
spectacle  I  ever  witnessed.  Cottle  was 
with  me. 

Mt  father*8  Aunt  Hannah  hod  a  life-hold 
estate,  held  at  last  upon  the  life  of  one  la- 
bouring man.  This  fellow  found  out  the 
importance  of  his  life,  and  never  would 
strike  a  stroke  of  work  afterwards — ^he  run 
up  a  bill  at  the  alehouse — then  away  went 
his  wife  to  Aunt  Hannah  —  her  husband 

*  The  latter  paragraph  is  of  more  recent  date, 
— but  not  mucri .  1  may  note  here,  that  in  Sou- 
they*s  early  MSS.  he  wrote  **  Danvcrses,"  and 
**  Gileses,'^  &c.  unmodemized. 

'  I  saw  the  like  disgusting  exhibition  in  Wol- 
verhampton about  the  year  1817.  The  poor 
beast  was  then  called,  as  I  well  recollect,  the 
Polo  Savage.- J.  W.  W. 


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would  be  arrested — there  was  a  bad  fever 
in  the  prison,  &c.  The  poor  woman  was 
thus  perpetually  harassed  till  the  fellow 
died  at  last,  and  she  was  left  destitute  and 
dependant. 

*  Db.  Gbaham.  I  saw  this  half-knave,  half- 
enthusiast  twice :  at  one  time  he  was  bu- 
ried up  to  the  neck  in  earth  in  the  midst 
of  his  patients ;  at  another,  sitting  up  to 
the  chin  in  warm  mud,  with  his  hair  in  full 
pigeon-wing  dress.  As  he  was  haranguing 
upon  the  excellent  health  he  enjoyed  from 
the  use  of  earth-bathing,  I  asked  him  why 
he  was  then  in  the  mud-bath  if  he  wanted 
no  relief?  it  puzzled  him  why — he  said, 
— "  Why — ^it  was — it  was — to  show  people 
that  it  did  no  harm — that  it  was  quite  in- 
nocent— that  it  was  very  agreeable — and 
— it  gives  me  a  skin  as  sofl  as  the  feathers 
of  Venuses  doves.**  A  farmer  once  emptied 
a  watering  pot  upon  his  head  when  he  was 
buried,  *'  to  make  him  grow  **  he  said.  Lat- 
terly Graham  was  an  evident  enthusiast — 
he  would  madden  himself  with  opium  — 
rush  into  the  streets,  and  strip  himself  to 
clothe  the  first  beggar  he  met;  but  the 
electrical  bed  was  the  infamous  pandarism 
of  a  scoundrel.  He  lived  upon  vegetables, 
and  perpetually  declaimed  against  making 
the  stomach  the  grave,  the  charnel  house 
of  slaughtered  bodies :  in  one  of  his  pam- 
phlets there  is  a  page  of  epithets  for  wheat. 

*  Im  1797  there  was  a  fellow,  an  old  man, 
who  professed  himself  to  be  the  Wandering 
Jew.  He  did  not  adhere  to  the  legend, 
but  laid  claim  to  higher  antiquity ;  he  had 
**  been  with  Noah  in  the  ark  **  he  said,  **  and 
received  from  the  he-goat  a  blow  on  the 
forehead*'  of  which  the  scar  still  remained. 
Some  person  asked  him  what  country  he 
preferred  of  all  that  he  had  visited  ?  he 
answered,  *'  Spain.**  The  questioner  re- 
marked that  that  was  singular  as  he  was  a 
Jew.  "  God  bless  you,*'  replied  the  ready 
rogue,  —  "  it  was  long  before  Christianity 
that  I  was  in  Spain,  and  I  shall  not  go  there 
again  till  it  is  all  over.*'     Mr.  Sloper  told 


me  these  circumstances  on  the  faith  of  the 
person  who  asked  him  this  question. 

*  Therb  is  actually  now  in  Bond-street  a 
man  who  teaches  gentlemen  for  half  a  gui- 
nea to  tie  their  cravatts !  Many  persoiM 
can  remember  a  man  who  went  in  his  own 
carriage  to  dress  sallads  at  the  same  price. 

*  At  Royston  in  1793, 1  saw  a  hand-bill 
announcing  that  a  man  whose  name  I  do  not 
remember,  would  give  his  annual  dinner,  on 
a  specified  day,  where  every  person  should 
be  welcome.  I  learnt  that  he  believed 
himself  wrongfully  kept  out  of  a  large  es- 
tate :  that  he  worked  at  some  day  labour, 
and  lived  very  frugally  the  whole  year,  to 
spend  his  collected  savings  in  this  way,  on 
his  birthday  every  year,  at  an  inn  upon  the 
estate  which  he  claimed.  —  In  my  child- 
hood there  was  a  man  at  Bristol  possessed 
with  the  same  idea.  He  had  vowed  never 
to  wash  himself,  or  put  on  clean  linen,  or 
comb  his  hair,  cut  his  nails  or  shave  till  he 
had  recovered  his  right.  He  kept  the  vow 
and  died  in  his  dirt :  they  called  him  black 
John. 

The  Christ  Church  Smugglers  say  when 
a  drowned  comrade  is  enquired  for,  ^  he's 
on  the  other  side  the  water.** 

.  The  mother  of  Pat  who  nursed  me  lived 
in  service  at  London,  in  1745.  It  was  near 
Tower  Hill,  and  on  the  day  that  some  of 
the  rebel  lords  were  executed  she  was  sent 
for  beer  to  a  pot  house  in  that  neighbour- 
hood. While  she  was  there  a  man  brought 
in  some  liver,  which  he  gave  to  be  drest, 
affirming  with  bitter  curses  that  it  was  the 
liver  of  one  of  the  rebels.  How  have  such 
stories  been  circulated  against  the  French, 
as  if  the  mad  brutality  of  an  individual 
characterized  his  nation  I  —  But  this  was 
probably  the  lie  of  a  brutal  bravo. 

Okb  day  in  1795,  when  Coleridge  and  I 
were  dining  at  the  ordinary  at  the  Ship, 
Small-street,  Bristol,  we  heard  a  loud  quar* 


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rel  between  the  stable-boy,  and  joung 
Hanmer  the  grocer  next  door.  A  lady 
had  lost  a  ^  carious  **  pigeon,  and  employed 
Hanmer  to  get  it  cried  and  pay  a  reward 
of  five  shillings  if  it  was  recovered.  The 
stable-boy  had  a  hawk  which  he  carried  to 
the  bell-man — the  bell-man  looked — **  Grod 
bless  my  soul  I  it  is  a  curious  pigeon  I  ** — 
and  away  they  went  to  Hanmer. — **  Well  I 
this  is  the  most  curious  pigeon  I  ever  saw  I 
I  don*t  wonder  the  lady  offered  five  shil- 
lings for  it,"  —  and  he  pays  the  stable-boy 
the  reward.  The  lady  however  knew  a 
hawk  from  a  pigeon  —  and  Hanmer  was 
now  come  to  abuse  the  stable-boy  for  a 
rogue  and  recover  the  money  —  which  he 
had  wisely  spent. 

*  When  Mrs.  Danvers  lived  at  Cirencester 
a  fellow  showed  for  a  penny  the  fork  that 
belonged  to  the  knife  with  which  Margaret 
Nicholson  attempted  to  kill  the  king. 

Near  Rownham  I  once  met  two  men, 
who  were  carefully  lifting  a  square  box 
over  a  stile.  I  asked  them  what  was  in  it  ? 
they  told  me  *^  the  little  woman,**  whom 
they  were  carrying  to  show  some  lady  at  the 
Wells.  They  carried  it  with  short  poles 
like  a  little  sedan  something,  and  gimlet 
holes  were  the  only  air  avenues :  for  the 
people  would  have  seen  her  for  nothing 
had  there  been  a  window  I 

Copied  from  the  original.  It  is  in  MissBar^ 
kers  possession  and  ivas  sent  to  her  uncle's 
house  near  Llandaff. 

A  MBSSENOEH  and  inviter  I  am  to  the 
landlord  and  landlady  of  the  house,  and  the 
i^t  of  the  family,  as  they  arise  and  sleep, 
them  that  likes  the  journey,  to  the  wedding 
of  David  Rees,  millman  at  Cyfarthfa,  and 
Gwenny  Davies,  servant  maid  at  Richard 
Crawshays  Esq.,  against  Saturday  the  14th 
of  May,  she  come  out  of  her  own  house 
where  they  goes  to  live  in  burch  grove, 
and  he  comes  out  of  the  next  door, -to 
Merthyr  church  to  be  married,  and  back 


to  their  own  house  to  enjoy  the  wedding. 
There  will  be  meat  and  drink  and  all  other 
attendance  such  as  they  can  afford ;  it  shall 
be  ready  for  you,  not  for  you  to  take  it  an 
excuse  further  that  you  should  not  be  in- 
vited to  the  bride  or  the  bridegroom  sepa- 
rately. I  do  invite  you  for  them  both,  and 
you  go  to  which  you  please.  There  will  be 
two  musicks  to  divert  while  you  are  at 
meat,  and  to  divert  you  to  dance  as  long  as 
you  chuse  to  stay  after  meat :  if  you  don*t 
chuse  to  dance,  you  shall  have  pipes  and 
tobacco  to  divert  you,  with  ale,  either  plain 
ale  or  sweet  ale  only  acquaint  the  waiter. 
There  will  be  a  large  box  of  snuff  to  wait 
on  you  if  you  chuse  to  take  a  pinch. 

The  musicians  are  David  James,  harper, 
and  Wm.  Jones,  fidler. 

And  Henry  Morgan  is  the  Inviter.^ 

Joseph  White  of  Poole  was  an  uncom- 
monly wealthy  merchant.  His  will  was  very 
extraordinary.  He  left  each  of  his  ships  to 
the  captain  who  commanded  it  for  seven 
years,  after  which  they  were  to  return  them 
in  good  condition  to  his  brother.  His  bro- 
ther was  to  use  them  with  the  rest  of  his 
fortune  seven  years  —  at  the  end  of  the 
fourteen  Joseph  expected  to  return  to  life 
and  reclaim  his  property. — A  sailor  in  one 
of  his  vessels  heard  on  his  arrival,  of  his 
employer*s  death  and  was  affected.  How- 
beit,  land,  air,  and  an  alehouse  abated  his 
feelings  —  they  operated  singularly  —  he 
went  to  the  merchant's  grave  —  and  lay 
down  upon  it — "  Joe,"  said  he,  "  Joe — Joe 
White — ^what — no  answer  P — ^not  a  word  to 
an  old  servant! — here,  Joe — change  me  a 
shilling** — and  he  threw  one  upon  the  grave. 
**  No  answer — Ah  poor  Joe — such  a  rich 
fellow — and  now  canst  not  give  change  for 

a  shilling  I **  Captain  Stokes,  whom 

I  met  at  Faro,  and  who  told  me  this,  was 
once  when  a  boatswain  with  a  very  wicked 


(t 


'  The  reader  should  refer  to  the  notes  on 
Bride-Ale,"  in  Sir  H.  Ellis's  edition  of 
Brand's  Popular  Antiquities.  In  my  younger 
days  these  things  were  cummon  InNortn  Wales, 
as  I  dare  say  the}'  are  now.— J.  W.  W. 


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captain.  One  night,  in  calm  weather,  the 
helmsman  came  to  him, — *^ Boatswain**  said 
he,  **  I  wish  I  was  out  of  this  ship.  Just 
now  there  came  a  boat  along  side  with  only 
one  man  in  it — and  he  went  round  the  vessel 
under  the  cabin  window  —  and  then  they 
disappeared :  but  the  captain  directly  came 
up  storming  and  cursing  like  a  mad  man.** 
This  fellow  shocked  his  whole  crew — he 
used  to  look  up  to  heaven,  and  curse  the 
sky  and  the  sun  and  moon  and  stars. 

Stokes  was  most  amusingly  supersti- 
tious. He  said  many  ships  were  haunted, 
and  sailors  who  knew  their  character  would 
not  embark  in  them.  A  captain  told  him 
that  his  mate  at  daybreak  called  him,  to 
say  three  vessels  were  in  sight.  Ailer 
some  time  he  came  down  again— he  did  not 
know  what  to  make  of  the  vessels — ^whether 
they  were  French  or  English — they  vere 
*em  on — and  he  was  coming  up  to  them. 
At  eight  in  the  morning  he  again  roused  the 
captain — they  were  close  and  in  danger — 
they  were  three  pinnacle  rocks  like  the 
Eddystone.  It  was  between  the  Azores 
and  Cape  St.  Vincent.  Stokes  sailed  in  that 
course  as  near  as  possible  to  look  for  them 
— but  in  vain. 

A  NAVT  surgeon  loved  to  prescribe  salt 
water.  He  fell  overboard  one  day:  **  Zounds, 
Will,**  says  a  sailor,  "  there*s  the  doctor 
tumbled  into  his  own  medicine  chest.** 

**  Damn  the  French !  **  said  an  Irish 
sailor,  **  they  are  such  ignorant  rascals  I  — 
here  now,**  and  he  took  off  his  hat  and 
pointed  to  it :  **  What  do  you  think  they 
call  this  that  I  have  in  my  hand  ?**  ''  That  I 
— ^why  a  hat  I  suppose.'*  "  No— danm  their 
eyes — they  call  it  a  chapeau !  ** 

A  MAN  advertises  an  Infirmary  for  dogs 
—  single  dogs  taken  in  to  board  and  nurse 
at  half  a  guinea  per  week. 

Great  reputation  of  Senor  Joseph  Miller 
for  wit. 


The  prospectus  for  the  Beauties  o 
timent  says  that  the  Extracts  are 
complete  sense — and  not  very  long. 

Htmn  after  Sore  Eyes.    Price  6d 

I  NEXT  with  rapture  view*d  the  m 
round 
Which  I — an  oblique  plain  triangle 
John  Lewis,  Schochnader  of  i 
London  Mag.  1759. 

In  the  Lady*s  Diary  17 . .,  all  the 
last  years  rebus's  are  answered  by  - 
^  in  an  Elegy  on  his  Father's  D 

*  A  WOMAN  in  Herefordshire  bak> 
cakes  annually  on  Good  Friday,  an 
them  by.^  People  come  far  and  m 
the  crumbs  of  these  cakes  to  cure  dia 
Faith  says  they  never  mould  —  and 
fail  as  a  remedy. 

*  A  MAN  in  the  Strand  advertises  t 
will  contract  with  any  person  who  wil 
him  game  from  France,  Norway  or  R 

*  The  female  Esquimaux  when  she 
under  the  dome  of  St.  PauFs,  knowin 
be  a  temple,  was  imprest  with  the  str 
awe,  and  leant  upon  tbe  gentlemai 
took  her,  as  though  she  were  sinking 
last  she  asked,  *^Did  man  make  it — 
it  put  here  ?  "  Major  Cartwright  tc 
this. 

It  is  a  trade  to  write  advertise] 
A  fellow  wrote  to  Duppa,  who  he  obs 
had  not  leisure  to  attend  to  the  scien* 
was  his  profession :  he  wrote  four  fo; 
a-guinea.  Another  fellow  called  upo; 
said  he  was  intimate  with  the  nobilil 
could  serve  his  work.  **  I  suppose.  Si 
allow  centage.*'      Dr.  Thornton  hi 


'  This  I'aschal  Loaf  is  still  common  in  S 
and,  I  dare  say,  in  Herefordshire.    It  is  n 
eaoh  year ;  and  the  remarkable  p^iint  i 
many  supcrstitiously  keep  it  whocannot 
suacfed  to  communicate.— J.  W.  W. 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


363 


eepted  this  raacal*8  offer,  who  received  above 
£100  for  him — and  kept  it  ail : — tliis  was 
hiacentage. 

^  A  FBLLow  exhibited  a  dragon-fly  under 
a  magnifier  at  a  country  fair — as  the  great 
High  German  Heiter  Keiter. 

Thb  officers  of  a  regiment  quartered  at 
Christ  Church  had  offended  the  town*8  peo- 
ple and  were  left  to  their  own  society. 
They  made  their  band  play  in  the  mess 
room  from  dinner  till  supper  time  as  a 
substitute  for  conversation. 

•  A  WOMAN  who  begged  of  Mrs.  Somer- 
▼ille  told  her  she  had  been  one  of  my  La- 
(i/s  groaners — she  had  been  hired  to  groan 
at  the  Huntingdon  Chapel. 

*  Said  a  Frenchman,  ^  What  a  vile  lan- 
guage is  yours,  where  the  same  word,  and 
pronounced  in  the  same  way,  shall  mean 
three  different  things  —  there  is  ship,  un 
viatteau — ship  (sheep)  mouion — and  ship 
(cheap)  ban  marchi," 


Thbbb  Bishops  are  necessary  to  conse- 
crate one  ;  but  only  two  retained  their 
sees  at  the  Revolution  and  took  the  oaths. 
How  to  replenish  their  number  ?  —  they 
caught  a  Franciscan  who  was  bishop  of 
Babylon  and  him  they  cajoled  and  terrified 
and  reasoned  into  compliance.  These  three 
consecrated  another  —  and  then  they  went 
on  merrily.* 

*  When  Kosciusko  was  at  Bristol,  1797, 
a  present  was  made  him  of  plate,  and  every 
one  was  desirous  of  showing  him  some  mark 
of  respect.  Burge,  the  pastry-cook  made 
him  a  large  plumb  cake,  for  his  voyage  to 
America,  and  inscribed  on  it  in  coloured 
carroways  *♦  To  the  gallant  K."  This  he 
carried  himself,  and  requested  to  see  the 
General.     They  told  him  the  Greneral  was 

'  This  is  supposed  to  be  the  remark  of  Elspri- 
flla. -a  Roman  Catholic— J.  W.  W. 


ill,  fatigued  with  visitors  and  lying  down, 
so  that  he  could  not  see  him.  **  No,  no,** 
said  the  old  man,  ^*  I  know  the  Greneral 
wont  be  angry  —  go  along  and  shew  me 
the  room.**  When  he  entered  and  saw  the 
Pole  so  pale  and  emaciated  with  his  wounds 
—  the  poor  fellow  burst  into  tears,  laid 
down  his  cake,  and  ran  out  of  the  room. 

Chubch  government  among  the  Method- 
ists.— ^The  minister  removable  by  a  synod  at 
London,  and  never  suffered  to  renuiin  long 
enough  in  a  place  to  attach  the  congrega- 
tion to  himself,  and  so  become  independent. 

In  the  Ebenezer  at  Bristol  notice  is  given 
if  a  servant  who  is  of  the  congregation 
wants  a  place. 


What  is  the  difference  between  a  Bap- 
tist and  an  Anabaptist  ?  '*  Exactly  the 
same,**  said  Sir  John  Danvers,  **  as  between 
a  Whiskey  and  a  Tim  Whiskey." 

The  sailors  of  Plymouth  say,  that  if  they 
are  married  at  Stoke  it  holds  good  for  a 
month,  at  Stonehouse  chapel  for  a  year,  but 
at  the  old  church  for  life. 

PococK,  the  schoolmaster,  by  S.Michaers 
churchyard,  has  a  machine  to  pimish  the 
boys,  which  they  call  the  royal  patent  self- 
acting  ferule.  j 

Satees  the  schoolmaster  put  arms  into 
his  boys*  hands,  and  had  them  exercised 
during  the  "  alarm."  They  were  taught 
that  they  ought  to  resist  their  natural  ene- 
mies, and  by  an  easy  and  obvious  logic  dis- 
covered that  their  natural  enemies  were  the 
master  and  usher,  whom  they  accordingly 
resolved  to  shoot.  Some  accident  discovered 
the  plan,  and  prevented  murder ;  but  it  was 
necessary  to  call  in  the  military  to  reduce 
them.  This  was  hushed  up,  so  many  fami- 
lies of  consequence  here  were  concerned 
in  it. 

"  What  is  become  of  your  dog,  Sir 
John  ?**  said  a  friend  to  Sir  John  Danvers. 


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"  Gone  to  heaven,"  was  the  answer.  "  Then, 
Sir  John,  he  has  often  followed  you,  and  I 
hope  now  you  will  follow  him/* 

CoABSE  allegories  of  our  common  and 
popular  prints. 

"  Keep  within  compass  and  you  shall  be 

sure 
To  avoid  many  evils  which  others  endure.** 

The  half-man  half-skeleton  prints.  The 
tree  of  life  and  its  companion.  The  last 
picture,  where  the  devil  catt^hes  a  fellow  by 
his  tail. 

A  SEBVAHT  informed  her  mistress  she 
was  going  to  be  married.  "  Very  well ; 
and  what  trade  is  your  husband  ?  **  "  He 
is  an  asker.*'  "  An  asker  ?**  **  Vulgarly 
called  a  beggar,  ma*am.**  "  And  do  you 
think  to  live  ?'*  "  Oh,  ma*am,  he  gets  five 
shillings  a  day,  and  I  expect  to  get  as 
much." 

Mrs.  Danvbes  was  once  hiring  a  servant, 
and  the  fellow,  when  they  had  almost  agreed 
on  wages,  asked  if  it  was  pinch  or  plain  ? 
"  What  do  you  mean  ?**  "  'Why,  ma*am,  if 
it  is  pinch,  I  find  wax  candles  and  Scotch 
coals  for  company.** 

Mrs.  Parnbll  advises  us  to  let  Margaret 
kiss  every  black  woman  whom  she  meets,  to 
make  her  cut  her  teeth  easily,  she  has  known 
it  tried. 

Say  the  sailors,  "  A  messmate  before  a 
shipmate,  a  shipmate  before  a  stranger,  a 
stranger  before  a  dog,  and  a  dog  before  a 
soldier. 

„  ***V.^r*".7°"''*  ""'  "P<«  any  account 
cut  a  chUd'g  naUs  tiU  he  w  a  year  old. 

Two  Bristol  men  bought  a  lottery  ticket 
between  them,  which  the  one  took  With  hiL 
on  hu,  journey  to  London.  A  woman  of 
Ae  town  was  hi,  fellow-traveUer  in  the  two 
day  co«:h,  and  being  short  of  money  le 


gave  her  the  ticket.  It  was  drawn  a 
£10,000  prize,  and  he  had  the  half  to  paj 
his  partner.    This  is  a  well  known  fact 

Whbn  Edward  Williams  kept  a  booksel- 
ler*s  shop  at  Cowbridge,  his  seditious  cele- 
brity soon  spread  abroad.  His  circulating 
catsdogue  was  indeed  curious,  the  Reflec- 
tions on  the  French  Revolution  were  entered 
as  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Burke ;  and 
a  collection  of  Jacobinical  pamphlets  as 
Directions  for  Duck-milking,  a  title  which 
made  all  the  Welsh  farmers  send  for  the 
book.  A  son  of  Alderman  Curtis  resolved 
to  punish  the  honest  old  bard,  and  went  in 
to  ask  for  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Burke. 
The  book  was  out,  but  Williams  had  a  new 
copy,  which  he  offered.  ^*  No,"  said  Curtis, 
**  this  is  Burke's  Reflections,  and  what  I 
want  is  the  Grospel  according  to  St.  Burke.** 
**  Indeed,  sir,**  said  Williams,  *^  it  is  the  same 
book.**  Curtis  said  he  was  going  out  of 
town,  and  had  not  time  to  read  it.  The 
poor  Welchman  offered  to  lend  it  him  for 
some  days.  At  this  time  a  man  who  was  the 
spy  of  government,  self-elected  to  the  office 
in  that  town,  came  in,  ^*  By  God,  Curtis, 
we  will  have  it  I "  and  '*  By  God,  Mr.  Spy," 
said  Polo,  "  you  shall  not.**  Curtis  was  now 
looking  every  where  for  some  sin  against 
government,  and  his  eye  caught  a  book 
labelled  Rights  of  Man.  "  What's  the  price 
of  this?"  "  Five  shillings.**  He  threw  down 
the  money.  This  shall  go  to  Billy  Pitt,  and 
he  shook  it  in  triumph  at  t-he  bard.  Bot 
when  he  opened  the  book,  his  countenance 
changed,  and  he  exclaimed,  ^^  Damn  the 
rascal— the  Bible,  by  God ! " 

Poor  Williams  angrily  refused  a  pension 
from  some  wealthy  brothers  in  the  West 
Indies,  because  he  would  not  partake  of  the 
gains  made  by  slavery. 

His  toast  was,  "  The  three  securities  of 
liberty.  All  Kings  in  hell ;  the  door  locked ; 
the  key  lost.** 

Tell  her  in  the  words  of  the  romance, 
*  "  Que  no  quiero  amores 
En  Inglaterra, 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


365 


'ues  otros  mejores 
Tengo  70  en  mi  tierra." 

this  too  at  the  end  of  a  home  sick 

I  Ay  Dios  de  mi  alma  I 

Saqueisme  de  aqui, 
Aj !  que  Inglaterra 

Ya  no  es  para  mi." 

LI*,  Mary,"  said  my  uncle  to  an  old 

"  the    King   of  Prussia's    dead." 

hm !"  said  the  old  woman,  "  Is-a, 

e  King  of  Prussia !  and  who's  he  ?" 

old  Mrs.  Poole  had  been  reading 
spaper  just  at  the  time  when  Bona- 
d  escaped  from  Egypt,  and  was  be- 
his  career  in  France,  to  the  asto- 
t  of  all  Europe.  "  My  dear,"  said 
er  son,  **  who  is  this  Dr.  Solomon 
the  world's  talking  about?"  She 
invalid,  and  the  balm  of  Gilead  was 
her  than  a  dozen  revolutions. 

r  of  all  the  volimteers  in  the  Tower, 
'the  subscribers  to  Boydell's  Shake- 
1  a  large  vellum  volume,  every  sub- 
baving  the  privilege  of  writing  his 
th  his  own  hand,  that  his  autograph, 
as  his  name,  may  be  immortalized, 
^  at  the  head. 

xxcTOHS. — ^The  collection  of  halters 
ith  men  have  been  executed.     Of 
d  title  pages.     Of  odd  names.     Of 
cards. 

EBioR  London  picked  particular  East 
ladeira. 

retna  Green,  Thomas  Wallace,  aged 
s  (a  widower,  whose  wife  departed 
i  the  25th  ult.)  to  Elizabeth  Job- 
dow,  aged  59.  They  are  both  pau- 
Tanfield  workhouse,  and  on  account 
marriage  being  prohibited  at  Tan- 
ley  set  off  and  begged  their  way  to 
r^  Cumberland  Packet,  August  26, 


On  St.  Stephen's  day  in  Wales,  every 
body  is  privileged  to  whip  another  person's 
legs  with  holly ;  and  this  is  often  recipro- 
cally done  till  the  blood  streams  down. 

Sbbvants  in  America  object  to  answer- 
ing a  bell ;  they  hold  it  unfit  that  Christians 
should  be  spoken  to  with  a  tongue  of  metal. 
Stamping  is  the  usual  way  of  calling  them, 
or  knocking.  A  gentleman  having  company 
rung  the  bell  (having  one  in  the  room  as  a 
fit  piece  of  furniture).  He  rang  repeatedly ; 
at  last  the  servant  came  up,  opened  the 
door,  put  his  head  in  and  cried,  the  more 
you  ring,  the  more  I  wont  come. 

When  Paley  first  went  to  Cambridge,  he 
fell  into  a  society  of  young  men  far  richer 
than  himself,  to  whom  his  talents  and  con- 
viviality made  him  an  acceptable  compa- 
nion, and  he  was  in  a  fair  way  for  ruin. 
One  morning  one  of  these  comrades  came 
into  his  bedroom  before  he  was  up,  and  he, 
as  usual,  thought  it  was  to  propose  some 
plan  of  pleasure  for  the  day.     His  friend, 
however,  said,  "  Paley,  I  have  not  slept  a 
wink  this  night  for  thinking  of  you.     I  am, 
as  you  know,  heir  to  such  a  fortune,  and 
whether  I  ever  look  in  a  book  at  Cambridge 
or  not  does  not  signify  a  farthing.  But  this 
is  not  the  case  with  you,  you  have  only  your 
abilities  to  look  to,  and  no  man  has  better, 
if  you  do  but  make  the  proper  use  of  them. 
But  if  you  go  on  this  way  you  are  ruined ; 
and  from  this  time  forward  I  am  determined 
not  to  associate  with  you,  for  your  own 
sake.     You  know  I  like  your  company,  and 
it  is  a  great  sacrifice  to  give  it  up,  but  give 
it  up  I  will,  as  a  matter  of  conscience." 
Paley  lay  in  bed  the  whole  day,  ruminating 
upon  this.     In  the  evening  he  rose  and 
took  his  tea,  ordered  his  bedmaker  to  make 
his  fire  overnight,  and  call  him  at  five  in  the 
morning ;  and  from  that  day  forward  rose 
always  at  that  hour;  went  out  first  wrangler, 
and  became  the  fortunate  man  he  was. 

This  he  related  to  his  intimate  friend  Mr. 
Sheepshanks;  from  him  it  came  to  Mr. 
Broome,  and  he  told  it  me  this  evening, 
October  6,  1808. 


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TuERB  was  a  negro  slave  at  Surinam 
whose  language  no  negro  in  the  colony  un- 
derstood, except  one  who  had  been  a  trader, 
and  whose  features  were  also  cast  in  a  diflfer- 
ent  mould.  He  would  not  work,  and  was  re- 
peatedly punished  for  his  refusal,  afler  the 
cursed  manner  of  the  Dutch.  He  however 
explained  his  reason  for  refusing.  He  could 
not  do  it,  for  he  was  of  a  sacred  order. 
And  having  heard  in  his  own  country  that 
there  were  a  sacred  order  of  white  men, 
wiser  than  their  brethren,  he  travelled  to 
the  sea  coast  for  the  sake  of  seeing  them, 
and  acquiring  knowledge.  There  he  was 
kidnapped  and  sold  to  Surinam. 

This  man  escaped  and  got  to  the  wild 
negroes,  among  whom  he  soon  became  emi- 
nent. Two  settlers,  a  Dutch  and  an  Eng- 
lishman, fell  into  their  hands;  they  were 
about  to  be  put  to  death,  but  he  made  a 
long  speech  in  their  favour  (for  he  soon 
learnt  the  mixed  language  of  the  colony,) 
and  dismissed  them  with  an  exhortation  to 
show  mercy  as  they  had  received  mercy. 
He  himself  afterwards  was  made  prisoner, 
and  sentenced  to  a  cruel  death.  He  re- 
minded the  judges  of  what  he  had  done  for 
the  two  colonists,  but  no  notice  would  have 
been  taken  of  it  if  the  Colonel  of  Sped- 
ding*s  regiment  had  not  indignantly  stepped 
forward  and  threatened  to  expose  their  in- 
justice. The  men  were  called  upon ;  the 
Englishman  refused  to  bear  testimony  in 
his  favour,  swearing  he  would  see  all  the 

black  b s  broiled  before  he  would  stir  a 

step  to  save  the  life  of  one.  The  Dutch- 
man came,  and  confirmed  the  truth  of  a 
story  which  was  already  well  known.  The 
negroes  life  therefore  was  spared,  but  he 
was  chained  to  a  post  in  the  market-place 
or  square,  and  a  whip  laid  by  him,  with 
which  every  passer  by  might  scourge  him 
as  a  fellow  who  was  lazy  and  refused  to 
work. 

Spedding  one  day  saw  one  of  his  corpo- 
rals stop  to  scourge  him.  He  went  up  to 
the  place,  collared  the  wretch,  took  the 
whip,  gave  it  to  the  sufferer,  and  bade 
him  flog  the  rascal  as  long  as  he  could  stand. 


The  man  lifted  the  whip  as  if  to  strike,  then 
threw  it  on  the  ground,  saying,  *^  Massa,  it 
is  better  to  be  flogged  than  to  flog.** 

From  Spedding  and  from  the  Colonel  Cole- 
ridge heard  these  circumstances,  which  I 
have  written  down  immediately  after  hear- 
ing th^m.— May  26,  1810. 

Addington  chose  for  his  title  Lord  Vis- 
count Ralegh,  of  Combe  (Budley  Saltcombe, 
I  suppose),  in  the  county  of  Devon.  Cob- 
bett  affirms  this  positively,  and  says,  it  is 
said  the  patent  was  actually  made  out  in 
that  name.  He  had  a  farm,  or  a  house,  or 
something  formerly  the  property  of  Sir 
Walter  there.  There  was  a  person,  Cob- 
bett  adds,  whose  real  name  I  forget,  who 
was  made  a  peer  since  the  commencement 
of  the  Pitt  administration,  and  who  ex- 
pressed a  desire  to  be  called  Lord  Agin- 
court! 

HuNTTNGDON  M  a  rogue,  and  chuckles 
over  the  folly  of  the  flock  whom  he  fleeces. 
When  he  goes  visiting,  he  carries  the  seat 
of  his  carriage  full  of  his  own  books ;  afler 
dinner  or  supper,  he  sends  for  it  in,  saying, 
^'  Now  that  the  wants  of  the  body  are  sup- 
plied, let  us  think  of  tlie  soul.  What  arc 
we  in  want  of  at  present  for  ourselves  or 
for  others  ?  Bank  of  Faith,  or,  &c 

Such  fellows  have  their  female  jackalls 
or  providers.  One  of  these  spiritual  pro- 
curesses, near  York,  went  to  an  old  ladj 
who  had  heard  the  new  preacher.  "  Well, 
and  how  did  she  like  Mr.  *  %  and  did  she 
feel  comfortable  afler  his  discourse;  was 
she  benefitted ;  was  she  better  for  it?  Whj 
yes,  the  old  lady  hoped  she  was.  Wellt 
and  what  return  did  she  think  of  making  ? 
How  would  she  express  her  sense  of  grati- 
tude ?  I  assure  you  that  if  you  send  him  > 
piece  of  cloth,  or  a  box  of  moulds,  Mr.  *  * 
is  so  good  a  Christian  that  he  wont  be  of- 
fended at  it.  But  do  not  send  him  a  silver 
tea-pot,  because  he  has  seven  already.** 

"  Bring  the  tray,  John.**  "  Sir,**  said 
John,  "  I  will  send  it.**     "  Send  it  ?  I  toU 


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yon  to  bring  the  tray."  '*  Sir,  I  beg  your 
pardon — but  I  belong  to  a  club."  "  Belong 
to  a  club,  sir,  and  what  is  that  to  me?" 
^  Sir,  I  belong  to  a  club,  where  we  have  all 
of  us  agreed  never  to  carry  any  thing." 

When  the  late^  Lord  Liverpool  died, 
Toon,  who  is  the  family  tailor,  made  the 
mourning.  The  servants  came  and  desired 
him  to  make  theirs  of  superfine  cloth,  which 
he  refused  to  do,  as  an  imposition  upon  his 
employer.  They  then  ordered  him  to  fasten 
the  shoulder-knots  so  that  they  might  be 
taken  off  and  put  on  at  pleasure.  Honest 
old  Toon  had  no  patience  with  these  fellows, 
and  sewed  them  down  firmly,  after  the  old 
manner.  However  they  got  somebody  to 
alter  this  to  their  taste, — ^the  shoulder-knots 
were  worn  in  the  house;  but  when  my  gen- 
tlemen went  out,  they  laid  them  aside,  and 
walked  the  streets,  gentlemen  in  mourning. 

Berwick  was  omitted  in  the  first  income 
tax  bill,  and  they  escaped  it  the  first  year. 
A  local  joke  of  their  neighbours  was,  that 
they  were  angry  at  it,  as  a  mark  of  neglect. 

Lt.  Monetpennt,  Miss  Wood's  grand- 
father, on  being  paid  off,  set  out  with  a 
friend  to  visit  Scotland,  and  went  with  that 
friend  to  pass  a  night  at  Bamborough,  at  an 
acquaintance  of  the  companion.  The  daugh- 
ter of  hia  host  hearing  that  the  lieutenant 
would  have  milk  for  supper,  brought  him 
cream,  and  in  consequence  he  never  left 
Hamborough  as  long  as  he  lived. 

^LkCHiiiEHT  is  dilated  personification,  as 
simile  is  expanded  metaphor. 

An  English  sailor  at  the  Island  of  St. 
Michael's  was  attacked  by  a  Spaniard,  who 
twice  cut  his  arm  to  the  bone,  above  and 
helow.  '*  I  got  the  rascal  down,"  said  he  to 
^e  surgeon  to  his  ship,  *'  and  knelt  upon  his 
breast  with  one  knee,  and  I  took  a  case  of 

*  It  must  be  recoUecUMl  that  this  extract  dates 
Wk  to  the  year  1810.— J.  W.  W. 


razors  out  of  my  pocket,  and  opened  one  of  i 
them.     The  devil  bid  me  cut  his  throat,  but 
Chd  would  not  let  me^ 

This  story  is  true.  Fenner  of  the  Prince 
Adolphus,  Lisbon  packet,  told  it  from  his 
own  knowledge. 

*A  sAiLOit  went  to  a  juggler's  exhibition. 
There  were  to  be  fireworks,  but  they  took 
fire  with  a  quantity  of  gunpowder,  and  blew 
up  the  room.  The  sailor  fell  in  a  potatoe 
field,  unhurt ;  he  got  up  and  shook  himself 
— "Damn  the  fellow,  I  wonder  what  the 
devil  he*ll  do  next." 

In  Stafibrdshire  arrow  heads  are  very  fre- 
quently found  by  the  carpenters  in  cutting 
up  oaks. 


South  Shields  —  immense  hills  of  cin- 
ders and  ashes  heaped  there  from  the  salt 
pans.  In  1795,  some  hot  cinders  being  laid 
on  these  unpremeditatedly  by  a  salt  proprie- 
tor, set  them  on  fire.  Three  persons  who  lived 
in  houses  built  upon  these  hills  were  sufib. 
cated  in  their  beds :  others  much  injured, 
several  houses  demolished,  and  the  hills, 
says  Sir  F.  M,  Eden,  writing  nearly  two 
years  afterwards,  still  continue  to  bum,  and 
to  emit  a  sulphurous  smell. 

At  Worksop,  £50,000  worth  of  bones  arc 
annually  sold  at  2«.  2d.  per  bushel.  Impos- 
sible I  what  bones  ? 

Ad.\m  Clabk£*8  new  heresy  of  the  mon- 
key. 

"What  is  your  mother?"  said  Mrs.  C. 
to  a  boy  who  came  begging  one  day.  **  She 
travels."  "She  travels!  what  is  that?" 
"  She  lates.— ?  She  asks.—?  She  begs." 
And  thus  the  word  was  unkennelled  at  last. 

The  Javanese  cocks,  especially  the  ban- 
tams, are  nearly  as  large  as  the  Norfolk  bus- 
tard— so  false  is  it  that  our  little  feather- 
booted  breed  are  bantams. 

Bears  for  baiting  bred  near  London. 


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The  rectory  of  Snoreham,^  in  Essex,  con- 
tains only  a  single  farm-house ;  there  is  no 
church  belonging  to  the  parish,  but  once  a 
year  service  is  performed  under  a  tree. 

AscHT  (Archibald  Armstrong),  Charles 
the  First's  fool,  was  bom  and  died  at  Arthu- 
ret  in  this  county,^  having  been  banished  for 
saying  to  Laud  upon  the  news  from  Scot- 
land, "  Wheas  feule  now  ?** 

At  Newport  in  Monmouthshire,  during 
the  fair,  the  rabble  take  possession  of  the 
churchyard,  and  put  every  passer  in  the 
stocks  who  refuses  to  give  them  money. 

The  first  (oldest)  brass  works  in  the  king- 
dom, are  those  near  Bristol.  —  Cyc,  Art 
Metals. 

The  Murex  found  at  Minehead.— C^c/. 

TiFFiN*8  terms  are  12«.  18«.  or  24«.  ac- 
cording to  the  nature  of  the  furniture,  but 
by  the  year  he  keeps  you  free  for  Zs, 


Quainta. 

Shingles  on  the  back.  The  mushrooms 
that  spring  up  in  the  devil-fairy-ring. 

Impotent  anger  compared  to  a  tiger  with 
the  tooth-ache. 

A  rock  covered  with  lichens — as  if  Na- 
ture had  white-limed  it  —  or  an  army  of 
crows  volant. 

Expectation  wire-drawing  time. 

Rock-spring.    A  diabetes. 

^^  Amonius  Alexandrinus  philosophus, 
Origenis  preceptor,  Asinum  habuit  sapien- 
tiae  auditorem."— O/^'na  Textoris,  1532,  p. 
212. 

*  "  There  is  not  a  vestige  of  the  church,  and 
the  inhabitants  attend  that  of  Latch  ingdon,  with 
which  place  the  parish  is  rated  to  the  poor." — 
Lewis. 

*  i.  e.. Cumberland.  "  In  the  churchyard  is 
a  rude  cross,  with  a  pierced  capital,  near  which 
were  interred  the  remains  of  Archibald  Arm- 
strong."—/frtd.  J.  \V.  W. 


Three  books  of  practical  use — 

"  A  sober  appeal  to  a  Turk  or  IndiaD,""  io 
English,  1748. 

**  An  Argument  (published  in  1682)  prov- 
ing the  D.  of  Normandy  made  no  absolute 
conquest  of  England." 

^*  Asgiirs  Argument  to  prove  Man  maj 
be  translated  to  eternal  Life,  without  pass- 
ing through  Death."  ' 

A  surgeon  in  the  Medical  writes  thus  of 
a  poor  little  girl  whom  he  attended  in  a  case 
of  hydrocephalus,  whose  head  afler  her  death 
he  opened,  '*  I  was  delighted  with  the  beau- 
tiful appearance  of  the  pia  mater  —  it  wa? 
the  finest  specimen  of  inflammation  I  had 
ever  seen." 

The  Javanese  blacken  their  teeth, — be- 
cause monkeys*  teeth  are  white. 

Red  hair  pleases  the  Italian,  and  our  cli- 
mate hat«s  it. — Sir  G.  Mackbhzib. 

Snow-drops  are  called  in  Suffolk,  Fair 
maids  of  February. 


Public  Anuuementt. 

Monopoly  of  the  Theatres.  Dialogue 
supplied  by  song  or  pantomime  at  Astley*s, 
&c.  the  coarsest  and  clumsiest  personifica- 
tions. I  saw  Murder,  and  Rage,  and  Ha- 
tred, and  Confusion  walk  in,  each  carried  a 
paper  upon  a  stick  with  his  name  printed 
in  large  characters.  In  came  Peace,  and  thej 
all  ran  away. 

A  Pantomime  of  the  Seven  Champions. 
The  clown  buys  rhubarb  and  puts  in  a  bottle 
of  liquor,  whereof  he  and  his  fellow  fools 
drink,  and  the  joke  was  to  see  them  all  make 
wry  faces  and  run  off  one  after  another. 

When  any  news  has  to  be  told, — ^for  the 
subject  is  always  the  last  great  event — the 
taking  the  Bastile,  the  capture  of  Valen- 
ciennes, Death  of  Tippoo,  Peace,  &c. — a  fel- 
low brings  in  a  great  scroll  and  shows  it  to 
the  audience. 

Wynn  saw  a  piece  upon  the  King's  reco- 
very at  Sadler's  Wells.  Minerva  was  drunk. 

'  See  The  Doctor,  &c.  p.  446,  &c.  edit  in 
one  volume. — J.  W.  W. 


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Ei*8  lion  ran  off,  King  seized  with 
iSj  and  Hjgeia  was  taken  ill  upon 

r  of  the  Ceremonies.  Ball  etiquette, 
lorn  destroyed. 


ons/or  New  Series  of  EsprielkCa 
Letters} 

e  Covrant,  8  June,  1799. 

Wooler,  June  6,  1799. 
Vednesday  morning  next,  a  pack  of 
rill  be  at  Hetton,  another  pack  at 
swton,  and  another  at  NorUi  Mid- 
3r  the  purpose  of  hunting  the  dog 
18  lately  destroyed  so  many  sheep 
iighbourhood ;  when  it  is  expected 
hoae  who  may  have  sheep  killed  by 
Tuesday  (and  Monday  night)  next, 
information  at  these  places,  as  early 
>le,  and  it  is  most  earnestly  re- 
that  a  great  number  of  men  with 
I  horses  may  then  be  on  the  look 
im. 

ward  of  twenty  guineas  will  be  paid 
)er8on  who  may  kill  him  (within 
ys  from  this  time)  on  application 
Tath.  Duncan  of  this  place. 
.  The  dog  b  alarge  greyhound,  with 
hite  neck  and  far  fore-leg ;  some 
out  his  face,  breast,  and  tail-end ; 
ray  on  the  back,  and  a  jet  black  in 
rts  of  his  body.** 

imense  concourse  of  people  assem- 
hunt  this  wild  greyhound :  he  was 
lear  Haslery  Dean,  but  eluded  his 
I  among  the  Cheviot  Hills,  and  that 
ght  returned  to  the  place  from 
be  had  been  hunted  in  the  morning, 
ried  a  ewe  and  her  lamb. 

fe  Caurant,  Sept.  21. 
sw  days  ago  a  dog  of  a  most  destruc- 
ore  infested  the  fells  of  Caldbeck, 
,  and  High  Pike,  about  sixteen  miles 

very  well  known  from  Southey's  Cor- 
nce  that  he  originally  intended  to  com- 
iw  Series  of  these  Letters.— J.  W.  W. 


south  of  Carlisle.  Little  doubt  remains  of 
its  being  the  same  dog  which  has  been  so  in- 
jurious to  the  farmers  in  the  northern  parts 
of  Northumberland,  as  no  less  than  sixty 
sheep  or  upwards  have  fallen  victims  to  its 
ferocity.  It  was  thought  proper  to  lose  no 
time  in  attempting  to  destroy  it,  and  Tues- 
day last  was  fixed  upon.  Sir  H.  Fletcher, 
bart.  of  Clea  Hall,  offered  his  pack  of  hounds, 
and  several  other  dogs  with  about  fifty  horse- 
men set  out  from  Hesket  New-market.  Se- 
veral persons  with  firearms  were  stationed 
at  different  parts.  The  dog  was  descried 
upon  an  eminence  of  Carrock-fell,  and  on 
sight  of  the  pursuers  set  off  by  way  of  Hes- 
ket New-market,  Stocklewath,  and  Bar- 
wick-field,  then  returned  by  Cowclose,  Castle 
Sowerby,  and  attempted  to  gain  the  fells 
again,  when  Mr.  Sewell,  farmer  at  Wedlock, 
lying  in  ambush  at  Mossdale,  fired  and  suc- 
ceeded in  shooting  him.  He  appears  to  be 
of  the  Newfoundland  breed,  of  a  common 
size,  wire-haired,  and  extremely  lean.  Du- 
ring the  chase  he  frequently  turned  upon 
the  dogs  which  were  headmost,  and  so 
wounded  several  as  obliged  them  to  give  up 
the  pursuit. 

**  The  joy  manifested  on  this  occasion  was 
uncommon,  insomuch  that  on  the  day  follow- 
ing about  thirty  persons  sat  down  to  a  din- 
ner provided  at  Mr.  Tomlinson*s,  Hesket 
New-market.  Upon  the  most  moderate 
computation,  excluding  the  various  wind- 
ings, the  chase  could  not  be  less  than  thirty 
miles,  and  occupied  no  less  than  six  hours.'* 

1811.  A  soo  having  been  hunted  for 
three  hours  shot  about  a  mile  below  Enner- 
dale  bridge,  who  was  supposed  to  have  de- 
stroyed sheep  upon  the  Ennerdale  moun- 
tains, to  the  amount  of  £200. 

The  dog  has  a  disposition  to  return  to  his 
wolf  state.  This  one  was  between  mastiff 
and  greyhound. 

A  FELLOW  at  Constantinople  was  exhibited 
as  a  wonderful  bear  who  could  play  the 
piano-forte;  and  in  this  character  he  ob- 
tiuned  such  celebrity  that  the  Grand  Seig- 


B  n 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


I_ 


neur  sent  for  him  into  the  seraglio.  There 
he  performed  so  well  that  the  Grand  Seig- 
neur ordered  his  conductor  to  leave  him, 
and  gave  him  500  piastres  in  payment  for 
the  musical  Bruin.  The  accomplice  de- 
camped readily  enough,  and  Restaurino, 
which  was  the  bear*s  name,  was  lefl  to  es- 
cape as  he  could  from  the  eunuchs. 

He  got  out,  and  crossed  the  Tophane  in 
a  boat  which  he  seized,  but  the  exertion 
burst  hb  skin,  he  was  seized,  carried  back, 
and  let  off  with  a  severe  bastinado. 

1799.  Attempt  to  introduce  Rein-deer 
at  Grejstock. 

A  TABCB  fox  at  the  White  Hart,  Bridge- 
water,  was  brought  up  from  a  cub  to  run  in 
the  wheel  as  a  turnspit.  One  day,  through 
the  neglect  of  his  keeper,  he  escaped,  got  to 
Sedgemoor,  and  made  wild  work  among  the 
geese.  **  The  writer  of  this  was  out  the  next 
morning  with  Mr.  Portman*s  dogs,  and  going 
towards  Borough-bridge,  found  the  glutton 
under  Alfred's  tump.  The  dogs  being  laid 
on,  Reynard  presently  passed  the  Parrot, 
and  taking  by  North  Fetherton,  sought  the 
woods  above  Monkton ;  but  being  driven 
from  thence,  dashed  through  the  Tone,  a 
mile  below  Newton,  and  turning  northward, 
passed  Kingston,  and  was  for  a  time  lost  in 
the  thickets  above  Buncomb.  The  scent 
serving,  Reynard  was  at  length  uncovered, 
mounted  the  Cutherstone  hills,  descended  to 
Kenniton,  and  mounted  the  stone  mountain 
in  Lord  Clifford's  park,  from  whence  he  was 
presently  driven  by  the  staunch  pack.  Leap- 
ing the  pales  at  Enmore,  he  took  through 
Lord  Egmont's  grounds,  and  getting  again 
into  his  old  track,  recrossed  the  Parrot  just 
below  Petherton,  and  taking  slowly  along 
the  banks  of  the  river  with  the  pack  in  full 
cry,  leaped  the  fence  of  Mrs.  Francis  (his 
mistress's)  garden,  and  immediately  entered 
the  kitchen,  darted  into  the  spit-wheel,  and 
began  to  perform  his  domestic  office  with  as 
much  unconcern  as  if  he  had  been  placed 
there  for  that  purpose.  The  fat  cook,  with 
whom  he  was  a  great  favourite,  spread  the 


place  of  his  retreat  with  her  petticoats,  it 
the  same  time  beating  off  the  eager  hounds 
with  all  her  might  and  main  ;  but  this  would 
have  been  unavailing  if  the  huntsman  had 
not  whipped  them  off,  and  afler  a  chase  (d 
nearly  thirty  miles,  lefl  this  unlicensed  poul- 
terer in  his  domestic  occupation.** 

1799.  A  MAIDEN  lady,  aged  fifly-seven, 
died  at  Horsham,^-of  good  property.  For 
thirty  years  she  had  been  a  recluse.  In 
1790  she  built  a  neat  and  elegant  house  for 
herself,  and  furnished  it,  but  never  occupied 
it.  She  lived  in  a  small  apartment  conti- 
guous, from  which  there  was  a  communica- 
tion, and  would  often  walk  through  the  un- 
inhabited rooms  to  inspect  the  furniture.  It 
is  said  that  she  never  saw  the  front  of  this 
house.  She  had  all  sorts  of  animals,  and 
used  to  play  a  hand  organ  to  them, — dogs, 
cats,  monkeys,  guinea-pigs,  hares,  rabbits, 
squirrels,  peacocks,  doves,  parrots,  &c.  and 
she  lefl  fifteen  pounds  a  year  to  a  person  to 
**  feed  and  take  care  of  them  for  and  during 
their  natural  lives.**  By  her  will  her  body 
was  to  be  kept  one  month,  and  longer  unless 
there  were  symptoms  of  putrefaction.  These 
however  were  so  decided  that  between  £30 
and  £40  were  expended  upon  it  in  spirits 
of  wine,  to  keep  it  in  preservation  for  the 
appointed  term.  By  her  express  direction 
it  was  first  inclosed  in  a  shell,  then  in  a 
leaden  coffin,  thirdly  in  a  coffin  of  oak ;  and 
lastly  the  whole  was  let  down  into  a  stone 
coffin  of  the  best  Portland  stone :  the  ma- 
son according  to  her  will  being  to  choose 
either  that  material  or  black  marble,  which- 
ever he  believed  to  be  most  durable.  Sil- 
vered breast-plate  and  ornaments  were  on 
the  oaken  coffin,  and  on  the  lid  of  the  stone 
one  she  appointed  her  name,  age,  and  the 
day  of  her  death  to  be  cut  in  letters  each 
three-quarters  of  an  inch  deep. 

In  1789,  when  preparations  were  makiag 
in  St.  Paul's  to  receive  the  King,  at  the 
thanksgiving  for  his  recovery,  a  favourite 
bitch  followed  her  master  there  up  the  dark 
stairs  of  the  dome,  and  was  lost.    Eight 


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weeka  and  &ye  days  afterwards,  some  gla- 
ziers who  were  at  work  there,  heard  among 
the  timbers  that  support  the  dome  a  faint 
noise,  and  thinking  it  might  be  some  unfor- 
tunate person  who  had  fallen,  the j  let  down 
a  boj  bj  a  rope.  He  found  a  dog  Ijing  on 
its  side,  the  skeleton  of  another  dog,  and  a 
half-eaten  old  shoe.  The  boj  was  humane 
enough  to  take  up  the  poor  animal  which 
▼as  accordingly  drawn  up.  It  was  deplo- 
rably emaciated  and  scarcely  able  to  stand ; 
and  the  workmen  placed  it  in  the  porch  of 
the  church  to  take  its  chance.  This  was 
about  ten  in  the  morning.  After  a  while  the 
dog  was  seen  endeavouring  to  cross  the  street 
at  the  top  of  Ludgate  Hill,  but  it  could  only 
get  on  by  leaning  against  a  wall,  and  there- 
fore failed  :  another  boy,  with  more  huma- 
nity than  is  ordinarily  to  be  met  with  in  the 
streets  of  London,  or  among  boys  anywhere, 
Hfted  it  oyer  to  the  pavement;  and  it  crawled 
on  supporting  itself  against  the  houses,  till 
at  ten  at  night  it  reached  its  master's  house, 
in  Red  Lion-street,  Holbom.  She  was  sup- 
posed to  have  weighed  about  20lb.  when 
lost,  only  31b'.  14oz.  when  found.  She  was 
with  pup  when  she  fell,  and  having  littered 
in  the  dome,  had  devoured  her  young. 

A  BOAST  being  made  of  the  obedience  of 
a  dog  in  fetching  and  carrying  (a  Newfound- 
land) the  master  put  a  marked  shilling  un- 
der a  large  square  stone  by  the  road  side, 
and  having  ridden  on  three  miles  ordered 
the  dog  to  go  back  and  fetch  it.  The  dog 
set  oflT,  but  did  not  return  the  whole  day. 
He  had  gone  to  the  place,  and  being  unable 
to  turn  the  stone,  sat  howling  by  it.  Two 
horsemen  came  by  and  saw  her  diistress,  and 
one  of  them  alighting  removed  the  stone, 
and  finding  the  shilling,  put  it  in  his  pocket, 
not  supposing  that  the  dog  could  possibly 
be  looking  for  that.  The  dog  followed  the 
horses  for  upwards  of  twenty  miles,  stayed 
in  the  room  where  they  supped,  got  into  the 
bedroom,  got  the  breeches  in  which  the  fa- 
tal shilling  had  been  put,  made  his  escape  with 
them,  and  dragged  them  through  mud  and 
nnre,  hedge  snd  ditch,  to  his  master's  house. 


Bishop  Wilson's  Instruction  for  the  In- 
dians "  has  been  lately  translated  into  the 
Welsh  language  for  the  use  of  the  ancient 
Britons." 

Cows  in  the  Alps.  It  is  surprising  to 
see  how  proud  and  pleased  they  stalk  forth 
when  ornamented  with  their  bells.  If  the 
leading  cow  who  hitherto  bore  the  largest 
bell  be  deprived  of  her  honours,  she  mani- 
fests her  disgrace  by  lowing  incessantly,  ab- 
staining from  food,  and  growing  lean.  The 
happy  rival,  on  whom  the  distinguished 
badge  of  superiority  has  devolved,  experi- 
ences her  marked  vengeance,  and  is  butted 
and  persecuted  by  her  in  the  most  furious 
manner  till  the  former  either  recovers  her 
bell  or  is  removed  from  the  herd. 

1799.  Cartmel.  As  a  maid-servant  be- 
longing to  Mrs.  Richardson  was  going  to 
bed,  she  was  much  alarmed  by  something 
rushing  against  the  window,  and  her  con- 
sternation was  greatly  increased  by  instantly 
seeing  a  live  eel  bouncing  about  the  room. 
Several  squares  were  broken  in  the  window. 
At  morning  a  large  crane  was  found  lying 
dead  imder  the  window.  The  bird  had 
made  toward  the  light,  and  wounded  itself, 
so  as  to  occasion  its  death. 

But — ^how  came  the  crane  to  keep  such 
late  hours,  and  go  fishing  by  candle  light  ? 

1767.  Galup,  a  Catalan,  exhibited  some 
pranks  in  swimming  in  Cadiz  bay.  He  set 
off  in  his  clothes,  and  with  a  cask,  undressed 
in  the  water,  took  pen,  ink,  and  paper  out 
of  his  cask,  and  wrote  a  note ;  eat  and  drank, 
produced  atinder-box,  struck  a  light,  smok- 
ed a  pipe,  fired  a  pistol,  and  played  the  flute, 
— in  an  hour  and  twenty  minutes. 

On  draining  the  basin  in  St.  James's 
Square  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  statue 
of  King  William  there,  the  keys  of  Newgate 
were  found  which  were  stolen  when  it  was 
burnt  in  the  riots  of  1780.  A  quantity  of 
chains  and  fetters,  many  ale-house  pewter- 
pots,  a  pocket-book,  some  cards  and  false 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


dice,  a  number  of  horse-shoes,  some  shillings, 
and  two  or  three  guineas.  Some  iU-starred 
gamester  had  perhaps  thrown  there  the  in- 
struments of  his  rum. 

C.  Noel,  in  a  memoir  read  in  the  Philo- 
matic  (?)  Society  in  Paris  (about  1799),  re- 
commends naturalizing  salt  water  fish  in 
rivers  and  ponds,  and  particularly  the  her- 
ring, by  constructing  an  artificial  pond  be- 
tween two  islands  of  the  Seine,  and  depo- 
siting in  it  herrings  full  of  roes,  carried 
there  in  boats.  The  same  boats  might  re- 
pair to  the  fishing  banks  when  the  herrings 
have  spawned,  and  take  up  a  lading  of  fe- 
cundated ova  to  be  carried  to  the  artificial 
pond.  [Is  it  meant  that  the  artificial  pond 
should  be  salt  water,  and  that  they  should 
be  gradually  used  to  the  change,  till  ad- 
mitted into  the  river?]  He  mentioned 
many  instances  which  seemed  to  prove  that 
the  herring  is  fond  of  fresh  water.  Dr. 
Franklin  stocked  one  of  the  rivers  of  New 
England  with  herrings,  by  depositing  in  the 
water  leaves  covered  with  ova. 

1800.  Some  years  ago,  the  person  who 
lived  at  the  turnpike  about  a  mile  from 
Stratford-upon-Avon,  had  a  dog  so  well 
trained  to  fetch  and  carry  that  he  used  to 
go  with  a  note  round  his  neck  to  the  town, 
and  return  with  any  bundle  of  goods  suited 
to  his  strength.  A  safer  messenger  could 
not  have  been  chosen.  One  day,  however, 
when  he  was  bringing  home  tea  and  sugar 
from  the  grocers,  he  fell  in  with  a  party  who 
were  hunting  waterrrats.  The  temptation 
was  too  great.  He  joined  the  terriers,  and 
plunged  into  the  ditches  with  them. 

March  26,  1800.  Died  at  Brompton, 
aged  ninety-six,  Rowland  Nicholson,  for- 
merly a  shoemaker,  and  freeman  of  Carlisle. 
His  party  feeling  was  so  strong,  that  ac- 
cording to  his  own  desire,  often  and  ear- 
nestly expressed,  he  was  attended  to  the 
grave  by  four  pall-bearera,  with  blue  rib- 
ands in  their  hats,  and  buried  in  a  blue 
coffin. 


SoMB  old  writer  is  said  to  have  said  that 
when  princes  began  to  use  cannon,  the  au- 
thority of  the  canons  of  the  church  was  soon 
destroyed.  It  was  first  mitrtim  that  go- 
verned the  world,  and  then  nitrum;  first 
Saint  Peter,  and  then  Salt  Petre. 

1682.  A  HORSS  between  eighteen  and 
nineteen  hands  high,  which  formerly  be- 
longed to  Lord  Rochester,  and  had  killed 
several  other  horses,  and  several  people,  was 
baited  to  death  at  the  Hope,  on  the  Bank 
Side,  being  his  Majesty's  Bear-Grarden.  ^'It 
is  intended  for  the  divertisement  of  his  Ex- 
cellency the  Ambassador  from  the  Emperor 
of  Fez  and  Morocco ;  many  of  the  nobility 
and  gentry  that  knew  the  horse,  and  several 
mbchiefs  done  by  him,  designing  to  be  pre- 
sent.** The  horse  seems  to  have  been  one 
of  Diomede*8  breed,  by  the  character  given 
of  him  in  the  advertisement :  **  For  his  pro- 
digious qualities  in  killing  and  destroying 
several  horses  and  other  cattle,  he  was  trans- 
mitted to  the  Marquis  of  Dorchester :  where, 
doing  the  like  mischiefs,  and  likewise  hurt- 
ing his  keeper,  he  was  sold  to  a  brewer,  but 
is  now  grown  so  headstrong  they  dare  not 
work  him ;  for  he  hath  bitten  and  wounded 
so  many  persons  (some  having  died  of  their 
wounds),  that  there  is  hardly  any  can  pas 
the  streets  for  him,  though  he  be  fast  tied, 
for  he  breaks  his  halter  to  run  afler  them 
(though  loaden  with  eight  barrels  of  beer), 
either  biting  or  treading  them  down,  mon- 
strously tearing  their  flesh,  and  eating  it, 
the  like  whereof  hath  hardly  been  seen; 
and  *tis  certain  the  horse  will  answer  the 
expectation  of  all  spectators.** 

The  sequel  of  the  story  is  in  Malcolm's 
Anecdotes.  Several  dogs  were  set  at  the 
horse,  and  he  killed  or  drove  them  fh«i  the 
area,  and  the  owners  then  led  him  away, 
thinking  to  make  more  sport  and  more  pro- 
fit by  future  exhibitions.  But  the  specta- 
tors insisted  that  he  should  be  baited  to 
death,  according  to  the  promise  in  the  biO. 
They  began  to  demolish  the  building;  and 
the  horse  was  therefore  recalled  to  satisfy 
them,  before  he  had  reached  London  BHdge. 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


873 


logs  were  set  upon  him  without  ef- 
id  he  was  at  last  killed  bj  a  sword. 

Thb  present  mail -man  between 
and  Sarum  has  travelled,  since  his 
in  the  post-office,  on  that  and  the 
ne  road,  upwards  of  326,200  miles, 
an  twelve  times  the  circumference 
arth. 

Aug.  1.  Died  at  Goodleigh,  near 
pie,  in  his  eightieth  year,  Mr.  Henrj 
g,  farmer.  He  was  one  of  the  great- 
hunters  in  Devonshire,  and  had  col- 
uch  a  number  of  foxes*  pads,  ail  of 
e  had  himself  cut  off  when  in  at  the 
hat  thej  entirely  covered  hb  stable 
1  door-posts.    At  his  own  particular 

a  pad  was  placed  in  each  of  his 
I  his  coffin,  and  he  was  attended  to 
ve  bj  the  huntsmen  and  whippers 
3  packs  with  which  he  had  hunted. 

ilvoir  Castle,  the  Duke  of  Rutland*s, 
a  silver  cistern,  sixteen  feet  in  cir- 
nce,  and  holding  sixtj  gallons.  It 
k1  with  cordial  when  the  father  of 
ent  duke  was  bom,  and  with  punch 
hristening  of  the  Marquis  of  Gran- 
1  the  Prince  Regent  stood  sponsor, 
r  1814. 

^Calcolm,  in  his  Anecdotes  of  the 
I  and  Customs  of  London,  from  the 
Conquest  to  1700,  gravely  says, — 
[ity  in  the  marriage  state  was  known 
jign  of  Henry  IV.** 

Esnc  Intelligence^  1681.  "  Whereas 
rly  meeting  of  the  name  of  Adam 
late,  through  the  deficiency  of  the 
rards,  been  neglected ;  these  are  to 
ice  to  all  gentlemen  and  others,  that 
lat  name,  that  at  William  Adam's, 
Jy  called  the  Northern  Alehouse,  in 
1*8  Alley,  in  St.  Paul*s  Churchyard, 
ill  be  a  weekly  meeting  every  Mon- 
it,  of  our  name-sakes,  between  the 
r  six  and  eight  of  the  clock  in  the 


evening,  in  order  to  choose  stewards,  to  re- 
vive our  ancient  and  annual  feast.** 

In  the  Oazette^  of  August  7,  1762,  Dr. 
Pierce,  Dean  of  Sarum,  offered  £40  reward 
for  the  discovery  of  the  person  who  sent  a 
dead  female  infant  (apparently  about  a  fort- 
night old),  to  the  King*s  Arms,  Holbom 
Bridge,  directed  to  him,  in  a  fir  box.  Upon 
opening  it,  he  discovered  a  leaden  coffin 
wrapped  in  a  silk  rug ;  the  body  was  em- 
balmed, and  rolled  in  leather.  This  letter 
was  found : — **  Normandayy  May  12.  Grood 
Mr.  Dean,  Think  me  not  confident  in  giving 
you  this  trouble,  without  which  I  am  inca- 
pable of  performing  the  will  of  the  dead, 
whose  last  request  it  was  to  have  this  in- 
fant (if  it  should  do  otherwise  than  well), 
to  be  laid  in  the  parish  church  you  now  live 
in,  and  you  being  his  very  good  friend  in 
his  life,  makes  me  hope  you  will  see  thb 
charitable  act  performed  for  him ;  and  ha- 
ving no  friend  left  me  in  the  world  I  can 
beg  the  favour  of,  and  I  being  left  so  low 
that  I  am  not  able  to  perform  hb  desire  no 
other  way  but  thb ;  but  if  ever  I  am  in  a 
capacity,  I  will  repay  you,  with  a  million  of 
thanks.  In  the  mean  time,  I  hope  God  will 
reward  you ;  and  I  shall  continually  pray 
for  you  and  your  good  lady  and  son,  so  long 
as  ever  I  shall  live,  who  b  your  poor,  mbe- 
rable,  and  unfortimate  servant,  Ro.  Nor- 
manveilder.** 

Thb  first  dish  which  used  to  be  brought 
to  table  on  Easter  Day  was  a  red  herring 
on  horseback,  set  in  a  corn-sallad. 

Thb  is  from  a  MS.  of  Aubbbt*8,  1678. 
He  says  that  before  the  Reformation  ordi- 
nary men*s  houses  had  no  chimneys,  but 
flues,  like  louver^-holes ;  some  were  in  being 
when  he  was  a  boy.  **  At  the  parbh-priests* 
houses  in  France,  especially  in  Langucdoc, 


*  Simply  the  French  Vouvert,  Todd  gives 
the  folio wmg  illustration, "  The  ancient  manner 
of  building  in  Cornwall  was,  to  set  hearths  in 
the  midst  of  rooms  for  chimneys,  which  vented 
the  smoke  at  a  louver  in  the  top."  Ca&bw, 
Surv.  of  Cornwall,— J.  W.  W. 


J 


1 


874 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


the  table-cloths  were  on  the  board  all  the 
day  long,  ready  for  strangers,  travellers, 
friars,  pilgrims;  so  it  was  I  have  heard  my 
grandfather  say,  in  his  grandfather*s  time/* 
Jacks  are  but  of  late  invention :  the  poor 
boys  did  turn  the  spits,  and  licked  the  drip- 
ping for  their  pains. 

**  Good  Mr.  Rogers,  a  Welsh  Boanerges, 
preaching  in  the  mountains,  said, — *  Chruft 
is  heaven,  if  I  worship  God  here,  and  do  all 
to  Grod  and  for  Grod,  wji^hout  any  hopes  of 
reward  upon  the  earth !— My  dear  breth- 
ren, the  devil  would  never  be  troubled  with 
such  a  wretch  in  hell ;  he  would  set  all  hell 
in  an  uproar.  If  a  true  Methodist  was  to 
go  to  hell,  the  devil  would  say.  Turn  that 
Methodist  out,  he  is  come  to  torment  us.*  ** 

Groaning  boards  were  the  wonder  in 
London  in  1682.  An  elm  plank  was  exhi- 
bited to  the  king,  which,  being  touched  by 
a  hot  iron,  invariably  produced  a  sound  re- 
sembling deep  groans.  At  the  Bowman 
Tavern,  in  Drury  Lane,  the  mantle-tree  did 
the  same  so  well  that  it  was  supposed  to  be 
part  of  the  same  elm-tree ;  and  the  dresser 
at  the  Queen*s  Arms  Tavern,  St.  Martin 
le  Grand,  was  found  to  possess  the  same 
quality, — ^which,  therefore,  cannot  be  very 
uncommon.  See  R.  Bueton*s  Surprising 
Miracles,  p.  186. 

John  Andbew,  shoemaker  in  Maybole, 
sometime  teacher  of  a  private  school  there, 
and  Robert  Ramsay,  cartwright,  were  tried 
at  Ayr  Circuit  Court,  upon  this  curious  in- 
dictment : — That  they  did  under  the  shew 
and  pretence  of  ameeting  for  Masonry,  some 
time  in  the  year  1796,  at  Maybole,  along 
with  others,  their  associates,  most  of  them 
from  Ireland,  form  themselves  into  an  ille- 
gal club  or  association,  styling  itself  the 
Grand  Assembly  of  Knights  Templars; — 
which  club,  under  the  pretence  of  initiating 
into  the  ceremonies  of  Masonry,  did  admit 
various  persons  as  members,  and  did  at  said 
admission  perform  various  ceremonies,  part- 
ly with  a  view  to  vilify  and  undermine  the 


establbhed  religion,  and  partly  to  represent 
the  Government  of  the  country  as  oppres- 
sive and  tyrannical ;  and  did  with  this  view 
oblige  those  who  were  admitted  to  take  tnd 
did  administer  to  them  an  oath,  binding 
them,  among  other  things,  **  to  conceal  die 
secrets  of  the  Order  of  Knights  TempUin, 
murder  and  treason  not  excepted,** — or  an 
oath  of  such  import  and  tendency. 

William  Hamilton,  mason,  said  he  wss  a 
member  of  the  Lodge  at  Maybole — Roysl 
Arch,  No.  264.  When  he  was  admitted  a 
member,  a  pistol  was  fired,  and  some  person 
called  out — Put  him  to  death.  He  was 
blindfolded  at  first,  when  brought  into  the 
room ;  and  the  covering  being  afterwards 
taken  from  his  eyes,  he  was  shown  a  stone 
jug  in  the  comer  of  the  room,  and  a  bush 
in  the  jug,  and  a  candle  burning  in  it.  He 
was  told  by  the  panel,  Andrew,  that  it  was 
the  representation  of  God  Almighty  in  the 
midst  of  the  Burning  Bush.  Andrew  was 
Master  of  the  Lodge,  and  was  reading  the 
third  chapter  of  Exodus.  The  witness  was 
desired  to  put  off  his  shoes,  as  it  was  holy 
ground  he  trod  on  :  the  covering  was  put 
down  again  on  his  face,  and  he  was  led  un- 
der an  arch;  and  after  passing  under  the 
arch,  he  was  desired  to  find  the  Book  of  the 
Law :  it  was  taken  up  by  some  other  person 
in  the  Lodge  who  was  called  High  Priest, 
and  who  said  he  would  explain  it.  The 
witness  was  desired  to  put  money  on  the 
book,  to  pay  for  explaining  it  to  him ;  the 
book  he  was  told  was  the  Bible.  The  p«M- 
port  for  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  was, — ^I  am 
that  I  am.  After  the  above  ceremonies, 
the  witness  being  taken  out  of  the  room, 
had  his  coat  Uken  off,  and  tied  on  his  shoul- 
ders in  a  bundle,  and  was  then  brought  in. 
A  carpet  with  a  rent  in  it  was  called  the 
Veil  of  the  Temple.  He  was  led  through 
it,  and  round  the  room.  A  sword  was  put 
into  his  hand ;  and  he  was  ordered  to  use 
it  against  all  who  opposed  him  as  a  Knight 
Templar.  John  Andrew  read  the  fouSrth 
chapter  of  Exodus.  The  witness  was  de- 
sired to  throw  down  the  sword,  and  was 
tpld  it  was  become  a  serpent ;  after  which 


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he  was  desired  to  take  it  up  again,  and  told 
it  was  again  arod«  Andrew  poured  ale  and 
porter  on  the  floor,  and  called  it  blood.  He 
was  shown  thirteen  burning  candles;  one 
m  the  middle,  he  was  told,  represented 
Jesus  Christ,  the  other  the  Twelve  Apostles. 
Andrew  blew  out  one  of  the  candles,  which 
he  called  Judas,  who  betrayed  his  Master. 
One  of  them  was  dim,  and  was  called  Peter, 
who  denied  his  Master.  Something  on  a 
table,  under  a  white  cloth,  being  uncovered, 
was  perceived  to  be  a  human  skull,  which 
the  witness  was  desired  to  take  up,  and  view 
it,  and  was  told  it  was  a  real  skull  of  a  bro- 
ther called  Simon  Magus.  Porter  was  pour- 
ed into  the  skull,  which  the  witness  was  de- 
sired to  drink ;  he  did  so,  and  it  was  handed 
round  to  the  whole  Knights.  Andrew  put 
the  point  of  the  sword  into  it,  and  then 
touched  thewitnes8*8  head  with  it,  saying, — 
I  dub  thee  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  Son, 
and  Holy  Ghost.  He  took  an  oath  to  keep 
the  secrets  of  the  Knights  Templars,  mur- 
der and  treason  not  excepted.  The  pen- 
alty for  revealing  was,  that  his  body  would 
be  rented  up  like  a  fir-deal. 

Quintin  Stewart,  taylor.  He  saw  a  thorn 
hash  in  a  comer  of  the  room,  and  a  candle 
in  the  heart  of  it  burning.  Andrew  said, 
**Go  and  deliver  the  children  of  Israel  from 
their  bondage,  and  the  burden  of  their  task 
masters."  He  was  taken  roimd  their  royal 
encampment  in  the  middle  of  the  room,  and 
was  then  put  into  what  they  called  a  dark 
vault,  in  search  of  the  Book  of  the  Law ; 
and  a  book  was  thrown  down  on  the  floor, 
and  afterwards  put  into  his  hand.  When 
they  prepared  him  to  be  a  Knight  Templar, 
his  coat  was  tied  in  a  bundle  on  his  back, 
and  a  stafi*put  in  his  hand  to  travel  through 
the  sandy  deserts.  He  past  through  the  first 
and  second  veils  of  the  temple.  The  skull, 
he  was  told,  was  the  head  of  a  brother  who 
once  tasted,  heard,  and  smelled  as  we  do  now. 

The  verdict  was  not  guilty. 

Jbkusalkm  Whalley,  made  his  journey 
for  a  bet.  Being  asked  where  he  was  going, 
he  answered  in  jest  to  Jerusalem;  the  com- 


pany ofiered  to  wager  any  sum  that  he  did 
not  go  there,  and  he  took  bets  to  the  amount 
of  £15,000. 

In  North  Wales,  when  a  person  supposes 
himself  highly  injured,  it  is  not  uncommon 
for  him  to  go  to  some  church  dedicated  to  a 
celebrated  saint,  as  Llan  Elian  inAnglesea, 
and  Clynog  in  Caernarvonshire,  and  there 
to  offer  his  enemy.  He  kneels  down  on  his 
bare  knees  in  tlie  church,  and  offering  a 
piece  of  money  to  the  saint,  calls  down  curses 
and  misfortunes  upon  the  offender  and  his 
family  for  generations  to  come ;  in  the  most 
firm  belief  that  the  imprecations  will  be  ful- 
filled. Sometimes  they  repair  to  a  sacred 
well  instead  of  a  church. 

Is  it  true  that  there  was  till  within  the 
last  century,  retained  within  the  precincts 
of  the  royal  palace  of  Westminster  a  solemn 
officer,  called  the  King's  Cock-crower,  whose 
duty  during  the  whole  season  of  Lent,  was 
to  crow  the  hour,  instead  of  crying  it,  in 
order  to  remind  sinners  of  the  crowing  of 
the  cock,  and  its  effect  on  St.  Peter  P 

Courier^  January  12, 1814.  "The  largest 
twelfth  cake  in  London,  part  of  which  will 
be  presented  gratis  to  every  purchaser  of  a 
ticket  or  share  at  Martin's  Fortunate  office, 
No.  8,  Cornhill.*' 

Martin  distributed  1,879  pounds  of  rich 
cake  gratis,  likewise  saved  the  public  £29,000 
by  his  mode  of  doing  business. 

If  a  native  of  the  Maldives  die  at  sea, 
they  wash  the  body  with  the  usual  cere- 
monies, put  it  in  a  coffin,  and  float  the  cof- 
fin upon  three  or  four  planks  of  Candon,  a 
remarkably  light  and  buoyant  wood,  and 
then  send  it  adrift.  Money  is  put  in  the 
coffin,  and  a  writing  declaring  who  and  what 
the  deceased  had  been,  and  requesting  those 
among  whom  it  may  be  thrown  up,  to  inter 
it  decently,  and  take  the  money  to  defray 
the  cost — Fran,  PyrardL,  p.  120.* 


>  I  have  not  the  volume  before  me,  but  no 
doubt  the  Diseours  du  Voyag§  du  Francois  atur 
Indet  Orientalet  is  the  authority.— J.  W.  W. 


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**£n  France  en  g^&ral,  le  peuple  est 
plus  lisenr.  Le  plus  simple  bonrgeois  y  vent 
sa  biblioth^ue.  Aussi  dans  Paris  seule- 
ment  tout  libraire  ^toit-il  siir  de  vendre  au- 
tant  d*exemplaire8  de  Touvrage  le  plus  pitoj- 
able,  que  Ton  en  vend  k  Londres  pour  toute 
TAngleterre  des  outrages  d*une  bont^  com- 
mune.**—L*Abbb  Babbuei*. 

Mb.  Malcolm  commences  hb  anecdotes 
of  the  manners  and  customs  of  London  dur- 
ing the  eighteenth  century  with  a  politico- 
physical,  or  physico-political  history  of  Eng- 
lish beauty  I  **  There  is  something,**  he 
begins,  **  in  the  composition  of  the  British 
atmosphere  highly  congenial  to  human  and 
animal  life :  the  clouded  air  and  frequent 
humidity,  and  consequent  coolness,  prevent 
the  violent  perspirations  the  nations  of  finer 
climates  experience ;  hence  the  fluids  re- 
main in  full  effect,  and  expand  every  part 
of  the  frame  to  its  full  proportion !  **  In 
their  struggles  against  the  Saxons  and  Danes, 
*Vthe  whole  race  of  Englishmen  became 
either  hardened  into  almost  supernatural 
exertion  and  strength,  or  were  victims  to 
those  chronic  diseases,  which  deform  the 
body,  and  destroy  the  regularity  of  features: 
then  the  youth  of  each  sex  experienced  pri- 
vations incident  to  war,  and  the  whole 
population  must  have  suffered  in  the  grace- 
fulness of  their  persons.**  We  want  a  beau- 
tifying, he  supposes,  till  Edward  IIL*8  time. 
**  After  that  reign  I  should  imagine,**  says 
he,  **  their  stature  diminished,  and  their 
countenances  assumed  a  less  pleasing  form.** 
Under  Henry  VII.  and  VIII.,  uglier  still; 
and  under  Mary,  it  is  to  be  presumed  ug- 
liest of  all.  Then  came  Elizabeth,  who 
"raised  the  people  nearer  to  manhood.** 
Under  her  auspicious  reign,  "  the  person 
was  enlarged,  and  became  more  graceful ; 
discontent  fled  from  the  features,  and  the 
Londoners,  still  nearer  perfection,  at  last 
accomplished  those  two  revolutions  which 
have  for  ever  banished  despotism.  See  the 
consequences  in  the  myriads  of  beautiful 
infants  that  smile  on  every  side  of  him,  with 
the  regular  and  placid  lines  that  mark  their 


faces,  and  the  straight  and  truly  proportioned 
limbs  that  distinguish  vast  numbers  oi  all 
ranks  of  people  of  both  sexes.  We  find 
thousands  of  males  and  females  who  appesr 
to  have  been  nursed  by  the  graces,  and  as 
far  surpass  the  celebrated  statues  of  the 
Venus  de  Medicis  and  the  Apollo  Belvidere, 
as  the  works  of  the  Creator  ever  wUl  those 
of  man.  Those  favoured  with  an  opporta- 
nity  of  seeing  the  30,000  volunteers  assem- 
bled at  Hyde  Park  in  1804,  determined  to 
fight  for  their  homes,  must  agree  with  me 
that  no  nation  ever  produced  an  equal  num- 
ber together  so  finely  jBroportioned  aad 
handsome.** 

London  workhouses,  &c.  Of  childreo 
bom  or  received  there  under  twelve  roontb 
in  1768,  only  seven  in  the  hundred  lived 
two  years. 

Geobgb  L  had  a  Turk  called  M.  Maho- 
met for  his  valet-de-chambre. 

Weehit/  Journal,  March  30,  1717. 

**  Thb  thieves  have  got  such  a  villainous 
way  now  of  robbing  gentlemen,  that  they 
cut  holes  through  the  backs  of  hackney- 
coaches,  and  take  away  their  wigs,  or  fine 
head-dresses  of  gentlewomen.  So  a  gen- 
tleman was  served  last  Sunday  in  Tooiey 
Street,  and  another  but  last  Tuesday  in 
Fenchurch  Street ;  wherefore  this  may  senre 
for  a  caution  to  gentlemen  or  gentlewomen 
that  ride  single  in  the  night  time,  to  sit  on 
the  fore  seat,  which  will  prevent  that  wajr 
of  robbing.'* 

Thb  Society  for  the  Reformation  of  Man- 
ners in  the  year  ending  1725,  had  instituted 
9 1 ,899  prosecutions. 

1729.  Stbbst  robbing  so  common,  that 
**  people,  especially  in  an  evening,  choose 
rather  to  walk  than  ride  in  a  coach,  on  ac- 
count that  they  are  in  a  readier  posture  to 
defend  themsdves,  or  call  out  for  help  if 
attacked.  The  hackney  coachmen  were  so 
much  injured  by  this,  that  'whereas  afgwrt 


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877 


for  drhring  of  an  hackne  j  coach  used  lately 
to  be  sold  for  about  £60,  besides  pajing 
the  usual  duties  to  the  commissioners  for 
licensing ;  they  are  at  his  time,  for  the  rea- 
sons aforesaid,  sold  for  £S  per  figure^  good 
wilL'- 

A  FKMALB  impostress  used  to  live  bj 
bsngxng  herself,  and  telling  a  pitiful  story 
wh^  cut  down,  which  there  was  always  an 
accomplice  at  hand  to  do. 

DusiRG  the  first  thirty  years  of  the  eigh- 
teenth century,  the  numbers  of  deaths  in 
London  finom  small-pox,  was  thirty-four  out 
of  1000.  During  the  last  thirty  of  the  same 
century,  they  were  ninety-five  out  of  1000, 
nearly  a  tenth  of  the  whole  mortality.  In- 
oculation had  thus  greatly  increased  the 
disease. 

A  certain  physician  who  had  seen  more 
than  40,000  cases  of  small- pox,  said,  he  never 
met  with  a  confluent  case  in  a  person  of  red 
or  light  flaxen  hair. 

^  Lbs  r^istres  de  Taffinage  de  Paris  at- 
testent  qu*on  employoit,  ou  plutdt  qu^on 
perdoit  tons  les  ans  la  somme  enorme  de 
huit  cent  mille  livres  en  or  fin,  k  dorer  des 
meubles,  des  voitures,  du  carton,  des  por- 
celjunes,  des  clous,  des  ^ventails,  des  bou- 
tons,  des  livres,  et  \l  brocher  des  ^tofles  ou 
h  masquer  de  Pargenterie."  1790. — ^Bab- 
HtTBL,  vol.  ii.  p.  72. 

AviONON,  Barruel  says,  was  the  chief  seat 
of  the  Martinists. 

1733.  Thb  stages  and  hackney  coaches 
made  war  upon  private  chaises.  The  drivers 
**"  are  commissioned  by  their  masters  to  an- 
noy, sink,  and  destroy  all  the  single  and 
double  horse-chaises  they  can  conveniently 
meet  with,  or  overtake  in  their  way,  with- 
out r^ard  to  the  lives  or  limbs  of  the  per- 
sons who  travel  in  them.  What  havoc  these 
industrious  sons  of  blood  and  wounds  have 
made  within  twenty  miles  of  London  in  the 
compass  of  a  summer's  season,  is  best  known 


by  the  articles  of  accidents  in  the  news- 
papers :  the  miserable  shrieks  of  women  and 
children  not  being  sufficient  to  deter  the 
villains  from  doing  what  they  call  their  duty 
to  their  masters ;  for  besides  their  daily  or 
weekly  wages,  they  have  an  extraordinary 
stated  allowance  for  every  chaise  they  can 
reverse,  ditch,  or  bring  hy  the  road^  as  the 
term  or  phrase  is.*" —  Weekly  Register,  Dec.  8. 

At  the  peace  of  1713,  the  master  of  the 
Spread  Eagle  Lin,  in  Gracechurch  Street, 
advertized  shilling  tickets  for  a  peace  pud- 
ding, nine  feet  in  length,  twenty  inches 
broad,  and  six  inches  deep. 

About  1716,  ^*  Sion  Chapel  at  Hampstead 
being  a  private  and  pleasant  place,  many 
persons  of  the  best  fashion  have  been  lately 
married  there.  Now,  as  a  minister  is  obliged 
constantly  to  attend,  this  is  to  give  notice, 
that  all  persons  upon  bringing  a  license,  and 
who  shall  have  their  wedding  dinners  at  the 
house  in  the  gardens,  may  be  married  in 
the  said  chapel  without  giving  any  fee  or 
reward ;  and  such  as  do  not  keep  their  wed- 
ding at  the  gardens,  only  five  shillings  will 
be  demanded  of  them  for  all  fees.** 

In  Greorge  L*s  reign,  a  florist's  feast  at 
Bethnal  Green,  a  carnation  named  after  him 
was  the  king  of  the  year.  The  stewards  were 
drest  with  laurel  and  flowers,  and  carried 
gilded  staves;  and  ninety  cultivators  fol- 
lowed in  procession  to  the  sound  of  music, 
each  bearing  his  flowers. 

1720.  Clubs  ofBold  Bucks  and  Hell  Fires. 
These  latter  used  to  call  for  a  Holy  Ghost 
pie  at  the  tavern.  How  came  the  Abb^  Bar- 
ruel to  overlook  them  ? 

1717-18.  James  Austin,  inventor  of  the 
Persian  ink  powder,  invited  his  customers 
to  a  feast.  There  was  a  pudding  promised, 
which  was  to  be  boiled  fourteen  days,  in- 
stead of  seven  hours,  and  for  which  he  al- 
lowed a  chaldron  of  coals.  It  weighed  900 
pounds.     The  copper  for  boiling  it  was 


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erected  at  the  Red  Lion  in  Southwark  Park, 
where  crowds  went  to  see  it ;  and  when 
boiled,  it  was  to  be  conveyed  to  the  Swan 
Tavern,  Fish  Street  Hill,  to  the  tune  of 
**  What  lumps  of  pudding  my  mother  gave 
me.**  The  place  was  changed  to  the  Resto- 
ration Gardens  in  St.  George^s  Fields,  in 
consequence  of  the  numerous  company  ex- 
pected, and  the  pudding  set  out  in  procession 
with  banners,  streamers,  drim)s,&c.,  but  the 
mob  chased  it  on  the  way  and  carried  all  off. 

When  the  drawbridge  on  old  London 
bridge  was  shut  up  to  be  repaired  in  1722, 
some  tradesmen  had  a  table  placed  there  in 
the  middle  of  the  street,  and  sat  there  drink- 
ing punch  the  whole  aflemoon,  that  they 
might  do  what  no  other  persons  ever  had 
done.  Some  Englishmen  did  the  same  on 
the  top  of  Pompey*8  pillar. 

A  MAN  wagered  that  he  and  another  would 
eat  a  bushel  of  turnips  and  drink  four  bot- 
tles of  wine  within  an  hour :  the  other  was 
a  bear,  who  had  the  turnips  for  his  share, 
with  three  bottles  of  wine  poured  into  it. 

Fire  of  London.  **  This  subject,"  says 
Mr.  Malcolm,  ^*  may  be  allowed  to  be  fami- 
liar to  me,  and  I  have,  perhaps,  had  more 
than  common  means  of  judging:  and  I  now 
declare  it  to  be  my  full  and  decided  opinion 
that  London  was  burnt  by  government,^  to 
annihilate  the  plague ;  which  was  grafted  in 
every  crevice  of  the  hateful  old  houses  com- 
posing it!!!" — Anecdotes  of  London^  voLii. 
p.  16. 

1736.  An  attempt  to  diminish  the  exces- 
sive use  of  gin,  occasioned  cries  from  the 
mob  of  "  No  gin,  no  king !  ** 

1715.  A  LEOPAED  bait«d  to  death,  and 

*  Drtden,  who  calls  the  Fire  "  this  chymic 
flame,''  gives  no  authority  to  this  often  repeated 
notion.     He  says, 

"  from  what  source  unknown 

Those  seeds  of  fire  their  fatal  birth  disclose." 

Annv4  Mirabilis. — J.  W.  W. 


gentlemen  who  pleased  might  let  their  dogs 
run. 

1718.  A  SPEAKINQ  dog  exhibited,  who 
was  even  said  to  articulate  distinctly  sen- 
tences in  Grerman,  French,  and  EnglisL 

1718.  A  MAN  who  called  himself  the  gri- 
mace Spaniard,  attempted  to  fight  a  bull 
afler  the  Spanish  manner,  but  failed  shame- 
fully, and  was  hooted  out  of  the  arena. 

1722.    "I,     EUZABETH     WlUCDfSON,    of 

Clerkenwell,  having  had  some  words  with 
Hannah  Hyfield,  and  requiring  satisfactioOf 
do  invite  her  to  meet  me  on  the  stage,  and 
box  with  me  for  three  guineas,  each  woman 
holding  half-a-crown  in  each  hand,  and  the 
first  woman  that  drops  her  money  to  lose 
the  battle.*" 

^^  I,  Hannah  Hyfield,  of  Newgate  market, 
hearing  of  the  resoluteness  of  Elizabeth 
Wilkinson,  will  not  fail,  God  willing,  to  give 
her  more  blows  than  words,  desiring  hoDie 
blows,  and  from  her  no  favour." 

Hockley-in-the-Holewas  the  place.  Tbej 
wore  close  jackets,  short  petticoats,  holland 
drawers,  white  stockings  and  pumps,  and 
fought  a  long  time  to  the  general  satis&c- 
tion  of  the  spectators. 

1725.  At  Figg's  Amphitheatre,  Oxford 
Street,  Sutton,  the  champion  of  Kent,  and 
a  Kentish  woman,  fought  Stokes  and  ^^  his 
much  admired  consort  **  of  London  :  X40 
to  be  given  to  the  male  and  female  who  gave 
most  cuts  with  the  sword,  and  £20  for  mo«t 
blows  with  a  quarter-staff,  besides  the  col- 
lection in  the  box. 

In  Lilington  Road,  on  Monday,  being  the 
17th  of  July,  1727,  will  be  performed  a  trial 
of  skill  by  the  following  combatants :  **  Wei 
Robert  Barker,  and  Mary  Welsh,  from  Ire- 
land, having  often  contaminated  our  swords 
in  the  abdominous  corporations  of  such  an- 
tagonists as  have  had  the  insolence  to  dis- 
pute our  skill,  do  find  ourselves  once  more 
necessitated  to  challenge,  defy,  and  invito 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


879 


ieB  and  his  bold  Amazonian  virago 
U8  on  the  stage,  where  we  hope  to 
itbfaction  to  the  honourable  lord  of 
>n  who  has  laid  a  wager  of  twenty 
on  our  heads.  Thej  that  give  the 
s  to  have  the  whole  monej,  and  the 
f  the  house :  and  if  swords,  daggers, 
ftaff,  fury,  rage  and  resolution  will 
our  friends  shall  not  meet  with  a 
itment.**  ^*  We,  James  and  Eliza- 
kes,  of  the  City  of  London,  having 
,rained  an  universal  approbation  by 
ty  of  body,  dexterous  hands,  and 
>us  hearts,  need  not  preambula^e  on 
sion,  but  rather  choose  to  exercise 
d  to  their  sorrow,  and  corroborate 
sral  opinion  of  the  town,  than  to 
e  custom  of  our  exparte  antagonists. 
I  be  the  last  time  of  Mrs.  Stokes 
ng  on  the  stage.  They  will  fight  in 
!  dresses  as  before." 

CJojfBLT  died  in  the  Fleet,  1797. 
speculation  was  to  keep  asses  at 
)ridge,  and  open  breakfast  rooms 
;  who  chose  to  drink  asses*  milk. 

A  GiBL  with  remarkably  fine  flaxen 
dd  to  have  sold  it  in  London  for 
iing  twenty  ounces  at  £3  an  ounce? 

AM  ILL,  then  Prince  of  Orange,  said 
^.  Temple  of  Charles  II.  **  Was 
thing  so  hot  and  so  cold  as  this 
yours  I  Will  the  King  who  is  so 
sea  never  leam  the  word  that  I 
rer  forget,  since  my  last  passage ; 
a  great  storm  the  captain  was  cry- 
o  the  man  at  the  helm  all  night — 
-steady^teady  T' 

Some  poor  crazy  people  at  Edin- 
illed  themselves  the  Sweet  Singers 

They  set  forth  a  declaration  "  that 
d  good  to  the  Holy  Ghost  and  to 
take  out  of  their  Bibles  the  Psalms 
5  (being  a  human  addition)  and 
im  in  the  prison,  and  aflerwards 
?ay  the  ashes.    Likewise,  in  the 


Holy  Scriptures  they  renounce  chapters, 
verses,  and  contents,  being  only  done  by 
human  wisdom.  They  renounce  the  im- 
pressions and  translation  of  both  the  Old 
and  New  Testament,  and  that  for  additions 
put  unto  them  by  men  and  other  causes : 
as  first  putting  in  horrid  blasphemy,  making 
a  Tyrant  patron  of  the  church ;  for  putting 
in  horrid  pictures,  and  for  drawing  scores 
betwixt  the  Books  of  the  Bible.  They  re- 
nounce all  Catechisms,  larger  and  shorter ; 
the  acts  of  the  General  Assembly  ;  all  the 
Covenants  acknowledging  sin  and  engaging 
to  duties ;  and  that  which  they  call  preach- 
ing books ;  and  all  their  works,  form,  manner 
of  worship,  doctrine,  discipline,  government, 
the  studying  of  books,  the  thing  they  call 
preaching,  by  reason  that  instead  of  going 
to  Grod  for  his  mind,  they  go  to  their  books 
making  their  books  their  God  and  their 
leader.  They  renounce  the  limiting  the 
the  Lord*s  mind  by  glosses,^  ordination  by 
men ;  the  Covenant  taken  at  Queen^s  ferry, 
called  Carghill*s  Covenant,  as  also  the  de- 
clarations of  Hamilton  and  Lanrick,  as 
not  being  strict  enough ;  wherefore  it  seems 
good  to  the  Holy  Ghost  and  to  them  to 
burn  the  said  Covenants,  together  with  all 
the  former  works  of  the  clergy  of  Scotland. 
They  renounce  and  decline  all  authority 
throughout  the  world,  and  all  that  are  in 
authority,  and  all  their  acts  and  edicts. 
They  renounce  the  names  of  months,  as 
January,  &c.,  and  of  all  days,  as  well  the 
days  of  the  week  as  holy  days.  They  like- 
wise renounce  all  chapels,  chaplains,  feast- 
ings,  piping,  dancing,  laughing,  monk-land, 
frier-lands,  churches,  church-yards,  mar- 
ket-crosses, fount-stones,  images,  all  regis- 
ters of  lands  and  houses,  together  with  all 
manner  of  law  works,  ballads,  romances, 
play  books,  cards,  and  dice.  They  also  re- 
nounce all  the  customs  and  fashions  of  this 

'  The  allusion  is  to  the  hour>glas8  still  to  be 
found,  or,  at  least,  its  iron  frame,  in  many 
churches.  The  custom  of  preaching  by  the 
hour*gla88  commenced  about  the  end  of  the  six- 
teenth century.  An  iron  frame  remains  in  the 
church  of  Ferring,  in  Sussex, — a  few  miles  from 
where  I  write.— J.  W.  W. 


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generation,  and  their  way  of  eating,  drink- 
ing, clothing,  and  sleeping/* 

These  poor  creatures  made  the  amend 
honourable,  and^nrere  pardoned. 

JuLT  21,  1699,  Exeter,  •*  The  citizens 
having  showed  their  zeal  for  the  public 
good  in  making  our  rirer  navigable,  on 
Monday  last  an  heroic  company  of  near 
200  women  (of  the  parish  of  Alphington 
adjoining)  appeared  idl  in  white,  with  clean 
straw  hats,  armed  with  mattocks  and  sho- 
vels, with  drtmis  beating,  and  the  city  music 
playing  before  them ;  two  grave  matrons, 
widi  shovels  in  their  hands  leading  the  van. 
In  the  centre  upon  a  pole  was  carried  a 
garland  of  flowers,  with  a  globe  thereon  : 
the  rear  was  also  brought  up  by  one  of  the 
most  considerable  persons  with  a  shovel; 
in  which  posture  they  advanced  to  the 
works,  the  engineer  going  along  with  them : 
and  having  fixed  their  standard  they  fell 
to  their  work  with  courage,  and  followed 
the  same  diligently  till  evening,  when  they 
returned  to  the  Mayor's  door,  and  gave 
three  huzzas,  after  which  they  returned  to 
their  own  parish,  about  a  mile  from  hence. 
Yesterday  the  gardeners  and  hatters  to  the 
number  of  800  marched  to  the  works  like- 
wise, with  laurels  in  their  hats ;  and  this 
day  300  Grecians^  (?)  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Sidwell*s,  headed  by  their  parson  on  horse- 
back, as  also  the  best  of  the  parish  in  front 
and  rear,  with  eight  drums,  two  trumpets, 
and  other  sorts  of  music." 

CouBisa.  20  January,  1814.  It  is  re- 
markable that  the  new  river  is  not  the  least 
frozen  by  the  present  inclemency  of  the 
weather,  and  never  was  known  to  be  so 
from  its  source  near  Ware^  in  Hertford- 
shire, to  its  reservoir  at  Islington,  from  its 
first  establishment  by  Sir  H.  Middleton. 


*  Sou  they  has  put  a  ?,  but  no  doubt  it  means 
**  jovial  fellows,''  according  to  the  proverb,  At 
merry  us  a  Greek.  —  See  Nabes'  Gloss,  in  v. 
Shakespeare  calls  them  merry  Greeks. 

J.  W.  W. 


MoHTSLT  Magazine.  January,  1814. 
Among  the  deaths.  **  At  Loughborough, 
81,  Thomas  Parkinson,  tailor,  and  a  pro- 
phet" 

Db.  Lambb  has  had  more  than  sixtj 
proselytes  for  above  three  years. 

Mb.  Thomas  Collhison  controverting 
a  scheme  of  vowels  proposed  by  Dr.  Shtw, 
observes,  **  that  gentlemen  as  well  as  him- 
self must  be  willing  to  sacrifice  on  the  altar 
of  truth  all  personal  consideration,**  and 
that  ^  we  must  all  indeed  console  ourselTes 
with  the  reflection  that  to  err  is  homaiii 
but  to  forgive,  divine!** 

M.  Mag.  Jan.  1814,  p.  485. 

**  In  the  South-hams  of  Devonshire  on 
the  Eve  of  the  Epiphany,  the  farmer,  at- 
tended by  his  workmen,  with  a  large  pitdier 
of  cyder,  goes  to  the  orchard,  and  there, 
encircling  one  of  the  best  bearing  trees, 
they  drink  the  following  toast,  three  sereral 
times, 

"  Here's  to  thee,  old  apple  tree. 
Whence  thou  mayest  bud  and  whence 

thou  mayest  blow. 
And  whence  thou  mayest  bear  apples 
enow! 

Hats  full  t  caps  full ! 

Bushel — ^bushel — sacks  full. 

And  my  pockets  full  too  !  Huzza  I 

This  done  they  return  to  the  house,  the 
doors  of  which  they  are  sure  to  find  bolted 
by  the  females,  who,  be  the  weather  what 
it  may,  are  inexorable  to  all  intreaties  to 
open  them  till  some  one  has  guessed  at 
what  is  on  the  spit,  which  is  generally  some 
nice  little  thing,  difficult  to  be  hit  on,  and 
is  the  reward  of  him  who  first  names  it> 
The  doors  are  then  thrown  open,  and  tbe 
lucky  clod-pole  receives  the  tit  bit  as  bis 
reoompence.  Some  are  so  superstitious  as 
to  believe  that  if  they  neglect  this  custoim 
the  trees  will  bear  no  apples  that  year. 

They  have  likewise  a  custom  in  Devon- 
shire on  the  Eve  of  Twelfth-day,  of  going 


AND  rBAGMENTS  FOR  ESPBIELLA. 


881 


^  after  rapper  into  the  orchard,  with  a  large 
milk  pan  full  of  cider,  having  roasted  ap- 
ples prest  into  it.  Out  of  this  each  person 
in  company  takes  a  clayen  cup  (an  earthen 
ware  cup)  full  of  liquor,  and  standing  un- 
der each  of  the  more  fruitM  apple  trees, 
passing  by  those  that  are  not  good  bearers, 
be  addresses  it  in  these  words  : 

'*  Health  to  thee,  good  apple  tree ; 
Well  to  bear  pocket-iiills,  hat-fulls. 
Peck-fulls,  bushel-bag  fulls. 

And  then  drinking  up  part  of  the  con- 
tents, he  throws  the  rest  with  the  frag- 
ments of  the  roasted  apples  at  the  trees. 
At  each  cup  the  company  set  up  a  shout.** — 
Forsan  the  renudns  of  some  sacrifice  to 
Pomona. 

Herrick  says  among  the  Christmas  Eve 
ceremonies, 

Wassaile  the  trees,  that  they  may  bear 
You  many  a  plum,  and  many  a  pear': 
For  more  or  less  fruits  they  will  bring, 
As  yon  do  give  them  wassailing.^ 

Brand  1.  28. 

'  These  lines  of  Herrick  probably  allude  to 
toother  custom,  called  in  Essex  the  Howling 
(fthe  Applet,  of  which  the  Rbv.  Giles  Moore 
makes  mention  when  he  writes  in  his  Journal : 

'*  26(A  Dec.   I  gave  the  Howling  Boys  vidJ' 

The  note  following  is  from  the  Stusex  ArcJuul, 
Coll,  vol.  1,  p.  110,  on  the  above : 

'*  On  New  Tear's  Ere  it  was,  and  it  still  con- 
tinoes  to  be  the  custom,  to  wassail  the  orchards. 
At  Horsted  Keynes,  and  elsewhere,  the  cere- 
oiODy  retains  the  name  of  '*  Apple  Howlino." 
A  troop  of  boys  visit  the  different  orchards,  and 
encircling  the  apple  trees,  they  repeat  the  fol- 
lowing words  I 

*  Stand  fast  root;  bear  well  top; 
Pray  God  send  us  a  good  howling^erop  ; 
Every  twig,  apples  big, 
Every  bow,  apples  enow ; 
Hats  ftill,  caps  full. 
Full  quarts,  sacks  full.' 

"  Then  they  spout  in  chorus,  one  of  the  boys 
•coompanying  them  on  the  cow's  horn.  During 
this  ceremony,  they  rap  the  trees  with  dieir 
sticks.  This  custom  is  alluded  to  in  Herriok'b 
Buperides.'*  The  lines  are  then  quoted,  and  it 
is  added, "  This  practice  is  not  confined  to  Sus- 
Mx:  it  prevails  in  Devonshire  and  Hereford- 
Aire."— J.  W.  W. 


CouRiBB,  January  22, 1814.  **  Died  rad- 
denly,  on  Thursday  morning,  at  his  lodg- 
ings in  Castle-street,  Oxford  Road,  in  tie 
sixty -third  year  of  his  age,  Mr.  William 
Hughes,  formerly  faro  dealer  at  the  Lady*s 
Banks.  This  person  never  had  a  day*s  Hl- 
ness,  and  never  went  to  bed  sober  for  the 
last  thirty  years ;  and  drank  on  an  average 
a  quart  of  gin  every  day  during  that  pe- 
riod, making  in  the  whole  2,732  gallons. 

Babbubl  asserts  that  there  was  a  Mar- 
tinist  Lodge  at  Avignon. — **  Dans  Paris  et 
dans  les  provinces,  surtout  dans  Avignon, 
chef  lieu  des  Martinistes,  il  4toit  de  ces 
sortes  d*^le8  secretes  destines  }l  Texpli- 
cation  du  code  myst^eux ;  j*ai  connu,  et 
je  connois  des  hommes  appel^,  introduits 
it  ces  ^oles.  Elles  disposoient  it  Tinitia- 
tion ;  on  y  apprenoit  de  plus  Tart  de  tromper 
les  simples  par  ces  apparitions  factices,  qui 
ont  fini  par  rendre  la  secte  ridicule ;  Tart 
d*^voquer  les  morts;  Tart  de  faire  parler 
des  hommes  absens.  De  voir  ce  qu*ils  faisoi- 
ent  it  mille  lieues  de  nous.  Enfin  ce  que 
les  charlatans  de  tons  les  Ages  ^tudioient 
pour  faire  illusion  it  la  populace,  et  gagner 
son  argent,  les  Martinistes  T^tudioient  pour 
faire  des  impies  et  renverser  lea  trdnes.** 
T.  2.  p.  386. 

SwEDENBORo.  **  Sou  Dicu,  cholnur  et  lU" 
miiref  ou  son  Dieu  feu  et  soliel  spirituel, 
et  son  double  monde,  et  son  double  homme, 
ne  sont  ^videmment  encore  que  de  bien  1^- 
g^res  modifications  du  Dieu  lumi^e,  et  du 
double  principe  de  Manes.  Les  Rose- 
Croix  antiques  devoient  done  retrouver 
dans  Swedenborg  ce  que  leur  rendoit  les 
enfans  de  Manes  si  prdcieux.  Leur  science 
magique,  et  celle  des  Evocations,  et  celle 
des  Eons  de  toute  la  cabale,  se  montroient 
encore  tout  enti^res  dans  ses  esprits  m&les 
et  ses  esprits  femelles.  Enfin  cette  NauveUe 
JeruBcdem^  cette  revolution  ramenant  toute 
la  pr^tendue  EgalitE  et  liberty  des  premiers 
hommes.  Combien  d*adeptes  ne  devoient- 
elles  pas  trouver  dans  les  arri^-loges, 
tout  di^Kw^  \l  les  accueillir  ?  Ce  fiit  Ik  en 


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efiet  que  Ics  mjst^res  de  Swedenborg  vin- 
rent  se  mSler  k  tous  ceux  des  anciens  fib- 
res. Lea  nouveaux  adeptes  se  donn^rent 
le  nom  d^Dlumin^s ;  malgr^  tout  ratheisme 
et  le  mat^rialiiime  de  leur  maitre,  ils  par- 
loient  corame  lui  de  Dieu  et  des  esprits : 
ils  affectoient  d'en  conserver  le  nom ;  on 
imagina  qu*ils  croyoient  k  la  chose,  et  on 
les  appella  Illumines  Theosophes.  Leur 
histoire  se  perd  dans  un  d^dale  d*impi^t^ 
et  de  charlatanisme,  tout  comme  les  Merits 
de  leur  maitre,  k  T^poque  o\i  nous  en  som- 
mes  il  suffit  de  savoir  que  leur  chef- lieu 
^toit  dans  Avignon,  qu'ils  avoient  encore  k 
Lyon  une  fameuse  loge ;  qu'ils  se  r^pan- 
doient  plus  sp^cialement  en  SuMe,  et  fai- 
soient  des  progr^  en  Allemagne.  Leurs 
mjst^res  d^-lors  s*6toient  m^es  k  ceux  des 
Martinbtes :  ou  pour  mieux  dire,  les  mys- 
t^res  des  Martinistes  n*^toient  gu^re  qu* 
une  nouvelle  forme  donn^e  k  ceux  de  Swe- 
denborg." 

Note.  "  Dans  un  ouvrage  ayant  pour  titre 
La  Loge  rouge  d^voil^e  aux  Souverains,  on 
lit  "que  le  rit  de  ces  Illuming  Theosophes 
paroit  avoir  pris  naissance  k  Edinbourg, 
oil  s*est  formee  la  Loge  rouge,  s^par^e  de 
la  Blanc ;  que  cette  Loge  rouge  des  Illu- 
ming Theosophes  s*est  fait  d*abord  une 
affili^e  \  Avignon."  P.  9  and  10.  .Taurois 
voulu  trouver  les  preuves  de  cette  origine. 
L*auteur  ne  donne  que  son  assertion.  Quoi 
qu*il  en  soit,  les  Illumines  d* Avignon  sont 
assez  connus  en  France.  Depuis  1783  leur 
loge  fut  toujours  regardee  comme  la  m^re  de 
toutes  celles  qui  se  r^pandirent  en  France 
avec  tons  leurs  myst^res." — Babbdel.  vol. 
4,  p.  162. 

"  DssAntresmoins  connus,  mais  plus  r6- 
doutables  encore  ^toient  ceux  oil  les  fr^- 
res  d*Aviguon,  ^Uves  de  Swedenborg  et  de 
St.  Martin,  mSIoient  leurs  myst^res  \  ceux 
des  anciens  Rose-Croix,  des  Masons  ordi- 
naires  et  des  Masons  sophistes.  Au-dehors, 
sous  le  masque  de  charlatans,  dc  vision- 
naires,  ces  nouveaux  adeptes  ne  parloient 
que  de  leur  puissance  d*evoquer  les  esprits, 
d*interroger  les  morts,  de  les  faire  appa- 


roitre,  et  d'op^rer  cent  prodiges  de  cett« 
esp^e.  Dans  le  fond  de  leurs  Loges,  ces 
nouveaux  thaumaturges  nourrissoient  des 
complots  semblables  k  ceux  de  Weishaupt, 
mus  plus  atroces  dans  leurs  formes.** — Ibid, 
vol.  5,  p.  75. 

"  Rome  est  depuis  long- temps,  robjetccm- 
mune  de  tons  les  complots,  et  le  rendez- 
vous des  adeptes  de  toutes  les  espkes. 
Malgr^  ses  anath^mes,  les  el^ves  de  Cagli- 
ostro  y  ont  rouvert  leurs  Loges  mat^onni- 
ques.  Les  Illumines  de  SuMe,  d* Avignon, 
de  Lyon,  s'y  sont  forme  le  plus  secret,  le 
plus  monstrueux  des  colleges,  et  le  tribu- 
nal le  plus  terrible  aux  rois.  Celui  qui 
avertit  que  leur  tour  est  venu,  qui  novme 
les  hourreaux^  et  qui  fait  parvetiir  let  poig' 
nardsj  ou  les  poisorts.^^ 

Note,  "  Si  ce  tribunal  n*est  pas  assez  con- 
stat^ par  ce  que  nous  en  dit  Thistorien  de 
Tassassinat  de  Gustave  (sect.  4.)  au  molns 
est-il  bien  sdr  que  ces  Illuming  avoient  k 
Rome  des  fr^res  tr^-puissans :  car  le  Nonce 
d' Avignon  ayant  ordonn^  k  rUlumiu^  Per- 
netti  et  k  ses  adeptes,  d*^vacuer  le  Comtat 
dans  un  mois,  ceux  de  Rome  eurent,  ou  le 
credit  d'obtenir,  ou  peut-^tre  Fart  de  for- 
ger et  de  faire  arriver  II  temps  un  contre- 
ordre.  Cette  affaire  fut  suivie  k  Rome  de 
Tarrestation  d*un  adepte  dont  le  proc^ 
jeta  les  fr^res  d* Avignon  dans  des  inquie- 
tudes, dont  ils  ne  furcnt  delivr^s  que  par 
les  progr^s  de  la  revolution." — ^Ibid.  vol.  5, 
p.  229. 

"  Ocji,  la  secte  a  franehi  cet  Ocean  qui 
separe  la  Grande  Bretagne  du  reste  de  Tuni- 
vers.  Les  adeptes  n'ont  point  oubli^  la  pa- 
trie  de  leurs  anc6tres,  les  Puritains,  les  Ana- 
baptistes,  et  les  Independans.  lis  les  ont 
retrouves  dans  le  fond  de  ces  mSmes  antres, 
oil  Cromwell  avoit  su  les  releguer,  apres 
avoir  par  eux  dctrdne,  d^capite  son  roi,  des- 
sous  le  parlement,  et  comme  nos  Pentarques, 
mis  la  nation,  s^uite  sous  le  joug.  Les 
fr^res  d* Avignon  ont  revu  leurs  ain^s  dans 
les  Illumines  de  Swedenborg ;  ils  se  sont  sou- 
venus  des  ambassades  de  la  Loge  d^Hamp- 


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383 


')  80U8  lea  auspices  de  Maineduc,  ils 
es  diaciples  former  les  memes  voeux 
te  Jerusalem  cHeste^  pour  ce  feupu" 
ce  8ont  leurs  expressions,  jo  les  ai 
*s  de  leur  bouche  meme,)  pour  ce 
lantt  qui  ne  doit  embraser  Tunivers 
wolutian  FranqoUe^  que  pour  rendre 
intespar-tout,etdan8  Londres  meme 
lans  Paris,  T^alit^  et  la  liberty  des 
."—Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  299. 
are  all  the  passages  in  this  author 
late  to  Avignon :  and  they  are  suf- 
curious. 

i  a  note  somewhere  from  Bernino, 
that  the  old  heretics  had  a  masonic 
ecognizing  each  other.  WhatBar- 
i  of  the  Knights  Templars  is  mon- 
iren  so  as  to  outrage  common  sense, 
on  respecting  Manicheism  is  more 
f,  and  I  should  like  to  believe  it.  It 
count  for  the  strange  disappearance 
hology  which  was  not  ill  conceited, 
xl  deal  better  than  the  Popery  which 
shed  it.  The  Abbe  says  that  Manes 
i  to  be  flead  alive — for  which  cha- 
pinion  I  should  like  to  have  a  square 
I  of  his  posteriors  condemned  to  this 
a. 

ez  Vinfame,  I  observe  that  in  one 
lere  Voltaire  goes  on  speaking  of 
tch,  the  word  is  feminine, — die — 
irefore  if  it  mean,  as  is  most  likely, 
-ch,  the  church  of  Rome  being  the 
he  knew, — the  whore  ?  and  by  this 
on? 

regard  to  the  derivation  from  the 
-s,  he  relates  a  story  most  incredibly 
ipon  the  authority  of  a  person  "au- 
i  un  grave  magistrat,  qui,  re^u 
[a^on  d^  Tannee  1 76 1 ,  avoit  d*abord 
le  grande  partie  de  sa  vie  dans  le 
!8  loges.**  He  gave  me,  in  fact,  says 
^,  **  des  notions  plus  claires  ^ur  la 
[>n  des  Rose- Croix  et  de  leurs  trob 
Tun  purement  chr^tien,  le  second 
jes  Frondeitrs,  ou  de  la  cabale,  le 
3  de  la  religion  purement  naturelle. 
b  special  de  ce  troisi^me  grade  etoit, 
nger  les  Templiers,  2.  de  8*empa- 


rer  de  Tile  de  Maite  pour  en  faire  le  6er- 
ceau  de  la  religion  naturelle,  II  me  dit  Ik- 
desBus  des  choses  que  Ton  a  peine  it  croire; 
il  me  dit,  par  exemple,  en  termes  expr^  *  A 
la  fin  de  1773,  ou  dans  le  courant  de  1774,1a 
loge  dont  j*dtois  alors  Y^n^rable  re^ut  du 
grand  Orient,  une  lettre  qu*il  nous  assuroit 
Stre  la  copie  de  celle  que  lui  avoit  ^crite  le 
Roi  de  Prusse.  EUe  ne  devoit  etre  com- 
munique qu*aux  chevaliers  de  la  Palestine, 
aux  chevaliers  de  Kadosh,  et  au  directoire 
Ecossois.  Elle  me  parvint  par  les  loges  de 
la  carreepandance ;  quoiqu*elle  eut  ddjk  ^t^ 
lue  dans  quelques  loges  elle  n*avoit  cepen- 
dant  encore  re9u  que  trois  signatures.  Par 
cette  lettre  on  nous  exhortoit  k  signer,  en 
execution  du  serment  que  nous  avians  fait^ 
Tobligation  de  marcher  k  la  premiere  requi- 
sition, et  de  contribuer  de  nos  personnes^  et 
de  toutes  nos  facuUSs  morales  et  phisiques  k  la 
conquete  de  Tile  de  Malte,  et  de  tons  les 
biens  situ^s  sous  les  deux  hemispheres  qui 
avoient  appartenus  aux  ancetres  de  Vordre 
magonnique.  On  annongoit  comme  but  de  no- 
tre  itablissemeni  dMalte^  laposstbUite  d^yfoT' 
mer  le  herceau  de  la  religion  naturelle^  En 
lisant  cet  article,  jc  dis  k  Tauteur  de  ce  me- 
moire ;  mais  si  j'^ris  cela,  on  ne  me  croira 
pas:  on  vous  croira  ou  non,  repondit-il, 
mais^  fai  vu  et  requ  la  lettre,  que  ma  loge 
pourtant  refusa  de  signer.  tTajoute,  moi ; 
on  le  croira  ou  non ;  mais  j*u  ce  m^moire, 
et  je  suis  bien  sCur  qu'il  est  d*  un  honmie 
tr^s-estim^  et  tr^-estimable." — Tom.  4,  p. 
130. 

Professor  Robison  shows,  with  much  more 
probability,  that  the  lodges  were  made  use 
of  by  the  Jacobites.^ 

**  En  nuestros  tiempos  he  visto  yo  un 
hombre  agigantado  en  Andalucia  de  extra- 
ordinarias  fuer^as,  que  le  llamaban  por  iro- 
nia  el  Nino  que  dctenia  el  movimiento  de 
una  rueda  de  molino,  impelida  de  copioso 


*  Perhaps  it  is  hardly  necessary  to  add  that 
all  these  extracts  are  from  the  Abbd's  Memoires 
pour  servir  a  I'Histoire  du  JaaAiniant.  Londres, 
1797-8.  8vo.  4  vols.— J.  W.  W. 


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canoe  de  aguas.** — Mabqubs  db  Sobito. 
Exam,  Apol.  p.  12. 

**  Thb  effect  of  Mr.  Wm.  Smith*8  bill  for 
repealing  the  laws  in  force  against  the  re- 
vilers  of  the  Trinitj,  appears  to  be  this; 
that  while  men  are  subject,  and  properlj  sub- 
ject, to  criminal  prosecutions  for  anj  Ubel 
upon  the  sovereign,  his  ministers,  or  others, 
they  maj  now  Ubel  their  God  with  impu- 
nity ! "— ilii/i- JocofttV  Jvly^  1813,  p.  46. 

Chubch  Reformers,  **  who  out  of  a  well 
meaning  desire  to  make  the  lamp  of  trutii 
dart  its  rays  with  the  greater  splendour, 
snuff  it  so  nearly  that  they  extinguish  it 
quite,  and  leave  us  nothing  but  the  stink  of 
its  snuff.** — Sib  G.  Magkbbzib^s  Essays,  p. 
25. 

"  Chubchbs  do  like  coy  maids  lace  their 
bodies  so  strait,  that  they  bring  on  them  a 
consumption,  and  will  have  the  gate  of  hea- 
ven to  have  been  only  made  for  themselves.** 
—Ibid.  p.  28. 

"  It  is  a  remark  of  Clarendon*s  that  there 
is  scarce  any  language  which  can  properly 
signify  the  English  expression — Good  na- 
ture.*'— Spbatt*s  Obs,  an  Sarbiere. 

RuPTUBB  Society.  Redhead  Yorke  says 
that  when  he  was  raising  a  regiment  for  ser- 
vice during  the  last  war,  he  was  obliged  to 
reject  nearly  200  men  in  the  vigour  of  Ufe, 
and  in  every  other  respect  fit  for  the  ser- 
vice, except  that  ihey  had  this  infirmity. 

Thb  controversy  about  standing  or  sit- 
ting during  psahn-singing.  LordMonboddo 
thought  that  man  lost  his  tail  by  the  habit 
of  sitting,  forgetting  dogs,  cats,  and  mon- 
keys. 

Incbeasb  of  madness.  The  orders  on 
lunatic  petitions  were  484  in  the  ten  years 

h«l  tJV^^^^^^^  ^^  Astrology  in  this  num- 


from  1787  to  1746 ;  fi'om  1801  to  1810  thej 
were  1 189.  But  this  may  be  as  well  ascribed 
to  the  increase  of  property. 

La  Be  at  a  dbCubboa  was  wife  of  a  eoan- 
tiTman  in  the- village  of  Villar  del  Andk 
in  that  diocese.  She  said  that  Christ  bad 
consecrated  h^  body,  and  as  in  the  Bneba- 
rist,  converted  her  body  and  blood  into  bit 
own.  She  found  believers  wha  worshi]^ 
her,  carried  her  in  prooession  through  the 
streets  to  the  churdi  with  ti4>ers,  &c.  and 
offered  incense  to  her  in  the  church  as  to 
the  sacrament,  kneeling  before  her.  Ibe 
Cura  of  the  parish,  another  neigfabonriog 
priest,  and  two  friars,  were  prime  agents  in 
these  follies.  The  dissensions  which  it  oc- 
casioned were  not  less  remarkable  than  tbe 
cause.  Some  theologians  argued  that  tiie 
thing  was  impossible,  considering  the  ordi- 
nary providence  of  God,  because  if  it  were 
true,  a  greater  prerogative  would  have  been 
conferred  on  the  Beata  than  on  M.  Sane- 
tissima,  the  mother  of  God ;  and  because  in 
this  case  bread  and  wine  would  not  be  the 
only  element  of  its  elements,  which  it  was  a 
thing  certain  in  divinity  that  they  were. 
Others  admitted  the  possibility,  as  a  neces- 
sary consequence  of  Omnipotence,  but  deem- 
ed the  proof  deficient  Others  again  appealed 
to  the  character  of  the  Beata  as  sufficieiit 
proof.  It  was  very  properly  settled  by  the 
Inquisition.  She  died  in  their  secret  pri- 
sons,-^her  image  was  placed  on  an  ass  at  a 
public  auto  da  fi,  and  in  that  manner  car« 
ried  to  be  burnt,  some  of  her  aoeompUces 
were  whipped  and  banished,  or  snqiended 
from  their  functions,  or  sent  to  the  gallejf< 
(In  Charles  iy.*s  reign.) 

Claba,  the  Beata  of  Madrid,  pretended 
to  be  bedridden,  and  to  live  wholly  upon  the 
wafer.  She  obtained  a  bull  permitting  to 
make  the  vows  as  a  Capuchine  nun,  and  dis- 
pensing from  the  dausure  and  living  in  coa- 
munity,  because  of  her  infirmities.  It  was 
at  length  discovered  that  the  whole  was  a 
scheme  for  getting  money,  whiofa  the  dupes 
who  visited  her  left  in  large  sums  to  be  bj 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


385 


«d  in  alms.  The  mother  and  a 
e  chief  accomplices,  and  the  In- 
posed  the  whole  in  1802. 

I  pedant  of  so  strangely  scrupu- 
lence,  that  he  could  number  it 
as  to  make  a  boy  more  learned 
sr,  which  he  could  suppose  might 
that  duty  which  haUi  the  pro- 
mg  life.'*  ^  IThe  Cloud  opened. 
voL  7,  p.  418. 

and  faithful  account  of  the  Is- 
bas  (1788),  which  is  a  Unitarian 
of  the  laws  is  ^^  once  in  every 
I,  let  some  part  of  the  Alcoran 
be  read,  and  let  the  minister 
mmentari^  thereon  as  he  thinks 


of  S.  Francisco  de  Paula,  that 
ipeared  fat  and  florid,  he  was  in 
ng  but  skin  and  bones — this  ap- 
bg  a  gift  of  grace.  Compare 
in  writers. — Acta  SS.  April  2, 


ble  casa,  y  digno  de  que  no  se 
a  el  tintero.** — Pedbo  Simon, 


If  ajas— compared  with  the  Four 
le  Fancy  and  the  Varment  Club. 

n  said  of  the  French,  that  throw 
i  into  the  sea  naked,  and  he  will 
ed  from  head  to  foot,  and  with 
,  and  pair  of  ruffles  to  boot. 

jtKS  has  written  a  pamphlet  on 
Abuse  of  Tobacco,  addressed 
religtous  people.  **  Do  you  not 
ys,  ^  that  Grod  will  visit  you  for 
ime,  waste  of  money,  and  need- 
ilgence.**  In  some  of  the  so- 
will  give  no  band  ticket  to  a 


aughters  reverence  do 
f,  and  praise  thee  too, 


Thou  happy  Kyria  daughter  of  Abijah, 
Ve  Ryach  Elohah  sister  of  Jehovah, 
Manneu  of  the  man  Jeshuah 

Out  of  the  pleura  Hotannah'* 

Moravian  HymM^\*lQ9.  Hymn  95,  Here 
quoted  from  the  Satirist,  but  to  be  believed 
even  though  coming  from  that  quarter. 

MiSMANAGEMBKT  of  revicws  in  the  British 
Critic  and  some  others,  the  same  book  has 
been  twice  reviewed  with  opposite  charac- 
ters— mere  carelessness  I 

1809.  A  PROPHET  frightened  the  people 
of  Bath  and  Bristol  by  declaring  that  the 
two  cities  would  be  overwhelmed  on  the  31st 
of  March. 

**  Why  may  we  not  improve  that  waste 
land  of  divisions  which  are  in  fields,  wherein 
the  landmark  is  set,  and  make  the  same  of 
different  fruits,  that  so  those  excellent  liquors 
of  cyder  and  perry  may  as  plentifully  abound 
in  England  as  wines  in  many  foreign  parts, 
or  orange  trees  in  Italy?**  Dr.  Lambe — 
"The  Helmontists*  brewingbook.** — p.  21. 
28.45. 

WoLSBT  had  prepared  a  stone  coffin  for 
himself  which  lay  as  lumber  in  a  room  ad- 
joining St.  George*s  chapel,  and  was  given 
by  the  king,  for  the  body  of  Lord  Colling- 
wood.  His  coffin  therefore  is  as  remark- 
able as  Nelson*s. 

At  Largo  in  Fifeshire,  an  institution  for 
the  support  of  twenty  old  men  of  the  name 
of  Wood,  upon  a  liberal  foundation.  This 
family  and  namesake  feeling, — ^Dulwich  Col- 
lege,— ^Winchester. 

The  S.  Raphael,  one  of  the  Spanish  line 
of  battle  ships  taken  by  Sir  R.  Calder,  being 
too  bad  for  a  sheer-hulk  was  purchased  by 
Mr.  Hawker  of  Plymouth  to  serve  for  a  dry 
dock, — ^the  stem  to  be  cut  off,  and  a  pair  of 
gates  hung  in  its  stead.  A  ship  of  the  like 
class  was  used  for  the  same  purpose,  some 
years  ago  in  the  Thames,  and  made  a  profit- 


e  c 


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able  return  to  the  undertaker.  The  St. 
Raphael  sold  for  £1780. 

But  this  is  the  iron  age.  The  N.  Chro- 
nicle, vol.  25,  p.  219,  contains  a  description 
of  a  wrought  iron  moveable  caisson  with  a 
rudder  for  docking  a  ship  while  riding  at 
her  moorings,  in  anj  depth  of  water,  leav- 
ing her  keel  dry  in  three  hours,  without  re- 
moving her  stores  or  masts. 

The  floating  dock  of  iron  is  half  an  inch 
thick,  220  feet  long,  64  wide,  and  30  deep, 
weighing  about  400  tons,  or  when  immersed 
in  water  350,  and  rendered  nearlj  buoyant 
by  an  air  receptacle  which  surrounds,  and 
which  is  capable  of  suspending  the  whole 
weight  with  great  exactness,  and  which  is 
rivetted  to  it  in  such  a  manner  as  also  to 
strengthen  the  caisson,  and  support  the  prin- 
cipal shoars  from  the  ^ip.  There  is  a  stanch 
six  feet  wide  on  the  top  for  the  workmen  to 
stand  upon  and  also  to  strengthen  the  cais- 
son. 

While  light  it  draws  nine  feet  of  water. 
When  taken  to  the  ship  intended  to  be  dock- 
ed, the  water  is  to  be  let  into  it  at  an  open- 
ing or  plug  hole  in  the  bottom,  and  it  is  to 
be  suffered  to  sink  until  the  upper  part  is 
even  with  the  surface  of  the  water ;  the  air 
tube  still  keeping  it  buoyant.  A  small  quan- 
tity of  air  is  then  to  be  discharged,  by  open- 
ing a  plug  hole  in  the  air  receptacle,  until 
a  quantity  of  water  is  let  in,  just  sufficient 
to  sink  the  caisson  below  the  ship's  bottom. 
This  being  effected,  the  caisson  (nearly  buoy- 
ant) is  then  to  be  raised  to  the  surface  of 
the  water  by  ropes  made  fast  from  the  cais- 
son to  each  quarter  of  the  ship.  A  pump 
placed  within  the  caisson  is  then  to  be  work- 
ed  by  a  steam  engine  of  twelve  horse  power, 
placed  ma  barge  alongside,  which  will  empty 
It  m  three  hours,  and  reduce  the  draft  eight 
feet  of  water,  that  is  from  twenty-six  to 
eighteen  feet,  when  she  may  be  carried  up 
into  shoal  water  if  required,  or  alongside 
wharfs,  or  jetty  heads  of  the  dock  yards.  The 

^^m  nf  r  ''^  ^^«^^*«^<1  the  sides  and 

bw^  h  ?if  ''"'^'^  ^^^  ^  ^  forced 
inwards  by  the  external  pressure  of  the  wa- 


ter,  it  is  obvious  that  by  placing  props,  or 
shoars,  between,  both  will  be  supported, 
while  the  ship  will  ride  with  all  her  stores 
on  board,  and  masts  standing,  nearly  as  eati/ 
as  when  in  water.     Should  inconveniences 
be  apprehended  at  any  time  from  blowing 
weather,  the  caisson  may  be  cast  off  and  let 
fall  to  the  bottom,  where  it  cannot  be  in- 
jured ;  and  whence  it  may  be  raised  to  the 
ship's  bottom  again  with  as  little  labour  as 
weighing  an  anchor.     The  caisson  will  be 
twelve  feet  above  water  when  there  is  a  first 
rate  ship  in  it, — ^this  is  a  sufficient  height  to 
prevent  the  sea  breaking  over.  By  this  plan 
a  ship  may  have  her  bottom  examined  and 
be  out  of  dock  again  in  six  hours.    A  cais- 
son capable  of  docking  a  first  rate  will  not 
cost  more  than  £20,000 ;  judging  from  the 
duration  of  wrought  iron  salt  pans,  it  will 
last  twenty  years  without  repair,  and  when 
worn  out  it  will  break  up  and  sell  for  one 
third  of  its  original  cost. 

In  the  next  page.  Hollow  iron  masts- 
stronger,  lighter,  more  durable,  less  liable 
to  injury  than  wood,  and  easily  repaired  at 
sea.  It  weighs  twelve  tons,  and  costs  £540. 
A  wooden  one  weighs  twenty-three,  and 
costs  £1200.  It  is  made  to  strike  nearly  as 
low  as  the  deck,  to  ease  the  ship,  when  a 
wooden  mast  would  be  cut  away.  It  is  also 
a  conductor, — a  bolt  from  the  bottom  being 
carried  through  kelson  and  keel.  This  is  not 
all  —  yards,  bowsprits,  chain  shrouds  and 
stays  of  iron  are  recommended,  and  finallj 
the  whole  hull. 


Cast  iron  coffins  were  made  at  some  of 
the  Yorkshire  founderies  some  thirty  years 
ago,  packing  one  within  another  like  nests 
of  pill-boxes,  for  convenience  of  carriage ; 
but  they  did  not  get  into  use. 

1779.  A  Mr.  Constablb  of  Woolwich 
passing  through  the  churchyard  there  at 
midnight,  heard  people  singing  jovially.  At 
first  he  thought  they  were  in  the  church, 
but  the  doors  were  locked,  and  it  was  all 
silent  there :  —  on  looking  about  he  found 


f 


AlH)  I*RAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRBELLA. 


887 


some  drunken  smlors  who  had  got  into  a  large 
famil J  vault,  and  were  regaling  with  bread, 
cheese,  tobacco,  and  strong  beer.  They 
belonged  to  the  Robust,  man  of  war,  and 
having  resolved  to  spend  a  jolly  night  on 
shore,  had  kept  it  up  in  a  neighbouring  ale- 
house till  the  landlord  turned  them  out,  and 
then  they  came  here  to  finish  their  evening. 
They  had  opened  some  of  the  coffins  in  their 
dare  devil  drunkenness  (which  the  N.  Chro- 
nicle calls  jollity),  and  crammed  the  mouth  of 
one  of  the  bodies  with  bread,  and  cheese,  and 
beer.  Constable  with  much  difficulty  pre- 
vailed on  them  to  return  to  their  ship.  In 
their  way  one  fell  down  in  the  mud,  and  was 
suffocated,  as  much  from  drunkenness  as  the 
real  danger.  The  comrades  took  him  on 
their  shoulders  and  carried  him  back  to  sleep 
in  company  with  the  honest  gentlemen  with 
whom  he  had  passed  the  evening. 

About  forty  years  ago  the  Dutch  intro- 
duced potatoes  in  Bengal,  and  sold  them  in 
Calcutta  at  five  shillings  a  pound  I  This 
they  were  enabled  to  do  by  the  fondness  of 
the  English  for  what  they  are  used  to  in  their 
own  country,  and  by  keeping  secret  the  mode 
of  culture.  Other  persons  planted,  but  the 
haulm  or  stem  shot  up  so  rapidly  and  grew 
90  high  that  it  spent  the  plant.  The  Dutch 
cut  it  down  several  times  in  the  early  part 
of  the  season,  and  thus  forced  the  plant  to 
produce  its  fruit  under  ground.  It  is  said 
that  the  potatoe  has  now  accommodated  it- 
self to  the  climate  there,  and  is  getting  into 
general  use. — Comm,  to  the  Board  of  Agri' 
cuitKre^  voL  6,  p.  1. 

Acres. 
Ths  area  of  England  is  esti- 
mated at 31,929,340 

Wales 4,320,000 

Scotland 16,240,000 

S.  Isles  adj  acent  to  the  coast   1 ,055,080 

W.  Isles 851,200 

Orkneys 153,600 

Shetlands 643,840 

Chki8t*8  Hospital  has  funds  (from  private 


endowment)  for  the  blind,  which  enable  them 
to  distribute  £4,500  yearly !   1809. 

The  country  between  Colchester  and  Har- 
wich visited  annually  by  large  flocks  of  rooks, 
who  stay  about  two  or  three  months,  lodg- 
ing in  the  woods  at  night,  and  then  return 
to  the  rookeries  in  Norfolk,  eighty  miles  dis- 
tant. 

Jan.  1809.  The  rain  froze  as  it  fell,  and 
in  London  the  umbrellas  were  so  stiffened 
that  they  could  not  be  dosed.  Birds  had 
their  feathers  frozen  so  that  they  could  not 
fly,  and  many  were  picked  up  as  they  lay 
helpless  on  the  ground. 

Jan.  4,  1809.  Thebb  being  only  four  cod 
in  BiUingsgate,  a  fisherman  gave  fourteen 
guineas  for  them,  and  salmon  soon  after  was 
sold  at  a  guinea  a  pound  I 

PBOsxrruTioN. — Girls  bought  as  property. 
One  dealer  has  three  establishments  —  at 
London,  Bath,  and  Cheltenham,  shifting  the 
stock  according  to  the  season !  Where  ac- 
cording to  relative  proportions  the  children 
of  dissenters  ought  to  be  ten,  in  fact  they 
are  only  three. — Panoramoj  vol.  6,  p.  41. 

Half  the  prostitutes  compelled  to  work  in 
the  day  for  part  of  their  maintenance,  so 
overstocked  are  the  streets,  and  thousands 
of  women  who  have  plenty  of  work  "  try 
their  chance,**  as  they  call  it. — Ibid.  vol.  6, 
p.  875. 

A  girl  who  had  been  four  years  on  the 
town  begged  to  be  taken  into  custody  at  a 
watch  house,  and  was  denied  by  the  men  in 
attendance,  because  **she  had  no  charge 
brought  against  her.**  The  beadle  of  St. 
Bride*s  urged  them  to  take  her  in  for  the 
night, — and  at  last  provided  her  a  lodging. 
In  the  morning,  after  various  delays  and 
examinations  before  parochial  officers,  the 
poor  girl  consented  to  go  voluntarily  as  a 
culprit  to  the  Lord  Mayor,  and  thence  to 
the  House  of  Correction,  and  was  even  en- 
trusted with  the  order  from  the  magistrate 


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for  her  own  commitment  during  twenty-one 
days. 

The  French  prisoners  manufacture  ob- 
scene toys,  and  Italian  pedlars  are  the  great 
agents  in  this  kind  of  ware. 

Meux's  brewery  sold  for  £112,000,  the 
stock  to  be  taken  at  a  valuation,  and  the 
public  houses,  134  leasehold,  and  eight  free- 
hold and  copyhold  at  £61,360. 

BoNBS  of  all  kinds,  not  excepting  human 
bones,  are  sent  by  sea  in  great  quantities 
from  London  to  the  North ;  many  hundred 
tons  of  these  are  ground,  or  rather  broken 
small  in  mills  contrived  on  purpose.  The 
quantity  necessary  for  an  acre  of  land  being 
small  in  comparison  of  other  materials. 

A  LIST  of  cows*  names  appeared  in  the 
advertisement  of  a  set  of  dairy  stock  in 
Shropshire,  1809.  Earnest,  Curlpate,  Jeze- 
bel, Judith,  Bee,  Gayless,  Early,  Secunda, 
A.  One,  Fancy,  Firbrina,  Firbrella,  Rose- 
berry,  Pretty,  Curly,  Browney,  Yorkshire, 
Daisy,  Rose,  RosaUna,  Second,  Standfast, 
K.  Wouski,  Broad  Cap,  Rosely,  Helen,  Fill- 
bowl,  Sexta,  M.  Broadface,  Fillpan,  Rose- 
bud, Wisky,  Doctress,  Lovely  Lass,  Urah, 
Third,  Rurorea,  Cot  Lass,  Rosamond,  Ro- 
sella,  Miss  Key,  Tertia,  Furba. 

1793.  The  bull  Shakespere,  by  Shakes- 
pere,  off  young  Nell,  sold  for  400  guineas, 
the  seller  conditioning  that  he  should  have 
two  cows  bulled  by  him  yearly. 

At  the  lying-in  hospital,  Dublin,  twenty- 
eight  boys  baptized  at  one  time  by  the  name 
of  Patrick. 

Mk.  Lambbbt,  forty  years  of  age,  weight 
52  stone  11  lb.  being  10  stone  11  lb.  more 
than  **  the  greatest  weight  of  the  celebrated 
Mr.  Bright.**  His  coffin  was  built  upon  two 
axles  and  four  clog  wheels.  The  window 
and  part  of  the  wall  of  the  room  in  which 
he  died  (on  the  ground  floor)  being  taken 
down,  he  was  drawn  out  with  ropes  by  eight 


men.  The  coffin  was  6  feet  4  inches  long, 
4  feet  4  wide,  and  2  feet  4  deep ;  it  con- 
tained 126  superficial  feet  of  elm.  A  gra- 
dual descent  of  12  yards  was  made  to  the 
grave,  and  the  coffin  wheeled  down.  The 
body  a  few  hours  after  death  was  almost  in 
a  liquid  state. 

C<mrier,  Wedn.  March  2,  1814. 

Dublin.  Feb.  21.  At  the  Quarter  Ses- 
sions, the  King  at  the  prosecution  of  John 
Miller  V.George  Hope.  The  latter  was,  after 
a  patient  hearing,  found  guilty,  and  sen- 
tenced to  twelve  months  imprisonment  in 
Newgate,  after  which  he  must  give  good 
security  for  his  conduct.  His  offence  wis 
fraudulently  secreting  a  farthing  belonging 
to  his  employer,  which  it  appears  was  one 
of  three  coined  by  Queen  Anne,  and  esteem- 
ed of  high  value  to  antiquarians.  He  wanted 
to  extort  a  bond  for  £700  from  his  master 
for  the  farthing,  and  refused  to  restore  it 
otherwise.  The  Recorder  regretted  that  the 
Court  was  unable  to  go  as  far  as  it  could 
wish  in  his  punishment.** 

MoNXT  in  both  pockets.  Lord  Si.  Yia- 
cent*s  hornpipe.  Long  life  to  the  petticoat 
Dances. 

"  The  present  times,*'  says  Mr.  Wilson, 
in  his  Treasures  of  Terpsichore,  ^  would 
give  a  foreigner  a  deplorable  idea  of  the 
English  nation,  if  he  were  to  judge  from 
their  country  dancing, — ^which  is  a  credit  to 
the  nation  when  properly  oonduoted  and 
executed;  if  not,  it  only  wants  the  addition 
of  grimaces  to  reduce  it  to  the  dances  of  the 
savages  of  Terra  del  Fuego.  It  b  indeed 
lamentable  that  our  amusements  should  be 
on  the  decline,  while  the  arts,  sciences,  and 
manufactures  flourish  beyond  all  precedent 
among  us.  At  a  period,  too,  when  a  power- 
ful and  inveterate  enemy  is  endeavouring 
to  surpass  us  in  every  art  and  science,  and 
who  would  perhaps  rejoice  to  hear  that  we 
could  neither  dance,  paint,  nor  write,  we 
should  therefore  endeavour  to  do  everything 
in  the  best  manner  possible,  not  only  for 
our  own  satisfaction,  but  for  the  credit  of 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


889 


onr  countrj.**  He  goes  on  to  prove,  in  de« 
fiinee  of  ridicule,  that  good  dancing  is  re- 
qnisite  to  preserve  a  high  national  charac- 
ter ;  and  hopes  that  as  dancing,  being  onl  j 
an  amusement,  perhaps  is  not  likely  to  be 
promoted  by  its  professors,  not  being  formed 
into  a  corporate  bodj  as  the  painters  are, 
ft*  e.  that  there  is  no  Rojal  Academy  for 
Dancing,)  that  hn  exertions  may  reform  the 
present  deplorable  state  of  country  dancing, 
which  will  cause  the  superior  departments 
to  advance  in  proportion ;  and  we  may  then 
periiaps  have  the  satisfaction  to  hear  of  an 
Englishman  blending  all  the  powers  of  at- 
traction, drawing  down  the  reiterated  plau- 
dits of  i^probation  from  the  Parisians,  to 
the  credit  of  himself  and  of  his  country. 

HoBSB-BAcmo.  Newmarket  Craven 
Meeting.  Sweepstakes  of  100  guineas  each, 
half  forfeit,  for  the  produce  of  untried  mares, 
covered  by  untried  stallions* 

I  In  the  first  report  which  was  made  to  the 
French  in  favour  of  re-establishing  religion, 
we  heard  of  the  ftons  espriU,  the  beauz-es- 
prits  had  had  their  day  1  and  the  differwice 
began  to  be  acknowledged  between  them. 
— Pobtahs.  L.  Gpoi«d8mith,  vol.  i.  p.  276* 


»» 


^  QuiBB  adelante  no  caia,  atras  se  cae. 

*^  El  creer  es  cortesia.** 

Pabsoms  the  Jesuit,  bom  at  Stowey. 


Or  the  dollar  Dobbb  says, 
^  Spanish  stamps  still  travelling. 
That  are  become  as  Catholic  as  their  king.** 

Miss  Chbistiah  ^  knew  a  cockatoo  turned 
sway  by  its  first  owner  for  its  determined 
hatred  of  a  little  girl ;  by  its  second,  be- 
cause it  disturbed  a  whole  hospital  with  its 


'  A  neighbour  of  Souihey's,  who  resided  at 
Keswick,  and  a  descendant  of  the  Deemster 
Christian. — a  name  fiuniliar  to  all  readers  of 
Pevmirftk4  PtaJc-'J.  W.  W. 


screams ;  and  by  its  third,  a  married  lady, 
because  the  bird  chose  to  be  jealous  of  her 
husband. 

At  the  si^;e  of  Copenhagen,'  the  villa 
of  a  wealthy  man,  about  five  miles  from  the 
city,  was  taken  possession  of,  and  the  family 
fled,  leaving  the  plate  on  the  dining  table. 
By  the  capitulation,  private  property  was 
to  be  respected.  The  owner  returned  to 
his  house,  and  was  refused  admittance  by  a 
sentinel,  who  told  him  that  his  orders  were 
to  guard  the  property,  and  that  no  person 
should  enter  unless  he  brought  a  permission 
in  form  from  his  commanding  officer.  The 
owner  persisted  in  asserting  his  right,  till 
the  sentinel  threatened  to  shoot  him  on  the 
spot  if  he  did  not  retire.  Then  he  went  in 
search  of  the  colonel,  procured  the  formal 
order,  and  upon  entering  his  house  found 
everything  just  as  he  had  leflit, — ^notaspoon 
or  a  salver  missing. 

^^  Wb  know  several  masters  of  stage 
coaches,  particularly  on  the  Essex  road, 
who,  when  their  stage  horses  are  past  la- 
bour, let  tbem  run  in  the  pastures,  or  fre- 
quent the  stables,  as  they  had  been  used  to 
do  when  in  service.  They  come  regularly 
to  see  the  others  set  out  on  their  journey, 
and  when  they  are  ofi",  they  return  to  their 
strawyards.  We  remember  some  such  in- 
stances living  for  years  in  that  condition, 
and  others  afler  having  received  incurable 
hurts.  J£  any  doubt  this  humanity,  let 
them  enquire  of  Cracklin  of  Brentwood.** — 
Panoramoj  Oct  1809. 

On  Saturday  evening,  1  July,  1809,  be- 
ing the  first  club  night  afler  the  annual  feast 
of  St.  Peter*8  society  of  change-ringing  ar- 
tists of  Norwich,  which  is  kept  always  to 
the  honour  of  St.  Peter,  on  St.  Peter*s  day, 
Mr.  Samuel  Thurston,  one  of  the  above  so- 
ciety, struck  on  their  peals  of  musical  hand- 
bells the  five  following  intricate  short  peals, 
in  the  society*s  club-room,  at  the  New  The- 

'  I  have  frequently  met  theperson  here  al- 
luded to  in  Copenhagen.—^.  W.  W. 


390 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANEGDOIES 


atre  public  house,  that  evening,  in  presence 
of  most  of  the  change-ringers. 

1st.  A  peal  of  plain-bob-triples,  contain* 
ing  84  changes,  and  was  nobly  brought  round 
in  2  minutes  and  45  seconds. 

2nd.  A  peal  of  bob-major,  contiuning  112 
changes,  and  completed  in  3  minutes  and  48 
seconds. 

3rd.  A  peal  of  bob-major  reversed,  con- 
taining 112  changes,  and  finished  in  3  mi- 
nutes and  12  seconds. 

4th.  A  peal  of  double-bob-major,  con- 
taining 112  fine  changes,  completed  in  3 
minutes  and  55  seconds. 

5th.  A  peal  of  grandsire-bob-cators,  con- 
taining 126  changes,  and  was  nobly  finished 
in  5  minutes  and  14  seconds. 

N.B.  The  first  four  peals  he  struck  on 
eight  musical  hand-bells,  and  the  last  on  a 
fine-toned  peal  of  ten,  being  the  greatest 
performance  ever  completed  bj  one  person 
in  the  world. 

O.P.  The  Rev.  Solomon  Herschell,  high 
priest  of  the  Jewish  synagogue,  has  caused 
100  itinerant  Jews  to  be  struck  ofi*  the  cha- 
rity list  for  six  months,  for  making  a  noise 
at  Covent  Grarden  theatre.  He  has  also 
warned  them  of  excommunication  in  case 
they  should  be  guilty  of  the  like  again. 

Died,  1809,  at  an  advanced  age,  Mr.  P. 
Tompkins,  in  an  obscure  lodging  near  Moor- 
fields.  This  person  was  formerly  supposed 
to  be  not  only  the  most  correct,  but  the 
most  incorrect  bookkeeper  in  the  kingdom ; 
and  obtained  a  very  handsome  indepen- 
dence by  making  sets  of  books  for  those 
persons  who  were,  for  their  own  interest, 
obliged  to  appear  before  certain  gentlemen 
in  commission  at  Guildhall.  It  is  said  he 
was  the  first  person  who  suggested  the  idea 
of  imputing  the  losses  of  bankrupts  to  spe- 
culations in  the  lottery,  and  procured  the 
unsuccessful  numbers  (collected  at  2«.  each) 
as  having  been  purchased  unfortunately  by 
his  employers. 

A  HUMAN  being  (Englbh)  is  supposed  to 


consume  asmut^ly  the  produce  < 
more  than  3j^  «cr«8  of  land :  htH 
for  bread,  one-eighth  for  beer,  c 
one-fiftieth  vegetables,  2^  animal 
stone  of  which,  on  an  average  popi 
10,000,000,  each  person  is  comput 
vour.  In  Ekigkoid  and  Wales  tihfire 
puted  1,759,000  hones  for  labour  i 
sure,  requiring  with  their  ocdts  ' 
acres  of  land  for  their  siqpporl. 
dlesex,  1797,  tihe  number  of  taxed 
horses  was  19,266;  for  agricult 
12,709.  The  cultivated  lands  Ib. 
and  Wales,  allowing  3,603,000  i 
hedges,  copses,  wood,  water^  aiid« 
computed  as  39,027,000  acres,  i 
about  14(000,000  are  supposed  to  I 
namely,  3,850,000  wheat,  1,050,0C 
and  rye,  3,500,000  oats  and  beans, '. 
clover,  rye-grass,  &c.,  a  like  quan 
nips  and  other  roots,  and  2,800,00( 
nually  by  the  generally  injurious  i 
fallow.  The  commons  and  waste 
stated  at  7,889,000  acresy — tlie  « 
perficies  46,916,000.  The  metro^ 
sumes  butcher^s  meat  annually  to  th 
of  £7,000,000  sterling.  About  1! 
sheep  are  annually  killed,  and  « 
lambs.  The  number  of  sheep  in 
and  Wales,  according  to  evidenc 
Wool  Bill,  exceeds  40,000,000. 

A  calf  for  the  London  market  < 
as  much  milk  as  would  make  a  1 
weight  of  cheese. — Panorama^  Janu 

Dean  Nowell  was  fishing  wl 
reached  him  which  made  him  fly 
*^  going  back  to  take  anything  o 
house.**  He  left  his  bottle  of  ale 
with  grass  or  earth ;  and  after  Marj 
when  he  returned,  happening  to  « 
when  fishing  on  the  very  spot,  lo 
it,  uncorked  it,  and  found  it^  saj 
not  a  bottle,  but  a  gun,  such  the 

*  Fuller's  words  are — **  he  found iti 
after.''  Worthies  of  England^  Lanauki 
Folio.  His  love  of  fiuiing  is  well  ki 
the  motto, "  Piscator  hominum."  S 
ton's  Life  of  Alexander  N owelty  p.  20. 

J* 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


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it  wlien  opened ;  and  tliis,  as  casualty  is  the 
mother  of  more  inTentions  than  industry,  is 
believed  the  original  of  bottled  ale  in  Eng- 
land. 

A.D.  1810.  Latxlt,  as  some  boys  were 
walking  along  the  beach,  opposite  the  slaugh- 
ter-house jetty  at  Portsmouth,  one  of  them 
^nd  an  old  leathern  glove  washed  up,  which 
contained  158  guineas,  and  a  few  half  gui- 
neas. Some  of  the  guineas  adhered  to  each 
other  so  closely,  that  they  could  not  easily 
be  separated. 

Two  tiders  employed  at  Windsor  as  chim- 
ney sweepers.  Women  must  have  been  not 
uncommonly  thus  employed,  when  Fawkes 
wrote  his  Epithalamium  upon  the  marriage 
of  a  cobbler  and  a  chinmey  sweeper. 

Thb  first  spelling-book  in  the  Irish  lan- 
guage was  published  in  London,  1810,  at 
the  expense  of  the  Hibernian  Society.  The 
Ptmofwna  complains  of  this  as  late^ — so  do 
I,  as  being  in  Irish.  Those  who  are  taught 
to  read  should  be  taught  in  English. 

A.B.  1810.  In  Dartford  workhouse,  James 
Gibson,  106.  He  had  been  ten  years  in  the 
bouse,  and  till  within  these  two  months  used 
daily  to  perambulate  the  town.  His  facul- 
ties were  entire  to  the  last.  He  was  so 
much  attached  to  smoking,  that  he  requested 
his  pipe,  together  with  his  walking-stick, 
might  be  placed  in  his  coffin,  which  request 
was  complied  with. 


Courier^  August  3, 1814.  Joanna  South- 
oott  has  lately  given  out  that  she  is  preg- 
nant with  the  true  Messiah,  and  expects  to 
lie  in  in  a  few  weeks.  She  is  nearly  seventy 
jears  of  age.  A  cradle  of  most  expensive 
and  magnificent  materiab  has  been  be- 
spoken by  a  lady  of  fortune  for  the  ac- 
ooachement,  and  has  been  for  some  days 
exhibited  at  the  warehouse  of  an  eminent 
cabinet  maker  in  Aldersgate-street.  Hun- 
dreds of  genteel  persons  of  both  sexes  have 
been  to  see  this  cradle,  in  which  her  followers 


believe  the  true  Messiah  is  to  be  rocked. 
The  following  has  been  given  us  as  a  cor- 
rect description  :  **  A  child*8  crib,  three  feet 
six  inche8,.by  two  feet;  of  satin  wood,  with 
brass  trellis,  side  and  foot  board;  turned 
feet,  carved  and  gilt,  on  castors;  a  swing 
cot,  inside  caned,  to  swing  on  centre;  at 
each  end  gilt  mouldings,  tep  and  bottom 
for  gold  letters ;  a  canopy  cover,  with  blue 
silk ;  carved  and  gilt  under  it,  a  gold  ball 
and  dove,  and  olive  branch;  green  stars  at 
each  comer,  gilt ;  blue  silk  furniture ;  an 
embroidered  celestial  crown,  with  Hebrew 
characters,  gold  letters;  a  lambs^-wool  mat- 
tress, with  white  fustian  down  bed,  down 
pillow,  and  two  superfine  blankets.**  £100 
expended  in  plate  for  the  expected  child, — 
and  there  was  an  intention  of  having  a  gold 
service  for  his  use  I 

A  MAN  at  Paris  has  lately  (1810)  pub- 
lished a  treatise  on  the  game  of  31 ;  and 
to  ascertain  the  chances,  obtained  1,560,000 
throws,  which  he  conceived  equivalent  to 
four  years  of  uninterrupted  play. 

Mk.  Tuks,  of  Wath,  near  Rotherham, 
(1810),  bequeathed  one  penny  to  every 
child  that  attended  his  funeral  (there  came 
from  600  to  700);  1«.  to  every  poor  woman 
in  Wath ;  10«.6J.  to  the  ringers  to  ring  one 
peal  of  grand  bobs,  which  was  to  strike  off 
while  they  were  putting  him  into  the  grave. 
To  seven  of  the  oldest  navigators,  one  gui- 
nea for  puddling  him  up  in  his  grave.  To 
his  natural  daughter  £4  49.  per  annum.  To 
his  old  and  faithful  servant,  Joseph  Pitt, 
£21  per  annum.  To  an  old  woman  who 
had  for  eleven  years  tucked  him  up  in  bed, 
£1  Is.  only.  Forty  dozen  penny  loaves  to 
be  thrown  from  the  church  leads  at  twelve 
o*clock  on  Christmas  day  for  ever.  Two 
handsome  brass  chandeliers  for  the  church, 
and  £20  for  a  set  of  new  chimes. 

An  Otaheitean  and  a  Hottentot  engaged 
in  the,  Greenland  fishery. 

Thb  Coloured  Cloth  Hall  at  Leeds  has 


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CHABACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


its  main  beams  of  cast  iron.  At  Newport, 
Momnouthshire,  a  building  40  feet  long  and 
21  wide,  roofed  with  iron ;  the  whole  roof- 
ing was  brought  in  one  waggon,  and  fixed 
ready  for  the  tiler  in  five  hours.  Such  roofs 
cheaper  and  lighter  than  wood !  ^ 

OcTOBBB,  1810.  Killed  in  London  with- 
in the  preceding  twelve  months,— cattle, 
144,980 ;  calves,  84,778 ;  sheep  and  lambs, 
1,025,483;  horses,  10,118:  in  all,  1,215,359 
skins. 

At  the  Chelmsford  assizes  the  Lord  Chief 
Baron  observed,  that  on  examining  some 
ancient  deeds  a  few  dajs  before,  he  acci- 
dentally discovered  that  the  Black  Boy  in 
that  town  bore  the  same  sign  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  11. 

Andrew  Robinson  Bowes  once  stood  for 
Newcastle.  A  cargo  of  Newcastle  freemen 
were  shipped  from  London  for  his  opponent, 
and  the  master  was  bribed  by  Bowes  to  carry 
them  to  Ostend,  where  they  remained  till 
the  election  was  over. 

A.B.  1811.  A  WOL7  and  racoon  got  loose 
from  a  caravan  in  Rutlandshire.  N.  the 
breed  between  the  racoon  and  sheep  in 
Crosthwaite*s  Museum.^ 

At  Ewes  Farm,  in  Yorkshire,  Mr.  Paul 
Pamell,  farmer,  grazier,  and  malster,  aged 
76,  of  whom  it  is  truly  said  that  in  his  life- 
time he  drank  out  of  one  old  family  silver 
cup  upwards  of  £2000  sterling  worth  of  ge- 
nuine Yorkshire  stingo,  of  which  he  was 
remarkably  fond.  He  was  the  original  of 
Toby  Philpot. 

Ubsda  and  Baesa  are  only  a  league  asun- 
der ;  and  yet  there  is  a  manifest  difference 


*  This  extract  was  made  in  1810;  and  it  is 
carious,  when  we  look  to  the  great  use  of  iron 
now  in  our  railway  stations  and  steamers  par- 
ticularly, to  say  nothing  of  tubular  bridgeSu--- 
J.  W,  W^. 

•  This  N.  means  Note  the  animal  in  the  Mu- 
seum referred  to,  at  Keswick.  It  is  etill  to  be 
seen,— or  was  so  very  recently J.  yjr  y^ 


of  race  in  the  inhabitants,  says  F.  Join 
Antonio.— jHtsf.  o/tha  PhO^jpam^  rcLl  p. 
140.  » 

A.D.  1753.  Glouctstbr-  "Hffeiiawo- 
demUy  (says  H.  Walfoub,  X««pr«,  voL  i.  p. 
313)  which  beats  all  antiquities  for  curiosity. 
Just  by  the  high  altar  is  a  smaU  pew  hng 
with  green  damask,  with  oortains  of  the 
same;  a  small  comer  cupboard,  panted, 
carved,  and  gilt,  for  books,  in  one  comer; 
and  two  troughs  of  a  bird-cage,  with  seeds 
and  water.    If  any  mayoress  on  earth  wis 
small  enough  to  enclose  herself  in  tWi  tar 
bemacle,  or  abstemious  raough  to  feed  on 
rape  and  canary,  I  should  have  sworn  that 
it  was  the  shrine  of  the  queen  of  the  alder- 
men.    It  belongs  to  a  Mrs.  Cotton,  wh© 
having  lost  a  favourite  daughter,  is  con- 
vinced her  soul  is  transmigrated  into  a  ro- 
bin-redbreast ;  for  which  reason  she  passes 
her  life  in  makmg  an  aviary  of  the  cathedrsi 
of  Gloucester.     The  chapter  indulge  thii 
whim,  as  she  contributes  ftbondantly  to 
glaze,  whitewash,  and  ornament  the  church.** 

**  I  DIB  go  to  Bristol,*'  says  H.  Waijolb, 
(1766,  Letter*,  vol.  iii.  p.  197),  •*  Ae  dirtiest 
great  shop  I  ever  saw,  with  so  foul  a  riveTf 
that  had  I  seen  the  least  appearance  of 
cleanliness,  I  should  have  concluded  they 
washed  all  their  linen  in  it,  as  they  do  at 
Paris.  Going  into  the  town,  I  was  stmd: 
with  a  large  Gothic  building,  coal  black,  and 
striped  with  white ;  I  took  it  for  the  deviTs 
cathedral.  When  I  came  nearer,  I  found  it 
was  an  uniform  castle,  lately  built,  and  serv- 
ing for  stables  and  offices  to  a  smart  false 
Gothic  house  on  the  other  side  of  the  road. 

—  ^*  two  windows  of  punted  glass  in  the 
cathedral,  given  by  Mrs.  Ellen  Gwyn.  (?) 
There  is  a  new  church  of  S.  Nicholas,  neati 
and  truly  Gothic.** 


^Whbthbb  got  by  imitation,  or  some 
hereditary  defect  in  their  tongue,  or  pro- 
ceeding from  some  secret  quality  in  their 
soil,  it  is  observed  in  a  village  at  Charietoo, 
in  Leicestershire,  that  the  people  therdn 


AND  FRAQICBNTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


893 


im  trdabled  with  t^arUng^  in  their  atter- 
aoc8.'*^^PiDUAh  Piig^  Sight,  p.  183.  Cam- 
,den  referred  to. 

<3oAX4  carried  coastwise  by  sea  are  liable 
to  a  daty  of  6s.  4d,  per  ton.  Coals  shipped 
in  ariver,  and  proceeding  up  that  river,  pay 
none.  Hence  a  curious  distinction.  To  the 
east  of  the  Holms  is  the  river  Severn,  to 
the  west  is  the  Severn  sea ;  the  Newport 
coUeries  therefore  can  send  coal  to  Bristol 
datj  free,  but  the  Cardiff  ooUeries  must  pay 
it.  The  western  ports  therefore  petitioned 
to  be  relieved  from  their  onus,  and  were 
itiffly  opposed  by  their  luckier  neighbours. 
A  still  nicer  line  of  demarcation  affects 
Bridgewater.  It  is  so  very  nearly  due  south 
of  Newport,  that  vessels  can  make  the  pas- 
sage to  it  at  certain  times  of  the  tide  by 
keeping  east  of  the  Holms,  and  these,  by 
ssiling  in  the  river,  avoid  the  charge  of  the 
sea  duty.  But  the  westward  passage  is  much 
the  best,  and  therefore  it  is  not  to  be  sup* 
posed  *^  that  every  captain  bound  from  New- 
port to  Bridgewater  should,  in  all  winds  and 
weather,  respect  with  extreme  accuracy  the 
distinction  between  the  Severn  river  and 
the  Severn  sea.** 

Culm  is  small  pieces  of  coal,  understood 
not  to  exceed  two  inches  in  diameter;  and 
this  pays  but  Is,  9d.  sea  duty  per  ton ;  men 
arc  therefore  en^loyed  to  break  the  coal  to 
this  size.  Here  is  an  easy  means  of  evasion 
afforded.  Larger  pieces  are  shipped  as 
calm,  but  sorted  out  before  sale. 

1811.  TwfiLrra-DAT.  A  cake  in  a  shop- 
viadow  as  big  as  a  large  cart  wheel,  and 
weighing  ten  hundred  weight. 

JoAHKA  SouTHGOTT*s  Cradle  cost  £500. 
It  has  this  inscription,  **  The  free  offering 
of  faith  to  the  promised  seed.**  Knox  saw 
it  at  Seddons's.  Tozer,  her  high  priest,  was 


*  **  All  that  are  bom  therein,  have  an  harsh 
^  wnuling  kind  of  speech,  uttering  their  words 
with  much  difficolty  and  wharUng  in  the  throat, 
^  oaonot  well  pronounce  the  letter  R."— See 
Wmki£$,  Lsieesienkirtf  p.  126.— J.  W.  W. 


showing  it  off,  and  sud  that  information  of 
the  expected  birth  had  been  sent  to  the 
prince  and  to  the  archbishops,  &c.  that  they 
might  send  persons  to  be  present,  and  set  a 
watch  upon  Joanna.  It  is  the  Branch  in 
Isaiah,  Shiloh  I  suppose,  the  Son  of  the 
Messiah.  He  spoke  of  the  uncertainty  of 
religious  belief  in  these  times,  and  said  there 
were  108  sects;  upon  which  Knox  observed, 
that  it  was  then  107  to  I  against  him.  ^  It 
was  very  true,**  he  replied,  ^  but  what  was 
that  when  the  Lord  was  on  their  side.**  The 
baby  linen  with  its  laces,  &c.,  has  cost  £500 
more,  for  all  which  a  cheesemonger  is  re- 
sponsible. 

Enormous  prices  exacted  by  those  who 
take  in  cattle  on  their  way  to  the  London 
market,  at  Carlisle  for  instance.  As  soon 
as  the  cattle  are  turned  into  these  meadows, 
the  drover  begins  upon  the  bagpipes,  and 
immediately  at  the  signal  they  fall  to  graz- 
ing. These  prices,  which  have  no  limit  but 
the  conscience  of  those  who  set  them,  one 
cause  of  the  high  price  of  meat.  The  graziers 
are  more  at  their  mercy  since  so  many  com- 
mons have  been  inclosed. 

Chabitt  children  at  St.  Faul*s.  Haydn 
said  the  most  powerful  effect  he  ever  felt 
from  music,  was  from  their  singing. 

Thx  first  pi^>er  mill  is  about  half  a  mile 
south  of  Dartford,  Kent,  erected  by  John 
Spelman,  of  German  extraction,  and  Queen 
£lizabeth*s  jeweller,  who  had  a  license  for 
the  sole  gathering  of  all  rags,  &c.  necessary 
for  making  writing  paper,  for  ten  years. 
James  knighted  him.  He  is  said  to  have 
brought  over  in  his  portmanteau  the  two 
first  lime  trees,  which  he  planted  either  here, 
or  at  Bexley.* 

'  I  suppose  Hasted's  Ktnt  is  the  authority 
for  this.  The  name  originally  was  Speilman. 
LouDOK  says  in  his  ArborMtum,  &c.,  '*  The  lime, 
however,  is  represented  by  Tomer  as  growing 
to  a  large  sise  in  1562 :  so  that  the  trees  intro- 
duced by  Speilman  could  not  have  been  the  first 
brought  into  the  country."    Vol.  1,  p.  24. 

J.  W.  W. 


894 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


A  GANNON  foundry  in  the  midst  of  Lon- 
don. **  We  know  that  several  lives  in  the 
vicinity  of  such  an  establishment  have  fallen 
victims  to  its  deleterious  fumes.  We  know 
that  many  families  have  been  forced  to  aban- 
don their  dwellings,  and  seek  a  Uvijig  else- 
where. This  greatly  injures  the  property 
round-about." 

Thb  old  cockpit  was  leased  by  Christ's 
Hospital,  who  refused  to  relet  it  for  the 
same  purpose.  A  new  one  built  at  West- 
minster, near  the  Abbey,  and  looking  like  a 
chapel  of  ease !  Henry  YIII.  erected  the 
cockpit  at  Whitehall.  Cromwell  prohibited 
the  sport  Slst  March,  1654. 

Thomas  Field,  who  died  near  Richmond, 
Yorkshire,  30th  September,  1810,  will  long 
be  remembered  by  sportsmen  for  the  races 
which  he  rode.  He  was  "  allowed  to  be  one 
of  the  best  judges,  and  most  skilful  trainer 
in  England,  for  the  last  twenty  years  of  his 
life.** 

Montagus  Glles  of  York,  died  1810, 
aged  seventy -nine,  a  most  correct  valuer  of 
wood.  He  could  estimate  the  worth  of  a  tree 
to  a  great  nicety,  by  simply  fathoming  it 
with  his  arms,  and  scanning  it  with  his  eye. 
^^  Whoever  is  at  the  head  of  his  profession, 
08  he  has  earned  celebrity,  he  deserves 
praise,  and  ought  to  be  remembered.** 

The  Courier  Francois  makes  extracts 
from  Perruque  V Indipendante ;  the  Inde- 
pendent Whig  t  and  the  Moniteur  speaks  of 
the  arrival  of  Le  paquebot  dit  V overland, 
(the  overland  packet)  from  India. 

November,  1810.  Workmen  in  the  church 
at  Aldermanbury  discovered  a  leaden  cof- 
fin with  the  name  of  Chancellor  Jeffries.^  It 
was  not  opened :  but  should  have  been,  to 
have  examined  whether  the  heart  was  stony. 

'  When  the  church  was  repaired  in  1810  the 
coffin  was  found,  Lord  Campbell  says,  "  still 
fresh,  with  the  name  of  Lord  Chancellor  Jeffries 
inscribed  upon  it."— J.  W.  W. 


1807.  The  Bavarian  govemmeDt  com- 
mands all  parents  to  vaccinate  their  childrea 
before  they  are  three  years  of  age,  unlen 
they  prefer  to  pay  a  fine  which  increases  an- 
nually with  the  age  of  the  child.  1811,  the 
edict  was  removed.  It  had  almost  banisbed 
the  small-pox,  which  used  to  be  very  de- 
structive.' 

STOBMof  May  28,  1811.  At  Worcester, 
more  windows  broken  than  could  be  mend- 
ed, and  the  inconvenience  very  great  from 
the  long  and  heavy  nuns  which  succeeded 
the  hail,  or  rather  ice-storm,  for  pieces  of 
ice  fell  five  or  six  inches  long.  One  hundred 
and  fifty  rooks  killed  by  this  hail  in  one 
rookery.     The  Severn  rose  six  feet  in  one 
hour,  twenty  in  less  than  twenty-four.  The 
glass  broken  at  Worcester  alone  estimated 
at  £5000.  About  Shrewsbury,  the  thunder 
compared  to  the  report  of  many  cannon  im- 
mediately over  head.  Near  the  White  Grit, 
hailstones  two  inches  in  circumference  lay 
almost  a  foot  deep.    A  cloud  burst  upon  a 
ridge  of  hills  called  the  Stiperstones,  which 
swept  every  thing  before  it.    **  The  water 
has  made,  perhaps,  a  dozen  holes  in  these 
bills,  at  a  considerable  distance  from  each 
other,  and  the  soil  with  pieces  of  the  rock 
are  worn  away,  from  one  to  four  yards  deep. 
At  or  near  the  spot  fr^m  whence  several  of 
these  channels  are  cut,  small  springs  for- 
meriy  issued.  In  one  instance,  several  yards 
of  marshy  ground,  which  it  was  unsafe  to 
pass  across,  are  now  perfectly  sound  and 
dry.     If  a  stranger  enquired  from  whence 
the  waters  came,  the  inhabitants  generallj 
stated  that  it  gushed  out  of  the  slips  in  the 
mountain.   The  generally  attributed  cause, 
however,  of  the  phenomenon,  was  the  sud- 
den condensation  at  these  different  points 
of  the  skirts  of  one  immense  cloud,  or  o( 
several  clouds  combined.**' 

•  Unll^s  my  memory  very  much  misnres  in«> 
a  certificate  of  vaccination  is  requirea  in  Den- 
mark previous  to  Confirmation. — J.  W.  W. 

'  In  the  part  of  Shropshire  adjoining  the 
Stiperstones  the  burst  is  called  The  iNnvDA* 
T10N  to  this  day.   I  lived  in  the  neighbonrliond, 


#- 


AND  FBAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


895 


(Wkj  4lieB  were  the  springs  dried  up,  and 
Ibe bog  rendered  firm?  Is  it  not  rather  some 
nflecToir  burst,  as  in  the  Solway  moss  ?) 

The  quantity  of  water  so  great,  that  the 
Seveni^  rose  four  feet  perpendicular  in  ten 
minutes*  Manj  lives  lost. — Pan.  voL  x^ 
p.  139. 


the  fall  of  the  cliff  at  Dover,  which 
bmied  a  whole  family,  a  hog  was  found  alive 
five  months  and  nine  days  afler  it  had  thus 
been  buried!  It  weighed  about  seven  score 
when  the  accident  happened,  and  had  wasted 
to  about  thirty  pounds,  but  was  likely  to  do 
welL 

From  Jacksok*s  Oxford  Journal, 

"  Next  presentation. 

**To  be  sold  by  auction,  by  Hoggart  and 
Phillips,  at  the  Auction  Mart,  opposite  the 
Bank  of  England,  on  Thursday  next  the 
Uth  day  of  April,  1811,  at  twelve  o*clock, 
the  next  presentation  to  a  most  valuable 
living,  in  one  of  the  first  sporting  counties: 
the  vicinity  affords  the  best  coursing  in  Eng- 
land, also  excellent  fishing,  an  extensive 
cover  for  game,  and  numerous  packs  of  fox 
hounds,  harriers,  &c. :  it  is  half  an  hour*8 
ride  from  one  of  the  first  cities,  and  not  far 
distant  from  several  most  fashionable  water- 
ing  places :  the  surrounding  country  is  beau- 
tiful and  healthy,  and  the  society  elegant 
ind  fashionable.  The  incumbent  is  about 
fifly  years  of  age.  Particulars  may  be  had 
fifteen  days  preceding  the  sale,  of  Mr.  An- 
nesley,  Solicitor,  Temple ;  at  the  Mart,  and 
of  Hoggart  and  Phillips,  62,  Old  Broad 
Street,  Eoyal  Exchange,  London.*' 

Law.  Is  the  ofiice  of  chancellor  properly 
compatible  with  that  of  speaker  of  the  House 
of  Lords  ?  ^*  It  has  at  least  this  inconveni- 
ence ;  that  appeals  from  the  Court  of  Chan- 
cery are  considered  by  the  profession  too 
much  as  mere  removals  from  the  chancellor 

tQd  though  quite  a  child,  can  well  remember  the 
bkoknesB  of  the  darkness,  and  the  awful  thun* 
dering,  and  the  rush  of  the  waters.  They  flowed 
through  my  Other's  house. — J.  W.  W. 


in  the  court  to  the  chancellor  in  the  house. 
With  what  grace  can  a  man  revise,  or  re- 
verse, his  own  decrees  ?  K  he  was  satisfied 
in  his  conscience  before,  what  shall  induce 
him  now  to  change  his  opinion  ?  **  In  1810, 
the  balances  of  money  and  securities  of  the 
suitors  in  the  Court  of  Chancery,  amounted 
to  £2^,162,430  ISs.  2d. 

It  was  affirmed  before  the  conmiittee,  that 
many  appeals  were  entered  for  the  mere  pur- 
pose of  delay. 

Thx  three  vicars  of  Bampton,  Oxford- 
shire, give  beef  and  beer  on  the  morning  of 
St.  Stephen's  day,  to  those  who  choose  to 
partake  of  it.  This  is  called  St.  Stephen's 
breakfast. 

1811.  A  CLOTH  for  pantaloons  made  from 
aloes  at  Paris,  the  colour  of  a  lady's  finger 
nails,  between  rose  tint  and  delicate  blue. 
Time  was  when  the  ca^ca  du  Dauphin  was 
the  fashionable  colour ! 

1810.  In  Permisch,  Russia,  winter  set  in 
so  suddenly,  that  the  oats  were  covered  with 
snow  before  they  could  be  gathered.  Next 
spring  when  the  snow  melted,  they  were 
found  uninjured,  and  were  cut  and  gathered 
as  in  common  seasons. 

Mb.  John  Coxsttbs,  of  Greenham  Mills, 
Newbury,  had  two  South  down  sheep  shorn 
at  his  factory  exactly  at  five  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  from  the  wool  of  which,  after  pass- 
ing its  various  processes,  a  complete  damson 
coloured  coat  was  made,  and  worn  by  Sir 
John  Throckmorton,  at  a  quarter  past  six 
in  the  evening,  being  two  and  three-quarter 
hours  within  the  time  allotted,  for  a  wager 
of  1000  guineas.  The  sheep  were  roasted 
whole,  and  a  sumptuous  dinner  given  by 
Mr.  Coxetter. 

Thb  Ophion,  in  opposition  to  Dr.  Clarke's 
monkey.  Mr.  Bellamy  contends  that  it  was 
a  crocodile!  The  Nachash,  however,  it  is 
called  by  the  disputants,  to  agree  upon  an 
undisputed  term,  whatever  the  meaning 
may  be. 


Nbarlt  6000  tons  of  lead  are  produced 
yearly  bj  the  Greenwich  Hospital  mines ; 
about  34,000  in  the  British  dominions ;  not 
more  than  50,000  in  the  world,  and  of  this 
not  less  than  5000  is  manufactured  here  into 
small  shot!  10,000  used  in  pigments  and  in 
glazing.  —  Cheenwich  Report  of  Mines  amd 
Roade,  1823. 

1811.  A  FLIGHT  of  birds,  supposed  to  be 
flamingos,  seen  at  Banberg  at  midsummer. 
Some  flamingos  had  lately  been  seen  near 
Strasburgh. 

Before  the  marriage  act,  husbands  as 
well  as  clergymen  were  always  in  waiting  at 
the  frequented  chapels,  for  such  ladies  as 
wished  to  become  yemmex  couvertes.  They 
regularly  changed  their  names  at  each  mar- 
riage, and  so  were  married  fifly  or  one  hun- 
dred times  oyer.  The  lady  received  a  cer- 
tificate of  marriage,  which  was  her  object, 
and  the  parties  never  saw  each  other  after- 
wards. Tet  the  removal  of  these  abomina- 
tions was  inveighed  against  as  a  violent 
infringement  of  liberty ! 

Abbgoab  in  Moorfields  used  daily  to  have 
a  penny  given  him  by  a  merchant  on  his  way 
to  the  Exchange.  The  penny  was  withheld, 
and  the  appearance  of  the  merchant  mani- 
fested his  embarrassment  and  distress.  The 
beggar  at  length  spoke  to  him,  ofiered  him 
a  loan  of  £500,  and  another  of  the  same  sum 
if  it  were  required.  It  re-established  his 
aflairs. 

A  shoeblack  who  employed  six  or  eight 
pair  of  hands  in  his  cellar,  had  £2000  stock. 
A  milkman  from  a  cellar  in  Holbom  pur- 
chased a  landed  estate,  on  which  he  retired 
to  live  like  a  squire.  And  a  Billingsgate 
fishwoman  gave  her  daughter  £10,000. — 
Panorama^  vol.  x.  p.  881. 

A.D.  1712.  Whistoe  predicted  that  the 
comet  would  appear  on  Wednesday  14th 
October,  at  five  minutes  after  five  in  the 
morning,  and  that  the  world  would  be  de- 
stroyed by  fire  on  the  Friday  following. 
His  reputation  was  high,  and  the  comet 


appeared.  A  number  of  perBont  got  into 
boats  and  barges  on  the  Thames,  think- 
ing the  water  the  safest  place.  South  Set 
and  India  stock  fell.  A  captain  of  t 
Dutch  ship  threw  all  his  powder  into  tke 
river,  that  the  ship  might  not  be  endan- 
gered. At  noon  alter  the  comet  had  ap- 
peared, it  is  said  that  more  than  one  hundred 
clergymen  were  ferried  over  to  Lambeth,  to 
request  that  proper  prayers  might  be  pre- 
pared, there  being  none  in  the  church  ser- 
vice. People  believed  that  the  day  of  judg- 
ment was  at  hand,  and  acted  some  on  this 
belief,  more  as  if  some  temporary  evil  was 
to  be  expected.  On  the  Thursday,  more 
than  7000  kept  mistresses  were  publicly  and 
legally  married.  There  was  a  prodigious 
run  on  the  bank,  and  Sir  Gilbert  Hcathcote, 
at  that  time  the  head  director,  issued  orders 
to  all  the  fire  offices  in  London,  requiring 
them  to  keep  a  good  look  out,  and  have  a 
particular  eye  upon  the  Bank  of  England. 
— Pafiorama,  vol.  x.  p.  1095. 

The  comet  of  1680  passed,  according  to 
Hadley*8  calculation,  within  sixty  semi-dia- 
meters of  the  earth*s  orbit,  November  11th; 
and  if  at  that  time  the  earth  had  been  at 
that  part  of  her  orbit,  what  the  consequences 
might  have  been  none  can  tell. 

It  is  now  supposed  that  comets  are  of  sub- 
tile substance,  their  nucleus  being  nothing 
more  than  a  conglomeration  of  vapours  of 
very  little  density,  so  little,  perhaps,  as  to 
be  transparent.  The  first  comet  of  1770 
passed  and  repassed  through  the  very  mid- 
dle of  the  satellites  of  Jupiter,  without  oc- 
casioning among  them  the  slightest  disorder 
(i.e.  apparent  disorder).  Such  a  body  might 
very  possibly  be  an  incipient  world,  just 
passed  its  gaseous  state,  and  which  is  to  de- 
rive solidity  from  the  precipitation  and  con- 
densation of  the  matter  surrounding  it. 

That  of  1811  was  32  millions  of  geogra- 
phical miles  from  the  earth  in  its  nearest 
approach.  Its  nucleus  in  diameter  860 
miles,  its  tail  800,000  in  length. — Ibid. 


The  resident  members  at  Oxford,  Ma/ 
27th,  1811,  were  1015. 


-J 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


897 


le  jear  1782,  no  person  hanged 
ebj  assixes;  a  good  proof  of  the 
»ral8  of  the  oountrj,  but  abo  of 
population.  And  also  to  be  re- 
that  it  has  become  a  point  of 
[eep  up  this  character ;  and  when 
»ejond  all  shadow  of  doubt  guilt  j 
tred  at  his  neighbour,  with  intent 
an  Appleby  jury  returned  a  ver- 
guilty ;  because  they  said  in  pri- 
murder  had  not  been  committed, 
ty  to  hang  the  man. 

las  one  porter  tun  which  holds 
els,  4  hogsheads,  24  tuns,oon- 
Jl  35,000  barrels. 

Joe  Millar  of  the  nobleman  and 
—  "ilfade  your  hreecheji^  A'r, — 
dges^ — may  be  instanced  to  shew 
ty  and  looseness  of  the  English 
ion. 

Uin>s,  the  Quaker  preacher,  was 
his  functions  in  a  family  at  New- 
le  spirit  moved,  when  at  the  close 
mrse  he  turned  to  the  lady  of  the 
said,  ^*  The  mistress  of  this  family 
11  to  set  her  affairs  in  order,  for 
live  months  are  past,  the  eldest 
rill  be  called  upon  to  perform  the 
nether  to  her  sisters.**  The  lady 
ect  health,  and  though  this  greatly 
and  disquieted  her  through  the 
ng  still  afler  seven  or  eight  have 
ind  the  daughter  retains  so  strong 

abhorrence  of  this  presumptuous 
evous  fanatic,  that  she  has  turned 

the  meeting  house  when  sl^e  saw 
I  Sands  was  there, 
akers  hate  priests,  and  exclaim 
>riesthood;  yet  never  were  any 
-e  completely  priest-ridden. 

Lssured  that  in  Spain  there  are  a 
D  called  Saludadores,'  who  having 
St  part  a  mark  or  sign  of  a  wheel, 

(or  is  ^e  Spanish  name  for  a  quack. 

J.  W.  W. 


(called  St  Catharine's  wheel)  in  their  mouths 
from  their  nativity,  do  cure  divers  diseases 
with  their  breath  or  spittle,  without  any 
medicine  or  charm,  and  their  practice  is  al- 
lowed by  the  inquisition  as  void  of  witch- 
craft or  superstition,  and  approved  also  by 
Navarre  and  other  Spanish  canonists  as  a 
supernatural  gifl  of  (}od.** — Fitzhbrbbrt,' 
Concerning  Policy  and  Religion,  p.  180. 

GuBiG  or  Gleig,  one  of  the  agriculturists, 
was  describing  Holkham  to  me  at  Wobum. 
"The  person  who  built  it  had  been  in  Italy, 
and  planned  it  so  that  there  should  be  in 
that  house  every  thing  that  was  necessary, 
and  voluptuous,  and  right.**  I  wrote  down 
the  happy  sentence  immediately  in  my 
tables. 

Ths  art  of  Megalantropogenesi^  —  the 
French  have  a  treatise  upon  it. 

Howell  Da  vies,  who  was  Whitefield*s 
Welsh  coadjutor,  walking  one  Sunday  morn- 
ing to  preach,  was  accosted  by  a  clergyman 
on  horseback,  who  was  on  the  same  errand, 
and  who  complained  of  the  unprofitable 
drudgery  of  his  profession,  saying  he  could 
never  get  more  than  half-a-guinea  for 
preaching.  The  Welshman  replied  that  he 
for  his  part  was  content  to  preach  for  a 
crown.  This  so  offended  the  mounted  priest 
that  he  upbraided  him  for  disgracing  his 
cloth.  Perhaps,  said  Davies,  you  will  hold 
me  still  cheaper  when  I  inform  you  that  I 
am  going  nine  miles  to  preach,  and  have 
only  seven  pence  in  my  pocket  to  bear  my 
expenses  out  and  in.  But  the  crown  for 
which  I  preach  is  a  crown  of  glory. 

A  PERSON  in  Cheshire  gave  to  the  Mis- 
sionary collections  £1.  d«.  &d.  the  produce  of 
two  cherry  trees ;  and  promised  their  an- 
nual profit  fix>m  that  time  forth. 

What  Hobbes  says  of  invocations  in  poe- 
try applicable  to  Quaker  preaching.  **I 
can  imagine  no  cause,  but  a  reasonless  imi- 
tation of  custom, — of  a  foolish  custom,  by 


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896 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


whidi  a  man  enabled  to  speak  wiselj  from 
the  |»rinci|Je8  of  nature  and  his  own  medi- 
tation,  lores  rather  to  be  thoogfat  to  speak 
hj  inspiration^  like  a  bagpipe.** — Preface  to 
OamOberL 

Falsb  ornaments  in  poetry — the  public 
are  taken  by  them  as  larks  are  caogfat  hj 
daring  :^ — a  net  and  a  looking  glass. 

Aabon  Hnx,  yol.  1,  p.  41,  describes  the 
raptures  of  a  rural  walk  from  Buckingham 
Gate  to  Tothill  Fields. 

Aaron  Hill  sought  to  reform  the  dresses 
of  the  theatre,  yol.  1,  pp.  141-2-3. 

His  scheme  for  an  acuidemical  theatre. — 
Ibid.  p.  194. 

Cahhibau  who  hare  tried  both,  assure 
us  that  white  men  are  finer  flavoured  than 
negroes,  and  Englishmen  than  Frenchmen. 
— Lahosdosit,  toL  1,  p.  141. 

Baddrlet,  the  comedian,  left  to  the  thea- 
trical fund  his  cottage  at  Hampton,  in  trust, 
that  they  should  elect  to  reside  in  it,  four 
such  of  the  fund  pensioners  as  might  not 
object  to  living  sociably  under  the  same 
roof.  The  house  has  two  parlours  and  four 
bedchambers,  and  that  they  might  not  ap- 
pear in  the  neighbourhood  like  dependents, 
he  left  a  certain  sum  to  be  by  them  distri- 
buted in  charity.  There  was  to  be  a  little 
smoking  summer  house  built  for  them  of 
wood  from  old  Drury,  bought  for  the  pur- 
pose, and  so  situated  as  to  command  a  view 
of  the  Temple  of  Shakespeare  erected  by 
Crarrick.  He  also  left  the  interest  of  £100 
3  per  cents,  for  an  annual  twelfth-cake  with 
wine  and  punch  in  the  great  green  room,  to 
make  the  future  sons  and  daughters  of  Thes- 
pis  remember  an  old  friend  and  member  of 
the  profession. 


To  dor  certainly  means  to  outwit  or  impose 
upon ;  and  io  dor  the  dotterel  is  an  old  saying, 
used  by  Bbh  Jonson,  Bart.  Fair,  Act  ir.  so.  1. 
But  I  cannot  help  suspecting  that  the  word  here 
should  be  daring,  which  has  been  explained  be- 
fore.—J.  w.  W. 


A.  D.  1806.  Miss  Mudie,  eight  years  old,  and 
little  for  that  i^e,  played  the  Country  Giri 
at  Covent  Garden :  and  when  she  was  talked 
of  as  ^  a  wife  and  mistress,  and  an  object  of 
lore  and  jealousy,**  the  thing  was  toe  moa- 
strous,  and  the  audioioe  would  not  suffer 
her  to  finish  the  part. 

Some  time  before  the  reroliition,  Bonner 
was  going  to  engage  the  theatre  in  the 
Thuilleries  for  English  plays,  under  the  pa- 
tronage of  the  Court.  Our  best  acton  woold 
have  been  of  the  party.  It  was  Harris's 
scheme,  in  1784,  and  it  was  put  a  stop  to 
probably  by  the  cloudy  politics  of  that  dsj, 
and  the  Courtis  embarrassment. 

A  MS.  note  in  a  copy  of  the  CoD.  of 
Verses  on  the  Cotswold  games,  in  the  pos- 
session of  Mr.  Octavius  Gilchrist,  says,  '^Dr. 
John  Dover  was  bom  in  the  sixty-second 
year  of  his  mother^s  age,  as  his  own  daugh- 
ter now  living  (1747)  attests,  who  is  wife  to 
Mr.  Cordwell  the  city  carpenter.'* 

When  Woodward  the  Comedian  was  in 
Dublin,  and  lodged  opposite  the  Parliament 
House,  a  mob  who  were  making  the  mem- 
bers swear  to  oppose  an  unpopular  biU, 
called  out  to  his  family  to  throw  them  a 
Bible  out  of  the  window.  Mrs.  W.  was 
frightened,  for  they  had  no  such  book  in  the 
house,  but  he  threw  out  a  volume  of  Shakes- 
pere,  telling  the  mob  they  were  welcome  to 
it.  They  gave  him  three  cheers,  swore  the 
members  upon  this  book,  and  afterwards 
returned  it  without  discovering  its  con- 
tents. 

Inoculatioh  —  opposed  in  America  by 
Dr.  Douglas,  a  Scotchman.  See  Boylston, 
Aixjiif*8  American  Bicgraphif. 

Loin>oN  is  annually  supplied  with  about 
4000  dozen  larks  from  the  country  about 
Dunstable. 

At  Leipsic  the  excise  on  larks  is  said  to 
produce  6000  dollars  yearly  I  about  £900. 


r 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


399 


Cabdih Ai.  AxBAiiDEB*8  epitaph,  written 
by  himself — 

)LaTOayoy  oIk  aiKtov^  on  ravvofiai  wv  iiri' 

fiaprvQ 
TIoXXwv,  iyirtp  i^eiy  &Kyioy  Ijy  davarov. 

RiCHASD  AxLEiNB,  the  Somersetshire 
Nonconformist,  who  was  ejected  from  the 
living  of  Batcomb,  in  that  countj,  wrote  a 
book  called  Yindicise  Pietatis,  or  a  Vindica- 
tion of  Godliness,  which  was  published  in 
1665  without  a  license,  and  therefore  the 
copies  were  seized,  and  sent  to  the  King's 
kitchen  for  waste  paper.  This  was  done 
upon  an  information  of  the  king's  booksel- 
ler (his  name  ?),  and  this  fellow  then  bought 
them  up  at  a  cheap  rate,  and  sold  them  him- 
self! For  this  he  was  brought  on  his  knees 
to  the  council-table,  and  the  book  again  sent 
to  the  kitchen  and  bUked^ — linked  so  as  to 
be  illegible. 

Allslophaoi,  so  those  flies  are  called 
which  eat  each  other, — and  under  this  term 
are  many  of  our  authors  to  be  classed. 

Alsriok,'  an  invention  in  heraldry  of  the 
French  to  insult  the  empire, — a  spread  eaglet 
without  beak  or  feet. 

MiKEPHBB  Alphebt.  Toward  the  close 
of  the  sixteenth  century,  this  prince,  with 
two  brothers,  being  of  the  imperial  line  of 
Russia,  were  tent  to  England  to  save  their 
lives,  in  consequence  of  the  state  of  things, 
and  consigned  to  Joseph  Bidell,  a  Russia 
merchant.  He  sent  them  to  Oxford,  where 
the  two  brothers  died  of  the  small-pox.  The 
sunrivor  took  orders  in  the  English  Church, 
and  had  the  rectory  of  Wooley,  in  Hunting- 
donshire. From  thence  he  was  invited  to 
put  himself  at  the  head  of  his  friends,  and 
recover  the  throne  of  his  ancestors,  but  he 
]H%ferred  his  own  humbler,  happier,  and 
holier  life.  The  Puritans  used  him  ill,  and 
ejected  him ;  but  the  Presbyterian  who  was 
put  in  his  place,  treated  him  with  much 

'  See  Kenaoe  in  v.  AUri(mt,—3,Vf,  W. 


kindness.  He  lived  t(^be  replaced,  and  died 
at  80,  at  the  house  of  his  eldest  son,  at  Ham- 
mersmith, much  respected.* 

ViwcENT  Alsop,  the  Nonconformist,  es- 
caped persecution,  because  the  informers 
could  not  find  out  his  Christian  name.  I 
remember  a  man  escaping  death  for  forgery 
because  his  Christian  name  was  written  in 
the  indictment  Bart.,  instead  of  Bartholo- 
mew. 

AimoTTO.  Odd  that  what  some  Indians 
used  to  paint  themselves  with,  should  be 
used  in  Europe  for  purposes  as  silly, — ^by 
the  English  to  dye  their  cheese,  and  by  the 
Dutch  as  well  as  English  to  dye  their  butter! 

Courier,  February  2,  1815.  Cubious  In- 
dia shawl.  The  admirers  of  Oriental  ge- 
nius are  invited  to  an  inspection  of  the  most 
perfect  specimen  of  Indian  workmanship 
ever  produced;  which,  from  its  elegant  in- 
tricacy of  design,  and  beautiful  combination 
of  colours,  is  justly  esteemed  as  the  chef 
d*aeuvre  of  Eastern  ingenuity.  Price,  500 
guineas,  at  Everington*s  India  and  Britbh 
Shawl  warehouse. 

There  is  at  Yicenza  a  benefit  of  art,  ana- 
logous to  our  benefit  of  clergy.  A  criminal 
who  can  prove  himself  the  best  workman  in 
any  useful  art,  has  his  life  spared  for  the 
first  offence.  This  would  have  saved  poor 
Ryland,^  and  the  man  who  made  the  self- 
moving  carriage. 

Some  old  empirics  persuaded  certain  pa- 
tients of  more  rank  than  intellect,  that  gold, 
being  a  royal  metal,  was  peculiarly  well  cal- 


*  The  reader  should  refer  to  Walker's  Siif- 
ferings  of  the  Clergy,  part  ii.  p.  183.  It  is  stated 
in  the  6iog,  Brit,  that  "  Mrs.  Alphery,  the  last 
descendant  of  this  family , married  one  Johnson, 
a  Sadler  at  Huntingdon,  and  was  lirins  in  1 764, 
when  she  confirmed  these  facts  to  the  late  Lord 
Sandwich."  in  v. 

^  William  Wynne  Ryland,  the  engraver,  ex- 
ecuted for  forgery  in  1783.— J.  W.  W. 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


ciliated  to  cure  the  ^iseases  of  royal  and 
noble  personages. 

Baboons  liaye  an  antipathy  to  men. 

Judge  Jenkins,^  a  Welshman,  expected 
to  be  hung  by  the  Parliament  for  his  zeal 
in  Charleses  cause.  He  had  a  great  desire 
for  this  political  martyrdom,  and  had  re- 
solved to,  go  to  the  gallows  with  Bracton  on 
his  left  shoulder,  the  statutes  at  large  on  his 
right,  and  the  Bible  i*ound  his  neck,  that 
these  books,  as  having  been  his  counsellors, 
should  hang  with  him.  ^  And  first,**  said 
he,  **  I  will  eat  much  liquorice  and  ginger- 
bread, thereby  to  strengthen  my  lungs,  that 
I  may  be  heard  far  and  near.** 

Eabl  op  Abundbi.,  in  Charles  L*s  time, 
brought  over  the  new  way  of  building  with 
brick  in  the  city,  greatly  to  the  safety  of 
the  city,  and  preservation  of  the  wood  of 
this  nation. 

Habbt  Cabxt.  See  Cyclopsedia  for  an 
account  of  the  procession  of  booksellers, 
authors,  printers,  and  musicians  to  his  be- 
nefit. 

Undeb  our  Danish  king,  the  Camifex 
was  an  officer  of  great  dignity,  being  ranked 
with  the  Archbishop  of  York,  Earl  Grordon, 
and  the  Lord  Steward.  —  Flor^Wigom. 
An.  1040.' 

RoTAL  Ark  Mariners  and  Sons  of  Noah : 
some  hyper-foolish  Freemasons.  See  M. 
Magazine,  vol.  vi.  p.  426. 

Cbphalonohabtia,  —  divination  by  an 
as8*s  head. 

Chace.  Under  this  head  in  Ree8*s  Cy- 
clopaedia an  account  of  the  horns  in  Russia, 
which  the  men  learn  to  blow  as  men  learn 


*  See  Second  Series,  p.  194,  and  Southbt's 
opmion  that  "  his  works  ought  to  be  collected.'* 

*  This  same  passage  is  quoted  in  Du  Cangb, 
and  in  Spblmaii's  Glou.  in  v.— J.  W.  W. 


bell-ringing,  one  man  learning  only  one 
note. 

*  The  changes  on  seven  bellfl  are  5040; 
on  twelve,  479,001,600,  which  it  would  take 
91  years  to  ring  at  the  rate  of  two  strokes 
in  a  second.  The  changes  on  fourteen  belb 
could  not  be  rung  through  at  the  same  rate 
in  less  than  16,575  years ;  and  upon  foor- 
and-twenty,  they  would  require  more  than 
117,000  bUlions  of  years. 

Talpobd  knew  a  cat  and  dog  who,  when 
the  family  removed  house,  travelled  back 
in  company  to  the  old  habitation,  thir^ 
miles  distant, — ^the  cat  under  convoy. 


Cattle. 

*  Thb  most  important  point  for  feeders  is, 
that  they  should  die  welL  This  is  Lord 
Somerville*s  phrase. 

Some  bulls  of  the  middle-homed  breed 
are  reproached  with  being  tkroat^^  the  skm 
too  profuse  and  pendulous.  The  neck  per- 
haps thick  and  goary  in  the  estimation  of 
strangers, — but  with  this  property  the  oxen 
are  not  to  be  reproached,  or  they  would 
not  labour  as  they  do. 

The  flesh  must  be  meUow  in  hamdUng. 

The  coarse  square  Dutch  beefy  breed  is 
the  basis  of  the  short-homed  breed. 

The  common  Lincolnshire  are  coarse  in 
head  and  horn,  large  boned,  and  high  upon 
the  leg.  Those  that  never  fatten  are  called 
lyery. 

Never  was  a  more  fortunate  cross  tkiD 
between  the  Aldemey  and  the  Northern 
short  horns.  They  are  unrivalled  for  great 
milking,  and  famous  for  carrying  a  vast 
depth  of  natural  flesh,  and  tallowing  within 
in  the  first  degree.  But  in  fineness  of  flesh 
they  can  never  compete  with  certain  other 
breeds  without  the  entire  overthrow  of  their 
Dutch  basis  by  a  repeated  use  of  some  other 
cross. 

The  Holdemess  are  too  often  the  worst- 
shaped  cattle  in  the  island,  and  perhape  the 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


401 


ifitable,  —  long,  gaunt,  deep  cor- 
ithout  adequate  substance,  placed 
h  stilts  of  the  coarsest  timber,  slow 
aever  fat,  and  the  flesh  excessively 

»f  the  Glamorganshire  cattle  cloddy, 
^embroke  ox  is  too  leggy,  but  he 
early  ripe,  and  will  make  fat  at 
rs  old,  and  stands  his  drift,  that  is 
is  journey,  better  than  any  from 

Agricultural  Report  of  Middlesex 
ion  dealers  in  milk  are  said  to  keep 
'8.  They  have  been  driven  farther 
B  by  the  scarcity  of  grass  land,  and 
!  carry  the  milk  there  in  light  carts, 
it  is  slung  in  tin  jars.  One  dealer 
ly  1000,  worth  £23  each,  affording 
a  return  of  £38  each,  and  a  net 
£6000  per  year. 

»w  affords  about  nine  quarts  per 
>  per  year. 

3tailer  by  adulteration  and  cream 
6.  lB9,4d,  a  year  by  every  cow.  lliey 
aong  themselves  an  annual  sum  of 
y,  and  London  pays  annually  for 
16,233. 

rater  adulteration  is  carried  on 
One  keeper  calls  his  pump  from 
r  tbe  famous  black  cow.  By  this 
is  known,  and  is  said  to  yield  more 
he  rest  of  his  cows  together.  Look 
rial  upon  this  subject. 


princeps.  One  variety  of  this  shell 
e  King  of  the  South.  Three  spe- 
rere  known  in  France  before  the 
on,  the  finest  of  which  was  in  the 
a  of  Comte  de  la  Tour  d*Auvergne : 
i  from  the  Isle  of  France,  and  was 
f  the  appellation  of  Le  Cedo^nuUi 
.  Of  the  Queen  of  the  Isles,  it  is 
I  whether  there  be  one  or  two  spe- 
^yonet's  Cedo^nuUi  being  affirmed 
and  contested  by  others,  to  be  the 
d  Cedo-nuUi  of  La  Faille's  cabinet; 
ast  is  said  to  have  been  purchased 
ague,  about  the  year  1728,  for  the 


King  of  Portugal's  cabinet.  The  fate  of 
Lyonet*8  is  not  known ;  but  it  is  believed 
at  present  "  to  enrich  one  of  the  Parisian 
museums." 

The  ducking  stool  was  a  legal  punish- 
ment. Roguish  brewers  and  bakers  also 
were  liable  to  it,  and  they  were  to  be  ducked 
in  stercore,  the  town  ditch.  Cathedra  ster- 
coris  it  is  called  in  Domesday  Book. 

Dagenham  breach.*  The  injustice  of  Par- 
liament to  Captain  Perry,  leaving  him,  after 
five  years  of  exertion,  anxiety,  and  care, 
£500  poorer  than  when  he  began. 

Ebgot,  a  disease  in  com,  and  especiaUy 
in  rye,^  which  produces  in  those  who  eat  it 
dry  gangrene  and  death  I 

Abtiucial  asses  milk !  The  receipt  is 
in  the  Cyclopaedia  under  the  word  Eryngo. 

A.D.  1809.  A  BABGE  was  golng  along  the 
new  ctit  from  Paddington  with  casks  of  spi- 
rits and  barrels  of  gunpowder.  It  is  sup- 
posed that  one  of  the  crew  bored  a  hole  in 
a  powder  barrel  by  mistake,  meaning  to 
steal  spirits,  the  gimblet  set  fire  to  the  pow- 
der, and  eleven  other  barrels  were  driven 
to  the  distance  of  150  yards ;  but  only  the 
single  barrel  exploded. 

The  Bretons  buy  from  Norway  the  offal 
and  entrails  of  the  large  fish  caught  in  the 
North  seas,  which  of  late  years  has  become 
a  considerable  article  of  trade.  These  they 
cut  in  pieces  and  strew  along  the  coast,  when 
the  wind  is  not  off  shore,  and  this  bait  brings 
the  pilchards  in  shoals. 

Mackerel  come  to  feed  on  the  narrow- 
leaved,  purple,  palmated  sea-wrack, — her- 
rings on  an  insect  called  the  sea  caterpillar. 

'  This  irruption  of  the  Thames  took  place  in 
1 707.  The  land  was  recovered  by  Captain  Perry 
at  an  expense  of  <£'40,000. 

'  This  is  now  used  medicinally,  as  is  well 
known ;  but  it  has  a  poisonous  effect,  and  re- 
quires the  utmost  caution. — J.  W.  W. 


D  D 


i 


dinal.— how  glaa  wouiQ  wv  vppvotvt^w 
flometimes  be  if  they  had  a  like  power  with 
their  members ! 

JuLT  13.  Read  two  pamphlets  by  WUliam 
Hale  upon  the  London  Female  Penitentiary. 
His  argument  that  such  institutions  do  more 
harm  than  good,  is  like  some  of  the  argu- 
ments against  the  Bible  Society,  made  of 
right  stuff,  but  spun  too  fine.  But  he  clearly 
shows  how  exceedingly  important  it  is  that 
the  parish  offices  should  be  served  by  men 
of  respectabQity,  activity,  and  principle,  who 
would  discharge  them  as  parts  of  their  civil 
and  religious  duty.  Each  parish  is  in  itself 
a  little  commonwealth,  and  it  is  easy  to  con- 
ceive that  before  manufactures  were  intro- 
duced, or  where  they  do  not  exist,  a  parish 
may  be  almost  as  well  ordered  as  a  family. 
Note  this  as  one  of  the  most  practicable  and 
most  efficient  means  of  reform.  Good  over- 
seers would  make  the  workhouse  at  once  a 
house  of  asylum,  of  correction,  of  industry, 
and  of  reform. 

Hale*s  argument,  that,  reform  as  many 
prostitutes  as  you  may,  their  places  will  be 
filled,  and  the  number  not  diminished,  is,  I 
dare  say,  well  founded.  According  to  him, 
the  greater  number  are  single  women  who 
work  by  day  at  various  trades,  and  try  their 
luck  to  boot.  But  these  cannot  be  the  ram- 


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AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


403 


were  twentj-nine  in  number,  some  contain- 
ing from  900  to  1000  members.  The  as- 
pirant was  blindfolded,  a  chain  is  put  round 
his  neck,  when  he  is  led  to  the  Arch  Druid 
who  administers  the  oath.  In  some  lodges 
this  is  administered  by  the  Right  Hand  sup- 
porter, who  holds  a  naked  sword ;  in  others, 
bj  the  most  worthy  secretary,  who  wears  a 
hideous  mask  and  an  enormous  pair  of  spec- 
tacles. The  aspirant  kneels  while  he  swears, 
and  when  the  bandage  is  taken  off,  he  is 
startled  at  seeing  a  ghastly  hue  thrown  over 
all  the  persons  present,  by  a  flame  which 
had  been  kindled  during  the  ceremony. 
They  wear  beards  k  la  Druid  at  their  meet- 
ings. 

Ei.  mentir  de  las  estrellas 

es  un  seguro  mentir, 
porque  nadie  puede  ir 

A  pcrguntarselo  a  ellas. 

DsscABTBS  used  to  say  that  though  he 
could  not  promise  to  himself  to  render  a 
man  immortal,  yet  he  was  sure  he  might  go 
so  far  as  to  make  him  as  long  lived  as  the 
patriarchs. 

A  Cambbibob  dandy  who  found  fault 
with  Chauncy  Townsend*s  neckloth,  assure<l 
him  that  in  Cambridge  the  neckcloth  makes 
the  man. 

The  neckcloths  are  sent  home  starched 
and  folded,  and  kept  in  a  rack  made  for  the 
purpose.  The  aforesaid  personage  said  that 
he  often  put  on  two  or  three  before  he  could 
satisfy  himself,  and  threw  them  aside  to  be 
fresh  starched  and  folded.  Another  of  these 
fellows  said  that  when  he  undressed  at  night, 
it  was  like  heaven ;  but  that  a  man  must 
suffer  in  order  to  be  captivating.' 

A.n.  1538.   Thb  archbishop  of  York  at- 
tempted to  save  Hexham  at  the  suppres- 

'  At  this  time,  it  is  well  known  there  was  a 
club  at  Cambridge  called  <*  the  Beautiful  Club," 
in  which  dimpUt  are  said  to  have  been  painted 
Hilt  men  outlive  such  follies !— J.  W.  W. 


sion  of  the  religious  houses.  He  wrote  to 
Cromwell,  saying,  **that  it  was  a  great  sanc- 
tuary when  the  Scotch  made  inroads;  and 
so  he  thought  that  the  continuing  of  it  might 
be  of  great  use  to  the  king." — ^Burnet,  vol, 
i.p.  251. 

*^BoDT -stealing has  commenced:  the  dis- 
secting lectures  will  require  more  than  200 
bodies  every  week  to  be  dragged  from  the 
wood  coffins.  Several  persons  have  been  de* 
terred,  which  they  have  lamented  at  our  manu- 
factory^  from  adopting  the  only  means  of 
safety  by  iron  coffins,  by  interested  persons 
stating  they  would  not  be  received  at  the 
burial  grounds.  We  are  informed  at  the 
Bishop  of  London*s  office,  they  cannot  be 
refused." 

LABfPS,  Middlesexy  vol.  i.  p.  81.  (Beau- 
ties of  England.) 

A  PREACHER  who  differed  in  opinion  with 
Adolphus  Gunn,  called  upon  him,  and  being 
known  was  denied  admittance,  "  Mr.  Gunn 
being  busy  in  his  study."  *  Tell  him,*  says 
the  importunate  visitor,  *  that  a  servant  of 
the  Lord  wishes  to  speak  to  him.*  Gunn 
replied  upon  this  message,  "  Tell  the  servant 
of  the  Lord  that  I  am  engaged  with  his 
Master.** 

Preston,  the  M.  P.  who  published 
pamphlets  upon  the  corn  laws,  and  the  ru- 
ined condition  of  the  landed  and  agricul- 
tural interests  in  1816,  was  originally  an 
attorney*s  clerk  in  Sussex  (/  believe).  His 
master  pushed  him  forward,  finding  him  a 
clever  fellow.  He  won  the  heart  of  his 
master*s  daughter,  and  they  were  to  be  mar- 
ried as  soon  as  his  circumstances  would  al- 
low him  to  settle.  He  went  to  London, 
succeeded  in  business,  and  came  down  after 
a  while  to  his  old  master,  not  to  fulfil  his 
promised  marriage,  but  to  break  it  oflf.  **  I 
know  what  you  will  do,**  he  told  the  father ; 
"  you  will  bring  an  action  for  breach  of 
promise,  but  that  won*t  do."  So  he  desired 


404 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES. 


well  Rt  Giggles  wick,'  wbich  has  mainUined 
its  place,  with  little  or  no  diminntion,  in 
the  driest  seasona,  from  that  time  to  tbe 
t  (1807).  It  ie  situated  near  the  ram- 
'  a  mountain,  and  HiuTODnded  on  ill 
sides  with  limestone  rock.  The  gnHud 
about  it  is  remarkablj  drj  ;  and  thongfa 
several  springs,  and  among  them  the  ebbihg 
and  flowing  well  itself,  break  out  at  tbf 
foot  of  the  mountain,  none  of  them  appeared 
to  be  affected  b;  the  ^ipearance  of  the 
pool." 

I  do  not  see  much  difficuUj  in  account- 
ing for  these  facts.  Acasaal  fall  of  sloots 
and  earth  m^ht  accidentally  block  up  the 
course  of  the  spring  beneath  the  surface ; 
hj  which  means  the  water,  after  accumulat- 
ing in  this  hollow,  maj  easilj  be  suf^Mwed 
to  have  found  another  channel  connected 
with  the  former,  and  to  supply  the  iprii^ 
beneathwith  the  same  uniform!^  and  plentj 

At  all  events  it  b  to  be  considered  a>  s 
providential  gift,  since  it  supplies  an  herd 
of  sixty  cattle  with  water  in  the  dnest  sea- 
sons, when  thej  court  the  highest  exposnro, 
and  had,  till  this  appearance,  to  detmid 
with  great  labour  for  their  refreshment  lo 
the  springs  below.  i 

The  figure  of  the  pool  is  nearly  an  «llip' .' 
sis,  of  which  the  axis  major  is  rather  nmtr  I 
than  thirty  yards;  the  axis  minor  r*tkr| 
morethan  twenty-three  yards,  and  thegrdt- 
est  depth,  three  yards  three  inches.— War- . 
TUK«*s  Hiitory  of  Cmnm,  p.  134.  f 

"  The  village  of  Fuzer  in  Craven  ow-    '• 
usts  of  tea  houses,  seven  of  which  sn  ■" 
.    .  a.<t'p  ^in;  and  I  thepuishof  Cl^ham,  onem  thepu^f  j 

»h»-n  I  irtw  »h»t,  ii  wa)  ntv  tur«,  1  jumped  |  Giggleswick,  and  the  other  two,  one  je*^" 
liilv>  t<v\l  A,<:tt<t.  i^<t  to  sk«^  b«A>re  him.  and  I  the  one  p«r^  and  one  in  another,  itic  i°- 1 
itvM  I  stv^tst  liiM).~  I  habitants  having  seats  in  both  cburcbrf.  rr-  ' 


to  see  the  lady  in  the  presence  of  her  father  1 
and  her  brotikera.  "  I  promised  to  marry 
you,"  said  he ;  "  I  acknowledge  the  promise. 
I  nm  a  nmn  of  my  word,  and  here  I  am  ready 
to  fuini  it.  I  am  ready  to  marry  you,  but 
mark  what  I  sny,  I  am  a  man  of  my  word, 
and  never  break  it.  If  you  become  my  wife, 
I  will  treat  you  like  a  eervant ;  you  shall 
never  associate  with  me ;  you  shall  live  in 
the  kitchen,  do  the  work  of  a  servant,  dress 
liku  a  servant,  and  clean  my  sbocs.  You 
know  I  iiovcr  break  my  word,  and  now  I 
am  ready  tu  marry  you,  and  all  who  are 
present  are  witnesses  to  this."  One  of  the 
brothers,  as  might  be  expected,  took  this 
vxi<ellent  scouuilrel  out  of  the  room,  and 
hortowhippetl  him  till  he  was  Ured.  But 
ton  tikiMl  this  when  the  smart  was  over, 
a>  it  gave  him  an  opportunity  of  bringing 


A  itVAKKK  who  was  the  proprietor  of  some 

Nir\<  luiUs,  rvUted  to  Talford  an  adventure 

KfhiiitiaiUmtJc-tHildcd room.  The  stranger 

n  the  »«!>  bi-*l  Miured  intolerably,  so  much 

11  ih*t  thi'  Quaker  got  out,  took  him  by  the 

*hi'uUK'r,  sluHik  hiui,  and  entreated  him  just 

It  atijiH-iut  hi:!  naMtl  truni)X't  till  he  (the 

iMiil.i>r^  wuld  fnll  ajJit'iv  which  would  re- 

H«iw  wily  «  fvw  n»uult'».  and  then  he  might 

w  awnv  MS  hi-  (ilo«.*wl.      But  before  the 

«•  ^>ii»l.,-v  was  wvH  warm  in  his  bed.  Sir 

'-I  WM   |rin»ivtiiij;   aynin ;  "  Our  wirw 

I-."  Mid  ih,-  VJiii*kor,  "  w,T*  a  (bol  to 


I  koht  » 


inwis  and  held  it  not  only  till  he 
>  angry  that  be  ' 


U  a  w{w»>w  Ell  Osfiwd  Str«*l  »  a  r«p^r  >  This  po,J  ,rf  -aier  is  said  lo  be  «•  ''7- 
MSIWWtt-'  "^  ■  \UWrtwv  4imU,  tnna  fa  naiTW:-.  in  his  P^ljuJticw,  sUudc  •»  "* 
FtUlha  I  rbbing  and  Bowing  well:— 

-  At  Gi^l«-«k,  where  I  ■  fiwiiin  <*" 
■**W*««W«ly  I      Th;7Ssl.tti«iDa*vis»id«"»«'«l 
md  fcwini- I  J"  "^- 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


405 


iternately,  and  paying  their 
e  rectors,  and  Easter  dues 
ematelj  ;  but  all  paj  their 
>  Stainforth."— Ibid.  p.  137. 

banks  of  Ullswater  between 
rs.  Cockbaine. 

Snstone  was  called  Bushell^s 
¥ent  to  see  it  in  1664.  "  This 
n  secretary  to  my  Lord  Ve- 
an  extraordinary  solitude, 
wo  mummies,  and  a  grot, 
a  hammock  like  an  Indian." 
%  pamphlet  respecting  his 
re,  and  there  is  a  print  of 
J  Oxfordshire, 

le  SixtVs  reign,  when  it  was 
slish  a  free  mart  in  England, 
J  begin  afler  Whitsuntide, 
ve  weeks,  "  by  which  means 
St.  James*8  fair  at  Bristol, 
w  fair  at  London."  These 
two  great  English  fairs. — 
■m.  vol.  ii.  part  ii.  p.  79. 

tion  of  railroads  in  the  north 
ch  were  at  first  all  made  of 
I  the  New  Forest,  the  col- 
ood  back.  So  difficult  is  it 
ems  of  thb  kind,  that  the 
wn  wood  from  the  forest, 

at  Portsmouth  docks,  was 
[s,  ^.  per  loud  more  than 

purchased. 

rk  near  Famham,  Sir  Wil- 
heart,  according  to  the  di- 
will,  was  buried  in  a  silver 
sun-dial  in  the  garden,  op- 
indow  from  whence  he  used 
I  and  admire  the  glorious 
e. 

lis  the  river  Weir,  "Dur- 
and  circulating  consort" 

Lyme.— Zi/e  of  Lord  Keeper 
•  i.  p.  228. 


Shields  would  become  the  port  town,  if 
Newcastle  had  not  a  privilege,  that  no  com- 
mon baker  or  brewer  shall  set  up  between 
them  and  the  sea. — Ibid.  vol.  i.  p.  233. 

Canal  coal. — Ibid.  vol.  i.  p.  278. 

It  was  a  superstition  concerning  Stone- 
henge  (noticed  in  the  history  of  Allchester), 
"  that  if  they  be  rubbed  and  water  thrown 
upon  them,  they  will  heal  any  green  wound 
or  old  8or6." 

Kew  Bridge.  Londres,  vol.  1,  p.  320, 
Est-il  vrai  P 

Westminstbb  Hall.  —  Ibid.  vol.  3,  p. 
134-8. 

In  York  Castle,  a  collection  of  instru- 
ments which  had  been  employed  by  robbers 
and  murderers,  brought  into  court,  and  de- 
posited there  by  public  authority. 

Mb.  Senhou8E*s^  grandfather  colonized 
the  Sol  way  Firth  with  good  oysters,  and 
they  bred  there, — but  as  the  population  of 
Maryport  (which  he  founded)  increased,  the 
people  destroyed  them. 

He  was  the  first  gentleman  in  Cumber- 
land who  sashed  his  windows. 

About  1600,  some  strollers  were  playing 
late  at  night  at  a  place  called  Perin  (Pen- 
ryn  ?)  in  Cornwall,  when  a  party  of  Spani- 
ards landed  the  same  night,  unsuspected 
and  undiscovered,  with  intent  to  take  the 
town,  plunder  it,  and  burn  it.  Just  as  they 
entered  the  players  were  representing  a 
battle,  and  struck  up  a  loud  alarm  with 
drum  and  trumpet  on  the  stage,  which  the 
enemy  hearing,  thought  they  were  disco- 
vered, made  some  few  idle  shots,  and  so 
in  a  hurly-burly  fled  to  their  boats.  And 
thus  the  townsmen  were  apprized  of  their 
danger,  and  delivered  from  it  at  the  same 
time. — Heywood,  Someri  Tracts^  vol.  3,  p. 
599. 


'  Sou  they 's  oid  and  intimate  friend,  Hum* 
1  hrey  Senhouse,  Esq.  of  Netherball. 

J.  W.  W. 


f 


At  the  Lord  William  Howard's  house  at 
Naworth,  a  hare  came  and  kennelled  in  his 
kitchen  upon  the  hearth.  Lilly  gives  this 
as  a  note  to  Mother  Shipton's  prophecy, 
that  "  the  day  will  come  that  hares  shall 
kennel  on  cold  hearth-stones." 

Kear  Cadbury,  in  Somersetshire,  the 
Wishing  Well,*  where  women  fill  their  thim- 
bles with  the  water  and  drink  it,  and  form 
their  wish.  The  story  is,  that  a  girl  of  low 
degree  drinking  there  one  day,  wished  she 
were  mistress  of  that  well  and  the  estate  to 
which  it  belonged, — and  ere  long  the  lord 
of  the  estate  married  her. 

HicHABD  IL  when  his  queen  died  at 
Richmond,  cursed  the  place  and  pulled 
down  the  palace* 

TiLLOTSON  was  curate  at  Cheshunt  in 
1661-2,  and  lived  with  Sir  Thomas  Dacres 
at  the  great  house  near  the  church.  (?)  He 
prevailed  with  an  old  Oliverian  soldier,  who 
set  up  for  an  Anabaptist  preacher  there,  and 
preached  in  a  red  coat,  and  was  much  fol- 
lowed in  that  place,  to  desbt  from  that  en- 
croachment upon  the  parish  minister,  and 
the  usurpation  of  the  priest's  office,  and  to 
betake  himself  to  some  honest  employment.^ 
Some  years  afterwards,  he  and  Dr.  Stilling- 
fleet  hired  that  house  for  their  summer 
residence. 

The  key-stones  of  the  centre  arch  of  the 
bridge  at  Henley  are  ornamented  with  heads 
of  the  Thames  and  Isis,  in  Portland  stone, 
designed  and  executed  by  Mrs.  Damer. 

At  Grantham  a  handsome  pelounnho. 
I  lost  my  book  of  the  roads  here,  which  I 
left  in  the  sitting  room  at  night,  and  no  in- 
quiries in  the  morning  could  recover  it. 
We  made  as  much  stir  as  my  temper  would 

'  Not  an  uncummon  superstition  in  former 
days.  Witness  those  of  Walsingham  chapel  in 
Norfolk. 

*  See  BiRCH-8  Life  of  TUhtson,  p.  23. 

J.  W.  W. 


permit,  and  I  left  a  direction.  The  next  daj 
it  was  sent,  with  a  note,  saying  the  chamber 
maid  had  found  it  under  our  bed, — which 
was  most  certainly  false. 

We  were  at  Stamford  on  a  fair  day  in 
September.  Among  other  things  I  observed 
a  patchwork  quilt  for  sale  in  the  market- 
place. A  waggon  laden  very  high  with  haj 
went  through  the  crowd  in  so  perilous  a 
state  that  I  verily  expected  every  moment 
it  would  fall  and  kill  somebody ;  the  hay 
was  so  ill  fastened  that  it  was  swaying  from 
side  to  side.  I  stopped  several  persons,  and 
made  them  get  into  the  houses  till  it  passed. 
A  sudden  jolt  must  have  upset  it  The 
man  knew  not  what  to  do  when  I  spoke  to 
him.  It  was  in  such  a  state  that  no  person 
could  get  upon  it  to  sectire  it ;  and  to  have 
let  it  fall  in  the  town  on  fair  day,  would 
have  blocked  up  the  street.  So  he  went  on 
at  all  hazards,  and  by  God*8  mercy  cleared 
the  street. 

Steep  roofs  in  Huntingdonshire.  Road 
passes  in  sight  of  Huntingdon  and  St.  Ne* 
ots.    Black  hospital  at  Norman  Cross. 

At  Biggleswade,  an  old  gateway  has  been 
made  into  a  handsome  hall  as  entrance,  so 
that  sleepers  are  not  disturbed  by  carriages 
driving  in  under  them.  The  stables  have 
been  thrown  back,  and  the  stable-yard  made 
into  a  garden,  like  a  nunnery  garden. 

Dabtford. — ^List  of  every  kind  of  costly 
wines  at  the  inn.  Churchyard  on  the  hill 
above  the  town,  farthest  from  London. 

Rochester. — The  landlord,  as  we  de- 
parted, came  to  apologize  for  not  having 
waited  on  us  in  person.  He  had  been  fif- 
teen years,  he  said,  a  cripple,  with  rheu- 
matic gout. 

**  Chester  boasts  of  bein^r  the  burial 
place  of  Henry,  a  Roman  emperor;  who, 
after  having  imprisoned  his  carnal  and  spi- 
ritual father,  Poj)e  Paschal,  gave  himself  op 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


407 


to  penitence,  and  becoming  a  voluntary 
exile  in  this  country,  ended  his  days  in 
solitary  confinement."  Harold,  after  the 
battle  of  Hastings,  where  he  lost  an  eye,  is 
said  to  have  retired  to  this  city  also.  *^  The 
truth  of  these  two  circumstances  was  de- 
clared (and  not  before  known)  by  the  dying 
confession  of  each  party." — I1oar£*8  (ri- 
raldusy  vol.  2,  p.  166.  **  The  Countess  and 
her  mother  keeping  tame  deer,  presented  to 
the  Archbishop  three  small  cheeses  made 
from  their  milk :  a  thing  which  Giraldus 
had  never  seen  before." — Ibid. 

Chbistopher  Smart  was  at  school  at 
Durham,  patronized  by  the  Barnard  family, 
and  after  at  Raby. 

Wabneb  {AtbiorCs  England)^  buried  at 
Amwell,  which  was  also  a  favourite  haunt 
of  Izaak  Walton. 

MiCKUs  educated  at  Langholm. 

Db.  CJotton  {The  Fire  Side)  lived  at  St. 
Albans. 

AuLSTONB  MooB. — Children  sent  to  wash 
lead  as  soon  as  they  are  able.  The  miners 
old  at  thirty,  and  seldom  reach  their  fiftieth 
year.'  The  smoke  of  the  smelting  kills  the 
heath  on  the  hills  when  the  wind  blows  it 
that  way. 

A  TOUNG  man,  Bateman  his  name,  killed 
himself  by  fagging  at  Cambridge,  not  for 
ambition  but  fear.  He  used  to  bind  wet 
towels  round  his  head  at  night!  drink  strong 
green  tea,  and  lest  that  should  not  stimulate 
the  nervous  system  sufficiently,  took  at  last 
to  sugar  and  cold  water,  which  is  said  to 
irritate  still  more. — See  Babr^  Robebt's 
Letters, 

Biscuits,  Cydopitdia,  —  How  made  at 
the  Victualling  Office,  Plymouth. 

*  This  is  found  to  be  the  case  in  the  smelting 
houses  in  Shropshire:  the  effect,  it  is  said,  of 
ihe  arsenic. — J.  W.  W, 


Brampton. — A  ruined  church  about  a 
mile  from  the  town,  near  the  banks  of  the 
Irthing ;  the  chancel  yet  remains,  and  the 
burial  service  is  generally  read  there,  most 
of  the  inhabitants  desiring  to  be  buried  in 
the  same  gi'ound  as  their  forefathers.  About 
two  miles  distant,  on  a  rock  overhanging 
the  river  Gelt,  the  "  celebrated"  Roman 
inscription  noticed  by  Camden. 

Thb  refuse  of  collieries  called  Gobbins^ 
in  some  districts.  In  Stafford  and  Derby- 
shire they  take  fire  after  some  time,  unless 
the  air  is  excluded.  A  thin  stratum  near 
the  coal,  called  duns,  tow,  tawe,  or  catdirt, 
heating,  swelling,  and  spontaneously  in- 
flaming by  the  contact  of  air  and  moisture. 
At  Donisthorp,  Derbyshire,  they  prevent 
this  by  casing  the  Gobbins  in  walls  of  tem- 
pered clay. 

One  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty 
dozen  wheatears  (Motacilla  Oenanthe) 
caught  annually  about  Eastbourne  ;  '*  6(f.  a 
dozen  the  common  price. 

Sneinton,  Nottinghamshire,  a  village  cut 
in  a  rock. 

In  the  bar  of  an  inn  at  Nottingham,  I 
saw  a  most  despicable  portrait,  *'*'  painted 
and  engraved  by  E.  W.  May  king,"  of  George 
Osbaldiston,  Esq.  M.  P.  in  a  white  jacket 
and  white  hat-,  with  a  cricket  bat  under  his 
arm,  and  a  standing  on  a  race-ground  in 
the  distance. 

Kendal  a  quaker-coloured  place;  pic- 
turesque chimneys  there.  In  the  inn  the 
rooms  on  the  first  floor  a  very  great  height 
from  the  street.     A  strange  looking  s^e 

'  In  Shropshire  and  Staffordshire,  Gob  is  the 
name  for  a  specified  measure  in  a  coal  pit.  To 
work  in  the  Gob  is  a  common  expression. 

*  White  remarks  in  his  Natural  History  cf 
Selbtmrnif  **  Thoueh  these  birds  are,  when  in  sea- 
son, in  plenty  on  Uie  South  Downs  round  Lewes, 
yet  at  Ea.st-6oum,  which  is  the  eastern  extre- 
mity of  those  downs,  they  abound  much  more :" 
vol.  i.  p  281.  J.  W.W. 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


there,  covered  with  pepper  and  salt  cloth, 
the  back  being  about  three  feet  and  a  half 
high,  five  long,  and  six  inches  thick.  A 
brazen  chandelier  in  the  room,  the  part 
above  the  candles  perfectly  blackened  with 
smoke.   Clothstretchers  about  tlie  town. 

Between  Kendal  and  Kirkby  Lonsdale 
one  alehouse  has  on  its  sign  **  Crood  ale  to- 
morrow for  nothing."  Bams  along  the  road 
remarkably  substantial  and  good. 

Inoleton. — Handles  of  the  bells  shaped 
like  anchors.  Single  church  not  a  mile 
from  the  town  ;  when  we  passed  there  was 
I  a  light  in  it,  and  four  bells  were  ringing. 
There  had  been  three  manufactories  in  the 
town,  two  of  cotton,  and  the  third  of  tow  ? 
but  they  had  all  been  given  up, — ^which  an 
old  man  who  told  us  this  thought  better  for 
the  people  of  the  neighbourhood.  The 
mountains  are  table-formed.  Before  Settle 
you  leave  an  old  road  on  the  left.  Its 
green  line  is  a  very  characteristic  object: 
the  ground  hereabout  park-like.  Ebbing  and 
flowing  well.  Long  church  at  Giggletfwick ; 
the  schoolmaster*s  salary  here  has  risen  from 
£50  to  £1000.  Proctor*  born  at  Settle,  but 
very  little  known  there,  though  we  inquired 
of  his  own  relations  at  the  inn.  An  old 
market-house,  a  pillar  like  a  pelourinho^ 
and  stocks. 

At  Skipton  there  was  a  print  of  the 
Short-horned  Bull  Patriot,  engraved  by  Wil- 
liam Ward,  engraver  extraordinary  to  their 
Royal  Highnesses  the  Prince  of  Wales  and 
Duke  of  York. 

• 

When  we  were  at  Witham  Common, 
September,  1815,  they  were  foddering  the 
cows  for  want  of  grass,  and  brought  all  the 
water  for  sixty  horses  from  a  mile  distance, 
such  had  been  the  drought.  In  the  north 
we  had  had  rain  enough. 

Baths  at  Ukley  high  up  the  hill,  and 

*  Thomas  Proctor,  the  bculptor,  is  alluded  to. 

J.  W.  W. 


the  water  beautifully  clear.  Wharfda 
fine  prospect  below.  We  saw  an  iron 
near  this  pretty  village. 

After  the  Norman  conquest,  Har 
mother  Gytha,  and  the  wives  of  many 
men  with,  her,  went  to  the  Steep  H 
(Bradanreolice) — ^is  this  rightly  transit 
— and  there  abode  some  time,  and  tl 
went  over  sea  to  St.  Omers. — Saxon  ( 
nicle,  p.  268. 

1584.  Sib  John  Yongb,  of  Bristol,  i 
Lord  Burghley  stones  from  St.  Vine 
Rocks,  to  be  used  in  a  device  in  a  cha 
at  Theobald*s. — Lansdowne  MSS,  N 
14. 

Dec.  18,  1737.  "  This  day,  accoi 
to  annual  custom,  bread  and  cheese 
thrown  from  Paddington  steeple  to  th 
pulace,  agreeable  to  the  will  of  two  wc 
who  were  relieved  there  with  bread 
cheese  when  they  were  almost  starved 
Providence  afterwards  favouring  them 
left  an  estate  in  that  parish  to  condnv 
custom  for  ever  on  that  day." — Lt 
Magazine,  1737,  p.  705. 

FoNTHiLL,  then  called  Funtell,  belc 
to  Lord  Cottington,  and  Grarrard  thu 
scribes  it  in  one  of  his  letters  to  Stra 
1637.  "  It  is  a  noble  place  both  fbi 
and  all  things  about  it,  downs,  pasi 
arable,  woods,  water,  partridges,  phea 
fish,  a  good  house  of  freestone,  much  1 
for  some  additions  he  hath  newly  ma 
it ;  for  he  hath  built  a  stable  of  ston 
third  in  England,  Petworth  and  Bur! 
on-the-Hill  only,  exceed  it ;  alao  a  ki 
which  is  fairer  and  more  convenient 
any  I  have  seen  in  England  anp 
£2000  land  a-year  he  hath  about  it 
whilst  I  was  there  his  park-wall  of  s 
white  stone,  a  dry  wall,  only  coped  i 
top,  was  finished,  which  cost  him  setti 
£600  a  mile,  but  it  is  but  three  miles  i 
The  finest  hawking-place  in  Englan( 
wonderful  ^tore  of  partridges,  which 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


409 


lelightwhenhe  is  there." — Stbap- 
tterg,  vol.2,  p.  118. 

IIIH3E  Castle.  The  inclosure  turned 
oeyard  by  its  owner,  Mr.  Hooker, 
walls  spread  with  fruit;  and  the 
Q  which  the  keep  stood,  planted  in 

way.  He  sometimes  makes  eigh- 
r  hogsheads,  and  is  going  to  disrobe 
^-mantled  towers,"  because  it  har- 
rdfl. — H.  Waj.poijb'8  Letters,  vol.  1, 

A.D.  1752. 

'HiH  a  mile  or  less  of  Bristol  city, 
i  navigable  river  that  runs  for  about 
iree  miles  between  two  prodigious 
ks  of  hard  stone,  (supposed  by  some 
i  high  as  the  Monument  in  Fish- 
[ill,)  just  as  though  it  was  cut  out 

.  Your  opinion  whether  that  river 
product  of  nature  or  of  art  I 
British  Apollo,  vol.  2,  p.  600. 

[n  a  mere  near  unto  Staffordshire, 
s,  about  the  thickness  of  a  straw, 
)o  much  about  a  set  time  in  sum- 
ig  on  the  top  of  the  water  as  thick 
}  are  said  to  be  in  the  sun,  that 
the  poorer  sort  of  people  that  in- 
ar  to  it  take  such  eels  out  of  this 
h  sieves  or  sheets,  and  make  a  kind 
&ke  of  them,  and  eat  it  like  as 
-Iz.  Walton,  p.  188. 

OT  about  twelve  years  of  age,  be- 
to  most  respectable  parents  at 
Shields,  was  during  the  summer 
Gilsland  Wells  by  a  near  relation, 
lery  pleased  his  youthful  imagina- 
lach  a  degree,  that  he  formed  the 
;  notion  of  making  a  plantation  in 
ghbourhood  the  place  of  his  resi- 
vr  life,  where  he  designed  to  build 
screen  him  from  the  winter*s  blast, 
return  home  he  used  every  endea- 
raise  money,  in  which  he  in  some 
succeeded.  His  next  care  was  to 
brother  hermit  t^  accompany  him, 


and  he  at  last  found  a  schoolfellow,  rather 
younger,  who  appears  to  have  been  as  ro- 
mantic as  himself.  These  two  worthies  last 
week,  after  packing  up  their  wardrobes,  and 
securing  a  pistol,  powder,  and  shot,  to  fur- 
nish themselves  with  game,  actually  set  out 
on  their  pilgrimage,  and  were  some  miles 
west  of  Hexham  before  one  of  the  persons 
employed  to  seek  the  fugitives  overtook  and 


«t 


brought  them  back. 


A  MAD  Welshman,  in  Bbaumomt  and 
Fletcheb*8  Pilgrim,  says — 

"The  organs  at  Rixum^  were  made  by  re- 
velations. 
There  is  a  spirit  blows  and  blows  the  bellows. 
And  then  they  sing." — Act  iv.  sc.  3. 

This  Welshman  "  ran  mad  because  a  rat 
eat  up  his  cheese." 

Mabble  discovered  at  Dent  by  two  up- 
right slabs  set  up  as  a  stile  in  the  church- 
yard, which  in  process  of  time  were  polished 
by  those  who  rubbed  against  them  in  pass- 
ing through. 

Bible  Society. — Book  worship  substi- 
tuted for  idol-worship  by  the  Jews,  Here- 
tics, and  Moslems. 

Catholics  in  Ireland  and  England,  how 
they  have  acted. 

Spectacle  Society  desiderated,  and  of 
course  to  follow. 

It  will  soon  be  a  question  whether  the 
Bible  be  created  or  uncreated. 

The  Admiralty  has  ordered  that  one 
Bible,  one  Testament,  and  four  Books  of 
Common  Prayer,  shall  be  allowed  to  every 
mess  of  eight  men  in  the  navy.  The  books 
are  to  be  in  charge  of  the  purser,  to  be  fre- 
quently mustered,  and  considered  as  sea- 
store.  A  proportion  is  also  allowed  to  all 
the  naval  hospitals. 

G.  G.  S.  from  Birmingham,  suggests  "  me- 

'  i.e.  Wrexham.  The  pronunciation  is  pretty 
much  the  same  t<>  this  dav.— J.  W.  W. 


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CHARACTEEISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES. 


tfaods  by  which  geuerous  persons  in  mid- 
dling circumstances,  during  these  trying 
times,  may  keep  up  their  charitable  sub- 
scriptions : — ^First,  by  selling  all  or  most  of 
their  jewels,  trinkets,  hoarded  coins,  &c. 
Secondly,  by  leaving  off  or  diminishing  the 
use  of  wine,  spirituous  liquors,  tobacco,  and 
snuff.  Thirdly,  by  decreasing  expenses ; — 
there  are  professors  who  keep  carriages  or 
horses,  some  of  which  they  could  do  very 
well  without.  And  lastly,  by  disusing  the 
expensive  custom  of  treating  parties  et  din- 
ner or  supper.  Here  I  must  also  add  that 
if  reputable  persons  would  restrict  their 
families  during  this  season  to  the  use  of 
cheap  provisions ;  they  would  thereby  have 
more  to  spare  for  the  poor." — Evaiigelical 
Magazine^  March  1813. 

*'  This  opinion  of  Inspiration,  called 
commonly  Private  Spirit,  begins  very  often 
from  some  lucky  finding  of  an  error  gene- 
rally held  by  others ;  and  not  knowing, 
or  not  remembering  by  what  conduct  of 
reason  they  came  to  so  singular  a  truth  (as 
they  think  it,  though  it  be  many  times  an 
untruth  they  light  on),  they  presently  ad- 
mire themselves,  as  being  in  the  special 
grace  of  Grod  Almighty,  who  hath  revealed 
the  same  to  them  supematurally,  by  His 
Spirit." — HoBBES,  p.  36. 

Sectarianism  of  the  wilder  sort — like 
love 

'*  que  sicmpre  en  estas  materias 

aquello  que  no  se  sabe 

es  aquello  que  mas  prenda." 

D.  Franc,  de  Roxas.    Las  Vandos 
da  Verona, 

A  DIGNITARY  of  the  Church  is  said  to 
have  found  Bolingbroke  reading  Calvin^s 
Institutes^  and  being  asked  his  opinion  of 
the  book,  to  have  replied, — "  We  do  not 
think  upon  such  topics :  we  teach  the  plain 
doctrines  of  virtue  and  morality,  and  have 
long  laid  aside  those  abstruse  points  about 
grace."     "  Look  you,  Doctor,"  said  Boling- 


broke, "  you  know  I  don  t  believe  the  Bible 
to  be  a  divine  revelation ;  but  they  who  do 
can  never  defend  it  on  any  principle  but  the 
doctrine  of  grace.  To  say  truth,  I  have 
at  times  been  almost  persuaded  to  believe 
it  upon  this  view  of  things, —  and  there  is 
one  argument  which  has  gone  very  far  with 
me,  which  is,  that  the  belief  of  it  now  exbts 
upon  earth,  when  it  is  committed  to  the  care 
of  such  as  you,  who  pretend  to  believe  it 
and  yet  deny  the  only  principles  on  which 
it  is  defensible." 

Madan  relates  this  as  communicated  to 
him  by  a  person  to  whom  Bolingbroke  re- 
ported the  conversation. 

Secession  of  the  Baptista  from  the  Evan- 
gelical Magazine,  because  in  A  Concise  View 
of  the  Present  State  of  Evangelical  Religion 
throughout  the  TFor^,  which  the  Editors  ad- 
mitted ^^without  making  themselves  respon- 
sible for  every  sentiment  they  contain,"— 
(for  thus  they  premised), — ^this  sentence  oc- 
curred : — "  The  Particular  Baptists  have 
greatly  enlarged  their  numbers,  not  perhaps 
so  much  from  the  world  by  awakenings  of 
conscience  in  new  converts,  as  from  the  dif- 
ferent congregations  of  Dissenters  and  Me- 
thodists." This  was  complained  of  by  the 
Baptist  Brethren.  The  Editors  took  the 
subject  into  consideration,  and  came  to  this 
resolution : — "  That  the  Editors  having  re- 
considered the  paragraph  complained  of,  are 
by  no  means  convinced  that  it  contains  any 
mistake  in  point  of  fact ;  and  they  are  fur- 
ther of  opinion,  that  recurring  to  the  sub- 
ject in  the  Magazine  can  have  no  possible 
good  effect."  Upon  this  the  secession  fol- 
lowed ;  and  the  Editors  in  announcing  it, 
say — "  While  it  is  painful  to  separate  from 
brethren  whom  we  respect  and  love, — we 
feel  ourselves  liberated  from  the  restraint 
which  our  connection  with  them  laid  upon 
us,  to  refrain  from  all  observations  in  favour 
of  Infant  Baptism,  which  we  firmly  main- 
tain, in  common  with  our  fellow-Christians 
in  general  throughout  the  world.  To  this 
important  subject,  therefore,  we  shall  occa- 
sionally recur;  and  endeavour  to  defend 


our  practice  as  freely  as  others  oppose  it ; 
at  the  same  time  by  no  means  ranking  it 
with  the  essentials  of  vital  religion,  or  treat- 
ing those  of  a  contrary  spirit  with  asperity." 
The  sale  of  the  Evangelical  Magazine  is 
stated  in  this  notice  to  exceed  20,000. 
More  than  eighty  poor  widows  of  evangeli- 
cal ministers  were  annually  assisted  with 
sums  of  four  or  five  pounds  from  its  profits. 
In  this  manner,  since  its  commencement  in 
1793,  £6000  had  been  distributed,  besides 
several  hundreds  to  missions. 

Afteb  Lord  Exmouth*s  victory,  some 
British  speculators  sent  bricks  and  tiles  to 
Algiers,  expecting  to  find  a  sure  market  for 
them,  in  a  city  which  had,  as  they  supposed, 
been  battered  to  pieces. 

Revival  of  religion  at  Bristol  in  Rhode 
Island.  —  Evangelical  Magazine^  January 
1813,  p.  30. 

"  Wanted,  in  the  vicinity  of  Cavendish 
Square,  an  improver  in  the  millinery  and 
dress-making  business.  If  seriously  dis- 
posed, the  more  desirable.**  Is  this  an  in- 
ventor of  fashions? — Ibid.  Feb.  1813. 

**  SiBRAH,**  said  an  old  Scotch  minister  to 
Mr.  Halyburton  when  a  boy,  "  unsanctified 
learning  has  done  much  mischief  to  the  kirk 
of  God.- 

**  Or  all  discourse,  governed  by  desire  of 
knowledge,  there  is  at  last  an  end ;  either 
by  attaining,  or  by  giving  over." — Hobber, 
Leviathan,  p.  30.  At  Cateaton  Street  we 
had  not  this  consolation  in  view ! 

"  Last  of  all,  men,  vehemently  in  love 
with  their  own  new  opinions,  (though  never 
so  absurd),  and  obstinately  bent  to  main- 
tain them,  gave  those  their  opinions  also 
that  reverenced  name  of  conscience,  as  if 
they  would  have  it  seem  unlawful  to  change 
or  speak  against  them ;  and  so  pretend  to 
know  they  are  true,  when  they  know  at 
most  but  that  they  think  so.** — Ibid.  31. 


'*  Without  steadiness,  and  direction  to 
some  end,  a  great  fancy  is  one  kind  of  mad- 
ness ;  such  as  they  have,  that,  entering  into 
any  discourse,  are  snatched  from  their  pur- 
pose by  every  thing  that  comes  in  their 
thought,  into  so  many  and  so  long  digres- 
sions and  parentheses,  that  they  utterly  lose 
themselves.  Which  kind  of  folly  I  know 
no  particular  name  for.** — Ibid.  33. 

A  TAMB  crow  at  a  pubUc-hooBeiii  Swall- 
well,  Durham,  bred  there  from  a  young  one. 
It  used  to  fly  at  large  during  the  fine  sea- 
son, and  return  in  winter.  Sometimes,  in 
summer,  it  would  visit  the  village,  perch 
in  the  trees,  and  come  down  to  take  meat 
or  bread  from  those  who  offered  it  to  their 
old  acquaintance.  It  would  alight  upon 
their  shoulder,  and  take  the  food  from  the 
hand. 

•  Names  of  Gooseberries,  at  the  Annual 
Gooseberry  Show,  held  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
Robert  Huxley,  Sign  of  the  Angel,  Chester. 

Mr.  Blead*8, — Creeping  Ceres, 

Glory  of  England^ 
Apollo, 
Colossus, 
Golden  Lion. 

Mr.  Cooper*8, — Worthington's  Conqueror, 

Somach*s  Victory, 
Beirs  Farmer, 
Green  Chissel, 
Game-Keeper, 
Langley  Green, 
Green  Goose, 
Apollo, 
White  Bear, 
White  Rose, 
Yellow  Seedling. 

Mr.Huxley*s, — Royal  Sovereign. 

Gbttp.  Llotd  had  two  hunters,  whose 
names  were  Heretick  and  Beelzebub. 

Thb  London  bills  of  mortality  for  1812 
enumerate  1550  of  old  age ;  4942  of  con- 
sumption ;  3530  convulsions ;  1287  small- 
pox ;  4  of  grief ;  1  of  leprosy. 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


In  181 1  onlj  one  single  case  of  snudl-pox 
at  Copenhagen, — such  had  been  the  progress 
of  vaccination.^ 

At  Mr.  Mummerj^s  academy,  near  the 
seven  mile  stone.  Lower  Edmonton,  young 
gentlemen  are  boarded  and  educated  at 
twenty-six  guineas  per  annum,  including 
washing.  For  the  accommodation  of  those 
parents  who  may  be  desirous  of  sending 
their  daughters  to  the  some  school  with 
their  sons,  Mrs.  Mummery  takes  young 
ladies  on  the  same  terms.** 

Mart  Bateman,  the  Taunton  witch. 

*  "For,  as  for  witches,*'  says  Hobbss,  "I 
think  not  that  their  witchcraft  is  any  real 
power,  but  yet  that  they  are  justly  punished 
for  the  false  belief  they  have,  that  they 
can  do  such  mischief,  joined  with  their  pur« 
pose  to  do  it  if  they  can ; — their  trade  being 
nearer  to  a  new  religion  than  to  a  craft  or 
science.** — LevicUhaiUt  p.  7. 

A  MAN  and  woman,  for  coining,  were 
hanged  at  the  same  time  with  Patch  the 
murderer. 

'*  Caution  to  officers  going  abroad,  and 
to  sportsmen  in  general.  Whereas  the  Pa- 
tent Elastic  Anticra  Enodros  Absorbent 
Military  Fulax  Kleistrow  will  be  ready  for 
inspection  in  a  few  days.  And  as  whenever 
talents  are  on  the  tapis,  imbecillity  and  ava- 
rice are  ever  on  the  watch,  this  is  solely  to 
caution  those  persons  whose  ardent  imagi- 
nations might  lead  them  to  support  those 
servile  and  illiberal  imitations  which  we 
have  no  doubt  will  be  offered  to  the  public.'* 
—Courier,  Dec.  28,  1813. 

**  It  was  a  good  race,  the  winner  being 
much  spurred.*' 

**  As  for  whipping  such  a  dishonest  brute 
as  Hambletonian,  it  would  answer  no  end 
but  to  make  him  swerve,  or  bolt,  or  pro- 
bably stop  him  outright ;  but  of  spurring 

*  I  have  noticed  before  the  great  care  taken 
on  this  head.  See  svpruj  p.  394. 


he  had  a  good  bellyfull  in  the  late  race,  and 
it  must  be  owned  in  his  favour,  he  ran  very 
truly  to  it." 

^  Diamond  is  in  the  second  degree  finom 
Herod ;  Hambletonian  from  Eclipse.  The 
Herods  are  in  general  hard  and  stout ;  the 
Eclipses,  jadish,  speedy,  and  uncertain.** 

1799.  The  Hambletonian  and  Diamond 
of  their  day,  Sandy-o*er-the-lee,  a  few  yean 
since  the  property  of  Mr.  Baird  at  New- 
hythe,  and  Whitelegs,  about  the  same  pe- 
riod belonging  to  Sir  Hedworth  Williamson, 
Baronet ;  horses  by  which,  at  a  moderate 
computation,  their  owners  may  be  supposed 
to  have  realized  £5000  a-piece,  are  at  this 
time  running  together  in  one  of  the  dili- 
gences between  Glasgow  and  Edinburgh. 

**  As  a  sportsman,  I  cannot  but  congra- 
tulate you,  and  all  true  lovers  of  the  British 
turf,  upon  the  late  evident  increase  of  the 
noble  and  heroic  sport  of  horse-racing.** 

F1TNB88  of  having  summer  and  winter 
apartments  in  great  houses. 

Absubditt  of  verandas  in  the  streets  of 
London,  and  by  the  side  of  its  dusty  roads. 

Hbdgb-hoo  crocus  pots. 

"  On  Saturday,  January  1,  1814,  will  be 
publbhed,  continued  weekly,  at  Swansea, 
a  provincial  newspaper,  in  the  Welsh  lan- 
guage, under  the  title  of  Seren  Gomer.** 

"  St.  Paul*8,  Covent-Garden,  Dec.  24, 
1813.  "  Whereas  many  of  the  sepulchnl 
stones  and  buildings  in  the  above  church- 
yard are,  through  the  lapse  of  time,  fallen 
into  a  very  ruinous  and  dilapidated  state; 
notice  is  hereby  respectfully  given  to  the 
families  and  friends  of  those  to  whom  such 
sepulchral  conveniences  may  have  been  ap- 
propriated, that  unless  the  same  shall  be  pnt 
into  decent  repair  within  the  space  of  three 
months  from  this  time,  they  must  be  con- 
sidered as  exclusively  the  property  of  the 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRTELLA. 


413 


parish.  —  Robert  Joy. —  S.  L.  Curlewis. — 
James  Sant,  Churchwardens." 

Sis  Rowland  Hill  bought  Dash,  a  fa- 
vourite pointer  of  Colonel  Thornton,  for 
120  guineas,  and  a  cask  of  Madeira,  on  con- 
dition that  if  the  dog  were  disabled  for 
sporting  at  any  time  he  should  be  resold  to 
the  Colonel  for  fifty  guineas,  to  breed  from. 
Which  repurchase  accordingly  took  place. 

The  history  of  Baillie  the  renegade,  who 
was  going  to  cut  off  Arthur  Aikin*s  head 
because  I  had  spoken  of  htm  in  the  Annual 
Review,  is  to  be  found  in  Db.  Nealb*8  Tra- 
vels, p.  232. 

^  Mrs.  Whitbread  hired  a  servant  in 
Cornwall,  who  at  the  time  of  hiring  thought 
herself  bound  to  let  the  lady  know  that  she 
had  once  had  a  misfortune.  When  the  wo- 
man had  been  some  time  in  service,  by  a 
slip  of  the  tongue  she  spoke  of  something 
which  had  happened  to  her  just  after  the 
birth  of  her  first  child.  "  Your  first,"  said 
Mrs.  Whitbread,  "  why,  how  many  have 
you  had  then  P  "  "  O  ma'am,"  said  she, "  Tve 
had  four."  "  Four ! "  exclaimed  the  mis- 
tress, **  why,  you  told  me  you  had  had  but 
one.  However,  I  hope  you  will  have  no 
more."  "  Ma'am,"  replied  the  woman, "  tbat 
must  be  as  it  may  please  God." 


"When  we  reason  in  words  of  general  sig- 
nification, and  fall  upon  a  general  inference 
which  is  false ;  though  it  be  commonly  called 
error,  it  is  indeed  an  absurditt,  or  sense- 
less speech.  For  error  is  but  a  deception, 
in  presuming  that  somewhat  is  past,  or  to 
come;  of  which,  though  it  were  not  past,  or 
not  to  come,  yet  there  was  no  impossibility 
discoverable.  But  when  we  make  a  general 
assertion,  unless  it  be  a  true  one,  the  pos- 
sibility of  it  is  inconceivable.  And  words 
whereby  we  conceive  nothing  but  the  sound 
are  those  we  call  absurd,  insignificant,  and 
nonsense. 

*'I  have  said  that  a  man  did  excel  all  other 
animaU  in  this  faculty,  that  when  he  con- 


ceived any  thing  whatsoever,  he  was  apt  to 
inquire  the  consequences  of  it,  and  what 
effects  he  could  do  with  it.  And  now  I  add 
this  other  degree  of  the  same  excellence, 
that  he  can  by  words  reduce  the  conse- 
quences he  finds  to  general  rules,  called 
theorems,  or  aphorisms:  That  is,  he  can 
reason,  or  reckon,  not  only  in  number,  but 
in  all  other  things,  whereof  one  may  be 
added  unto,  or  subtracted  from  another. 

"But  this  privilege  is  allayed  by  another, 
and  that  is  by  the  privilege  of  absurdity, 
to  which  no  living  creature  is  subject  but 
man  only.  And  of  men,  those  are  of  all  most 
subject  to  it  who  profess  philosophy."  — 
HoBBES,  pp.  19,  20. 

"They  that  have  no  science,  are  in  better 
and  nobler  condition  with  their  natural  pru- 
dence, than  men  that  by  mis-reasoning,  or 
by  trusting  them  that  reason  wrong,  fall  upon 
false  and  absurd  general  rules. — Ibid.  p.  2 1 ." 

Wortley  Stuart's  motion  for  a  change  of 
ministry  :  "  The  resolutions  of  a  monarch 
are  subject  to  no  other  inconstancy  than 
that  of  human  nature  ;  but  in  assemblies, 
besides  that  of  nature,  there  ariseth  an  in- 
constancy from  the  number.  For  the  ab- 
sence of  a  few  that  would  have  the  resolution 
once  taken  continues  firm,  (which  may  hap- 
pen by  security,  negligence,  or  private  im- 
pediments,) or  the  diligent  appearance  of  a 
few  of  the  contrary  opinion,  undoes  to-day 
all  that  was  concluded  yesterday." — Ibid, 
p.  96. 

"  Good  reason  had  Xenocrates  to  give 
order  that  children  should  have  certain  au- 
rielets  or  bolsters  devised  to  hang  about 
their  ears  for  their  defence,  rather  than 
fencers  and  sword  players ;  for  that  these 
are  in  danger  only  to  have  their  ears  spoiled 
with  knocks  or  cuts  by  weapons ;  but  the 
others  to  have  their  manners  corrupted  and 
marred  with  evil  speeches." — Plutarch, 
p.  52. 

"  The  reply  of  that  great  sufferer,  the 
noble  Marquis  of  Worcester,  to  the  maior 
of  Bala  in  Merionethshire,  who  came  to  ex-  [ 


414 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


cuse  himself  and  town  for  his  lordship*8  bad 
lodging :  *  Lord !  what  a  thing  is  this  mis- 
understanding !  I  warrant  you,  might  but 
the  king  and  parliament  conferre  together 
as  you  and  I  have  done,  there  might  be  as 
right  an  understanding  as  betwixt  you  and 
I.  Somebody  hath  told  the  parliament  that 
the  king  was  an  enemy ;  and  their  believing 
of  him  to  be  such  halJi  wrought  all  the  jea- 
lousies which  are  come  to  these  distractions; 
the  parliament  being  now  in  such  a  case  as 
I  myself  am  in,  having  green  ears  over  their 
heads,  and  false  ground  under  their  feet.* 
The  parlour  where  the  marquis  lay  was  a 
soft  and  loose  ground,  wherein  you  might 
sink  up  to  the  ancles :  the  top  of  the  house 
was  thatcht  with  ill-threshed  straw,  and  the 
corn  which  was  lefl  in  the  straw  wherewith 
the  house  was  thatcht,  grew,  and  was  then 
as  green  as  grass."— Batlt*8  Worcester 
Apothegms,  Fouus,  Pretended  Saints,  p.  187. 

^^  There  is  a  place  near  St.  Faults,  called 
in  old  records  I>iana*s  Chamber,  where  in 
the  days  of  Edward  I.,  thousands  of  the 
heads  of  oxen  were  digged  up;  whereat  the 
ignorant  wondered,  whilst  the  learned  well 
understood  them  to  be  the  proper  sacrifices 
to  Diana,  whose  great  temple  was  built 
thereabout.  This  rendereth  their  conceit* 
not  altogether  unlikely  who  will  have  Lon- 
don so  called  from  Llan-Dian,  which  sig- 
nifieth  in  British  the  temple  of  Diana.  And 
surely  conjectures,  if  mannerly  observing 
their  distance,  and  not  impudently  intrud- 
ing themselves  for  certidnties,  deserve,  if 
not  to  be  received,  to  be  considered.** — 
FuiXEB*8  Church  History,  p.  1. 

"  The  learned  know  that  the  Tauropolia 
were  celebrated  in  honour  of  Diana.  And 
when  I  was  a  boy,*'  says  Camden,  "  I  have 
seen  a  stag's  head  fixed  upon  a  spear,  (agree- 
able enough  to  the  sacrifices  of  Diana)  and 


,  The  learned  Selden  is  the  author  of  the  con- 
oeit  here  alluded  to.  The  reader  is  referred  to 
the  notes  in  the  Clar.  Press  edit,  of  Fulleb's 
Church  Htftorif.^J.  W.  W. 


carried  about  within  the  very  church  with 
great  solenmity  and  sounding  of  horns.  And 
I  have  heard  that  the  stag  which  the  family 
of  Baud  in  Essex  were  bound  to  pay  for  cer- 
tain lands,  used  to  be  received  at  the  stepe 
of  the  quire  by  the  priests  of  the  church, 
in  their  sacerdotal  robes,  and  with  garlands 
of  flowers  about  their  heads*  Whether  this 
was  a  custom  before  those  Bauds  were  bound 
to  the  payment  of  that  stag,  I  know  not ; 
but  certain  it  is  that  ceremony  savours  more 
of  the  worship  of  Diana,  and  the  Gentile 
errors,  than  of  the  Christian  religion.**— 
Camden,  p.  315. 

Neighbourhood  of  Smithfield  and  War- 
wick Lane.  It  is  become  a  more  fatal  place 
for  oxen,  and  perhaps  also  for  the  souls  of 
the  inhabitants ;  for  of  an  idolater  there  is 
more  hope  than  of  a  heretic.  The  true 
Diana*8  worship  has  disappeared. 

The  seraphim  or  musical  glasses,  to  which 
the  above  title  is  truly  appropriate  firom 
their  divine  harmony,  offer  ^'  a  powerful 
attraction  to  the  lovers  of  harmony  in  ge- 
neral, and  particularly  to  taste  and  science, 
in  the  decline  of  the  wonted  powers  of  in- 
strumental performance,  from  the  gentle 
movement  whereby  the  music  of  the  sert- 
phim  is  produced ;  whilst  to  the  sensibilitj 
of  pain  or  sorrow  it  infuses  the  balm  of  con- 
solation by  the  most  soothing  and  delight- 
fVd  harmony.**  —  Coubieb,  January  1st, 
1814. 

A  CEREMONY  respecting  a  peculiar  tenure 
for  lands  in  the  parbh  of  Broughton,  Lin 
colnshire,  takes  place  at  Castor  church  every 
Palm  Sunday.  A  person  enters  the  church- 
yard with  a  green  silk  purse,  containing  ten 
shillings  and  a  silver  penny,  tied  at  the  end 
of  a  cart  whip,  which  he  smacks  thrice  in 
the  porch,  and  continues  there  till  the  second 
lesson  begins ;  when  he  goes  into  the  church 
and  smacks  the  whip  three  times  over  the 
clergyman*s  head.  After  kneeling  before 
the  desk  during  the  reading  of  the  lesson, 
he  presents  the  minister  with  the  purse,  ind  j 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


415 


to  the  choir,  waitA  the  remain- 
rvice.^ 


LKB  at  Crowland,  *^  that  is,  the 
i  land,  so  raw  indeed,  that  be- 
lan  could  digest  to  live  thereon, 
iled  it  their  own  land.  *  Could 
1  fiends,  tortured  with  immate- 
e  anj  pleasure,  or  make  any 
nselves,  by  paddling  here  in 
I  dabbling  in  the  moist  dirty 
[f  his  prodigious  life  may  be  be- 
I  and  mallards  do  not  now  flock 
r  in  September,  than  herds  of 
&bout  him." — Fuller,  p.  95. 

nred  of  the  country  people  bom 

Leicestershire,  that  they  have 
ng  fipom  some  secret  cause  in 
rater)  a  strange  uncouth  wharl- 

speech.*'  —  Fuller's  Church 
25. 
u  is  Camden*3  word,  and  he 

the  natives  have  it,  **  a  harsh 
ful  manner  of  speech,  with  a 

difficult  pronunciation."  Per- 
lly  a  colony  from  Durham  or 
land,  whose  descendants  had 
I  sticking  in  their  throats.^ 

kTHABiNB  buried  at  Feterbo- 
Fuller,  p.  206. 

ier*8  observation,  that  in  Scrip- 
nan  is  always  taken  in  a  good 
tons  of  men,  generally  in  the 
^ion."  —  Fuller,  book  viii. 


at  Ennis  races  in  Ireland,  threw 
it  won  the  race,  looking  back 
ng  her  pace  as  the  other  horses 
ler.  At  the  close  she  trotted  a 

rare,  but  I  think,  in  consideration 
ness,  the  custom  was  done  away 
irs  ago.  It  was  mentioned  in  the 
mons. 

ich  the  same  statement  is  made, 

J.  W.  W. 


few  paces,  wheeled  round,  and  came  up  to 
the  scale  as  usual. 

In  the  golden  speech  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
to  her  last  parliament,  me  and  my  are  al- 
ways pi*inted  with  capital  initials. 

A  Norfolk  gentleman  farmer  rode  his 
own  boar  for  a  wager  from  his  own  house 
to  the  next  town,  four  and-a-quarter  miles 
distant,  twenty  guineas  the  wager,  the  time 
allowed  an  hour :  Porco  performed  it  in 
fif>.y  minutes. 

Cards.  The  manufacturers  work  at  them 
from  seven  in  the  morning  till  ten  at  night : 
and  the  consumers  from  ten  at  night  till 
seven  in  the  morning. 

Leominster,  1796.  One  of  the  Oxford 
dragoon  horses  got  loose  in  the  stable,  and 
probably  scenting  a  better  supply  of  pro- 
visions, found  his  way  up  a  crooked  stair- 
case into  the  hay  lofl.  The  soldier  who  had 
the  key  of  the  stable  in  his  pocket  came 
back  presently,  and  missing  the  horse,  ran 
in  the  utmost  consternation  to  his  officer. 
But  on  his  way  he  heard  the  horse,  who  had 
put  his  head  out  of  the  pitching  hole,  and 
was  neighing  as  if  to  say,  '*Here  I  am." 
There  was  no  enticing  or  forcing  him  down 
the  stairs ;  and  they  were  wearied  with  at- 
tempting it,  when  he  trod  upon  a  trap  door 
which  covered  a  hole  for  sacking  hops ;  it 
gave  way,  his  hinder  part  went  first,  for  which 
there  was  just  room ;  his  feet  touched  the 
ground,  and  in  a  few  moments  the  rest  foI< 
lowed,  and  he  alighted  with  very  little  in- 
jury, only  the  loss  of  a  few  hairs  and  a  little 
skin. 

Benjamin  Smith,  of  Peter  House,  Rector 
of  Linton  in  Yorkshire,  died  1777 ;  a  mighty 
dancer  before  the  Lord.  He  paid  twelve 
guineas  for  learning  one  dance  in  France  ; 
and  when  riding  on  a  journey,  or  to  visit  a 
friend  in  fine  weather,  he  would  sometimes 
alight,  tie  his  horse  to  a  gate,  and  dance  a 
hornpipe  or  two  on  the  rond  to  the  astonish- 


I 


416 


CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


ment  of  any  who  happened  to  pass.  He  was 
equally  fond  of  cribbage,  and  when  he  met 
with  a  poor  person  who  could  play  well,  he 
would  maintain  them  three  or  four  months 
for  the  sake  of  playing  with  them. 

The  house  at  Huntingfield  in  Suffolk 
where  Lord  Hunsdon  entertained  Queen 
Elizabeth.  ^^  The  great  hall  was  built  round 
six  straight  massy  oaks,  which  originally 
supported  the  roof,  as  they  grew ;  upon  these 
the  foresters  and  yeomen  of  the  guard  used 
to  hang  their  net«,  cross  bows,  hunting  poles, 
great  saddles,  calibres,  bills,  &c.  The  roots 
had  long  been  decayed  when  I  visited  this 
romantic  dwelling,  and  the  shafts  sawn  off 
at  bottom  were  supported  either  by  irregular 
logs  of  wood  driven  under  them,  or  by  ma- 
sonry. Part  of  the  long  gallery  in  which  the 
queen  and  her  attendants  used  to  divert 
themselves,  was  converted  into  an  inmiense 
cheese  chamber. 

**  Her  oak  still  standing.  Heame  made  a 
drawing  of  it  for  Sir  Gerard  Vanneck; 
seven  feet  from  the  ground  it  is  nearly  ele- 
ven yards  in  circumference.**  —  C.  Davt, 
Esq. 

In  the  parish  of  Caer  y  Derwyddon,  which 
is  between  Corwen  and  Kerneoge  Mawr, 
lived  a  weaver  who  played  admirably  upon 
the  violin  by  ear,  without  any  knowledge 
of  music.  He  was  a  great  cocker,  and  was 
supposed  to  have  the  art  of  judging  by  the 
egg  whether  the  bird  would  be  a  good  one. 
He  had  procured  some  eggs  of  an  excellent 
breed,  and  entirely  to  his  liking,  when  the 
hen  was  carried  off  by  a  badger.  No  other 
hen  was  at  hand,  nor  other  bird  to  supply 
her  place.  He  immediately  went  to  bed 
himself,  took  the  six  eggs  into  his  own  care, 
and  hatched  them  himself  in  about  two  days. 
Four  of  his  brood  died,  a  cock  and  hen 
were  reared.  The  cock  proved  conqueror 
in  a  Welsh  match,  by  which  he  won  half  a 
flitch  of  bacon,  and  he  used  to  say  that  the 
cock  and  hen  of  his  own  hatching,  had  sup- 
plied him  with  bacon  and  eggs  for  half  a 
j  year. 


A  STOBT  circulated,  that,  as  a  party  were 
at  the  pharo-table  at  Mrs.  Sturt*s,  haviog 
begun  their  game  afler  returning  from  Ss- 
turday*s  opera  on  Sunday  morning,  a  thun- 
der-clap was  heard,  a  slight  shock  of  an 
earthquake  felt,  the  club  became  the  colour 
of  blood,  and  the  hearts  black. 

Rowland  Hnx  made  a  good  remark  up- 
on hearing  the  power  of  the  letter  H  dis- 
cussed, whether  it  were  a  letter  or  not.  U 
it  were  not,  he  said,  it  would  be  a  very  se- 
rious affair  for  him^  for  it  would  make  hini 
iU  all  the  days  of  his  life. 

At  the  cliffs  about  Seaford,  Sussex,  the 
eggs  of  the  sea-fowl  are  taken  as  in  Scot- 
land, by  lowering  a  man  from  above. 


"June  18, 1796,  a  main  at  the  Cock-pit 
Royal,  Westminster,  between  J.  H.  Durtnd 
and  J.  Reid,  Esquires,  Bromley  and  Wal- 
ter feeders,  for  bond  fide  twenty  guineas  a 
battle,  and  a  thousand  the  odd,  "  a  more 
numerous  assemblage  of  opulent  sportsmen, 
or  a  greater  field  for  betting  money,  has 
never  been  remembered.'* — "  Candour  com- 
pels us  to  confess  the  energetic  fervour  of 
each  party  could  not  be  exceeded,  nor  could 
the  honesty  o£  feeders  be  ever  brought  to 
a  more  decisive  criterion.  Employed  by 
gentlemen  of  the  most  unsullied  honour, 
the  cause  became  enthusiastically  sympa- 
thetic, and  it  is  universally  admitted,  a  bet- 
ter fought  main  has  never  been  seen  in  the 
kingdom.  Walter  had  certainly  a  most 
capital  accumulation  of  feather,  the  Low- 
thers,  the  Elwes,  the  Hoi  fords,  the  Basing- 
stoke, &c.  &c.,  which  (luckily  for  Bromley) 
were  put  in  the  back -ground  of  the  Picture, 
by  the  old  blood  of  the  late  Captain  BeHie, 
Vauxhall  Clarke,  Cooper  of  Mapledurham, 
and  a  little  of  Bromley's  Cock-bread  fit)m 
Berkshire." 

A  CRICKET  match  at  Bury  between  the 
married  women  of  the  parish  and  the  maid- 
ens.*   The  matrons  won.    The  Bury  wouieii 

'  Such  a  match  was  played  here  at  West- 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


417 


challenged  all  the  women   in   their  own 
county. 

.  Ah  alphabetical  cricket  match  between 
Lord  Darnley  and  Lord  Winchelsea.  The 
former  to  choose  players  whose  names  be- 
gan with  the  first  eleven  letters  of  the  al- 
phabet. Lord  Winchelsea  from  the  next 
eleven. 

The  Duke  of  Queensberry  betted  1000 
guineas  that  he  would  produce  a  man  who 
would  eat  more  at  a  meal  than  any  one 
whom  Sir  John  Lade  could  find.  The  Duke 
was  informed  of  his  success  (not  being  pre* 
sent  at  the  achievement,)  by  the  following 
bulletin  from  the  field  of  battle : — "  My 
Lord,  I  have  not  time  to  state  particulars, 
but  merely  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that 
your  man  beat  his  antagonist  by  a  pig'  and 
an  apple-pie/* 

1796.  Sunday  afternoon,  Jime  26,  was 
interred  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  Leonard, 
Shoreditcb,  the  remains  of  Mr.  Patrick,  the 
celebrated  composer  of  church-bell  music, 
and  senior  of  the  Society  of  Cumberland 
Youths.  SUs  productions  of  real  double 
and  treble  bob-royal,  are  standing  monu- 
ments of  hia  unparalleled  abilities.  The 
procession  was  singular  and  solemn;  the 
corpse  being  followed  by  all  the  ringing  so- 
cieties in  the  metropolis  and  its  environs, 
each  sounding  hand-bells  with  muffled  clap- 
pers, accompanied  by  those  of  the  church 
ringing  a  dead  peal,  which  {uroduced  a  most 
solemn  effect  on  the  eyes  and  ears  of  an 
innumerable  concourse  of  spectators.  Mr. 
Patrick  was  the  person  who  composed  the 
whole  peal  of  Stedman*s  triples,  5040 
changes,  (till  then  deemed  impracticable), 
for  the  discovery  of  which  the  citizens  of 
Norwich  advertised  apremiumof  £50,  which 
was  paid  him  about  three  years  since,  with 
the  highest  encomiums  on  his  superlative 

Tarring  in  the  sommer  of  1 85a     The  stool-ball 
is  likewise  kept  up  here. — J.  W.  W. 

'  A  pig  is  8tUl  a  provincial  term  for  an  apple 
puft— J.  W.  W^ 


merit.    Ue  was  well  known  as  a  maker  of 
barometers. 

Doo  tax.  Dent  received  some  hundred 
dead  dogs  packed  up  as  game.  The  slaugh- 
ter was  so  great,  and  the  consequent  nui- 
sance, men  not  thinking  themselves  bound 
to  bury  their  dogs,  that  the  magistrates  in 
some  places  were  obliged  to  interfere.  At 
Cambridge  the  high-constable  buried  above 
400.  About  Birmingham  more  than  1000 
were  destroyed. 

As  a  boy  was  climbing  a  tree  in  Gibside 
Wood,  Durham,  to  rob  a  hawk*s  nest  of  its 
yoiing,  the  old  hawk  attacked  him,  and  he 
was  soon  covered  with  blood.  After  a  most 
severe  conflict  of  several  minutes,  hands 
proved  superior  to  beak  and  claws,  and  the 
boy  took  his  antagonist  prisoner. 

1796.  A  BET  that  within  two  years  the 
beard  would  be  commonly  worn  upon  the 
upper  lip  and*  the  point  of  the  chin,  k  la 
Vandyke. 

July  30,  1796,  was  rung  by  the  Society 
of  Cambridge  Youths,  at  the  church  of  St. 
Mary  the  Great,  in  Cambridge,  a  true  and 
compleat  peal  of  Bob  Maximus,  in  five  hours 
and  five  minutes,  consisting  of  6600  changes, 
which,  for  the  regularity  of  striking  and 
harmony  throughout  the  peal,  was  allowed 
by  the  most  competent  judges  that  heard  it 
to  be  a  very  masterly  performance ;  espe- 
cially, as  it  was  remarked,  that,  in  point  of 
time,  the  striking  was  to  such  a  nicety  that 
in  each  thousand  changes  the  time  did  not 
vary  the  sixteenth  of  a  minute,  and  the  com- 
pass of  the  last  thousand  was  exactly  equal 
to  the  first,  which  is  the  grand  scope  of 
ringing. 

The  time  of  ringing  this  peal  shews  that 
the  late  Professor  Saunderson*8  calculation 
is  pretty  accurate,  respecting  the  time  it 
would  take  to  ring  the  whole  number  of 
changes  on  twelve  bells,  which  he  stated  at 
forty-five  years,  six  days,  and  eighteen  hours, 
without  intermission.  * 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


Cricket  match  between  Greenwich  pen- 
sioners, eleven  with  one  arm  against  eleven 
with  one  leg.  The  one  legs  beat  by  103 
runs.  In  the  course  of  the  match  there 
were  five  legs  broke,  four  in  running,  one 
hj  the  blow  of  a  bat. 

1796.  Fbidat,  August  20,  was  rung  a 
complete  5040  grandsire  triples  at  St.  Mary^s, 
Kendal,  in  three  hours,  twenty  minutes,  bj 
the  Westmoreland  youth, — being  the  great- 
est number  of  changes  ever  rung  upon  that 
noble  peal  at  one  time.  The  peal  was  di- 
vided into  ten  parts,  or  courses,  of  504  each. 
The  bobs  were  called  by  the  sixth ;  a  lead 
single  was  made  in  the  middle  of  the  peal, 
and  another  at  the  conclusion,  which  brought 
the  bells  home.  Distinct  leads,  and  exact 
divisions  were  observed  throughout  the 
whole  of  the  peal. 

SuNDAT,  August  28,  was  rung  at  Kidder- 
minster, a  compleat  peal  of  5012  grandsire 
triples.  The  peal  was  conducted  through 
with  one  single,  which  was  brought  to  the 
4984th  change,  viz.  1267453.  It  is  allowed 
by  those  conversant  in  the  art  to  exceed  any 
peal  ever  yet  rung  in  this  kingdom  by  that 
method.  The  same  peal  was  composed  and 
called  by  Stephen  Hill.  Time,  three  hours 
and  fourteen  minutes. 

An  old  ringer  of  Milford  (Southampton), 
left  three-fourths  of  an  acre,  the  rent  to  be 
applied  in  the  purchase  of  bell-ropes  for  the 
use  of  the  chiuxh. 

MoNDAT,  September  12,  1796,  was  at- 
tempted to  be  rung  by  eight  Birmingham 
youths,  some  of  whom  were  under  twenty 
years  of  age,  a  compleat  peal  of  15120  bob- 
mi^ors.  After  they  had  rung  in  a  most 
masterly  manner  for  upwards  of  eight  hours 
and  a  half,  they  found  themselves  so  much 
fatigued,  that  they  requested  the  caller  to 
take  the  first  opportunity  to  bring  the  bells 
home,  which  he  soon  did,  by  omitting  a  bob, 
and  so  brought  them  round,  which  made  a 
compleat  peal  of  14224  changes  in  eight 
hours  and  forty-five  minutes ;  and  was  al- 


lowed to  be  fine  striking  through  the  whole 
performance,  and  the  longest  peal  ever  rung 
in  that  part  of  the  country. — Magnu  tomes 
excidit  ousts  I 

August  22,  died  at  the  Bald  Buck,  Lich- 
field, the  noted  Jack  Lewton,  chaise-driver. 
He  was  buried  on  the  Wednesday  follow* 
ing  in  St.  Michael*s  churchyard,  and  by  his 
own  request  as  near  to  the  turnpike  road 
leading  to  Burton  as  possible,  that  he  might, 
as  he  said,  enjoy  the  satisfaction  of  hearing 
his  brother  whips  pass  and  repass.  He  par- 
ticularly desired  that  he  might  be  carried 
to  the  grave  by  six  chaise-drivers,  his  late 
companions,  in  scarlet  jackets  and  buckskio 
breeches,  the  pall  to  be  supported  by  the 
like  number  of  hostlers  from  different  iniu, 
and  the  mourners  to  consist  of  six  publicans 
with  their  wives.  The  procession  on  their 
way  to  the  grave  were  desired  to  stop  at 
the  Old  Crown  inn,  and  refresh  themselves, 
each  with  a  glass  of  Hollands,  his  favourite 
liquor. 

Margabbt  tch  Evak,  of  Pennllyn,  who 
inhabited  a  cottage  on  the  borders  <^  Llan- 
berris  Lake,  was  the  greatest  hunter,  shoot- 
er, and  fisher  of  her  time,  rowed  stoutly, 
played  the  violin,  was  a  good  carpenter  ani 
joiner,  and  wrestled  so  well  at  seventy,  that 
there  were  few  men  who  dared  to  try  a  fall 
with  her. 

In  some  parts  of  Italy  they  make  holes 
in  the  ground,  and  put  in  them  conical  caps 
of  paper  burd-limed,  with  meat  at  the  bot- 
tom ;  the  crows  come  to  the  bait,  and  are 
hooded. 


Bats,  it  is  said,  will  forsake  a  house  if 
their  road  is  bird-limed  so  as  to  besmear  one 
of  them. 

A  pitman's  wife  in  Northumberland 
suckled  two  lambs  whose  dams  were  killed 
in  a  storm. 

1799.    A  GENTLEMAN  in  Herefordshire 


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lid  to  have  lately  married  his  grand- 
ber.  It  b  thus  related  : — "  On  Friday 
John  Palmer,  second  son  of  Mr.  Wil- 
Palmer  of  Tatton  Marsh,  Aymstrey, 
married  to  Mrs.  Mary  Palmer,  relict 
tie  late  Mr.  John  Palmer  of  Leinthall 
s,  who  was  grandfather  to  her  present 
»and.  The  bride,  though  she  may  be 
eriy  called  grandmother  to  the  bride- 
m,  is  no  more  than  thirty  years  of  age.'* 

p  Alnwick,  every  burgess  who  takes  up 
reedom  goes  in  procession  to  a  large 
I  at  some  distance  from  the  town,  dress- 
ith  ribbons,  makes  a  jump  into  it,  and 
through  as  he  can.  A  party  generally 
irm  at  the  same  time,  and  then  gallop 

to  the  town,  the  foremost  in  the  race 
^  pronounced  winner  of  the  boundaries, 
r  are  entertained  with  ale  at  the  gate 
le  Castle  by  the  Duke*s  steward, — a 
'  tree  is  planted  at  the  young  freeman's 
» and  the  day  ends  with  such  merriment 

usual— dancing,  drinking,  and  sports.' 

ourier^  July  18,  1814.  ^'  Real  red- 
id Partridge-eggs.  Noblemen  and  gen- 
sn  may  be  supplied  with  any  quantity 
imported  from  France,  by  applying  to 
Joaeph  Clark,  Poulterer,  South  Audley 

5t." 

axBE  are  odd  persons  all  the  world 
I  but  in  other  parts  of  the  world  they 
nd  their  oddities  with  them.  In  £ng- 
every  man's  oddities  find  some  faithful 
ikler.  Thus  a  chapter  of  Obituary 
;dotes. 

'▲HT  of  churches  in  large  towns.  Mary- 
contains  not  less  than  60,000  inha- 
its.  Pancras  in  the  same  predicament 
ry  populous,  with  only  one  church.  Yet 
bund  Catholic  colleges,  and  have  no 
*y  for  churches  I 

isssBYES  the  main  cause  of  poaching ; 


rhe  miry  pool  is  called  the  "  Freeman's 
'  and  the  custom  still  exists.— J.  W.  W. 


the  madness  of  vying  with  each  other  in 
the  quantity  of  game  killed.  Game  book. 
List  of  the  killed  at  Wobume.  One  of 
these  homo's  had  800  head  of  game  in  his 
larder  at  one  time. 

The  three  sweet  fire-side  sounds  —  the 
song  of  the  tea-kettle ;  the  chirping  of  the 
cricket ;  and  the  purring  of  the  cat. 

^  J'ouT  un  jour  bien  naifvement  un  en- 
fant de  grande  maison,  faire  feste  a  chascun 
dequoy  sa  mere  venoit  de  perdre  son  proc^ 
comme  sa  toux,  sa  fiebvre,  ou  autre  chose 
d'importune  garde." — Montaigne,  vol.  8, 
p.  844. 

1824.  The  steam-engines  in  England  re- 
present the  power  of  320,000  horses,  which 
is  equal  to  that  of  1,920,000  men.  They  are 
worked  by  36,000  men,  and  thus  add  to  the 
power  of  our  population  1,834,000  men. — 
Morning  HerM, 

^^  There  is  a  house  on  London  Bridge 
built  entirely  of  wood,  without  any  mixture 
of  iron  nails  therein ;  therefore  commonly 
called  Nonesuch,  for  the  rarity  of  the  struc- 
ture thereof." — Fuixeb's  PUgah  Sights  p, 
261.  

Projected  Contents, 

New  System  of  Education. 

Toung  Roscius.    Missions. 

Religious  Magazines.    Gipsies. 

Strolling  Players.     Sandemanians. 

Parliamentary  Reform. 

Catholic  Emancipation. 

Public  Schools. 

Astley's,  Royal  Circus,  &c. 

Pidcock.  Travelling  Elephants  at  Bris^ 
tol  Fair. 

Moravians.    Luddites. 

Death  of  Mr.  Perceval.    Almanacks. 

Navy  and  Army  Lists,  and  Periodicals 
of  this  nation. 

Gas  Lights.    Insurance  Offices. 

Police.    Prostitution. 

O.  P.    The  Green  Man. 


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Mr.  Coates.    Bible  Society.  | 

English  Orthography.  Elphinstone.  Pin- 
kerton.  Gil's  Logonomia  Anglica,  1621,  4to. 
is  said  in  Rodd's  Catalogue  to  be  the  first 
attempt  to  write  the  English  language  as  it 
is  spoken. 

Freemasons. 

Popular  Songs  and  Ballads.  Tract  So- 
cieties. 

Want  of  a  Dictionary.     Skaiting. 

Country  Sports. 

Population.  Bills  of  Mortality.  Pro- 
portion of  the  Sexes. 

Lotteries. 

Nunneries  —  Protestant.  Connect  thi:^ 
with  the  ch^ter  on  Prostitution.  See 
Mary  Astell,  in  the  Biographies. 

The  Varment  Club.     Four-in-hand  Club. 

Patent  Coffins.  Funerals.  Burial-places. 
At  Lambeth  they  probe !  before  they  open 
a  grave. 

Bullion.    Richmond.    Windsor. 

Tunbridge.  Hastings.  Winchelsea.  Rye. 
Brighton. 

Bristol.     Bfracombe. 

The  Wye.  Merthyr.  Hereford.  Wor- 
cester. 

Norwich.  Nottingham. — So  through  the 
care  country. 


Fools. 

Whki  or  where  did  this  character  ori- 
ginate? 

Charles  the  Fifth  had  an  excellent  fool, 
Don  Frances ;  he  was  sUunch  to  the  last, 
for  when  some  assassins  had  mortally  wound- 
ed him,  and  his  wife  hearing  a  disturbance 
at  the  door,  enquired  what  was  the  matter  ? 
"  Nothing,  Mistress,"  said  he;  "they  hare 
wJy  kiUed  your  husband.-  A  fool,  Perico 
de  Ayala,  who  was  his  friend,  bemjed  him 
to  pray  for  him  in  the  next  world^  Frances 
Implied, "  Tie  a  string  round  my  Uttle  finger, 
lest  I  should  forget  it.-*— FLoawrVs  £««- 
"ofa,  p.  123,  ^ 

Perieo  de  Ayala,  the  Marqub  of  ViUena, 
o^nce  ordered  his  wardrobe-keeper  to  eire 
the  fbol  im  wyo  A  krotmdo;  the  man  ouIt 


gave  him  the  rna^as  and/aldcamemtai.  Awaj 
went  Perico  to  the  court  brotherhood,  and 
requested  them  to  bury  one  who  had  died 
at  the  Marquis's,  and  then  away  went  the 
funeral  procession,  with  the  little  death  bell 
tinkling  before  them.  The  marquis  seeing 
them  at  his  door,  asked  why  they  came? 
"  For  the  body,"  said  the  fool,  **  as  the 
chamberlain  only  gave  him  the  trimmings. 
—Ibid.  p.  125. 

A  knight  once  asked  him  what  were  the 
properties  of  a  turquoise?^  "Why,"  said  the 
fool,  "  if  you  haTe  a  turquoise  about  jon, 
and  should  fall  from  the  top  of  a  tower  and 
be  dashed  to  pieces,  the  stone  would  not 
break."— Ibid.  p.  124. 

It  is  a  good  remark  of  Dayies  (Drcamtie 
MiMcelkaaesy,  that  fools  seem  to  haye  been 
employed  to  supply  the  want  of  free  sodetj. 
A  jest  firom  an  equal  was  an  insult;  yet  con- 
Tersation  wanted  its  pepper,  and  ybegar, 
and  mustard. 

I>uiancG  Lockyer's  reign  at  Bristol,  6000 
houses  were  planned ;  an  increase  which 
would  haTe  required  at  least  60,000  inha- 
bitants, they  were  houses  of  such  size.  It 
was  like  the  South  Sea  infatuation. 

Spemmacbti  manufactory.  No  dc^  vss 
safe  in  the  neighbouriiood,  and  no  horse. 

Derat  and  his  Sermons.  My  Uncle  T^ 
haying  heard  the  text  of  one,  could  name 
the  texts  for  the  next  six  weeks ;  which  he 
did  once  for  a  wager.  When  Debat  was  told 
this,  he  readily  answered,  **  I  am  yery  glad 
to  find  that  any  one  of  my  congregation  is 
so  attentiye.** 

Mt  Uncle  T.  made  a  good  stand  against 
erecting  the  pulpit  so,  as  that  the  preacher 
should  haye  his  back  to  the  altar.  "^  I  shall 
liye,"  he  says,  "  to  see  a  great  many  asses 

>  The  turquoise,  it  is  wdl  known,  was  thought 
to  possess  the  rare  power  of  giring  wmniiiU[  to 
its  owner,  ms  it  looked  pale  or  bright.    Trui 
as  «  rtrnf  Kou*  became  a  proverb,  and  is  used  by 
;  Ben  JoDsoQ.— J.  W-  W. 


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tiat  pulpit ;  and  I  should  not  like 
m  braying  at  the  congregation, 
t  the  Altar  and  the  Decalogue.'* 

employment  for  females. 

LuKiNS.  Man  walking  on  the 
Liers.  Penpark,  Hoi,  and  Tucker. 
A  conjurer  at  Mangotsfield. 

LS8. 

loyalty.     Vivat  Rex  et  Regina 
bills. 

G. 

iras  imprisoned  at  Dunster  under 

u>  in  1772  a  place  of  respectable 
West  India  trade  in  connection 
taple  or  Bristol,  and  pilchards  to 
t  of  300  or  400  barrels  arrived 
ed  to  the  Mediterranean. 

aflfron  in  old  times. 

lionables  might  almost  keep  Ra- 
the year  round,  without  altering 
nt  mode  of  life. — Koratij  vol.  i. 

-born  gentry  I  heard  T.  Southey 
ig  expression: — "Fellows,"  he 
I,  "  who  have  not  nails  enough  to 
Ir  heads  with." 

RoBART*s  mother  died  during  the 
ion  at  Bristol,  and  her  death  was 
till  it  was  over,  because  he  was 
I  man  to  be  spared.  Just  when 
sen  settled  between  him  and  T. 
'.  went  to  the  post  office  and  found 
tell  him  his  own  mother  was  dead, 
ras  not  made  known  till  after  the 
osed. 

luthority  of  James  the  waggoner's 
tated  that  every  Bristol  apprcn- 
iraw  a  truck,  in  order  to  acquire 
n. 


CusoDAB.  The  whole  parish  clubbed 
their  milk  to  make  a  cheese  for  the  lord  of 
the  manor  (the  late  Lord  Weymouth,  so 
called,  1772),  when  he  came  of  age.  Tast- 
ing it,  it  proved  not  good,  and  was  therefore 
not  presented.  When  it  was  scooped  out, 
the  cavity  was  large  enough  to  hold  a  girl 
of  thirteen. 

Glastonbubt  waters.  The  history  of  one 
patient  here  b  very  remarkable.  'VVhen  a 
)  ad,  he  was  so  terrified  at  the  ghost  of  Ham- 
let at  Drury  Lane,  that  in  consequence  of 
the  shock,  a  humour  broke  out,  and  settled 
in  the  king's  evil.  After  all  medicines  had 
failed,  he  came  to  these  waters,  and  they 
effected  a  thorough  cure.  Faith  cured  what 
fear  had  produced. 

Japan  ink  and  Japan  blacking. 

The  celebrated  Belleish  convent  soap  can 
only  be  had  in  a  fair  and  unadulterated  state 
at  the  original  Opificium  of  C.  Mason  &  Co., 
No.  116,  PallMaU. 

Russia  oil,  which  restores  hair  on  bald 
heads,  and  prevents  it  from  growing  grey  ; 
and  of  which  no  bottles  are  genuine  unless 
they  have  the  Russian  eagle  on  the  outside, 
and  are  signed  in  red  ink  by  the  proprietors, 
Mochrikufsky  and  Prince,  to  counterfeit 
which  is  felony.  May  we  not  hint  that  the 
difficulty  of  counterfeiting  would  be  greatly 
increased  if  Mochrikufsky  would  sign  his 
name  in  the  Russ  character. — Mockery  en 
verdad. 

Bajazet's  oriental  depilatory.  Athenian 
wiggery. 

Bloom  of  Circassia.  Milk  of  roses.  Vio- 
let soap.  Almond  paste.  Palmyrene  soap. 
Pearl  dentrifice. 

The  man  who  makes  pearl  soap  adver- 
tises for  old  pearls. 

Udor  Kallithrix,  or  Circassian  water. 
Neureticopeklicon. 

The  celebrated  Polish  vegetable  soap 
paste,  prepared  by  M.  Delcroix  in  Poland 


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Street,  from  a  recipe  of  M«  Brufkosky,  hia 
friend,  an  eminent  chemist  at  Warsaw,  the 
sole  inventor  of  this  precious  composition, 
which  has  been  universally  approved  of  by 
persons  of  the  first  rank  inhabiting  that  blank 
and  frozen  country. 

Athbhian  wiggery. 

High  beds.  Feather  bed. 

Mjis.  K.  knew  a  servant  man,  remarkably 
parsimonious,  who  gave  an  itinerant  female 
quack  ten  guineas  for  a  bottle  of  stuff,  which 
was  to  bring  hair  on  his  head  (he  having 
been  bald  twenty  years),  if  he  rubbed  one 
tea  spoonful  every  night,  and  took  another, 
as  long  as  the  bottle  lasted.  He  bargained 
very  hard  to  let  it  be  pounds. 

Patent  elastic  India  cotton  invisible  pet- 
ticoats, manufactured  for  the  spring. 

Beauty  improved,  preserved,  and  ren- 
dered permanent  by  the  habitual  use  of  the 
Sicilian  soap,  or  Italian  washing  paste,  pre- 
pared from  cosmetic  flowers,  balsams,  and 
herbs  collected  in  Sicily  and  the  fruitful 
plains  of  Italy.  The  use  of  this  soap  ren- 
ders the  operation  of  shaving  most  luxuri- 
ously agreeable. 

**  By  Divine  Providence,'* — ^Wither's  balm 
of  Quito. 

The  Reverend  Mr.  Barclay,  of  the  anti- 
bilious  pill,  and  solvent  nervous  specific 
drops,  is  now  metamorphosed  into  Barclay- 
oni. 

At  Brough,  four  bells  the  largest  in  the 
county.  One  Brunskili,  who  lived  upon 
Stanemore,and  had  many  cattle,  said  one  day 
to  one  of  his  neighbours,  **  Dost  thou  hear 
how  loud  these  bulls  low  ?  and  if  all  these 
cattle  should  low  (cfunen  is  the  word),  might 
they  not  be  heard  from  Brough  hither?** 
Themansaidyes.  "Well  then,"  said  he,  *T11 
make  them  all  crune  together.**  And  he  sold 
t.hem,and  bought  these  bells  for  the  church.' 

'  The  reader  should  refer  to  the  ballad.  See 
Poemgf  p.  466.  One  vol.  edit.  To  eroon,  says 
Brocket,  in  v.  is  to  *'  bellow  like  a  disquiet  ox.'* 
Dut.  Krennen.—J.  W.  W. 


There  is  a  well  here,  once  an  object  of  pil- 
grimage ;  but  whether  dedicated  of  St  Mary 
or  St.  Winifred,  now  doubtfuL 

The  P^vence  rose,  as  it  is  called,  was 
found  by  a  nurseryman  near  London,  at  a 
farmer's  in  Suffolk.  He  took  a  slip,  nurst  it 
secretly  till  he  had  offsets  in  abundance, 
then  advertised  it  perseveringly,  and  made 
a  fortune !  He  gave  the  farmer  a  very  hand- 
some piece  of  plate,  which  is  shown  at  the 
house  with  great  pleasure  and  pride. 

Old  Winstone !  benefit  advertisement  at 
Jacob's  Well,  "  that  on  that  night  Cyntiila 
would  appear  in  all  her  glory." 

TusNEft  knew  a  man  retired  from  busi- 
ness, whose  daily  employment  was  to  angle 
in  one  of  the  round  citizen-garden  Ap- 
pends, where  he  had  some  unlucky  gold  and 
silver  fish,  &c.  One  fish,  which  ^ul  once 
lost  an  eye  by  the  hook,  used  to  bite  so 
oflen  as  to  provoke  him.  "  Hang  that  fel- 
low,** he  would  say  ;  **•  this  is  the  sixth  time 
I  have  caught  him  this  season.** 

He  knew  another  man,  a  spent  merchant, 
in  like  manner  retired,  who  was  miserable 
till  he  invented,  as  an  amusement,  the  dailj 
work  of  emptying  a  water  cbtem  by  a  pint 
measure! 

At  Knightsbridge,  William  Ick,  pur- 
veyor of  asses'  milk  to  the  royal  family. 

Regulaeitt  of  a  stage-coachman's  life. 
At  one  house  where  he  called  about  half 
past  seven,  he  said  at  going  away,  ^*  In  a 
week  I  shall  see  you  by  daylight.'* 

CiTT  wall  at  Salisbury.  Mud  walls  in  that 
neighbourhood  thatched.  Walking  to  Hale, 
I  saw  a  cripple  boy  playing  with  his  crutches; 
leaning  on  the  one,  he  used  the  other  as  a 
bat  to  play  with  the  stones  in  the  road. 

Paek  paling. 

Blackbibd  is  the  commonest  name  of  a 
horse  in  Somersetshire. 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


423 


le  Bridgewater  arms,  the  poor  tra- 
'ho  arrives  in  the  night  mail  can  get 
''  the  kej  is  not  left  out.**  This  is 
cold  meat  and  spirits  paj  better. 
)  in  the  room  an  Ai^ands  lamp,  a  sta- 
almanack,  a  list  of  constables,  pawn- 
,  and  fire  engines  on  one  paper,  and 
her  a  table  of  the  posts,  when  they 
id  when  they  go  out. 

mayor  of  Stafibrd  has  a  yery  beau- 
uaolenm  near  the  road  side.  I  never 
uilding  in  better  taste. 

)ngleton,  an  immense  silk  manufac- 
be  largest  I  ever  saw  in  front* 

T  glasses  on  the  mantelpiece  at 
said  by  the  wuter  to  be  100  years 


lODT  is  regularly  taught  in  these 
1  counlies.  Once  in  five  or  six  years 
sr  comes  to  Keswick,  and  all  the 
a  the  parish  who  have  good  voices, 

him  at  their  own  expense ;  it  is  a 
education  as  regularly  as  dancing  is. 
sch  in  the  chul*ch,  and  the  bell  rings 
Dg,  after  all  other  work,  for  the  pur- 
[liis  is  necessary  every  five  or  six 
lecause  by  that  time  they  are  in 
*  tenors.  After  the  teaching,  the 
parents  go  about  asking  money,  to 
ur  the  expense, 
ingales  heard  in  Lord  Lonsdale*s 

at  Whitehaven,  1808. 

years  ago  they  slept  naked  in  this 

Wilson*s  father,  who  was  clerk  of 
sh,  had  only  one  shirt  with  sleeves^ 
as  for  Sundays. 

I  last  in  Legberthwute,  I  saw  a  little 
beel  made  by  the  boys  in  a  dyke  by 
I  side ;  an  interesting  boy*8  work, 
emas  is  the  day  for  lending  money 
he  nearest  Saturday  to  it,  or  if  it 
e  middle  of  the  week,  the  two  near- 

,t  Keswick.  Legberthwaite  mentioned 
near  Leathes'  Water.— J.  W.  W. 


est.  Men  who  never  appear  in  the  market 
any  other  day  come  then,  with  their  money 
bags.  **  The  shabbiest  coats,**  says  Mr. 
Edmondson,  '*  carry  the  money  bags  to  mar- 
ket, and  the  sprucest  rides  home  with  it.** 

Halp  way  up  Skiddaw  I  saw  scratched 
on  a  stone : — 

"  HaD,  lofty  hill  I 

Thee  whom  great  nature  bade  arise. 
And  lift  thy  lofty  summit  to  the  clouds. 
Hail,  lofty  mountain,  hail  !** 

View  from  the  bottom  of  the  first  sum- 
mit, where  the  vale  and  lake  are  seen  lying 
immediately  below  ;  the  mountain  arch 
forming  the  foreground,  and  the  whole  de- 
scent lost. 

The  ladder  at  Bowder  stone  is  now  painted 
white,  and  has  a  rail  on  each  side ;  a  com- 
plete ladies*  ladder!  being  thereby  ren- 
dered seemingly  more  safe,  and  really  less 
secure. 

Newcastle, — On  the  way  from  Durham 
three  coal  waggons  travelling  up  hill  by 
steam.  Patent  shot  tower — it  declined  from 
the  perpendicular — a  man  proposed  to  un- 
dermine it  on  the  opposite  side,  and  load 
that  side  so  as  to  make  it  sink.  It  was  done, 
and  the  building  sinking  on  one  side  became 
'again  perpendicular.  But  the  patent  is 
evaded  by  dropping  shot  down  an  old  coal 
pit. 

The  castle  has  a  draw-well  half-way  up. 
The  entrance  through  a  lousy-looking  old 
clothes  house.  One  church  whose  tower  Sir 
C.  Wren  said  was  worth  coming  from  Lon- 
don to  see.  The  walls  threatened  with  de- 
struction. 

Monkchester  its  old  name. 

Nbar  Mofiatt,  a  dog  used  for  many  years 
to  meet  the  mail  and  receive  the  letters  for 
a  little  post  town  near. 

Ramjam  House  between  Stamford  and 
Grantham. 

Carr*8  Folly,  near  St.  Helen*s.     How 


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CHARACTERISTIC  ENGLISH  ANECDOTES 


surely  these  pleasure  houses  of  one  genera- 
tion, become  monuments  in  the  second ! 

Whitton  le  Wbib. — Castle  there,  and 
tomb  to  IVir.  Farrel,  erected  in  the  church 
hy  his  pupils. 

This  odd  inscription  over  an  inn  at  Gar- 
stang — 

'*  Address  to  Commercial  Travellers.  So 
much  opposition  from  the  south,  and  from 
the  head  inn  and  second  inn,  I  can  expect 
but  little.  Yet  to  that  little  every  attention 
shall  be  paid,  by  good  supplies,  moderate 
charges,  and  grateful  acknowledgment.** 

D  AN  VERS  addressed  Mr.  Lightbody  by  the 
name  of  Heavy  sides.  A  better  blunder  of 
the  same  kind  was  made  to  a  schoolmistress 
near  Reading,  whose  name  was  Littleworth, 
and  who  was  once  addressed  Mrs.  Groodfor- 
nothing. 

Huntingdon,  S.  S.  has  married  Lady 
Saunderson,  once  Lady  Mayoress. 

A  PONY  bought  at  Banbury  and  t^ken  to 
London,  found  his  way  back.  James  Rick- 
ards  knew  the  circumstances.  A  sheep 
driven  from  Radnorshire  into  Essex  for  the 
London  market,  returned  to  his  old  pasture 
two  succeeding  years.  This  poor  Thomas 
assured  me  of,  naming  place,  owner,  &c. 

The  dust  at  Cbrist*s  Hospital.  —  It  has 
been  made  a  question  at  law  whether  the 
Hospital  can  dispose  of  it,  or  whether  it  be- 
longs to  the  Ward  of  Farringdon  Within, 
in  which  it  is  situated. 

Stage  coaches  write  licensed  to  carry  so 
many  insides,  which  is  useless,  because  they 
cannot  by  any  possibility  stuff  in  more ;  it 
is  the  number  of  outsides  that  ought  to  be 
specified  to  public  view. 

BuBNETT*8  uncle  and  the  night*mare.  He 
tells  us  this  other  story.  He  had  a  mare 
turned  out  in  Sedgemoor — ^a  woman  vehe- 


mently suspected  of  witchcraft  had  cattle 
also  on  the  waste,  and  twice  or  three  times 
prevented  him  from  going  to  see  his  mare 
by  saying  she  had  seen  her,  and  he  need  not 
go.  At  last,  however,  he  went.  He  found 
the  mare  dead  in  the  midst  of  a  thicket, 
standing  upright,  her  head  raised,  her  eyes 
wide  open.  This  woman  went  on  crutches, 
— an  unlucky  lad  had  once  offended  bcr, 
and  she  began  to  strike  him  with  her 
crutches,  he  ran  away,  but  in  vain,  she  fol- 
lowed as  fast  as  a  greyhound,  beating  him 
with  both  crutches,  till  she  had  well  nigh 
killed  him.  There  was  an  old  elm  in  the 
village  where  she  lived,  one  bough  of  which 
grew  out  at  right  angles  from  the  tree ;  it 
was  the  general  belief  that  she  had  bent  it 
down  to  that  shape  by  riding  upon  it. 

Thebe  is  a  wild  tradition  of  Sir  Francif 
Drake  current  in  Somersetshire,  that  when 
he  set  out  on  his  voyage  he  told  his  wife  if 
he  was  away  ten  years  she  might  then  marry 
again.  Ten  years  elapsed,  during  which 
Madam  Duck  was  as  true  as  Penelope,  but 
when  they  were  over  she  accepted  the  offer 
of  a  suitor.  On  her  way  to  church  a  huge 
round  stone  fell  through  the  air  close  bj 
her,  and  fixed  upon  the  train  of  her  gown, 
— and  she  turned  back,  for  she  said  she 
knew  it  came  from  her  husband.  It  wtf 
not  long  before  he  returned,  and  in  the  shape 
of  a  beggar  asked  alms  of  her  at  his  own 
door :  in  the  midst  of  his  feigned  tale,  ft 
smile  escaped  him,  and  she  recognized  him 
and  led  him  in  joyfully.  The  stone  still  re- 
mains where  it  fell.  It  is  used  as  a  weight 
upon  the  harrow  of  the  farm,  and  if  it  be 
removed  from  the  estate  alwavs  returns. 

BiBMiNGHAM. — Boskerville's  dog  by  him. 
"  Alas,  poor  Tray  !**  Hammering  at  three 
in  the  morning.  Ale-houses  called  smock' 
shops.  Tripe  and  cow-heel  cried  at  seven 
in  the  evening.  Near  3000  houses  empt; 
last  war.  John  Hunter*s  opinion.  Smoke 
of  the  steam  engines. 

My  garter's  loose.  You  tread  on  my  toes. 
Cream  of  the  jest. 


AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESFRIELLA. 


425 


Driving  four-in-hand. 

Plover's  eggs.     Mrs.  Glass. 

Men -milliners  damned  the  farce.  Fink 
knee  strings.  This  in  a  letter  about  pros- 
titutes and  stews. 

Tea— quantity  consumed. 

Flat  cocked  hats  worn  comer-ways. 

Bull  baiting.  They  had  a  better  sport 
at  Ispahan — a  wolf  was  turned  loose  in  the 
Meidan,  and  the  mob  baited  him  without 
weapons,  and  indeed  without  hurting  him. 
They  only  provoked  him  by  flapping  their 
cloaks  at  him  and  shouting,  and  the  amuse- 
ment was  to  see  one  half  the  crowd  running 
away  while  he  pursued,  and  the  other  fol- 
lowing, hallooing  and  teasing  him  till  he 
turned,  and  they  in  turn  took  to  flight.  A 
fellow  or  two  got  bit  sometimes,  but  with  so 
many  at  hand  no  serious  mischief  could 
ever  be  done.  Shah  Abbas  was  often  a 
spectator  of  this  sport. 

The  first  ring  of  bells  in  England  was  at 
Croyland.  The  venerable  Abbot  Turke- 
tule  who  restored  the  monastery  of  Croy- 
land (see  his  Hist  Cressy,  844-6-83),  had 
left;  one  very  large  bell  there  called  OtUhlac. 
His  successor  Egelric  added  six  in  this  or- 
der, Bartholomewy  Bertelin,  Turketule,  Tol- 
win,  P^ci^  and  Bega.  The  reason  of  these 
three  names  appears  from  Yepes.  G.  the 
man  who  sanctified  the  spot.  B.  his  espe- 
cial saint.     F.  his  sister. 


I  Hahdel  a^ked  the  King,  then  a  young 
child,  and  listening  very  earnestly  while  he 
played,  if  he  liked  the  music,  and  the  Frince 
warmly  expressed  his  pleasure,  "  A  good 
boy — a  good  boy,"  he  cried,  "  you  shall  pro- 
tect my  fame  when  I  am  dead." 

Music — fingers  moving  like  the  legs  of  a 
millepedes. 

Oxford, 
All  Souls.     A  noise  oflen  heard  under 
the  kitchen,  and  exorcised;   at  length  on 
opening  the  drain,  a  swopping  mallard  found 


which  used  to  come  and  feed  there.  An 
annual  song  about  this. 

Their  silver  cups  at  the  college  are  called 
ox-eyes,'  and  an  ox-eye  of  wormwood  was  a 
favourite  draught  there.  Beer  with  an  in- 
fusion of  wormwood  was  to  be  had  nowhere 
else. 

Boards  head  at  Queen^s.  The  l^end  that 
a  scholar  of  this  college  walking  out  and 
studying  Aristotle,  was  attacked  by  a  wild 
boar,  whom  he  killed  by  thrusting  the  book 
down  his  throat,  and  choking  him  with  lo- 
gic. 

A  row  of  elms  before  Balliol  gateway,  1 77 1 . 
The  old  hall  had  its  central  fire,  and  every 
member  of  the  University  had  a  right  once 
a  year  to  spend  an  evening  there,  and  be 
treated  with  bread  and  cheese  and  ale,  on 
condition  that  when  called  upon  he  should 
either  sing  a  song,  tell  a  story,  or  let  a  — . 
Can  this  be  true?  Where  did  the  five's 
court  stand  ? 

An  urn  at  St.  John*8  containing  the  heart 
of  Dr.  Rawlinson. 

Here  is  the  portrait  of  Charles  I.  of  which 
the  face  and  hair  contain  the  whole  Book  of 
Fsalms — the  writing  forming  the  picture. 

Altar-piece  at  Wadham.  Cloth  of  ashes 
colour,  the  linen  and  shades  in  brown  crayon, 
the  lights  with  a  white  one.  These  were 
pressed  on  with  a  hot  iron,  which  producing 
an  exsudation  from  the  cloth,  so  fixed  them 
that  they  were  proof  against  a  brush.  Isaac 
Fuller  was  the  artist,  who  lived  in  the  17th 
century.  The  subjects  are  these — the  Last 
Supper,  Abraham  and  Melchisedec,  and  the 
Gkithering  the  Manna — ^well  drawn. 

St.  Mary  Hall, — the  heart  of  the  princi- 
pal Dr.  Key  in  a  marble  vase. 


Some  fifty  years  ago,  when  there  were 
scarcely  any  houses  between  Ely  Flace  and 
the  Foundling  Hospital,  at  one  of  these 
houses,  then  considered  as  in  the  country, 
there  was  a  little  boy  about  three  years  old 
who  used  to  have  his  bason  of  bread  and 
milk  given  him  for  his  breakfast ;  and  to  eat 
it  sitting  upon  the  step  of  the  door.   It  was 


426 


ANECDOTES  AND  FRAGMENTS  FOR  ESPRIELLA. 


noticed  that  he  became  hungry  unusuallj 
soon  after  breakfast ;  but  one  day  the  mother 
overheard  him  talking  at  his  meal.  '^  Now 
your  turn,  now  my  turn,  now  your  turn — 
no,  no,  you  take  too  much — my  turn  now.** 
Upon  this  she  looked  to  see  who  it  was  that 
shared  the  child's  breakfast ;  and  she  could 
see  nobody;  but  coming  nearer  she  per- 
ceived a  snake,  who  it  seems  came  regu- 
larly from  his  hole  in  the  opposite  bank  to 
breakfast  with  the  boy  upon  bread  and  milk. 
I  am  afraid  the  poor  reptile  paid  his  life  for 
this  intimacy. 

Thb  Fhilipsons  of  Colgarth  coveted  a 
field  like  Ahab,  and  had  the  possessor  hung 
for  an  offence  which  he  had  not  committed. 
The  night  before  his  execution  the  old  man 
(for  he  was  very  old)  read  the  109th  Psalm 
as  his  solemn  and  dying  commination,  v.  2. 
3.  8.  9.  10.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  The  curse 
was  fully  accomplished ;  the  family  were  cut 
off,  and  the  only  daughter  who  remained  sold 
laces  and  bobbins  about  the  very  country 
in  which  she  had  been  bom  to  opulence. 

Bbistol  water  in  dean  vessels  may  be 
kept  for  any  length  of  time.  This  has  been 
attributed  to  the  lime  which  it  contains.  A 
pint  of  quicklime  should  be  put  into  every 
butt  of  water  when  it  is  filled. 

Sbpt.  1808.  A  supernatural  appearance 
at  Woolwich, — a  faint  but  very  evident  blue 
light  in  two  windows  of  the  rigging  house, 
sometimes  at  one  sometimes  at  the  other, 
appearing  and  disappearing  at  unequal  in- 
tervals. The  inside  of  the  windows  was 
stopped  with  double  canvas,  and  therefore 
it  could  not  possibly  proceed  from  any  thing 
in  the  room.  It  was  from  the  churchyard 
that  it  was  visible,  and  hundreds  assembled 
there.  A  sentinel  was  said  to  have  left  his 
post  on  first  discovering  it,  the  sentinels 
therefore,  report  added,  had  all  been  dou- 


bled. The  ready  solution  was  that  it  was 
the  ghost  of  a  man  who  had  hanged  himself 
in  the  rigging  house.  A  little  investigation 
ascertained  that  it  was  the  reflection  of  a 
light  firom  an  apple  stall  on  Parson's  Hill,  a 
rising  ground  opposite,  a  little  to  the  east 
of  the  churchyard,  and  it  was  sometimes  at 
one  window,  sometimes  at  the  other,  as  peo- 
ple stopped  at  the  stall  and  impeded  the 
light. 

A  Sut  SiMBoii  Stuabt  is  sidd  in  lookiog 
over  some  family  paper  to  have  met  with  a 
memorandum  that  15000  (00?)  pieces  of 
gold  were  buried  in  a  certain  field,  so  manj 
feet  from  the  ditch,  towards  the  Forth.  He 
dug  there,  and  found  the  money  in  a  large 
iron  pot,  with  these  words  written  on  a 
parchment  which  covered  it,  *'The  devil 
shall  have  it  sooner  than  Cromwell.** 

Back-scbatchbb.  MACoi]:x,vol.2,p.ld^ 
says  that  certain  dervises  in  Turkey  use 
them,  because  they  are  not  permitted  to 
scratch  themselves  with  their  fingers. 

SoMB  fifty  or  sixty  years  ago,  Henry 
Erskine  travelling  through  Winsley  Dale, 
halted  at  Askrigg,  and  while  his  horse  wis 
resting,  inquired  of  the  landlord  whether 
there  was  any  thing  in  the  neighbourhood 
worthy  of  a  stranger's  notice.  The  land- 
lord answered  with  alacrity  that  there  was, 
and  that  he  should  be  happy  to  show  it  him. 
Boniface  led  him  —  not  to  the  falls  of  the 
Ure,  nor  to  Hardra  Scar,  but  into  a  field 
which  had  a  cow-house  in  it,  and  a  soli- 
tary tree  besides,  like  all  the  fields  at  the 
upper  end  of  that  beautiful  dale  where  it 
runs  up  into  the  mountain.  "  There,  Sir,** 
said  the  landlord,  rubbing  his  hands  with 
delight,  **  do  you  see  that  cow-house,  Sir  P" 
"  Yes.'*  **  And  do  you  see  that  tree.  Sir? 
That,  Sir,  is  a  very  remarkaUe  plaoe--«n- 
der  that  tree.  Sir,  Rockingham  was  foaled.** 


i 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Doctor  Darnel  Dove, 

MYSTERY 
Somewhat  above  our  art. 

Beaumont  and  Fjlbtchbb, 
Prciogue  to  the  Capkdn* 

B  tliat  love  to  laugh,  and  those  that 

nk, 

mselfl,  if  they  mask  the  matter  thro*, 

umble  on  a  foolish  toy  or  two^ 

ake  *em  show  their  teeth." — Ibid. 

BH  ne  pousse  davantage  les  curieux 
art  au  public  de  leurs  eclaircissemens, 
veu  que  font  les  auteurs  quails  ne 
pas  telle  ou  telle  chose.  C*est  ce 
Dbligera  k  proposer  souvent  mes 
' — B^YLEy  Diet,  tom.  1,  p.  67. 

AC  says  of  an  exuberant  youthful 
Facile  est  remedium  ubertatis,  ste- 
illo  labore  superantur."  ^- Batis, 
p.  121.  The  latter  part  of  this  re- 
I  true;  the  former  not  always  so. 
any  remaining  leafy  and  florid  to  the 


LLB8  was  bred  up  by  Chiron  on  lion*s 
,  and  that  of  other  wild  beasts,  in- 
r  bread  and  milk^  bears,  wild  boars, 
ves*  marrow  and  lions*  entrails* 

BAU. — '^Combien  de  gens,  dit  Leclerc, 

prendront  pas  que  cela  veut  dire, 

d'eau.** — Batle,  Diet,  tom.  1,  p. 


Allai.ius,  who  was  librarian  at  the  Vati- 
can, was  grieved  almost  to  tears  when  he 
lost  a  pen  with  which  he  had  written  Greek 
forty  years.*' — ^Ibid.  p.  456. 

EiTHBB  Amphitryon,  Alcmena*s  husband, 
or  Amphictyon,  King  of  Athens,  invented 
wine  and  water,  a  marvellous  invention,  for- 
sooth ! — ^Ibid.  p.  553. 

"  Could  I  but  unthink  the  thought.** 
Danisl,  voL  1,  p.  219. 

**  But  this  is  only  sweet  and  delicate. 
Fit  for  young  women,  and  is  like  the  herb 

John, 
Doth  neither  good  nor  hurt :  but  that*s  all 

one; 
For  if  they  but  conceive  it  doth,  it  doth, 
And  it  is  that  physicians  hold  the  chief 
In  all  their  cures,— conceit  and  strong  be- 

Uef.**  Ibid.  p.  184. 

Ahaxaoobas  said  snow  is  black.  His 
reason  fo^  so  saying  being  as  absurd  as  the 
assertion ;  for  he  said  it  was  nothing  but 
condensed  water,  and  black  is  the  propei* 
colour  of  water. — ^Batle,  vol.  2,  p.  21. 

When  Anaxagoras  was  dying,  the  ma- 
gistrates of  Lampsacus  requested  to  know  his 
last  wishes ;  and  he  asked  that  the  month 
in  which  he  died  should  be  always  a  month*8 
holydays  for  the  boys,  which  was  granted, 
and  observed  in  the  time  of  Diog.  Laer- 
tius. — Ibid.  p.  23.  More  likely,  as  in  the 
note,  p.  26,  he  asked  for  a  day. 


L 


In  the  pronunciation  of  the  modern  Grpek, 
Alfiebi  8ajs  the  most  melodious  language 
in  the  world  becomes  a  continual  iotacism^ 
like  the  neighing  of  a  horse. 

Camels  have  been  taught  to  dance  exact 
measures,  which  is  no  more  strange,  says 
Lancelot  Addison,  than  the  Balletto  di 
Cavalli,  that  not  long  since  graced  the  nup- 
tials of  a  Duke  of  Florence. 

'*  Some  one  mentioned  to  Pope  the  opinion 
that  animals  have  reasoning.  He  replied, 
*  So  thej  have,  to  be  sure.  All  our  dis- 
putes about  that  are  only  a  dispute  about 
words.  Man  has  reason  enough  only  to 
know  what  it  is  necessary  for  him  to  know, 
and  dogs  have  just  that  too.*  *  But  then,*  it 
was  rejoined,  *  they  must  have  souls  too,  as 
impenshable  in  their  nature  as  ours.*  *  And 
what  harm,*  said  Pope,  ^  would  that  be  to 
us.'* — Spence*8  Anecdotesy  p.  60. 

Ibid.  p.  28 1 .  He  thought  that  the  metemp- 
sychosis was  a  yery  rational  scheme,  and 
would  give  the  best  account  for  some  phe- 
nomena in  the  moral  world. 

"  On  the  6  Germinal  will  be  performed 
a  Miaulic  concert,  in  which  twenty-six  cats 
will  execute  the  air  of  Ran  tamplan  tire 
lire,  and  of  the  Epoux  assortis.  The  con- 
cert will  conclude  with  a  grand  chorus  by 
all  the  twenty-six  cats  in  perfect  concord 
and  excellent  time.'* 

The  English  Gruntetto  was  produced  by 
a  pig-piano-forte,  every  note  of  ^ich  cor- 
responded to  a  nail  or  other  sharp  point. 

Kino  of  the  Maldives.  ^^  U  s'estonnoit 
fort  quand  je  luy  disois  que  la  teinture  d'es- 
carlate  rouge  se  faisoit  avec  de  Turine 
d*hommc  qui  ne  beuvoit  que  du  vin ;  de 
sorte  qu'il  se  fist  oster  un  boimet  d'cscar- 
latte  qu'il  portoit,  et  il  ne  s'en  voulut  plus 
servir  a  cause  de  cela." — Ptrard,  p.  168. 

Paooyum,  the  Paraoelsian  Being  who 
presides  over  unknown  diseases,  which  have 


been  supposed  to  be  produced  by  enchant- 
ment.   For  which  vide  the  great  Bombast 

**  Je  crois  que  les  Fran9oi8  descendent 
des  Centaures  qui  ^toient  moiti^  hommes  et 
moiti6  chevaux  de  b&t ;  ces  deux  moities-la 
se  sont  s^parees ;  il  est  reste  des  hommes 
conmie  vous,  par  exemple,  et  quelques  au- 
tres,  et  il  est  rest^  des  chevaux  qui  ont 
achete  des  charges  de  conseiller,  ou  qui  se 
sont  fait  docteurs  en  Sorbonne.** — Vol- 
taire to  Helvbtius. 

Ca]igula*s  horse. 

Brama  first  made  man  with  one  leg  and 
one  eye ;  seeing  that  did  not  do,  he  unmade 
him  and  tried  another  with  three  legs.  At 
last  he  hit  upon  the  present  form. — Me- 
marias,  vol.  1,  p.  2. 

A  PERSONAGE  was  vcTy  desirous  of  be- 
lieving in  Kreeshna,  and  yet  doubted  of  bis 
divinity.  At  length  it  was  put  to  a  prettj 
good  test^  "  Topou  com  outro,  que  bavia 
doze  annos  nao  tinha  comido,  e  estava  em 
jejuin,  o  qual  Ihe  disse,  se  he  verdade  que 
Cusna  he  Deos,  hei  de  eu  puder  comer  doze 
candius  de  arroz,  e  ficar  sempre  em  jejum.'' 
The  rice  was  brought,  ready  boiled, — he  eat 
it  all,  and  remained  fasting  still ! — Ibid,  p- 
16. 

The  Bramins  opine  that  a  man  has  a 
right  to  live  one  hundred  years,  and  djing 
before  that  term,  returns  to  earlh  to  make 
it  up  in  another  bo<ly. — Ibid.  p.  125. 

Cardinal  Ascanius  had  a  parrot  wbo 
could  say  the  Creed.  Aldobrandus  has  im- 
mortalized  him.  —  Marquis  de  Sobito, 
Exam*  Apol,  p.  16. 

The  pride  of  old  Cole*s  dog,  who  took  tbe 
wall  of  a  dungcart,  and  got  his  guts  squeesed 
out. 

Without  a  daily  supply  as  well  from 
celestials  as  terrestrials,  the  Archeius,  tbe 
Ked  Man,  the  servant  of  Nature,  could  not 


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hare  any  matter  to  work  upon.  W.  Ytcorth^ 
Medidnce  Professor,  Ingenuantm  Ariium 
Studens,  et  per  Ignem  Philosophus, 

This  xnan*s  notion  is,  that  the  wild  and 
onrulj  gass  is  the  grand  enemy  and  fatal 
destroyer  of  the  life  of  man, — "  the  wild 
gass  the  sword  of  mankind."  Scurvy,  stone, 
and  gout  proceed  from  it,  ^  £or  the  gass  is 
mineral  and  excrementitious,  and  hath  in  it 
such  wrathful  qualities  as  stagmatize  the 
vital  functions,  for  it  is  endued  with  a 
coagulative  and  forming  quality,  and  wiU 
make  stones  or  excrements,  and  sometimes 
taken  in  the  bodily  form  of  arsenic  or  poison, 
it  must  be  doing,  although  evil.*' — P.  31. 

BEAUCArBE,  Bishop  of  Metz,  wrote  a 
Treatise  Contra  Calmnianorum  dogma  de 
Sanctificatione  Infantiwn  in  uteris  mainmi, 
— it  was  to  oppose  "  Topinion  qu'ils  ont  que 
les  enfans  des  fiddles  sont  sanctifies  d^  le 
ventre  de  leur  m^re ;  et  qu'ainsi  quoiqu*Us 
meurent  sans  recevoir  le  bapt^me,  ils  ne 
laissoient  pas  d*etre  sauv6s.** — Batls,  vol. 
3,  p.  219. 

Concerning  Toads, 

Had  the  Greeks  thought  this  animal  as 
odious  and  as  deformed  as  we  do,  they  would 
have  given  another  name  to  Phryne. 

"  In  time  of  common  contagion  they  use 
to  carry  about  them  the  powder  of  a  toad, 
and  sometimes  a  living  toad  or  spider  shut 
up  in  a  box ;  or  else  they  carry  arsenic,  or 
some  other  venomous  substance,  which 
draws  unto  it  the  contagious  air,  which 
otherwise  would  infect  the  party ;  and  the 
same  powder  of  toad  draws  unto  it  the  poi- 
son of  a  pestilential  cold.  The  scurf  or 
farcy  is  a  venomous  and  contagious  humour 
within  the  body  of  a  horse ;  hang  a  toad 
about  the  neck  of  the  horse  in  a  little  bag, 
and  he  will  be  cured  infallibly  ;  the  toad, 
which  is  the  stronger  poison,  drawing  to  it 
the  venom  which  was  within  the  horse." — 
Sib  K.  Diobt,  Powder  of  Sympathy,  p.  77. 

Boun-Dehesch.   The  great  toad.   P.  384. 

1585.  Three  women  at  Deptford  reputed 


as  witches,  because  that  either  of  them  kept 
a  monstrous  toad.  One  of  them  was  or- 
dered to  resort  to  the  minister  every  Sun- 
day and  holyday  to  testify  her  faith. — 
Panorama,  vol.  9,  p.  544. 

"VVTien  Vaninus  the  Atheist  (?) '  was  seized 
at  Thoulouse,  there  was  found  in  his  lodg- 
ings a  great  toad  enclosed  in  a  phial. — 
Ibid. 

The  male  toad  acts  as  accoucheur  to  the 
female,  who,  it  is  said,  could  not  lay  her 
eggs  without  his  help.  And  the  number  of 
females  is  believed  to  be  very  inferior  to 
the  males.  John  Hunter,  at  Belleish,  dis- 
sected some  hundreds,  and  found  not  a 
single  female  among  them. 

Lord  Hungerford,  who  was  hanged  and 
degraded,  had  a  toad  put  into  his  coat  of 
arms. — Defoe's  Tour,  vol.  1,  p.  301. 

Toads  near  Salerno  eight  inches  long 
and  five  broad,  and  so  tough  as  to  be  almost 
unstoneable. — Gaufte's  Italy,  vol.  2,  p.  246. 

"  I  KNEW  him  for  a  rogueish  boy. 
When  he  would  poison  dogs,  and  keep  tame 
toads." 

Beaumont  and  Flbtcheb,  Cupid's 
Revenge,  act  iv.  sc.  1. 


*'  *Ti8  an  ordinary  remedy,  though  a  nasty 
one,  that  they  who  have  ill  breaths  hold  their 
mouths  open  at  the  mouth  of  a  privy,  as  long 
as  they  can ;  and  by  the  reiteration  of  this 
remedy,  they  find  themselves  cured  at  last, 
the  greater  stink  of  the  privy  drawing  unto 
it  and  carrying  away  the  less,  which  is  that 
of  the  mouth." — Sib  K.  Digbt,  Powder  of 
Symp.  p.  76. 

An  old  gallant  taking  this  remedy  would 
be  a  good  caricature ;  and  it  would  be  in  the 
spirit  of  old  comedy  to  mark  an  invincible 
breath  by  saying  that  he  had  gone  to  the 
Jakes  to  cure  it,  and  brought  away  the  whole 
stink  of  the  privy. 

'  MosBEiM  says  the  charge  of  Atheism  is  not 
made  out  against  Vanini,  which  is  probably  the 
intent  of  the  ?.— J.  W.  W. 


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*'  Tht  bodies  bolstered  out  with  bumbast 

and  with  bags, 
Thy  rowles,  thy  ruffs,  thy  cauls,  thy  coifs, 
thy  jerkins,  and  thy  jaggs, 
Thy  curling  and  thy  cost,  thy  friesling 
and  thy  fare — 
To  court,  to  court,  with  all  those  toyes,  and 
there  set  forth  such  ware." 

Geobob  Gascoignb. 

"With  sweet  enticing  bait  I  fisht  for  many 

a  dame, 
And  warmed  me  by  many  a  fire,  yet  felt  I 

not  the  flame. 
But  when  at  last  I  spied  that  face  that 

pleased  me  most. 
The  coals  were  quick,  the  wood  was  dry, 

and  I  began  to  tost."  Ibid. 

Gbegobia  Gabcia.  Ongen  de  los  Indios. 
The  mariner^s  compass  was  known  to  Adam, 
the  angelic  doctor  St.  Thomas,  and  with 
him  toda  la  Escuela  de  las  TeolqgoSj  teach- 
ing that  he  knew  all  things  which  God  has 
made,  and  all  arts,  crafts,  and  sciences, — 
and  better  than  any  one  else.  Vide  p.  13. 
This  Glorioso  Doctor  he  calls  him  presently, 
where  he  proves  that  Noah  knew  everything 
also.  They  twain  were  the  great  encyclo- 
pedists of  the  old  world,  and  Ephraim  Cham- 
bers and  Dr.  Abraham  Rees  of  the  new. 

FiEBBE  d*automne.  Dr.  Dove  made  some, 
and  when  making  it,  as  it  blackened  and 
thickened  said,  "  Verily  this  must  be  the 
true  pissasphaltum.** 

FiQ-CASE, — for  making  brawn, — to  keep 
the  pig  in. 

The  pigtail  of  the  field,  a  small  strip  in 
grass. 

FiTTLisMA,*  a  name  of  one  of  the  exercises 
described  by  the  ancient  physicians  as  of 

'  On  turning  to  Fd».  jEcou,  Hippocrat.  in  v. 
irtr6Xoic*I  find  these  words:  -*•  Inter  corporis 
gymnasia  reoenset  Galenus,  lib.  de  San.  tuendi 
2."    I  have  not  Galen  at  hand— J.  W.  W. 


great  service  in  chronic  cases.  It  consisted 
in  a  person*s  walking  on  tip-toe,  and  stretch- 
ing his  hands  as  high  above  his  head  as  he 
could,  keeping  the  whole  body  also  as  mach 
upon  the  streteh  as  might  be.  In  this  con- 
dition the  patient  was  to  walk  as  far  as  he 
was  well  able,  all  the  while  moving  about 
both  hands  as  much  as  he  could  in  all  di- 
rections. 

Beixabmine  at  his  death  bequeathed  one- 
half  of  his  soul  to  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  the 
other  half  to  Christ !  It  is  said  that  he  would 
not  allow  his  own  vermin  to  be  molested, 
saying  that  they  had  no  other  paradise  than 
the  present  existence,  and  that  it  was  cruel 
to  deprive  them  of  it. 

I  SHOULD  like  to  see  the  tales  which  Jean 
Fierre  Camus,  Bishop  of  Bellay,  wrote  to 
inspire  horror  and  disgust  for  love. 

CHAMBEBI4ATNE,  who  wrote  the  Anglis 
Notitia,  had  notice  given  upon  his  monu- 
ment, that  he  had  caused  some  of  these  books, 
wrapt  in  cere-cloth,  to  be  buried  with  him, 
as  they  might  possibly  be  of  use  to  a  remote 
age. 

John  Zbphaniah  Holwbll  (of  the  Black 
Hole)  pubUshed  Dissertations  on  the  Origioi 
Nature,  and  Fursuits  of  intelligent  Beings 
&c.  1788 ;  wherein  he  argues  that  men  are 
fallen  angels,  condemned  to  suffer  in  human 
bodies  for  the  sins  committed  in  their  for* 
mer  state. 

HoBTENSiuB  the  orator  used  to  irrigate 
his  fine  plane  trees  with  wine,  of  which  he 
left  at  his  death  10,000  casks ! 

Nicholas  Vaugubijn,  Seigneur  des  Ive- 
taux,  a  French  poet,  and  preceptor  to  Louis 
XIII.  retired  to  a  handsome  house  in  the 
Fauxbourg  St.  Germaine,  where,  fancying 
that  happiness  was  to  be  found  in  a  pasto- 
ral life,  he  habited  himself  as  a  shepherd, 
and  his  mistress,  who  was  a  player  on  the 
harp,  as  a  shepherdess,  and  led  imaginary 


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I  the  walks  in  his  garden,  singing 
igs  to  his  paramour*s  harp. — See 


rENTiNE,  the  Bavarian  historian, 
n  1532  (Ratisbon)  a  work  upon 
^onyersing  and  counting  bj  the 


lebume,  in  Kent,  aged  86,  the 
Maple,  who  had  a  single  lock  of 
ag  from  her  head  measuring  7 
3S.— ilf.  Magazine,  Julj,  1814. 

!S  and  pumpkins  certainly  dege- 

own  near  gourds ;  the  latter  even 

te   an  emetic   quality  to  their 

.     In  like  manner  melons  will 

if  planted  near  squashes  and 

An  action  was  brought  against 

in  Charles  11.  *s  time  for  selling 

ed  instead  of  cauliflower-seed. 

',  appeared  that  both  had  been 

IT  each  other  by  the  purchaser, 

error,  the  gardener  contended, 

the  degeneracy  of  the  true  seed 

ad  sold.    He  was  cast,  but  later 

show  that  he  was  right. 

;8.  Cycl.  chapter  of  names.  A 
»m  the  Old  Testament. 

]!alvbbt,  lying  flat  on  his  face, 
and  Kate,  one  on  each  side,  try- 
him.  John  Ponsonby  exhibited 
»ene  here  upstairs.  An  infant  St. 
1  point  of  persecution,  though 
ptation.^ 

17BGH.  In  the  coldest  and  bright- 
*,  you  see  an  infinite  multitude 
ning  dart«  or  spiculse  flying  in  all 
iirough  the  sky.  They  seem  to 
k  quarter  of  an  inch  in  length ; 
ot  more  thickness  than  the  finest 
,heir  golden  colour,  glancing  as 
through  the  deep  azure  sky,  has 

.  domestic  scene,  and  the  names  will 
to  many  readers. — J.  W.  W. 


a  great  deal  of  beauty." — Richardson's 
Anecdotes  of  the  Russian  Empire,  p.  53.  Ar- 
rows of  frost.  Arrows  of  love  in  the  snail. 
So  peradventure  disease  has  its  arrows, 
thought  the  doctor. 

"  Two  Russian  peasants  saluting  one  an- 
other, have  by  the  suddenness  and  intense- 
ness  of  the  frost,  had  their  beards  unex- 
pectedly frozen  together." — ^Ibid. 

*'  Behold  the  world,  how  it  is  whirled  round. 
And  for  it  is  so  whirled  is  named  so.** 
Sib  J.  Davis*s  Poem  on  Dancing, 

The  Greeks  called  those  persons  Aetn-e- 
poiroTfioty  who  had  been  thought  dead,  and 
had  recovered  afler  the  celebration  of  the 
funeral  rites.  Such  persons  were  not  ad- 
mitted to  the  holy  rites,  or  allowed  to  enter 
the  temple  of  the  Eumenides,  till  they  had 
been  purified  by  being  let  through  the  lap 
of  a  woman*s  gown,  that  they  might  seem 
to  be  born  again. 

The  Greeks  used  pieces  of  wood  eroded 
by  a  worm  for  seals.  Dex^  they  called  the 
worm,  which  is  the  larva  of  a  beetle. 

Jabies  Bowdoin,  Governor  of  Massachu- 
setts, a  philosopher  and  statesman,  wrote 
treatises  to  **  prove  by  phenomena  and 
Scripture  the  existence  of  an  orb  which 
surrounds  the  whole  material  system,  and 
which  may  be  necessary  to  preserve  it  from 
that  ruin  to  which,  without  such  a  counter- 
balance, it  seems  liable,  by  that  universal 
principle  in  matter,  gravitation.**  He  sup- 
poses that  the  blue  expanse  of  the  sky  is  a 
real  concave  body  encompassing  all  visible 
nature,  that  the  milky  way  and  the  lucid 
spots  in  the  heavens  are  gaps  in  this  orb, 
through  which  the  light  of  exterior  orbs 
reaches  us,  and  that  thus  an  intimation  may 
be  given  of  orbs  on  orbs,  and  systems  on 

^  Ai}^  yap  IffTiv  ttSo£  (TciuXiycoc  lyyivofitvov 
iviov  ^vXov.  SchoL  inHes.  *£pv.  cat  'H/icp.  v. 
418.— J.W.W. 


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Hystems    innumerable,    and   inconceivably 
grand. 

F.  Mastene  sajs  tbat  some  abbesses  for- 
merly confessed  their  nuns,  but  their  exces- 
sive curiosity  carried  them  such  lengths  that 
there  arose  a  necessity  for  checking  it. 

Mb.  Jamieson  tells  us  that  among  the 
ancient  Scandinavians  the  manner  of  extol- 
ling a  person  was  to  call  him  or  her,  not  the 
flower  of  the  family,  but  the  leek  of  the  fa- 
mily. 

In  Rees's  Cyclopaedia  it  is  very  gravely 
said,  under  the  word  Abb^,  that  the  abbes 
are  a  numerous  and  useful  body, — ^persons 
of  universal  talents  and  learning, — ^held  in 
esteem  and  respect  by  people  of  various 
descriptions,  and  particularly  by  the  female 
sex,  to  whom  they  are  devoted ! 

'Atcaicla,  a  purple  bag  filled  with  earth 
or  sand,  and  borne  by  the  Greek  emperors 
and  princes  in  the  left  hand,  to  remind  them 
of  mortality. 

Aon) ALIUS  edited  a  treatise  entitled,  Mu- 
lieres  rum  esse  Homines,  —  to  appease  the 
ladies,  he  said ;  the  author  was  right,  for 
women  certainly  more  resembled  angels. 

The  number  of  adepts  is  believed  to  be 
never  more  or  less  then  twelve. 

^Blurus,  the  Egyptian  God  of  the  Cats, 
— a  man  with  a  cat's  head*  Sir  Thomas^ 
might  have  sat  for  him. 

A014A. — Ctcl.  the  initials  of  *'  thou  art 
strong  in  the  eternal  God."  This  word  the 
Jews  applied  to  the  Deity,  and  wrote  it  in 
the  three  angles,  and  the  middle  of  two  tri- 
angles laid  one  above  the  other,  which  they 
called  the  shield  of  David,  saying  it  was  a 
security  against  wounds,  would  extinguish 
fire,  and  do  other  wonders. 

*  A  splendid  cat  belonging  to  the  cat's  Eden 
ofGretaHaU.-J.W.W. 


Agtei,  posts  or  obelisks,  sacred  to  Apollo, 
or  Bacchus,  or  Mercury,  with  sometimes  a 
head  of  one  of  them,  placed  in  the  vestibule 
of  houses  for  their  security,  and  as  Steph. 
Byz.  says,  serving  like  our  directing  posts, 
— which  is  most  likely. 

Allumee,  a  term  in  heraldry,  when  the 
eyes  of  a  beast  are  drawn  red  or  sparkling. 

The  Guernsey  lily  (Amaryllis  Samiensis), 
a  native  of  Japan,  became  naturalized  in 
Guernsey  by  the  shipwreck  of  a  vessel  re- 
turning from  Japan.  Some  bulbs  being  cast 
on  shore,  took  root  in  the  sand,  and  Mr. 
Hatton,  the  governor,  observing  the  beauty 
of  the  flower,  propagated  it.^ 

WoBTHT  is  this  book  to  be  written  with 
indelible  ink  upon  incombustible  paper  of 
amianthus. 

Sib  Edmumdbebrt  Godfrey,  ^^I  find 
murdered  by  rogues,"  or  "By  Rome's  rude 
finger  die." 

Pilate's  question,  "  Quid  est  ▼critas," 
makes  the  best  answer,  "  Est  vir  qui  adest" 

Anastatica, — Resurrection  plant.  The 
Rose  of  Jericho,  or  Rosa  Marie,  is  one.  The 
dry  woody  plant  being  set  for  some  time  in 
water,  will  dilate  and  open,  so  as  to  disclose 
the  seed  vessels  and  seed. 

Palumbula,  a  Latin  term  of  endearment, 
but  so  was  Anaticula.  Odd  that  in  vulgar 
life  this  last  should  so  long  have  been  pre- 
served. 

The  mite  was  anciently  thought  the  limit 
of  littleness,  but  we  are  not  now  surprised 
to  be  told  of  animals  twenty-seven  millions 
of  times  smaller  than  a  mite !  A  mite!  how 
vastly  swifter  does  it  run  than  a  race-horse! 
Cydopadia. 

AnimalculsB  have  been  discovered  equal 
in  size  only  to  twenty-seven  ten  thousand 
billion  parts  of  a  cubic  inch  !      And  Leeu- 

«  See  Third  Series,  p.  628.— J.  W.  W. 


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sk  calculates  that  a  hundred  millions 
alculse  which  are  discovered  in  corn- 
ier, are  not  altogether  so  large  as  a 
'  sand.  Query,  may  w  e  not  for  Leeu- 
2k  read  Lying-hoax ! 

uicients  say  there  was  a  stone  found 
jdia  of  the  colour  of  iron,  which,  if 
once  heated  red-hot,  never  grew 
lin.  They  called  it  Apsyctos.  A 
ing  stone  **  is  used  in  Cornwall  and 
ire,  to  lay  at  the  feet  in  bed,  because 
operty  of  retaining  heat.  NearCor- 
Iso,  there  is  such  a  stone,  which  re- 
lat  for  twenty-four  hours. 

Aspalax  of  Aristotle  has  been  dis- 
.  Olivier  brought  it  from  the  Le- 
t  lives  under  ground,  and  certainly 
eyes ;  the  skin  is  not  even  pierced 
>lace  of  the  eyes. 

«B8,  or  Italy  itself,  might  properly 
d  iSo/-ya-terra. 

zzf.     See  the  history  of  these  two 
brothers.     CydopiBdia.     See  also 
i  for  a  Bumey-Mus-Doc-ism. 

earliest  account  of  the  contagious 
il  fever,  or  influenza,  published  by 
I,  1580,  who  calls  it  a  new  disease, 
ad  grievously  afflicted,  not  Grermany 
lut  almost  all  Europe. 

jf  U£L*8  scheme  was,  to  write  about 
imes  in  folio,  which  all  powers  were 
pel  all  their  subjects  to  read.  (?) — 
Were  these  to  supersede  all  other 


IB  is  a  painter  known  by  the  name 
ish  Breughel,  because  of  his  infernal 

ALMACCo  was  engaged  to  paint  a 
ength  St.  Christopher,  twelve  brae- 
I.  The  wall  not  being  high  enough, 
«d  him  lying  on  his  back,  and  turned 


up  the  legs  perpendicularly  to  the  body. 
This  was  cutting  the  coat  indeed  according 
to  the  cloth.  But  Dr.  D.D.  must  have 
canvas  enough,  &c. 

RiMGSLBEBG  recommcndcd  bearing  bur- 
dens as  the  best  exercbe  for  men  of  study. 
He  had  a  gown  lined  with  lead,  as  much  as 
he  could  lift  with  both  hands,  which  he  used 
to  wear,  and  thus  write  and  exercise  at  the 

same  time.     Dr. ^  following  this  rule, 

has  his  wig  lined  with  lead, — a  needless  pre- 
caution, when  the  head  was  already  so  well 
lined  with  the  same  materials. 

Caffarellt,  tbe  singer,  lived  in  a  palace 
of  his  own  building,  over  which  was  this 
inscription,  "Amphion  Thebas,  ego  do- 
mum  ;  **  and  he  purchased  for  his  nephew 
and  heir  a  dukedom, — Sante  Dorato ! 

Db.  Spubzhbim,  the  craniologist,  shows 
that  there  is  a  great  difference  between  the 
skulls  of  men  and  of  women ;  that  in  Ger- 
many the  difierence  is  greater  than  in  Eng- 
land, in  England  than  in  France,  where,  in- 
deed, it  scarcely  exists  at  all. 

The  canary  fanciers  in  London  have  a 
pattern  bird  engraved  and  coloured,  as  the 
standard  of  perfection  at  which  they  are  to 
aim,  with  his  characteristic  requisites  ex- 
plained in  technical  terms.  So  Nobs  might 
have  been  the  fugel  horse. 

Dn>o  was  JezebePs  grand-daughter,  says 
Rebs*8  CyclojHBdial 

Louis  Bebtband  Castel,  See  Cyclopaj- 
dia  for  his  scheme  of  a  Clavecin  Oculaire, 
and  the  music  of  colours.  See  also  Clave- 
cin, ibid. 

The  Cyclopaedia  says  that  the  petrified 
child  at  Copenhagen  is  actually  what  it  is 
said  to  be.  It  was  cut  out  of  a  woman  at 
Sens,  1582,  having  been  in  her  about  twenty 
years.  As  far  as  petrifying  the  heart,  such 
changes  are  but  too  common. 


JF  r 


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Thorhet  Arbbau,  canon  of  Langres, 
wrote  a  treatise  called  Orchesographia,  and 
the  art  of  expressing  a  dance  by  characters 
like  music,  was  practised  after  his  time. 
Beauchamps  so  much  improTed  it,  that  he 
was  pronounced  the  inventor  bj  a  decree 
of  the  French  parliament.  And,  in  1775, 
Mr.  Steel  published  an  essay  in  which  he 
undertook  to  record  in  his  notation  how 
Garrick  played  his  principal  parts.  Chore- 
graphy,  however,  as  it  was  called,  prevailed 
for  half  a  century,  and  Dr.  Bumey  tells  us 
he  learnt  to  dance  by  it — at  least  under  a 
dancing-master  by  whom  it  was  used. 

Sign OBA  Corhabo-Piscopia.  It  was  pro- 
posed to  give  her  a  seat  among  the  doctors 
of  theology,  at  Padua ;  this  the  Bishop  op- 
posed ;  but  she  was  made  a  doctor  in  phi- 
losophy, 1678,  in  the  cathedral  of  that  city. 

Thb  craw-fish  discharges  itself  of  its  sto- 
mach, and,  as  M.  Greofiroy  thinks,  of  its  in- 
testines also.  These,  as  they  putrify  and 
dissolve,  serve  for  food  to  the  animal ;  dur- 
ing the  time  of  the  reformation,  the  old 
stomach  seems  to  be  the  first  food  which 
the  new  one  digests. 

Sbvbntt-two  kinds  of  crass  in  heraldry. 
— Cycl.     See  them  named. 

''The  panther  is  so  greedy  of  men*8  ex- 
crements, that  if  they  be  hanged  up  in  a 
vessel  higher  than  his  reach,  he  sooner  kills 
himself  with  the  overstretching  of  his  wind- 
less body  than  he  will  cease  from  his  intended 
enterprize."  QmBref 

A  HOT  iron  for  warming  old  men*s  feet 
is  called  a  Damsel,  or  Nun.  I  have  named 
Mrs.  Coleridge*s  bottle,  therefore,  the  Friar. 

CoLTiE  timber, — so  called  when  the  heart 
is  loose,  and  slips  out. 

DouBLB  stars,  so  near  each  other  as  to 
appear  one ;  and  it  requires  the  strongest 
glasses  to  ascertain  that  they  are  two  distinct 


bodies.     Here  may  be  a  communicatioD,^ 
and  perhaps  a  war  of  world  against  world  I 

DoTHBL  FiGuo,  a  celebrated  performer 
on  the  German  flute,  is  said  to  have  slit  his 
tongue  in  order  that  he  might  excel  ail 
others  in  what  is  called  doubie-tooguing. 

In  beating  the  drum  there  is  the  n^the 
swell,  the  flam,  and  the  ruflte,  &c  See 
CifcL 

Thb  Romans  used  to  breed  up  boys  liar 
dwarfs  I  by  incloeing  them  in  a  box,  or 
binding  them  with  bandages. 


Enbobbma,  those  part*  of  the  urine 
float  about  in  the  middle  resembling  a  doud, 
formed,  according  to  Boerhaave,  chiefly  of 
muriatic  salt. 

'E>T€X£)(c/a,  term  by  which  Aristotle  de- 
fines the  soul,  and  which  has  so  puzzled  til 
critics  and  commentators,  that  HermoUus 
Barbarus  is  said  to  have  consulted  the  devil 
about  it.  He  renders  it — petfecUkabia; 
and  somebody  need  consult  the  devil  to 
explain  this  also. 

Con sidbbibg  the  matter  entitatively,  that 
is  to  say,  secundum  entitatem. 

Ebmbsia,  a  mixture  of  honey,  myrrli) 
safiron,  and  palm-wine,  beaten  together, 
and  taken  mixed  in  milk,  to  make  people 
beget  handsome  children.  An  ancient  pre* 
scription. 

Dr.  Smith  named  a  plant  Goodenia,  is 
honour  of  the  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  not  recol- 
lecting that  Goodenovia  would  have  been 
nearer  the  original  and  equally  unexcep- 
tionable. But  he  constructed  the  fbrmer 
after  the  example  of  Toumefus,  "  who  not 
without  much  consideration,  contrived  to 
fomi  Guudelia  out  of  Gundelscheimer." 

Gun  barrels  (the  twisted  sort)  made  of 
old  horse-shoe  nails. 


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About  the  beginning  of  Oeorge  the  Third's 
reign,  the  guitar  was  so  much  in  vogue  as 
near!  J  to  break  all  the  harpsichord  and  spinet 
makers;  and  indeed  the  harpsichord  nu»ters 
themselTes.  All  the  ladies  disposed  of  their 
barpsicfaords  at  auctions  for  one  third  of 
their  price,  or  exchanged  them  for  guitars ; 
till  old  Kirkman,  the  harpsichord  maker, 
after  almost  ruining  himself  with  buying  in 
his  instruments  for  better  times,  purchased 
likewise  some  cheap  guitars,  and  made  a 
present  of  several  to  girls  in  milliners*  shops, 
and  to  ballad  singers  in  the  streets  whom 
he  had  taught  to  accompany  themselves, 
with  a  few  chords  and  triplets,  which  soon 
made  the  ladies  ashamed  of  their  frivolous 
and  vulgar  taste,  and  return  to  the  harpsi- 
chord. 

The  King  of  England  is  a  mixed  person, 
say  the  lawyers,  priest  as  well  as  prince. 

The  milt  of  one  cod  fish  contains  one 
hundred  and  fifly  thousand  million  animal- 
cules! 

A  FINE  specimen  of  adequate  style. — Cycl, 
Moscow. 

^  The  French  army,  under  the  command 
of  Buonaparte,  Emperor  of  France,  took 
possession  of  Moscow,  aA^er  several  engage- 
ments with  the  Russians,  14th  September, 
1812,  but  the  place  was  previously  set  on 
fire  by  order  of  the  Governor,  and  so  much 
desolated  that  it  afforded  no  satisfactory 
accommodation  for  the  Emperor  and  his 
troopa.  After  enhancing  the  distress  of 
the  city  and  its  vicinity,  the  French  were 
under  a  necessity  of  abandoning  the  city, 
and  making  their  retreat  homeward  I** 

MoKHorr  mentions  a  certain  Dutchman 
of  the  name  of  Fetter  who  broke  a  glass  by 
the  sound  of  his  voice* 

Tub  sense  of  smell  supposed  to  have  been 
given  to  man  for  pleasure.  See  CycL  Nose. 
Apply  this  to  the  facts  respecting  odours  in 
medicine.  Sebastian  lay  on  a  bed  of  roses, 
in  a  fever,  and  was  cured. 


Oabistus  or  Oaristys.  A  Greek  term 
for  a  poetical  dialogue  between  husband 
and  wife,  of  which  Scaliger  says  that  in  the 
Sixth  Diad  is  the  only  proper  ancient  spe- 
cimen. Upon  the  death  of  Nobbs,  what  a 
subject  for  one ! 

**The  merits  and  demerits  of  husband  and 
wife  are  equally  divided  between  them,  and 
their  fruits  extend  to  both  in  a  future  state ; 
as,  for  instance,  if  a  wife  perform  many  me- 
ritorious works,  and  the  husband  die  first, 
he  will  enjoy  heaven  as  the  fruit  of  his  wife's 
good  works ;  and  if  the  wife  be  guilty  of 
many  wicked  actions,  and  the  husband  die 
first,  he  must  go  to  hell  for  the  sins  of  his 
wife.  In  the  apprehensions  of  a  Hindoo, 
therefore,  marriage  ought  to  be  a  very  serious 
business.** — Ward,  vol.  2,  p.  48. 

**The  juta  is  the  hiur  behind,  which  is  suf- 
fered to  grow  by  the  Sunyasees,  till  it  is 
sometimes  three,  four,  and  even  five  cubits 
long.  They  mix  ashes  with  it  till  it  is  as 
hard  as  a  rope,  and  then  tie  it  round  their 
head  like  a  turban.** — ^Ibid.  p.  123. 

A  PUNDIT  sent  word  to  Ward,  that  the 
mysteries  of  the  Hindoo  astronomy  lay  hid 
in  300,000  books. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  270. 

It  is  an  act  of  merit  among  the  Hindoos 
to  read  a  book,  even  if  you  do  not  under- 
stand it.  When  a  Hindu  opens  one  of  the 
shastrus,  or  even  an  account  book,  he  makes 
a  bow  to  it. — Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  220. 

Ward  saw  a  Hindu  play  the  flute  with 
his  nose. 

Form  of  concluding  a  letter  in  Hindos- 
tan: — ^  What  more  shall  I  write?** — or, 
"  This." 

The  Hindoos  believe  that  a  person  can 
receive  only  one  blessing  at  a  time  from  his 
god.  They  relate  a  story  of  a  man  who  put 
a  trick  on  his  guardian  god,  and  obtained 
three  at  once :  he  asked  that  he  might  see 


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his  child  eat  from  off  a  golden  dish  every 
day.  He  was  blind,  childless,  and  poor. — 
Yol.  3,  p.  153. 

Four  things,  according  to  the  Fend  Na- 
meh,  are  undoubtedly  the  work  of  Satan, 
sneezing,  bleeding  at  the  nose,  gaping,  and 
vomiting. 

A  MooB  who  had  been  in  England  said 
to  Lancelot  Addison,  it  was  a  shame  to  see 
women,  dogs,  and  dirty  shoes  admitted  into 
a  place  sacred  to  (jod*s  worship. 

Thb  Roman  ladies  used  to  dye  their  hair 
yellow,  (that  being  the  favourite  colour), 
with  the  flowers  of  the  mullein,  or  of  the 
genistella, — ^probably  of  both. 

**  Some  of  the  fathers  went  so  far  as  to 
esteem  the  love  of  music  a  sign  of  predes- 
tination ;  as  a  thing  divine,  and  reserved  for 
the  felicities  of  heaven  itself." — Sib  Wil- 
liam Temple. 

Timothy  Rooebs  says,  melancholy  is 
"  one  of  the  sad  effects  produced  by  that 
black  humour  that  has  vitiated  all  the  na- 
tural spirits." — MicHAELis,  N.  T.  xi. 

"Do  not  attribute  the  effects  of  mere  dis- 
ease to  the  devil,  though  I  deny  not  that  the 
devil  has  a  hand  in  the  causing  of  several 
diseases.  The  envy  and  rage  that  he  is 
filled  with  prompts  him  to  disturb  the 
health  and  peace  of  man ;  and,  by  God's 
permbsion  no  doubt,  he  brings  a  great  many 
sicknesses  upon  him." — Ibid.  xv. 

"  I  WOULD  not  have  you  bring  a  railing 
accusation  against  the  devil,  so  as  to  attri- 
bute to  him  a  thousand  things  wherein  he 
has  no  hand  at  all." — Ibid.  xvi. 

See  pp.  104,  5,  of  Tim.  Rogebs. 

What  is  the  authority  for  this  anecdote 
of  Augustin, — that  once  a  year  he  turned 
^ggftT,  and  received  alms  of  the  common 


people  who  would  give  it,  because  he  mis- 
trusted his  own  felicity,  and  dreaded  that 
— so  frightful  in  those  days — Invidiam  Nu- 
minis.  (?)— Ibid.  419. 

"  Tbistitia  enim,  non  secus  atque  tinea 
vestem,  vitam  rodit." — Vah  Helmokt,  p. 
737. 

M.  Fbtit,  a  French  physician,  asserted 
that  St.  Augustine  "avoit  la  force  de  boire 
beaucoup,  et  8*en  servant  quelquefois,  mais 
sans  s*enivrer." — ^Batlb,  vol.  2,  p.  551. 

^^Videri  B.  Aug.  non  invalidum  potorem 
fuisse,"  is  the  title  of  Fetit*8  chiqpter  on  his 
Homeri  NepantheSy  and  he  quotes  a  passage 
from  the  Conf.  in  which  Augustine  prajs 
against  a  propensity  to  tippling. 

Habbington*8  Mechanics  of  Nature,— 
and  his  notion  that  spirits  produced  dis- 
eases.— See  his  Works,  xzxix. 

Agues,  it  is  said,  have  not  unfrequentlj 
been  cured  by  electricity ; — the  mode  bj 
drawing  sparks  through  flannel  or  the 
clothes  for  ten  or  fifteen  minutes,  either  at 
the  time  of  the  fit  or  before  it  is  expected. 

The  botanical  theory  of  diseases.  The 
sorts  which  blossom,  seed,  and  die.  The; 
will  not  grow  in  every  soil.  The  fungous 
tribes,  as  wens,  cancers,  &c. 

Alkahest — the  universal  solvent  of  Van 
Helmont. 

Lamguis  held  that  all  diseases  were  ani- 
malcular. 

Thomas  Bovius,  an  empiric,  who  called 
himself  Zephiraelim,  afler  his  tutelar  and 
assistant  spirit,  contrived  a  preparation  of 
mercury  and  gold,  which  be  called  his  Her- 
cules, and  an  "  aurum  potabile."  He  wrote 
Flagello  contro  de  medici  comnaau  de^ 
rationale.  Veneci,  1583,  et  Fulmine  cc9tro 
de  medici  pUatiti  rationali,   Verona,  159*2. 


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PHosFHoauB  was  discovered  bj  Nicolas 
Bnndt  (or  Sebaation),  in  a  course  of  ex- 
perimenta  upon  urine,  made  with  &  riew  of 
extracting  a  fluid  proper  for  coDTertiog 
tilver  into  gold. 

CvcDPHA,  a  cap  with  cephalic  powders 
_  lilted  therein,  worn  of  old  for  sucli  dia- 
orden  aa  particularly  affected  the  heaxl. 

Hnzmb  Cq)halicniii  Balsamum.  The 
power  of  which  was  to  preBerre  in  the  mind 
the  memorj  of  all  things  past.  Charles 
Duke  of  Burgnndj  gave  an  English  phjrsi- 
cian  10,000  florins  for  the  receipt,  for  which 
Sbukkbtdb,  iVocf.  lib.  1,  cap.  S,  is  referred 
to.  What  would  some  princes  give  for  an 
&c. — a  counter  balsam ! 


Wa  read  in  the  Bittory  of  the  Aeadtmy 
of  SeUneet,  of  a  musician  who  was  cured  t^ 
a  riolent  fever  bj  a  concert  at  his  bednde. 

Tbi  red  oil  of  the  glass  of  antimony — 
the  nniveraal  medicine  of  Basil,  Valentine, 
ud  others,  for  which  Eerkring  has  given 
■0  unintelligible  process.  He  says  he  saw 
a  confirmed  dropej  cured  bj  it,  the  patient 
■wimming  in  his  own  exudations,  which  ran 
b  drops  through  the  bed  upon  the  floor. 

HoKTAGHB,  (vol.  8,  p.  213),  saye  it  was 
uopinion  held  hj  some  gardeners, "  que  les 
roses  et  violettes  naissent  plus  odorif^antes 
pris  dea  aulx  et  des  oignons,  d'autant  qu'its 
luccent  et  tirent  b  eux,  ce  qn'il  j  a  de  mau- 
Tiase  odeur  en  la  terre." 

"  Nor  si  sanano  le  malatie  de  gli  huo- 
mini  con  Ic  contemplationi  di  medicina." — 
Looovico  DoLcx,  Diahgo  de  Memoria,  ff. 
104. 

But  contemplation  will  bring  on  diseases, 
though  it  cannot  cure  them. 

I     Hospital  of  Sultaun  Bayased  at  Adria- 
Dople,  with  a  medical  academy. 

There  were  eight  rooms  here,  which  "are 
ever  full  of  sick  people,  poor  and  rich.    In 


some  of  these  rooms  fire  is  lighted  at  winter 
time  according  to  the  desire  of  the  sick,  and 
they  are  fondled  with  silk  cushions,  good 
beds,  &c.  for  the  spring,  when  madness  is 
particularly  raging.  Ilie  madmen  sick  of 
mystic  love  are  seen  to  lie  here  chaioed  like 
lions  in  their  dens,  looking  to  the  basin,  and 
speaking  in  the  cant  of  Kalenders.  Others 
dispersing  in  the  garden  amongst  the  flower 
beds,  jell  and  shout  to  the  song  of  the  night- 
ingale, withoutmeasure  or  art.  Inthesea- 
son  of  the  flowers,  the  sick  are  often  cured 
only  by  the  sight  and  smell  of  them ;  and 
some  lose  their  wits  by  the  sweet  scent  of 
Ihem.  The  greater  number  of  the  madmen 
enchained  here  are  love-sick,  and  their  sight 
may  cure  those  who  are  in  danger  to  be- 
come mad  by  the  number  of  pretty  faces  to 
be  seen  here.  Some  of  the  mad  are  cured 
by  music  ;  and  therefore  Sultaun  Bayaxed, 
the  founder,  established  a  living  for  some 
musicians,  who  come  thrice  a  week  and  play 
in  the  winter  and  summer  rooms  to  the  sick 
and  mad.  The  mad  begin  then  to  jump  like 
spe«  at  the  tunes,  Rait,  Neva,  Sih'oli,  Bhe- 
AargnA,but  above  oil  to  the  tunes  ^et^oofe 
and  BosUk,  which  being  accompanied  by  the 
great  kettledrum  gives  particular  pleasure 
to  the  mad.  Briefly,  there  is  no  hospital 
(DoTtthifa),  and  no  madhouse  (Bimarei- 
iaun),  in  the  whole  world  like  that  of  Adri- 
anople.  The  sick  and  mnd  receive  three 
times  in  four  and  twenty  hours,  not  only 
common  food,  but  birds  and  all  kinds  of 
aviary  dainties  from  the  kitchen  founded 
for  that  purpose.  Twice  in  the  week  the 
apothecary's  room  is  opened,  and  medicines 
ore  distributed  to  all  those  who  ask  for  it; 
preparations  of  cardamom,  caryophils,  and 
all  kind  of  aromatic  spices.  On  the  door 
of  the  room  a  curse  is  written  against  those 
who  without  being  sick  should  ask  such 
medicines,  that  they  should  fall  sick  imme- 
diately." EvLiA  Effenoi  concludes  this 
account  with  a  benediction,  which  he  fre- 
quently U9CS,  but  seldom  with  such  pro- 
priety as  in  this  place,—"  Health  to  you." 
—Vol.  3. 


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^^A  COUNSELLOR  at  law  once  asked  rae/* 
says  HuABTE,  **  what  the  cause  might  be,  that 
in  the  affairs  where  he  was  well  paid,  many 
cases  and  points  of  learning  came  to  his 
memory ;  but  with  such  as  yielded  not  to 
his  travail  what  was  due,  it  seemed  that  all 
his  knowledge  was  shrunk  out  of  his  brain." 
Whom  I  answered,  "  that  matters  of  in- 
terest appertained  to  the  wrathful  faculty, 
which  mfJceth  its  residence  in  the  heart,  and 
if  the  same  receive  not  contentment,  it  doth 
not  willingly  send  forth  the  vital  spirits,  by 
whose  light  the  figures  which  rest  in  the 
memory  may  be  discerned  :  but  when  that 
findeth  satisfaction,  it  cheerfully  affordeth 
natural  heat,  where  through  the  reasonable 
soul  obtaineth  sufficient  clearness  to  see 
whatsoever  is  written  in  the  head.** 

"  A  VBSSBL  lying  at  Gainsborough  some 
time  ago  had  on  board  a  sheep,  which  was 
become  a  good  sailor,  would  eat  beef,  pork, 
and  biscuit  with  the  crew ;  nuide  no  scruple 
at  mutton,  and  took  the  water  like  a  dog.'* 
—Naval  Chronicle^  vol.  26,  p.  385. 

"  Ow  the  17th  of  November,  1807,  dur- 
ing an  inundation  of  the  Rhone,  a  beaver 
was  killed  in  the  island  of  La  Barthalasse, 
opposite  Avignon.  M.  Costaing  has  given  a 
very  particular  description  of  the  animal, 
and  among  other  things,  remarks  that  the 
fourth  toe  of  each  hind  paw  has  a  double 
nail,  the  parts  of  which  close  on  each  other, 
so  as  to  form  a  sharp  and  cutting  beak, 
opening  and  shutting  like  that  of  a  bird  of 
prey." — Panorama^  vol.  6,  p.  979. 

AscLEPiADES  the  first  physician  who  pre- 
scribed wine,  and  allowed  his  patients  cold 
water." — Batlb.  **  Utilitatem  vini  lequari 
vix  deorum  potenti&pronuntiavit." — Pliwt, 
xxiii.  §  1. 

Pierre  Brtscot,  a  French  physician  of 
the  sixteenth  century,  was  the  first  who  per- 
ceived that  the  Arabians  had  corrupted  the 
science  of  medicine ;  and  who  endeavoured 
to  bring  it  back  to  the  precepts  of  Hippo- 
crates anc'  Galen. — ^Batlb,  vol.  4,  p.  143. 


^QuJEDAM  enim  ignorantibus  sBgri 
randa  sunt;    caussa  inultis  morioidi 
morbum  suum  nosse." — Sbhbc.  de 
mtiBj  §  xviii.  vol.  1,  p.  312. 

Henbt  VIII.  a  quack. — £1x18*8  Or 
Letters^  vol.  1,  p.  287. 

Vices  and  diseases. — ^Bishop  Rvni 
vol.  3,  p.  299-302. 

•*  I  THnfK  it  be  troubled  with  the  w 
Carduus  Benedictus  and  mare*s  milk 
the  only  thing  in  the  world  for  t.*' — M 
of  ike  Bumir^PesUe. 

Musical  medicine.  See  a  treatii 
CaspabLjescherus.  "Dissertatiohisi 
theologica  de  Salile  per  musicam  curate 
Wittemberg.  1688. 

Question  of  possession.  A  diseased 
The  kind  which  goes  out  only  by  ft 
and  prayer.  • 

Parallel  between  a  legislator  and  a 
sician. — pAaQUiBB,  vol.  2,  p.  326. 

'^Aftbe  Fve  beat  thee  into  one  main  I 

And  made  thee  spend  thy  state  in  r 

apples.** — ^Beaumont  and  Flet< 

Lote^s  Pilgrimage^  act  iii.  so. 

^*  Tubes  is  nothing  that  can  cur 
king*s  evil  but  a  prince.** — ^Euphubs. 

History  of  the  three  Welsh  physii 
— Camhro  Briton^  vol.  2,  p.  313-15. 

Laws  for  the  chief  physician. — lb 
39G. 

Apothecaries*  roguery.  —  Malc 
London,  vol.  2,  p.  381. 


*  The  reader  may  see  some  very  curio 
marks  in  the  celebrated  Jork  Smith's  Dv 
of  Prophecy,  on  the  words,  "  Bnng  me  1 
strel,"  1  Kings,  iii.  15,  p.  864. 

*  Dyce  hss  edited  bruite,  as  Sonthe^ 
jectured, — but  both  the  folios  have  bntu 
probably  it  is  right.- J.  W.  W. 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Wht  ft  phTnciu  should  be  chearfiil. — 
Edthubi  Ida  Enghad,  Q.  e> 

AcoBBDao.  Dr.  Hftbnemuin  belicTes 
that  the  miaama  of  the  cholera  proceeds 
Irom  very  amall  biectii,  which  escape  from 
the  e;e,  and  fasten  themielTee  to  the  hairs  of 
the  head,  the  skin,  and  the  clothes.  The 
Tapoar  of  camphor  being  fatal  to  theae  in- 
secta  ai  well  as  others.  Dr.  Hahnemann  pre- 
acribea  &  spoonful  of  camphor  dissolved  in 
spirits  of  wine,  and  mixed  with  warm  water, 
ittery  )ntnu/e.(?)  Huh  the  bod^  with  cam- 
phor, put  on  a  camphorated  garment,  and 
fiimigate  the  room  with  camphor;  and  then, 
if  the  ^tease  is  produced  bj  these  invisible 
insecta,  and  his  Iheorj  is  right,  the  patient 
infallibly'  recoTcrs !  —  Tinuj,  Julj  17, 1S31. 

Bcblxiqh'b  gout. — Ellis,  vol.  3,  p.  35. 

"  Dn  of  the  jaundice,  jet  hsTe  the  cure 
tbout  jou ;  lice,  large  lice,'  begot  of  jour 
own  dost  and  the  heat  of  tiie  brick  kilns." — 
Bbidiioht  and  Fi^tcbu'b  Tkierry  and 
neod,  act  *.  ac.  1. 

**  Opt  taking  phjric  makes  a  man  verj 
patient." — B.  JoHson,  Every  Man  in  hit 
Bttmoia;  vol.  1,  p.  S3. 

Simple  remediea. — ^Eaaa.  Adag.  p.  121, 

MntecnifI'MntiiniMaoraetiDies  the  safest 
practitioner. 

HiFPOCBATH  sajs,  "Gtidf  ri  tVlc  iy  rpiri 
rMrpiri,  fiaXi^a  it  riic  yvvauiiiv." — Oa- 
*aut.  Doe.  Cur.  p.  696. 


Sia  Edward  Barbt  (Dr.),  author  of  the 
book  on  wines,  thought  that  pulsation  pro- 


dioB."    P.  154,  16S9,- 


duces  death  bj  attrition,  and  that  therefore 
the  waj  to  preserve  life  is  to  retard  pulsa- 
tion.— Cbokbk's  BoswBLi,  vol.  3,  p.  396. 

Abcilloh,  whose  fine  librarj  was  pillaged 
bj  the  priests  ifteT  the  revocation  of  the 
edict  of  Nantes,  bought  alwajs  the  hand- 
Boraest  editions  he  could  get.  "  II  disoit 
qu'il  est  certain  que  moins  les  jeux  ont  de 
peine  k  lire  un  ouvrage,  plus  I'esprit  a  de 
liberty  pour  en  juger.  Que  conuue  on  j 
TOit  plus  clBir,  et  qu'oQ  en  remarque  mieiut 
lea  grficeset  les  d^fauts  lorsqu'il  est  imprim£, 
que  lorsqu'il  est  £crit  i  la  main,  on  j  Toit 
aussi  plus  clair  quand  il  est  ImprimS  en  beau 
caract&re,  et  siu*  du  beau  papier,  que  quand 
il  I'eat  sur  du  vilain,  et  en  mauvaia  carac- 
tires."— Batlb,  toI.  2,  p.  70. 

Ancilton  used  to  saj,  "  On  trouve  dans 
certains  antenri  n^iges,  des  choses  singU' 
litres  qu'on  ne  trouve  point  ailleura :  et  ne 
fflt-ce  qne  dn  style,  on  j  trouve  toujours 
quelqne  chose  )l  prendre." — Ibid.  p.  73. 

Waiting  for  second  editions. — Ibid.  And 
value  of  first. 

Mabc  AirroKT's  daughter,  Antonio,  bad 
a  pet  fish  (munena),  and  adorned  it  with 
ear-rings ;  so  odd  a  fancj,  that  man j  per- 
sons went  to  see  it.  Where  did  the  lamprej 
wear  bis  ear-ringaf — Funr,  vol.  9,  c.  BS. 
Batlb,  vol.  2,  p.  145. 

Bauius,  when  he  was  asked  whj  laws 
were  so  often  contradictory,  used  to  saj, 
"  quod  intellectus,  qui  ratiocioatur,  non 
semper  sit  idem,  sed  varius." — Batlb,  vol. 
8,  p.  53. 

Cardinal  Mazarin  said,  "  que  les  plus 
habiles  gens  £taient  comme  lea  vietimes; 
qui,  pour  si  exactement  qu'elles  eussent  it6 
chouies,  avaicnt  toujours  quelque  chose  de 
manvais,  quand  on  en  examlnait  les  en- 
traillea." — Ibid.  voL  3,  p.  38. 

A  BAas  opinion  of  P.  Rapin  in  the  same 
page:  "Que  souvent  la  reputation  ne  vient 
point  tant  aux  h^ros  par  Tadresse  qu'ils  ont 
de  faire  voir  leurs  belles  quolites,  que  par 


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celle  quails  ont  de  caoher  les  mauvaises,  et 
de  ne  se  pas  laisser  pen^trer/* 

Hebmolaus  Babbuoni  raised  the  devil, 
that  he  might  learn  from  him  the  meaning 
of  Aristotle's  word,  cWtXc^c^a,  which  is 
rendered  perfectihabia, 

^'Belzebul,  maitre  mouche,"  said  M. 
Matras  to  a  devil  of  this  name,  **  fort  en- 
nemi  des  Huguenots,"  who  threatened  to 
strike  him,  ^^Belzebul,  maitre  mouche,  si 
vous  vous  jouez  k  moi,  je  vous  battrai  en 
diable ; "  and  taking  a  stick,  he  frightened 
this  devil,  who  beat  every  body  else." — 
Batle,  vol.  3,  p.  208. 

Some  of  those  remembrances  which  used 
to  be  our  gala  thoughts  go  into  mourning, 
aa  the  friends  of  our  youth  drop  off;  and 
whenever  we  lose  one  whom  we  dearly  love, 
a  part  of  our  own  existence  mortifies. 

Daleth  occurs  in  the  Scriptures  32,580 
times. 

Initial  chapter.  Dispute  when  the  new 
century  began.  Pye's  Carmen  Ssculare.  Di- 
luvian  world,  and  what  happened  therein. 
The  creation  of  the  pig,  and  Noah's  son,  are 
told  by  Eulia.  Also  the  history  of  Eve's 
second  fall,  the  forbidden  potatoe,  and  her 
son  Mirphi. 

She  brought  forth  a  son,  and  she  called 
his  name  the  Great  O,  query  in  Hebrew  ? 

And  the  great  O  begat  Kainor,  and  Nee- 
hil,  and  Mairah,  and  his  brethren;  and  Kai- 
nor begat  Faelim,  and  Faelim  begat  Thadi, 
and  Thadi  begat  Mahoc,  and  Mahoc  begat 
Mirphi,  and  Mirphi  begat  Mahoone,  and 
Mahoone  begat  Patteric,  who  is  Pahat,  and 
in  her  days  was  the  deluge. 

Balunder  would  imitate  Jeroboam,  and 
so  he  set  up  a  calf,  but  it  was  a  live  one,  and 
a  bull  calf,  and  all  the  people  when  he  grew 
up,  worshipped  the  bull.  Jupiter,  Lavir, 
they  kill  his  bull,  and  make  a  feast  and  eat 
it :  his  curse  that  the  bull  shall  be  in  their 
mouths,  and  that  the  curse  shall  continue 


as  long  as  they  are  slaves  to  the  bull.  And  i 
these  heard  of  the  whore  of  the  hills,  who 
had  a  herd  of  bulls,  and  how  she  milked 
them,  and  obtains  exceeding  great  riches  hj 
this  milk ;  and  they  believed  in  the  whore 
of  the  hills,  for  her  bulls  were  token  to 
them. 

Pahat  begat  Balunder,  and  Balunder  be- 
gat Boddarajon,  and  Boddarajon  begat 
Phun,  and  Phun  begat  Ryhot,  and  Rjhot 
begat  Merdar,  and  his  brothers  Doal  and 
Dorcl,  and  Myrrhdur. 

The  whore  of  the  hills,  and  yet  a  pure 
virgin,  and  the  bread  which  she  did  eat  was 
mutton. 

Therefore  they  scorned  their  own  bull 
for  her,  because  he  gave  no  milk,  and  thej 
turned  unto  the  whore  of  the  hills,  and  be- 
lieved in  her,  that  she  was  a  pure  virgin, 
and  that  the  bread  was  mutton,  and  what- 
ever she  commanded  them  to  do,  this  did 
they,  and  they  worshipped  her  herd  of  bulk 

The  daughters  of  Pahat  were  Truhust, 
and  Phort-hin,  and  Undurs-tand-din,  and 
Cheef,  who  was  his  favourite  child,  and  be 
called  them  all  Mig,  which  was  the  title  and 
honour  that  he  gave  them. 

He  said  by  the  power  he  would  make  his 
people  to  see  also. 

Com  and  oil  and  wine  for  her  bulls,  yea, 
silks  also,  and  cloth  of  gold  and  of  silver; 
and  silver  and  gold  also,  and  precious  stones. 
And  she  made  a  brazen  bidl,  and  did  heat 
it  with  fire,  and  put  there  all  those  who  de- 
nied that  she  was  a  pure  virgin. 

Noah  left  ten  volumes. 
Some  say  he  made  the  circomnavigatioo 
in  the  ark. 

Pahat's  lamentation  for  having  forgotten 
the  wet  fire^  which  Mirfi  had  made.  Noah 
cannot  let  him  in,  because  of  the  mischief 
he  would  do.  He  admits  this,  ^*  I  dare  say 
I  should  set  the  beasts  a  fighting."    He 

'  There  is  a  most  humorous  letter  of  Soa* 
they*8  made  up  from  this  rigmarole,  —  which, 
no  aoubt,  some  day  or  another  will  be  printed. 
-J.  W.  W. 


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Noah  to  rout  Bome  of  bU  rooto  for 
him.  And  he  tried  to  cut  a  bole  in  the 
bottom  of  the  ark,  that  he  maj  creep  and 
mrprixe  the  old  fellow ;  bnt  in  the  attempt 
be  brakei  his  knife.  "  If  it  be  the  Lord's 
fdeamre  to  Mve  tbee  thou  wilt  be  saved, 
and  this  verily  I  hope  for  there  is  much 
good  in  thee,  and  had  it  not  been  for  the 
forbidden  root,  among  alt  the  generstionB 
of  Adam  none  would  have  excelled  that." 

CanBBt  andconsequeocei. — ActioDamore 
prolific  than  herrings  or  insects. 

Advice  to  princes  who  will  read  this  opua. 
Reward  asked  for  the  pleasure  thej  de- 
Conjectures  guard  the  author. 

Slt  the  tay  churchman,  and  Sophist  the 
true  churchmau,  and  Smooth  the  all  church- 
man,  and  Sour  the  no  churchman,  —  and 
Savage  the  no  king  man,  and  Stiff  the  high 
charchman,aud  Supple  the  moderate  church- 
nun,  and  Sneak  the  low  churchman. 


uiother  name  for  gera- 


Souethiiig  should  be  said  of  dove-tailing. 

NoKAMCTiOronomatoncj.  'Ovonayrilaf 
Thus  an  even  number  of  voweb  in  the  name 
signified  an  imperfection  in  the  left  side  of 
1  man.     An  odd  number  indicated  it  in  the 

right 

Tbb  bodj  of  Moses,  according  to  the 
Rabbis,  was  so  pure  and  bolj,  that  no  fij 
dared  to  settle  on  It. — Micbasus,  toI.  4, 


December  29,  1819.  SraoniLT  proposes 
hi;  tea  as  a  beverage  for  the  fasting  and 
evening  refection,  as  much  superior  to  the 
drj  leaTes  of  China,  as  gold  or  silver  are 
superior  to  copper  and  lead. 

Tn  skin  iswise,and  the  stomach  is  wise, 
and  the  heart  is  wise,  llie  head  is  gene- 
rallj  the  most  foolish  part. 


Tm  ague.  Fear  often  cures  it  in  the 
countrj  where  wise  phjsicians  practice. — 
Nabob's  Microcottnta,  0.  P.  ix.  p.  129. 

Sib  William  Tbuflb.  Neceesity  of  a 
state  physician.  Body  politic.  Constitu- 
tion. "  Ment  tana  in  eorpore  nmo."  How 
often  might  a  kingdom  be  saved  bj  helle- 
bore F    Bile  corroborants. — See  p.  56. 

EvLiAs's,  "  my  compliments  to  you."  A 
chapter  upon  the  proper  understanding  be- 
tween author  and  reader,  and  the  courtesy 
due  from  one  to  the  other. 

OoH  maunee  paimee  ooin. — Tibet. 

"  AqnniAS  was  once  asked  with  what 
compendium  a  man  might  best  become 
learned  ?  Ue  answered, '  By  reading  of  one 
book,' — meaning  that  an  understanding  en- 
tertained with  several  objects  it  intent  upon 
neither,  and  profits  not" — J.  Tatlob. 

Tua  title-page  must  turn  over,  for  the 
sake  of  the  long  mottog. 

Thsbi  are  hindermates  as  well  as  help- 
mates in  marriage. 

Hall  says  that  Henry  Til.  "  saw  as 
farre  in  the  Frenche  Kynges  brest  as  hys 
physicion  did  in  his  uryne." 


Dahibl  Dahcbb  warming  the  stewed 
trout  by  putting  it  imder  him  in  bed. 


"  Tbb  Hebrew,  then,  appears  to  be  the 
most  ancient  of  all  the  languages  in  the 
world;  at  least  it  is  so  with  rt^ard  to  us, 
who  know  of  no  older. 

"  Some  learned  men  have  asserted  it  to 
be  the  language  spoken  by  Adam  in  Para- 
dise; and  that  tliu  saints  will  speak  it  in 


heftyen ;  alleging  that  it  u  so  cuuciae,  andyet 
so  significant,  so  pathetic,  and  yet  so  free 
from  leritj  or  bombast,  as  of  all  languages 
to  approach  nearest  to  that  of  spirits,  who 
need  no  words  for  oonyejing  their  ideas  to 
each  other.*' 

Some  Frenchman  has  written  upon  the 
Chimie  du  gout  et  de  Vodorat^  and  iUm- 
trated  it  with  plates. 

^  Am  *tis  in  nature  with  those  loving  hus- 
bands 
That  sympathize  their  wires*  pains,  and 

their  throes. 
When  they  are  breeding ;  and  'tis  usual  too, 
We  have  it  by  experience." 

Beaumokt  and  Flbtchbb,  Wife 
for  a  Months  act  iii.  sc.  1. 

Fbbd.  Taubman  published  ColumbtB  Poe- 
ticcty  1594. 

Eftect  of  tea  in  promoting  scandal.  In 
what  a  different  temper  must  the  old  maids 
and  Mrs.  Candours  of  old  have  talked  over 
their  strong  beer. 

NovAus. 

^  Philosophy  is  properly  home  sickness ; 
— the  wish  to  be  every  where  at  home. 

"  We  are  near  awakening  when  we  dream 
that  we  dream. 

**  Every  beloved  object  is  the  centre  of 
a  paradise." — Foreign  RevieWy  vii. 

Ebasmus  says,  **  nihil  fere  tam  foedum 
quod  non  aliquando  niteat  setate." — Adag. 
148. 

His  notions  of  cookery.  The  Escurial 
worthily  built  in  form  of  a  gridiron. 

Thb  Gorgon's  eye. 

Advabtaqb  of  reticules. — CoL  M'Don- 
nel's  widow,  coming  from  Lisbon,  as  she 
stepped  from  the  packet  into  the  boat,  in 
her  trepidation  dropped  one  into  the  sea, 
containing  one  hundred  six-mil-fours. 


Thbt  estimate  distances  in  Holstein  by 
pipes  of  tobacco.  To  such  a  place  it  is  two 
pipes,  or  a  pipe  and  a  half.  The  barrister 
who  made  a  speech  at  Kendal  Ibrly  oilai 
long. 


A  Scotch  laird  md  his  iedL     Suns  and  \ 
stinkards  of  the  Katches.    Limb  of  a  dog 
in  Ceylon.     Criadoi, 

Sephbb  Aothiioth.  Liber  literarum.  A 
mystical  application  of  the  alphabet. 

There  is  another  MS.  with  the  same  title, 
which  poetically  describes  a  contest  for  su- 
premacy among  the  letters. 

Eij>AD  Haddakt,  i.  e.  Danita  de  Tribo 
Dan. 


How  the  tribe  of  Dan  forsook  Jerobosm 
and  retired  into  Ethiopia. — ^Bbbtoiacci, 
vol.  1,  p.  108. 

Some  of  them  in  Parb. 

In  the  days  of  the  Messiah  the  Jewish 
women  are  to  lie  in  every  day. 

Im  a  late  number  of  an  Edinburgh  me- 
dical periodical,  a  case  is  given  of  a  young 
gentleman  about  thirteen  years  old,  who 
had  been  affected  with  constant  sneezing 
for  three  weeks ;  at  first  in  rathor  violent 
paroxysms  with  intervals  of  many  minutes, 
but  afterwards  occurring  from  three  to  six 
times  every  minute,  each  occasioning  a  slight 
degree  of  bodily  agitation,  and  aocompanied 
with  a  forcible  expulsion  of  air  between  the 
nearly  closed  teeth,  producing  the  sound 
*'  tehee."  He  had  been  taking  considerable 
quantities  of  magnesia  on  account  of  con- 
stant acidity  of  stomach.  The  sneesing  wss 
always  suspended  during  sleepi  bat  recom- 
menced immediately  on  waking,  as  he  some- 
times seemed  to  awake  sneezing.  He  wts 
cured  by  blisters,  purging,  injecting  oUre 
oil  into  the  nostrils,  followed  by  carbonate  of 
iron  and  gradual  exposure  to  the  cold  air. 

HuMARirT  made  him  sometimes  doubt 
whether  those  men  really  had  souls,  who  lor 


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the  paltrj  temptations  of  this  world  were  so 
willing  to  risque  and  to  lose  them :  and 
thns  BBAUifOKT  and  Flbtcheb  say,  **  Part 
with  their  essence.**  —  Queen  of  Carinthy 
act  i.  sc.  1. 

'*  NoH  mihi  si  latices  Siloe,  si  porrigat  He- 
bron 

Pocula,  si  cunctis  destillent  collibns  unde, 

Et  vatem  Dan  ipse  riget,  tua  dicere  dicta 
(facta) 

Sostineam,  casusque  tuos.** 

BARLiEUS,  1.  16. 

Hkbodotus  mentions  the  Gondarii,  Tay 
2afMm. — Lib.  iii.  91.  tiL  66. 

"  Shabp  and  sententious,  pleasant  without : 
Bcarrility,  witty  wiihout  affectum^  BudsLtAouB 
without  in^ndencj,  learned  without  opi- 
nion, and  strange  without  heresy.** — Love's 
Labour's  Losty  act  y.  sc.  1. 

Joshua  Barhbs,  when  he  edited  Euri- 
pides, preserved  with  the  name  of  one  of 
his  plays  the  only  remaining  word  of  it, — a 
trisyllable,  which  has  not  been  found  else- 
where.— STExysKS*s  Preface,  Bo8WBLl*s 
Shakespeare^  vol.  1,  p.  117. 

Tire  Devil — eomo  gran  FUosofo,  que  e«, 

says  FUEDBAHITA. 

You  are  entering  into  the  story  with  the 
deepest  interest.  You  are  all  animation  in 
pursuit  of  it, — all  anxiety  to  reach  the  end 
next ;  turn  and  see  what  will  open  with  the 
new  point  of  view.  Be  not  so  impatient, 
not  so  fast,  reader :  whither  are  you  hurry- 
ing so  fast  with  whip  and  spur, — gently, 
gently,  draw  up,  for  heaven's  sake, — stop, 
you  are  on  the  brink  of  a  hawhaw. 

DoGBATS. — The  Romans  sacrificed  dogs 
to  the  dogstar. — See  PensUs  sur  la  Comkcy 
vol.  1,  p.  171. 

The  Dr's  opinion  of  what  he  hunself  had 
been  in  prior  stages  of  existence, — ^he  hold- 


ing the  Druidical  notion  of  progressive  life. 
This  notion  applied,  as  a  mode  of  explain- 
ing propensities.  Lord  B.  supposed  to  have 
been  a  discontented  devil  in  the  condition 
of  Klopstocks — who,  because  he  was  always 
promising  how  well  he  would  behave  if 
opportunity  were  allowed  him,  was  granted 
a  second  trial,  and  placed  in  the  most  fa- 
vourable circumstance?, — the  effect  being 
to  prove  himself  fit  for  nothing  but  dam- 
nation. 

The  famous  Pere  tranquiUe  of  the  Capu- 
chins (who  was  he  f)  teaches  ^que  le  diable 
duement  exorcist  est  contraint  de  dire  la 
v^it^.** — Vn  DU  P.  JosxF,  p.  309. 

A  BOTiOK  prevailed  almost  generally 
among  the  Christians  of  the  third  century 
that  "  they  who  took  wives,  were  of  all 
others  the  most  subject  to  the  influence  of 
malignant  demons.**  —  Mosheim,  vol.  1,  p. 
218. 

Timothy  Pbiestlet  in  his  brother's  pul- 
pit. Introduces  with  this  the  question,  ad- 
vice, &c.  to  great  personages. 

PiJKT  says,  1.  xxviii.  c.  3,  "  A  scorpione 
aliquando  percussi,  nunquam  postea  k  cra- 
bronibus,  vespis,  apibusque  feriuntur.**  If 
he  had  said  that  they  hardly  felt  the  sting, 
there  might  have  been  some  show  of  pro- 
bability in  this  assertion. 

It  is  said  of  S.  Jerome,  that  he  filed  away 
his  teeth  to  the  very  gums,  that  he  might 
pronounce  Hebrew  with  greater  facility. 

This  I  find  in  the  Evangelical  Magazine, 
on  what  authority  the  absurd  story  is  given 
does  not  appear,  but  the  absurd  repeater 
gives  it  as  an  example  of  *'  diligence  in 
study.** 

A  gentleman  is  said  to  have  had  a  front 
tooth  drawn,  that  he  might  spit,  like  a  coach- 
man, with  the  greater  effect. 

Coke  said  of  Gramet  upon  his  trial,  that 
he  was  ^  a  doctor  of  Jesuits,  that  is,  a  doc- 


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tor  of  five  DD*8,  as  diBsimulatioD,  deposing 
of  princes,  disposing  of  kingdoms,  daunting 
and  deterring  of  subjects,  and  destruction.** 

PsoQEBS,  who  had  been  about  the  person 
of  Charles  the  Second,  died  at  ninety-six  in 
cutting  his  teeth ;  he  had  cut  four,  and  many 
others  were  coming,  which  so  inflamed  his 
gums,  that  it  proved  fatal. 

The  Romans  when  travelling  from  home 
recommended  themselves  to  the  goddess 
Abeona;  when  returning,  to  Adeona;  when 
resting,  to  Statilinus ;  when  weary,  to  Fes- 
sonia. 

St.  Babbaba  a  saint  for  the  mountains. 
St.  Agatha  for  the  vales. 

*'  Thebe*8  no  making  a  whistle  of  a  pig*s 
tail.** — Shad  WELL.  Squire  o/AUatia. 

**  The  most  solemn  act  of  worship  per- 
formed to  the  Syrian  Baal  by  his  ordinary 
devotees,  was  to  break  wind  and  ease  them- 
selves at  the  foot  of  his  image.** — Sk£lton*8 
Deism  Revealed, 

An  odd  notion  that 
'*  The  greatest  heads  and  smallest  eke  were 

wont 
To  bear  in  them  the  finest  wits  away ;  (qy. 

alway.) 
This  thing  is  true,  thou  can*st  it  not  de- 
nay.** 

HiGOHfs,  Mirror  for  Magistrates^ 
vol.  1,  p.  222. 

**  Gbldihgs,  with  their  goddess  Epona, 
are  objects  of  admiration  to  you.** — Teb- 

TULLIAN*8  Apology, 

^^Alhahor  it  seems  is  the  name  of  heaven*8 
fierce  dog.** — M.  Magazine^  vol.  3,  p.  819. 

**  Jaqubs  Gohobt  disoit  que  ce  qu*il  avoit 
traduit  du  Roman  d*Amadis  passeroit  un 
joir  pour  aussi  veritable  que  Thistoire  de 
Paul  Jove.** — ^Baillet,  vol.  2,  p.  319. 


"  Ob  que  je  fis  de  fort  bonne  encre."— 
Cabd.  D*Ossat. 

'*  Peb  persona  positiva  les  Italiens  en- 
tendent  ce  que  nous  apellons  un  honnete 
honmie,  un  homme  de  mise.  Amelot  de 
THoussaie.** 

Cambles,  a  King  of  the  Lydians,  such  a 
gormandizer,  that  one  night  afler  he  bad 
supped  and  went  to  bed,  he  eat  up  his  wife 
that  lay  by  him ;  and  in  the  morning  when 
he  found  one  of  her  hands  in  his  mouth,  he 
killed  hunself. 

Gbundules.  Lares  of  the  pigsty,  q>- 
pointed  by  Romulus  in  honour  of  a  sow  who 
had  thirty  pigs  at  one  litter. 

Take  then  the  book  to  thy  pocket,  the 
doctor  to  thy  heart.  Nobs  for  thy  hobby- 
horse, and  M.  Urgandus,  the  unknown,  for 
thy  guide,  philosopher,  and  friend. 

Tblliamed  theory. 

'^Amtiphbbom,  one  who,**  Aristotle  says, 
"  met  with  himself,  and  saw  his  own  image 
before  him  wherever  he  went." 

AspEMDius,  a  harper,  who  would  finger 
the  harp  so  lightly,  that  none  could  hear  it 
but  himself. 

He  goat,  dog  wolf,  buck  rabbit.  Jack  hare. 
Tom  cat,  Jenny  ass. 
Bull-child  in  Chinese. 

It  was  a  comfort  to  the  doctor,  that  the 
relative  to  whom  his  paternal  estate  would 
pass  was  named  Lamb. 

Sapientiaj  the  ancients  connected  wisdom 
with  taste. — See  Van  Hslmont,  p.  737. 

Abebnetht  says  "  nature  seems  to  have 
formed  animals  to  live  and  enjoy  health 
upon  a  scanty  and  precarious  supply  of 
food;**  and  argues  that  men  produce  dis- 
eases by  the  repletion  to  which  their  tables 


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tempt  them.    But  surely  as  to  animals,  he 
is  wrong. 

The  leagues  Docteur  Boucher,  preaching 
in  the  church  of  Notre  Dame  at  Paris,  1593, 
affinned  that  the  words  of  the  Psalm  Ixviii. 
or  Ixix.  "Eripeme,  Domine,  de  luto^  ut  non 
mfigar,"  were  a  direct  and  positive  prophetic 
command  to  the  French  de  se  debourbouner^ 
and  not  to  receive  a  king  of  that  family, 
however  Catholic  he  might  appear  to  be. 


Sermons, 

"  I  N EVEB  yet  knew  a  good  tongue  that 
wanted  ears  to  hear  it." — O.  Feltham. 

"  *Tis  a  wonder  to  me  how  men  can  preach 
so  little  and  so  long ; — so  long  a  time,  and 
so  little  matter.  As  if  they  thought  to 
please  by  the  inculcation  of  their  vain 
tautologies.** — Ibid. 

"  If  we  out  of  copper,  lead,  or  pewter 
preaching  can  extract  pure  gold,  *tis  no  im- 
peachment to  our  wise  philosophy.** — Ibid. 

Opiate  sermons;  drastic,  laxative,  alte- 
rative, sedative,  carminative,  corroborent. 

"Fob  you  must  know  strange  things  in 

pulpita 
Are  told  to  please  the  listening  dull  pates.** 
HudibrcUy  Redivimis^  i.  12. 

When  the  elder  Sheridan  advertized  his 
Attic  Morning  Entertainment,  '*  that  it 
might  answer  some  purposes  of  all  as  well 
as  amusement,  he  proposed  to  read  part  of 
the  Liturgy,  and  to  deliver  a  sermon,  with 
strictures  upon  the  manner  in  which  those 
acts  of  public  worship  are  usually  per- 
formed.*'— Chubchili*,  vol.  i.  p.  43.  N. 


LibertifL,  says  the  Jesuit  Garasse,  «gnifies 
a  Huguenot  and  a  half. 

"  Le  cueur  ievr  devint  foye^  et  se  rendi- 
rent.** — Mabtin  dd  Bellat. 


When  a  Venetian  ambassador,  endea- 
vouring to  dissuade  Louis  XII.  from  making 
war  upon  Venice,  spoke  of  the  wisdom  of 
that  republic,  Louis  replied,  "  J*opposerai 
un  si  grand  nombre  de  fous  h  vos  sages,  que 
toute  leur  sagesse  sera  incapable  de  leur  rd- 
sister. — Note  to  M.  du  Bellat,  from  Feb- 

BON. 

The  proprietor  of  the  Imperial  Magazine 
assures  the  public  *^  that  its  type  and  paper 
will  not  shrink  from  the  most  rigorous  in- 
spection.** 

*'  As  the  strokes  in  music  answer  the  notes 
that  are  prickt  in  the  rules,  so  the  words  of 
the  mouth  answer  to  the  motions  and  affec- 
tions of  the  heart.  The  anatomists  teach 
that  the  heart  and  tongue  hang  upon  one 
string.  And  hence  it  is,  that  as  in  a  clock 
or  watch,  when  the  first  wheel  is  moved,  the 
hammer  striketh,  so  when  the  heart  is  moved 
with  any  passion  or  perturbation,  the  ham- 
mer beats  upon  the  bell,  and  the  mouth 
sounds.** — ^Featlet.  Clavis  Mystica.  p.  867. 

A  WOMAN  named  Nanny  Wilkey,  seventy 
years  of  age,  living  in  St.  James*s-8treet, 
having  at  different  times  been  afflicted  with 
inflammation,  was  told  that  if  she  carried 
about  her  person  a  coffin  ring'  which  had 
been  dug  up  from  a  grave,  it  would  prevent 
a  recurrence  of  her  complaint.  The  old 
dame,  placing  the  fullest  reliance  on  the 
charm,  has  carried  a  ring  of  that  description 
for  the  last  fiy^  years,  during  which  time 
she  has  been  free  from  her  old  complaint. 

**A  corrected  Y\geoxi  (let  blood  under  both 
wings)  is  both  pleasant  and  wholesome  nou- 
rishment.**— FuLLSB*8  Worthies^  vol.  li.  p. 
158. 

*  The  rings  and  screws  of  coffins  have  been 
supposed  to  possess  virtue  from  Pliny's  time  to 
our  own,  who  tells  that  *^  prodest  pnefixisse  in 
limine  h  sepulchre  avulsos  claTos  adversus  noc- 
turnas  lymphationes,"  lib.  xxxiv.  c.  15. 

J.  W.  W. 


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"  Cuckoo  time  and  hot  weather.  When 
mad  brains  are  most  busy.** 

M.  Le  Cat  was  of  opinion  that  taste  is 
not  confined  to  the  mouth,  but  that  mouth, 
oesophagus,  and  stomach  are  one  continued 
organ,  and  taste,  hunger,  and  thirst  only 
modifications  of  the  same  sensation. 

Db.  Short  says  that  punch  is  a  notable 
cooler  in  hot  weather,  and  a  preservative 
in  an  infectious  air. 

"  The  prawn  or  shrimp  was  (and  perhaps 
Is)  believed  in  some  unknown  way  to  be 
necessary  to  the  production  of  soles, — act- 
ing as  a  sort  of  nurse  or  foster-parent  to 
the  spawn.'* — Monthly  Heview^  vol.  9,  p.  369. 

Stephen  Wespbbmi,  a  Hungarian,  wrote 
to  advise  inoculating  for  the  plague. 

EvAN8*s  Analysis  of  the  Middle  British 
Colonies. 

Redemption  for  animals. — Bishop  Rey- 
nolds, vol.  1,  pp.  21,  297-8. 

When  any  great  and  noble  qualities  are 
observed  in  a  woman,  the  poet  says  it 

*^  drives  into  a  stound 
The  amazed  shepherd,  that  such  virtue  can 
Be  resident  in  lesser  than  a  man.** 

Faithful  Shepherdess^  act  ii.  sc.  2. 

1775.  "  Tell  Mrs.  Darner,**  says  Hobace 
Waij*ole,  "  that  the  fashion  now  is,  to  erect 
the  touple  into  a  high  detached  tuft  of  hair, 
like  a  cockatoo's  crest ;  and  this  toupee  they 
call  la  physiognomies — I  don*t  guess  why.** 
—Letter  J  V,  p.  32. 

An  absurd  respect  to  the  direct  line  of 
descent  is  shown  by  St  Jerome,  when  he 
supposes  that  God  delayed  the  fioodtill  afler 
Methusalcm*s  death,  because  there  was  then 
an  end  of  Seth's  generation,  so  that  none  of 
it  suffered  in  the  vengeance. — Van  Scbi- 

;    ECK,  2. 


Lawtbbs. 

**  These  are  small  devils, 
They  care  not  who  has  mischief,  so  they 

make  it ; 
They  live  upon  the  mere  scent  of  diMention." 
Flbtcheb.  Elder  Brother,  act  iii.  tc.  1. 

"  Tou  give  good  fees,  and  those  beget  good 

causes. 

«        *        *        *        •        *       • 

Live  full  of  money,  and  supply  tiie  lawyer, 
And  take  your  choice  of  what  man*s  lands 

you  please.  Sir. 
What  pleasures,  or  what  profits,  what  re- 
venges, 
They  are  all  your  own.** 

Beaumont  and  Fletchbb, 
SpanM  Curate,  act  iii.  sc  1. 

"  We  surgeons  of  the  law  do  desperate  cures, 
Sir.'* 

*'  She  plays  and  sings  too,  dances  and  dis- 

courses, 
Comes  very  near  essays, — a  pretty  poet,— 
Begins  to  piddle  with  philosophy .** 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Wit 
without  Money,  act  i.  sc.  2. 

**  Thbbe  be  three  kind  of  fools : — 

*        *        *        *        «        *        • 

An  innocent,  a  knave  fool,  a  fool  politic" 

Ibid,  act  ii.  sc.  2. 

"  You*VE  a  tongue, 
A  dish  of  meat  in  your  mouth,  which,  if 

'twere  minced. 
Would  do  a  great  deal  better." 

Ibid,  act  iii.  sc.  1. 

'*  Physicians  at  Damascus  are  paid  no 
fee  unless  the  patient  recover." — Pi^ah 
Sight,  p.  9  (2nd  paging). 

'^  Fob  sure  sometimes,  an  oath 
Being  sworn,  thereafter  is  like  cordial  broth.'' 
Beaumont  and  Fletcheb,  Knight  of  the 
B.  Pestle,  act  ii.  sc.  !• 


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1 


*'  About  sixteen  years  ago,  I  met,  od  the 
banks  of  the  Danube,  with  a  work  in  four 
volomea,  entitled,  **  L*Art  de  la  Guerre," 
by  a  Colonel  Faesch,  a  Saxon  officer.  The 
author  like  every  other  German  collector, 
had  culled  his  treatise  from  all  the  books 
that  had  been  written  upon  the  subject; 
and  he  had  the  honesty  to  name  them.     I 
was  forcibly  struck  with  one  passage,  in  which 
he  sums  up  the  qualities  of  a  good  officer, 
and  which  the  present  subject  has  recalled 
to  my  recollection.     He  says  that  an  able 
officer  ought  to  be  a  sound  mathematician, 
a  good  lawyer,  an  acute  surgeon,  an  excel- 
lent historian,  a  good  judge  of  beef,  |)ork, 
and  mutton,  and  a  sound  divine  !  Although 
his  ingredients  of  an  officer  combine  much 
taste  with  science,  I  will  not  go  so  far  as 
to  assert  that  all  these  qualifications  are  ne- 
cessary to  a  British^  however  proper  they 
may  be  to  a  Oerman  officer.  But  I  will  ven- 
ture to  affirm,  that  an  uninstructed  lad  of 
sixteen  years  of  age,  whose  mind  is  inca- 
pable of  commanding  himself,  is  not  fit  to 
command  others.** 

**M.  Ahtonius,  Triumvir,  corporis  ex- 
crementa  non  nisi  vasis  aureb  excipiebat.** 
— Tbxtob.     Pre/,  ad  Comucopiam. 

Hb  loved  Erasmus,  because  Erasmus, 
writing  to  Daniel  Benedictus  of  Milan,  says 
to  hun,  "Dictus  est  Daniel  vir  desideriorum, 
quid  itaque  minim  si  desiderius  Deside- 
rium  desideras?**— -Ep.  p.  908. 

Tamebi^anb  used  to  boast  that  he  was 
descended  from  the  tribe  of  Dan.*' — ^R.  B. 
Uem.  Remarks  concerning  the  Jetps,  p.  29. 

"  Bjk-BA,  black  sheep,  have  you  any  wool  ?** 
Applied  to  a  wicked  book,  from  which  some 
good  may  be  extracted. 

Thb  report  of  an  Irish  society  tells  us 
that  Lord  Chesterfield's  Letters  are  often 
met  with  among  the  books  used  in  the  low 
Irish  schools.  Munster  is  the  part  spoken  of. 

**  Or  TWO  Evils  choosb  thb  i.ea8t. — The 
following  singular  bequest, made  by  Thomas 


Nash,  of  Bath,  to  the  ringers  of  the  abbey 
there,  is  contained  in  a  codicil  to  his  will, 
proved  in  Doctors'  Commons : — '  I  do  here- 
by give  and  bequeath  to  the  mayor,  the  se- 
nior alderman,  and  town  clerk  of  Bath  for 
the  time  being,  the  sum  of  £50  per  annum, 
in  trust,  payable  out  of  the  Bank  Long  An- 
nuities, standing  in  my  name  at  the  Bank 
of  England,  for  the  use,  benefit,  and  enjoy- 
ment of  the  set  of  ringers  belonging  to  the 
Abbey  Church,  Bath,  on  condition  of  their 
ringing,  on  the  whole  peal  of  bells,  with 
clappers  muffled,  various  solemn  and  doleful 
changes  (allowing  proper  intervals  for  rest 
and  refreshment),  from  eight  o'clock  in  the 
morning  until  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening, 
on  the  14th  day  of  May  in  every  year,  be- 
ing the  anniversary  of  my  wedding  day ; 
and  also  the  anniversary  of  my  decease,  to 
ring  a  grand  bob  major  and  merry  mirthfxd 
peals  unmuffled,  during  the  same  space  of 
time,  and  allowing  the  same  intervals  as 
above  mentioned,  in  joyful  commemoration 
of  my  happy  release  from  domestic  tyranny 
and  wretchedness,  and  for  the  full,  strict, 
and  due  performance  of  such  conditions, 
they,  the  said  ringers,  are  to  receive  the  sum 
of  £50  per  annum,  in  two  payments  of  £25 
each,  on  those  respective  days  of  my  mar- 
riage and  my  decease.  And  now  that  dear 
divine  man  (to  use  Mrs.  Nash's  own  words) 

the  Rev.  ,  of ,  may  resume  his 

amatory  labours,  without  enveloping  him- 
self in  a  sedan  chair  for  fear  of  detection. 
I  further  will  and  direct  that  the  aforesaid 
ringers  do  enter  upon  office  (for  the  first 
time  only)  the  very  next  day  following  after 
my  interment,  and  to  receive  £25,  one  half- 
year's  dividend,  for  so  doing.  Written  with 
my  hand,  this  14th  May,  1813. — Thomas 
Nash.'  " 

Lud,  '^  Abb  his  wits  safe  ?  is  he  not  light  of 

brain?" 
logo.  "  He  is,  that  he  is : — 
What  he  might  be, — if  what  he  might,  he 

is  not,— 
I  would  to  Heaven  he  were ! " 

Othello^  act  iv.  sc.  1. 


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COLLKCTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Concluding  motto, — 

**  Here  is  my  journey's  end,  here  is  my  butt, 
And  very  sea-mark  of  my  utmost  sail.'* 

Ibid,  act  iy.  sc  2. 

Anecdotes  relating  to  some  of  the  books 
in  my  possession,  would  supply  matter 
enough  for  an  amusing  paper. 

Annals  of  G.  Hall.  The  great  little 
events  that  have  occurred  there : — 

Bursting  the  oven. 

Night  attack  on  the  windows. 

The  great  wet. 

The  blowing  open  the  door  in  the  night. 

Putting  up  the  roof. 

Invasion  of  the  pig. 

Invasion  of  the  cows. 

Invasion  of  the  sheep. 

Invasion  of  the  asses. 

Falling  in  of  the  trap  door. 

Firing  out  of  the  window. 

Carrying  away  the  seat  of  the  "  commo- 
dity." 

Misfortunes  among  the  maids. 
Catching  the  foremost. 
Catching  eleven  rats. 
Mice  in  my  cupboard. 
Derwent  swallowing  the  money. 
The  great  snow. 
•  The  great  rime. 
Owl  in  the  church. 
Wedding  in  service  time. 
Mr.  Fisher's  cow.  And  my  opinion  of  the 
man  who  kept  his  cow. 
The  bums. 

Crazy  woman  at  Musgrave's. 
Northern  lights. 
Hartley  splashing  his  hat 
Harry's  shoe. 
Shirt  island. 
Holly  bush  and  beak. 
Buonaparte's  cuirasse. 
Dancing  bears. 
My  reputed  prophecies. 
The  strange  fish. 
The  Irish  clergyman.* 


'A  portion  of  this  list  has  appeared  before, 
rhis  IS  an  amended  one. -J.  W.W. 


Imitative  talent  is,  I  believe,  as  com- 
mon, as  creative  genius  is  rare.  When 
Columbus  had  once  broken  the  egg,  there 
were  plenty  of  gentlemen  who  could  all  do 
it. 

The  imitative  poems,  good  in  their  kind, 
which  are  continually  produced  by  persons 
incapable  of  producing  any  thing  good  of 
their  own,  prove  this. 

•Thus  too  we  have  mimics,  who  can  per- 
sonify the  best  actors,  but  would  be  utterly 
incapable  of  acting  any  one  of  their  parts. 

Avellaneda's  Don  Quixote  is  perhaps  the 
best  example  of  a  good  imitative  work  ;—u 
to  conception  I  mean,  for  what  the  style 
may  be,  I  have  no  means  of  Judging,  never 
having  seen  the  original.  It  shows  also 
what  not  unfrequently  accompanies  this  ta- 
lent, a  base  mind,  a  low  vile  envious  desire 
of  depreciating  his  original ;  having  beyond 
all  doubt  its  root  in  a  consciousness  of  in- 
feriority, and  an  ambition  with  no  worth  to 
support  it.  Lord  Byron  is  another  instance 
of  this. 

It  is  very  much  to  the  credit  of  the  Spa- 
niards that  Avellaneda's  talents  have  not  in 
any  degree  saved  him  from  the  di^aceful 
fame  that  he  deserves. 

ToMFooLiTEs,  OT  Noodclltarians. 

The  new  press  gang. 

A  black  fellow,  who  had  been  in  the 
guards. 

An  old  waterman. 

Smearing  them  with  printer's  ink,  and 
tossing  them  in  wet  sheets. 

Old  Cob,  sometimes  called  the  sergeant, 
and  sometimes  the  bone-stealer,  having  once 
been  engaged  in  the  resurrection  trade,  b 
now,  in  consequence,  employed  as  bully  in 
the  house  of  an  infamous  old  woman,  well 
known  by  the  name  of  Mother  Scarlet. 

The  Jerry  Bedlamites.  These  fellows 
have  the  same  sort  of  dislike  to  black  thai 
bulls  have  to  scarlet. 

Colbubne's  gang,  who  go  about  with  bcl- 
lowses. 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


mj  B.,  witb  his  riff-raET. 

i  a  the  mill,  that  grinds  nothiDg 

■haS. 

Jamie  the  great,  and  Jeffrej  the 

e  II  Lord ,  tbe  Dotiung  at 


n  proof  Bgaiiutthar  Rsahj  atuff ; 
tbeir  ■comlngB,  I  have  KWm 
gh."— WiTHiB,  To  the  Kiag.    B. 
Bemen^irwtetr. 

\im  I  am  williag  to  be  thought 
hat  they  more  wiadom  ma;  be 
ht."— Ibid. 


;  set  on  such  a  middling  height, 
(bj  God'i  perminioa)  have  the 

things,  which  the;  shall  never 

■bore,  or  far  beloir  me  be. 
ibserve,  I  ponder  and  compare; 
i  I  think  maj  profit,  I  declare." 

Ibid. 

A;,  concerning  bis  bang  Knt  I 

r  not  whither. 

Nbj  tben  he  will  come  home  I 

1  pardon  me,  I  will  talk  no  more 

ect,  bat  sa;  the  gods  be  with  him 
'  be  is,  and  send  him  well  borne 

le  isgone,orwheabewiU  retnm, 
L  know  that  directed  him." 
BKAUHonT  and  Fi^vtcobb,  Cupid't 
lUveitge,  act  ii.  ic  3. 

)j  that  we  tailors  are 

lat  la;  one  another,  and  onr  geese 

I."— Ibid,  act  iv.  sc.  3. 

r  of  diet — Sm  William  TmPLB, 
62. 

Theologicum. — Houmbbed.toI.I, 


Mb.  Cat-and-come-ngain,  the  surgeon. 
Dr.  Draatic,  and  his  apothecary,  Ifr. 
Dosenm. 

Gbhbkai.  civilization  missionaij  societj, 
in  which  all  religious  denominations  and  all 
partiea  ma;  join. 

"Do  jou  say  rtuk  or  tUha  when  jon 
sneeieF"  said  Isabel  just  now. 


resides  near  Exeter, 
who  has  not  washed  bis  face  or  hands  for 
fort;  ;ears,  and  speaks  of  the  circumstance 
with  pleasore.  He  is  about  four-score  ;ears 
of  age,  strong,  and  in  good  health.  Though 
he  does  not  appi;  water  in  cleansing  his 
skin,  he  is,  however,  in  the  dail;  habit  of 
dr;  rubbing  himself." 

"  Qdod  ad  omnes  res  veniat  dicta  est 
Venus."  She  was  worshipped  also  as  tbe 
eldest  of  the  Farce,  and  goddess  of  death, 
b;  the  name  of  Libitina. 

Tbbt  have  a  good  fashion  in  Talencia  of 
making  the  chairs  of  unequal  heights,  so  as 
to  accoDunodate  persons  of  differen  t  statures. 

Nbvbk  trust  the  heart  of  anj  man  who 
wears  it  on  the  outside,  of  his  waistcoat ;  for 
what  he  has  within  his  sternum  or  its  stead, 
is  sure  to  be  either  as  hard  as  a  pippin,  or 
as  hollow  as  a  pnmpkb. 

The  moralit;  and  dut;  of  merrimeDt. — 
Th.  Jackson's  Worlu,  voL  3,  p.  125. 

Rabba  eaith  a  man  is  bound  to  make 
himself  so  mellow  on  the  feast  of  Purim, 
that  he  shall  not  be  able  to  distinguish  be- 
tween "  Cursed  be  Haman,"  and  "  Blessed 
be  Mordecai." 

The  Rabbis  sa;  "  the;  were  sweetened," 
for  the;  got  drunk. — LioHTroor,  vol.  8, 
p.  376. 

The;  sa;  a  demon  called  Cordicus  pos- 
sesses them,  who  are  drunk  with  new  wine. 
—Ibid.  p.  37T. 


450 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Aw  odd  thought  concerning  Lord  Byron 
came  into  Bertha*8  head,  "^  that  there  was 
in  him  two  pounds  of  devil  to  one  pound  of 


man. 


Akbab*8  seal,  **  I  never  saw  any  one  lost 
on  a  straight  road.**  Bat  a  man  may  be 
lost  there  if  he  travel  on  snow,  or  in  the 
dark. 

"  NoHUMQUB  prematur  in  annum.** 

Horace,  a.  p.  v.  388. 

Dekjuee  uses  to  wihy,  for  neigh. — Won- 
der of  a  Kingdom^  p.  15. 

It  may,  perhaps,  not  be  known  to  the 
generality  of  readers,  that  the  following 
twenty-two  occupations  are  engaged  to  pro- 
duce a  single  book : — "The  author,  the  de- 
signer, the  rag-merchant,  the  paper-maker, 
the  stationer,  the  type-founder,  the  press- 
maker,  the  ink-maker,  the  roller-maker,  the 
chase-maker,  the  reader,  the  compositor, 
the  pressman,  the  gatherer,  the  folder,  the 
stitcher,  the  leather-seller,  the  binder,  the 
coppersmith,  the  engraver,  the  copper-plate 
printer,  and  the  bookseller  I  ** 

There  are  more  than  these : — the  smel- 
ter, the  tanner,  the  gold-beater,  the  book- 
binder*s  toolmaker,  the  miner, — and  then 
it  supports  reviews  and  small  critics,  brings 
money  to  newspapers,  and  contributes  by 
its  duty  on  advertisements  to  the  revenue. 

"  It  is  enough  for  me  that  I  do  know 
What  they  commend,  and  what  they  db- 

allow. 
And  let  it  be  enough  to  them,  that  I 
Am  pleased  to  make  such  faults  for  them 

to  spy.*' 

Wither,  Remembrancer^  p.  137. 

"  The  chiefest  cause  why  I  wrote  this, 
was  on  set  purpose  to  please  myself.** — Tay- 
lor, the  W.  P.,  Preface. 

Tatlor*8  Revenge,  or  William  Fenner 
firked,  ferreted,  and  finally  called  over  the 
coals. 


"  Not  a  letter  but  what  is  fair :  in  tech- 
nical language  no  pick,  blot,  bur,  firiar  or 
monk  is  to  be  seen  in  the  work.** — Isaiah 
Thomas,  vol  1,  p.  54. 

"  Conjecture  is  all  diat  one  can  go  upon 
here ;  and  it  is  better  to  conjecture  at  St- 
tan*s  mind,  in  such  a  thing  as  this,  than  to 
be  acquainted  in  it." — Liohtfoot,  vol.  9, 
p.  365. 

"  O  thou  vinegar,  the  son  of  good  wine !" 
a  Rabbinical  expression  for  **  O  thou  wicked 
son  of  a  good  father.** — ^Ibid.  vol.  12,  p.  407. 

"  Who  would  marry  a  woman,  though  of 
a  comely  and  well-proportioned  body,  who 
had  the  head  of  an  ugly  dragon  ?  Certtinlj, 
although  she  had  a  great  dowry,  none  would 
covet  such  a  bedfellow.** — J.  Tatloe,  toL 
3,  p.  445. 

"Apollinis  simulachrum  quatuor  olim 
auribus  Lacedsemonii  donarunt,  ut  sapien- 
tiam  ostenderent,  cujus  imaginem  ApoUo 
referebat,  multarum  auditione  rerum  enu- 
triri.** — OraHoneSy  Jo.  AxoTsn  CERCHiAUif 
p.  76. 

**  Quin  ipsi  phy siognomones,  qui  indolem 
animi  ex  notis  corporis,  cum  qu^damveritate 
conjectant,  ex  auribus  pressis,  et  simiamm 
ad  instar  adherentibus,  stuporis  et  imperi- 
tiiB  signimi  eliciunt ;  qusB  si  paulisper  pro- 
mineant  et  extent,  mentem  ad  onmia  com- 
positam  arguunt,  et  in  studiis  mirifio^  pro- 
futuram.** — Ibid.  p.  71. 

**  The  circle  is  6Xoy<*>v/a,  a  totangle :  it 
is  also  iaoyufyioQ  looirXfvpoc,  as  well  tf 
bXoTrXevpoQ** — Jackson,  vol.  2,  pp.  103-4. 

One  in  merriment  proposed  this  question 
in  the  schools,  **An  Chimera,  calcitrans  is 
vacuo  terat  calceos?** — Ibid.  p.  152. 

'*  Alphabet  de  Timperfection  et  malice 
des  femmes'*— /wr  J.  Olivier,  Ranenj  1685. 

Why  he  would  have  liked  a  deaf  aad 
dumb  wife,  not  meaning  any  reflection  upon 


L. 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


451 


Mn.  D.,  but  because  of  the  perfect  dog- 
like attachment  and  dependence  which  this 
deficiency  would  have  occasioned. 

Ihdionatioh  at  the  charge  of  making 
Doneaster  a  peg  on  which  to  hang  my  loose 
thoughts. 

A  FAKBWELL  to  the  two  letters  which 
pass — Potential  through  all  Freeling*8  wide 
domain. 

I  who  came  fromRhedycinaBovin ! ' — ^the 
most  imlettered  of  her  sons — ^proceeding  not 
even  to  A.B. 

My  Oxford  apotheosis — where  I  was 
LL.D.  ified. 

Honour  firom  Banfi^  which  came  afler  me 
by  the  mail  coach,  and  found  me  at  Elgin. 

Rabbi  Kimchi  says, "  Homo  cum  dormi- 
torus  est,  commendat  Spiritum  suimi  d.  o.  m. 
ne  forte  surgens  crastino  mane  requirat  ani- 
mam  suam  nee  inveniat ;  aut  repereat  suam 
in  corpore  alterius,  alteriusve  vicissim  in 
eo.** — GrAXMAKKuSytiEe  MirocuUs  Martuarwn, 
p.  26. 

Rabbi  Aj:.BXAin>Bnnj8 : — ^*  Scito  tibi  rem 
ita  se  habere :  Homo  expedit  opus  suum  in- 
terdiu,  unde  vespcrtino  tempore  anima  ejus 
fatigata  est  et  attrita.  Cum  igitur  ipse  dor- 
mit,  Deus  laborat  et  redintegrat  animam, 
nt  sequenti  mane  revertatur  in  corpus  suum 
Tegeta,  nova  et  quieta." — ^Ibid. 

PLnnr's*  story  of  Hermotimus  Clazome- 
nins,  whose  body  was  burnt  by  his  enemies 
while  his  soul  was  on  an  excursion  more 
«uo. — Ibid. 

Witches*  souls  fly  out  of  their  mouths  in 
the  shape  of  a  fire-fly. — ^Ibid.  p.  27. 

Ukioh  of  Trades,  the  one  public  and  the 
other  secret.     Shoemaker  and  com  factor. 

'  It  is  hardlv  necessary  to  say  that  Rvdychen, 
tad  Vadam  Bourn,  and  Oxfonl,  are  the  same. 
Rydychen  is  the  old  British  name. 

«  Cf.  lib.  vu.  c.  52.  J.  W.  W. 


Brewer  and  druggist.  Baker  and  pipe- 
clay dealer.  Patriot  and  dealer  in  scrip. 
Bookseller  and  pirate.  Coffeehouse  keeper 
and  slop  seller.     Taylor  and  cabbage  cut- 


ter. 


Duke  of  Gbafton*s  motto. 

Burleigh. 

GuLLBT*s  fortune  more  comfortable  than 
if  it  had  been  made  in  many  other  ways. 

Db.  Gbbbn,  and  Kemp  his  merry- An- 
drew. 

Next  to  your  real  great  secrets,  secrets 
which  are  no  secrets  produce  most  effect. 
— Sir  Walter's  e,g. 

And  so  with  jokes.  The  joke  that  is  no 
joke  tells  well  in  parliament,  as  Lord  K. 
and  Mr.  B.  know. 

"  What  was  the  subject  of  this  day's  con- 
ference will  be  the  subject  of  an  accusation 
to-morrow  ;  and  that  secret  which  we 
thought  .we  did  but  lately  depositate  in  our 
friend's  breast,  will  shortly  fly  in  our  faces 
from  the  mouth  of  our  enemies." — Sib  G. 
Mackenzie,  p.  133. 

Pieces  of  ash  tree,  cut  at  a  critical  mo- 
ment, supposed  to  cure  most  diseases.  Con- 
cerning Uie  moment,  doctors  differ. — British 
Apollo,  vol.  3,  p.  770 

A  MAN  speaking  at  random  was  said  to 
"  talk  like  an  apothecary." — Ibid.  777. 

Why  the  beating  of  a  drum  in  an  ale- 
house should  turn  their  drink  sour  ? — Ibid, 
p.  785. 

Will  it  do  so  ?  and  if  so,  is  the  same  effect 
produced  by  bell-ringing  ? 

A  NOTION  said  to  be  confirmed  by  grave- 
diggers,  that  the  earth  which  is  dug  out  of 
a  grave  will  not  fill  it  after  the  coffin  is  put 
in! — Ibid.  p.  795. 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Old  Nick  said  to  be  so  called  from  Nic 
]£jichiaTeUi !— Ibid.  p.  822. 

Habcoukt  (Longeyille),  **  Hirtoire  det 
peraonnes  qui  ont  yeca  pluneors  si^cles,  et 
qni  ont  njeunL** — a.i>.  1715. 

I  KHBW  a  man  to  whom  all  the  middle 
walks  of  life  were  open  in  his  joath,  and 
jet  in  spite  of  all  dehortadon  he  would  be 
nothing  but  a  tailor.  He  was  not,  as  might 
perhaps  be  supposed,  either  effeminate  in 
dispoation  or  fractional  in  person,  but  an 
absolute  integer  in  form,  stature,  appearance, 
and  in  heart  also.  Inclination,  however, 
for  an  art  is  no  more  a  proof  of  aptitude  or 
genius  for  it  in  a  sartorian  aspirant  than  in 
a  stage-struck  youth,  or  votarj  of  the  muses. 
The  person  in  question  made  me  one  pair  of 
breeches,  and  tiiey  did  not  fit. 

"  An  aged  saying,  and  a  true. 
Black  will  take  no  other  hue.** 

Feklb,  vol.  1,  p.  13. 

Son  one  was  asked  which  of  Cicero*s 
orations  he  liked  best,  and  he  answered — 
*'eas  sibi  videri  optimas  qus  essent  longis- 
sinuD.** — Labgubt.  EpisL  p.  175. 

Thx  Scotchman  who  said  men  were  di- 
vided into  those  who  preyed  upon  others 
and  those  who  were  preyed  upon. 

But  neither  all  men  nor  all  animals  can 
thus  be  classed. 

The  elephant,  which  is  the  noblest  of 
quadrupeds,  neither  preys  nor  is  preyed 
upon. 

"  Much  matter  decocted  into  few  words.** 
This  is  Fuller's  definition  of  a  proverb. 

"  A  cowTiHUAL  emanation  of  unsavouri- 
ness,  so  that  the  stink  doth  never  cease  or 
203  ''''^'•""■®"=^'  RsTHOLDs,  voL  4,  p. 


The  Gri£rom} 

Bboiuvo  m  best,  bear  witness,  gods  i 
mcn,*^ 
From  five  b^in  the  stnun. 

Gridiron  the  A  and  Z  in  the  human 
art.  Savages  begin  with  it — the  Bo 
Epicure's  end— tiie  Beef  Steak  Chib. 


Homeric  cookery. 

EscuriaL 

AnrigriUs — Utopim. 

Jove  who  rules  the  roast. 

The  pot,  the  stewpan,  and  the  qnt, 

Give  them  their  bonoors  fit, 

Nor  let  the  oven  go  without  its  pr 

A  wreath  of  gariic  flowers,  or  shale 

Odify  the  gridiron,  odiate  the  frying 

The  devil  uses  frying  pans. 

Fepper  and  salt. 

Vulcan  makes  a  gridiron. 

The  golden  age,  when  every  man  ^ 
his  own  priest,  his  own  king,  and  hi 
cook. 

Jupiter's  prophecy  of  beef  and  Blc 
— beef  and  Waterloo.  Apis  looking 
battle  of  the  Nile. 

The  land  of  Shakespeare  and  beef  i 

Towton — ^when  beef  met  beef. 

Fepper  firom  Malabar. 

Fotatoes  from  the  Tupinambas. 

Creation  of  the  gridiron  frtmi  ferru| 
particles. 


i^NMM^^^M^AMM^^^^^A^ 


CoRnottsevr.  No.  63.  April  10,  1' 

—  *'  You  must  have  observed  wi 
utmost  concern  a  late  account  in  the 
papers,  that  'Whitenose  died  at  Doi 
of  a  mortification  in  his  foot.' " 

^  It  is  remarkable  that  all  those  w 
employed  in  the  care  of  horses  gi 
mere  brutes  as  the  animals  they  atte 
Ibid.  No.  84,  vol.  2,  p.  197. 

*  The  reader  will  see  this  humofous  f 
in  the  Appendix  to  the  fifth  VoL  of  So 
Life  and  Correspondence.— J.  W.  W. 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


453 


Jackson,  the  Arian,  Master  of 
Hospital,  Leicester,  when  his  eyes 
•  ful,  was  immoderately  fond  of 
id  devoted  every  evening  to  the 
-table.  ^  The  seven  o*clock  bell 
ipital  called  him  to  evening  prayer 
dst  of  a  dispute  at  the  game,  and 
1  St  Martinis  churchyard  in  great 
hb  constant  duty.  As  soon  as 
rere  over,  he  returned  to  the  card- 
i  said  *  I  am  confident  I  was  right 
;t  card.*  *  I  submit,*  replied  his 
, '  for  you  have  had  leisure  to  con- 
state of  the  game  attentively.* — A 
rhich  he  took  no  small  ofi*ence.** — 
*8  Works,  voL  4,  p.  88. 

(bat.— Db.  Viai.,  vol.  3,  p.  200. 

ther  was  Vicar  of  Doncaster,  and 
ras  bom  at  a  farm-house,  Sensey, 
rsk,  was  educated  at  Doncaster, 
.  Bland,  after  head  master  of  Eton, 
)urham,  and  provost  of  Eton,  was 
He  was  bom  1686;  and  studied 
inder  Simon  Ockley  at  Cambridge. 
)n  said  of  him,  that  he  had  spent 
in  the  republic  of  letters,  just  as 
s  do  in  London,  in  one  unwearied 

begging,  railing,  and  stealing. — 

vol.  2,  pp.  519-31. 

be*s  time  there  was  a  great  manu- 

r  stockings,  gloves,  and  knit  waist- 

•e. 

hat  Drayton  and  Bamabee  had 

!  of  it. 

K  in  his  History  of  the  Deanery  of 
>,  says, "  it  is  distinctly  related  by 
it  the  church  at  Doncaster  was 
by  Edwin,  under  the  auspices  of 


n 


have  notable  fellows  about  Don- 
iey*ll  give  the  lie  and  the  stab 
in  instant.** — Wsbsteb,  vol.  3,  p. 

be  innkeeper*s  daughter,  says  this. 


A.  D.  1812.  A  SERVANT  of  WilHamsou,  the 
horsedealer  of  York,  was  trying  a  horse  on 
the  road  toward  the  High  Street,  Doncaster, 
when  it  took  fright  between  the  Rein  Deer 
and  Ram  inns,  and  leaped  through  the  shop 
window  of  Mr.  Whalley,  shoemaker.  The 
rider  crouched,  or  he  must  have  been  killed, 
the  height  from  the  ground  to  the  under 
part  of  the  beam  being  only  seven  and  a 
half  feet.  He  was  thrown  upon  the  coun- 
ter, which,  being  near  the  window,  pre- 
vented the  horse  from  getting  wholly  into 
the  shop.  The  window  was  of  course  shi- 
vered,, but  neither  horse  nor  man  much  in- 
jured.— Edinburgh  Annual  Register,  p.  61. 

Thorbsbt,^  {Diary,  vol.  2,^  p.  13,)  speaks 
of  a  delicate  parsonage-house  at  Cromwell, 
thought  to  be  one  of  the  best  in  England, 
(1708)  :  It  was  built  by  Mr.  Th waits,  a 
Yorkshireman,  (formerly  schoolmaster  at 
Doncaster)^  at  the  expense  of  £1000,  on 
the  road  from  Leeds  to  Grantham. 

Mabtin  Lister. 

Dean  Waddilove. 

Sterner 

Hall  Stevenson. 

'*  Yoici  un  dogme  fort  choquant ;  c*est 
que  les  choses  qui  n*ont  jamais  ^t^  et  qui 
ne  seront  jamais,  ne  sont  point  possibles.  C*a 
^t^  sans  doute  le  sentiment  d*Abelard  ;  et  je 
ne  vols  pas  que  ceux  qui  disent  que  Dieu  est 
d^termin^  par  sa  sagesse  infinie  ^  faire  ce 
qui  est  le  plus  digne  de  lui  puissent  nier 
sans  inconsequence  la  doctrine  de  ce  philo- 
sophe.** — BATI.E,  tom.  3,  p.  335. 

9 

Fhilippus  Carolus,  a  commentator  upon 
Aulus  Gellius,  says,  after  the  Hebrews, "  que 
ceux  qui  auront  ^t^  mal  mari^,  seront  ab- 
sous  devant  Dieu,  sans  comparoitre  devant 
son  tribunal.** — Ibid.  p.  450. 

**  Nescio  quomodo  nihil  tam  absurd^  dici 
potest,  quod  non  dicatur  ab  aliquo  philoso- 
phorum.** — Cic.  de  Divinat,  1.  2,  c.  58. 


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"  Nbho  sgTotua  quicquom  Bomniat  tam 
infandum,  quod  Don  aliquU  dicat  philoaO' 
phua." — Vasro  in  Eumenid.apvdNotmim. 

At  Hurdenberg,  b  Sweden,  M.  Hdbt 

Bays  Uie  mode  of  choosing  a  burgomaster  is 
thig :  the  persons  eligible  sit  with  tbeir 
beards  upon  a  table,  a  louse  ia  put  in  the 
middle  of  the  table,  and  the  one  in  whose 
beard  be  takes  coTer  is  the  magistrate  Tor 
the  ensuing  year.— Bails,  toI.  3,  p.  484. 

Jacobds  Gavsiub  must  have  been  an  odd 
fellow,  for  he  thought  the  "  Batrachomjo- 
machia,  nobilior,  propriorque  perfectione" 
than  the  Iliad  or  Odyraea.— H.  N.  Colb- 
usoE,  Intr.  p.  1B4. 

Laibsbz  Dons.faire — 

What  is  it  men  do  when  thia  maxim  is 
acted  upoDp 

Soldiers  before  exchanges  were  in  use,  or 
parole  granted. 

Privateers. 

Quacks. 

Cotton  manufacturers. 

Brewers. 

Post  office  e  eontra,  as  compared  with 
posting  and  carriers  choosing  religions. 

The  Malays  hare  so  great  a  prejudice 
against  a  great  book,  that  though  they  now 
ask  for  the  Englidiman's  Koran,  they  are 
literally  afrud  to  receive  so  large  a  book, 
and  invariably  refuse  to  take  it,  though 
they  will  accept  any  portion  of  it.  The 
Bible  Society  has  therefore  been  asked  to 
publish  it  in  parti. 

"  Tuis  is  most  certain.  God  had  rather 
have  his  trees  for  fruit,  than  for  fiiel." — 
Bishop  RsmoLDS,  torn.  2,  p.  36J. 

"  Fob  God  will  not  suffer  his  gospel  to 

be  cast  away,  but  will  cause  it  to  prosper 
unto  some  end  or  other;  either  to  save  those 
that  believe,  or  to  cumulate  the  damnation 
of  those  that  disobey  it !"— Ibid.  p.  271. 


"  Metbiheb  a  marble 
Lies  quieter  upon  an  old  man's  hea 
Thau  a  cold  fit  of  the  palsey." 

Beadnoht  and  Flbtcei 
Captaia,  act  i.  s 

ToAVKLUtD  gentlemen — 
—  "Those  thatwent  out  men,  and  good 
They  look  like  poached  eggs,  with  the 

sucked  out. 
Empty  and  fall  of  wind :  all  their  iffec 
Are  Iraked  in  rye-cmst  to  hold  carria; 
From  this  good  town  to  t'other,  and  « 

they  are  opened 
They  are  so  ill-cooked  and  mouldy.' 
Ibid.  Qtteen  of  CorMA,  act  iL  bc.  : 

"  Thb  root  out  of  which  the  fruits  o 
earth  do  grow,  is  above,  m  heaven: 
genealogy  of  com  and  wine  is  resolved 
God." — BiBHOP  RBTHOuts,  voL  3,  p.  3 

"  Fob  such  great  overthrows 

A  candle  bums  too  bright  a  sacrifio 

A  gtow-worm's  tail  too  full  of  flame 

Bbaduomt  and  Fixtchb 

BtmdtKa,  act  L  > 

"  Ob  dare  your  vamping  valour,  goodi 

Clap  a  new  sole  to  the  kingdom." 

Ibid,  act  i.  ic  i 

"  Out,  ye  flesh  flies. 
Nothing  but  noise  and  nastiness." 
lb*. 

"  All  other  loves  are  mere  catching  of  i 

trels,' 
Stretching  of  legs  out  only,  and  trim  1* 

ness."  Ibid,  act  iv.  tc  i 


'  One  of  the  commoneat  aUnsunu  in  our 
authors,  —  dramatic  or  other.  See  the 
known  lines  of  Dbatton,  in  the  PtiytH 
Song  twenty-Gflh; — 

"  Tbe  dotterels  which  we  thioli,"  Ik. 
J.W.fl 


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455 


**  If  himself 
ouch  it  boldly^  for  I  know  it) 
d  himself  in  love, — 
wise  self  would  hang  his  beastly 


M 


Standing  self  so  maul  his  ass-self. 
Ibid,  act  V.  sc.  ii. 


?1  will  live  in  Crete." — Euphues. 

^rrythought*s  advice  to  his  son  is, 
od  husband ;  that  is,  wear  ordi- 
les,  eat  the  best  meat,  and  drink 
rink ;  be  merry,  and  give  to  the 
believe  me,  thou  hast  no  end  of 
r—Kt.  of  the  B.  Pestle,  p.  378. 

OBUBS  blimeront  Tentassement  de 
lue  Ton  vient  de  voir ;  j'ai  pr^vu 
ains,  leurs  d^o^ts  et  leur  cen- 
istrales,  et  n*ai  pas  voulu  y  avoir 
lATLB,  vol.  4,  p.  461. 

8111*8  sympathy  with  the  sun,  which 
'*  son  astre,  et  duquel  il  ressentait 
ions  fort  notables.  Tant  au  corps 
prit,  selon  ses  approches  et  ses 
ns,  et  k  proportion  qu*il  se  mon- 
[u'il  ^tait  convert  de  nuages.** — 
12. 

ngue  made  less  for  langvage  than 
-beasts  the  proof,  and  that  men 
without  tongues." — Ibid.  vol.  5, 
erisantes.  Thehan  Legion,  Sib 
•uf  *8  Sketches  of  Persia. 

A  proponere  est  tutius;  ne  ima 
parum  rem  comprehendat,  et,  ut 
,  formula  excidat." — Seneca,  de 
1.  1,  p.  283. 

ONAL  drunkenness  advised  by  Se- 
id.  p.  229. 

i  18, 1830. — ^If  the  parents  or  next 
oy  who  was  left  in  the  passage  of 
i  and  Horses  public-house,  Mount 


Street,  Grosvenor  Square,  so  far  back  as 
the  20th  of  February,  1801,  and  who  was 
then  supposed  to  be  only  fifteen  months 
old,  and  his  linen  marked  with  the  letter  C, 
will  apply  personally,  or  by  letter,  post  paid, 
to  Mr.  Jordan,  solicitor,  7,  Lincoln's  Inn 
Fields,  they  will  hear  of  something  greatly 
to  their  advantage. 

St.  Jebobie. 

^  Infans  eram,nec  tum  scribere  noveram : 
Nunc,  ut  nihil  aliud  profecerim,  saltem  So- 
craticum  illud  habeo,  Scio  quod  nescio.** — 
Bishop  Reynolds,  vol.  3,  Ded, 

**  Do  you  not,"  Bishop  Sandford  asks, 
"  find  yourself  continually  inclined  to  forget 
that  inanimate  things  have  no  volition  P  " 
*'  Yes,"  he  answers  himself,  "  I  do,  but  so 
did  Dean  Swift,  a  wiser  man  than  I,  who 
used  to  say  that  nothing  was  more  pro- 
voking than  the  perverseness  of  inanimate 
things." — Remainsy  voL  1,  p.  216» 

"  I  bemembeb,"  says  Bishop  Sandford, 
(vol.  1,  p.  205,)  "  once  hearing  old  Dr.  W. 
with  the  mild  appearance  of  an  old  lion  tor- 
mented with  the  tooth-ache,  utter  this  cha- 
ritable wish, — *  I  wish,*  said  he,  *  that  more 
people  would  die  of  diseases  in  the  spleen, 
that  we  might  know  what  purposes  the 
spleen  is  intended  to  answer.*  Nothing 
would  have  tempted  me  to  trust  myself  in 
the  old  Ogre*s  hands.  I  never  heard  a 
wish  so  truly  professional." 

"  Je  ne  crois  pas  que  Ton  ait  pens^  dans 
ce  si^e  rien  de  grand  et  de  d^cat,  que 
Ton  ne  voie  dans  les  livres  des  anciens. 
Les  plus  sublimes  conceptions  de  m^ta- 
physique  et  de  morale  que  nous  admirons 
dans  quelques  modemes,  se  rencontrent 
dans  les  livres  des  anciens  philosophes." — 
Batle,  vol.  5,  p.  295. 

CuBioN,  the  Piedmontese  reformer,  who 
found  a  place  of  refuge  in  Switzerland,  pub- 
lished a  treatise  de  Amplitudine  beati  regrd 
Deiy — "  oii  il  t^ha  de  montrer  que  le  nombre 


456 


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I 


des  pr^estin^  est  plus  grand  que  celui 
des  r^prouves.  H  7  a  lieu  d'etre  surpris 
qu*il  osfit  prober  cet  dvangile  au  mUieu 
des  Suisses  ;  car  une  telle  doctrine  est  fort 
suspccte  aux  v^itables  r^form^ ;  et  je  ne 
pense  pas  qu*aucun  professeur-lk  put  sou- 
tenir  aujourd*hui  en  Hollande  impun^ent.** 
—Ibid.  p.  346. 

"  DuM  dubitat  natura,  marem  faceretne  pu- 
ellam, 
Factus  es,  6  pulcber,  pen^  puella  puer.** 

Doret  so  greatly  admired  tbis  epigram  of 
Ausonius,  that  he  insisted  a  demon  must 
have  been  the  author  of  it. — Ibid.  p.  426. 

There  was  a  law  at  Abdera,  that  he  who 
had  dissipated  his  patrimony  should  not  be 
interred  in  the  burial  place  of  his  fathers.** 
—Ibid.  p.  460. 

In  old  times  state  promotion  was  a  bur- 
then upon  a  wise  man*s  head,  and  not  a 
feather  in  a  coxcomb*s  cap. 

**  He  was  a  copious  subject,**  what  Aris- 
totle describes  as  dyrjp  rcrpayoivoc,  a  four 
square  man  that  had  in  every  capacity, 
— place  him  how  and  where  you  would — 
'*  a  basis  of  honesty  and  integrity  to  fix 
upon.**  And  yet  no  rough  diamond,  no 
angular  sharpness  about  him  ;  but  teres  at' 
que  rotundu8  in  his  virtue,  '*  in  his  dispo- 
sition made  up  of  love  and  sweetness ;  of  a 
balsamic  nature ;  all  for  healing  and  help- 
fulness.**— Bishop  Reynolds,  vol.  4,  p.  474. 

"  This  a  jewel  of  a  book.**  Fuller  and 
Reynolds.  See  my  extract  inserted  in  John- 
.son.  Joya  is  of  Arabic  extraction.  See 
the  Post-Arab.  Lexicon.  We  have  the 
word,  "  as  children  look  on  fine  gays." — 
Babbow,  vol.  2,  p.  271. 

"  Innocence  and  indolency  do  ever  go 
together,  both  together  making  Paradise : 
perfect  virtue  and  constant  alacrity  are  in- 
separable companions,  both  constituting  be- 
atitude.*'—Ibid,  p.  447. 


Animals  not  reflective. — Ibid.  p.  461. 
The  Dr.  doubted  that  they  were. 

Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  32. — ^'*  Truth  and  know- 
ledge, which  is  the  possession  of  truth. 
Knowledge  a  virtue.'* 

The  Hebrew  word  which  signifieth  to 
praise  or  applaud,  signifieth  also  to  infatu- 
ate or  make  mad.** — Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  213. 

"  Thou  web  of  will,  whose  end  is  never 

wrought.**  SlDNBT. 

**  Infected  minds  infect  each  thing  they 
see.*'  Ibid. 

**  The  arrow  being  shot  from  far  doth  gire 
the  smaller  blow."  Ibid. 

"  They  say  those  roses  are  sweetest 
which  have  stinking  weeds  grow  neir 
them.**  ^  — Reynolds,  vol.  5,  p.  192. 

"  Philosophebs  use  to  reckon  but  eight 
steps  to  the  highest  and  most  intense  degree 
of  a  quality.** — Ibid.  p.  276. 

'* '  Namque  coquus  domini  debet  habere 
guhun,* — the  cook  must  dress  the  meat  to 
his  master*s  palate,  not  to  his  own.** — ^Ibid. 
p.  S27. 

Pebfbct  polity  in  insect  communities  ;— 
and  this  always  under  absolute  laws. 

As  the  scale  of  intellect  rises,  there  is 
nothing  of  these  individual  affections  which 
show  themselves, — with  all  their  evil  and 
their  good. 

In  our  likings  and  dislikings  there  are 
moral  as  well  as  physical  idiosyncrasies. 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Times. 

Sib, — I  observe  a  paragraph  in  your 
journal  of  yesterday,    stating   that  Grub 

'  I  Quite  recollect  when  a.  boy  to  have  seen 
Rue  planted  under  the  double  yellow  Rose. 

J.  W.W. 


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457 


Street  has  thought  proper  to  lay  claim  to  be 
the  birth-place  of  Milton.  If  jour  suppo- 
sition be  founded  upon  the  circumstance  of 
the  street  in  question  being  now  called 
Milton  Street,  I  beg  to  inform  jou,  that 
**  Milton  "  happens  to  be  the  name  of  a  very 
respectable  carpenter  who  has  lately  taken 
a  lease  of  the  whole  street,  and  who  is 
swayed  by  the  very  pardonable  ambition  of 
perpetuating  that  fact.  I  am,  sir,  your  very 
obedient  servant, 

Sept.  10.  A  Constant  Reader. 

"  But  since  my  thoughts  in  thinking  still 
are  spent.**  Stbnbt. 

^  Ces  discours  je  faisois  d*une  pens^  g&ye, 
Ne  pensant  point  adonc  que  la  suite  en  fust 

vraye; 
Mais  h  mes  propres  cousts  j*ay  du  depuis 

apris 
Que  bien  souvent  le  vray  se  loge  dans  le 

ris.**  Pasquisb,  tom.  2,  p.  871. 

Ore  of  those  happy  men  who  have  been 
**  anointed  with  the  oil  of  gladness  above 
their  fellows.** 

I  sHAix  not  administer  to  thee  **  a  drachm 
of  Ovid*s  art,  nor  a  grain  of  Tibullus's 
drugs,  nor  one  of  Propertius*s  pills.**  — 
Euphueg^ 

CunfCBB,  in  Spanish,  signifies  a  stinking 
wall  louse,  says  Theobald  in  a  note  upon 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  vol.  7,  p.  9.  He 
then  did  not  know  the  name  of  bug. 

**  The  canker  soonest  entereth  into  the 
white  rose.** — JEuphues, 

"  I  KKow,  sir, 
Both  when  and  what  to  do  without  direc- 
tions. 
And  where  and  how.** 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Love's 
Pilgrimage,  act  ii.  sc.  ii. 

^Akd  as  occasion  stirr*d  her,  how  she  started, 


Though  roughly,  yet  most  aptly,  into  anger.** 

Act  iiL  80.  ii. 

A  HUQB  fellow. 

— '*  that  gross  compound  cannot  but  difiuse 
The  soul  in  such  a  latitude  of  ease 
As  to  make  dull  her  faculties  and  lazy.** 
Ibid.  Maid  in  the  MiU,  act  iL  sc.  i. 

"  Fob  my  part,  sir. 
The  more  absurd,  I  shall  be  the  better  wel- 


come. 


Ibid,  act  ii.  sc.  iL 


**  A  FOUHDEB  of  new  fashions. 
The  revolutions  of  all  shapes  and  habits 
Run  madding  through  his  brains.** 

Ibid,  act  iii.  sc.  ii. 

This,  which  Beaumont  and  Fletcher  say 
of  a  tailor,  may  be  parodied  to  a  constitu- 
tion-fashioner of  these  days. 

^*  Khave  is  at  worst  of  knave 
When  he  smiles  best.**         Ibid.  p.  258. 

**  The  eagle  dieth  neither  for  age,  nor 
with  sickness,  but  with  famine.** — Euphues, 

**  Though  the  tears  of  the  hart  be  salt,  yet 
the  tears  of  the  boar  be  sweet.** — Ibid. 

**  The  adamant,  though  it  be  so  hard  that 
nothing  can  bruise  it,  yet  if  the  warm  blood 
of  a  goat  be  poured  upon  it,  it  bursteth.** — 
Ibid.i 

'*  The  breath  of  the  lion  engendereth  aiJ 
well  the  serpent  as  the  ant.** — Ibid. 

**  The  eagle  at  every  flight  loseth  a  fea- 
ther, which  maketh  her  bald  in  her  age.** — 
Ibid. 

^*  The  stone  Fantura  draweth  all  other 
stones,  be  they  never  so  heavy,  having  in  it 

*  It  is  very  well  known  that  few  of  Lilly 's 
similies  are  to  be  relied  upon,  —  but  I  have  se- 
veral instances  of  this  old  notion,  which,  as  this 
sheet  passes  throneh  the  press,  I  cannot  lay  my 
hand  upon. — J.  W.  W. 


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tlie  three  roota  wbioh  the;  attribute  to 
music, — mirtb,  melancholj,  madnesB."  — 

ibia. 

"  I  DO  believe  her  atedfasily,  and  know  her 
To  be  a  woman-wolf  by  trnnsmigratioo, 
Her  first  form  was  a  ferret's,  under  ground." 
Bbidnohi  and  Fletciuk, 

Act  iv.  sc.  T. 

Soua  have  asserted  "  that  the  same  cro- 
codile of  Egypt  is  the  lizard  in  Italy,  and 
the  eft  in  our  country."  —  Nichols's  Con- 
ference with  a  TheUt,  vol.  1,  p.  165. 

He  seems  to  believe  this,  using  it  as  an 
argument  ia  analogy. 

TuLCAN  was  coDceived  by  tJie  wind. — 
Batlb,  vol.  2,  p.  222.  Lucian,  de  Sacri- 
fimt. 

Lmim's  poem  dedlcatbg  hia  pen  to  our 
Lady  of  Montaigne. — Batlb,  voL  2,  p.  340. 

Nicoi.Aa  LB  Fbvse,  preceptor  to  the 
Prince  of  Condf ,  and  afterwards  to  Louis 
XIII.  "  eut  le  malheur  de  se  crSver  un  teil 
en  taillant  une  pliune." — CoH.  Mem.  torn. 
53,  p.  50,  N. 

Cbow  quills. — Ladt  Ltixboboihib's  Zef' 
ter*.  p.  73. 

Matthew  Hbsbt's  pen.  —  Thobbsbt, 
vol.  2,  p.  151. 

"  Yb  fools  that  wear  gay  cloathi,  lote  to  be 
gaped  at. 

What  are  you  bet(«r  when  your  end  calls  on 
you? 

Will  gold  preserve  ye  from  the  grave?  or 
jewels  ? 

Get  golden  minds,  and  Sing  away  your  trap- 
pings. 

Unto  your  bodies  minister  warm  nuroent, 

AVhoIesome  and  good ;  glitter  within,  and 

Bbadmoht  and  Flbtcb&b,  Maid 
in  the  MiB,  Act  iii.  Sc.  ii. 


We'' 


"  I  AM  a  labouring  n 
ve  have  seldom  leisure  to 
e  little  wit  to  lose  too." 


Thb  tailor  says, 
"  0  sleeve,  O  sleeve  I  m  study  all  nigbt, 

madam, 
To  magnify  your  sleeve  I" 

Ibid,  act  V.  sc.  ii. 

"  Abb  you  not  he  that  have  been  of  thirty 
callings,  yet  ne'er  a  one  lawfijL" — Ibii 
Martial  Maid,  p.  413. 

"  Tboc  comedy  to  men. 
Whose  seriotu  folly  is  a  butt  for  all 
To  shoot  their  wits  at."        Ibid.  p.  423. 

EuFBUBS  begins  his  disconrse  upon  edu- 
cation by  requiring  that  the  child  be  true 
bom,  no  bastard.  "  Whosoever  he  be  tbu 
desireth  to  be  the  ^re  of  an  huppj  son,  ot 
the  father  of  a  fortunate  child,  let  him  ab- 
stain from  those  women  which  be  oUkt 
base  of  birth,  or  bare  of  honesty." 

"  Whbat  thrown  into  a  strange  grouiJ 
tumeth  to  a  contrary  grain :  the  vine  txtni- 
lated  into  another  soil  cbangeth  her  kuiit. 
Certes,  I  am  of  that  mbd,  that  the  wit  mil 
disposition  is  altered  snd  changed  with  milk, 
as  the  moisture  and  gap  of  the  earth  dnlti 
change  the  nature  of  that  tree  or  plant  that 
it  nourisheth.  Wherefore  the  common  by- 
word of  the  common  people  seemeth  to  be 
grounded  upon  good  experience,  whicb  isi 
this  fellow  hath  sacked  mischief  even  from 
the  teat  of  the  nurse." — Et^huet. 

"  He  should  talk  of  many  matters,  IK'* 
always  harp  upon  one  string;  hethatalwsjt 
singetb  one  note,  without  descant,  breedeib 
no  delight:  he  that  always  playeth  one  pvt 
breedeth  loathsomeness  to  the  ear.  It  ii 
variety  that  moveth  the  mind  of  all  men-" 
—Ibid. 

"  Such  gross  questions  are  to  be  an- 
swered with  slender  reasons,  and  such  Mb 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOB,  ETC. 


Tbb  snail  that  crept  out  of  her  sbell  wu 
turned  into  a  toad,  and  thereb]r  wu  forced 
to  nufce  a  stool  to  sit  on,  diiduning  her  own 
bouse." — Ibid. 

"  Why  wit  haTing  told  all  his  caidi, 

tacked  maiij  an  ace  of  wisdom." — Ibid. 

"  So  much  wit  a  anfficient  for  a  woman, 
u,  when  she  ia  in  the  rain,  can  warn  her  to 
come  out  of  it." — Diid. 

"  All  things  were  made  for  man  as  a 
soTereign,  and  man  made  for  woman  as  a 
siiie." — Ibid. 

"  I  BPjEAK  softlj,  because  I  will  not  hear 
myself."     Philantns  says  this.— Ibid. 

"  As,  fond  Euphues,  my  dear  friend,  but 
i  limple  fool  if  tliou  believe  now  the  cool- 
ing card  (?) ' ;  and  an  obstinate  fool  if  thou 
do  not  recant  it."— Ibid. 

The  supposed  msgician  in  Euphuea  says, 
"  It  niaj  be  your  strong  imaginadou  shall 
Tork  that  in  you,  which  my  art  cannot ;  for 
it  ta  a  principle  among  ns,  tliat  a  vehement 
tkiught  is  more  BTsilable  than  the  virtue 
of  our  figures,  forms,  or  characters." — Ibid. 

EHCBAKTMRirTS  in  love. 

"  Do  you  think  that  the  mind,  being  cre- 
ated by  God,  can  be  ruled  by  man,  or  that 
any  one  can  move  tlie  heart  but  He  that 
made  ItF  But  such  hath  been  the  super- 
stition of  old  women,  and  such  the  folly  of 
young  men,  that  there  could  be  nothing  so 
but  the  onewould  invent,  nor  anything 
M  senseless  but  t^e  other  would  believe. 

irrOBD,  in  hia  latroductiOTi  to  Fobd's 


"Though  many  there  have  been  so  wicked 
to  seek  such  means,  yet  was  there  never  an; 
so  unh^ti^  to  find  them." — Ibid. 

"  ToDNo  is  the  goose  that  will  eat  no 
oates,  and  a  very  ill  cock  that  will  not  crow 
before  he  be  old,  and  no  right  lion  that  will 
not  feed  on  hard  meat  before  he  taste  sweet 
milk."— Ibid. 


"  Lbt  thy  practice  be  law,"  says  Euphues 
to  hia  friend ;  "  for  the  practice  of  physic  is 
too  base  for  ao  fine  a  stomach  as  thine,  and 
divinity  too  curious  fbt  so  fickle  a  head  as 
thou  hast." — Ibid. 

"  On  obscure  topics  double  light  is  ne- 
cessary."— PiHKBKTOK.  Corr.vol.  I,p.442. 

"  His  means  are  little. 
And  where  those  littles  are,  as  little  comforts 
Ever  keep  company." 

Bi  AD  MOST  and  Flstchbb,  Night 
Walker,  vol.  8,  p.  90. 

"  Shb  ia  a  woman ;  and  the  ways  unto  her 
Are  like  the  finding  of  a  certain  path. 
After  a  deep-fallen  snow." 

Ibid.  Woman'*  Prize,  act  t.  bc.  i. 

"  Take  my  word  and  experience  upon  it, 
doing  nothing  is  a  most  amusing  business." 
— Gbat,  2,  3.     See,  too,  p.  348,  ibid. 

"  It  is  very  possible  that  two  and  two 
make  four,  but  I  would  not  give  four  far- 
things to  demonatrate  this  ever  so  clearly." 
—Ibid.  p.  B. 

MoBAL  and  intellectual  improvement  of 
animals,  contraated  with  that  at  which  the 
breeders  and  feeders  aim. 

■  The  allusion  ia  lo  the  Greek  proverb,  AJc 
ipo/ijSi]  flJvaroc  ;— in  the  line  of  JuTeoal, 
"  Occidit  miseros  crambt  ripitita  magislroi." 
Set.  vii.  154. -J.  W.  W. 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


C0CECHAITBK8  he  tbinka  might  be  bb 
griteTul  food  u  locusts,  and  their  grab  u 
delicious  M  the  groogroo,  or  p&lm  caterpil- 
lar.—DABwin's  Phylolagia,  p.  364. 

Watbb  rats  in  America  destroyed  in 
great  numbers  b7  the  t^-worm.  Could 
aome  of  these  diseased  American  rats,  he 
asks,  be  imported  into  this  country,  that 
thej  might  propagate  their  malady  f — Ibid, 
p.  683. 

Thb  brood-bottomed  Adm.  the  dT(v%- 
EapiK,— the  hesvj  behinda. 

KiBFiHG  afoUjf, 

On  may  Bftj  of  certain  anthors,withGa- 
ra»se,Doo.CurieuBe  (p.21),"Qu'if  estper- 
mis  It  un  chacun  de  s'immoler  k  la  risee 
publique;  leurs  fautes  ne  Bontpr^judiciables 
qu'k  eux-mSmes ;  leurs  chimires  n'ont  au- 
cuoe  auitte ;  elles  pouiront  servir  de  diver- 
tissement et  de  recr&ition  aux  gens  d'hon- 
neur  apres  ud  estude  serieux." 

AmoDg  the  writers  who  lead  him  to  make 
these  remarks,  he  includes  Copernicus. 

Cabdak'b  notion  of  three  orders  of  spirits 
or  minds,  which,  combmbg  with  matter, 
form  beasts,  men,  and  prophets ;  and  wh; 
there  can  be  no  prophet  near  the  poles,  and 
must  be  manj  in  Judea. — Ibid  p.  25.  Ta- 
nbi's  notion,  p.  32.    Plato's  remark,  p.  56. 

"  LoBsaon  Cardan  escrivoit  ces  somettes, 
il  n'eatoit  pas  fort  esloign£  d'asnerie." — Ibid. 


"PouB  moj,  je  dis  qne  la  plos  grande  folie 
qui  soit  aa  monde,  c'est  de  s'^carter  du 
grand  chemin." — Ibid.  p.  29. 

Ah  Irish  gentleman  just  now  sentenced 
to  be  hanged,  as  he  richly  deserved,  ssid, 
"  This  in  an  extremdj  awkward  business  T 

Cabdihai.  Dd  Fbbbok's  extraordinary 
memory  has  been  accounted  for  by  the  fact 


that  his  mother  longed  for  a  library ! — 8ai^ 
anxs,  voL  I,  p.  56. 

Thb  Egyptians  made  all  the  elementi 
male  and  female*  Wind  was  male,  a  damp 
and  relaxing  air  female.  The  sea,  male; 
all  other  waters  female.  Oaly  coltivited 
earth  female,  and  only  innocuous  fire.— 
SsmcA.  NaL  Qum.  1. 3,  g  14,  t.  2,  p.  S5T. 

"Woman,  they  say,  was  only  made  of  msaj 
Methinks  'tis  strange  they  should  be  so  nii- 

likel 
It  may  be  all  the  best  was  ent  away 
To  m^  the  woman,  and  the  nanghtwai  kfl 
Behind  with  him." 

Bbaiwoht  and  Flbtcbbb,  Coicomi, 

"  'Tis  an  odd  creature,  full  of  creeks  and 

windings; 
The  serpent  has  not  more  .*  for  she  has  all 

Ml, 
And  then  her  own  beside  came  in  by  bei 

mother." 

Ibid.  Wit  at  tnerai  Wtapofi, 


Fuiir  says  that  an  owl's  ^g,  eaten  in  tn 
omelette,  will  cure  a  drnnkard  of  his  pu- 
sion  for  wine. — SAi.atiBS,  vol.  1,  p.  439. 

"Um  princesse  d'Allemague  entrepril 
de  rassembler  un  grand  nombre  de  nains  dct 
deux  sexes ;  eLle  lea  r&nit  en  petits  me- 
nages;  elle  essaye  d'en  multiplier  I'esp^i 
mais  ses  vues  furent  trompfea,  ils  ne  pr>- 
dniss&rent  lien." — Ibid.  p.  474. 

Somb,  of  whom  S.  Augustine  speaks  is 
his  Civ.  Dei,  thought  that  at  the  renirrte- 
^on  all  would  rise  males. — Ilnd.  vd.  3,  p.  1. 

At  the  council  of  hUcon  (fifth  centnrr) 
it  was  debated  whether  Christ  died  fbr  tbe 
female  sex,  and  determined  in  the  affinna- 
tive.— Ibid. 


D  who  had  lost  his  menor; 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


for  all  HubsUotiTes,  and  he  knew  anotlier 
who  had  iu  like  maimer  forgotten  all  a^jec- 
tires. — Ibid,  p.  279. 

"  Pions  and  pondermu  meo."  Cobbler  of 
AggiTam,  3. 

Hu  "  uduess  ii  a  kind  of  mirtli, 

So  mingled  u  if  mirth  did  make  him  nd. 

And  udaess  meny." 

Beauuokt  and  Flbtckbb,  TSoo  NobU 


Tbb  Bge  of  all  hor»eg  is  dated  firom  iLe 
In  of  Uaj. 

CcaTou  of  female  inheritance  in  LeeboE. 
{CakaOa  Afagazwe,  toL  3,  pp.  267,  339.) 


"HunwoMB  is,  as  ha&dMme  does ;" 

tberefore  ii  oneof  the  ugliest  fellovs  I  know. 

Thb  Ascrodupetes  believed  that  the  first 
of  the  human  race  wu  not  Adam,  but  Bar- 
belotL  Or  did  thej  believe  that  tliia  was 
Adam's  proper  name? — Gababsb,  p.  232. 

EuvoKiAK  baptism,  to  be  dipt  three  times 
in  warm  water,  head  downward,  and  wust 
<!np,  "pour  eatre  t)aptia£  k  profit." — Ibid. 

Kamow  Lvixs  said  to  have  said  that  a 
man  might  be  made. — Ibid.  p.  234. 

Tbb  Doctor'a  shoemaker  held  his  custom 


Mb.  Fabkll,  who  w««  G.  Taylor's  school- 
master, lay  down  on  the  grass  one  daj,  and 
fell  asleep.  A  hurf  grub  crawled  over  his 
&ce,  and  was  found  retting  on  one  of  his 
I  ^ei.  When  he  waa  awakened,  tlie  eye  was 
I  indamed,  and  he  lost  the  aigbt  of  it  by  this 
txtraordinaiy  cause. 

,    AAXa  ravro  fiif  iauf  i^birtpiKtiripat  «Wi 
I  taij/iue. — Abut.  Pol.  p.  8,  1.  1,  §  6. 

i  "AjTucnoF,  when  I  know  it,  is  but  this, 
A  deep  alloy,  whereby  man  tougher  is 


To  bear  the  hammer ;  and  the  deeper  still 
We  still  arise  more  image  of  hie  will." 

Verttt  upon  an  Honest  Man'i  Fortate, 

BBAtmonT  and  Fi^tcbxb,  vol.  10, 

p.4«6. 

D.D.  DBSCBiBBD  by  EnniuB. — EkASHca, 
Adagio,  p.  1S3. 

Teb  variety,  or  rather  uncertainty,  of 
some  seeds  is  remarkable,  as  contrasted  with 
the  invariable  character  of  others.  Fruits 
and  flowers,  e.  g.,  compared  with  the  oak, 
elm,  cedar,  and  other  trees. 

AccmENTAt  defects  may  be  propagated 
in  trees  and  in  animiilii ;  but  query  whether 
it  be  not  only  by  grafts  in  the  former  ? 

TDKirXH  the  artist  has  seventeen  cats,  all 
without  tails,  kittened  by  a  favourite  who 
accidentally  had  lost  hers. 


"  Such  servants  are  oftenest  painful  and 

good, 
That  sing  in  their  labour,  as  birds  in  the 

wood."  TUSSBK,  p.  232. 

Am  executioner  complained,  "  Qu'il  de- 
meoroit  en  une  meschante  ville,  et  qu'il  y 
avoit  long  temps  qu'il  n'aroit  pendu  ni 
foiietl^  personne." — Bodchbt,  vol.  2,  p.  97. 


A  aroBT  of  resetting  eyes  that  have  been 
plucked  out,  on  Guicciardini's  authority  1 
And  a  goat's  eye  instead  of  a  human  one, 
if  the  real  one  has  been  injured.  Ton  will 
not  see  with  this,  but  it  will  live  and  retain 
its  beauty,  though  not  its  use! — Ibid.  p. 
344-5. 

RoHiABD  agMnst  learned  women. — Ibid, 
p.  4S1. 

SoCBATBs' choice  ofawife. — I.^a&.-^.V%^. 


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COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Thbbb  are  some  who  say  that  new-born 
infants  cry,  not  for  pun,  nor  the  sense  of 
sudden  cold,  ^^mais  que  c*e8t  qu*ib  se 
plaignent  de  nos  premiers  parents,  et  que 
le  fils  crie  A.  A.  comme  se  plaignent  de 
Adam,  et  la  fille  E.  E.  comme  se  plaignant 
et  voulant  dire  Eve." — Ibid.  p.  495. 

"  HiG  nimis  vivax  queritor  caducsB 
Damna  senectse.*' 
M.  Ant.  Flaminivs,  1. 1,  c.  42. 

"QuippE  Imperia  et  alue  res  terrense, 
similes  sunt  coelestibus ;  sicut  et  res  mari- 
tim»  rebus  t^rrestribus.  Unde  inventus 
piscis  episcopus,  vitulus  et  calamarus  (?) ; 
quandoquidem  omnes  ab  ordine  rationis 
prims,  seu  divinse  idese,  quod  Yerbum  teter- 
num  est,  dependent.**— Campanslla.  De 
Mon,  Hisp.  p.  12. 

"  Quia  et  Deus  ipse  rem  omnem  creavit 
in  numero.*' — Ibid.  p.  14. 


/ 


"  I  CAH  wear  a  horn,  and  blow  it  not*' — 
Damon  and  PUhiaiy  Old  Plays^  vol.  1,  p.  238. 

'*  Thbbb  is  no  instance  of  any  man  whose 
history  has  been  minutely  related,  that  did 
not  in  every  part  of  life  discover  the  same 
proportion  of  intellectual  vigour.'* — John- 
son.    Cbokeb*8  BosweUy  vol.  1,  p.  11. 

Yieyra  is  one,  and  (in  my  own  know- 
ledge) C.  C.  another. 

DouzA  had  a  pet  hedgehog,  and  Lipsius 
wrote  a  poem  upon  its  death. — ^Douza,  p. 
669. 

Stbbculus, — a  god  mentioned  by  Pru- 
dentius.  Lactantius  also  names  him,  **  qui 
stercorandi  agri  rationem  primus  induxit.** 

*'  CoGLi  viola,  o  gelsomino,  croco, 
£  Rosa  condannata  a  viver  poco.** 

CmABBBBA,  vol.  2,  p.  196. 

Thb  Italians  had  a  sword-dance, — ^^  il 
ballo  della  spada.**  Chiabrera  (vol.  2,  p. 
139)  has  a  sonnet  to  a  lady  who  danced  it. 


"  Good  Jove !  what  a  pretty  foolish  thing 
it  is  to  be  a  poet. — Chloe  in  the  Poetader. 
Bbn  Jonson,  vol.  2,  p.  469. 

"  To  play  the  fool  by  authority,  is  wis- 
dom.**—Ibid,  p.  479. 

**  To  play  the  fool  wisely,  is  high  wii- 
dom.'*— Ibid.  p.  480. 

Cupid, — the  little  greatest  god. 

Thb  Dance  of  Cupid. — Tancred  cad  Qu* 
munda^  Old  Plays^  vol.  2,  p.  162. 

*^  Why  this  indeed  is  physic  I  and  outspeaks 
The  knowledge  of  cheap  drugs,  or  any  use 
Can  be  made  out  of  it  I  more  comforting 
Than  all  your  opiates,  juleps,  apoz^ms, 
Magistral  syrups,  or — ^" 

Bbn  Jonson,  SejamUy  vol.  3,  p.  SO. 

Law. 

—  "  Would  you  have  more  P 

I  would  no  morCi 
Nor  less ;  might  I  enjoy  it  natural, 
Not  taught  to  speak  unto  your  present  ends, 
Free  from  thine,  his,  and  all  your  unkind 

handling. 
Furious  enforcing,  most  unjust  presumii^i 
Foul  wresting,  and  impossible  construction.*' 

Ibid.  p.  71. 

*^  II  saggio 
E*  tetragono  ai  colpi  di  ventura  ** 
CmABBBBA,  vol.  2,  p.  246. 

Sbbonal  thoughts,  compared  with  the 
Pantheistic  and  omnidependent  system. 

—  "in  proportion  as  we  think  we  can 
Control  ourselves,  ourselves  we  shall  con* 

trol.**  Lloyd's  London^  p.  58. 

—  "  *Tis  pleasanter  to  paint  effects, 
Than  flounder  in  the  dark  abyss  of  causes.** 

Ibid.  p.  74. 

Hbbaclidbs  held  that  num  fell  from  the 
moon. 


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Soke  RomoniBta  have  started  the  ques- 
tion how  Enoch  could  cut  his  hur  and  his 
mils. — Gasmaxit.  p.  270. 

Tai  sigoment  has  been  advanced  bj 
Gregoriiu  NjBseuu,  that  aicknesa  cannot 
be  contagioua  because  health  u  not. — Ibid, 
p.  342. 

"  He  has  no  faith  in  physic ;  he  does  think 
Most  of  jour  doctors  are  the  greater  danger 
And  worse  disease  to  escape." 

Bkh  JonsoN,  FoXt  vol.  iii.  p.  188. 

"I  MDSB  the  myaterjwai  not  made  a  science, 
It  L9  BO  liberallj  profeat."     Ibid.  p.  231. 

"WtTK  such  we  mingle  neither  brains  nor 
breasts."  Prolcgut  to  Epieixne. 

"Btrrthat  he  knew  this  was  the  better  waj. 
For  to  present  all  custard,  or  all  tart, 
And  have  no  other  meats  to  bear  a  part, 
Or  to  want  bread  and  salt,  were  but  coarse 
art."  Ibid, 

"  In  the  dajs  of  the  bear-garden,  bears 
used  to  be  named  after  their  owners.  Ned 
Wbiting  and  George  Stone  were  of  good 
repute  in  their  day.  George  was  killed  by 
llie  dtiffl  at  last ;  and  the  keepers  in  their 
petiUon  for  a  renewal  of  their  license,  call 
him  '  a  goodly  bear,'  and  '  feelingly  lament 

' — GirroKD.    Bin  JoHBon,ToI.  3, 

p.  395,  N. 

Ubi  terrarum  vitiuiu  cultura,  aut  ra- 
proTentus  uon  est,  adoptatur  in 
vmi  locum,  ftstus  supposititius,  natiu  ex 
adtllmo  Cererii  el  Nepbau,  quam  iCerevi- 
sisiu  appellamua." — Laarenthergii  HorUcul- 
ten.  Fralogmaii,  p.  6. 

Ibid.  p.  9.  A  NOTION  of  the  ancients,  that 
they  who  lived  upon  locusts  were  eaten  up 
m  their  old  age  by  winged  vermin,  bred  in 
Ibeir  insidee. 

An  odd  reasoner,  for  he  presses  silk  and 


wool  into  his  vegetable  ranks,  one  as  made 
of  mulberry  leaves,  the  other  of  grass.  By 
the  same  logic  he  might  make  mutton  a  ve- 
getable. 

"  Hb  that  hath  love  and  jadgment  too. 
Sees  more  than  any  other  do." 

Setieotua,  vol.  2,  Phenix  Neit  p.  7. 

"  Lbhd  me  but  your  attentions,  and  Fll  cut 
Long  grief  into  short  worda." 

Revmger't  Tragedy,  Old  Flat/a, 
vol.  4,  p.  303. 

"  Qn&D  si  quia  quo  dico  non  intelUgit,  se- 
cum  agat  studiis  et  votia  ut  proficiat ;  non 
mecum  querelis  et  convitiis,  ut  desistam." 
— S.  AnoDBTiN.     Gabassb,  j>.  551. 

A  TBisr  said  there  was  only  one  plant 
in  the  world  which  he  could  not  bear,  and 
that  was  hemp ;  for  it  had  been  the  death 
of  hix  father,  and  might  likely  enough  be 
his  own  too. — Garabse,  p.  599- 

Could  we,  in  the  American  sense  of  the 
word,  realize  those  points  of  our  faith  in 
which  all  Christians  are  agreed,  we  should 
have  in  these  the  true  panacea, — the  philo- 
sopher's atone, — the  elixir  of  life. 

Akensids's  7.  The  third  personal  pro- 
noun is  the  most  comprehensive  word  in  the 
world ;  for  eicept  you  and  me,  reader,  it 
comprises  everything  else  in  existence. 

A  SOPHIST  in  the  Controversies  of  Se- 
neca, wishes  he  were  a  Spanish  horse. — Ga- 
BASSB,  p.  70S. 

Adovstihb  used  commonly  to  end  his  ser- 
mons with,  "Parcite  mihi,  fratrea  mei;  nolo 
dicere  quod  sequitur." — Ibid.  p.  731. 

"  La  laideur  du  diable  est  nonparcille  ; 
et  il  n'y  a  creature  au  monde  ai  difibrme 
que  le  plus  beau  Diable  de  I'Enfer," — Ibid, 
p.  639. 

"  n  est  vray  que  Ics  Diables  ne  sont  fas 


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eulement  enlenn 


laidj  en  leur  essence,  m&i) 
accidens." — Ibid.  p.  4BI, 

In  the  Mir&cle  Flajs  he  wu  made  ss  ugl  j 
u  pouible,  hury  like  a  bear,  with  a  bottle 
Dose,  and  a  tail. — Coliiek's  Sta^,  vol.  2, 
p.  263. 

What  beauty  there  ie  in  hell,  and  vhj 
the  Devil  it  to  be  respected. — Vide  G*- 
■aaas,  pp.  841-2. 

CouJBB'a  Stc^,  ToL  3,  p.  96. 

"ToDB  ale  is  as  aPhiliatine  fox, — there's 
fire  b  the  tail  on't."— Afnr^  DevU  of  Ed- 
moRton,  Old  Play*,  vol.  S,  p.  238. 

"  I  ADviBE  jou,"  sajB  JohnsoH,  "  and  I 
advise  JOU  with  great  earnestness,  t«  do  no- 
thug  that  may  hurt  jou,  and  to  reject  no- 
thing that  maj  do  jou  good.  To  preserve 
health  is  a  moral  and  religions  dntj,  for 
health  is  the  basis  of  all  aocial  virtue  :  we 
cau  be  useful  no  Imger  than  while  we  are 
well."— CaoKxa's  BiMtoell,  toI.  2,  p.  119. 

SoMB  Mr.  St«ele  published  PnModia  Ea- 
titnalu,  or  an  Essay  towards  Establishing 
the  Melod  J  and  Measure  of  Speech,  to  be 
expressed  and  perpetuated  bj  peculiar  Sym- 
bols. 1779.  He  pretended  to  show  how 
Garrick's  reeitaUOD  might  be  transmitted  to 
posterity  bj  notation. 

Boawell  thought  he  had  succeede*!. — Ibid, 
vol.  3,  p.  201. 

J.'a  intention  of  writing  a  cookery  book. 
—Ibid.  vol.  4,  pp.  143-4.  See  Turner's 
Sacred  History,  p.  134. 

HoBKED  woman. — Rdssxll's  Tour  in 
Oermang,  vol.  1,  p.  250. 

S.  Paula  Barbata.  Acta  SS.  Feb.  S, 
174. 

Goat's  beard  I 
March  2,  570. 

J.  Southcote's  followers. 

"  Ducit  opes  animumqne  ferro." — Hoa. 

De  Guigues,  vol.  2,  p.  IS9. 


i  upon  a  sinner. — Ibid. 


Pulei  MU.  T.  3,  p.  328.    Take  away  the 
beard,  and  how  you  mar  the  picture, 
^kobarbna.     Suetonius.    Nero.  $  1. 

Shbikh  Jaxu  Oddin  El  8a wi,  head  of 
the  Karendera, "  who  shave  their  chins  lod 
eyebrows."  A  woman  of  Sawah  acted  tk 
part  of  Foliphar's  wife  towards  him.  Hi- 
ving no  other  escq>e,  for  ahe  had  entnpt 
him  into  an  bner  apartment,  h^  asked  per- 
mission to  retire,  and  having  a  razor  about 
him,  he  shaved  off  hia  beard  and  ejebron. 
Upon  which,  horrified  at  his  deformity,  tbt 
had  him  driven  out  of  the  house.  Hence 
his  sect  followed  the  fashion. — Ibh  Bitu- 
TA'a  Traveli,  p.  II. 

'Mosaan  machinery  is  frightful, — (s  if 
properlylo  deter  one  from  its  use, — wbcnts 
it  u  beautiful  in  all  the  old — necessu7, 
beneficial  inventions. — Cickbo,  toL  I,  p. 
33fi. 

See  Turner's  Sacred  History,  p.  139. 

B.  JonaOD,  vol.  S,  p.  392. 

Stewart's  Visit,  p.  72.     A  ship. 

Etsh  moat  of  the  fish  "  which  are  moat 
abundant,  and  come  most  frequently  in  our 
sight,  have  pleasing  forms,"  and  are  bean- 
tilbl.— TcansB,  pp.  16,  259. 

Oil  from  seeds,  and  walnnts. 

Wbaleb.  Connubial  affection  in  Aai>- 
— IWd.  p.  285. 

LooAir,  quoted  by  TnwcKa,  ^id.  p.  SIS), 
says  of  animals,  that "  in  all  their  actions  tbey 
discover  no  sense  of  Deity,  and  no  traceiof 
religioif — Sernioni,  vol.  1,  p.  3. 

We  cannot  be  sure  of  this. 

HABTLsr  on  the  posuble  inunortaUty  of 
brules.~lbid.  p.  37S. 


"  AoAisBT  the  multiplidty  of 
Whereby  much  neighbourly  familiarity. 
By  asking  '  What  d'ye  guess  it  is  o'clock  T 
Is  lost,  when  every  puny  cletk  can  ciny 


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463 


ae  o'  tbe  da;  in  bis  breecbes. 
itiHpodet,  quoted  by  Giffobd,  B.  J. 
Vol.  5,  p.  42. 


"  —  for  tbe  increase  of  wool,— 
ing  of  lire  horaes,  and  new  cover- 
beep  skint." — Ibid. 

bts  for  keeping  of  tame  owla  in  cities, 
up  rats  and  mice,  whereby  all  eats 
destrojed,  as  an  especial  means 
I  the  growth  of  witchcraft." — Ibid. 

public — 

Jo,  give  tbem  grains  tlu^  fit], 

■ska,  draff,  to  drink  and  swill." 

B.  J.  Odt  to  hmuelf. 

f  e  have  divers  that  drive  that  trade 
«ts,  poetaccios,  poetaaters,  poetito«, 
haberdashers  of  small  wit — I  pre- 
—Ivdaction  to  &e  Mognetie  Lad^. 


ide  from  Adam. — B.  J.  ^a^  of 

'  He  holds  no  man  can  be  a  poet 
not  a  good  cook,  to  know  the  palates 
reral  tastes  of  the  time.    He  draws 

the  kitchen,  bat  the  art  of  poetry, 
heconcludes  the  same  with  cookery." 
Ibid.  p.  236. 

teii,  &c.  show  that  cookery  is  good 
le. 

will  not  woo  the  gentle  ignorance 
1.     But  careless  of  all  vulgar  cen- 

not  depending  on  common  appro- 
he  is  confident  it  shall  superplease 
u  spectators,  and  to  them  he  leaves 
ork  with  the  rest,  by  example,  or 
se." — Bbf  Jokson.  Magnetic  Lad^y 
m,  vol.  6. 


A  TOURO  phyflician,— 
"  Tlat,  letting  God  alone,  ascribes  to  Ks- 

More  thin  her  share :  licentious  in  dig* 

And  in  his  life  a  profest  voluptuary. 
The  slave  of  money,  a  buflbon  in  manners. 
Obscene  in  language,  which  he  vents  for 

Is  saucy  in  his  logics,  and  disputing 
Is  any  thing  but  cItU,  or  a  man." 

Ibid.  p.  18. 

"  Skb  was  both  witty  and  zealous, 
And  lighted  all  the  tinder  of  the  truth 
(As  one  said)  of  religion  In  our  paiish." 
Ibid.  p.  24. 


Philosophers  to  theb  inches." — Ibid.  p.  37. 

"  —  we  ever  make  the  latter  day 
The  scholar  of  the  former ;  and  we  find 
Something  is  still  amiss  that  must  delay 
Our  business,  and  leave  work  for  us  behind, 
Ae  if  there  were  no  sabbath  of  the  mind." 
Dahiu.  Ep.  prefixed  to  I^Uotat. 

Lakdbb,  the  African  traveller,  speaks  of 
a  wood-pigeoD  which  had  seen  its  mate 
caught  and  killed,  lingering  about  the  sjiot 
and  wasting  away  in  mourning  the  loss  of 
her  companion. — Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  248. 

TuosB  wretched  horses  worked  to  death 
in  this  service.  The  affection,  he  says,  of 
these  poor  brutes  towards  each  other  is 
quite  extraordinary. — Ibid.  p.  269. 

"  EvBBT  one  is  a  virtuoso  of  a  higher  or 
lower  degree.  Every  one  pursues  a  Grace, 
and  courts  a  Venus  of  one  kind  or  an- 
other."— SHArTESBL'sr,  vol.  1,  p.  136. 

"  Sickness,  be  thou  my  soul's  physician, 
Bring  the  apothecary  Death  with  thee." 
Nash.  Suniiner'*  Latt  WiO. 
Oid  Flag*,  ix.  55. 


466 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOE,  ETC. 


"  Cakb  that  u  entered  once  into  die  breftst, 
Will  have  tlw  wliole  potsession  ere  it  reit." 
Bbn  JoNBon.  TaU  of  a  Tidi, 
vo).  6,  p.  153. 

"  But  u  I  MB  DOW  here,  jmt  in  die  mid 

way, 
rU  set  mj  Birord  on  the  pommd,  and  that 

The  poiat  foils  to,  we'll  take.— Ibid.  p.S06. 

"SncH  things  e»er  are  like  bread, wliich 
the  staler  it  it,  the  more  wholesome." — Ban 
JonaoH.   C(ue  i>  aUmd,  p.  326. 

It  IB  well  said  hj  SBAJTBaBuai,  that 
"profound  thinking  is  manj  times  the  caiue 
of  shallow  thought."— VoL  3,  p.  226. 

"  NsiaHBom,  sharpen  the  edge-tool  of 
joar  wit  upon  the  whetstone  of  indiscre- 
tion."—Lomb.  Wou>uiio/CivaWar,Old 
Plat/t,  vol.  6,  p.  S3. 

Tbekchabs  the  Whig. 

"He  was  always  excellent  company;  but 
the  time  of  the  day  when  he  shioed  most, 
was  for  three  hours  or  more  after  dinner. 
Towards  the  evening,  he  was  generally  sub- 
ject to  indigestions.  The  time  he  chose  to 
think  b  was  the  niOTning." — Pnfaet  In 
Cato's  Ltttert,  zix. 

"  TuE  opinion  of  a  physician  at  a  medi- 
cine does  often  effect  the  cure  of  a  patient, 
by  giving  to  his  mind  such  ease  and  acqui- 
escence as  can  alone  produce  health."— 
CiTo's  Lttlers,  vol.  I,  p.  126. 

"  Without  any  slips  of  prolixity,  or 
crossing  the  plain  highway  of  talk." — Mtr- 
ckanl  of  Venice,  act.  iii.  sc.  i. 

PAB4Eixa,  vol.  2,  p.  395.  Regilian  made 
emperor  in  the  days  of  Gallienus,  for  his 
name's  sake. 

M.  DB  PiBAKT,  who  had  been  governor  of 
the  Prince  of  Conde,  and  whom  Pasqcdw, 


(vol.  3,  p.  40B),  calls  "  I'liD  de«  [Jiu 
preud'htnumes  que  nous  ayona  jama 
ieni  en  ceste  France,"  never  dran 
thing; — "  vray  que  pour  supplemc 
fruitage  dont  il  naoit  luy  estoit  fort  fs 
et  commun." 


mari,  pluribus  ventis  : 
Epitt.  vi.  33.  p.  163. 


nibus,  ita  ingenia  nostra  nunc  hftc  nn 
meditatione,  recoluntur." — Ibid.  Ep 

p.  174. 

"  Fob  Uiese  men's  palates  let  not  t 
swer,  0  Muses !  It  fs  not  my  fault  i 
tbem  out  nectar,  and  they  run  to  m 
lin." — Bbh  Johsok,  Mtuqae  ofBymt 
7,  p.  30. 

"  Mabbuob  Goddeaaes."^IUd.  p 

"  Evur  sickness  is  not  imto  deal 
therefore  the  Lord  hath  appointed 
for  the  maladies  of  the  body.  Mi 
crtatiU  ntedieiiKBit,  aayi  the  Son  of  S 
the  Moat  Uigli  hath  created  medicini 
a  wise  man  will  not  despise  tbem  ; 
fore  they  chose  an  Ul  matter  to  cod 
who  praised  S.  Agatha,  that  she  would 
take  any  remedy  for  the  infirmities 
body.  'Habeo  Dominun  Jcsuwq 
reataorat  noiversa :  tbii  m 


adventuring.'" — B.  Hacxbt's  Strm 
325. 

"  FoK  Beauty  bath  *  living  name. 
And  will  to  Heaven  from  whence  it 
Bbh  Johsok,  vol.  7,  p.  I 

— flies  and  insects,  BbkJohsoh.C 
953),  calls  tlie  "  trespasses  tai  scape: 


"  Ahd  the  nature  of  the  onion  b  to 

As  well  as  the  mustard : — peace,  pit 
have  ears."  Ibid.  p. 


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«■'■  twice  fui  much  mtuic  in  beating 

etebor, 

leBting  the  itockfiab,  and  somewhat 

m  Imbour."  Ibid.  p.  SOS. 

■  better  than  the;  are,  are  aU  thingi 

ode 

Dder !  Ibid.  p.  SOS. 

put  thee  to  th;  oftener  What  and 
'bjr  Ibid. 

Amtkida  historia  est  Herculem  po- 
wquam  navigio  ventia  (?)  immeiua 
tnuuisK." — Macrobiui's  Sattir.  S, 

XUmtK  drank  out  of  a  cup  in  this 
and  called  Hercules'e. — Baa  Joaaov, 
p.  318. 

>BB  mj  guidan 
"Thooghl 
Fear  not  to  foUow. 
Thej  who  are  bred 
Within  the  Hill 

OfSkDI, 
Haj  mMj  tread 
What  path  thej  will ; 
b  ground  of  good  ia  hoUow." 

Fleamrt  reconcUed  to  Virtue. 
Ibid.  p.  329. 

'  m  here  be  a  little  obscure,  'tis  our 
r« ;  for  rather  tiian  we  will  ofler  to 
owa  interpreters,  we  are  resolved  not 
mderalood."— Ibid.  p.  373. 

>M  l^cKi.B-rooT  nith  his  tabor." — 

•.398. 

eod  name  for  a  muaidan  at  a  dance. 

aa  must  be  an  officer  or  nothing,  he 
irt  and  brief  in  hia  demands:  aprettj 
ind  a  pt^tj  man  is  a  little  o*  this  side 
5."— Ibid.  p.  427. 

KH  any  one  greatlj  excelled  another 
aaiit— "eum  albiseqnis  pnecedere ;" 
becanae  white  horses  were  used  in 


triuinpbal  cars,  or  thought  more  luck;  in 
races. — Ekasm.  Adag.  p.  167. 

Provkrbs,  that  the  children  of  great  men 
degenerate,  but  that  good  bods  never  pro- 
ceed from  ill  parents. — Ibid.  p.  241-2. 

Scai.E  of  longevity. — Ibid.  p.  2^5. 

Ebasmds  (Adagui,  p.  361)  sajs  he  had 
seen  the  Ice-worm  in  the  Alps. 

PuMi's  winged  Salamander.— Ebasudb 
Adag.  p.  361. 

Ainios,  an  Egyptian  ioTented  ovens. — 
Ibid.  p.  397. 

AvaSa  ifiuv  thiaifiovla — infel  ix  felicitaa. 
Ibid.  p.  406. 

Acco  was  a  remarkably  silly  woman,  who 
used  to  converse  with  herself  at  the  glass. 
Adi^.  p.  490. 

"  LoKGine  bs»c  ratio,  puteoque  petatur 


'Orav  i  TO  XotTOf  fiiKpoy,  ojuj  yiVtrai. 
Aatipliamt.  Ebash.  Adag.  p.  607. 

IIpoc  yap  TO  yqpac  HoTTlp  ipyaviipioy 
'Kwayra  rdvOpitxtya  rpovfoira  Kaxd, 


"  Mors  copper  has,  in  some  years,  been 
consumed  in  the  pin^trade  than  in  the  royal 
navy," — J.  NtCBoi4.  Fuller's  Worthies, 
vol.  2.     N.  P.  492. 

Dreamt.  Thb  proverb  that  "  Dimidio 
vital  nihil  felicis  sb  infelicibus,"  is  not  true. 

— EBiSMns'  Adagio,  p,  418. 

Nor  bis  reaaoujng  upon  it     Qnod  vide. 

Frabt  which  ig  to  be  made  at  the  resto- 
ration of  the  poor  with  wine  from  Adam's 
cellar. — Burton,  p.  670. 

Sec  for  the  bill  of  fare. 


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^  The  ancients  used  to  plant  betony  in 
cburch-jards,  because  it  was  held  to  be  an 
holj  herb  and  good  against  fearful  visions, 
did  secure  such  places  it  grew  in,  and  sanc- 
tified those  that  carried  it  about  them.** — 
Ibid.  p.  72L 

BuBTOif ,  p.  723,  recommends  his  patients 
to  the  advice  of  good  physicians  and  di- 
vines, which  Navarrus  calls  **  contraventio 
scrupulorum,** — ^men,  whose  words  are  as 
flagons  of  wine. 

That  continence  came  to  him. 

**  Asf  hermoso,  7  de  alegre  luz  vestido. 
Que  solo  la  pudiera  ver  dormido.** 

Babbuena,  tom.  2,  p.  253. 

**  Quo  siempre  los  favores  de  fortuna, 
Crecen  para  menguar  como  la  luna.** 

Ibid.  tom.  1,  p.  7. 

Political  music. — Db  Guiones,  vol.  2, 
p.  147. 

"  Those  vegetives 
Whose  souls  die  with  them.** 

Massenoeb,  vol.  iv.  p.  476. 

**  Mart  are  fortunate,  but  few  are  blest.*' 

LoBD  Stibling,  p.  10. 

**  I  THINK  the  soul 
Hath  by  inheritance  an  heavenly  power. 
Which  some  fore-knowledge  gives  of  ill 

and  good, 
But  not  the  means  to  *scape  a  fatal  hour.*' 

Ibid.  p.  17. 

"  Not  lip-sick-lover  like,  with  words  far 
sought, 

Whose  tongue  was  but  an  agent  for  his 

heart. 
Yet  could  not  tell  the  tenth  part  that  it 

thought.**  Ibid.  p.  41. 

^^^««»s  I>oct.  Cur.  p.  21,  could  have 
thought  that  some  minds  as  well  as  bodies 
were  made  only  to  be  laughed  at. 


**  Tbub  is  it  that  divinest  Sydney  song, 
O  he  is  marr*d  that  is  for  others  made.** 
Nash.  Summbb*s  Last  WiU, 
Old  Playsy  vol  ix.  p.  19. 

Timothy  Bbioht  is  sud  to  have  been 
the  inventor  of  short  hand. — Old  Playt^  [)• 
9,  N.  35. 

Love, — **  in  a  word  the  Spanish  inquisi- 
tion is  not  comparable  to  it.** — ^BuBfOB,  p. 
505. 

**  F18MENU6  non  nasatus  was, 
Upon  a  wager  that  his  friends  had  laid, 
Hired  to  live  in  a  privy  a  whole  year.** 
Nash.  Summbb*8  Last  Will,  p.  61, 
Old  Plays,  ix. 

^'Bakb  Venus*  doves  in  pies :  drown  Chbris* 
Cloe.**  Allan  CuifimiGHAJf, 

Maid  of  Elvar,  p.  133. 

**  But  on  a  round  what  wonder  tho*  things 

roU, 
And  since  within  a  circle,  turn  about?** 

LoBD  StEBLIBB,  JulxUM  CtUttT, 

p.  253. 
Sir  J.  Davies. 

Excellences  of  Swedish  horses. — Glaus* 
Magnus,  p.  665. 

**  Midnight  visitors  effectually  destarojed 
by  C.  TilBn,  bug-destroyer  to  his  Majesty. 
He  has  made  it  his  only  study,  and  thushss 
succeeded  in  accomplishing  liiat  most  de- 
sirable object,  in  which  so  many  pi^tenders 
fail.  Orders  executed  with  that  attentiou 
which  has  secured  the  business  to  my  fa- 
mily only,  nearly  100  years.'*— Coiire  Josr- 
nod,     July  7,  1832. 

"  Esso  es  lo  que  yo  no  s^ 
Y  saber  quisiera.** 
Caldbbon,  Autos  S.  tom.  1,  p.  8. 

^  Ma  non  ^  cosa 
Di  si  licve  momento 


Trovar  divertimento 
Allegro  inaieme,  ed  innocente,  e  nuovo.** 

MsTASTABio,  Le  Cinesi^ 
torn.  2,  p.  354, 

Coats  of  temperament,  moral  and  phy- 
siological armoury. — Gwillim,  p.  3. 

BoAKD  of  suicide. 

DonasAT  Book. — Caoastkb. 

Names,  Geo  ds  Cusa  ;  an  Aaron  and  a 
Sharon.  I  have  known  a  Hercules  and  a 
Samson,  a  Job,  a  Shadrach,  a  Solomon,  a 
Cupid,  and  a  Psyche,  no  way  connected 
with  eadi  other ;  (Cupid  was  a  Carpenter), 
a  Damon,  a  Fhillis,  and  a  Cloe.  A  Julius, 
a  Caesar,  and  an  Augustus. 

Alexander  every  body  knows. 

An  ^neas. 

Sir  Hector  Munro,  Sir  Ulysses  de  Burgh. 

Brute  Brown,  Sir  Fr.  Drake's  friend. 

"  Sx  *1  pi^  da  Tonne  mie  non  torcerete, 
Fia  1  cammin  buono ;  e  non  vi  fark  mai 
Aoqua  torbida  ber  soverchia  sete.** 

Taii8Iij:<o,  II  Podere,  cap.  1. 
Pamass,  tom.  23,  p.  187. 


'*  Db  la  memoria  mai  non  vi  se  leve, 
Che  nh  poder  n^  altro  che  si  cole, 
Comprar  cupidamente  unqua  si  deve. 

Membratevi  quest  altre  due  parole, 
Quando  al  vedere  e  al  parteggiar  voi  siete 
Che  ci6  che  mai  si  compra,  sempre  duole.** 

Ibid. 

Db.  Lbttsom  ascribed  health  and  wealth 
to  water,  and  ha|^Hness  to  small  beer,  and 
all  diseases  and  crimes  to  the  use  of  spirits : 
making  of  the  whole  a  moral  thermometer. 
— SiB  R.  Ph.  Facts, 

Thb  Abb^  Galiani  derives  all  crimes  from 
animal  destruction;  thus  treachery  from 
angling  axAl  ensnaring,  and  murder  from 
hunting  and  shooting.  He  asserts  that  the 
man  who  would  kill  a  sheep,  ox,  or  any  un* 


suspecting  animal,  would  kill  his  neighbour 
if  he  were  not  afraid  of  the  law. — Ibid. 

B1.ACB  rats  are  tamed  in  Grermany,  and 
a  bell  being  put  about  their  necks,  they 
drive  away  other  rats. — Ibid. 

"  O  DOHB A, 

Datemi  aita,  ed  ambi  duoi  forami 
Siatemi  larga  de  I'orecchio  vostre.** 

Maubo,  Opere  Bwlesche^ 
tom.  1,  p.  163. 

In  Norway  eagles  dive  into  the  sea,  then 
roll  in  the  sand,  and  afterwards  destroy  an 
ox  by  shaking  the  sand  in  his  eyes,  while 
they  attack  him. 

Sib  R.  Phii..  Facts,  Throwing  dust  in 
his  eyes  is  indeed  the  way  to  destroy  John 
BuU. 

Dabwin  says  that  pigeons  have  an  organ 
in  the  stomach  for  secreting  milk. 

**  All  persons  from  convenience,  economy 
and  feeling,  ought  to  prefer  metallic  pens.** 
—Ibid. 

The  art  of  sailing,  says  this  wiseacre,  is 
merely  an  imitation  of  Uie  nautilus.  Thus 
saying  that  there  were  some  large  species 
now  extinct.  He  concludes  that  **  man  has 
exerted  his  power  as  the  universal  de- 
stroyer." 

A  SHowEB  of  crabs  fell,  with  heavy  rain, 
in  the  summer  of  1829,  in  the  yard  of  the 
poor-house  at  Reigate,  and  were  lively, 
weighing  two  ounces. — Ibid. 

Thebe  b  iron  enough  in  the  blood  of 
forty-two  men  to  make  a  ploughshare  weigh- 
ing about  twenty-four  pounds. — Ibid. 

And  brass  enough  in  Mr. face. 

And  lead  enough  in  Mr. brain. 

A  chesnut  tree  at  Tortworth  planted  (so 
said)  A.  D.  800,  made  a  boundary  in  Ste- 
phen's reign,  1 135,  and  then  called  the  great 


470 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


cbesnuttree  ;  bore  in  1 759  nnts  which  pro- 
duced young  trees. — Ibid. 

Onioh  soup  the  best  of  all  restoratives 
after  fatigue. — ^Ibid. 

CoHSTinmovs  are  periiaps  as  different 
as  faces. 

"  Music — 

removeth  cares,  sadness  ejects, 
Declineth  anger,  persuades  clemencj, 
Doth  sweeten  mirth,  and  heighten  pietj. 
And  is  to  a  body,  often,  ill-inclined. 
No  less  a  sovereign  cure  than  to  the  mind.** 
Bes  JojrsoH,  Tol.  8,  p.  238. 

**  Bbautt 

That  asks  but  to  be  censured  by  the  eyes. 
And  in  those  outward  forms  all  fools  are 
wise."  Ibid.  p.  283. 

CouBT  DE  Gebeun's  Etymou  of  Etymo- 
logy, vol.  3,  p.  19,  given  in  CambrO'Bri- 
tan,  vol.  1,  p.  367. 

(( —  Che  fra  noi  vaglia  a  far  la  cose  chiare, 
Senza  tanto  stencarsi  lo  *ntelletto.** 

MoLZA,  Op,  BurL  torn.  1,  p.  317. 

'*  E  CHI  sa  che  *1  suo  nome  entro  la  Torre 
Di  Babel  non  restasse  impastojato, 
E  1^  si  stia,  poich*  altri  nol  soccorre  ? 

II  qual  perch^  non  fu  poi  ritrovato, 
Ella  restb  senza  la  propria  voce, 
O  fosse  caso,  o  pur  contrario  fato/* 

Ibid.  p.  312. 

**  Ma  se  gli  ^  antico,  e  se  Pusar  le  genti 
Che  furo  innanzi  che  Noe  succiassi 
Quel  vin,  che  trasse  de*  primi  sermenti ; 

Questo  h  bene  un  de*  piii  profondi  passi 
Che  noi  habbiamo  ancora  oggi  tentato, 
E  non  ^  mica  da  huomini  bassi.** 

AoifOLO  FiBEIfZUOLA,  Op.  BwU 

p.  364. 

'*  Ch*a  quest!  gran  poeti  dan  le  forme 
Da  far  sonetti  petrarchevolmente." 

Maubo,  Ibid.  p.  223. 


The  three  gold-shoemakers  of  Britain.— 
CambrO'BrUan,  voL  2,  p.  437-8. 

'*  I  havb  heard  of  a  man,  who  hiving 
given  half  of  his  estate  to  mend  faighwajSf 
for  the  good  of  his  country,  said  he  would 
willingly  give  the  other  half,  that  England 
had  never  a  ship,  nor  a  merdbant,  nor  a 
dissenter  belonging  to  it.** — Cato*<  Xcttn, 
vol.  l,p.  251. 

Thebs  was  a  mad  monk  at  Hddelberg, 
who  was  for  knocking  every  man  on  tlie 
head  that  did  not  like  Rheniah  wine. — ^Ibid. 
p.  282. 

Dbums  and  trumpets  make  men  bold. 
And  Marshal  Biron,  one  of  the  bravest  nm 
that  ever  lived,  died  like  a  coward  for  want 
of  them. — ^Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  378. 

Giles  Fletchbb  says  that  John  Ban- 
low  itz  sent  to  the  city  of  Moscow  to  provide 
for  him  a  measure  full  of  fleaa,  for  a  medi- 
cine. They  answered  that  it  was  impoai- 
ble,  and  if  they  could  get  them,  yet  thej 
could  not  measure  them  because  of  their 
leaping  out.  Upon  which  he  set  a  anilct^ 
upon  the  city  of  7000  rubles. — ^Ilnd.  vol  % 
p.  153. 

CHALCoiTDTiJLa  says,  ^  that  when  Con- 
stantinople was  taken  by  the  Turk,  the  So- 
mans  said  that  all  the  deatracdon  broo^t 
upon  the  Greeks  by  the  barbarians,  was  but 
a  judgment  upon  them  for  the  destrucUoo 
of  Troy.**— Ibid.  p.  826. 

Thia  if  said,  was  said  in  jest. 

^*  When  we  denominate  a  man  mad,  or 
a  fool,  we  mean  only  that  he  ia  more  so  than 
most  other  of  his  species,  for  all  oien  at 
times  have  a  mixture  of  both.** — Ibid,  vol 
4,  p.  215. 

'*  Mabkesb  too  is  undoubtedly  to  be 
learned  and  acquired  by  habit  and  ezerciie, 
as  well  as  covetousneas,  pride,  ambition, 
love,  desire  of  revenge,  and  other  qualititff 


COLLECTIONS  FOH  THE  DOCTOE,  ETC. 


"  HuwMa  it  ft  superabundaDce  of  vital 
^writa,  vUoh  nuit  buret  tlieir  Tcvael,  if 
thej  do  not  overflow,  or  are  let  out  hj  tap- 
ping ;  but  which  waj  goever  the/  find  their 
evacnation,  they  gensrally  ferment  firDt,  and 
make  a  terrible  combustion  within." — Ibid, 
p.  420. 

Wm.  CBULBU.BT  killed  bj  Bow  bell, 
13  April,  1604. — Muamui'i  Lmdon,  vol. 

2,  p.  156. 

A  KOOTHKB  and  daughter  both  chritlened 
Britannia,  are  buried  in  Bow  Church.  The 
former  waa  daughter  of  Thcmaa  Cole,  Esq. 
and  wife  of  Uatthew  Howard  of  Thorpe  in 
Norfolk.— Ibid.  p.  158. 

Januarj  7th,  1771.  "  Mrb.  TBoxPB,pew 
t^Miier,  and  searcher  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Qetn^  the  Martjr,  aged  100  yean  and  up- 
ward*, and  her  SOD,  aged  Mventjr,  were  found 
dead  together  in  the  aame  room.  The  bod 
had  never  been  Bepnrated  from  the  mother 
fium  the  da;  of  bii  birth ; — and  in  death 
were  not  divided." — Ibid.  p.  3011. 

AuoHG  the  accounts  of  Christ  Church, 
8LKatharine,Aldgate,uader  the  year  1364, 
this  entry  occurs,  "  Faide  for  a  booke  with 
ri^t  i]uire  of  paper,  for  to  wright  in  the 
Diary  ages,  chrblningi,  and  burials,  and  bmd- 
ing,  St.  Sd." —  Mauoui's  Zondfniun,  vol. 

3,  p.  309. 

AUo  in  theiameyear,  "  Paid  for  an  hour 
glus  that  haugeth  bj  the  pulpitt,  when  the 
preaeher  doth  make  a  (ermon,  that  he  maj 
know  how  the  hour  paaseth  away." — Ibid. 

A.s.  13S0.  "  John  Nokthamptoh,  then 
mayor,  compelled  the  fishmongers  to  ac- 
knowledge that  their  occupation  was  no 
craft,  and  Aerefore  unworthy  to  be  reck- 
oned among  the  other  mysteries." — Ibid, 
voi.  4,  p.  426. 


"  Hb  wore  not  the  perriwig  of  other  men's 

Triana,  or  a  threefold  Romanza  of  Mari- 
ana, Paduana,  Sabina,  written  by  Tatwu 
FiriuE,D.D.  1662. 

"  II  s'eat  tronv^  dea  hommei,  &  qui  la 
seule  venS  de  la  mfdecine  faisoit  I'apfra- 
tion." — Amadjs,  liv.  sziii.  p.  66. 

Atfections  and  dreams  of  dogs  ;  "nuus 
lout  cecy  se  peut  rapporter  k  I'estaroicte 
cousture,  de  I'esprit  et  du  (Mrpa,  s'entre- 
communiqnans  leurs  fortunes." — Lir.  xziii. 
v'AMinta,  p.  66. 

"  Mudo  idioma  de  los  tristes 
•Pues  con  el  solo  se  entienden." 

Caldbbon,  El  Magieo  Ptodigioio. 

"  AD0t.E8CBiiB  fui  olim, 
Solus  mecum  ibam, 
Tnno  viis  aberravi. 
UngT  var  ek  fordnm, 
Fitr  ek  ^n  taman 
Thi  Tard  ek  villr  vega. 

Httva-Mdl.  Edda,  toL  3,  p,  89. 

Ibid.  p.  93.  Be  not  too  wise. 

Hbab,  with  Alexander,  the  answer  the 
musician  gave  him ;  "  Absit,  o  rex,  ut  tn 
meli^  h(ec  sctas,  qukm  ego." — Bsh  Jonbon, 
vol.  9,  p.  \SS. 

"  Thikb  are  no  fewer  formsof  minds  than 
of  bodies  amongst  us.  The  variety  ui  incre* 
dible.  Some  are  fit  to  make  divines,  some 
poets,  some  lawyers,  some  physicians;  some 
to  be  sent  to  the  plough,  and  trades.  There 
is  no  doctrine  will  do  good  where  nature  is 
wanting." — Ibid.  p.  176. 

"Trekb  was  not  that  variety  of  beasts  in 
the  ark,  as  is  of  beastly  natures  in  the  mul- 
titude."—Ibid,  p.  186. 

"  Nb'  piccioli  Buggetti  i  gran  fatica : 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Ma  qualimque  gli  esprime  ontftti  e  chiari. 

Nod  picc'iol  Irutto  del  luo  ingegno  coglie." 

Sucettai,  Le  Apt.  P.  Ifal.  xiiii.  p.  147. 

CoMMEHOBATioH  of  Handel.  "  The  king 
expreBsed  his  wonder  that  the  full/ortej  of 
so  vast  a  hand,  in  accompsnjing  the  singers, 
had  never  been  too  loud  even  for  a  iingte 
voicej  when  it  might  so  naturally  have  been 
expected,  th&t  the  ac^^ompanitneDta  even  of 
the  goUest  pianos  in  such  plenitude,  would 
have  been  overpowering  to  all  vocal  solos. 
He  had  talked,  he  said,  both  with  miuical 
people  and  with  philosophers  upon  the  sub- 
ject, but  none  of  them  could  assign  a  rea- 
son, or  account  for  so  astonishing  a  fact." 
— Db.  Bubnbt,  Memoirt,  vol.  iii.  p.  19. 

"  Thet  received  the  use  of  the  five  tpe- 
rstions  of  the  Lord,  and  in  the  sixth  place 
he  imparted  them  understanding,  and  in  the 
seventh,  speech,  an  interpreter  of  the 
cogitations  thereof." — JEcclenailicut,  chap. 


Good  seed.  I  never  purpoaelj  cast  it 
among  thomi,  nor  on  stonj'  places. 

Fob  atheists,  he  thought  an  appropriate 
punishment  af^  dark  would  be,  to  leave 
their  immortal,  sentient,  and  conscious  soul 
to  that  nature  and  that  chance  in  which 
alone  thej  had  believed. 

"  Tbb  thread  of  my  life  is  drawn  tlu«ugh 
the  needle  of  necessity." — MAsaraaBB,  Vir- 
gin Martyr,  vol.  1,  p.  67. 

"  Phjsic's  hand 
As  apt  is  to  destroy  as  to  preserve. 
If  heaven  make  not  the  medicine." 

Ibid.  p.  76. 

Bbbbchiho  used  to  be  the  single  day  of 
glory  in  male  life.  "  He  put  upon  him  per- 
fect glory,  and  strengthened  him  with  rich 
parments,  with  breeches."  —  EctUnaiHeut, 
chap.  »1t,  ver.  8. 


OiantM.  Cattabbioa,  Falialhacohio. - 
PoLCi,  vol.  3,  p.  35. 

Barigazio. — Orl  Itm.  vol.  4,  p.  1S3. 

Hortei.  Kstamofthe  Stm,^nA.%^li\ 
vol.  6,  p.  246.  Hts  horse  Comelin,  pp.  ITS, 
S4I-2. 

F.61.  Rondart  the  next  best  in  theworlii, 
which  Rositles  won  when  he  slew  the  giint 
Mandraqui;  "H  eatoit  si  fort  et  si  gnod, 
qu'autre  que  luy  n'eust  pu  porter  le  gesot, 
ny  soustenir  ce  grand  corps,  et  ces  grosKi 

Vol.  3,  p.  24-5, 226.  Cobnbk  carries  dou- 


Tol.  4.  p.  1S4.  Zbputb. 

MATTArELi^HE  was  Gaus,  the  good  bone 
of  a  bad  master.— Conf.  of  OH.  Fur.  p.  34J. 

SisiTAi,To,  Agramanti's. — See  OH.  As- 
lorn.  4,  p.  85. 

BsiouADOB.— £>rl.  Fv.  torn.  1,  p.  3M. 
Batolda,  Brondimartea, — Ibid.  torn.  S, 
p.  364. 

A  STOBT  of  horses  running  wild  with  (bar. 
— Eu,is's  Original  LetUrt,  vol.  1,  p.  217. 

SwoBDB.   Tassalc,  Ageailan  of  Colcluii- 
— Amad.  vol.  II,  p.  672. 

Altachiaba  was  Ulavlers.— (7rt  /(s. 

torn.  1,  p.  182. 

Traochera,  Agricana. — Ibid.tani.2,p.!<t- 
Rodamonte  had  Nimrod's,  but  it  his  no 

name. — Ibid.  tom.  4,  p.  38. 


Music  A  wom«n  might  keep  her  U 
in  tune  by  attending  always  to  the  key  a 
which  she  speaks. 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOB,  ETC. 


3  nan  lo  vQol  credere,  mo  duino." 
HjcciAunTTD,  torn.  1,  p.  141. 


il  cercar  di  ssper  quel  cbe  Mputo 
see  duolo,  non  m'&  mai  piaciuto." 
Ibid.  tdL  l,p.  149. 

iv  gU  afianni  d'tnuve  e  le  sue  pene 
e  da  nulla,  e  mere  bagattelle 
petto  a  gotta,  calcoli  e  renelle." 

Ibid.  p.  ii.  122. 

"  The  rough  high  going  aea, 
rhose  foamy  back  our  ship,  well  rigg'd 
lope  and  strong  assurance,  must  trana- 
ort  DB."        Mabsihobk,  Rtntgado, 
vol.  3,  p.  217. 

r  much  pare  love  that  hatb.IuB  birth 
1  heaven, 

corns  to  be  received  a  guest,  but  in 
lie  heart  prepared  to  entertain  him, 
the  gross  misprision  of  ireak  men, 
d  and  injured."" 

Ibid.  Pari  ofLoM,  p.  306. 

cortete  e  llberale  assai 

na ;  cd  ora  ii  per  mille  raddoppiato ; 

.  virtii  Buol  cresccr  sempremai. 


ben  che  per  amor  sia  mal  tomato." 
Orl  Innam.  vol.  1,  p.  302. 

E  Bwicn  che  nh  in  prosa  i  detta  o  in 

cbe  DOD  sia  stata  detta  prima." 

Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  69. 

m  con  dolce  in  bocca,  e  non  ti  doglio, 
lare^iare  al  fin  non  te  la  voglia." 
AsioBTO,  tom.  1,  p.  76. 

:  non  che  pur  duhilo  che  manche 
nzA  al  ver,  ch'  ha  faccia  di  menzogna, 
I  direi ;  ma  di  men  dir  bisogna." 
Ibid.  tom.  3,  p.  IGO.  C,  xxvi.  §  22. 

IKK  was  a  critic,  the  Abbate  Conti, 
aok  great  pains  to  discover  whether 


the  Thebaid  might  not  have  been  designed 
aa  a  panegyric  upon  Angustua,  aa  the.£neid 
was  of  Augustus. — CotirttU  Oebdin,  Gaer. 
du  Cev.  p.  60. 

Hbkobi  of  fictitious  narrative,  supposed 
to  have  a  real  existence  through  that  crea- 
tion, like  the  Turkish  notion  of  pictures  and 


"  DovB  fan),  per  qnaoto  h  mio  potere ; 
Cose  eentir  mwavigliose  e  vere." 

CoMl.  o/Abiosto,  tom.  I.  last  stanza. 

"  NoF  potea, — al  disio  folle 
Far  reiistenza ;  o  se  potea,  non  voile." 

Con/,  of  OrL  Fur.  c.  ii.  p.  69. 

*'  HowsoBVBB  thou  admirest  thyself,  my 
friend,  many  an  obscure  fellow  the  world 
never  took  notice  of,  hod  he  been  in  place 
or  action,  would  have  done  much  better  than 
he, or  her,or  thou  thyself — BumTOii,p.l24. 

BuBTOH  was  "  of  that  nobleman's  mind  " 
(Howard  is  the  name  in  the  margin),  "who 
thought  that  melancholy  adyanceth  men's 
conceit"  more  than  any  humour  whatsoever] 
and  that  it  improves  their  meditations  more 
than  any  strong  drink  or  sack." — Ibid.  p.  186. 

"Toes  nedevez  par  ignorer  que  la  masse 
enti^re  de  Tunivers  corporel  n'est  qu'une 
toile  extremement  dcli^,  tir^  des  entrajlles 
d'un  Stre  infini,  et  travaiUe£  par  lui-m&ne 
avec  un  art  inimitable,  pour  j  prendre  des 
formes,  des  idfes,  et  des  imea  immat^riellea : 
telles  Bont  les  productions  naturelles  de  l"in- 
telligence  fternellel" — Voyagetde  Miiort 
Cdon,  p.  v.  p.  166. 

Ibid.  p.  206-8,  Notions  of  the  snn  :  yet 
worthy  to  be  classed  with  Swinton  and 
Mr.  Hope's. 

GoDBLMAN  calls  the  devil  an  expert  phy- 


practice  of  some  men 
itch,  then  to  a  physician. 


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Paraceldus  eaja,  "  nihil  refert  an  Deus, 
an  diabolus,  angeli  on  immundi  spiriti  segro 
opem  ferant,  modo  morbus  curetur,  Lib.  i. 
de  OeeuU  PkiL*^  He  proves,  and  contends, 
that  many  diseases  cannot  otherwise  be 
cured:  ^Mneantatione  orti,  incantione  cu- 
rari  debent.**  Bubtoh.  Anat.  p.  221. 

"  SuiDAS  says  there  was  a  great  book  of 
old,  of  Solomon*s  writing,  which  contained 
medicines  for  all  manner  of  diseases,  and 
lay  open  still  as  they  came  into  the  temple : 
but  Hezekiah  caused  it  to  be  taken  away, 
because  it  made  the  people  secure,  to  neg- 
lect their  duty  in  calling  and  relying  upon 
God,  out  of  confidence  on  those  remedies.** 
—Ibid.  p.  228. 

^  Nullum  medicamentum  efficax,  nisi 
medicus  etiam  fuerit  fortis  imaginationis,** 
this  was  the  opinion  of  Damascen  the  Ara- 
bian. The  physician  must  have  faith  to  in- 
spire it ;  and,  as  Galen  holds,  '*  spes  et  con- 
fidentia  plus  valent  quam  medicina.** — ^Ibid. 
p.  229. 

**  Thbbb  is  an  old  general  mentioned  in 
history,  who  had  but  one  left  of  what  every 
body  else  has  commonly  two,  and  yet  with 
one  leg,  one  arm,  one  eye,  and  one  ear,  he 
was,  for  a  drunken  man,  the  best  officer  of 
his  day." — Wolfe,  Letten. 

BoKTOif  (280)  likens  Scripture  to  "an 
apothecary's  shop,  wherein  are  all  remedies 
for  all  infirmities  of  mind,  purgatives,  cor- 
dials, alteratives,  corroboratives,  lenitives, 
&c." 


Thb  three  Salemitan  doctors  who  cure 
all  diseases,  are  Dr.  Merriman,  Dr.  Diet, 
and  Dr.  Quiet.— Ibid.  p.  298. 

Sir  John  Harrington's  advice  to  his  wife 
wiis  noways  to  the  Doctor's  taste. 
**  Be  in  my  house  as  busy  as  a  bee. 
Having  a  sting  for  every  one  but  me." 

Blbton,  p.  300. 


Cabdah  comforted  himself  with  this,— 
that  the  star  Fomahant  would  make  him 
immortal ;  and  that  afler  his  decease,  his 
books  should  be  found  in  ladies*  studies.— 
Ibid.  p.  847. 

Physic  in  England  little  used  in  Bortoo't 
time. — Ibid.  p.  358. 

The  devil  its  author.— Ibid.  p.  359. 

Boring  the  skull  to  let  out  fiimes. — Ibid, 
p.  384-5. 

Drinking  wine,  &c.  when  wholesome.— 
Ibid.  p.  385-7. 

Love  is  a  species  of  sielaiieholy. — Ibid. 
p.  403. 

'^  De  admirando  amoris  afiectu  dicturus, 
ingens  patet  campus  et  philoeophicas.  Yal- 
leriola.'* — Ibid.  p.  404. 

**  Give  me  leave  to  season  a  surly  dis- 
course with  a  more  pleasing  aspersion  of 
love  matters." — Ibid. 

The  part  affected  in  man  is  the  liver.— 
Ibid.  p.  429. 

Of  all  causes  of  love,  ^*  the  remotest  are 
stars."- Ibid.  p.  443. 

Love's  tortures. — Ibid.  p.  505-6-12. 

To  be  cured  like  madness. — Ibid.  p.  534. 
Remedies^  p.  568. 

**  Febris  hectica  uxor,  et  non  nisi  morte 
evellenda.**  So  alio  bb  quoted. — Ibid.p.5^. 

*^  When  it  is  not  conjugium  but  conjur- 
gium." — Ibid.  p.  564. 

Ibid.  p.  586.  Arguments  for  matrimony. 

"  I  HAVE  been  in  love  myself,  but  never 

found  yet 
That  it  could  work  such  strange  efTects.** 
Massimoeb,  Bashjul  Lovtr^ 
vol.  4,  p.  354. 

DuLLMAH  Gbaikgxb  has  said,  and  Dull- 
man  John  Nichols  saith  he  has  said  it  ju- 
diciously, that  **  Fuller  was  unhappy  in 
having  a  vein  of  wit,  as  he  has  taken  un- 
common pains  to  write  up  to  the  bad  taste 


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of  hii  age,  which  ww  much  fonder  of  con- 
ceit than  Kntiment." — Pnfaee  to  At  Wor- 
(Ut«. 

"  GmsAT  vondert  are  called  in  Scripture 
ma^alia ;  and  if  the  Latin  alloweth  the 
word,  we  could  grant  the  devil  hia  piarvalia, 
doing  of  pttty  teats,  greataud  into  wonders 
by  his  cunning  and  onr  credulity." — Fdluib, 
Wer1lmt,-9cA.  1,  p.  4. 

**  Lay  b;  that  load 
Of  scattered  thought  that  clogs  and  cum- 

Qdaum,  School  of  tke  Htart. 

"  Nat,  that  whidi  worldlj  wit-worms  call 


Di  manj  timet  lore's  purest  eloqnence." 

Ibid.  p.  153. 

"  LovK  in  a  heart  of  flesh  it  apt  to  taint. 
Or  be  flj-blown  with  folly."— Ibid.  p.  144. 

Wno  is  there  now  that  knows  how  to  play 
U  "  See  my  gossip's  cock  to-dsy,  mould 
cackle  bread,  or  bind  barrels,  or  who  can 
dance  clutterdepouch  and  hannyken  booby." 
—  BaowHE,  Jmial  Crem,  Old  Pbiy,  vol.  t. 
p.  299. 

Or  a 


iichance?— Ibid.  p.  S25. 


Do  they  think  I  might  say  of  myself  with 
Dryden's  Almnhide ; — 
"I  scarcely  understand  my  awn  intent, 
But,  silkworm-like,  so  long  within  have 

wrought. 
That  1  am  lost  in  my  own  web  of  thought." 
C<mq.  of  Oramida,  pt.  ii.  act  i.  sc.  ii. 

pROGBBSsDia  like  the  reformed  parlla- 


Whithek  nature  recurs  to  her  types  of 
mind  as  well  as  of  body.  French  in  Charles 
tlie  Sixth's  age,  in  the  religious  wars,  and 
is  the  revolntion.  Spaniards  of  Numantia 
andZaragosa.  English  of  Charles  the  First, 
Md  now. — Frenek  and  Qaaii,  P.  Hbtltk. 


FMicmt.  relation  of  minds,  like  botany 
and  entomology,  &c.  to  b<hI  and  climate. 

AtTioLOOT. —  BoHtAKD,  BecutS,  vol.  1, 
p.  276. 
Start.— Ibid.  OBwre*,  torn.  4,  p.  141. 

Eftect  of  temper  upon  health  at  well  as 
beauty. 

Obsbbtatok  is  the  name  of  L'Estrange'i 
journal,  from  its  chief  speaker.  Trimmer, 
his  opponent,  in  the  dialogue  calls  himNobs. 

Fbbtub,  a  toad.' 

"  Thb  feeble  eyes  of  our  atpirii^  thoughts 
Behold  things  preten  t,  and  record  things  past. 
But  things  to  come  exceed  our  human  reach, 
And  are  not  punted  yet  in  ai^l's  eyes." 
G.  pBBUt,  vol.  2,  p.  72. 

—  "  Not  by  the  course  of  heaven, 
By  frail  conjectures  of  inferior  signs. 
By  monstrous  floods,  by  flights  and  flocks  of 

By  bowels  of  a  sacriflced  beast, 

Or  by  the  figures  of  some  hidden  art, 

But  by  a  true  and  natural  presage." 

Ibid.  p.  73. 


n  tarda  molim 


Magnabum  ri 

UsBof  bringing  out  our  own  conceptions, 
and,  as  it  were,  intellectually  taking  stock. 
—  Sib  Egbbton  Bbtdoes,  Onomica,  pp. 
127-8. 

"Ton  have  thegift  of  impudence;  be  thank- 
ful I 
Every  man  has  not  (be  like  talent  I " 

Bbauhont  and  FLWrcHSB,  WUd 
Ooote  Chase,  act  i.  sc.  ii. 

"  2  Keeper.  Fob  any  Ihing  I  see  he's  in 
his  right  wits. 

'  i.e.  inGrRek.  AnlSTOPQAirBt  plays  upon 
thci  duuble  ECnsc  in  tho  Ecclti.  v.  IIOl. 

J.  W.  W. 


47« 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


"  1  Keeper.  Ttiou  art  ui  ui.     Li'b  right 
wits,  good  man  coxcomb? 
As  though  anj  man  duret  be  in  hia  right  wits 

and  be  here  1 
It  is  u  Diiich  as  we  dare  be  that  keep  'em." 
Ibid.  Pilgrim,  act  iii.  sc.  vii. 

"  Tbbbb'b  no  skill 
In  beinjc  good ;  but  in  not  being  tbonght  ill." 
Ibid.  Qaeen  of  CoritOh,  act  iii.  sc.  i. 

AccoaDinQ  toBaptista  Porta  and  the  an- 
cients, the' lion  among  beasts  most  resem- 
bles the  man,  the  leopard  the  woman.  Among 
birds,  the  resemblance  to  man  is  found  in 
the  eagle,  and  in  the  partridge  to  the  woman. 
Among  reptiles,  man's  likeness  is  found  in 
the  dragon,  woman's  in  the  viper. — L.  1, 


EfTbcts  of  nutrition. — Bapt.  Fobta,  p. 
51. 

Bo/  who  was  suckled  bj  a  aow.  —  Ibid. 
Pizarro  was,  Gomara  sajs. 

Su  G.  Mackbhzib  thought  thatlabouring 
animals  expected  the  sablMth,  and  required 
it.  SeehiB£Maj/«,p.4A.  Ibid  p.  46,  Whf 
different  nations  have  chosen  different  dars. 
Hbrbbkt,  p.  121,  see. 

CiBBAiisTs  have  observed  that  the  He- 
brew word  signifying  man,  doth  by  a  trans- 
position of  letters  signify  likewise  benedic- 
tion: and  the  word  signifyingwoman,  makes 
up  malediction. — Ibid.  p.  73. 

PEnnAnT  says,  that  in  the  Highlands 
mid  wives  gi*e  new-born  babes  a  small 
B]ioonfull  of  earth  and  whiskey,  as  the  first 
food  they  taste. — Pikkbbtoii,  vol.  9,  p.  61. 

"  To  talk  of  Amphialua,  who  never  was, 
is  the  same  thing  as  to  talk  of  Alexander  : 
only  Amphialni  cannot  be  stained  with 
cruelty,  vanity,  and  drunkonnesH  as  Alex- 
ander is." — Sib  G.  Hackbnzib,  p.  123. 

Sib  G.  Mackbrzis  speaks  of  subjects  de- 


serving to  have  been  writbyaqnillplndcd 
from  the  wing  of  Fame.^ — P.  ITO. 

VicBS  are  diseasea. — Ibid.  p.  SM. 

A  TiMB  when  man  "  were  led  by  in^icil 

faith  in  all  the  objeeta  of  knmrledge  as  wcU 
as  in  all  the  objects  of  faith." — Ibid.  p.  409. 

ConcBBniiio  die  mii*m  of  diseases  aad 
remedies, — "  in  quo  po8tremocanUBe,hac- 
tenui  Budatum  parum,  sectum  nihil  mi ' 
Terfi  promisaum,  plurimumque  neglectiun, 
exspectatum  dndum,  et  erratum  nluqne 
inveoio." — Vah  Hblmomt,  p.  9. 

KxowijtnaB  required  in  medicine. — Dwl. 
p.B. 


most  be  bom,  not  made. 
Obedience  is  due  to  him,  and  more  thto 
obedience — honour — such  hooonr  as  to  s 
parent — "  Medious  enim  Mediator  iutervita 
Principem  et  mortem." — Ibid,  pu  11. 

"  Noif  eaim  me  Arnicas  dienim  fur.  nim- 
quamfiacchus,aiit  synpo^adetinebantiqu 
vina  tunc  noodum  ferrem,  sed  contiauia 
labor,  per  insomnes  ex  ordine  noctea,  cobu- 
tabatur  uiea  desideria." — Ibid.  p.  12. 

Depehdauce  throughout  the  syslaB  df 
nature.  Thus  abont  the  Shetiands  sad 
Orkneys,  the  sea  fowl  "  follow  the  »lll 
fish,  which  are  their  ordinary  food;  beact 
tlie  more  fish,  the  more  fowl ;  and  wbtt 
the  fish  forsake  this  and  the  other  place,  tke 
fowls  likewise  do  so  witUn  a  short  thne."— 
Bband's  Orhiegt,  ffv.  PiNBXBTtiM,  vol  3. 
p.  744. 

Hesbsitabt  leeches  in  Ireland. — Vtf 
Hblmont,  p.  13. 

Thompson,  who  is  deierredlj  mentiwal 
with  respect  in  Clarkson's  History  of  tki 
Abolitionists,  and  who  kept  a  public  home 
nt  Bristol,  after  he  became  a  religions  man. 
used,  when  he  was  made  angry,  instead  uf 


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beitoiring  an  old  imprecation  np(m  hu  ejee,     Dviee  perievltim,  Boola  and  spurs.— Axkik- 
U>  exclaim,  "  Blame  mj  noiel"  son's  Irtlaitd,  vol.  3,  p.  223. 


PABiCBtani's  notion  tlut  men  would  do 
better  wilhont  spleen  and  kidneys.  What 
are  the  parts  tliat  certain  individuals  might 
■Ji? 


Tbb  church  bells  at  Lima  remarkable  fur 
their  sweet,  fine  tones,  which  is  owing  to 
the  great  quantl^  of  ailver  mixed  in  their 

"  D».  Dhb,"  saja  TarrnEif  itrs, "  is  wrong 
when  he  asserts  that  no  good  angel  would 
erer  ^ipear  formfi  muliebri." 

PoTzl    potz  stem!    potz   Telleal    potz 

giflll  potz  kranckheitl  pul^huudertl  potz 
tausend  I  which  the  German  dictioDar3- 
renders,  Gemini!  O  Gemini  bodikins I  bob- 
likins  I  ndds-niggen  !  udds  buddikins  I 
giudds  bob  1  bj  cox-DOUUt  I  bj  coz-bonea ! 
Comical  oaths. 

One  might  guess  at  the  meaning  of  potz 
m  combination  with  gifit  and  kranckheit, 
bat  not  with  the  stan  ;  peradventure  with 
St.  TaleDtioe,  bat  not  with  hnndreds  and 
tbonaanda. 

A  Touini  man  who  addresseB  an  adver- 
tisement to  master  tailors,  sajs  he  has  made 
the  business  in  all  its  branches  his  arduous 


Tax  «ditora  of  the  Evai^elical  Maga- 
xme  (FebnuTf,  1828),  "  are  overwhelmed 
with  prophetical  wnters ;  but,"  say  thej, 
"  we  mu*t  take  time  to  consider,  leat  we 
ibonld  afterwards  have  caose  to  repent." 

AcKBK  wrote  a  Latin  book  coDcerDing 
the  pens  —  "  ipsiuimas  pennas"  —  of  cele- 
brated men — and  then  thegreatmen,  "unius 
pmnB,"  have  their  due  praise.  —  Beck- 
■AHH,  Hut.  InvtBiioiu,  vol.  2,  p.  212. 

Onm  the  haU-door  of  Mr.  M'Auley'a 
house  in  connty  of  Antrim,  is  this  motto. 


BoADiH  snjB  that  O'Keefie  obtained  "  a 
fareieal  immortalify"  bj  his  AgreeabU  Sur- 

UooBB  Dodswobtb'b  Btory.  Freeting 
criminals  experimentally,  or  volunteers. 

LAiRism  DB  Vbbton  published  in  1689 
(Paris)  Traiti  Hutorigue  et  CrMqae  upon 
personal  soUres,  gtd  portent  U  tUre  d'Anti. 
It  is  in  two  volumes. 

J.  Pbtibs'b  Artificial  Versifjing ;  a.  new 
way  to  moke  Latin  verses,  whereby  any  one 
may  moke  them  without  understanding 
Latin.  1679.  8vo. 

s  made  by  the  Captain  of  i 


It  he  had  had  a  son  he  would  have  had 
him  named  Ilushim,  because  it  wns  thi> 
name  of  Dan'a  son,  his  only  son,  and  the 
best  possible  name  for  an  infant. 


Vn- 


■ont-breaih-utieroNe.  - 
vol.  4,  p.  384. 


'  Bbr   Jok- 


—  "  II  re,  ch'era  per  sorte  un  bunn  cris- 

tiano."        Bbbtouio,  torn.  1,  p.  xvi. 

—  "Ik  corpi  spesso  mostraosi  e  tevtti 
Grandi  ingegni  riposa  monna  Natura." 

Ibid.  xvii. 

"Ihhobtai.  Cssar  dead  and  turned  to  clay." 

This  is  turned  to  a  chamber-pot  by  one 

of  the  filthy  authOTs  of  Bertoldo,  vol.  4,  p. 


The  old  Uoming  Chronicle,  oi 
Whig. 

The  new  Morning  Chronicle,  < 
Whig. 

Earl  Grey,  a  Griislo  Whig. 


■  Black 


478 


COLLECTIONS  FOR  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


Lord  Nngent,  the  Pull  Bottom  Whig. 
Sir  R.  Wilwn,  a  Bob  Whig. 
Sir  Watkin,  a  Wclah  Whig, 
the  Ear  Wig. 
TyeWig. 
Lord  Eldon  a  Btg  Wig. 

Brown  George  Wig. 
Mack«vril  and  Capt.  G.  endeavouring  to 
force  a  Scratch  upon  Mr.  Brougham. 

UiKUTBBS  pk;  aome  at  brag — like  Mr. 
Canning  j  some  at  beggar-my-nuighbour  ; 


Ftu-pbjrrii  (Pub.  Opt.)  FanegTricut  die- 
tU8  CmulanUno  Angiuto  ez  codice  Maqu- 
•cripto  Fanlli  Veberi,  vMm,  lit. 

fol.  Aug.  VimiUL  IS95. 
*,*  Printed  m  Capltale,  in  imitation  of 
the  original  MS.     "  FeUl  Fo&ne  La- 
tin,  en  acroatiches   tr^   comptiques : 
c'eet  vraiBembUblement  le  pltu  ancien 
monument  qui  nou«  reite  de  Ms  aortet 
do  jeoz  d'eiprit." — Bkdkbt. 
Walker  (J.)  HeIo^  of  Speaking  ddi- 
Deated,  or  Elocution  taught  like  Mnatek, 
tetetd,  2«.  6<t  Svo.  1787. 

feia  (J.  P.  de)  Palal*  de  SoUanl«quatre 
fcn^tres,  ou  rArtd'Ecrire  toutei  lee  Lan- 
guet  du  Monde  comme  on  lea  parte,  Si. 

4to.  PeUribmirg,  1788. 

Lourentiua  (And.)  De  Mirabili  Strumas 

Sanandi  VL  SoUi  Gallic  R^bus  Chriiti- 

■ni—imi.  diuinitaa  conceisa,,;f«  c°PV>  ^^^ 


"Diu  cop7  pouetseB  the  large  folded  en- 
graving of  Heorj  IV.  aaeisted  b;  his 
courtiers  in  the  ceremonj  of  curing  the 
King's  evil. 
Asino  (La  Nobilita  dell')  di  Attabalippa 
dal  Peru,  VU.   Venel.  1598. 

Ballesteroa  (Doctor  de)  Memories  de  la 
Ineigne  Acndemia  Asnal,curioti«  plate«,  14*. 
£n  Bi-Tonto  ea  la  Iiaprenia  de  Bla*  An- 
ttnt-eimo  3193  dt  ta  Era  Amai. 

This  work  b  a  burlesque  on  the  diflerent 
Members  and  Professors  of  the  Royal 
Academical  College ;  there  are  cuts  of 
the  "  Aiinus  Orator,"  the  "  Asinus  Ma- 


thematicus,"  "  Aitnu«  Saltator,"  "  ii- 

nus  Medicus,"  "  Aainui  Astrt^ogiaH," 

&c. 

Smith's  V^bondiaoa,  or  Aoecdoles  of 

Mendicant  Wanderers  through  the  Streelj 

of  London,  with  39  pcrbvU*,  drawn  &od 

the  Life,  4Io.  boardt,  \L  4t.  1817. 

De  C<e1o  et  ejus  Mirabilibus,  et  de  In- 
ferno, ex  auditis  et  visis,  bitidiMg  doKagti, 
2s.  6d.  4to.  17J8. 


Fob  such  as  Bezeorillo  there  should  bes 
word  of  dignity  correipondHig  to  the  dis- 
tinction between  person  and  personage! 
doge  might  be  prc^oted,  without  offence  t* 
the  Veuetiius. 

Matobth  the  first  G.  Khan — a  neta- 

morpbosb. 

"  Hb  shall  be  hanged  in  ditvhea,' the  ^ 
shall  eat  him  in  Lent." — Bkadmovt  ssd 
FL.BTCBBB,  Maid  m  the  Mill,  act  iil.  sc  iL 

Oaiam  of  the  (Jtlo  of  Doge  ai  Venice.— 
BoticuBT,  Senei,  vol.  1,  p.  233. 

Tbb  Ptamphaoniens  had  a  dog  for  their 
king  and  their  barometer. — Ibid.  p.  330. 

Doos  who  have  thrown  themselves  upon 
the  funeral  pile  of  their  masters. —  Ibid 
p.  229. 

Orion.  "  IIbavbk's  circnmrerence 
Is  not  enough  for  him  to  hunt  and  rang^ 
But  with  those  venom-breathed  curt  he 

He  comes  to  chue  health  from  our  earth!' 

bounds, 
Each  one  of  those  foul-mouthed  mangejdog^ 
Cioverns  a  dny,  (no  dog  but  bath  his  dlj.) 


'  In  the  first  fulio  it  is  "flolchei,"— in  Ibf 
second  "flitches."  Ii  is  mentioned  IbrdKiU 
form.— 3.  W.  W. 


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And  all  the  dajs  b;  them  bo  governed, 
The  dog  daj«  light." 

Na4h  Summer'i  Ltut  WUl, 
,  OMi%i,ToI.9,p.87. 

'      FautcB  of  Otta^  roTed  b;  a  poodle. — 
I  SoMBRs'  Traett,  vol.  1,  p.  351. 

I 

7^  late  Dake  of  Tforfia  and  hit  SpameU. 

Odk  Marlborough  aud  Kiog  James's 
qMniek  are  unnTalled  in  beaut;.  The  lat- 
ter breed  that  are  black  aud  tan,  with  hair 
almost,  approaching  to  silk  in  fineness  (suub 
u  Vandjke  loved  to  introdnce  into  his  por- 
trait*,) were  solel;  in  the  possetsion  of  the 

duke  of  Norfolk.  He  never  travelled 
without  two  of  hit  faTonrites  in  the  car- 
riage. When  at  Worktop  he  used  to  feed 
hia  eagles  with  the  pupa  ;  and  a  stranger  to 
hi«  exclusive  pride  in  the  race,  seeing  him 
one  daj  employed  in  thui  de«trojing  a  whole 
litter,  told  his  Grace  bow  nudi  he  should 
be  delighted  to  potsess  one  of  them.  The 
Duke's  npiy  waa  a  characteristic  one : 
'  Pr»,j,  air,  which  of  m;  eatates  should  jou 
Uretohavef"" 

'  Chnmicon  Eriei  Regit. 

In  the  days  of  king  David,  Dan,  son  of 

Humbla,  reigned  over  the  kingdom  of  Wi- 

thcsleth,   which  comprised  the  islands  of 

Zealand,  Monen,  Falster,  and  Laland.  The 

Jules  invited  him  to  their  assistance  against 

a  certain  formidable  king,  and  ofiered  him 

the  dominion  over  them.     lie  accepted  the 

I    bvitation,  defeated  the  enemy,  and  calls 

I    the  whole  of  his  dominions  after  his  own 

]  ume  Dania.  Thus  Dan  "fuit  pugil  fortis- 

omiu  et  giganteua  cunctis  in  cu-cuitu  ter- 

ribilis,  et  pnelia  clariasima  gesait  bine  inde." 

— Labobbbk,  Script.  Ber.  Dame.  vol.  1,  p. 

ISO. 

A  rsw  dajrs  ago  the  remuns  of  a  farmer 
were  interred  at  Stevenage,  in  Hertford- 
shire, who  died  many  years  ago,  and  be- 
ijucathed  his  estate,  worth  400^.  a-jear,  to 
his  two  brotbera,  and  if  the;  should  die,  to 


hisnephew,  to  be  enjoyed  by  them  for  thirty 
years,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time  he 
expected  to  return  to  life,  when  the  estate 
was  to  return  to  him.  He  provided  for  his 
re-appearance  by  ordering  his  coffin  to  be 
fixed  on  a  beam  in  his  bam,  locked,  ancl 
the  key  enclosed,  that  be  might  let  himself 
out.  He  was  allowed  four  days'  grace  be- 
yond the  time  limited,  and  not  presenting 
himself,  was  then  honoured  with  Christian 
burial."— 4/iri/ SI,  1835,  Ttmei. 

JosepRvs  held,  like  his  countrymen,  that 
the  souls  of  wicked  men  deceased,  got  into 
the  bodies  of  the  living  and  possessed  them. 
All  diseases,  the  Jews  thotight,  were  thus 
caused.  And  tlie  Gnostics  agreed  with  them 
in  this,  and  supposed,  therefore,  that  they 
were  to  be  cured  by  words  or  charms. — 
CnswoKTH,  vol.  3,  p.  345, 6. 

AvaiiBTniB  thought  the  pre-exlstence  of 
the  human  sool  a  great  secret,  concerning 
which  men  might  ^owably  entert»n  each 
what  opinion  seemed  to  himsetf  best  foond- 
edv-Ibid.  p.  430. 

Hadbs,  to  dtiiic,  the  invisible,, one  ety- 
mology.— Ibid.  p.  50S. 

EiJuXof  or  vehicle  of  the  soul. — Ibid. 
vol.  3,  pp.  509,  11,  12,  13, 14,  17,  18,  20. 

Use  of  physicking — for  the  soul's  sake. — 
Ibid.  p.  S14-S. 

To  orpiuScvi  the  crustaceous,  or  ostrace- 
ous  body.— P1.AT0,  p.  fi21. 

A  CHAPTER  for  the  Utilitarians,  against 
unnecessary  locks  and  keys,  (you  had  to 
go  into  the  kitchen  for  the  key  at  Inver- 
ness). Directing  posts  recommended.  Evil 
of  a  damp  and  unsunned  temple,  as  at 
Sharon. 

"  Bbnbatb  this  stone  lies  all  that's  good 

and  great, 
I'he  virtnea  of  a  man  compleat." 

In  Topcliff  Church -yard,  upon  a 
Coaclimaker. 


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Lying  has  been  discarded  from  dedica- 
tion, but  not  jet  from  epitaphs. 

An  American  merchant  captain  by  name 
Trapp,  was  christened.  Through  much  tri- 
bulation we  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  hea- 
ven. His  mother,  he  said,  used  to  call  him 
Tribby,  for  shortness. 

Slide  boldly,  or  you  will  fall;  shave 
boldly,  or  you  will  cut  yourself;  plead 
boldly,  or  you  will  lose  your  cause,  what- 
ever be  its  merits. 

Changes  in  ourselves  during  this  life — 
in  age  we  wither  and  shrink  up  as  the  grub 
b  contracted  into  the  chrysalis. 

**  Comb,  Ladies,  shall  we  talk  a  round  ?  As 

men 
Do  walk  a  mile,  women  should  talk  an  hour 
Afler  supper :  'tis  their  exercise." 

Philasteb,  act  ii.  sc.  iv. 

The  Ossetes  or  Lron  as  they  call  them- 
selves, a  barbarous  predatory  people,  on 
the  north  side  of  Caucasus  and  left  bank 
of  the  river  Terek,  are  said  to  be  under  the 
government  of  women. — Prichabd,  vol.  2, 
p.  19 

Thaletas,  the  Cretan  wrote  verses, 
^'  tant&  ci thane  suavitate,  ut  morbos  et  pes- 
tilentias  curaret." — ZuiNG£B,vol.2,p.  1139. 

By  the  verse,  or  the  music  ? 

Sevekus,  the  heretic,  said  that  the  urine 
was  of  the  devirs  inventing,  **  adeoque  ser- 
pentis  effigiem  habere  vitam,"  —  Ibid.  p. 
1225. 

On  the  other  hand  Bacchus,  *^  egregius 
est  medicus  habitus,"  and  why  ? — Ibid.  p. 
1230. 

GAI.EN  concerning  poisons,  and  abomin- 
able prescriptions. — Ibid.  1245. 

AscLEPiADEs  found  music  best  for  in- 
sane or  imbecile  patients. — Ibid.  p.  1291. 
Alex,  ab  Alex.  vol.  2,  p.  17. 

Ismenias  cured  sciatica. — Ibid.  p.  1292. 


•i-  I 


Tibia  canto.  And  Theophrastus  said 
patients  might  be  cured  of  that  disease,  **si 
more  Phrygio  harmoniam  aliquis  indigent 
illis  accinerit." — Ibid. 

Supposing  the  existence  of  inferior  crct- 
tures  in  a  world  where  there  was  neither 
sin  nor  death,  the  mode  of  progression  might 
be  by  making  every  stage  the  aurelian  one 
to  the  next  above  it. 

If  such  a  one  does  so  or  so, 
'^  The  devil  must  be  wiser  than  I  take  him, 
And  the  ilcsh  foolisher." 

Beaumont  and  Flbtcheb,  Wtt 
without  Money^  act  ii.  sc  iii. 

"  Thou  hast  a  handsome  wit :  stir  with  the 

world. 
Stir,  stir,  for  shame :  thou  art  a  pretty 

scholar. 
Ask  how  to  live  ?  write,  write,  write  any 

thing, 
The  world*s  a  fine  believing  world ;  write 

News."  Act  ii.  sc.  iv. 


—  **  places  not  persons  concern  our  pre- 
sent subject,  and  I  hope  I  shall  not  betraj 
such  indiscretion  as  to  leave  the  plain  and 
ready  road  of  my  work  in  hand,  to  enter 
into  the  wood  (not  to  say  the  bog)  of  an 
impertinent  question." — Fullek*s  Pisgak 
View,  p.  140. 

**  We  do  acknowledge  ye  are  a  careful  cu- 
rate. 

And  one  that  seldom  troubles  us  with  ser- 
mons ; 

A  short  slice  of  a  reading  serves  us,  Sir, 

We  do  acknowledge  ye  a  quiet  teacher ; 

Before  you'll  vex  your  audience,  you'll  sleq) 
with  *em. 

All  that's  a  loving  thing. — We  grant  ye.  Sir, 

The  only  benefactor  to  our  bowling. 

To  all  our  merry  sports  the  first  provoker. 

And  at  our  feasts,  we  know  there  is  no  rea- 
son 

But  you,  that  edify  us  most,  should  eat  most." 
Beaumont  and  Fletcheb,  SpanisX 
Curate,  act  iii.  sc.  ii. 


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Jon  AM.  "  Uis  name  in  Hebrew  a  dove,  to 
which  he  anawered  rather  in  hii  speedy 
fiigU  from  God'i  service,  than  in  any  vant 
f^gaU,  whereof  he  manifeated  too  much  in 
big  anger  without  came  or  meuure." — Pit- 
gak  VieiD,  p.  147. 

"  Bdt  know  that  everj  meer-itonc'  that 
itandeth  for  a  land-mark,  though  in  Bub- 
■tance  but  a  hard  flint,  or  plain  pebble,  a  a 
preciooi  atone  in  rirtue,  and  is  cordial  against 
dangerona  controversies  between  partj  and 
party."— Ibid.  p.  184. 

"  Thb  spleen  attendeth  on  the  liver,  and 
ii  the  drain  or  aewcr  of  the  feculent  and 
melancholj  blood."— Ibid.  p.  184. 

Dak  and  his  tribes.— Ibid.  pp.  207-8. 

Sen  atanding  atill. — Ibid.  p.  2S5. 

"Nx  m'eatant  propoaf  maintenant  de  con- 


foil.    Ceux-lk  le  gaigneront  au  poids,  ceuz- 
ej  au  nombre. 

"  Et  peradventure  adviendra-il  que  vou- 
lant  contenter  les  ana  et  les  autres,  je  dea- 
plairay  h  tona  deux."  —  PaaitruB,  torn.  2, 
p.  4. 

Famcio  pleaded  four  days  for  the  Pa- 
racelaite,  "encontre  la  Faculty  de  Hedi- 
cbe."~Toni.  2,  p.  197. 

He  aajs,  "J^abhorrQ  naturellement  lea 
medicament,  voire  que  la  seule  apprehenaion 
^lere  quelque^fois  en  moy,  aatant  qu'aox 
autrei  la  prise." — Ibid.  p.  246. 

Imitative  worda.- PA«4tiiB>,  torn.  2,  p. 
i5S.     Pijgah  Sighl,  p.  338. 


of  the  Homily  for  the  Rogation  Week.  "  They 
do  much  provoke  the  wrath  of  Ood  upon  them* 
■elrea,  whioh  nia  tn  grind  up  tha  dole*  and 
inarki,  which  of  ancient  time  war*  laid  for  the 
diiis ion  of  HMTf  and  balks  in  the  fieMi,  to  bring 
the  dwnen  to  their  i^t."  p.  M8. 

J.W.W. 


FABHioHS,how  perishable. — Fi^ahS^ht, 
p.  113.     (2nd  paging.) 

"  What  though  stout  Ajax  lay  witi  Proser- 
pine, 

Shall  men  leave  eating  pondered  beef  for 
thatP"— Tatlob,  yVaterPoel,f.  120. 

Tbb  people  of  the  Society  Islanda  be- 
lieve that  there  is  a  distinct  heaven  for  the 
aouls  of  piga,  which  they  call  Ofatuna. 

Every  pig  has  his  proper  name, — aa  re- 
gularly as  every  member  of  a  family.  — 
Ei.i.iB.   Polj/netiaa  Retearckei,  vol.  2,  p.  53. 

SoHB  of  these  islandera  auppose  that  all 
animals  have  aouls,  and  that  flowers  and 
planta  are '  organized  bcinga'  also  posseanng 
souls. — Ibid. 

Immobtiutt  of  animals. — Bisbop  Sxi< 
HOLDS,  vol.  1,  p.  21. 

"  Ai.Aa  I  thia  kernel  long  unce  hath  been 
eaten  up  by  all-devouring  Time,  leaving 
nothing  thereof  but  the  husk  of  the  empty 
name  to  posterity." — Piigah  Sight.  Dirw 
tioMfor  the  Iwikt. 

A  TKADiTion  that  Solomon  wrote  on  the 
walls  of  the  temple  sovereign  receipts  agauut 
all  diseases ;  and  that  Hezekiah  erased  them 
because  people  placed  too  much  confidence 
therein,  to  the  prejudice  of  divine  'provi- 
dence.—Ibid,  p.  383. 

"  Oni  musical  instrument  was  called  Jo- 
natli  Elem  Bechokim,  by  some  rendered 
appellatively  the  dumb  dove  in  far  places. 

«  Mahalath  another,  which  Ainsworth  in- 
Icrpreteth  sicknesa  or  infirmity,  and  con- 
ceiyethitakindofwiadiDatrument." — Ibid, 
p.  996. 

(AxisTOTiJi.)  "The  philosopher  lelleth 
us  that  a  tower- fashioned  nose  (round  and 
blunt  at  the  top)  u  a  aign  of  magnanimity, 
which  explaina  how  the  generousnesi  and 
animosity  of  the  church  is  intimated,  when 
that  feature  of  the  spouse's  face  is  likened, 
in  the  Canticles,  to  the  tower  of  Lebauoti 


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which  looketh  toward  Damascus,  as  well  as 
for  the  whiteness,  uniformity,  and  propor- 
tionate largeness  thereof." — Ibid.  p.  6.  (2d 
paging.) 


L 


"  Spioeuus  observeth  that  English  mo- 
thers and  nurses  generally  hurt  their  babes 
by  binding  them  too  hard  about  their  breast, 
thereby  causing  consumptions,  of  which  dis- 
ease, he  affirmeth,  more  die  in  England  than 
in  any  other  country." — ^Ibid.  p.  103. 

A  MUSICIAN  and  a  dancing  master  botli 
cured  of  fever  by  music. — Selections,  Oent. 
Mag,  vol.  2,  p.  406. 

BouBOALouE  fiddling  and  dancing  him- 
self into  spirits  for — preaching  on  a  Good 
Friday  I — See  Curiosities  of  Literature^  vol. 
2,  p.  273.     Spencers  Anecdotes. 

Longevity  of  musicians.  —  Selections, 
Gent,  Mag,  vol.  3,  p.  476. 

Nttffoi  ^'  avOputvoiffiy  £0*  W/>}7  j}^'  ^rt  yvcri 
AhrSfioTOi  <foirwirii  icaKa  ^yrjTo'itri  f^pnaai 
S«yp*  cVfi  ^vriv  e^dXero  fitfTiira  Zevi, 
HESiODj^Epy.  KoX^Ufi,  V.  102. 

When  Nelson  was  in  the  Amazon,  Oct. 
1801,  Mrs.  Lutwidge  pressed  him  to  dine 
with  her  at  three  o'clock,  "  but,"  says  he, 
**  I  told  her,  I  would  not  dine  with  the  angel 
Gabriel,  to  be  dragged  through  a  night  surf." 

Fbincb  Leopold  of  Naples  invested  with 
the  Order  of  St.  Stephens. — Nelson's  Let- 
ters^  vol.  2,  p.  141. 

Dh.  Williams — "  did  show  me  how  a  dog 
that  he  hath  do  kill  all  the  cats  that  come 
thither  to  kill  his  pigeons,  and  do  afterwards 
bury  them ;  and  do  it  with  so  much  care 
that  they  shall  be  quite  covered ;  that  if  the 
tip  of  the  tail  hangs  out,  he  will  take  up 
the  cat  again,  and  dig  the  hole  deeper,  which 
is  very  strange ;  and  he  tells  me  that  he  do 
believe  that  he  hath  killed  above  100  cats." 
— Pepts,  vol.  1,  p.  219. 


Herbs, 


**  ToBMBNTiL,  whose  virtue  is  to  part 
All  deadly  killing  poison  from  the  heart ; 
And  here  Narcissus'  root,  for  swellings  best, 
Yellow  Lysimache,  to  give  sweet  rest 
To  the  faint  shepherd,  killing  where  it  comes 
All  busy  gnats,  and  every  fly  that  hums.'' 
Faithful  Shepherdess,  act  ii.  so.  iL 

**  Whebb  I 
Take  the  height  of  her  table  with  my  sto- 
mach."— R,  if  have  a  Wife,  act  iii.  tc  v. 

This  text  was  urged  in  favour  of  the  Salic 
law,  ^*  Considerate  lilia  agri,  quomodo  cres- 
cunt,  non  laborant  non  nent.  Ergo,  Lilio- 
rum  Crallicorum  jus,  non  nisi  nobilibus,  qui 
non  laborant;  non  nisi  maribus  quia  non 
nent,  cedere  debet."  —  Zuingeb,  vol.  2,  p. 
1532. 

Hectob  Boece  says  that  the  old  Scotch 
used  to  shut  up  women  who  were  affected 
with  madness  or  any  hereditary  disease,  sod 
castrate  men. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  1715. 

Lip-PHTsic,  (Flbtcheb.  Lover^s  Prth 
gress,)  in  many  cases  the  best  that  friend  or 
physician  can  administer. — ^Act  i.  sc.  L 

"  The  very  striking  superiority  of  intel- 
lect possessed  by  the  children  bom  in  the 
colony,  when  compared  with  those  landed 
from  the  slave  ships,  is  as  unaccountable  ss 
it  is  manifest  to  the  most  common  observer, 
on  entering  a  school.  The  parents  are  for 
the  most  part  from  the  same  country ;  ind 
it  can  only  be  explained  by  the  advantages 
enjoyed  by  the  former,  in  having  reoetted 
something  of  that  early  instmctioii,  both 
moral  and  religious,  which  is  so  neeesitr; 
to  predispose  the  mind  to  profit  by  a  more 
extended  education :  trifling  indeed  ai  tlut 
instruction  has  been,  the  happy  results  are 
clearly  to  be  observed."  —  Lt.  Col.  Db»- 
ham's  Sierra  Leone  Papers,  p.  24. 

^*  CiNoiTE  me  hederd,'*  is  what  a  com 

should  say. 

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483 


CM,  ■  flocci-Dftuci  word. — Bkn 
3,  p.  431. 

it  to  dip  into  this  book,  but  to 

lis  notes, — he  deiiret  jou  to 
m  first  irithout,  and  &  second 

of  some  Welsh  author,  Lut- 
Ego  non  ita  cootemno  tuuni 
t  tu  Bcribu,  nam  nisi  eiset  in 
Dgenii,  non  pocaet  tarn  intigni- 

-p. «. 


doth  water,  and  m  j  breast  doth 

Dth  itch,  mj  thought*  in  labour 

Lordings,  with  good  ear  to  me." 
Ibid. 

uit,  I  can,  I  will,  I  do." — Ibid. 

tiled  Arma  Anseiina,  in  praise 
printed  at  Lejden,  1679. — 
a,  p.  25S. 

v  qniei  inqnieta  est." — Sbbe- 


of  the  good  knight  El  Bembe, 
ban  anj  of  the  horsea  of  the 
dm  Sol.  roL  6,  p.  239. 

he  phjrician  informed  Peiresk 
*e  in  Gninea  "  apes  with  long, 
'  (compt)  beardi  almost  vene- 
italk  an  alderman's  pace,  and 
ves  to  be  very  wise." — Li/e  nf 


"  AsEii  Indians,  whether  male  or  female, 
generallj  continue  in  apparent  good  health 
to  the  last ;  and  death  is  most  frequentlj 
■udden.  But  they  become  bowed  and  very 
much  wrinkled." — Edwin  Jitaa,  vol.  I, 
pp.  335-6. 

Wabh  Beere,  a  Treatise,  vrberein  is  de- 
clared that  Beere  so  qualified  is  farre  more 
wholesome  then  that  which  is  drunke  cold. 
]8mo.  neat,  tearce,  7t.  6<i     Cbnti.  1641. 

"  At  nine  in  the  evening  of  the  33tb,  ■ 
fall  of  eeia  commenced :  we  ware  now  t«n 
in  company,  with  a  single  tent,  large  enough 
to  cover  half  the  number.  Id  order,  how- 
ever, to  make  the  most  equal  distribution 
of  our  several  comforts,  it  was  so  arranged 
that  about  the  half  of  eacfa  man  was  shel- 
tered under  the  tent,  while  the  remainder 
waa  exposed  to  the  weather.  This  was 
effected  by  placing  all  our  heads  near  to- 
gelher  in  the  centre  of  the  tent,  and  allow- 
ing our  feet  to  project  in  all  directions,  like 
the  radii  of  a  circle." — Edwui  Jakes,  vol, 
3,  p.  261. 

Fbascis  BABnBTT  says  in  his  Memoir*, 
(voL  l,p.316)  "From  my  own  observation 
I  do  not  think  there  is  a  real  British  sailor 
who  would  not  sooner  part  with  the  whole 
of  bis  apparel,  than  either  pawn  or  part  with 
a  Bible  given  him." 

Whew  Mr.  Butler  condemned  Beta,  he 
ought  to  have  remembered  what  Kr.  Eus- 
taM  has  said  in  defence  of  Tirgil, — to  this 
purpose.— Vol.  1,  Svo.  edition,  pp.  330'3. 

fiiBHor  Watsou  sud  of  certain  Prot«stant 
landholders  in  Ireland — "  they  are  desirous 
to  pay  no  tithes  for  their  lands  :  the  event 
may  be,  that  they  will  have  no  lands  to  pay 
for." — 3femoiri,  vol.  1,  p.  251. 

Tatlor  from  Vienna,  163d. 

"  The  Duke  of  Bavaria  hath  always  dis- 
covered a  strange  ambitious  mind,  and  of 
late  hath  given  more  tealVmcnv^  «t  \^  'Oa«i> 


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before.  Since  tbia  marriage  be  feeds  of 
nothing  but  on  capons  and  cbickens,  fed 
witb  flesh  of  vipers,  and  to  this  purpose,  I 
am  told,  that  there  are  i  great  man  j  brought 
forth  of  Calabria.  Wbat  a  child  would  he 
b«get  to  infest  the  world." — ClareiutoaPa- 
peri,  Tol.  1,  p.  373. 

Fboqb  in  Italian  cry  quattro,  qaaOro. — 
Bbitoldimo,  vol.  8,  p.  73. 
In  Latin  thej  call  out  aqua,  aqua. 

Gbitpih,  No.  1 1,  Fincb'lane,  Cornhill,  on 
Thurada;,  March  27,  1828,  slaughtered  a 
very  fine  black  bear,  "  for  the  benefit  of  the 
public."  The  fat  cut  from  the  carcase  at 
twelve  ahillings  per  pound. 


CO,  p.  19. 

Ph^dsub,  cum  Do^a  variorum  et  Lau- 
rentii,  taaitroiu  platet,  very  neat,  18(. 

Anat.  1667. 

"  Edition  recherchfe,  &  cause  des  figures 
en  taille  douce,  dont  elle  a  cl4  om£e. 
II  est  it  remarqucr,  que  dans  le  nombre 
de  ces  figures,  il  a'eo  trouve  une  \  la 
page  376,  qui  repriiente  une  action  wi 
pen  libre  el  indeeenb,  et  qui,  par  cette 
raiaon,  ett  lujette  &  ne  ae  recontrer 
que  d^hir^e  ou  g£tee.  II  est  boa  de 
s'en  assurer,  parce  qu'alors  ce  volume 
perd  la  plus  grande  partie  de  son  m£- 
rite  et  de  sa  valenr." — Dk  Bobk. 

SiLvs  quRS  Vaiio  Carminum,  Gr.  et  Lat 
very  B«af,  7».  DoUe,  1 JS2. 

This  is  a  very  curioua  collection  of  Epi- 
grams, Odes,  Monodies,  El^es,  and 
Acrostics,  printed  in  the  forms  of  va- 
rious geometrical  figures,  as  Circles, 
Triangles,  Rhombuses,  Parallelograms, 
Hexagons,  Cylinders,  &c.  and  some  in 
the  fanciful  pictures  of  Eagle's -wingB, 
Spearheads,  and  Barnacles. 

McsiCAL  medicine,  or  medical  music. — 
Sovcarr.  Serteg,  vol.  1,  pp.  122-120. 


IjLuofopinion  with  DoraOuva  Sab 
that  "  El  sueuo  deve  ser  comun  a  todo! 
ley  rigurosa  en  la  nocbe ;  y  no  es  buea 
vierno  que  unos  duerman,  otroa  cauten 
las  calles."— P.  74. 

Thb  British  Apollo  expluns  the  m 
wh;  dogs  wag   their  tails  when  they 
pleased,  thus — 
"  The  cause  why  that  part  such  quick  » 

doth  retain, 
Is  from  vessels  continued  from  thence 

the  brun, 
Where  a  secret  impulse  first  impreaselli 

notion, 
And  joy  at  one  end  puts  the  other  in  i 

tion.— VoL  l,p.  107. 

"  Fbbts  make  best  music  j  strings  the 

higher  racked 
Sound  sweetest." 

RowLET,  AW  Wonder,  a  Woman  ■ 
nei(,  p.  333. 

"Tib  said 

The  grave's  good  rest  when  women  p> 
to  bed."  Ibid.  S4i 

Thi  valley  of  AJalon  was  in  Dan's  ] 
tion,  and  because  the  coasts  of  this  t 
"  went  out  too  little  for  them,  the  chile 
of  Dan  went  up  to  Ggbt  against  Leali 
and  took  it,  and  smote  it  with  the  edg 
the  sword,  and  possessed  it,  and  dwelt  thi 
in,  and  called  Leahcm  Dan,  after  the  n 
of  Dan  their  father." — Jtu^rt,  xii.  47- 

The  only  one  of  the  sons  of  Jacob  a 
whom  a  city  was  named. 

A  MAN  enquires  why  it  is  that  after  i 
ing  he  is  as  much  intoxicated  as  if  he 
been  "drinking  at  an  excessive  ralei" 
the  Britith  ApoUo,  (vol.  3,  p.  399),  repi 
"  It  is  because  the  brain  being  crow 
with  the  groaser  vapours  ascending  £ 
the  aliments,  the  influx  of  the  aui 
spirits  out  of  the  carorid  arteries  inio 
nerves  is  partly  obstructed,  which,  renc 
ing  the  nerves  remiss,  that  drowsy  ditp 
tion  follows." 


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485 


iHBB  jou  to  oblige  me  ao  fur  u  to 
a  reason  why  I,  that  am  bo  Tery 
can't  tickle  m7«elf."—Ibi(l-  p.  498. 
lost  nnsucceufnl  author  racceedi 


H  that  lore  brought  on  toothache. 


there  are  so  man;  maggots  in  SI- 
d  none  in  walnuts." — Ibid.  p.  594. 

X  is  a  game  somediuea  at  cheat, 
•s  St  hazard ;  politics  a  game  at 
flVbuff;  patriotism,  at  brag;  trade, 
r  my  neighbour," 
her,  the  soldien  play  at,  &c. ;  the 


thought  that  they,  (the  Jews),  or 
Irit  worse  than  they,  first  told  us 
swallowed  alive  were  a  certain  cnre 
rellow  jaundice.  This  and  many 
idicinea  were  discovered  by  them, 
relation,  for  donbtless  we  attained 
I  by  study." — Iz.  Waltob,  p.  178. 
lought  ^e  Jews  possessed  many 
ret  unknown  to  Chriatiaus,  derived 
.ion  irom  Solomon. 

H  a  thing  may  happen,  as  that  the 
not  the  man,  may  be  in  the  right, 
when  both  are  godly),  but  ordi- 
ia  otherwise."— Vol.  1,  p.  24.  J, 
Ezpotition  on  the  ten  first  chapleri 

s,  when  condemning  to  death  fur 
ty  crime,  some  poor  forgery.  Sic. 
eemed  so  calm,  and  with  their  age 
i  grave, 

t  and  civil  in  their  killing  trade, 
life  were  crime  but  what  they  save, 
rder  were  by  method  lawful  made." 
GoHDlBEaT,  p.  139. 

Oswald's  Soldiert. 


"  I  HAVE  heard  Sir  Hcory  Wotton  say 
that  there  be  many  that  in  Italy  will  catch 
swallows  so,  or  especially  martins  ;  this 
bird -angler  standing  on  the  top  of  a  steeple 
to  do  it,  with  a  line  twice  as  long  as  I  have 
spoken  of,  i.  e.  about  twenty  feet  long," — 

IZ.  WALTOIt,  p.  206. 

Som;  of  theHebrewB  liked  jingling  names, 
as  the  Arabians,  and  aa  our  old  lawyers. 

"  Shuppim  and  Huppim,  the  eons  of  Ir." 
—1  Chron.  7,  12. 

i  of  Machir." 

DoNCASTBB — quail  Doncaster, 

NoTHTVo  like  a  chimney  appears  in  any 
remuns  of  Roman  architecture.  Either 
there  was  an  aperture  in  the  roof  for  the 
amoke,  or  It  escaped  through  the  windows. 

Did  they  burn  charcoal  t 

"  0»B  Cockerell  of  Stockton,  captain  of 
a  ship,  was  washed  overboard  in  a  storm  by 
one  wave  and  thrown  upon  deck  again  by 
another.  In  pious  memory  of  this  provi- 
dential escape,  he  kept  the  day  of  the  week 
OVednesday),  a  solemn  fast  while  he  lived, 
and  never  suffered  his  beard  to  be  shaved 
again." — Rrrson.  Svxrxxa'  Durham,  \ol.  3, 
p.  191. 

This  seems  to  have  been  late  in  the  17th 
century. 

"  Oal  Well,  and  what  dost  thou  play  f 

Bat.  The  part  of  all  the  world. 

AU.  The  part  of  all  the  world  t     What's 

thatF 
Bal.  The  fool." 

Induction  to  Marstos's  Antonio  and 
Mellida.   Old  Play*,  vol.  2,  p.  108. 

"  TaB  Arabians,  in  default  of  other  fuel, 
are  fain  to  bum,  and  dress  their  meat  with 
aromatical  wood,  which  so  stnpifieth  the 
senses  of  the  people,  that  they  are  forced 
with  bitumen  and  the  scent  of  goati,  (where 


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perfumes  are  too  frequent,  a  stink  is  a  per- 
fume), to  qualify  their  suffocating  sweet- 
ness."—Pi^oA  Sight,  p.  36. 

Tatix>r,  the  Water-Poet,  says  of  Goose, 

**  Her  lungs  and  lirer  into  powder  dried, 
And,  fasting,  in  an  a8s*8  milk,  applied, 
Is  an  experienced  cordial  for  the  spleen.** 

"  Hbb  brains  with  salt  and  pepper  if  you 
blend. 
And  eat,  they  will  the  understanding  mend.** 
Tatlob*8  Ooose,  p.  105.     Works. 

**  Wb  do  esteem  a  fountain,  well,  or 
spring,  to  be  the  more  clear  from  poison,  if 
a  toad,  a  newt,  or  a  snake  be  in  either  of 
them ;  for  we  imagine  that  those  venomous 
creatures  do  suck  or  extract  all  the  conta- 
gion of  that  chrystalline  element  into  them- 
selves.*'— Tatix>b*s  Bated,  Ibid.  p.  99. 

The  Portuguese  keep  a  tortoise  in  their 
large  Bilha^s,  to  purify  it; — not  for  this  pur- 
pose I  suppose,  but  to  keep  it  clear  of  in- 
sects. 

*'  His  tongue,  much  like  a  hackney,  goes  all 

paces, 
In  city,  country,  court,  and  camp,  all  places. 
It  gallops,  and  false  gallops,  trots,  and  ambles, 
One  pace  or  other,  still  it  runs  and  rambles.** 
Taylob's  Virtw  of  a  Jade,  p.  130. 

FoBD,  in  one  of  his  plays,  speaks  of  hydro- 
phobia as  produced  by  the  bite  of  a  mad 
dog— 

**  And  men  possessed  so,  shun  all  sight  of 

water: 
Sometimes,  if  mixt  with  jealousy,  it  renders 

them 
Insensible,  and  oftentimes  brings  death.** 

Vol.  1,  p.  178. 
Accordingly,  the  man  who  suffers  under 
the  disease  in  the  Mask  of  Melancholy, 
which  he  introduces, — is  raging  with  jea- 
lousy. 

**  Men  singular  in  art 
Have  always  some  odd  whimsey  more  than 
usual.'*  FoBD,  vol.  1,  p.  175. 


BiiBToii  says  that  when  persons  are  af- 
flicted with  St.  yitU8*s  dance,  the  nagii- 
trates  in  Germany  hire  muaidans  to  plaj 
to,  and  some  lusty  sturdy  companions  to 
dance,  with  them. 

**  r  WILL  have  my  picture  drawn  most 
compontUnufyy — Fobd,  vol.  1,  p.  872. 

^  That  I  had  thought,  and  thought  I  hid 
thought  rightly.** — Beaumont  and  Flit- 
chbb.  Woman  Hatery  act  v.  so.  i. 

"Mebbt  as  a  cricket,**  is  a  proverbial  li- 
militude,  but  I  am  not  sure  that  crickets 
are  merry, — any  more  than  a  set  of  psalm- 
singers  are.  Merry  as  a  tadpole  would  be 
a  better  form  of  speech.  We  were  looking 
at  some  to-day  in  a  little  stream,  where 
they  were  wagging  their  tails  with  all  iim- 
ginable  liveliness  and  alacrity.  Should  not 
you  like  to  have  such  a  tail,  said  ItoKtrl; 
and  he  looked  up  at  the  question  with  i 
broad  smile  of  delight,  and  answered  with 
a  voice  of  honest,  deep  earnestness,  that  it 
seemed  to  come  firom  the  heart,  or  half  waj 
thither  at  least,—''  I  should  I**— May  18, 
1829. 

''  BiBDS  of  the  gull  species,  within  the 
last  week,  have  been  exceedingly  pleatifal 
in  Kent,  attracted  to  the  lands  by  sprat«t 
which  are  used  in  great  quantities  by  £v* 
mers  as  manure.  Flights  of  thousands  hare 
also  daily  occupied  the  marshes  in  search  of 
food.  At  Beacon  HiU,  near  Green  Street, 
on  Friday  last,  a  curious  scene  took  place. 
Several  loads  or  fish  had  been  thrown  dovn 
in  a  heap  in  consequence  of  the  snow  pre- 
venting the  operation  of  spreading.  In  > 
short  time  afler  being  deposited,  many  thoa- 
sand  gulls  invaded,  and  commenced  opera- 
tions upon  them  in  right  earnest,  widiout, 
for  a  time,  being  interrupted  in  their  re- 
past; at  length,  some  boys  observing  the 
havock  they  were  committing,  repaired  to 
the  spot;  but  such  was  the  detenniaed 
spirit  of  the  birds,  that  they  kept  then  it 
bay  a  considerable  time,  by  hovering  over, 


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tad  aUadcing  them  in  the  moat  iBvage 
manner,  natil  nltimatelr  thej  found  it  iie- 
ettattj  to  retreat." — County  Chronicle. 

AiTTENOB  called  Delta  bj  hii  neighbours 
from  big  great  goodness ;  and  for  the  same 
reason,  the  Cretans  called  anj  good  man 
Deltofl.  Hence  the  ntme  of  the  EgTptian 
Delta,  as  well  as  for  ita  form." — Gaxabbb 
amtnt  Famiqub,  p.  342. 

"Rabbi  Aqdiba  uied  to  saj, — 'Stultum 
omninit  feire  qukm  semistuUum  facilius  eat, 
et  ignanun  omnin6  quam  eemidoctum.' " — 
Ibid.  p.  201. 

A  man  who  wished,  in  order  to  make  re- 
ligion  properlj  respected,  that  there  ihould 
be  but  one  priest  in  the  world,  and  that  he 
ihonid  saj  maas  onlj  once  in  twentj-five 
jeara  at  the  jubilee. — Ibid.  p.  390. 

Garasse  asked  him  where  he  would  have 
it  svd  ?  and  he  replied,  in  the  valle;  of  Je- 
See  the  story. 


A  Fbmiam  doctor,  the  only  avowed  me- 
dical profeisw  whom  Burckhardt  saw  at 
Mecca,  deals  in  nothing  but  miraculous  bal- 
sams and  infallible  elixirs  :  his  po^ons  are 
all  sweet  and  agreeable ;  and  the  mask  and 
aloe  wood  which  he  bams  diffuses  through 
his  shop  a  delicioiis  odour,  which  has  coa- 
tribated  to  eatablish  his  reputation  .^Vol. 
3,p.S98. 

Tarn  bof^ograph;  of  Ireland. 


Wanr  jour  opinion  of  a  new  book  is 
asked,  a  feo  should  always  be  preaented. 
1  .4nd,  I  dare  aa;,  we  should  soon  have  the 
i  moat  approved  mode  both  of  opening  the 
1  hand  for  its  recepUon,  and  closing  it. 

•*  Tbst,  says  Hierocles,  who  first  gave 
<  aatnes  to  things,  were  by  reason  of  acertain 
I  wonderAil  wisdom  of  (Jieirs,  a  kind  of  ex- 
I  cellent  statuaries ;  they  by  those  several 


names,  as  images,  lively  representing  the 
natures  of  things." — Cddwoktb,  vol.  2,  p. 
227. 

Ptalm  1 39,  ver.  13.—"  Mr  substance  was 
not  hid  from  thee  when  I  was  made  in  secret, 
and  curiously  wrought  in  the  lowest  parts 

of  the  earth." 

LowTH  has  it — 
"  When  I  was  formed  in  the  secret  place. 
When  I  was  wrought  with  a  needle  in  the 

depths  of  the  earth." 
And  upon  this  he  has  a  superfine  criUcism. 

£'wIejui«(iciM31,ver.l3.— "AwiCKsneye 
\i  an  evil  thing :  and  what  is  created  more 
wicked  than  an  ejeP" 

"  Wisdom  hath  killed  her  beasts ;  she 
liath  mingled  her  wine ;  she  hath  also  fur- 
nished her  table."— Ibid.  9,  ver.  2. 

Wnra.— Ibid.  27,  ver.  8. 

It  appears  by  this  chapter,  that  men  in 
those  days  were  forced  to  cram  themselves 
with  food,  as  they  were  to  drench  their  sto- 
machs with  wine  in  my  youth. 

Verse  21. — "  If  thou  hast  been  forced  to 
cat,  arise,  go  fwtb,  vomit,  and  thou  shalt 

Tbis  Dovelund,  or  Columbia.  A  moral 
and  medical  Utopia. 


CnABLSHAonB's  memoranda. 
Noys'  pie-crust. 

Boswell.    Hia  pocket-handkerchief  must 
have  been  always  like  a  Quipos,*  woodfull. 

HoBBEB,  becanse  of  his  birth,  would  have 


>  "  Quipa,  ropes  of  various  caloun,  and  with 
iliiTereDt  knots,  used  by  the  ancient  inhabitants 
iif  Fern  to  record  memanble  eTenla  and  keep 
NlDMAN'S  Spun.  Did.— J.  W.  W. 


Si 


488 


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been   classed   by  the  Romans  among  the 
Exterricinei ;  by  the  Greeks,  among  the 
^\it6 firivoi. — ZunvGBE,  vol.  1,  p.  27. 

Asci^BFiADBS,  according  to  Tertullian, 
made  the  tour  of  the  world  on  a  cow^s  back, 
and  lived  upon  her  milk. — Bubnet,  Musical 
Travels^  Pre/ace, 

"  These  is  every  reason  in  the  world  for 
believing  that  all  sorts  of  cattle,  as  well  as 
horses,  should  seldom,  if  ever,  be  allowed 
to  graze,  either  in  summer  or  winter.*' — 
Young's  Survey  of  Sussex,  p.  235. 

Baumgarten  cattle,  the  Leicestershire 
school. — Ibid.  p.  246. 

See  too  a  rich  passage  on  BakewelPs 
merits.— Ibid.  p.  228.  274. 

Kindness  of  disposition  in  cattle  means 
that  they  soon  fatten. — Ibid.  p.  249. 

"  It  is  a  grazier's  own  fault  if  ever  he 
attempts  to  fatten  an  unkind  beast.  Let 
him  only  take  care  of  his  stock,  and  he  will 
need  no  apprehensions  of  that  sort." — Ibid, 
p.  263. 

A  BAKBEB  advertised  to  dress  hair  in 
such  a  manner  as  exactly  to  resemble  a  pe- 
ruque.— Bubwbt's  Musical  Tour,  vol.  2,  p. 
300. 

Maubicb,  sixth  Lord  Berkeley,  had  a 
silver  shaving  bason  weighing  sixty  ounces. 
— ^Fosbbooke's  Berkeley  Family,  p.  176. 

Nose,  nose,  jolly  red  nose ;  and  how  got 
you  that  jolly  red  nose. — Ibid.  204.  His 
footman  going  to  London  for  a  bottle  of 
physic. 

No  left  handed  woman  Twrj  aii^ililioQ 
H  yiyvtrat. — Hipp.  1.  7,  aph.  43.  Wiw- 
TEBTOll,  p.  268. 

He  knew  that  women  when  neither  preg- 
nant nor  puerperal  sometimes  gave  milk. — 
Ibid.  1.  5,  aph.  39,  p.  182. 

PdoK  9rXf;/Ob6ai  Torn  ij  airlkt. — Ibid.  1.  2, 
aph.  11,  p.  33. 

To  be  refreshed  and  strengthened  certes, 
— not,  I  think,  to  be  satisfied. 


He  knew  also  that  athletes  cannot  be  hef/t 
at  the  highest  point  of  good  conditioiL— 
Ibid.  1.  3,  p.  4. 


*'*'  Liquid  as  well  as  solid  food  is  equsllj 
required  for  the  support  of  the  human  con- 
stitution. The  inhabitants  of  this  iskoA 
owe  much  of  their  hardihood  and  coqxireal 
superiority  to  malt  liquor.**  —  Vahcoutbi, 
Survey  of  Hants,  p.  209.  | 

Vancouver  thinks  the  excessive  use  of , 
solid  food  far  more  sensual,  and  altogether 
less  excusable. 

Drunkenness  versus  gluttony. 

We  may  say  of  these  memoirs  as  Mr. 
Vancouver  the  agriculturist  says  of  Swediifa 
turnips,  **  their  own  excellence  will  prove 
their  best  passport  to  futurity." — Swwi  ff 
Hants,  p.  181. 

**  He  was  a  poor  yokel,  foisted  upon  me 
in  the  last  stage  of  consumption,  and  wbo 
remained  bedridden  until  our  arrival  in  (be 
colony.  He  fell  away  so  fast  that  I  never 
expected  to  land  him  alive ;  and  oertainlj 
it  required  the  most  anxious  attentioB  lo 
retain  the  glinmiering  spark.  I  fortunafeelj, 
however,  possessed  a  very  facetious  fellow 
among  the  hatch,  to  whom  this  poor  d/ing 
creature  became  strongly  attached,  aerer 
being  a  day  happy  whereon  his  friend  neg- 
lected to  visit  him,  and  oflen  b^ging  ne 
to  send  this  man  to  him  for  company,  which 
I  gladly  did,  seeing  it  invariably  put  him  is 
good  spirits.  Wondering  what  could  be 
the  cause  of  this  extraordinary  liking,  1 
inquired,  and  found  that  Breadman  htd 
been  a  great  pig-stealer  in  his  day,  which 
being  considered  a  very  vulgar  calling 
among  the  professional  classes  (particulsrlj 
among  the  towmes),  he  could  get  no  one  to 
listen  to  his  adventures  except  this  joker, 
who  would  laugh  with  him  and  quiz  him  on 
the  particular  subjects  of  his  achievements; 
praise  the  wonderful  expertness  with  which 
he  had  done  the  farmers  out  of  their  grant* 
ers,  and  propose  a  partnership  concern  on 
reaching  the  colony,  if  the  pigs  there  were 


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489 


to  be  worth  stealing  I  I  really  believe 
or  creature  was  kept  in  existence  a 
onth  solely  by  the  exhilarating  con- 
ion  of  his  companion.  On  anchoring 
Iney  no  time  was  lost  in  conveying 
man  ashore,  he  being  so  weak  that  he 
not  even  sit  up  without  fainting ;  yet 
s  pitiable  state,  supporting  himself 
the  hospital-man*s  neck,  while  the 
was  drawing  on  his  trowsers  for  him, 
spiring  wretch  mustered  strength 
ti  to  stretch  out  his  pale  trembling 
oward  the  other^s  waistcoat  pocket, 
ck  it  of  a  pocket-comb  and  penknife ! 
morning  he  was  a  corpse ;  thus  dying 
bad  lived.  Yet,  during  his  whole  ill- 
his  man  would  regularly  request  some 
I  sober-minded  rogues  to  read  the 
ures  to  him,  and  pray  by  his  bed- 
Indeed,  ill  practices  become  ulti- 
'  so  habitual  with  many,  as  to  be  no 
deemed  such ;  and  hence  no  wonder 
often  see  religion  and  knavery  inti- 
'  blended." — Newspaper, 

puTATio  peijucunda  Mulieres  hommes 

se.     Paris,  1693. 

(.  Thiers.    Hist,  des  Perruques.  Pa- 

9a 

tampion  des  Femmes ;  qui  soustient 

fl  sont  plus  nobles,  plus  parfaites,  et , 

it  plus  vertueuses  que  les  hommes. 

1618. 

rriomphe  des  Femmes,  oii  11  est  mon- 

9  le  sexe  feminin  est  plus  noble  et 

arfait  que  le  masculin.     Anvers,  no 


r  the  house  of  entertainment  we 
plenty  of  angling-rods  and  lines,  the 

being  any  stick  like  a  hop-pole,  the 
>f  string ;  some  with  a  bit  of  cork  or 
or  a  float ;  altogether  a  worse  *  seU 
an  a  London  charity  boy  on  a  holi- 
cursion  to  the  Eel-pie  House  or  the 
liver.  We  were  rowed  off  to  a  float- 
ige  with  an  awning,  and  certainly 

plenty  of  fish,  none  exceeding  four 
.     I  have  oflen  been  surprised  at 


the  *  simplicity  *  of  the  fish  of  America. 
They  seem  to  require  none* of  the  fine 
tackle,  the  fine  hand,  and  the  skill  of  our 
English  anglers.  Old  Izaac  Walton*s  trea- 
tise would  never  have  been  written  in 
America.    I  thought  of  Cowper's  lines : — 

*  They  are  so  unaccustomed  to  man, 
Their  tameness  is  shocking  to  me.*" 

Ladies  oiled-silk  nursery  aprons. 

Hipp.  1. 13,  p.  16.  Healthy  old  age  the 
most  patient  of  hunger.  2.  4.  p.  29.  Every 
thing  ill  if  in  excess.  So  of  poverty  and 
riches. 

^^  Benjamin  Constant  was  accustomed 
to  write  in  a  closet  on  the  third  story.  Be- 
side him  sate  his  estimable  wife,  and  on  his 
knee  his  favourite  cat :  this  feline  affection 
he  entertained  in  common  with  Count  de 
Chateaubriand."— rtme*,  18  Dec.  1830. 

Rowland  Dixon  and  his  puppets  at  In- 
gleton. 

A  Chinese  critic  says  of  a  favourite  line, 
"  whoever  carefully  rehearses  this  verse 
only  once,  will  find  a  lasting  fragrance  in 
his  mouth  for  ten  days  afterwards." 

*'  RsisELius  having  communicated  the 
observation  he  had  made  on  his  own  urine, 
which  he  perceived  one  night  to  be  as  lu- 
minous as  phosphorus,  to  John  Tackius, 
physician  to  the  Duke  of  Hesse  Darmstadt, 
and  professor  of  eloquence  in  the  University 
of  Greissen ;  that  famous  chemist  told  him 
in  reply,  *  that  he  himself  studying  once 
with  great  application  of  mind  to  compose 
the  funeral  oration  of  the  Duke  of  Saxe, 
which  he  was  to  pronounce  in  the  University 
of  Geissen;  night  being  come,  there  sud- 
denly passed  out  of  his  eyes  a  flame  which 
illuminated  the  paper  before  him  so  much 
that  he  could  write  two  entire  lines  before 
it  was  dissipated;  that  this  phenomenon  had 
much  frightened  him,  being  apprehensive 
of  its  boding  him  some  considerable  disorder 


\ 


in  his  eyes,  or  eren  a  total  loss  of  sight,  as 
Bartholim  seems  to  prognosticate  to  those 
to  whom  the  like  lu4ppened ;  but  thai  not- 
withstanding he  had  hitherto  escaped  any 
bad  effect  of  this  kind,  though  the  same 
symptom  had  often  afterwards  made  its 
appearance,  and  he  had  seen  sereral  other 
times  those  brilliant  flashes  come  out  of  his 
eyes.  Tackius  in  a  short  time  after  died 
of  a  dysentery.** — Town  and  CamUry  Ma^ 
gazine^  1777,  p.  425. 


**"  Tors  qui  aimez  et  qni  chantez  les  chi* 
ens,  vous  ai-je  dit  qu*il  y  en  avoit  un  id, 
dont  le  Maitre  est  mort,  et  qui  depuis  ce 
moment  passe  sa  vie  siir  la  fosse  du  defunt, 
et  quand  on  force  la  pauyre  Bete  k  rentrer 
dans  la  maison  elle  va  chercher  qnelque 
yielle  harde  de  son  Maitre  pour  se  coucher 
dessus.     Yous  me  battrez  si  je  vous  dis, 
que  rattachement  des  chiens  ne  me  touche 
pas  du  tout.     lis   ont  Vtar   condamn^  a 
nous  aimer — ce  sont  des  machines  k  fidelite, 
et  Tous  savez  mon  horreur  pour  les  ma- 
chines.   Elles  m*inspirent  une  inimitee  per- 
sonnelles — ^Vive  les  Chats !  tout  paradoxe  k 
part^  je  les  pr^f^re  aux  chiens.     Us  sont 
plus  libres,  plus  independans,  plus  naturels. 
La  civilisation  humaine  n*est  pas  deyenue 
pour  eux  une  seconde  nature.     lis  sont 
l)lus  primitifs  que  les  chiens — ^plus  gracieux. 
Us  ne  prennent  de  la  societe  que  ce  qui 
leur  conyient^  et  ils  ont  toujours  une  gout- 
tiere  tout  pr^  du  salon,  pour  y  redeyenir 
ce  que  Dieu  les  a  fait,  et  se  moquer  de 
leurs  tyrans.    Quand  par  hasard  ils  aiment 
ce  tyran,  ce  n'est  pas  en  esclaye  degrade 
conmie  yos  yillains  chiens  qui  l^chent  la 
main  qui  les  bat,  et  ne  sont  fideles,  que 
parcequ'ila  n'ont  pas  I'esprit  d'etre  incon- 
stans.     n  y  a  du  choix,  du  parti  pris,  dans 
rattachement  des  chate— je  ne  yois  que  de 
la  stupidite  dans  celui  des  chiens.     Si  de 
tout  tems  on  k  donna  la  pr^crence  k  ceux- 
ci,  leur  reputation  est  Toeuyre  de  Torgueil 
humain.  Lechien  est  la  creature  de  Thomme. 
Ce  sot  animal  n'est  plus  ce  que  Dieu  I'a  fait, 
il  est  le  produit  de  la  society.     C'est  une 
lie  ces  plantes  k  fleurs  doubles,  qui  n'exist- 


ent  qu'k  force  de  cultmre,  et  que  les  ama- 
teurs appr^ent  d'autant  plus  qu'elle  est 
leur  ouyrage  -  -  -  Mais  adiea !  car  sur  ce 
chapitre  je  parlerois  joaq'an  demain— d'tu- 
tant  que  je  pense  que  mea  rdflections  tovs 
taquinnent — d^testes  moi  —  mais  dites  le 
moi  souyent.** — MatL  de  Custimt^ 


Chabgbs  for  Gentlemen's  clothes  of  the 
best  quality  (no  other  than  the  best  quafitj) 
made  by  W.  Tayler,  therefore  but  ooe 
price: 

Saxony  Blue  or  Black  Dress 

Coats     .        .        •        .     £3  18f. 
Other  colours  £^    ^< 

Frock  or  Great  Coats,  with 

silk  skirt  linings  .     X4    S§. 

Blue  or  BUck  Frock  Coats, 

skirts  lined  with  silk  £4  ISt. 

Blue  or  BUck  Trousers  £1  1^. 

Other  colours  .  <£1   lU,  ^ 

Hourly  experience  demonstrates  that  clothes 
may  fit,  or  rather  be  free  from  wrinkles,  yet 
not  become  the  wearer ;  in  truth  there  are 
now  few  tailors  who  are  unable  to  fit  the 
human  shape,  but  this  is  the  leaat  art  in 
tailoring.  The  dress  of  a  gentleman  should 
not  only  fit,  but  be  fitting,  becoming,  and 
gentlemanly.  The  practice  of  W.  T.  and 
his  assistants  has  been,  and  is  in  the  best 
school,  that  is,  of  making  almost  exdunyeiy 
for  the  higher  class ;  by  this  their  taste  in 
dress  must  necessarily  haye  become  good, 
and  their  experience  with  attention  enables 
them  to  effect  the  wishes  of  their  customers, 
relatiye  to  dress,  with  confidence  of  not  be- 
ing surpassed. 

CiESAs's  horse  with  humanish  feet. — Sos- 
Toxirs,  p.  540. 

Boeing  the  Earth  for  Water. —John 
Goode,  14,  St.  Swithin's  Lane,  City,  sol« 
inyentor  and  patentee  for  boring  the  earth 
to  the  main  spring  for  water,  respectfully 
begs  to  inform  the  Nobility,  Gentry,  and 
the  Public  in  general,  that  he  has  inyented, 
in  addition  to  his  former  plan,  a  method 
whereby  he  is  enabled  to  procure  double 


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491 


the  quantity  of  water  at  the  same  expense. 
Thia  invaluable  diacoTerj,  firom  the  pure- 
neas  of  the  water  and  the  enormous  expense 
it  saves  hy  working  engines,  &c.  for  the 
benefit  and  comfort  of  mankind,  is  of  greater 
value  than  any  discovery  since  the  creation. 
The  cost  of  a  well  boring  will  not  be  more 
than  what  has  been  paid  to  the  Water  Com- 
pany for  the  supply  of  water  for  one  year. 
The  process  of  the  invention  is  making  rapid 
strides,  by  J.  Goode  sending  toob,  labelled 
for  their  use,  to  every  quarter  of  the  globe, 
whereby  any  inexperienced  person  may  use 
them.  References  to  wells  bored  by  J. 
Gioode,  where  the  engines  may  be  seen  con- 
stantly at  work : — Blr.  George  Smart,  saw- 
mills, York  Road,  Lambeth ;  Mr.  Taylor, 
wool-scribbler,  7,  Cowper  Street,  City  Road ; 
Mr.  Kirk,  dyer,  Osborne  Place,  White- 
chipel,  and  numbers  of  others,  too  numer- 
oua  to  insert  in  an  advertisement,  which  may 
be  seen  by  applying  for  prospectuses  as 
above.  J.  Goode  has  also  invented  a  ma- 
chine which  will  raise  water  to  a  great 
height,  where  the  water  lies  much  below 
the  surface.  The  said  machine  will  not  re- 
quire any  attendance.  Particulars  may  be 
had  as  above.  N.  B.  Tools  for  exportation. 
Persons  going  abroad  cannot  lay  their  money 
out  better  than  by  taking  a  set  of  tools  with 
them,  as  they  may  be  used  with  success  in 
any  part  of  the  world. 

^  Sbnse  will  be  in  a  little  compass,  if  men 
would  be  persuaded  to  vent  no  notions  but 
what  they  are  masters  of;  and  were  angels 
to  write,  I  fancy  we  should  have  but  few 
folios.** — NoBBis,  Preface  to  his  Miscellanies, 

Two  Polish  translations  of  Lucan  in  1691, 
by  Chroscinski  and  Bardzinskl. 

KoBBis  (Misc.  325)  enimierates  it  among 
the  perfections  of  human  nature,  that  man 
**  not  only  enjoys  the  good  he  unites  with, 
but  digests  it  as  it  were  into  *himself  ** 

Ghosts  have  good  memories,  which  is  an 
argument  against  materialism,  showing  at 
least  the  infinite  subtilization  of  matter. 


They  appear  of  the  age  at  which  they 
became  ghosts.  Possibly  are  so  in  the  in- 
termediate state. 

"  I  HAVB  heard  of  an  ape  that  has  been 
too  hard  for  hb  master  at  that  most  inge- 
nious game  at  chess.  But  I  have  known 
one,  very  near  to  a  natural,  that  hath  been 
a  great  master  at  it.** — Goodman's  Winter 
Evening  Conference^  p.  44. 

"  Daivgeb. — Unhealthy  Climate. — The 
advertiser  ofiers  himself  to  make,  or  to  un- 
dergo, any  dangerous  experiment,  the  re- 
sult of  which  may  be  beneficial  to  mankind, 
as  inoculation  of  the  plague,  or  hydropho- 
bia ;  or  would  accept  a  situation  in  any 
extremely  unhealthy  climate,  wherehemight 
have  a  few  hours*  leisure  in  the  day  to 
make  experiments  on  the  nature  of  the  at- 
mosphere. Though  a  first  rate  education 
at  a  public  school  and  the  University  has 
qualified  him  to  undertake  with  confidence 
any  situation,  however  arduous,  yet  there 
is  none  so  insignificant  that  he  would  not 
accept,  if  likely  to  promote  his  object.  Ad- 
dress, post  paid,  to  S.  L.,  post-office,  Kings- 
ton-on-Thames.** 

"  Apbopos — an  expression  which  is  com- 
monly used  to  introduce  whatever  is  unre- 
lative  to  it.** — ^Lobd  Chestebfield,  vol.  2, 
p.  371. 

"La  Motte  de  Vnyer  mention  sa  certain 
*  Hippias  Elien  qui  se  ventait  bardiment  de 
ne  rien  porter  que  ses  mains  n*eussent 
fait.'  *•— Batle,  vol.  6,  p.  177. 

*'  n  me  semble,**  says  Gabriel  Naude, 
"  qu*il  n*appartient  qu*k  ceux-lk  qui  n*e8p^- 
rent  jamais  d*^tre  citis,de  ne  citerpersonne; 
et  c*est  une  trop  grande  ambition  de  se  per- 
suader d*avoir  des  conceptions  capables  de 
contenter  une  si  grande  diversite  de  lec- 
teurs  sans  rien  emprunter  d*autrui.'* — Ibid, 
vol.  6,  p.  175.     Under  Epicurus,  N.  E. 

**  Iln*y  a  pas  moins  d*e8prit  ni  moins  d*in- 
vention  i  bien  appliquer  une  pens^  que  Ton 
trouve  dans  un  livre,  qu*k  Stre  le  premier 
auteur  de  cette  pens^e.** — Ibid.  p.  177. 


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Ksopiu  in  Bajle,  voL  6,  p.  390^  eaUog  the 
most  expensive  ^ibea ;  the  pleatnre  being 
in  tbe  mere  wanton  prodigalit;.  Seneca, 
Coatol.  &d  UelTum,  c.  9,  touches  upon  this 
foUy. 

EvB  beat  Adam  with  a  bough  which 
she  tore  from  the  tree  of  knowledge,  and 
cadgelled  him,  till  he  yielded  and  ate.  — 
Batlb,  vol.  6,  p.  325. 

Faracebiu  fancies  that  aerpenta  ever 
since  the  foil  retain  ■  knowledge  of  tlie 
highest  natural  mysteries,  by  the  special 
wQl  of  God.— Ibid.  £m,  A.  vol.  6,  p.  327. 

Michel  le  Fancheur,  s  Hugonot,  preach* 
ed  one  day  sgaiiist  duelling  with  such  effect 
that  Mareshal  de  la  Force,  who  heard  the 
sermon,  protested ' '  devant  quelques  braves," 
that  if  a  challenge  were  sent  him,  he  would 
not  accept  it. — Ibid.  p.  412. 

A  FKMCHBB  "  qui  se  faisut  nne  r^le  de 
tousser  par  compss  et  par  meaure,  pr^isc- 
ment  i  une  telle,  ou  &  un  telle  pfriode :  et 
de  peur  d'y  manquer,  il  faisait  des  marques 
ti  son  mauuscrit  partout  ou  il  se  propos^t 
de  tousser.  II  ccrivait  il  ces  endroits  la 
kem  Arm,  couune  on  I'a  vu  dans  I'origiual 
apris  sa  mort." — Ibid. 

Jacques  Ferrand  published  a  Treatise 
"  de  la  Ualadie  d' Amour."  Paris,  1632.— 
Ibid.  p.  433. 

When  Charles  Fevret  lost  his  wife,  "  il 
fit  retrancher  son  lit  de  moitic  ct  ne  ae  re- 
maria  pas."— Ibid.  p.  480. 

Henri  called  Fraunenlob  for  his  praise 
of  women.  His  runeral,Bnd  the  wine  poured 
upon  his  grave.  Under  the  word  Freuwen- 
lob.— Ibid.  p.  697. 

Gediccus,  his  book  Mulieres  Homines 
non  esse,  was  a  satire  not  upon  women  but 
Socinianism.  See  N.  E.  under  this  head. 
—Ibid.  vol.  7,  p.  47. 

Bayle  thought  it  strange  that  in  the  Con- 
sul of  Macou  "  on  ait  gravement  mis  en 
question  si  les  fcmmes  ctaient  une  creature 


humaioe,  et  qu'on  n'ajt  d&id£  raffirmative 
qn'aprte  nn  long  eiamin." — Ibid.  p.  49. 

He  father  of  Scipio  Gentilis  wrote  a 
Disquisition  "an  vero  Dsmones  Morbomm 
causa  sinL"— Ibid.  p.  66. 

The  Gymnosoph  isles.  "  Cf  tait  nne  cbose 
bontense  parmi  eox  que  d'etre  malade,  it 
sorte  que  ceox  qui  rouldent  ^viter  cette 
ignonunieiebrulaienteux  mSmes." — Ibid, 
p.  83. 

Gregory  Nazianzen  calla  a  wife  an  ac- 
quired evil ;  and  what  is  worse,  one  that 
may  not  be  put  away. 

Mb.  Dbufstbb  to  Pinkerton :  "  Toa  art 
■  bee  that  has  taken  pains  to  collect  honey, 
I  am  a  mere  bear,  made  for  overturniiif 
the  hive,  and  robbing  the  combs."  —  Fn- 
ecktoh's  Corr.  vol.  1,  p.  222. 

"  H.  Walpolb  :  "  I  was  forced  to  quit 
Dow's  History  of  Indostan,  because  the  la- 
dian  names  made  so  little  impression  ob 
me,  that  I  went  backward  instead  of  tar- 
ward,  and  was  every  minute  revertbg  to  tbe 
former  page  to  find  about  whom  I  «u 
reading." — Ibid.  p.  226. 

"  Lou>  BucBAH :  "  I  wish  death  to  ke^ 
off  such  quarry.  I  could  let  him  have 
plenty  of  gentlemen  at  a  shilling  a  doirs 
that  would  fill  his  maw  much  better  than 
our  historian." — Ibid.  p.  259. 

HtsTOBT  of  Breeches.  —  Ibid-  p.  407. 


waggoners  and  drivert 
of  teams  observe  that  a  smart  quick  look  m 
a  horse  denotes  a  hasty  passionate  temper.— 
Stetknsok's  Dortet,  p,  419. 

"  There  is  a  degree  of  coolness  required, 
in  cart-horses,  and  high  spirit  is  consiilered 
rather  as  a  fault  than  a  perfecUon." — Ibid 

Women  have  one  advantage :  none  of 
their  duties  tend  in  any  way  to  deteriorate 


"  Potatoes  are  known  to  lore  the  taste 
of  new  ground."     (Batchelob's  Bedford- 


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ihire,  p.  426)  and  "  it  ia  quite  a  treat  to  fresh 
land  tfl  sow  clover  upoa  it,"— Ibid.  p.  427. 

"  CloTer  ia  not  charged  witb  '  tiring  or 
sickening'  the  milder  epeciea  of  claja." — 
Hid.  p.  428. 

"  Certain  crops  gown  with  a  view  ofr«ri- 
ijig  the  soil." — Ibid.  p.  433. 

V&HCOCTBB  {Devoiuhirt,  p.  357),  calls 
pigeons  "  those  voracious  and  insatiate  ver- 
mio,  for  in  no  other  light  can  thej  possiblj 
be  viewed  or  considered  b;  the  agricultu- 
rist." He  calculates  1,125,000  pur  of  dove 
pigeons  in  England  and  Wales,  consuming 
157,500,000  pints  of  com  anntuUj,  to  the 
value  of  1,476,562^  10*. 

"  As  ingenious  observer  of  nature  COU' 
vejed  water  on  a  dunghill  in  the  summer 
months  in  such  quantitj,  ■■  to  make  a  kind 
of  fermenting  chaos,  for  the  purpose  of  ani- 
mating the  whole  mass.  It  became  full  of 
insects,  and  was  used  in  the  autumn  as 
mannre;  and  he  believed  with  much  greater 
powers  than  it  would  otherwise  have  pos- 
sessed."— Dabwik's  FhytoU^ia,  p.  240. 

Darwin  reconunends  that  dunghills  be 
thus  watered  (or  the  purpose  of  encourag- 
ing the  propagation  and  nourishment  of 
mjriads  of  insects,  and  be  thus  used  as  ma- 
nure I    Beast  that  he  was  I 

In  a  not  much  better  spirit  Q>.  243,)  he 
would  have  "  burial  grounds  divided  into  two 
compartments ;  the  earth  from  one  of  which 
saturated  with  animal  decomposition  should 
be  taken  awaj,  once  In  ten  or  tnent;  years, 
for  the  purposes  of  agriculture ;  and  aand, 
or  clay,  or  less  fertile  soil  brought  into  its 
place.  Not  would  the  removal  of  this  earth, 
if  the  few  bones  which  might  be  found, 
were  again  buried  for  a  further  decompo- 
aitioD,  be  likelj  to  shock  the  relations  of  the 
deceased  ;  as  the  superstition  concerning 
the  earth  from  which  we  rose,  and  into 
which  we  return,  has  gradually  vanished 
:  before  the  light  of  reason  I" 

"  Or  insentient  entities,  of  mere  vegeta- 
bles, none  yet  pretend  to  the  honour  of  a 


stomach." — Hope's  Origin  and  Protperi^ 
of  Man,  vol.  2,  p.  130. 

"  PouLTBX  are  fed  for  the  London  mar- 
ket by  mixing  gin  and  even  opium  witb 
their  food,  and  keeping  them  in  the  dark ; 
but  they  must  be  killed  as  soon  as  they 
have  fattened,  or  they  soon  become  weak 
and  emaciated  like  human  drunkards." — 
Dakwui,  PAvbilagia,  p.  337. 

"  Ths  first  law  of  organic  nature  might 
be  expressed  in  the  words 'Eat  or  be  eaten ! ' 
It  would  seem,"  he  says  "  to  be  one  great 
slaughterhouse,  one  universal  scene  of  ra- 
pacity and  injustice."  But  looking  for  "  a 
benevolent  idea  to  console  us,"  he  finds  it 
in  "  the  happiness  which  organised  beings 
acquire  from  irritation  only  ; "  and  among 
consolatory  reflections  observes  that,  in 
consequence  of  this  eat  or  be  eaten  law, 
"  before  mankind  introduced  rational  so- 
ciety, and  conquered  the  savage  world,  old 
^e  was  unknown  on  earth." — Ibid.  536-7. 

"  That  sort  of  superstition  which  may  be 
called  Tbeophobia." 

TuEOPBiLsde  Garanci&res  imputes  "cette 
triste  et  noire  mflancolie,  cctte  sombre  con- 
somption  qui  devore  le  peuple  Auglois,"  to 
the  great  use  which  they  make  of  sugar. — 
SALauBS,  Errettr*,  (fe.  voL  1,  p.  370. 

Physiognomy  of  oysters, 

Lbt  there  be  no  skull  and  cross-bones 
carved  upon  my  tomb-stone. 

Were  I  a  recluse  or  a  hermit,  a  skull 
should  be  no  part  of  the  furniture  of  my 
celL 

A  hermit's  might  be  a  very  agreeable 
life,  provided  he  had  a  good  Mrs.  Hermit, 
and  a  due  number  of  chubby-cheeked  young 
Hermits  plsyingabout  his  hermitage.  Place 
it  then,  if  you  will,  far  in  a  wild,  unknown 
to  public  view,  let  them  have  some  half- 
dozen  Buch  hermitages  within  needful  and 
social  reach,  and  the  climate  be  good,  and 
no  wild  beasts  there,  and  no  savages,  snd 
his  only  core  to  provide   the  subsistence 


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which  Nature  afTords  in  such  climates  fur 
yerj  little  labour — and  then  methinks  one 
need  desire  no  circumstances  in  which  one 
could,  with  more  ease  and  contentment, 
**  Serve  God,  and  be  cheerful." 

Bbcausb  there  is  no  portrait  of  D.  D. 
therefore  in  this  world  it  exists  onlj  ideally, 
and  probably  only  in  my  mind.  His  per- 
fect likeness  no  doubt  tiiere  js,  or  will  be, 
the  number  of  archetypal  faces  not  being 
infinite. 

Treating  portraits  with  disrespect,  was 
in  his  mind,  as  bad  as  outraging  a  monu- 
ment. 

I  cannot  hare  it  painted  firom  memory, 
and  cannot  delineate  it  myself.  Mason*s 
Gray.  And  what  can  description  effect. 
See  how  little  I  Let  a  dozen  artists  paint 
such  eyes  and  nose  and  mouth  as  are  here 
described — and  there  will  be  no  resemblance 
between  any  two  of  the  countenances.** 

**  TousjouBS  pouvons-nous  bien  dire  ce 
qu*aYons  teu  et  non  pas  taire  ce  qu*avon8 
publi4.*'--BoucHET,  12  Seree,  ff.  377. 

The  horse  said  to  be  the  most  rational 
of  all  beasts,  *'  k  cause  du  temperament  de 
son  cerveau.** — Ibid.  p.  358. 

A  man  wagered  **  qu*il  failloit  dire  la 
gueule  k  toutes  bestes,  et  qu*il  n*y  avoit  que 
rhomme  qui  eust  bouche ;  **  but  the  judge 
who  was  appealed  to  for  deciding  the  wager 
determined  *'  qu*  k  cause  de  Texcellence  du 
cheyal,  il  falloit  dire  la  bouche.**  The  wa- 
ger began  about  a  horse.** — Ibid.  9  Seree, 
p.  300. 

*'  L*ame  du  Mary  defunct  est  contristee 
par  les  secondes  nopces  de  sa  femme — si 
nous  voulons  croire  le  paragraphe  Nos  igi* 
tur  en  Tauthent.  de  nuptiis." — Ibid.  5 
Seree^  p.  174. 

"  Nous  nous  contenterons  de  s^avoir  que 
Tous  la  lisez,  et  nous  tous  permettons  de 
croire  et  de  penser  tout  ce  qui  tous  plaira, 
et  mesme de  n y  penser  paB^—Eputle Ded. 
to  La  Pretteuse^  1  part. 

"  II  n'est  pas  question  de  juger,  mais  de 


gouster.  Nous  ne  demandons  pas  ce  que 
TOUS  en  pensez,  mais  ce  qui  tous  en  plaist** 
—Ibid.  p.  360. 

Motto  for  the  2nd  toI.  of  D.  D.— Ibid. 
Tol.  2,  p.  539. 

A  8Aiix>s  on  board  of  one  of  his  Majesty's 
ships,  who  had  been  for  scTeral  years  on  a 
foreign  station,  and  had  hardly  ever  been 
on  shore,  asked  leaTe  last  week  to  have  s 
trip  by  land,  and  accordingly  proceeded  to 
AlTcrstoke,  where,  for  the  first  time  in  his 
life,  he  witnessed  a  funeral.  He  was  eyi- 
dently  Tery  much  surprised  at  the  ceremo* 
nial,  and  when  he  returned  on  board  st 
night,  could  talk  of  nothing  but  what  he 
had  seen  in  the  churchyard.  "  Why,  whit 
d*ye  think  they  does  with  the  dead  corpseses 
ashore  ?**  said  he  to  a  shipmate.  ^  How 
should  I  know,"  said  the  other.  "  Why 
then.  Bill,  may  I  ncTcr  stir,**  replied  Jack, 
*'  but  they  puts  *em  up  in  boxes  and  directs 
em. 

"J 'at  tousjours  ouy  dire  qu'il  y  aToit 
cette  difference  entre  ce  que  disoient  les 
Fredicateurs  et  les  Medecins.  H  faut  faire 
ce  que  ceuz-Ik  disent,  sans  s'arrester  k  ce 
qu*ils  font;  et  de  ceuz-cy,  faire  tout  ce 
qu*ils  font,  et  ne  rien  faire  de  ce  qu*ib  di- 
sent.**— La  Pretieuse,  toI.  2,  p.  51. 

A  coMPBBs  of  Louis  XIII. — **Commeil 
n*aTolt  point  de  Terre  ny  de  seigneurie  qui 
piit  former  un  titre  glorieux,  il  s*aTisa  de 
se  qualifier  Seigneur  de  Dix  sept  cent  mil 
escus,*' — Ibid.  p.  510. 

A  QUBSTioN  commonly  asked  at  table: 
"  Qui  est  le  plus  gourmand ;  ou  celuy  qui 
se  bHile,  ou  celuy  qui  souffle,  ou  qui  attendr 
—Ibid.  p.  538. 

**J*ATserTy  ma  passion  k  plusieurs  metf ; 
il  n'est  point  de  ragoust  d'injures  dont  jc 
n*aye  rep{L  ma  colere.** — Ibid.  p.  55S. 

**  —  Yous  ne  connoissez  pas  Tautheur  de 
ce  liTre.  H  ne  craint  rien,  et  fait  son  liTit 
auz  d^pens  de  tout  ce  qui  luy  tombe  dans 


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495 


II  n*est  pas  si  fou  que  de  se  don- 
peine  chagrine,  ni  d'en  faire  un 
x;heux.  II  se  diveriit  luy-meme 
lant  de  vous  plaire.     U  est  le  pre- 

censurer,  k  s^en  railler,  et  k  cod- 
A  fa^on  d*ecrirc.  II  n*en  fait  pas 
de  gloire,  ou  11  vueille  faire  nustre 
«r  sa  reputation.  H  n*a  pour  but 
\  plaire  en  deplaisant  k  ce  qui  \uy 
-Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  68. 

[FicAMS,  Potentificatum  et  Poten- 
ibile, 

cans,  Sapientificatum  et  Sapient!- 
ile, 

s,  Bonificatum  et  Bonificabile.** 
LuiXT^s  lUugtratUm  of  the  Trinity. 
Gasasse.  Doct,  Cur.  118. 

^ocKB  says  '  I  should  feel  very 
my  Essay  was  destined,  one  day 
to  throw  into  the  dark  and  oblivion 
r  works  I  have  a  mind  to  consult.** 
)D*8  Cat.  of  MSS. 

*'  Sciendum  est 
ando,  Quare,Quomodo  vult  et  agit.** 
HoBBss,  Hist.  Ecd.  p.  2. 

*  Natuba  homines  rarb  facit  ipsa 
^ve  bonos,  egregi^ve  malos, 
itultos,  aut  egregi^  sapientes ; 
t  inceptum  quodque  magister 
us.-  Ibid. 

LL.  **  Heaven  Ravished,  a  Ser- 
iched  before  the  House  of  Com- 

644. 

>TIBBTE, 

I  malas  historias  son  novelas, 
uenas  novelas  son  historias.** 
Lope  db  Yboa.     Corona  Tra- 
gicoj  157.    Vol.  4. 

no  man  think  me  a  fool ;  if  other- 
as  a  fool  receive  me : — 
ye  suffer  fools  gladly,  seeing  ye 
s  are  wise.** 

2  Contdhians,  xL  16,  19. 


Amd  the  reader  is  ready  to  say — 

"  Thou  shalt  be  my  .£sculapiu8, 
Thy  image  shall  be  set  up  in  pure  gold, 
To  which  I  will  fall  down  and  worship  it.** 
Beaumont  and  Flstcheb,  Thierry 
and  Theod.  act  ii.  sc.  i. 

It  would  be  no  useless  or  contemptible 
knowledge  to  be — 
"  Well  read,  and  deeply  learned,  and 

throughly  grounded 
In  the  hidden  knowledge  of  all  sallads,  and 
Pot-herbs  whatever." 

Ibid.  Woman  Hater^  act  i.  sc.  iii. 

Sensitiyb  authors. 

•*  —  a  man  so  lost 
In  the  wild  ways  of  passion,  that  he*s  sensible 
Of  nought  but  what  torments  him.** 

Ibid.  Nice  Valour,  act  i.  sc.  i. 

Thebb*s  no  jesting»with  edge  tools — 
"  —  I  say  *tb  better  jesting  than  to  be 
In  earnest  with  them.** 
Ibid.  Honest  Man's  Fortune,  act  ii.  sc.  ii. 

FisHEB,  an  American  friend  of  Brissot, 
thought  that  the  activity  of  a  people  might 
be  estimated  by  the  rapidity  of  their  rivers, 
and  the  variations  of  their  atmosphere : — 
**  II  voyoit  la  lenteur  et  Tindecision  des 
Yirginiens  dans  la  lenteur  de  la  Potomack, 
tandis  que  le  courant  rapide  des  rivieres  du 
nord  lui  peignoit  Tactivit^  des  Angleter- 
riens.** — Bbissot.  Voyage  dans  Us  Etais 
Unis,  vol.  2,  p.  125. 

**  Dreaming  on  nought  but  idle  poetry, 
That  fruitless  and  unprofitable  art, 
Grood  unto  none,  but  least  to  the  profes- 
sors.** Bbn  Jonson,  vol.  1,  p.  8. 

Causing  *'  it  to  rain  on  the  earth,  where 
no  man  is ;  on  the  wilderness  wherein  there 
is  no  man, 

**  To  satisfy  the  desolate  and  waste 
ground;  and  to  cause  the  bud  of  the  ten- 
der herb  to  spring  forth.** — Job,  chap.  38, 
ver.  26,  7. 


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"  Who  provideth  for  the  raven  his  food, 
when  his  young  ones  cry  unto  God." — Ibid. 


CowPSB'g  prnue  of  them. — Corrttp.  vol. 
2,  p.  270-1-9. 

C« 

"  Smile,  uid  wave  a  chur  with  comely 

grace  too, 
Plsj  with  our  tawel  gently,  and  do  fine 

things 
That  catch  a  lady  Booner  than  a  virtue." 
BxAUMOHT  and  Futtchek,  Nirx 
Fa&mr,  act  iL  sc.  L 

"  Oh  Heaven,  how  gracious  had  creation 

To  women,  who  are  bom  wit1)out  defence. 
If  to  our  hearts  there  had  been  doors, 

through  which 
Our  husbandi  might  have  looked  into  our 

thoughts, 
And  made  themselves  undoubtful." 

Ibid.  Bonett  Sftm't  Fortiae,  act  i.  IC.  ii. 

UnaicAi.  Morals. — "  Keep  the  voice  in 
tune,  and  there  will  then  be  no  discord  in  the 

War  women  from  their  civil  condiljon 
are  more  liable  to  consumption  than  men. 
— Bbimot.  Voi/age,  vol.  2,  p.  133. 

MoBAi.  effect  which  man  may  produce 


THOBOuflH  knowledge  of  an  individual 
character  is  whet  nothing  but  thorough  in- 
timacy can  give. 

Foolk's  grandfather  used  to  say  that  we 
possess  senses  of  which  we  are  not  con- 
scious ;  and  that  through  some  subtle  ether 
which  affects  us,  we  not  only  discover  when 


our  fi'iends   ore  at  hand,   but  also  thai 
thoughts  when  they  ar«  very  distant." 

"  Totoamvi  atque  Foetia 

Quidlibet  audendi  semper  fuit  «qua  po- 

testas."  JiKOH  DoDZK,  p.  366.' 

Wax  women  are  thirstier  than  men.— 
"  Cest  qutf  rien  n'all«re  tant  que  le  beau- 
coup,  Bouvent  et  vehement  parler,  que  noni 
disons  bablUer,  dont  les  fenmies  se  sf  avail 
fort  bien  esciimer." — Bodchbt.  SeTtt*,t. 
3,  p.  13. 

"  —  pour  ce  que  I'esprit  de  tout  homoM 
uatgrandementrecre^oyaiitetvoyant  chose 
plajsante  et  agreable  k  I'orsUe  et  k  I'liiL* 
—Ibid.  82. 

A.  HODSE  at  Athens  in  which  all  who  irae 
bom  were  fools,  for  which  reason  it  was 
pulled  down  by  order  of  the  State.— Hud 
p.  224. 

T.  P001.B  tells  me  that  he  has  a  tame 
nightingale,  which,  twice  a  year  at  the  time 
of  migration,  is  agitated  in  a  remarkahle 
manner,  moving  its  wings  and  its  head  on 
its  perch,  as  if  instinctively  restless,  and  fint- 
tering  as  if  it  would  fain  be  on  ib  fiigfaL 

New  friendships  to  be  looked  out  for.— 
Cbokbb's  .BiMuie^  vol.  1,  p.  2S3. 

JoHHSOH  said  that  insanity  had  grown 
more  frequent  since  smoking  had  gone  oat 
of  fashion.  Hiis  was  because  he  had  s 
high  opinion  of  the  sedative  influence  of 
smoking. — Ibid.  p.  305. 

"  Sjepx  feras  dextrss  pennipotentis 
opem."  Dotzi,  p.  427. 

Johnson  stud  that  in  his  whole  life  be 
capable  of  discerning  the  least 


It  is  hardly  nscessary  to  say  that  tht»  is  » 
paraphrase  of  Hot.  A.  P.  ».  9.  Hie  qootstioD 
is  from  the  fifth  Sat.  of  Donased.  IBW. 

J.  W.  W. 


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resemblance  of  any  kind  between  a  picture 
■nd  tlie  subject  it  wu  intended  to  repre- 
•ent. — Cbosjib's  BotmeU,  vol.  1,  p.  3SJ. 

**  NoTHina,"  Bud  Joshmh,  "  is  little  to 
him  Chat  feels  it  with  great  sensibilitj,  and 

mind  able  to  see  common  incidenta  in 
their  real  state,  ia  disposed  bj  yety  cohuhod 
incidentB  to  Terj  Beriooa  contemplatioD." — 
Ibid.  p.  360. 

Thb  bite  of  a  gnat  maj  produce  erjsi- 
pdai  and  death  in  certua  States  of  the  con- 
BtitutkuL 

£ia4T  on  the  future  life  of  brute  crea- 
tarei,  bj  Bp.  Deam,  Curate  of  MJddleton 
i.D.  1768. 

"  Whbd  some  one  peculiar  qualit; 
Doti)  BO  poBseas  a  man,  that  it  dotb  draw 
All  his  eflecta,  his  Epirits  and  bis  powers, 
Id  their  conflactions  all  to  run  one  waj, 
Hi)  maj  be  tnil;  laid  to  be  a  humour." 
Bbs  Johson.  Every  Man  oat  of  hit 
vol.  iL  p.  16. 


"A  WBUi-TuiBULKD  fellow;  hewouldbave 
made  a  good  ccdumn,  an  he  had  been  thought 
<m  when  the  house  was  a  building."— Ibid, 
p.  23. 

"  0  CBM  Tolubil  fiume 
Dt  ben  scelte  parole  egU  spandea 
Dal  cor  jnofondo." 

CauBmuLA,  ToL  2,  p.  177.' 

"  Ch'bi  sparga 
La  rimembruua  mia  d'oscuro  obblio. 
Nulla  non  monla.     Di  Famaso  i  canti, 
Le  lunghe  iatorie,  de  cbe  van  famou 
Tanto  gli  Scipioni  e  git  Alessaodri. 
Non  recano  conforto  in  questo  regno 
Oltramondano.     E*  vanitade  il  Hondo ; 
Son  Tsnitade  le  sue  glorie,  ed  empie 

'  It  is  the  Venetian  Editiun  of  1TB3  that  is 
htn  nferrad  to.  It  is  before  ms,  and  marked 
Ihraughopt.— J.  W.  W. 


Bio  lusinghier  di  sanitate  altrui, 

8e  ben  salda  ragion  non  nel  difende." 

Ibid.  p.  179. 

Nostrc  speranze.     lo  lacrimaado  acrissi 
Amaramente  quesle  note,  e  prego 
Ogni  inima  gentil,  che  amaramente 
NoQ  meno  lagrimando  anco  le  leggs. 

Ibid.  p.  183. 

"  MaIi  vive  uom  che  non  beve." 

Ibid.  p.  IBS. 

"  Gkavusima  beaCemmia 

Prenda  1'  uom,  che  fa  I'arte 

Di  ministrare  a  Marte 

Micidlale  acciajo. 

Sia  felice  il  Bottajo ; 

Ei  sol  fabbrica  in  terra, 

L'arche,  dore  si  serra 

Di  Bacca  il  bel  tesoro, 

Bello  vie  piil  che  I'oro."— Ibid.  p.  I8». 

"  SFoaTOHATo,  sventurato 


Ben  nel  mondo  ^  quel  terreno, 
Nel  cui  sen  non  si  produce 
Questa  luce, 
Questo  nettare  terreno." — Ibid.  p.  209. 

"  L'amabilb  licore 

A  nimallpgmfnni  " — Ibid.  p.  313. 

Hb  "  onlj  shakes  his  bottle  head,  and 
out  of  his  corkj  brain  squeezeth  out  a 
pitiful  learned  face,  and  is  silent." — Bbk 
JoNBOH.  Ct/nthiiai  ReeeU,  vol.  2,  p.  229. 

"  I  AH  a  rhinoceros,  if  I  thirik  a  creatnri 
of  my  symmetry  could  dare  so  inpropor- 
tionable  and  abrupt  a  digression." — Ibid, 
p.  240. 

"  Sbb  is  like  one  of  the  ignorant  poe- 
tasters  of  the  time,  who,  when  thej  have  got 
acquainted  with  a  strange  word,  never  rest 
till  thej  hare  wrung  it  in,  though  it  loosen 
the  whole  fabric  of  their  sense." — Ibid.  p. 


Salutes  a  fnend  as  il  lie  naa  a  stitco, 
Is  his  own  chronicle,  and  scarce  can  eat 
For  registring  himself." — Ibid.  p.  282. 

"OWB 

Can  change  and  varj  with  all  forms  he  sees, 
Be  any  thing  but  honest ;  serves  the  time ; 
Hovers  betvrixt  two  factions,  and  explores 
The  drifls  of  both,  which  with  cross  face, 

he  bears 
To  the  divided  heads,  and  is  received 
With  mutual  grace  of  either.** 

Ibid.  p.  283. 

The  Solemn  Address.     **Two  lips  wag- 
ging, and  never  a  wise  word.** — Ibid.  p.  334. 


"  Eastbsm  Dbspotism. — ^The  lady  of  Mr. 
Macneil,  the  physician  to  the  mission,  was 
one  day  in  the  Zenanab,  in  Persia,  when  she 
observed  one  of  the  princes,  a  boy  of  ten 
years  of  age,  with  a  handkerchief  tied  over 
his  eyes,  groping  about  the  apartment.  Upon 
inquiring  what  he  was  doing,  he  said,  that 
as  he  knew  that  when  the  Shah,  his  father, 
died,  he  should  have  his  eyes  put  out,  he 
was  trying  to  see  what  he  could  do  without 
them." — ^Alexandeb*s  Travels. 

*'  The  sinister  application 
Of  the  malicious,  ignorant,  and  base 
Interpreter ;  who  will  distort  and  strain 


— i^ 


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499 


Character  of  Comiah  pigs. — Woboan*8 
CamwaOj  pp.  155-7. 

Mr.  Grej,  near  Bath,  has  crossed  his, 
which  have  China  blood  in  them,  with  the 
wild  boar  of  Jamaica.— Ibid.  p.  156. 

Nothing  has  answered  so  well  as  the  cross 
between  the  Quartlej  sow  and  the  grej 
boar ;  the  produce  seems  to  have  ererj  me- 
rit.— ^Ibid. 

Pig  perfection. — Euex  Survey^  vol.  2,  p. 
341. 

Axm  ALcuiJB,  mites,  &c.  made  to  con- 
sume, and  to  be  consumed. 

QnrBT.  Readers  made  for  authors,  or 
authors  made  for  readers  ?  Hie  monstrous 
faith  of  manj  made  for  one. 

Mahomioedam  notion  of  pictures  and  sta- 
tues requiring  of  the  artista  a  soul  at  the 
daj  of  judgment :  applied  to  ideal  charac- 
ter»— claiming  a  bodj. 

"  We'll  have  a  device,  a  dainty  one. 
Now,  "Wit,  help  at  a  pinch ;  good  Wit,  come ; 
come,  good  Wit,  an*  it  be  thy  will ! — Bbh 
JoirsoN,  Bart.  Fair^  vol.  4,  p.  395. 

^  Now,  gentles,  I  take  it,  here  is  none  of 

you  so  stupid. 
But  that  you  have  heard  of  a  little  god  of 

love  called  Cupid.**         Ibid.  p.  523. 

It  must  have  been  a  poor  quirk  or 
quibbler  that  escaped  him,  or  rather  that 
he  let  slip,  when  he  was  on  the  wait,  to 
"watch  and  apprehend  it,  and  bring  it  afore 
the  constable  of  conceit." — ^id.  p.  375. 

Hanisnjs  told  S.  Evremond  that  he  had 
read  more  than  800  volumes  in  order  to 
make  his  notes  upon  Ovid. 

Que  Heinsius  tout  avide 
Pour  ses  notes  sur  Ovide, 
Ait  devor^  tout  confus 
Huit  cens  volumes,  et  plus.** 

S.  EVBBMOMD,  t.  4,  p.  369. 


'*  Jb  voudrois  que  Tlgnorance 
S*ezpo8&t  moins  hardiment  $ 

Je  voudrois  que  la  Science 
Se  montrftt  discr^tement, 

Avec  moins  de  suffisance 
£t  plus  de  discernement.** 

Ibid.  p.  368. 

^  Lbt  not  that  offend  you,  worthy  reader, 
If  I  be  honest,  and  that  all  the  cheat 
Be  of  myself,  in  keeping  this  light  heart.** 
Bbh  Jomsoh.     New  Inn, 
vol.  5,  p.  336. 

*•  No  more  of  Love*s  ungrateful  tyranny ; 
His  wheel  of  torture,  and  his  pits  of  bird- 
lime. 
His  neta  of  nooses,  whirlpools  of  vexation, 
His  mills  to  grind  his  servants  into  powder.** 

Ibid.  p.  420. 

"  Whbbbas  it  becomes  men  to  vent  their 
amorous  passions  at  their  pleasure,  we  poor 
souls  must  rake  up  our  affections  in  the 
ashes  of  a  burnt  heart.** — Flavia  in  AWu- 
mazar^  Old  Plays^  vol.  7,  p.  154. 

**  Now  am  I  for  a  hunting  match.    Yon 

thickets 
Shelter  a  boar,  which  spoils  the  ploughman*s 

hope; 
Whose  jaws  with  double  sword,  whose  back 

is  arm*d 
With  bristled  pikes ;  whose  fume  inflames 

the  air, 
And  foam  besnows  the  trampled  com.   This 

beast 
I  long  to  see  come  smoaking  to  a  feast.** 

FitimuB  Troes,  Ibid.  p.  388. 

"  Ubtil  I  see  him  I  am  drunk  with  thirst, 
And  surfeited  with  hunger  of  his  presence.** 
Lady  Framptd  in  the  New  Imt,  Bbh 
JoNSON,  vol.  5,  p.  428. 

^  Bbtobb  you  judge,  vouchsafe  to  under- 
stand.*' 

Bbh  Jobson.     Prologtie  to  the 
New  Inn, 


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"  Hb  that  first  MCends  to  b  mounlain'B  tflp 
Must  begin  at  the  foot." 

MiDDLXTOH.   Old  Flagt,  xi. 

Mayor  of  Qainborougk,  p.  140. 

"  Thx  plumage  that  steals  half  the  ruubow's 

Throwsoffthepeltinga  of  the  angriest  skies." 
CkamtUon,  vol.  2,  p.  41. 

"  Week  werda  are  melt«d  in  the  furnace 


Che  bel  fin  fa  chl  ben  amando  muore." 
Pittro  Arttino.  Op.  BvW.  toI.  2,  p.  229. 

*'  Ch'  a  chi  non  cerca  bene,  bene, 
La  ragion  delle  cose,  avriene  speiso 
Ch'  i  piglia  ilben  per  inBle,e'l  mnl  per  bene." 
Bromino  Pittort,  Ibid.  p.  265. 

"  Vol  sapete,  la  ragione 
Tuo)  estere  ajutato,  chc  so  io."     Ibid. 

"  i  QoB  cosB  haj  en  la  ^erra  qne  no  tenga 
Crecientes  y  menguantes,  *aya  y  venga?" 

BlLBDBHA,  TOl.  3,  p.  137. 

"  1 0  cielos !  j  u  el  trabajo  dilatado 
For  tantos  anos  desta  historia  roia 
Ha  de  desparecer  la  Toladora 
Y  cni£l  arpia  del  tiempo  en  sola  un  bora?" 
Ibid.  p.  163. 


Uasloca  seria 
"Mu 


ic  jnzgan  ser  loca, 
en  tal  me  juzgasse." 
Qmilum  tit  Amor. 


usa  in  fhitti.e  non  in  fiors'iDVt^lia." 
BaHni.   Op.  Burl.  vol.  2,  p.  322. 


GoBTHB  hated  dogs. — Uks.  Adstin,  vol. 
1,  p.  77. 

His  epigram. — Ibid.  p.  2S3. 


"  It  ought  never  to  be  forgotten  that  it 
is  not  to  the  head  alone,  but  to  another  part 
held  in  less  reverence  by  the  public,  tl 
the  tegular  hexagonal  celb  of  the  bee  oire 
both  Bubctance  and  form. — Gokibe,  itud. 
p.  94. 

LoTB  lometimes  transferable,  like  For- 
gatory  stock. 

Sons  of  the  Fathers  saw  the  cron  ii 
eterythlng.  "  For  observe,"  says  Jdstiii 
MAsm,  in  his  Apology  (g  72)  how  impoe- 
■ible  it  b  that  anything  in  the  world  should 
be  regulated,  or  any  mutual  intercoorBe 
carried  on,  without  employing  this  Ggaic 
The  sea  canoot  be  oaTigated,  unlsia  tU> 
symbol,  as  the  mast  and  yard-arm  of  the 
sail,  remains  firm  in  the  ship.  Without  u 
instrument  in  this  form,  the  land  cannot 
be  ploughed ;  neither  can  they  who  dig  ex- 
ercise their  labour,  nor  baDdicraftmen  pv- 
sue  their  occupations,  withont  implenieiiti 
which  are  fashioned  in  like  manner.  ~ 
human  figure  also  difiera  firom  those  of  i^ 
rational  animals  in  no  respect  but  this,  thai 
it  is  erect,  and  hath  the  hands  extended; 
and  in  the  countenance  also  hath  the  n 
reaching  domiward  from  the  forehead,  bj 
which  we  are  able  to  breathe.  This  sgiin 
shows  no  figure  but  that  of  the  cross." 


In  the  days  of  Hndibnu  there  were 
BO  curious  in  tbe  management  of  their  bMKbi 
that  they  had  pasteboard  cases  to  put  oier 
them  in  the  night,  lest  they  should  turn 
upon  them  and  rumple  them  in  their  sleep-' 
^jbbt's  Hud&rat,  vol.  I,  p.  34. 

SeluD  I.  was  the  first  Turk  who  shaved 
his  beard,  contrary  to  the  Koran  and  W 
custom.  When  the  roufU  Tcprimanded  hiai, 
he  answered,  that  he  ^d  it  to  prevent  ha 
risier's  having  anything  to  lead  him  by. 

Bacon  quoted  Apoll.  No.  162. 


COLLECTIONS  FOK  THE  DOCTOR,  ETC. 


"HoMHB  roux  et  femme  barbuc, 
De  trente  paa  loin  le  salue, 
ATeeqiies  trols  pierres  au  poing. 
Pour  t'eD  aider  k  ton  besoing." 

Lbiqh'b  ObtervaHoia,  p.  411. 


usic  practicaU;  known  long  before  it 
scientificalljr  underatood  and  reduced 

rinciples. 

te  concerning  Fjtbagoras,  Mncrobiiu, 
SpecUtor,  No.  3S4.  Grey's  Hndibras, 
1,  p.  97. 

,  tiempo  lo  hari  claro,  j  ml  ntotivo 
ssbioK,  que  es  el  pneblo  i  qnien  eBcribo." 
Bambvbsa,  Tol.  3,  p.  163. 

"  FAHt,  de  los  tiempos  rejna, 
con  Tuelo  immortal,  j  acentfls  gr&rea, 
e  aquf,  donde  la  obscura  nocbe  rcTiia, 
ta  donde  entre  mibicaa  suayet 
I  alba,  de  oro  lua  cabellog  pejna, 
papeles,  mia  versos,  mis  razones 
ira  de  naciones  en  nacioDet." — Ibid. 

E  COK  ragione,  e  ai^menti  nuovi, 
E  con  eaempli,  e  con  autoritate." 
BronzinQ  PUtore.     Op.  Bwl.  vol.  3, 
p.  977. 


'  tbou  be  maater-gunner,  spend  not  all 
t  tbou  canst  speak  at  once,  but  husband 
it."  Hebbb&t,  p.  23. 

WHEBBfORB  with  jaj  utmost  art 

I  will  ung  thee ; 
jid  the  crwatt  of  all  mj  heart 

I  will  bring  thee."— Ibid.  p.  152. 

"  Ir  I  have  more  to  spin. 
The  wheel  shall  go." — Ibid.  p.  160. 

"  Now,  foolish  thought,  go  on  t 
pin  out  thy  thread." — Tbid.  p.  162. 


"  Such  a  feart  as  mends  in  length." 

"  SocH  a  way  as  gives  na  breath." 

Ibid. 

"  Hh  that  duly  spies 
Twin  babies  in  his  mistress'  Gemini's, 
Whereto  his  sod  devotion  does  impart 
The  sweet  burnt-offering  of  a  bleeding 
heart."  Quakles.    Emb.  p.  34. 

"  I  WISH  thee  as  much  pleasure  in  the 
reading,  as  I  had  in  the  writing." — Qdablbs 
la  Ihe  Seader.    Frefaet  to  hit  Emblenu. 


"  No  tne  fsllece 
quanto  me  estaria  mejor  precianne  de  lo 
que  callasse,  que  arrepentirme  de  lo  que 
dizesse." — Diego  de  S.  Pedro.  Carcel  de 
Amor.     Ep.  Ded. 

"  CoMO  quiera  que  prlmero  que  me  de- 
terminasse,  estuve  en  grandes  dudaa." — 
Di^o  de  S.  Pedro.     Carcel  de  Amor. 

"  Y  Bi  tal  se  hallare,  por  cierto  mas  culpa 
tiene  en  ello  mi  olvido  que  mi  querer." — 
Ibid. 

"  Thb  Jews  say  that  every  Individual  of 
the  human  race  actually  existed  in  Adam, 
some  in  his  nails,  some  in  his  toes,  eyes,  mouth, 
&c.  &c.  and  that  In  proportion  to  the  proxi- 
mity of  the  position  of  any  person  to  the 
parts  concerned  in  eating  and  digesting  the 
forbidden  fruit,  will  be  their  degree  of  guilt 
and  measure  of  punishment  here.  So 
they  consider  that  Job  had  his  place  near 
the  mouth." — Gbove's  Jourttal  at  Bagdad, 


"  You  never  knew — a  tripe-eater 
Become  a  tyrant." 

Caetwbioht.  Ordmary. 

Old  I^j/i,  I.,  p.  1S3. 

Carcel  de  Amor,  p.  5.  FirrEBX  reasoni 
why  men  ought  not  to  speak  ill  of  women, 
and  twenty  why  they  ought  to  Kpeak  well. 


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"  Mas  70  que  por  Un  alto  psralelo 
Fuera  voj  de  Cftminot  ordinirioa, 
Al  bkzo  Biielo  Tuelfo." 

El  Bernardo,  toI.  3,  p.  9. 

"  Pnur*  joull  find 
Some  prettj'  itoriei  is  the  honginga  there.' 
Cartituoht,  p.  216. 

"  Wheh  I 
Lerel  mj  larger  tliougbta  unto  the  buea 
Of  th^  deep  shAllowiiest."— Ibid  p.  222. 

Makuaoi  for  propertj'B  sake — 

"  The  church  hu  nought  in  this. 

nieir  lawyer  is  the  priest  that  marries  them, 

The  indenturei  are  the  bums  of  matrimon;, 

The  bounda  and  land-marks  are  th«  ring 

that  joins  tlkem. 

Mas.  Old  Couple.  Old  Plug,  x.  p.  3S8. 

"  Tbbkk  raaj  be  an  emptiness  in  vanity ; 
but  the  mind  of  man  would  be  still  emptier, 
if  it  were  totallj  without  it."— Dakbt,'  p. 


Ualbacco  in  the  play  says, 
"Fori,  poor  man,  joined  woe  unto  my  name 
By  choosing  out  a  woman  for  mj  wife." 
Grim  the  Collier,  p.  193.      Old  Playi, 
si.  p.  193. 

GniM  himself  says,  "  every  night  I  dream 
I  am  a  town-top,  and  that  I  am  trhipt  up 
and  down  with  the  scourge  stick  of  love  and 
the  meud  of  afiectioD."  F— Ibid.  p.  206. 

"  On  whose  coDversatioD  and  sweet  temper 

would  drive 
Tediousness  ont  of  time." 

DiVBjtpoBT's  Cits  J^ight  Cap,  Ibid, 
p,  268. 

— ^'MoLTirimedjassaipJilleggieriadtr- 
li,  cbe  a  metterle  in  operailone." — Sahaz* 
zABO,  Arcadia.   Pant.  Ilal  tom.  16,  p  112. 


Ibid.  p.  214.  Hbkbs  declaring  C 
perties,  and  how  yoa  are  to  hear  thi 
they  thank  the  (>eator  for  the  virl 
which  he  has  endued  them. 

"  It  was  remaiked  from  St.  Mai 
pit  in  Cambridge,  on  Whitsunday, 
gin  of  tongues  waa  not  conferred  ( 
man  b  the  miradeof  tliat  day." — N 
10.  vol.  6,  p.  628. 

"  At  the  opening  of  one  of  Lad 
tingdon's  tabemaclee,  a  preacher  - 
his  text  nothing  but  the  word  Betl 
Dartford.  It  was  said  that  this  ch^ 
afterwards  be  so  named  in  coos< 
though  Zion  Cht^vel  was  already  pi* 
the  door."— Ibid.  p.  674. 

"  I  CAMMOT  lubacribe  to  this  sens 
enough ;  let  it  go  for  a  branch ;  cs 
the  body  of  the  tree."— Tb.  Asamb, 
Banjul,  p.  Q. 

"  If  there  is  any  obligation  on  eitl 
the  World  is  certainly  as  much  indi 
him  (or  hia  book,  aa  he  can  be  to  t 
reading  it." — Majoi  jAXDina'a  J\ 

"  It  is  not  nncommon  in  Horocc 
a  doctor  to  death  for  letting  hia  pati 
if  a  prince  or  a  great  man." — Ibid 
p.  176. 

"  Amd  why.  Sir,  must  th 
Hie  isijr  is  plain  as  way  bi  parish  i 
A»  goH  like  it,  act  ii.  » 

TaSEK  lives  witbtn  the  very  flam< 
A  kind  of  wick,  or  snuff,  that  will  al 
Ban^  act  ir.  ac 


"  EsTA  me  < 
tan  atado  en  lo  mas  hondo 
del  alma,  que  el  alma  mismi 
Alcayde  del  calaboso. 


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Mbe  el  preso  que  guarda, 


troll  in  Calderom'i  pU;,  £1  Q<ir' 
bien  dadot  aaya 


DKODi  dediuted  an  image  to  Luigh- 
:h  he  made  a  god,  or  at  leaat  would 
be  worshipped  for  a  god,  to  make 
lie  merrj  at  their  public  feaita  and 
1." — Hakkwbu^  p.  812. 

■^  no  itay,  dot  aught  perturberance 
use  me  to  omit  the  furtherance 
mj  weighty  charge." 

Apius  aad  Virgmia.   Old  Pliyi, 
vol.  IS,  p.  360. 

1  re  taatt  noD  ex  animo  loquar  t" 
Tbbbhtiub  Xtn.  yaanuat,  p.  11 . 

lak  me  up  the  braxeu  doors  of  dreamt, 
id  m«  curaed  Morpheus  in  a  chain, 
ler  all  the  fanciea  of  the  night." 
Bob.  Gkbbkb,  vol.  1,  p.  114. 

uis  qiuerat,  Ci 


juvant ;  nuUi  delituisac  nocet, 

roa  ungues,  morauaque  rerentur  ini- 

are  prirato  que  sibi  quisque  catiit. 
i  sum  judex,  htc  sum  mihi  lector,  et 

a;DecplBUBu  siqnamerenturiegent. 
1  me  positis  dum  pascunc  otia  curia, 
poasit  Toto  plenius  ease  meoF" 
Waujus,  p.  180. 

Jt  quimns  quod  aiuot ;  qusndo  ut 
1  non  licet."— Tmbbtics  Xtn.  Ne- 
p.9. 

rnvtrr  aaimonim  a^nina  vultne," — 
IS,  p.  S9. 


quas  non  alieno  Tocabulo  ralphnratss  nomi- 
nari  posse  existimabat,  quod  ob  egre^am 
indolis  mommque  consensionem  statim  pri- 
mo  congresau  altera  alterins  amore  ioordes- 
cat."— Ibid.  p.  242. 

"  Cowslip  water  is  good  for  the  me- 
mory."— WsBSTEi,  vol.  1,  p.  146. 

Dn.  GnBooanis  LAMrKKCHTxn,  Chan- 
cellor of  Wirtemberg,  and  afterwarda  of 
Charles  the  Fifth's  Conncil,  used  to  aay  that 
every  prince  should  have  two  fooli,  one 
whom  he  might  hear,  and  the  other  who 
might  hear  him.  "  Einen  den  er  vexert, 
den  andem  der  ilm  Texert." — FuxMb  Ce«- 
cAtcts  der  Hofmartn,  p.  7. 

Tns  Silesian  baker.  —  Ibid.  p.  3.  Like 
the  Poet  Laureat  of  Trowbridgi;. 

FuMmi.  thinks  that  in  France  the  Court 
poet  was  also  Court  fool  by  virtue  of  his 
office.  "  Fou  du  Roi  en  litre  d'office" — eo 
that  the  epigram  upon  Cibber  might  in  that 
country  have  been  amere  truth. — Ibid.  p.  4. 

Fablb  that  when  Fromethemi  made  a 
man,  he  took  something  from  every  beast 
to  make  up  the  heterogeneous  compound  ; 
timidity  from  the  hare,  cunning  from  the 
foi,  pride  from  the  peacock,  fiercenesa  from 
the  tiger,  &c.  Horace,  lib.  1.  Ode  16,— 
Fi^oQEi.  Kimitch  Lateral.  toI.  1,  p,  103. 


asking  the  pilot  the  name 
of  a  very  beautiful  island,  and  the  answer 
waa  573,  the  number  assigned  to  it  in  the 
hydrographical  Burvey,  and  the  only  name 
bj  which  it  was  known." — Capt.  Hamilton. 
Men  and  Manncrt,  vol.  2,  p.  197. 
On  the  Mississippi. 

"  HsBE  is  overmuch  wit  iu  good  eameat." 
Gbeens,  vol.  2,  p.  112. 


IS  trillill  down  his  throat, 


504 


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*'The  greatest  clerks  are  not  the  wisest; 
and  a  fool  maj  dance  in  a  hood,  as  well  as 
a  wise  man  in  a  bare  frock." — ^Ibid.  p.  115. 

^  Makb  you  a  why  of  that  ?** 

Ibid.  Tol.  2,  p.  7. 

^*  The  thirstj  earth  is  broke  with  manj  a 

gap» 
And  lands  are  lean  where  rivers  do  not  run." 

Ibid.  p.  139. 

"  LsT  all  men  know 
That  tree  shall  long  time  keep  a  steady  foot, 
Whose  branches  spread  no  wider  than  the 
root." — Wbbstbb,  vol.  1,  p.  124. 

^  Thb  Egyptian  mummies  which  Cam- 
byses  or  time  hath  spared,  avarice  now  con- 
sumeth :  mummy  is  become  merchandize ; 
Mizraim  cures  wounds ;  and  Pharaoh  is  sold 
for  balsam." — Sib  Thomas  Bbowme.  Urn 
BuriaL 

^*  Such  unnatural  and  horrid  physic." 

Wbbstbb,  vol.  1,  p.  10. 

*'  Wb  seldom  find  the  missehoe 
Sacred  to  physic,  or  the  builder  oak 
Without  a  mandrake  by  it." — Ibid.  p.  56. 

^*Iii  cold  countries  husbandmen  plant  vines, 
And  with  warm  blood  manure  them." 

Ibid.  p.  67. 

— "  Like  those  which,  aick  o*the  palsy,  and 

retain 
ni-scenting  foxes  *bout  them,  are  still 

shunned 
By  those  of  choicer  nostrils." — Ibid.  p.  96. 

Ltonnbt  reckoned  4061  muscles  in  the 
caterpillar  that  feeds  on  the  willow ;  and 
wrote  *'  as  goodly  a  volume  upon  these  as 
has  ever  been  dedicated  to  the  human  myo- 
logy." He  was  I  think,  says  Sir  Charles 
Bell,  a  lawyer  with  little  to  do. 

**  Ab  iguanadon  discovered  by  Mr.  Man- 
tell  is  estimated  to  have  been  70  feet  long, 


and  to  have  had  extremities.  But  the  thigh 
and  leg  did  not  exceed  eight  feet  in  length, 
while  the  foot  extended  to  six  feet, — a  pro- 
portion, altogether,  which  implies  that  the 
extremities  assisted  the  animal  to  crawl, 
rather  than  they  were  capable  of  bearing 
its  weight." — Bell's  Bridgeunter  Trtatue^ 
p.  240. 

In  the  catechism  of  the  Diocese  of  Bruges, 
one  of  the  questions  was  **  O^  est  Tenier  T 
And  the  answer  was  ^  L*enfer  est  au  centre 
de  la  terre,  et  11  y  a  pr^cisement  quinxe 
oens  lieues  d*ici." — Amnuemem  d^AixhCkti' 
peUe^  vol.  2,  p.  369. 

Pbophecibs  from  arms,  badges,  snd 
names.  —  Statute9y  Henry  VIIL  voL  3,  p. 
850. 

W.  AusTnf*8  Hae  Homo;  wherein  the 
excellency  of  the  creation  of  woman  is  de- 
scribed. Dedicated  to  Mrs.  Mary  Griffith, 
1639.  Two  portraits.  Perhaps  of  the  au- 
thor and  the  lady. 

Wholbsomb  luxuries,  which  are  the 
magnalia  of  humble  life,  and  the  tUimlitia 
of  the  great 

Ram  Runer. — ^  Runas  acerbas,  vel  ami- 
ras,"  the  magic  Rune  are  called.  Olatt 
Wbrmhu,  2. 

Cabfoh  and  Ordnance.  Odd,  the  donUe 
meaning  of  both  words. 

"  Et  fort'C  mi  bisognera  ragionar  un  poco 
piu  diffusamente  che  non  si  conviene,  mt 
questo  sara  quanto  io  posso  dire." — II  Cor- 
tegiano^  vol.  1,  p.  45. 

"  YiDBTB  la  musica,  Tarmonie  della  quale 
hor  son  grave,  e  tarde,  hor  velocissime  et  di 
novi  modi,  et  nientedimeno  tutte  dilettano, 
ma  per  diverse  cause." — Ibid.  p.  53. 


CuYiBB  himself  designed  the  patterns  for 
the  embroidery  of  his  court  and  institute 


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505 


1 


ooato;  mvented  all  the  costumes  of  the 
Uniyersitj,  and  drew  the  model  for  the 
imiform  of  the  conncil,  which  drawing  ac- 
companied the  decree  bj  which  it  was  esta- 
blished. 

Ih  <me  of  Webster's  plays  (vol.  1,  p.  148), 
aghost  enters  in  his  leather  cassock,  breeches, 
I  and  boots. 


^  Ain>,  O  contemptible  physic  I  that  dost 

take 
So  long  a  study,  only  to  preserve 
So  short  a  life,  I  take  my  leave  of  thee  T* 

WjrasTBX,  vol.  1,  p.  154. 

*^  Tbub,  my  lord,  I  myself  have  heard  a 
Tery  good  jest ;  and  have  scorned  to  seem 
to  have  so  silly  a  wit  as  to  understand  it" 
-Ibid.  p.  182. 

**  Hb  had  worn  gunpowder  in  his  hollow 
tooth,  for  the  toothach.*'— Ibid.  p.  247. 

**Tiu  robin-redbreast  and  the  nightingale 
Never  live  long  in  cages.** — ^Ibid.  p.  267. 

'*  Phtsigians  are  like  kings. 
They  brook  no  contradiction.** — ^p.  292. 

"  Give  it  me  in  a  breath  I — 
They  that  think  long,  small  expedition  win, 
But  musing  much  o*  the  end,  cannot  begin.** 

Ibid.  p.  295. 

Norfolk's  correspondence  with  the  Bi- 
shop of  Ross,  Leicester,  and  Throckmorton 
was  carried  on  by  letters  which  were  sent 
in  ale  bottles. — Camdeii*8  Elizabeth^  p.  132. 

^  It  makes  me  smile  in  scorn, 
That  wise  men  cannot  imderstand  them- 
selves. 
Nor  know  their  own  proved  greatness.** 

Wbbstbb,  vol.  2,  p.  150.    Appiui 
and  Vir^. 

"  The  soul, 
Whose  essence,  some  suppose,  lives  in  the 
blood.**  Ibid.  p.  243. 


'^  It  was  wholesome  advice  that  one  gave 
his  lewd  friend,  that  he  should  hang  the 
picture  of  his  grave  and  serious  father  in 
the  room  where  he  was  wont  to  celebrate 
his  debauches;  imagining  that  the  severe 
eye  of  the  good  old  man,  though  but  in 
effigy,  could  give  a  check  to  the  wanton 
sallies  of  the  intemperate  youth.** — Sgott*8 
Christian  Life,  vol.  1,  p.  100.^ 

Abistotlb  commends  Archytas  for  his 
invention  of  rattles,  because  children,  by 
playing  with  them,  are  kept  from  breaking 
vessels  of  use. — ^Ibid.  p.  108. 

** — XT  aussi  pour  fiiir  la  trop  grande  pro- 
lixity pour  laquelle  certes  je  me  sens  tr^- 
capable.** — ^Bbahtome,  vol.  1,  p.  120. 

" — Fob  to  know  it,  is  to  be  resolved  of 
it ;  and  to  be  resolved  of  it,  is  to  make  no 
question  of  it ;  and  when  a  case  is  out  of 
Uie  question, — ^what  was  I  saying?**— Wbb- 
stbb, Norihard  Ho,  vol.  3,  p.  147. 

SoMB  one  has  written  the  '*  Life  and 
Death  of  Adam  I*'  12mo.  2«.  6<f.  1811. 

**Thx  Hebrew  conjugations,  Pihel  and 
Puhal,  signify  to  do  a  thing  diligently,  ear- 
nestly, fervently,  &C.,  and  are  only  distin- 
guished by  the  vowel  points  from  the  con- 
jugation Kal,  which  simply  states  that  the 
thing  is  done.** — Adam  Clabkb,  Chron.  Sue, 
of  Sacred  Literature,  vol.  1,  p.  23. 

Clemens  Alexandbinus  advises  white 
raiment,  and  condemns  dies  of  every  kind 
as  useless  and  unbecoming. — Ibid.  p.  119. 

He  recommends  women  to  wear  shoes 
that  should  cover  the  upper  part  of  the  foot 
as  well  as  the  sole. — Ibid. 

Tebtuixiab  says  that  the  apostate  angels 
when  they  fell  in  love  with  women,  taught 

>  This  refers  to  the  folio  edition.  Southey 
thought  very  highly  of  J.  Scott's  works.  They 
were  reprinted  at  the  Clar.  press  in  1826. 

J.  W.  W. 


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them  the  use  of  gold  and  silver,  the  virtaes 
of  plants,  and  the  power  of  incantations. — 
Ibid.  p.  135. 

Obioin  thought  that  the  bodies  of  the 
saints  at  the  resurrection  would  be  sphe- 
rical.— Ibid.  p.  163. 

As  Mr.  Clarke  sajs  of  St.  Jerome  (Ibid, 
p.  485),  ^'  the  tone  of  reflection  varies  as  his 
own  skilful  hand  draws  forth  the  music  of 
a  well  strung  mind,  or  as  he  allows  his  in- 
tellect to  be  played  on  in  submission  to  the 
higher,  or  wild,  or  rude  performance  of 
another.** 

Upon  a  misinterpretation  of  Job  xxv. 
5, "  Yea,  the  stars  are  not  pure  in  his  sight;** 
it  was  affirmed  bj  some  of  the  old  heretics 
(Friscellianists,  I  believe,),  that  the  stars 
have  rational  souls,  and  are  capable  of  sin. 
— CLA|tKE*8  Ecc,  Lit,  vol.  2,  p.  30. 

ViCTOB,  who  wrote  against  Augustine, 
and  held  that  unbaptized  infants  might  be 
saved,  asserted  that  the  cause  of  their  hap- 
piness or  misery  was  **  God*s  foreknowing 
what  works  they  would  have  done  had  they 
lived,  and  rewarding  them  accordingly." — 
Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  39. 

EiJZABSTH*s  accession,  English  exiles.  **I 
knew  one  right  well,**  says  Fulleb,  "  whose 
father  amongst  them,  being  desperately  dis- 
eased, was  presently  and  perfectly  cured 
with  the  cordial  of  this  good  news.'* — Ch, 
Hist  p.  52. 

Tho.  Nbwton  translated  from  the  Latin 
of  GuL  Gratarolus,  A  Direction  for  the 
Health  of  Magistrates  and  Students,  namely, 
such  as  be  in  their  consistent  age,  or  near 
thereunto.   a.d.  1574. 

There  are  extracts  from  it  in  the  BriHsh 
Bibliographer^  vol.  2,  p.  414. 

Nic.  Btfieu>  the  Puritan  died  at  forty- 
four  of  the  stone,  afler  fiileen  years*  suf- 
fering.   It  weighs  more  than  thirty-three 


ounces,  was  fifteen  and  a  half  indies 
sure  about  the  edge,  about  the  lengt 
thirteen,  about  the  breadth  almost  t 
— WooD*8  Athefug,  voL  2,  p.  326. 

Hopi/>GBisMA  spongus,  or  a  8p< 
wipe  away  the  weapon  salve;  wh 
proved  that  the  cure  taken  up  am 
by  applying  the  salve  to  the  wet 
magical  and  unlawful,  a.i>.  1631, 
Foster.  Dr.  Richard  Fludd  answer 
**  not  without  some  scorn  ;**  and  ( 
also  ridicules  him  in  an  Essay,  '*on 
condemn  all  they  understand  not  a 
for.**— Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  573. 

Wm.  Whatblt,  vicar  of  Banbu 
laid  the  foundation  of  Puritanism 
published,  a.d.  1624,  A  Care-d 
Treatise  of  the  Cumbers  and  Troi 
Marriage. — Ibid.  p.  639. 


^««^^«AMM^^^«^^^VS«S^WS^ 


Names. 

Faukt  the  Jesuit  *'  altered  his  C 
name  of  Arthur,  because,  as  his  1 
tells  us,  (W.  Burton,  in  his  Descri] 
Leicestershire,  p.  10,)  no  kalendar  si 
ever  of  that  name.**  He  assumed 
Laurence. — Fulubb*8  Church  His 
213. 

Classification  of  ships  from  A 1, 
— Report  on  ManufactureSy  1833,  p. 

ScBiBfAKSKT  and  George  Stone  wei 
in  the  days  of  the  bear  gard^. — Gb: 
dihrasy  vol.  1,  p.  127. 

Sackbbson,  whom  Master  Slend 
seen  loose  twenty  times,  and  taken 
the  chain. — Merry  Wives  of  Windso 
sc.  1. 

In  one  of  Wolsey*s  inventories, 
bed  called  the  Infantdage,  and  i 
called  the  Sun. — Eixis*s  Original 
vol.  2,  p.  15. 


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607 


Hebccui  d'Este. 

IMana  de  Foictier». 

A  Km  of  Uie  Count  de  Farstcnbei^  killed 

,  the  battle  of  C«iiM>Iles,  i*  called  Vulcan 
b;  F.  JoTiiu.  But  the  editor  of  Brantome 
iniqMMM  thu  Hue  miut  mean  Wol^iaug. — 
lUd.  vol.  0,  p.  4. 

AiTDUA  Doha  bad  a  gallerj'  called  La 
Temperance.— Ibid.  p.  60. 

Db.  Akaku,  whose  portrait  ii  in  the 
tovn  hall  at  Chalont,  mr  Harne. 

Hbks  I  Denek  an 

Pi.  131,  V.  1. 

Giii^er 

and  Elisabeth 

Lichtenatter, 

1B09. 

An  innkeeper  at  Ulm  thus  notified  his  inetj 

ud  his  name  on  a  slate-coloured  ^It  stone 

crudfii. — Dowhb's  LeUert,  toI.  2,  p,  44. 

HaaiA  GuBioaa,  a  bell  at  Eriinih,  said 
to  be  the  lai^t  in  Europe. — Ibid.  p.  443. 

Amumob,  according  U>  Reginald  Scott, 
ii  king  of  the  east ;  but,  according  to  San- 
die  Holme,  bis  dominion  is  on  ^e  north 
tide  of  the  infernal  gulf.  Barbatos  isagreat 
countie  or  earl ;  he  is  like  a  sagittary,  and 
halh  thirtj legions  under  him. — Suajufbab, 
{BoBWKu.)  N.  vol.  8,  p,  91. 

"OiTBofthc  first  calico  printers  in  France 
ume  to  England  expressly  in  search  of 
ideas  for  next  spring.  He  has  visited  all 
tlie  shops  in  London,  and  hsa  gone  home 
*ell  satisfied.  I  irent  to  Paris  three  weeks 
■go  lor  the  same  purpose." — Jambs  Tuoh- 
Kf,  Report  on  Mamfiularti,  1832.  P.  240. 

Batiko  of  Francis  the  First  about  a  fine 
*Mnin,  a  fine  horae,  and  a  fine  greyhound. 
— Biahtohb,  vol.  2,  p.  406. 

~Thu  point  which  at  that  time,  "coactUH 


sum  abbreviare,  imb  abnunpere  pUn^  prn* 
termisso  eo,  quod  et  tunc  quam  mazimft 
■criptum  volni,  nunc  otii  plusculnm  naetus, 
nescio  qukm  uervos^  verbose  certi  decrevi 
pertractare." — CBAHiuBloOMmiifr.  Cbav- 
■    ~      ■      toI.  1,  p.  803. 


Tkb  once  celebrated  phjeician,  Sirenus 
SammonicuB,  prescribe*  the  fourth  book  of 
the  nisd  to  be  laid  under  the  patient's  head, 
for  a  quartan  ague. — Preface  to  Gbbt's 
Htidibra*,  p.  xliii. 

In  the  island  of  Desolation,  South  Georgia, 
and  South  Shetland,  the  seals  have  already 
been  almost  destroyed. — P.  SIS,  Report  of 
Manajaetwtt,  jv.  1638. 

Ubh  of  whom  the  best  that  can  be  said 
i^  that  they  are  "of  the  better  sort  of 
beasts."— Hehbt  Mobb,  Th.  W.  ^  88. 

"  It  was  said  of  one  who,  with  more  in- 
dustry than  judgment,  frequented  a  college 
library,  and  commonly  made  use  of  the  worst 
notes  he  met  with  in  any  author,  that  he 
weeded  the  library." — FoLLxa,  Mob/  SUUe, 
p.  149. 

CoMHDHiCATma  with  the  dead  by  keep- 
ing their  memory  alive. — Adam  Littlitoh, 
p.  62,  Funeral  Senmon, 

Db.  Bbaui  made  "  rests  for  water  on  the 
body  of  Kentish  codlin  trees,  and  caused 
water  to  be  frequently  poured  into  those 
cavities.  The  effect  was,  that  the  apples 
grew  to  an  extraordinary  site,  but  were 
very  insipid,  and  many  of  them  had  parts 
in  appearancea  much  like  the  pulp  of  lemons. 
Some  he  suffered  to  hang  on  the  tree  as  long 
as  they  would,  and  these  became  full  of  spots 
ofthe  colour  of  earth,  or  like  the  rottenness 
ofanapple."— <4ir.Fft^.7VaiM.vol.l,p.335. 

Suckling  gooseberries. 

Holder's  classification  ofthe  elements  of 
speech. — Ibid.  p.  363. 

A  way  of  dwarfing  men,  by  anointing 
tituu  back  bones  in  their  very  infancy  with 


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the  grease  of  moles,  bats,  and  dormice; 
together  with  an  intimation  of  the  art  used 
at  Bononia  to  dwarf  their  dogs,  bj  often 
washing  (from  the  first  day  they  are  whelped) 
their  feet  and  back  bone,  thereby  drying 
and  hardening  those  parts,  and  so  hinder- 
ing their  extension. 

From  a  Miscellanea  Curiosa  MedicaFhy- 
sica,  published  at  Leipsic,  167(X;  the  com- 
mencement of  an  intended  series.  —  Ibid, 
vol.  1,  p.  562. 

"Jeremiah  Horrox  died  1640,  in  the 
twenty-second  year  of  his  age;  bom  at 
Toxteth,  Lancashire,  and  began  to  study 
astronomy  at  fourteen.  He  was  the  first 
who  predicted  or  saw  Venus  in  the  sun,  and 
made  from  it  many  useful  observations, 
though  he  was  not  aware  of  the  great  use 
that  was  to  be  made  of  it.  And  his  new 
theory  of  lunar  motions  Newton  made  the 
groundwork  of  all  his  astronomy  relative  to 
the  moon. — ^Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  12. 

Christian  Adolphus  Baldiunus,  who  acci- 
dentally discovered  phosphorus,  thought 
that  it  contained  the  red  spark,  yea,  the 
most  secret  soul  (secretissima  anima)  of  the 
fire  and  light  of  nature,  consequently  the 
innate  and  invisible  fire  of  philosophers, 
attracting  magnetically  the  visible  fire  of 
the  sun,  and  afterwards  emitting  and  dif- 
fusing in  the  dark  the  splendour  of  the  same. 
—Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  868. 

One  Signor  Zagonius  had  a  way  of  mak- 
ing out  of  the  Bologna  stone  calcined  sta- 
tues and  pictures,  variously  shining  in  the 
dark. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  382. 

"  If  I  keep  a  passion,  FU  never  starve  it 
in  my  service." — Dbtdeh,  vol.  2,  p.  807. 
Mock  Astrologer, 

CoHCLUDB  instead  of  finis,  with 
KOrtS  OMHA^. 

Two  barbarous  words  with  which  the  mys- 
teries were  closed  and  the  assembly  dis- 
missed; "  shewing,"  says  Warburton,  "  the 
mysteries  not  to  have  been  originally  Greek." 
— Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  204. 


Whbh  the  king  of  Feton  was  dying  of 
consumption,  at  Cape  Corse,  the  Fetishers 
not  only  made  sevenil  pellets  of  clay,  which 
they  ranged  in  order  in  his  room,  and  sprin- 
kled them  with  blood ;  but  besides  they  eat 
several  muttons  to  his  good  health. — Phi 
Tram,  Abr,  vol.  4,  p.  201. 

At  Copenhagen,  a  perspective  of  the  late 
king  of  Deiimark*s  family,  the  queen's  face 
being  in  the  middle,  and  eight  princes  and 
princesses  round  her,  yet  all  conspire  to 
form  the  king*s  face,  when  seen  through  the 
hole  of  a  glass  tube. — ^Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  48. 

Increase  of  a  turnip  from  its  seed  to  its 
full  growth.— Ibid.  vd.  6,  p.  404-5. 

An  English  gentleman  showed  me  once 
in  Holland,  in  1687,  a  cherrystone,  with 
124  heads  on  the  outside  of  it,  so  that  you 
might  distinguish  with  the  naked  eye  popes, 
emperors,  kings,  and  cardinals  by  their 
crowns  and  mitres.  It  was  purchased  in 
Prussia,  where  it  was  made,  for  £800  Eng- 
lish, and  is  now  in  London  (1708),  there 
having  been  a  law-suit  not  long  since  com- 
menced about  it  in  Chancery. — PhiL  Dnan, 
Abr.  vol.  5,  p.  49. 

Dr.  WiUiam  Oliver. 

Leuwenhoeck  says,  that  in  any  quantitj 
whatever  of  sand  you  cannot  find  two  par- 
ticles that  are  entirely  alike.  He  gives 
drawings  of  them  magnified. — Ibid.  p.  94. 

Deeham  (ibid.  p.  394),  says  that  some  of 
his  observations  on  the  motion  of  sound  may 
be  useful  to  the  Echometrician.  **  Several 
learned  men,  both  ancient  and  modem,  have 
carefully  examined  into  that  ludicrous  and 
agreeable  phenomenon  of  sound  called  echo. 
I  am  persuaded,  though  any  reflecting  ob- 
ject were  capable  of  returning  all  the  sylla- 
bles of  the  following  verse, 
Vocali  n3rmphs,  quae  nee  reticere  loquenti, 
yet  it  could  not  reflect  all  the  syllable  of 
this  other,  because  its  pronuncLation  if  a 
little  longer. 

Corpus  adhuc  Echo,  non  vox  erat,  et  tamen 
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and  mnch  less  repeat  all  the  rough  and  long 
syllables  of  the  following  verse,  though 
fewer  in  number, 

Arz,  tridens,  TOstris,  gphinz,  prsster,  tor- 
rida,  seps,  atriz. 

**  A  BAms  clinch  will  terve  the  turn ;  a 
carwicbet,'  a  quarterquibble,  or  a  pun." — 
WUd  Gaikmt,  Dktdbm,  vol.  I,  p.  12. 

A  coixBcnoH  of  Geometrical  Flowers, 
presented  to  the  Bojral  Societj  bj  Guldo 
Grand],  Abbot  of  the  Cameldatee,  and  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  at  Pisa,  1723. 
This  handful  or  bouquet  of  geometrical 
oes  Is  a  diasertatiaD  aa  certain  curves 
gcomelricallj  deitcribed  in  a  circle,  of  a 
e  more  cimons  and  fanciful  than  an; 
wj  naeful.— J%i^  Trant.  Ahr.  vol.  6,  p.  664. 

Ur.  Downu  has  observed  in  several 
countries,  distinguished  bj  what  he  calls  a 
local  phjsiognomj,  that  it  is  most  percep- 
tible in  the  wonien. — Lttttrtfiom  the  Con- 
/i»f<  vol.  1,  p.  202. 

Huj  the  diarj  of  Philip  tbe  Fur,  on 
waxed  wooden  tablets,  is  in  the  llbrarj  at 
Geneva.  Queen  Christina  purchaaed  the 
other  half  at  Paris,  and  presented  it  to  the 
Vatican.— Ibid.  p.  248. 

A  Jew  told  the  Ulm  phjsician  (Johan 
Marius)  that  b;  wearing  a  cap  of  beaver's 
fur,  anointing  the  head  once  a  month  with 
<ril  of  castor,  and  taking  two  or  three  ounces 
of  it  in  a  jear,  "  one's  memory  will  be  so 
itrengtbened  as  to  remember  everj  thing 
one  reads."  The  Dr.  (Marius)  conjectures 
that  this  notion  might  at  first  have  brought 
ibe  use  of  the  beaver's  fur  into  request  for 
bats.— Wi7.  rrons.  Abr.  T,  642. 

"  AEyircii  3i)  Eoi  oZl  o  Xoyoc,  c/ioi  f^iv 
oiiTiSaroc." — Hbkodotus,  Thalia,  §  3. 


d.  Nabeb  in  v. 
qaotM  (Tom  Butleh's  Remaiai,  "  He  has  all 
lorts  of  echoes,  rebuKB,  chronognuns,  &c.  be- 
>idei  canaekiU,  cleQcbes,  and  quHibles."  Vol. 
ii-  p.  lao.— J.  W.  W. 


William  Manuel  (blaiuel  ?)  a  Welsh 
prodigy,  three  and  a  half  years'  old,  reads 
Welsh  and  English  fluently  in  the  usual,  or 
in  an  inverted,  or  thwart  position,  "but  ^i- 
pears  to  prefer  reading  upude-down." — 
Manchetler  Cowier,  February  13,  1834. 

In  an  island  near  Bombay,  "  a  large 
snake  was  found  dead  with  a  porcupine  in 
its  belly.  The  snake  had  seiied  the  porcu- 
pine by  the  head,  and  had  so  sucked  it  in. 
When  it  was  quite  in,  the  quills,  which 
were  flatted  down  while  it  was  going  in, 
rose,  ran  through  the  snake's  belly  and 
killed  it :  so  that  there  was  a  monstrous 
snake  dead,  with  the  quills  of  a  porcupine 
sticking  out  of  it  in  many  places." — PhiL 
Traru.  Abr.  9,  p.  102. 

PiQEOHS  for  many  ages  built  under  the 

roof  of  the  great  church  at  Pisa ;  their  dung 
(spontaneously)  took  fire  at  last,  and  the 
church  was  consumed. — Ibid.  p.  143. 

Apples,  as  well  as  pears  and  coleworta, 
&c.  are  affected  by  their  neiglibours ;  so 
that  it  may  be  of  importance  to  ihc  curious 
in  fruits  to  take  care  bow  their  trees  are 
sort«d,  and  what  company  they  keep. — 
Ibid.  p.  169. 

TiviPAKOcB  animalcule,  ergo,  all  ani- 
malculie  are  not  produced  from  eg^.  — 
Ibid.  p.  203. 

The  ergo  not  conclusive,  because,  as  ia 
the  aphis,  an  impregnation  might  suffice  for 
many  generations. 

Ah  altar  to  Silvanus,  erected  by  C.  Ta- 
tius  Veturius  Micianus,  Prmf.  Alte  Sebosi- 
aiiie,ob  apruiu  eximin  forme  captum,  quern 
multi  Antecessoree  ejus  pnedari  non  potu- 
erunt.  V.  S.  L.  P.  i.  e.  voljoa  lolveia  lubetu 
pondt.  "Silvanomorato  sacrum"  is  the  first 
line,  and  this  makes  the  inscription  com- 
plete. It  was  found  near  Stanhope,  in  the 
bishoprick  of  Durham. — Ibid.  p.  470. 

Tbe  first  anecdote  relating  to  Sir  Wil* 


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liam  Jones  is,  that  at  the  age  of  three  years 
and  not  quite  nine  months,  he  was  weighed 
before  the  Boyal  Society  against  a  dwarf, 
John  Coan  by  name.  The  dwarf  weighed 
thirty-four  pounds,  the  child  thirty-six. 
The  dwarf,  with  shoes,  hat,  and  wig  on, 
measured  thirty -eight  five-tenths  inches ; 
the  child,  without  any  thing  on  his  head, 
thirty-seven  seven-tenths. — Ibid.  vol.  10, 
p.  53. 

1753.  Altab  at  York  discovered,  Matri- 
bus  Africis,  Italicis,  Oermanicis. — Ibid,  p* 
317. 

The  first  rope-dancer  had  once  been  a 
monkey ;  the  first  who  threw  a  somerset,  a 
tumbler  pigeon. 

CosNAOB '  a  better  tenure  for  his  Crispin 
than  that  by  which  Don  Carlos^s  bootmaker 
held  his  office.  ^*  Son  cordonnier  luy  avoit 
fait  une  paire  de  bottes  tr^-mal  faites :  il 
les  fit  mettre  en  petites  pieces,  et  fricasser 
comme  tripes  de  boeuf,  et  les  luy  fit  manger 
toutes  devant  luy,  en  sa  chambre,  de  cette 
fa^on." — Bbabtobcb,  vol.  5,  p.  134. 

The  pain  which  our  affections  suffer  from 
a  solution  of  continuity. 

Bbbbchino,  the  apanthroposis  of  a  boy. 
It  was  like  the  change  from  grub  to  but- 
terfly, without  the  intermediate  aurelian 
state  of  torpidity. 

What  was  the  assumption  of  the  toga  to 
this  I  ^ 

Temple  of  Rediculus  near  Rome,  sup- 
posed to  have  been  erected  to  the  God  of 
Return  after  Hannibal  raised  the  siege  of 
the  city.— DowHES,  vol.  1,  p.  407. 

The  first  indication  of  Canova's  genius 
was  manifested  at  an  inn,  where  he  was  ob- 
served modelling  in  butter.— Ibid.  p.  500. 

ra  *•  ^.*"P'^»  P*  '♦Se.     The  term  has  been  ex- 
puined  before.   See  supril,  p.  206.- J.  W.  W. 


The  temple  of  Vesta,  at  Tivdi,  waa  par- 
chased  many  years  ago  by  an  Englirii  no- 
bleman, who  meant  to  have  it  remorved  to 
his  own  grounds.  The  Roman  government 
most  properly  issued  a  prohibition. — Ibid, 
p.  402. 

^  The  black  shining  sand  which  we  throw 
upon  writing  to  prevent  blotting  is  found 
on  the  shore  of  the  Canary  Islands.  It 
seems  to  have  been  thrown  out  of  volcanoes; 
and  is  certainly  the  most  perfect  iron,  for 
the  loadstone  will  lick  up  every  grain.  £i-  j 
periments  have  been  made  without  effect  to 
turn  this  sand  into  bar  iron;  yet  I  am 
credibly  informed  that  a  gentleman  in  Loa- 
don  understands  this  secret,  and  has  a  csm 
of  razors  made  of  this  same  black,  shining 
sand.** — Glas.  p.  271. 

Educatiob  of  singing  birds.  —  A  robin 
*'  sung  three  parts  in  four  nightingale,  the 
rest  of  his  song  was  what  the  bird-catchers 
call  rubbish — or  no  particular  note  what- 
ever .**  Imitative  poetry  is  of  this  kind.— 
Phil  Trans.  Abr.  13.  p.  444. 

This  might  do  for  the  last  motto, 

**  Lbt*s  fairly  part,  my  book ;  Time  calls 

away. 
And  when  Time  calls,  there^s  no  excuse  to 
sUy." 

Being  Pabtbidob^s  Farewell  to  ha 
Almamek^  1686. 

See  Paracelsus  de  Meteoris,  o.  3,  for  bis 
theory  of  ^  tenebriferous  stars,  by  whose  in- 
fiuence  night  is  brought  on,  for  that  thej 
do  ray  out  darkness  and  obscurity  upon  the 
earth,  as  the  sun  does  light.** — SaumiibbS) 
1686,  December. 

Thebe  could  not,  as  Bishof  Hacbbt  has 
shown  (p.  191  ^),  be  a  name  of  better  omen 
than  D.  none  which  contained  so  large  a 
number  of  happy  significations,  bearing  a 

'  This  extract  is  worked  up  from  Bisto 
Hacket's  words,  not  quoted  exactly.— J.  W.  w 


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511 


which  will  increase  into  many 
i.  It  \a  animal foKtaidum,  a  bird 
eoiing  fertility ;  whether  any  that 
reed  oflener  I  am  not  certain,  I 
many.  Such  fecundity  then  is 
i  lively  faith.  It  hath  no  gall, 
otle  hath  observed  it  better  than 
small  a  one  that  it  can  scarce 
k1  ;  now  the  gall  is  the  draught 
d  matter  in  man*s  body,  out  of 
smper  proceed  anger,  revenge, 
i.  Notable,  too,  is  this  bird*s 
Bs;  it  hath  neither  beak  nor  talons 
ze  over  smaller  creatures,  sine 
,  tine  feUe  iniug.  The  smallest 
ts  may  hum  about  it,  and  take  no 
t  devours  nothing  wherein  there 
nd  it  is  a  cleanly  feeder;  not 
:e  crows  and  vultures  upon  car- 
icking  up  grains  of  com,  and  the 
ts  of  the  field.  And  it  is  a  bird 
ight 

K)68ible  to  teach  a  dove  to  sing  a 
ne,  for  Nature  hath  engrafted  in 
a  mourning,  gemitus  pro  cantu, 
larallel  failed  in  D.*s  cose. 

wits  as  delighted  in  holy  inge- 
3  applied  the  several  parts  of 
ints  and  sufferance  and  passion 
the  notions  of  physic  and  chi- 
There  was  no  disease  of  sin 
( were  not  sick,  there  was  no  kind 
t>e  invented  which  was  not  prac- 
tore  us."  But  the  conceit  is  pur- 
anner  rather  to  cause  displeasure 
ition. — ^Bishop  Hacket,  p.  241. 

e  said  to  be  sealed  of  the  tribe 
)ishop  Hacket  (p.  402)  approves 
eter  who  explains  that  the  reason 
im  and  Dan  are  not  in  the  list, 
e  they  were  the  first,  after  the 
OSes,  who  let  in  idolatry,  in  the 
licah ;  and  therefore  their  names 
the  blessing  of  that  book  of  life. 

(Phihst  N.  134)  says,  and  seems 


to  believe,  that  the  nightingale  often  sings 
till  she  bursts  I  ^ 

This  man  says,  "  Man  is  nothing  but  self- 
interest  incarnate,"  the  philosophy  of  an  in- 
fidel."— Ibid.  p.  150.  And  nowhere  is  it 
more  broadly  stated.  What  makes  the  Eng- 
lish, he  says,  enjoy  that  liberty  and  pro- 
perty which  other  neighbouring  subjects 
want,  but  our  own  happy  ill  nature,  ibid. ; 
and  he  proceeds  to  show  (p.  151)  that  might 
is  right,  and  nothing  can  be  unjust  I  See 
p.  221,  ibid,  for  more  of  this  philosophy ! 

But  he  might  well  wonder  how  those  men 
*'  who  by  their  hard  censures  of  the  Almighty 
make  salvation  seem  almost  impossible, 
should  ever  marry, — since,  according  to  their 
belief,  it  is  above  ten  thousand  to  one  that 
the  children  they  may  have  will  be  damned." 
—P.  159. 

Opinions  concerning  the  body  of  Moses. 
— ^Bishop  Hacket,  p.  429. 

"Api^oc  fiiv  apivOQ  is  held  in  these  days 
for  a  truer  axiom  than  Findar*s. 

Imagb  was  a  word  of  Dryden^s,  at  least 
often  used  by  him  in  bis  prefaces.  Then 
came  idea ;  now  we  have  emanation.  What 
next?  effluences,  perhaps. 

PaoLOGo  Galeato,  the  title  party-colour- 
ed, because  the  book  is  motley ;  red  letters, 
because  a  holy  day  book. 

The  mixture  of  the  work  like  Punch. 

Difference  between  tragi-comedy  in 
Shakespeare  and  in  Otway. 

Cramp  rings  were  blest  by  the  King  on 
Good  Friday.     They  were  put  in  a  bason, 

'  Nightingales  and  bullfinches,  it  is  well 
known,  will  over-sing  themselves.     We  all  re- 
collect ViNNT  Bourne's  Stradm  PhilomeUiy 
*<  Tuque  ctiam  in  modulos  surgis  Philomela : 
sed  impar 
Yiribos,  neu  impar,  exanimisque  cadis.'* 

J.W.W. 


the  King  was  to  pass  his  hands  over  them, 
or  into  them,  and  say  a  prayer ;  they  were 
to  be  sprinkled  with  holy  water. 

'*  That  Paradise  Loet  of  Ifnton's,**  says 
Rtm BB,  *^  which  some  are  pleased  to  call  a 
poem!" 

QUAELBS. 

^  Small  store  of  manners  when  the  King 

says  come 
And  feast  at  court,  to  say  Tve  meat  at 

home.** 
Not  if  the  King  has  dirty  cooks,  who  spoil 
good  meat.     It  is  better  then  to  take  of 
one*s  own  cold  fragments  at  home,  or  even 
to  dine  with  the  Duke. 

All  persons  after  sixty  ought  to  wear  a 
wig,  says  Sut  Johh  Sihclaib,  Code  of 
Healthy  p.  455. 

Wearing  a  wig  is  an  excellent  practice 
for  the  old,  the  tender,  and  the  studious. — 
Ibid.  p.  460. 

*'  Thb  abilities  and  the  eloquence  of  that 
branch  of  the  Pitt  family  who  were  created 
Earls  of  Chatham  and  Lords  Camelford  was 
owing  to  a  fortunate  connection  they  made 
with  a  Miss  Innes  of  Redhall,  in  the  High- 
lands of  Scotland.  And  the  talents  of  the 
family  of  Dundas  of  Amiston  have  also 
been  attributed  to  the  marriage  of  one  of 
their  ancestors  with  a  Miss  Sinclair,  of  the 
family  of  Stevenson,  in  East  Lothian.** — 
Ibid.  Appendix,  p.  11. 

This  is  given  in  proof  that  ^  the  talents 
and  structure  of  the  mind  are  derived  from 
the  mother,  and  tliat  the  abilities  of  many 
families  ma^  be  traced  to  one  distinguished 
female  who  introduced  talent  into  it,  or, 
according  to  a  common  expression,  mother 
wit.**— Ibid.  p.  11. 

**  I  BBLDSYB  they  call  a  provincial  horse, 
not  known  on  the  great  arena  of  New- 
market, a  blind  horse,  whose  pedigree  and 
history  may  be  falsified,  without  easy  de- 


tection.** —  Sib  Eobbtob  Bbtdgbb,  AxUib. 
vol.  2,  p.  13. 

**  Kbiit*s  style  of  architecture  predomi- 
nated during  his  life,  and  his  oracle  was  so 
much  consulted  by  all  who  affected  taste, 
thai  nothing  was  thought  complete  without 
his  assistance.  He  was  not  only  consulted 
for  furniture,  as  frames  of  pictures,  glasses, 
chairs,  &c  but  for  plate,  for  a  barge,  and 
even  for  a  cradle.  And  so  impetuous  wai 
fashion,  that  two  great  la^es  prevailed  on 
him  to  make  designs  for  their  birthday 
gowns.  The  one  he  dressed  in  a  petticoat 
decorated  with  columns  of  five  orders ;  the 
other  like  bronxe,  in  copper-coloured  satin, 
with  ornaments  of  gold.  He  was  not  more 
happy  in  other  works  to  which  he  $p^ed 
his  genius.** — BiogrtJ^kieal  Sketchee  of  Emi- 
nent ArHeU. 

What  a  physician  ought  and  ought  not 
to  be  in  i4>pearance  and  manners. — Rabb- 
LAIS,  vol.  8,  p.  428-9. 

PuALLAS,  the  horse  which  Heradius  rode 
in  his  great  victory,  the  battle  of  Nineveh, 
and  who,  though  wounded  in  the  thigh, 
"  carried  his  master  safe  and  victorious 
through  the  triple  phalanx  of  the  barbt- 
rians.** — Gibboii,  vol.  8,  p.  249. 

Hall,  p.  582. — Horses  in  a  pageant  ill 
named. 

"  Ano.  Tou  gaye  those  ships  most  strange, 
most  dreadful,  and 
Unfortunate  names ;  I  never  look*d  thej'd 
•         prosper. 
Ram,  Is  there  any  ill  omen  in  giving 

names  to  ships  P 
Ano,  Did  you  not  call  one  The  Storm*i 
Defiance  ? 
Another  The  Scourge  of  the  Sea?  and  the 

third 
The  Great  Leviathan  P 

Rom.  Very  right,  sir. 

Ano.  Very  devilish  names. 
All  three  of  them ;  and  surely  I  think  thej 
were 


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rt  in  their  ver;  cradles,  I  do  mean 
in  the;  were  upon  their  Btocks." 

WsBTiBR,  vol.  2,  p.  49,  Dml'M 
'  Law  Caie. 

oTLE  describes  a  colt  with  one  double 
in  the  middle  of  the  Torehead ;  the  two 
U  being  united  into  one  Tcry  lai^ 
id  one,  into  which  there  entered  one 
ty  Ui^  optic  nerve. — Pftit  Trani.Abr. 
I,  p.  29. 


rbepMSagealtoded  toU,  '"lit^iViaaiHt 
mxc.  ■.  r,  i."  p.  535,  C.— J.  W.  W. 


Chapman,  haj. 

Hobbes,     coloured  like  to  flames. 

Pope,         yellow. 

Cowper,      fiery  red.' 


Tbb  Sportsman's  Cilendar,  by  Beginald 
Heber,  Esq. 

'  "  After  reading  a  portion  of  Homer  in  out 
daily  studies,  he  would  mike  me  read  alood  the 
same  portion  in  erery  translation  he  posse! 
"         "  "■  ■  Hobfc." 


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FRAGMENTS  OF  JOURNALS. 


'HE  Quixote  Bowles  frequently 
visited  at  Christ  Church.  I  have 
heard  of  him  from  Biddlecombe 
and  the  Jacksons.  This  man*8 
memory  was  uncommonly  strong ;  Grose, 
who  loved  to  play  upon  his  eccentricities, 
would  oflen  affirm  that  he  quoted  wrongly. 
This  used  to  irritate  Bowles,  he  would  offer 
to  wager  that  he  was  right,  rise  from  din- 
ner, bring  the  book,  and  prove  to  Grose, 
what  he  never  doubted,  that  he  was  exact 
to  a  word  in  his  quotation. 

Bowles  had  a  great  love  for  pigs ;  he 
thought  them  the  happiest  of  all  €rod*s  crea- 
tures, and  would  walk  twenty  miles  to  see 
one  that  was  remarkably  fat.  This  love  ex- 
tended to  bacon,  he  was  an  epicure  in  it^ 
and  whenever  he  went  out  to  dinner  took  a 
piece  of  his  own  curing  in  his  pocket,  and 
requested  the  cook  to  dress  it. 

Caows  was  going  to  Jersey  in  a  smug- 
gling vessel,  he  smoaked  and  drank  with  the 
crew,  and  pleased  them  with  his  conversa- 
tion. It  chanced  that  they  were  becalmed 
on  a  Sunday,  and  he  stood  up  and  preached 
an  extempore  sermon.  This  completely  de- 
lighted the  smugglers ;  ever  after  they  and 
their  acquaintance  were  glad  to  treat  the 
smuggling  parson  with  his  passage. 

SooM  afler  my  arrival  at  Christ  Church 
the  old  Countess  of  Strathmore  paid  me  a 
visit.  This  is  a  strange  woman,  every  cir- 
cumstance that  occurs  to  her  is  miraculous; 
as  the  servants  lifted  her  into  her  carriage 


she  struck  her  bonnet  against  the  roof  of  the 
porch  at  our  lodgings ;  the  blow  would  not 
have  injured  a  butterfly's  wing,  but  she  de- 
clared tiiat  it  was  Providence  who  had  made 
her  put  on  a  bonnet  that  morning,  which  for 
many  months  she  had  not  worn.  There  is 
an  idiot  in  the  workhouse  at  Christ  Church : 
what  is  very  singular  his  forehead  shows  no 
marks  of  idiotcy,  or  any  of  his  countenance 
but  his  eyes ;  they  have  an  open  wild  look, 
but  it  is  the  wildness  of  folly  not  of  mad- 
ness. The  old  countess  believes  like  the 
Turks  that  all  idiots  are  inspired,  and  she 
sent  for  this  poor  fellow  to  know  whether 
her  husband  Bowes  would  live  another 


year. 

I  had  some  difficulty  in  understanding 
her  toothless  tone,  but  she  began  by  hoping 
I  was  very  loyal,  and  expressed  a  very  great 
respect  for  men  of  letters  :  and  yet  afler  At 
had  been  listening  one  day  to  a  conversa- 
tion upon  Sir  I.  Newton,  she  suddenly  ex- 
claimed, *and  what  is  Sir  Isaac  Newton 
compared. to  a  nobleman!* 

I  am  told  that  she  speaks  Italian  and 
Spanish  with  great  fluency  and  elegance: 
I  am  certain,  however,  that  she  knows  Terj 
little  of  the  literature  either  of  Spain  or 
Italy.  She  told  me  Lope  de  Vega  was  her 
favourite  author;  that  the  translation  of 
Don  Quixote  was  one  of  the  best  in  our 
language,  and  that  it  was  ridiculous  to  talk 
of  the  great  superiority  of  the  origioal. 
Hannah  More  observed  to  me  once  that  she 
never  knew  the  excdlence  of  Don  Quixote 
till  she  read  it  in  Spanish.  I  add  this  as 
connected  with  this  sub^t,  not  to  bias- 


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6\S 


pheme  Hannah  More  bj  a  comparJMin  with 
Ltd;  Strathtuure. 

fio«l«»  uted  to  m;  that  if  ever;  other 
book  were  bad,  we  might  learn  erery  uie- 
ful  art  and  icience  from  Don  Quixote. 

A  Mbs.  Moboam  lived  with  Lady  Strath- 
morc ;  she  had  been  u»eful  to  her  io  her 
difficulties,  and  though  they  were  always 
quarrelling  the  old  Countess  speared  in  all 
die  parade  of  grief  upon  her  death.  Iler 
carriage  wa«  coTered  with  black,  and  she 
intreated  Jackson  to  let  her  have  a  key  to 
the  church,  that  uhe  might  indulge  her  feel- 
ings anil  visit  the  grave  at  midnight  when 
she  pleased.  Rickmau  picked  up  an  elegy 
which  she  had  been  trying  to  compose  upon 
this  occasion;  it  began  'There  are,  who, 
though  they  may  hate  the  living,  love  the 
dead,'  and  two  or  three  vain  attempts  ful- 
lovred  to  versify  this.  Common-place  ideas 
were  given  in  a  language  neither  prose  nor 
poetry ;  but  the  most  curious  part  was  a  me- 
morandum written  on  the  lop  of  the  sheet. 
*  Tlie  language  to  be  rich  and  flowing.' 
With  all  this  ostentatious  sorrow,  six  weeks 
after  the  death  of  Mrs.  Morgan  she  turned 
her  daughter  out  of  doors  because  she  was 
attached  to  a  country  apothecary. 

Lord  Bdtb  was  uncommonly  haughty 
towards  Ilia  eluala  and  superiors.  Guatavus 
Brander  called  on  him  one  morning,  "  My 
Lord,  (said  he)  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bnry  is  in  this  neighbourhood,  and  requests 
permission  to  see  High  Cliff."  Bute  looked 
sternly  up — "I  don't  know  him,  Sirl" 
Jackson,  then  Curate  of  Christ  Church, 
begged  the  aamefavour  foroneofhis  friends, 
and  the  reply  was,  "I  have  business  at  Ring- 
wood  and  may  as  well  do  it  to-morrow ;  your 
friend  may  see  the  house  then." 

GtrtTAVDB  Bbahdeb  was  walking  with 
Bmaaael  Swedenbni^  in  Cheapside,  when 
the  Baron  pulled  off  hia  hat  and  made  a 
very  reqtectful  bow.  Who  are  you  bowing 
loF  nid  Brander.  Yoa  did  not  see  him, 
rcf^ed  Swedenburg.  It  was  St.  Paul,  I 
knew  him  vi-i^  well. 


I  SAW  Major  Cartwriglit  (the  sportsman, 
not  the  patriot)  in  1791 .  I  was  visiting  with 
the  Lambs  at  Hampiteod,  in  Kent,  at  the 
house  of  Hodges  his  brother-in-law  ;  we 
had  nearly  finished  dinner  when  he  came  in . 
He  desired  the  servant  to  cut  him  a  plate 
of  beef  from  the  side  board;  I  tiiought  the 
footman  meant  to  insult  him ;  the  plale  was 
piled  to  a  height  which  no  ploughboy  aAer 
a  hard  day's  fasting  could  have  levelled; 
but  the  moment  be  took  up  his  knife  and 
fork  and  arranged  the  plate,  I  saw  this  was 
no  common  man.  A  second  and  third  sup- 
ply  soon  vanished :  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lamb,  who 
hod  never  before  seen  him,  glanced  at  each 
other;  butTom  and  Iwilh  school  -  boy  s*  pri- 
vil^e,  kept  our  eyes  riveted  upon  him  with 
what  Dr.  Butt  would  have  called  the  goie 
of  admiration.  'I  see  you  have  been  look- 
ing at  ne  (said  he  when  he  had  done)  ;  I 
have  a  very  great  appetite.  I  once  fell  in 
with  a  stranger  in  the  shooting  season,  and 
we  dined  together  at  an  inn ;  there  was  a 
leg  of  mutton  which  he  did  not  touch,  I 
never  make  more  than  two  cuts  of  a  leg  of 
mutton,  the  first  takes  all  one  side,  the  se- 
cond all  the  other ;  and  when  I  had  done 
this  I  laid  the  bone  across  my  knife  for  the 
marrow.'  The  stranger  could  refrain  no 
longer — 'By  God,  Sir,  (said  he)  I  never 
saw  a  man  eat  like  you.' 

This  man  had  strength  and  perseverance 
charactered  in  every  muscle.  He  eat  three 
cucumbers  with  a  due  quantity  of  bread  and 
cheese  for  his  breakfast  the  following  morn- 
ing. I  was  much  pleased  with  him,  he  was 
good  humoured  and  communicative,  his  long 
residence  on  the  Labrador  coast  made  his 
conversation  as  instructive  as  interesting; 
I  had  never  before  seen  so  extraordinary  a 
man,  and  it  is  not  therefore  strange  that  my 
recollection  of  his  manner,  and  words,  and 
countenance  should  be  so  strong  after  an 
interval  of  six  years. 

I  read  his  book  in  1793,  and  strange  as  it 
may  seem,  actually  rend  through  the  three 
quartos.  At  that  time  I  was  a  verbatim 
reader  of  indefatigable  patience,  but  the 
ihM  Bim|ilicity  of  the  book  amused  me;  the 


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importance  he  attached  to  his  trhpt  delight- 
ed me,  it  wu  so  unlike  a  book  Trrltt«n  for 
the  world — the  Bolftce  of  a  lolitar]'  evening 
in  Labrador ;  I  fancied  him  blockaded  bj 
the  enows,  rising  from  a  meal  upon  the  old, 
tough,  high-flayoured,  hard-Binewed  wolf, 
and  sitting  down  like  Robinson  Crusoe  to 
his  joumaL  The  annals  of  bis  campaigns 
among  the  foxes  and  beavers  interested  me 
more  than  ever  did  the  exploits  of  Marlbro' 
or  Frederic ;  besides  I  saw  plun  truth  and 
the  heart  in  Cartwright's  book — and  in  what 
histor}'  could  I  look  for  this  F 

The  print  is  an  excellent  likeness.  Let 
me  add  that  whoever  would  know  the  real 
historj  of  the  beaver,  must  look  for  it  in 
this  work.  The  common  accounts  are  fables. 

Coleridge  took  np  a  volntne  one  daj, 
and  was  delighted  with  its  .strange  simpli- 
citj.  There  are  some  curious  anecdotes  of 
the  Esquimaux.  When  they  entered  Lon- 
don with  him,  one  of  them  cried,  patting  up 
his  hand  to  his  head,  'Too  much  noise— too 
much  people — too  much  house — oh  for  La- 
brador 1 '  an  intereaUng  fact  for  the  historj 
of  the  human  mind. 

I  HAVE  learnt  at  Christ  Church  the  his- 
tory of  Lady  Edward  Fitzgerald,  the  Pa- 
mela, of  whom  such  varioua  accounts  are 
given. 

The  Duke  of  Orleans,  of  seditious  cele- 
brity, was  very  desirous  of  getting  an  En- 
glish girl  as  a  companion  for  his  daughter ; 
her  parents  were  wholly  to  resign  her. 
Forth,  secretary  to  Lord  Stormont  the  then 
embassador  at  Paris,  was  commissioned  to 
find  such  a  child,  and  he  employed  Janes, 
A  man  of  Christ  Church,  known  by  the  name 
of  Bishop  Janes  for  bis  arrogance,  though 
he  was  only  a  priest.  A  Bristol-woman,  her 
name  Sims,  then  resided  at  Christ  Church, 
with  an  only  daughter,  anatural  child,  about 
four  or  five  years  old,  of  exceeding  beauty. 
The  offer  was  made  to  this  woman :  her  po- 
verty consented,  and  her  wisdom;  assuredly 
she  was  right.  Some  iniall  sum  was  annu- 
ally paid  her,  and  she  knew  the 
her  child. 


This  is  a  strange  history,  and  they  who 
have  seen  Pamela  would  think  any  ihuig 
interesting  that  related  to  her.  I  once  ut 
next  her  in  the  Bath  theatre,  Madame  ci- 
lery was  on  the  seat  with  her  ;  bnt,  widi 
phyeiognoinical  contrition  I  confess  thst 
while  Diy  recollection  of  Pamela's  uncommon 
beauty  i«  unimpaired,  I  cannot  retrace  l 
feature  of  the  authoress.  They  who  stuci^ 
education  should  read  the  writings  of  ihU 
woman.  I  have  derived  from  them  mneb 
pleasure  and  much  instruction.  After  read- 
ing her  journal  of  their  education  I  aliiioit 
idolized  the  young  Egalit^.  Damouriu  i 
taught  me  how  to  estimate  them  justly.  | 
Should  there  ever  again  be  a  king  in  Fiance  ' 
(which  God  forbid !)  it  will  be  the  elder  of  j 
these  joung  men.  He  will  be  a  happier  uhI  | 
a  better  man  as  an  American  farmer."'—  i 
Avgnit  4,  1797. 

I  MUST  add  an  anecdote  of  Bishop  Jano.  i 
He  took  as  his  motto,  "  Gens  ingenti  no- 
mme."  His  father  kept  the  little  mill  be-  i 
hind  the  church. 

RiCKMAH,  alluding  to  his  electioneering 
duplicity,  smd  that "  Jane  bifrons"  hod  been 

I  XKaniKSD  of  Dr.  Stack  conceniif 
Thomas  Dermody.  He  was  of  mean  pa- 
rentage, but  bis  talents  were  patronized; 
be  was  always  a  welcome  visitor  at  Moir* 
House,and  all  his  misfortunes  sprung  from 
his  own  profligacy.  Twice  he  enlisted  si  s 
BoIdier,andwas  twice  bought  off;  aflerwirdi 
he  entered  the  navy — and  I  could  learn  no- 
thing more  of  the  fate  of  Dermody,  a  tato 
certainly  of  uncommon  genius.  He  vm 
gloomy  at  limes — and  it  appeared  like  the 
gloom  of  remorse.  They  represent  him  to 
me  as  totally  devoid  of  any  moral  principle- 
—Feb.  19,  1798. 


'  This  is  a  remnrkable  pssssge,  and  I  Ibint 
there  can  be  no  olijection  to  printing  it  suCtlT 
OS  it  EtAncU  in  the  MS8.     1  may  add,  (lul  lU 

except  CO  spare  the  feelings  of  indiviilnsls. 
.1.  W.  IV. 


WITH  FRAGMENTS  OF  JOURNALS. 


Tauui  called  on  Cottle,  and  sent  up 
>rd  that  an  Italian  poet  wu  below.  Cot- 
L,  not  knowing  the  name,  nor  liking  the 
le,  returned  for  aotwer  that  he  was  en- 
ged.  The  nagrj  improviaatore  called  for 
D  and  ink,  and  thus  expressed  hit  diiap- 
intment : — 

Tonfr^re  en  Apollon,  je  me  fai«  ud  devoir 
e  paroitre  obex  vous  pour  deatr  de  voat 

mis  ctes  engagi^ :  j'auru  done  pittience. 
i  ne  jouirai  point  d'une  aimable  pretence. 
AuteuT  d'Allred  se  cache,  et  pourquoi, 

«'il  Ini  plait  f 
•  m'en  vai*  demU,  mais  en&o  . . .  C'en 
eat  fait. 

"  Signor  Cottle  riverito 

Me  n'andro  come  son  jlo, 

E  K  vol  sublime  Vate 

Un  Poeta  non  curate 

lo  del  pari  vi  lo  giuro 

Angelo  Talasai  di  Perrara,  Foeta  all'  at- 
ale  senrizio  della  Re^na  di  Portogallo." 

Aug.  10,  1814. 

LaiT  night,  in  bed,  before  I  could  fall 
leep,  m^  head  ran  upon  cards,  at  which  I 
d  been  compelled  to  plaj  in  the  evening, 
d  I  thought  of  thus  making  a  new  pack. 

Leave  out  tbe  eights,  nines,  and  tens,  as 

quadrille. 

In  their  place  substitute  another  snit,  ten 

Domber,  like  the  rest,  blue  in  colour,  and 

name  Salle.  The  pack  then  consists  of 
Ij.  Add  two  figured  personages  to  make 
'  the  number,  the  Emperor  and  the  Pope. 
Fla;  as  at  whist  Balls  take  aU  other 
its  except  trumps,  which  take  Balls.  The 
operor  and  Pope  are  superior  to  all  other 
rda,  and  ma;  either  be  made  equal,  and 

capable  of  tjeing  each  other,  and  so  neu- 
ilictng  the  trick,  or  tn  preponderate  ac- 
rding  to  the  colour  of  the  trump,  the 
aperor  if  red,  the  Pope  if  black :  and 
longing  to  no  suit,  the;  ma;  be  placed 
on  an;.  If  either  be  turned  up,  the 
iler  counts  one,  and  Balls  remain  the 
I;  tnunpt. 


The  Emperor  and  Pope,  being  led,  com- 
mnnd  trumps,  but  not  eacli  other.  Trumps 
also  in  default  of  trumps  command  Balls. 
If  the  Emperor  and  Pope  tie  each  other, 
the  tier  has  the  lead. 

Sept.  2B,  18!4. 

At  seven,  the  glass  was  at  the  freezing 
point,  and  the  potatoes  had  been  frost  nipt 
during  the  night.  The  lake,  covered  with 
a  thick  cloud  reaching  about  half  wa;  np 
Brandelow — the  town  half  seen  through  a 
lighter  fog — the  sk;  bright  and  blue. 

B;  the  time  I  reached  the  road  to  the 
lake,  the  fog  was  half  dissolved,  throwing 
a  haz;  and  yellowish  light  ever  Skiddaw, 
and  the  vale  of  Keswick.  From  Friar's 
Crag  the  appearance  wsa  sii^larl;  beauti- 
ful, for  between  that  point  and  Stable  Hill 
and  Lord's  Island,  the  water  was  covered 
with  a  thin,  low,  floating,  and  dose  fitting 
cloud,  like  a  fleece.  Walla  Crag  was  in 
darkness,  and  the  smoke  from  Stjible  Hill 
passed  in  a  long  current  over  a  fitlil  where 
shocks  of  com  were  standing, — the  tield  and 
the  smoke  in  bright  sunshine.  Beyond 
Lord's  Island,  the  lake  was  of  a  silver;  ap> 
pearance  along  the  shore,  and  that  n<ipear- 
ance  was  extended  across,  but  with  dimi- 
nished splendour,  the  line  passing  above 
Ramp's  Holm,  and  below  St.  Herbert's — 
when  it  met  the  baze. 

The  rooks  on  St.  Herbert's  were  in  full 
chorus.  What  little  air  was  stirring  was  a 
cold  breath  from  the  north.  That  air  rip- 
pled the  lake  between  Pintle  Street  and 
our  shore,  and  where  the  sun  shone  upon 
the  ripple  through  the  trees  of  the  walk, 
and  through  the  haie,  the  broken  reflection 
was  so  like  the  fleec;  appearance  of  the  fog 
from  the  crag,  as  for  a  moment  to  deceive 


Jountey  Joamalt. 

FriUa;,  2Bth  June,  1799.— Too  late  for 

the  Salisbury  coach.    I  mounted,  therefore, 

the  box  of  the  Oxford  Mail.    To  a  foreigner 

this  would  be  heroic  travelling,  the  ver; 


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PERSONAL  OBSERVATIONS  AND  RECOLLECTIONS 


sabliinity  of  coachmanship.  Tlie  box  mo- 
tion titillates  the  soles  of  the  feet  like  snuff 
affects  the  nose.  At  the  Globe  I  dismount- 
ed, swung  my  knapsack,  and  walked  across 
the  country  into  the  Frome  road.  Afler 
six  miles,  the  Salisbury  coach  overtook  me, 
for  by  cross  travelling  I  had  got  the  start. 
I  mounted,  and  reached  Warminster.  On 
the  way,  a  poor  woman  on  horseback  was 
nearly  run  over  by  us,  owing  to  her  horse*s 
backing  restively.  She  was  thrown,  and 
hurt  in  the  shoulder.  Warminster  is  the 
most  knavish  posting  town  I  was  ever 
cheated  at ;  they  overcharge  two  miles  on 
the  Bath  road,  three  on  the  Deptford  Inn, 
and  one  to  Shaftsbury.  I  walked  to  Shafls- 
bury,  fifteen  miles ;  the  way  for  ten  over 
the  downs.  Let  not  him  talk  of  luxury  who 
never  has  found  a  spring  unexpectedly  when 
foot  travelling  in  a  hot  summer  day.  The 
larks  sung  merrily  above  me.  The  lark 
seems  to  live  only  for  enjoyment ;  up  he 
mounts,  his  song  is  evidently  the  song  of 
delight;  and  when  they  descend,  it  is  with 
outspread  wings  and  motionless,  still  sing- 
ing.^ They  make  the  great  amusement  of 
down-walking.  To  the  right  I  saw  Alfred's 
Tower ;  to  the  left,  Beckford's  magnificent 
pile.  At  Knoyle,  ten  miles,  I  eat  cold  meat 
and  drank  strong  beer  at  an  alehouse.  There 
the  downs  ended,  and  my  way  was  through 
fertility  to  Shaftsbury.     The  hay  is  every- 

>  There  is  no  reader  but  will  recollect  Vinny 
Bourne's  sweet  lines;  but  I  cannot  pass  by 
the  beautiful  words  of  Jeremy  Taylor  in  The 
Return  of  Prayers :  He  says, "  For  so  have  I  seen 
a  lark  rising  from  his  bed  of  grass,  and  soaring 
upwards,  singing  as  he  rises,  and  hopes  to  get 
to  heaven,  and  dirob  above  the  clouds ;  but  the 
poor  bird  was  beaten  bock  with  the  loud  sigh- 
mgs  of  an  eastern  wind,  and  his  motion  mode 
irregular  and  inconstant,  descending  more  at 
every  breath  of  the  tempest,  than  it  could  re- 
cover by  the  libration  and  frequent  weighing  of 
his  wings ;  till  the  little  creature  was  furcea  to 
sit  down  and  pant,  and  stay  till  the  storm  was 
over :  and  then  it  made  a  prosperous  flight,  and 
did  rise  and  sing,  as  if  it  had  learned  music  and 
motion  from  an  aneel  as  he  passed  sometimes 
through  the  air.  aoout  his  ministries  here  be- 
low." Worhf  vol.  V.  p.  70.  Ed.  Heukr. 

J.  W.  W. 


where  thin,  the  artificial  grass  very  fine ; 
hence  I  see  that  Uiis  last  will  thrive  in  a  diy 
season.  Shaston,  so  they  write  it,  stands 
high;  you  nearly  see  across  the  islaad. 
Glastonbury  is  visible  from  it ;  and  on  the 
other  hand,  the  view  must  reach  the  iiii 
hills  towards  the  Hampshire  coast.  The 
borough  is  notoriously  venal.  Sir  Riduud 
Steele  was  once  its  member ;  he  had  com- 
petitors who  were  able,  and  about  to  out- 
bid him ;  his  winning  bribe  was  curious. 
At  a  dinner  to  the  burgesses,  he  laid  aa 
apple  on  the  table  in  the  midst  of  the  de- 
sert, with  one  hundred  guineas  stuck  into 
it,  to  be  given  to  that  burgess's  wife  who 
should  be  brought  to  bed  the  nearest  to 
nine  months  from  that  day.  Ever  after  be 
remained  the  Shaftsbury  member  I 

Saturday.  To  Blandford,  twelve,  over 
the  downs.  I  met  nothing  but  crows,  two 
weazles,  and  one  humble  bee,  who  seemed 
as  little  likely  as  myself  to  find  a  breakfast, 
for  no  flower  grew  on  the  bare  scant  herb- 
age. The  hill  sides  were  in  some  places 
washed  bare  by  the  winter  rains,  and  looked 
like  the  bones  of  the  earth.  To  Winboume, 
nine,  called  ten ;  again  over  ^e  downs  the 
greater  part  of  the  way.  The  church  here 
is  very  fine.  I  left  visiting  it  till  some  fa- 
ture  time.  The  people  say  it  is  finer  than 
Christ  Church,  because  it  is  a  quarter  Ca- 
thedral. To  Christ  Church,  twelve.  Faint 
and  wearily,  over  the  latter  road  of  sand 
and  loose  gravel.  I  remembered  my  way  over 
the  marsh.  Came  by  our  old  dwelling,  and 
arrived  to  a  house  of  hospitality. 

Thursday,  25th  July,  17^9.  To  Cww, 
to  Bridgewater,  eighteen  and  eighteen.  Tb 
Minehead,  twenty-six,  through  Stowej. 
This  stage  is  remarkably  fine.  We  passed 
the  gibbet  of  the  man  whom  Lloyd  and 
Wordsworth  have  recorded,  and  the  gate 
where  he  committed  the  murder.  Our  road 
lay  through  Watchet,  the  most  miserable 
and  beastly  collection  of  man-sties  I  ever 
beheld.  The  Cornish  boroughs  are  superb 
to  it.  Two  and  a  half  miles  before  we 
reached  Minehead,  is  Dunster  Castle,  Ur- 
Luttrers.  The  house  is  built  to  resemble  an 


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old  fortification  modernised  and  made  ha- 
bitable, and  some  ruins  stand  near.  It  is  on 
a  well- wooded  eminence.  The  park  was  in 
a  little  Tale  below ;  but  the  ground  there 
is  so  fertile  that  it  is  now  laid  into  pas- 
turage and  meadow  land,  and  the  park  ex- 
tends over  the  hills  around.  The  sea  view 
is  very  striking ;  Minehead  stands  under  a 
headland,  which  projects  boldlj.  This  seat 
is  said  to  command  one  of  the  finest  views 
in  England;  if  the  water  were  clear  and 
boundless,  I  should  think  so. 

Minehead  presents  the  cheerful  appear- 
ance of  a  town  rising  from  its  ruins.  New 
houses  built  and  building  every  where,  give 
a  lively  and  clean  appearance  to  it.  The 
quay  is  ugly,  but  the  view  Yerj  striking 
along  the  indented  coast  towards  Stowey. 
A  circular  eminence  in  the  grounds  at  Dun- 
ster,  with  a  building  on  its  summit  like  a 
Tor,  amidst  wood,  stands  near  the  water. 
To  the  right,  there  is  neither  view  nor  pas- 
sage ;  the  quay  blocks  up  the  way.  The 
Holms  look  well  from  hence ;  the  water  had 
even  a  bluishness ;  it  was  low,  and  there- 
fore, I  imagine,  clearer;  but  the  opposite 
sliore  was  visible,  and  destroyed  the  im- 
mensity which  makes  sea  views  so  impres- 
sively magnificent.  From  a  hill  on  our  way 
here  we  had  one  glorious  burst  of  prospect. 
The  sun  fell  on  the  sea  through  a  mist,  and 
on  the  crags  of  the  shore  they  looked  like 
a  glittering  faery  fabric ;  the  very  muddi- 
ness  of  the  water  mellowed  the  splendour, 
and  made  it  more  rich  and  beautiful. 

Half  way  up  the  hill,  where  the  church 
stands,  is  the  upper  town,  quite  cut  off  from 
the  lower,  and  perhaps  containing  more 
houses.  Indeed,  Minehead  b  like  the  Tri- 
nity, three ;  and  these  three  are  one :  for 
the  upper,  and  lower  towns,  and  the  quay, 
are  all  separated  from  each  other  by  house- 
less lanes.  The  upper  town  is  beyond  any 
thing  narrow,  dirty,  and  poor ;  completely 
a  lousy  looking  place.  I  never  elsewhere 
saw  so  many  houses  in  ruins,  and  that  at 
such  distant  intervals  as  evidently  not  to 
hanre  been  destroyed  by  the  fire.  In  the 
fire  one  life  only  was  lost,  a  madman  about 


thirty.  He  might  have  been  saved,  but  his 
mother  said,  *'  Let  en  stay !  let  en  stay  I 
what  shall  us  do  we*en  if  we  do  save^en  ?" 

Imagine  a  range  of  high  hills  (not  moun- 
tains) covered  with  fern  and  furze,  and  the 
Channel  at  their  foot,  and  you  will  have  the 
features  of  this  neighbourhood.  I  toiled  up 
a  long,  long,  very  long  ascent  above  the 
church;  and  when  I  reached  the  top,  half 
trembled  to  see  the  sea  immediately  below 
me.  The  descent,  however,  though,  to  the 
eye  directly  abrupt,  was  not  precipitous. 
A  path  shelves  along,  sufiiciently  fearful  to 
produce  an  emotion  of  pleasurable  dread ; 
yet  perfectly  safe,  for  almost  in  every  part 
it  would  be  practicable  to  walk  to  the  beach. 
The  descent  is  all  furze  and  fern.  In  a  clear 
day  the  houses  on  the  opposite  shore  are  dis- 
tinct ;  but  in  hazy  weather  the  view  is  finer, 
like  the  prospects  of  human  life,  because  it6 
termination  is  concealed. 

The  inland  walks  are  striking ;  the  hills 
dark,  and  dells  woody  and  water)',  winding 
up  them  in  ways  of  sequestered  coolness. 

Minehead  sends  two  members  to  par- 
liament, and  this  has  been  the  cause  of  its 
decline.  The  borough  belongs  to  Luttrell, 
and  he  manages  it  with  ease  proportioned 
to  its  poverty  and  depopulation.  Thus  the 
market  price  of  seats  being  the  same.  Old 
Sarum  is  the  most  advantageous  to  its  pos- 
sessor. Luttrell,  therefore,  has  opposed 
with  power  everj  thing  which  might  encou- 
rage the  trade  of  the  town;  he  has  suffered 
his  houses  to  fall  to  ruin  and  renews  no 
leases.  A  woollen  manufacture  was  to  have 
been  established  here ;  this  he  prevented ; 
and  this  roused  up  a  spirit  of  opposition. 
A  candidate  started  against  him  last  elec- 
tion ;  he  bought  the  only  piece  of  ground 
buyable,  run  up  bouses  there,  built  little 
tenements  for  the  poor,  gave  away  his  money, 
and  carried  his  election.  Both  parties  are 
now  struggling  against  the  next  trial.  The 
royalty  is  Luttrell^s,  and  so  tyrannical  is  this 
man  that  he  has  imprisoned  some  masters 
of  vessels  who  were  not  his  friends,  for  tak- 
ing the  stones  on  the  beach  for  ballast. 
Under  this  despotism  Minehead  is  ruining, 


and  Watchet,  from  a  diflferent  policj  in  the 
lord  of  the  soil,  rising  daily  and  becoming 
prosperous  bj  what  this  place  looses. 

Thursday^  Aug.  8.  Crackshank  took  me 
in  his  chair  to  Forlock,  six  miles.  Hedges 
luxuriantly  high  for  the  most  part  impede 
the  yiew,  through  their  openings  the  dark 
hills  are  seen,  and  the  coombs  that  intersect 
them.  A  Mr.  Lee  and  Wilmot  the  Quaker, 
whom  Lloyd  and  I  travelled  with  to  Salis- 
bury, and  admired  so  much,  accompanied 
us.  The  day  ended  in  rain ;  and  my  com- 
panions  who  (except  W.)  had  intended  to 
proceed  to  Ljrmouth  with  me  returned.  I 
am,  therefore,  alone ;  but  instead  of  them  I 
have  a  fire,  and  this  employment  is  plea- 
sure. 

Forlock  lies  in  a  vale.  The  hill  which 
runs  from  Mindiead  here  ends  in  one  of  the 
finest  serrated  headlands  I  ever  saw.  I 
looked  back  upon  a  horse-way  which  wound 
down  a  little  cut  in  its  side,  and  regretted 
that  Cruckshank  had  deprived  me  of  the 
walk.  This  place  is  called  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood the  End  of  the  World.  All  be- 
yond is  inaccessible  to  carriage  or  even 
cart.  A  sort  of  sledge  is  used  by  the  coun- 
try people,  resting  upon  two  poles  like  cart- 
shaf^.  Mother  Shipton  prophesied  that 
*♦  Porlock  Bay 
Should  old  England  betray  :** 
and  at  every  rumour  of  invasion  her  rhyme 
of  evil  omen  is  remembered  here. 

My  candlestick  is  of  ancient  make  and 
useful ;  half-way  up  is  a  broad  circle  of 
brass,  like  a  dumb  waiter,  which  serves  to 
hold  the  snufiers.  The  bed  room  reminded 
me  of  Spain,  two  long,  old,  dark  tables  with 
benches,  and  an  old  chest,  composed  its  fur- 
niture ;  but  there  was  an  oval  lookmg-glass, 
a  decent  pot  de  chambre,  and  no  fleas ! 

Friday  9.  Two  travellers  arrived  drip- 
ping wet  the  preceding  night  from  Ilfra- 
comb  with  a  guide  here,  there  was  a  guide 
for  me  and  a  horse.  The  man  was  stupid, 
tie  conducted  me  over  the  hill  instead  of 
»king  the  road  nearer  the  channel,  where 
there  are  many  noble  scenes ;  and  what  there 
was  remarkable  in  the  barren,  objectless 


track  we  went  he  did  not  point  out.  I  thus 
lost  the  Danish  encampment  where  Hubba 
besieged  Oddnne.  We  past  the  spot  where 
Kenwith  Castle  stood;  but  for  which  for- 
tress and  its  gallant  defender,  the  efforts  of 
Alfred  might  perhaps  have  been  vain,  and 
the  tide  of  our  history  have  flowed  in  a  dif- 
ferent channel.  From  this  place  the  desceot 
to  Lymouth  b^ns,  it  runs  upon  the  edge 
of  a  tremendous  precipice  aiid  the  sea  it 
the  base !  a  bank  of  firom  two  to  three  feet 
is  the  only  barrier.  At  the  bottom,  in  a  glen, 
lies  Lymouth.  We  past  through  and  as- 
cended half  a  mile  up  the  steepest  of  pos- 
sible hills  to  Linton,  where  the  public  hoose 
is  better  than  in  the  larger  village  below. 

Two  rivers,  each  coming  down  a  dif- 
ferent coombe,  and  each  descending  so  ra- 
pidly among  huge  stones  as  to  foam  Kke  a 
long  waterfall,  jcnn  at  Lymouth,  and  eater 
the  sea  immediately  at  their  junction ;  and 
the  roar  of  the  sea  forms  with  them  but  one 
soimd.  Of  these  coombes  one  is  richlj 
wooded,  the  other  mna  up  between  bare  and 
stony  hills ;  a  fine  eminence.  Line  Clil^  rises 
between  them.  Even  without  the  sea  thb 
would  be  one  of  the  finest  scenes  I  ever  be- 
held; it  is  one  of  those  delightful  and  im- 
pressive places  from  which  the  eye  turns 
to  rest  upon  the  minutest  home  object— « 
flower,  a  bank  of  moss,  a  stone  covered  with 
lichens. 

From  Linton  sm  easy  and  little  de- 
scent led  me  to  the  Valley  of  Stones.  The 
range  of  hills  here  next  the  sea  are  com- 
pletely stripped  of  their  soil,  the  bones  onljr 
of  the  earth  remain:  in  the  vale,  stone  upon 
stone  is  scattered,  and  the  fern  grows  among 
them.  Its  origin  I  could  not  conjecttve. 
Water  to  have  overwhelmed  such  a  height 
must  have  inundated  all  the  lower  oountfjt 
a  thing  evidently  impossible  :  and  the  hiUs 
on  the  other  side  the  valley,  not  an  arrow*s 
flight  distant,  are  clothed  with  herbage.  A 
water  spout  perhaps ;  but  I  am,  to  mj 
shame,  no  naturalist,  and  must  hypothesise 
as  a  poet. 

Was  it  the  work  of  our  giants,  of  the 
I  race  of  Albion  ?   we  have  historical  proof 


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that  they  were  not  large  limbed  enough,  for 
Goemagog,  one  of  the  hugest  of  them,  was 
not  t<x>  big  for  Corineus  to  carry.  I  con- 
ceive it,  therefore,  being  unable,  to  trace 
any  other  inhabitants  of  Britain  who  pos- 
sessed power  enough  for  the  wonder,  to  be 
the  ruins  of  some  work  erected  by  the  devils 
who  concubinated  with  the  fifty  cbiughters  of 
Diocletian ;  not  that  Diocletian  who  chose 
to  lengthen  his  name  of  Diocles  for  the  same 
reason  that  the  inhabitants  of  Frog  Lane 
in  Bristol,  in  contempt  of  the  original  god- 
fathers of  the  said  Frog  Lane,  hare  gen- 
teelized  it  into  Frogmore  Street — ^but  the 
Thracian  king,  and  this  diabolic  origin  ac- 
counts why  the  process  of  nature  in  cloth- 
ing the  rocks  does  not  proceed  here  beyond 
a  luxuriance  of  lichens. 

On  the  summit  of  the  highest  point  of 
the  hill,  two  large  stones  inclining  against 
each  other  form  a  portal ;  here  I  laid  my- 
self at  length — a  level  platform  of  turf 
spread  before  me  about  two  yards  long,  and 
then  the  eye  fell  immediately  on  the  sea — 
a  giddy  depth.  After  closing  my  eyes  a 
minute,  it  was  deeply  impressive  to  open 
them  upon  the  magnificent  dreariness,  and 
the  precipice,  and  the  sea.  A  A£r.  Williams 
led  me  here  in  the  morning ;  in  the  evening 
I  came  alone,  and  resigned  myself  to  the 
solitude.  This  Mr.  Williams  is  a  natural 
son  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester. 

The  alehouse  at  Linton  is  bad.  Mr. 
Lean  was  there  and  claimed  acquaintance 
with  me,  because  his  son  had  met  me  at 
Bristol.  He  is  a  pleasant,  intelligent  man, 
and  showed  me  where  to  walk.  I  learnt 
afterwards  that  he  travels  twice  or  thrice 
a  year  with  a  cartful  of  goods  round  Ex- 
moor;  and  when  he  arrives  at  a  village,  it  is 
proclaimed  at  the  church  door  that  Mr. 
Lean  is  come. 

Saturday  10.  To  Ilfracombe  five  hours 
and  a  quarter ;  the  distance  variously  com- 
puted from  fifteen  to  eighteen  miles.  Two 
young  sailors  were  my  guides ;  and  an  ac- 
quaintance of  theirs  went  part  of  the  way. 
He  caught  a  young  lark,  and  it  was  quite 
distressing  to  see  the  parent  bird  fluttering 


about  him.  I  pleaded  for  the  poor  prisoner, 
and  he  was  released.  We  passed  through 
Combmartin,  an  old,  and  dirty,  and  {Kior 
place ;  one  house,  once  a  good  one,  bears 
the  date  1584 ;  another  is  built  in  a  most 
ridiculous  castle  style,  and  called  the  Pack 
of  Cards.  Near  is  Watermouth,  a  harbour 
not  used,  but  strikingly  beautiful,  the  one 
side  formed  by  a  peninsular  rock  running 
out  parallel  with  the  shore,  with  herbage  on 
its  summit — ^and  a  little  islanded  fragment 
at  the  end. 

Similarly  formed  is  the  harbour  at  Il- 
fracombe, and  much  of  the  town  stands  on 
the  peninsula.  The  shores  are  broken  and 
fine,  the  country  naked  and  dreary.  To 
Barnstaple  is  eleven  miles;  as  you  approach 
the  town  you  have  a  fine  view  of  the  bay, 
and  river,  and  town,  of  Biddeford  on  the 
right. 

Sunday  11.  A  rainy  day,  and  the  devil 
himself  dislikes  walking  in  the  wet,  for  it  is 
written  that  he  wandereth  up  and  down  in 
dry  places.  I  went  by  stage  to  Taunton, 
in  the  coach  were  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Cul- 
len,  a  woman  unhappily  ugly,  a  Scoteh- 
man,  myself,  and  another  young  man  of 
about  my  age,  and  like  me  in  a  white  hat. 
I  found  him  universally  read,  and  an  ori- 
ental scholar;  he  interested  me,  and  told  me 
if  I  came  to  Exmouth  he  should  be  glad  to 
show  me  the  place.  Breakfast  at  South  Mol- 
ton,  twelve  miles;  dinner  at  Tiverton,  eigh- 
teen ;  Taunton,  twenty-two.  The  Scotch- 
man and  I  past  the  evening  together ;  be 
chose  theology  for  the  subject  of  conversa- 
tion, and  exprest  much  surprise  that  I  talk- 
ed intelligibly  and  without  anger :  he  gave 
me  his  address  and  a  friendly  invitation. 
Samuel  Watson,  Tanner,  Ayr,  Scotland. 

Monday  12.  Bishops  Lediard  five.  Here 
I  astonished  my  aunt  Mary  by  breakfast- 
ing with  her.  Seven  over  Quantock  to 
Stowey. 

At  Wellington  I  saw  a  very  fine  boy,  about 
twelve  years  old,  who  lost  both  his  legs  by 
the  severe  cold  last  winter.  At  Linton,  in 
a  little  sho^  window,  I  saw  caricatures  of 
the  coalition.    At  Tiverton,  the  boiled  beef 


had  an   herb-stuffing  which   pleased   me 
much. 

TuKSDAT,  Aug.  27.  To  Taunton  twelve. 
To  Honiton  eighteen.  At  Honiton  thcj  put 
the  Coleridges  into  a  chaise  with  cart-horses. 
We  were  told  that  the  towns-people  there 
are  remarkably  dishonest,  and  hare  been 
so  erer  since  the  borough  has  been  venal. 
<>n  the  road  is  one  rich  view  over  the  vale 
of  Taunton. 

Wednesday  28.  To  Seaton  twelve.  A 
hilly  and  uninteresting  road,  for  some  miles 
over  an  open  heath  so  luckily  lonely  that 
we  found  our  trunk,  which  fell  off  some 
half  mile  before  it  was  mist.  At  Seaton  no 
lodgings  were  to  be  had.  It  is  a  high,  open, 
naked,  Dorsetshire  sort  of  country,  with 
nothing  to  make  me  leave  it  with  r^ret  or 
remember  it  with  pleasure.  To  St.  Mary 
Ottery,  twelve.  The  church  here  is  very 
beautiful,  the  place  itself  remarkable  as  the 
birth-place  of  Grower,  and  Browne  the 
Pastoral  Poet,  and  Coleridge. 

From  Ottery  I  walked  with  S.  T.  Cole- 
ridge to  Budley  Salcombe ;  on  the  way  we 
past  the  mansion  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 
In  Lord  Rollers  park  are  the  finest  beeches 
I  ever  saw,  one  in  particular  which  is  quite 
dead,  but  in  its  ramifications  even  more 
beautiful  than  the  summer  trees ;  it  branch- 
ed into  three  great  branches,  oqe  of  which 
shot  immediately  into  three  smaller  ones. 
The  Otter  enters  the  sea  at  Budley  Sal- 
combe. I  forded  it  at  its  mouth.  The  sce- 
nery upon  the  river  is  tame  and  soothing ; 
like  all  the  Devonshire  rivers  it  oflen  over- 
flows. 

Also  we  went  to  Sidmouth,  a  nasty  wa- 
tering place,  infested  by  lounging  ladies, 
and  full  of  footmen. 

Monday,  Sept.  2.  To  Exeter  twelve. 

Exeter  is  ancient  and  stinks.  The  ca- 
thedral looks  well  in  those  points  where 
both  towers  are  seen,  and  the  body  of  the 
building  only  half.  The  bells  rung  for  the 
surrender  of  the  Dutch  fleet.  One  church 
with  two  bells  went  ding  dong,  another  had 
but  one,  and  could  only  ding.  It  is  a  bigotted 


place ;  there  are  persons  here  who  always 
call  the  Americans  the  rebela.  One  great 
street^  Fore  Street,  runs  through  the  city, 
the  rest  is  dirty  lanes;  as  you  cross  the 
bridge  you  look  down  upon  a  town  below 
you  intersected  by  water  in  a  strange  way. 
The  river  £x  is  fine,  and  the  walks  on  its 
banks.  There  is  a  canal  whose  shores  are 
completely  naturalized,  and  most  beauti- 
fully clothed  with  flowers. 

Wednesday,  Sept.  11.  Coleridge  and  I 
set  out  to  Moreton,  for  about  seven  miles 
the  way  was  hilly  and  heavy.  We  then  crost 
the  Teign  by  a  beautiful  old  notched  bridge, 
and  ascended  a  woody  hill  rich  in  magni- 
ficent views  of  woods  and  the  river  below. 
It  rained  incessantly  the  last  half  of  tbe 
way,  and  we  rejoiced  in  expectation  of  the 
waterfall  to-morrow.  To  Moreton  twelve. 

Thursday.  Through  Bovey  and  Manni- 
ton,  two  beautiful  villages,  to  Becky  FsU. 
The  stream  falls  among  huge  round  stones, 
— a  striking  scene.  But  we  were  some  hours 
too  late  for  the  rush  after  the  rains ;  aini 
waterfalls,  unless  they  are  Niagaras,  usv- 
ally  disappoint.  Mediocrity  in  a  catarart 
is  as  bad  as  in  poetry.  Near  this  is  Lnsl- 
leigh  Cleeve,  a  similar  scene.  Indeed  the 
whole  county  repays  a  pilgrimage.  We 
touched  upon  Dart  Moor,  and  passed  verj 
near  Heiter  Cliff,  the  highest  point  in  the 
county, — a  rocky  summit,  visible  almost 
everywhere,  and  sometimes  looking  like  a 
ruin.  This  we  left  on  our  right,  descending 
into  the  vale.  The  road  is  intricate,  and 
tbe  directing  posts  of  no  use  to  a  stranger, 
or  little,  for  they  are  only  marked  with  the 
initial  letter  of  the  town  to  which  they 
point.  One  spot  I  remember  with  pleasure, 
and  saw  with  delight,  a  little  vale  watered 
with  a  mill-stream,  the  circling  hilb  high, 
and  on  one  part  deeply  wooded,  the  vale 
sprinkled  with  fine  old  ashes,  that  seemed 
to  have  been  spared  by  a  man  of  taste  when 
he  rooted  up  a  grove.  The  mill  stood  un- 
der the  hill,  a  neat,  comfortable  habitation. 
A  saw-pit  was  before  it.  There  was  just 
enough  of  man,  and  what  there  was,  was  in 
keeping.    Ashburton  twelve,  a  good  town. 


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Fridaj.  Totness  eight.  The  road  sffording 
pracpecto  wnrth  looking  at,  and  fine  where 
it  ercwses  the  Dart.  TotneM  it  a  neat  town, 
which  spread  tctj  finelj  aa  we  looked  back 
upon  it.  The  right  waj  to  see  the  country 
is  to  go  bj  water  to  Dartmouth;  bntwe 
were  too  late- for  the  boat,  and  were  there- 
fore compelled  to  walk  ten  mile*  along  a 
road  keaTy,  nninteresting,  and  objectlen, 
but  not  flat,  for  the  calYes  of  mj  leg*  suf- 
fered most  Procnutian  extetuion  up  die 
hilla. 

Dartinonth  it  a  strange  and  beautiful 
place.  The  river  ii  broad,  some  half  or 
three  qiurters  of  a  mile  to  the  opposite  town, 
Ringiwear.  The  hills  not  high  enough, 
bat  yet  beautiful.  The  walk  to  the  Fort 
leads  along  the  waterajde  by  a  terrace,  for 
(he  town  ia  bnilt  high.     By  moonlight  we 

Saturday.  Crowed  the  Dart  to  Brixham, 
Gire.  Torbay  is  shored  with  red  sandbanks. 
We  were  wearied  with  its  insipidity,  and 
nmdc  for  Newton  Bnahell  siiteen. 

Sanday.  Exeter  fourteen.  The  walk  af- 
forded some  Devonshire  views,  that  is,  ez- 
teative  aceoes  in  which  the  eye  found  no 
one  ot^ect  to  rest  upon. 

By  Newton  Bushel  we  saw  a  board, "  Man 
Tr^w  and  Spring  Gun*  are  tilted'  in  this 
Gardm."  Tilled,  therefore,  is  prepared, 
made  ready. 

Devonshire  has  been  overpraised.  The 
hill*  are  high,  angled  over  with  hedges, 
bat  no  wood.  A  new  country  that  had  no 
foreatt  would  look  like  it.  They  are  high 
enough  to  fatigue,  and  yet  not  enough  to 
excite  admiration,  'nie  rivers  make  the 
beauty  of  this  eoun^, — clear,  melodious, 
dova-hill  streams.  Its  great  merit  ia  Clou- 
ted Cream,  of  which  I  make  honourable 


'  It  ia  from  the  A.  S.  cdian,  to  prepare. 
Tcdd  quotes  splly  the  lines  of  Browne, 
"  Nur  knows  ho  how  to  dig  a  well, 

Nur  neatly  dress  a  spring : 
Nor  knows  a  trap  or  anare  to  till." 

J.W.W. 


Kxvnx.  Mr.  Grminger's  garden  is  sin- 
gular in  its  kind.  It  is  in  the  Castle  ditch,' 
and  this  accident  has  been  made  the  most 
of.  It  is  well  planted  witb  many  and  noble 
trees.  There  is  the  fineit  poplar  that  I  n 
member.  I  hare  also  seen  the  fnctnres  of 
Mr.  Abbot,  an  apothecary  here.  I  m 
saw  better  landscapes ;  finished  eren  with 
Dutch  niceoess,  yet  good  in  eflect;  intereat- 
ing  in  every-  part,  yet  fine  wholes.  1 
seems  to  have  itudied  nature  with  uncoi 
man  care  and  success.  Ilis  diadows  ■ 
particularly  fine, — not  the  vulgar  black  of 
painters,  but  ever  partaking  of  the  colunr 
of  the  object. 

The  corporation  used  to  compel  people 
to  keep  their  doors  clean.  Twdvemontha 
liuee  it  was  discovered  that  they  had  no  au- 
thority to  do  this,  and  now  the  people  will 
not  clean  away  the  dirt,  because  "  they  ct 
force  US  to." 

At  Exeter  is  a  choice  collection  of  wal 
colour  drawings,  ia  the  possession  of  Ur. 
Patch.  'J'he  two  masterpieces  of  Faine  are 
there,  and  some  incomparable  pieces  by 
Smiih,  Turner,  and  Fococke. 

HoHiTON  sixteen.  The  vole  rich  and  beau- 
tiful. Axminster  nine.  Bridport  twelve. 
Dorchester  sixteen.  A  hideous  country,  cul- 
tivated without  enclosures,  Ihe  hills  scored 
with  furrows  like  roaA  pork.  Warehamt* 
dreary  and  desolate.  Foole  ten.  Christ 
Church  fourteen. 

Tdesdat,  October  30.  Kingwood  ei^t 
Rumsey  seventeen.  On  theway  isthel^dted 
Fost,an  extra-parodual  alehouse,  where  ui 
married  women  go  to  lie  in,  out  of  the  reai 
of  the  constables.  There  is  also  on  this  road 
an  oak,  once  venemted,  and  still  visited,  be- 
cause it  buds  on  Chrislmas  day.  An  open 
country,  some  of  the  forest  scenery  fine. 
Winchester  eleven,  in  part  through  the  fo- 
rest. The  cathedral  has  more  to  admire  than 

■  The  garden  at  Eccleshall  Castle,  the  Falace 
(if  the  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  is  also  in  the  ditch. 
It  wss  the  Bdminition  of  pnor  Bishop  Buller, 
and  I  Bin  not  likely  to  fur  gets  bed  of  Gladioli 
lie  pointed  out  to  me  there.- J.  W.  W. 


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PERSONAL  OBSERVATIONS  AND  RECOLLECTIONS 


anj  I  have  seen,  and  Milnar  has  described 
it  with  catholic  feeliDg. 

Wednesday,  30th.  Southampton  tweWe. 
Some  fine  forest  views.  This  is  a  town  which 
nothing  but  the  foUjr  of  fashion  could  have 
made  famous.  A  muddj  river,  and  fiat 
shores,  rather  bushj  than  wooded.  The 
gateway  is  fine,  but  it  is  an  unpleasant  and 
imposing  place. 

Thursday,  31st.  Ringwood  twenty.  En- 
tering the  Rumsey  road  at  Stoney  Cross 
again. 

MosDAT,  April  14,  1800. 

From  Bristol  to  Old  Down,  sixteen.  A 
hilly  and  little  interesting  road.  Seven  to 
Wells.  The  cathedral  fine  in  the  view,  and 
the  Tor.  Glastonbury,  six,  a  town  quite 
unmodemised,  beautiful  by  its  ruins  and 
churches,  and  dear  by  all  feelings  of  reve- 
rence and  chivalry.  Bridgewater,  sixteen. 
Taunton,  twelve. 

Tuesday,  15  th.  Six  to  Wellington, — an- 
tiqua  sedes  Southeyorum.  Twelve  to  Cul- 
lunipton,  one  of  those  towns  where  the  inn- 
keepers have  enough  business  to  make  them 
procure  good  accommodations,  and  not 
enough  to  render  them  negligent.  Twelve 
to  Exeter.  Nine  to  Chudlcigh.  It  was  fair. 
Three  hundred  and  twenty  French  prisoners 
were  looking  at  the  merriment  through  the 
wooden  bars  of  their  temporary  prison. 
They  were  crowded  like  brutes.  I  learnt 
they  were  on  the  way  to  Bristol.  Ashbur- 
ton,  nine.  The  rivers  in  Devon  are  beau- 
tiful, but  only  the  rivers.  Old  mince-pie 
bridges,  dangerously  narrow. 

Wednesday,  16th.  Detained  to  have  an 
old  chaise  patched.  Our  horses  were  foun- 
dered. The  fleet  was  in  Torbay,  and  of 
course  this  was  a  miserable  time  for  the 
poor  beasts.  At  three  miles  from  Ashbur- 
ton  they  stopped,  and  could  proceed  no  far- 
ther. The  driver  was  cruel  and  obstinate, 
but  the  animals  wanted  power,  and  this, 
more  than  my  exertions,  succeeded  in  mak- 
ing him  return  for  other.  We  the  while  en- 
tered the  kitchen  of  a  little  alehouse.  The 
wooden  bench  was  well  contrived  there ;  it 


formed  a  semicircle  round  Xhe  fire,  admit- 
ting light  only  by  the  way  in,  which  was  in 
the  middle.  Of  course  the  visitants  within 
could  see  to  do  nothing  but  smoke  and  drink. 
An  old  peasant  came  in,  and  called  for  beer. 
He  opened  upon  us  with  ignorant  Jaco- 
binism, but  it  was  honest,  and  the  man,  though 
with  some  strange  notions  about  the  Union 
and  the  wool,  was  a  strong-headed  man.  This 
language  was  no  novelty  in  the  alehouse.  1 
had  overheard  a  low  conversation  between 
the  two  women  of  the  house,  upon  the  pro- 
priety of  removing  a  print  from  the  wall  of 
a  certain  personage,  whose  head  somebody 
had  cut  out  one  day.  Upon  enquiry,  this 
spirit  was  not  wonderftil.  The  war  which 
enriches  Plymouth  and  the  farmers  of  De- 
vonshire, oppresses  the  poor  heavily;  the 
country  is  stripped  for  the  fleet ;  butter  was 
\9,  6d.  per  pound,  meat  Sd,  and  9c/.  in  this 
village,  twenty  miles  from  the  bay  I  The 
peasantry  are  the  sufl*erer8,  because  they 
cannot  retaliate  by  raising  the  price  of  their 
labour.  If  they  will  not  work  for  what  their 
employers  choose  to  give  them,  they  must 
starve. 

A  very  decent  soldier  joined  us  in  the 
alehouse ;  a  marine  of  the  Lc  Loire  frigate, 
returning  from  a  visit  to  his  family  at  Durs- 
ley,  in  Gloucestershire.  This  man,  too,  had 
in  his  family  felt  the  pressure.  We  made 
them  very  happy  by  paying  their  shilling- 
worth  of  drink.  The  old  man  was  delighted, 
and  would  give  his  tobacco-box  in  return. 
There  was  written  upon  it,  "  Unity,  Peace, 
and  Trade.**  If  ever  he  saw  it  again,  he 
should  know  me.  It  was  not  easy  to  avoid 
his  present.  This  man  wished  the  fleet  sunk, 
so  much  did  he  perceive  the  burthen.  Our 
horses  arrived,— a  pair  who,  as  we  learnt 
upon  meeting  the  stage,  by'  a  dialogue  be- 
tween the  two  drivers,  had  been  foundered 
yesterday.  We  rode  in  pain ;  every  stroke 
of  the  whip  was  a  conscience-blow.  It  was 
an  abuse  of  power,  a  tyrannous  cruelty  to 
the  brute  creation.  The  crazy  chaise  was 
forgotten  in  this  stronger  feeling.  But 
crack,  and  down !  a  gentle,  and  broken,  and 
harmless  fall.     Its  consequences  were  \et» 


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isant ;  a  mile  and  half  walk  through  dirt 
,  rain  to  Ivy  Bridge.  The  stage  is  thir- 
1  miles. 

it  Ivy  Bridge  we  breakfasted.  Walking 
>  the  garden  with  Edith,  a  voice  behind, 
od  bless  my  soul !"  It  was  Tom.  He  had 
en  horse  to  meet  us,  breakfasted  in  the 
m  adjoining  us,  and  watched  every  chaise 
t  drove  to  the  door,  but  omitting  to  keep 
K>k  out  for  foot  travellers.  But  for  this 
ident,  he  would  have  lost  us.  The  bridge 
yied,  but  small,  very  small,  a  mere  one- 
bed  brook  bridge.  The  stream  consti- 
38  the  beauty  of  this  well-known  spot, 
rolls  among  huge  stones  adown  a  little 
1.  The  inn  and  several  gentlemanlike- 
dng  houses,  where  only  cottages,  and 
se  all  quietness,  ought  to  have  stood, 
lit  the  scene.  I  was  pleased  and  disap- 
ated.  To  Plymouth,  eleven.  Some  fine 
ws  in  the  last  few  miles.  We  saw  the 
ks,  which  excited  in  me  no  surprise,  no 
isure.  It  was  all  huge, — a  great  deal  of 
rer,  and  30Q0  men,  and  God  knows  how 
ly  thousand  thousands  of  money,  em- 
fed  in  now  doing  mischief, 
lount  Edgecumbe  we  did  not  cross  to. 
nras  pretty,  but  not  what  travellers  re- 
t.  The  people  who  so  bepraise  Devon- 
e,  must  either  have  come  from  Cornwall, 
they  have  slipt  through  Somersetshire, 
country  of  real  beauty, 
liursday,  17th.  Our  Bristol  chaise  com- 
ion  broke  his  engagement,  and  instead 
»ming  to  me  to  consult  about  our  ar- 
gements,  went  on  the  water.  We  left 
,  and  crossed  with  Tom  to  Tor  Point, 
he  Phaibe^s  boat.  A  chaise  had  been  or- 
sd.  We  had  no  sooner  set  foot  in  Com- 
1  than  an  attempt  to  impose  upon  us  took 
;e.  The  stage  was  long,— -eighteen  miles, 
tie  roads  very  bad, — we  did  not  know 
f  bad,^-our  luggage  was  too  much, — a 
*  of  horses  could  not  draw  us.  I  had  been 
tioned  against  this  Cornish  rascality,  and 
sted.  Tom  at  last  said  he  would  give  up 
a  his  journey  with  us  to  Liskard;  but 
heart  failed  him,  and  mine  also.  I  was 
ag  to  another  country,  ami  when  should 


we  meet  again  ?  He  ran  out  and  ordered 
the  four  horses,  and  Edith  and  he  and  I 
were  immediately  exhilarated. 

New  difficulties.  The  innkeeper  had  no 
more  horses;  he  had  depended  upon  pro- 
curing them  at  the  other  inn,  as  it  was  to 
keep  up  the  custom  of  the  road.  But  he 
was  a  new  comer,  and  the  inns  had  quar- 
relled :  they  would  lend  no  horses.  At  first, 
from  a  pretence  of  pride,  their  horses  should 
not  be  the  leaders,  to  drag  the  other  man*s 
cattle  as  well  as  the  chaise.  Put  them  in 
the  shafts  then.  No !  The  ostler  referred 
us  to  his  mistress,— he  wotdd  if  she  wotdd. 
The  mistress  rebutted  us  to  her  ostler, — 
«he  would  if  he  would, — backward  and  for- 
ward. The  woman  was  civil,  but  rogues 
and  liars  all.  At  last  the  ostler  swore  that 
Tomlins*  cattle  had  the  distemper.  This 
decided  it.  It  would  ruin  her  horses ;  they 
should  not  go  in  the  way  of  the  distemper 
for  any  sum  whatever.  I  laughed  with  very 
vexation,  and  Tom  laughed,  and  we  cursed 
Cornwall  and  its  road-horses,  and  its  roads, 
and  its  rogues. 

I  went  back  to  the  first  innkeeper.  ^*Look 
you  I  if  you  cannot  take  us  on,  I  will  go  to 
the  other  inn,  and  take  places  in  to-morrow*s 
stage.  Why  are  travellers  to  be  delayed  for 
your  quarrels?**  This  last  question  was  our 
language  to  both.  It  ended  well.  Tomlins, 
a  rascal,  said  the  pair  could  take  us  very 
well;  he  had  only  recommended  four  as 
pleasanter  travelling ;  two  could  do  it  with 
ease.  And  this  fellow  had  positively  refused 
to  take  us,  not  half  an  hour  back;  and  even 
demurred  when  Tom  said  he  would  not  ac- 
company us,  and  we  had  ofi*ered  to  walk  up 
every  hill.  "  Now,  mark  me ! "  said  Tom, 
*^  we  will  all  go ;  we  will  ride  up  the  hills, 
if  we  please.**  —  "  The  horses  can  do  it. ;  I 
warrant  them ;  I  know  they  can  do  it.'*  Off 
we  set.  This  Tomlins  had  been  detected 
in  purchasing  stolen  stores  from  the  Mars, 
kicked  out  of  the  ship,  and  ordered  never 
to  set  foot  in  her  again..  Tom  knew  him 
therefore. 

The  road  was  rough,  but  only  sixteen 
miles,  though  chai'ged  eighteen.  This  false- 


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hood  serves  the  double  purpose  of  the  over- 
charge, and  a  pretext  for  making  travellers 
take  four  horses.  We  were  in  high  spirits. 
The  storms  of  the  day  had  left  a  fresh  and 
pleasant  evening,  literally  and  metaphori- 
cally. The  horses  went  with  complete  ease; 
we  seldom  heard  the  whip.  When  we  walk- 
ed, the  driver  would  not, — ^not  he!  the 
horses  did  not  want  to  be  eased.  Tom 
swore ;  I  only  laughed  at  the  fellow*s  oddity. 
It  was  the  pleasantest  stage  of  the  whole 
journey.  At  Liskard  we  were  put  into  the 
bar  while  our  fire  was  kindled.  I  counted 
there  forty-three  puuch-bowls,  —  positive 
punch-bowls, — forty-three, — and  the  house 
was  full  at  the  time.  Zounds !  what  punch 
drinkers  they  must  be  in  Liskard !  and  what 
a  consumption  of  lemons ! 

Friday,  April  18th.  Rundell  arrived  after 
us  at  one  in  the  morning.  A  new  attempt 
to  make  us  take  four  horses.  I  called  the 
mistress  of  the  house,  and  told  her  our  Tor 
Point  story.  This  completely  shamed  her, 
and  she  almost  apologized.  She  did  not 
mean  to  impose, — she  thought, — she  was 
afraid, — she  did  not  know, — ^it  was  hilly, — 
but  if  we  came  from  Tor  Point  with  a 
chaise — .  This  was  more  knavish  than  even 
Tomlins.  The  road  was  not  very  hilly,  the 
stage  twelve  miles  only,  and  a  road  as  good 
as  any  I  ever  travelled.  Breakfast  at  Lost- 
withiel.  A  pretty  town.  The  Cornish  all 
look  clean  with  their  slate  roofs;  and  the 
tower  here  is  singular.  Here  we  got  restive 
horses,  and  a  restive  driver,  who  fought 
them  nearly  two  hours.  Edith  and  Run- 
dell walked  back;  it  was  but  a  mile.  I 
paced  the  road,  watched  the  brook,  looked 
at  the  flowers,  flung  stones,  did  a  thousand 
natural  things,  not  to  mention  the  non-na- 
turals. Eight  to  St.  Austel,  a  nothing-to- 
be -said -about  place.  Fourteen,  Truro. 
Twelve,  Falmouth.  The  last  twelve  pretty, 
and  through  the  uncouth  streets  of  Penryn, 
which  seem  made  on  purpose  to  take  the 
traveller  round  as  many  acute  angles,  and 
up  and  down  as  many  hills  as  possible  in  a 
given  distance.  We  found  the  packet  in 
the  hai'bour. 


Epitaph  at  LUairwgt. 

"  Pbope  jacet  corpus  Griflini  Lloyd  de 
Brynniog  olim  Ludimagistri 
Indigni  Llanrustiensis  nuper 
Lecturarii  Indignioris  et  Rectoris 
Indignissimi  Doegensis.     Sepult 
Decimoquinto  die  Martis 

Anno  Domini 

1779. 

Nil  de  defuncto  die  scribe 

Putave  maligne.** 


At  Rodney  Stoke,  between  Wells  and 
Cross,  under  Mendip,  there  is  a  cottsge 
somewhat  like  the  home  of  a  novel-heroine. 
A  little  white  washed  thatched  house,  with 
a  garden  that  shows  there  is  wealth  enough 
to  attend  to  ornament.  Clean  milk  pails 
hung  upon  the  rails ;  a  fine  weeping  wQlow 
overhung  the  road,  or  rather  lane,  and 
under  it  a  stream  of  water  passed  from  the 
garden  into  a  stone  trough,  for  the  village 
use. 

At  the  village  Tom  and  I  breakfasted  in 
a  clean  little  alehouse ;  some  ornaments  of 
twisted  glass  stood  upon  the  chimneypiece. 
The  grate  was  filled  with  reed  blossoms, 
which  looked  like  plumes.  A  feUow  came 
along  selling  *'  Last  dying  speeches,**  and 
I  saw  that  he  found  customers. 

Mb.  Rickabds,  or  Ricketts,  near  Stroud, 
told  me  that  as  he  was  coursing  or  shooting 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  Llantrissiant,  his 
native  place,  he  went  to  pass  through  what 
seemed  a  patch  of  red  dirt.  But  his  foot 
sunk,  and  he  fell,  and  to  his  infinite  asto- 
nishment he  found  his  leg  burnt  through 
the  boot,  by  which  he  was  confined  for  many 
weeks.  The  place  was  out  of  all  paths,  and 
only  some  old  people  knew  that  such  a 
ground-fire  existed. 

October  4,  1805.  KnwiCK  to  Wigton, 
twenty-two.  Above  Bassenthwaite  hills  a 
new  and  fineviewof  the  lake.  Derwentwater 


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is  hid  behind  Brandelow,over  which  the  fells 
behind  Barrow  rise,  and  over  these  again 
those  of  Langdale.  From  hence  a  dreary 
country.  Square  inclosures  on  the  distant 
hills,  without  a  single  tree.  Uldale,  a  small 
village  on  the  right,  before  we  reached 
Ireby,  one  of  those  townlets  where  every 
thing  reminds  you  of  the  distance  from 
London.  We  had  soon  a  view  of  the  plain 
below  us,  with  Solway  firth  and  the  Scotch 
mountains  to  the  north.  The  plain  ex- 
tended as  far  as  we  could  see — a  noble 
prospect — the  more  striking  to  us  as  we 
came  from  the  close  mountain  country. 
Wigton  a  thriving  town.  To  Carlisle  eleven. 
The  coach  days  to  Edinburgh  are  Monday, 
Wednesday,  and  Friday ;  so  we  are  thrown 
out.  To  Glasgow  only  a  mail  at  three  every 
day,  in  which  you  have  only  the  chance  of 
a  place. 

At  Wigton  the  houses  are  painted  a  nasty 
dark  red ;  the  stone  itself  being  reddish, 
and  of  a  good  colour.  One  of  the  coarse 
common  alehouse  prints  in  the  staircase 
there  was  of  the  battle  of  Wexford.  Miss 
Redmond  at  the  head  of  the  rebels.  It 
looked  as  if  the  artist  wished  well  to  the 
Irishmen.  Near  this  place  we  saw  one  of 
the  quadrangular  farms  common  in  Scot- 
land, originally  contrived  for  defence ;  the 
outhouses  surround  or  inclose  the  fold,  and 
the  dunghill  is  in  the  middle  of  the  court. 

The  bed  curtains  at  Carlisle  were  a  good 
specimen  of  political  freedom.  General 
Washington  was  driving  American  Inde- 
pendence in  a  car  drawn  by  leopards,  a 
black  Triton  running  beside,  and  blowing 
his  conch,  meant,  I  conceive,  by  his  coronal 
of  plumes,  to  represent  the  native  Indians. 
In  another  compartment,  Liberty  and  Dr. 
Frauklin  were  going  hand  in  hand  to  the 
temple  of  Fame,  where  two  little  Cupids 
were  holding  a  globe  on  which  America 
and  the  Atlantic  could  be  read.  The  Tree 
of  Liberty  st<x>d  by,  and  the  Stamp  Act 
reversed  was  bound  round  it. 

The  waiter  there  was  a  Scotchman,  un- 

I  commonly  civil,  he  bowed  as  he  asked  if 
we  Would  please  to  give  him  leave  to  clean 


our  boots.  Two  wooden  grenadiers,  in  the 
old  uniform,  are  painted  and  cut  out  to 
their  shape,  one  at  the  bottom  of  the  stairs, 
the  other  on  the  landing  place. 

Saturday,  5.  Market  day.  Innumerable 
carts  of  potatoes  and  sacks  of  wheat,  indi- 
cating plenty  in  the  land.  Saw  the  Cathe- 
dral, its  tower  would  be  poor  for  a  parish 
church,  and  looks  worse  for  standing  on  so 
huge  a  pile.  The  inside  is  better  than  I 
suspected;  the  old  stalls  remain,  and  are 
very  fine,  but  a  double  row  of  pews  dis- 
figure the  choir;  and  the  window,  which 
has  to  every  compartment  a  border  of 
orange-coloured  glass,  with  comers  of  bright 
green,  flings  a  glaring  and  ill  assorted  light. 
We  noticed  a  remarkable  arch  over  some 
of  the  oldest  tombs,  which  might  be  brought 
in  favour  of  the  sylvan  origin  of  Gothic 
architecture.  A  bough,  whose  lesser  boughs 
were  thus  lopped,  and  bent  to  an  arch. 
There  were  four  of  these.  Looking  at  this, 
we  were  told  that  we  stood  upon  Paley's 
grave.  On  a  wooden  closet  which  holds 
the  altar  cushions,  &c.  boys-  had  cut  their 
names ;  we  read  those  of  Sawrey  Gilpin,  the 
horse  painter,  and  of  Robert  Carlisle,  the 
artist.  The  lives  of  St.  Austin,  St.  Antony 
the  Great,  St.  Cuthbert,  in  a  series  of  paint- 
ings, had  been  whitewashed  over  at  the 
Reformation ;  but  Percy  had  them  recovered, 
as  far  as  could  be  done.  One  compartment 
of  Augustine*s  life  confirms  the  fact  that  the 
Devil  keeps  books ;  old  Belzey  has  a  huge 
one,  with  great  clasps,  upon  his  back,  and 
it  seems  a  tolerable  load  for  him  ;  he  is  say- 
ing "  Pocuitet  me  tibi  ostendisse  librum.** 

Went  to  the  castle.  They  have  built  a 
depositary  for  arms  within  its  court,  and 
another  for  field  pieces.  The  portcullis  is 
entire — the  first  I  ever  saw ;  the  wood  cased 
with  iron.  Called  on  the  Miss  Waight. 
They  have  many  excellent  books,  and  an 
excellent  house.  They  showed  us  a  por- 
trait of  Lord  W^illiam  Russell^s  mother, 
when  an  infant,  in  miserable  fine  full  dress, 
with  a  rufi*  and  a  long  strait  waist.  They 
complained  of  the  change  in  Carlisle  since 
the  manufacturers  had  got  there.    The  pa- 


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puktion  had  increased  from  six  to  fourteen 
thousanJ,  withuut  atiy  addition  to  the  de- 
cent souictjr  of  the  place.  Poor  Scotch  and 
poor  Irish  made  up  the  number,  and  the 
place  was  Bwarmlng  with  poor,  without 
either  manners  or  morala. 

Some  few  of  the  carts  had  the  old  original 
wheels,  as  in  the  north  of  Spun  ;  one  of 
them  we  saw  on  the  road,  laid  against  a 
bank  for  a  style.  Symptoms  of  Scotland 
soon  appeared — we  met  sbecji  drovers  with 
the  common  grejr  plaid  scarft  round  them, 
and  a  woman  waking  bare  foot  and  carry- 
ing lier  shoes.  Arthuret  church  the  last 
English  place  of  worship.  Here  Elmslej 
once  heard  an  evangelical  tell  bU  congre- 
gation thnt  the  road  to  hell  was  not  the 
safur  for  being  well  frequented.  Just  leav- 
ing Carlisle  pass  the  bri<Igcs ;  on  the  snnds 
below  the  cattle  market  is  held.  Skiddaw 
appeared  in  a  new  shape,  and  of  more  visi- 
ble magnitude  from  distance.  Bejond  it 
the  ridge  of  the  Borrodale  mountains,  and 
1  fancied — it  must  have  been  fane;,  I  thiuk 
— that  Longdate  was  to  be  seen. 

Crosu  the  line  and  reach  Longtown,  nine. 
A  new  town  built  in  a  double  cross,  in  fact, 
chiedj  an  appendage  to  the  Graham  estate, 
and  the  work  of  that  family.  Prints  of 
Curwen  and  Pitt  were  in  the  inn,  and  vile 
aquatints  of  views  near  Londuu,  among 
which  was  one  on  Brixton  Causey.  Three 
miles  on  arc  two  turnpikes,  about  tifly  yards 
asunder,  one  in  each  kingiloni.  There  the 
Scotehman  is  said  by  (he  story  to  make  a 
fortune  by  taking  a  penny  from  each  of  his 
countrymen  who  go  to  England,  on  con- 
<lition  of  paying  a  shilling  when  he  returns. 
To  Longholm,  in  Dumfriesshire,  twelve, 
along  the  Esk  most  part  of  the  way,  cross- 
iitg  it  once.  So  beautiful  a  road  1  do  not 
remember  anywhere  out  of  the  lake  coun- 
try. A  clear,  loud  stream,  fine  woods,  and 
fine  shores.  Past  Gilnockie  on  the  right, 
the  caslle  of  Johnny  Armstrong,  Scotch 
farms  have  an  exterior  of  plenty,  as  having 
no  bams.  All  their  corn  is  in  little  ricks, 
ten,  twenty,  thirty,  close  to  the  house, 
neatly   enough   shaped,   and  their  conical 


thatch  futened  down  wilb  a  ctom  wcoi  of 
straw -ropes. 

Twenty-two  to  Hawick.  Up  a  long  wind, 
ing  vale  by  the  Euee  and  the  T^viot  {  which, 
why  it  was  called  pleasant  Tiviotdale  I  did 
not  understantl,  till  the  desolation  beyond 
taught  me.  Ten  miles  on  the  toad  is  Mou- 
paul  Green  inn,  Roxburghshire,  where 
foot  traveller  might  sleep.  It  stands  in 
long  combe,  the  green  hill  on  etcl>  >i*l* 
sloping  down,  and  meeting  almost 
point.  This  was  a  striking  scene  of  pastoral 
solitude,  a  little  scanty  stream  below 
grew  dark,  but  our  horses  pushed  on 
to  keep  company  with  some  led  ones,  which 
had  just  passed  us.  Cross  the  Xiviot  it 
Hawick.  Eleven  to  Selkirk,  in  the  dirk, 
but  over  a  country  where  sunihiue  would 
have  been  of  no  use. 

At  Langholme  we  had  seen  the 
symptoms  of  Scotch  mannera;  the  small 
beer  waa  bottled,  and  they  gave  us  no  doth 
with  our  cold  meat.  Selkirk  hod  the  true 
odor  Scotic.  We  had  a  dirty  room,  behind 
which  I  heard  such  long  echoes,  that  being 
in  a  land  of  Boglea,  I  did  not  feel  much 
inclined  to  investigate  whence  they  pro. 
ceeded  till  the  morning.  Then  we  found 
it  was  from  a  large  ball  room  ;  and  here 
was  kept  a  machine  to  measure  militia  men, 
this  being  the  county  town. 

Sunday,  6.  Selkirk  is  truly  a  dismal 
place.  The  houses  all  darkly  rough  cast, 
and  made  still  more  ragged  by  a  custom  (^ 
painting  the  window  out-frame  work  ei- 
HCtly  to  the  shape  of  the  wood,  which  the 
carpenter  always  leaves  without  any  attea- 
tion  to  squareness.  These  imperfect  »quir« 
of  dirty  white,  upon  dirty  rough  cast,  give 
a  most  dolorous  appearance.  A  new  town 
house,  with  a  spire,  seemed  to  have  no  bu- 
siness in  such  a  place.  We  went  to  the 
kirk,  and  just  walked  through  it ;  it  had  uo 
other  floor  than  the  bare  earth.  Some  vila 
daubings  of  Justice,  Adam  and  Eve,  ftc. 
on  the  gallery  front,  its  only  omamenl«, 
where  there  had  till  lately  been  a  picture 
of  a  Souter  of  Selkirk  taking  measure  of  a 
fine  lady's  foot     In  the  kirkyard  a  aquirr 


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if  nusonrj,  in  which  B  door  had  lately 
rilled  up.  I  took  it  for  k  T&nlt  above 
d ;  bvt  am  told  that  tomb-cbambers 
it  uncoinmou  In  Scotland.  The  peo- 
noallj  uglj,  soon  old,  and  then  bom- 
but  I  liked  the  plaid,  die  gray  plaid, 
wrapping  them  in  wind,  or  scarft 
in  eunsbine ;  and  I  liked  the  bonnet. 
locki  here  are  stopped  b;  night. 
Iked  Kven  miles  to  Mellrose,  first  in 
of  the  Ettrick,  then  of  the  Tweed. 
1  on  the  wBj  a  kirkjard,  with  a  few 
i«  of  the  kirk,  the  ground  being  still 
led  aa  consecrated.  The  Scotch  have 
It  objection  to  Ijing  in  unhallowed 
d,  and  also  to  naming  the  Devil  other- 
liMi  hy  gome  periphraMS,  usoallj,  it 
a  complimentant  one — u  the  Auld 


Urose  at  length  appeared,  ita  old  abbey 
dihedral ;  to  the  right  the  EldoD  hills, 
and  finely  shaped;  the  Auld  gude 
aving  br<^en  them  formerly  to  please 
el  Scott.  The  ruin  it  were  hopeless 
cribe — so  wonderful  is  its  beauty.* 
D  masons  in  the  neighbonrhood  boast 
ley  are  descended  fkini  the  builden, 
puly  have  always  been  of  the  same 
and  coDtlnae  to  be  the  best  in  the 
y.  The  finest  window  is  injured  by 
r  placed  the  clock  above  it,  which  has 
d  it  above.  Worse  than  this,  they 
converted  the  middle  of  the  church 


MO  (ha  Qreeka  downward!  there  ha*  bean 
M  notion.  The  Fnriea  were  propitiated 
Jm  name  of  Enmeoide* ;  on  which,  inttar 
I,  *oe  MuUer*!  Eununid.  %  B7. 
[«  can  be  no  better  illuitration  of  this 
(ition  than  Sw  WiLTia's  own  worda 

Kay.  Speaking  of  the  Furiea, "  wbo  if 
litiiely  malignant  to  hiunanity,  were  yet 
voided  and  feared,  on  account  of  their 
oiu,  vindictive,  and  irritable  diapoeilion," 
■  into  Baillie  Nicol  Jarvie'a  mouth  these 

"  They  ca'  them,"  «»id  Mr.  Jarvia  in  a 
T,  Daaiu*  Schii,  which   signifiea,   as  I 

their  gude  w 


into  a  kirk.  Miss  Waugh  showed  me  an 
epigram  which  a  friend  of  hen  had  stuck 
up  in  this  abominable  den  of  sacrilegious 
Calvinism. 

"  Mellrose,  within  thy  sacred  shrine 
Angek  might  once  have  loved  to  dwell. 
But  now  there's  not  a  decent  swine 
Would  quit  his  sty  for  Buch  a  cell." 

Three  windows  are  patched  up  with  wJatr- 
able  glass  for  this  place  of  abomination;  and 
to  show  that  they  are  not  in  the  right  way, 
one  way  in  is  through  the  window.  I  saw 
steps  leading  up  to  one,  and  could  not  ima- 
gine for  what  purpose,  till  an  old  woman 
crawled  up,  pushed  open  a  coarse  wooden 
plank,  which  served  to  fill  up  one  half  of 
one  division,  and  crept  in. 

The  tombstones  are  remarkable  here; 
some  aa  being  well  executed,  others  as  a 
contrast  to  the  fine  taste  of  the  ruin.  There 
is  the  bust  of  a  freemason,  raised  in  a  hollow 
frame,  with  tiie  mystic  signs  of  bis  craft, 
upon  one  of  the  most  remarkable. 

Returning,  we  saw  the  junction  of  the 
Tweed  and  Ettrick,  which  we  had  before 
passed  unnoticed.  An  old  house  stands 
near  the  angle  of  their  junction,  well  co- 
vered with  wood. 

Monday,  7.  Seven  miles  to  Ashiestiel, 
Walter  Scott's.  We  forded  the  Ettrick, 
and  soon  came  in  sight  of  the  Tweed,  pro- 
ceeding along  its  banks,  or  in  sight  of  them, 
instead  of  crossing  the  bridge,  which  is  the 
direct  road  to  Edinburgh.  Scott  took  us 
over  tlie  hills  to  see  the  Yarrow,  a  daaaic 
stream.  It  winds  from  a  solitary  and  sor- 
rowful country.  This  a  quiet  and  beautiful 
vale — more  beautiful  because  all  around  it 
is  so  dreary.  I  forded  it  on  foot,  the  water 
not  being  above  my  boots.  The  greyhounds 
killed  a  young  hare  on  the  opposite  shore, 
odd  as  it  may  seem,  the  first  I  ever  saw 
taken.  Newarit  castle  stands  on  a  little 
knoll  above  the  water,  wooded  on  that  ude, 
one  of  the  old  square  towers  of  the  old  bor- 
der banditti.  Some  ten  men  were  once  shot 
within  its  court.  In  fact,  every  place  here 
iias  it£  tale  of  murder.     We  did  not  ask  the 


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PERSONAL  OBSERVATIOHS  AND  RECOLLECTIONS 


name  of  a  iingle  place  without  ■  story  in 
replj  that  «omebod;r  ^^*^  ^xea  killed  there. 
Some  cousuB  of  Scott's  cime  to  dinoer. 

Tuesday,  S.  Had  Scott's  horses  not  beeo 
out  of  order,  we  should  have  gODe  to  St 
Mary's  Loch,  from  whence  the  Yarrow 
proceeds,  and  where  the  flower  of  Talrow 
is  said  t4i  have  lived.  The  boys  still  point 
out  the  scene  of  that  trngedy.  We  there- 
fore merely  walked  up  the  river  to  EUbank 
castle,  another  of  the  square  towers.  They 
are  carrying  away  its  ruins  to  build  a 
bridge  upon  the  adjacent  road  to  Peebles. 
The  young  laird  of  this  place  was  taken  in 
one  of  his  marauding  parties  by  the  Scotta, 
who  were  about  to  hang  him,  but  the  old 
lady  of  the  clan  offered  him  her  daughter. 
Wide-mouthed  Meg,  at  an  altemaUve.  He 
preferred  hanging ;  but  his  heart  failed  him 
when  the  halter  was  put  round  his  neck, 
and  Meg  with  her  wide  mouth  was  con- 
veyed as  his  bride  to  Elibank,  where  the 
marriage  was  celebrated ;  she  was  an  excel- 
lent wife. 

Wednesday  Stb.  Went  salmon-spearing 
on  the  Tweed,  being  the  last  day  of  the 
sport,  I  had  a  spear,  and  managed  one  side 
of  the  boat.  I  saw  the  sport  without  par> 
taking  of  it.  Three  were  taken,  b^g  all 
we  saw.  One  had  the  mark  of  an  old  wound 
in  his  back,  a  cruel  sport,  though  of  all 
fishing  the  best.  The  aavage  grin  of  joy  in 
one  of  the  men,  when  stooping  down  till 
only  his  chin  was  above  water,  (he  had  got 
a  Halmon  by  the  tail,  Scott's  spear  being 
through  the  creature's  nose,)  would  haTe 
been  in  character  for  a  Dog-ribbed  Lidian. 
A  Mr.  Marriot  came  to  dinner,  an  Ojioniao 
tutor  to  some  lordling  near.  He  talked  of 
having  seen  the  track  of  a  horseman  on  the 
hill ;  and  I  found  that,  as  in  a  savage  coun- 
try,the  inhabitants  here  can  tell  by  the  track 
what  horse  has  past,  and  how  long  ago.  Our 
evening  might  have  done  for  old  timet ;  he, 
I  and  Scott  reciting  ballads :  his  was  a  de- 
plorably bad  business  upon  Purlin  Jane, 
made  by  I  know  not  whom.  Scott  repeated 
some  of  Hogg's,  the  Ettrick  shepherd,  who 
is  a  man  of  geiiiui. 


Thursday  10th.  Eight  miles  tcBauk  bouse, 
a  single  inn ;  nine  to  Middleton.  Id  the 
kitchen  here  the  grate  stood  oat,  not  being 
fastened  to  the  chimney  back.  We  ci 
the  South  Esk  and  the  North  Esk.  The 
Feutland  hills  appeared  on  to  the  left,  to 
the  right  Arthur's  seat.  Faot  through  Lai- 
wade  and  Dalkeith,  and  by  Crug  Milllr 
Castle,  a  dirty  coal  road ;  the  city  wberc 
we  entered  dirty  and  dismal  also. 

Friday  18th.  By  stage  to  Carlisle.  Siwt 
broken  cbamberpot  used  as  a  beehivei  ex- 
cellent Scotdi  economy  I  That  part  of  the 
road  which  we  lost  by  going  to  AriiicMiel 
very  beantiAiL  Selkirk  looked  well  w  the 
bill,  with  its  townhouse  spire,  before  w 
crost  the  Ettrick.  Beyond  Hawick  we  past 
Branksome  close  on  ^e  right,  Tiviot  So* 
ing  close  on  the  other  side  of  the  road;  . 
is  the  Cheviot  hills  which  we  cross  between 
this  place  and  Langholme.  Dined  at  Hawick 
and  bought  a  red  nightcap  and  cravat  th«R 
to  travel  in,  things  for  which  the  town  ii 
famous.  Delayed  there  for  the  late  arritil 
of  the  coach  from  Carlisle ;  a  miserabk 
journey  with  foundered  horses  IVom  Lsng- 
holme  the  rest  of  the  way,  so  that  we  dt' 
not  arrive  till  half-past  two  in  the  moroiiij 
having  been  nineteen  and  a  half  hour». 

Saturday  19th.  Parted  TiithElmslej.iiiJ 
set  off  on  foot,  a  long  straight  road  throng 
a  flat  country,  till  I  came  near  Dalstoi. 
where  there  is  on  old  hall,  a  very  {ucttt' 
rcsque  building ;  the  Caldcs  here  has  left 
more  marks  of  inundation  than  I  ever  »■ 
elsewhere ;  it  must  be  a  most  uDgorenuUe 
stream.  Through  Hawksdale  up  to  Wsnir 
Fall.  I  had  been  directed  to  make  for  TH- 
dale,  but  here  found  Caldbeck  so  near,  tin 
I  took  that  road  in  preference.  Saw  Ik 
Hook  once  more,  though  almost  dry.  Tool 
bread  and  cheese  at  Uesketh  New  Hitket 
Three  portraits  on  board  in  the  little  in 
of  what  nation  I  conid  not  gnen ;  the  Ac 
not  very  unlike  aChinese,  but  certainly  ao" 
Chinese ;  they  were  women,  and  so  tlikt 
that  I  conclude  they  were  sisters.  Hieliesii  j  . 
dress  as  here  in  Charles  the  Second't  dtfl- 1 
but  with  outlandish  ornaments  upended  to 


WITH  FRAGMENTS  OF  JOURNALS. 


the  hair,  md  the  drawing  evideutlj  not 
European.  Here  also  a  come  print  of  the 
tree  of  Fortune ;  she  if  sliaking  ttie  tree, 
ttmding  in  it,  and  men  below  catcliingwhat 
falls,  iMiga  of  monej,  axes,  lulterB,  wives, 
ftc.  Home  by  Mosedale,  under  Carrack 
Pen,  BowskeU  Fell,  and  Souter  FeU  to 
Tlirelkeld. 


Cambrian  Ciulomi,  f[v. 
It  was  believed  tbat  an;  married  woman 
whose  married  name  was  the  same  as  her 
maiden  one,  might  prescribe  at  hazard  for 
the  hooping  (here  called  the  king)  cough, 
and  that  be  the  prescriptioD  what  it  would, 
its  sticceM  was  certun.  The  same  held  good 
of  a  person  riding  on  a  piebald  hone.  Jack- 
son being  once  so  moauted,  was  stopt  bj  a 
man  witii  this  salutation,  "  Honest  friend  of 
a  pyebald  horse,  tell  me  what's  good  for 
the  king  cough  ?" 

Afplb  or  pear  laking*  ts  still  practised; 
last  week  there  was  one  at  Portinscale.  It 
is  merelj  this,  whoever  has  either  fruit  to 
■en  and  cannot  readily  find  a  market,  pro- 
claims an  apple  liking,  that  is,  a  dance  to 
which  bU  who  like  go,  and  ever;  one  paying 
threepence,  fourpence,  or  Nzpence,  rec^ves 
ID  relum  a  proportioned  number  of  apples. 

Tbe  Borrowdale  people  uaed  formeriy  to 
came  down  every  summer  and  clear  away 
the  bar  at  the  junction  of  the  Greta  and 
Derwent,  in  the  latter  river.  Philosopher 
Banks,  just  dead,  remembered  to  have  been 
at  this  work,  which  prevented  floods. 

Tbb  fiddlers  at  Ambleside  used  to  play 
before  the  people  as  they  came  out  of  church 
on  Ckrittaas  day,  and  so  go  round  the 


Got.  laSian,  exiDlare.   I^ers  Ploughman,  lai/lit, 
— hiKnm,  a.  a  plavthtDB.   Bbockbtv's  Gbm. 
J.W.W. 


LoBD  CAaaicK  (     )  was  lately  benighted 

at  Seatoller,  and  got  a  night's  lodging  at 

Fishers ;  the  good  woman  put  him  in  her 
own  bed,  and  he  expressed  himself  per- 
fectly delighted  at  seeing  that  rural  con- 
tentment and  happiness  which,  till  now,  he 
had  only  heard  of.  In  the  morning,  he  said 
how  well  he  had  slept,  &c. :  "I  have  slept 
in  many  houses,"  said  he,  "  but  never  was 
more  hospitably  enl«rtdaed,  snd  in  all  my 
life  I  never  slept  under  so  fine  a  quilt.  I 
have  been  trying  to  find  out  what  manu- 
factory it  is,  but  all  to  no  purpose ;  in  all 
my  life  I  never  saw  anything  like  it,  nor  so 
fine."  "  Lord  help  ye,"  says  the  old  dame, 
"manufactory  indeed!  I  made  it  myself; 
'tis  patch  work,  bits  of  the  children's  gowns, 
and  of  my  own  that  I  sowed  together." 

As  the  oat  harvest  wss  carT7ing  home,! 
saw  yesterday  two  carts,  with  each  a  scare 
crow  stuck  in  it,  ghastly  figures  enough, 
looking,  at  a  little  distance,  jiut  as  one 
should  wish  to  see  Joseph  Bonaparte  make 
his  entrance  into  Msdrid.  —  iS^.  18th, 
1808. 

St.  CKispct,  October  22th.  is  kept  here 
byllie  shoemakers.  Masters  and  men  go  out 
bunting,  and  have  a  supper  of  "  roast  goose 
and  such  like"  on  their  return.  They  rest 
from  work  on  this  day,  because  they  say 
Christ  rest«d  on  his  way  to  Calvary  at  a 
shoemaker's  stall.  This  evening  (1808),  a 
boy  who  followed  then  out,  has  been  storm- 
■truck,  and  was  brought  home  to  all  appear- 
ance dead ;  he  is,  however,  restored.  It 
began  to  rain  about  nine  in  the  morning, 
and  BO  heavy  a  storm  I  scarcely  ever  re- 
member, as  has  been  raging  without  inter- 
mission till  this  time  (seven  o'clock).  The 
floods  are  already  very  deep. 

Tmnx  is  a  shaft  called  the  Wad*  hole 
near  White  Water  Dash.    Foxes  frequent 


•  Wad  is  the  Cambrian  n 


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PERSONAL  OBSERVATIONS  AND  RECOLLECTIONS 


Afplbbt  is  one  of  the  prettiest  towns 
I  ever  saw ;  a  long  wide  street  of  steep 
ascent,  with  the  market  house  at  bottom, 
and  church  behind  it,  and  the  castle  at  the 
top.  The  keep  is  ancient,  and  has  merely 
been  kept  in  repair ;  most  of  the  other  parts 
are  little  more  than  a  century  old.  There 
are  the  pictures  of  the  Earl  of  Cumberland 
(Greorge,  in  Elizabeth's  days),  and  his  fa- 
mily ;  and  several  of  the  famous  Countess 
of  Pembroke.  And  there  is  the  earFs  ar- 
mour, a  beautiful  suit  inlaid  with  gold.  We 
were  surprised  at  its  apparent  shortness, 
which  I  explained  to  my  own  satisfaction 
by  observing  that  it  exceeds  the  breadth  of 
the  human  figure,  but  not  its  heighth.  It  is 
very  fine  to  walk  on  the  terrace  of  this  cas- 
tle, with  the  Eden  below,  and  see  the  rooks* 
nests  on  a  level  with  you,  so  steep  is  the 
declivity. 

Brougham  castle  is  a  very  fine  ruin,  and 
the  view  firom  it  of  the  near  junction  of  the 
Eden  and  Lowther,with  Carlton  (Wallace's 
house),  and  its  park,  exceeding  beautiful. 

Workington.  In  the  church  is  a  large 
altar-piece,  painted  by  a  man  of  the  town. 
On  the  first  Sunday  that  it  was  opened,  the 
people  were  greatly  surprised  to  recognize 
one  another's  portraits,  which  the  artist, 
unknown  to  them,  had  adopted  for  his  fi- 
gures; two  ladies  of  the  place  were  the 
angels.  The  poor  man's  hopes  were  disap- 
pointed I  they  were  not  gratified  at  being 
thus  immortalized  by  an  unskilful  hand,  and 
he  probably  made  the  picture  worse  by  en- 
deavouring to  destroy  the  likenesses. 

The  organist  has  lately  been  dismissed ; 
and  m  consequence,  the  organ  has  been  in- 
jured by  some  of  his  friends. 

Workington  is  a  very  ugly  town,  and 
might  have  been  a  very  fine  one. 

wii^L^'  3T  ^^^°«>^«  Materdale 
withDanverstoPaterdale.    Scarcely  ever 

JohJr  ^^^«.«ofi^e  astheVale^of  St. 
iail  d Z'^^'^''"^*^  and  that  whole  range 
^d  1  v^^  »^^«  (?«^en  o'clock).  Nad^ 
and  the  valley  m  bright  sunshine;  the  hay- 


makers  at  work ;  the  fields,  some  covered 
with  newly  fallen  grass,  others  with  the  hay 
in  cocks,  and  yet  the  grass  which  had  been 
just  cut,  brightly  green.  It  was  very  hot; 
that  house  with  the  old  sycamores,  which 
we  see  on  the  left  before  us  in  descending 
into  the  vale,  appeared  an  enviable  spot,  so 
delightful  did  their  deep  shade  appear! 
Very,  very  hot;  not  a  breath  of  air,  and  the 
flies  followed  us  all  up  the  side  of  Wan* 
thwaite,  to  the  very  highest  point ;  henceforth 
I  will  carry  a  fan.  The  great  mogul  him- 
self, if  he  travelled  here,  must  be  his  own 
fly-flapper.  We  obtained  an  accession  of 
these  tormentors  in  passing  a  party  of  kine, 
many  of  whom  had  got  within  a  sheepfold 
for  the  sake  of  its  little  shade ;  the  flies 
seemed  to  prefer  man-flesh  to  beef.  Certes 
a  gig  might  travel  this  road.  Saddleback 
is  seen  to  more  advantage  hence  than  from 
any  other  point ;  its  deep  ravines,  with  all 
the  strongest  colourings  of  light  and  shade. 
Skiddaw  assumes  a  new  form.  Down  Ma- 
terdale  is  very  fine ;  to  come  up  it  is  fir 
less  so. 

At  Araforce,  one  or  two  deer  are  loet 
every  year ;  being  accustomed  to  cross  the 
Beck,  they  attempt  it  when  the  torrent  is 
too  strong,  and  are  carried  down  the  fall 

Poor  Charles  got  one  of  his  bilious  at- 
tacks. I  was  obliged  to  leave  him  in  bed, 
and  went  with  Richards  and  a  boy,  whom 
Lufi*  sent  to  guide  us  up  Place  FeU,  to  Angle 
Tarn.  The  ascent  conunands  Paterdale. 
The  Tarn  is  about  two  and  a  half  miles  firom 
Paterdale.  We  guest  it  at  about  a  mile 
round.  It  has  two  islands,  and  a  peninsula, 
which,  from  many  points  of  view,  appears 
like  a  third.  The  shores  are  not  high,  bat 
finely  formed,  and  you  see  the  mountaias 
above  them,  forming  as  it  were  a  second 
boundary,  with  an  outline  very  similar  in 
form.  About  two  miles  or  something  kss 
to  Hayes  Water,  lying  under  High  Street ; 
its  shape  a  cove  intersected  by  a  straiglit 
line,  beautifully  clear.  Luff  told  us,  after 
we  returned,  what  he  should  have  told  us 
before,  that  at  the  head  are  a  number  of 
small  cones,  perfectly  formed,  and  covered 


WITH  FRAGMENTS  OP  JOURNALS. 


533 


I ;  but  in  what  manner  formed  he 
possiblj  tell,  though  ihej  were, 
ight,  manifestly  works  of  nature ; 
part  of  its  beach  consists  of  fine 
own  the  gill  to  Heartshope ;  a 
,  where  there  are  as  fine  baths  and 
^ater  from  the  rock,  or  rather  of 
h  throw  off  the  wat«r,  as  can  any 
seen.  At  Heartshope,  some  of  the 
tages  in  this  country,  with  their 
dies,  perfect  posadaa  in  appear- 
anvers  better  when  we  returned ; 
lite  recovered.  We  drank  tea  in 
'den ;  a  fine  yew  which  he  found 
be  ground,  where  it  had  remained 
iths,  he  hobted  up,  and  it  re- 
ind  is  now  flourishing.  Clarkson 
ook  arrived  afler  tea. 
St.  An  old  man  above  eighty  was 
up  Helvellin;  his  hands  shook, 
faltered,  but  his  feet  were  firm, 
dked  up  better  than  I  could  fol- 
Up  Glenriddel,  to  Capel  Cove 
ich  lies  under  Catchedicam ;  we 
to  the  right  of  the  Tarn,  a  steep 
t  the  easiest,  then  walked  along 
it,  and  then  ascended  the  ridge  of 
minence,  which  seemed  a  fearful 
re  got  at  it,  when  it  was  perfectly 
up  Helvellin,  the  point  so  called, 
I  Brown  Cove  Head.  Catchedi- 
h  is  next  in  order,  we  left  to  the 
lam  below,  and  Stridingedge  on 
ft  fearful  place.  We  looked  down 
)t  were  the  bones  of  poor  Gough  * 
d.  Saw  a  little  Tarn  above  the 
I  of  Thirlmere.  On,  till  Grisdale 
fars  below  us,  the  largest  of  all  on 
;  a  very  slippery  descent  to  it,  and 
a  our  guide,  he  going  down  Gris- 

istory  of  his  loss  the  reader  will  find 
ftorth's  Fidelity — 

king  sound  the  Shepherd  hears, 
as  of  a  Dog  or  Fox,"  &c. 

we  other  well-known  lines — 

nbed  the  dark  brq^  of  the  mighty 
rellyn,"  &c. 

J.   Tl»    Tl9 


dale  home,  we  up  beside  the  Tarn,  and  over 
the  hawse'  to  Grasmere. 

I  noticed  a  gate  of  wise  construction ;  for 
want  of  hinges,  an  upright  pole  passed 
through  a  hole  in  a  projecting  stone  at  top, — 
it  was  at  Heartshope, — and  it  fastened  by 
running  a  wooden  spiggot  into  a  hole  in 
a  rock,  or  great  stone. 

Saturday  22nd.  Through  Langdale,  and 
over  the  Stake.  Slate  quarry.  The  drip- 
pings of  the  rock  have  formed  a  black  and 
sunless  pool.  Long-dale  it  is  indeed  I  on 
the  summit  we  lost  the  path,  and  did  not  re- 
cover it  till  we  were  nearly  down.  They  lay 
ropes  under  the  hay,  and  bear  it  off  in  that 
manner ;  or  on  a  horse,  as  much  as  he  can 
bear,  and  the  ropes  hold. 

Saturday,  August  19th.  Walked  home 
from  Lowther;  breakfast  with  Thomas 
Wilkinson.  He  showed  me  Tanwith  Hall. 
Its  smaller  tower  inclined  so  far  from  the 
perpendicular,  that  it  must  soon  have  fallen. 
The  present  Lord  Lonsdale  was  very  de- 
sirous of  preserving  it ;  a  huge  machine  for 
pulling  it  back  from  its  inclination  was  made 
ready,  and  the  side  opposite  was  undermined. 
The  workmen  now  began  to  be  alarmed,  and 
were  afraid  to  use  the  powers  which  had 
been  prepared,  when  somebody  cried  out 
that  the  wall  was  moving,  though  with  a 
motion  almost  imperceptible ;  it  was  soon, 
however,  ascertained  that  this  was  the  case, 
and  in  the  course  of  the  night  it  settled 
completely  upright,  in  such  a  manner  that 
it  may  now  last  for  ages. 

Crossed  the  Emont  by  a  foot-bridge,  from 
whence  there  is  a  sweet  view  of  Taworth. 
We  took  shelter  from  the  rain  with  one 
Dawson,  who  owns  that  little  white  very 
neat  house  with  the  dipt  yew  tree  before  it, 
two  miles  on  this  side  Penrith.  He  sup- 
plies his  house  with  water  from  a  rising 
ground  about  100  yards  off.  A  plumber, 
thirty  years  since,  laid  him  a  small  leaden 

*  The  same  as  AaZi,  i.e.  a  neck.  A  very  com- 
mon name  in  Cumberland  and  Westmoreland. 


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pipe  for  five  groats  a  jard,  exclusive  of  sol- 
dering, which  cost  about  sixteen  shillings 
more,  and  this  has  lasted  excellently  well. 
The  water  is  conveyed  into  a  large  stone 
cistern,  or  small  tank,  in  the  dairy, — fine, 
soft,  beautiful  water,  and  from  there  it  flows 
through  an  old  gun-barrel  pipe  into  a  trough 
of  stone,  likewise  on  the  outside,  for  out  of 
door  purposes;  close  to  the  inner  cistern,  is 
a  sink,  so  that  the  dairy  is  thus  kept  always 
cool  and  clean.  What  is  remarkable,  (be- 
sides this  excellent  contrivance,  which  was 
projected  by  the  owner  himself,  a  plain  Cum- 
berland peasant),  is,  that  thb  never-failing 
stream  seems  to  indicate  changes  of  weather, 
for  before  all  changes,  either  for  fine  weather 
or  rain,  instead  of  flowing  freely,  it  comes 
drop  by  drop. 

Black  lead  has  been  found  in  the  ColoneFs 
Island,  and  it  had  been  buried  there  some 
thirty  or  forty  years  ago,  when  a  regular 
trade  in  stealing  it  was  carried  on. 

In  one  place,  by  the  Emont,  there  is  the 
black  currant  growing  wild. 

A  woMAK,  at  the  foot  of  Crossfels,  said, 
when  I  enquired  the  road  for  some  distance 
forward,  *'  *Twould  be  mystical  for  me  to 
tell  you  the  way,**  meaning  that  it  was  too 
intricate  for  me  to  comprehend  her. 

1  St  Feb.  1814.  I  heard  the  ice  thunders' 
this  morning.  Edith  and  Herbert  com- 
pared it  to  the  howling  of  wild  beasts.  It 
was  neither  like  thunder  nor  the  sound  of 
the  wind,  but  a  long,  moaning,  melancholy 
sound,  rising  and  dying  away,  beyond  mea- 
sure mournful ;  and  to  any  one  crossing  the 
ice,  inexpressibly  awful  and  appalling.  Every 
now  and  then  came  a  crash,  and  a  splash  of 


'  Wordsworth  alludes  to  the  same  sound 
in  the  Prelude — 

"  From  under  Esthwaite's  splitting  fields  of  ice 
The  pent  up  air,  struggling  to  free  itself. 
Gave  oat  to  meadow-erounds  and  hiUs  a  loud 
Protracted  yelling,  lixe  the  noise  of  wolves 
Howling  in  troops  along  the  Bothnic  main." 

B.  i.  p.  25.— J.  W.  W. 


waters.  We  staid  half  an  hour  listening  to 
it.  The  children  were  very  much  impressed. 
It  was  the  more  extraordinary,  as  there  had 
been  no  thaw,  and  the  night  had  been  se- 
vere. It  was  between  eight  and  nine  o'clock. 

At  Nottingham,  the  streets  are  paved 
with  Bodem  stones,  which  the  higher  classes 
pronounce  Bolder.  A  boy  who  takes  up  a 
large  stone  says,  PU  throw  a  Boder  at  yoa. 

St.  John's  Church.  Joseph  Dixon*i 
book  of  psalm  tunes  had  a  picture  on  it  of 
Windsor  Castle,  with  Patent  Windsor  Soap 
written  below. 

JosBPH  Glovrb  was  bom  at  Watenlatii, 
and  from  the  age  of  eight  till  twelve,  when 
he  left  it,  used  every  day  to  go  to  the  church 
in  Borrowdale  to  school,  three  miles  distant 
over  the  mountain,  in  all  weather.  Harrison, 
who  had  then  the  living  and  the  school,  was 
a  very  old  man.  Glover  was  the  only  boy 
from  Watenlath,  and  could  have  had  no 
schooling  unless  he  went  there.  The  master 
used  to  let  him  go  away  earlier  than  the  rest 
of  the  boys.  The  house  in  which  he  was 
bom  is  now  fallen  entirely  to  ruins.  I  make 
this  memorial  of  Glover  with  some  interest. 
The  man  is  a  carpenter  and  joiner  here  in 
Keswick,  and  I  should  say,  very  much  oat 
of  his  proper  place,  if  such  a  man  could  be 
out  of  place  any  where.  But  a  more  inge* 
nious  or  a  more  inquiring  roan  I  have  sel- 
dom seen,  nor  one  more  ready  and  alert 
upon  all  occasions  with  his  best  services; 
nor  with  whom,  had  his  situation  in  lift 
permitted,  I  should  have  been  upon  more 
familiar  terms. 

Im  the  reign  of  King  John,  Richard  Gil- 
pin **  was  enfeoflfed  in  the  lordship  of  Keat- 
mere  Hall,  by  the  Baron  of  Kendal,  for  his 
singular  deserts  both  in  peace  and  war. 
This  is  that  R.  G.  who  slew  the  wild  boar 
that,  raging  in  the  mountains  adjoining,  is 
sometimes  didthatof  Erimanthus,had  muck 
endammaged  the  country  people;  whence 
it  b  that  the  Gilpins  in  their  coat  anns^ 
give  the  boar."— Zt/e  of  Bsrsiard  G. 


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535 


Feb.  10,  1819.  This  morning  a  cock- 
roach was  found  in  the  mouse-trap,  where 
it  had  picked  the  bones  of  the  tail,  and  eaten 
out  both  the  ejres  of  a  mouse,  which  had 
been  taken  in  the  night.  This  reminds  me 
of  what  happened  in  the  West  Indies,  in 
the  ship  with  my  brother.  A  boj  who  slept 
on  deck  barefooted,  had  the  callus  eaten  off 
both  his  heels  by  the  cockroaches,  so  that  for 
some  time  he  was  not  able  to  walk. 

March  21,1819.  A  bat-catchxb  tells  me 
that  the  white  rat  from  Greenland  has  found 
its  way  into  this  country.  He  caught  twelve 
at  Edinburgh,  (I  think).  They  are  larger 
than  the  Norway  rat, — measuring  eighteen 
inches  from  the  nose  to  the  extremity  of  the 
tail,  but  they  are  not  so  fierce. 

A.D.  1819.  Many  hundred  sycamore 
seeds  are  now  shooting  up  upon  the  green 
before  the  parlour  window,  the  winter  hav- 
ing been  so  uncommonly  mild  that  it  has 
killed  nothing.  I  never  before  remember 
to  have  seen  any  of  these  seeds  growing 
there,  though  they  must  have  been  scatter- 
ed there  equally  every  autumn.  If  the  place 
were  deserted  here,  there  would  be  a  self- 
sown  grove.  And  how  many  such  must  be 
produced  in  a  winter  like  this. 

▲.D.  1815.  Br  Mr.  Leathc8*s  I  heard  a 
stuttering  cuckoo, — whose  note  was  cuc- 
cuckoo— -cuccuckoo ;  after  three  or  four  of 
which  he  brought  out  the  word  rightly.^ 

A  MAN  who  worked  for  us  was  nettle- 
proof.  He  would  apply  them  to  his  face, 
and  put  them  into  his  bosom,  without  feel- 
ing tiie  sting. 

Miss  Gbisdale  knows  a  single  woman  in 
tiiis  country  who  succeeded  unexpectedly 
to  £70,000.  The  only  change  she  made  in 
her  mode  of  life  was,  to  use  lump  sugar  in 
her  tea,  and  to  drink  it  out  of  a  china  cup 
instead  of  a  crockery  one.     But  she  was 

'  The  old  child's  rhyme  says — 

'*  In  the  month  of  June, 
He  alters  his  tune," 

and  it  is  quite  true.— J.  W.  W. 


always  much   disturbed  and  provoked  at 
paying  the  income  tax. 

Whbw  Wordsworth  was  a  boy,  a  saying 
was  remembered  among  the  people,  that 
time  was  when  a  squiirel  could  have  gone 
from  Crow  Park  to  Wytheburn  Chapel,  with- 
out touching  the  ground.' 

**  Whilst  the  villains  of  Low  Fumess 
were  employed  in  all  the  useful  arts  of  agri- 
culture, the  woodlanders  of  High  Furness 
were  charged  with  the  care  of  the  flocks  and 
herds,  which  pastured  the  verdant  side  of 
the  fells,  to  guard  them  from  the  wolves 
which  lurked  in  the  thickets  below ;  and  in 
winter  to  browse  them  with  the  tender 
sprouts  and  sprigs  of  the  hollies  and  ash. 
This  custom  has  never  been  discontinued 
in  High  Furness,  and  the  holly  trees  are 
carefully  preserved  for  that  purpose,  where 
all  other  wood  is  cleared  off;  and  large 
tracts  of  common  pasture  are  so  covered 
with  these  trees  as  to  have  the  appearance 
of  a  forest  of  hollies.  At  the  shepherd^s 
call  the  flock  surround  the  holly  bush,  and 
receive  the  croppings  at  his  hand,  which 
they  greedily  nibble  up,  and  bleat  for  more. 
A  stranger  unacquainted  with  this  practice 
would  imagine  the  holly  bush  to  have  been 
sacred  among  the  fellanders  of  Fumess. 
The  mutton  so  fed  has  a  remarkable  fine 
flavour." — West's  Antiquities  of  Fumess^ 
p.  xlv.     A.D.  1774. 

**  In  former  times,  when  salt  was  procured 
from  sea  sand,  by  pouring  water  on  it,  and 
then  boiling  down  the  water  to  a  salt,  grants 
of  sand  from  the  lord  of  the  manor  were 
common  on  the  sea  coast.** — Ibid.  p.  191. 

"  The  place  near  Ulverston  where  Martin 
Swart  encamped,  when  he  landed  with  Mac 
Lambert,  Simnel,  and  the  Flemish  troops, 
is  called  Swartmoor  to  this  day.  There  is 
a  tradition  that  Sir  Thomas  Broughton  did 

'  Wordsworth,  I  think,  has  mentioned  the 
fact  in  his  Poems,  and  Southey  in  his  CoUo- 
qui€8» — J.  W.  W. 


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not  fall  in  the  battle  as  is  recorded,  but  that 
he  escaped,  lived  many  years  among  his 
tenants  in  Witherslack,  in  Westmoreland, 
and  was  interred  in  the  chapel  there.** — 
Ibid.  p.  210. 

The  woollen  yam  spun  by  the  country 
people  in  Broughton  for  sale  used  to  pro- 
duce more  than  £4000  a-year.  Circiter 
1774.— Ibid.  p.  212. 

Tea  with  itself  has  introduced  wheaten 
bread. — Ibid.  p.  213. 

Iz.  Walton,  p.  195,  says  of  Winander 
Mere,  that  it  is  ^*  some  say,  as  smooth  in  the 
bottom  as  if  it  were  paved  with  polished 
marble.** 

'*  The  Shepherd*s  Guide,  or  a  Delineation 
of  the  Wool  and  Ear  Marks  on  the  differ- 
ent Stocks  of  Sheep  in  Patterdale,  Grass- 
mere,  Hawkeshead,  Langdale,  Loughrigg, 
Wythbum,  Legberthwaite,  St.  Johns, 
Wanthwaite  and  Bums,  Borrowdale,  New- 
lands,  Threlkeld,  Matterdale,  Watermil- 
lock,  Eskdale,  and  Wastdalehead. 

'*  To  which  is  prefixed  an  Index,  shewing 
the  proprietors*  names  and  places  of  abode, 
with  a  description  of  the  marks,  &c.  By 
William  Mounsey  and  William  Kirkpatrick, 
on  the  plan  originally  devised  by  Joseph 
Walker. 

"  Penrith  :  Printed  by  W.  Stephen.** 

No  date.    8vo. 

The  original  preface  says  **  the  success 
this  work  has  met  with  is  sufficient  to  show 
the  extensive  benefit  which  is  likely  to  re- 
sult from  it.  It  has  not  been  presented  to 
any  sheep -breeder  who  has  not  considered 
it  of  the  greatest  importance. 

"  My  object  is  to  lay  down  a  plan  by 
which  every  man  may  have  it  in  his  power 
to  know  the  owner  of  a  strayed  sheep,  and 
to  restore  it  to  him ;  and,  at  the  same  time, 
that  it  may  act  as  an  antidote  against  the 
fraudulent  practice  too  often  followed, — in 
a  word,  to  restore  to  every  man  his  own. 

**  I  considered  that  the  best  mode  of  re- 
presenting the  wool  and  ear  marks  would 


be  to  have  printed  delineations  of  the  ani- 
mals on  which  the  respective  marks  might 
be  laid  down,  and  to  which  the  printed  de- 
scription preceding  would  serve  as  an  index. 
'*  Accordingly,  the  book  consists  of  four- 
teen chapters  of  prints,  filling  eighty-four 
pages,  with  three  couple  of  sheep  in  each, 
each  couple  numbered. 

"Matterdale.    Chap.  12. 

"  No.  12.  WiUiam  Calvert,  Esq.,  WaU- 
thwaite. 

"  Ritted  far  ear ;  old  sheep,  M  on  the 
near  side ;  hogs,  full  cripping  across  each 
buttock,  and  no  letter. 

**  No.  17.     John  Sutton. 

••  Cropped,  and  muck-forked  on  the  far 
ear ;  under  fold  bitted  on  the  near ;  a  red 
stroke  over  the  fillets  of  the  near  side,  the 
form  of  a  grindstone  handle. 

"  No.  23.  John  Brownrigg,  Matterdale 
End. 

"  Cropped  far  ear,  bitted  near ;  a  red 
pop  on  the  top  of  the  shoulder ;  J.  B.  on 
the  near  side. 

The  ear  marks  are  what  are  most  de- 
pended on,  because  they  cannot  be  so  easily 
got  rid  of. 

The  ear  is  either  crept,  under  or  upper 
halved,  under  key-bitted  or  upper,  holed, 
muck-forked,  or  clicking-fork^,  marked 
with  a  three  square  hole,  &c. ;  and  these 
marks  are  varied,  by  being  either  on  the 
cropt  or  otherwise  entire  ear. 

The  other  marks  have  all  their  techni- 
cal names. 

The  copy  before  me  is  one  which  nj 
brother  T.  has  borrowed  from  a  neighbour. 
It  is  neatly  bound  in  red  sheep ;  and  his 
pasted  in  it  a  printed  paper  with  these 
words,  **  Newlands*  Public  Book.** 

The  sheep  are  coloured  according  to  the 
description,  and  a  blank  in  the  engraving 
left  for  the  ears  of  one  in  each  couple. 

"  The  Wells  of  rocky  Cumberland 
Have  each  a  Saint  or  Patron, 
Who  holds  an  annual  festival 
The  joy  of  maid  and  matron. 


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587 


d  to  this  day  as  erst  they  wont, 
The  youths  and  maids  repair 
•  certain  wells  on  certain  days 
A>nd  hold  a  Revel  there. 

sugar-sweet  and  liquorice, 
With  water  from  the  spring, 
ey  mix  a  pleasant  beverage, 
Ajid  May-Day  carols  sing." 
Mb.  John  Hutchinsok*s 

Jtme  Dayi  Jingle, 

ie  public  house  in  Newlands,  there 
en  cock-pit. 

LING  down  from  EUndscarth  upon 
acre,  the  light  fell  so  upon  the  lake 
i  part,  which  was  in  shade,  appeared 
ole  in  it,  or  pit. 

!RE  the  hill  has  been  bumt^  the  cran- 
laves  are  red. 

wooden  railroad  is  said  to  have  been 
rented  by  Mr.  Carlisle  Spedding  at 
aven.  —  Da.  Dixon*8  Life  of  Dr, 
igg,  p.  108. 

[rs.  Wilson's  youth  it  would  have 
ought  a  sin  for  any  one  to  have  sold 
n  this  place.  It  was  given  freely  to 
9  happened  to  want  it. 

fG  the  Lansdowne  MSS.  (No.  17. 7.) 
»r  from  Augsburg,  written  in  Latin 
Lords  Leicester  and  Burghley,  by 
lang  and  John  Languaver,  co-part- 
th  their  Lordships  in  the  mines  at 
k,  concerning  those  mines,  a.d.  1573. 
L  p.  83. 

p.  37,  No.  18.  51.  AiiTiCLBS  pro- 
0  the  Lord  Treasurer  to  be  entered 
h  the  Queen,  by  the  Company  of  the 
kt  Keswick.    a.i>.  1574. 

p.  48,  No.  24. 1 .  EnwARD  Bbaddtl 
Lord  Treasurer,  wanting  to  know 
lust  be  done  with  the  Queen's  cop- 
er store-house  at  Keswick.  a.i>.  1576. 

B  papers  concerning  these  mmes. — 
C^o.  28.  4-11. 


Ibid.  p.  115,  No.  61.  69.  Letter  de* 
scribing  something  of  the  country  and  peo- 
ple near  Kendal,  to  Lord  Burghley. 

Cotton  MSS.  Titus  B.  iii.  7.  Ksswigr 
mines. 

The  parsonage  house  in  Langdale  was 
licensed  as  an  alehouse,  because  it  was  so 
poor  a  living,  that  the  Curate  could  not 
otherwise  have  supported  himself. 

Owen  Lloyd  who  now  holds  the  curacy 
told  me  this. 

*^  Cares  and  sorrows  cast  away. 
This  b  the  old  wives'  holyday." 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Women 
pleased^  act  v.  sc.  iii. 

A  LARGE  leaved  sort  of  clover,  with  a 
purple  spot  in  the  centre  of  the  leaves, 
grows  as  a  weed  in  this  nursery  garden, — 
the  seed  having  been  accidentally  imported 
in  some  package  from  America. 

John  Earsden  and  George  Mason  com- 
posed the  music  in  a  work  entitled,  *'  The 
Ayres  that  were  sung  and  played  at  Brough- 
am Castle  in  Westmoreland,  in  the  King's 
entertainment,  given  by  the  Right  Hon.  the 
Earl  of  Cumberland,  and  his  right  noble 
son  the  Lord  Clifford.  Fol.  London,  1618." 
— Hawsins,  vol.  4,  p.  25. 

Possibly  here  might  be  words  by  Daniel. 

Tuesday,  19  Jan.  1836.  I  went  out  at 
one  o'clock  to  shake  hands  with  my  old 
friend  G.  Peachy  before  his  departure.  It 
was  a  bright  frosty  day,  and  my  Scotch 
bonnet  afforded  no  shelter  to  my  eyes,  which 
are  however  now  so  used  to  it  as  not  to 
be  inconvenienced  by  the  light.  I  was 
reading  as  u8ual,Clarke'sChristiad'wa8the 

*  I  had  iheChristiad  in  hand  at  this  time,  and 
had  written  to  Southey  on  the  subject.  This 
induced  him  to  turn  to  it.  Hie  underwritten  is 
from  the  fly-leaf  of  his  copy  transcribed  into  my 
own :  —  '*  Robert  Clarke,  educated  at  the  Eng- 
lish College  at  Douay, where,  as  I  am  informed, 
he  was  rrofeaaor  of  the  Classics.    He  after- 


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book ;  and  just  on  the  rising  ground  where 
the  view  of  the  hike  opens,  the  sun  came 
I  suppose  more  directly  upon  my  eyelids, 
but  the  page  appeared  to  be  printed  in  red 
letters.  The  page  before  me  was  that  on 
which  the  last  book  begins,  and  the  head- 
ing is  in  larger  type,  these  took  the  colour 
first,  and  were  red  as  blood,  the  whole  page 
presently  became  so.  The  opposite  page 
had  a  confused  intermixture  of  red  and 
black  types,  when  I  glanced  on  it;  but  fixing 
the  sight  there  the  whole  became  rubric 
also,  though  there  was  nothing  so  yivid  as 
in  the  heading  of  the  book.  The  appear- 
ance passed  away  as  my  position  with  re- 
gard to  the  sun  was  altered. 

I  particularly  noticed  this  phenomenon, 
which  nerer  occurred  to  me  before,  but 
which  if  I  am  not  deceived  I  have  read  of 
more  than  once  as  something  preternatural. 
An  enthusiast  according  to  the  mood  of 
mind  would  take  it  for  a  manifestation  of 
grace  or  of  wrath, — I  think  it  has  had 
the  latter  interpretation. 

May  13,  1821.  Eablt  this  morning, 
and  more  in  a  dream  than  awake,  I  fell 
into  a  train  of  fanciful  thought,  and  ima- 
gined a  great  island  in  the  Polar  Sea, 
which  was  the  Kraken,  or,  as  the  earth 
itself  has  been  supposed  by  some  wild 
theorists,  a  living  and  sentient  creature. 
That  sort  of  perpetual  creation  which  Aza- 
ra  supposes  was  going  on  there,  and  the 
Kraken  had  in  later  years  pushed  out  heads 
and  feelers  from  his  upper  as  well  as  under 
surface.  These  were  in  various  forms  and 
kinds,  graminivorous,  frondivorous,  carni- 
vorous, and  omnivorous.  Among  these  va- 
rieties, some  human  heads  appeared  at  last ; 
and  the  Krakeners,  in  evil  hour  for  them- 
selves, thought  it  a  point  of  duty  to  edu- 
cate their  heads,  and  teach  them  to  speak 
and  to  read :   or  rather  they  took  them 

wards  became  a  Carthusian  Monk,  and  spent  his 
leisure  hours  in  an  elaborate  work,  entitled 
ChriitiadJ'  This  meagre  account  is  all  that  Dodd 
gives  (vol.  3,  p.  31 1),  and  for  this  he  referred  to 
the  Diary  of  Douay  College,  and  the  Diary  of 
the  Cartnusians  at  Nieuport.*'—  J.  W.  W. 


more  reasonably  for  their  gods;  and  at 
length  nothing  was  to  be  done  without  con- 
sulting them  through  the  priests  or  KrtAoh 
pates.  These  heads  being  fixtures,  and 
having  no  means  of  seeing  things  for  them- 
selves, believed  of  course  what  the  kraken- 
pates  told  them, — but  they  had  whims  of 
their  own  also,  and  very  seldom  agreed, — 
and  when  they  were  out  of  humour,  thej 
could  shake  part  of  the  body,  and  bring 
various  evils  upon  the  land,  by  the  feelers, 
water,  volcanoes,  &c. 

Something  might  be  made  of  this. 

Keswick.  1808.  Sept.  27.  SnowonHel- 
vellin,  some  was  seen  yesterday,  and  some 
last  week. 

Sept.  28.  The  snow  continues  there,  and 
the  frost  in  the  night  has  killed  all  our  nas- 
turtiums,which  were  yesterday  in  full  bloom 
and  beauty.  The  potatoe  tops  also  are  wi- 
thered and  black.  The  lime  at  Jackson^s 
new  building  here  was  frozen  two  inches 
deep,  and  one  of  the  masons  says  there  wis 
ice  an  inch  thick  in  a  tin  cup.  The  kidney 
beans  also  are  killed,  and  made  transpa- 
rent by  the  frost. 

Sept.  29.  The  sunflowers  and  hollyhocks 
killed  in  the  garden.  Walking  oi:^  I  ob- 
served the  ash  leaves  cut  ofi*  and  lying  un- 
der the  tree,  before  they  had  changed  oolonr. 
The  sycamore  had  lost  some  leaves  in  the 
same  manner,  but  not  so  many.  The  elder 
berries  were  all  killed.  Snow  fell  upon  all 
the  mountains,  and  there  was  ioe  in  the 
boat. 

Sept.  30.  The  sweet-peas  and  china-as- 
ters killed,  a  few  of  the  latter  which  were 
more  sheltered  have  escaped. 

Oct.  30.  What  a  morning!  hard  frost, 
bright  sunshine,  and  a  wind  not  perceptible 
otherwise  than  by  its  keen  coldness,  bending 
the  smoke  of  the  newly  kindled  fires,  which 
has  risen  high  through  the  stillness,  —  and 
blending  it  with  the  mist  which  runs  imder 
the  mountains,  beginning  at  Thomthwate^ 
till  it  comes  round  under  Wallow  and  meets 
the  smoke  of  the  town :  the  fell  summit 
shining  above  it  in  sunshine. 


WITH  FRAGMENTS  OF  JOUKNALS. 


S39 


1S09.  June  2.  Snow  upon  all  the  hiUs 
and  the  Tale  of  St.  John's  covered  with  it : 
a  thing  nerer  before  remembered.  Within 
»  fortnight  griw  which  had  then  been  bu- 
ried beneath  the  tnow,  wu  mown. 

Not.  3.  The  firtt  effMt  of  winter  apon 
the  flowen,  the  nastnrttums  just  touched  bj 
thefroit. 

1831.  June  9.  Snow  npon  Causej  Pike 
and  the  Borrowdale  Felli. 

1822.  Sept.  26.  Fint  bdow  od  Helvellin. 

1828.  Not.  9.  There  has  been  no  suow 
yet. 

Not.  10.  The  fint. 

1833.  Sept.  1.  Cucumben  on  the  frame, 
Tegetable  marrows,  and  such  kidne;  beans 
M  were  not  ebeltered  from  the  east,  cut  off 
by  fro«t. 

Monday,  24th  Oct.  1836.  Lsn  Keawick 
with  Karl  in  the  stage.  Found  the  squaw 
in  it,  and  dropt  her  at  what  used  to  be  John 
Stanley's — the  public  house  in  Legberth- 
waite.  No  other  passenger  the  whole  way. 
TTwy  baTe  played  the  Quaker  with  iTy  Cot- 
tag*.  Saw  Wordsworth  and  Mr.  Robinson 
in  Ambleside.  Took  our  places  for  Liver- 
pool at  the  Commercial  Inn,  Kendal,  and 
slept  there. 

Tuesday,  25tfa.  Called  at  half-past  four. 
Two  beads  are  better  than  one,  said  a  man 
wbo  was  assisting  to  pack  the  coach,  and 
to  enforce  the  remark  he  added,  I  bad  ra- 
ther haTe  two  KrrereignB  than  one.  I  dis- 
sented from  the  opinion,  and  reminded  Karl 
of  Eteocles  and  Folynices, — for  we  had. been 
reading  the  'Hiebaid. 

Bet  off  half-past  fire  by  moonlight.  A 
man  in  the  coach  talked  about  Bishop  Wat- 
•on,  and  said  that  when  a  school-boy  at 
Hensingham,  his  schoolfellows  used  to  laugh 
at  him  for  coming  in  a  homespun  coat  and 
clogs,  and  gaTe  him  some  nickname  in  con- 
sequence. I  cannot  think  the  clogs  would 
have  exposed  him  to  any  ridicule  in  this 
country,  and  especially  at  that  time. 

They  allow  only  t«n  minoteB  for  break- 


fast at  Lancaster,  which  is  the  more  uni 
Bonable  because  the  coach  u  changed  there, 
and  if  you  do  not  choose  to  run  the  nsk  of 
losing  yonr  Inggage,  yon  must  lose  your 
breakfast.  I  found  time  to  abridge  n ' 
by  Bwallowing  two  raw  eggs;  li.  Sd.  each 
the  chaise,  so  that  you  must  eat  at  the  rate 
of  two-pence  a  minute  to  make  a  saving 
bargain. 

Passed  Hesketh  Hall,  and  in  the  adjacent 
Tillage  was  recognised  to  our  mutual  sur- 
pme  by  Mr.  Hodgeson,  John  Wordsworth's 
late  curat«,  who  had  recently  remoTed  to 
this  place.  He  introduced  me  to  Mr.  Ad- 
dington,  who  was  going  to  Liverpool  on  his 
way  to  London,  a  very  agreeable,  gentle- 
manly, well  informed  man,  a  friend  of  Mrs. 
Charles  Warren.  He  told  me  that  Sharpe 
had  left  his  sister-in-law  only  £50  a  year ! 
It  ought  to  haTe  been  £500. 

RMched  Liverpool  a  little  after  three, 
and  finding  no  place  could  be  taken  for  El- 
lesmere  tall  to-morrow  evening,  off  we  u 
for  the  Birkenhead  steamer,  and  athalf-past 
fiTe  were  packed  up  in  the  mail  for  Ches 
ter.  We  had  a,  very  intelligent  companion 
upon  the  stage,  a  most  incurious  one  from 
Lancaster,  lie  was  a  person  in  business  a< 
Liverpool,  who  had  never  been  to  Limdon, 
nor  indeed  fifty  miles  from  home,  except 
once,  for  a  fortnight  to  the. Isle  of  Man  by 
the  steamer.  He  works  in  a  counter  Irom 
morning  to  night,  and  is  evidently  killing 
himself  thereby :  but  broad  hints  and  good 
plain  advice  seemed  to  be  bestowed  upon 

Tuesday,  25th.  Our  way  into  the  ii 
was  up  a  flight  of  steps,  and  then  acre 
one  of  those  rows  which  make  Chester  o: 
of  the  most  remarkable  cities  in  England 
It  is  a  large  old  rambling  house,  and  o 
bedroom  was  so  far  back  that  we  were  r 
molested  by  any  noise  from  the  street.  The 
gas  was  so  offensive  in  the  public  room  that 
we  could  not  endure  it. 

Walked  round  the  walls  before  breakfast. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Spirits, 

[ENRY  MORE  thought  it  was 
manifestljr  indicated  in  the 
Scriptures,  ^'  That  there  is  no 
such  necessary  union  between 
the  soul  and  the  bodj,  but  she  maj  act  as 
freelj  out  of  it,  as  in  it :  as  men  are  nothing 
the  more  dull,  sleepy,  or  senseless,  by  put- 
ting off  their  clothes,  and  going  out  of  the 
house,  but  rather  more  awakened,  active, 
and  sensible.** — Theological  Worhs^  p.  19. 

^'  Besides,  it  is  not  unreasonable  but  that 
she  (the  soul)  and  other  spirits,  though  they 
have  no  set  organs,  yet  for  more  distinct 
and  full  perception  of  objects,  may  frame 
the  element  they  are  in  into  temporary  or- 
ganization :  and  that  with  as  much  ease  and 
swiilness  as  we  can  dilate  and  contract  the 
pupil  of  our  eye,  and  bring  back  6r  put  for- 
ward the  crystalline  humour.*' — Ibid.  p.  26. 
Why  has  not  man  a  microscopic  eye  ? 
Because  it  is  impossible :  that  is,  not  only 
inconsistent  with  his  nature,  and  the  order 
of  the  universe,  but  incompatible  with  it. 

But  a  pneumascopic  or  angeloscopic  eye 
is  not  impossible. 

*'  The  Battas  (Sumatra)  think  their  an- 
cestors are  a  kind  of  superior  beings  atten- 
dant on  them  always.** — PhU,  Trans,  Abr, 
vol.  14,  p.  317. 

"  Number  in  the  air.** — ^Bish.  Hackett, 
Sermon^  p.  212. 

*'  Some  Jewish  Rabbins  have  presumed 
to  teach  more  than  Scripture,  that  the 
bodies  of  Enoch  and  Elias  were  dissolved 


into  elements  in  their  rapture,  and  nothing 
but  their  soul  was  received  into  Abraham*8 
bosom.  I  smell  the  leaven  of  the  Sadducees 
here ;  for  certainly  the  origin  of  it  came 
from  such  as  they,  who  resisted  the  truth, 
and  held  that  a  body  could  not  be  exalted 
to  heavenly  places.*' — Ibid.  p.  428. 

*'  The  spirits  of  the  faithful  may  appear; 
those  of  the  wicked  not.** — Ibid.  p.  436.  A 
forcible  passage. 

Pboclus,  according  to  Rabelais  (vol.  L 
p.  102),  says,  *'  Qu*en  forme  leonine  ont 
est^  diables  souvet  veus,  lesquels  en  la  pre- 
sence d*un  coq  blanc  soudainement  sent 
disparus.**  But  M.  le  Duchat  says,  the  co- 
lour of  the  cock  is  not  specified. 

"  The  miracle  of  the  herd  of  swine  hss 
never  been  better  explained  than  thus ;  that 
the  devils  were  suffered  to  go  into  the  swine, 
to  make  it  appear  that  they  were  indeed 
evil  spirits  which  had  possessed  the  men, 
and  thus  practically  confute  the  doctrine  of 
the  Sadducees,  who  denied  that  there  were 
any  spirits.** — Jsxxnts*  Beas.  of  ChrisHoM' 
Oyy  vol.  1,  p.  2^9. 

**  Grood  spirits  as  numerous  and  active  u 
bad.**— lb.  p.  325. 

Dryden*s  Philidel  (a  poor  imitation  of 
Ariel)  laments 

'*  For  so  many  souls  as,  but  this  mom. 
Were  clothed  with  flesh,  and  warmed  with 

vital  blood. 
But  naked,  now,  or  shirted  but  with  air.** 
King  Arthur,  vol.  6,  p.  284. 

Monthly  Review,  vol.  2,  p.  427.  A  cu- 
rious argument  for  the  existence  cf  evfl 
spirits,  drawn  from  dreams,  by  Seed. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


541 


AnimaU. 

"  Their  more  refined  properties.** 

Hehbt  More,  Theol.  Works,  p.  33. 
"  Their  shadow  of  religion." — Ibid.  p.  34. 

**  NATURAii  religion,  historians  tell  us,  is 
obscryable  in  other  creatures  as  well  as 
men.** — Adam  Littleton,  p.  96. 

MusBEL-Elephants — Mariget,  Revolu- 
tion^ vol.  1,  p.  274. 

WALKma  Stuart  called  himself  an  Ho* 
moousiast,  as  akin  to  aU  animated  beings. 
— Mr8.  Brat*8  Letters. 

**  Fi8H  that  are  kept  in  jars,  when  they 
have  lived  awhile  together,  contract  so  great 
aa  affection  for  each  other,  that  if  thej  are 
separated  they  become  melancholy  and  sul- 
len, and  are  a  long  time  before  they  forget 
the  \o9B.**—PhiL  Tran,  Abr.  vol.  9,  p.  323. 

*'  Mr.  Anderson  put  two  ruffs  into  a  jar 
of  water  about  Christmas ;  and  in  April  he 
gave  one  of  them  away.  The  fish  that  re- 
mained was  so  affected  that  it  would  eat 
nothing  for  three  weeks ;  so  that  fearing  it 
would  pine  to  death,  he  sent  it  to  the  gen- 
tleman on  whom  he  had  bestowed  its  com- 
panion. On  rejoining  it,  it  eat  immediately, 
and  recovered  its  former  briskness.** — Ibid. 

**  Size,  I  believe,  says  J.  Hunter,  is  in 
1  those  animals  who  feed  on  others,  in  pro- 


Ie^  Pierce  Penniless  his  Supplication,  it 
ia  said,  **  The  spirits  of  the  air  will  mix 
themselves  with  thunder  and  lightning,  and 
so  infect  the  clime  where  they  raise  any  tem- 
pest, that  suddenly  great  mortality  shall  en- 
sue to  the  inhabitants.  The  spirits  of  fire 
have  their  mansions  under  the  regions  of 
the  moon.** — ^Bosweix*s  Shakspeare^  vol. 
15,  p.  287,  n. 

Ghost  in  the  form  of  a  dog. — Oent.Mag, 
voL  1,  p.  31. 


portion  to  the  number  of  the  smaller.** — 
Ibid.  vol.  16,  p.  308. 

Query  ?  To  the  number  of  those  on 
which  they  prey  ?— or  does  he  mean  that 
creatures  of  prey  are  few  in  proportion  as 
they  are  large  P 


— ^  -  •.^  J.V  ^ 


IHorsesJ] 

**  John  Ducrow,  the  clown  at  A8tley*s, 
buried  in  the  burial  ground  of  Lambeth  Old 
Church,  27  May.  The  hearse  was  preceded 
at  his  particular  desire,  by  his  two  favourite 
small  white  and  chestnut  coloured  ponies, 
each  led  by  an  attendant,  and  having  on  its 
head  a  plume,  and  a  rich  velvet  cloth  spread 
over  the  back.*'— 2\W»,  31  May,  1834. 

Leo  X.,  crowned  Pope  the  anniversary 
of  his  capture  in  the  battle  of  Ravenna,  in 
the  preceding  year ;  and  ^*  il  monta  le  che- 
val  Turc  qu*il  avoit  eu  le  jour  de  cette  bat- 
taile;  car  Pay  ant  retir^  des  mains  des  Fran- 
9oi8  a  rangon  il  Taima  d*ime  fa<;on  particu- 
H^re,  et  le  fit  nourrir  jusqu*k  une  extr^e 
vieillesse  avec  un  grand  soin.** — Batlb,  vol. 
2,  p.  300.  **  Summft  cum  indulgentii  al- 
endum  curavit.** — are  the  words  of  Jovius. 


[^ElephantsJ] 

Major  Moir  says  **  There  is  a  something 
in  the  elephant,  independently  of  its  bulk, 
I  think,  which  distinguishes  it  from  other 
quadrupeds.  No  person  or  persons  would 
commit  any  act  of  gross  indelicacy  or  in- 
decency in  the  presence  of  an  elephant, 
more  than  in  the  presence  of  the  wholly 
reasoning.  The  same  feeling  would  not  pre- 
vail touching  the  presence  of  r.  stupid  rhi- 
noceros, almost  aa  bulky.** — Oriental  Frag- 
ments,  p.  485. 

Watts  thought  their  spirits  might  per- 
petually transmigrate.  Sometimes  he 
thought  it  hard  to  ascribe  sensation  to 
them :  sometimes  could  hardly  avoid  think- 
ing them  reasonable. — Vol.  7,  p.  579. 


542 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


**  Kai  Ta  utv  (njuaivofiat, 
lad  eKTreTKfjyftai,  kuk  c)(fii  fjiaoeiv  ory. 
Sophocles,  Ajax,  v.  31. 


Names, 

**  The  King  of  Ethiopia  calls  himself  the 
king  at  whose  name  the  lions  tremble.  Tet 
the  hyena  comes  into  the  middle  of  his  capi- 
tal.**— Geddbs*  Jsnkin,  vol.  2,  p.  46. 

Adam  Littleton,  Adam  Clarke,  Adam 
Sedgewick,  each  has  eaten  largely  of  the 
fruit  of  what  b  now  no  longer  a  forbidden 
tree. 

Mas.  Gabbick*s  name  was  Eve  Maria. — 
P.  Stock,  vol.  2,  p.  144. 

^*  Upon  Elizabeth's  death  it  was  given 
out  that  an  old  lion  (ess?)  in  the  Tower, 
bearing  her  name,  pined  away  during  her 
sickness,  and  died.** — Ellis*8  Orig,  Letters^ 
2  Series,  vol.  3,  p.  195. 

*^  The  names  of  women  should  be  agree- 
able, soft,  clear,  captivating  the  fancy,  au- 
spicious, ending  in  long  vowels,  resembling 
words  of  benediction.** — Ihst.  of  Menu, 
Sib  W.  Jones,  vol.  7,  116. 

See  also  pp.  154,  vol.  Ibid. 

Barbot,  p.  244.   Churchill*s  Col.  vol.  5. 

Canoes,  Ellis,  vol.  1,  p.  169. 
Pigs,  lb.  vol.  2,  p.  53. 

**  The  St.  Bernard's  dog,  which  we  saw 
stuffed  at  Berne,  and  which  had  saved  the 
lives  of  fifteen  men,  was  called  Barry.** — 
DowNES*  Letters  from  the  Continent,  vol.  1, 
p.  88. 

"  In  China  the  Emperor*s  proper  name 
must  not  be  pronounced  during  his  life. 
Nor  after  his  death ;  for  they  are  as  it  were 
consecrated  by  a  surname,  and  by  that  sur- 
name are  received  into  the  burial  place  of 
their  ancestors,  and  called  in  history.'  But 
in  their  lifetime  they  choose  a  name  by  which 


to  be  called,  and  thus  then  the  only  effiible 
name  serves  also  for  an  epoch,  by  which  the 
evils  of  the  reign  are  dated.  Much  confu- 
sion has  been  caused  by  some  emperon 
capriciously  altering  their  epochal  names. 
One  who  reigned  fifty-four  years  assumed 
no  fewer  than  eleven.** — PML,  TroM,  vol. 
7,  p.  431. 

In  the  Lucidario,  or  Book  of  the  Master 
and  Disciple,  the  D.  asks  if  the  angels 
have  name?,  and  the  M.  answers, "  Gli  An- 
geli  hanno  tanta  scientia  che  non  hanno  bi- 
sogno  di  nome.**  Upon  this,  the  disciplea 
observe  that  **  Michael,  Gabriel,  and  Ra- 
phael, are  names.**  M.  "  They  are  rather 
surnames  (sopra  nomi)  than  names,  becaiue 
they  are  imposed  by  men,  per  accidente; 
in  heaven  they  have  no  proper  names.  Bj 
accident  it  is  that  the  first  angel  obtained 
his  name,  Sathan  or  more  properly  Sathael, 
that  'is  to  say,  enemy,  or  opposed  to  God.** 
Antitheist. 


Death. 

Count  de  Buben,  death  scene. — Bbak- 
TOME,  vol.  4,  p.  317-23. 

M.  d*Esse.— Ibid.  vol.  7,  p.  212-3. 

Duke  John,  of  Austria,  had  this  display 
after  death.— Ibid.  p.  323. 

Walter  White*s  book. 

Lacaille  on  prolongation  of  life. 

Scott's  Argument  (Christian  Life^  vol 
1,  p.  297)  compared  with  the  savage  notioo 
that  death  is  not  a  natural  and  necessary 
thing, — a  notion  which  seems  as  if  it  must 
have  been  derived  firom  the  Fall  of  Man. 

TBrvuLCi*s  death,  sword  in  hand,  to  drive 
away  the  devils.'BBANTOBiE,  vol.  5,  p.  258-9. 

Tbee  of  life,  and  the  forbidden  tree,  their 
possible  effects. — Jenkins*  Reasonableness^ 
vol.  2,  p.  238-9. 

See,  too,  his  argument  for  understanding 
these  chapters  not  as  allegorical. — Ibid,  p 
240. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Jovui.  from  Jove,  and  Jove  from  Je- 
hovah !    Pttlmestry  book. — JsicuNS,  p.  100. 

Elelen— Hallelujah,  HailibaUoo.— Ibid, 
p.  101.  

PiEBBB  Di  LoTEB  found  Us  irholc  name, 
and  place  of  abode  anagrammed  in  s  verse 
of  the  Odyssey.— Bai J*,  toI.  2,  p.  356-7. 

But  thaugU  H&ller  colls  bis  worka 
opiucula  amauentU,  he  has  some  good  re- 
luarka  upon  the  injurious  effects  of  glazing 
ti  the  potteries,  and  on  rheumatism  bj  fric- 
ioa  and  sudorifics." — Sraiicaai.,  vol.  3,  p. 
370. 

"  Br  vhat  names  the  relict  of  anony- 
mous martyrs  are  to  be  distinguiahed." — 
Oiaemoiioite  topra  i  Cimiferi,  jfv.  pp.  109- 
10. 

"CuABLM  n.  named  a  yacht  the  Fubbs, 
n  honour  of  the  Duchesa  of  Portsmouth, 
rhowemaysupposewas  in  her  person  rather 
full  and  plump.  Sculptors  and  punters 
apply  this  epithet  to  cbUdren,  and  say,  for 
instance,  of  the  boyi  of  Fiammingo,  thst 
they  are  fubby.  In  this  yacht  he  narrowly 
escaped  ^ipwreck.  Mr.  Gostling,  Sub- 
dean  of  St.  Paul's  (a  famous  singer)  one  of 
the  party,  struck  with  a  just  sense  of  bis 
deliverance,  and  the  terrific  »cene  from 
which  he  had  escaped,  he,  on  his  return  to 
London,  selected  from  the  Psalms  those 
passages  which  declare  the  wonders  and 
terrors  of  the  deep,  and  gave  them  to  Fur- 
cell  to  compose  as  an  anthem.  This  Fur- 
cell  did,  and  adapted  it  so  peculiarly  to  the 
compass  of  Mr.  Gottling's  voice,  which  was 
a  deep  bass,  that  hardly  any  person  but 
himself  was  then,  or  has  since  been,  able  to 
ting  it." — Hi,wuHa'8  Hut.  Mat.  vol.  4,  p, 
339.  N. 

A.  GciiB  christened  Paris  by  the  city 
which  stood  sponsor. — BaanTOHx,  vol.  8, 
p.  147. 

Why  MonOuc  christened  a  son  Fabian. 
—Ibid.  vol.  7,  p.  295. 


Feeling  toward  Inaniaiale  ObjtcU. 

Wheb  the  Chancellor  Chevemy  went  home 
..I  his  old  age  for  the  last  time,  "  Messieurs, 
(dlt-il  aux  Gentilehommes  du  canton  ac- 
courus  pour  le  saluer)  je  resemble  au  bon 
lievre  qui  vient  mouiir  au  gite. 

''Arriyant  au  Chateau  de  CheTemy,troii- 
itqueVon  luyavoitfaitchanger un  vienx 
lit,  pour  en  remettre  un  plus  beau  k  sa 
place,  il  se  fascha,  et  vouliit  que  t'on  remit 
son  vieui  lit  avec  la  vieille  tapiaserie  en 
ladite  chambre,  qu'il  n'a  jamais  voutu 
changer,  ni  se  servir  d'autres  meubles  que 
ceux-li,di9ant  qu'il  lesaimoit  pins  que  tous 
les  beaux  qui  estoient  en  sa  maison,  comme 
luy  ayant  serri  !t  sa  naissance  et  durant 
loute  sa  vie." — Coll.  de*  Mtm.  torn.  50,  p. 
33. 

OitB  of  Bishop  Hobart's  juvenilecorres- 
pondentswritesto him — "Tour good  friend 
while  here,  accidentally  saw  your  little 
trunk  in  one  comer  of  the  room,  and  ac- 
tually manifested  as  much  joy  at  the  sight 
of  it  as  if  it  had  been  an  old  friend." — M». 
TiCKBai'  Menurir  ofBUk.  Hobart,  p.  128. 

"  Nbab  Mealhada  is  a  fine  forest  of  greal 
extent,  and  so  intricate,  that  even  the  na- 
tives are  sometimes  bewildered  by  the  mul- 
titude of  tracks.  My  guide  said  that 
abounded  in  wolves,  and  desired  me  to  ob. 
serve  the  stump  of  a  tree  recently  felled, 
telling  mc  that  a  yonng  man,  assailed  by 
three  of  those  ferocious  animEjs,  had  taken 
refuge  in  its  branches,  and  had  afrerwards 
cut  it  down  as  a  memorial  of  his  escape, 
and  in  testimony  of  his  gratitude.  I  thought 
this  an  odd  mode  of  returning  thanks,  and 
tacitly  determined  never  to  endanger  my 
safety  for  a  native  of  Mealhada.  Different 
nations  have  certainly  different  modes  of 
expressing  their  sense  of  services  conferred. 
A  Portuguese  fells  a  tree  for  the  some  rea- 
son that  an  Englishman  would  effectually 
protect  it." — LoKD  Cabrkakton's  Porta- 
gal  and  Oallicia,  vol.  1,  p.  56. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Mb.  Augustus  St.  Johit,  in  the  very 
pleasing  Journal  of  his  residence  in  Nor- 
mandy, sajs,  that  upon  praising  a  plough 
which  he  saw  there  as  an  exceedingly  neat 
implement  of  its  kind,  the  farmer  was 
pleased  at  the  compliment,  and  replied, 
"  She  goes  well.  Sir."  "  It  was  the  first 
time,**  says  Mr.  St.  John,  '^  I  had  observed 
that  a  plough  is  of  the  feminine  gender ; 
but  my  friend  seemed  to  be  a  kind  of  an 
amateur,  and  spoke  of  his  plough  with  as 
much  affection  as  a  true  bred  sailor  speaks 
of  his  ship,  or  Sancho  Fanza  of  his  ass, 
Dapple.'*— P.  18. 

A  JUBILEE  church  after  the  100th,  and 
then  commences  with  a  fresh  numeration  in 
the  second  century. 


Death, 

"  Opba  di  Dio 
Sai  che  non  fu  la  morte.     Ei  de  viventi 
La  perdita  non  brama.     Entro  nel  mondo 
Chiamata  da  malvagi 
E  CO  detti,  e  coll*  opre.** 

Metastasio,  vol.  vii.  p.  324. 
Morte  d^Abel. 

Stahl  thought  that  no  sufficient  physical 
cause  for  death  can  be  assigned,  seeing  that 
the  human  body,  notwithstanding  its  ten- 
dency to  destruction,  always  resists  it  by 
virtue  of  the  action  of  the  soul. — Theor. 
Med,  p.  606.  Spbekqbl,  vol.  5,  p.  218. 

Pontopfidan  says  that  ^^  in  the  vale  of 
Guldbrand,  and  especially  in  the  parish  of 
LsBSsoe,  there  are  persons  of  such  an  ex- 
treme age,  that  from  a  lassitude  of  longer 
life,  they  get  themselves  removed  elsewhere 
to  die  the  sooner.'*  *  —  M,  Review,,  vol.  xii. 
p.  451. 

*  As  this  is  a  curious  statement,  I  have 
thought  the  reader  might  like  the  reference. 
It  occurs  in  his  Nargetl^aturligg  HittorU^  torn, 
ii.  p.  411.  Kj^benhavn,  1753, 4to.— J.  W.  W. 


Compaee  Hut<:hinBon,  voL  x.  p.  294-5, 
with  W.  Whiter. 

"  Tu  que  vas 
Por  este  mundo  inconstante 
Mira  que  el  que  va  delante 
Avisa  al  que  va  detras." 

Lops  de  Vega,  vol.  17,  p.  218. 

**  R.  AxEXAiTDBB  aliquBudo  proclamavit, 
Quis  est,  qui  cupit  diu  vivere  f  Quis  est, 
qui  cupit  diu  vivere?  Statimque  congre- 
gati  sunt  et  venerunt  ad  ipsum  omnes  qui 
fuerunt  in  mundo,  dixeruntque,  da  nobb 
vitam."  Upon  which,  he  preached  to  them 
from  Psalm  xxxiv.  18,  14,  15.  —  Avoda 
Sara,  p.  157. 

The  angel  of  death  is  all  over  eye^  ^  to- 
tus  quantus  sit  oculatus." — Ibid.  p.  163. 

Life  of  Beattib,  vol.  1,  p.  406,  com- 
posure toward  death  accounted  for.  Vol.  il 
p.  259,  Dr.  Campbell's  death,  a  beaudfol 
and  valuable  fact. 

Death  thought  unnatural  in  Loango.— 
Parallels,  vol.  1,  p.  724. 
Li  Congo  the  greatest  of  all  goods.— 

Ibid. 

Mb.  a.  B.  Johhson  (an  American)  once 

heard  a  divine  contend  in  his  sermon  thst, 

**  except  on  the  authority  of  revelation,  do 

individual  can  be  certain  that  he  shall  die." 

Treatise  on  Language,  p.  258. 

Cabltlb's  French  RevobttUm,  vol.  1,  p. 
27. 

Due  of  Orleans,  who  believed  there  was 
no  such  thing  as  death. 

Tickets  in  death's  lottery. 


Number  2. 

"  Gli  due  che  mutuamente  s'amano,  non 
son  veri  due.  So.  Ma  quanti  ?  Phi,  0 
solamente  uno,  over  quattro.     So.  Che  gli 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANDTGS. 


S45 


DO,  intendo,  peroche  ramort 
doe  gli  unanti,  et  gli  fa  nno 
cliemodoF  Phi.  Trasformain' 
li  loro  nell'  tltro,  ciascano  d: 


Ine  A  qnatb^  li  che  ciucano 
,  et  tntd  due  toot,  nno  et  qaat- 
Medieo  (H^reo)  Dialogi  di 


entendiei,  rupondit  Tttos,  de 
Mr  rinGoie  puisBftnce  d'uuonr, 
neg  ne  devieonent  qn'une,  et 
nt  deux,vouB  connoistriez  que 
eut  lien  dewrer  hon  de  aoj* 
li  tMt  que  Toua  aurieE  en* 


i  I'ai 


li  en  ramant,  et  par  auui  deux 
It  qu*uii,  et  chacun  toul«8fou 
;  et  BJm£,  par  oomequent  e«t 
imprendrieEi  Hjlaa,  ce  qui  toui 
ale,  et  avoueriez,  que  puia  qu'il 
le  ce  qu'il  aime,  et  qu'il  eat 
'aiiii£>  aea  deairea  Qe  peuveut 
r  meame." — Atlrit,  p.  ii.  torn. 

natter  of  dispute  what  is  tike 
Individoation  in  men :  or  what 
taaei  one  man  to  be  a  different 
iTson  from  another." — Jbhkih, 
M,  Tol.  3,  p.  397. 

.  .and  SOD  are  one  penon. — 
.  CoU.  Uu.  torn.  55,  p.  42. 

p.  46-7.  For  a  moral  turn, — 
mtnu,  p.  119^ 


vers  maj,  et  ce  que  votu  egt«a 
je  ne  peux  croire  autre  chose 
'  a  au  monde  deux  CheTalien 
nt  da  Soleil,et  qae  tous  esteg 
Anj  qui  souloit  eetre  mjen." 


tongues  dirided,  partJj  by  nature  and  partly 
hj  art,  and  thus  aro  enabled  to  hold  two 
dietinct  conTeriationi  at  the  same  lime  with 
two  different  persons." — M.  RtnUto,  vol.  72, 
p.  356. 

Two  hearts  found  in  a  partridge.  Ame- 
rican  Phil.  Tram.  The  puptt  is  b;  U. 
d'AboTiUe.~Ibid.  ¥ol.  T6,  p.  993. 

HiBCiti.H  in  hearen,  and  in  the  shades. 
C.  Ody$iey,  ToL  11,  p.  735. 

"  Tax  division  of  ourselves  (if  I  maj  use 
the  expression)  between  vice  and  virtue." 
— pBRdVAA  Stockda!.*,  Mem.  vol    1,  p. 


"  —  Tebxs  atque  rotundus, 

The  steady  honest  man  Is  nrpayiuvot, 
like  a  die :  tbrotr  him  which  way  jou  will, 
he  lights  upon  a  square. — Adah  Litti^- 
TON,  p.  154. 

'A>^p  AyaOoc  kq!  TirpAyuvot  Ayev  if^yti. 
AxisToTLi. — U.  UoBB,  Ecc.  Prefaee,  ix. 

"  A  I.A  phjsionomie  de  ce  dernier,  on 
juge  bien  que  Teritablement  c'estoit  un 
homme  r<md  et  sans  ambitiou  de  fortune. " 
—Attrit,  torn.  4,  p.  830. 

Ebastz's  valet,  Gros-Hen£,  prides  him- 
self on  being  "  homme  fort  rond  de  toules 
les  mani^res." — Moubbe,  vol.  1,  p.  248. 

"  Thb  inconcuasable  eteadlnesa  of  the 
square  '  perchance  might  be  the  reason  that 
the  prince  of  philosophers,  in  hb  Ethics, 
tennetbaconstant-minded man,  even  equal 
and  direct  on  all  aides,  and  not  easilj  over- 
thrown by  any  little  adversity,  homvem 
quadralum,  a  square  man." — Fdttenuam, 
p.  83. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


**  DsTTB  mi  fur  di  mia  yita  fiitura 
Parole  grayi ;  ayyegna  ch*  io  mi  senta 
Ben  tetragono  a  i  colpi  di  yentura.** 

Dante.  ParadisOf  t.  3,  p.  110. 


^w^^^<»^w^^^»»www^^»<^» 


Phtfsic. 

'*  One  of  the  eminentest  of  our  London 
physicians  was  wont,  as  an  excellent  secret, 
to  employ  in  some  of  his  choice  remedies 
that  peculiar  saltpetre  which  he  had  drawu 
out  of  the  earth  digged  up  in  churchyards." 
— ^BOTLE,  Tol.  1,  p.  210. 

'*  I  HAVE  seen  a  good  quantity  of  that 
jelly  that  is  sometimes  found  on  the  ground, 
and  by  the  Tulgar  called  a  star-shoot,^  as  if 
it  remained  upon  the  extinction  of  a  falling 
star;  which  being  brought  to  an  eminent 
physician  of  my  acquaintance,  he  lightly 
digested  it  in  a  well-stopt  glass  for  a  long 
time,  and  by  that  alone  resolved  it  into  a 
permanent  Uquor,  which  he  extols  as  a  spe- 
cific to  be  outwardly  applied  against  wens.** 
•Ibid.  p.  244. 

Snt  Theodosb  Matebns's  MS.  Ephe- 
merides. 

Ellis^s  Orig.  Letters,  second  series,  toI. 
3,  p.  246. 

His  remarks  upon  this  patient's  circum- 
stances. 

King  Solomon's  Portruture  of  Old  Age, 
by  John  Smith,  M.D.  a  philosophical  dis- 
course. '^  Among  other  ingenious  observa- 
tions, he  remarks,  that  the  expressions  of 
Solomon,  Eccles.  xii.  probably  denote  the 
same  doctrine  of  the  circulation  of  the  blood 
as  Harvey's ;  the  pitcher  being  interpreted 
for  the  veins;  the  fountain  for  the  right 
ventricle  of  the  heart ;  the  cistern  for  the 
left ;  the  wheel  for  the  circulation." — Ahr, 
PhU.  Tram.  vol.  1,  p.  86. 

•  Otherwise  called  **  Tremella  Nostoc."  See 
Third  Series,  p.  763.- J.  W.  W. 


The  podagric  unguent  of  the  ^  so  mw 
famed  Franciscus  Jos.  Borrhi,"  was  mat 
up  of  almost  all  the  parts  of  a  stag.  It  wi 
inferred,  fVom  the  supposed  longevity  of  th 
animal,  that  nature  had  stored  it  wiUi  absi 
samic  preservative  salt  in  a  greater  propor- 
tion than  most  other  creatures,  and  therefore 
that  all  its  parts,  even  the  excrementiUom 
one,  were  endued  with  medical  virtues.  A 
physician  of  Jena,  Joh.  Andrea  Gratz  bj 
name,  wrote  a  treatise  upon  this,  entitled 
Elaphographia,  sive  Gervi  Descriptio  Fhj- 
sico-Medico-Chymica. — ^Ibid.  pp.  281-2. 

''The  parliament  of  Paris,  at  the  soliciu* 
tion  of  the  Parisian  physicians  (among  whom 
Guy  Patin  was  the  most  conspicuous),  pro- 
hibited the  use  of  antimony  in  medicine. 
This  restriction,  after  some  years,  was  re- 
moved ;  but  it  was  a  long  time  indeed  be- 
fore the  French  physicians  could  get  the 
better  of  their  prejudices,  or  rather  of  their 
timidity,  in  regard  to  the  employment  of 
those  active  remedies  which  are  derived  from 
the  chemical  preparations  of  this  and  other 
metallic  substances,  and  which  give  to  the 
practice  of  physic  a  vigour  and  efficiency 
that  it  formerly  wanted." — ^Ibid.  p.  596,  K. 

Maetin  Listee  describes  a  cimex  of  the 
largest  size,  of  a  red  colour,  with  black  spots, 
as  to  be  found  in  great  abundance  upon  hen- 
bane. *'  It  is  observable,"  he  says,  *^  that 
that  horrid  and  strong  smell  with  which  the 
leaves  of  this  plant  affect  our  nostrils,  is  y&rj 
much  qualified  in  this  insect^  and  in  some 
measure  aromatic  and  agreeable;  and  there 
we  may  expect  that  that  dreadful  narcosis 
so  eminent  in  this  plant,  may  likewise  be 
usefully  tempered  in  this  insect;  which  we 
refer  to  trial." — Ibid.  pp.  602-3. 

*^  Isaac  Yossius  commended  the  skill  of 
the  Ghinese  physicians  in  finding  out  by  their 
touch,  not  only  that  the  body  is  diseased, 
(which,  he  said,  was  all  that  our  practitioners 
knew  by  it,)  but  also  from  what  cause  or 
from  what  part  the  sickness  proceeds.  To 
make  ourselves  masters  of  this  skill,  he  would 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


647 


have  us  explore  the  natare  of  inen*s  pulses, 
tni  they  became  as  well  known  and  as  fa- 
miliar to  us  as  aharp  or  lute  is  to  the  players 
thereon ;  it  not  being  enough  for  them  to 
know  that  there  is  something  amiss  which 
spoils  the  tune,  but  thej  must  also  know 
what  string  it  is  which  causes  that  fault.** 
—Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  68. 

'*  Ova  foresters,**  sajs  Sib  G.  Mackbhzie, 
**  allege,  that  when  deer  are  wounded,  they 
lie  on  a  certidn  herb  which  grows  plentifully 
in  our  forests,  and  that  by  its  virtue  the 
bleeding  is  stanched,  and  the  wound  healed. 
I  took  a  quantity  of  it,  and  reduced  it  to  a 
salve,  with  wax  and  butter.  Its  effect  was, 
that  it  healed  too  suddenly,  so  that  I  durst 
not  venture  to  use  it  for  any  deep  wound, 
but  for  superficial  scars  it  has  a  very  sud- 
den operation.  It  is  the  Asphodelus  Lan- 
castrisB  Yerus  of  Johnstone  ;^  or  the  Lanca- 
shire Asphodel.**— Ibid.  p.  227. 

Johannes  Baptista  Alprunus,  physi- 
cian to  the  Empress  Eleonora,  in  a.d.  1670, 
at  Prague,  lanced  a  plague-boil  in  one  of 
hia  patients.  ^*  Having  conceived  that  the 
way  for  him  to  penetrate  into  the  most  la- 
tent quality  of  this  pestiferous  venom  was 
by  chemistry;  not  with  knives,  but  glasses, 
— ^not  with  iron,  but  fire, — I  collected  the 
virulent  matter,  and  putting  it  in  a  retort, 
and  luting  a  receiver  to  it  very  close,  I  ap- 
plied degrees  of  fire.  At  first  came  over  a 
water,  then  a  more  fat  and  oily  matter,  and 
at  last  a  salt  ascended  into  the  neck  of  the 
retort.  The  fire  being  removed,  and  the 
glasses  separated,  there  came  forth  so  great 


■  The  discovery  is  subseqaent  to  the  old  edi- 
tion of  Gbkakde  by  Johnson,  where  it  is  sta- 
ted, **  it  is  not  yet  roand  out  what  use  there  is 
oi  any  of  them  in  nourishment  or  medicines  :*' 
*  p.  97.  No  scholar,  but  knows  the  Dictamnut 
of  ViBGiL.  JEn.  xiL  V.  41 1  ^  Cf.  Cic.  de  N.  D. 
ii  50.  Bishop  Hacket  says  in  the  Christian 
OmsolaiionSy  which  were  lone  g^ven  to  Jeremy 
Thylot,  "The  hart  woundd  with  an  arrow, 
nms  to  the  herb  dittany  to  bite  it,  that  the 
shaft  may  fall  out  that  stuck  in  his  body:*' 
vol.  i.  p.  129.  Ed.  Hebrr.— J.  W.  W. 


a  stench  that  a  thousand  wounds  exposed 
to  the  summer  heat  could  not  have  equalled 
it.  And  though  I  thought  I  had  sufficiently 
armed  my  senses  against  it,  that  is,  my  ears 
with  cotton,  my  nose  with  pessaries,  my 
mouth  with  sponges,  all  dipt  in  vinegars  and 
treacles,  yet,  as  if  touched  with  a  thunder- 
bolt, I  was  struck  with  a  violent  trembling 
of  my  body.  Having  broken  the  glass,  I 
gave  some  of  this  hon'idly-stinking  salt  to 
to  M.  Reshel  to  taste,  and  then  I  tasted  it 
myself,  and  it  was  found  to  have  an  acri- 
mony as  great  as  aqua  regis.**  To  this  acri- 
mony he  ascribed  til  the  phenomena  which 
occur  in  the  plague. — Ibid.  p.  491. 

Thx  same  physician  thought  he  preserved 
himself  by  setons  in  the  gi:oin,  flunking  that 
the  venom  would  find  its  way  into  his  sys- 
tem, and  that  the  safest  course  was  thus  to 
open  a  way  out  for  it. — Ibid.  p.  492. 

A  8ADDUiK*8  daughter  at  Burford  had  an 
imposthume  which  broke  in  the  comer  of 
one  of  her  eyes,  out  of  which  came  about 
thirty  stones,  splendid,  and  as  large  as  pearls. 
— Ibid.  voL  3,  p.  81. 

Medicine  among  the  Egyptians  wholly 
built  upon  astrological  or  magical  grounds. 
They  thought  the  heart  increased  two 
drachms  in  weight  annually  till  men  were 
50  years  old,  then  decreased  in  the  same 
proportion,  so  that  no  one  could  live  beyond 
the  age  of  100.— Ibid.  p.  681. 

Ds.  Archibald  Pitcaibn  endeavoured, 
after  Borelli  and  Bellini,  to  account  for  the 
principal  phenomena,  natural  and  morbid, 
which  occur  in  the  animal  body, — ^upon  ma- 
thematical principles  I — Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  46. 
See  the  passage. 

A  oiBL  with  horns  on  various  parts  of  her 
body.— Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  229. 

Claws  instead  of  nails. — Ibid.  4,  p.  176. 

A  BOT  three  years  without  eating  and 
drinking. — Ibid.  vol.  6.  p.  459. 


Ibid.  vol.  7,  p.  543,  taburcuUted  skin. — 
ToL  10,  p.  662. 

Cassini  saw  a  Russian  at  Florence  who 
during  two  different  years  in  his  life  had  in 
his  body  an  electrical  yirtue  similar  to  that 
of  the  torpedo. — Monthly  Review^  toI.  66, 
p.  600. 

Sib  Johh  Flotsb  in  his  Pharmacobasa- 
nos,  or  Touchstone  of  Medicines,  attempted 
to  account  for  their  yirtues  by  their  taste 
and  smell. — PhU.  Trans.  Abr,  vol.  4,  p.  458. 

M.  DB  Chsbac,  who  was  first  physician 
to  Louis  XY.  maintained  that  it  is  as  much 
the  duty  of  a  physician  to  enforce  discipline 
to  the  sick,  as  of  a  general  to  enforce  it  in 
an  army. — Ibid.  p.  497. 

LiHiMBNTs  for  the  itch  "may  be  made 
agreeable  enough,  and  of  a  good  smell,  as 
particularly  is  that  compounded  of  the  oint- 
ment of  orange  flowers,  or  roses,  and  a 
small  quantity  of  red  precipitate.** — ^Db. 
Mbab.  Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  4. 

Whbn  the  small  pox  is  epidemical  in  the 
miun  land  over  agunsi  Skie  Isle  as  in  the 
isle  itself,  the  natives  bathe  their  children 
in  the  infusion  of  juniper  wood,  and  they 
generally  escape;  when  this  is  neglected 
they  often  die. — Ibid.  p.  379. 

Feabls  prescribed,  to  all  those  that  are 
able  to  pay  for  them. — Ibid.  p.  366.  Grold 
and  silver  also. — ^p.  368. 

Many  swallowed  the  stones  of  sloes  and 
cherries,  thinking  they  would  prevent  any 
danger  of  surfeit,  or  indigestion  from  the 
fruit.— Ibid.  vol.  6,  p.  253. 

DoDDBEDOB  rcUtcs  that  a  clergyman's 
lady,  whose  husband  was  of  some  eminence 
in  the  literary  world,  in  a  frenzy  after  a 
lying  in  (which  was  quickly  removed)  found 
during  the  time  of  it  such  an  alteration  in 
the  state  and  tone  of  her  nerves,  that  though' 
she  never  had  before  nor  since  any  ear  for 
music,  nor  any  voice,  she  was  then  capable 


of  singing,  to  the  admiration  of  all  about 
her,  several  fine  tunes,  which  her  sister  had 
learnt  in  her  presence  some  time  before,  bat 
of  which  she  had  not  then  seemed  to  take 
any  particular  notice. — Ibid.  vol.  9,  p.  870. 

A  MAB  who  had  lost  the  use  of  his  speed) 
for  about  four  years,  recovered  it,  by  being 
extremely  frightened  in  a  dream.  The 
dream  was  that  he  had  fallen  into  a  furnace 
of  boiling  wort,  and  be  called  fbr  he^.— 
Ibid.  p.  465. 

Ibid.  pp.  495-8.  Medicines  siud  to  be  in- 
sinuated into  the  body  by  electricity .^?oL 
10,  p.  13. 

Nicolas  Rbbks  bom  with  both  feet  turn- 
ed inwards,  and  pronounced  incurable.  Ap- 
prentice at  eleven  years  of  age  to  a  taylor, 
in  six  years  sitting  cross  legged  had  pro- 
duced a  manifest  alteration;  in  less  thin 
two  years  more,  his  feet  and  legs  became 
like  those  of  other  men :  he  ran  away  and 
entered  as  a  marine. — ^Ibid.  p.  685. 

Thbbb  were  two  kinds  of  Usnea  Humana, 
— ^the  Crustacea  et  villosa ;  the  former  was 
most  esteemed,  and  any.  of  the  crustacean 
lichens,  but  more  properly  the  common 
grey-blue  pitted  lichenoides  of  Dillenins. 
The  villosa  was  a  species  of  the  genus  hjp- 
num ;  any  moss  that  happened  to  grow  od 
a  human  skull  was  thought  efiicacioiu.— 
Ibid.  vol.  40,  p.  252. 

Thb  cup  moss  was  long  accounted  a  spe- 
cific for  hooping-cough.  Willis  had  great 
faith  in  it. — Ibid.  p.  255. 

Stbict  laws,  vigilantly  enforced,  pre- 
served New  England  from  the  small  pox 
generally,  Boston  excepted,  where  it  stnck 
root,  1649,  and  was  often  epidemicaL— -Ibid. 
voL  12,  p.  229. 

Family  at  Maryport  (the  Harrises)  who 
could  not  distinguish  colours. — ^Ibid.  vol  H 
p.  143. 


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549 


Da.  Whitb  (of  York,  1778)  says  "dis- 
eases which  usually  in  private  practice  of  an 
easy  cure,  are  often  very  tedious  in  hospi- 
tals, and  i^t  to  assume  anomalous  symp- 
toms. Healthy  persons,  admitted  for  the 
cure  of  recent  wounds  and  other  accidents, 
soon  become  pale,  lose  their  appetite,  and 
are  generally  discharged  weak  and  emaci- 
ated, but  soon  recover  by  the  benefit  of 
fresh  air.  In  some  hospitals  the  cure  of  a 
compound  fracture  is  rarely  seen ;  in  pri- 
vate practice  and  a  pure  air,  such  cases 
seldom  fail.**-~Ibid.  p.  326. 

"  Thb  Philosopher  says  that  the  phancy 
is  seated  in  the  middle  region  of  the  brain 
above  the  eyes,  which  upon  great  and  sud- 
den wrath  calls  up  the  spirits  hastily  into 
itself,  and  with  that  swift  motion  they  are 
heated,  and  seem  to  flame  in  the  eyes.** — 
Bp.  Hackst,  p.  423. 

^'  WoMBN,  in  certain  circumstances  to  us 
unknown,  are  every  now  and  then  capable 
of  very  far  exceeding  the  usual  nimiber  of 
children  at  a  birth.** — Phil  Tfxms.  Abr,  vol. 
16,  p.  301. 

HoBics  on  women. — ^Ibid.  vol.  17,  p.  28. 

JuuAN  calls  Jupiter  to  witness  that  he 
had  often  been  cured  by  remedies  which 
iEsculapius  directed  him  to  use.  "  But 
this,**  says  Dr.  Jenkins,  "supposing  the 
truth  of  the  fact,  doth  not  prove  that  false 
Grod  to  have  had  more  skill  than  a  physician 
might  have  had,  but  only  shows  that  devils 
may  have  such  knowledge  of  the  nature  of 
things,  OS  to  give  prescriptions  in  physic.** — 
Reasonableness  of  the  Christian  Religion, 
vol.  1,  p.  349. 

" — ix*  faut  que  nous  fassions  comme  ces 
bons  Medecins,  qtu  ayans  bien  pr^par^  les 
humeurs  par  quelques  legers  remMes,  les 
chassent  apr^  tout-k-fait  par  de  plus  fortes 
medecines.** — Astsbe,  pt.  2,  torn.  3,  p.  394. 


Mb.  Nxwtoii*8  wife  took  tincture  of  soot. 
1776. 


SucDAS  and  Cedrenus  report  that  Solo- 
mon wrote  of  the  remedies  of  all  diseases, 
and  graved  the  same  on  the  sides  of  the 
porch  of  the  temple,  which  they  say  Heze- 
kiah  pulled  down,  because  the  people  neg- 
lecting help  from  God  by  prayer,  repaired 
thither  for  their  recovery. — ^Balbigh,  b.  2, 
p.  429. 

"  —  On  ne  doit  pas  craindre  d*avancer 
que  la  medecine  est  de  toutes  les  sciences 
physiques  celle  qui  a  donn^  lieu  au  plus 
grand  nombre  de  speculations.** — Trans. 
Preface  to  Sprengel, 

A  GOOD  severe  jest  of  Henri  IV.  to  the 
Parisians.  If  they  instead  of  accepting  his 
gracious  offers  should  be  by  famine  con- 
strained "  de  se  rendre  la  corde  au  col, 
au  lieu,**  said  he,  "de  la  mis^ricorde  que 
je  leur  ofire,  j*en  dterai  la  mis^re,  et  ils  au- 
roni  la  corde.** —  ColL  des  Mem.  voL  51, 
p.  340. 

Bhazes  cured  stomach  complaints  with 
cold  water  and  butter  milk,  and  recom- 
mended chess  for  melancholy  persons. — 
SpbjbngeLi  voL  2,  p.  292. 

A  viCBNNA  prescribes  gold,  silver,  and  pre- 
cious stones  to  purify  the  blood.  And  bugs 
(les  punaises,  aljesajes)  for  the  quartain 
fever  and  for  hysterics* — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p. 
819. 

With  him  the  practice  began  of  gilding 
pills.— Ibid.  p.  820. 

GiLBEBTUs  Anglicus.  His  treatment  of 
lethargy  was  to  fasten  a  sow  in  the  patient*8 
bed.  And  in  cases  of  apoplexy  he  admi- 
nistered ant*s  eggs,  scorpion*s  oil,  and  lion*s 
flesh,  in  order  to  induce  fever ;  but  Spren- 
gel asks  how  lion*s  flesh  was  to  be  got  in 
England  P — Spbeivgel,  vol.  2,  p.  406. 

Ficiifus  advises  old  men  to  drink  the 
blood  of  healthy  young  persons,  as  a  means 
of  prolonging  life. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  464. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


When  the  German  physicians  (in  the 
fifteenth  century)  wished  to  bring  on  a  fe- 
brile action,  they  placed  the  patient  between 
two  fires. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  478, 

AvicENNA  held  that  a  certain  fifth  qua- 
lity formed  the  temperament. — ^Ibid.  toI.  3, 
p.  43. 

Luis  Mercapo,  physician  to  Philip  H. 
doubted  whether  the  temperament  ought  to 
be  so  regarded,  or  whether  it  were  not  ra- 
ther the  harmony  and  reunion  of  the  four 
primary  qualities. — ^Ibid.  p.  21. 

Spbengel  calls  him  the  Thomas  Aquinas 
of  medicine,  the  first  of  all  scholastic  phy- 
sicians; and  says  it  is  impossible  to  ima- 
gine **  jusqu*  ^  quel  point  cet  ^crivain  pousse 
les  reveries  methodiques.** 

Babbarossa  communicated  to  Francis  I. 
a  receipt  for  mercurial  pills. — Ibid.  vol.  3, 
p.  73. 

In  the  fifteenth  century,  at  the  court  of 
the  German  prince,  it  was  part  of  the  chief 
physician  every  morning  to  examine  the 
sovereign's  urine. — Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  164. 

Thomas  Ftens  called  it  **  excrementum 
secundse  coctionis;  et  tire  mSme  certains  sig- 
nes  du  son  qu*elle  produit  en  tombant  de 
la  vessie  dans  le  vase  destin^  ^  la  re^evoir.** 
—Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  168. 

Both  Severin,  and  Du  Chesne  who  was 
physician  to  Henri  IV.  held  that  diseases 
proceeded  from  seed,  like  vegetables. — ^Ibid. 
p.  373, 

**  Roast  cat,  with  goose-grease  and  spice, 
was  Benedetto  Veltori's  remedy  for  con- 
vulsions.**— Ibid,  vol.  3,  18 J. 

The  Milanese  physician,  Settali,  (16th 
century)  discovered  that  the  general  prac- 
tice of  applying  the  actual  cautery  to  the 
skull,  for  old  catarrhs,  was  injurious. — 
Ibid.  p.  194. 


The  old  system,  that  the  animal  spirito 
were  secreted  by  the  brain. — Ibid.  vol.  4, 
p.  64.  All  our  knowledge  comes  to  the  same 
thing  under  different  terms,  pretty  much. 

Tea  brought  into  use  by  the  Dutch  mer- 
chants and  physicians  aiding  each  other.— 
Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  106-8-11. 

Nicholas  Robinson  insisted  that  no  other 
science  had  such  incontestible  pretensions 
to  certitude  as  that  of  medicine. — Ibid.  toI. 
5,  p.  171. 

The  apothecary*s  praise  of  a  physician  b 
Moli^e,  ^^  C*est  un  homme  qui  sait  la  me- 
dicine k  fond,  et  qui,  quand  on  devroit 
cr^ver,  ne  d^mordroit  pa3,  d*un  iofti,  des 
regies  dcs  anciens.  Oui,  il  suit  toujoura  le 
grand  chemin,  le  grand  chemin ;  et  pour 
tout  Tor  du  monde,  il  ne  voudroit  pas  avoir 
gueri  une  personne  avec  d*autres  rem^des 
que  ceux  que  la  Faculty  permet.** — ^M.  ni 

POUBCEAUGNAC,  vol.  5,  p.  387. 

^  On  est  bien  aise  au  xnoins  d*6tre  moart 
m^thodiquement : — 

^  xpoc  larptf  0*0^0 

Soph.  Ajax.  v.  582. 

In  the  atheistic  work  called,  Man  a  Ma- 
chine,  by  St.  M.  d*Argeii8  (or  Mr.  de  U 
Mettriel),  the  author  says  that  philoeo- 
phical  physicians  are  the  only  persons  who 
have  explored  and  unravelled  the  labyrinth 
of  man ;  the  only  ones  who,  in  a  phiioso* 
phical  contemplation  of  the  soul,  have  sur- 
prised it  in  its  misery  and  grandeur,  with- 
out despising  or  idolizing  it ;  and  the  oolj 
ones  who  have  a  right  to  speak  on  it-* 
Monthly  Betjiew,  vol.  1,  p.  1S25. 

Descartes,  he  says,  said  that  physio  ooaU 
change  the  mind  and  manners  together  with 
the  body.— Ibid.  p.  126. 

William  Claekb,  the  ossified  man,  in  the 
county  of  Cork. — ^Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  280. 


MISCELLANEOUS  AMECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


SSI 


Woos-ucs,  hot*  to  be  taken.  —  Ibid.  p. 
381  :— 

"  The  best  waj  ii  the  swallowing  them 
alive,  which  is  very  eaailj  and  conrenientl}' 
tlone,  for  thej  natursilj  roll  themselves  jup 
on  being  touched,  and  thus  form  a  sort  of 
smooth  jull,  which  slips  down  the  throat 
without  being  tasted.  This  a  the  secureU 
waj  of  having  all  their  virtues.  The  next 
b>  this  is  the  bmising  them  with  wine,  and 
taking  the  expression.  If  the  patient  can- 
not be  prevailed  with  to  take  them  anj  other 
waj  than  in  powder,  the  best  method  ever 
invented  for  preparing  them  in  that  form, 
is  that  ordered  in  the  new  London  Dispen- 
satorj,  which  ii  the  tjing  them  up  in  a  thin 
canvass  cloth,  and  suspending  them  within 
a  covered  vessel,  over  the  steam  of  hot  spi- 
rit of  wbe ;  the;  are  soon  killed  b;  it,  and 
rendered  fHable." 

"  Often  of  servioe  in  asthmas,  and  great 
good  has  been  sometime*  done  b7  a  long 
course  of  them,  in  disorders  of  the  eyes." 
Tikis  is  fhmi  Sir  John  HilL 

"TiDBS  It  medicia,  quanquam  in  adversS 
valetndiae  nihil  servi  ac  liberi  difierant, 
mollius  tamen  liberos  clemeutiusque  trac- 
tari.-— Plwt,  L  8,  Ep.  24. 

Mdhshis  are  known  to  be  most  sovereign 
and  magistral  in  medicine. — Jobs  Gexooxt, 
p.  63. 

A  TBTBK  cored  bj  music.  The  cure  ia 
irious.— Jf.  Reviea,  vol,  9,  p.  367-6. 

It  is  said  of  Archbishop  Sheldon,  that  he 
(^ered  .£1000  to  anj  person  who  would 

help  him  to  the  gout,  looking  upon  it  as 
the  onlj  remedj  for  the  distemper  in  his 
head,  which  he  feared  might  in  time  prove 
apoplez J ;  as  in  fine  it  did,  and  killed 
bim."— Da.  Popi's  Life  of  Swia  Waw», 
"nHt  voL  1,  p.  63. 

Dk.  LiSTU  thought  that  the  Small  and 
great  Pox  were  both  first  occasioned  either 
bj  the  bite,  or  b;  ea^g  of  some 
ureature. — M.  Reviete,  Januarj  1734,  p. 


Tbboimkx  ZriHGBR  of  Basil,  never  took 
a  fee  except  Irom  the  rich,  who  forced  it 
upon  him.  He  used  to  eaj,  "when  a  pa- 
tient cried  ah  I  ah !  for  a  physician  to  ssj 
dal  dal  was  worthj  only  of  a  hangman  or 
other  executioner." — ZuinaBa,  p.  2452. 

Whjtb  leproBj  or  elephantiasis;  "A  pe< 
culiar  maladj  is  this,  and  natural  to  the 
Egjptiaaa  j  but  look,  when  any  of  their 
kbgs  fell  into  it,  woe  worth  the  subjects 
and  poor  people  1  for  there  were  the  tubs 
and  batliing  vessels,  wherein  they  sate  in 
the  baine,  filled  with  men's  blood  for  their 
CUM."— Plimt,  lib.  26,  c.  1.  Pk.  BaUand, 
vot.  3,  p.  242. 


Thb  Galenists  use  to  < 
trariU  with  medicaments  of  a  contrary  tem- 
per ;  but  the  Paracelsists,  similia  similibus, 
making  one  dolour  to  expel  another.— Pqt- 


"  Ton  highness 
Shall  from  this  practice  but  make  hard  your 
heart" — Cgrnbelme,  act  i,  sc  vi. 

Eaekpfsb,  vol,  1,  p.  235.  Taking  the  pre- 
scription itself  in  pUIs. 

AusTOTLB  is  cited  by  Olynpiodonu  to 
have  knowD  a  man  who  never  slept  In  all 
his  life.  And  the  strangeness  hath  been 
quitted  by  an  experience  of  later  days. — 
JoEH  Gesoori,  p.  63, 

Tub  principal  ingredient  of  the  weapon- 
salve  ia  the  moss  of  a  dead  man's  skull,  as 
the  recipe  delivered  by  Paracelsus  to  Uax- 
imilian  the  Emperor. — Ibid.  p.  63i. 

Mr.  Venn  the  elder,  in  the  last  six  months 
of  his  life  "  was  often  upon  the  brink  of  the 
grave,  and  then  unexpectedly  restored.  A 
medical  friend,  the  Lite  John  Pearson,  who 
frequently  vialted  him  at  this  time,  observed 
lliat  the  near  prospect  of  dissolution  so 
elated  his  mind  with  joy,  that  it  proved  a 
stimulus  to  life.    Upon  one  occasion,  Mr. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Venn  himself  remarked  some  fatal  appear- 
ances, excluming,  '  Surelj  these  are  good 
symptoms  !*  Mr.  Pearson  replied,  *  Sir,  in 
this  state  of  jojoud  excitement,  you  cannot 
live.' " — Memoir  of  Mb.  Vbhh,  p.  59. 

At  Butterley  Lees,  near  New  Mills,  on 
the  5th  instant,  as  the  wife  of  E.  Feamley 
was  sealing  up  the  co^s,  a  favourite,  which 
always  appeared  very  quiet,  turned  her 
head,  and  dreadfully  lacerated  the  left  eye 
of  the  unfortunate  woman.  The  sight  of 
this  eye  Mrs.  Feamley  had  lost  by  the  small 
pox  in  her  childhood ;  but  the  obstruction 
being  partly  removed  by  the  cow,  and  the 
other  part  by  Mr.  Burkinshaw,  of  York,  she 
has  actually  recovered  the  sight  of  her  eye 
which  has  so  long  been  closed.  She  is  in 
her  forty-second  year. — Tyne  Mercury, 

Shebbeabb  published,  a.d.  1755,  a  **  Prac- 
tice of  physic  founded  on  principles  in  phy- 
siology and  pathology  hitherto  unapplied  in 
physical  enquiries.**  The  principle  was  fire, 
of  which  he  held  the  reid  elementary  and 
material  existence,  and  the  presence  of  which 
he  considered  to  be  the  cause  of  animal  heat ; 
and  its  excess  or  defect  the  principal  cause 
of  all  diseases.  His  directions  are  to  heighten 
or  abate  the  fire,  which  amounts  to  nothing 
more  than  the  hot  or  cold  regimen. — M. 
Review^  12,  p.  401,  which  speaks  ill  of  the 
author. 

M.  Review,  vol.  13,  p.  242.  Case  of  con- 
sumption cured  by  cucumbers. 

Dr.  Gregory's  case  by  lemons. 

Mr.  Flet<;her*s  own  case  by  cherries. 

The  two  latter  were  indicated  by  a  crav- 
ing for  these  remedies.  The  former,  the  Dr. 
happened  to  think  of. 

*^Ab  spints  (spiriJhu  ardentet)^^  says  Dr. 
Douglass's  Circular,  a.d.  1750,  *'  not  above 
a  century  ago,  were  used  only  as  officinal 
cordials,  but  now  are  become  an  endemical 
plague  every  where,  being  a  pernicious  in- 
gredient, in  most  of  our  beverages ;  so  for- 
merly sugar  was  only  used  in  syrups,  con- 


serves, and  such  like  Arabian  medicinal 
compositions.  It  is  at  present  become  of 
universal  and  most  noxious  use.  It  fouls 
our  animal  jtuces,  and  produces  scrophulas, 
scurvies,  and  other  putrid  disorders,  by  re- 
laxing the  solids :  it  occasions  watery  swel- 
lings, and  catarrhal  ails:  it  induces  hys- 
terics and  other  nervous  disorders;  therefore 
should  be  sparingly  used,  especially  by  the 
weaker  sex ;  they  are  naturally  of  a  fibn 
laxa.**— 3f.  Review^  vol.  13,  p.  272. 

MAtsTBB  DouBurr,  surgeon  to  the  Due 
de  Nemours : — ^he  cured  wounds  with  no- 
thing but  dean  rags  and  clean  water,  with 
the  help  of  charms. — See  Bbahtomb,  vol.  9, 
p.  22-3. 

*'Thb  Machaon  of  those  times  (aj).  1754), 
Dr.  Richard  Rock,  dispensed  from  his  one- 
horse  chaise  his  cathartic  anti-venereal  elec- 
tuary, his  itch  powder,  and  his  quintessence 
of  vipers.  Being  superior  to  regularity,  ind 
despising  the  formality  of  academical  de- 
grees, he  styled  himself  M.  L.  He  is,**  says 
the  Connoisseur  (No.  17),"  a  London  physi- 
cian, or  as  Moli^re  would  express  it, '  C'est 
un  medicin  de  Londres.*** 

"  When  we  see  a  snuff-coloured  suit  of 
ditto,  with  bolus  buttons,  a  metal-headed 
cane,  and  an  enormous  bushy  grizzle,  we  u 
readily  know  the  bearer  to  be  a  dispenser 
of  life  and  death,  as  if  we  had  seen  him 
pounding  a  mortar,  or  brandishing  a  eljs- 
ter  pipe.** — Connoisseur,  vol.  2,  p.  161.  A.  d* 
1755. 

Hope  that  a  physician  affords : — 

Ao£av  yap  roh*  vyce/ac  ^X^** 
Kp€ioaoy  he  to  hoKeivy  Kav  aXiyOc/ac  <i*f  • 

EuBiP.  Orestet,  238. 

"  Thb  subtil  medium  proved :  or  that 
wonderful  power  of  nature,  so  long  ago  con- 
jectured by  the  most  ancient  and  remark- 
able philosophers,  which  they  called  some- 
times aether,  but  oflener  elementary  fire, 
verified.    Shewing  that  all  the  distinguiili- 


UISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AHS  GLEANINGS. 


I  eaaen^kl  qiuliti«a  ascribed  to  nther 
1,  tad  the  moBt  eminent  modem  phi- 
n,  are  to  be  found  in  electriokl  fire, 
it  too  in  the  utmost  degree  of  per- 

Bj  R.  Lorett,  of  the  CathoUc  Church 
XBter.  A.D.  1766." — ifoHtklgRtvietP, 

p.  961. 

LCBun§  and  Von  Helmont :  "  These 
doet  Ireed  medicine  from  the  yoke 
Dum  udtbeArabiaiis;  and  yet  they 
point  out  the  tme  path.  All  the  rital 
mil  motions  were  explained  by  the 

or  alembic :  and  all  diseases  were 
id  to  arise  either  from  acids  or  alka- 
Ibid.  vol.  16,  p.  99. 
a  ezprest  hinuelf  strongly  in  favour 
iippocratic  method  of  case  writing  j 
licine  was  so  divided  by  the  school- 
in  fukd  the  chemist,  that  it  made  small 
».— Ibid. 

lest  step  was,  that  "  acids  alkal.  fer- 
precipitationa,"  all  fled  before  glo- 
r  such  and  such  figure  and  magni- 
rhe  circulation  of  the  blood  was  made 
ient  to  tiie  laws  of  hydraulics ;  man 

a  mere  mechanical  structure,  and 
I  were  proved  to  own  the  power  of 
IS.— Ibid, 
nbam,  indeed,  and  some  few  Others, 

the  old  Hippocratic  method  of  ob- 
in.  At  last  Boerhaave,  "  that  oma- 
'  hia  profession  and  of  hii  species," 
;  himself  wisely  of  the  ancient  obcer- 

of  the  chemical,  anatomical,  and 
ical  discoveries ;  following  none  im- 

and  using  each  in  its  place ;  he  set 
)gy  and  the  obaerration  of  diseases 
r  proper  basis. — Ibid.  p.  100. 

[iwABD  made  not  only  the  paasious, 
Station  itself,  depend  upon  bile  in 
nach.— Ibid.  voL  16,  p.  101. 
■eviewer  notes  this  for  admiration  I 
is  true  in  certwn  caaes  of  insanity, 


1767.    Lbakb's  Lisbon  diet-drink. 

an   was    "  well   apprized  that   the 


pamphlet-sbopa  are  more  reput^le  stages 
for  such  doctors  aa  himself,  than  the  posts 
and  bye  comers  occupied  by  his  redoubt- 
ed rivals,  Messrs.  West,  and  Franks,  and 
Rock,  and  all  the  rest  of  them." — Ibid,  vol 
16,  p.  466. 

IxBatii'tHUtory  of  the  Roi/al  Society,  it 
is  said  that  the  Finlanders  recover  persona 
who  hare  been  drowned  two  or  three  days ; 
but  the  persons  thus  recovered  almost  a]> 
ways  lose  their  vivacity,  and  their  memory 
is  much  impaired. — Ibid.  voL  17,  p.  209. 

A.D.  175B.  Da.  Mackehux's  HiHorf  of 
Heam.—Mo<itUs  Revieio,  voL  19,  p.  476. 

"This  author  supposes  that  the  Paradisi- 
acal food  was  entirely  v^etable.  Indeed, 
the  drudgery  of  providing  culinary  utensils, 
and  of  cookery,  he  thinks  inconsistent  with 
the  state  in  Paradise.  But,  he  observes, 
fruilc  are  cold  and  Uttle  nutritive ;  seeds 
without  preparation,  hard  of  digestion,  and 
flatulent;  and  undressed  herbs,  still  more 
harsh  and  crude.  He  therefore  ingeniously, 
and  not  unphysicall;  (says  the  Reviewer) 
imagines  that  the  tree  of  life  (which  was  not 
interdicted  to  Adam  and  Eve,  wluch  it  seems 
therefore  rather  absurd  to  think  they  never 
used,  and  which  was  pregnant  with  immor- 
tality itself,}  must  have  been  intended  to 
prevent,  or  remove,  the  inconvenience  re- 
sulting from  the  insalubrity  of  their  com- 
mon diet. 

"For  Dr.  Clarke  (vol.  8,  sermon  4,)  says, 
Adam  was  not  (as  some  have,  without  any 
ground  from  Scripture,  imagined)  created 
actually  immortal ;  but  by  the  uae  of  the 
tree  of  life  (whatever  is  implied  under  that 
expression),  he  was  to  have  been  preserved 
from  dying.  This  tree,  Dr.  Mackenzie 
chuses  to  understand  in  a  material  physical 
sense,  to  the  possibility  of  which,  we  con- 
ceive a  edacious  (  F  )  physician  may  easily 
subscribe. 

"  And  the  original  eSScacy  of  this  divine 
and  sole  panacea  our  learned  author  thinks 
alluded  to  by  Si.  Jolm  in  the  Apocalypse, 
chap.  22,  V.  2. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGa 


**  Were  it  allowable  to  indulge  any  imagi- 
nation of  our  own  here,  may  we  not  suppose 
that  the  eager  and  ineffectual  pursuits  after 
an  universal  panacea  to  repel  diseases,  and 
even  old  age  (that  approach  to  death),  is  a 
natural  thirst  of  recovering  a  remedy,  that 
had  once  existed  in  sublunary  nature,  though 


[ 


now  lost." 

"  Tis  said  some  people  collect  the  juices 
which  are  discharged  after,  and  swim  upon, 
the  excrements  of  cattle  in  May  or  June, 
and  drink  it  to  purge  them,  and  that  it  does 
it  effectually." — Hutchinsoiv,  vol  10,  p. 
155. 

**I  have  seen  about  a  quart  of  man^s  ex- 
crements, which  had  been  some  days  dis- 
charged, thinned  with  as  much  ale,  poured 
into  a  horse  stark  mad  in  that  violent  dis- 
temper they  call  the  staggers,  of  which  they 
commonly  die  in  a  few  hours;  and  the  dis- 
temper abated,  and  the  horse  recovered." 
—Ibid.  p.  206. 

He  calls  this  in  the  margin,  a  common 
experiment. 

SoMB  quack  administered  to  James  the 
First  an  elixir  to  preserve  him  from  all 
sickness  ever  after ;  which  he  told  Buck- 
ingham "  was  extracted  out  of  a  turd." — 
Bo8WEiJ.*8  Sh,  vol.  17,  p.  141. 

MorUMy  Review^  vol.  24,  March,  1761,  p. 
145. 

Institutes  of  health.  "Salt  and  sugar  are 
to  be  totally  rejected,  with  all  compositions 
into  which  they  enter.  Milk  to  be  avoided, 
with  but  few  exceptions."  These  few,  per- 
haps, may  include  all  sucking  children. 
Cheese  not  to  be  allowed,  unless  very  spar- 
ingly. Butter  as  little  as  possible.  Fat,  oil 
and  vinegar  forbidden.  All  spices  shunned 
as  poison.  All  pastry  and  confectionary  pro- 
hibited. 

Ibid.  vol.  34,  p.  30,  Physiological  Re- 
searches. 

The  author  rents  his  indignation  against 
the  ignorance  of  those  who  mistake  a  fever 


for  a  disease ;  who  suppose  that  any  mm, 
from  the  creation  of  the  world,  ever  died  of 
a  fever ;  who  believe  that  fevers  are  not  al- 
ways symptomatical. 

Ibid.  p.  100.  Fkahcucus  du  Port  dt 
signis  Morborum,  lib.  4^  edited  by  Schom- 
BEBo,  4to.  is, 

A  sort  of  Bosbeian  medical  grammar  in 
hexameters. 

Bad  physicians  purged  and  vomited  in 
the  next  world. — Bbbtucci,  ViaggioalSom' 
mo  Bene,  p.  42. 

Monthly  Review,  vol.  47,  p.  29.  Ricsm 
in  sheep,  a  disease  then  (a.d.  1772)  about 
forty  years*  standing  in  England.  The  cause 
ascertained  by  disseetion,  to  be  a  maggot  in 
the  brain,  about  one-quarter  of  an  inch  loog^ 
and  of  a  brownish  colour. 

Ibid.  vol.  48,  p.  562.  A  man  in  Mexico 
paralytic  in  both  arms,  perfectlj  restored 
by  being  struck  with  lightning,  which  for  t 
while  deprived  him  of  bis  senses. 

Ibid.  vol.  49,  p.  127.  **  Mb.  KimKLAim's 
tremendous  scheme  of  extinguishing  feven, 
by  boldly  drenching  the  patient  both  exter- 
nally and  internally  with  cold  water." 

Ibid. — ABM8TB0NO,in  his  Medical  EsstTS, 
says  that  corns  are  sprouts  of  the  rheuma- 
tism,  and  not  the  offspring  of  mere  pressare. 

Pboof  that  inoculation  leads  to  idolatry. 
— Monthly  Review,  vol.  50,  p.  71. 

In  the  memorandum  of  the  Society  for 
restoring  drowned  persons  at  Amsterdam, 
vol.  2,  part  1,  a.d.  1774,  the  thirty-dxth 
case  is  of  a  man  who,  in  the  middle  of  Ja- 
nuary, and  in  a  state  of  drunkenness,  fell 
into  the  water,  and  remained  in  it  an  hour 
and  a  quarter.  He  was  stiff  when  taken  out) 
but  in  two  hours  gave  signs  of  life,  and  in 
two  more,  walked  home. — Ibid.  vol.  51,  p- 
556. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


DAinMus  WiLHBijii  Taiixxxi,  Clino- 
tocAata  Medioa  Antiquaria,  A.J>.  1776.  An 
elaborate  work  conceraing  die  metbod  of 
the  ancient  pli;rsiciaQ(,  who  conatracted  beds 
of  difierent  kinds,  for  the  difi*erent  Uoda  of 
diaeweannderwhich  their  patienta  laboured. 
— Ibid.  tdI.  5S,  p.  310. 

^  D.  1 776.  MmaBACiiitiie  German  water 
doctor,  had  amassed  a  princel;  fortune  at 
tliia  time ;  200  and  300  persons  in  a  day 
had  consnlted  him.  The  three  jears  before, 
he  had  act  pretended  tA  the  Blight««t  know* 
ledge  of  medicine,  being  mi<erablj  poor, 
and  ignorant;  and  during  bis  practice,  had 
been  hoaxed  in  the  moat  ridiculouB  manner. 
—Ibid.  vol.  52,  p.  314. 

"  Xhv  ensign  of  peace,  shewing  bow  the 
health  both  of  bodjr  and  mind  maj  be  pre- 
served, and  even  recovered,  bj  the  mild  and 
attenuating  power  of  a  most  valuable  and 
cbe^  medicine.  Its  singular  and  most  ex> 
oell^t  property  is  to  subdue  the  flesh  to  lite 
will  of  the  sfurit.  The  coutinued  use  of  it 
eradicates  noet  diacases." — Ibid.  vol.  SO,  p. 
323. 

A  eraiTish  book;  water  seems  to  hare 
been  the  remedj. 

D>.  BiKKBUHotiT  translated  Dlt.  Pommb'i 
TraUi  da  affectum*  tapeuraaet  del  deux 
text*,  A.D.  1777.  His  theory  was  that  all 
hTtterical  and  hTpochondriacal  diseasei  are 
caused  b;  a  certain  comuosit;  of  the  nerves, 
which  was  to  be  cnred  hj  bathing,  or  rather 
ao«king,  for  ten  or  twelve  hours  adaj;  this 
he  badordered  during  ten  moDths,  and  some- 
times kept  his  patieuts  tweotj-two  hours 
in  the  water.— Ibid.  vol.  67,  p.  168. 

The  reviewer  says,  "  he  seems  to  make 
little  difference  between  cold  and  warm 
bathing,  as  indeed  the  temperature  of  the 
water  would  be  much  the  same  before  the 
operation  was  finished,  whatever  it  began 
with." 

But  for  the  soaking,  it  is  plain  that  the 
water  most  have  been  kept  at  a  pleasaraUe 
dt^ree  of  warmth. 


Has.  Cabtbb  sajs  to  Mrs.  M.,  a.d.  1773, 
"  I  b^  70U  will  not  neglect  to  take  the  mil- 
lepedes ;  it  is  a  most  excellent  medicine  for 
the  obstruction  you  mention  in  jour  glands, 
and  besides  may  be  of  great  use  to  jour 
eyes." — Ibid,  vol,  2,  p.  210. 

Tub  Morlacchian  remedj  for  obstruc- 
tions is  to  lay  a  large  Sat  stone  on  the  pa- 
tient's belly. 

They  put  sugar  (when  they  can  find  any) 
into  the  months  of  the  dying,  "  to  make 
them  pass  into  the  other  world  with  lets 
bitterness."— FoBTia,  M.  Revieie,  vol.  59, 
p.  42. 

Ibid.  273.  Roeibb's  Journal  dePhjsique, 
July,  1772.  torn.  7,  p.  85,  12mo.  editjon,  is 
referred  to  for  an  account  of  Aladam  Fede- 
gacbe,  who  could  perceive  miners  working 
sixty  fathoms  under  her  feet,  spied  an  infant 
in  embrio  in  her  father's  cook-maid,  as  she 
was  waiting  at  dinner,  and  for  some  time 
directed  the  operation  of  the  ph  jaicol  tribe 
at  Lisbon,  by  perceiving  through  all  the  in- 
t^umenta,  what  was  passing,  and  what  was 
amiss,  in  the, inmost  parts  of  the  bodies  of 
their  patients. 

Ibid.vol.G2,p.  S14.  M.  La  Pbtsb  used 
the  burning  glasa  as  a  cautery,  and  M.  Le 
Comte,A.  D.  1750,Burgeonat  Arcueil,  cured 
a  cancer  b  the  nnder  lip  "by  the  actual  cau- 
tery of  the  solar  fire."  The  reviewer  formed 
great  hopes  from  that  practice  in  preference 
to  any  other  cautery. 

CaiTtjto  is  instantly  relieved  by  tbe  slime 
of  a  slug.     Mr.  Campbell'  leamt  this  from 


ithey  ahoi 
verses  "  In  Frayse 
diu  d/  Dayntt  Dtvii 


'  This  WBS  a  kind  friend  of  Siiulhpy'a  —  a 
friend  indeed  in  his  lutlcr  days. — It  is  curious 
that  Southey  ahould  not  hare  rocolleuted  the 
r*e  of  the  Snayie,"  in  the  ^aro. 

I  know  Dame  Fhyaick  doth  thy  fripndly  help 

LUd  ciKvea  the  sslre  from  tbee  ensues  to  core 
the  erased  sure." 

See  Brii.  Bibliogr.  vol.  iii.  p.  110. 
It  ia  well  known  that  the  tench  is  called  the 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS, 


his  man  Will/.  Put  the  slug  on  the  sore 
place,  it  heals  you,  and  you  need  not  hurt 
it.  The  part  oftce  slimed,  the  slug  may  be 
let  go. 

Casdinal  ZiirzBNDOBFF  (a.i>.  1740)  by 
a  prescription  of  his  mother,  bathed  hb  legs 
every  morning  in  pigs*  blood,  as  a  remedy 
for  Uie  gout. — Hobacb  WALPOUi^s  Letters^ 
vol.  1,  p.  63. 

Efucagt  of  vinegar  in  hydrophobia. — 
Monthly  Review^  67,  last  page. 

a.  d.  1765.  Mb.  de  Bouzoli,  Marshal 
Berwick's  daughter,  assured  H.  Walpole, 
at  Paris,  there  was  nothing  so  good  for  the 
gout,  as  to  preserve  the  parings  of  his  nails 
in  a  bottle,  close  stopped. — Letters^  vol.  3, 
p.  100. 

**  Usb  a  little  bit  of  alum  twice  or  thrice 
in  a  week,  no  bigger  than  half  your  nail, 
till  it  has  all  dissolved  in  your  mouth,  and 
then  spit  out.  This  has  fortified  my  teeth, 
that  they  are  as  strong  as  the  pen  of  Junius. 
I  learned  it  of  Mrs.  Grosvenor,  who  had  not 
a  speck  in  her  teeth  to  her  death.** — Ibid, 
vol.  3,  p.  276. 

Gout.  Paris.  "I  have  been  assured 
here  that  the  best  remedy  is  to  cut  one*s 
nails  in  hot  water.  It  is,  I  fear,  as  certain 
as  any  other  remedy  I*' — Ibid.  p.  377. 

*^  Db.  Hebebden  (as  every  physician  to 
make  himself  talked  of  will  set  up  some  new 
hypothesis,)  pretends  that  a  damp  house, 
and  even  damp  sheets,  which  have  ever  been 
reckoned  fat^l,  are  wholesome.  To  prove 
his  faith,  he  went  into  his  own  new  house, 
totally  unaircd,  and  survived  it.**  —  Ibid. 
voL  4,  p.  17. 

fish's  physician,  on  account  of  its  slime.  See 
Christian  Consolatwnt  before  referred  to,  ''Fishes 
in  the  fresh  water,  being  struck  wiUi  a  tool  of 
iron,  will  rub  themselves  upon  the  elutinous 
skin  of  the  tench  to  be  cured."  Jbb.  Tatlob, 
p.  129.  Ed.  Heber.— J.  W.  W. 


*'  Next  to  my  bootikens,  I  ascribe  much 
credit  to  a  diet-drink  of  dock  roots,  of  which 
Dr.  Turton  asked  me  for  the  receipt,  as  the 
best  he  had  ever  seen.  It  came  from  an 
old  physician  at  Richmond,  who  did  amazing 
service  with  it  in  inveterate  scurvies,  the 
parents,  or  ancestors  at  least,  I  believe,  of 
all  gouts.**— Ibid.  p.  288. 

'*  I  COULD  never  yet  meet  an  anatomist 
who  could  give  me  ^e  reason  why  when  I 
rub  my  forehead  I  should  sneeze.**  —  Da. 
HiCKBS.  Letters  from  the  Bodleian^  voL  1, 
p.  72. 

*^  EvBBT  distemper  of  the  body  now  (a.i>. 
1622)  is  complicated  with  the  spleen,  and 
when  we  were  young  men  we  scarce  ever 
heard  of  the  spleen.  In  our  declinations 
now,  every  accident  is  accompanied  with 
heavy  clouds  of  melancholy ;  and  in  our 
youth  we  never  admitted  any.  It  is  the 
spleen  of  the  mind,  and  we  are  affected  with 
vapours  from  thence.  Yet  truly,  even  this 
sadness  that  overtakes  us,  and  this  yielding 
to  the  sadness,  is  not  so  vehement  a  poisoD) 
(though  it  be  no  physic  neither,)  as  those 
false  ways  in  which  we  sought  our  comforts 
in  our  looser  days.**  —  Donnb,  to  Sib  H. 
WOTTON,  p.  134. 

*^  Fob  coming  thither  (to  Newmarket)  in 
the  King*s  absence,  I  never  heard  of  excuse, 
except  when  Butler  sends  a  desperate  pa 
tient  in  a  consumption  thither  for  good  air.' 
— ^DoNNE,  Letters^  p.  289. 

^  Among  the  Samoycds,  girls  become  mo- 
thers at  twelve,  and  even  at  eleven ;  child- 
bearing  ceases  after  thirty.  The  women 
there  are  highly  nervous,  many  cannot  en- 
dure to  hear  a  person  whistle,  or  to  be 
touched  unexpectedly,  or  even  to  hear  any 
moderate  noise  or  sound  without  losing  their 
8enses,or  being  much  disordered.** — MonthI$ 
Review^  vol.  68,  p.  201. 

'^  MiGHABL  ScHUPACH,  B  uriue  doctor  in 
the  village  of  Langnau,  Switzerland.    In 


•_»• 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  Am>  GLEANTKGS. 


ssr 


A.t>.  1776  he  bad  two  ambauailora  and  se- 
other  peraoni  of  duUnction  vooDg  bis 
pfttients  there.  They  came  id  sucb  numbera 
that  he  was  obliged  to  erect  buildings  for 
their  acconunodalioii." — Ibid.  p.  207. 

Db.  ZiHHsauixs  held  that  the  more 
sensible  a  man's  nose,  the  more  seniible 
(seasitiTe)  willbefais  tentperunent." — Ibid, 
p.  210. 

"  When  pbjticiaiis  observed  that  lemons 
and  oranges  cured  the  scurvy,  they  con- 
cluded from  analogy  that  the  same  effect 
mtlBt  be  produced  by  other  acids,  but  after 
trying  rin^ar,  aod  the  strongest  mineral 
acids  diluted,  they  found  them  ineffectual, 
and  that  the  fruit  was  endowed  with  some 
latent  rirtue  which  thej  could  not  discover 
□or  counterfeit."     Black. — Ibid.  p.  466. 

"Mft.Mou.EX  quacked  his  Vervain  amu- 
let about  A.D.  I7S3,  hanging  a  piece  of  the 
root,  tied  with  a  yard  of  white  satin  ribband 
round  the  neck;  but  he  Bssisted  its  opera- 
tion (it  was  for  scropbuloua  diseases)  with 
mercury,  antimony,  hemlock,  jalap,  &c. 
baths,  cat^lasma,  ointments,  poultices,  plas- 
ters, &c.  This  disinterested  practitioner 
says  '  many  many  guineas  have  been  offered 
me,  but  1  never  take  any  money.  Some- 
times, indeed,  genteel  people  have  sent  me 
small  acknowledgments  of  tea,  wine,  veni- 
son, &c.  Generous  ones  small  pieces  of 
plate,  or  other  little  presents.  Even  ne%h- 
bouring  farmers  a  goose  or  turkey,  &c.  by 
way  of  thanks.'"  Cubtis.  flora  Land. — 
Ibid.  vol.  70,  pp.  6-7. 

"  Saptbon  posset  drink  is  very  good 
against  the  heaviness  of  the  spirits ;"  says 
Mrs.  Arbella  in  The  Commttee.—P.  QG. 

Falsi.  "  Take  a  foK,  uncase  him,  the 
bowels  being  taken  out,  seethe  him 
sufficient  quantity  of  water,  and  bathe  the 
sick  person  therein ;  bat  yet  not  before  that 
the  body  be  purged  i  it  is  not  otherwise 
I  permitted." — Wibtzuhg,  p.  142. 


"  TuEBB  is  at  this  present  time  at  Brus> 
sels,  a  horse  fond  of  flesh,  and  particularly  of 
raw  mutton.  A  short  time  ago  it  got  out 
of  its  stable,  and  devoured  two  breasts  of 
mutton  hanging  up  at  a  butcher's  shop." — 
Timet,  Sept.  16tb,  1836.     £Vom  a  French 

IxinrrLATron  of  the  skin  practised  in 
Guinea,  and  tried  on  the  continent — it. 
EeBJew,  Tol.  70,  p.  493. 

DB.JABBOLD'sinttinct  and  reason.  What 
the  physician  is  to  perform.  P.  187-8-9. 

DncBESB  OF  Nbwcastl*  in  her  Poems 
(p.  73),  notices  the  "  horrid  cruelty  of 
making  oil  of  swallows." 

Sn  All.  water.  Fhilips's  cyder. — Akssb- 
BON,  vol.  6,  p.  549. 

RivBB  Tipis  (in  Yucatan  P).  "  Tiene 
mucho  oro ;  y  por  esto,  b  por  otra  virtud 
oculta,  Bu  agua,  bebida,  sana  la  hydropesia, 
J  causa  muy  buenas  ganas  de  coiner,  assi  & 
enfermos,  como  &  sanos ;  y  a  poco  rato  de 
bebida,  aviendo  antes  comido,  aunque  sea 
mucho,  se  siente  luego  hambre." — Conq,  de 
el  Ilia,  p.  88. 

FxBiiiB  quaiidea  imparted  to  human  sub- 
jects with  the  blood,  or  even  milk  of  the 
animal. — SxiniBBTua,  vol.  1,  p.  423. 

Eqtptuh  drugs. — Odgney  A,  t.  229. 


SoHB  one,  I  know  not  who,  has  said  upon 
an  equally  unknown  authority,  that  Adam 
died  of  hereditary  gout-    ~ 


F.  AnTOHio  DAS  Chaoas  says  to  a  nu 
"  V.  M.  obedeqa  bos  medicos,  como  a 

Prelados ;    que  S.  Francisco  Xavier  assi 
o  fazia."-.-CABTAS,  vol.  1,  p.  72. 


558 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


FoLLT  of  expense  in  eating. — Toou*8 
Ludan^  yoI.  1,  p.  28. 

Thb  athletie  great  beef-eaters,  in  order 
to  increase  their  muscular  strength. — Ibid. 
voL  1,  p.  67.  Like  our  pugilists. 


Food. 

**  The  sense  of  taste  is  the  most  neces- 
sary of  all  our  senses,  it  being  that  bj  which 
all  animals  live,  and  take  in  their  food  and 
nourishment,  and  therefore  has  in  it  a  power 
to  judge  what  is  grateful  and  convenient 
to  the  nature  of  each  kind,  what  not.** — 
Adam  Littlbton,  p.  85 ;  Hezbkiah*s  i2e- 
tum  of  Praise, 

Rbhaud  db  Bbaulmb,  archbishop  of 
Bourges ;  his  remarkable  appetite ;  eating 
supplied  to  him  the  want  of  sleep,  for  he 
scarcely  slept  four  hours  in  the  twenty-four, 
and  then  hunger  awoke  him. — See  the  Me^ 
moirs  of  Db  Thou,  CoU,  Mem,  tom.  53,  p. 
240-2. 

The  prodigious  eater  of  Wittenberg. — 
Monthly  Review^  vol.  21,  p.  339. 

'*  SoMB  choice  spirits,  to  the  number  of 
five-and-twenty,  agreed  to  dine  at  White's, 
and  the  orders  were,  "  Get  a  dinner  as  ex- 
pensive as  you  can  possibly  make  it  :**  which 
was  punctually  performed,  and  to  their  great 
surprise  and  mortification,  they  found  that 
the  most  luxurious  dinner  amounted  to  no 
more  than  £10  a  man.  Tl  '"s  served  to 
convince  them  that  eating  was  .  mean  pal- 
try enjoyment,  and  only  fit  for  cits  and  al- 
dermen, to  whom  they  left  it,  because  it 
cost  so  little,  and  therefore  confessed  the 
supremacy  of  gaming,  which  they  embraced 
as  their  summum  honum^  for  the  contrary 
reason.  A.D.  1759.** — Hull's  Select  Letters^ 
vol.  1,  p.  248. 

Effects  of  food  and  climate  upon  cha- 
racter.— Masdeu,  vol.  1,  p.  59. 

Ibish  labourers,  '*  when  working  for 
others,  or  not  closely  overlooked,  work  in 
a  manner  the  most  languid  and  indolent ; 
their  mode  of  living,  perhaps,  totally  on 
vegetable  food,  produces  a  general  debility, 
which  must  have  powerful  motives  to  over- 
come it." — TiOHB*s  Survey  of  Kilkenny; 
Waksfibld,  vol.  1,  p.  520. 


>^/V<^^^/«*W<W^M»^^<«M»» 


Women, 


Thbib  praise.  Adam  Littleton,  pp.  57-9. 
Funeral  Sermon. 

"  That  toy,  a  woman. 
Made  from  the  dross  and  refuse  of  a  man. 
Heaven  took  him  sleeping  when  he  made 

her  too; 
Had  man  been  waking,  he  had  ne'er  con- 
sented." 
Dbtden.  Spanish  Fryar^  vol.  5,  p.  75. 

Madame  db  Thou,  Thuanus's  mother, 
used  to  say,  **  qu'  elle  auroit  volontiers  donne 
la  moitie  de  son  bien,  pour  pouvoir  etre 
honune."  She  was  a  woman  of  masculine 
courage  and  mind. — CoU.  Mem.  t.  53,  p. 
227,  N. 

Plato  ranked  them  between  men  and 
brutes,  and  Minerva  was  feigned  to  hire 
sprung  from  the  head  of  Jupiter,  •*pour 
signifier  que  la  sagesse  ne  vient  pas  des 
femmes." — Cbespet,  de  la  haime  du  Diable, 
p.  165. 

LoDOVico  DoBCENiCHT,  La  NobiUa  deOe 
Donne,  ff.  99.  Because  we  learn  to  talk  from 
our  mothers  and  nurses,  ^  la  natura,  con- 
cesse  al  sesso  Donnesco  che  poche,  o  nessuna 
Donna  mutola  non  si  trovi.** 

Ibid.  ff.  106.  We  read  in  Scripture  of 
'*  molti  huomini  condannati  alle  pene  delT 
Inferno ;  et  di  nessuna  Donna  non  si  ritrora 
questo." 

One  reason  why  women  are  less  incon- 
stant than  men  is,  that  they  have  not  tlie 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANING8. 


pportnnitiea  to  be  so.  Where  women 
■quette,  men  pla;  fast  and  looae  witli 
Sections,  because  thej  can  do  it  witb 

"  Wbkb  I  a  wontao, 
atnre  onlj  bundles  into  tbe  world 
she  sends  forth  a  man.") 
Shibj-et.  Example,  vol.  3,  p.  301. 

>tscoDaaB  upon  Religion.  8vo.  St. 
irgh,  1772. 

(%  Seriein,  »ol.  46,  pp.  1 89-90,  show- 
t  Adam  began  to  fall  before  the  crca- 

Eve,  otherwise  it  would  have  been 
>r  him  to  be  alone.  See  the  passage, 
is  whimsical  enough.    190.  M.  Bour- 

notion  is  taken  up  hj  this  writer, 
t  ackoowledgmeut. 

I  man  must  endure  the  noise  of  words 
t  sense,  I  think  the  women  have  more 
I  voices,  and  become  nonsense  bet- 
CoKOKEVB.  Doable  Dealer. 

SB  of  Blue  Stockings.  Lives  of  the 
ToL  L  p.  61. 

.e  Samoa  (Navigator's)  Island,  where 
ty  their  wives,  Willtanu  saw  one  for 
iCT  husband  had  given  the  amazing 
r  more  than  200  pigs,  beside  a  quan- 
liapo,  or  native  cloth. — Miu,  Enter- 
p.  S3S,  Vt'iiAAAMi. 

■xUof  Cynu,  vol.  1,  pp.  72-4.  The 
s  governed  bj  wtnnen,  and  found  it 
Jest  and  most  convenient  form  of 
ment.  Their  queens  had  a  council 
itors,  who  assisted  them  with  their 
The  men  proposed  good  laws,  but 
men  caused  them  to  be  executed, 
eetness  and  mildness  of  the  sex  pre- 
all  the  mischiefs  of  tjranoj ;  and 
msel  of  the  wise  senators  qualified 
constancy  with  which  women  are  re- 


BoDUDa  gives  this  reason  why  there  are 

more  women  than  men  in  the  world,  "  pa- 
rum  honest^  et  prudenter  de  naturfi  et  fee- 
minis  senticns,  quod  in  naturte  oniversitate 
rerum  deteriorum  major  sit  affluentia  quun 
pretiosamm." — Sbnkebtdb,  t.  3,  Dedicatiott. 


5%M  of  Uleiuili. 
Tbm  Duke  de  Friar,  who  came  ambassa- 
dor to  England  to  conclude  the  peace  with 
James  I.,  drank  the  king's  hetdth  to  the 
queen  "  out  of  the  lid  of  a  beautiful  dragon- 
shaped  vessel  of  crystal  set  in  gold.  Her 
m^esty  pledged  him,  and  the  dragon  was 
replaced  on  the  queen's  cupboard." — Ellis. 
Original Lettere,  second  series,  vol.  3,  p.213. 

Uboanda's  ship. 

Miss  Badcer's  sugar-stork. 

Im  the  church  at  Artb.  is  the  silver  drink- 
ing-horn of  Charles  the  Bold,  farming  with 
his  goblet  part  of  the  spoils  token  at  Morat. 
The  horn  is  in  the  shape  of  a  whale ;  on  its 
scales  were  recorded  tbe  duke'a  battles,  and 
there  is  a  little  figure  of  Jonah  within  the 
mouth." — Dowbbs'b  LeBert,  vol.  ],  p.  ISO. 

Lamps  in  FrJburg  cathedral  "wrought 
into  the  form  of  swords,  with  an  escutcheon 
attached  to  each."— Ibid.  p.  206. 

Eabelai),  vol.  8,  pp.  368-9.  Bbeviabies 
made  to  hold  ligaor,  &c.  !k-la-mode  chess  and 
backgammon  boolu. 

In  the  Daily  Advertiser  (a.s.  nSi)  the 
public  might  learn  whether  Mr.  Stephen 
Pitts  was  not  the  best  qualified  to  furnish 
gentlemen's  and  ladies'  libraries  with  tea, 
chests  in  octavo,  and  close  stools  in  folio. 
Cotatoitteta;  vol.  1,  p.  237. 

Mb.  UABVBr,  of  Ickwell,  a  village  about 
four  miles  from  Biggleswade  (a.  i>.  1757), 
whom  Perceval  Sloekdale  describes  as  an 
old  and  merry  bachelor,  living  upon  an  es- 
tate of  £2000  a  year  at  that  time,  weighing 


560 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


twenty  stone,  and  hunting  almost  every  day, 
and  moreover  as  an  affectionate  and  gene- 
rous uncle  to  his  nephews,  who  lived  with 
him,  had  a  glass  barrel  with  a  silver  cock, 
bunches  of  grapes  cut  on  the  barrel,  and  a 
silver  Bacchus  mounted  on  it.  It  turned  on 
a  pivot,  and  his  butler  used  to  fill  it  with  a 
magnum  bonum  of  claret. — Pbbc.  Stock- 
dale,  vol.  1,  p.  416.  See  the  chorus  of  his 
hunting  song. — Ibid.  p.  415. 


[^Opinion  of  Hobbes,] 

HoBBBS  was  of  opinion  that  physics,  ethics, 
and  politics,  if  they  were  well  demonstrated, 
would  be  as  certain  as  the  mathematics ;  and 
he  wrote  a  book  to  show  that  there  is  no 
less  uncertainty  and  fabity  in  the  writings 
of  mathematicians  than  there  is  in  those  of 
naturalists,  moralists,  and  politicians.  This 
was  his  treatise  **  De  Principiis  et  Ratioci- 
natione  Greometrarum,  contra  fastum  profes- 
sorum  Geometriss.**  In  this  book  he  says, 
**  Eorum  qui  de  iisdem  rebus  mecum  aliquid 
ediderunt,  aut  solus  insanio  Ego,  aut  solus 
non  insanio,  tertium  enim  non  est^  nisi  (quod 
dicet  forte  aliquis)  insaniamus  onmes.** — 
Pha.  Tran.  Abridg.  vol.  1,  pp.  85-6. 


The  Saul 

Isaac  Vossius  wrote  an  essay  to  show 
that  the  soul  of  animals  is  nothing  but  fire. 
In  the  same  treatise  he  denies  that  there 
are  any  pores  in  the  skin.  —  Abr,  PkiL 
Transact  vol.  1,  p.  118. 

Willis  thought  that  **  certain  animal  spi- 
rits constituted  the  being  of  the  corporeal 
soul,  and  were  the  immediate  instruments 
of  all  animal  motions,  producing  them  by  a 
kind  of  explosion,  or  shooting ;  upon  which 
elastic  or  explosive  power  he  establishes  his 
whole  doctrine  of  convulsions." — Ibid.  p. 
215. 

Whbbb  it  makes  its  exit  when  a  man  is 
hanged. — Garmabkus,  p.  180. 


Queen  of  Navarre,  looking  for  the  exit 
of  one. — ^Brabtomb. 

Watts's  error  in  supposing  that  "this 
mind  (soul)  might  have  been  paired  with 
any  other  human  body,  or  this  body  with 
any  other  mind.** — ^Vol.  7,  p.  309. 

A.  D.  1 758  Caleb  Flbmibg  published  ^*  A 
Survey  of  the  Search  after  Souls,  by  Dr. 
Coward,  Dr.  S.  Clarke,  Mr.  Baxter,  Dr. 
Sykes,  Dr.  Law,  ^Ir.  Pockard,  and  others. 

His  notion  was, "  that  the  soul,  after  deatii, 
immediately  returns  to  the  exercise  of  an 
active  consciousness,  in  a  well-prepared  new 
vehicle,  the  resurrection  body,  which  ac- 
commodates the  departing  spirit^  unclothed 
of  its  mortal  and  corruptible  one.** — MoniUn 
Reviewy  vol.  19,  p.  353. 

Jean  D*£8pagbb.  Shibboleth,  p.  123. 
Where  it  goes  out. 

All  unborn  souls  are  in  Guph  (i.e.  reti- 
naculo  Animarum),  and  till  all  these  shall 
have  been  bom  into  the  world,  the  Jews  hold 
that  the  Messiah  cannot  come. 

^^Anims  qusB  sunt  in  Guph  retardant 
adventum  Messise ;  animoe,  inquam,  ille  in 
Guph,  quas  ego  feci ;  quando  quidem  Mes- 
sias  non  ant^  est  adventums,  quam  omnes 
animse  e  Guph  exierint  in  corpora.** — Avo^ 
Sara.  p.  28. 

In  Loango  the  royal  family  think  a  cer- 
tain number  of  souls  belong  to  them,  and 
always  continue  in  the  family,  passing  from 
the  dead  to  the  newly  bom. — ParaUeU,  voL 
1,  p.  725. 

**  Thb  angels,  they  stand  at  our  elbows, 
that  so  soon  as  a  saint  departeth,  they  maj 
with  all  speed  immediately  tranqwrt  hb 
soul  into  heaven.*' — Perkins,  vol.  1,  p.  93. 


A  WOMAN  affected  with  chlorosis  had  a 
longing  to  suck  the  wind  out  of  a  bellows, 
which  as  often  as  she  could  she  received  with 
open  mouth,  blowing  with  her  own  hands 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


the  inverted  bellows. — Abr.  Phil.  Trtuu.y al. 
1,  p.  201. 

It  wu  thus  tbftt  Jeremjr  B.  suckled  his 
disciplei. 

Louis  db  Bua,  ot  Bilaina,  &  Flemish  no- 
blenuw,  whose  pusion  wu  BiiBtomj.  One 
of  his  treatises  wu  De  Anatomia  IncrueDta, 
though  he  kept  secret  his  art  of  dissecting, 
and  of  preservini;  or  embilming  bodies  with- 
ont  efiWon  of  blood.  He  bad  a  large  col- 
lection of  bodies  thus  prepared,  and  set  a 
Tcrj  high  price  on  them ;  but  in  process  of 
time  thej  became  putrid,  and  he  died  of 
eoimmiptioD,  induced,  it  is  sud,  hj  the  fetoi 
aiutt«d  from  them.— Ibid.  p.  283,  N. 

Bee  Sprenger,  toI  4,  p.  227. 


luAC  VoMiitt  affinned  "  that  if  we  em- 
plojed  aa  much  labonr  and  time  in  learning 
the  pantomimical  art  as  we  do  in  learning 
a  language,  we  might  possibly  come  to  ex- 
press our  mind  and  thought  u  .clearlj  bj 
that  waj  as  now  we  do  by  the  aid  of  a  lan- 
gnage;  nordoes he  think  thatntankind  would 
suffer  anTtbing  hj  it  if  the  pest  and  confa- 
sion  (these  are  his  own  words)  of  so  raunj 
tongues  were  banished,  and  instead  of  them 
this  sole  art  of  the  pantomimes  were  known 
bj  all  mankind,  and  men  explained  everj- 
■  thing  bj  signs,  nods,  and  gestures ;  on  ac- 
count of  which  he  thinks  the  condition  of 
brutes  to  be  much  better  than  that  of  men, 
seeing  thej  signlfj  without  an  interpreter 
their  sense  and  thought  more  readily,  and 
perhaps  better,  than  an;  man  can  do."  I — 
I^iL  Tnau.  Mr.  vol.  2,  p.  63. 

See  Putt«nham,  p.  119,  for  something 
quite  as  good  in  its  way. 

"  What  am  I  the  better,"  sajs  Nobbir, 
"  for  being  able  to  tell  what  'tis  o'clock  in 
•ereral  languages  ?  How  great  a  folly  must 
it  needs  be  to  place  learning  in  that  which 
is  oneof  the  greatest  curses  upon  earth,  and 
which  shall  utterly  cease  in  heaven  1" — Re- 
JUcHota  vpon  th«  Conduct  of  Hmnan  Life 

m  »> 


MiiOi  refertnet  to  the  Stadg  of  Leaming  and 
Knovdedge,  pp.  4J-6. 

Shaw.  Minerva's  Triumph,  or  Grammar 
and  Rhetorick,  personated  by  Youths  in 
Dramatick  Scenes  in  a  Country  School,  calf, 
S«.     12mo.  1GS2. 


Theatre. 
Ts.TX  Wn^unsoi^  vol.  1,  p.  184.  Satur- 
day, no  material  distinction  in  the  nights  at 
Doncaster  and  Wakefield. 

VoL  2,  p.  191.  Mrs.  Joehah,  at  York, 
inl786,playingatil.ll».6d:a-week.  The 
London  pwfonners  who  saw  her  thought 
her  acting  really  very  clever;  but  all  said 
it  would  not  do  among  them. 

He  is  "  compelled  to  declare,  that  Mrs. 
Jordan,  at  making  a  baigatn,  is.too  many 
for  the  cunningest  devil  of  us  aU." 

T.  Davies  married  bis  "  very  pretty 
wife  at  York,  where  be  acted,  and  her  &- 
ther  also."  Yarrow  was  her  name. — Mai^ 
coLH  Gkahqeb,  p.  69. 


Vol.  3,  p.  1 19,  "A  FAXCB,  if  it 
true  humoiiT,  will  be  greatly  relished  and 
applauded  in  London.  In  the  country, 
very  possibly  the  same  piece,  (even  decently 
acted),  shall  be  termed  vile,  low,  vulgar, 
and  indelicate.  The  Love  for  Love  of 
Congrere,  The  Trip  to  Scarborough,  The 
Way  of  the  World,  The  Confederacy,  and 
others,  are  in  London  attended  to  as  plays 
of  wit  and  merit,  (witness  their  constant 
repedtion),  but  in  the  country  not  permit- 
ted ;  or,  if  permitted  to  appear,  not  upon 
any  account  fashionable,  which  is  jost  ss 
bad." 

Tol.  4,p.l8.    FrovokedWife.    Seethe 

Vol.  3,  p.  127.  Custom  oth^gng  sup- 
port at  a  benefit  abolished  by  Tate  Wil- 
kinson.— Vol.  4,  p.  65. 


MISCELLAJO:0US  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINOS. 


Vol.  3,  p.  130.  Dbdu  and  trumpet  to 
proclwra  a   play  at   Norwich   and  Gran- 

Vol.  4,  p.  13.  The  adTentures  at  York 
with  Mr.  Aprice.    176^. 

Ibid.p.17.  Last  BiiroLBT,who  had  great 
Bway  in  that  towD  and  country,  settled  £200 
a-year  on  Giordani, — who  had  a  concert 

Ibid.  p.  33.     Frodahom.     F.  48. 

H  atDoncas- 


Ifiid.  p.  60.  Bakeb,  who  built  the  new 
theatre,"a  paint«rof  emiueDce.  Hisknow- 
ledge  and  taste  in  drawing  vill  ever  speak 
for  him  while  one  of  bis  remuning  prints 
of  York  or  Lincoln  It^instera  is  to  be  teen." 

Vol.  3,  p.  65.  Mas.  &ikbb,  the  Torii 
heroine,  in  176S-9. 

Ibid.  p.  S4.  CouKTEM  OP  Bbahimm  used 
to  patronixe  Hossop  at  Dublin,  and  then 
beggar  him  at  cards. 


His  York  wardrobe. 


SoMB  Account  of  the  Early  Stage,  vol.  I, 
p.  IS7.  The  author  says  of  Sbadwell's 
Libertine  (Don  Jnan),  "  Common  aense  is 
set  at  defiance  by  the  introduction  of  deviU 
and  ghosts,  the  nodding  and  spealciDg  of  the 
statue,  tie."  Booby !  It  is  common  sense 
that  is  appealed  to. 

Ibid.  p.  220-1.  Rthbb's  remarks  on 
Shakespeare. 

Vol.  3,  p.  254.  JoBW  HiOHHOBE — another 
Romeo  Contea,  just  such  another  case  of 
vanity  and  folly. 


Ibid.  p.  401.  A.  D.  1733.  Ar  Lee  lod 
Harper's  booth  —  Bartholomew  (or  SoBth- 
wark)  Fair.  Jephthah's  Rash  Vow,  or  Tbe 
Virgin  Sacrifice;  with  the  Comical  Hu- 
mours of  Captain  Bluster  and  his  man  Did- 

At  the  same  booth — Tbe  True  aiid  is- 
cient  HiBtotjof  Bateman,  or  The  Unhsppj 
Marriage ;  with  the  Comical  Humours  of 
Sparrow,  Pumpkin,  and  Slice;  and  aDi- 
verting  Scene  of  the  Midwife  and  Gosiipt 
at  the  Labour. 

"  Thb  bravest  nations  in  the  world,  wbea 
they  have  been  at  tbe  height  of  their  m.- 
pire,  have  took  more  pride  and  ddight  ia 
theatrical  shows  and  magnificent  speclacha 
of  triumphs,  than  in  any  other  pomps ;  tor 
the  satisfaction  of  the  eye,  when  it  mads 
with  a  right  object,  is  above  any  other  plea- 
sure."—Bishop  Hackbt.  Senaeni,  p.  443. 

"  TuE  history  of  the  stage  ought  to  be 
written  with  the  samii  ■oenracy  ai  the  U^ 
tory  of  England."— fi^^A  Sk^e,  foL  *, 
p.  220. 

FooTB  (1747)  had  a  morning  enterltlii- 
ment,  and  invited  his  friends  to  drink  a  fib 
of  chocolate  at  twelve  at  the  Haymarkct; 
but  the  time  was  found  inconvenient,  ui 
was  soon  changed  for  tcA  at  half-past  iix. 
—Ibid.  p.  226. 

Kbllt  the  singer  had  heard  King  assert 
that  Wilkinson,  ugly  as  he  was,  could  laiks 
his  face  resemble  that  of  Mrs.  Woffingtan. 
This  induced  Kelly  to  request  Wilkifrsnft 
to  make  Mrs.  Woffington's  face  for  htm. 
Wilkinson  good-naturedly  did  so ;  and  to 
Kelly's  astonishment,  really  made  a  hud- 
some  one.— Ibid,  vol,  6,  p.  521. 

WiLKiKSoM  ia  said  to  have  been  a  wv 
kind  manager,  and  to  have  assisted  young 
performers  of  merit  in  getting  a  London  en- 
gagement, instead  of  keeping  them  back. — 
Ibid.  p.  520. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


»  Frodsbam  was  once  acting  at 
h,  the  Bishop  (Hinchclifie,  I 
iwed  her  some  civilities,  u  hav- 
Westminster  school  with  her 
jlith  Tkeatrt,  toI.  6,  p.  289. 


±  Wnkefield  and  York,  1778. 


[»A«  and  Knight's  escape  there. 


57  of  the  Established  Church 
who  at  anj  lime  frequent  the 
said  to  make  a  point  of  doing 

0  show  their  contempt  for  that 

1  engaged  at  Glasgow  to  play 
Passion  Week.  He  acted  lago 
ly.  "  15  Kean  and  the  good 
asgow  do  not  go  to  the  Devil, 

hard  case."  Snch  is  the  re- 
ioane-minded  scofler  who  com- 
D  vdnmes  of  the  EnglUh  Stag*. 
136. 

emarkconoeming Edwin.  "He 
ia,re  parts  written  expresalj  for 
a  an  old  comedy  was  revived, 
nierall;  a  part  in  it  for  Quick 
J  bnt  not  one  for  Edwin." — 
p.  384. 

3r  of  the  Eolith  Theatre  Bays, 
20),  that,  after  the  young  Raa> 
^t«d  Hamlet  (1812),  it  might 
hout  any  scruple,  he  was  the 
»ho  ever  came  before  the  pub- 
in  a  part  for  trial),  as  a  first> 


■'s  Servioaf,  p.  123. 

3,  p.  544.  M1U.SB,  who  was 
actor  for  thirty  years,  (1709 — 
not  i^ad.  It  was  said  that  his 
ject  in  marrying  was  to  have  a 
uld  read  his  parts  to  bun. 


Marriage. 
Nbwtom,  pp.  264-5,  218. 

FoHTOPPiDAH  says,  that  till  the  middle 
of  the  last  (17th)  century,  when  a  Norwe- 
gian peasant's  family  was  invited  to  a  wed- 
ding, the  wife  generally  took  her  husband's 
shroud  with  her. 

The  men  used  to  bockle  themselves  to- 
gether by  the  belts,  and  fight  with  their 
knives  till  one  was  mortally  wounded. — 
Monthly  Review,  vol.  13,  p.  45, 

Jbseiit  Tatloh's  Sermon,  vol.  5,  p.  249, 

&c.,  the  Marriage  Ring. 

Bt  the  laws  of  Geneva,  a  widow  must 
not  engage  in  a  promise  of  marriage  till  six 
months  after  her  husband's  decease. 

A  woman  who  is  not  above  forty  is  not 
allowed  to  marry  a  man  more  than  ten 
years  younger  than  herself ;  but  if  she  hath 
past  her  fortieth  year,  her  husband  must  be 
within  five  years  of  her  own  age. 

A  man  after  his  sixtieth  year  cannot 
marry  a  woman  that  is  not  half  as  old  as 
himself.  Kbate's  Acetnmt  of  Otnma. — 
MotOdg Review,  so\.'i'i,^.i\5.  a.d.  1761. 

AccoBDitrfi  to  the  precepU  of  the  book 
Li  Ei,  the  Emperor  of  China,  besides  bis 
wife,  may  have  130  concubines,  of  whom 
three  are  Toug-in,  nine  are  Pin,  thirty-se- 
ren  Chi-Foo,  and  eighty-one  Yu-Tsi. — Ibid, 
vol.  60,  p.  S03. 

Ibisb  custom  of  horsing  a  girl,  and  then 
hurling  for  her,  that  the  winner  may  marry 
her. — Ibid,  vol.63,  p.  102.  ABTBtrBYooKO. 

An  ill-condiUoned  pur.  "  If  they  are 
together,  two  people  may  lead  an  uneasy 
life,  to  be  sure ;  but  it  will,  in  all  proba- 
bility save  four  from  being  in  the  like  con- 
dition."— J.  Baillib.  The  Match,  p.  877. 

The  Savoy  marriages  were  put  a  atop  to 
by  the  transportation  of  Wilkinson,  and 
Grierson  bis  curate. — Bdbhs'b  Fleel  Mar- 
riaget,  p.  19, 


564 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Wilkinson  began  his  trade  on  the  pass- 
ing of  the  Marriage  Act,  before  which  there 
had  been  no  clandestine  marriages  there. 
He  conceived  himself  authorized  to  grant 
licences,  as  a  privilege  annexed  to  the  Sa- 
voy, of  which  he  was  **  his  Majestj^s  chap- 
lain.** Of  1190  of  his  marriages  in  1755, 
the  clerk  deposed  on  his  trial  that  900  of 
the  women  came  out  of  the  countrj,  en- 
eierUe* — ^Ibid.  p.  94-5. 

Keith,  of  Maj  Fair,  says  in  his  pam- 
phlet, **  *•  Hi^pj  is  the  wooing,  that  is  not 
long  a-doing,*  is  an  old  proverb,  and  a  very 
true  one.  As  I  have  married  many  thou- 
sands, and  consequently  have  on  those  oc- 
casions seen  the  humour  of  the  lower  class 
of  people,  I  have  often  asked  the  married 
pair  how  long  they  had  been  acquainted ; 
they  would  reply,  some  more  some  less,  but 
the  generality  did  not  exceed  the  acquaint- 
ance of  a  week,  some  only  of  a  day,  half  a 
day."— Ibid.  p.  99. 

**  Ruth,  Have  you  a  month*s  mind  to 
this  gentlewoman,  Mrs.  Arbella  P 

^  Abel,  1  have  not  known  her  a  week  yet.** 

Committee^  p.  23. 

Sni  Thomas  Hanmeb  (the  Speaker^  and 
editor  of  Shakespeare),  "married  an  old  wo- 
man for  love,  and  a  young  one  for  money, 
and  was  not  very  fortunate  in  either  of 
them.**  ^  ToBK£*s  Royal  Tribes  of  Wales, 
p.  112.    N. 

Ih  Asireay  (P.  iv.  1.  8,  p.  767),  it  is  said, 
"  les  femmes  la  premise  fois  se  marient  par 
obeyssance,  et  la  seconde  par  Section.** 

The  remark  is  true  of  D*Urfe*s  age,  not 
of  the  time  in  which  he  lays  his  romance. 

Thbsb  marriages  decided  by  blind-man*s- 
buff  in  Astrea. — ^P.  v.  L  4,  vol.  9,  p.  326. 

Authoress  of  Caroline  de  Litchfield  mar- 
ried for  her  book. — Miss  Sewaed*s  Letters, 
vol.  I,  p.  210. 


A  MAN,  in  CuMBSKi.AHD*8  Natursl  Son, 
when  he  is  told  that  the  woman  whom  he 
wishes  to  marry  has  a  "  vengeance  of  a 
temper,**  replies,  ^  Never  mind  tiiat,  mine 
will  serve  for  both." 

Rev.  Thomas  Cooke,  minister  of  St 
Bennets,  Faul*s  Wharf,  who  died  in  1731, 
had  married  about  13,000  couple  there, 
**  being  situated  near  the  commons.**  Q)— 
O,  Magazine,  vol.  1,  p.  221. 

In  1784,  a  Key  to  the  Three  First  Chap- 
ters of  Genesis  was  published.  This  worid 
was  formed  out  of  the  wreck  of  Satan's 
kingdom,  and  given  to  Adam  as  his  princi- 
pality, all  that  was  in  it  being  very  good, 
and  to  continue  so  as  long  as  he  continued 
in  his  innocence.  The  necessity  of  tilling 
the  soil  began  when  he  b^an  to  fall,  and 
the  mist  that  arose  to  water  the  ground 
was  the  first  indication  that  evil  had  en- 
tered. Then  there  grew  up  the  noxious 
tree.  Till  then,  Adam  and  Eve  had  bees 
literally  one,  but  upon  eating  of  this  fruit 
they  were  divided,  increaaing  thus  the  im- 
perfection of  human  nature,  and  ensuring 
the  propagation  of  it  to  their  offspring.— 
M,  Review^  vol.  71,  p.  233-4. 


AmmalculiB  and  Insects, 

Leuwekhoeck  says,  the  number  in  the 
scurf  of  a  man*8  teeUi  are  so  many,  that  he 
believes  they  exceed  the  number  of  men  in 
a  kingdom.  For,  examining  a  small  parcel 
of  it,  no  thicker  than  a  horse-hair, "I  found 
so  many  living  animals  in  it,  that  I  gness 
there  might  have  been  a  thousand  in  a  quan- 
tity of  matter  no  larger  than  the  hundredth 
part  of  a  sand.*'— PAtL  Tnms,  Abr,  vol  S, 
p.  37. 

One  of  Jacob  Abbott's  scholars  being 
called  upon.  Prejudice,  which  was  the  "mo- 
ral exercise  for  the  day,"  produced  the  fol- 
lowing theme.  "  I  am  very  much  prejudiced 
against  spiders  and  every  insect  in  the 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


known  world,  with  scircelj  an  exception. 
There  U  a  horrid  Mnwtion  created  hj  their 
uglj  forms,  that  makea  me  wiah  them  all 
to  Jerieho.  The  butterfly's  wingi  are  pret- 
tj,  but  he  ia  dreadful  ugly.  There  if  no 
affectation  in  thif,  for  mj  pride  will  not 
penuit  me  to  show  this  prejudice  to  anj 
great  degree ;  when  I  can  help  it,  I  do  not 
fear  the  little  wretche*,  but  I  do  hate  them." 
Aati-i^ider  Sparer.—Teaelitr,  p.  ISO, 

Axoiia  those  philosophers  who  would  ez' 
plain  the  actions  of  auimalB  bj  mere  corpo- 
real feeling,  without  anj  asaietance  of  the 
mind,  Melius  held  that  pain  alon«  produces 
many  of  those  actions  which  we  attribute  to 
design :  for  example,  that  a  fit  of  the  cholic 
forcos  the  caterpillar  to  form  its  cone,  and 
spin  in  its  contortions  of  suffering! — M. 
lUviea,  vol.  45,  p.  S36, 

WniTzcno,  p.  SO.  Lice.  "  Tet  they 
hare  this  conuooditj  thereby,  that  the; 
that  have  moat  Uce  be  wholly  &eed  from 
the  headache." 

"  Tub  flea  is  a  rile,  troublesome,  and 
bhMdthirsty  little  beaaL"--Ibid.  696. 

Wbt  venuin  exist. — Sehubbtcb,  vol.  9, 
p.  210. 


" —  I  BDOin  e  gli  scienzIaU  sono,  eiiandlo 
qoando  dormono  migliorl  e  piu  vi  savi,  che 
i  rei,  e  che  gl'  idiotL" — Casa.  OalaUo,  p.  48. 

Indications  of  pre -existence  in  dreams. 

FATinrrs  going  to  the  Temple  of  .Seen- 
l^tiua  at  Epidaurus,  were  there  informed 
in  their  sleep  what  remedy  would  cure 
them.  Stkabo  and  Jamhujckos  referred  to. 

"  —  I  KusT  for  my  own  part  acknow*- 
ledge,"  says  Blodkt,  "  that  the  last  super- 
stition from  which  I  disengaged  myself,  was 
my  resentment  of  dreams,  by  reason  of  the 
many  strange  predictions,  that,  as  well  my- 


self as  my  acquaintances  have  received  from 
them ;  which,  however,  I  esteem  accidentaL" 
Nolei  to  PhOotL  p.  29. 

HiSTomiAns  say  that  the  inhabitants  of 
the  Atlantic  Isles,  who  feed  on  nothing  that 
hath  been  slain,  never  dream. 

The  ancients  used  to  sleep  in  the  temple 
with  laurel  about  their  heads,  and  sacrifice 
to  Brico,  the  goddess  of  dreamers. — Ibid, 
p.  29. 

So  in  the  Temple  of  Fasithea  in  Lace- 
demon,  and  of  Serbia  in  Egypt. — Ibid. 

BiSHCff  Hau.  says  of  the  Christian,  "  his 
very  dreams,  however  vain  or  troublesome, 
are  not  to  bim  altogether  unprofitable,  for 
they  serve  to  bewray  not  only  his  bodily 
temper  but  his  spiritual  weaknesees,  which 
hia  waking  resolutions  shall  endeavour  to 
correct."— &cm(  CZawin,  vol.  5,  p.  89. 

UrrHBiDATBS  compiled  an  Ephemerides 
of  his  concubines'  dreams."  —  RuiBiqh, 

p.  irs. 

"  Db  Thoo  s'imaginoit  souvent  en  dor- 
mant  qu'il  voyageoit  tant^t  en  Italie  et  en 
Espagne,  tantdt  en  Allenu^e,  en  Flandren 
et  en  Angleterre;  que  Ik  il  voyoit  ou  con- 
eultoit  les  hommea  les  pins  savants,  qu'il 
visitoit  les  plusfameuses  biblioth^ues.  II 
eut  toute  la  vie  de  ces  songes  agrfables, 
surlout  asant  qu'il  eut  voyag£  dans  ces  dif- 
fiSrens  pays."— Colt  Aftm.  pp.  fiS,  44,  N. 

Dx  Thod  never  saw  Adrien  Tnmfbe 
but  once,  and  "  se  I'impiima  si  fortement, 
que  I'image  de  cet  homme  cd&bre,  qui  mou- 
mt  pen  t«mps  apr^  lui  demenra  toQjonrs 
dans  I'esprit,  mSme  en  dormant."  —  Ibid, 
p.  43. 

FoMPET  found  a  treatise  on  the  inter- 
pretation  of  dreams  among  Mithridates' 
effects ;  he  had  it  translated,  with  his  me- 
moirs also,  by  fab  freedman  Len«ns.  — 
SpKKiroBi;,  vol.  1,  p.  489. 


OK 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEAN1KGB. 


WATTt  thought  thftt  "  OUT  nnreooUected 
and  useleai  dreams  msj  posiiblj  be  as* 
cribed  to  our  fallen  state;  and  tlut  man  in 
a  state  of  innocence  miglit  manage  his  aleep- 
ing  ideas  better  by  reason,  and  make  tliem 
some  wa/  iorviceable  to  hia  wakeful  ao- 
tioae"—Worlu,  vol.  7,  p.  533. 

Note.  0,  p.  9.   Bishop  Banderson.  Use 


WAjtBDBTon  says  in  a  letter  to  Andrew 
Baxter,  "I  have  rambled  for  twentj'  years 
together  in  dreams,  in  one  certain  countrj, 
throng  one  certain  road,  and  resided  in 
one  certain  conntry  house,  quite  different 
as  to  the  whole  face  of  the  countrj  and  u- 
tualion  of  the  place  from  anj  thing  I  ever 
saw,  awake ;  and  the  scene  quite  unvaried." 
He  does  not  know,  he  says,  whether  any 
writer  has  Dfaserred  anyUung  like  tiiis. — 
St  JanuM't  Mag.  vol.  2,  p.  202. 

Some  curiona  cases  of  warning  in  dreams 
are  stated  in  this  remarkable  letter. 


Davcing. 

A  wOHAH  having  eaten  hemlock  roots 
with  parsnips,  was  iiumedialely  seized  with 
raving  and  madness,  talked  obscenely,  and 
could  not  forbear  dancing.  —  PAii.  Traru. 
.46r.  vol.  4,p.l83. 

The  common  people  say  that  old  parsnips 
which  have  continued  many  years  in  the 
ground  have  this  effect,  and  therefore  they 
call  them  madnlpe.  They  supposed  she 
had  eaten  these. 

Ibid.  p.  WS.  A  UAH  near  Penzance 
made  a  pie  of  the  roots  of  the  homed  pop- 
py, {Paparer  contteaiaiam  laleum),  mis- 
taking them  for  sea-holiy,  or  eringo  roota. 
Delirium  was  one  of  its  effects ;   another 


'  The  recurrence  of  dreams  I  believe 

to  be 

3/t;:, 

when 

Jie  Archau 

t  hss  been  ou[  of 

variably  dreamt  llial  I  could 

ot  find  Iho 

was,  that  the  mau  and  maid-servant* 
"  stript  themselves  quite  naked,  and  lo 
danced  against  one  another  a  long  time" 

Ibid.  vol.  II,  p.  273.  A  tocii«  womin 
who  in  coQseqnence  of  frequent  coovnltite 
spasms  had  lost  her  apeech,  after  foortesB 
months  suddenly  recovered  it,  after  hanii{ 
violently  heated  henelf  by  four  hoar* 
dancing.  The  most  extratHrdinary  part  of 
this  case  is,  that  while  she  was  qieechles^ 
she  had  alio  forgotten  how  to  express  her 
meaning  by  writing,  owing  to  the  iojory 
her  brain  had  received  from  the 
but  she  recovered  this  at  the  same 

ZniHon,  vol.  3,  p.  1£20.  Girl  at  Gcnen 
who,  by  the  Devil's  hdp,  made  every 
she  touched  dance,  like  a  tarantula. 

"  Miss  Blotibli),  IVofea»or  of  the  Terp- 
sichorean  Positions,  exercises  in  families 
and  schools  where  dancing  cannot  be  con- 
scientiously admitted.  Miss  B.  b^ 
state  that  her  system  of  exercises  may  be 
practised  with  perfect  safety,  on  account  of 
the  gentleness  of  the  method  puTsned,  in 
coercion  being  made  use  of;  the  most  Is- 
mentable  effects  having  been  produced  fhxn 
the  use  of  gymnastic,  calisthenic,  and  other 
violent  exercises."  Adv. — Evta^.  Mag- 
Feb.  1834. 

"  Locu  himself  thinks  tbat  chiMna 
ought  to  be  taught  to  dance  as  soon  as  Utej 
are  capable  of  learning  it.  "  NoAing,"  he 
observes,  "  contributes  so  much  to  a  be- 


above  their  ^e-  For,  though  dancing' 
sists  merely  in  outward  gracefulness  of  mo- 
tion, yet  it  gives  ehildr^  manly  ibon^ts, 
and  a  proper  carriage  1" — Si»  J.  Sikclui'i 
Code  of  Health,  p.  257.  LocKi'a  TWatu 
on  Education,  p.  67,  quoted. 

"  Tub  art  of  Orchesography,  or  denotiiv 
the  several  atepa  and  motioiu  in  daneaf 
by  characters,  was  invented  by  M.  Beao- 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


«7 


tbtanp,  in  the  time  of  Louis  XLV. ;  uid 
imprared  and  perfected  bjr  M.  Fouillet ." 
— Hawkixb'  HM.  Mai.  toI.  2,  p.  132. 

**  Tsw  Pkvho,  from  pavo,  is  a  grave  and 
Dujet^  dance.  The  laetitod  of  dancing  it 
was  ancientlj  bj  gentlemen  dreat  with  a 
c^  and  iword,  bj  those  of  the  long  robe 
in  their  goiriiB,  bj  princes  in  their  mantlet, 
and  b;  ladiea  in  gowDs  with  long  trains,  the 
motion  whereof  in  the  dance  resembled  that 
of  a  peacock's  tail.  It  ie  luppoied  to  have 
been  invented  b;  the  Spaniards,  and  its 
figure  it  given,  with  the  characters  for  the 
steps,  in  the  Orcheaographia  of  Thoinet 
Arbeau.  Everj  pavan  has  its  galliard, — a 
lighter  kind  of  ur  made  out  of  the  former." 
— Ibid.  voL  3, 


Thb  dancing- 
"  Pour  moi,  je  , 
a  peu  de  gloi 


nn  peu  de  gloire.  — V 


, Moli^  gays, — 

vous  I'avoue,  je  me  repais 
""  -Vol.  5,  p.  391.    Le 


Hi*  proof  lliat  all.lhs  evilain  public  af- 
fiuia  aiiie  from  want  of  proper  instruction 
this  art— Ibid.  pp.  600-1. 

Fax,  the  dancing-master. — Sopboclu. 
Ajax.  • 

"Od>  temper  £6eT8  soroewhat  Irom  that 
of  the  ancient  Jews.  They  would  neither 
daotK  nor  weep.  We  indeed  weep  not,  if 
a  tnan  mourn  nnto  ua ;  but  I  mnat  needs 
aaj,  that,  if  he  pipe,  we  seem  disposed  to 
dance  with  the  greatest  alacrity."— Coofxb. 
Corrap.  vol.  1,  p.  362. 

Bbamtoiu,  vol.  9,  pp.  250-1. 

Ih  Barbadoea,  "  moat  of  the  ladies,"  lays 
Dx.  Hii.naT,  •■  are  so  excessively  fond  of 
it,  that,  aay  what  I  will,  they  will  dance 
on."— jlf.  Bevieie,  vol.  21,  p.  370. 

A.U.  C.  2?a.   A.C.489.    TiBawnaAti- 
nius,  or  Titva  Latinus,  (for  historians  differ 
le),  came  in  a  litter  from 


xiuntry  to  Rome,  and  delivered  to  the 
Senate  a  message  with  which  Jupiter  Ca- 
pitolinus  had  charged  him  in  a  dream : — 
"  That  they  must  repeat  the  celebration  of 
the  public  games,  because  in  the  last  so- 
lemnity a  bad  dancer  had  led  up  the  dances." 
He  had  neglected  theviuon  he  said,  looking 
^ipon  it  as  adream;  wherefore  Jupiter  had 
killed  one  of  his  sons  and  taken  away  the 
use  of  his  limbs,  which,  however,  he  reco- 
vered as  fast  03  he  discharged  his  commis- 
sion. Inquiry  was  made,  and  it  appeared 
that  the  first  dancer  was  a  slave,  whom  his 
master  just  before  the  procession  had  caused 
to  be  whipped  through  the  croasways,  the 
forum,  and  the  circus,  places  through  all 
which  the  procession  was  to  pass,  and  the 
slave  hod  uttered  imprecations  and  writhed 
himselfinto  painful  postures  at  every  atroke, 
which  Jupiter  had  justly  considered  tt 
an  impnqier  and  indecent  prelude  to  so  so- 
lemn a  ceremony.  The  master  was  found, 
and  a  decree  past  for  repeating  the  game* 
more  snmptuoosly." — Hooxa,  voL  2,  p.  67, 
LrvT,  lib.  2,  c.  36.  Fnii.  in  Coriol.  ~ 
Hai.,  p.  67. 


"  Dahcivo. — An  Arrow  against  profane 
and  promiscuous  dancbg,  drawn  out  of  the 
quiver  of  the  Lord  by  the  Ministers  at  Bos- 
ton, New-England."  Boston,  1684. 

"  K.  Hettry.  Sweetheart, 

I  were  unmannerly  to  take  you  out, 
And  not  to  kiss  you." 

Htnrg  Ihe  Eighth,  act  i.  s^.  iv 

Tuns  Steevens  quotes  from  a  dialogue 
between  Custom  and  Verity,  concerning  the 
use  and  abuse  of  dancing  and  minstrelsy : 

" what  fool  would  dance. 

If  that,  when  dance  is  done. 
He  may  not  have  at  lady's  lip 
That  which  in  dance  he  won." 
And  Ritson  adds,  "  is  many,  perhaps  all 


mSCELLAIIEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEAinNGS. 


parU  of  the  kingdom,  wben  the  fiddler 
thinks  his  joung  couple  luve  h«d  music 
enough,  he  mftket  his  inatrnment  spetk  out 
two  notes  which  sll  undersbuid  to  mj  Aim 

her." 

Thb  Partridge  run.  a.j>.  1796.— Miu 
Seward's  Letteri,  vol.  4,  p.  244.  ' 

Gaixini'r  Trea^e  on  Dancing.—Sf.  lU- 

view,  Tol.  26,  pp.  347-9-56. 

A.]>.  1764.  Thb  opera  of  Cwtor  and 
Pollux  at  Paris.  "  On  admire  le  dernier 
ballet,  qai  Tnument  est  de  g^nie.  Ceat  le 
Sfsteme  de  Copemic  mis  en  action ;  il  est 
b^  bien  ex^utd :  reste  It  ssvoir,  pourqnoi 
le  sjst^e  de  Copemii:  dans  cet  opfra." — 
Bachadnoitt.  Mui.  Lee.  vol.  2,  p.  14. 

Tub  English  nuns  at  Ghent  told  Mrs. 
Carter  that  countrj  dances  were  one  of 
their  amusements,  and  that  Ihej  had  the 
newest  from  England. — Mem,  toI.  1,  p.  264. 

"  —  l'oh  dance  pluueurs  ik  la  fois,  se  t«' 
nant  toutesfois  dcus  Ik  deux,  et  se  prome- 
nant  le  long  de  la  salle,  sans  BToir  autre 
ioucj,  que  de  marquer  an  peu  sentiment 
la  cadence ;  I'on  I'appelle  le  grand  bal,  et 
semble  qu'il  ne  soit  invent^  que  pour  don- 
ner  une  honneste  commodity  aux  chevaliers 
de  parler  bus  damea." — A^trea.  Part  3, 
p.  623. 

"Hi  does  not  mince  it :  be  has  not  leamt 
to  walk  by  a  eoiiraxt  or  a  boree."  (  P  )  — 
Snu,'*  Tender  Btabaad,  p.  29. 


Waujs  on  the  effects  reported  of  it  in 
former  times.— PAi/.  Tnmt.  Abr.  vol    4,  p. 


lbid.Tol.l3,p.446.  " Amazjuo improve- 
ments in  execution  which  both  singers  and 
plajers  have  arrived  at  within  the  last  fifty 


yews  (a.  b.  1773).  When  Corelh-s  mw 
was  first  published,  our  ablest  vitdiaists 
conceived  that  it  was  too  difficult  to  be  per- 
formed. It  is  now,  however,  the  first  com- 
position attempted  by  a  scholar.  Sitery 
year  also  now  produces  greater  and  greiUr 
prodigies  on  other  instmmenta,  in  point  of 
execution." — Daihh  BABinoroii. 

"  Phu-ostkatds  tells  of  one  who  desind 
that  his  son  might  not  be  musical,  and  there- 
fore sent  him  to  learn  of  the  worst  musicitni 
in  the  city,  that  their  scraping  and  Jarrii^ 
might  put  him  out  of  liking  with  the  art"— 
Bishop  Hackxt,  Sernunu,  p.  273. 

"  CoMStDEBTiia  the  great  inflaenee  wbidi 
music  hath  over  the  minds  of  men,  it  is  no 
small  policy  in  ecclesiastics  to  assign  the  use 
of  organs  in  churches,  which  gels  men  a 
stomach  to  their  devotion,  whether  it  be 
good  or  bad." — BLooTfT's  PhUottraba,  N. 


Tms  person  says  "  women  of^n  decline 
in  modesty  proporttonably  to  the  progren 
they  make  in  miisic." — Ibid. 

FaoBKBO^  organist  to  the  Emptrar 
Ferdinand  m.  is  said  to  have  represented 
in  an  allemand  the  passage  of  Count  Thnin 
over  the  Rhine,  and  the  danger  he  and  his 
army  were  in,  by  twenty-six  catancts,  or 
falls  in  notes ;  which,  it  seems,  he  was  lie 
better  able  to  do,  having  been  present' — 
Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  IBS. 

Kuhnan  represented  in  a  sonata  Dariift 
victory  over  Goliah. 

fiuxtehude  represented  the  nature  of  the 
planets  in  a  series  of  lessons  for  the  baipsi- 

And  Handd  himself  imitated  the  btmiig 
of  the  flies  and  the  bopping  of  ti>e  1n^  in 
the  plagues  of  Egypt.  —  Sib  J.  UAWun, 

"  AusTOXxmrs  expressly  asserte  tkat  the 
foundation  of  ingenuous  manner*,  and  ■ 
regular  and  decent  discbarge  of  the  offices 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


ivil  life,  are  laid  u 
."—Ibid.  p.  iivi. 


1  miuical  educo- 


"  LtrrHBK  aayi  in  an  Epistle,  *  icimuB 
muticam  diemonibui  etiam  inTiBUn  et  iu- 
tolenbilem  eue : '  uid  Dr.  Wetenhall  ap- 
plies 1M»  passage  to  the  music  of  our 
church,  and  on  the  authoritj  thereof  pro- 
nounces it  to  be  such  as  no  devil  can  stand 
i^;ainit." — Ibid.  p.  Ixi. 

"Tbb  P;tlugorean.i,"saj8STAi<LET,  "de- 
fine music  an  apt  composition  of  contra- 
ries, and  an  union  of  man  j,  and  consent  of 
differents ;  for  it  not  onlj  co-ordinates 
rjthms  and  modulations,  but  all  manner  of 
Ijitems.  God  is  the  reconciler  of  things 
discordant,  and  this  is  his  chiefeat  woik, 
according  to  music  and  medicine,  to  recon- 
cile enmities.  In  music  consists  the  agree- 
ment of  all  things,  and  aristocracy'  of  the 
universe.  For  what  is  harmony  in  the 
world,  in  a  citj  is  good  goTemment,  in  a 
familj,  temperance. — Ibid.  p.  170. 

"  II  Ciel  parte  del  vanto 
Mi  dta,  che  solo  Id  questa  unir  poteo, 
£  a  dita  ancb'  io  n'aadrb  senza  paura 
O  puT  di  Tebe  a  rionovar  le  miura." 

MxTkftAMio,  torn.  S,  p.  245. 

AiJEHEBDi  compounded  medicines  in  ge- 
ometrical and  musical  proportions. — Sfbkh- 
OKL,  voL  2,  p.  281. 

Rhazis  had  been  tha  most  celebrated 
profeiaor  of  music  at  Bagdad.  —  Ibid.  p. 
285. 

Amatos  Lnairurn*  combined  music  and 
numbers  in  his  system  of  physic,  blending 
Ihua  the  doctrines  of  Pjtliagoras  and  of  the 
CabaUsta.— Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  1S7. 

SmuTHius  plays  to  Sigismond  XL  King 
of  Poland,  "  ezplique  le  rhythme  du  pouls 
d'aprta  lea  lois  de  la  musique,  et  cherche  h 
le  rendre  sensible  par  des  figures  inintelli- 
giblea." — Ibid.  p.  1G9. 


"  Tbalks  cured  a  raging  petitUence  at 
Sparta  by  music ;  the  oracle  having  so  ad- 
vised."—Hawums,  Hittoiy  of  Matk,  vol. 
l,p.  318. 

Hismenias  the  Thebau  cured  many  of 
sciatica  bj  mnsic.  Hawkins  thinks  Boe- 
thius  takes  this  from  Aulus  Gelliwt,  lib.  4, 
c.  13,q.v.      ■ 

"  I'll  rv  you,  ni^  you;  do  you  note  me?" 
Rotmo  and  Jtdiet,  act  iv.  sc.  v. 

Mbtastabio  on  the  corruption  of  music, 
and  the  effect  of  open  theatres  on  that  of 
the  ancients,  and  consequently  on  church 
music.— Tom.  10,  p.  362-3. 

"  Thbbi  is  somewhere  in  infinite  space," 
says  CowFBB,  "  a  world  that  does  not  roll 
within  the  precincts  of  mercy ;  and  as  it  is 
reasonable,  and  even  scriptural  to  suppose 
that  there  is  music  in  heaven,  in  those  dis- 
mal regions  perh^Mi  the  reverse  of  it  \s 
found ;  tones  so  dismal  as  to  make  woe  it- 
self more  insupportable,  and  to  acuminate 
eTcn  despair."  —  Hatlet'b  Lift,  vol.  2,  p. 


Sbb  in  MACBonios,  Som.  Seip.  for  a  pas- 
sage ta  prove  that  music  "  persuades  to 
clemency  and  heab  diseases." 

AKanonymonsdiscouTse  upon  the  analogy 
between  the  seven  planets  and  the  chords 
included  in  the  musical  septenary,  says, 
"  that  in  the  motion  ofthe  Earth  F  is  made  J 
in  that  of  the  Moon,  A ;  Mercury,  B ;  Ve- 
nus, C ;  the  Sod,  D  ;  Mars,  E ;  Jupiter,  F ; 
and  Saturn,  G ;  and  that  here  the  musical 
measure  is  truly  formed." — Hawkiks,  HU- 
toryo/Miuie,  vol.  S,  p,  215. 

"  Tbbbb  was  once  a  musical  herald  who 
undertook  to  show  the  analogy  between 
music  and  coat  armour."- Ibid.  p.  247. 

"  FiBTBO  Fbancbbco  Vai.biitihi  gave 
Kircher  a  canon  which  ha  called  Nodus 
Salomones;    which   Kircher   at   first  per- 


570 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


1 


cdved  might  be  sung  by  ninety-six  voices, 
twenty  in  each  part,  treble,  counter  tenor, 
tenor  and  bass ;  and  yet  there  are  only  four 
notes  in  the  canon ;  but  it  is  to  be  observed, 
that  to  introduce  a  regular  variety  of  har- 
mony, some  of  the  ninety-six  are  to  sing  all 
longs,  some  all  breves,  some  semi-breves, 
some  minims,  some  semi-minims. 

^*  He  aflerwards  found  out  that  this  same 
canon  might  be  sung  by  512  voices,  or, 
which  is  the  same  thing,  distributed  into 
128  choirs;  and  aflerwards  proceeded  to 
show  how  it  may  be  sung  by  12,200,000 
voices ;  nay,  by  an  infinite  number.  Then 
he  says  the  verse  in  the  Apocalypse,  xiv.  3, 
is  made  clear,  and  may  be  interpreted  lite- 
rally. For  he  shows  that  this  canon  may 
be  so  disposed  as  to  be  sung  by  144,000 
voices. — Ibid.  p.  376. 

LuTHSB  spent  the  greater  part  of  the 
night  before  he  appeared  to  give  an  accoimt 
of  his  doctrine  to  the  diet  at  Worms  in 
playing  on  the  lute,  **  in  order  to  compose 
and  calm  his  mind.** — Ibid.  p.  444. 

**  Fbamcis  I.  sent  a  band  of  musicians  to 
his  ally  Solyman  11.  Solyman  received 
them  graciously,  and  had  three  concerts  at 
his  palace,  in  presence  of  all  his  court.  Then 
having  observed  the  effect  of  the  music  upon 
himself,  he  sent  them  back  with  a  handsome 
reward,  but  ordered  their  instruments  to  be 
broken,  and  prohibited  them  from  settling 
in  his  empire,  on  pain  of  death.  He  fully 
believed  it  to  be  a  scheme  of  the  French 
king's  for  diverting  him  by  this  amusement 
from  the  business  of  war,  *  just  as  the  Greeks 
sent  the  Persians  the  game  of  chess  for  the 
same  purpose.*  And  this  he  said  to  the 
French  ambassador.** — Ibid.  p.  481,  N. 

**  Myself,**  says  Fjlatfobd  the  musician, 
**  as  I  travelled  some  years  since  near  Roy- 
ston,  met  a  herd  of  stags,  about  twenty, 
upon  the  road,  following  a  bagpipe  and 
violin,  which,  when  the  music  played,  they 
went  fonrard ;  when  it  ceased,  they  all  stood 
still ;  and  in  this  manner  they  were  brought 


out  of  Yorkshire  to  Hampton  Court**  <~ 
Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  117. 

**  Some  remarkable  mstances  of  blind  per- 
sons,  who  have  been  excellent  in  music, 
might  lead  to  an  opinion  that  the  privation 
of  that  sense  was  favourable  to  the  study 
of  it.**— Ibid-  p.  209. 

**  M.  Favabd  ridiculise  la  singuliere  in- 
vention de  composer  de  la  musique  par  U 
chance  des  dez,  qui  avoit  6t^  s^rieusement 
proposee  dans  un  de  nos  Journaux.**  —  M. 
Bret  Moliebs,  vol.  5,  p.  766. 

'*  James  I.  in  a  letter  to  his  sons  from 
Theobald*s,  a.  d.  1623,  desires  them  to  keep 
up  their  dancing  privately,  *  though  they 
whistle  and  sing  to  one  another  for  music*  ** 
— Hawkins,  vol.  4,  p.  14. 

^  Thomas  Campioh,  who  was  a  doctor  of 
physic,  and  publbhed  a  work  upon  muse, 
justified  himself  by  the  example  of  Galen, 
who,  he  says,  became  an  expert  musician, 
and  would  needs  apply  all  the  proportions 
of  music  to  the  uncertain  motions  of  the 
pulse.** — Ibid.  p.  24. 

Eppbcts  of  Music. — "  Iw  the  Bepef' 
toire  Medico  Chrmrgicaie  of  Hedmont,  for 
June,  1834,  Dr.  Brofierio  relates  a  case 
illustrative  of  the  morbid  effects  of  music. 
A  woman  twenty-eight  years  of  age,  of  t 
robust  constitution,  married,  but  without 
children,  attended  a  ball  which  was  given 
on  occasion  of  a  rural  fete  in  her  native 
village.  It  so  happened  that  she  had  never 
heard  the  music  of  an  orchestra  before; 
she  was  charmed  with  it,  and  danced  for 
three  days  successively,  during  which  the 
festivity  lasted.  But  though  the  ball  was 
at  an  end,  the  woman  continued  to  hear  the 
music  ;  whether  she  ate,  drank,  walked,  or 
went  to  bed,  still  was  she  haunted  by  the 
harmonies  of  the  orchestra.  She  was  sleep- 
less, her  digestive  organs  began  to  suffer, 
and  ultimately  her  whole  system  was  de- 
ranged. Various  remedies  were  tried  to 
drown  the  imaginary  music,  but  the  more 


laSCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AJn>  GLEAinNGS. 


371 


dj  became  enfeebled  the  mare  in- 
'  did  tbe  musiul  sounds  disturb  her 
She  nink  at  last,  after  six  months' 
a  suffering.  It  should  be  added,  that 
der  of  the  band  having  occasionallj 
•d  in  a  discordant  aapriecio  for  the 
nent  of  his  auditors,  the  notes  which 
ijed  produced  the  moat  torturing 
when  thej  recurred  to  the  imag^a- 
the  patient:  'those  horrid  sounds!' 
uld  crj,  as  she  held  her  head  betveen 
nds.  Hiere  is  nothing  so  very  ex.- 
inarj  in  this  case,  as  it  regards  the 
epetition  of  sounds  in  the  tentorium, 
«quence  of  along-continued  impres- 
iginallj  made,  but  that  it  should  be 
[  U>  tbe  extent  of  canung  a  nerrous 
m,  terminating  fataUj,  is  what  seems 
ler  the  case  unique.  An  anecdote  is 
the  celebrated  Mademoiselle  Clairon, 
has  some  anoli^j  U>  the  preceding. 
I  once  shot  himself  on  her  account, 
ifter,  as  regularly  as  one  o'clock  at 
:ame,  Mademoiselle  Clairon  heard  the 
of  a  pistol.  Whether  she  was  at  a 
I  bed  ssleep,  at  an  inn,  on  a  journey, 
•Jet ;  when  the  moment  arrived  the 
ras  heard :  it  was  louder  than  the 
of  the  ball,  startled  her  from  her 
and  was  heard  as  well  in  the  conrt- 
if  an  inn  as  in  a  palace."  —  Medical 


lODT  the  year  1 730:,  an  Italian  teacher 
guitar  arrived  in  London,  and  posted 
the  Royal  Exchange  a  bill  inviting 
s  to  become  his  schtJors,  and  with  a 
of  the  instrument  at  the  top,  misei^ 
hawn.  Tbe  biU  began  thus,  'De 
ibl  music  colet  Chittara  fit  for  te  gau- 
e  ladis  camera.'  The  poor  man 
I  to  teach  at  a  very  low  rate,  but  met 
■one  that  could  be  preruled  on  to 
>f  him."  — H  AWKjHa,  Huioiy  of  Mu- 
L  4,  p.  74. 


"  1'lddd  supposed  the  world  to  be  a 
musical  instrument ;  and  that  the  elements 
that  compose  it  (assigning  to  each  a  cer- 
tain place,  according  to  the  laws  of  gravi- 
tation), together  with  the  planete  and  the 
hesven,  make  i^  that  inatmment  which  be 
calls  the  Mundane  MonoduM^" — Ibid.  p. 
IGS. 

Fludo  decorated  his  Tract  De  Mniici 
Mnndanft  with  devices  for  "  musical  dials, 
musical  windows,  musical  colonnades,  and 
""     Ibid.  p.  173. 


KiBCKBB  explained  tlie  fall  of  the  walls 
of  Jericho  to  the  mechanical  effects  of  the 
trumpets. — Ibid.  p.  2\5. 

Wasn  Corelli  was  playmg  on  the  vblin, 
his  countenance  used  to  be  distorted,  his 
eyes  to  become  as  red  as  fire,  and  his  eye- 
balls to  roll  as  in  an  agony. — Ibid.  p.  310. 

"  The  Flemish  and  Italian  editions  of  Co- 
relli's  Operas  and  Sonatas  were  printed  in 
such  an  obsouie  and  ill^lde  character,  that 
many  persons  in  England  acquired  a  sub- 
sistence by  copying  them  in  a  legible  charac- 
ter. Thomas  Shuttleworth,  a  music  master, : 
who  was  living  in  Spital  Fields,  a.d.  1736, 
brought  up  a  numerous  family  by  his  in- 
dustry in  this  practice." — Ibid.  p.  312. 

M.  i>B,LA  ViBDViLut  SB  Fkbhbitsb  ssys, 
that  being  in  Holland  in  168S,  he  went  to 
see  a  villa  of  Milord  Portland,  and  was 
struck  with  the  sight  of  a  very  hasdMnxe 
gallery  in  his  great  stable.  At  first,  says 
he,  I  concluded  it  was  for  the  grooms  to  lie 
in  ;  bnt  the  master  of  the  horae  told  n)e  that 
it  was  to  give  a  concert  to  the  horses  once  a 
week  to  cheer  them,  which  they  did,  and 
the  horses  seemed  to  be  greatly  delighted 
therewith." — Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  203. 


ocus  Fa^TBKSM  set  the  first  chapter  Tbb  monkish  writers  on  music  say,  "  Mi 
Matthew  to  music. — Ibid.  p.  200.  contra  fa  est  diabolus." — Bdbnbt,  N.  bi 
ioealt^ical  part.  Kii^  Zear,  p.  43. 


572 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS- 


^*  A  CURIOUS  and  beautiful  method  of 
observation  devised  bj  Chladni,  consists  in 
the  happj  device  of  strewing  sand  over  the 
surfaces  of  bodies  in  a  state  of  sonorous  vi- 
bration, and  marking  the  figures  it  assumes. 
This  ha^  made  their  motions  susceptible  of 
ocular  examination,  and  has  been  lately 
much  improved  on  and  varied  in  its  applica- 
tion hy  M.  Savart. 

'*  Sound  is  a  subject  the  investigation  of 
which  promises  important  consequences  in 
its  bearing  on  others,  and  especiall  j,  through 
the  medium  of  strong  analogies  on  that  of 
light.** — ELebschsl  an  Natural  Philosophy^ 
p.  289-90. 

"  The  doctors  of  our  theology  saj  that 
God  made  the  world  bj  number,  measure, 
and  weight ;  some  for  weight  say  tune^  and 
peradventure  better.*' — Puttenham,  p.  53. 

"  I  HAVE  known  good  men  that  were 
skilled  in  music,  and  much  delighted  in  it, 
and  yet  had  a  conceit  that  it  was  unlawful 
in  a  psalm  or  holy  exercise.  I  so  much 
differed  from  them,  that  I  scarce  cared  for 
it  anywhere  else ;  and  if  it  might  not  be 
holily  used,  it  should  never  have  been  used 
by  me.*' — ^Baxteb,  Rettituta^  vol.  3,  p.  187. 

**  If  it  be  true,  as  Athenseus  says,  th.it 
Pindar  wrote  an  ode  in  which  he  purposely 
omitted  the  letter  s,  it  must  have  been  be- 
cause it  was  designed  to  be  sung.** —  Curt' 
osities  of  Literature^  vol.  2,  p.  62. . 

'*  It  is  a  received  maxim  with  all  com- 
posers of  music,  that  nothing  is  so  melodi- 
ous as  nonsense.  Manly  sense  is  too  harsh 
and  stubborn  to  go  through  the  number- 
less divisions  and  subdivisions  of  modem 
music,  and  to  be  trilled  forth  in  crotchets 
and  demiquavers.  For  this  reason  thought 
is  so  cautiously  sprinkled  over  a  modem 
song,  which  it  is  the  business  of  the  singer 
to  warble  into  sentiment."  —  Connossieur, 
No.  72,  vol.  2,  p.  136. 

Webb's  (F.)  Panharmonicon,  an  Attempt 


to  Prove  that  the  Principles  of  Harmonj 
prevail  throughout  Nature,  but  especiallj 
in  Mankind,  4to.  plates,  not  printed  for  sale, 
seu^df  As. 

PocKSicH  and  his  musical  glasses.  He 
perished  in  the  fire  which  broke  out  at 
Hamlin's  Coffee  House,  Comhill,  10  Nov. 
1759. 

See  his  whole  strange  history.  Monthly 
Reviewy  vol.  24,  pp.  14-19. 

"  Senssivo  and  Farinelli  when  in  Eng- 
land together,  being  engaged  at  different 
theatres  on  the  same  night,  had  not  an  op- 
portunity of  hearing  each  other;  till,  hj 
one  of  those  sudden  stage  revolutions  which 
frequently  happen,  yet  ai-e  always  unex- 
pected, they  were  both  employed  to  sing  on 
the  same  stage.  Senesino  had  the  part  of 
a  furious  tyrant  to  represent,  and  Farinelli 
that  of  an  unfortunate  hero  in  chains ;  but 
in  the  course  of  the  first  song,  he  so  soft- 
ened the  obdurate  heart  of  the  enraged 
tyrant,  that  Senesino,  forgetting  his  stage 
character,  ran  to  Farinelli  and  embraced 
him  in  his  own.** — ^Bubnet's  Francis  Buly^ 
Monthly  Reoiew,  vol.  45,  p.  340. 

Farinelli  confirmed  the  truth  of  t<his  an- 
ecdote to  him. 

"  In  the  Hong-fan,  or  Sublime  Rule,  a 
chapter  of  the  Chou-king,  the  elements  and 
powers  of  nature  are  expressed  by  numbers; 
the  tones  of  music  correspond  with  the  sea- 
sons and  months,  with  the  duties  of  mo- 
rality and  the  ceremonies  of  Chinese  reli- 
gion, and  music  is  made  the  basis  of  all  the 
sciences,  and  more  especially  of  morals  and 
politics.** — Monthly  Review,  vol.  58,  p.  537. 
French  Mem.  of  the  R,  Acad, 

"  The  Che-hiang,  from  which  the  Chinese 
procure  their  musk,  can  only  be  brought 
within  shot  by  means  of  music.  One  of 
the  hunters  plays  lively  airs  on  a  flute, 
and  the  shy  animal  is  so  delighted  that  it 
gradually  draws  near.  The  notes  of  a  child 
are  said  to  be  still  more  alluring  than  those 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


573 


of  the   flute." — Menu  concerning    China, 
Monthly  Review,  vol.  60,  p.  563. 

"  Bbfoeb  the  Reformation  the  music  in 
all  countries  kept  pace,  being  applied  to  one 
language  only,  and  only  of  one  kind.** — 
Burnet,  Monthly  Review,  vol.  68,  p.  40. 

Lb  Sisub  BiiAVBT.  **  II  avoit  montr^  k 
jouer  de  la  flikte  k  un  grand  Prince,  mais 
tr^  mediocre  en  cet  art,  au  point  que  toutes 
les  fois  qu*il  jouoit,  un  chien  qu*il  aimoit, 
abojoit  et  faisoit  des  hurlemens  efirojables. 
A  peine  Blavet  embouchoit-il  son  instru- 
mentt  Fanimal  se  calmoit,  entroit  insensi- 
blement  dans  une  agitation  yoluptueuse,  et 
renoit  lecher  les  pieds  du  nouvel  Orphee.** 

This  they  call  **  le  plus  grand  ^oge  qu*on 
puisse  faire  de  son  talent.** — ^Bachaumont, 
Menu  Sec,  vol.  <*,  p.  165. 

*^  The  gobbling  of  a  turkey  cock  seems  to 
us  to  be  quite  contrary  to  true  melody; 
and  yet  the  female  of  Uiat  bird  may,  from 
a  particular  organization  of  nerves,  find 
these  notes  enchanting  music.**  —  IabHum 
and  Hortensia,  Monthly  Review,  vol.  68,  p.  15. 

NoiTB  of  the  first  French  refugees  in 
South  Carolina,  though  a  most  meritorious 
race,  ''  could  boast  of  any  great  success, 
except  one  man  who  taught  the  Indians 
dancing  and  music,  for  which  arts  they  dis- 
covered an  amazing  fondness,  and  liberally 
rewarded  him  for  his  instructions.**  — HiH, 
of  S.  Carolina,  vol.  1,  p.  139. 

DABwnf*8  scheme  for  setting  pictures  to 
music. — Miss  Sbwabd's  Letters,  vol.  2,  p. 
266. 

'*  I  HAVB  heard  him  (Lobd  Eeepbb 
Nobth)  say  that  if  he  had  not  enabled 
himself  by  these  studies,  and  particularly 
his  practice  of  music  upon  his  base,  or  lyra 
viol,  (which  he  used  to  touch  lute  fashion, 
upon  his  knees)  to  divert  himself  alone,  he 
had  never  been  a  lawyer.  His  mind  was  so 
airy  and  volatile,  he  could  not  have  kept 


his  chamber,  if  he  must  needs  be  there 
staked  down  purely  to  the  drudgery  of  the 
law,  whether  in  study  or  practice.** — Vol. 
1,  p.  15. 

Millbb,  a.  d.  1784,  published  a  sixpenny 
pamphlet  in  behalf  of  the  profession  of 
music,  recommending  country  musicians  to 
the  benevolence  of  those  who  had  set  on 
foot  the  Commemoration  of  Handel.  This 
was  ill-naturedly  reviewed.  Monthly  Review, 
vol.  71,  p.  889.  479.  Reply  to  a  country 
fiddler  who  remonstrated  against  their 
greater  town  severity. 

**  In  Russia  the  female  gipsies  (Romma- 
ny,  they  call  themselves)  have  from  time 
immemorial  cultivated  their  vocal  powers 
to  such  an  extent,  that,  although  in  the 
heart  of  a  country  in  which  the  vocal  art 
has  attained  to  greater  perfection  than  in 
any  other  part  of  the  world,  yet  the  princi- 
pal gipsy  choruses  in  Moscow  are  allowed 
to  be  unrivalled.** — Tubnbb,  Sac,  Hist  vol. 
3,  p.  260. 

Hbbbick,  vol.  1,  p.  131. — To  music  to 
becalm  his  fever. 


%^^^^N/\/VW^^A^^^^^/«^^ 


Medical  Botany, 

Phil,  Trana,  Ahr,  vol.  6,  p.  459.  A  good 
paper.  The  first  inference  was,  that  plants 
of  resemblant  growth  must  have  resemblant 
qualities,  then  those  of  resemblant  taste  and 
smell. 

Ibid.  vol.  9,  p.  43.  No  safe  criterion  this, 
for  the  roots  of  carrots,  parsnips,  and  many 
other  of  the  umbelliferous  plants,  are  daily 
used  as  food ;  but  the  water  hemlock  and 
Lobel*s  ^nanthe,^  though  of  the  same  class, 
are  most  certain  poisons. 

Ibid.  vol.  13,  p.  283.  Thbbb  are  two  Saxon 


*  See  Johnson's  Gerasdb's  Herbal^,  1060. 
He  calls  it  Filipendula  Aquatica,-^! .  W.  W. 


674 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


herbaries  in  the  Bodleian,  and  two  in  the 
Harleian  Collections,  the  one  being  a  trans- 
lation from  Lucius  Apuleius  of  Medaura. 

Watts,  vol.  3,  p.  882.  He  thinks  that 
"  no  noxious  plants  or  fruits  of  mortal  and 
malignant  juice  would  have  been  appointed 
to  grow  without  some  plain  signal  mark  or 
caution  set  upon  them,  if  man  had  continued 
in  his  innocent  state.** 

SnAFioR  Mbsub,  a  disciple  of  Avicenne, 
native  of  Maridin  on  the  Euphrates,  and 
who  lived  at  Cairo,  judged  of  the  virtue  of 
plants  by  their  qualities,  and  even  by  touch. 
By  colour  also,  in  which  he  approaches  Lin- 
neus.  He  observed  that  soil  and  situation 
produce  a  marked  effect  upon  them.  And 
he  held  thej  communicate  some  of  their  pro- 
perties to  each  other  when  they  grow  near. 
This  Sprengel  says  is  entirely  paradoxical. 
— Spsehqbl,  vol.  2,  p.  325. 

Baptista  Fobta  held  the  doctrine  of 
signatures. — Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  239.  Claude 
Aubery  de  Trecourt  defended  it. — ^Ibid.  p. 
371. 

AccoBDiNQ  to  IdSzaud,  the  Arabs  used 
to  medicate  fruit,  either  by  sowing  medical 
herbs  round  the  tree,  or  inserting  drugs  in 
its  pith.— Ibid.  vol.  3,  257. 

He  appeals  to  Belon  for  this  fact. 

• 

Du  Chesne  (Henri  rV.*s  physician)  car- 
ried the  notion  of  signatures  so  far,  that  he 
thought  the  male  plant  best  suited  to  men, 
the  female  to  women. — Ibid.  p.  374. 

Etebli,  the  Armenian  Saddleback,  near 
Erzervom,  "  abounds  in  medicinal  herbs, 
particularly  in  the  Tootia  flower,  the  scent 
of  which  perfumes  the  air.  Oculists  go  thi- 
ther to  collect  this  plant,  and  cure  with  it 
the  eyes  of  people  who  have  been  diseased 
for  forty  years." — ^EvuA  ErrsirDi. 

"  Discoveries  have  been  lately  made  of 
peculiar  proximate  principles,  which  in  an 


especial  manner  characterize  certain  fami- 
lies of  plants ;  these  principles  are  for  the 
most  part  very  powerM  medicines,  and  are 
in  fact  the  essential  ingredients  on  which 
the  medical  virtues  of  the  plants  depend.** 
— HsESCHEL  on  Nat.  PhiL  p.  345. 

**  Such  plants  as  are  insipid  to  the  taste 
and  smell,  have  generally  little  virtue;  those 
with  the  most  fragrant  smell  and  sharpest 
taste,  have  the  greatest  virtues,  of  whatever 
kind.  In  general,  those  with  a  strong  but 
agreeable  taste  are  the  most  valuable ;  and 
on  the  contrary  when  a  very  strong  taste  is 
also  a  very  disagreeable  one ;  or  when  the 
strong  odour  of  a  plant  has  something  heavy, 
and  disagreeaUe,  or  overpowering  in  it,  there 
is  mischief  in  the  herb.  The  few  p<»8onoiis 
plants  of  this  country  are  for  the  most  part 
thus  characterized.** — Monthly  Review^  voL 
11,  p.  416.  Usefrd  Family  Herbal 

There  is  said  to  be  a  plant  in  Norway, 
which,  if  the  cattle  eat,  their  strength  decays, 
*'  as  if  their  bones  were  mollified ;  so  that 
without  administering  the  Ixxiea  of  other 
cows,  which  those  affected  eat  with  the  ut- 
most greediness,  they  quickly  die.** — For- 
TOPFZDAK.^  Monthly  Reiriew,  Vol.  12,  p.  45S, 

PoRTOPPiDAif  says  that  the  root  of  the 
SeLmsepe,  which  the  Monthly  Review  sip* 
poses  to  be  the  Apium  Raainum,  or  water 
parsley,'  is  the  best  medicine  fbr  swioev  hot 
poisonous  for  sheep  and  men ;  that  extern 
nally  used,  it  cures  the  gout,  and  that  a  man 
who  was  impatient  under  an  inward  weak- 
ness, took  it  inwardly  and  was  cured. — ibid. 

^*  Thus  Mr.  Haatings,  who  takes  his  place 
in  the  Biography  of  Eccentrics,  often  drank 


*  See  NoRGES  Naturlige  HistorU,  torn.  L  p. 
204. 

*  Ibid.  p.  301.  The  words  in  the  Monthly 
Review  are  only  a  translation  from  the  origiiul. 
''Dens  Navn  £r  af  Stedet  5f^-AV^.^IM 
sanmie  som  de  Tydskes  Wasser  Eppich." — Id 
pp.  302-3,  it  is  cfulcd  Apium  Aontnum. 

J.  W.  W. 


MI8CKLLANE0US  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGa 


tjrup  of  gillifloirer  in  his  Bsck,  and  had  al- 
ways a  tnn-glass  itaDding  bj  bim,  bidding 
a  pint  of  Bmall  beer,  vbich  be  naed  to  rtir 
wttb  roKmaiy." — ConninMair,Tol.2,p.  189. 

Rni  wai  called  herb  of  grace,  because  it 
vBs  used  in  exorcisms ;  roeeniBrj,  remem- 
braux,  as  a  c^ibaUc. — Wabbvktok.  N.  1. 

SBAKBSrEAXB.   iltcA.  //.  Kt.  ili.  BC  IT. 

Matmcuua  suBTeoleni,  sweet  fererfow. 
wbo  could  keep  nothing  on  her 
'  was  perishing  for  mere  want  of 
lured  hj  this  flower,  the  yellow 
dilka  dipt  into  boiling  water.  It  was  the 
moat  grat^iU  bitter  that  could  be  tested. 
Her  stamacli,  that  abhorred  gentian  and  the 
lilie,  bore  this,  and  bj  persevering  in  its  use, 
she  wu  cured." ' — Hill's  Virtuea  o/BiitiMk 
HrrbM.    ManMy  Btvient,  vol.  44,  p.  414. 

Taa  root  of  the  male  fern,  two  or  three 
drams  in  powder,  a  spedGo  for  the  tape- 
vonn.*— dfontUy  BttUw,  vol.  ST,  p.  314. 

"  A  i.'soAxs  de  r^ode  dec  plantes,  per- 
ntettei,  Madame,  que  je  U  fasse  en  Natu- 
nlirte,  et  ntm  pas  en  Apoth4caire;  car, 
oatre  que  je  n'ai  qn'une  foi  trte  mMiocre  it 
Ik  mfdecine,  je  connois  I'organisstion  dea 
pl-nfo.  gax  la  foi  ds  la  Nature,  qui  ne  ment 
poiat,  et  je  ne  connois  leurs  rertus  m&li> 
tanales  que  snr  la  foi  des  bommes,  qui  sont 
menteor*.  Je  ne  miia  pas  d'humeur  k  les 
oroire  snr  leor  parole,  ni  k  port^e  dc  la  ve- 
rifier. Ainsi,  quant  &  moi,  j'aime  cent  fois 
mienx  loir  dans  I'lnuul  des  prez  dea  guir- 
ludes  pour  les  bergirei,  que  des  herbe* 
pour  les  lavemens." 

BonuBAr,  in  a  letter  to  Madame  la  Pr^- 
odente  de  Verna,  of  Grenoble. — Mtm.  Se- 
ertU,  L  17,  p.  310. 

Flam  for  generating  saltpetre  bj  planting 


'  Geribdb  SBjl "  It  fblly  performeth  all  that 
bitter  things  can  do." — p.  653. 

'  "  Ai  feoBwridea  writeth,"  are  the  words 
in  Qbbassk.    MA.  Johnson  iil  »]>rn,p.  II90. 


the  Botrjs,  or  Jerusalem  oak. — MoaOiiy 
RnieiB,  toI.  71,  p.  409. 

A  stBMOH  is  annuallj  preached  at  St 
Leonards,  Shorediteb,  on  the  religious  uae« 
of  botanical  philosophy,  pursuant  to  the  will 
of  Mr.  Fairchild,  a  gardener  at  Hoxton,  who 
died  1729.  The  Royal  Society  appoint  the 
preacher.  Jonea  of  Nayland  preached  se- 
veral of  these  sermons. 

Hbbbaldowh,  about  a  mile  from  Canter- 
bury, where  there  is  one  of  the  three  ar- 
chiepiscopal  hospitals.  "  The  spot  ii  re- 
marked to  have  been  peculiarly  healthful, 
and  herbalist*  are  sud  to  come  every  ye«r 
to  collect  medicinal  plants  which  grow  only 
at  that  particular  place." — Ibid.  voL  7S,  p, 
23. 

Tba  made  of  pear-tree  leaves  cured  a 
family  who  had  been  poisoned  by  mush- 
rooms at  Ghent.  The  ancients  knew  this 
property  in  the  wild  pear. — Ibid.  p.  535. 

WtLUAHs's  Missionary  EnteTj^icei,  p. 


Handlitig  a  Subjed. 

brawra  this. — Mbtastasio, 
vol.  10,  p.  341. 

"  Coiri'BESo  non  essermi  caduto  in  mente 
cbe  la  vatieta  de'  gusti  contraddicesse  punto 
alU  cottama  della  simplicity ;  potendo  ot- 
timamente  andar  variando  quelli,  senia 
cambiameoto  di  questa." — Ibid.  p.  367. 

"  Chi  sporger  si  vaota 
Qual  merlo  e  maggiore, 
Fra  tan  to  splendore, 
Fra  tanta  beltb f" 

Ibid.  vol.  II,  p.  208. 

"  Thb  mirth  wbereofso  larded  with  my  mat- 
ter. 

That  neither  singly  can  be  manifested 

Without  the  show  of  botb." 

iferrs  IT.W*  of  Windtor,  act  iv.  sc.  vi. 


MISCELLAlfEOUS  ANECDOTES  AM)  GLEANINGS. 


EUBIPIDBS.   OrtiU*,  T 


MAintBB  of  nuratioD  ia  the  Italian  ro- 
nasce  poenu.    B.  Taaio  altering  hi>  Ama- 


"  LiKB  Tristram  Shandj  I  eould  write 
From  mom  to  uoon,  from  noon  to  night, 
Sometimes  otucnre,  uid  sometlmeB  leaning 
A  little  Bidewaja  to  a  meaning, 
And  un&tigned  mjaelf,  punue 
Tbit  civil  mode  of  teazing  jon." 

LiATS.  Magtmne,  toI.  1,  p.  229. 

A  MATTS*  to  be  treated  at  large, — 
"  Aiyotfi  i  V  flJi)'  TO  ftaxpA  rHiy  OfuMptiy 

'EriirpooSiv  cti,  cat  aafii  fiaXKov  tAvtiv." 
Edbip.  Ortitti,  TT.  633-4. 

DoDBTFCL  whether  to  relate  or  not, — 
"  rTi  ?  ov  viy^  \Syov 
Yipitaaiay  yirotr  Sv,  m  J*  o5  aiyiie  Xiyot." 
Ibid.  VT.  631-2. 


"  Au.  thingg  thought  npoQ, 
That  maj  with  reasonable  EwiftLess,  add 
Hore  feathers  to  our  wings." 

Hemy  V.  act  i.  sc.  t. 


Scaie  qfBeiagt. 
In  vegetablea  no  conceivable  proportion 
between  the  seed  and  the  plant  in  wee. — 
Pha.  TroHM.  Abr.  vol.  10,  pp.  8,  9. 

SiXFUCiDS  calls  man  "iMiafiot  !uti- 
K^C  Tiiy  Ti  &VU  rui  rvv  cdnu,"-^the  vital 
joint  that  claspg  together  the  upper  and 
lower  world."— Scott.  Chitlian  Life,  voL 
t,p.S83. 

Some  indications  of  the  former  stages  ma; 
be  bferred  from  the  bands  and  feet,  as  well 


as  the  connteoanoe,  as  whether  ibej  have 
had  paws  or  claws,  boofs  or  talons. 

WoicBN  have  more  of  the  bird  m  them, 
light  and  airy,  volatile  and  loquscioni. 

"  Pttbaookas  and  the  Egyptians,  from 
whom  he  leamt  this  doctrine,  reveraed  the 
notion  of  transmigTBtioo,  snppoaing  that  the 
souls  of  bad  men  passed  into  the  bodies  of 
some  congenial  brute." — Bloukt'b  J'IUIim- 
6vftM,  p.3. 

"  Whin  thou  wert  fonn'd,  HeaTen  did  a 

man  b^n, 
Bat  the  brute  soul  by  chance  Mm  ahnffled 

Atiritiggtbe  to  JUorvb.  DBTim,voL4, 
p.  126. 

"  Tht  (ace  itself, 

Half  minted  with  the  rojal  stamp  of  man, 

And  half  o'ercome  with  beast." 

Dktdbm,  vol.  4,  p.  S8S. 

Shaxespxabb  sajs,  Ajaz  bad  "  robbed 
many  beasts  of  tbdr  particular  additions  i 
he  is  as  valiant  as  the  lion,  chorlish  as  the 
bear,  slow  as  the  depbant." — TVoiX  ad 
Crei.  act  i.  sc.  ii. 

Gbbat  huge  bulky  fellowa,  onlacky.— 
Soph.  Ajax,  r.  769-73. 

Ddchsss  or  Nbwcastls'b  Poems,  p.  44. 
There  may  bo  rational  creatures  in  the 
world  which  we  can  neither  see  nor  hear, 
nor  apprehend  by  any  of  our  senses. 


Inocviatiom. 
"  Ma.  PoBTEB,  our  ambassador  at  Constan- 
tinople, A.  D.  1755,  thought  it  had  it*  rise 
from  mere  superstition.  A  most  ignorant 
fellow,  a  Georgian,  and  physician  by  prac- 
tice, told  him  it  was  the  tradition  and  reli- 
gious belief  of  hie  countrymen  that  an  angd 
prgsidea  over  this  distemper ;  and  that  to 
show  their  trust  in  him,  and  invite  bim  lo 


MISCELLANE0D8  AMECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


itiona,  ^^7  take  »  pock  from  the 
■on,  and  bj  a  scarification  insert  it 
1  healUi,  geoerallj  between  the  fore 
nd  tbninb.  To  attract  the  angel'B 
Jl  more  effectually,  tbey  hsng  the 
)  bed  with  red  i-loth  or  stuff,  m  a 
lost  agreeable  tohira."—Pfti7.  Tnau. 
I.  ID,  p.  584. 
iglaod  patients  have  been  swathed 

act  of  our  rojal  family,  jl.  d.  1736. 

p.  690. 


N  Ihn  SilTes  de  la  Selva  bad  won 
he  five  castles  in  the  greatest  of  hii 
res,  two  ancient  men  came  before 
et  conimencerent  1  debattre  ct  dis- 
nsemble,  sur  lequel  estoit  meilleur, 
r,  ou  le  taire.  Mii»  parceque  celuj 
>it  pour  le  silence,  mit  en  avant  de 
!es  et  pr^nantes  nusona,  le  nouveau 
ateur  (D.  SiWes)  leur  comroanda 
!  teussent,  et  donna  sentence  que  la 
it^  estoit  la  vraye  vertu." — L.  14, 

Dw  and  protest  there's  more  plague 
!8sure  with  a  secret ;  especially  if  a 
ayn't  mention  it  to  four  or  five  of 
d  icular  acquaintance." — Bett}/  m  Me 
dne  Marriage. 

iTO  custa  ao  acautelado  e  secreto  o 
om  qne  guarda  e  esconde  o  segredo, 
hum  palreiro  e  impaciente  a  for^a 
e  odissimula." — Fb  ah  Cisco  RcoiM- 
iBO,  t.  4,  p.  104.  O  DeiengtAado. 


Uie  of  MytHfiaOion. 
I  ignotum  pro  ntagnifico.  „, 

)'  unknown  for  a  friend :  at  least 
)e  treated  as  an  enemy,  as  Jeffrey 
les  Grabame. 

ae  be  the  mysterious  unknown,  or 
,  tbe  qnaint,  the  etndtte,  &c. 


Tdb  name  (or  fool  seems  to  be  original 
in  every  language. 

"  In  comedy,"  says  Swift,  "  the  best  ac- 
tors play  the  part  of  the  droll,  whilst  some 
second  rogne  is  made  the  hero  or  fine  gen- 
tleman. So  in  this  farce  of  life,  wise  men 
pass  dieir  time  b  mirth,  whilst  fools  are 
only  serious."  —  Sttmlilg  Sevieio,  vol.  35, 
p.  136. 

"  AtETioB-UKB,  of  stuff  and  form  perplext, 
Whose  what  and  where  in  disputation  is." 
Cowuti. 

"  Qinc4iin>  recipitur,  reciiutur  in  modum 
recipientis."    How  this  is  received. 

K.ACIHO  the  reader  in  pouledom ;  plea- 


ion  should  be  ^ven  for  what 
— Joaas  of  Nayland,  vol.  B, 


Whtd 
Ichusett 
p.  292. 


Natokal  pn^nsity  to  laughter 
vol.  4,  p.  117. 


PhUotophy  of  Ntmtaue.     Morotophy. 
Bkst  learnt  by  talking  to  children  and 

"  Gaddbt  stnltia  Nstura  creandis 
Ut  malvis,  atque  urtii'is,  et  vilibus  herbis." 
Paungenids,  p.  368. 

Johh  Hbrdbbsoh  and  J.  C.  J.  there  is 
Dothic^  without  a  meaning. 

**  NoN  queje  me  meille  impudentemenC 
exempler  du  territoiro  de  folic  ;  j'en  tieni 
et  en  suis,  je  le  confesse.  Tout  le  monde 
est  fol." — Uabblaib,  vol.  5,  p.  119. 

"  Pantaordblisme.  Vous  entende*  que 
c'est  certmne  gnyete  d'esprit  confite  en  nie- 
pris  des  choses  fortuites."— Ibid.  tom.  6,  p. 


578 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Not  satisfied  till  ke  is  ^  tout  esperruquan- 
cluzelubelouzerirelu—  morrambouzeyezan- 
gouzequoquemorguatasachacquevesinemaf- 
fress^ —  morcrocassebizassenezass^rigae- 
liguoscop^K^udrille,**  with  so  many  such 
"  morderegrippipiotabirofreluchamburelu  - 
cecoquelurintimpanemens/*  till  he  shall  be 
firom  head  to  foot  completely  "trepigne- 
mampenillorifrizonoufressur^.**  —  Ibid.  p. 
213-4-5. 

'*  Upon  this  passage  I  shall  remark,  or 
rather  call  in  a  learned  and  very  able  divine 
to  remark  for  me,  that  *  when  men  speak 
or  write,  they  must  do  it  so  as  to  be  under- 
stood, unless  they  will  do  it  to  no  purpose : 
and  therefore  they  must  take  such  words  as 
are  to  be  had,  and  are  intelligible  to  those 
for  whose  benefit  they  write;  and  they 
must  be  contented  too  with  such  gramma- 
tical construction,  as  well  as  with  such 
words,  as  shall  be  found  expedient  to  the 
ends  for  which  they  write.'  Sometimes  it 
may  be  necessary  for  them  to  frame  new 
words,  'to  express  the  propriety  of  a  foreign 
idiom  ;*  and  in  all  respects  they  must  acco- 
modate themselves  to  their  subject,  and  to 
the  capacities  of  those  for  whom  they  un- 
dertake to  discourse  upon  it."  —  Jenkin's 
Reasonableness  of  Christianih/,  vol.  2,  p.  46. 

The  various  sophy*8 —  cosmosophy,  ker- 
dosophy. 

I  WILL  not  say  that  any  one  has  been 
knighted,  to  whom  an  honest  man  would  be 
more  likely  to  say  Sirrah  than  Sir  ;  but  I 
will  say  that  men  have  been  raised  to  the 
peerage,  and  advanced  in  it,  who  were  dis- 
qualified for  it  in  every  possible  way,  ex- 
cept by  their  possessions. 

Jests  in  sadness.  —  Ltdgate,  Shake' 
speare,  voL  8,  p.  246,  N. 


t^^rf^^^^^'^^^^^N^^/V^/NA/V^ 


Love, 

To  some  of  the  poets  a  verse  which  Dry- 
den  puts  into  the  mouth  of  Cortes  may  be 
applied, 


^  Your  Cupid  looks  as  dreadfully  as  death." 

The  Siqnoba  Emii.ia  says,  *'  Estimo  io 
adunque,  che  chi  ha  da  esser  amato,  debba 
amare,  et  esser  amabile." — H  CotiigiaMO, 
p.  269. 

Ibid.  p.  272-3. — How  love  comes  from 
the  heart  to  the  eyes,  and  so  into  other  eyes, 
and  to  the  heart  again. 

Pamaso  ItaL  voL  6,  p.  268w — ^A  somm  of 
Cariteo*s,  which  is  perhaps  the  originsi  of 
Desportes,  p.  49. 

'*  Hee  tears,  her  smiles,  her  every  look's  i 

net. 
Her  voice  is  like  a  syren's  of  the  land, 
And  bloody  hearts  lie  panting  in  her  band.** 
Dbtden,  Granada,  act  ilL  sc  L 

^'  Love  shot,  and  shot  so  fast 
He  shot  himself  into  my  breast  at  last** 

AknamoTy  act  iiL  sc.  1. 

^'  As  in  some  weather-glass  my  love  I  hd.^ 
Which  falls  or  rises  with  the  heat  or  cold." 

Lyndaraxa^  act  iv.  sc.  ii. 

^*  I  CAM  preserve  enough  for  me  and  jou ; 
And  love,  and  be  unfortunate  for  two." 

Benzayda^  act  v.  sc.  i. 

^*  It  was  your  fault  that  fire  seized  all  joor 

breast; 
You  should  have  blown  up  some,  to  save  the 

rest."  Almakide,  act.  v.  sc.  ii. 

*^  Ye  gods,  why  are  not  hearts  first  paired 

above; 
But  some  still  interfere  in  other's  love ! 
Ere  each  for  each  by  certain  marks  are 

known. 
You  mould  *em  up  in  haste,  and  drop  'em 

down." 

Conquest  of  Gran,  pt.  ii.  act  iiL  sc  1- 

^'  Oh  amanti,  oh  quanto  pooo 
Basta  a  farvi  sperar  I " 
Metastasio,  torn.  6,  p.  34,  ZenolW' 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


579 


1 


*'  E  DALL*  amore  all*  ira 
Lungo  il  cammin  non  ^.** 

Ibid.  p.  200,  Antigono, 

MousBB,  torn.  3,  p.  466,  Le  Miumtrope, 
— Lovers  find  beautj  in  their  mifltresses, 
be  thej  what  they  maj. 

**  O  AKTTunfo,  of  nothing  first  create  I 
O  heavy  lightness  I  serious  vanity  I 
Mis-shapen  chaos  of  well-seeming  forms, 
Feather  of  lead,  bright  smoke,  cold  fire,  sick 

health, 
Still  waking  sleep,  that  is  not  what  it  is.** 
Borneo  and  Julietj  act  i.  sc.  i. 

^  Mb8.  Cabtbb  was  for  half  an  hour  one 
evening  entirely  in  love  with  a  Dutchman ; 
and  the  next  morning  she  took  a  dose  of 
algebra  fasting,  which  she  says  entirely 
cimd  her." — Memoirs^  vol.  1,  p.  36-7. 

^  QuB  nos  sages  Gaulois  s^avoient  bien  ta 
coustume, 
Lors  que  pour  dire  aymer,  ils  pronon- 
9oient  amer  ? 
Amers  sont  bien  tes  fruits,  et  pleines  d*amer- 
tume 
Sont  toutes  les  douceurs  qu*on  a  pour 
bien  aimer.** 

AstrSe,  pt.  iv.  1.  9,  p.  916. 

Mabbiaqb  of  Isidro  de  Madrid  and  Ma- 
ria de  la  Cabeza. 

'*  Fueron  a  vistas  los  dos, 
y  fue  aquello  suficiente, 
que  cada  qual  se  contente ; 

Porque  lo  que  est4  de  Dios 
se  ezecuta  facilmente.** 

LoPB  DB  Yboa,  tom.  11,  p.  32. 

Sib  Kbhelm  Digbt,  in  his  Private  Me' 
mairs,  makes  a  lover  say,  *'  I  will  go  to  the 
other  world  to  preach  to  damned  souls  that 
their  pains  are  but  imaginary  ones,  in  re- 
spect of  them  that  live  in  the  hell  of  love.** 
—P.  38. 


Two  kinds.  Animal  magnetism  and  moral 
magnetism. 

**  EspiKHADAs  de  amor,  nad  ja  feridas.** 
Fbb.  Rucb  Lobo,  tom.  3,  p.  14. 


The  Dead. 

Speakibq  of  the  cemeteries  at  Ham- 
burgh, which  are  all  without  the  city,  Mb. 
DowNEs  says,  *'  It  is  in  such  situations,  re- 
mote from  the  bustle  of  a  city,  and  shaded 
with  trees,  that  a  communion  may  be  con- 
ceived to  exist  between  departed  spirits 
and  those  whom  affection  or  devotion  may 
have  led  to  visit  their  retreats;  that  the 
cemetery  becomes  a  sanctuary,  wherein  the 
living,  as  well  as  the  dead,  are  screened 
from  the  world  and  its  jarring  intercourses.** 
— Letters  from  the  Continent,  vol.  2,  p.  295. 

On  the  tombstones  here  is  inscribed  the 
word  Ruhe-Statt  or  Ruhe  Platz. 

David  van  deb  Bbckb*8  material  theory 
of  ghosts  much  like  Gafiarils. — Spbekqel, 
vol.  5,  p.  113. 

Tuebb  is  a  contemporary  poem  upon 
some  of  the  Gunpowder  traitors,  in  which 
their  heads  and  their  ghosts  hold  a  conver- 
sation.— RestitutOy  vol.  3,  p.  331. 

**  When  the  corpse  of  Eloisa  was  depo- 
sited in  Abelard*s  tomb,  the  dead  Abelard 
raised  his  arms,  opened  them,  and  clasped 
his  beloved  in  death.** — Curiosities  of  Lite" 
raturej  vol.  1,  p.  213. 

I SBB  no  **  wilful  bad  taste**  in  the  device 
for  the  text  Pulvis  et  umbra  sumus,  which 
represented  a  shadow  walking  between  two 
ranges  of  urns,  in  a  vault,  the  floor  of  which 
was  covered  with  dust.  —Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  82. 

Aftbb  giving  a  good  guess  at  the  milky 
way,  Manilius  asks, 

^*  An  fortes  animse,  dignataque  nomina  Ccelo 
Corporibus  resoluta  suis,  terr«qne  remissa 


i 


Hue  migrant  ex  orbe,  suomqae  habitantia 

coelum 
^thereofl  viyiint  annos,  mnndoque  fruun- 

tur."  Lib.  1,  V.  756. 

The  Monthly  Review,  August  1754,  vol. 
11,  p.  152,  praises  a  pamphlet  called  '*  the 
Scripture  Account  of  a  Future  State  con- 
sidered/* The  author  thinks  the  two  most 
probable  conjectures  are,  ^*  that  the  region 
of  departed  spirits  is  either  in  some  or  other 
of  the  neighbouring  stars,  or  else  in  the  in- 
terior parts  of  this  earth.*" 

**  Km  offers  some  conjectures  in  regard  to 
our  entrance  into  the  next  state,  which  he 
imagines  may  be  analogous  to  our  entrance 
upon  the  present.  As  we  are  introduced 
into  the  present  by  the  ministration  of 
others,  so  he  thinks  we  may  be  introduced 
into  the  next  by  ministering  spirits,  and 
that  the  soul  may  require  some  time  before 
its  organs  are  ripe  for  action  on  that  new 
theatre;  during  which  time  the  rational 
powers  may  continue  suspended,  as  they 
are  here  in  sleep ;  and  we  may  remain  un- 
der the  nurture  of  guardian  angehi,  or  kin- 
dred spirits,  during  this  stage  of  inaction, 
similar  to  the  stage  of  our  infancy."— Ibid, 
p.  152. 

"  The  Japanese  say  that  the  Takama- 
nofarra,  i.e.  the  high  and  subcelestial  fields, 
are  just  beneath  the  thirty-three  heavens  of 
their  gods,  and  there  the  souls  of  the  good 
are  admitted  without  delay/*— Kjbmffbb, 
vol.  1,  p.  213. 

"  Richard  Jago  (the  poet,  I  suppose) 
published  a  sermon  which  he  preached  at 
Harbury,  Warwickshire,  '  on  occasion  of  a 
conversation  said  to  have  past  between  one 
of  the  inhabiUnts  and  an  apparition  in  the 
churchyard  of  that  place.*  It  was  no  part 
of  his  design  either  to  confirm  or  dispute 
the  fact  of  the  conversation !  which  was  con- 

St  of  Tri  "^  t^'  ^"PP""^^^  ^^  '^^ 
^^  ^^.^l^^'-^^i*^  May  ir^Manthly  Me- 
w«w,  vol.  12,  p.  516. 


CowPER*8  notion  that  they  revisit  earth. 
— Correspomdenee,  voL  1,  p.  109. 

FoLTTENSss  and  obedience  in  the  grave. 
— Escritoret  de  Valencia,  voL  1,  p.  48. 

*'  One  of  the  last  requests  of  Luke  Sparks 
the  actor  was,  that  his  funeral  service  might 
be  performed  by  the  then  Reverend  John 
Home,  afterwards  better  or  worse  known 
by  the  loss  of  the  reverend  before  his  name, 
and  the  addition  of  Tooke  at  the  end  of  it** 
— CHUBcriLL,  vol.  1,  p.  41,  N. 

When  the  archbishop  is  exciting  Henry  V. 
to  retain  the  French  crown,  he  says, 

"  Go,  my  dread  lord,  to  your  great  grand- 
sire*s  tomb, 

From  whom  you  claim,  invoke  his  warlike 
spirit, 

And  your  great-uncle*s,  Edward  the  Black 
Prince ; 

Who  on  the  French  ground  played  a  tra- 
gedy. 

Making  defeat  on  the  full  power  of  France ; 

Whiles  his  most  mighty  father  on  a  hill 

Stood  smiling,  to  behold  his  lion*s  whelp 

Forage  in  blood  of  French  nobility." 

Henry  V.  act  i.  sc.  ii. 

Stephen  Kkld,  late  wine  merchant  at 
Ipswich,  who  published  his  own  Memoirs  in 
1760  (Is.  6d.)  says,  "  that  his  sbter  looking 
in  her  glass  one  day,  told  her  maid  she  was 
a  dead  woman,  and  actually  died  a  few 
hours  afterward ;  and  the  appearance  of 
her  face  remained  in  the  glass  till  after  the 
funeral,  in  defiance  of  all  washing  and  en- 
deavours to  get  it  out.** — Manihfy  Reviev, 
vol.  23,  p.  407. 

Cenotaphs  were  thought  to  be  retreats 
for  the  wandering  souls  of  those  who  had 
no  burial.  Qusere,  for  any  occupant,  or 
only  for  the  proprietor  intended? — HooKi 
vol.  2,  p.  320. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


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5S\ 


Popish  Supergtition  and  Barbarity,    From 
the  Dublin  Warder,  July  1835. 

"  Dbbadful  afiray. — Two  men  killed  and 
several  wounded. 

**  The  following  is  from  an  eye-witness 
of  what  he  relates :  we  give  it  in  his  own 
words : — 

'*  *  The  Roman  Catholic  burial-place, 
GlassneTin,  near  this  city,  was  the  battle- 
ground where  the  savage  rencontre  took 
place.  The  Irish  Papists  are  paganly  su- 
perstitious ;  and  their  habits,  manners,  and 
customs  differ  from  the  rest  of  mankind. 
A  very  barbarous  custom,  prevailing  very 
generally  among  the  Milesian  Irish,  is  often 
made  the  pretext  for  fighting  at  funerals. 
These  believe  in  a  fatality  which  (they  say) 
is  out  of  the  power  of  prayer  or  their  priests 
to  avert — L  e.  when  two  funerals  at  the 
same  time  approach  one  common  grave- 
yard for  interment,  the  last  corpse  entering 
is  d(fomed  to  draw  water  from  a  distant 
well  in  a  bucket  full  of  holes,  in  order  to 
irrigate  the  souls  placed  in  purgatory  by 
Romish  superstition. 

*'  On  Sunday  last,  about  sun-down,  two 
funerals  approached  the  entrance-gate  of 
this  celebrated  cemetery — ^where,  as  if  by 
magic  impulse,  both  parties  made  a  sudden 
rush  to  gain  the  gate  entrance — ^the  coffin- 
bearers  came  in  contact,  and  the  coffins 
were  upset  in  an  instant  on  the  road.  Both 
parties  soon  attacked  each  other,  armed 
with  bludgeons,  stones,  whips,  &c. ;  two 
priests  who  attended  were  much  beaten — 
the  dead  bodies  beaten  out  of  the  coffins ; 
and  it  was  not  before  one  party  was  com- 
pletely beaten  away  that  the  fight  ended. 
The  defeated  party  was  from  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Cole's  Lane.  The  butchers, 
cUeve-boys,  and  the  butchers*  assistants 
were,  however,  determined  on  revenge ;  and 
on  Monday  last  these  people  got  information 
that  a  funeral  (attended  by  the  persons  who 
beat  them  the  evening  before)  would  soon 
arrive.  As  soon  as  it  did  appear,  it  was 
immediately  attacked,  the  coffin  and  corpse 
demolished  in  an  instant — two  men,  named 


Williams  and  Mulcahy,  from  the  egg-mar- 
ket, were  killed,  and  eight  sorely  beaten. 
The  speedy  arrival  of  the  police  prevented 
further  mischief.  On  Tuesday  the  coal- 
porters  came  there  to  assist  tbeir  friends, 
the  butchers ;  but,  not  meeting  any  of  their 
opponents,  they  dispersed  at  ten  o'clock.'* 


Phide  and  ingratitude  of  an  Icelandic 
ghost — Monthly  Review,  vol.  53,  p.  593. 
The  story  is  from  Islands  Landnamabok.^ 


%^^V%/«A/N^^WW^^A/WN^N/\^« 


Language. 

AifSBicAH  Indians.  They  have  modes 
of  speech  and  phrases  peculiar  to  each  age 
and  sex. — Phil,Trant.Abr.  vol.  13,  p.  409. 

^^  I HAVB  as  ill  an  opinion,**  says  Bix>uifT, 
^  of  the  French  tongue  as  of  the  people, 
since  the  very  language  itself  is  a  cheat, 
being  written  one  way,  and  pronounced 
another.** — Note  to  Philost,  p.  76. 

Dbtdbit,  vol.  4,  p.  303.  Limberham*8 
Lingua  Franca  is  almost  pure  Piukertonian. 

^*  It  is  said  that  recent  discoveries  have 
led  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Bramins  had 
in  days  of  yore  eighteen  languages,  each 
appropriated  exclusively  to  one  line  of  sub- 
jects, of  which  we  have  hitherto  learned 
only  one, — ^that  devoted  more  particularly 
to  mythology  or  religion.** — Moore*s  Ori' 
ental  Fragments,  p.  435. 

Elphimston  on  Interjections. — Monthly 
Review,  vol.  14,  p.  324. 

Shaw,  in  his  Gaelic  Dictionary,  says,  the 
Gaelic  is  the  language  of  Japhet,  spoken 
before  the  Deluge  ;  and  probably  the  speech 

*  For  aocoant  of  which  see  the  Sagabibliothek, 
vol.  L  p.  225,  of  the  late  Peter  Erabmus  Mul- 
LER — a  name  (like  Uiat  of  Risk)  to  which  I 
owe  so  much  of  my  northern  lore,  and  whose 
kindness  I  can  never  forget  — J.  W.  W. 


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of  Paradise. — Monthly  Review^  vol.  63,  p. 
513. 

'^  Rowland  Joites  sajs  Babel  was  so  called 
from  ba-bi-el,  t.  e.  beings  calling  like  bos  or 
sheep.  It  is  likely  that  this  language  (the 
Celtic)  as  it  thus  defines  the  prediluvian 
as  well  as  the  postdiluvian  names,  and  gives 
the  etymology  of  language  as  preferable  to 
any  other,  must  have  existed  before  the  con- 
fusion of  languages ;  and  if  all  the  world 
spake  in  one  language,  this  must  be  it.** — 
Ibid.  p.  513-4. 

Mas.  Montagu  thought,  that  in  another 
life  we  shall  not  use  an  inadequate  inter- 
preter of  our  thoughts,  as  language  is. 
*^  Thought,**  she  says,  '^  is  of  the  soul,  lan- 
guage belongs  to  body ;  we  shall  leave  it  in 
the  grave  with  our  oUier  rags  of  mortality.** 
— Letters,  vol.  4,  p.  358. 

**  Luckily,  the  lawyers  will  not  part  with 
any  synonymous  words ;  and  will  conse- 
quently preserve  the  redundancies  of  our 
language.** — H.  Walpole,  vol.  4,  p.  140. 

Grant  on  the  Gaelic  Interjections. — 
Monthly  Review^  vol.  77,  p.  20. 

FOLTNBSLAN  prOUOUUS. — WlLLIAMS*  ilf  19- 

sionary  Enterprizes,  p.  527. 

"  Not  only  every  shire  hath  a  several 
language,  but  every  family,  giving  marks  for 
things  according  to  their  fancy.** — ^Duchbss 
OF  Newcastle.  One  of  the  Epistles  pre- 
fixed to  her  Poems  and  Fancies. 

Canada.  ^^  Les  Sauvages  n*ont  point  en 
leur  langue,  ni  bien  en  leurs  moeurs,  ce  mot 
de  pech^; — j*estois  done  en  peine  de  les 
faire  concevoir  un  desplaisir  d'avoir  ofienc^ 
Dieur^Relation.  1634.  P.  29. 


■WW^MMiA/\/WWW>/WV« 


Wigs, 

**  Thb  invention  of  periwigs,**  says  Ch. 
Blount,  **  is  of  so  great  use,  and  saves  men 
80  much  trouble,  that  it  can  never  be  laid 


aside.  It  helps  to  disguise  the  thief;  to 
make  an  ill  face  tolerable ;  the  tolerable 
handsoine;  to  ease  the  lazy  of  trouble;  and 
to  make  men  their  vas8al8---if  women  would 
but  wear  them.**— iVote  to  Philast,  p.  27. 

A  MAN  who,  having  but  one  peruke,  made 
it  pass  for  two.  It  was  ^  naturally  a  kind 
of  flowing  bob ;  but  by  the  occasional  addi- 
tion of  two  tails,  it  sometinies  passed  as  a 
major.** — Connoisseur,  vol.  1,  p.  132.  (a.d. 
1754.) 

Dispute  between  the  Pemiquiers  and 
the  Coiffeurs  de  Dames  de  Paris.  A.i>. 
1769. — ^Bacuaumont,  vol.  4,  pp.  211-16. 

Haibbressbrs  compared  with  statoaries 
and  painters. — Monthly  Review,  vol.  72,  p. 
472. 

Teetuluan  **  speaking  of  such  as  had 
curled  and  embroidered  hair,  bids  them*con- 
sider  whether  they  must  go  to  heaven  with 
such  hair  or  no.  And  whereas  they  adorned 
themselves  with  winkles  made  of  other  wo- 
men*s  hair,  he  asks  them  whether  it  may  not 
be  the  hair  of  a  damned  person,  or  no.  If 
it  may  be,  he  further  demandeth,  how  it  may 
beseem  them  to  wear  it  which  profless  them- 
selves to  be  the  sons  and  daughters  of  God.** 
— Peekinb,  vol.  1,  p.  250. 


MAA/v^^^^^««^^W«^/W^MW 


BeUs. 

He  touched  also  upon  their  value — **poi]r 
la  substantifique  quality  de  la  complexion 
elementaire,  qui  est  intronifiqu^  en  la  ter- 
restrit^  de  leur  nature  quidditative,  pour 
extraneiser  les  halots  et  les  turbines  dessus 
nos  vignes.** — Rabelais,  vol.  i.  p.  171. 

Cenalis,  (Bishop  of  Avranches  after- 
wards), reckons  bells  among  the  signs  of  the 
true  church,  the  Protestants  in  IVance  not 
being  allowed  them,  they  fired  a  gun  for  a 
signal,  upon  which  he  says — "  Les  cloches 
sonnent,  les  mousquets  tonnent ;  les  cloches 


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font  one  agr^able  mosique,  leu  mousquets 
un  bruit  horrible:  les  cloches  ouvrent  le 
ciel,  les  mousquets  I'enfer :  les  cloches  dis- 
sipent  le  toimerre  et  les  nuages,  les  mous- 
quets d^vent  les  nuages  et  imitent  le  ton- 
nerre.** — Ibid.  p.  170,  N. 

His  book  was  publiahed  a.d.  1557. 

Wairr  the  bells  of  Yarennes  said  con- 
cerning Panurge*8  marriage. —  Ibid.  vol.  4, 
pp.  262-273. 

In  Queen  Elizabeth*8  journies  from  Hat- 
field to  London,  as  soon  as  she  drew  nigh  the 
town^  Shoreditch  bells,  which  were  much 
esteemed  for  their  melodj,  used  to  strike  up 
in  honour  of  her  approach.  She  seldom 
failed  to  stop  at  a  small  distance  from  the 
church,  and  amid  the  prajers  and  acclama- 
tions of  the  people,  would  listen  attentively 
to,  and  commend  the  bells. — ^Hawkins's  H, 
Mutie^  vol.  3,  p.  458. 

It  is  a  common  tradition,  that  the  bells 
of  King*s  College  Chapel,  Cambridge,  were 
taken  by  Henry  Y.  fVt>m  some  church  in 
France,  afier  the  battle  of  Agincourt.  They 
were  taken  ^own  some  years  ago,  and  sold 
to  Phelps  the  bdl-founder  in  Whiteehapel, 
who  melted  them  down. — ^Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  154. 

In  a.d.  1684,  Abraham  Rudhall  of  Glou- 
cester brought  the  art  of  bell-founding  to 
great  perfection.  His  descendants  in  suc- 
cession have  continued  the  business  of  cast- 
ing bdls ;  and  by  a  list  published  by  them 
it  appears  that  at  Lady  Day  1774,  the  fami- 
ly, in  peals  and  odd  bells,  had  cast  to  the 
amount  of  3594.  The  peals  of  St.  Dunstans, 
St.  Brides,  and  St.  Martins,  were  among 
them. — Ibid. 

^  Camfanalogia,  a  poem  in  praise  of 
ringing.  By  the  author  of  The  Shrubs  of 
Parnassus.  Folio,  1«.  IJ." — Monthly  Review, 
1761,  vol.25,  p. 478. 

^  One  would  imagine  such  strange  terms 
as    Grandsire   triples,  Bobs,   Bob-majors, 


Cators,  Cinques,  Bobs-royal,  and  Bobs- 
maximuses  were  invented  by  the  worshipful 
company  of  Barbers,  to  distinguish  the  va- 
rious orders  of  perukes ;  as  the  sounds  seem 
rather  consonant  to  them  than  to  the  musi- 
cal art  of  bell-ringing.  This,  however,  is 
certain,  that  they  contribute  nothing  to- 
wards harmonizing  the  harsh  blank  verse 
of  this  laboured  poem.** — Ibid. 

FoBDOB  I.  the  last  Russian  prince  of  the 
race  of  Rourik,  passed  the  eleven  years  of 
his  inglorious  reign  in  bell-ringing. — Ibid, 
vol.  71,  p.  551.    Lb  Clbbc. 


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Family  Pride, 

Diffbebnt  degrees  of  relationship  to 
Adam. 

That  phrase  concerning  Melchisedec, 
which  has  given  occasion  to  such  fancies, 
simply  means  that  his  pedigree  is  not  known. 
iiyividXoyrfroQ,    "Nullismajoribus  ortos." 

— HoBACfi. 

Fbankijn^s  progressive  diminution  of 
consanguinity. 

**  Lbs  anciens  Romains  ^toient  aussi  foos, 
qu*on  Test  aujourd*hui  sur  le  chapitre  des 
genealogies.  De  combien  de  families  ne 
disoient-ils  pas  qu'elles  descendoient,  ou 
d*un  compagnon  d*Hercule,  ou  de  quelque 
autre  personnage  des  tems  fabuleux.'* — 
Batle,  vol.  2,  p.  274. 

"  Gbbat  families,**  says  Sir  Egerton  B. 
**  though  they  have  many  obscure  periods 
in  a  course  of  generations,  yet  always  break 
out  at  intervals,  and  show  their  brilliant 
b'ghts.** — Autobiography,  vol.  1,  p.  275. 


*^^k^^^^^^M^^^W^^^^^^^^%^^ 


Hereditary  Qualities. 

Bishop  Haul,  enquiring  **  in  what  point 
the  goodness  of  honour  consisteth,**  and  if 
it  is  "  in  high  descent  of  blood,**  says — "  I 


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could  think  so,  if  nature  were  tied  bj  anj 
law  to  produce  children  like  qualified  to 
their  parents.  But,  although  in  the  brute 
creatures  she  be  ever  thus  regular,  that  ye 
shall  never  find  a  joung  pigeon  hatched  in 
an  eagle*s  nest ;  jet  in  the  best  creature, 
which  hath  his  form  and  her  attending 
qualities  from  above,  with  a  likeness  of  face 
and  features,  is  commonlj  found  an  unlike- 
ness  of  disposition ;  only  the  earthly  part 
follows  the  seed :  wisdom,  valour,  virtue, 
are  of  another  beginning." — Sacred  Cku' 
iicHf  vol.  5,  pp.  45-6. 

In  the  time  of  the  League  — **  On  crigea 
en  axiome  de  droit  public,  qu*il  n*y  avoit 
plus  de  parente  au  dixi^me  dcgr^  et  qu* 
ainsi  la  descendance  du  Roi  de  Navarre 
^toit  un  Stre  de  raison.  Les  Theologiens 
et  les  Publiastes  se  reunirent  pour  demon- 
strer  au  Cardinal  de  Bourbon  que  la  succes- 
sion lin^ale  en  fait  de  parent^  finissoit  in- 
clusivement  k  sa  personne.**  A  book  was 
written  to  prove  this  point ;  and  an  answer 
was  written  which  "  prouva  que  la  succes- 
sion lineale  8*^tendoit  k  Tinfini.**  This  let- 
ter, by  Pierre  Belloy,  is  printed  in  the  Me- 
moires  de  la  Ligue. — CoU.  des  Mem,  t.  50, 
pp.  328-9. 

Amadib,  vol.  1 1,  p.  24.  Breed  of  heroes 
improving  from  generation  to  generation. 

A  coMTBART  Opinion. — Cowfbb*8  OdyS' 
sey,  vol.  1,  p.  37. 

Jarbou>*8  Instinct  and  Reason,  pp.  241. 
135. 

Breed  of  Chiefs.  Physical  superiority 
secured  by  breed  and  feeding. — ^Wiluams* 
Missionary  Enterprizes,  pp.  512-3. 

"Docurr  Hippocrates  lib.  de  flatib.  t.  39. 
Nihil  inter  omnia  quae  in  corpora  sunt,  ad 
prudentiam  conferre,  quam  sanguinem,  in- 
primis  cum  in  constant!  habitu  persistit.** 
Senhertus  adds  —  "Nam  quails  sanguis, 
talis  spiritus ;  qualis  spiritus,  talis  animus  ; 


ex  Optimo  vero  sanguine  optimiu  et  purit- 
simus  spiritus.** — YoL  1,  p.  451. 


<rf»rA/»^»^/WV»^^^^^>^^»^»»S» 


Colombia. 
BATI.E,  vol.  2,  p.  100.     On  Hobbet. 

Licences  for  suicide. 

Cbimihals,  some  inclosed  ezperimeDtaDy, 
like  toads  in  artificial  stone,  or  hermeticaUy 
sealed  up  in  bottles. 

A  LAUD,  not  in  Mesopotamia,  but  in  Me- 
salethpseudea,  or  Mesetumopseudea. 

The  Alethomoian  species  of  history. 

"  It  will  become  our  wise  senators,  and 
we  earnestly  expect  it,  that  they  would  con- 
sult as  well  the  state  of  the  natural  as  the 
politic  body  of  this  great  nation.** — Etslte. 
Misc.  p.  239. 


'^^^^^S^N^^^^^^^I^^«^^^^hA^^^M# 


Dogs. 

'^The  strangest  thing  that  I  haTe  read  of 
in  this  kind  (portents)  being  certainly  tme, 
was,  that  the  night  before  the  battle  at 
Moscow,  all  the  dogs  which  followed  the 
French  army  ran  from  them  to  the  Switseni 
leaping  and  fawning  upon  them,  as  if  they 
had  been  bred  and  fed  by  than  all  their 
lives :  and  in  the  morning  following,  Tri* 
yalEi  and  Tremouille,  Grenerals  for  Lonb 
XII.,  were  by  these  Imperial  Switzers  ut- 
terly broken  and  put  to  ruin.** — ^Rausigb, 
b.  4,  p.  153. 

Kjcmpfeb,  vol.  1,  p.  265. 

^*  Sense  and  fidelity  are  wonderful  re- 
commendations ;  and  when  one  meets  with 
them,  and  can  be  confident  that  one  is  not 
imposed  upon,  I  cannot  think  that  the  two 
additional  legs  are  any  drawback.  At  least 
I  know  that  I  have  had  friends  who  would 


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nerer  haye  vexed  or  betrayed  me,  if  they 
had  walked  on  all  fours.** — H.  Walpolb, 
ToL  4,  p.  844. 

SuLLT,  vol.  1,  p.  79.  He  once  found 
Henry,  then  King  of  Nayarre,  in  his  cabi- 
net ^  L*e8p^  au  cost^  une  cappe  sur  les 
espaules,  son  petit  toquet  en  teste,  et  un 
pannier  pendu  en  escharpe  au  col,  comme 
ces  vendeurs  de  fromages,  dans  lequel  il  y 
aToit  deux  ou  trois  petites  chiens  pas  plus 
gros  que  poing.** 


Paradisiacal  State, 

Watts,  vol.  3,  p.  375.  Nothing  but 
man  was  created  with  a  telescopic  and  mi- 
croscopic sight,  and  oil  sense  of  hearing, 
feeling,  and  smelling,  in  proportional  supe- 
riority. 

Ibid.  p.  878.  Ahd  without  any  principle 
of  decay  or  death  in  him. 

Ibid.  p.  424.  Thst  might  haye  been 
translated,  like  Enoch. 

Ibid.  p.  437.  "  It  is  very  probable, 
though  Adam  and  Eve  had  no  garments  in 
their  state  of  innocency,  yet  they  were  not 
entirely  naked,  but  were  covered  with  a 
bright  shining  light,  or  glory,  as  a  token  of 
their  own  innocence,  and  of  the  Divine  fa- 
vour or  presence:  such  glory  as  angels 
sometimes  appeared  in,  and  such  as  Christ 
wore  on  the  holy  mount :  such  as  arrayed 
him  like  a  bright  cloud  at  his  ascent  to  hea- 
ven, and  such  as  saints  shall  put  on  at  the 
resurrection,  when  they  shall  be  raised  in 
power  and  glory  .*•  * 

Capt.  Mabbtat  asked  a  Burman  soldier 
what  was  his  notion  of  a  future  state.  **  I 
shall  be  turned  into  a  buffalo,**  he  replied ; 
^  and  shall  lie  down  in  a  meadow  of  grass 

'  See  the  opinion  of  Stephen  Gobanis,  Third 
Series,  p.  679.— J.  W.  W. 


higher  than  my  head,  and  shall  eat  all  day 
long,  and  there  won*t  be  a  single  mosquito 
to  annoy  me.**— TuBnoi's  Sac.Hiat  vol.  3, 
p.  520. 

"  If  man  had  never  fallen,  he  should 
have  laboured  in  the  garden,  but  so  as  he 
should  never  have  been  wearied  therewith." 
Wearisomeness  in  labour  was  part  of  his 
curse. — Pjuumis,  vol.  1,  p.  151. 


[BuU'haiHng.'] 

Pabb  fond  of  bull-baiting.  "  You  see,** 
said  he,  *'  pulling  up  his  loose  coat-sleeve 
above  his  elbow,  and  exposing  his  vast, 
muscular,  and  hersute  arm  to  die  gaze  of 
the  company,  you  see  that  I  am  a  kind  of 
taurine  man,  and  must  therefore  be  natu- 
rally addicted  to  the  sport**— Wabnbb's 
Rec.  vol.  2,  p.  187. 


[QMickneu  of  SightJ] 

Trbbb  were  two  boys  belonging  to  the 
Artificer's  Company  at  Gibraltar  during 
the  siege  possessed  of  such  extraordinary 
quickness  of  sight  that  they  could  see  the 
enemy*s  shot  almost  immediately  as  it  quit- 
ted the  gun.  They  were  constantly  placed 
therefore  on  some  of  the  works  to  observe' 
the  enemy*s  fire,  and  give  notice.  Their 
nam'%  were  Richardson  and  Brand.  The 
former  was  reputed  to  have  the  best  eye. — 
Dbikkwatbb,  p.  227. 


*^^^v^^^^\^^^^^^^^w^^^^^ 


Progrestive  Life, 

"  SoMB  delight  in  low  and  wanton  jests, 
and  their  satisfaction  lies  in  foolish  merri- 
ment, in  mean  and  trifling  conversation,  a 
little  above  the  chattering  of  monkeys  in  a 
wood,  or  the  chirping  of  crickets  upon  a 
hearth,  but  not  always  so  innocent.** — 
Watts,  voL  8,  p.  405.  • 

Ltcahthbopt — Spbbbgbl,  vol.  2,  p.  174, 


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N.  vol.  3,  p.  147.  SAiiGUES,  vol.  1,  p.  334. 
Flint,  toI.  8,  c.  22.  See  in  Plautus,  vol.  1, 
p.  97. 

Pbbmatubb  old  age  when  not  occasioned 
bj  any  ascertainable,  or  likelj  cause,  owing 
to  the  shorter  term  of  life  through  which 
Archeus  in  his  stages  has  past. 

A  BACB  of  inferior  creatures  in  the  other 
worlds,  upon  which  no  curse  has  fallen. 


'*  Abt  thou  a  man  ?  thj  form  cries  out, 

thou  art, 
Thy  tears  are  womanish ;  thy  wild  acts 

denote 
The  unreasonable  fury  of  a  beast ; 
Unseemly  woman,  in  a  seeming  man. 
Or  ill-beseeming  beast,  in  seeming  both. 
Romeo  and  Juhet,  act  iii.  sc.  iii. 


i» 


Db.  Eibkpatbick  in  his  Analysis  of  In- 
ventation  says,  **  we  have  a  manifest  vege- 
tative principle  inherent  in  our  fabric." — 
Monthly  Review.  Feb,  1764.  p.  114. 

Ferdinand  says  of  Miranda^ 

"  You,  0  you 
So  perfect  and  so  peerless  are  created 
Of  every  creature  best." 

Tempest^  act  iiL  sc.  i. 
See  what  precedes. 

Thus  it  is  that  man  sometimes 
^*  Will  have  a  wild  trick  of  his  ancestors," 
As  Shakespeare  says  of  a  fox,  though 

'*  —  ne'er  so  tamed,  so  cherished,  and  lock*d 
up." — Henry  IV.  part  1,  act  v.  sc.  ii. 

Thb  war  cry  of  the  Melek  Nazr  ad  Dcen 
was,  ^'  I  am  a  bull,  the  son  of  a  bull." — 
Hoskhis,  p.  45. 

Times,  Friday,  3  July,  1835. 

'^  A  MAH  about  fifty  years  of  age  lately 
died  in  the  hospital  at  Arras  of  spontaneous 
hydrophobia,  a  disease  of  the  rarest  occur- 
rence." 


LoBD  MoNBODDO  held  that  there  are  four 
distinct  minds  in  man ;  the  demental,  the 
vegetable,  the  animal,  and  the  intellectual, 
and  that  these  form  the  Tetractys  of  the  Py- 
thagoreans. Pythagoras  he  thought  was  of 
an  intermediate  nature  between  divine  and 
human,  and  that  there  were  many  such  beings 
in  ancient  times,  who  were  revered  as  he- 
roes and  demigods. — Mimthly  Review,  vol. 
72,  p.  855. 

TbABSMIGBATTOH.  —  CULUDIAN,    in  ih/. 

lib.  2,  V.  482,  et  Plato  de  Rep.  lib.  x.  in 
fine.— Ibid.  vol.  76,  p.  206. 

Thb  Druses  hold  that  the  soul  of  a  Druse 
who  dies  in  ignorance  and  libertinism,  passes 
into  the  body  of  a  man  destined  to  live  in 
indigence  and  a  low  station  ;  but  that  tbe 
soul  of  a  persevering  spiritualist  enters  into 
that  of  an  Emir  Sheik,  a  rich  husbandman^ 
in  expectation  that  the  last  appearance  of 
God  and  their  prophet  will  recompense  him 
in  a  more  glorious  manner. — Ibid.  voL  76, 
p.  625. 

A  CBAZT,  or  foolish  Archeus  explains 
much. 


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Eternal  Punishment 


Watts  thinks  it  '*  highly  probable  that 
the  damned  will  exist  in  a  perpetual  expec- 
tation and  dread  of  new  and  increasing  pu- 
nishment without  end,  and  that  such  an 
increase  will  be  their  portion ;  for  as  tbe 
capacities  of  the  saints  to  take  in  new  scenes 
and  new  degrees  of  pleasure  will  be  en- 
larged as  their  knowledge  and  their  love 
increases,  so  the  increasing  sins,  the  grow- 
ing wickedness,  and  mad  rebellion  of  damned 
spirits,  may  bring  upon  them  new  jud^ 
ments  and  more  weighty  vengeance.*' — \<A- 
5,  p.  645. 

'^  Pbbhaps  as  the  wicked  of  this  world 
when  they  die,  have  left  evil  and  pemickxis 
examples  behind  thent,  or  have  corrupted 
the  morals  of  their  neighbours  by  their  en- 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


dcements  or  tbcir  commands,  or  by  their 
wicked  infloence  of  an;  kind,  io  their  punish- 
ment mk7  b«  iocreued  in  proportion  to  the 
luting  efiecta  of  their  vile  example,  or  their 
TicioiuinAuenceB.  And  perhap*  too  there  are 
no  men  among  all  the  ranks  of  the  damned, 
whose  souls  will  be  filled  so  high  with  the 
dread  and  horror  ofincreMingwoes,ulewd 
and  profane  writers,  profane  and  immoral 
princes,  or  cruel  persecutors  of  religion." — 
Ibid.  p.  646. 

"Wht  maj  he  not  BnjqioK  that  their 
bodies  shall  be  raised  with  all  the  seeds  of 
disease  in  them,  like  the  gout  or  the  stone, 
or  aflf  other  smarting  malad;, — that  God 
will  create  bodies  for  them  of  such  an  un- 
h^tpj  mould  and  contexture  as  shall  be 
another  perpetual  source  of  pain  and  an- 
guish."— Ibid. 

"  Son  writer*,  elder  and  later,  have  held 
lliat  the  vast  numbers  of  indifferent  persons, 
who  have  neither  been  evidently  holy,  nor 
evidently  wicked,  shall  be  sent  to  a  new  stale 
of  trial  in  the  other  world." — Ibid.  p.  647. 

Hedoesnotnanie  thoee  writers;  andean 
find  no  hint  of  them  in  the  Bible  except 
I  Peter  iii.  19,  about  Christ  preaching  to 
the  Spirit  of  those  who  were  drowned  in  the 
flood, — "an  obscure  text"  which  may  be 
oonstrued  to  another  sense  with  truth  and 


"  Ft  is  not  at  all  unlikely  that  their  ba- 
bilatioo  shall  be  a  place  of  fire,  and  t^eir 
bodies  may  be  made  immortal  to  endure  the 
smart  and  torture  without  consumit^(.  Did 
not  this  God  by  bis  Almighty  power  and 
mercy  preserve  the  bodies  of  Shadrach, 
Meshacb,  and  Abednego  in  the  burning  fiery 
fumaee  of  Nebuchadnezzar,  so  that  the  fire 
had  no  power  to  consume  or  destroy  them  P 
And  cannot  his  power  do  the  same  thing 
under  the  influence  of  his  justice,  as  well  as 
of  hi*  mercy  t  When  the  power  and  the 
wrath  of  a  God  unite  to  punish  a  creature, 
bow  miserable  most  that  creature  be  1 " — 
Ibid.  p.  649. 


"  Con  que  se  castigark  dignamente  el 
desprecio  de  tan  grande  magestad  f  Claro 
estl  que  con  ninguna  pena  menor  que  cod 
la  que  estli  L  los  tales  aparejada,  que  es 
arder  para  siempre  en  los  fuegos  del  infi- 
emo ;  y  con  todo  esto  no  se  oastiga  digna- 
mente."  LciS  DB  GXARADA,  tom.  1,  p.  6. 

If  one  of  the  damned  were  to  drop  one 
tear,  once  in  a  thousand  years,  in  time  he 
would  have  shed  more  in  quantity  than  all 
the  waters  of  the  flood  I 

If  the  worst  pain  of  hell  were  no  more 
than  the  prick  of  a  needle,  think  what  that 
would  be,  if  it  were  eternal. — Ibid.  p.  39. 

The  flames  of  Nebuchadnezzar's  furnace 
rose  to  the  height  of  forty-nine  cubits,  not 
fifty,  because  fifty  would  have  tokened  a 
jubilee,  a  time  of  remission,  and  the  fbr- 
nace  was  to  be  a  type  of  hell. — Ibid.  p.  36. 

Wbat  a  support  would  he  have  bad 
for  his  theory  which  places  hell  in  the  sun, 
if  he  had  known  tbat'HXtocis  derived  from 
the  oriental  hel,  brillrr,  and  no  doubt  brultr 
also  ?— C.  DB  GiBBUN,  Caletuhier,  p.  43. 

"  Which  to  believe, 
Hunt  be  a  faith,  that  reason  without  miracle 
Could  never  plant  in  me." 

King  Lear,  act  i.  SC.  i. 


"  As  flies  to  wanton  boys  are  we  to  the 

gods, 
They  kill  u«  for  their  sport." 

Ibid,  act  iv.  ic.  i. 

"  A  CI.SAB  distinction  between  true  and 
false  religion,  tried  and  proved  by  an  infal- 
lible test  of  religious  truth ;  and  by  which 
the  truth  of  eternal  punishment  is  asserted 
and  proved ;  and  the  doctrine  of  eternal 
torment  confuted  and  condemned,  as  not 
barely  atheistical,  but  the  blasphemous  doc- 
trine of  incarnate  deviL"— ftintei  at  Sir. 
ntingham,  a.  ■>.  1791. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


1 


Thb  Chev.  Ramsaj  in  his  Phil.  Princip. 
of  Nat.  and  Rev.  Reli^on  (Glasgow,  2  vols. 
4to.  1751),  held  universal  restitution. 

Bebtolacci,  vol.  2,  p.  139.  At  the  d&y 
of  judgment  the  whole  sun  is  to  be  un- 
sheathed (for  part  onlj  is  now  seen)  and  to 
consume  the  wicked. 

See  also  vol.  2,  p.  128,  134-41. 

Punishment  of  neutral  angels,  and  souls 
neither  fit  for  heaven  nor  deserving  hell. 
Dante,  canto  3. 

Monthly  Review^  vol.  9,  Sept  1753,  p.  200. 
A  curious  scheme  to  prove  that  all  souls 
will  finally  be  saved,  but  the  bodies  of  the 
righteous  onlj. 

**Non  h  alcnna  cosi  grave  miseria  in 
questo  mondo,  laquale  si  possa  pareggiare 
al  non  essere  venuto  in  questa  vita.  In 
tanto  che  Santo  Agostino  hebbe  a  dire,  che 
molto  meglio  h  Tessere  condannato  alle  pene 
deir  Inferno,  che  non  esser  mai  nato. 

S.  F.  **  lo  no  so  conoscere,  che  dolore  o 
qual  pena  possa  provare  chi  non  ha  essere : 
et  certo  buoni  argomenti  ci  havrebbono 
mistiero  a  farrai  credere  questo." — Novella 
deUe  Donney  ff.  128,  Lodovico  Domenichi.** 
Yet  he  proceeds  to  say  ^'Nondimeno  di 
tanta  auttoritii  sono  le  parole  di  quel  San- 
tissirao  huomo,  ch*io  stringo  le  spalle,  et 
m*arrendo.'* 

It  b  beneath  the  majesty  of  the  Emperor 
of  Japan  to  inflict  for  any  the  least  disre- 
gard shown  to  his  imperial  commands  a  less 
punishment  than  death,  by  the  ofiender*s 
own  hands,  or  perpetual  banishment,  or  im- 
prisonment, with  the  utter  ruin  of  his  fa- 
mily.— Kempfbs,  vol.  1,  p.  267. 

God  forgive  those  who  believe  in  eternal 
torments,  for  to  believe  in  them,  b  almost  to 
deserve  them. 

**  The  execution  of  damnation  begins  in 
death,  and  b  finished  in  the  last  judgment." 
— Perkins,  vol.  1,  p.  107. 


This  would  be  so  on  the  scheme  of  de- 
struction, but  how  inaccurately  does  it  re- 
present the  writer*s  own  opinions. 


Surg'eiy, 

Mfthbidates  tried  poisons  and  anti- 
dotes upon  criminals. — Spexngel,  voL  1, 
p.  488-9. 

The  Arabian  surgeons  in  the  time  of 
Rhazes  thought  that  when  a  bone  was  out  of 
joint,  the  injury  was  not  in  the  articulation, 
but  in  the  middle  of  the  bone. — Ibid,  vol  2, 
p.  298. 

Reald  Ck>LUMBD8,  a  Professor  at  Padus, 
was  the  first  who  for  the  uses  of  live  ana- 
tomy substituted  dogs  for  swine. — Ibid,  vol 
4,  p.  11. 

In  those  days  when  the  anatomists  wanted 
a  subject,  they  begged  a  criminal  of  the  so- 
vereign, whom  they  put  to  death  tji  tktir 
wayy  that  is,  says  Sfbengei^,  by  opium,  and 
then  dissected  him. — Ibid.  p.  12. 

The  lacteals  had  been  discovered  in  ani- 
mals by  Aselli  but  never  in  the  human  sub- 
ject, till  Peiresc  to  whom  Gassendi  bad 
communicated  Aselli*s  work,  begged  of  the 
magbtrate  at  Aix  that  a  malefactor  might 
be  delivered  over  to  the  surgeons  a  little 
before  his  execution.  They  made  him  take 
a  hearty  meal,  and  one  hour  and  a  half  after 
his  excustion  executed  him,  and  saw  the 
lacteab  to  Peiresc*s  great  satisfaction.— 
Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  203. 

It  was  thought  that  La  Noue  of  the  Iroa 
Arms,  one  of  the  best  of  his  countrymeDt 
might  have  been  saved,  if  the  surgeon  in 
whom  he  confided  would  have  trepanned 
him. — CoiL  de*  Mem,  vol.  47,  p.  63. 

In  that  age,  Sylvaticus,  the  Professor  si 
Pavia,  said  that  trepanning  ought  to  be  leA 
to  the  itinerant  surgeons.  The  CiraUatoret 
they  were  called.— Sphehgbi.,  t.  7,  p.  11. 


inSCET.LANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Tbb  ancients  belicTed  that  gotta  ope- 
rate*! upon  themaelves  for  a  cataract,  by 
presaing  a  thorn  into  the  ej«,  and  that  men 
learnt  it  from  them. — Ibid.  toI.  7,  p.  38. 

It  maj  have  been  learnt  from  guch  an 
nccident,  aa  Standert  observed,  when  a  man 
bj  a  fall  irom  hii  horse  fractured  hia  ikuU, 
and  dislodged  a  cataract.  Hia  life  was  saved, 
and  his  eight  recovered. 

There  were  itinerant  rupture-surgeons 
also ;  often  moat  ignorant  and  brutal.  One 
ia  mentioned  who  usal  to  feed  his  dog  witn 
testicles.  Dionii  knew  the  fact. — Ibid.  t.  7, 
p.  159. 

The  Chev.  Saint  Thoao  found  a  silver 
nose  so  inconvenient  that  he  submitted  to 
be  Taliaco^ed,  and  succeededin  obtaining 
"un  charme  et  tr^  bieo  conforme." — Ibid. 


The  nose  cannot  be  made  from  another 
person's  flesh,  because  two  persons  cannot 
be  kept  without  moving  for  the  length  of 
time  required. — Ibid.  p.  179. 

Zacchus  miaed  the  k^al  question,  whe- 
ther it  were  lawful  to  make  a  new  nose  for 
one  who  had  been  deprived  of  his  own  by 
the  sentence  of  the  law. — Ibid.  p.  185. 

Tbb  Apollo  Belvidere  is  the  beat  motlel 
when  one  is  to  be  made. — Ibid.  p.  199. 

Abcl  Easbh  the  first  who  made  false 
teeth.— Ibid.  p.  247. 


Wilehcrajl. 

Ihhocbiit  VIlI.'s  Bull  against  it,  was 
really  designed  against  the  Hussites.  In 
the -Electorate  of  Treves  alone,  6S0O  men 
put  to  death  at  sorcerera.— SpRBHaEL,  t.  3, 
p.  232. 

Thodoh  a  witch  could  assume  the  form 
of  any  animal  she  pleased,  the  tail  would 


still  be  wanting, — Stbbvehs.  Note  to  Mae- 
bttk, — "  like  a  rat  without  a  tail." 

Amoko  Evelyn's  charges  against  solitude, 
after  saying  that  it  produces  ignorance, 
renders  ns  barbarous,  feeds  revenge,  and 
disposes  to  envy,  he  says  it  creates  witches. 
Ctntura  LUerana,  vol.  1,  p.  9. 

It  is  "  their  block  business  to  kill  chil- 
dren ;  seeing  that  the  principal  preparations 
whereby  they  exercise,  arc  made  either  of 
the  skin  or  flesh  of  a  child.  Of  the  skin 
they  make  their  virgin  parchment,  a  thing 
of  great  importance  as  to  them,  and  in  which 
all  their  spcUa  and  charms  are  to  be  written. 
Of  the  flesh  decocted  to  a  jelly  they  make 
their  unguents,  with  which  they  do  things 
of  so  rare  and  unreasonable  consequence. 
This  practice  of  theirs,  confeaseth  the  se- 
cret strength  of  innocency,  and  sanctity  of 
children." — Johm  Gbbgoibe,  p.  98 

Sotn  admiring  reader  of  Hutchinson  has 
written  m  the  margin  of  my  copy,  (vol.  S, 
p.  26S),  "  all  charms  have  oome  from  the 
ancienta,  and  have  had  a  mystical  aignifica* 


"  A"- 1  can  say  is,  that  Satan  and  he  are 
better  acquainted  than  the  devil  and  a  good 
Christian  ought  to  be." — Vaubbdoh.  Afii- 
take,  p.  41 . 

Sh  SWuto,  as  Hen.  Vni.  c.  8,  p.  837. 

"  —  persons  who  for  the  execution  of 
tbelr  false  devices  made  divers  images  and 
pictures  of  men,women,chihiren,angels,or 
devils,  beasts,  or  fowls,  and  also  crowns, 
sceptres,  swords,  rings,  glasses,  and  other 
things,  and  giving  faith  to  such  fantantical 
practices,  have  digged  up  awl  pullet)  down 
an  iniinite  number  of  crawes  within  this 
realm, — for  despite  of  Christ,  or  for  lucre 
of  money, — felony  without  clergy." 


FxiKiMS,  vol.  1,  p.  40. 


590 


MTSCELLAKEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Names. 

Thbt  said,  in  Scotland,  that  Rowland 
Hill  rode  upon  the  backs  of  order  and  de- 
corum. **  So  I  called  one  of  my  horses 
Order,**  said  he,  **  and  the  other  Decorum, 
that  they  might  tell  the  truth  one  way,  if 
they  did  not  in  another.** — Xt/e,  p.  191. 

RuMPELSTiLzcHEif  In  the  Oerman  Tdks^ 
might  have  kept  his  own  secret  in  spite  of 
his  song,  if  he  had  had  as  many  names  as 
King  Ferdinand  and  his  brother. 

Ajax*s  Lamentation. — Sophocles. 

Dr.  Habsnbt  (afterwards  archbbhop  of 
York)  has  a  chapter  on  the  strange  names 
of  these  devils,  *'  lest,**  he  says,  "  meeting 
them  otherwise  by  chance,  you  mistake 
them  for  the  names  of  tapsters  or  jugglers.** 
— N(^  to  King  LeoTy  p.  195. 

Ladt  Macbbth*8  name  was  Gruach,  or 
Grwok, — ^RiTSOM  &  Wikton. 

EvAx,  King  of  Arabia,  dedicated  his  book 
on  precious  stones  to  Nero,  because  there 
was  an  e  in  his  name  as  well  as  in  the  £m- 
peror*s : 

^  Evax  rex  Arabum  fertur  dixisse 
Neroni,  &c.  (?) 

Monthly  Review^  vol.  7,  p.  133. 

Th£  elephant  which  the  King  of  Persia 
sent  by  Isaac  the  Jew  to  Charlemagne  was 
called  Abulabaz. — Zuirgsr,  p.  2444. 

Am  ancestor  of  J.  Wilkes,  Edward  Wilkes, 
who  resided  in  James  L*s  reign  at  Leighton 
Beausert  (now  Buzzard),  had  three  sons 
and  one  daughter.  The  sons  he  christened 
Matthew,  Mark,  and  Luke,  and  to  come  as 
near  John  as  he  could,  he  called  the  daugh- 
ter Joan. — ^AiiM0N*8  M,  vol.  1,  p.  2. 

In  difierent  branches  of  the  family  there 
have  been  Matthew  and  Mark  to  this  time. 

When  John  of  Gaunt  harps  mournfully 
upon  his  name,  Richard  U.  replies  to  him. 


"  Can  sick  men  play  so  nicely  with  their 
names  ?** 

and  he  r^oins — 

**  No ;  misery  makes  sport  to  mock  itself.** 

Act  ii.  sc  L     I 

Cathabine  db  Medici,  changing  the 
names  of  her  three  sons,  in  hope  of  mending 
their  fortime. — ^Bbantome,  vol.  9,  p.  468. 

Bt  the  Laws  of  the  Twelve  Tables,  if  a 
man  died  intestate  who  had  no  near  rela- 
tion,  a  man  of  his  own  name  was  to  be  hui 
heir,  and  one  who  became  mad  or  prodigal, 
was,  if  he  had  no  relation,  to  be  put  under 
the  care  of  a  namesake. — Hook,  vol.  2,  pp. 
313-4. 

A.D.  1750.  **  I  found  an  old  newspaper 
t*other  day,  with  a  list  of  outlawed  smug- 
glers. There  were  John  Price,  alias  Miss 
Marjoram;  Bob  Plunder;  Bricklayer  Tom; 
and  Robin  Cursemother,  all  of  Hawkhorst, 
in  Hants.** — ^H.  Walpoi.e,  vol.  1,  p.  223. 

Thbodobe  D*Aobippa  D*Acbigkb,  ha- 
ving had  an  illegitimate  son,  bom  in  the 
fourth  year  of  her  widowhood,  speaks  thus 
of  him  in  her  will : — **  Je  le  fis  nommer 
Nathan,  et  lui  donnai  pour  sumom  £ngi- 
band.  Premi^ment  par  le  nom  qui  re- 
toum^  se  trouve  de  m^me  k  retoumer,  le 
sumom  aussi  trouve  celui  du  p^re.  En  se- 
cond lieu,  j*ai  voulu  que  ce  nom  me  fut  on 
Nathan^  qui  signifle  donniy  et  que  le  nom 
du  censeur  de  David  represent&t  mon  ord 
p^h^  aux  yeux  et  aux  oreilles  incessam- 
ment.**  —  Mem,  de  M.  Maintenon^  vol  6, 
p.  47. 

Namesake  feeling  in  the  two  Ajaces.— 
CowPEB,  b.  17,  V.  869. 

The  Lord  Keeper  North  thought  of  in- 
troducing Nec'nons  as  well  as  Ae^tkum, 
—Vol.  1,  p.  207. 

Odtsset. — CowpEB,  b.  8,  t.  677-80. 
Yet  some  savages  have  no  names. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Hett. 
"VBUBtinLB  niminiiD  est  nunes  collo' 
quiis  aasuetos  esse,  nihil  est  enlm  aliud  quod 
■pud  inferos  agunt,  ubi  igni  perpetub  assi- 
dent,  nisi  ut  coDfabul«ntur.  Atque  Iiinc  est 
TiEiiiiiias  plenimque  veneficu  esse,  et  cum 
itsmone  consortium  inire,  quod  lue  ipsum 
UBgis  prompt^  ac  liber^  dloqiianlur." — 
DecL  Mcribed  to  South,  Optra  PotOtwna, 
p.  10. 

Rabm  SiHEon  Bbn  Lakisch  said,  "Ncin 
erit  infernus  tempore  venturo.  Sed  Deus 
Stmct.  Benedict,  edncet  Solem  e  thecfi  su&, 
fbcietque  Dt  penetret  radiis  suis  homines;  et 
impii  quidem  judicabuntur  per  ilium,  justi 
vero  ciwiftbuntur  per  ilium." 

To  this  they  apply  Malachi  iv.  1. 

Atoda  Sara,  p.  16. 

St.  Jamm.  "  Tou  must  not  mistake  St. 
James*s  meaning.  He  does  affirm  that  a  sin- 
gle breach  of  God's  law  deserres  eternal 
death,  aa  well  as  ten  thousand ;  yet  he  does 
not  say  that  small  and  great  offenders  will 
have  equal  punishment.  No ;  mighty  sia- 
nera  will  be  laEghtily  tormented.  Men's 
future  torment  will  be  suited  to  the  num- 
ber and  the  greatness  of  their  crimes.  Yet 
moderate  offenders  can  have  small  consola- 
lion  from  hence,  because  the  shortest  punish- 
ment is  eternal,  and  the  coldest  place  in  IicU 
will  prove  ahot  one." — Ubbkisok,  ChruHan 
World  UnrnoMked,  p.  27. 

Montklji  Reviear,  vol.  40,  p.  68,  »  striking 
passage  ft'om  Henry  Brooke's  Redert^oit, 
"  praying  God  to  preserve  in  me  the  princi- 
ple divine  1" 

"  I HAVB  wondered  much  at  the  curioMty 
(how  teamed  soever)  of  some  who  under- 
take to  set  down  the  subterraneous  geogra- 
phy of  this  place,  and  describing  it  h>  con- 
fidently, 08  if  they  had  been  there  already ; 
not  the  gates  and  chambers  of  death  only, 
but  ihe  very  points  of  the  compass  in  tlkat 
region  and  shadow,  and  bow  many  souls  may 


iit  upon  the  point  of  a  needle." — John 
Grsooub,  p.  55,  Rtuea  de  Inferao,  referred 


"  Sv.ADBTtH  might  have  returned  another 
answer  to  him  that  asked  him, '  What  God 
employed  himself  about  before  the  world 
was  made?'  'He  was  making  hell.'  No 
such  matter.  The  doctors  in  the  Talmud 
say,  *  He  was  creating  repentance,  or  con- 
triving aU  the  ways  how  he  might  be  mer- 
eiful  enough  to  the  Man  he  is  so  mindful  of, 
and  to  the  Son  of  Man  so  much  regarded 
by  him,' " — Joan  Gbeooiks,  p.  135. 

:&[astbb  Hsnkt  Gbbbhwood's  Tonaent- 
iiig  Tophet  (a.d.  1608),  or,  A  terrible  de- 
scription i^  hell,  able  to  break  the  hardest 
heart,  and  cause  it  to  quake  and  tremble." 
—Monthlj/  Review,  vol.  68,  p.  343-S.  Some 


"  IitrEBHCS  in  flituro  seculo  non  erlt,  sed 
Sol  lEsCu  suo  cruciabit  impios,  idemque  ex- 
hilarabit  pios." — Avoda  Sarv,  p.  16. 


Oatht. 
Mdb  LA  TsuiocuxB  was  called,  Lavraye 
Corps  Dieu,  because  that  was  his  usual  oath. 
Bayard  used  to  exclaim,  Feate-Dieu  Bay- 
ard. M.  de  Bourbon  (the  Constable),  Saints 
Barbe-  The  Prince  of  Orange,  Saint  Ni- 
colas (not  the  Prince).  "  Le  Bon  Homme, 
M.de  la  Rocbe  du  Maine  juroit  Teste  Dieu 
pleine  de  Heliques,  (oil  Diable  avuit  il 
trouv^  celuy-lkF)  et  autres  que  je  nomine- 
rois,  plus  saugrencujc  que  ceux-lh,  mais  il 
vaut  mienx  lea  taire." — Bbantomb,  vol.  6, 
p.  129. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Par  le  jour  Dieu  luy  suoceda : 

Charles  the  Eighth. 

Le  Diable  m'emperte  8*en  tint  pr^ ; 

Louis  the  Twelfth. 

Foy  de  Gentil-Homme  Tint  apris.** 

Francois  the  First. 
Ibid.  p.  277. 

Kaicd  heyv6(tiv  piifiaff,  &  ZalfitaVy 
Ktfdecc  avlpSvf  illlcitv. — Soph.  Ajax, 

y.  243-4. 


delight ;  springing  up,  he  placed  one  paw 
on  each  of  her  shoulders,  but  the  next  mo- 
ment he  fell  backward,  and  instantly  ex- 
pired. 

**  M.  de  Candolle,  Lecturer  on  Natural 
History  of  Genera,  related  this  story."— 
OBkien*s  Rmmd  Towers  of  Irdixuit  p.  468. 


»^^M^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>» 


\^AmmaU  in  ParadUe,'] 

HuTCHiHSOH  (vol.  3,  p.  105)  maintains 
that  there  were  Toracious  and  noxious  crea- 
tures in  Paradise  before  the  fall,  because 
**  the  parts  of  every  creature  shew  how  it 
was  to  live,  and  much  the  greater  part  of 
the  species  in  the  creation  could  not  have 
lived  without  eating  others.**  This  is  just 
begging  the  question. 

[Beasts  examples  to  Men,"] 

Bbasts  examples  to  men,  and  designed 
for  such. — HuTCHiifsoM,  vol.  6,  p.  69-70. 

"  They  are  still  in  the  perfection  of  their 
nature  ;**  a  good  passage,  shewing  what  this 
consideration  ought  to  eflfect  in  man. — Ibid, 
p.  126. 

Jewish  niceties  concerning  guilt  in  mb- 
chievous  animals. — Ctcr.  of  Literature^  vol. 
1,  p.  170-1. 


[-4  Tame  Wolf] 

**  A  LADT  near  Geneva  had  a  tame  wolf, 
which  seemed  to  have  as  much  attachment 
to  its  mistress  as  a  spaniel.  She  had  occa- 
sion to  leave  home  for  some  weeks;  the  wolf 
evinced  the  greatest  distress  after  her  de- 
parture, and  at  first  refused  to  take  food. 
During  the  whole  time  she  was  absent,  he 
remained  much  dejected.  On  her  return, 
OS  soon  as  the  animal  heard  her  footsteps, 
he  bounded  into  the  room  in  an  ecstasy  of 


^^^^^^f^^^^^^^^^^^^)^"^^^^^ 


[TheOwL] 

**  All  other  birds  except  those  of  the 
owl  kind,  worship  the  light.** — ^HurcHnraoa, 
vol.  8,  p.  92. 

See  his  vituperation  of  the  owl,  which 
immediately  follows. 

{Birds  in  the  BemmdasJ] 

BiSDS  in  the  Bermudas  that  burrow. — ^P. 
408.  They  lighted  on  the  men*s  shoulders. 
— P.  412.  See  the  passage. — Boswbll** 
Shakspere,  vol.  15. 

James  Gsahoeb,  vicar,  preached  a  ser- 
mon October  18th,  1 779,  in  the  parish  church 
of  Shiplake,  Oxfordshire,  and  published  it 
under  the  title  of  An  Apology  for  the  Brute 
Creation;  or  Abuse  of  Animals  considered. 
Will  it  be  believed  that  this  very  sensible 
discourse  gave  disgust  to  two  considerable 
congregations,  and  that  the  mention  of  dogs 
and  horses  was  considered  as  a  prostitution 
of  the  dignity  of  the  pulpit.  This  made 
him  publish  it.  He  dedicated  it  to  T.  B. 
Drayman,  and  addressing  him  as  Neighbour 
Tom,  reminded  him  that  he  had  seen  him 
exercise  the  lash  with  greater  rage,  and 
heard  him  at  the  same  time  swear  more 
roundly  and  forcibly,  than  he  had  ever  seen 
or  heard  any  of  his  brethren  of  the  whip  in 
London.'  Should  he  find  any  hard  words 
in  the  discourse,  he  told  him  that  if  he  could 
come  to  the  vicarage,  he  would  endeavour 
to  explain  them.  And  he  warned  him  that 
if  he  did  not  alter  his  conduct,  he  would 
take  care  to  have  him  punished  by  a  justice 
of  peace. — Monthly  Review,  voL  47,  p.  491-2. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GI.EANTNGS. 


lA  Nelrfoitndlaitd  DogJ] 
Bii:.n>  TRicEHEaBB  bad  k  Newfoundland 

who  had  been  taught  a  great  many 
li  on  boArd  a  man-of-war ;  and  a  puppy 
ere,  he  sa^rs,  "  inherited  manj  of  them 
Liight."— Ibid.  vol.  48,  p.  177. 

ICornith  Oamt  CocA.] 
HB  Cornish  hatch  the  e^^  of  the  game 
:  breed  under  a  magpie,  becatue  "  a 
ety  pie  is  a  deaperate  bird." — PaitekeU. 


[AjiimaU  not  moralh/  retpontibU.'] 
noHAini'B  Retearchei  allow  to  animab 

powers  of  thinking,  remembering,  com- 
ig  and  judgbg  ;  but  their  acLtona  not 
1  directed  to  moral  ends,  he  thinks  that 
equenflj  they  are  Dot  accountable  and 
er  Bufajects  for  reward  or  punishment 
lother  world. — Ibid.  toI.  74,  p.  4M. 


tiCB  in  variably  establish  tbemBeltes 
T  ground,  wherever  men  lead  the  wa;. 
he  coal  pits  at  Whitehaven,  thej  are 
erousat  the  depth  of  140  fathoms;  con- 
d  probablj  at  first  in  bundles  of  horse 
ender. — Head's  Home  Tour,  p.  67. 


[Ctmc/iuKm.] 
"  Cau.  up  him,  &o. 
id  of  that  wondrous  horse." 

purpose  to  no  purpose  I  did  write  all. 
so  at  noon  I  bid  jou  here  good  night 
9ll."— Tatlob,  W.  p.  p.  4,  Sir  Orison, 
Nontense. 

"  To  perform  an  act 
hereof  what's  pest  is  prologue." 

Tempett,  ai^t  li.  ic,  i. 


"  What's  to  say  P 
A  verj  little  little  let  us  do, 
And  all  is  done." 

Henry  the  Fifth,  act  iv.  so.  ii. 

"  FoHtsso,  senhor,  callo,  porque  temo 

De  nSo  cbegar  ao  porto  desejodo 

For  mais  que  alargue  a  vella,  e  aperte  o 

Dioao  Bbbhaedbs,  O.Lyma,  p.  139. 


"Mille  trecento  ventisette  appunto 

Su  I'ora  prima,  il  di  sesto  d'Aprilc, 
Nel  laberinlo  intru ;  tA  T^gio  oad'  esca." 

"  Now  masten  all,  here  now  I  shall 
End  there  as  I  began." — Sn  T.  Mobb. 

Rbabtbait  of  the  andior,  for  a  Finis 

Hbmkick,  vol.  1,  p.  116,  pennltimate  ch. 

"Comb,  Uck  your  ^sh,  wind  up  your 
bottom ;  Flaj  off  your  dust,  Bang  the 
pitcher.     Make  a  pearl  on  your  niul." 

Rai'sPtomtS*,  p.  69. 


Stebvehs  says,  the  marigold  is  lupposed 
1  shut  itself  up  at  ewaaet.—Winler'a  IhU, 


CuBSKD,  in  the  sense  of  unhappy,  Stee- 
ens  calls  a  nilgarism.  —  Henri/  the  Fifth, 


Tobacco. 
SiNODLAB  Taste  of  an  Asa.  There  is  now 
in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Walton,  farmer,  of 
Great  Lerer,  near  Bolton,  a  male  ass,  which 
is  known  to  be  nearly  fifty  years  of  age.  He 
is  nnmed  "  Billy,"  and  prefers  tobacco  to 
any  other  luxury ;  he  is  likewise  very  fond 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


of  a  pinch  of  muff.  Our  informant  has 
within  these  few  dajs  seen  Billj  masticate 
a  large  quid  of  pigtail  with  as  much  govt 
as  any  Jack  tar  in  his  majestj^s  serrice. 
When  he  had  finished  the  tobacco,  a  pinch 
of  strong  rappee  was  administered,  which 
Billy  snuffed  without  the  least  demur,  and 
curling  up  his  olfactory  organ,  delivered  one 
of  those  charming  solos  so  peculiar  to  his 
species.  Billy  is  chiefly  employed  in  car- 
rying milk  from  his  master^s  ftarm  to  Bol- 
ton {  and  if  Mr.  Walton  has  any  other  bu- 
siness to  transact  in  the  town,  he  can  leare 
Billy  with  security  at  the  door  of  any  cus- 
tomer, whence  he  will  not  budge  an  inch 
until  he  hears  his  master*s  voice.  Billy  is 
invariably  accompanied  on  his  joumies  to 
Bolton  by  a  small  cur  dog,  which  is  so  at- 
tached to  him  that  in  the  absence  of  Mr. 
Walton,  he  takes  his  station  close  to  Billy, 
and  will  not  suffer  any  stranger  to  come 
near  him. 

WiixiAM  Ellis,  once  a  farmer  at  Little 
Gaddesden,  who  in  a.d.  1760,  published 
Every  Farmer  his  oum  Farrier,  says,  upon 
his  own  experience,  that  ^  half  an  ounce  of 
tobacco  at  a  time,  given  among  a  horse's 
com,  and  continued  for  a  week,  will  pre- 
vent worms,  cure  greasy  heels,  and  create  a 
fine  coat." — Monthfy  Review^  voL  22,  p.  156. 

Fbiob  speaks  of  **  Portuguese  **  snuff. 

A.  D.  1 64 1 .  A  MissTOM  to  the  **  Kionon tateh- 
ronou,  ou  Nation  de  Fetun.** — Rel^JPrance, 
tom.  5,  p.  131. 

**  A  LAI  aguas  singulares  de  Sevilla  deben 
los  Espanoles  la  bondad  de  sus  tabaoos,  los 
mas  estimadoB  del  mundo.** — ^Masdsu,  vol. 
1,  p.  14. 

The  note  says,  **  La  experiencia  confirm^ 
la  bondad  dicha  de  estas  aguas,  habiendo 
procurado  en  vano  os  Ingleses  imitar  el  ta- 
baco  Espafiol,  valiendose  de  artifices,  que 
sobomados  sacaron  de  la  misma  fabrica  de 
SeviUa.- 


Cannoiesettr,  vol.  2,  p.  110.    Llotd.    J. 
Hawkins  Brown.     Charles  Lamb. 

T.  the  water  poet. 

Cowper,  Ep.  to  Bull.    Greathead's  lii^ 
p.  143. — Correepondence^  vol.  1,  p.  215-6,  | 
265-6. 

Ih  a  classification  of  trades  {TimeSy  14th 
April,  1835),  tobacco  and  snuff  are  placed 
among  trades  of  food,  because  though  ^'thej 
cannot,  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  tenn, 
be  considered  as  food,  they  bear  some  re- 
semblance to  it,  though  a  distant  one:  ibr 
tobacco  is  food  to  the  taste,  and  snuff  food 
to  the  sense  of  smdling.** 

Raletgh*s  last  **  tmfbrtnnate  attempt 
upon  S.  Thom^  and  Guiana,  which  was  his 
own  ruin  and  his  son*s  death,  yielded  only 
stinking  tobacco,  a  conmiodity  that  could 
not  be  conveyed  away,  because  of  the  bidk; 
and  his  voyage  proved  much  less  than 
smoke.** — Morsom,  p.  242. 

Tbb  Norwegians  call  snuffy  **  nttse-neeL* 

PONTOPPIDAII. 

VntGiHiA,  Brazfl,  and  Varinns  tobacco, 
differ  in  flavour ;  each  having  its  racmesa^ 
its  imaakj  what  the  French  call  le  goui  de 
terreav, — Ds.  Douglass,  Manthfy  RtiAtm, 
vol.  13,  p.  273. 

Ralbioh*s  eolony  in  Norambegur. 

**  Though  the  situation,  the  climate,  and 
the  natural  soil,  and  the  proof  of  the  commo- 
dities the  country  yielded  was  able  to  give 
encouragement  for  the  prosecution  of  it,ye| 
for  want  of  means  and  willing  minds,  whid 
is  the  bane  of  all  undertakings,  it  failed,  and 
produced  nothing  but  tobacco,  which  faiS 
brought  a  greater  mischief  to  this  kingdoia 
than  the  profit  would  have  countervvled^ 
though  it  had  proved  successfuL** — ^MoksoKi 
p.  405. 

Guiaka.  ** There  hare  been  aranyootoiiiei 
settled  by  one  nation  in  that  spaekras  omm* 
try;  yet  I  could  ii«ver  hear  of  any  commo- 


HISCELLA2IE009  A2TECD0TES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


B9B 


ditiea  that  arooe  by  It,  or  not  ao  much  in 
Tilue  as  two  ntilu  of  f^und  in  England 
would  afford :  and  jet  I  muat  rightlj  aaj 
of  tlMt  evil  tobacco,  tliu  plantation  sends 
the  best,  if  tha  sbwigtb  of  tobacco  be  so 
""     Ibid. 


"  Iv  the  charge  bestowed  npon  planta- 
tions were  valued  with  the  gun  relied  from 
thenit  it  were  not  worth  a  purse  to  put  it 
in  i  and  for  ours  in  England,  it  would  be 
coasiun^  in  smoke.  For  one  staple  con- 
moditj  which  it  sends  out  is  stinking,  bar-  . 
baroBs  tobacco;  for  from  the  barbarous 
savages  it  is  derived :  a  brave  original  for 
civil  men  to  leam  from  and  imitate  t 

"  The  French  herein  far  exceed  us ;  for 
bj  their  industrj  and  laborious  endeavours, 
the;  have  attained  to  a  rich  and  profitable 
traffic  of  costlj  furs,  which  makes  our  shame 
the  greater,  when  we  consider  how  easily 
thej  have  effected  it,  and  how  profiiablj 
thej  persevered,  whilst  we  are  sucking  of 
smoke,  that  brings  wilb  it  man;  incoDve- 
Kiencea,  as  time  haa  made  too  plain." — Ibid. 
p.  414. 

Hia  sdieme  for  a  tobacco  trade. — Ibid. 

A  rooB  German  tutor.  In  a  mock  de- 
scription of  one,  it  is  sud,  "  N.B.  Bremen 
tobacco  goes  down  with  him." — Moatklg 
Btvitw,  vol.  17,  p.  lOe. 

A  niBHD  from  E^nburgh  sends  Shen- 
stone,  A.n.  1761,  as  a  small  stimulus  to  their 
friendship,  "  a  little  provbion  of  the  belt 
FrMton  Pans  snuff,  both  toasted  and  un- 
toasted,  in  four  bottles ;  with  one  bottle  of 
Highland  Snishon,  and  four  bottles  Bonnels. 
Fletue  to  let  me  know  which  sort  is  most 
i^reeable,  that  I  maj  send  you  a  fresh  sup- 
ply in  due  tim^"— Hdll'b  SeJtet  LtUert, 
voL  I,  p.  31S. 

.  **  Bai«CM.T  any  old  house  without  a 
tmali  afMrOiMit  called  Uie  Smoking- Room. 
Ib  itiiii.  lajT  ^  John Cullum, from  about 


the  middle  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign  till 
within  almost  every  one's  memory,  (1785), 
our  anoeetiHi  spent  no  inconuderable  part 
of  their  vacant  hours,  residing  more  at  borne 
than  we  do.  If  modem  houses  hare  not  a 
room  of  this  sort,  they  have  oue  unknown 
to  the  ancients,  which  is  a  powdering-room 
for  the  hair."— Jlf(n(%  Arouw,  vol.  73, 
p.  23. 


Sin  J.  Hoi  against  tni 
m«if>,  vol.  as,  p.  127. 

RowulBD  Wbitk  to  ^  Robert  Sydney. 
"IwBBdeairedbjMr.Bx^er  Manners,  that 
you  will  send  him  by  a  letter  (from  Flush- 
ing), a  hall  of  tobacco — high  Trinidado : 
you  can  send  him  nothing  that  will  more 
increase  his  love  towards  you." — Sj/daeji 
Paper*,  vol.  3,  p.  206. 

"  Caft.  Wh.  MTDDi.>Toit,  the  first  who 
smoked  tobacco  in  London.  He  was  bro- 
ther of  Sir  Thomas,  who  purchased  Chirk 
Cattle ;  and  of  Sir  Hugh,  who  brought  the 
New  River  to  London,  then  called  Myddel- 
ton's  Water  ;  another  of  his  numerous  bro- 
thers wrote  a  treatise  on  Welsh  prveody." 
— ToKu's  Royal  TrAei,  p.  107. 

Tobacco  pipes. — 3f«ifJUyitemei0,Tol.69, 
p.  S38, 

Lots  and  smoking  favours. — HippiaLiT'fl 
Orinoco,  p.  341. 


ifalerialUm. 
Tan  translator  of  H.  Baonur's  SMtaj/ 
on  Ihe  MeHeittal  Eihieatiom  of  CiildivM,  says 
that  "  the  tender  brun  of  Newton  or  Alex- 
ander, altered  in  their  infancy  by  a  small 
compression,  or  slight  commotion,  might 
have  rendered  the  first  stupid,  and  the  other 
Bwise  kingl" — whiob  the  Monthly  Beriewer 
(v<d.  13,  p.  376),  seem*  to  approve. 

"  Tiu»B  is  reason,"  layt  Evblts,  (Vise, 
p.  828),  "thatwewho  are  composed  of  the 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


elements  should  participate  of  their  quali- 
ties ;  for,  as  the  humours  have  their  source 
from  the  elements,  so  have  our  passions  from 
the  humours ;  and  the  soul  which  is  united 
to  this  body  of  ours,  cannot  but  be  affected 
with  its  inclinations.** 


JWW-^WW^^^/^^O/^WVW" 


Heaven, 

The  elder  Venn,  (p.  15),  speaks  of  the 
vast  assembly  of  perfect  spirits,  who  are 
swallowed  up  in  love  and  adoration  of  Grod, 
and  are  perfectly  one  with  each  other. 

Dantb.  Purgatorio^  TiTvm.  vol.  4,  p.  181. 

Two  streams  from  Paradise,  Lethe  and 
Eunoe ;  the  one  to  wash  away  the  remem- 
brance of  sin,  the  other  to  renew  that  of 
our  good  deeds. 

Ibid.  Paradiso^  xviii.  y.  29,  vol.  5,  p.  116. 
Paradise  is  called 

"  *  L*albero  che  vive  de  la  cima,* 

perch^  viene  arrivato  dall*  essere  sovrano 
ch*^  Dio :  al  contrario  degli  altri  alberi,  che 
traggono  il  sugo  vitale,  e  il  nutrimento  dalla 
radice.** 


^»wvww»^o^v»/>»»/w>o^^«H 


The  Name. 


L 


Bbantomb,  vol.  1 0,  p.  48,  speaks  of  a  Cap- 
tain Sainte  Colombe,  **  vaillant  et  brave  sol- 
dadin,  et  determine  s*il  en  fut  oncques.** 
He  was  **de  cette  maison  valeureuse  de 
S.  Colombe  en  Bcarn,  mais  non  legitime.** 

At  Rochelle  he  was  wounded  three  times, 
and  was  no  sooner  recovered  from  the 
wound  than  he  received  another ;  twice  in 
Normandy — ^*'  de-sorte  que  nous  Tappellions 
et  son  corps,  une  garenne  d*harquebusade8.** 
He  was  killed  at  St.  Lo. 

CoBHBLius  k  Lapidb,  and  many  others, 
following  the  interpretation  of  St.  Jerome, 
(who,  at  the  13th  chap.  o(  Isaiah  says,  that 
God  calleth  Nebuchadnezzar  co/um^am),  say 
that  the  Assyrians  (in  honour  no  doubt  of  | 


Semiramis),  bore  a  dove  in  their  banno^ 
**  Heralds  may  here  take  notice  of  the  an- 
tiquity of  their  art ;  and  for  their  greater 
credit  blazon  abroad  this  precious  piece  of 
ancientry ;  for  before  the  time  of  Semiramis 
we  hear  no  news  of  coats  or  crest.**— Johj 
Gbbgoibe,  p.  236. 

'*  Debohba  prophetissa,  quia  ab  asse  no- 
men  habet,  vocatur  apis  foeminei  sexos." 
— Avoda  Sara,  p.  324. 


Fashion, 

In  Barbadoes,  such  was  the  influence  of 
fashion,  or  custom,  that  Dr.  Hillary  (1759) 
says,  "  he  had  seen  many  men  loaded,  and 
almost  half  melting,  under  a  thick  rich  coat 
and  waistcoat,  daubed  and  loaded  with  gold, 
on  a  hot  day,  scarce  able  to  bear  them.**— 
Monthly  Review^  vol.  21,  p.  370. 

**  A  wooDES  pillow,  about  the  width  of  a 
hoop,  and  of  a  semicircular  form,  to  admit 
the  head,  sustained  by  a  column  of  four  to  six 
inches  high,  with  a  broad,  flat  base.  Th^ 
are  almost  exactly  similar  to  tliose  often 
found  in  the  ancient  tombs  of  the  Egyptians, 
and,  notwithstanding  their  apparent  discom- 
fort, are  now  very  generally  used  in  ererr 
part  of  Upper  Nubia.  The  ladies  of  Shendj 
value  them  highly,  because,  being  so  nar- 
row, they  do  not  disarrange  their  hair,  a  se- 
rious consideration,  if  it  be  true,  as  I  am 
informed,  that  the  coiffure  of  the  Shendyan 
beauties  requires  nine  hours*  work  to  be 
quite  comme  il  faui, —  beautifully  plaited, 
bushy  at  each  side,  projecting  behind,  and 
flat  above  the  forehead.'* — Hoskiks,  p.  12i 

"To  promote  the  growth  of  the  nails  here 
(as  a  decided  indication  of  high  rank),  thej 
are  held  over  small  fires  of  cedar-wood.**-- 
Ibid.  p.  125. 

Whistlbb  to  Shenstone.     1762. 
"I  have  struck  a  bold  stroke  since  I  hare 
been  in  town;  I  mean  a  laced  coat;  for 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


reftUy  vaistcosts  coat  as  much,  and  ai 
mark  of  distinction  alter  all." — Hdix's  Se- 
kct  Letters,  toI.  2,  p.  33. 

Lambskin  breecbet. — Ibid.  p.  98. 

Room  WuxiAMS,  (Life,  p.  264),  mjs, 
"  I  have  long  had  acruples  of  Mlling  the 
natiTes    aught   but  nbat    may    bring, 
t«nd  to,  ciTilization.     I,  therefore,  neither 
brought,  Dor  shall   sell   them,  loose  i 
nor  breechee." 

A.D.    1767.       "    A     DlSSEBtATIOH      OpOlt 

Head-Dreu ;  tpgether  vilh  a  Brief  ViDdi- 
cation  of  High-Coloured  Hair,  and  of  those 
Ladies  on  whom  it  grows :  tbe  trhole  sub> 
mitted  to  the  Connoisseurs  in  Tule,  whether 
ancieat  or  modem.  B;  an  English  Peri- 
wig-Maker." 

Cozens,  in  177B,  published  the  "Princi- 
ples of  Beauty  relative  to  the  Human  Head, 
a  Metaphysico  -  Fbyiiognomico  -  Pictorial 
Work."  Each  head  in  the  engravings  had 
an  antique  head-dress.  "  We  sincerely 
wish,  for  the  honour  of  the  sex,  that  our 
countrywomen  woidd  study  them,  and  re- 
move the  present  enormous  encumbrances 
from  theit  heads,  to  make  way  for  a  dress 
which  in  more  elegant  times  adorned  the 
heads  of  the  Grecian  ladies." — MonOifySt- 
eiew,  vol  58,  p.  444. 

A.D.1781.  "Lzsdemi&res  robes  en  vognc 
sont  Ics  LevUet,  imtt^  sur  ces  robes  ma- 
jcstueuses  des  enfans  de  la  tribu  consacr^ 
h  la  garde  de  I'arche,  et  an  service  du  tem- 
ple de  Jerusalem.  Ces  Levitet  se  modlfient 
dcjk  de  cent  maniires.  Madame  la  V^icom- 
teas  de  Jaucour  ayant  imaging  des  LeviUt  a 
fueve  de  eisge,  a  paru,  il  y  a  quelque  terns, 

Luxembourg  avec  cette  queue,  tr^  lon- 
gne,  trus  tortUIce,  et  si  bizarre  que  tout  le 
monde  ae  mil  \  la  suivre ;  ce  qui  obligea  les 
Suisaes  de  Monsieur  de  venir  prier  cette 
Dame  de  sorUr  pour  £viter  un  trop  grand 
tmuiilie.  II  faut  esp^rer  que,  pour  I'hon- 
neur  de  Tinventrice  le  pubLc  ^tant  fait  \ 


cetl«  mode,  ou  pourra  s'y  conformer  impu- 
n^ment  et  sans  scandale." — Mem.  Secrtlt, 
vol.  17,  p.  226. 

"  i.D.  1775.  Paws.  TeU  Mrs.  Damer 
that  the  fashion  now  is  to  erect  Ihe  toup^ 
bto  a  high  detached  tuft  of  hair,  like  a 
cockatoo's  crest,  and  this  toupie  they  call 
la  phyiionomit,  I  don't  guess  why." — H. 
Walpolb,  vol.  4,  p.  32. 

DocTOBB  of  Physic  and  Privy  Council- 
lors, in  Elizabeth  and  James's  time,  wore 
nightcaps  wrought  with  gold  silk ;  tbe  Pu- 
ritan Divines,  of  black  satin,  tipt  with 
white.— Malcolm's  Ortaiger,  p.  139. 

The  first  Fashionable  Magazine  com- 
menced May  1768,  and,  as  might  be  guess- 
ed, it  was  a  French  production;  its  title, 
"  Courier  &  la  Mode,  ou  Journal  du  Goflt." 
"  C'est  un  nonvel  ouvrage  p^riodique,  fort 
intereasant  pourPari^,  et  pour  les  Provinces, 
qui  contient  le  detail  de  toutes  les  nou- 
venut^s  de  mode.  C'est,  si  Ton  vi-ut,  une 
esp^ce  de  Supplement  aux  Memoires  tie 
I'Acad^mie  des  Belles  Lettres,  qui  coiisacre 
&  la  post^-il^  le  tabli 
caprices,  de  nos  fantaisies 
national." — Bachadmont,  Mem.Sec.  voL4, 


Who  would  have  thought  that  our 

side-curls  and  frizzled  toupee  had  such  an- 
tiquity, but  along  with  that  such  barbar- 
,  as  to  be  tbe  fashion  of  the  Germans 
they  left  their  native  woods.     Tacitus 
mentions    their   twisting  their   locks  bto 
horns  and  rings. 
"  C&rula  quis  stupnit  Germani  lumina, 

Cssariem  madido  torquentem  comua 
cirroP" — Jcvinal,  Sal.  liii.  v.  164. 
PunuEBTOH,  Zcft.  qfLit.  p.  61. 

The  Merovingian  kings  nsed  to  powder 
their  heads  and  beards  with  gold  dust.-  - 
Ibid.  p.  02. 


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1 


Printed  waistcoats,  i.e.  **  des  scenes  ga- 
lantes  ou  comiques,  &c."  engraTed  on  them. 
1786.— 3f6m.  Sec.  t.  33,  p.  229. 

**  In  the  Samoa  Island,  man  j  of  the  women 
are  spotted,  which  thej  call  sangisengi.  It 
is  effected  by  raising  small  blisters  with  a 
wick  of  native  cloth,  which  bums  but  does 
not  blaze.  When  these  are  healed,  they 
leave  the  spot  a  shade  lighter  than  the  ori- 
ginal skin.  Thus  indelible  devices  are  im- 
printed. This  is  used  like  tatooing  at  other 
islands,  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  some 
important  event,  or  some  beloved  relative.** 
Williams,  p.  538. 

**In  my  time,  the  follies  of  the  town  crept 
slowly  among  us,  but  now  they  travel  faster 
than  a  stage  coach.  Its  fopperies  come 
down,  not  only  as  inside  passengers,  but  in 
the  very  basket*** — Mx.  Hasix^abtlb.  She 
Stoope  io  Conquer, 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^VMk 


Marriage, 

In  that  middle  class  of  society  which 
might  and  ought  to  be  the  happiest,  mar- 
riage is  more  often  too  late  than  too  early. 

^  Pepiokre  tamen  Roman!  cum  Sabinis 
quorum  filias  rapuerant  amicitias  ;  adeo 
ut  Sabinorum  Bex  Titus  Tatius  senex  reg- 
naret  pariter  cum  Romulo  quern  mox  ut  in 
societatem  r^;ni  ejus  assumpsit  occidit :  Sa- 
bini  quoque  et  Romani  unus  populus  effice- 
rentur.  Quo  tempore  ad  confirmandam 
conjunctionem  nomina  illorum  suis  pne- 
ponebant  nominibus  et  invicem  Sabini  Ro- 
manorum.  Et  ex  illo  consuetudo  tenuit  ut 
nemo  Romanus  sit  absque  pnenomine.**— ^ 
BittoruB  MUeeUm,  lib.  1,  p.  3. 


^WS^rfWW^/VX/VNA/^'*  ' 


Beards. 

RooBBS  asked  Talleyrand  whether  Buona* 
parte  shaved  himself.  Talleyrand  answered 
*'  Yes.    One  who  is  bom  to  be  a  king  has 


some  one  to  shave  him,  but  they  who  ac- 
quire kingdoms,  shave  thenndves.** 

Probably  Buonaparte  would  not  have 
liked  to  trust  his  throat  to  a  razor  in  any 
one*B  hand  but  his  own. 

^  Till  new-born  chins 
Be  rough  and  razorable.** 

Tempeitf  act  iL  sc  L 

**  Now  of  beards  there  be 
Such  a  company, 

Of  fashions  such  a  throng, 
That  it  is  very  hard 
To  treat  of  the  beard 

Though  it  be  ne*er  so  long.** 

Says  a  ballad  concerning  beards  in  a  mis- 
cellany entitled  Le  Prince  d* Amour.  166(K 
— Malonb's  Shakespeare^  vol.  17,  pp.  366-7. 

Whbn  Mr.  Hoskins  was  residing  in  the 
Temple  of  Tirhaka,  he  took  the  portrait  of 
a  Melek  of  the  Shageea  Tribe.  **  As  there 
was  no  barber  in  the  village,  and  I  was  told 
he  had  some  skill  in  shaving,  I  allowed  lum 
to  officiate  in  that  cf^acity ;  but  most  anx- 
iously shall  I  avoid  to  have  my  head  again 
shaved  by  the  son  of  a  king.  Never  did  I 
endure  such  a  scarification.  His  razor,  one 
of  the  twopenny  sort  from  Trieste,  was 
blunter  than  even  a  French  table-knife,  and 
he  had  no  means  of  sharpening  it  but  accord- 
ing to  the  custom  of  the  country  on  hb  bare 
arm.  He  drew  blood  four  times,  and  scraped 
my  head  in  such  a  manner  that  it  smarted 
for  several  hours  afterwards.  But  it  is  im» 
possible  to  endure  the  wearing  of  one's  hsir 
in  this  climate,  after  having  once  been  ae« 
customed  to  the  luxury  of  having  it  riiaved 
every  week :  and  having  lost  my  penknife, 
I  had  been  obliged  to  take  my  own  razor  to 
cut  my  pencils.** — ^Ibid.  p.  164. 

Bbabd-bbushbs.  **'  Pulidas  esoobinas  de 
barba.** — Ldis  Mukob.  Life  of  L,  tU  Om* 
nadoy  p.  23. 


Eftect  of  shaving  on  physiognoBiy,  Bud 

i 


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599 


in  pioinres ;  it  aids  the  fonner,  but  in  some 
degree  injures  the  latter. 

A  Dissertation  on  Peculiarity  in 
Death,  showing  the  use  and  abuse  of  the 
Barba  Humana,  or  the  Human  Beard,  1769. 
Autograph,  with  a  note  respecting  the  Au- 
thor, 2*.  ed.—Rodd  MS.    Qjr.  Dress. 

Ulma,  (M.  a.),  "Physiologia  Barbae  Hu- 
mane :  hoc  est,  de  fine  illius."  6#.  Folio. 
Bonon.     1602. 

3134.  RoDX>*8  Cat.     1836. 

Thx  famous  Boskolniki  schismatics  con- 
sider the  Divine  image  in  man  as  residing 
in  the  beard.^-ibr<mM/jr  Review^  vol.  08,  p. 
352. 

Lb  Siear  Dumont,  at  Lille,  knit  a  pair 
of  stockings  tU  eheveux.  They  were  ^  plus 
beaux,  plus  solides,  et  plus  chauds  que 
oeux  de  soye,"  and  they  would  wash.  "C'est  sa 
propre  chevelure  qui  lui  a  fourni  la  roati^re; 
il  luettoit  de  cdte  seulement  les  cheveux  qui 
toDiboient  k  mesure  qu'il  se  peignoit.''  He 
meant  to  knit  a  striped  pair  of  different 
colours,  but  still  **de  chevelures  humaines.'* 
—Mem.  Secrets^  t.  33,  p.  137. 

Receipts  for  its  growth. — ^Wubtzung's 
Fhictice  of  Phytic^  p.  116-7. 

**  The  Lacedemonians  obliged  theirEphori 
to  submit  to  the  ridiculous  ceremony  of 
being  shaved  when  they  entered  upon  their 
office,  for  no  other  end  but  that  it  might  be 
signified  by  this  act  that  they  knew  how  to 
practise  submission  to  the  laws  of  their 
country.** — Jiwie*  of  Ncafland^yo\.5y  p. 294. 

"If  the  Normans  can  scrape  off  their 
beards  with  an  English  razor,  they  are 
happy.  But,  in  fact,  no  man  can  be  ex- 
pected to  be  patriotic  or  national  in  the 
miOter  of  razors ;  for  if  the  devil  himself 
kept  a  catler*s  shop,  and  sold  a  good  article, 
I  think  no  man  who  has  a  beard  would 
scruple  to  become  his  customer.'* — Auocstim 
St.  Joan.    Jaurwd  in  Normandy^  p.  72. 


Diet. 

Braiitomb*8  uncle,  Chastaigneraye.  As 
soon  as  he  was  weaned,  his  father,  by  ad- 
vice of  a  great  physician  at  Naples,  had 
gold,  steel,  and  iron,  in  powder,  given  him 
in  whatever  he  ate  and  drank,  "pour  le  bien 
fortifier,**  till  he  was  twelve  years  old;  and 
this  answered  so  well,  that  he  could  take  a 
bull  by  the  horns  and  "Tarresterensa  fiirie.** 
— Ibid.  t.  9,  p.  75. 

In  New  Zealand  stones  are  thrust  down 
the  throat  of  a  babe  to  give  him  a  stony 
heart,  and  make  him  a  stem  and  fearless 
warrior. — Wiluams,  Miss.  EfU.  p.  543. 


^^WW^^^^M^^^^^^^^M^^^^^te 


Leyden, 

WiLKBS  writes  to  his  daughter  from  the 
Hague,  A.D.  1767,  "  I  was  obliged  to  go  in 
a  coach  yesterday  little  better  than  a  wag- 
gon, to  pay  my  duty  to  the  university  of 
Leyden.  (The  canals  were  frozen,  and  no 
boat  could  pass.)  My  good  mother  (for  in 
that  style  we  always  speak  of  the  university 
where  we  are  educated)  received  me  with 
raptures,  and  congratulated  herself  on  hav- 
ing produced  so  illustrious  a  son, — a  very 
flattering  compliment  for  me.** — Alnum.  vol. 
3,  p.  223. 

^  I  oftbh  put  you  in  mind  that  I  was 
brought  up  at  Leyden ;  and  there  you  would 
be  ordered  to  continue  in  bed  sixteen  or 
eighteen  hours  out  of  the  twenty-four,  when 
you  are  oppressed  with  a  vi(dent  cold.*' — 
Ibid.  p.  226. 

Gaubius  lectured  there  in  D.*s  time. 
See  Monthly  Review,  vol.  68,  p.  556, 
He  expounded  the  true  principles  of  me- 
dical psychology. 

Stoup,  a  citizen  of  Leyden,  left  prizes 
for  dissertations  on  subjects  relative  to  na- 
tural religion  and  moral  philosophy. 

Db.  CoLio!f  on  there  in  his  time.  Profes- 


600 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Bor  of  Anatomy  at  Cambridge,  afterward 
Deputy  Regius  Professor  of  Physic,  and 
Professor  of  Medicine  in  Downing  College. 
He  died  a.  d.  1785,  and  his  Miscellaneous 
Works  were  published  in  4to.  1786.  There 
are  poems  among  them  of  no  merit.— 3fon/A- 
ly  Review^  vol.  76,  p.  464. 


V'W/'W^^^^^^^^W^^*V^/\^^'W^ 


Handling  a  Subject 

By  the  toay,  and  by  the  bye^  difference  be- 
tween them. 

'*  E*  D*uoM  saggio  il  parlare  aurea  catena, 

Che  di  sapere  preziosi  girl 

Forman,  che  dietro  Tun  Taltro  si  mena.*' 

Bertucci.  Viaggio  al  Commo  Bene, 
p.  103. 

A  BoLOGNESB  noble  asked  Guido  from 
what  model  he  took  the  graceful  forms  of 
his  female  heads.  **  PU  show  you,**  said 
Guido,  and  calling  up  his  colour-grinder,  a 
great  coarse  lubberly  fellow,  he  bade  him 
sit  down,  turn  his  head,  and  look  up  at  the 
sky.  Then  taking  his  chalk,  he  drew  a 
Magdalene,  and  when  he  observed  the 
noble*s  astonishment,  he  said  to  him,  **the 
beautiful  and  pure  idea  must  be  in  the  mind, 
and  that  it  is  no  matter  what  the  model  be.** 
— Monthly  Review,  vol.  65,  p.  145. 

Sib  W.  Temple  says  of  the  Chinese  gar- 
dens, **  Their  greatest  reach  of  imagination 
is  employed  in  contriving  figures,  where 
the  beauty  shall  be  great  and  strike  the  eye, 
but  without  any  order  or  disposition  of  parts 
that  shall  be  commonly  or  easily  observed. 
And  though  we  have  hardly  any  notion  of 
this  sort  of  beauty,  yet  they  have  a  parti- 
cular word  to  express  it ;  and  where  they 
find  it  hit  their  eye  at  first  sight,  they  say 
the  ^  Sharawadgi  is  fine,  or  is  admirable,  or 
any  such  expression  of  esteem.    And  who- 

*  CouRTENAT  (vol.  11.  p.  161,"^  says,  an  emi- 
nent Chinese  scholar  to  whom  he  applied,  did 
not  acknowledge  this  word,  which  he  (T.  P.  C) 
however  took  to  mean  picturesque  beauty. 


ever  observes  the  work  upon  the  best  In- 
dian gowns,  or  the  painting  upon  their  best 
skreens  or  purcellans,  will  find  their  beautj 
is  all  of  this  kind,  (that  is,)  without  order.** 
—Vol.  1,  p.  186. 

Dr.  Dee,  74.  When  Nalvage  (see  his 
appearance,  73)  began  one  of  his  lessons 
with  this  invocation,  *^  Pater  Filius  Spiritos 
Sanctus,  Fundamentum,  substantia  et  prin- 
cipium  omnium,**  Edward  Kelly  thought  in 
his  mind  rerum,  but  Nalvage  answered  his 
thought,  saying,  **  what  need  I  say  rerum. 
The  grammarians  will  be  on  my  side.  Oft- 
mum  is  more  than  to  say  omnium  rentmT 

**  Thou  art  a  retailer  of  phrases,  and  dost 
deal  in  remnants  of  remnants  like  a  maker 
of  pincushions.** — Conorbve.  Way  of  the 
World,  p.  92. 

"  I  HOPB  its  slow  beginning  will  portend 
A  forward  exit  to  all  future  end.*' 

AmaryUit  in  the  ReheanaL 

When  Galersis,  that  great  chronicler  of 
the  later  branches  of  the  house  of  Aroadis, 
was  about  to  enter  upon  the  adventure  in 
which  Don  Silves  de  la  Selva  won  the  arms 
of  Jason,  he  made  this  exclamation,  *^  0 
Dieu,  et  comme  je  voudroye  que  tu  m*eus8es 
doUe  d*un  stile  si  subtil  et  ing^nieux,  que  je 
peusse  commencer  kdeduire  chose  k  laqueUe 
je  ne  trouve  commencement.** — B.  14,  p.  139. 
Or  as  in  de  Nederduytsche  tale  Overghe- 
set,  **  O  Grod,  hoe  hebt  ghy  my  niet  ean  so 
subtijlen  ende  verstandighen  stijl  begaeft, 
dat  ick  kan  beginnen  eenige  dingen  de  ver- 
halen  die  nochtans  ghaen  begin  en  hebben.** 
So  it  is  written  in  the  18th  chapter  of  the 
14th  book  of  that  great  history,  which  14th 
book  Fynes  Moryson  bought  at  Lubeck  in 
the  year  1593,  "in  the  Dutch  tongue,  to 
practise  the  same ;  for  these  books,**  says 
he,  in  his  Itinerary,  "  are  most  eloquently 
translated  into  the  Dutch,  and  fit  to  teach 
familiar  language,  and  for  this  book  I  paid 
eighteen  Lubeck  shillings,  and  for  the  bind- 
ing four    Now  if  my  reader  should  ask  why 


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601 


lot  rather  give  the  passage  in  the  ori- 
[JastilliaD  than  in  the  traduction  there- 
the  overghesetting  of  that  traduction, 
7,"  &c.  &c. 

AVE  not  proceeded  in  writing  like  the 
ess  of  Newcastle. — PoemSy  p.  47. 

BBB  thoughts  like  fishes  swim  the  mind 

bout, 

bie  great  thoughts  the  smaller  thoughts 

at  out."  Ibid.  p.  60. 

civil,  clean,  and  circumcised  wit, 
or  the  comely  carriage  of  it, 
art  the  man.** 

HsBBicK  to  Sir  John  Mince,  vol.  1, 
p.  273. 

OMMBNT  done,**  said  a  dwarf  who  met 
3  Fortunian  le  Beau,  on  his  way  from 
wn  of  Arene  towards  Hungary, "  Com- 
donc,  savez  vous  pas  ou  vous  allez, 
tend  ce  chemin  que  vous  tenez  ?  Je 
hevalier  estrange,  respondit  le  prince, 
*en  vay  je  ne  say  oik,  ^  Taventure,  au 
'  de  mon  cheval.  Je  le  voy  bien,  dist 
1  en  souriant,  et  cognoy  bien  que  vous 
aissez  guider  par  vostre  beste.** — Ama- 
16,  pp.  120-1. 

ADI8  D*A8TRB,when  banished  urjustly 
i  Princess  Rosiliana  from  her  presence, 
not  tell  where  he  was  going,  **  comme 
que  s*en  alloit  k  Taventure  au  gre  de 
leval  qui  le  portoit.** — Ibid.  1.  xvii.  p. 


[b  that  tells  a  long  story  should  take 
hat  it  be  not  made  a  long  story  by  his 
iT  of  telling  it.  His  expression  should 
bural,  and  his  method  clear ;  the  inci- 
should  be  interrupted  by  very  few 
bions,  and  parentheses  should  be  en- 
disregarded.** — CowPBB,  XV.  p.  70-3? 

"  KaKoy  h'dytfiutXta  /3di€iv.** 

Odyssey,  A.  v.  837. 


As  South  said  of  Sherlock*s  Vindication 
of  the  Trinity,  "  the  book  is  certainly  like 
a  kind  of  pot  or  vessel,  with  handles  quite 
round  it ;  turn  it  which  way  you  will,  you 
are  sure  to  find  something  to  take  hold  of 
it  by.** — South,  vol.  1,  p.  Ixxxiv. 

It  was  the  opinion  of  the  four  persons 
whom  Sully  employed  to  write  his  memoirs, 
and  address  their  relation  to  himself,  "  que 
longues  digressions,  exemples,  rapports,  in- 
structions, et  autres  narrations  hors  du  prin- 
cipal sujet  que  Ton  s*est  propos^,  fait  perdre 
le  fil,  la  tissure,  et  (par  consequent)  la  claire 
intelligence  de  la  vie  de  celuy,  dont  Ton 
veut  faire  mention,  ou  de  x'histoire  que  Ton 
entend  representer.  Et  afin  de  ne  tomber 
point  nous-mesmes  dans  les  fauteset  erreurs 
que  nous  blasmons  en  autruy,  nous  retour- 
nerons  k  nostre  dessein.** — Vol.  1,  p.  241. 


Dreanu. 

JvuvB  Batb  (the  Hutchinsonian)  says, 
"  that  in  the  days  of  prophecy,  to  dream  was 
a  divine  art.  They  used  means  to  procure 
prophetic  dreams,  by  prayer,  drinking  of 
sacred  wine,  and  sleeping  within  the  holy 
precincts.** — Monthly  Review,  vol.  36,  p. 
358 

Bbattib  (Life,  vol.  2,  p.  7).  "  The  view 
I  have  taken  of  dreaming  is  new,  so  far  as 
I  know.  I  have  attempted  to  trace  up  some 
of  the  appearances  of  that  mysterious  mode 
of  perception  to  their  proximate  causes, 
and  to  prove  that  it  is  in  many  respects  use- 
ful to  the  human  constitution.  On  all  sub- 
jects of  this  nature,  I  have  constantly  re- 
ceived more  information  from  my  own  ex- 
perience than  from  books.*' 

Rel.  de  N.  France,  a.d.  1642.  T.  6,  pp. 
124-5. 

Baptista  Mantuan*8  dream  of  Picus 
Mirandula. —  Picus  Mibandula*8  Works, 
ff.  69. 


The  Dead. 

SuPBBiiATUBAL  notices.  Seattle  mjs, 
^  In  all  cases  where  such  accounts  are  en- 
titled to  credit,  or  supported  bj  tolerable 
evidence,  it  will  be  found  that  they  referred 
to  something  which  it  concerned  men  to 
know ;  the  overthrow  of  kingdoms,  the  death 
of  great  persons,  the  detection  of  atrockms 
crimes,  or  the  preservation  of  important 
lives."— Xt/e  o/BeatUe,  vol.  i;  p.  215. 

Dohn B  says  in  a  letter  (p.  260),  ''  If  I 
shall  at  any  time  take  courage  to  express 
my  meditations  of  that  lady  in  writing,  I 
shall  scarce  think  less  time  to  be  due  to  that 
employment,  than  to  be  all  my  life  in  mak- 
ing those  verses,  and  so  take  them  with  me, 
and  sing  them  amongst  her  fellow  angels  in 
heaven." 

**  Thb  ancient  Christian  fathers  disposed 
of  our  disembodied  souls,  by  conveying  them 
into  the  central  regions  of  our  earth ;  but 
as  our  present  geologists  make  that  a  red- 
hot  or  molten  mass  of  fiery  matter,  any  other 
location  of  them,  while  that  hypothesis  lasts, 
will  be  a  preferable  supposition.'* — Tubmbb. 
Sac  H,  voL  3,  p.  36. 

Thb  Rerotongans  requesting  ghosts  not 
to  appear. — Wiixiams,  p.  556. 

Fastbnikq  them  in  their  graves.  The 
Mosicougos. — ParaUeU  on  Religions^  vol.  1, 
p.  723. 

How  to  prevent  a  husband  from  coming 
to  life. — CowGO.  Ibid.  p.  724. 

**  In  the  kingdom  of  heaven  the  elect  shall 
not  need  meat,  drink,  sleep,  air,  heat,  cold, 
physic,  apparel,  or  the  light  of  the  sun  and 
moon." — Pebkins,  vol.  1,  p.  94. 

Thet  are  not  only  to  be  just,  holy,  incor- 
ruptible, glorious,  honourable,  and  excel- 
lent, but  also  '*  beautiful,  strong,  mighty, 
and  nimble/*— Ibid.  p.  95. 


Habtuit*8  opinion  which  gives  vp  hit 
materialism  — Wabrib**  BteoL  voL  2,  p. 
429. 

Lm  of  Wilberforee,  voL  5,  p.  246. 


^^^V^^^^l^A^^M^^N^^I^^^^^^ 


Notueiue, 


Wmm  Orator  Henley  was  adced  what 
could  induce  him,  being  a  dergyman,  to 
deal  so  much  in  buffoonery,  he  replied,  "  I 
do  it  tint  my  advertiaemento  and  leolves 
may  be  taken  aottce  of.  If  I  were  not  now 
and  then  to  slip  Harlequin's  coat  over  my 
gown  and  cassock,  people  would  mind  me 
no  more  than  they  mind  the  parson  of  the 
parish."^ilfofi<%  Review^  vol.  38,  p.  160. 

Bbattix  says  that  those  pieeea  of  his  own 
from  which  he  had  received  the  highest  en- 
tertainment, were  what  he  had  written  in  a 
sort  of  burlesque  humour,  for  the  amuse- 
ment of  some  particular  friend,  or  for  some 
select  company.  Of  these  he  had  a  pretty 
large  collection,  and  ^  though  I  should  be 
ashamed  to  be  publicly  known  a&  the  ailhor 
of  many  of  them,  I  cannot  help  entertaining 
a  certain  partiality  towards  them." — L^e, 
vol.  1,  p.  79. 

MonAly  Review^  Yoh  OS,  pp.204^,  Yam- 
DBBKBMP,  about  Nothing.  **  Nothing  can 
come  of  nothing." 

Tub  Bishop  of  Chartres  says  to  H.  de 
Maintenon,  **  Si  vous  ne  faites  les  choses  in- 
utiles  que  pour  ^tre  en  etat  d*^ftre  ^eont^ 
dans  les  choses  utiles,  vous  priea  memo  dans 
ces  inutility." — MewL  de  M.  MahUemom^  vol. 
6,  p.  119. 

**  A  BfEBB  mouthful  of  moonshine,  trae 
lunatics*  diet,  the  cookery  of  a  cracked  brain, 
firoth  to  feed  foob  wiUi." — Comauiuua). 
Natural  Son, 

**  Hb  that  has  not  wit  enoai^  to  find  him- 
self sometimes  a  fool,  is  in  danger  of  beiag 


fbol  enough  to  have  nobody  think  hun  a  wit 
bat  hiai0elf.**-*Ci]»BB.  RefiuaL 

**  Ellm  poosse  des  feuilles  et  des  fruits 
an  dehors,  paroe  qu*elle  a  de  bonnes  racines 
an  dedans.** — Lett,  M.  MauUewm,  toL  9,  p. 
281. 

Sib  JohnEngush  sajs  in  theplaj  (Cotm- 
ftyXoffet),  *^That*e  nonsense;  bnt'tisprettj, 
rery  pretty." 

^  FoLLT  is  forwarder  to  eensare  wisdom, 
than  wisdom  foUy.*' — ^FuLrniio.  Miser, 

"  Jb  reporte  ma  langue  tonte  enti^re,-* 
voire  elle  est  a  accrefie  de  beaucoup  en  oe 
Toyage;  je  Temployeray  tonte  et  en  tons 
lieax  k  publier  les  yerit^s  de  nostre  cr^ 
ance,**  sayd  le  bon  Neophyte  Charles  Son- 
datsaa,  to  P.  Brebeuf. — m.  de  N.  France^ 
IM),  Tol.  1,  p.  81. 


WW^^^^V^^A^^^V^^^^^^^ 


The  EvaangelicaU. 

lliuiBB  (of  Hull)  *'  ccnnplains  much  of 
bdng  harassed  with  legsl  dispositions.** 

Mb.  J.  Habbis  finds  hunself  ^  at  present 
much  pressed  down  with  the  old  man  of 
sinf**— «nd  **  too  much  like  Sampson.** 

^Thbbb  is  a  town  about  eight  miles  ofi*** 
(Beverly  supposed)  ^*  which  I  could  wish  to 
lay  si^e  to.** 

^  Db  M.  G.  Febizbb,  the  celebrated  en- 
ehanter,  professor  of  recreative  philosophy, 
mathematician,  aeronaut,  magioo-mechani- 
cian,  prestidigitateur,  and  author  of  several 
experiments  adapted  to  public  amusement, 
begs  leave  to  inform  the  public,  in  solicit- 
ing their  kind  support  to  his  splendid  enter- 
taiDiBeBts(admittanoe,front seats, Is.;  back 
seats,  6«f. ;  children,  half  price),  that  they 
are  particularly  calculated  to  attract  the 
notice  and  support  of  those  whose  religious 
ftriings  forbid  their  participating  in  amuse- 


ments of  a  more  marked  and  decisive  cha- 
racter than  his  cabilistical  thaugmaturgical 
and  mechanical  imbroglio  I 

Dtsangbucals  they  ought  to  be  called. 

Dbalbbs  in  spiritual  drams.  The  ex- 
citement which  Rome  provides,  the  pomp 
and  pageantry  of  glorious  worship,-*-music, 
pictiures,  images,  incense,  Geneva  supplies 
by  mental  stimulants. 

Dbamb  and  drastics. 


^^^^•^i^^i^^^*^^^<^'>^^^^^>^ii^^^ 


Spibits. 

[6?enti.] 

'^  Thb  wide  air, 
Where,  like  innumerous  atoms,  the  black 

genii 
Hover,  and  jostle  one  another.** 

Shiblbt,  St.  Batrickf  voL  4,  p.  868. 

{^OuarcUan  Afigele.^ 

Thb  Romanists  teach  **  that  all  mankind 
hath  one  protecting  angel;  all  Christians 
one  other ;  all  English  one  other ;  all  of  one 
corporation,  and  every  civil  coagulation  or 
society  one  other,  and  every  man  one 
other.** — ^DoNKB*8  Letters,  p.  43. 

[^Resurrection  of  the  Bad.'] 

*^  Whitakeb  of  Manchester  affirms  that 
there  are  certain  fixed  parts  of  the  body, 
which  (though  they  admit  of  growth  and 
increase)  remain  unchangeable;**  and  these, 
at  the  resurrection,  will  *'  continue  to  give 
the  body  the  same  air,  the  same  turn  of 
countenance,  that  it  had  before.** — Monthly 
Review,  vol.  68,  p.  340. 

IWhite  Art."] 

Thb  King  of  Sicambria  applies  to  the 
Philosopher  of  the  Forest  to  discover  the 
names  and  condition  of  some  unknown 
knights  who  have  arrived  and  performed 
great  exploits  at  his  court.     Defence  and 


604 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


condemnation  of  his  white  art. — AmadU^ 
lib.  XV.  p.  178-9. 

Duchess  of  Newcastle's  argument  for 
the  existence  of  fairies. — PoemSy  p.  139-40. 

Question  concerning  the  bodies  which 
angels  assume  when  they  appear. — Per- 
kins, Tol.  1,  p.  148. 


The  Non-Naturals. 

Why  so  called. — Sennebtus,  toI.  1,  p. 
344. 
Fools  natural  and  non-natural. 
Rogues  also,  and  blockheads. 


Dancing, 

^^  Mas.  Mart,  upon  St.  Stephen*s  day  in 
the  aflernoon,  danced  before  the  Queen  two 
galliards,  with  one  Mr.  Palmer,  the  admira- 
blest  dancer  of  this  time ;  both  were  much 
commended  by  her  majesty ;  then  she  danced 
with  him  a  corante." — Rowland  White  to 
Sir  Robert  Sydney,  December  28,  1602. 

N.  NovEBBE,  whose  works  were  trans- 
lated, and  published  in  3  vols.  8vo.  1786, 
has  these  lines  under  his  portrait,  contain- 
ing, says  the  Reviewer,  his  just  panegyric. 

Du  feu  de  son  genie  il  anima  la  danse  ; 
Aux  beaux  jours  de  la  Gr^ce  il  sut  la 
rappeller ; 
Et  recouvrant  par  lui  leur  antique  elo- 
quence, 
Les  gestes  et  les  pas  aprirent  k  parlcr. 
Monthly  Review^  vol.  74,  p.  274. 

Duchess  of  Newcastle's  Poems,  p.  17. 
— Dance  of  Life. 

Arcadia  Felice,  the  Italian  pastoral  ro- 
mance, p.  79-81. 

In  Beam — "  Ul  commen^astes  vous  2l 
faire  le  Courtisan,  Madame  Sceur  du  Roy 


prenant  la  peine  elle  mesme  de  vous  moa- 
trer  les  pas  d*un  Balet,  dont  elle  vouloit 
que  vous  fussiez,  et  de  fait  vous  le  dsn- 
pastes  huict  jour  apr^  devant  le  Roy  et 
ainsi  que  nous  Tavons  ouy  dire  au  Siear 
d'Yvetot."— Sullt,  vol.  1,  p.  30. 

Life  of  WUberforce,  vol.  5,  p.  262. 
To  go  with  Bourdaloue, — preparation  for 
his  Good  Friday  sermon. 

*' Valentin,  a  French  dancing  master,  was 
brought  up  on  a  charge  of  allowing  a  pro- 
hibited dance  at  a  ball  in  the  Place  Cadet. 
Being  questioned  by  the  President  of  the 
Tribunal,  he  replied  that  his  profession  was 
that  of  a  dancing  master  and  a  teacher  of 
good  manners.  *  You  are  accused  of  an  of- 
fence against  morals,  in  having  exhibited  an 
indecent  dance  on  Sunday,  December  IS, 
at  a  ball  in  the  Rue  Cadet.*  ^  I  am  sorrj 
to  dispute  the  word  of  the  Sergens  de  Ville; 
but  what  they  have  asserted  is  not  common 
sense.*  *  You  were  taken  in  the  fact*  *  This 
is  not  to  understand  what  dancing  is !  How 
do  you  suppose  that  I,  a  professional  nun, 
could  permit  myself  to  lapse  into  such  ab- 
surdities P  You  might  just  as  well  accuse  a 
professor  of  rhetoric  of  tanning  bides.* 
*■  Your  dance  was  of  so  indecent  a  nature, 
that  you  were  arrested  on  the  complaint  of 
several  persons  who  were  present  at  the 
ball.*  '  I  beg  to  be  remanded  for  a  week, 
to  bring  forward  a  number  of  pupils  as 
witnesses.*  *  What  can  your  pupils  say  V 
'  They  will  tell  you  that  I  am  utterly  in- 
capable of  that  which  is  ascribed  to  me,  and 
that  it  is  impossible  to  be  more  scrupulous 
than  I  am  in  every  thing  relative  to  danc- 
ing. There  are  three  things  that  I  most 
particularly  enjoin.  Honour  to  the  fair 
sex  :  the  fear  of  the  gens  d*armes ;  and  ma- 
lediction to  the  Cancan.*  *  Tliis  proves  that 
you  have  not  followed  your  own  rules.' 

^*  The  accused  then  drew  from  his  pocket 
a  dirty  piece  of  paper,  and  replied,  ^  I  beg 
to  lay  before  you  the  rules  of  my  establish- 
ment, and  hope  to  have  the  pleasure  of 
communicating  them  to  you.*     *  It  is  use- 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


'  It  is  mj  defence.  You  will  see  if 
capable  of  being  wuiting  in  the  ob- 
icea  due  to  society.'  '  Hold  your 
e,  the  case  is  decided.'  Tbe  dancing 
r  persisted,  however,  in  producing  his 
itions,     '  Art.  1.  Every  pupil  on  en- 

the  boll  room  Bholl  poy  &  sum  of  25 
les  (2^.)  for  polishing  the  floor.  2. 
nes9  being  the  link  of  humanity,  every 

expected  to  take  off  his  hat  on  pene- 
g  into  the  hall-  3.  If  the  wearer  has 
.  casquette,  he  will  take  that  off^  just 
ime.  4.  The  baU  room  will  be  lit 
candles.  Those  who  desu-e  a  lamp 
make  a  purse  of  four  persons,  and  pay 
ntimes  (1^-)  each.  S.  Each  pupil 
pay  a  premium  of  30  centimes  (Sd.) 
^ing  promoted  to  the  galop,  and  60 
les  on  reaching  the  gavotte.  6.  The 
ce  of  these  premiums  shall  be  es- 
d  on  a  dinner,  to  be  given  every  bix 
IB,  atwhich  the  Professor  will  preside, 
ill  fix  the  day  and  hour.  7.  The  fair 
ing  especially  the  ornament  of  society, 
f  tbe  ball  room  in  particular,  it  is  ex- 
y  forbidden  to  occasion  the  ladies  the 
^t  inconvenience,  or  to  call  them 
9.  Lastly,  The  Cancan,  the  Macure, 
itber  characieristic  dances,  are  for- 
1  under  the  most  severe  penalties ; 
le  person  guilty  of  introducing  them 
e  punished  by  expulsion.' 
L  Valentin  reckoned,  no  doubt,  on 
lOral  effect  which  this  official  docu- 

would  produce;  but  he  was  unde- 
1  when  the  tribunal  condemned  him 
!  days'  imprisonment,  and  a  fine  of  30 
." — Gazette  de»  Trihtnaui:. 


Theatre. 
s.  MoirrroRD's  story  and  remarkable 
—Manihis  Hetiew,  vol.  72,  p.  ISA. 


Marriage. 
herb's  such  coupling  at  Pancrat,  that 
tand  behind  one  another,  as  it  were  in 


a  country  dance." — ComiHEva's  Wa^  of  the 
WarH,  p.  17. 

Amoho  the  marriages  for  August,  1731, 
GenUeauoi'i  Magtatne,  toI.  I,  p.  3fi6,  are 
—  Railton,  Esq.  above  eighty  years  old,  to 
a  young  gentlewoman  of  twenty-two.  Mr. 
Wilkinson,  minister  of  the  Savoy,  to  her 


Navabbbte  mentions  a  custom  in  one  of 
the  provinces  in  China,  that  if  two  be- 
trothed persons  die  about  the  same  time, 
ihey  are  married  while  their  dead  bodies 
are  still  in  tbetr  former  dwellings,  and  after- 
wards bnrat  together.— 7Vme«,  May  3, 1837, 
see  for  thb  passBge. 

"  How  hsfipy  is  it  for  young  ladies  in 
general,  that  people  of  quality  overlook 
every  thisg  in  a  ntarriage  contract  but  their 
fortunes." — Lord  OgUby,  in  the  Clandeitine 
p.  33. 


Hbrbt  Smith,  pp.  29,  31,  36. 

FlCttS  MlBAHDOLA. 

"  Militiam  quoque  steculi,  et  conjugale 
vinculum  perosus  Aierat ;  interrogatnsque 
interjocandum  quid  ei,  ad  alterum  subeun- 
dum  onus  ferendumque,  et  necessitate  co- 
genie,  et  optione  dali,  levins  videretur, — 
hssitabundue  aliquantuluni,  nutabundus- 
que  necnon  pauxillum  subridens,  conju- 
gium  respondit  cui  nan  tantum  esset  et 
servitutis  annexio,  et  periculi,  quantum  mi- 
litiv  Bubeundum  onus." — Lt/e,  by  his  Ne- 
phew, prefixed  to  his  works. 

A.  D.  17S5.  WiuJAM  DoDSBAM  of  Dur- 
ham, to  Frances  Parkin  ;  being  of  the  fteo- 
ple  called  Qaakers,  the  lady  made  a  learned 
discourse  upon  the 


Tboy. 
"  That  fate  the  gods  prepared ;  they  spin 


606 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Of  nuin*8  defltrucdon,  that  in  after  days 
The  bard  may  make  the  sad  event  his  theme.** 
Odyiseffy  book  viii.  y.  710. 

"Thosb  monstrous  lies  oflittle  Robin  Rush ; 
Tom  Chipperfield,  and  pretty  lisping  Ned, 
Hiat  doled  on  a  maid  of  gingerbread. 
The  flying  pilcher,  and  the  frisking  dace, 
With  all  the  rabble  of  Tim  Trundeirs  race." 

Hbbbick,  vol.  1,  p.  216. 


Nawiet, 

'*  Lbs  Sorciers  feront  quelquefois  changer 
de  nom  k  quelque  malade,  s'imaginans  quasi 
que  la  Mort  ou  le  Manitou  qui  vouloit 
attaquer  oet  homme,  ne  le  cognoistra  plus 
i^us  un  nouveau  nom.** — Hel,  de  la  N. 
France^  1642,  torn.  5,  p.  185. 

FiKEQUBNT  changes  of  name,  and  sunples. 
— ^Ibid.  p.  120-1,  2nd  pa^ng. 

**  Thb  Jews  were  wont  to  name  their 
children  so  when  they  were  bom,  that  ever 
alVer,  if  tbe^  did  but  think  upon  their 
names,  they  would  put  them  in  mind  of 
that  religion  which  they  should  profess,  for 
tkfty  did  ii^ify  something  that  they  should 
learn.** — Henbt  Smith,  p.  44. 

Hbabnb^  in  his  journey  to  the  northern 
ocean,  **  coming  to  a  lake  which,  though  very 
considerable  both  in  length  and  breadth, 
was  not  distinguished  by  any  generai  name, 
gave  it,**  he  says^  *'on  that  account,  the  name 
of  No^name  Lake/*-^?.  210. 

^  JoOBHBT  me  Long  Lane,  from  Ckiole  to 
Thome,  sijt  miles  on  a  dead  level,'  without 
a  turning.'*  ^SoB^  G.  Hxab^b  TouTy  vol.  1, 
p.  222. 

Aif0R6  ilie  finiaatie  tricks  im  Ii^Iand 
which  make  **  the  angels  weep,^*  this  etancb 
faremoat  c^^Steelei,  the  mad  I^rhnendk  agita- 
tor, has  changed  the  name  ^Ihe  Glare  range 


of  mountains,  to  ^^  the  0*ConneU  moun- 
tains ;**  and  the  Papist  Bishops  of  Limerick 
and  Killaloe  have  countenanced  the  impu- 
dent farce,  and  the  priests  of  the  parishes  In 
which  the  mountains  are  situate,  have  chriMt- 
ened  them  in  their  chapels. 

A  KAME  may  be  monosyllabic,  and  jet 
want  neither  force  nor  dignity.  Jove,  e.  g. 
and  Thor.  Giants  Grim  and  Maul.  But 
for  animals  you  want  a  short  word  of  em- 
phatic sound.  Nobs  therefore  was  in  these 
respects  good. 

'*  Con  solo  ser  Mabxab 
Se  escapan  mil  pecadoras.** 

L.  DB  Vbga,  liidroj  p.  57. 

Among  the  Roman  slaves,  e  gente  vil, 
had  only  one  name.     Nao  se  sofiria  mas. 

EvELTN*8  Misc.  124-5. — A  practice  like 
Queen  Mary*s. 


1^»<^^W^W«.WW>..»W»«>^MM^ 


OianU. 

Aliofebnes,  Tremalion,  Timorant,  Scs/- 
ricant. — Amadis,  lib.  xv.  Silves  de  la  Silva. 

TuBBULON  of  Samothrace.  '*  Francanasse 
le  fier,  et  Robolastre  de  TAlfane,  ainsi  ap- 
pelU  pour  ce  qu*il  ne  chevauclMHi  autre 
beste,  et  qu*il  n*y  avoit  cheval  ordinaire  qui 
le  peust  porter.** — ^Ibid.  lib.  xvii.  p.  296. 

Radamantb  the  Cruel.  Morbiglion  the 
orgullous. 

^  O  Intantb  Fortune,  ma  fidelle  cc»- 
pagne  et  espouse,  ton  nom  qui  te  fut  im- 
post d^s  ta  naissance  demonstroit  bien  que 
tu  devois  servir  de  blanc  et  de  butte  k  h 
Fortune.**  Says  Prince  Lucendus,  whca 
after  delivering  her  from  the  enchantment 
in  which  she  was  held  by  Dragosine,  be 
loses  her  ttgrn^^Amodis^  lib.  17»  £  89. 


MISCELLANTEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Wi 


AmmaU, 


Thb  Canadian  Indians  say,  ^*  que  tous 
lefl  animaux  de  ch&que  espece  ont  un  fr^re 
aisn^  qui  est  comme  le  principe  et  comme 
Torigine  de  tous  les  individus,  et  ce  frere 
aisn^  est  merveilleusement  grand  et  puis- 
sant.** The  beaver,  for  example,  as  big  as 
tbe  cabin  in  which  the  Jesuits  liTcd.  These 
aisnez  of  all  animals,  are  all  ca/dets  of  Mes- 
80U,  the  restorer  of  the  world.  ^*  Le  voila 
bien  apparente,  le  brave  reparateur  de 
rUnivers." 

Atahocam  made  the  world,  and  Messou 
repaired  it  after  it  had  been  destroyed  hy 
a  deluge. 

^'  The  aisnez  of  birds  had  their  abode  in 
heaven;  those  of  other  creatures  in  the 
waters ;  but  of  this  the  Indians  were  not 
sure.  To  dream  of  any  one,  was  a  good 
omen  of  success  in  hunting,  whatever  ani- 
m^  he  represented.— iZeJaAian,  1634,  pp. 


found  in  Yorkshire,  especiidly  in  slow  rivers 
and  standing  waters ;  but  no  where  more 
frequent  than  in  the  fen  ditches  of  the  le- 
vels, about  four  miles  from  Doncaster.** — 
Hud.  ToL  6,  p.  46. 


44-6. 


%^«^rfMM«MMtf«^%M^AA^^AAM* 


frOflKR. 


Thbib  early  decay  in  France,  not  per- 
ceivable in  the  higher  classes. — Evbltn*s 
Afiw,  p.  90.  It  IS  therefore  the  effect  of 
exposure  and  hard  work. 


^IM/^«MAMMMMAMAAMMMM<k 


Imtirendtu 
LxNOTST  sermons. — ^Nswrofic,  p.  278. 

BamaQ  the  heart.— Ibid.  p.  316. 

Phtuognomt. — Phil.  Trans.  Ahr.  vol.  3, 
p.  638. 

SwAixowiKG  pebbles.  —  Ibid.  vol.  4,  p. 
381. 

SiojiATUBM  of  plants,  a  rational  view  of 
tliem.-*Jbid.  p.  416. 

^  BtJBBOLTS  (Gadus  Lota.  Linn.)  a  fish 
not  frequent  in  our  southern  rivers,*  often 

>  TuHtvLL  sa^s  it  it  met  with  in  the  Cam, 
in  some  of  the  nvers  of  Norfolk  and  Lincoln- 
shire, and  in  the  Trent,  &c  British  Fishes^  vol. 
iLp.  188.  J.W.W. 


Effbcts  of  Love.r— Lbonb  Hbbeks  £31. 

Dba  Metres. — PkUomfphical  Trttjuadiam 
Ab.  vol.  10,  p.  317.  Altars  at  York.  ''Ma- 
tribus  Africis  Italicis  Grermanicis  **  disco- 
vered A.  D.  1753.  ded.  by  Marcus  Minucius 
Ande. — ^The  Beerothites. 

• 

Tbeb  lung-wert. — Ibid.  voL  11,  p.  259. 

"  In  the  neighbourhood  of  Donca«ter  two 
kinds  of  lime  are  employed  in  agriculture. 
The  one  must  be  used  sparingly,  and  spread 
evenly,  otherwise  instead  of  increasing,  it 
diminishes  the  fertility  of  the  sail.  The 
other  is  brought  farther  and  therefore  much 
dearer,  but  more  used,  and  in  lai^e  quan- 
tities. Tennant  inquired  into  the  fact,  and 
found  that  the  one  species  contained  two 
parts  magiiPfua  to  three  of  calcareous  earth, 
and  that  the  magnesia  was  exceedingly  in- 
jurious to  vegetable  life^** — Ibid.  toI.  18, 
p.  548. 

Puppet  shows. — Acoomni  <^  the  Siagu^ 
vol.  1,  p.  458. 

Db.  Dic&soii  poUiahed  a.dw  1765i  a 
Treatise  on  Blood-letting ;  with  an  Intro- 
duction recommending  a  review  of  the  Ma- 
teria Medica.     Fart  I.  4to.  li,6d, 

^^  Diseasea,'*  he  sajrs,  *^  are  seldom  seen 
with  theur  natural  faces  by  a  physician ;  for 
before  he  is  called,  the  patient  has  been 
either  blooded  or  blistered,  pui^ged  or  vo- 
mited, and  perhaps  many  other  things  done 
which  give  them  often  a  vei^  artificial  com- 
plexion."— Monthly  Review,  vol.  32,  p.  433. 

^MkDKkL  Observatioos  and  Inquiries, 
Yol.  4.  A  Defence  of  Sydenham's  History 
of  the  Measles,  by  him,-^aad  G.  Sydenham's 
treatment  of  it. — The  letters  against  Meat). 


i 


608 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


— the  former  to  correct  an  error  bj  Mer- 
ton. — Ibid.  vol.  46,  p.  43. 

**  The  Parish  Clerk*s  Pocket  Companion, 
by  Joseph  Fox,  Parish  Clerk  of  St.  Marga- 
ret, Westminster." — Ibid.  vol.  59,  p.  387. 

Philistis.  Rufane  Donkin  in  Piukjbb- 
ton's  Correspondence,  vol.  2. 

River  Idle.  Scene  of  Edwin's  first  vic- 
tory. 

AsGiLL.— S.  T.  C.'s  Table  Talk,  vol.  1,  p. 
244.    Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  48.  184-5. 

Among  the  pamphlets  imputed  to  De  Foe 
is  an  Enquiry  into  the  case  of  Mr.  Asgill*s 
Greneral  Translation ;  showing  that  it  is  not 
a  nearer  way  to  Heaven  than  the  Grave. 
A.D.  1704. 

Pockets. — Humboldt,  vol.  6-1,  p.  12. 

*^  TuRDHXi  sunt,  tuti  contumelisB  caus&.** 
Sekbga,  tn  one  of  hii  EpisUee, 

LiPsiiTS  reads  Turdi,  "  from  one  Turdus 
a  man  of  so  infamous  a  character  that  his 
name  became  a  proverb.  Seneca  the  fa- 
ther makes  mention  of  him  in  lib.  9,  Con- 
trov.  4. — Monthly  Review,  vol.  77,  p.  19. 

Rats.  —  Williams.  Missionary  Enter ^ 
prises,  pp.  68.  146.  151-2.  244-5.  Head's 
Home  Tour,  vol.  2,  pp.  62.  64.  269-70. 

Value  of  women  in  the  Navigator's  Is- 
lands.— Ibid.  p.  538.     See  Women,  />.  17. 

Price  of  Euryclea. — Odyssey  1. 

Capt.  Scorssbt. — Ibid.  A.  v.  443. 

Sir  G.  Head's  Tour,  vol.  1,  pp.  218-9-21. 
Doncaster,  pp.  24-5.  273.    Draining. 

Mason's  Church.  Warner's  Recollec- 
tions, vol.  1,  p.  309. 


Job's  wife. — ^Antonio  das  Chaoas.  &f- 
mons,  tom.  1,  p.  79. 

Why  fleas  should  be  cracked,  not  drown- 
ed.— Life  of  Wilber/orce,  vol.  4,  p.  266. 

"  When  Mr.  Faraday  told  Davy  that  he 
wished  to  escape  from  trade,  which  lie 
thought  *  vicious  and  selfish,*  and  to  enter 
into  the  service  of  science  which  he  ima- 
gined made  its  pursuers  amiable  and  liberal, 
Sir  Humphrey  smiled  at  the  notion,  and 
said  he  would  leave  him  to  the  experience 
of  a  few  years  to  set  him  right  in  that  mat- 
ter."— National  Portraits. 

Peel's  speeches,  their  effect  upon  Lord 
John  Russell.  AsCowper  says,  *^I  am  afraid 
it  was  only  clapping  a  blister  upon  the  crown 
of  a  wig-block." 

*'  Cect  est  une  autre  paire  de  manches, 
et  longues  ^  coudre,  que  j'esp^  dire  ail- 
leurs,  et  2l  propot." — Brantomb,  vol.  9,  p. 
325. 

Bramtome's  uncle,  M.  de  la  Chastaigne- 
vays  (killed  in  a  duel  by  M.  de  Jamac),  when 
he  first  carried  an  harquebuss  had  half- 
a-dozen  golden  bullets  cast,  to  kill  the  Em- 
peror. He  said, "  n'estant  raisonnable  que 
luy,  cstant  grand  et  puissant,  et  plus  que 
le  commun,  mourust  de  balles  communes 
de  plomb,  mais  d'or  :  dont  le  Roy  Francis 
qui  Tavoit  nourry.  Ten  ayma  tousjours  fort 
depuis." — Ibid.  vol.  10,  p.  215. 

*^  Some  bold  hypothesist  has  asserted  that 
the  pyramids  were  built,  not  where  they 
stand,  but  upon  floats  in  a  quarry,  and  when 
the  Nile  overflowed,  a  dyke  was  cut  through 
the  quarry,  and  the  pyramid  floated  to  its 
destined  site."  —  Monthly  Review,  vol.  19i 
p.  205. 

"Dr.  Uvedalb  (a. d.  1758)  prescribed 
composing  in  music  and  poetry  for  certain 
heavy  disorders  of  the  nerves,  having  seen 
nn  instance,  he  said,  which  justified  him  in 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


609 


:  that  nervous  disorders  were  some- 
>wing  to  smothered  genius, — to  a  sup- 
m  of  poetry. 

ich  genius  may  exist  with  the  very 
state  of  nervous  disorder.  *"  1  could 
ce  a  patient  whom  I  am  not  permitted 
le,  among  whose  papers  I  have  seen 
;es  exceeding  all  that  I  have  read  in 
' ;  and  who  has  at  this  time,  outlines 
;e  great  works,  which  himself  will  not 
ete,  and  with  which  I  know  no  one 
orthy  to  meddle.'  "—Ibid.  vol.  29,  p. 


DAM  Claske  obtained  a  book  of  Man- 
r  Charms  from  Ceylon,  consisting  of 
I  leaves,  full  of  the  most  grotesque 
I  of  gods,  demons,  &c.  The  gentle- 
rom  whom  he  received  it  was  in  the 
me  Court  at  Colombo  when  a  woman 
red  a  charge  against  a  man  of  extreme 
tsion  and  injury,  but  she  could  not 
id  in  her  evidence,  being  seized  with 

shivering  and  violent  agitations,  and 
ng  most  profusely  at  the  same  time, 
udge  enquired  what  was  the  matter ; 
hen  a  little  recovered  she  Gi^d  the  de- 
it  had  enchanted  her,  and  if  he  were 
ed,  she  was  sure  the  charm  would  be 
upon  him.  Order  was  given  to  search 
tcordingly,  and  this  identical  book  was 

among  his  clothes.  The  Judge  or- 
it  to  be  delivered  into  the  possession 

Court,  and  in  that  moment  the  wo- 
t>ecame  calm,  and  proceeded  in  her 
ice  without  hesitation." — Catcdogve  of 

Clarke's  MSS,  p.  225. 

you  take  Sophocles,  Catullus,  Lucre- 
be  better  parts  of  Cicero,  and  so  on, 
ay  with  just  two  or  three  exceptions 
I  out  of  the  different  idioms  as  Xjo 
translate  page  after  page  into  good 
r  English,  word  by  word,  without  al- 
the  order ;  but  you  cannot  do  so 
TirgxX  or  Tibullus ;  if  you  attempt  it, 
ill  make  nonsense."  —  Samuel  Tat- 
OLESiDGE.  Tabu  Talk,  vol.  2,  p.  5G. 
Aaron  Hill's  Preface  to  Gideon. 


In  the  Index  of  obscure  words  in  Dante, 
by  Yolpi,  it  is  said  that  Caesar  was  the  first 
person  who  was  ever  addressed  in  the  plural 
number,  "  quando  fu  creato  Dittatore  per- 
petuo,  per  essere  in  lui  solo  raccolta  I'auto- 
rit^  di  tutti  i  magistrati :  dandosi  per  altro 
del  tu  ad  ogni  persona  singolare." — Dante, 
vol  3,  p.  359. 

**  Thomas  Wuitakeb,  Doctor  in  Physic, 
of  London,  a.  d.  1638,  in  a  treatise  called 
.the  Tree  of  Human  Life,  or  the  Blood  of 
the  Grape,  observes  that  Noah  lived  twenty 
years  longer  than  Adam,  which  he  attributes 
to  his  having  tasted  nectar  from  that  plant 
from  which  Adam  was  excluded,  and  which 
he  calls  an  inferior  species  of  the  Tree  of 
Life." — Boswell's  Shakespeare,  vol.  17,  p. 
171.  N. 

The  Knight  of  the  Sun  was  taller  than 
the  Emperor  Trebatius  his  father,  who  was 
eight  feet.  "  Mais  quoy  qu'il  fust  d'une  si 
riche  taille,  on  ne  vit  jamais  pourtant  un 
corps  si  bien  proportionn^  que  le  sien.  II 
sembloit  qu'une  main  divine  I'eust  form^. 
Aussi  plusieurs  peintres,  tant  Grecs  qu' As- 
sy riens,  ne  peurent  jamais  representer  un 
corps  avec  une  vraye  proportion  et  mesure, 
jusques  ^  ce  qu'ils  virent  ce  Chevalier,  et 
qu'ils  I'eurent  tire.  C'est  pourquoy  ils  en- 
voyerent  son  pourtraict  en  plusieurs  con- 
tr^es  du  monde,  comme  le  plus  parfaict  de 
tous  leurs  ouvrages." — C%e».  du  Soleil,  torn. 
1,  p.  93-4. 

"  The  three  great  original  objects  of 
poetry  were  self,  a  mistress,  and  an  enemy ; 
these  produced  verses  upon  religion,  love, 
and  war ;  poetry  purely  descriptive  is  the 
product  of  a  much  later  time."  —  Monthly 
Review,  vol.  40,  p.  117. 

Compare  vrith  the  Triads — and  the  truth. 

"  Natcba,  Philosophia,  et  Ars  in  Con- 
cordia," or  Nature,  Philosophy,  and  Art  in 
Friendship.  An  Essay  in  four  parts  by  W. 
Canty,  Cabinet  Maker,  2«.  Nicol.  He 
shows  that  all  houses  might  be  built  proof 


£  u 


610 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


•gainst  fire  and  yermin,  chimnies  built  so 
as  not  to  smoke,  and  smokj  ones  cured,  and 
furniture  and  wainscots  so  constructed  as 
that  no  vermin  can  ezbt  therein.  —  Ibid, 
vol.  46,  p.  623. 

Db.  Lettsom  distilled  some  green  tea, 
injected  three  drachms  of  the  very  odorous 
and  pellucid  water  which  he  obtained  **  into 
the  cavity  of  the  abdomen  and  cellular 
membrane,  —  bjr  which  he  paralysed  the 
animal.  He  applied  it  to  the  cavity  of  the 
abdomen  and  to  the  ischiatic  nerves  of 
another,  and  the  firog  died.  And  this  he 
thought  proved  green  tea  to  be  unwhole- 
some."— Ibid.  voL  47,  p.  133. 

Thb  author  of  an  Inquiry  into  the  con- 
nection between  the  high  price  of  provi- 
sions, and  the  size  of  farms,  a.d.  1773,  says 
that  no  small  farmer  ought  ever  to  rear  a 
pig,  none  but  large  farmers,  or  dairy-men. 
— Ibid.  vol.  48,  p.  348. 

On  common  he  says,  **a  few  sheep  are 
maintained  as  winter  food  for  ravens  and 
crows." — Ibid.  p.  349. 

"  The  trading  part  of  the  nation,**  he  says, 
"  dare  not  retrench  their  way  of  living,  lest 
they  should  thereby  ruin  their  credit,  the 
very  life  of  trade."— Ibid.  p.  353. 

MoBTTMEB*8  Elements  of  Commerce, 
A.  D.  177*2.  "A  list  was  lately  put  into  my 
hands  of  upwards  of  1000  alehouse  keepers, 
green -grocers,  chandlers,  ofl  shops,  and 
other  retail  traders  in  London  and  the  vil- 
lages adjacent,  all  of  whom  were  originally 
footmen  and  servant  maids.** — Ibid.  p.  868. 

**Bboad  cloths  deteriorated  in  quality, 
and  deceit  complained  of  both  in  length 
and  breadth.*"— Ibid.  p.  370. 

'  The  stretching  of  broad  cloth  and  deTiPs 
dust  are  no  new  inventions.  Witness  good  old 
Latimxb. 

''  If  bis  cloth  be  eighteen  yards  long,  he  will 
set  him  on  a  rack,  and  stretch  him  out  with 


His  proposal  of  making  book  debts  trans- 
ferable justly  objected  to. — Ibid.  p.  878. 

^*  Wb  remember  to  have  seen  somewhere 
in  the  Low  Countries  a  print  of  a  booksel- 
ler digging  in  the  tomb  of  an  author,  and 
saying  to  himself  as  he  works  Ily  ade  ptu^ 
—Ibid.  vol.  49,  p.  337. 

An  anonymous  poet  in  1774  has  this 
couplet, 

Yet  doubly  happy  could  I  justly  claim 
One  puff  of  merit  from  the  trump  of  Fame. 

Unhappy  poet.  K  instead  of  having 
Snagg  for  his  publisher,  he  had  been  in  the 
service  of  Henry  ColbunH  a  whole  band  of 
trumpeter*  would  have  been  employed  in 
his  praise. — Ibid.  p.  484. 

**  Let  it  be  remembered  that  minds  are 
not  levelled  in  their  powers,  but  when  tfaej 
are  levelled  in  their  desires.** 

Johnson  says  this  when  speaking  of  Dry- 
den*s  controversy  with  Settle. 

**  It  is  very  happy  that  de  terns  en  fern, 
there  will  always  arise  certain  moral  cha- 
racters of  very  good  hearts  and  very  odd 
heads,  of  exceeding  benefit  in  a  world  toe 
much  disordered  to  be  set  right  by  the  re- 
gular process  of  sober  systematical  vhrtoe.** 
— Letter  to  Mre,  M.  voL  2,  p.  268. 

Mrs.  Carter  says  this  of  Jonas  Hanway. 

— '*  *Tis  a  maxim  of  mine  that  n^H^or  the 

ropes,  and  rack  him  till  the  sinews  shrink  again, 
while  he  hath  brought  him  to  twenty-seren 
yards.  When  they  have  brought  him  to  that 
perfection,  they  have  a  pretty  feat  to  thiek 
nim  again.  He  makes  me  a  powder  for  it,  and 
plays  the  poticary ;  they  call  it  flock  powder: 
they  do  so  incorporate  it  to  the  cloth,  that  it  is 
wonderfiil  to  eonaider$  tmly  a  sood  inTentita. 
Oh  that  so  goodlv  wita  should  be  ao  appM; 
they  may  well  deceive  the  pix>ple,  but  they 
cannot  deceive  God.  They  were  wont  to  make 
beds  of  flocks,  and  it  was  a  fl;ood  bed  toa  Notw 
they  have  tamed  their  flodcs  into  powder,  to 
pky  the  false  thieves  with  it.^  Third  Sermm 
before  Kin^Edward  VI.  vol.  i.  p.  112,  ed.  Wat- 
kins. -J.  W.  W. 


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611^ 


bodj  nor  the  mind  911011101  be  kept  to  the 
Mune  food;  yariety  not  only  gratifies  the 
ttflte  but  quickens  the  appetite/*  —  Ladt 
Hbbtst*8  Letters^  p.  149. 

^^  In  general  I  have  observed  that  those 

who  live  in  town  think  too  little,  and  those 

who  live  in  the  country  think  too  much : 

the  one  makes  them  superficial,  the  other 

!  sour." — Ibid. 

**  Ohb  of  young  Beattie's  lectures  was 
an  account  of  Raymond  Sully *s  mill  for 
making  books,  alluded  to  by  Dr.  Campbell 
in  the  Philosophy  of  Rhetoric.  He  got 
BayiBond'a  book  in  the  CoU^e  Library, 
and  made  the  mill  exactly  according  to  the 
anthor'i  directioas?  in  pasteboard.  The 
model  was  exhibited  at  the  lecture.'* — Zi/s 
of  Beattie,  vol.  2,  p.  213. 

JBoswsix  had  in  his  youth  one  Mr.  S.  for 
an  acquaintance, — a  riotous  old  humourist, 
who  used  to  rank  all  mankind  under  the 
general  denomination  of  Gilbert. — Letters 
between  Ebskims  and  Boswbll,  p.  73. 

^  Thb  Morleechians  (inlanders  of  Dal- 
i  matifl)  have  in  their  ritual  a  service  for  the 
solemn  union  of  two  friends,  male  or  female. 
Pooestre  (half  sisters)  the  sworn  female 
ftiends  are  thus  made ;  the  men  (Pobra- 
timi)  half-brothers,  their  duties  are  to  assist 
and  avenge  each  other.  A  quarrel  between 
two  thus  sworn  is  talked  of  all  over  the  coun- 
.  try  as  a  scandal,  unheard  of  in  former  times, 
and  owing  only  to  the  depravation  which  an 
intercourse  with  the  Italians  has  brought 
Oft.** — FoBTis*8  TVaoeZs,  MaiUhbf  Review^ 
vol.  59f  p.  41. 

ABTHtTB  YouvG  says,  ^  that  about  the 
year  1760,  perch  first  appeared  in  all  the 
lakes  of  Ireland  and  in  the  Shannon  at  the 
saxDe  time.*'* — Monthly  RevieWf  vol.  63,  p. 
103. 

I  Tarrel  does  not  mention  this,— bat  simply 
states^  **  In  the  varii>as  historical  and  statistioal 
accounts  of  the  counties  of  Ireland,  the  perch 


Fbab  has  been  called  by  Dbam  Younq 
(the  father)  '*  that  most  treacherous  of  all 
vices,  entangling  men  into  such  necessities 
of  sinning,  that  the  fearful  are  therefore 
set  by  St.  John  at  the  head  of  all  those  who 
have  their  part  in  the  fiery  lake**  (Rev.  xxi. 
8.) — Senmmiy  vol.  1,  p.  174. 

"  In  matters  of  duty,  our  power  is  always 
die  measiue  of  our  obligation.**— Ibid.  p.  209. 

"  I  HBAHTiLT  pity  the  people,  however 
wise,  who  are  destitute  of  the  pleasures 
which  arise  from  a  vivid  imagination  :  for 
surely  nothing  is  so  dull  as  uncoloured 
sense.** — Mas.  Cabtbb,  vol.  8,  p.  40,  Vesey. 

"  To  make  one's  mind  easy  with  regard 
to  the  situation  of  others,  it  is  quite  neces- 
sary to  be  persuaded  of  a  very  certain  truth ; 
—  that  the  odd  kind  of  something  which 
human  creatures  substitute  for  happiness, 
depends  on  the  particular  turn  of  every 
individual  imagination.** — Ibid.  p.  79. 

*'  Few  people  give  themselves  time  to  be 
friends, — a  natural  consequence  of  a  more 
general  maxim,  that  few  people  give  them- 
selves time  to  be  as  wise,  as  good,  and  as 
happy  as  Heaven  designed  them,  even  in 
the  present  mortal  state.** — Ibid.  p.  245. 

^'  I  bbmbmbbb,*'  says  Cookb,  the  actor, 
**  hearing  a  reverend  gentleman  of  New- 
castle (Mr.  Wanilaw,  a  Roman  Catholic), 
say,  that  when  a  person  on  being  asked 
what  he  was  thinking  of^  replied  nothing, 
he  was  then  thinking  of  a  multitude  of 
things,  but  not  any  thing  distinctly.  I  have 
often,  he  adds,  experienced  the  remark  to 
be  just.*' — DoNiiOP*s  Memoir  of  O,  F. 
Cookey  vol.  2,  p.  12. 

A  BOTABLB  argument  against  suicide.— 
*'  Car  si  Fhomicide  d*un  fr^re,  et  le  parri- 

mav  be  traced  through  the  southern,  eastera, 
ana  northern  districts  from  Coik  to  London- 
derry."—Briiwfc  FUhti,  voL  2,  p.  SL— J.  W.  W. 


612 


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cide  Bont  de  grandes  fautes  parce  que  le 
p^re  et  le  frere  nous  sont  proches,  quel  doit 
estre  le  meurtre  de  soj-mesme,  puis  que 
nul  ne  nous  peut  estre  si  prochc  que  nous 
nous  fommes  ?  ** — Asiree,  torn.  5,  p.  526. 

Jacobus  Bebgambiisis,  or  de  Bergamo, 
sajs,  **  that  Noah  planted  the  vine  because 
he  saw  a  goat  in  Sicily  eat  some  wild  grapes, 
and  afterwards  fight  with  such  courage  that 
Noah  inferred  there  must  have  been  virtue 
in  the  fruit.  He  planted  a  vine  therefore, 
and  wherefore  is  not  said,  manured  it  with 
the  blood  of  a  lion,  a  lamb,  a  swine,  and  a 
monkey  or  ape.**  —  Comdb  d^  Moba  To- 
usDO,  tom.  1,  p.  59. 

Ibid.  p.  163. — **  Hobsb  and  chariot  races 
won  bj  the  help  of  the  devil.**  Cassiodorus 
and  Ainm.  Marcellinus  quoted. 

TiTBA  Magna  was  the  name  of  Noah*s 
wife.  Pandora  was  Shem*8.  Noala,  or  ac- 
cording to  others  Cataflua,  Ham*s.  Noegla, 
Funda,  or  Afia,  Japhet*s. — ^Ibid.  p.  57-8. 

Nash,  in  his  Collections  for  Worcester- 
shire, shows  that  the  name  of  Percy  has 
been  spelt  twenty-three  different  ways. — 
Monthly  Review^  vol.  67,  p.  339. 

**  Bishop  Kiddbb  and  his  wife  were  killed 
in  their  bed  in  the  palace  of  Bath  and  Wells, 
and  yet  his  heirs  were  sued  for  dilapida- 
tions!**— HoBACB  Walpolb,  vol.  4,  p.  146. 

A.  D.  1787.  "Old  Madam  French,  who 
lives  close  by  the  bridge  at  Hampton  Court, 
where  between  her  and  the  Thames  she 
had  nothing  but  one  grass  plot  of  the  width 
of  her  house,  has  paved  that  whole  plot 
with  black  and  white  marble  in  diamonds, 
exactly  like  the  floor  of  a  church ;  and  this 
curious  metamorphosis  of  a  garden  into  a 
pavement  has  cost  her  £340.  A  tarpaulin 
she  might  have  had  for  some  shillings,  which 
would  have  looked  as  well,  and  might  easily 
have  been  removed."— Ibid.  p.  426. 


Stbbnb  probably  'tailed  his  Corporal 
Trim  afler  Trim  in  the  Funeral.  «*  M.  Ge- 
neral Trim — ^no,  pox.  Trim  sounds  so  verj 
short  and  priggish.  That  my  name  should 
be  a  monosyllable !  But  the  foreign  news 
will  write  me,  I  suppose.  Monsieur  or  Chera- 
lier  Trimont.  Signer  Trimoni,  or  Count 
Trimuntz  in  the  German  army,  I  shall  per- 
be  caUed."— P.  71. 


DoHiiB  to  Sir  H.  Wotion. 

**  Let  me  tell  you  the  good  nature  of  the 
executioner  of  Paris,  who,  when  Vatan  (F) 
was  beheaded  (who  dying  in  tbe  professoo 
of  the  religion,  had  made  bis  peace  with  God 
in  the  prison,  and  so  said  nothing  at  the 
place  of  execution)  swore  he  had  rather 
execute  forty  Huguenots  than  one  Catholic; 
because  the  Huguenot  used  so  few  words, 
and  troubled  him  so  little,  in  respect  of  the 
dilatory  ceremonies  of  the  others  in  dying.** 
— Zetter«,  p.  122. 

^  When  abjuration  was  in  use  in  this 
land,  the  state  and  law  was  satisfied  if  the 
abjuror  came  to  the  seaside,  and  waded  into 
the  sea  when  winds  and  tides  resisted.**— 
Ibid.  p.  121. 

"  I  AM  now  like  an  alchemist,  delighted 
with  discoveries  by  the  way,  though  I  attain 
not  mine  end.** — Ibid.  p.  172. 

**  HAiJiEB*s  catalogue  of  medical  and  chi- 
rurgical  writers,  notwithstanding  numerous 
omissions,  amount  to  more  than  30,000 
names  or  titles  of  authors  or  their  works, 
much  the  greater  part  having  belonged  to 
the  last  300  years.** — Monthly  Review^  vol 
68  (1783),  p.  465. 

A  WATCH  tower  in  Sicily,  where  there 
once  stood  a  temple  of  Castor  and  Pollux 
(PoUuce)  is  now  called  Torre  del  Pulci,  no 
doubt  properly  enough. — Ibid.  p.  596. 

PlNKBBTOM  (^Lett.  of  Lit.  p.  179)  quotes 
the  Abb^  du  Bos  as  saying,  ^*  Different  ideas 
are  as  plants  and  flowers,  which  do  not  grow 
equally  in  all  climates.     Perhaps  our  terri- 


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tory  of  France  is  as  improper  for  the  Egyp- 
tian modes  of  reasoning  as  for  their  palm 
trees  ;  and,  without  going  so  far,  perhaps 
the  orange  trees,  which  do  not  flourish  here  so 
easily  as  in  Ital/,  denote  that  there  is  in  Italy 
a  certain  turn  of  mind,  which  we  have  not 
in  France.  It  is  however  certain,  that  by 
the  reciprocal  connection  and  dependance 
that  exbts  among  all  the  parts  of  the  ma- 
terial world,  the  difference  of  climate,  per- 
ceivable in  its  effects  upon  plants,  ought  also 
to  extend  its  influence  to  the  powers  of  the 
human  brain.** 


cc 


Mllb.  d^Osmohd,  k  laquelle  on  avoit 
d^enda  de  faire  des  vers,  en  faisoit  dans 
le  cabinet  secret.** 

The  Due  de  Bourgoyne  thus  alludes  to 
this  in  some  verses  to  his  wife. 

^  O  toi  Latonien,  descends  du  sacr^  mont, 

Fais  Colore  de  ma  pens^e 
Des  vers,  tels  que  tu  s^ais  sur  le  chaise 
perc^e 
Dieter  k  la  belle  Osmond.** 
Mem,  de  M.  Maitdenon^  torn.  6,  p.  133. 

The  two  things  in  the  world  of  which 
there  seems  to  be  the  greatest  waste,  are 
good  advice,  and  good  intentions. — R.  S. 

**  Thb  time  shall  come  that  the  oak  which 
is  beaten  with  every  storm  shall  be  a  dining 
table  in  the  Prince's  hall.**  — Da.  Dbs*s 
RelatiofL,  p.  153,  siud  by  Gabriel. 

'^  Thb  Turks  say  a  man  is  to  say  No  only 
to  the  devil.** — Lives  of  the  NorihSy  vol.  3, 
p.  181. 

Otsteb  mouse  trap. — BRnT0N*8  Devon' 
shire^  p.  26. 

Wux  any  great  effects  be  produced 
a^in  in  Christendom,  as  in  former  times,  by 
religious  delusion,  or  imposture?  The  failure 
of  the  St.  Simonians  does  not  prove  it  to  be 
impossible. 

"  Iw  the  first  days  of  balloons,  old  Frede- 


rick said,  Austria  and  Russia  aimed  at  su- 
preme dominion  on  the  land,  England  at 
sea,  France  now  in  the  air,  so  that  the  only 
element  iefl  for  him  was  fire.** — MorMy 
Review^  vol.  70,  p.  408. 

**  Neocles  of  Crotona  maintained  that 
the  women  in  the  moon  lay  eggs,  and  that 
the  men  children  hatched  from  them  grow  to 
five  *  times  our  stature.**  —  Aihenmte  Deip, 
lib.  2,  p.  57.  TuBMEB*s  Sacred  HUtory^  vol. 
3,  p.  18,  N. 

**  Abchimsdes  is  said  to  have  raised  four 
columns  at  Syracuse,  and  to  have  placed 
upon  each  a  bronze  ram,  so  ingeniously 
constructed  that  the  wind  made  them  bleat, 
and  so  placed  that  the  ram  which  bleated 
denoted  what  wind  blew.  M.  Houel  thought 
he  had  identified  two  of  these  weather-rams 
in  the  Viceroy  of  Palermo*s  palace  (about 
1 780),  for  he  observed  small  holes  in  their 
flanks,  near  the  thigh,  and  in  other  parts, 
and  by  blowing  in  them,  a  sound  like  bleat- 
ing was  produced.** — Monthly  Review,  vol. 
72,  p.  515. 

A  8T0ET  of  Theocritus,  that  when  some 
one  who  had  been  reading  some  of  his 
verses  to  him,  desired  to  know  which  he 
liked  best,  he  replied,  **  all  that  you  were 
so  kind  as  no<  to  read.** — Ibid.  vol.  74,  p. 
457. 

Unbeb  the  article  Amusements  in  De. 
Teu8ij»*s  London  Adviser  and  Chdde,  he 
ranks  as  one  **  occasional  floating  through 
the  atmosphere  in  balloons.**    ▲.  n.  1786. 

De.  Sedgwick.  A  little,  pale  clergy- 
man. Master  of  Quecn*s,  Cambridge,  always 
stood  by  the  fire  at  Morgan's  Coffee-house, 
without  speaking  to  any  one ;  so  splenetic, 
that  he  fancied  his  nose  to  be  loose  in  his 
face,  and  consulted  Palmer  upon  it,  who 

>  It  were  hardly  worth  the  statement, — but 
In  the  original  of  Athensns,  instead  of  Jive ^  it 
\& fifteen — TivrtKaiiiKawXaeiovaQ  ^fiiv  ilvoi, 
in(«?.-J.  W.W. 


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conyinced  him  of  his  error  (if  any  body  is 
to  be  coDvineed)  bj  givmg  it  a  pull. 

**  Li  Massinahigan,  c^est  k  dire  le  Livre 
qui  enseigne  comme  il  se  faut  bien  com- 
porter"— IW.  de  N.  France^  1640-1,  p. 55. 

In  a  Declamation  ascribed  to  South,  the 
spectre  which  appeared  to  Brutus  at  Phi- 
lippic is  called  **  Spectaculum  san^  unico 
Cyclopia  oculo  congruum." 

—  ^  As  our  comprehensions  are  not  in- 
finite, the  more  ideas  a  man  has  of  things 
which  concern  not  the  matter  in  hand,  the 
leas  room  he  will  have  for  those  that  are 
necessary." — Hutchxkson,  vol.  10,  p.  3. 

HuTCHnfsoif*8  chapter  on  steam. — Vol. 
10,  pp.  42,  49,  58,  297-8  ;  vol.  11,  p.  69. 

His  rea3ons  why  man's  health  is  less  con- 
stant than  that  of  beasts. — VoL  10,  p.  270- 
2-3,  overhohing  all  moral  causes, 

"  Thsrs  is  occasions  and  causes  why  and 
wherefore  in  all  ihinfgsy—FlueUen^  Henry 
F,  act  V,  sc.  i, 

**  I  HEMBMBEB  Mrs.  Higgons  used  to  say 
Lady  Clarendon  had  such  a  power  over  her 
understanding,  that  she  might  persuade  her 
she  was  a  fish."  a.  d.  1748,  Countess  of 
Hertford  (afterwards  Duchess  of  Somerset) 
to  Lady  Luxborough.— Hull's  Select  Let- 
ters^ vol.  1,  p.  81. 

Whistlbb  telling  Sheustone  of  his  bro- 
ther's marriage,  says,  «  I  had  rather  have  a 
relative  than  a  friend  married,  for  the  last 
IS  always  entirely  lost."— Ibid.  p.  163. 

TT  \  ?^®**  ej^pressed  his  regret  to  Mr, 
Hoskms  (p.  59),  «  that  the  prophet  bad 
only  promised  them  rivers  of  milk  in  his 
paradise  instead  of  bouza." 

TuTKLAB  idols  are  supposed  to  have 
t>een  taliamans  made  according  to  magical 


rules.  Clemens  Alexaodnnits  aayt,  '^thc 
statue  of  Jupiter  Olympus  was  nrnde  of  the 
bones  of  an  elephant"  (Sed  qy.  ivocy?) 
— UooKB,  voL  1,  p.  23. 

A  8U8PICIOH  that  Pallas  derived  name 
and  origin  from  the  Palladium,  that  statue 
which  r^resented  a  young  man,  armed 
from  head  to  foot,  having  been  given  by 
Pallas,  King  of  Arcadim,  to  bis  davghter 
Chryie  when  she  married  Dardanus.— 
Ibid.  p.  23,  N. 

**  The  Flamen  Dialis,  or  Priest  of  Jupi- 
ter, might  not  ride  on  horseback,  nor  be  ib- 
sent  a  night  firom  Rome ;  bat  he  had  the 
privilege  of  wearing  a  hollow  or  pierwd 
ring,  wearing  a  splendid  robe  (the  prmtesld) 
and  sitting  in  the  senate  in  a  corule  chair; 
none  but  a  freeman  might  cut  hu  hair; 
and  the  clippings,  and  the  prariaga  of  his 
nails,  were  to  be  buried  '  «v6lerarborem  kr 
Ucem;"-Ibid.  p.  115,  N. 

**  Hob  ristringendomi  sotto  i  panni  de  It 
patiensa.**-— PnrrBO  AmBTOio,  Xettert,  vol. 
1,  p.  23. 

**  Qnii  enim  potest  craatiniim  Tidere  so- 
lem  ?  aut  qui^  imaginem  bominia  Qondom 
nati  d^ingere  ?" — Souyh  as  Terrst  FiHv- 

^  Tbistb  de  quern  asai  aua  vidA  paasiL'* 

Diooo  Bbbhabdbb,  ZfraM,  p.  143. 

**  QuABTO  o  silencio  val,  sabese  tarde." 

Abtohio  Fbbbbiba,  ibid.  p.  168. 

"*0p6iiic  fieptsraCf  ictU  ^yJv*  €pj(€i  X«- 
yiifv."    EuBiPiDBS,  Phatnissmt  v.  944 


I      w 


"  'Ov  yap  0/417  ftt^ov,  oviror*  c^v  KoXor 

Ibid.  V.  828. 

**  It  is  not  and  it  cannot  come  to  good.** 

Hamkt^  ftct  i.  8c.  li. 

In  an  Eclogue  of  Diooo  Bbbvabdm, 
Alcido,  who  was  chosen  by  two  poetical 
shepherds. 


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**  Par  ver  qual  a  vitoria  levaria, 
Omdo  juiz  (que  foi)  deo  por  senten^a 
Que  na3*aTia  entr'elles  diifcren<;a.** 

Lyma^  p.  23. 

"  Pbometo, 

De  nao  me  ficar  isso  no  tinteiro, 
Que  de  Mlar  verdadea  na5  me  pejo.** 

Ibid.  p.  99. 

^  Tal  ihitto  naaoe  di  cotal  radice.** 
PsnaAscH,  Yol.  I,  p.  247. 

Juan  Gomzai^ez,  a  Catalan  optician, 
vDder  D.  Antonio  Gimbemet*8  direction 
(then  Professor  of  Anatomy  at  Barcdona) 
made  artificial  eyes, — that  is,  ejes  on  the 
retina  of  which  objects  were  reflected  ac- 
cording to  the  laws  of  optics.— Masdbu, 
▼ol.  1,  p.  93,  N. 

**  Thou  art  a  blessed  fellow  to  think  as 
tftery  man  thinks  ;  never  a  man's  thought 
in  the  world  keeps  the  road  waj  better  than 
thine.** — Henry  IV.  part  ii.  act  ii.  sc.  ii. 

Thx  mssetine,  or  brown  russet,  is  called 
buff-coat  in  Devonshire. 

**  Ssur''Uynt^  mj  liege,  is  not  so  vile  a  sin 
Ab  self-neglecting.** 

Hemry  V.  act  ii.  sc.  iv. 

^  To  non  Tintesi  allor :  ma  or  si  fisse 
Sue  parole  mi  troTO  ne  la  testa 
Che  mai  piii  saldo  in  marmo  non  si  scris- 
se.**  FsTBABCH,  vol.  2,  p.  153. 

So  too  the  Nobila  Donna,  before  whom 
Lore  and  Petrarch  plead,  after  listening  to 
them,  concludes, 

**  Fiacemi  aver  vostre  questione  udite : 
Ma  pill  tempo  bisogna  a  tanta  lite.** 

Ibid.  p.  133. 

SoicB  who  appeal  to  posterity  majr  be 
told, 

—  **  Che  cosi  lange 
Di  poca  fiamma  gran  luce  non  viene.** 

Ibid.  p.  158. 


**  Nob  a  case  k  virtute ;  anzi  h  bell*  arte.*' 

Ibid.  p.  106. 

EuBiPiDBS,  Medea,  v.  815. 

**  Heabken  to  me  and  I  will  tell  you, — 
touch  whom  it  may  touch,  hurt  whom  it 
may  hurt,  feel  it  who  that  may  feel  it.*' — 
Golden  Booh^  G.  2. 

**  Ik  verities  he  was  very  veritable.** — 
Ibid. 

The  Twelve  Tables  say,  when  they  order 
temples  to  those  conmiendable  qualities  by 
which  heroes  obtained  heaven,  such  as  un- 
derstanding, virtue,  piety,  fidelity,  say,  **But 
let  no  worship  ever  be  paid  to  any  vice." — 
Hooke,  vol.  2,  p.  322. 

"  Mb.  Dabbt. — I  might  call  him  the  re- 
ligious  printer.  He  goes  to  heaven  with  the 
Anabaptists,  but  is  a  man  of  a  general  cha- 
rity."—J.  DuwTow,  p.  247. 

**  Whose  wife  was  chaste  as  a  picture 
cut  in  alabaster;  whose  son  John  was  a 
very  beauty  of  a  man,  and  a  finished  Chris- 
tian to  boot,  and  for  his  daughter  in  Corn- 
hill,  she  bore  away  the  bell  from  all  the 
booksellers*  wives  in  London.** — Ibid. 

**  Duchest.  Wbt  should  calamity  be  fiiU 

of  words  ? 
Q.  EUz.  Windy  attorneys  to  their  client 

woes, 
Airy  sueceeders  of  intestate  joys, 
Poor  breathing  orators  of  miseries  I 
Let  them  have  scope,  though  what  they  do 

impart 
Help  nothing  else,  yet  do  they  ease  the 

heart.*'     Richard  III.  act  iv.  sc.  iv. 

**  Humphbbt  hour"  *  calls  upon  every  one. 
Richard  the  Thirds  act  iv.  sc.  iv. 

*  ThU,  I  suspect,  has  reference  to  dining 
with  "  Duke  Humphrey,'* — a  well  known  ex.- 
nression ;— but  not,  as  far  is  I  remember,  to  be 
n>und  in  Shakspeare,  unless  in  this  passage. 


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*^  What  need^st  thou  run  so  manj  miles 

about, 
When  thou  may^st  tell  thy  tale  the  nearest 

way  ?  "  Ibid. 

"  Worldly  men 
Have,  miserable,  mad,  mistaking  eyes.** 
Titus  AndronicuSf  act  v.  sc.  ii. 

"*Ti8  a  mortifying  circumstance,  that  when 
a  man  has  outlived  his  follies,  he  cannot  pro- 
cure them  Christian  burial." — Monthly  Re^ 
viewj  vol.  24,  p.  276. 

"What  subject  can  be  found  that  lies 
not  fair  for  me  ?"  —  Drattow,  Sang  20,  p. 
453. 

**  En  v^rit^  Tesperance  vaut  k  peu  pres 
la  rdalite  pour  la  plupart  d^s  hommes ;  je 
ne  sais  pas  meme  si  elle  ne  vaut  pas  mieux. 
C'est  un  bien  qui  ne  s'use  jamais,  ou  lieu 
que  ce  qu*on  possede  perd  bientdt  de  son 
prix." — Supplement  Hiitorique  dVEtatNo' 
minatif  du  Pension^  p.  3.  Anonymous. 

**  Cette  prudence  vegetative  qui  sied  si 
bien  k  qui  conndit  les  hommes  et  les  choses." 
— Ibid.  p.  10. 

Ih  a  winter  piece  published  ▲.  d.  1763,  in 
a  folio  pamphlet,  where  it  is  time,  by  na- 
ture's decree,  for  Hyems  to  retreat : 

"  Eurus  and  Boreas  turn  their  tails  and  fly. 
And  bear  him  backward  down  the  northern 
sky.- 

Monthly  Review,  vol.  28,  p.  161. 

Medb  A*8  complaint  that  there  is  no  touch- 
stone for  men. — w.  516-19. 

Writebs  upon  unfathomable  mysteries 
and  questions : 

Ov5*  ai'  rpcVac  eiwoifit  tovq  ao^vQ  ftporiay 
AoKovvTOi:  tlyai,  koI  fjiiptfjivtfTdi  \6yu>v ; 
Tovrovf  fiiy((TTiiv  fiuplav  otpXitTKaynv. 

Medea,  1222-4* 

Ibid.  v.  1 382.  Everts  disposed  of  by  the 
gods,  contrary  to  the  expectations  of  men.^ 


**  All  that's  good  in  nature,  ought 
To  be  communicable." 

SuiRLBT,  vol.  2,  p.  314. 

**  —  tel  que  je  n'ose  m^esmanciper  de  le 
vous  dire." — Chbv.  du  Soleil,  tom.  4,  p.  17. 

DioscoRiDES  incidentally  mentions  an  art 
by  which  the  Greeks  could  change  blue  eyes 
into  black  ones. — MoniMy  Review,  vol.  82, 
p.  462. 

IIoI  /3J ;  Ti\  (TTui ;  t(  Xiyw ;  t(  3c  firi ; 
Euripides,  Alcestis,  v.  880. 

"  It  is  swd  of  the  late  Lord  Orrery,  that 
he  used  sometimes  to  amuse  himself  with 
writing  love  letters,  in  some  inferior  cha- 
racter, to  his  kitchen  maids,  desiring  their 
answers  to  be  left  at  certain  places,  from 
whence  they  were  probably  conveyed  to 
him." — Monthly  Review,  vol.  35,  p.  344. 

**  A  VERT  unedifying  stufiage  of  mind.** 

NoEBis. 

KiifDs  of  knowledge,  "  which  ignorance 
will  never  be  the  better  for,  and  which  wis- 
dom does  not  need." — Ibid. 

Materials  which  are 
"  Con  cierto  desconcierto  concertadas.** 

Fwente  Desseada,  p.  160. 

Masonry  the  Turnpike-road  to  Happi- 
ness in  this  Life,  and  Eternal  Happiness 
hereafter.  \s,  a.  d.  1768. 

*^  If  what  is  here  said  be  true,  what  occa- 
sion have  we  for  the  Chrbtian  religion. 
Would  it  not  be  right  for  us  all  to  tun 
Free  Masons  ?" — Monthly  Review,  vol.  38, 
p.  323. 

Among  the  Flemings,  guardians  over  the 
persons  and  estates  of  prodigal  persons,  as 
well  as  lunatics. — Ibid.  vol.  40,  p.  43. 

*  With  the  variation  only  of  one  verse,  Euri- 
pides thus  concludes  his  AJcestis,  Andromache, 
Bacchae,  Helen,  and  Medea.— J.  W.  W. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


a'ta  put  a  question,  would  affliut  mi 

nderitand  ud  answer." 

Shiklet,  vol.  3,  p.  SOL 

r  take  heed,  Sir,  how  jou  proceed  to 

est 

frailty,  lest  too  much  disordering 

good  thouglits,  jou  forget,  and  by 

Iqjrees 

your  own  innoccDce." 

Ibid.  Oameiler,  TitL  3,  p.  187. 

.CK  siD  doth  scatter 

leed  betimes,  and  every  ground  is 

"ruitful."        Ibid.  Example,  p.  292. 


vessel  may  be  rigg'd,  and  trimm'd,  and 

aunch'd 

I  calmer  sea,  and  return  fraught 

lawful  prize  hereafter." , 

Ibid.  p.  413,  Opportimi^. 

TUB  the  leading  principle  of  Latin 
ication,  a  pamphlet  published  at  Cam- 
e,  1829.    What  next  F 

wt^vn  Jokes,  Esq.  made  a  dictionary 
ire  than  300  full  octavo  pages  in  hii 
a  of  Games,  and  resolved  every  word 
jiring'mUtr.  "  This  writer's  disorder 
tainly  not  a  hydrophobia." — 3ioathly 
w,  vol.  43,  p.  155. 

w  you  may  hear  a  triaagU. — Ibid.  p. 


BD  Ltttbltoh  was  at  Faria  when  a 
■in  was  bom  (Lonis  the  Sixteenth,  I 
ise).  "Thenaturalgaiety  of  the  nation 
mproved  upon  this  occasion,  that  they 
.1  stark  mad  with  joy,  and  do  nothing 
ing  and  dance  about  the  streets  by 
■eda  and  by  thousands.  The  expres- 
of  their  joy  are  admirable.  One 
'  gives  notice  to  the  public  that  he  de- 
to  draw  teeth  for  a  week  together  upon 
ant  Neuf  gratis. — Ibid.  voL  JI,  p.444. 


Ibid.  vol.  53,  p.  •2VS.  Well  said,  that 
egotUint  in  writing  are  not  improved  by 
converting  them  ' 


Cbadock  (vol.  1,  p.  202,)  Bays,  "  the  po- 
litics of  the  day  are  not  properly  adiqited 
either  to  the  pulpit  or  the  stage."  Not  to 
the  stage  certainly,  but  as  certunly  they 
ore  to  the  pulpiL 

Ann-SBOAKDS  Scott  has  these  lines  in 
a  poem  on  the  art  of  Rising  in  the  Church ; 
"  Thus  straws  and  feathers  easily  will  fly, 
Andthe  lightscaleis  sure  to  mount  on  high; 
Then  ur-blown  bubbles  by  each  breath  are 

And  wind  will  lake  the  ehafi*,  that  leaves 
the  corn."        Cbu>ock,  vol.  4,  p.  274. 

"  Tub  gayest  place  of  resort  is  still  en- 
livened by  the  presence  of  a  friend;  and  a 
fHend  does  not  diminish  the  tranquillity  of 
retirement."  Mas.  MoNTaonB. — Bbattib, 

vol.  1,  p.  278. 

Sbe  says,  "  the  human  mind  is  liable  to 
strange  starts  if  it  has  not  been  in  early  and 
good  training," — Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  370. 

BsaTTiB  says,  "  I  have  known  a  staunch 
Freabjterian,  who  was  always  a  Roman  Ca- 
tholic in  his  liquor." — Li/e,  vol.  1,  p.  407. 

"  II  court  nn  manuscrit  dans  le  monde 
d'un  volume  assez  considerable,  que  a  pour 
titre,lEi  A«%ioB,  trt^-eomedie  en  einq  octet 
tl  en  proie,  soidisant,  tnduite  de  I'Angloie 
de  M.B.  pat  M.J.M.  a.  n.  1764.  Dana 
ce  pr^tendu  drame  sont  personnififs  la  Re- 
ligion, la  Fanatisme,  la  Cruaut^  I'lmb^- 
cillite,  la  Or^ulit^,  la  Fhilow>phie,  &c. : 
et  Ton  met  en  action  ces  Stres  morauz  avec 
aussi  peu  d'esprit  que  de  bon  sens.  H  est 
d'autant  moins  dangereux,  qu'U  n'a  point 
le  charme  seducteur  d'une  diction  elegante." 
— BacBADMOKT,  Men.  See.  vol.  2,  p.  78. 

Adah  Bkith  told  Botwell  that  he  was 
"  happily  possessed  of  a  faculty  of  man- 


ners  !**  which  Bosweil,  being  much  amused 
with  the  compliment,  has  himself  recorded. 
— Letters  between  A.£r8kine  and  Boswkix. 

**  A  8E1ITSNCB  so  clumsilj  formed,  as 
to  require  an  I  say  to  keep  it  together ; 
which  I  myself  candidly  think  much  resem- 
bles a  pair  of  ill-mended  breeches." — Ibid, 
p.  42. 

^  I  BxniBiTSD my  existence  in  a  minuet; 
and  as  I  was  drest  in  a  full  chocolate  suit, 
and  wore  my  most  solemn  countenance,  I 
looked  as  you  used  to  tell  me,  like  the  fifth 
act  of  a  deep  tragedy." — Ibid.  p.  72. 

John  Moblet,  of  Halstead  in  Essex, 
Frior*s  companion  in  his  Ballad  of  Down 
Hall,  who  was  bred  a  butcher,  but  became 
one  of  the  greatest  land  jobbers  in  England, 
used  in  honour  of  his  profession,  annually 
to  kill  a  hog  in  the  public  market,  and  re- 
ceive a  groat  for  the  job.  He  died  ▲.  d. 
1782. 

^The  hughest  absurdity  I  ever  heard  of 
in  the  way  of  ornamenting  grounds  was  com- 
mitted by  a  member  of  the  Irish  Parliament, 
M  c  by  name.  He  laid  out  his  whole 

demesne,  for  some  unexplained  reason,  in 
the  shape  of  a  thistle.  A  deep  and  wide 
trench,  a  mile  in  circumference,  was  cut  to 
represent  the  bulb,  double  ramparts  formed 
the  petals,  and  clumps  of  trees  were  for  the 
down.  The  avenue  to  his  house  was  the 
stalk ;  and  the  leaves  were  the  several  fields 
branching  from  thence,  and  from  each 
other."  Phil.  Survey  of  the  South  of  Ireland, 
A.  D.  1772. — Monthly  Review,  vol.  60,  p.  9. 

Gbaves  wrote  his  Colloquial  Tale  of 
Columella,  or  the  distressed  Anchoret,  "  to 
expose  the  folly  of  those  who,  after  having 
been  prepared  by  a  liberal  education,  and 
a  long  and  regular  course  of  studies,  for 
some  learned  or  ingenious  profession,  retire 
in  the  vigour  of  life,  through  mere  indolence 
and  love  of  ease,  to  spend  their  days  in  so- 
litude and  inactivity ;    or  even  in  those 


meaner  occupations  which  persons  of  infe- 
rior abilities  and  unimproved  talents  miglit 
discharge  with  equal,  or  perhaps  with  sa- 
perior,  skill." 

Monthly  Review,  vol.  61,  p.  316.  Where 
it  is  properly  observed  that  this  was  not 
the  vice  of  the  times,  but  the  very  contrary 
to  it. 

Ibid.  vol.  62,  p.  556.  Isnes  to  prevent 
earthquakes  and  volcanic  eruptions.  See 
for  some,  Mr.  Williams^s  (?)  scheme  ibr 
wholesale  irrigation,  and  for  r^ulating  tbe 
weather  in  this  island. 

**  Cab  n  est  vraysemblable,  et  nous  le 
voyons  tons  les  jours,  que  Ton  re^oit  avec 
amour  la  briefvete  discrete  et  bien  trouss^ 
pourveu  toutesfois  qu*  elle  n*entre  d*une  ex- 
tremity en  rautre."---CHBr  Auxm  du  Solxh, 
vol.  6,  p.  148. 

HrrcHncsoN,  in  his  View  of  Northumber- 
land (a.d.  1776),  says  "  he  cannot  perceive 
that  the  name  Burrough'or  Burgh,  was  in- 
stituted to  denote  any  kind  of  eminence  in 
the  place  so  called,  beyond  others,  so  as  to 
mean  a  fort,  or  castle,  &c.  It  signifies  no 
more  than  house,  houses,  or  town,  a  settle- 
ment where  one  or  more  families  dwelt 
Burrough  was  the  habitation,  and  dotrrwas 
the  inhabitant ;  hence  neighbour,  i.  e.  a  nigh 
hour,  or  one  that  lived  in  a  burrough  not  far 
ofiT.  And  because  this  name  is  appropriated 
to  the  underground  lodgings  of  aninoals,  as 
to  the  holes  of  foxes,  rabbits,  &c.  he  infers 
that  when  it  wns  first  applied  to  human  ha- 
bitations, the  inhabitants  of  this  land  dwelt 
chiefiy  under  ground,  and  lived  not  in  houses 
raised  from  the  ground,  but  dug  in  it:  which 
sense  of  the  word  seems  still  to  obtain  as 
to  the  dead,  though  it  has  lost  its  native  idea 
as  to  the  living.  Our  original  boroughs  were 
so  many  human  warrens,  consisting  of  a  set 
of  underground  caverns.  And  it  is  not  un* 
likely  that  the  vast  caverns,  such  as  those 
of  the  Peak,  may  not  be  all  the  work  of 
nature,  but  in  great  measure  the  effect  of 
under-ground  architecture.     As  they  look 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND- GLEANINGS. 


irregularly,  replied,  "Yea  Sir,  lundentand; 
jou  would  bave  them  hung  down  aomeirhftt 
poetical."— Ibid,  vol.  1,  p.  319. 

"  Yoo  know  mj  gystem  is,  tliat  every- 
thing will  be  found  out ;  and  about  the  time 
that  I  am  dead,  even  some  art  of  living  for 
ever." — Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  344. 

Kbah's  opinions  of  high  and  low  life  leem 
to  have  been  much  the  Mune.  "  Neither  of 
them  are  judges  of  acting,"  said  he,  O"' 
only  method  of  measuritig  a  man's  intellect.) 
"  The  only  critics  worth  a  thought  are 
doctors,  lawyers,  artiet*,  and  literary  men." 
—Lift  o/Kbak,  vol.  2,  p.  71. 

MissOP  chose  hia  disbwith  his  character. 
"  Broth,"  said  be,  "  for  one ;  roast  pork  for 
tyrants ;  steaks  for  Measure  for  Measure  \ 
boiled  mutton  for  lovers;  pudding  forTan- 
cred,"— Ibid,  vol  2,  p,  34. 

"Etbm  moralizing,"  says  11.  WUiPOLB,  "is 
entertaining,  when  one  Uuighs  at  the  same 
time :  but  I  pity  those  who  don't  moralize 
till  they  Qrj."—LttUr),  vol.  2,  p.  198. 

It  was  a  maxim  of  bis,  that  "  it  is  idle  to 
endeavour  to  cure  the  world  of  any  folly, 
unless  we  could  cure  it  of  being  foolish." — 
Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  14. 

"  Visions,  yon  know,  have  always  been 
mj  pasture;  and  so  far  from  growing  old 
enough  to  quarrel  with  their  emptiness,  I 
almost  think  there  ie  no  wisdom  comparable 
to  that  of  exchanging  what  is  called  the 
realities  of  life  for  dreams.  Old  castles,  old 
picturep,  old  histories,  and  the  babble  of  old 
people,  make  one  live  back  into  centuries 
that  cannot  disappoint  one.  One  holds  fast 
and  surely  what  is  past.  The  dead  have 
exhausted  their  power  of  deceiving ;  one 
can  trust  Catharine  of  Medicis  now."  — 
Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  136. 

Mb.  Asus,  a  nursery- man,  whenH.  Wal-        "Iwiu.attempt  in  some  measure  to  prac- 
pole  toldhim  hewouldbavebis  trees  planted     tisc  a  rule  given  to  me  a  great  many  years 


like  the  palaces  of  some  old  giants,  so  they 
might  be  ibe  Windsor's  and  Hampton  Ccurt's 
of  thoee  times,  when  under-ground  lodgings 
were  in  fashion." — Monthlji  Rettiea,  vol.  64, 
p.  54, 

Elephants,  Ellora,  &c.  Troglodytes.  Bur- 
rowing Tribes,  and  JEtoosting  Tribes. 

"  Hb  that  has  this  wisdom,  has  sufficient; 
and  without  it,  the  greater  our  pretences 
are  to  wisdom,  the  more  conspicuous  is  our 
folly." — Dxui  Youaa'a  Strmtnu,  vol.  2,  p.3. 

"  Add  fooling  is  an  angry  name  for  wiL" 
J.  BuLUE,  The  Bridt,  p.  354. 

"  Ir  incormption  have  put  corruption  on, 
we  may  very  weli  eat  and  drink  as  we  do, 
for  to-morrow  we  die  indeed.  The  unlikely 
beatbeo  ploughed  in  more  hope  than  so." — 
JoHif  Gkbcoibb,  p.  124. 


Hbbod  a  pigeon  fancier.  There  were 
Herodian  doves,  named  from  hitn,  a  rare 
breed  which  be  introduced;  this  Is  more 
likely,  than  that  he  should  have  been  the 
firat  who  bred  doves  in  the  bouse,  which 
Komban  affirms, — JoBN  Gkbqoibb,  p.  149. 

PiHBDA  believed  that  Adam  understood 
all  sciences  except  politics. — H.  Wii.roi,B, 
vol.  1,  p.  188. 


KeiTB,  the  marriage  broker,  cursing  the 
bishop  as  he  spoke,  said,  "  So  they  will 
hinder  my  marrying.  Well,  let  'em  I  But 
I'll  be  revenged.  I'll  buy  two  or  three 
acres  of  ground,  and  by  G —  I'll  underbury 
-'—I  all."— Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  292, 


620 


lOSCELLAXEOUS  ANECDOTES  AKD  6LEAinKG& 


ago  bj  a  good  old  ladj,  wkkh  was,  ^  A\lien 
I  had  Dotliiiig  to  saj,  to  saj  nothing.** — 
Ladt  PoMrmsT,  LeUen^  roL  2,  p.  161. 

**  With  all  the  diTinitj  of  wit,  it  grows 
out  of  fashion  like  a  fardingale.  I  am  con- 
rinced  thmt  the  jronng  men  at  Whitens  al- 
i  ready  laugh  at  George  Selwjn*s  bon-mots 
only  by  tradition.** — H.  Waltolb,  yoL  3,  p. 
236. 

^  It  is  right  to  laj  ranitj  under  contri- 
bution, for  then  both  sides  are  pleased.** — 
Ibid.  ToL  3,  p.  288. 

^  Methixks  as  we  grow  old,  our  only 
business  here  is  to  adorn  the  grsTes  of  our 
friends,  or  to  dig  our  own.** — Ibid.  roL  3, 
p.  385. 

^  Mt  pen  is  not  always  upon  its  guard, 
but  is  ]4>t  to  say  whatever  comes  into  its 
nib." — Ibid.  voL  3,  p.  505. 

Whttaksb's  History  of  Manchester.  **To 
be  sure,  it  is  very  kind  in  an  author  to  pro- 
mise one  the  hbtory  of  a  country  town,  and 
give  one  a  circumstantial  account  of  the 
antediluvian  world  into  the  bargain."— Ibid. 
voL  4,  p.  15. 

H.  Walfolb  (vol.  4,  p.  160)  says,  "I  do 
not  repine  at  reading  any  book  from  which 
I  can  learn  a  single  fact  that  I  wish  to 
know." 

He  might  have  added,  ^  or  a  single  re- 
mark that  I  should  wish  to  remember.** 

Thb  best  likeness  which  H.  Walpolc  (vol. 
4,  p.  206)  ever  saw  of  Charles  the  Second, 
was  in  a  picture  of  the  smaller  landscape 
size,  in  which  Rose,  the  royal  gardener,  was 
presenting  to  him  the  first  pine-apple  raised 
in  England.  **  They  arts  in  a  garden,  with 
a  view  of  a  good  private  house,  such  as  there 
are  several  at  Sunbury  and  about  London. 
The  king  is  in  brown,  lined  with  orange, 
and  many  black  ribands;  a  large  fl]4>ped 
bat,  a  point  cravat,  no  waistcoat,  and  a  tas- 


sdled  handkerchief  hanging  firom  a  low 
pocket:  his  countenaiice  chearful, good-hn- 
moared,  and  ray  sensible.  IVe  whole  ii 
extremely  weU-coloored,  with  perfect  har- 
mony, and  H.  AValpole  calls  it  a  most  can- 
ons and  delightful  picture.** 

Though  raised  by  the  royal  gardener,  it 
seems  to  have  been  in  a  private  garden. 

**  YoD  saints,"  said  he  to  Hannah  More, 
^  can  set  down  and  feast  on  your  self-denisl, 
and  drink  bumpers  of  satkfactinn  to  the 
health  of  your  own  merit." — Ibid.  voL  4^ 
p.  441. 


**  KsowLEDGB,"  says  HiCKSs,  ''in  the  most 
learned  men  b  imperfect ;  so  imperfect  that, 
as  my  Lord  Bacon  observes,  all  tl^  learn- 
ing which  hath  been  in  all  men  from  the 
beginning  of  the  world,  would  but  make  one 
good  scholar,  if  it  could  be  all  in  one  man.** 
— Lettertfrom  the  Bcdlekm^  voL  1,  p.  72. 

^'Bblutb  me,**  says  Cumberland,  **  there 
is  much  good  sense  in  old  distinctions.  Wbea 
the  law  lays  down  its  full-bottomed  perri- 
wig,  you  will  find  less  wisdom  in  bald  pates 
than  you  are  aware  of.**  *  —  CkoUric  Ifoa, 
p.  19. 

"  Thseb  are  times  when  sense  may  be 
unseasonable  as  well  as  truth." — CoHomsvai 
DcMe  Dealer^  p.  18. 

What  is  now  called  a  fancy.  Steel  calls 
VkfanioMque. — Tender  Hmsbtaui^  p.  48. 

**  Tbb  estate  which  I  should  leave  be- 
hind me  of  any  estimation  is  my  poor  fame 
in  the  memory  of  my  friends ;  and  therefore 
I  would  be  curious  of  it,  and  provide  that 
they  repent  not  to  have  loved  me." — DokhBi 
LetterSj  p.  32. 

'  This  is  a  very  striking  truth.  The  cmrefnl 
reader  will  observe  that  I  haTe  used  it  as  an 
illustration  elsewhere,  together  with  a  parallel 
quotation  from  the  GtiU^t  Horn  Book, 


I 


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621 


A  MEMOiB  by  TAbbe  Ameilhon  was  read 
before  the  Academy  of  Inscriptions  and 
Belles  Lettres,  1768,  wherein  the  author 
asserted  that  the  Tritons,  Nereids,  and 
other  sea-gods,  &c.,  **  n^^toient  que  des 
plongeurs  exerc^  k  cet  art  des  leur  plus 
tendre  enfance,  et  qui  Tavoientperfectionne 
au  point  dc  vivre  sous  les  eauz.  Ce  syst^me 
harde  fait  autant  d*honneur  k  la  f(6condite 
de  son  imagination,  qu^k  la  sagacity  dc  son 
esprit  et  k  la  profondeur  de  ses  recherches." 
— ^Bacuaumont,  vol.  4,  p.  168. 

**  A-GAD,"  says  Sir  Joseph  Wittol,"  there 
are  good  morals  to  be  picked  out  of  ^sop*s 
Fables,  let  me  tell  you  that,  and  Reynard 
the  Fox  too." — CoNG&EVB.  Old  Bachelor, 
p.  88. 

DoNKB  says  in  a  letter  to  Mrs.  Martha 
Garet,  '*you  must  not  think  that  I  begin  to 
think  thus,  when  you  begin  to  hear  it  by  a 
letter.  As  sometimes  by  the  changing  of 
the  wind  you  begin  to  hear  a  trumpet, 
which  sounded  long  before  you  heard  it,  so 
are  these  thoughts  of  you  familiar  and  ordi- 
nary in  me,  though  they  have  seldom  the 
help  of  this  conveyance  to  your  knowledge.** 
—P.  40. 

^'  It  b  true  that  a  good  conscience  is  our 
triumph  and  banquet  in  the  haven ;  but  I 
would  come  towards  that  also,  as  mariners 
say,  with  a  merry  wind.— Ibid.  p.  46. 

"  At  request  of  hyr  to  whom  sey  nay 
I  nethyr  kan,  ne  wyl,  ne  may." 

OSBSRK  BOKBNAM. 

DoHKB.    Letters,  p.  139. 

**Iam  the  worst  present  man  in  the  world. 
If  I  have  been  good  in  hope,  or  can  pro- 
mise any  little  offices  in  the  future  probably 
it  is  comfortable,  for,"  &c. 

Ibid.  p.  141.  "  —  Both  true  business, 
and  many  qtuui  n^otia,  which  go  two  and 
two  to  a  business, — which  are  visitations, 
and  such  as  though  they  be  not  full  busi- 


nesses, yet  are  so  near  them  that  they  serve 
as  for  excuses,  in  omissions  of  the  others." 

"  —  As  by  our  law,  a  man  may  be  felo* 
de-se,  if  he  kill  himself,  so  I  think  a  man 
may  hejur-de-se^  if  he  steal  himself  out  of 
the  memory  of  them  which  are  content  to 
harbour  him." — Ibid.  p.  295. 

"  As  Cardinal  Cusanus  writ  a  book  Cri- 
bratio  Alchorani,  I  have  cribrated,  and  re- 
cribrated,  and  post-cribrated  this  sermon." 
—Ibid.  p.  308. 

TIoXX'  ay  <rv  Xc£ac  ohBev  ay  vXioy  \a€oiC' 

EuB.  Alcestes,  v.  72. 

AtnXovQ  'fir*  avr^  fjivOoc  €<m  fioi  Xiytiv. 

Ibid.  V.  535. 

Aec^o;  ^6  fivdwy  ruiy^  aXtideiay  rci^a. 

Ibid.  Hippolyt,  v.  9. 

Bidrov  2'  drpeKeig  IviTri^iotniQ 
^atrl  (T^dXXeiy  irXeoy  rj  Tepveiy, 
Tn  3^  vyiei^  fjidXKoy  ToXefxtiy. 

Ibid.  V.  261-3. 

"  Thb  first  sharp  sorrow, — ay,  the  break- 
ing up 
Of  that  deep  fountain,  never  to  be  sealed 
Till  we  with  Time  close  up  the  great  ac- 
count.** 

Cab.  Bowles,  Birth  Day,  p.  12. 

"  —  Et  il  est  bien  doux  de  voir  ses  peines 
suspendues.  Lorsqu*on  on  n*a  plus  Tespoir 
de  les  voir  finies." — M  Maimtemon,  vol.  6, 
p.  152. 

"  When  youth  made  me  sanguine,  I 
hoped  mankind  might  be  set  right.  Now 
that  I  am  very  old,  I  sit  down  with  tiiis 
lazy  maxim,  that  unless  one  could  cure  men 
of  being  fools,  it  is  to  no  purpose  to  cure 
them  of  any  fully,  as  it  is  only  making  room 
for  some  other.** — H.  Walpole.  PinkertoiCs 
Corr,  vol.  1,  p.  91. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


**  Self-interest  is  thought  to  govern 
every  man  :  yet  is  it  possible  to  be  less  go- 
verned by  self-interest  than  men  are  in  the 
aggregate  ?" — Ibid.  p.  91 . 

•«  — But  the  most  surprising  part  of  his 
character  is  his  memory,  which  is  the  most 
prodigious  and  the  most  trifling  in  the 
world. 

**  I  have  met  with  such  men,  and  I  take 
this  good-for-nothing  memory  to  proceed 
from  a  certain  contexture  of  the  brain  which 
is  purely  adapted  to  impertinencies,  and 
there  they  lodge  secure,  the  owner  having 
no  thoughts  of  his  own  to  disturb  them." — 
Fabquuab.  Recruiting  Officer, 

LocKiT.  **  Of  all  animals  of  prey  man  is 
the  only  sociable  one.  iGvery  one  of  us 
preys  upon  his  neighbour,  and  yet  we  herd 
together." — Beggar's  Opera, 

One  of  Cumberland's  ladies  says,  **  Sen- 
timent in  the  country  is  clear  (n  f)  another 
thing  from  sentiment  in  town.  In  my  box 
at  the  Opera  I  can  take  it  as  glibly  as  a  dish 
of  tea,  down  it  goes,  and  there's  an  end  of 
it  But  in  walks  of  willows,  and  by  the 
side  of  rivulets*  there's  no  joke  in  it." — 
Natural  Son, 

*•  DoNT  you  know,  there  is  nothing  so 
foolish  as  the  follies  of  genius  ;  nothing  so 
weak  as  the  weaknesses  of  the  wise." — Ibid. 

"A  rbpabtee  that  only  lights  upon  the 
outside  of  the  head.*'~CiBBBB.  Refusal. 

When  Croaker  in  the  Oood Natured Man, 
speaks  of  our  bad  world,  his  wife  says  to 
him^  **  Never  mind  the  world,  my  dear,  you 
were  never  in  a  pleasanter  place  in  your 
life."  r  f  / 

"  Les  gens  qui  n'ont  qu'une  affaire,  sont 
dangereux,  et  quand  I'oisivet^  s'y  joint,  c'est 
encore  pis."— M.  Db  Cetmjs.  Maintenon's 
Letters,  vol.  6,  p.  60. 


u 


En  quelque  humeur  qu'on  suit,  ma 
ch^re  ni^e,  on  se  deshabitue  mal  aifl^ment 
de  ce  qui  plait." — ^Ibid.  p.  103. 

**  Lboeb  m'a  dit  que  vous  etes  fort  triste: 
surmoiitez  vous  Ik-dessus,  ma  ch^  ni^ ', 
la  tristesse  n  'est  bonne,  ni  pour  ce  monde, 
ni  pour  I'autre.  Croyez-en  une  personne 
assez  gaie  de  son  naturel,  assez  triste  par 
ctat,  et  fort  instruite  des  maux  iuseparahlet 
des  soucis." — Ibid.  p.  124. 

'*  Je  ne  vois  rien,  je  ne  s^ai  rien,  et  je 
ne  pense  presque  rien." — Ibid.  p.  265. 

"  cTai  toujours  trouv^  en  lui  ce  boo  sens 
cette  bonne  tete,  ce  juste  discemement  en« 
tre  le  bien  et  le  mieux." — Ibid. 

When  the  Princes  in  the  Tower  of  the 
Universe  were  disenchanted  in  consequence 
of  the  combat  between  Florisel  in  Niquea 
and  El  fuerto  Anaxartes,  the  Queen  of 
Argincs  said  to  them  of  Amadis,  ^  No  es  df 
tener  en  servicio  a  quien  diezyseys  anos  de 
vida  OS  ha  hecho  passar  sin  ser  passados  en 
edad  ni  cuydados?  con  tener  talis  hijos  apa- 
rajedos  con  los  demas  que  vereys." — ff,  80. 

The  French  has  it,**  Sire,  11  n'a  pas  fskt 
peu  pour  vous  autres,  quiconque  vous  a 
tenu  quinze  ahs  en  repos,  sans  vous  esveil- 
ler,  et  voire  maintenaut  telle  posteritc  yssue 
de  vous."— ff. -625. 


Db.  Shabp  says  **  the  very  weakest  side 
of  an  honest  and  sincere  man  b  ever  the 
most  inexpugnable  by  reason." — L^e  oj 
Archbishop  Sharp,  vol.  1,  p.  59. 

"And  hence  will  result  a  petit  biography, 
wherein  the  remarkable  may  assist  the  theorj 
of  human  nature,  which  consists  in  the  know- 
ledge of  its  perfections  and  infirmities.'*— 

ROGBB  NOBTH,  vol.  1,  p.  99. 

It  is  said  to  have  been  a  saying  of  Dry- 
den's,  that  he  never  knew  the  wisest  man, 
who  had  a  fair  opening  for  a  good  pun,  lose 
the  opportunity.— C?*B/.  Mug.  vol.  2,  p.  64.M. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


623 


Rabbi  Perida  made  it  a  rule  to  read 
and  explain  the  same  thing  400  times  over 
to  his  scholars ;  and  when  one  of  his  pupils 
was  found  utterly  ignorant  of  one  of  these 
lessons  at  last,  he  repeated  it  to  him  400 
times  more.  Upon  tins  a  voice  came  from 
heaven,  saying,  **  Perida  chuse  whether  to 
live  400  years,  or  obtain  mnocence  and 
eternal  life  for  thyself  and  thy  posterity." 
He  would  have  chosen  the  latter  and  better 
reward,  but  his  pupils  exclaimed,  "  No!  no ! 
400  years  for  Perida."— Polwhjsle's  Com- 
waiLf  vol.  5,  p.  190. 


a 


A  CRITIC  on  the  Cofucious  Lovers  says, 
perhaps  it  is  dangerous  to  hold  up  for 
distinguished  admiration  the  performance 
of  mere  duty.  It  weakens  the  influence  of 
goodness  to  tell  mankind  it  is  so  rare  among 
them." 

**  Thxbb  are  hours,  you  know,"  says 
Tom,  in  the  Conscious  Lovers^ "  when  a  lady 
is  neither  pleased  nor  displeased,  neither 
sick  nor  well ;  when  she  lolls  or  loiters ; 
when  she  is  without  desires,  from  having 
more  of  every  thing  than  she  knows  what 
to  do  with."— P.  20. 

Mb.  Sbalaitd,  in  the  Conscious  Lovers^ 
says,  ^  Give  me  leave  to  say,  that  we  mer- 
chants are  a  species  of  gentry  that  have 
grown  into  the  world  this  last  century ;  and 
are  as  honourable,  and  almost  as  useful,  as 
you  landed  folks  that  have  always  thought 
yourselves  so  much  above  us; — for  your 
trading,  forsooth !  is  extended  no  farther 
than  a  load  of  hay,  or  a  fat  ox." — P.  81. 

**  April  21,  173L  One  William  Peters 
oommitted  to  jail  in  Ireland,  being  found 
alive  on  a  journey  three  days  afler  he  had 
been  executed  for  horse-stealinc:." — Oeni, 
Mag.  vol.  1,  p.  172. 

**  Jabuart  3.  A  post-boy  was  shot  by 
an  Irishman  on  the  roaid  near  Stone  in  Staf- 
fordshire, who  died  in  two  days,  for  which 
the  gentleman  was  imprisoned." — Ibid.  p.  32. 


M.  RivAROL  says — **C*est  avec  une  ou 
deux  sensations  que  quelques  Anglois  ont 
fait  un  livre." — Monthly  Review,  vol.  71,  p. 
581. 

Hb  says,  that  "  French  is  now  no  more 
to  be  considered  as  the  French  language, 
but  rather  as  the  language  of  man;  the 
European  powers  employ  it  in  their  treaties 
on  this  account,  and  also  because,  to  speak 
plainly,  it  is  the  only  language  that  has  a 
character  of  probity  attached  to  its  very 
genius." — ^Ibid.  p.  582. 

'*  Practical  Benevolence ;  in  a  Letter 
addressed  to  the  Public,  by  a  Universal 
Friend,  to  whom  Persons  of  all  Ranks  and 
Denominations  may  have  recourse  for  Ad- 
vice in  the  most  critical  situations  and  most 
delicate  circumstances  of  Human  Life.  Is, 
Murray.     1785. 

"  The  writer  having  gone  through  a  great 
variejty  of  scenes  in  life,  opens  a  shop  of 
experience,  where  any  one  may  purchase 
advice.  He  proposes  to  make  up  quarrels ; 
to  give  counsel  in  weighty  undertakings ; 
to  afibrd  assistance  in  writing  letters  on 
delicate  occasions ;  and  to  minister  friendly 
counsel  in  distress.  In  return,  he  expects 
a  gratuity  proportioned  to  the  ability  of 
his  client.  **  What  my  destiny,"  says  the 
author,  "  may  be  preparing  for  me  under 
this  character,  time  alone  can  determine. 
If  I  reap  from  the  employment  of  every 
moment  of  mine  sufficient  to  support  life 
with  decency,  for  the  public  goody  it  is  all  I 
desire  ;  and  if  my  existence  is  found  by 
experience  to  produce  that  good,  it  will  be 
the  interest  of  the  public,  as  well  as  my 
own,  to  prolong  it.  Yet,  however  it  may 
happen,  I  have  such  sort  of  feelings  about 
my  heart  as  seem  to  presage  success ;  for 
to  the  honour  of  this  country  be  it  said, 
that  whenever  virtuous  ends  are  pursued 
by  virtuous  means,  encouragement  never 
fails  to  accompany  the  attempt. — ^The  Uni- 
versal Friend,  address  me,  5  Dartmouth 
Street,  Westminster. — Ibid.  vol.  73,  p.  472. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


CuixBT,  the  famous  breeder,  in  his  Ob- 
servations on  Live  Stock,  recommends  for 
the  *x.ad  horses  that  have  what  is  called  a 
little  blood  in  them,  that  is,  a  small  strain  of 
the  running  breed;  as  such  a  horse,  he  sajs, 
^*will  usually  perform  a  pleasanter  da7*8 
work,  than  one  that  has  litde  or  none  of  the 
racing  breed  in  him/*  This  is  an  opinion 
very  generally  admitted,  though  we  are  dis- 
posed to  believe  that  it  i4>plie8  only  in  cer- 
tain cases,  and  is  by  no  means  universaL** — 
Ibid.  vol.  75,  p.  130. 

A  LADT  in  one  of  Congreve*s  comedies 
says,  **  One's  cruelty  is  one's  power ;  and 
when  one  parts  with  one's  cruelty,  one  parts 
with  one's  power." — Waif  of  the  World,  p.  47. 

So  slaveholders  seem  to  think. 

"  The  Devil's  an  ass,"  says  a  jade  in  this 
comedy.  **  If  I  were  a  painter,  I  would 
draw  him  like  an  idiot,  with  a  bib  and  bells. 
Man  should  have  his  head  and  horns,  and 
woman  the  rest  of  him." — Ibid.  p.  62. 

Dbunkehiiess.  Mrs.  Williams  said  one 
day  to  Johnson,  "  I  wonder  what  pleasure 
men  can  take  in  making  beasts  of  them- 
selves." **  I  wonder,  Madam,"  he  replied, 
"  that  you  have  not  penetration  enough  to 
see  the  strong  inducement  to  this  excess ; 
for  he  who  makes  a  beast  of  himself,  gets 
rid  of  the  pain  of  being  a  man."— Pbbcival 
Stockdaus,  vol.  2,  p.  109. 

Ahgbuca  in  Love  for  Love,  when  affect- 
ing an  indifference  to  Valentine  which  she 
does  not  feel,  says,  "  Would  any  thing  but 
a  madman  complain  of  uncertainty  ?  Un- 
certainty and  expectation  are  the  joys  of 
life.  Security  is  an  insipid  thing,  and  the 
overtaking  and  possession  of  a  wish  disco- 
vers the  folly  of  the  chase."— P.  116. 

"Thb  single  word  Pleasure,  in  a  masculine 
sense,  comprehends  everything  that  is  cruel 
every  thing  that  is  base,  and  every  thimr 
that  IS  desperate."-5cW//or  Wives,  p.  87. 


SoBBT  should  I  be  to  think  "  que  os  mens 
escritos  nao  somente  sao  como  arvore  sem 
fmcto,  mas  como  folhas  sem  proveito,  que 
senrem  so  para  o  vento  da  vaidade." — P. 
Aht.  das  Chagas.     Cabtes,  t.  1,  p.  218. 

Ih  the  advertisement  to  his  Faskiomable 
Lover,  Cumbeblahd  says,  **  The  level  min- 
ners  of  b  polished  country  like  this,  do  not 
supply  much  matter  for  the  comic  muse, 
which  delights  in  variety  and  extravagance. 
Wherever,  therefore,  I  have  made  any  at- 
tempt at  novelty,  I  have  found  myself 
obliged  either  to  dive  into  the  lower  class 
of  men,  or  betake  myself  to  the  outskirts  of 
the  empire:  the  centre  is  too  equal  ind 
refined  for  such  purposes." 

LuTHEB  says,  **  Ssepe  recordor  boni  Ger- 
sonis,  dubitantis  num  quid  boni  public^ 
scribendnm  et  proferendum  sit.  Si  scriptio 
omittitur,  multae  annnse  negligontur,  qos 
liberari  potuissent ;  si  vero  ill*  praestatur, 
statim  Diabolus  prestb  est  cnm  linguis  pes- 
tiferis  et  cahunniarum  plenis,  quae  omnia 
corrumpunt  et  inficiunt." — Sbhrsbtus,  vol 
],p.  862. 

One  of  Alexander's  flatterers,  (Athaeneus 
calls  him  Nicesius),  **  protested  to  him  that 
the  very  flies  which  sucked  his  blood  be- 
came more  valiant,  and  gave  stings  more 
courageously  than  other  flies  did." — Eve- 
lyn, Muc,  p.  33. 


Louis  Xm.  had  among  his  guards  150 
horse  musqueteers  chosen  from  the  first  fa- 
milies in  France ;  and  he  was  so  phyaiog- 
nomically  punctual  in  their  election,  that  it 
is  reported  he  would  adiuit  none  who  were 
of  a  red  hair. — Ibid.  p.  63. 

The  abbey  of  St.  Faron  at  Meauz.  In 
the  midst  of  its  refectory  was  a  fountain, 
that  supplied  their  repasts. — Voyages  de 
Montaigne,  Rome,  1774. 

The  inns  must  have  been  superb  in  his 
days.    At  Chalons  he  was  served  in  silver, 


MISCITLLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


625 


Itupart  des  lits  et  couyertes  sont 
1580. 

the  Geinuins  he  remarks  that  it 
!tfiil  to  get  on  the  left  side  of  a 
,  that  the  right  arm  might  be 
eady  to  lajr  on  the  sword. 

ing  now,  methinks,  a  long  time 
!  old  walls  have  had  the  honour 
lord,  and  the  hour  glass  so  often 
ce  I  enjoyed  the  happiness  of 
ersation.**  —  Statfobd,  Letters^ 
7. 

'*  Thbbb  is  a  way 
Italians  and  the  Frenchmen  nse, 
a  word  given,  or  some  slight  plot, 
will  extempore  fashion  out 
t  and  wittj.** 

DDLBTOH  and  BowLET*s  Spanish 
ipsy^  p.  187.     Old  Plays,  vol.  4. 

ave  but  two  sorts  of  people  in 
and  both  under  the  whip ;  that*s 
madmen :  the  one  has  not  wit 
be  knaves;  and  the  other  not 
3Ughtobefools.** — Ibid.  Change- 
p.  237. 

it  irketh,  oporiet  it  behoveth  my 
rk  like  barme,  alias  jeast,  alias 
IS  rising,  alias  Gtxl^s  good." — 
ther  Bombie,  ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  224. 

*  Wb  see  the  s<mi  of  a  divine 
>ves  preacher,  or  a  lawyer*s  son 
leader,  (for  they  strive  to  run 
fortune  from  their  ancestors).** 
Mabston,  What  you  wUL    Ibid, 
vol.  2,  p.  212. 

natare  js  a  generic  term,  and 
pecific  distinctions.  There  is  a 
ire  and  civilized  nature :  Asiatic 
ean,  French  and  English,  male 
;  and  even  after  the  division  of 
nee  of  age  constitutes  another. 


'*  Cebtair  it  is  that  all  that  truth  which 
God  hath  made  necessary,  he  hath  also 
made  legible  and  plain,  and  if  we  will  open 
our  eyes  we  shall  see  the  sun."  —  Jebemt 
Tatlob. 

**  It  is  a  most  sure  truth,  and  worth  all 
this  world,  that  to  an  honest  unbiassed 
heart,  it  is  a  far  easier  thing  to  please  God 
than  men.** — John  Howe. 

**  This  world  is  a  good  servant,  but  a 
bad  master;  a  very  good  inn,  but  a  sad 
home;  a  comfortable  bever,  luncheon,  or 
bait,  but  a  sad  inheritance.** — Huntimodon, 
S.S, 

'*  Some  men  are  wholly  made  up  of  pas- 
sion, and  their  very  religion  is  but  passion, 
put  into  the  family  and  society  of  holy  pur- 


poses. 


Tatlob. 


Cbbtaik  acts  of  the  saints  he  happily 
calls  *'  excrescences  and  eruptions  of  holi- 
ness,** 

*'  OuB  charging  ourselves  so  promptly 
with  Adam*s  fault,  whatever  truth  it  may 
have  in  the  strictness  of  theology,  hath 
(fttrsitan)  but  an  ill  end  in  morality.**  — 
Ibid. 

^*  Angeb  is  like  the  waves  of  a  troubled 
sea,  when  it  is  corrected  with  a  soft  reply 
as  with  a  little  strand,  it  retires,  and  leaves 
nothing  behind  but  froth  and  shells,  no 
permanent  mischief.** — Ibid. 

*•  FoBTFTUDE  is  B  royal  virtue ;  and 
though  it  be  necessary  in  such  private  men 
as  be  soldiers,  yet  for  other  men,  the  less 
they  dare  the  better  it  is,  both  for  the 
Commonwealth  and  for  themselves.** — Be' 
hemoth, 

"  CoKSTTTUTioiis,  whether  of  Church  or  of 
State,  should  be  free,  not  only,**  as  J.  Tat- 
LOB  says,  **  from  the  indiscretions,  but 
(which  is  very  considerable)  from  the  scan- 
dal of  popularity.**— Vol.  7,  p.  287. 


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'*  Et  croi  que  ce  fut  pour  ^viter  la  d6- 
pense.  H6  qui  ces  petites  mesnageiies  ap- 
portent  quelquefois  de  perte  l** — Mohtluc, 
vol.  1,  p.  49. 

Eysm  Montluc  distinguishes  between  te- 
meritj  and  courage,  and  says,  **  il  n'est  pas 
mal  seant  d*avoir  peur,  quand  il  y  a  grande 
occasion.** — Tom.  1,  p.  236. 

CoNTRovEBST,  if  I  must  engage  ia  it — 

**^  A  la  buon*ora, 
Foichd  coflii  ha  esser,  cosl  sia.** 

OrL  Iraam.  xxt.  39. 

^  Hb  that  begins  without  reason,  hath 
reason  enough  to  leave  off,  bj  perceiving 
he  had  no  reason  to  begin.**  —  J.  Tatlob, 
vol.  12,  p.  28. 

**  Bt  long  ages  and  the  silence  of  histo- 
rians, places  are  as  much  subjiect  to  death 
as  the  men  who  resided  in  them.** — ^Bishop 
Kbmmbtt. 

Rbpltino  to  anonymous  assailants — 

**  Ch*a  quel  modo  combattere  a  fo  scuro 
Cosa  h  da  pazzo,  e  non  da  nom  sicuro.** 

OrL  Itinam,  xxvii.  p.  33. 

Dbath. — '*  It  is  but  a  point  which  di- 
vides Adam  and  his  remotest  descendants.** 
— DotJGLA8*8  Hast  Coast  of  Scotland. 

Babbow  calls  envy  **  that  severely  just 
vice,  which  never  faileth  to  punish  itself.*' 

'*  A  chabitablb  man,  or  true  lover  of 
men,  will,**  says  St.  Chrysostom,  **  inhabit 
earth  as  a  heaven,  every  where  carrying  a 
serenity  with  him,  and  plaiting  ten  thou- 
sand crowns  for  himself.  Tijv  yi\v  ovrun 
wc  Toy  ipavov  olidifrti^  xairaxH  yoKrivriQ 
droXawity,  Kal  fivpiovt  iavrw  wXiicwy  r£- 
^ytK^ — ^Babbow,  vol.  2,  p.  74» 

**  The  truth  contended  for  may  not  be 
worth  the  passion  employed  upon  it ;  and 


the  benefits  of  the  victory  not  coun 
the  prejudices  sustained  in  the  e< 
For  goodness  and  virtue  may  oflen  < 
with  ignorance  and  error,  seldom  witl 
and  discord.** — ^Ibid.  p.  99. 

**  Thb  bottom  of  gravity  is  nothix 
the  top.** — Mab8Ton*8  Fawn^  p.  302. 

"  Thb  unjust  knoweth  no  shame.** 

PHABIAH,  iii.  5^ 

Babbow  (vol.  3,  p.  132),  speaks  i 
<*  unconscionable  scrupleB,  and  hardh 
pretences  to  tender  consciences  devi] 
baifle  the  authority  of  superiors.** 

Is  it  Daniel  or  G.  Wither  who  sa] 

'*  Old  age  doth  give  by  too  long  spac 
Our  souls  as  many  wrinkles  as  our  fi 

The  thought  is  from  Montaigne, 
nous  attache  plus  de  rides  en  Tesprit 
visage ;  et  ne  se  void  point  d*ames,  c 
rares,  qui  en  vieillissant  ne  sent^nt  Ta 
le  moisi.** — Tom.  7,  p.  185,  liv.  iii.  c 

"  Il  est  impossible  de  traitter  de 
foy  avec  un  sot.** — Ibid.  tom.  8,  p.  85 

*'  SoMMB,  il  faut  vivre  entre  les  v: 
et  laisser  la  riviere  courre  soubs  le 
sans  nostre  soing,  ou  k  tout  le  moin 
nostre  alteration.** — Ibid.  liv.  iii.  ch. 

"  Whbbb  interests  are  irreconcl 
opinions  will  be  so.** — Babbow. 

*'  Hb  fights  with  his  own  shadoi 
like  a  wanton  whelp  runs  round  af 
own  stem,  dissembling  his  adversary 
nion,  and  instead  thereof  substitutir 
lame  consectary  which  came  sudden 
his  distempered  fancy.** — Bbiab  W. 
Beply  to  Owen. 

Thbbb  is,  as  S.  AicBBoeB,  says, 
nan  siientium  as  well  as  otiottm  nerh^ 
Ibid. 


MISCELLANEOUS  AKECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


n'y  pent  »»oir  d'smiti^  l)t  on  eit  k 
\,  la  ou  eit  )e  desloj&nst^  la  oa  est 
oe.  Entre  let  inesehuitB,  qauid  ili 
blent,  e'est  on  complot  non  pu  cotn- 
Da  oe  I'entretiennent  p«a,  muB 
fecraigaent.  lis  ne  >ont  pu  amis, 
iont complices,"  EstiennedeUBoe- 
ntaigne's  friend. — Mohtaioiib,  torn. 
16. 
licable  to  the  part;  at  Pin. 

Itominiim  miaeram  sortem :  qoc  no- 

nocendi  artea,  aat  criniiiia  Hera  re- 


a*T  ad  foDtnm,  teoai  qui  mnnuiire 


"  ACBBBIB 

to*  expni^at  abi  via  flammea  Manea 
^iia,  atque  ipsa  levii  Teatigia  cnlpK, 
I  ad  pumm  lentia  coqnit  uique  m- 

U  ionatii.     Teluti  concreta  refoati 
litena  ami  vitiam  fomacibus  omae 
et  labia  lincero  corpora  floret," 
Ibid. 

'rmbnt'f  Voyage,  Hakbtutt  CaUtetitm, 
iking  aailor-like  account  of  a  death 
"  Abont  ten  a  clocke  in  the  fore- 
■A.  Walker  died,  who  had  bene  weake 
te  of  the  bloodie  flux  lix  dajea ;  wee 
riewe  of  his  things,  and  priaed  them, 
ired  him  orer  bord,  and  ahot  a  peeee 
kDeU." 

"  PaaeioHS  are  like  thiaree, 
atch  to  enter  undefended  places." 
itx  RoBKKT  UowAU>'e  BUnd  Lady. 


Seta  off  so  much  the  joy  a  of  Paradise 
That  it  emplo/s  aa  man;  feara  at  wiabea." 
Ibid. 

"  VaKTUB  is  like  pretions  odonra,  inost 
fragrantwheothe/are  incensed,  or  crushed." 

"  &SPB  aliqvaa  motns  partes  sensosque  re- 
UnqauDt, 
Ambtd^  hen  monstmm  I  semicadavOT 

UezentI  superat  fiuiat,  et  oorpore  eodeni 
Conjnngit  Tivis  mortna  membra  lues. 

Aat  alios  premit  int^^  caligine  torpor, 
Et  toto  lethi  poodere  swra  qoiea." 

"■  Cowi.ir. 


"  MtoRA  cont«mnens,  miieransqne  magoos, 
Invidens  nulli,  minimo  inTidendua^ 
TiTe  Coulei ;  l^e  tuta  parvft 

Littora  cymba. 
"  HosiHtem  Melonun,  inutare  aJaodam, 
Sis  licet  nnbea  super  ire  cantn 
Doctna,  in  terris  hnmilem  memento 

Fonere  nidum."         Cowlst. 

"  Da  hum  Bej  potent«  somos,  US  amado, 

Tb6  querida  de  todos;  e  bem  quisto. 
Que  naS  no  largo  mar  con  leda  fronte 
Mas  no  lago  entraremos  de  Acheron  te." 


"  Launch  on  the  sea  of  death." 

Al  Escurial. 

"  SacroB,  altOB,  doradoa  Cspiteles, 

Que  k  las  nubea  borrais  bus  arrelxJeo, 
Febo  OS  teme  por  maB  luziente*  Solea, 

Y  el  Cielo  por  Gigantes  mas  crueles." 

Goxsoai. 

"  &ACBIS  tenebreacit  odoribns  aer." 
CoLuMBira. 


greedilj  I  wirii,  jet  fear  to  see  herl         ■*  Loa  natnniUBtaa  han  repando,  qae 
me  poor  TOtar;,  whose  holj  thoughts    qnando  d  aguila  cnbr«  aua  hnevos,  el  qne 


628 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


cae  mas  cerca  del  coraQon,  alcansa  un  calor 
mas  vivo,  mas  fuerte,  j  mas  eficaz,  que  los 
otros ;  de  manera,  que  saca  un  poUo  de  mas 
vigor,  actividad,  generosidad,  7  fortaleza 
que  8U8  hermanos ;  7  que  con  un  ardor  mas 
animado,  con  un  aliento  mas  robusto,  una 
perspicacia  mas  viva,  et  ligereza  mas  ele- 
vada,  se  levanta  mas  alto  que  todos,  7  mira 
al  sol  con  mas  atrevimiento,  sin  que  el  la 
deslumbre  ni  ciegne.** — Dedic,  to  Pinedds 
Spanish  Dictionary. 

'*  Yeitdo-sb  ja  de  brancas  nuves  chea 
A  Esphelra  celeste,  que  parece 

De  vazia  mare  ondada  area, 
Ou  peito  de  FalcSo  quando  envelhece.** 
Elegiada  de  Luys  Pereyra, 

**  QuB  ao  longo  da  ribeira  sanguinosa 
Do  enojado  Tejo,  em  pranto  andava 

Ja  a  triste  mSe,  irmS,  amiga,  ou  esposa, 
Quern  por  marido  ou  filho  preguntava. 

Quern  CO  a  esperanga  duvidosa 
Saber  o  desengano  na5  ousava, 

Quem  huma  e  outra  magoa  vai  dizendo 

Cadaveros  despojos  va  revolvendo.** 

Ibid. 

^  De  negros  coipos  negras  almas  manda 
A  negra  casa  de  perpetuo  pranto/* 

Ibid. 


(( 


HUM  venerando  velho, 
qual  Ethna  vermclho 


L 


Nas  faces  fogo,  e  neve  nos  cabellos.** 

Viriato, 

^  Trsmb  ja  de  terror  0  grosso  Atlante, 
Treme  toda  a  Numidia,  e  Ljbia  ardcnte, 

Que  no  seco  terreno  Garamante 
Nad  cu7da  escapar  a  Maura  gente  : 

Ajuntan-se  nas  pra^as  de  Trudante 
Os  que  por  larga  idade  ou  inocente 

Estad  em  roda,  co  a  orelha  pronta 

Ao  que  o  errante  passageiro  conta.** 

EUgiada, 

**  A  DB8XBTA  Cidade  ficou  toda 
Ardendo,  e  por  mil  partes  arrasada. 


Ajuntaose  nas  prat^as  infinitos 
CaSs,  e  outros  animaes,  dando  bramidos." 
Successo  do  S^gtmdo  Cereo  de  Dn, 
por  J.  CoBTB  Real. 

"  Depois  que  no  coniiiso  laberinto 

De  amor,  hum  alma  achou  entrada  sberta, 

Cerra-se-lbe  a  sahida.** 

Febeao  Alvaebs  do  OBiEim. 

**  AvEc  son  visage  sans  couleur  et  stiu 
forme,  ses  7euz  enfoneez,  ses  joues  pen- 
dantes,  et  sa  peau  seche  et  ridee ;  il  laj 
restoit  si  pen  de  traicts  de  la  vie,  qii*il 
sembloit  qu*elle  ne  demeurast  an  monde 
que  pour  7  faire  voir  seulement  Timsge  de 
la  mort . .  .  toute  courbee  et  chancdante, 
comme  celle  qui  estoit  lasse  de  porter  k 
faiz  de  tant  d'ann^es,  et  a  qui  Tespasse  de 
trois  pas  seulement  qu*elle  avoit  a  faire, 
tenoient  lieu  d*une  fort  longue  carriere,  et 
d'un  exercice  fort  penible." — ^Eedtmioii  m 

GOMBAULD. 

*^  Et  combien  me  faisoit  il  gouster  en- 
core de  plus  douces  faveurs,  si  la  boncbe 
qui  les  recevoit  les  ose  dire  P  puisque  mesme 
elle  estoit  teniie  si  dose  et  si  press^  que 
cela  lu7  sembloit  recommander  le  liknce." 
—Ibid. 

"  O  Hahedbtabbs  t  que  de  Ceris  et  de 
Corbeaux  dont  la  vie  est  si  longue,  ont  eu 
loisir  de  vivre  et  de  mourir,  depuis  vostre 
nabsance." — ^Ibid. 

^*  A  SETS  companheirofl  que  morreram 
No  combate,  da5  logo  sepultura. 
Nam  86  ouvem  nas  obsequias  trtstes  cantoi 
Que  a  sancta  Igreja  ordena  para  os  mortoB) 
Nem  officios  se  rezam  com  funesto 
E  tristissimo  som :  mas  com  trombetai 
£  com  mil  alegrias  encomendam 
As  almas  destes  sete  Cavalleiros, 
A  aquelle  que  na  cmz  morreo  por  ellas.** 

Cercode  Din- 

^  MoBBBo  Mestrc  Joa5,  varam  pmdente, 
De  ousado  cora^am,  de  vivo  spirito, 


iMM»««Pi< 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


029 


oito  ezprimentado  em  Cururgia.** 

Ibid. 

Y  QUANDO  igoalmente  amados 
omen  assi  do8  casadoa, 

La  Embidia,  a  quien  todo  pesa, 

Bien  puede  estar  a  su  mesa 
ontandoles  los  bocados.** 

hidroy  LoFE  db  Ybga. 

oi/>Moif^8  temple. 

**  Templo,  que  llegue  a  partir 
competencias  con  el  Sol, 
quando  desde  su  Zenit 
en  que  madrugb  Tapa^io, 
para  acostarse  Rubi 
no  sepa  k  quien  debe  el  dia 
resplendezer,  y  luzir, 
viendo  que  de  cada  Almena 
es  cada  Estrella  Pensil.** 
Caij>ebon,  El  Arbol  del  Mejor  Fndo. 

BJiJM  bem  ayenturado, 
(ue  huma  alma  alegra  et  reerea, 
)  a  came  prende  et  enfrea ; 
tm  de  Jesus  amado 
tue  0  mesmo  demonic  enlea: 
1  fermosa  et  presada, 
Ta  mats  Alta  ettima^ad, 
i  estas  no  Jejum  casada, 
Decs  qucrida  et  amoda, 
Anta  et  divina  Ora^ao.** 
Santo  Antonio,  por  Fbancisoo  Lopbz. 

BisPDf  the  Conjuror  thrown  overboard 
^.  Rodrigo. 

an<;ado  pois  nas  ondas  que  ferriaS 
L  as  ondas  mais  sobidas  se  sobia, 
uanto  a»  mais  ligeiras  naos  corriad 
*anto  por  cima  dagoa  elle  corria : 
)OTEL  lan^as  des  naos  o  opprimiaS 
To  golfo  incontinente  se  escondia.** 
Destmi^am  de  JEspanha,  Andbb  da 
Stlta  Mascabjbuha. 

HsB  eyes  a  deep  delightful  blue,  toeU 
sweet  and  even." — Memoirs  of  Several 
tee. 


Thb  Devil  in  hermit  shape  when  he  per- 
suades Grarin  to  commit  murder. 

**  Puesta  la  barba  sobre  el  pecho  estava, 
En  el  baculo  el  cucrpo  reclinado, 

Ya  los  ojos  abria,  ya  enarcava 

Ambas  las  cejas,  el  color  mudado.** 

El  Momerrate,  Cbistovai.  Yibues. 

^^  Nos  eccos  da  propria  consciencia 
Se  ha  de  escutar  a  voz  das  profecias.** 
JoaxnMa,  por  Jozb  Cobbea  db  Mbi.- 
LO  E  Bbitto  d*Alvim  PnvTO. 

'^  Quni  et  vinclorum  depressas  pondere  Coelo 
AttoUunt  cum  voce  manus.** 

Pacibcidos,  lib.  4. 

Ekbabkatiob  of  the  Christian  prisoners. 

**•  HiuLBBS  circum  dant  comua  cantus, 
Dant  litui,  plausere  acies,  gemuere  cannse 
Sub  pedibus,  plausumque  ferunt  ad  littora 

fluctus. 
Duri  etiam  venti  scelerata  in  carbasa  bland^ 
Adspirant,  nee  duri  undas  impellere  remi 
Erubuere,  silet  mare,  splendent  sidera, 

puppes 
Rectam  inter  fluctus  credas,  celeremque  sa- 

gittam 
Assimilare;  favet  quid  non  tibi  Monde  P  sed 

istud 
Non  favor,  ira  est ;  qua  citius  te  perdere  ad 

unum 
Conspbrant  venti,  remi,  mare,  sidera,puppes.** 

Ibid. 

^'  Sed  quid  ego  extemos  oculos  bellantibns 

addo 
Yincendi  stimulos  P  satis,  o  satis,  inclyta 

pubes 
Quod  vos  bellantes  ipsi  modo  cemitis,  in- 

gens 
Quisque  sibi  spectator  adest.** 

Ibid.  lib.  8. 

**  Ya  en  las  trompetas  tortuosas  suena 
Tar&tantar&  tant&,  dos  mil  vezes ; 
Las  cazas  huecas  de  Mavorte  fiero 
Tap&tatap&tan  t&tan  responden. 
Y  los  dos  sin  hablar,  con  el  son  solo 


\ 


680 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Llevando  al  Parche  el  pifaro  el  contralto, 
Dizen,  alanna !  alarma  t  assalto  I  assalto  !** 
Xof  Amante8  de  Teruel.  Juah  Yagub 
Dis  Balas. 

ViBiATUS  to  the  Lusitanians. 

^  A  princeza  das  Ayes  nos  insina 
Como  ha  de  ser  a  guerra  executada : 

Nam  vedes  como  dece  repentina 

Sobre  a  ca^a,  que  pasce  descuydada  f 

E  qua  nad  para  nunca  em  tal  rapma 
Senad  que  pello  ar  arrebatada 

A  Tem  comer  sobre  hum  penhasco  duro, 

Que  inda  que  bruta,  julga-o  por  seguro.** 
Viriato  Tragico.    Bsiis  Garcia  Mas- 

CABSNHA. 

*^  Yacia  la  Serpiente,  y  se  abreviabo 

£n  mil  vueltas  cou  rueda  portentosa, 
La  cabeza  en  el  vientre  recjinaba* 
T  lecho  de  si  misma  en  si  reposa/* 
Alphonso,    Franc,  BoUllo  de  Moraes  y 
Vcuconcelos. 

''NoKDUM  amabam,  et  amare  amabam, 
^-querebam  quid  amarem,  amans  amare.*' 
— St  Augustine^ s  Confessions, 

Quaintly  said,  but  true. 

"  Gbiep  had  tongue-tied  lipr  speech, 
I{er  words  were  sighs  and  tears,  —  dumb 

eloquence. 
Heard  only  by  the  sobs  and  not  the  sense.** 

Thecdma  and  Clearchus,  a  pastoral  his- 
torie^  by  John  Chalkhill,  an  acquaint- 
ant  and  friend  of  Edmund  Spencer. 
Published  by  Izaac  Walton. 

*^  Thb  proud  w^ves  beat 
With  more  impetuousness  upon  high  lands 
Than  on  the  flat  and  less  resisting  sands.** 

CHALKHUiL, 

*^  And  ever  and  anon  he  well  might  hear 
A  sound  of  music  steal  in  at  his  ear, 
As  the  wind  gave  it  being.** — Ibid.    * 

^*  Deatu*8  not  such  a  thing 
As  can  fright  Memnon  !   He  and  I  have  met 


Up  to  ihe  knees  in  blood  and  honoived 

sweat, 
Where  his  scythe  mowed  down  l^ons ;  he 

and  I 
Are  well  acquiunted !  *tis  no  news  to  die.** 

Ibid. 

*'  No  quiero  detenerme  mas  en  esto* 
pues  que  no  es  mi  intencion  dar  pesadum- 
bre 
y  asi  pienso  pasar  por  todo  presta 
huyendo  de  importunes  la  costumbre.** 

Araucana^  p.  1. 

^^  Con  subita  presteza  el  mar  cortando 
atraveso  por  medio  de  la  armada, 

de  blanca  espuma  el  rastro  leyantaodo, 
qual  luciente  cometa  arrebatada, 

quando  veloz  rompiendo  el  ayre  espeso 

le  suele  asi  dexar  gran  rato  impreso.** 

Ibid.  p.  24. 

^^  YoLYio  el  Indio  diciendo  a  nuestra  gente. 

Yo  no  paso  adelante,  ni  es  posible 
seguir  este  camino  couMnzado, 

que  el  hecho  es  grande  y  el  temor  terrible 
que  me  detiene  el  paso  acobardado, 

imaginando  aquel  aspecto  horrible 
del  gran  Caupolican  contra  mi  agrado 

quando  venga  a  saber  que  solo  he  sido 

el  soldado  traydor  que  le  ha  vendido.** 

Ibid.  p.  33. 

*^  I  SAW  the  mourner  mount  her  funeral 

pyre, 
Kiss  the  cold  corpse,  and  triumph  in  the 

fire, 
One  farewell  tear  to  parting  life  she  shed, 
Sunk  on  his  breast,  and  bow^  her  dyiog 

head. 
So,  were  th^  sun  extinguished  in  his  sftoe, 
The  widowed  moon  would  pierish  on  his 

bier.** 

The  Bramin,  by  Ptitd  PosiHve,  a  news* 
paper  poem.     Montgomxbt. 

^*  Lbt  not  the  godly  men  afflicUon  fear, 
God  wrestle  may  with  some,  but  none 
orethrowes. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


631 


giTes  the  burthen,  gives  the  strength 

obear." 

j>  SrsBLurB.  Doonuday,  Fint  Howre, 

1  lumish  fathers  for  the  wings  of 
[>eath.** — Ibid.  Second  Houre, 

iT  pompous  bird  which  still  in  triumph 
)ears 

Ued  in  a  circle  his  ostentive  talle 
starres  (as  if  to  brave  the  starry 
phears) 

seemes  at  once  to  walk,  to  flie,  to  saile.** 

Ibid.   Third  Houre. 

foot  deth  beat  the  earth,  his  tail  the 
lir, 

to  be  hurt  and  jet  not  find  a  foe.** 

Ibid. 

Drtakards, 

\o  keep  the  appetite  but  not  the  taste.** 

Fourth  Houre, 

Virginia, 

honour*s  altar  offered  up  to  fame.** 

Fifth  Houre. 

LucreHa. 

XL  only  helped.  Shame  gave  the  wound 

ndeed. 

modest  matron  did  but  blush,  not 

)leed.**— Ibid. 

Caio.    Brutus. 

>BT  was  their  god,  and  Rome  their 
leaven.** — Ibid.  Sixth  Houre. 

who  caused  place  upon  yienna*s  height 

;aping  moon,  not  filled  with  kingdomes 

ron, 

gh  but  a  badge  of  change,  portending 

iight.**-Ibid. 

L  PKOMiSB  u  the  child  of  the  under- 
ing  and  the  wiU;  the  understanding 
8  it,  the  will  brings  it  forth ;  he  that 
rms  it  delivers  the  mother,  he  that 
s  it  murders  the  child.  If  it  be  be- 
1  in  the  absence  of  the  understanding 


it  is  a  bastard,  but  the  child  must  be  kept. 
If  thou  mistrust  thy  imderstanding,  promise 
not;  it  is  better  to  maintain  a  bastard,  than 
to  murder  a  child.** — Quarlbs.  Enchiridion. 

^*  Sbabch  into  thyself  before  thou  accept 
the  ceremony  of  honour.  If  thou  art  a  pa- 
lace, honour,  like  the  sunbeams  will  make 
thee  more  glorious  ;  if  thou  art  a  dunghill, 
the  sun  may  shine  upon  thee,  but  not 
sweeten  thee.  Thy  prince  may  give  honour, 
but  not  make  thee  honourable.** — ^Ibid. 

Of  ffuth  and  submission  in  religion,  he 
says,  **  the  best  way  to  see  daylight,  is  to 
put  out  thy  candle.** 


*'«'W^W>^/^^>AMM«VM««VM« 


The  Ship  of  Columbus. 

*^  Jam  volat,  illam  omnes  animique  oculique 

sequuntur, 
Ire  nee  aspicitur,  nisi  postquam  apparuit 

esse.** — Caebkba.^    Columbus. 

Aretia  in  Heaven  pleading  ftfr  Columbus. 

^  YcLTUMOratriois  rubor  est  in  fine  sequu- 

tus, 
Qualis  ubi  mers&  rubuere  crepuscula  luce, 
Restat  adhuc  cselo  species  emertua  solis, 
Et  color,  Assyrise  cuperent  quem  sugere 

lansB.** — Ibid. 

^*  TvM  roseum  per  iter  visa  est  Aur(»*a  ve- 
nire, 
Incessu  testante  Deam :  de  prole  futurft 
Yivit  et  ^matur  genetrix  brevis :  semula 

prolis 
Est,  k  prole  tamen :  ne  quserite,  qualia  terris 
Munera  largitur,  satis  est  promittere  solem.** 

Ibid. 

^  Talia  dicta  dabat ;  cum  diceret,  ilia  te- 

nebat 
Ora  intenta  Defle^  totamque  meduUitus  haa- 

sit. 

*  The  copy  of  the  Columbus,  Carmsn  Epi* 
cumy  &c.,  now  before  me,  was  Southey's.  It  was 
printed  at  Borne  1715.  J.W.  W. 


^ 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


1 


1 


Sponsa  gravis  yeluti,  bibulo  si  lumine  siepe 
Majorum  vultus  depictos  atria  circum 
Viderit,  ex  ip8&  pictorft  pingere  matris 
Nescio  quid  discunt  oculi,  natosque  figu- 

-*   rant 
Dam  mirantur  avos.** — ^Ibid. 

^'QuALiTERJEacides  cum  Mercatoris  AcMvi 
Inter  et  armillos  et  Cose  cingula  lanse 
Non  expectati  species  apparuit  ensis, 
Erubuit,  parmamque  tuens,  non  pertulit 

ultra 
Mentiri ;  stricto  respexit  in  Hectora  ferro 
Asper,  et  imbelli  patuit  sub  cjclade  sexus.** 

Ibid, 

Qu^eit  Isabel  arming  for  BaJtde, 

*^  PoscBNTi  clypeum,  gemmatum  protinus 

orbem 
Obtulit  Harpalyce,  dedcratque  Philandria 

tegmen 
Pectoris,  inque  manu  Lampedo  locaverat 

hastam. 
Hactenus  ad  comptus  armandi  corporis  uti 
Censuit  ancillis  ;  sibi  csBtera  sufficit  arma 
Quorum  fabra  fuit  melior  natura  Cyclope  : 
Fronte  supercilium  grave  collocat,  afflet  et 

ignem 
Luminibus,  tonitruque  sonorem  Tocibus 

addit."— Ibid. 

^^  QuAus  triplicata  videri 
Lingua  solet  colubri,  positft  cum  pelle  ve- 

nenum 
Asperat  ad  solem,  cristataque  colla  coruscat ; 
Talis  hie  apparet,  tantdque  Tolubile  ferrum 
Dexteritate  movet,  triplices  videatur  ut 

enses 
Una  rotare  manua ;  deceptus  fulgure  Mau* 

rus 
Vera  putat,  terrorque  fidem  trepidantibus 

addit."— Ibid. 

The  whirl  and  wheel  of  light. 

"  Gbstot  Androphagus  viso  hospite,  deque 

sevcrft 
Fronte  supercilium  paulum  secedere  jussit, 
Admisitque  brevi  mansurum  tempore  risum. 


Sic  torpet,  non  tItos  abest,  cum  yipert  flo- 

rem 
Strata  super  dormlt,  nocitnraque  Tulnera 

differt 
Donee  sopitas  injuria  provocet  iras.** 

Ibid. 

**  Igh ABUS  quamyis  collaudet  et  approbet 

ensem 
Attamen  indignatur  onus  ceu  debile  dextrc 
Ad  nodosa  suae  dum  pondera  respicit  hasts." 

Ibid. 

Caribi  contend  of  Armour, 

^*  At  multo  clarescit  lumine  corpus, 
Vestiri  plerumque  solent  quo  membra  Deo* 

rum. 
Hie  si  yos,  Proceres,  (quod  non  reor)  oc^ 

cupat  error, 
Ponite  crassam  animl  ^ebulam  :  non  cor* 

pore«  tanquam 
Vivo  fonte,  fluens  translucet  in  extima  splen^ 

dor; 
Emendicatus  de  tegmine  corporis  exit ; 
Hoc  et  membra  tegit,  simul  hoc  mimunint 

freta 
Plebs  vilis,  metuensque  mori,  defendere 

pellem 
Nititur  k  jacuHs ;  sed  nondum  conscia,  nos- 

tris 
Quale  yolet  pharetris  indeclinabile  yulniu." 

Ibid. 

"  In  groveling  minds  but  low  resentment 

dwells, 
For  blood  that's  gross,  rare  o'er  its  channel 

swells, 
Spirits  high-bom,  like  meteors  in  the  akj, 
Ferment  in  storms,  and  round  in  ruin  flj " 

The  Brudail 

This  said  Bruciad  is  not  a  good  poem.  e.g- 

**  Benowned  beast,  (forgive  poetic  flight) 
Not  less  than  man  deserves  poetic  right" 

**  Against  the  king  to  prove  hb  matchles 
might, 


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633 


The  Seottiah  chief  rode  furious  through  the 

fight ; 
Through  all  the  force  of  the  opposing  foe 
Full  at  his  vbor  aimed  a  deadlj  blow ; 
He  missed  the  king ;  the  standard-bearer's 

head 
Asunder  cleft  the  unresisted  blade.** 
Happy  transposition  1 

^*  On  Dona's  fertile  banks  a  fortress  stood, 
Stupendous  pile  I  the  labour  of  some  god  I 
Held  by  the  father  of  the  royal  dame, 
Impregnable  I  Kildrummy  is  its  name.** 

^  De8  Monts  de  Sable  oii  les  ondes  arides 
Ont  rinstabilit4  des  Campagnes  liquides.** 

St.  AifAiiT. 

'^  Son  Coutelas  qui  semble  en  perdant  sa 

lueur 
Terser  de  trop  d*efibrt  cette  horrible  sueur.** 

Ibid. 

^*  II  se  debat,  il  crie  a  chaque  fois  que  rentre 
L*impitoyabIe  fer  en  son  malheureux  ven- 


tre.' 


Ibid. 


CrOD  to  Moses-^ 
**Et  s*il  t*est  necessaire  aux  lieux  oil  je 

t'envoye 
D*avoir  de  Teloquence  afin  que  Ton  te 

croye, 
Doutes  tu  que  celuy  qui  la  langue  forma, 
Qui  du  Tent  de  sa  yoix  les  levres  anima, 
Qui  pent  faire  au  besoin  parler  mesme  une 

Souche, 
Ne  puisse  Vinspirer  des  graces  en  la  bouche.** 

Ibid. 

^  La  Fleure  est  an  Estang  qui  dort  au  pie 

des  Palmes 
De  qui  Tomlwe  plough  au  fonds  des  ondes 

calmes, 
Sans  agitation  semble  se  refraischir 
Et  de  fruits  natureb  le  cristal  enrichir.** 

Ibid. 

*^  AnrsT,  diray-je  done,  la  fameuse  Christine 
Allant  Toir  des  yaisseaux  qu*en  guerre  elle 
destine, 


Tomba  dans  le  Meller,  et  par  cet  accident 
Pensa  faire  du  Nord  un  funeste  Occident : 
Auisy,  d*une  licence  et  temeraire  et  juste. 
Pour  d*un  si  grand  peril  sauTer  sa  teste 

auguste, 
Un  des  siens,  bien  instmit  que  garder  le 

respect 
De  crime,  en  tel  besoin,  c*est  se  rendre  sus- 
pect, 
Osa  porter  la  main  profane  et  secourable 
Sur  le  sacr^  tresor  de  sa  tresse  adorable, 
Et  cruel  en  son  ayde,eut  Testrange  bonheur 
D*arracher  au  trespas  ce  Miracle  d*hon- 


neur. 


Ibid. 


Angling. 

Thb  fish  ......'*  sur  la  plaine  verte 

D*une  bouche  sans  cry,  de  temps  en  temps 

ouverte 
Baaille  sans  respirer.**  Ibid. 

^'  Tbl,  qu*un  riche  nayire,  apres  mainte 

fortune 
Esprouv^  en  maint  lieu  sur  le  vaste  Nep- 
tune, 
Beyient  ayecques  pompe  au  hayre  souhait^ 
Sous  la  douce  lenteur  des  souffles  de  TEste, 
Qui  faisant  ondoyer  dans  les  Airs  pacifiques 
De  tons  ses  hauts  Atours  les  graces  magni- 

fiques, 
Enfl4  a  demy  la  yoile,  et  d*un  tranquile 

efibrt 
Presqu*  insensiblement  le  redonna  a  son 
port.**  Ibid. 

"  A  PBATBB  concealed  may  haye  as  much 
heat^hut  a  prayer  expressed  hath  more  light 
therein ;  it  doth  shine  before  men.** — Ful- 
LBB*s  Triple  Reconciler^  p.  121. 

A  TBUB  epitaph. 

"  Aqui  jaz  Vasco  Figueira,  miuto  contra 

sua  yontade.** 
At  Santarem.    M.  da  Espebanza,  yol.  1, 
p.  471. 

^^  ToDOS  los  males  y  trabajos  se  passan  con 
el  comer,** 

says  honest  Bcmnl  Diaz. 


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t« 


To  the  ftuthor  of  a  bad  poem : 
^  De  lo8  yerros  que  hay  en  ella 

Sois  digno  de  haber  perdon, 

Slquiera  por  la  pasion 
Que  pasastes  en  hacella.** 

CASTILIJUrO,  ToL  1,  p.  251. 

"  Mbbct,  which  my  sire  dodi  call  a  star 
That  looks  a  pattern  from  the  silver  moon  J 

John  Lows,  Junior. 


'^  Nacb  da  desesperaijam  si  oonfian^a,  e 
onde  fora  do  perigo,  nenhila  cousa  cria 
menos,  que  aver  na  ley  de  Deos  salyaQam 
etema,  ja  ere,  que  so  nella  tem  a  temporaL** 

LUCENA,  Tol.  1,  p.  203. 

"  Lbst  his  body  should  controul. 
He  almost  work*t  it  up  to  soul.** 

This  is  in  the  epitaph  of  Thomas  Tryon, 
who  at  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
attempted  to  found  a  sort  of  Pythagorean 
sect  in  this  coimtry. 


[ 


**  Fills  rideva,  e  la  Natura  anch*  ella 
Al  par  di  Fille  era  ridente  e  bella.** 

FiGifom. 

A  BAD  and  laborious  poet : 

"  Qual  avria  crudel  martire, 
Se  alfin  vedesse,  che  le  lunghe  notti 
Ei  veglia  sol  per  fare  altrui  dormire.*' 

Ibid. 

"  Faba  enturbiar  el  agua  basta  poco 
movimiento,  y  para  sossegarla  es  menester 
mucho  tierapo.** — Gil  Gonzalez  Dayila. 

Dayenant  calls  poets, 

"  Love*s  partial  jewellers, 
Who  count  nought  precious  but  their  mis- 
tress* eyes.** 

•*  Get  a  punter,  Sir, 
And  when  he  has  wrought  a  woman  by  your 

fancy. 
See  if  you  know  her  again.    Were  it  not 

fine 
If  you  should  see  your  mistress  without  hair, 


Drest  only  with  those  glittering  beams  you 

talk  of? 
Two  suns  instead  of  eyes,  and  ihey  not  melt 
The  forehead  made  of  snow  P    No  cheeks, 

but  two 
Roses  inoculated  upon  a  lillie 
Between  a  pendant  alablaster  nose  f 
Her  lips  cut  out  of  coral,  and  no  teeth 
But  strings  of  pearl ;  her  tongue  a  night- 

ingale*s ; 
Her  chin  a  rump  of  ivory,  and  so  forth.** 

Shiblbt,  The  Sisters. 

Clbbkbs  of  Irelonde : 

....**  they  ben  chaste,  and  sayen  minj 
prayers,  and  done  grete  abstinence  a  daje, 
and  drynketh  all  nyght.** — Pofycromamt 
vol.  1,  p.  36. 

Reputed  historians,  an  old  phrase  of  good 
application. 

*^  Se  hum  vaso  de  ouro  tiver  a  forma  de 
algum  que  serve  em  cousas  vis  e  torpes, 
ante  quereraS  beber  per  outro  de  bairo  de 
forma  natural  deste  uso,  que  pelo  outro.**— 
Babbos.  Prol,  a,  Dec.  3. 

'^  Geffbat  Chaucieb,  as  A  per  se  sans  peir 
In  his  vulgare.** 

Gawinb  Douglas,  Palace  of  Honour, 

Thb  Institutes  of  Menu  rank  a  poetical 
encomiast  with  one  of  evil  repute,  a  dancer, 
a  cheat,  an  oilman,  and  a  seller  of  the  moon- 
plant. 

B.  Lbonabdo  has  a  sonnet  on  this  thought 
"  Es  nuestra  alma  en  nuestra  palma 
Si  el  proverbio  no  nos  miente.** 

Las  100  Preguntas. 

^'Albxanbbb  and  Darius,  when  they 
strave  who  should  be  cock  of  this  world's 
dunghill.**— Sib  P.  Sidney,  D.o/Poesie, 

*'  Opposino  duty  against  reason,  or  rather 
accompting  duty  a  reason  sufficient.** 

Cabbw*s  Survey  of  CarmvaB, 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS, 


635 


Charle*  the  First 

^  Whilb  round  the  armed  bands 

Did  clap  their  bloodj  hands ; 
He  nothing  common  did  or  mean 
Upon  that  memorable  scene ; 

Bat  with  his  keener  eje, 

The  axe*s  edge  did  try ; 
Nor  called  the  gods  with  vulgar  spight 
To  vindicate  his  helpless  right  I 

But  bowed  his  comely  head 

Down  as  upon  a  bed.** 

Andrew  Mabvell. 

"  To  a  dull  contentment  being  bred." 

WiTHEB. 

**  You  that  seek  to  turn  all  flowers, 
By  your  breath's  infectious  powers, 
Into  such  rank  loathsome  weeds 
As  your  dunghill  nature  breeds.** 

Ibid. 

**  Fob  I  will  for  no  man's  pleasure 
Change  a  syllable  or  measure ; 
Pedants  shall  not  tye  my  strains 
To  our  antique  poet's  veins  ; 
Being  bom  as  free  as  these, 
I  will  sing  as  I  shall  please.'*        Ibid. 

^  III  tongued  and  envious,  ignorant  of 
shame.**  Ibid. 


n 


"  This  matchless  inspiration  of  the  devil. 

Ibid. 


'^As  offenders  being  pursued,  have  re- 
course to  altars  and  the  sepulchres  of  the 
dead«  and  in  former  times  to  the  statues  of 
emperors,  so  they  who  have  nothing  else 
commendable  in  them  but  their  nobility,  of 
flesh  and  blood,  being  destitute  of  all  merit 
and  subject  of  true  honour,  have  recourse 
to  the  memory  and  armouries  of  their  an- 
cestors."— Chabbon,  p.  199. 

•*  We  men  are  weak ; 
Whereon  much  musing  makes  me  inly  mourn 


And  grieve  almost  that  I  a  man  was  bom ; 
Yet  hereupon  I  do  desire  that  no  man 
Would  gaUier  that  I  long  to  be  a  woman.** 

WiTHEB, 

'*  Yea  I  have  leam*d  that  still  my  care  shall 

be, 
A  rurii  for  him  that  cares  a  straw  for  me.** 

Ibid. 

**  Get  thee  to  school  again, 
And  find  the  natural  cause  out  why  a  dog 
Turns  thrice  about  ere  he  lie  down : — 
there's  learning.** 
Beaumont  and  Fletohbb,  Mad  Lover. 


The  moon, 
*^  Queen  of  the  sea  and  beauty  of  the  night. 

Sib  D.  Ltndsat. 


»» 


A  pabtt  of  Majorcan  Moors  fled  before 
Jaymes  troops,  but  one  of  them  being  over- 
taken, fought  like  a  hero.  Hence  the  Ara- 
goneze  said,  **  Que  los  Mallorquines  devian 
ser  como  los  toros,  los  quales  tomados  jun- 
tos son  mansos ;  mas  cada  imo  por  si  muy 
bravo.** — Miedss. 

^*  The  house  of  hope  is  nused  upon  a  weak 
foundation.*' — Hatiz. 

•*  In  Ballyricknakelly, 

By  Lagan's  limpid  stream. 
Once  flourished  blue-eyed  Nelly, 

Each  rural  poet's  theme. 

She  led  her  tender  mother. 

The  frowning  seas  to  pass ; 
She  left  her  loving  brother. 

And  hurried  to  Ardglass. 

Ye  gentle  nymphs  of  Logan 
That  read  this  rueful  strain, 

Lament  fair  Nelly  Hogan, 
Who  perished  in  the  main." 

Star,  Dec.  22,  1808. 

One  would  think  Nicolas  Espinosa  had 
been  a  galley-slave  from  this  stanza : 
^^  Mas  en  la  tarde  refrescando  el  viento 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Cansadas  de  remar  (qa*e8  mal  oficio) 
La  rica  vela  dieron  con  contento 
Al  fresco  aire,  dexando  el  exercicio 
Qu*e8  proprio  causador  de  gran  tormento 

Y  premio  en  fin  de  todo  qualquier  yicio 
For  mal  del  mascuUn  genero  hallado 

Y  muerte  la  mas  cruda  que  ban  pensado.** 

Sec.  Part,  Orlando  FuriotOy 
canto  3,  p.  13. 

Ti}v  Kt^oX^y  ir£^vXa{o,  was  the  advice 
to  a  soldier^ 

In  this  vile  poemCotaldo  (the  hero)  slices 
off  a  giant*s  arm. 

*^  —  El  Jajan  con  la  su  diestra  pone 
£1  ya  caido  bra^o  j  le  compone. 

Como  suelen  surzir  delgadamente 
£1  pano  Inglez,  de  todos  el  mas  fino^ 
Con  el  aguja  j  seda  que  consiente 
Cegarse  la  rotura  del  camino ; 
Assi  apegado  fuera  el  muy  valiente 
Bra^o  d^aquel  Jayan  por  su  destino, 
£1  Borgonon  quedo  maravillado 
Viendo  a  su  contrario  assi  curado.** 

C.  9,  p.  47. 

OsLANDO  kills  a  giant  who  has  a  lion 
with  him. 

"  £1  animal  seiiala  aver  sentido 
La  muerte  del  Senor,  porque  consiste 
En  el  fiero  leon  conocimicnto 
Mas  que  otro  animal  so  el  firmamento.** 

C.  11,  p.  55. 

"  The  people,"  says  Wabbubtoh,  '*  are 
much  more  reasonable  in  their  demands  on 
their  patriots  than  on  their  minbters.  Of 
their  patriots  they  readily  accept  the  will 
for  the  deed,  but  of  their  ministers  they 
unjustly  interpret  the  deed  for  the  will.** 

'*  Solus  homo  ex  omnibus  animalibus 
commod^  sedet,  cui  camossB  et  magnse  nates 
contigSre,  et  pro  substemaculo  pulvina- 
rique,  tomento  repleto,  inserviunt,  ut  citra 
molestiam  sedendo,  cogitationibus  rerum 
divinarum  animum  rect^  applicare  possit.** 


— Spigeuus.  De  Hum,  Corp.  Fab.  p.  9.— 
Cydopitdia,  Man. 

Schoolmasters  have  discovered  a  different 
final  cause. 

*^  Wings  are  the  property  of  genius,  and 
of  genius  only.  He  that  encounters  genius  in 
its  flight  must  himself  be  upon  ^e  wing. 
What  advantage  is  it  to  the  man  on  foot 
that  he  shall  take  the  same  direction;  since, 
though  he  can  creep,  he  cannot  soarP**— 
Stolb£Bg*8  TraveUf  voL  2,  p.  41. 

"  Pobts,"  says  Stolbbbg,  "  beware  how 
you  paint  boo  much.** 

'*  The  Genius  of  the  suUime  and  beauti- 
ful is  a  jealous  spuit,  and  only  half  revesb 
himself  to  those  who  worship  inferior  ob* 
jects,**— Ibid. 

Buonaparte^- 

*'  —  Th£  best  sacrifice  to  Heaven  for 

peace 
Is  Tyrant*s  blood ;  and  those  that  stuck 

fast  to  him, 
Flesh*d  instruments  in  his  commands  to 

mischiei^ 
With  him  dispatch'd.*' 

Beaumont  &  Fi.btchbb. 
The  Double  Marriage. 

Bbookb,  in  his   Universal  Beamtjf,  says 

that  the  clouds 

*^0*er  torrid  climes  collect  their  sable  train, 
And  form  umbrellas  for  the  panting  swain.** 

And  that 

"  from  on  high  the  rapid  tempest's  hurVd, 
Enlivening  as  a  snee;Ee  to  man*s  inferior 
world.** 

**  Thbougu  sparkling  genu  the  plastic  ar- 
tists play, 
And  petrify  the  light*s  embodied  ray ; 
Now  kindle  the  carbuncle's  ruddy  flame, 
Now  gild  the  chrysolite's  transparent  bean)* 
Infuse  thesapphire*s  subterraneous  sky,  (l\) 


/ 


i 


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637 


And  tinge  the  topaz  with  a  saffron  dye ; 
With  yirgin  blush  within  the  ruby  glow  (I  I) 
And  o*er  the  jasper  paint  the  showery  bow/* 

Ibid. 

"  —  Hb  bears  the  note  of  folly  now, 
Who  shot  some  time  to  hit  philosophy.** 

Ibid. 

A.  Hill  says  of  Richardson,  ^He  seems 
to  move  like  a  calm  summer  sea ;  that  swell- 
ing upward  with  unconscious  deepness  lifts 
the  heaviest  weights  into  the  skies,  and  shows 
no  sense  of  their  incumbency.** — ^Better  ioid 
than  applied, 

"  YouB  cardinals,**  (saysFLSCKiro), "  live 
like  great  princes  as  to  the  exterior,  with 
great  trains  of  coaches,  Staffieres,  and  other 
dependencies;  but  examine  their  interior 
and  you*ll  find,  while  their  bodies  inhabit 
whole  acres  of  palaces,  their  souls,  in  their 
strait  narrow  bosoms,  are  stifled  for  want  of 
room.** 

**  QuANTO  melhor  h^  ter  o  mundo  de- 
bayxo  dos  p^  que  sobre  os  hombros.** — 

VlETBA. 

A  GOOD  man  "  by  placing  his  happiness 
in  that  which  is  permanent,  piety  and  wis- 
dom, is  sure  to  avoid  that  grand  infelicity 
which  it  is  to  have  been  happy.** — John 
BuxTOiv's  Eriander, 

Thb  old  technical  verse — 

^  Quis,  quid,  ubi,  quibus  auxiliis,  cur,  quo- 
modo,  quando.** 


•*I  HAVE  read,**  says  ST.EyBEMOHi>,"all 
that  has  been  written  on  the  Immortality 
of  the  Soul,  and  after  I  have  done  so  with 
all  possible  attention,  the  clearest  proof 
that  I  find  of  the  eternity  of  my  soul  is  my 
own  constant  desire  that  it  may  be  so.** 

**  What  meanest  thou  by  that  P 
Jumper,  Mean !  od*8o— is  it  not  a  good 


word,  man  P    What,  stand  upon  meanmg 
with  your  friends  I** 

Bek  Joif  son.  The  Case  ie  altered. 

Cart,  Earl  of  Monmouth,  said  of  Leices- 
ter, **  A  brave  war,  and  a  poor  spirit  in  a 
commander  never  agree  well  together.** 

Some  one,  by  a  felicitous  b]under,  tdked 
of  **  universal  suffering  and  animal  parlia- 
ments.** 

Benezbt,  one  of  the  best  men  that  ever 
lived,  used  to  say  that  the  highest  act  of 
charity,  was  to  bear  with  the  unreasonable- 
ness of  mankind. 

^^  Indeed,  most  national  customs  are 
the  effect  of  some  unseeui  or  unobserved 
natural  causes,  or  necessities.** — Sib  W. 
Temple. 

^^  Good  intentions  are  at  least  the  seed  of 
good  actions ;  and  every  man  ought  to  sow 
them,  and  leave  it  to  the  soil  and  the  sea- 
sons whether  they  come  up  or  no,  and  whe- 
ther he  or  any  other  gathers  the  fruit.** — 
Ibid. 

A  GOOD  phrase  of  Eachard*s — "  close 
and  thick  thinking.** 

Over-fine  policy.  **  Great  events  are 
commonly  too  rough  and  stubborn  to  be 
wrought  upon  by  the  finer  edges  or  points 
of  wit.** — ^Bacon. 

"  He  will  neither  buy  peace  with  disho- 
nour, nor  take  it  up  at  interest  of  danger  to 
ensue.** — ^Ibid. 

^*  Avarice  doth  ever  find  in  itself  mat- 
ter of  ambition.** — Ibid. 

'*  There  is  nothing  too  little  for  so  little 
a  creature  as  man.  It  is  by  studying  little 
things  that  we  attain  the  great  art  of  having 
as  little  misery  and  as  much  happiness  as 
poJBsible.** — Johnson. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


It  is  a  good  remark  of  Johnson^s,  *'  that 
the  naval  and  military  professions  have  the 
dignity  of  danger,  and  that  mankind  rever- 
ence those  who  have  got  over  fear,  which 
is  so  general  a  weakness.** 

*^  Xebxss  contemplant  ses  dix-sept  cents 
mille  hommes,  8*escria  de  douleur,  sur  ce  que 
dans  cent  ans  il  n*en  resteroit  un  seul  en 
vie.  n  nous  faudroit  tous  les  jours  faire  un 
cri  bien  divers,  sur  pareil  nombre ;  de  ce 
qu*il  ne  8*7  trouveroit  pas  )i  Tadventure  un 
sage,  ni  qui  pis  est,  un  juste.** — La  Demois- 
SBLLB  DB  (xouBB AT,  til  her  Prefooe  to  Mofi' 
tedgne, 

"La  vraye  touche  des  esprits,  c*est  Texa- 
men  d*un  nouvel  auteur;  et  celuyquilelit, 
se  met  ifc  Tespreuve  plus  qu*il  ne  Ty  met." 
—Ibid. 

A  very  good  remark. 

"  Plus  une  loi  se  maintient  sans  altera- 
tion, plus  aussi  fait-elle  connoitre  le  grand 
sens  et  les  grandes  vu&  de  celui  qui  Ta 
faite.** — Pensees  sur  le  Otwnete,  vol.  1 ,  p.  457. 

When  the  Italians  would  give  a  man  the 
highest  praise  for  prudence,  they  say  of  him 
"  Capo  da  far  statuti.**— Ibid. 

We  have  few  such  heads  t 

"  Lbs  grandes  et  les  importantes  verite* 
ont  des  caract^res  interieurs  qui  les  soutien- 
nent ;  c'est  k  ces  signes  que  nous  les  devons 
discemer.** — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  9. 

**La  verity  perdroit  hautement  sa  cause, 
si  elle  ^toit  decide  k  la  plurality  des  voix.'* 
—Ibid. 

"  Tbitissima  quseqne  via  et  celeberrima 
maxlm^  decipit.  N  ihil  ergo  magis  pnestan- 
dum  est  quam  ne  pecorum  ritu,  sequantur 
antecedentimm  gr^em,  pergentes  non  qua 
eundum  est,  sed  qua  itur.'*— Sbnbca. 

—  This  they  do  "  ob  magnitudinem  in- 


famise, cujus  apud  prodigos  novissima  vo- 
luptas  est." — ^Tacitus.  AnnaL  1.  xL  c  26. 

"  L*hommb  est  le  morceau  le  plus  dificile 
h  diger^r  qui  se  presente  )i  tous  les  syst^mes. 
Je  ne  sai  si  la  nature  peut  presenter  un  ob- 
jet  plus  Strange,  et  plus  dificile  a  demeler 
)i  la  raison  toute  seule  que  ce  que  nous  apel- 
lons  un  animal  raisonnable.** — ^Batle,  p. 
536-7. 

**  —  Thus  has  he  (and  many  more  of  the 
same  breed,  that,  I  know,  the  drossy  age 
dotes  on),  only  got  the  tune  of  the  time, 
and  outward  habit  of  encounter ;  a  kind  of 
yesty  collection,  which  carries  them  through 
and  through  the  most  fond  and  winnowed 
opinions ;  and  do  but  blow  them  to  their 
trial,  the  bubbles  are  out.** — Handet^  act  v. 
sc.  ii. 

'^  Wheb  rank  Thersites  opes  his  mastive 

jaws. 
We  shall  hear  musick,  wit,  and  oracle.** 

TroilvM  and  CrtsMoy  act  i.  M.  iiL 

"  Ybat  moyne,  si  onques  en  fut,  depms 
que  le  monde  moynant  moyna  de  Moynerie.** 
— Rabelais,  vol.  2,  p.  3. 

"  Jamais  homme  noble  ne  halt  le  bon 
vin ;  c*est  un  apoth^gme  monacal.** — Ibid, 
p.  5. 

*^  Natubb  me  semble  non  sans  cause  nous 
avoir  form4  aureilles  ouvertes,  n*y  apposant 
porte  ne  cloture  aucune,  comme  a  fait  & 
yeux,  langue,  et  autres  issu&  du  corps." — 
Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  165. 

"  Ce  que  Dieu  garde  est  bien  gard^." 
MomrLuc,  vol.  1,  p.  968. 

**  —  Ceste  peur  vous  desrobe  le  sens  et 
Tentcndement  qui  est  la  meilleure  piece  de 
vostre  hamois." — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  298. 

'*  Qubsti  piaceri 
Son  altro,  che  di  duol  ferma  radice  ? 


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n 


Non  h  stato  felice 

Alcun,  se*l  pu5  turbar  Fortuna  o  Morte. 
BsB.  Tamo,  toL  1,  p.  98. 


"^  M*ATsz  pour  excuse,  si  je  ne  rithme  en 
cramoisi.** — Babblais,  toI.  8,  p.  396. 

CiCEso  says  of  the  scholars  of  Heraclides, 
^  quos  dupl5  reddidit  stultiores  quam  ac- 
ceperit ;  ubi  nihil  poterant  discere  nisi  igno- 
rantiam.** — Orat.  pro  Flacco, 

It  was  a  remark  of  Sib  P.  Sidnbt,  *'  that 
he  never  found  wisdom,  where  he  found  not 
courage.** 

Bishop  Hackbt  calls  ^*  conscience  and 
honour  the  Urim  and  Thummim,  with  which 
the  noblest  whom  God  hath  made  should 
consult  in  all  things.** — Life  of  Archbishop 
WiOiams,  p.  164. 

^  Sbcvixj>m  res  felicem,  magnum  faciunt 
adyerse** — very  well  said  by  Hermolaus 
Barbarus. — ^Ibid.  part  iL  p.  4. 

^  A  libbbtt  to  be  lawless  is  the  greatest 
bondage.** — ^Ibid.  p.  198, 

"  God  defend  us  from  making  experi- 
ments of  what  would  come  to  pass  if  the 
choice  of  a  governor  or  governors  were  re- 
ferred to  the  thousands  and  millions  of  Eng- 
land !  Beware  a  heptarchy  again,  beware 
a  hecatontarchy.  Things  give  better  coun- 
sel to  men,  than  men  to  things.** — Ibid.  p. 
202. 

Jambs  I.  said  "  men  had  a  salmon-like  in- 
stinct to  visit  the  place  of  their  breeding.** 
—Ibid.  p.  208. 

**  In  reading  the  scriptures,**  says  Bishop 
Chbht,  ^  be  you  like  the  snail :  which  is  a 
goodly  figure.  For  when  he  feeleth  a  hard 
thing  against  his  horns,  he  pulleth  them  in 
again.  So  do  you.  Read  Scripture  a 
God*s  name ;  but  when  you  come  to  mat- 
ters of  controversy,  go  back  again ;  pull  in 


your  horns.** — Stbtpe*8  Annals^  voL  1,  p. 
560. 

^  Nemo  non  aliquem  habet  cui  tantum 
credat,  quantum  ipsi  creditum  est.** — Stba- 
da,  p.  42. 

Is  this  true  ?  A  Jesuit  is  good  autho- 
rity on  such  a  point 

"  Etenim  Religionem  rar5  solam  muta- 
vere  civitates :  sed  quoties  mota  est  sacra 
hcec  Anchora,  toties  fiuctuavit  simul  Rei- 
publicae  navis.  Nee  mirum:  est  Heresis 
contumacise  rudimentum :  dumque  ex  ho- 
minum  mentibus  sensim  excutit  Dei  jugum, 
detrectare  atque  excutere  humana  imperia 
similiter  docet.** — ^Ibid.  p.  71. 

Cabdhi AL  Gbanville. — ^*^  Pleraque  feli- 
citer  confecit  eloquentise  beneficio,  sed  mird 
solertid  temperatie,  sine  quft  parsimonid, 
omnis  facundia  importuna  demum  proflu- 
entia  est,  et  morbus  baud  se  retinentis  in- 
genii.** — ^Ibid.  p.  77. 

—  '*  Nam  vilissimo  cuique  crescit  auda- 
cia,  si  se  timeri  sentiat.** — ^Ibid.  p.  230. 

"  Yetbbano  Duci  repentinus  magis  qukm 
improvisus  occurrit  hostis.** — Ibid.  Dec.  2, 
1.  1,  p.  22. 

^^  Facile  veniunt  in  potestatem  alienam, 
qui  prsB  timore  semel  exiere  de  sua.**  — 
Ibid. 

^  Nemo  adeo  intractabilis  est,  cui  suum 
denique  manubrium  non  sit,  quo  capi,  ac 
teneri  possit.** — Ibid.  p.  41 . 

Is  this  also  a  Jesuit  maxim  P 

"  C*EST  mal  connaitre  les  hommes  que  de 
s*imaginer  qu*on  leur  plaira,  en  adoucissant 
le  joug  que  la  raison  et  la  morale  leur  im- 
posent.  Les  prcdicateurs  les  plus  s^v^res 
sont  toujours  ceux  qui  attirent  la  foule.** — 
LiNGUET,  Hist.  Imp.  des  Jesuites,  torn.  1, 
p.  184. 

The  latter  sentence  is  certainly  true.  Tlie 
former  with  some  qualification. 


< 


**  JjEB  phis  redontables  fimatiqiies  aund- 
ent  certainement  M  bien  innoceiiB,  8*ib 
n*aTaieDt  confi^  lean  d^lires  qu*aii  papier. 
Ce  n*e8t  jamais  arec  des  m  foUo  qa*on  a 
form^  des  sectes  et  execute  des  menrtres. 
LaiBsez  ^crire,  et  emp^hez  de  parler,  les 
etats  seront  toujonn  tranquilles.  Yoilk 
peut-^tre  la  maxime  la  plus  incontestable 
de  la  politique.** — ^Ibid.  p.  215. 

Linguet  ought  to  have  known  better, 
eren  tiiongh  he  lived  before  the  age  of 
newspapers. 

"^  Sot  poeta, 
7  assi  ningnnos  me  agradan, 
si  no  son  mis  proprios  rersos ; 
los  demas  no  yalen  nada.** 

Caldbbon.  Cisma  de  Inglaterre. 

*^  Fbuoboso 
alcance  signe  el  hombre  que  es  graciosa ; 
pues  llega  en  ocasion  donde  se  enfria, 
quando  dize  una  gracia,  j  no  ay  quien  ria.** 

Ibid. 

^  L*HOMMB  digne  d*Stre  ^ut^  est  cdui 
qui  ne  se  sert  de  la  parole  que  pour  la 
pens^e,  et  de  la  pens^  que  pour  le  v^t^  et 
la  Tertu.  Eien  n*e8t  plus  m^prisable  qu*un 
parleur  de  metier  qui  fait  de  ses  paroles  ce 
qu*un  charlatan  fait  de  ses  remMes.** — 
GocjBT,  torn.  1,  p.  311. 

"  Benb  et  pneclar^,  quamvis  nobis  sape, 
dicatur ;  bell^  et  fbstiv^nimium  ssepe  nolo." 
— €iCBBO  de  Orat.  1.  8.  c.  25. 

CouHT  Hamilton  says  of  Bichelieu*s  age 
that  this  *^  great  man  commanded  little  ar- 
mies and  little  armies  did  great  things.*'— 
Mem,  of  Orananant 

"  Un  mauvws  c«ur  travaille  )i  la  mine 
des  autres,  et  un  bon  cceur  )i  la  sienne."— 
PeneSes  d'Oxetutem. 

**  Ci-DEssous  git  un  grand  Seigneur 

Qui  de  son  viyant  nous  apprit, 
Qu'un  homme  pent  vivre  sans  cceur 


Et  mourir  sans  rendre  Fesprit.** 
This  is  printed  in  the  worthless  book  en- 
titled Pensiesj  jt?.  da,  Camte  Oxemstern. 

**  You  dissentions  rogues 
That  rubbing  the  poor  itch  of  your  ofunion 
Make  yoursdyes  scabs.** 

"  act  L scL 


**  This  maxkD,*'  says  Sib  Ph.  Wabwicb, 
"  is  never  to  be  foigot  by  the  state  physi- 
cian, '  Malum  bene  positum  non  est  moven- 
dum.'  If  the  stone  lie  quiet  in  tiie  body 
provoke  it  not  by  diuretics.*' 

^  Sib  p.  W.  quotes  some  good  hisUnrian 
as  saying,  "  great  improsperities  deprive  a 
man  of  half  his  understanding  at  once.** 

^  Hb  that  ought  to  command  seldom  gets 
any  thing  when  he  is  reduced  into  a  con- 
dition to  supplicate.** — ^Ibid. 

^  Imtbospbbitt  is  always  in  confuaon.** 
Ibid. 

**  The  scene  between  the  taylor  and 
gardener  lies  much  in  the  same  latitude  of 
understanding,**  Jebbmt  CoLi.rBB  says  of  a 
scene  in  one  of  Tom  D*Urfey*s  plays. 

BcouoAi.  speaks  of  religionists  who 
^*  would  be  the  better  thought  of  for  speak- 
ing ill  of  themselves, — and  would  be  very 
ill  pleased  if  you  should  believe  them.** — 
Fourth  Discoune^  p.  147. 

"  L*occHio  dl  sua  virtii  fa  piii  riserbo, 
Se  abbassando  le  ciglia,  al  lampo  cede. 
Chi  mira  in  alto  piik,  quegli  men  vede : 

La  pid  cieca  ignoranza  h  del  Superbo.** 

Maogi,  torn.  1,  p.  5. 


**  No  man*s  religion,**  says  Soitth, 
survives  his  morals.** 


ever 


—  **  Rakdio  into  the  dirt  and  dunghill 
of  these  men*s  devotions.** — Ibid.    It  is  ne- 
I  cessary  sometimes,  as  he  knew,  to  do  this. 


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641 


^  Melius  est  nonnnnquam,  etsi  non  tarn 
ben^  eligas,  in  proposito  persistere,  qukn 
optim^  eligendo  postmodum  yariare.**  — 
CABDAiruf  de  propria  Vita,  p.  36. 

*'  Qujs  est  excusatio  laus  ab  eis  dicitur, 
tarn  magnum  putant  non  esse  scelestum.** — 
Ibid.  p.  42. 

^  In  some  things  it  is  much  more  diffi- 
cult for  a  man,  upon  a  very  ordinary  use  of 
his  judgement,  to  be  ignorant  of  his  duty 
than  to  leam  it ;  as  it  would  be  much  harder 
for  him,  while  he  is  awake,  to  keep  his  eyes 
always  shut  than  open." — South,  vol.  2,  p. 
389. 

^  Onb  is  bom  with  a  kind  of  lethargy 
and  stupefaction  into  the  world,  armed  with 
an  iron  body  and  a  leaden  soul  against  all 
the  apprehensions  of  ordinary  sorrow.** — 
Ibid.  p.  480. 

"  I  CANNOT  see  but  that  the  itch  in  the 
ear  is  as  bad  a  distemper  as  in  any  other 
part  of  the  body,  and  perhaps  worse.** — 
Ibid.  p.  529. 

^  Cbbtain  it  is,  that  the  virtues  of  a 
prince  are  a  blessing  to  more  than  to  him- 
self and  his  family.  They  are  a  public 
seminary  of  blessings :  they  are  the  palla- 
diums and  the  strong  holds,  nay,  the  com- 
mon stock  and  the  inheritance  of  the  king- 
dom."—Ibid,  p.  566. 

South  speaks  of  men  whose  souls  serve 
only  to  keep  their  bodies  from  putrefaction. 
Ingelo  has  the  same  thought,  Uie  people  of 
his  Fiacenza,  he  says,  ^^  suppose  it  was  put 
into  the  body  only  to  keep  it  sweet.**  — 
BentivdUo  ff  Urania^  p.  46. 

The  wittiest  and  strongest  writer  in  our 
language  says,  **  that  is  not  wit  which  con- 
sists not  with  wisdom.** — South,  voL  3, 
p.  33. 

^  No  man  shall  ever  come  to  heaven  him- 


self, who  has  not  sent  his  heart  thither  be- 
fore him.** — Ibid.  p.  374. 

Well,  indeed,  does  he  vindicate  his 
strong  language  upon  the  rebellion,  when 
he  asks, "  Can  things  peculiar  and  unheard 
of  be  treated  with  the  toothless  generalities 
of  a  common  place  ?** — Ibid.  p.  445. 

■ 

*'  What  a  poor  thing  is  preparation  to 
be  trusted  to  in  opposition  to  accident. 
And  what  a  pitiful  defence  is  multitude  on 
one  side,  where  omnipotence  takes  the 
other.**— Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  22. 

*^  It  is  enough  that  God  has  put  a  man's 
actions  into  his  own  power,  but  the  success 
of  them,  I  am  sure,  he  has  not.** — ^Ibid.  p.  27. 

''  This  we  may  rest  upon  as  certain,  that 
he  is  still  the  powerfullest  preacher  and  the 
best  orator,  who  can  make  himself  best 
understood.** — ^Ibid.  p.  151. 

^*  A  UBBBTT  of  sin,  (christen  it  by  the 
name  of  what  liberty  you  will)  is  yet  one 
of  the  greatest  and  dreadfullest  judgements 
which  can  befall  any  person  or  people,  and 
a  certain  cause  as  well  as  sign  of  an  ap- 
proaching destruction.** — South,  vol.  4,  p. 
429. 

^  Let  faction  look  and  speak  big  in  a  tu- 
mult, and  in  the  troubled  waters  of  rebel- 
lion, yet  I  dare  vouch  this  as  a  truth  of 
certain  event,  and  that  without  the  spirit  of 
prophecy,  that  courage  assisted  with  law, 
and  law  executed  with  courage,  will  assu- 
redly prevail.** — Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  64. 

**  NoTHiNO  can  be  more  irrational,  than 
to  be  dogmatical  in  things  doubtful ;  and 
to  determine,  where  wise  men  only  dispute.*' 
—Ibid.  p.  243. 

'*  PouB  moi,  parmi  des  fautes  innombrables, 
Je  n*en  connois  que  deux  consid^bles, 

£t  dont  je  fais  ma  declaration ; 

C*est  Tentreprise  et  Texecution. 
A  mon  avis  fautes  irr^parables 

Dans  ce  volume.** — ^Bensbradb. 


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"  II  7  a  des  occasions  oil  il  faut  laisser 
dormir  les  Loix  d*autant  qu^elles  sont  futes 
pour  les  hommes,  et  non  pas  les  hommes 
pour  elles." — Am^lot  db  jjl  Houssaib. 

A  wise  remark,  and  of  wide  application : 
— '*  Que  les  insolences  d*un  peuple  centre 
ses  Yoisins  se  termineront  to^jours  k  une 
guerre ;  non  seulement  parce  que  Fhomme 
prudent  se  lasse  de  souffrir,  mab  aussi  parce 
que  Finsolent  se  lasse  d^Stre-  souflert.** — 
Ibid. 

'*  MoDBBOHS  nos  propres  Toeux, 
T&chons  k  nous  mieux  connoitre, 
Desire  tu  d*etre  heureux  ? 
Desire  un  peu  moins  de  TStre.** 

Db  Chableval 

"  Yoici  comment  j*a!  compte 

D^s  ma  plus  tendre  jeunesse* 

lia  yertUf  puis  la  sant^, 

Puis  la  gloire,  puis  la  richesse.** — ^Ibid. 

'*  Mek  who  have  built  their  faith  upon 
the  ruins  of  charitj,  and  wholly  cried  up 
one,  while  thej  sufficiently  acted  down  the 
other." — South,  yoL  6,  p.  8. 

**  That  man  will  one  daj  find  it  but  a 
poor  gain,  who  hits  upon  truth  with  the  loss 
of  charity." — Ibid.  p.  30. 

^  The  height  of  prudence  is,  in  all  pre- 
cepts, laws,  and  institutions  to  distinguish 
persons,  times,  and  occasions ;  and  accord- 
ingly to  discriminate  the  obligation,  and 
upon  the  samt^xigence  of  justice  to  dis- 
pense with  it  in  some,  upon  which  it  con- 
firms it  in  others." — ^Ibid.  p.  221. 

''What  is  absurd  in  the  sanctions  oi 
right  reason,  will  never  be  warranted  by  the 
rules  of  religion."— Ibid. 

The  Sermon. — "It  inevitably  puts  us 
upon  an  act  of  religion  :  if  good,  it  invites 
us  to  a  profitable  hearing  ;  if  otherwise,  it 
inflicts  a  short  penance,  and  gives  an  oppor- 


tunity to  the  virtue  of  patience.''  ^ — Ibid.  p. 
332. 

"  How  hard  is  it  to  draw  a  principle  into 
all  its  consequences,  and  to  unravel  the 
mysterious  fertility  but  of  one  proposition  !** 
—Ibid.  p.  880. 

Akbbbw  Mabvell  says  of  Talbot,  in  one 
of  the  Siate  Poenu^ 

"  He*s  of  a  size  indeed  to  fill  a  porch. 
But  ne*er  can  be  a  pillar  of  the  ehurch.*" 

Vol.  >,  p.  91. 

"  A  BUST  man, 
And  what  is  that  at  best,  but  one  whose 

mind 
Is  made  to  tire  himself  and  all  mankind.** 

Ibid.  p.  182.     Dbtden. 

"  His  nose  turns  all  his  handkerchiefs  to 
tinder." — Ibid.  Continuation,  p.  237. 

"  If  we  pursue  most  of  those  contentions 
which  afilict  the  world,  to  their  &rst  prin- 
ciple, we  shall  find  that  they  issue  firom 
pride,  and  pride  fix>m  self-opinion,  and  i 
strange  persuasion  that  men  have  of  their 
knowledge  of  those  things  of  which  they  are 
indeed  ignorant.** — South,  vol.  7,  p.  120. 

"  When  we  speak  to  a  superior,  to  use 
words  few  and  expressive  is  the  proper  dia- 
lect of  respect" — Ibid.  p.  319. 

"  Who  among  the  rude  yulgar*s  a  prophet 
at  least. 

But  who  e*er  preached  well  when  the  peo- 
ple were  pleased  P" 

State  Poemsy  voL3,  p.  171. 

"  I  WEKT  without  feet,  and  flew  without 
wings."— ilf.  Magist,  voL  2,  p.  36. 


*  <<  The  worst  speak  something  good.    If  all 
want  sensA, 
God  gives  a  text,  and  preachcth  patience.'' 
Georoe  Herbert.  Church  Pcrck.-'J,  W.  W. 


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643 


D  whoM  tmstetb  a  foe  recoucUei] 

'  the  moat  part  aiyitjt  beguiled" 

Ibid.  p.  40 

Zikiitg/or  Ntanet'iake 
t  though  no  cause  be  found,  so  nature 

hATeazeal  to  svch  u  bear  their  DBmes." 
Ibid.  p.  98. 


D  times  I  mind  jou  in  mj 

when  I  wake,  most  ^ef  it  is  to  me 

never  more  again  I  shall  70U  see." 

Ibid.  p.  123. 

V  hate  their  faults,  all  bale  of  them  t< 


CsT  enim  nesclo  quid  naturS  insitum 
oibus  aliis  longK  ^  noatria  moribus  in- 
ique  allenum;  attpie  ut  Palemi  vini 
alius  est  quamTaracineDBis,  ita  micht' 
.tur  homines  ab  ipsft  in  quft  nascuntur 
,  saporem,  ut  ita  diserim,  naturs  in- 
rumque  tnucisse."  —  Lboh.  Akbtute, 
'.  torn.  2,  p.  101. 


to  miching,  see  niprl,   p.  3f9, 


.  la  which  see  Da  Cin«a  in  t. 
)  word  BiiMiihowerer,  is  here  eioiply  the 
tic  form  of  mihi.  I  give  the  following  from 
m,as  the  work  maf  not  be  in  ever;  one's 

hmrda  etiani  est  consoetudo  pronnnciaii- 
BperCH,  ntmiCHt  pro  mihi,  niC/Jilpri) 
id  quod  ab  Leonardo  Aretino  profecuun 
oi  cODsonUTitis  C  aijjectionem  in  ejusmndi 
ulis  scrio  defeodere  est  idnixas,  L.  S.  Ep. 
AntDniom  Grammaticiini.  Toia.  Art.  Gr. 
A  quo  quidem  tempore  monachi  ita  non 
pnamocianiDt,  sed  etiam  scripaenint,  at 
a  complurei  manibus  ipsonim  exarati  sacis 
tur,  qui  michi,  nichil  scripCum  exbibent." 
"  l^'-iJ^I'  '^niWianim,  H.  p.  TO.  Ed. 


r.w.^* 


— "  It  grieres  me  to  behold 
The  learned  wiu  left  all  fiHrlom  to  whom 

whilome  it  was  told 
Mncenaa  was  reTiTed  again ;  yet  grtere  I 

The  loathed  loiell  to  profane  that  laored 

mystery. 
Each  ralgar  wit  that  what  it  it  conM  nerer 

yet  define) 
In  ragged  rhymes,  with  Ups  profane,  will 

call  the  learned  nine 
To  help  him  utter  forth  the  spawn  of  his 

mdhiitfiil  brain ; 
Which  makes  our  peerless  poesy  to  be  in 

such  disdain 
That  now  it  skills  not  whether  Pan  do  ppe, 

or  Phsbus  play, 
Tom  linker  makes  best  harmony  to  pass 

NiccoLS.  M.for  Mag.    TndacHon. 
VoL3,p.M2. 

"  Who  doth  to  sloth  his  yonnger  days  en- 
gage 

For  fond  delight,  be  dips  the  wings  of  fame ; 

For  sloth,  the  canker-worm  of  honour's 
badge, 

Fame's  feathered  wings  dotb  fiet." 

Ibid.  p.  567. 

"Il  y  a  bien  pen  de  mauvalaes  opmiouF 
que  je  n'lie  leiies  ou  oiii  dii« ;  et  touteftHE 
je  n'en  suis  de  rien  pire  pour  cela,  et  u'ei 
sens  en  moi  anenne  inquietude  d'esprit,  et 
ne  Toudrois  ceder  k  homme  Ttvant  d'etre 
mieux  persuade  de  la  vertu,  de  Dieu,  et  de 
tontes  bonnes  cboses,  oi  d'etre  plus  homme 
de  bien  que  moi,  ni  d'avoir  I'fime  moins 
trouble  et  passionn^e  que  j'aL"  —  Cabd. 
D'OssAT,  Tol.  l,p.81. 


!r  anaipitia  teterrimnm 


"  MsDiA  sequi  11 
est." — Ticmja.' 

"  n  mezzo  dell'operare  rlesce  I'estremo 


*  The  real  words  are  spuken  of  Fabius  Va- 
leiis,"Quod  inter  aDcipitiadoterrimum  est, dam 
media  sequitur,  n*c  aosu*  est  satis,  nee  prori. 
dit."-Hiil.  lib.  iii.  c.  40.    J.  W.  W. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


*'  II  7  a  deux  sortes  de  gens,  qui  ne  ju- 
gent  point  sainement  des  afaires  du  monde, 
lea  ignorans,  et  les  gens  trop  subtils ;  lea  uns, 
parce  qu*il8  ne  savent  rien,  et  les  autres, 
parce  qu*ils  se  piquent  trop  de  sayoir/* — 
Amblot  de  la  Houssaib. 

'^  Le8  chapeauz  rouges  ne  sont  pas  pour 
les  tStes  yertes." — Ibid.  But  this  was  not 
allowed  at  Borne. 

"  Eh  une  grande  partie  des  afaires  de  ce 
monde,  autant  a  de  puissance  Topinion,  que 
la  yerit^  m^e." — Ibid.  yol.  5,  p.  35. 

Amelot  sajs  there  is  a  book  entitled  Opi- 
nio Regina  Orbis. 

"  Is  God  merciful  and  shall  men  be  cruel  ? 
Is  the  master  meek  and  mild,  and  shall  the 
seryant  be  fierce  and  furious?  shall  he 
give  the  lamb  in  his  scutcheon,  and  they  the 
lion?** — ^Featlbt.  ClavU  Mystica^  p.  9. 

— "  Sed  tantam  hominis  esse  imperitiam 
et  tarn  stupendam  asinitatem  (non  enim 
possum  aliter  yocare)  putavi  nunquam.** — 
Casaubon.  Epi^,  p.  359. 

— "  Neque  ignorabam  quam  benigna  ma- 
teria sit,  in  eos  dicere,  quos  impudentia  plus 
quam  canina,  omnibus  bonis  reddit  exosos.** 
—Ibid.  p.  434. 

"  MiROB  esse  qui,  quicquid  somniant, 
yerum  esse  sibi  perauadent :  ac  ben^  nobis- 
cum  ageretur  si  nee  aliis  persuadere  yellent. 
Hsc  loKritritroi^la  quam  multos  perdidit,  et 
perdit  quotidie." — J.  Sc auger.  Epist  10, 
p.  87. 

"  Cbrte  in  omni  re  prius  quod  ben^  ges- 
tum  sit,  scire  debemus,  quam  ben^  gerere 
possumus." — Ibid.  Epist  58.  p.  171. 

"NuLLUS  est  liber  paulo  yetustior,  ex 
cnjus  sterquilinio  aurum  non  colligas.** — 
Ibid.  Epist  73,  p.  204. 

'*MABCHBzde  cueur  doncques  loyaulx  Fran- 
90J8; 


Car  qui  ne  quiert  le  loup  jusques  au  boJ^ 
n  yient  menger  les  moutons  en  la  phune.** 

Jean  Mabot,  p.  87. 

"  Nam  in  omni  se  omnium  interest,  non 
solum  ut  sui  unusquisque,  sed  etiam  ut  ali- 
orum  rationem  habeat.**  — J.  Scaligeb,  Ep. 
271,  p.  518. 

**  Extol  not  thjself  in  the  counsel  of 
thine  own  heart: — thou  shalt  eat  up  thy 
leayes,  and  lose  thj  fruit,  and  leaye  thjsell* 
as  a  dry  tree.** — EcclesiasticuSf  yi.  2,  3. 

"  AyEC  de  m^chants  cceurs  on  perd  tout 
par  etre  g^n^reux.** — M.  de  SByjGKE,  torn. 
3,  p.  221. 

—  "  II  est  certain 
Que  pour  le  son  de  son  dire  hautain 
Des  simple  gens  passoit  rinteUectire.** 

Clement  Mabot,  tom.  1,  p.  287. 

To  an  obscure  writer : 

"  Si  ton  esprit  ycut  cacher 

Les  belles  choses  qu*il  pense, 

Di-moy,  qui  peut  t*empecher 

De  te  seryir  du  silence.**      Matbard. 

"  Si  on  pouyoit  ayoir  un  peu  de  patience, 
on  ^pargneroit  bien  du  chagrin.** — M.  de 
SsyiGHE,  tom.  4,  p.  96. 

"  Le  temps  en  die  autant  qu*il  en  donne.*" 
Ibid. 

"  Folly  hath  e&gle*8  wings,  but  owl's 
eyes.** — Dutch  Proverb. 

"  L'BwyiB  d*etre  singuli^re,  et  d'etonner 
par  des  procCnl^s  non  comrauns,  est,  ce  ine 
semble,  la  source  de  bien  des  yertus.** — M. 
DE  SEyjGNE,  tom.  6,  p.  312. 

**  II  y  a  de  certaincs  choses  qu*on  n*en' 
tend  jamais,  quand  on  ne  les  entend  pts 
d*abord.**  — ^Ibid.  tom.  7,  p.  888. 

Anxibtt  or  weariness  arising  from  9bj 
present    business  or  care : — *^  It  is  saitl 


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645 


Mjs  Steels,  ^  that  a  little  mirth  and  diver- 
sion are  what  recreate  the  spirits  upon 
those  occasions ;  but  there  is  a  kind  of  sor- 
row from  which  I  draw  a  consolation  that 
strengthens  mj  faculties  and  enlarges  my 
mind,  bejond  anj  thing  that  can  flow  from 
merriment.** —  Chiardian,  No.  5. 

Common  words,  started  into  a  new  sig- 
niflcation. — Ibid.  No.  60. 

"  rp,**  says  LiGHTPOoT,  (vol.  6,  p.  179) 
**  I  were  to  make  a  threefold  wbh,  as  Aus- 
tin once  did,  I  cannot  tell  what  to  wish  for 
to  more  profit  and  advantage,  than  to  know 
God  as  he  is,  the  Devil  as  he  is,  and  our- 
selves what  we  are.** 

LiGHTTOOT  says  (vol.  6,  p.  236),  "  there 
is  no  grace,  but  there  is  a  false  coin  minted 
by  the  Devil  to  dissemble  it.** 

"  He  that  desires  to  be  undone,  and  cares 
not  to  be  prevented  by  God's  restraining 
grace,  shall  find  his  ruin  in  the  folly  of  his 
own  desires,  and  become  wretched  by  his 
own  election." — J.  Taylor,  tom.  3,  p.  274. 

"  Out  of  this  life  I  can  carry  nothing 
but  my  good  works :  I  will  not  add  unto 
my  evil  ones  that  of  vain  glory.  I  will 
take  heed  wherein  I  set  my  heart ;  since 
the  accomplishing  of  what  I  wish,  may  be  a 
punishment  of  my  desires.** — Ibid.  p.  437. 

*'  CsLUi  qui  n*a  £gard  en  ^rivant  qu*au 
goikt  de  son  si^cle,  songe  plus  'k  sa  personne 
qu*ku  ses  ^rits.'* — LaBrutesb,  vol.  1,  p. 
41. 

<*  II  y  a  dans  quelques  hommes  une  cer- 
taine  m^ocrit^  d*esprit  qui  contribug  k 
les  rendre  sages.** — ^Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  123. 

"  Las  esprits  capables  d*envisager  plu- 
sieurs  choses  k  la  fois  sont  raisonnables ; 
ceux  qui  n*en  voient  qu*une  sont  entSt^  et 
opini&tres  quoiqu*ils  se  croient  fermes  et 
constans.** — Ibid.  p.  818, 


If  the  dwarfs  offered  the  choice  of  a  shield 
or  a  sword  of  their  fabric,  which  ought  to 
be  chosen  ? 

**  Que  ceux  qui  ne  peuvent  pas  d^couv- 
rir  par  le  raisonnement  F^vidence  des  v^ri- 
t^  de  la  Religion,  couQoivent  au  moins  du 
respect  pour  elle,  en  volant  le  caract^e  de 
ceux  qui  la  m^prisent,  ou  qui  la  combatent.** 
— La  Brutebe,  tom.  2,  p.  421. 

"  Que  Tesprit  de  contradiction  vienne  de 
la  jalousie,  de  Tignorance,  du  savoir  m^me, 
c'est  toiijours  un  mauvais  esprit.** — Ibid, 
vol.  3,  p.  148. 

"  —  ni  the  approbation  of  our  own  in- 
ventions, affection,  and  that  natural  incli- 
nation whence  they  spring,  have  swaying 
voices;  and  unless  these  stubborn  suffra- 
gan ts  be  first  squared  to  the  rules  of  reason 
taught  by  others,  they  enforce  our  judge- 
ments to  bow  unto  their  bent.** — Jackson, 
vol.  1,  p.  1042. 

Jackson  says  of  Maurice  of  Saxony  (vol. 
2,  p.  245),  '^  he  was  the  only  man  of  this 
age  (as  one  writes  of  him)  that  had  the  skill 
to  take  occasion  (when  it  offered  itself)  by 
the  very  point,  and  to  carve  opportunities 
out  of  perplexities.** 

*'  A  MAN  cannot  more  strengthen  or  con- 
firm a  weak,  crazy,  or  unsound  objection, 
than  by  giving  it  a  lame,  unsolid,  or  unsa- 
tisfactory answer.** — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  515. 

**  That  which  we  call  a  brazen  face,  hath 
always  for  its  supporter  an  iron  sinew,  or  a 
brawny  heart.**— Ibid.  voL  8,  p.  479. 

''  Magis  eligo  cautam  ignorantiam  con* 
fiteri,  quam  falsam  scientiam  profiteri.** — 
St.  Augustinb.    Ibid.  vol.  7,  p.  435. 

*'  And  Heaven  that  knows  what  most  ye 
ought  to  ask, 
Grant  all  ye  ought  to  have.** 

Ma80n*8  Caractacus, 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


"  The  very  hope  that  cheers  us  is  more  vain 
Than  the  desire  that  raised  it.** 

Ibid.  PigmaUon, 

'^  —  MiTLTiQUE  in  sapientii  supercilli  vi- 
rom.** — Justin  Mabttb,  Baroniusj  yoL  2, 
p.  86. 

'*  JjjKB  leaves  on  trees  his  bones  began  to 

shake, 
And  on  his  head  each  hair  rose  like  a  stake, 
And  from  his  brow  the  sweat  began  to  pour, 
Like  rain  from  heaven,  in  a  gentle  shower.** 

From  some  verses  sent  me  by  one  Tho- 
mas LiLLBT,  of  Birmingham,  Dec.  20, 1825. 

"  The  wild  ivy 
Spreads  and  thrives  better  in  some  piteous 

ruin 
Of  tower,  or  defaced  temple,  than  it  does 
Planted  by  a  new  building.** 

Beaumont  and  Fijbtchbr, 
Fair  Maid  of  the  Jim. 

^^  I9  brief  he  is  a  rogue  of  six  reprieves. 
Four  pardons  o*course,  thrice  pilloried,  twice 

sung  LacrymtB 
To  the  virginals  of  a  cart*s  tail ;  he  has  five 

times 
Been  in  the  gallies,  and  will  never  truly 
Run  himself  out  of  breath,  till  he  comes  to 

the  gallows.**  Ibid. 

*'  Be  sure  thou  do  not  lie ;  make  no  excuse 
For  him  that  is  most  near  thee ;  never  let 
The  most  officious  falsehood  scape  thy 

tongue. 
For  They  above,  that  are  intirely  truth, 
Will  make  that  seed  which  thou  hast  sown 

of  lies 
Yield  miseries  a  thousand  fold 
Upon  thine  head.** 

Ibid.  Cupid^s  Revenge. 

♦*  It  will  pluck  me 
Back  from  my  entrance  into  any  mirth. 
As  if  a  servant  came  and  whi8per*d  with  me 
Of  some  friend*8  death.*'  Ibid. 


*^  The  usage  I  have  had,  I  know  would  make 
Wisdom  herself  run  frantic  through  the 

streets. 
And  Patience  quarrel  with  her  shadow.** 

Ibid. 

^  The  Devil,  and 
This  fellow  are  so  near,  *tis  not  yet  known 
Which  is  the  eviler  angel.**  Ibid. 

"  Neitheb  our  preaching,  nor  our  pray- 
ing to  God  are  only  sufficient,  but  withal 
we  must  do  our  endeavours  and  help  each 
other ;  since  for  the  driving  away  of  a  dog 
there  is  (as  the  countryman  saith)  some 
virtue  in  a  stone,  if  it  be  conjoined  with  St. 
John*s  Gospel.**  —  Parliamentary  Htttory, 
vol.  I,  p.  750.  Elizabeth.  Speaker  pot 
named. 

Sib  George  Macksnzib  appearing  be- 
fore the  world,  *'  as  an  atonement  in  the  dust 
and  sackcloth  of  this  discourse.** — Eseojft, 
p.  41. 

"  —  Whose  conventicles,  compared  with 
our  Jerusalem,  resemble  only  the  removed 
huts  of  those  who  live  apart,  because  they 
are  sick  of  the  plague." — Ibid.  p.  85. 

Pbatino  and  preaching :  "  —  No  won- 
der that  the  success  be  unequal,  seeing  in 
the  one  we  have  to  do  with  a  merciful  God, 
whereas  in  the  other  we  must  persuade  a 
hard-hearted  people.** — Ibid.  p.  84. 

*'The  multitude,  which  albeit  it  hath  ever 
been  allowed  many  heads,  yet  was  never  al- 
lowed any  brains.** — ^Ibid.  p.  87. 

^  These  are  some  thoughts  in  this  piece 
which  may  seem  to  rebel  against  the  empire 
of  the  schools ;  yet  who  knows  but  my  watch 
goes  right,  albeit  it  agree  not  with  the  pub- 
lic clock  of  the  city  f  especially  where  the 
sun  of  righteousness  hatli  not,  by  pointing 
clearly  the  dial  of  faith,  shown  which  of  the 
two  is  in  the  error.'* — Ibid. 


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647 


It  is  a  good  remark  of  Lord  WaldegrBve, 
that  "  the  transition  from  pleasure  lo  h\m- 
neu  is  both  shorter  and  easier,  than  from  a 
state  of  total  inactioa." — P.  9,  Manoin. 

Newb. — "  I  commend  it  to  jour  lordship 
as  men  do  fish,  for  the  fresluiegs,  not  for 
certain  t J."— S»  Thoma*  Bobi  to  SiBAr- 
roKD,  Letteri,  toI.  1,  p.  356. 

"  Deutb  are  wisdom,  where 
Time  maj  more  easj  wajs  of  safetj'  show." 
XiOU)  Bkookx,  p.  104. 


"  Nbvek  roahe  a  defence  or  apologj  be- 
fore  70U  be  accused ;"  a  rule,  said  Charles 
the  ^rst  to  Strafford,  "  that  maj  serve  for 
•  atatesman,  a  courUer,  or  a  lover."  And 
for  an  author  too,  saj  I. 

"  Stua  rerersions, 
Glean'd  from  the  rags  and  frippery  of  wit." 
Bo.  KaRDOLTH,  Veriei  prefixed  lo 
hii  Brotker't  Poenu. 

**  Do  boast  their  lores  and  braveries  so  at 

large. 
As  they  came  all  to  see,  and  to  be  seen." 

Bhn  Joxson.   Utulenpoods,  vol.  9,  p.  35. 

"  ExTBHD  a  reaching  virtue."— Ibii  p.  42. 

"Thi  ignoble  nerer  lived ;  they  were  awhile 
Like  svine,  or  other  cattle  here  on  earth : 

Their  names  are  not  recorded  on  the  file 
Of  life  that  faU  so."  Ibid.  p.  41. 

■*  It  will  be  a  commendable  thrift  to  spare 
myself  the  labour  of  that  accuracy." — Pa- 
TBtcit's  Parable  of  Qte  Pifgrim,  p.  1. 

"  Taxi  fancied  themselves  engaged 
against  sin,  whilst  thej  were  buffeting  a 
contrary  opinion.  There  was  no  heat,  but 
thej  took  it  for  divine,  thongh  it  were  of 
their  own  kindling :  and  so  they  were  ' 
all  on  fire,  they  never  doubted  but  it 
from  heaven." — Ibid.  p.  10. 


"  Hb  bath  futh  enough  to  save  himself, 
and  charity  enough  to  believe  that  others 
may  be  saved,  who  are  not  in  all  pobts  just 
of  his  belief."— Ibid.  p.  14. 

Peopu  who  seem  to  think  "  thej  could 
not  be  saved  unless  they  moke  an  ugl;  face." 

—Ibid,  p,  77. 

"  Tbikb  are  a  company  of  men  in  the 
world  who  despise  any  thing  which  they 
understand  easily,  and  imagine  there  is  no 
great  matter  in  it,  if  it  tie  presently  intelli- 
gible. They  admire  that  most  which  they 
do  not  comprehend ;  and  conceive  there  is 
some  myst^  and  depth  in  it,  if  it  be  dif* 
ficult  to  be  explained." — Ibid.  p.  146. 

la  it  not  "unreasonable  to  imagine,  that 
when  bU  other  things  are  suffered  to  grow 
to  Uieir  height  and  utmost  perfections,  the 
spirit  of  man  only  should  ever  remain  a 
dwarf,  or  rather  continue  a  child,  and  never 
be  unloosed  from  its  swadling  bands  F" — 


"  Thb  Ume,  1  believe,  hastens,  when  my 
knowledge  shall  be  so  clear,  that  faith  shall 
find  no  employment,  and  hope  shall  receive 
a  discharge,  and  charity  shall  be  left  alone 
in  its  full  strength."— Ibid.  p.  348. 

Sbbiods  Chnstians: — "Must  we  let  them 
wear  the  title  of  virtue  above  their  neigh- 
bours, merely  because  they  are  more  grave 
and  solemn  F  Do  they  live  in  a  greater  sense 
of  God,  because  they  look  more  sourly  F 
Must  we  think  there  is  no  piety  but  what 
is  pale-faced  f  no  mortification  of  oureelvea, 
but  when  our  thorns  prick  other  folks  F" — 
Ibid.  p.  383. 

Ckakmxk  is  said  by  Fuller  to  have  had 
an  amiabk  eye. — Church  Hitlary,  p.  179. 

"Wzarebnt  farmers  of  ourselves;  yet  may 

If  we  can  stock  ourselves  and  thrive,  uplay 

Uuch,  much  good  treasure  for  the  great 

rent-day."  Doin«. 


648 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


"  And  strength  itself  by  confidence  grows 
weak."  Ibid. 

**  His  frail  freehold  of  flesh  and  blood.** 
LoBo  Brookb,  Mon*  and  Rel.  p.  8. 


**  For  reputation,  airy  though  it  be, 
Is  yet  the  beauty  of  authority.** 

Ibid.  p.  43. 

*'PowKB  for  a  pencil,  conscience  for  a  table, 
To  write  opinion  in  of  any  fashion.** 

Ibid.  p.  58. 

"  The  plague  that  in  some  folded  cloud  re« 

mains, 
The  bright  sun  soon  disperseth :  but  observe. 
When  black  infection  in  some  dunghill  lies, 
There*s  work  for  bells  and  graves  if  it  do 

rise. 

Webster,  Appius  and  Virginia,    Old 
PlaySf  Tol.  5f  p.  406. 

"  He  that  would  tame  a  lion,  doth  not  use 
The  goad,  or  wierd  whip ;  but  a  sweet  voice, 
A  fearful  stroking ;  and  with  food  in  hand 
Must  ply  his  wanton  hunger.**^ 

Ibid.  p.  441. 

"  All  disgrace 
Lights  less  upon  the  person  than  the  place.** 

Ibid.  p.  442. 

^  Piteous  fires 
That  chance  in  towers  of  stone,  are  not  so 

fear'd 
As  those  that  light  in  flax  shops ;  for  there's 

room 
For  eminent  ruin.**  Ibid.  p.  442. 

^^And  seen  you  sit,  sole  companied  with 

thought. 
As  if  your  passions  were  your  comforters/' 
Webster  and  Rowley,  Thracian 
Wonder,  Ibid.  vol.  6,  p.  31. 

*  The  classical  reader  will  not  forget  the 
beautiful  lines  in  the  Agam,  of  JEscutlus, 

lOpi^iv  dk  \t6vra,  k,  r.  L  ▼.  696. 

J.W.W. 


*''FiE,  foolish  earth !  think  you  the  heaven 

wants  glory 
Because  your  shadows  do  yourself  benight? 
AU*8  dark  unto  the  blind.** 

Lord  Brooke,  p.  170. 

"  Fortuhe  and  love  have  sworn 
That  they  were  never  bom 
Of  one  alliance.**  Ibid.  p.  179. 

'*  Fortuhe  should  ever  dwell 
In  courts  where  wits  excel : 
Love  keep  the  wood.**  Ibid. 

"  Good  fellows,  whom  men  commonly  do 

call 
Those  that  do  live  at  war  with  truth  and 

shame.**  Ibid.  p.  181. 

''  I  HAVE  for  books,  above  my  head  the  sky, 
Under  me  earth ;  about  me  air  and  sea." 

Ibid.  p.  206. 

'*  False  antidotes  for  vicious  ignorance, 
Whose  causes  are  within,  and  so  the  cure; 
Error  corrupting  nature,  not  mischance. 
For  how  can  that  be  wise  which  is  not  pure." 

Ibid.  p.  210. 

**  Till  the  inward  moulds  be  truly  placed, 
All  is  made  crooked  that  in  them  we  cast" 

Ibid. 

**  From  early  childhood's  promising  estate, 
Up  to  performing  manhood.** 

GOICDIBXRT,  p.  2. 

"  War,  art*s  deliberate  strength.**     Ibid. 

"  Ready  as  pilots  waked  with  sudden  winds.** 

Ibid.  p.  14. 

^'  Dogs,  such  whose  cold  secresy  was  meant 
By  nature  for  surprize.**        Ibid.  p.  24. 


"  Relays  of  horse,  long-breathed  as  wbter 
winds.**  Ibid,  p.  25, 


a 


They  want  not  the  re    '^  of  thought. 
But  speech,  by  which  we  ours  for  reason 
boast.**  Ibid.  p.  26. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


649 


nrssLS  are  but  weak  which  come  firom 
fear/*  Ibid.  p.  30. 

X  our  curtains  drawn  at  point  of  death, 
Q  all  our  lungs  are  spent,  to  giye  us 

Ibid.  p.  28. 


dr." 


D  like  high  anger  his  complexion  rose. 

Ibid.  p.  31. 

*  Fau,  some  life  is  to  the  dead.** 

Ibid.  p.  33. 


Current 

such  small  money  (though  the  people's 
rold, 

which  they  trade,)  great  dealers  scorn 
JO  take.**  Ibid.  p.  38. 

Honour^  9  Field. 

dch  yields  no  harvest  when  *tis  over- 
prown 

wild  ambition,  the  most  rank  of  weeds.** 

Ibid.  p.  40. 

m  the  old  renowned  physicians  are, 
for  the  sickly  habits  of  the  mind 
iples,  as  the  ancient  cure,  prepare.** 

Ibid.  p.  55, 

manly  and  so  fair  a  wound, 
yal  ladies  might  be  proud  to  dress.** 

Ibid.  p.  56. 

"B,  seemed  to  look  about, 
fain  would  be  abroad,  but  that  a  gate 
rants  so  wide,  at  once  to  sally  out.** 

Ibid.  p.  62. 
e  devil  in  the  story  of  St.  Martin. 

isH  to  foes  the  weaknesses  of  haste : 
lu,  such  slowness  as  may  keep  you 
itrong.**  Ibid.  p.  69. 

[>  through  the  world  their  valour  cur- 
•ent  make, 

iving  it  the  ancient  stamp  of  death.** 

Ibid.  p.  72. 


^  Snra  are  heard  furthest  when  they  cry  in 
blood.** 

Spanish  Oipsy^'MiDjyi.i^ov  &  Rowley, 
Okl  Fhys^  vol.  4,  p.  174. 

"  Sir,  I  hope 
You  are  not  his  judge :  you  are  too  young, 

too  choleric, 
Too  passionate :  the  price  of  life  or  death 
Requires  a  much  more  grave  consideration 
Than  your  years  warrant.** — ^Ibid.  p.  206. 

"  Good  works 
Give  wealth  a  blessing.    On  the  contrary. 
What  curses  does  he  heap  upon  his  soul 
That  leaves  his  riches  to  a  riotous  young 

man. 
To  be  consumed  on  surfeits,  pride,  and 

harlots. 
Peace  be  upon  that  spirit,  whose  life  pro- 
vides 
A  quiet  rest  for  mine.** 

MiDDUETON,  More  Dissemblers  beside 
Women.  OldPlays^  vol.  4,  p.  341. 

"  Thsbb  is  no  mischief 
But  brings  one  villainy  or  other,  still 
Even  close  at  heels  on*t.* — Ibid.  p.  345 

"  —  FOBTUNB 

Cast  all  their  eyes 

Into  a  thicker  blindness  than  thine  own. 

Darker  than  ignorance  or  idolatry.** 

Ibid.  p.  386. 


'*  Slow  seems  their  speed  whose  thoughts 
before  them  run.** 

GONDIBBBT,  p.  134. 

"  As  if  neaven*s  King  so  soft  and  easy 
were. 
So  meanly  housed  in  Heaven,  and  kind  to 
guilt. 
That  he  iiTould  be  aTyrant*8  tenant  hereJ 

Ibid.  p.  103 


It 


Well  said  of  such  votive  churches  as  the 
Escurial. 


'^ — Whose  needless  carefulness 
Infects  them  past  the  mind*s  best  medicine, 
sleep.**  Ibid.  p.  105. 

**  Tet  in  our  walk  to  our  last  home  designed 
*Ti8  safe  by  all  the  studied  guides  to  go, 
Lest  we  in  death,  too  late,  the  knowledge 
find. 
Of  what  in  life  *twas  possible  to  know.** 

Ibid.  p.  114. 

**  Souls  are  alike  of  rich  and  ancient  race. 
Though  bodies  claim  distinction  bj  de- 
scent.** Ibid.  p.  120. 

^*  Aim  make  (since  8trength*s  but  nature 

hourly  tried) 
The  body  weak  by  softness  of  the  mind.** 

Ibid.  p.  139. 

'*  And  like  young-conscienced  casuists, 

thinks  that  sin 
Which  will  by  talk  and  practice  lawful 

seem.**  Ibid.  p.  204. 

^*  RiYEBS  whose  breadth  inhabitants  may 

stride. 
Parts  them  as  much  as  continents  and  isles. 

On  equal,  smooth,  and  undistinguish*d 
ground 
The  lust  of  power  does  liberty  impair. 
And  limits  by  a  border  and  a  bound 
What  was  before  as  passable  as  air.** 

Ibid.  p.  224. 

**  Toil  which  does  keep 
Obstructions  from  the  mind,  and  quench 
the  blood, 
Ease  but  belongs  to  us  like  sleep,  and  sleep 
Like  opium,  b  our  medicine,  not  our  food.'* 

Ibid.  p.  276. 

"  Foe  of  the  suing  crowd,  half  are  relieved 
With  the  innate  delight  of  being  heard.** 

Ibid.  p.  330. 

"  Yield  not,  in  storms  of  state,  to  that 
dislike 


Which  from  the  people  does  to  rulers 
grow; 
Power  (Fortune*s  sail)  should  not  for 

threatenings  strike. 
In  boats  bestorm*d,  all  check  at  those  that 
row."  Ibid. 

'*  Leabntng  is  not  knowledge,  but  a  con- 
tinned  sailing  by  fantastic  and  uncertain 
winds  towards  it.** — Preface  to  Oondibert, 
p.  9. 

**  Whew  your  coffers 
Swell  to  the  brim,  then  Riot  sets  up  suls. 
And  like  a  desperate  unskilled  mariner 
Drives  your  unsteady  fortunes  on  the  point 
Of  wrack  inevitable.** 

Old  FortunatitSj  vd.  3,  p.  143. 

"  Oh,  bid  thy  soul 
Lift  up  her  intellectual  eyes  to  Heaven, 
And  in  this  ample  book  of  wonders,  read 
Of  what  celestial  mould,  what  sacred  essence 
Herself  is  formed :  the  search  whereof  will 

drive 
Sounds  musical  among  the  jarring  spirits, 
And  in  sweet  tune  set  that  which  none  in- 
herits.** Ibid.  p.  160. 

"  In  the  scapes  of  virtue 
Excuses  damn  her :  they  be  fires  in  cities 
Enraged  with  those  winds  that  less  lights 
extinguish.** 

Chapman.    BuMy  d*AmboU, 
Ibid.  p.  321. 

"  The  winds  sing  through  a  hollow  tree. 
And  (since  it  lets  them  pass  through)  let  it 

stand: 
But  a  tree  solid,  since  it  gives  no  way 
To  their  wild  rage,  they  rend  up  by  the 

root.**  Ibid.  p.  327. 

"  Fbee  as  the  sun,  and  nothing  more  cor- 
rupted.'* 

Ibid.  Mmtievr  d'OUve,  p.  346. 

"  Noble  she  is  by  birth,  made  good  by  na- 
ture. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


ceding  fair,  and  her  behaviour  to  it 

ce  B  singular  miuician 

L  Bweet  initnmient." — Ibid.  p.  346. 

m  face  *ru  like  tlie  ten  of  diiunonds, 
ted  e*ch  wftjr  with  puthet,  [pimpleB], 
and  his  nose 
like  the  ace  of  club*."— Ibid.  p.  3T8. 

[u.  hath  no  limita,nor  u  circnnucribed 
ne  self  place ;  but  where  we  are  is  hell, 
where  hell  ii  there  most  we  ever  be ' 
to  be  short,  when  all  the  world  dia- 

everj  creature  shall  be  purified, 
places  shall  be  hell  that  are  not  heaven-" 
Maklow.  Dr.  Fauttia.  Mepkit' 
t(^hibu  hgtiitar, 

"  Tmk  t&>ther  Queen 
jing  if  ibe  can  with  fire  of  gold, 
■p  tiie  grten  etnadeneei  of  two  covetoos 
friars."        Ibid.    lAut'i 


"  —  Fly,  for  the  daj  is  lost. 
Itatar.  There  are  three  hundred  and 
odd  dajs  in  the  year, 
cannot  we  lose  one  of  them  V 

Ibid.  p.  157. 

fou  be  all  joang  and  fair ;  endeavour 
■>  be  wise  and  virtuous ;  that  when,  like 
I,  jou  shall  fall  from  the  stalk,  jou  may 
atli€9%d  and  put  to  the  still." 

Lxi-i's  Midas.    Ibid.  p.  314. 

**  —  Do  not  dream  of  miracles ! 
,  we  shall  but  falter,  if  jou  lay 
least  sad  weight  of  an  unused  hope 


Mabstoh.    Proltigue  to  Anbmo  and 
MeOida.   Old  Flags,  Yol  2,  p.  lU. 


leave  tbe  slough  of  viperous  grief  be- 
hind?" Ibid.  p.  115. 


<*  —  THRirTLEBB  minutes, 
Wherein  false  jojs  have  spun  a  weary  life." 
Fobs,  voL  I,  p.  88. 

"  To  be  man 
Is  to  be  but  the  exercise  of  cares 
In  several  shapes ;  as  miseries  do  grow 
They  alter  as  men's  forms." 

Ibid.  p.  122. 

"  —  C01I11DNWB&1.TRB 

Totter,  and  reel  from  that  nobility. 
And  ancient  virtue,  which  renowns  the 

Who  steer  the  helm  of  government,  while 

mushrooms 
Grow  up,  and  make  new  laws  to  license 

folly."  Ibid.  p.  127. 

"  —  Tbt  beware 
Of  an  unsure  foundation  :  no  fair  colours 
Can  fortify  a  building,  faintly  jointed." 
Ibid.  p.  269. 

"  Tears  flowing  from  the  fear  of  the 

Most  High  God  are  a  refreshment  to  the 
eyes." — Au. 

"  FkATZR  in  the  night  watches  is  the  light 
of  the  pious  soul." — Ibid. 

"Ibxpbct 
No  less  than  what  severity  calls  justice, 
And  politicians  safety." 

FoBD.  P.  Warbtelk,  vol.  2,  p.  96. 

"  Wbebb  I  End  worth, 
I  love  the  keeper  till  he  let  it  go, 
And  then  I  Ibllow  it." 

BxADUOKT  &  FlETCBSB, 

Miad't  Tragtify,  p.  4. 

As  ofience 

"  —  which  Heaven  and  yon 
Know  to  be  tougher  than  the  hand  of  Time 
Can  cut  from  man's  remembrance." 

Ibid.  p.  60. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


^  Thou*st  brought  me  to  that  dull  calamitj, 
To  that  strange  misbelief  of  all  the  world 
And  all  things  that  are  in  it,  that  I  fear 
I  shall  fall  like  a  tree,  and  find  my  grave, 
Onlj  remembering  that  I  grieve.** 

Ibid.  p.  60. 

VniTUB. — "  The  memorial  thereof  is  im- 
mortal, because  it  is  known  with  God  and 
with  man.  When  it  is  present,  men  take 
example  at  it ;  and  when  it  is  gone,  they  de- 
sire it;  it  weareth  a  crown,  and  triumpheth 
for  ever,  having  gotten  the  victory,  striving 
for  undefiled  rewards." — WUdom^  iv.  1-2. 

"  NiMiBUH  primorum  parentum  pecca- 
tum  et  luimus,  et  imitamur.** — ^Bacon,  vol. 
10,  p.  4. 

''  Light  is  sown  for  the  righteous,  and 
gladness  for  the  upright  in  heart.** — Psalm 
97,  V.  11.     Bible  translation. 

'*  —  Divinations,  and  soothsayings,  and 
dreams,  are  vain  ;  and  the  heart  fancieth 
as  a  woman*s  heart  in  travail.** — JEcciestaS" 
ticui,  34.  5. 

**  —  Made  his  soul  melt  within  him,  and 
his  blood 
Run  into  Whey  I" 

Bbaumont  &  Fletcher, 
Philaster,  p.  103. 

"  —  Whilst  I 
May  live  neglected,  and  do  noble  things. 
As  fools  in  strife  throw  gold  into  the  sea, 
Drowned  in  the  doing.** — Ibid.  p.  105. 

Agax  Ellis,  Hallam,  et  id  genus. 

**  Where  may  a  maiden  live  securely  free. 
Keeping  her  honour  safe  ? — Not  with  the 

living: 
They  feed  upon  opinions,  errors,  dreams. 
And  make  them  truths :  they  draw  a  nou- 
rishment 
Out  of  defamings,  grow  upon  disgraces. 
And  when  they  see  a  virtue  fortified 
Strongly  above  the  battery  of  their  tongue, 


Oh,  how  they  cast  to  sink  it !  and  defeated, 

(Soul-sick  with  poison)  strike  the  monu- 
ments 

Where  noble  names  lie  sleeping,  till  they 
sweat, 

And  the  cold  marble  melt.** — ^Ibid.  p.  135. 

^  I  HOLD  a  spleen,  no  sin  of  malice, 
And  may,  with  man  enough,  be  best  for- 
gotten.**— ^Ibid.  ScomfidLady^  p.  347. 

"  And  when 
I  light  upon  (such  worthies) 
Crowned  with  still  flourishing  leaves  of 

truth  and  goodness. 
With  such  a  feeling  I  peruse  their  fortunes 
As  if  I  then  had  lived.** 

F.  Elder  Brother,  p.  110. 

**  He  has  made  his  study  all  his  pleasure, 
And  is  retired  into  his  contemplation. 
Not  meddling  with  the  dirt  and  chafi'of 

nature, 
That  makes  the  spirit  of  the  mind  mud  too.** 

Ibid.  p.  115. 

**  He  has  been  at  court,  and  learned  new 

tongues. 
And,  now  to  speak  a  tedious  piece  of  nothing, 
To  vary  his  face  as  seamen  do  their  compass, 
To  worship  images  of  gold  and  silver, 
And  fall  before  the  she-calves  of  the  season." 

Ibid. 

"  —  Unbaked  poetry. 
Such  as  the  dablers  of  our  time  contriTe, 
That  has  no  weight  nor  wheel  to  move  the 

mind, 
Nor  indeed  nothing  but  an  empty  sound.** 

Ibid.  p.  121. 

"  Such  a  one— «hew8  his  thoughts  double, 
Making  *em  only  food  for  his  repentance.** 
Beaumont  and  Flbtchxb.    TFtI 
wilhaut  Moneyy  p.  282. 

**  Nothing  to  lose  but  that  my  soul  inherits, 
Which  they  can  neither  law  nor  claw  away  " 

Ibid.  p.  292. 

"  That  daily  thrust  their  —  lives  throogb 
hazards; 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


653 


And  fearless,  for  their  countrj^s  peace, 

march  hoorlj 
Through  all  the  doors  of  death,  and  know 

the  darkest.** 

Ibid.  Loyal  Subject,  p.  319. 

"What  danger 
Where  honour  is,  though  seated  in  a  billow. 
Rising  as  high  as  heaven,  would  not  these 

soldiers^ 
Like  to  so  many  sea-gods,  charge  up  to  it.** 

Ibid. 

"  Ths  same  men  through  all  the  straits  of 
I  virtue.**— Ibid.  p.  892, 

"  To  talk  of  things  we  know  not,  and  to 

know 
Nothing  but  things  notworth  the  talking  of.** 

Sib  R.  Fane,  Jun.  Home  Table  Book, 
vol.  2,  p.  810. 

"  TiMB  takes  no  measure  in  etemitj.** 

Sib  Rob.  Howabd.  Ibid.  p.  811. 

Wb  have  in  many  of  these  dramatists 
what  is  truly  said  of  Fletcher  in  the  Pro- 
logue to  the  Chances, 

— *^  Sweet  expressions,  quick  conceit. 
Familiar  language,  fashioned  to  the  weight 
Of  such  as  speak  it.** 

"Put  on 
The  surest  armour  anvil*d  in  the  shop 
Of  passive  fortitude." 

Bbaumont  and  Fletcheb.    Lovers 
Progress^  p.  421. 

"  A  MAN  from  whose  example 
As  from  a  compass,  we  may  steer  our  for- 
tunes, 
Our  actions,  and  our  age ;  and  safe  arrive  at 
A  memory  that  shall  become  our  ashes.** 
Ibid.  The  Pilgrim,  p.  445. 

^  Fob  he  that  holds  no  faith,  shall  find  no 

trust; 
But  sowing  wrong,  is  sure  to  reap  the  same.** 

Daniel,  vol.  1,  p.  77. 


"  How  were  I  cleared  of  grief 
Had  I  the  power  to  unbelieve  belief.** 

Ibid.  p.  219. 

— "  Doubt 
Comes  in  far  easier  than  it  can  get  out.** 

Ibid. 

"  Tbub  spirits. 
That  whilst  the  wars  were,  served  like  walls 

and  ribs 
To  girdle  in  the  kingdom.** 

Bbaumont  and  Fletcheb.  Captain, 

p.  24. 

"  Pd  have  him  buried 
Cross  legg*d,  like  one  of  the  Templars, 
And  on  his  breast  a  buckler  with  a  pike  in*t, 

and  at  his  feet 

A  musquet,  with  this  word  upon  a  label. 
Which  from  the  cock*s  mouth  thus  should 

be  delivered, 
^  I  have  discharged  the  duty  of  a  soldier.*'** 

Ibid.  p.  39. 

"  I  KNOW  that  glory 
Is  like  Alcides*  shirt,  if  it  stay  on  us 
Till  pride  hath  mixt  it  with  our  blood ;  nor 

can  we 
Part  with*t  at  pleasure :  when  we  would 

uncase. 
It  brings  along  with  it  both  flesh  and  sinews. 
And  leaves  us  living  monsters.** 

Ibid.  PropJietess,  p.  166. 

"  Whebb  benefits 
Are  ill-conferred,  as  on  unworthy  men 
That  turn  them  to  bad  uses,  the  bestower 
For  wanting  judgement  how  and  on  whom 

to  place  them. 
Is  partly  guilty.** 

Ibid.  Queen  of  Corinth,  p.  192. 

Hitmility. 

"  The  fullest  and  best  ears  of  com  hang 
lowest  towards  the  ground.'*  —  Bp.  Rey- 
nolds, vol.  5,  p.  47. 


"  Smilbs  that  give  but  shadows, 
And  wrinkle  not  the  face." 

Bbaumoht  and  Fustchsr.    Love''$ 
PUgritnage,  p.  56. 

"  Nos  do  I  think  you  wretched  or  disgraced 
Afler  this  suffering, — ^but  rather  know 
Tou  are  the  charge  and  business  of  those 

Powers, 
Who,  like  best  tutors,  do  inflict  hard  tasks 
Upon  great  natures,  and  of  noblest  hopes ; 
Read  trivial  lessons,  and  half  lines  to  slugs. 
Thej  that  liye  long  and  never  feel  mis- 
chance. 
Spend  more  than  half  their  age  in  igno- 
rance.'*— ^Ibid.  p.  88. 

"  The  world's  a  labyrinth,  where  unguided 

men 
Walk  up  and  down  to  find  their  weariness ; 
No  sooner  have  we  measured  with  much  toil 
One  crooked  path  with  hope  to  gain  our 

freedom. 
But  it  betrays  us  to  a  new  affliction." 

Ibid.  Night  Walker,  p.  154. 

''  The  monuments  of  virtue  and  desert 
Appear  more  goodly  when  the  gloss  of  art 
Is  eaten  off  by  time." 

^pikgue  to  ike  Noble  Gentleman, 

"  LiKB  the  elements 
That  know  not  what  nor  why,  yet  do  effect 
Rare  issues  by  their  operance.*' 

Beaumont  and  Flbtcheb.  Two  Noble 
Kinsmen,  p.  22. 

"  Had  mine  ear 
Stolen  some  new  air,  or  at  adventure, 

humm'd  on 
From  musical  coinage,  why  it  was  a  note 
Whereon  her  spirits  would  sojourn, — rather 

dwell  on : 
And  sing  it  in  her  slumbers." 

Ibid.  p.  24. 

"  The  polled  bachelor 
Whose  freaks  of  youth,  like  wanton  boys 
through  bonfires. 


Have  skipt  thy  flame,  at  seventy  thou  canst 

catch. 
And  make  him,  to  the  scorn  of  his  hoarse 

throat. 
Abuse  young  lays  of  lore." — ^Ibid.  p.  96. 

"  A  MONASTSBT, 

A  most  strict  house ;  a  house  where  none 

may  whisper. 
Where  no  more  light  is  known  but  what 

may  make  ye 
Believe  there  is  a  day :  where  no  hope 

dwells, 
Nor  comfort,  but  in  tears." 

Ibid.   Tkierry  and  Tkeodoret,  p.  124. 

"  Would 
It  could  as  soon  be  buried  to  the  world 
As  it  should  die  to  me." — Ibid.  p.  138. 

'*  And  can  it  be  that  this  most  perfect  crea- 
ture, 
This  image  of  his  maker,  well-squared  man^ 
Should  leave  the  hand/ast^  that  he  had  of 
grace?"— Ibid.   Woman  Hater,  p.  289. 

"  He  that  intends  well,  yet  deprives  himself 
Of  means  to  put  his  good  thoughts  into  deed, 
Deceives  his  purpose  of  the  due  reward 
That  goodness  merits." 

Ibid.  Honest  Man's  Fortune,  p.  377. 

**  Dost  know  what  *tis  to  die  ? 

— ^Thou  dost  not. 
And  therefore  not  what  *tis  to  live ;  to  die 
Is  to  begin  to  live.    It  is  to  end 
An  old,  stale,  weary  work,  and  to  commence 
A  newer  and  a  better.    *Tis  to  leave 
Deceitful  knaves  for  the  society 
Of  gods  and  goodness." 

Ibid.  Triumpk  of  Honour,  p.  491. 

Flatterers, 

*'  These  very  slaves  shall  when  these  great 

beasts  die 
Publish  their  bowels  to  the  vulgar  eye." 
Ibid.   Triumpk  qf  Love,  p.  51 8. 

'  i.  e.  the  hold.  On  the  technical  sdnse  of 
''  handfast,"  and  <*  hand&stning.''  See  Topp's 
Jnhnsmt,  in  v.  J.  W.  W. 


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655 


"  Caix  up  thy  goodness, 
Thj  mind  and  nun  within  thee. 

Crown  thj  mind 
With  ibat'i  above  the  world's  weatUh  joj  ■ 

ful  gofiering. 
And  truly  be  the  master  of  thyseir, 
Which  it  the  noblest  empire ;  and  there  stand 
The  thing  thou  wert  ordained  and  set  to 
goTem." — Ibid.  p.  562. 

"  Let  jour  reprehension      ^ 
Bun  in  an  easy  current,  not  o'er  h^h. 
Carried  with  rashness  or  devonring  choler ; 
But  rather  use  the  soft  persuading  way, 
Wbose  powers  will  work  more  gently,  and 

compose 
^e  imperfect  thonghto  you  labour  to  re- 
More  winning  than  enforcing  the  consent." 
Bes  JonsoB.    Every  Mim  in  hit 
Humour,  vol.  1,  p.  4B. 

"  BiTT  men  of  yonr  condition  feed  on  sloth. 
As  doth  the  beetle  on  the  dung  she  breeds  in. 
Not  caring  how  the  metal  of  your  minds 
Is  eaten  widi  the  rust  of  idleness." 

Ibid.  p.  61. 

"Mr  brain  methinks  is  like  an  hour-glass. 
Wherein  my  imaginations  run  like  sands 
Filling  op  time ;  but  these  are  tum'd  and 

tam'd. 
So  that  I  know  not  what  to  stay  upon, 
And  less  to  put  in  act" — Ibid.  p.  75. 

Critia. 
"  DcBUH  nimis,  altera,  quicquid 
Componis,  pars  esse  putat ;  numerosque 

fiuentes 
Leniiis,  et  molli  pedc,  nt  ipsi  molliculi  sunt, 
Nec  nisi  plana,  tolutim  et  euntia  Terba  re- 
qulrunt." — Dodza,  p.  363. 

"Wbath  holds  fast 
On  sin  through  generations.** 

Impioat  Feawt.    Ron.  Laksoe,  p.  37. 

"  Odkset,tes  change  most ;  yet,  all  things 
change  below, 


Strength,  wisdom,  beauty,  grandeur,  riches. 

There  is  but  One  immutable,  whose  will 
Stands  unrerersed  and  unperverted,  still 
Above  man's  thought,  yet  softening  toward 

his  prayer. 
Part  of  that  will  it  is  which  hearkens  thus 
Free,  yet  by  love's  necessity  the  same, 
Most  stedfast  when  the  most  inclined  to  us. 
Truth  never  stoops,  Rod  Wisdom  cannot 

erri 
These,  if  we  mark  or  not,  their  task  fuiai 
And  go  right  on." — Ibid.  p.  39. 

"  ScATTamo  distrustful  thoughts  'midst 

cautious  words. 
And  numbering  worse  men's  sins  to  hide 

tbeir  own." — Ibid.  p.  41. 

"  EiTOKTBD  troth  has  dropt  trota  impious 
tongues." — Ibid.  p.  54. 

"  Thb  wicked  have  looked  farther  than  the 
ju»I." — Ibid.  p.  54, 

"  Clsave  to  tlib  promise  with  all  thy  in- 
ward power, 
Firmly  enclose  it  in  thy  remembrance  fast, 
Fold  it  in  thy  faith  widi  Aill  hope,  day  and 

And  thy  salvation  it  wiU  be  at  the  last." 

BiLB.   Ood'»  PfomitB*.  OUPtaj/t, 
vol.  1,  p.  13. 

"  RuTHTOi.  remembrance  is  yet  rmo  in 

Ferrex  md  Poms.    Ibid.  p.  128. 

CoMMirmo  new  crimes  in  the  hope  of 

averting  punishment: 

"  E  per  meno  temer,  pia  reo  si  rende." 
Maogi,  vol.  I,  p.  9, 

"  Pbbcsb  n  rimoTso  duole,  e  uo'I  peccato 
Smorza  quel  duolo,  e  sanil^  non  cura ; 
Contro  alia  punta  onde  verria  sanato, 
Col  callo  del  costume  il  senso  indura." 

Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  9. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


**  Chi  8ta  nel  mondo,  e  pur  yaol  pace  in- 
terna 
Yoglia  il  solo  yoler  di  chi  11  goTema.** 

Ibid.  p.  12. 

Motto. 
*^  Non  h  chiuso  sentier,  che  men!  all*ombra 
Dell*amate  foreste  di  Pamaso, 
Che  a  lui  fosse  nascosto :  e  non  ^  calle. 
Che  sorga  Ik  pari  rivi  d*IppoGrene, 
Che  a  lui  non  fosse  aperto.** 

Chiabbbba.  T.2,  p.  175. 

"  The  humourous  (i.e.  humid)  air  shall  mix 

her  solemn  tunes 
With  thy  sad  words." 

Ben  Jonson,  vol.  2,  p.  237. 
lynihids  Revels. 


7r 


"But  such  is  the  perrerseness  of  our  nature, 

That  if  we  once  but  fancy  levity, 

How  antic  and  ridiculous  soever 

It  suit  with  us,  yet  will  our  muffled  thought 

Choose  rather  not  to  see  it,  than  avoid  it : 

And  if  we  can  but  banish  our  own  sense, 

We  act  our  mimic  tricks  with  that  free 

license, 
That  lust,  that  pleasure,  that  security. 
As  if  we  practised  in  a  pastcrboard  case, 
And  no  one  saw  the  motion,  but  the  motion." 

Ibid.  p.  252. 

"  Meh  speak  ill  of  thee  :  so  they  be  ill  men, 
If  they  spake  worse,  *twere  better ;  for  of 

such 
To  be  dispraised,  is  the  most  perfect  praise. 
What  can  his  censure  hurt  me,  whom  the 

world 
Hath  censured  vile  before  me  I" 

Ibid.  p.  281. 

"  Ybabs  are  beneath  the  spheres ;  and  time 

makes  weak 
Things  under  heaven,  not  powers  which 

govern  heaven.**  Ibid.  p.  375. 

"  The  rest  of  greatness  princes  may  com- 
mand, 
And  therefore  may  neglect ;  only  a  long, 


A  lasting,  high  and  hi^ipy  memory, 
They  should,  without  being  satisfied,  porsoe. 
Contempt  of  fame  begets  contempt  of  vir- 
tue.**      Ibid.  SefanuSf  vol.  3,  p.  36. 

*'  The  way  to  put 
A  prince  in  blood,  is  to  present  the  shapes 
Of  dangers  greater  than  they  are,  like  late 
Or  early  shadows ;  and  sometimes  to  feign 
Where  there  are  none,  only  to  make  him  fear; 
^is  fear  will  make  him  cruel.** 

Ibid.  p.  55. 

**  You  equal  gods 
Whose  justice  not  a  world  of  wolf-turned 

men 
Shall  make  me  to  accuse,  liowe*er  pro- 
voked." Ibid.  p.  72. 

"  Nsssuiio  h  reo, 
Se  basta  a*falli  sui 
Per  difesa  portar  Pesempio  altrui" 

Mbtastasio,  vol.  1,  p.  17. 
Artaserse. 

''  Obdina  in  guisa 
Gli  umani  eventi  il  Ciel,  che  tutti  a  tutti 
Siam  necessarj  ;  e  il  piii  felice  spesso 
Nel  pitl  misero  trova 
Che  sperar,  che  temer.** 

Ibid.  p.  181.    AdrioM. 

''  Poco  h  funesta 
L*altrui  fortuna, 
Quando  non  resta 
Ragione  alcuna 
N^  di  pentirsi,  nh  d*arro8ser." 

Ibid.  p.  195. 

Lefidus. 

"  Arts,  ArrantiuB  ? 
None  but  the  plain  and  passive  fortitude. 
To  suffer  and  be  silent ;  never  stretdi 
These  arms  against  the  torrent ;  live  at 

home 
With  my  own  thoughts,  and  innocence  about 

me, 
Not  tempting  the  wolves*  jaws :  these  are  mj 

arts." — ^Bbm  Jonson.  SfjanuSj  p.  104. 


MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


AT  ft  wild  master's  here  of  attributes 
<reuftworm, — asDake." — Ibid.  p.  115. 
1  of  tlie  serpent  which  came  out  of  his 
, — but  applicable  Co  sdulatorj' epithets 

"  It  ifl  a  note 
start  greatnesg,  to  observe  and  watch 
lese  poor  trifles,  which  the  noble  miDd 
cts  and  scorns. 

—  Aye,  and  they  think  themselves 
ydishonoured  where  thej  are  omitted, 
'  tbej  were  necessities  that  helped 
!  perfection  of  their  dignities,) 
iat«  the  men  that  but  refrain  them." 
Ibid.  p.  137. 

"  Bkadtt,  wit,  and  grace, 
lemenla  of  ictiTe  delicacj, 
■ll-eje-pleasing  harmonies  of  sight 
1  do  enchant  men's  fancies,  and  stir  up 
ife  blood  of  dull  earth." 

M&CHin's  Dumb  Knight. 

Old  Phy,  vol.  4,  p.  383. 

"  Ate!  well  done  I 
ecs  are  no  fetters :  with  that  tongue 
icomise  past,  unpromise  it  again, 
efore  haa  man  a  tongue  of  power  to 
>eak, 

speak  still  to  bis  own  private  purpose  F 
I  utter  but  one  sound ;  but  men  have 
lange  [them, 

lech,  and  reason,  even  hj  nature  given 
a  saj  one  thing,  and  another  now, 
rt  maj  lerre  their  profitable  ends." 
Chipuak.    AU  FooU. 

Old  Ftay,  vol.  4.  p.  129. 

"  Bblibtb  it.,  sir, 
;lothes  do  much  upon  the  wit,  as 
eather 

m  the  brain  :  and  thence,  sir,  comes 
jur  proverb,  [perienee 

lilor  makes  the  man.  I  spe^  hj  ex- 
own  customers.  I  have  had  gallants 
wurt  and  country,  would  have  fool'd 
mup 

ew  suit,  with  the  best  wits  in  being, 
ept  their  speed  as  long  as  their  clothes 
<t«d 


Handsome  and  neat;  but  then  as  they  grew 

At  the  elbows  again,  or  had  a  stain  or  spot, 
They  have  sunk  most  wretchedly." 

"  I  woMvEB  gentlemen 
And  men  of  means  will  not  mwntuo  them- 
selves [highest : 
Fresher  in  wit,  I  mean  in  clothes,  to  the 
For  he  that's  outofclothesisout  of  fashion. 
And  out  of  fashion  is  out  of  countenance, 
And  out  of  countenance  is  out  of  wit." 

Ban  JoMsoK.   Staple  of  New$, 
vol.  a,  pp.  1T7-8. 

A  BicH  piece  of  French  eloquence.  The 
night  aAer  the  battle  of  Toulouse. — "  Le 
silence,  muet  de  aa  nature,  n'y  parlait  pas, 
mais  il  poussait  des  gemissemens  confus  qui 
perqoient  I'ime."  —  Precis  Bittorique  de  ia 
BaitaUe,  part  3,  p.  156. 

"  Good  Master  FiuMock,  with  your  worm- 
ing brain 
And  wriggling  engine-head  of  maintenance, 
Whichlshallseeyouholewith  very  shortly. 
A  fine  roimd  head,  when  those  two  lugs 
To  trundle  through  a  pillory."        [are  off. 
Ban  JoitsoN.    Staj^  of  Newt, 
vol.  5,  p.  298. 

"A  pooa  affrighted 
And  guilty  race  of  men,  that  dare  to  stand 
No  breath  of  truth,  but  conscious  to  thero- 

Of  their  no-wit  or  honesty,  ran  routed 
At  every  panic  terror  tbemaelves  bred, 
Where  else  as  confident  as  sounding  brass. 
Their  tinkling  captain.  Cymbal,  and  the  rest 
Dare  put  on  any  visor  to  deride 
The  wretched,  or  with  buffoon  license,  jest 
At  whatsoe'er  is  serious,  if  not  sacred." 
Ibid.  p.  307. 

"  —  Thb  Hours, 
That  open-handed  sit  upon  the  clouds. 
And  press  the  liberality  of  Heaven, 
Down  to  the  laps  of  thankful  men." 
Ibid.  New  Inn,  p.  347. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


TmuB  Valour, 

^  It  b  the  greatest  virtue,  and  the  safety 
Of  all  mankind ;  the  object  of  it  is  danger. 
A  certain  mean  *twizt  fear  and  confidence. 
No  inconsiderate  rashness,  or  Tain  appetite 
Of  false  encountering  formidable  things, 
But  a  true  science  of  distinguishing 
What's  good  or  eyil.  It  springs  out  of  reason 
And  tends  to  perfect  honesty ;  the  scope 
Is  always  honour,  and  the  public  good, 
It  is  no  valour  for  a  private  cause.** 

Ibid.  p.  412. 

"Fbab  to  do  base  unworthy  things  is  valour ; 
l£  they  be  done  to  us,  to  suffer  them 
Is  valour  too.**  Ibid. 

**  I NBVBB  thought  an  angry  person  valiant. 
Virtue  is  never  aided  by  a  vice. 
What  need  is  there  of  anger  and  of  tumult. 
When  reason  can  do  the  same  things,  and 

Ibid.  p.  413. 


/. 


more. 

^  The  things  true  valour*s  exercised  about 
Are  poverty,  restraint,  captivity. 
Banishment,  loss  of  children,  long  disease ; 
The  least  is  death.    Here  valour  is  beheld. 
Properly  seen ;  about  these  it  is  present ; 
Not  trivial  things  which  but  require  our 
confidence.**^  Ibid.  p.  414. 

**  And  as  all  knowledge  when  it  is  removed 
And  separate  from  justice,  is  called  craft. 
Rather  than  wisdom ;  so  a  mind  affecting 
Or  undertaking  dangers  for  ambition. 
Or  any  self-pretext,  not  for  the  public. 
Deserves  the  name  of  daring,  not  of  valour. 
And  over-daring  is  as  great  a  vice 
As  over-fearing. 

—  Yes,  and  often  greater.*' 
Ibid.  p.  415. 

**  How  most  ridiculous  quarrels  are  all  these  I 
Notes  of  a  queasy  and  sick  stomach,  labouring 
With  want  of  a  true  injury.** — Ibid.  p.  417. 

^  Be  watchful ;  have  as  many  eyes  as 
Heaven, 
And  ears  as  harvest.** 

Atttumazar,  Old  Play^ 
vol.  7,  p.  111. 


**  RosT  modesty." — Ibid.  p.  113. 

This  is  in  Albumazar's  impudent  mouth, 
and  said  of  himself;  but  for  boihfidaett  it 
is  the  prettiest  of  epithets. 

Condition  of  man. 

"  A  baser  state  than  what  was  first  as- 

sign*d; 
Whereon  (to  curb  the  too-aspiring 

mind), 
The  better  things  were  lost,  the  worst  were 

left  behind." — Ph.  Fletcbeb.  C.  2. 

^  TsB  Sun  with  gentle  beams  his  rage 

disguises. 
And,  like  a^iring  tyrants,  temporises. 
Never  to  be  endured,  but  when  he  falls  or 

rises.**  Ibid.  C.3. 

**  Would  God  I  then  had  chanced  this  life 
to  leave,  [did  give ; 

The  tomb  straight  taking  what  the  womb 
Then  always  buried,  changing  but  the  gra^e, 
I  had  not  lived  to  die,  but  died  to  live.** 
LoxD  Stebldis.  Cresitf,  p.  40. 

One  of  AlexDnder*s  victories. 
**  Unburied  bodies  buried  all  the  fields.** 

Ibid.  Darius^  p.  69. 

^  Love  hath  larger  scq)e8, 
New  joys,  new  pleasures,  of  as  fresh  a  date 
As  are  his  minutes  ;  and  in  him  no  hopes 
Are  pure,  but  those  he  can  perpetuate.** 

Ben  Jonson,  vol.  8,  p.  91. 
Lovers  Triumph, 

^  Fob  good  men  but  see  death ;  the  wicked 
taste  it." — Ibid.  p.  195.   Mpigram. 

**  Aqublla  Ciudad,  que  en  siete 
Montes  es  hydra  de  piedra 
Pues  siete  cabezas  tiene.** 

Caldbbon,  El  Magico  prod^ioso. 

^  Retbaxb  al  oido  todos 

Mis  sentidos  juntamente."       Ibid. 


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659 


**  El  sol  cajendo  yaja 
A  sepultarse  en  las  ondas, 
Que  entre  obscuras  nubes  pardas 
Al  gran  cadaver  de  oro 
Son  monumentos  de  plata.** — Ibid. 

"C'ctait  rheure  oil  rincertitude  de  la 
lumi^re  rend  k  Timagination  son  vague 
empire,  Theure  oil  la  reverie  la  remet  en 
possession  de  tout  ce  que  lui  dtait  la  realite; 
oil  le  pr^ent  disparait,  oil  Tavenir  ct  le 
pass^  semblent  sortir  des  tendbres." — Cus- 
TiNB,  vol.  2,  p.  338. 

"  The  voice  so  sweet,  the  words  so  fair. 
As  some  soft  chime    had  stroked  *  the  air ; 
And  though  the  sound  were  parted  thence. 
Still  left  an  echo  in  the  sense.** 

Bbn  Jonson,  voL  9,  p.  70. 

"  All  nobility 
But  pride,  that  schism  of  incivility. 
She  had,  and  it  became  her.** 

Ibid.  p.  78. 

Oltmpla.  says  of  Bireno, 

'*  lo  credea  e  credo,  e  creder  credo  il  vero, 
Ch*  amasse  ed  ami  me  con  cor  sincera.** 

Ariosto,  c.  9,  st  23. 

**  Fob  my  life. 
My  sorrow  is  I  have  kept  it  so  long  well. 
With  bringing  it  up  unto  so  ill  an  end. 
I  might  have  gently  lost  it  in  my  cradle. 
Before  my  nerves  and  ligaments  grew  strong 
To  bind  it  faster  to  me.** 

MAssDroER,  Old  Zoto,  p.  472. 

Ill  what  an  execrable  feeling  was  this 
written  by  Montrevil. 

^Quand  je  seray  tout  prest  d*avoir  les  yeux 
oouvers 
De  Tombre  et  de  Thorreur  d*une  nuit 
etemelle, 
Pl^t  aux  dieux  devant  moy  voir  perir  Tuni- 
vers! 
Que  ma  mort  me  sembleroii  beUe  I 
J'aurots  en  expirant  un  plaisir  sans  pareil ; 

'  Southey  has  here  inserted  with  two  fueriet 
—charm  ?--»tnick  ?— J.  W.  W. 


Et  conune  en  me  couchant  je  souffle  ma 
chandelle, 
Je  voudrois  en  mourant  ^teindre  le  soleil. 
Rbcueil,  &c  vol.  4,  p.  271. 


n 


"  Mal  est  gard^  ce  que  garde  la  crainte. 
Fassbsat,  &c.  vol.  2,  p.  111. 


**  O  THOU  soft  natural  death,  that  art  joint 
twin  [comet 

To  sweetest  slumber!  no  rough-bearded 
Stares  on  thy  mild  departure ;  the  dull  owl 
Beats  not  against  thy  casement ;  the  hoarse 

wolf 
Scents  not  thy  carrion!  Pity  winds  thy  corse, 
Whilst  horror  waits  on  princes.** 

Webster,  vol.  1,  p.  129. 


"  I  DO  love  these  ancient  ruins ; 
We  never  tread  upon  them,  but  we  set 
Our  foot  upon  some  reverend  history. 
And  questionless.  Here  in  this  open  court. 
Which  now  lies  naked  to  the  injuries 
Of  stormy  weather,  some  men  lie  interr*d 
Who  loved  the  church  so  well,  and  gave  so 

largely  to  it :  [bones 

They  thought  it  should  have  canopied  their 
Till  doomsday.     But  all  things  have  their 

end,  [like  to  men, 

Churches  and  cities,  which  have  diseases 
Must  have  like  death  that  we  have.** 

Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  306. 

**  Fob  it  so  falls  out. 
That  what  we  have  we  prize  not  to  the 

worth  [lost. 

Whiles  we  enjoy  it ;  but  being  lack*d  and 
Why  then  we  rack  the  value ;  then  we  find 
The  virtue  that  possession  would  not  show 
While  it  was  ours."  [us 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing, 
act  iv.  sc.  i. 

'*  The  fineness  of  our  metal  is  not  found 
In  fortune*s  love ;  for  then  the  bold  and 

coward, 
Tlie  wise  and  fool,  the  artist  and  unread. 
The  hard  and  soft  seem  all  affin*d  and  kin: 
But  in  the  wind  and  tempest  of  her  frown. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


Distinction,  with  a  broad  and  powerful  fan, 
Puffing  at  all,  winnows  the  light  away  ; 
And  what  hath  mass  or  matter,  bj  itself 
Lies,  rich  in  virtue,  and  unmingled/* 

TroUui  and  Cressidoy  act  i.  sc.  iii. 

'*  A  BLUSH 

Modest  as  morning  when  she  coldly  eyes 
The  youthful  Fhcebus.**  Ibid. 

'*  Better  I  were  distract ; 
So  should  my  thoughts  be  seYer*d  from  my 

griefs. 
And  woes  by  wrong  imaginations,  lose 
The  knowledge  of  themselves.** 

King  LeoTy  act  iv.  sc.  vi. 

"  To-MOBRow,  and  to-morrow,  and  to- 
morrow. 
Creeps  in  this  petty  pace  from  day  to  day. 
To  the  last  syllable  of  recorded  time  : 
And  all  our  yesterdays  have  lighted  fools 
The  way  to  dusty  death." 

Macbeth^  act  v.  sc.  v. 

Oir  the  spheres. 

^  What  are  those  ever-turning  heavenly 

spheres,  [urns. 

But  wheels  that,  from  our  cradles  to  our 

Wind  up  our  threads  of  life,  that  hourly 

wears,  [turns." 

And  they  that  soonest  die,  have  happiest 

Th.  Bancroft,  Restituta^  vol.  2,  p.  490. 

**Hi8  qualities  were  beauteous  as  his  form, 
For  maiden-tongued  he  was,  and  thereof 

free. 
Tet  if  men  moved  him,  was  he  such  a  storm 
As  ofl  *twixt  May  and  April  is  to  see, 
When  winds  breathe  sweet,  unruly  though 

they  be." 

SuAKSPEAR,  Laver^s  Complaint. 

**  Hb*8  truly  valiant  that  can  wisely  suffer 
The  worst  that  man  can  breathe ;  and  make 
his  wrongs  [carelessly. 

His  outsides ;  wear  them  like  his  raiment. 
And  ne'er  prefer  his  injuries  to  his  heart 
To  bring  it  into  danger." 

Timon  of  Athens,  act  iii.  sc.  v. 


**  O  THE  fierce  wretchedness  that  glory 
brings  us."  Ibid,  act  iv.  sc.  ii. 

•Tis  far  off; 
And  rather  like  a  dream,  than  an  assurance 
That  my  remembrance  warrants." 

Tempest,  act  i.  sc.  ii. 

^  Such  shapes,  such  gestures,  and  such 

sound,  expressing 
(Although  they  want  the  use  of  tongue)  i 

kind 
Of  excellent  dumb  discourse." 

Ibid,  act  iii.  sc.  iii. 

**  Dull  folly  (not  the  wanton  wild. 
Imagination's  younger  child,) 
Has  taken  lodgings  in  his  face. 
As  finding  that  a  vacant  place. 
And  peeping  from  his  windows,  tells 
To  all  beholders  where  she  dwells." 

Robert  Llotd. 

**  Would  you  be  still  more  learned  than  the 
leam'd  ?  [known, 

Learn  well  to  know  how  much  need  not  be 
And  what  that  knowledge  whieh  impabs 

your  sense.  [food, 

Our  needful  knowledge,  like  our  needful 
Unhedged,  lies  open  in  life's  common  field, 
And  bids  all  welcome  to  the  vital  feast." 

Young,  voL  1,  142. 

^  No  deeper  wrinkles  yet !     Hath  sorrow 

struck 
So  many  blows  upon  this  face  of  mine, 
And  made  no  deeper  wounds  I " 

Richard  the  Seeand,  aet  iv.  sc.  i. 

^  Learn,  good  soul. 
To  think  our  former  state  a  hi4)py  dretmi 
From  which  awaked,  the  truth  of  what  we  tre 
Shows  us  but  this.    I  am  sworn  brother, 

sweet, 
To  grim  necessity,  and  he  and  I 
Will  keep  a  league  till  death." 

Ibid,  act  V.  sc.  i. 

**  Tell  them  I  am,  Jehovah  said 

To  Moses,  while  earth  heard  in  dread ; 


>aSCELLANEOUS  ANECDOTES  AND  GLEANINGS. 


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smitten  to  the  heart, 
above,  beneath,  around, 
ire,  without  voice  or  sound, 
jd,  O  Lord,  Thou  art."       Smart. 

song  to  David,  composed  in  a  mad- 

"  Rich  gums, 
than  those  the  phcenix  makes  her 

[le  is  her  own  sacrifice,  and  fans 
wing  pile  with  her  gray  wings." 
Shiblet,  Example^  voL  3,  p.  332. 

IT  pretty  line  of  Hall  Hartston*s,  de- 
a  butterfly. 

"  From  earth  he  springs, 
)  gay  downs,  and  spreads  his  gold- 
pt  wings ; 

very  beauty  to  the  sunny  ray, 
mows  with  soft  wing  his  easy  way." 
Youth,  Monthly  Review^ 
vol.  48,  p.  459. 

**  Lov£  leads  to  penitence, 
lie  noblest,  surest  path ;  whilst  fear 
and  devious." 

Miss  Baillie,  Martyr^  p.  413. 

ftnd  future  are  but  shadowy  visions, 
mberous  things,  which  we  must  cast 

le, 

e  the  present  hour  endurable." 

Ibid.  Separation^  p.  29. 

**  A  FESBLE  body, 
*n  out  case  of  a  more  feeble  mind." 
Ibid.  Phantom^  p.  245. 

"  But  Lord  preserve  us  all ! 
jrod's  grace,  may  sit  by  Satan*s  side. 


Ay,  in  the  self-same  settle,  yet  the  while 
Be  ne*er  one  whit  the  worse." 

Ibid.  p.  273. 

**  Marian,  I  thought  thou  wert  prepared. 

Alice.  I  thought  so  too. 

But  certainty  makes  previous  expectation 
Seem,  by  comparison,  a  state  of  hope." 

Ibid.  p.  277. 

'*  What  a  sweet  thing  is  night  I  how  calm 
and  harmless ;  [breath 

No  whispering  but  of  leaves,  on  which  the 
Of  heaven  plays  music  to  the  birds  that 
slumber." — Shiklet,  Constant  MaH 

vol.  4,  p.  494. 

"  Tu  vero  fill  contende  intrare  per  an- 
gustam  portam ;  nee  quid  multi  agant  at- 
tende,  sed  quid  agendum  ipsa  tibi  natura, 
ipsa  ratio,  ipse  Deus  ostcndat." — Picus  Mi- 
RAIVDULA,  ff.  60. 

'*  Si  non  desipit  auditor,  a  fucato  sermone 
quid  sperat  aliud  quam  insidias?  Tribus 
maxime  persuadetur,  vit&  dicentis,  veritate 
rei,  sobrietate  orationis." — Ibid.  ff.  p.  62. 

'*  Thbt  who  in  former  times,  like  pipes 
of  reeds,  have  sweetly  sounded  out  the 
praises  of  God,  but  now  are  cracked  with 
some  pardonable  error  in  judgment,  or  slip 
in  manners,  if  they  be  truly  bruised  with 
the  weight  of  their  sin,  and  thoroughly  con- 
trite, may  plead  the  privilege  of  the  bruised 
reed  in  the  text,  not  to  be  broken  by  any 
overhard  and  severe  censure  or  sentence." 
Fbatlet,  ClaniB  Mystica,  p.  10. 


EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS,  RELATING  TO 
POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


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Prospects  of  Society, 

££  Clabendon,  vol.  I,  part  2, 
p.  498.  Concerning  the  arts  and 
actiyitj  of  factious  men. 


**  So  most  men  are  deceived  in  being  too 
reasonable ;  concluding  that  reason  will  pre- 
vail upon  those  men  to  submit  to  what  is 
right  and  just,  who  have  no  other  conside- 
ration of  right  or  justice,  but  as  it  advances 
their  interest,  or  complies  with  their  hu- 
mour and  passion." — Ibid.  p.  1043. 

On£  who  had  hurt  his  foot  bj  paring  a 
nail  to  the  quick,  laughed  on  being  told 
there  was  danger  of  a  mortification,  and  re- 
plied, **  the  foot  is  a  long  way  from  the 
heart."  But  the  mortification  found  its  waj 
there. 

Ba£on  observes,  "  it  is  not  incredible 
that  it  should  have  come  into  the  mind  of 
such  an  abject  fellow  (as  Lambert  Sim- 
nell)  to  enterprize  so  great  a  matter,  for 
high  conceits  do  sometimes  come  streaming 
into  the  imaginations  of  base  persons,  espe- 
cially when  they  are  drunk  with  news  and 
talk  of  the  people."— Henry  VIL  p.  20. 

Bacon  says  that  in  the  Statute  of  19 
Henry  YU.  against  vagabonds,  there  may 
be  noted  '*  the  dislike  the  parliament  had 
of  gaoling  of  them,  as  that  which  was 
chargeable,  pesterous,  and  of  no  open  ex- 
ample. And  he  notices  that  in  all  the  sta- 
tutes of  this  king  there  are  ever  coupled 
the  punishment  of  vagabonds,  and  the  for- 


bidding of  dice  and  cards^  and  tmlawfiil 
games  unto  servants  and  mean  people,  and 
the  putting  down  and  suppressing  of  ale- 
houses, as  strings  of  one  root  together,  and 
as  if  the  one  were  unprofitable  without  tlie 
other. "—Ibid.  p.  216. 

National  wealth  wholesome  only  when 
justly,  equitably  (not  equally)  diffused. 
When  the  workman  as  well  as  the  capitalist 
has  his  fair  proportion  of  gains  and  com- 
fort«. 

*'  Sed  jam  pudet  me  ista  refellere,  cum 
eos  non  puduerit  ista  sentire.  Cum  ver6 
ausi  sint  etiam  defendere,  non  jam  eorum, 
sed  ipsius  generis  humani  me  pudet,  cujos 
aures  hiec  ferre  potuerunt" — St.  Adocs- 

TINE. 

The  overflow  of  educated  persons  in  both 
sexes, — "  the  condition  of  the  one  being  ac- 
companied with  more  unhappiness  tlian 
would  easily  be  imagined,  and  that  of  the 
other  bringing  with  it  more  danger  than 
statesmen  perhaps  have  yet  taken  into  the 
account  of  the  evils  that  are  to  come.** 

"  Things  (in  Scripture)  manifestly  and 
mercifully  undefined." — Miixer*8  B,  Lec- 
tures, 

"  Simple  (The)  Cobler  of  Aggawam  i» 
America.  Willing  to  help  *mend  his  Native 
Country,  lamentably  tattered  both  in  the 
upper-Leather  and  Sole,  with  all  the  honeft 
stitches  he  can  take,  lOs,  6d,  Land,  1647/' 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS,  ETC. 


663 


^  Thb  Othomacas,  one  of  the  rudest  of 
the  Oi'inoco  tribes,  suppose  themselves 
descended  from  a  pile  of  stones  upon  the 
top  of  a  rock  called  Barraguan,  and  that 
they  all  return  to  stone  as  they  came  from 
it ;  so  that  this  mass  of  rock  is  composed  of 
their  forefathers. 

Thb  system  of  lying  was  not  practised 
more  impudently  by  Buonaparte^s  govern- 
ment, than  by  the  Opposition  papers  and 
the  Opposition  speakers. 

JoRBSOB  once  said  of  Derrick,  "  he  may 
do  very  well  as  long  as  he  can  outrun  his 
character,  but  the  moment  his  character 
gets  up  with  him,  it  is  all  over.**  Alas ! 
character  now  goes  for  nothing  with  the 
Qiob,  or  even  the  people  in  this  country. 

"  Est  enim  metus  magister  long^  optimus 
maximequ^opportunus.**  * — Greg.  Nazian- 

AxFBED*8  police. — TuBNBB,  vol.  2,  p.  304. 

WoBKS  of  fiction  monstrous  in  kind,  de- 
yilifih  in  feeling,  damnable  in  purpose. 

Evebt  man  his  own  king,  his  own  priest, 
and  his  own  God. 

The  American  war  destroyed  that  ami- 
cable feeling  which  till  then  had  for  half  a 
century  prevailed  between  the  Church  and 
the  Dissenters.     In  Abp.  Secker*8  days, 

^  Mais  on  feint  de  ne  rien  croire,  afin  de 
tout  permettre,**  was  said  of  the  Dragonnades 
in  Poictou,  and  may  be  said  of  the  Cato- 
street  Conspiracy,  &c. 

A.  D.  1821.  In  the  course  of  thirty-nine 
years  the  Catholics  in  England  are  said  to 
have  increased  sevenfold.  Their  present 
numbers  are  about  500,000. 

'  I  suspect  this  is  a  line  from  the  Carmen  de 
nt6  SU&,  V.  47. 

4f6^0Q  ydp  iiytv,  3c  f^yoC  SiSaffKoXog. 
Tom.  !i.  p.  678.  Ed.  Fol,  1840. 

J.  W.  W. 


**  La  multitude  est  plus  frappe  de  ce 
qu*onlui  ordonne  que  dece  qu*on  lui  prouve. 
Les  honunes  en  general,  ont  besoin  d*^tre 
fixes  :  il  leur  faut  des  maximes  plut6t  que 
des  demonstrations."— PoBTALis. 

See  this  paper  of  Portalis.  L.  Goldsmith, 
vol.  1,  p.  281,  &c.  concerning  a«6/^^mode 
of  belief.  It  contains  much  excellent  wis- 
dom excellently  expressed. 

Refobmatiob. 

Necessity  admitted — the  consequence  of 
fraud  and  falsehood. 

Errors — in  abolishing  the  Regulars.  Pur- 
gatory.    Calvinism. 

Iconoclasm.    The  Cross. 

Croyland  and  Ely  still  worse  for  the  Re- 
formation. 

YouB  great  Whig  landholder  is  a  Levia- 
than with  the  intellect  of  a  Dodo. 

Revolution  would  soon  produce  malaria 
in  England.  The  condition  of  the  Bedford 
Level  would  be  more  advantageous  to  coot, 
teal,  widgeon,  and  wild  ducks,  than  to  the 
goosey  goosey  ganders  of  the  house  of  Rus- 
sell. 

Beggabs*  Opera  in  Heroics.     Lord  B. 

No  happiness  but  in  a  settled  state  of 
things. 

"  Omnb  quod  exit  in  Aum.** 

Slavebt. 

Feudal  dependence. 

Manufactures. 

Tbeasube  so  frequently  concealed  in  In- 
dia, that  whenever  the  foundation  of  a 
house  is  to  be  dug,  officers  of  government 
attend  to  seize  one,  if  it  should  be  found* 
(This  in  Tranquebar.) 

Evil  of  having  introduced  our  system 
of  laws  in  India. — Mubbat,  Hist,  Ace,  vol. 
2,  p.  320. 

Justice  is  defied  in  consequence,  and  the 
country  at  the  mercy  of  most  merciless 
banditti. 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING 


Pbintino.     General  education. 
Emancipation.     Association  in  clubs,  &c. 
Reformation.  Revolution  in  America  and 

France. 

Church.  Universities.  Lay  Monaste- 
ries.   ProtestAnt  nunneries.    Alms-houses. 

Condition  of  women. 

Monastic  virtues,  humility,  obedience. 

Laws. 

Literature. 

Colonization  at  home  and  abroad. 

Progress  of  trade  and  manufactures. 

Question  of  exclusive  companies. 

Prevention  of  fires. 

Emd  of  all  disputed  successions  with  the 
Union  of  the  Roses. 

The  old  denominations  of  small  coin  be- 
coming too  small. 

Manufactuiiihg  populace  in  Flanders. 
But  the  higher  classes  in  those  days,  Co- 
mines  says,  were  good  people,  and  sorely 
disliked  the  mutinous  spirit  of  the  commu- 
nity. Our  mischief  lies  with  the  half-edu- 
cated class, — the  agitators. 

Consequence  of  the  struggle  for  Refor- 
mation in  difierent  countries.  The  League. 
Accidental  efiect  of  the  Inquisition. 

No  one  put  to  death  for  heresy  while  Sir 
T.  More  was  chancellor. 

Destruction  of  buildings  began  with  the 
Reformation,  when  stronger  passions  were  at 
work  than  in  the  successive  war  of  which 
Comines  speaks. 

A  GOOD  remark  of  Marlborough's  upon 
Lord  Halifax,  "  if  he  had  no  other  fault 
but  his  unreasonable  vanity,  that  alone 
would  be  capable  of  making  him  guilty  of 
any  fault." 

Growth  of  good  government  through 
the  wreck  of  its  institutions.  Difierence 
in  Iceland. 


The  world  may  be  progressive  as  a  whole, 
while  parts  are  retrograde,  e.  g.  New  Hol- 
land, Canada,  and  America,  while  Great 
Britain,  &c. 

Condition  of  the  lower  classes,  physical 
as  to  health,  diet,  clothing,  fire,  moral,  re- 
ligious, political. 

Hinds,  small  farmers,  domestic  servants, 
male  and  female,  manufactures,  coachmen, 
&c. 

Question  of  improvement  examined 
Scene,  the  ruined  village.  Small  farmers 
and  peasantry,  certes  worsened.  Manu- 
factures  a  new  class.  Servants  an  altered 
one. 

Tradesmen. 

Condition  of  women.  Quoad  marriage, 
worsened,  and  quoad  education,  not  so  good 
as  in  Henry  VIII.'s  time. 

Dr.  Johnson,  Boswell  says,  '*  was  willing 
to  speak  favourably  of  his  own  age :  and 
indeed  maintained  its  superiority  in  everj 
respect,  except  in  its  reverence  for  govern- 
ment ;  the  relaxation  of  which  be  imputed 
as  its  grand  cause  to  the  shock  whidi  our 
monarchy  received  at  the  Revolution, 
though  necessary;  and  secondly,  to  the 
timid  concessions  made  to  faction  by  suc- 
cessive administrations  in  the  reign  of  his 
present  Majesty,  George  HI." — Vol.  3,  p. 8. 

"  There  is  a  strange  rout  made  about 
deep  play,"  said  Johnson  ;  **  whereas  you 
have  many  more  ruined  by  adventurous 
trade,  and  yet  we  do  not  hear  such  an  out- 
cry against  it." 

Opinions  concerning  the  mercantile  pro- 
fession by  Cicero,  and  Plutarch*s  character 
of  it  in  eastern  times.  —  Wadding,  vol.  1, 
p.  17.     EssENES.  BamagCf  vol.  1,  p.  536. 

*'  In  colonizing  new  countries  provision 
should  be  made  for  towns,  and  those  limited 
in  size.  See  Henry  the  Fowler's  regulation 
in  Germany. — Tubnsb,  vol.  2,  p.  350. 


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665 


Tub  Bramin  walking  straight  forward 
till  he  dies. 

An  autumnal  poem — ^the  first  discoloured 
leaves — ^possibility  of  a  scathe  at  the  top. 

WiTCHCBAFT,  uotc.  Captain  Beaver*s 
story  of  the  "  incorruptible  witch." 

Poets  in  heaven. — Bishop  Kev's  Poems, 
voL  1,  p.  200. 

Au  Bet  known  for  an  European  at  Mo- 
rocco by  his  corns. 

The  p.  in  one  of  their  addresses  to 
Charles  I.  say  truly,  **  a  kingdom  being 
many  times  as  much  exposed  to  ruin  for  the 
want  of  a  new  law,  as  by  the  violation  of 
those  that  are  in  being." 

The  divine  right  was  a  wholesome  opi- 
nion both  for  prince  and  subject ;  impress- 
ing upon  both  a  sense  of  duty,  from  which 
no  ill  could  follow,  but  much  good  might 
arise. 

Is  not  the  increase  of  poor  rates  a  con- 
sequence of  the  increase  of  population  in 
great  proportion  ?  that  class  always  breed- 
ing without  remorse ;  and  early  marriages 
not  common  in  any  other. 

'*  Moreover  the  profit  of  the  earth  is 
for  all :  the  king  himself  is  served  by  the 
field." — EccUsiastes,  v.  9. 

The  Saxons  could  have  brought  no  trades 
with  them — these  must  then  have  been 
practised  by  slaves  till  the  liberti  arose. 

The  thirst  of  gain  has  occasioned  more 
crimes  and  more  misery  than  the  thirst  of 
glory. 

Machinsrt  tends  to  create  enormous 
wealth  for  a  few  individuals. 

Causes  of  the  moral  and  intellectual  de- 
gradation of  the  Roman  world. 


At  the  Hospital  Greneral  in  Rouen,  old 
people  are  permitted  on  making  a  calculated 
payment  to  become  pensioners  comfortably 
resident  in  it,  in  various  classes,  according 
to  their  rank  in  life. 

Latent  dirt  in  a  frost.  So  with  the 
vices  and  ill  qualities  of  those  whom  we 
meet  only  in  society. 

Vagabond  laws. 

Manutacturbs  in  their  wholesome  state. 

AiiFREi>*8  police. 

Alfrbd*8  law  against  public  liars. 

Aix  handicraft  trades  first  exercised  by 
slaves. 

HoBBES  says,  **  Could  the  city  of  London 
swallow  this?  yes,  and  more  too,  if  needs  be; 
London,  you  know,  has  a  great  belly,  but  no 
palate,  nor  taste  of  right  and  wrong." 


Rogues. — Hounshed,  vol.  1,  p.  309. 

The  Spencean  system  is  radically  the 
same  as  that  in  Hindostan  of  the  Zemin- 
dars and  Rayuts,  and  would  end  in  making 
every  landholder  a  tenant  at  rack  rent,  by 
way  of  relieving  the  subject  from  taxes ;  it 
seizes  upon  all  estates  in  toto. 

Henrt  Vin.  said  truly  to  hb  Parlia- 
ment, **  that  no  king  or  kingdom  was  safe 
but  where  the  king  had  ability  to  live  of  his 
own,  and  able  to  defend  his  kingdom  upon 
any  sudden  invasion  or  insurrection,  and  to 
reward  his  well  deserving  servants." 

Evils  which  arose  from  ignorance  and 
withholding  of  the  scriptures — contrasted 
with  those  which  arose  from  ignorance  and 
the  use  of  them. 

When  the  feudal  system  of  education  in 
great  houses  became  obsolete,  nothing  sue- 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING 


ceeded  it  in  Portugal,  and  boys  of  course 
became  little  men. 

Steam  engine.  Midi  coach.  Arkwright. 
Watt. 

Tbx  onlj  means  by  which  such  countries 
as  Naples  and  Spain  can  be  regenerated 
without  a  long  and  dreadful  age  of  sufier- 
ing,  is  by  an  enlightened  king  or  minister 
possessing  his  entire  confidence  and  support. 

Principles  of  order  and  association  turned 
against  society. 

We  have  rats  from  Norway  and  cock- 
roaches from  the  West  Indies,  bugs  and 
blasphemy  from  London. 

-  A  LAW  nicety  kept  the  lawyers  cold, — 
R.  North,  vol.  1,  p.  185. 

"  It  had  been  a  prime  jest,"  says  Roger 
North  (vol.  1,  p.  284),  "  if,  under  the  pre- 
tence of  a  defence,  the  criminal  should  be 
allowed  to  vent  seditious  libels,  full  of  mu- 
tiny and  reflection,  to  amuse  the  people,  and 
so  to  come  forth  and  be  published  in  print.** 

And  so  "  he  took  unto  the  treason  trade.** 
—Ibid.  p.  285. 

By  Lord  Keeper  Guildford's  advice,  coun- 
ter-pamphleteers. Sir  Roger,  &c.  were  set 
up,  as  a  better  way  than  prosecutors,  "they 
soon  wrote  the  libellers  out  of  the  pit,  and 
during  that  king's  life,  the  trade  of  libels, 
which  before  had  been  in  great  request,  fell 
to  nothing.** — ^Ibid.  p.  301. 

A  TIME  of  long  continued  deterioration 
every  where,  except  in  arts ;  the  light  being 
only  preserved  among  the  Jews.  Note  this 
lapse  from  the  patriarchal  and  golden  age, 
in  the  second  Dialogue. 

Three  cries  occasioned  the  acts  after  the 
war  —  cheap  bread,  retrenchment,  and  a 
metallic  currency. 

In  reducing  an  army  afler  a  war,  those 


men  only  should  have  been  dischaiged  at 
first  who  wished  their  discharge,  others  kept 
on  for  one  year  at  least,  till  they  could  find 
employment  for  themselves. 

Free  passage  given  to  as  many  as  dioie 
to  go  out  and  colonize ;  ofiicers  tempted  to 
colonize  by  grants  of  land,  passage,  and 
their  half  pay,  either  by  drawing  for  it,  or 
in  stores,  &c.  upon  the  spot,  at  English 
prices,  for  a  certain  number  of  years,  till 
the  land  could  well  support  them ;  and  till 
that  term,  the  half  pay  to  be  continued  to 
their  widows  and  children  in  case  of  death. 

The  present  race  are  what  Johnson  em- 
phatically called  bottomless  Whigs.  Their 
attachment  to  the  most  sacred  institutionj 
of  the  country  is  so  lax,  that  no  person 
knows  how  far  the  loose  tether  of  their 
principles  extends. 

In  Utopia,  "  extra  senatum  aut  comitia 
public^  de  rebus  communibus  inire  consi- 
lium, capitale  habetur.**  —  P.  129.  Thb 
was  a  precaution  against  tyranny. 

Brougham. 

**  While  these  terrified  petitioners  were 
brooding  over  the  dangers  of  Catholic  ad- 
mission to  Parliament,  it  might  afford  some 
comfort,  as  diversion  to  their  fears,  to  know 
how  slight  a  phrase  it  was  which  prevented 
Roman  Catholic  Bishops  from  sitting  in  the 
Upper  House,  but  which  precluded  Jewish 
Rabbis,  or  even  the  great  Mufli  himself, 
from  coming  into  Parliament,  either  by  cre- 
ation from  the  Crown,  or  election  by  the 
people.  (Hear!  and  laughter.)  It  was 
barely  the  accidental  insertion  of  the  word 
Christian,  in  one  of  the  tests,  which  pre- 
vented that  consummation,  dreadful  as  it 
would  be  to  the  good  men  of  Kent.  Nei- 
ther the  Mahometan  nor  the  Rabbi  had 
any  objection  to  the  oaths;  they  could 
digest  the  supremacy,  the  allegiance,  and 
the  abjuration  of  Catholic  doctrines ;  no- 
thing kept  them  out  but  the  fortunate  in- 
sertion of  *  all  this  I  promise  upon  the  faith 
of  a  Christian.*** — Courier,  Saturday,  May 
11,  1822. 


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Suck  trash  ai  this  h 
metit  Bud  pasees  curren 


itUred  iu  Parlia-     fore  the  revolutioo.- 
Toio;  p.  S47. 


"  Tbb  reuon,"  says  Swin,  "  why  the 
Whigs  hare  taken  the  atheUto,  or  free- 
thinken  into  their  body  it,  because  they 
wholly  agree  in  their  poli^al  schemes,  and 
differ  very  little  in  church  power  and  dis- 

At  Westminster,  the  College  ought  in  this 
to  resemble  a  college,  that  each  scholar 
should  have  his  separate  apartment,  and 
that  to  all  others  it  should  be  bis  castle. 

Tbb  fault  in  Europe  seems  to  be  too 
much  government  and  too  little  police. 

HoDBBS  says,  in  his  JUaloguet  amcendng 
tie  Common  Law,  "  perhaps  the  greatest 
cause  of  multitude  of  suits  is  this,  that  for 
want  of  roistering  of  conveyances  of  land 
(which  mi^t  easily  be  done  in  the  towD- 
^ips  where  the  lands  lie)  a  purchase  can- 
not eauly  be  had  which  will  not  be  liti- 


MARDrAcTtiBBBS  seditious  when  provi- 
sions are  at  a  high  price :  the  agriculturists 
when  they  are  cheap,  and  both  classes  ihow- 
ii^  their  total  want  of  reverence  or  attach- 
ment towards  the  institutions  of  their 
country. 

Wbits — "  de  inquirendo  de  prodigo" ' — 
proposed  in  that  very  sensible  tract  called 
Etigland't  (Fanti.— SoHEU'  TracU,  vol.  9, 
p.  223. 

Ma.  Hoiu  "  the  great  toe  of  the  assem- 
bly.- 

"Laws  and  church  discipline." — Lord 
BaooKB,  p.  40. 


'  The  Flemings  put  the  estates  of  prodinla, 
>■  (hey  did  those  of  lanatica,  under  guardians. 
Seasupri,  p.61B.— J.W.W. 


■  See  Mrs.  Carxi'i 


Hati.it  says, "  I  remember  to  have  heard 

it  said  by  a  late  anatomist,  in  a  professional 
discouraeon  the  female  frame,  that  it  almost 
appeared  an  act  of  cruelty  in  nature  to  pro- 
duce such  a  being  as  woman." 

In  a  Monarchy  there  certainly  is  some- 
thing more  like  a  moral  responsibility,  more 
like  a  conscience  than  in  a  Repablic,  as 
Dryden  says, 
"  Well  Monarchies  may  own  Religions 

But  Stales  are  Atheists  in  their  very  frame, 
Iliey  share  a  sin  :  and  such  proportions  fall 
That  like  a  stink,  'tis  nothing  to  them  all." 


Ah  opinion  that  departed  spirits  do  not 
see  what  passes  on  earth. — Ibid,  p.  346. 

Books  composed  without  a  grain  of  re- 
search or  a  pennyweight  of  reason,  a  scruple 
of  conscience ;  a  dram  of  impudence  or  of 

slander  suffices. 

SociBTT  with  books. — EaAB..Ejnft.p.297. 

OFFOsrrioiT  like  the  Image  in  Nebuchad- 
nezzar's dream,  from  the  proudest  Whigs 
down  to  the  most  desperate  levellers. 

"  In  Creti  lonis  simulacrum  conGngi 
certum  est  sme  euribus,  qnoniam  prinoi- 
pem  uimm,  et  omnibus  late  dominantem 
audire  addecet  neminem,  sed  id  demum  per- 
sequi  quod  dictat  rationis  examen,  et  ius- 
titiie  nusqnam  pnefloiata  integritas.  H»c 
Cffilius,  li.  6.~ 


"  In  qaibus,  neque  tibi  neque  mihi  satis- 
feci,  propterea  quod  rei  qa»  noo  radone 
nititnr,  rado  nulla  reddt  potest." — Scai.i- 
QBR.  Ep.  8S,  p.  230. 

"  LiTTBBs  quid  aliud  sunt  hodiS,  qiiam 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


latrocinium  publico  assensu  concessum." — 
Ibid.  Ep,  273,  p.  527. 

Motto  for  the  B.  of  the  State.  Joel  i.  3. 

There  is  a  law  which  says  '*  afiectus  enim 
tanquam  efiectos  inspicitur." — Bouvet,  p. 
297. 

Different  effect  of  Popery  on  different 
ranks,  as  of  Methodism;  worsening  as  it 
ascends. 

"  The  knowledge  of  wickedness  is  not 
wisdom,**  saith  the  wise  son  of  Sirach.-^ 
Ecd,  xix.  22. 

**  I  am  the  mother  of  fair  love  and  fear, 
and  knowledge,  and  holy  hope."  —  Ibid, 
xxiv.  18. 

"  The  first  man  knew  her  not  perfectly, 
no  more  shall  the  last  find  her  out." — Ibid, 
xxiv.  28. 

"  They  that  eat  me  shall  yet  be  hungry, 
and  they  that  drink  me  shall  yet  be  thirsty. 
He  that  obeyeth  me  shall  never  be  con- 
founded, and  they  that  work  by  me  shall 
not  do  amiss." — Ibid.  xxi.  2. 

"  I  will  yet  pour  out  doctrine  as  prophecy, 
and  leave  it  to  all  ages  for  ever." — Ibid.  33. 

Prophbct  of  the  kingdom  which  is  to 
come.     Isaiah  xxv.  7-8.     Hosea  ii.  14-23. 

**  Give  me  any  plague  but  the  plague  of 
the  heart." — Ecclesiasticus  xxv.  13. 

"  Je  trouve  que  le  prix  de  la  plupart  des 
choses  depend  de  I'etat  oii  nous  sommes 
quand  nous  les  recevons." — M.  de  Seviqne, 
torn.  3,  p.  112. 

"  Pour  celui-ci,  il  n'y  a  qu*a  laisser  aller 
sa  plume." — Ibid.  p.  352. 

*'  The  pit  wherein  Democritus  imagined 
Truth  to  be  buried,  was  questionless  the 
lieart  of  man." — Jackson,  vol.  1,  p.  887. 

*'  And  let  the  coimsel  of  thine  own  heart 


stand ;  for  there  is  no  man  more  faithful 
unto  thee  than  it/*  —  Ecdesiastiau  xxxviL 
13. 

"  For  all  things  are  not  profitable  for  all 
men,  neither  hath  every  soul  pleasure  in 
every  thing."--Ibid.  28. 

**  For  out  of  the  old  fields  as  men  saith 
Cometh  all  this  new  com  fro  year  to  year 
And  out  of  old  books  in  good  faith, 
Cometh  all  this  new  science  than  men  lere.** 
Chaucer.  Ajuembly  of  Foudi, 

**  Whom  shall  he  teach  knowledge,  and 
whom  shall  he  make  to  understand  doc- 
trine ?  them  that  are  weaned  from  the  milk, 
and  drawn  from  the  breast." — ^Isaiah  xxviiL 
9. 

^*  In  rest  shall  ye  be  saved ;  in  quietness 
and  in  confidence  shall  be  your  strength." 
Ibid.  zxx.  15. 

M.  Sevionb^s  opinion  of  the  peasantry  in 
Bretagne — ^their  natural  uprightness. 

*^  But  the  only  good  that  grows  of  passed 

fear. 
Is  to  be  wise,  and  ware  of  like  again.** 

Fairy  Quetiu 

"  Why  then  should  witless  man  so  much 

misween. 
That  nothing  is,  but  that  which  he  hath 

seen." — ^Ibid. 

No  persons  are  made  miserable  by  the 
reformed  religion ;  they  are  not  compelled 
by  fear  of  death  to  continue  in  professing 
what  they  disbelieve. 

Nunneries,  &c. 

**  To  triumph  in  a  lie,  and  a  lie  them- 
selves  have  forged,  is  frontless.  Folly  often 
goes  beyond  her  bounds,  but  Impudence 
knows  none." — ^B.  Jonson. 


MiLNER,  &c.  and  our  martyrs.    "Let 
the  lying  lips  be  put  to   silence,  which 
^^ruelly,  disdainfully,  and  despitefuUy  speak 
against  the  righteous."— P».  xxxi.  20. 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


"  Et  aicut  oqaa  extingnet  ignem,  its  elee- 
mosjoa  extmgult  peccatum,"  nja  Raipb 
Coggesbmll,  ipeaking  of  Cieur  de  Liuu's 
death.— H.  Dcuhd,  Col.  An.  vul.  0,  p. 


"  Dbsikast 
Maledicere,  malefacta  oe  noscuit  siul" 
Tbs.  Prol.  ad  Andriem.' 

"  How  canst  thoa  saj,  I  am  not  polluted, 
I  bave  not  gone  ader  Baalim  f — jBBXMtAU 
ii.  23. 

Where  are  thj  goda  that  tbon  hast  made 
ihce  ?  let  them  arue  if  titej  can  save  thee 
in  the  time  of  thy  trouble." — Ibid.  v.  28. 

Jewel  replied  to  Cole  who  sud,  '*  I  see 
ye  write  much  andread  little."  "  How  are 
ye  60  privy  to  my  reading  f  Wise  men 
avouch  no  more  than  they  know.  Ye  lacked 
shift  when  ye  were  driven  to  write  thus." — 
WouiswoBTa'a  Etx.  Biog.  vol.  4,  p.  69. 

Tested  interests. 

Resource  of  spinning  taken  From  old 

Small  traders  eaten  up  by  the  great. 

Settled  shopkeepers  injured  by  interlo- 
pers, and  by  too  much  competition.  Like 
cattle  who  are  starved  by  overstocking  the 

BonNEB  and  Gardiner,  or  the  Guy  Foxi- 
tefl.  "  And  yet,  Sir,  you  complain  that 
these  men  are,  as  they  deserve  to  be,  in  the 
words  of  the  prophet,  '  an  execration,  and 
an  sstonishment,  and  a  curse,  and  a  re- 
proach.' " 

"  L'aKT  de  ne  rien  faire  en  faisant  quel- 
que  chose,  est  de  toules  les  esp^s  d'orsi- 
vet^  la  plus  dangereuse,  parce  qu'elle  pa- 
roit  la  plus  excusable."  —  Entretien  nr  Ui 
Bomara,  p.  106. 

This  is  aiLid  of  idle  reading. 

"  Feee  men  by  fortune,  slaves  by  free 
wiil."—Euphuet. 


"  Jb  sai  que  les  grands  out  pour  maxi- 
nte  de  laisaer  passer  et  de  continuSr  d'agir ; 
mais  je  sai  aussi  qu'il  teur  arrive  en  pln- 
sieura  rencontres  que  lusser  dire  les  em- 
peche  de  fure." — La  BaoTEBE,  torn.  Q,  p. 
IS. 

"  Lbs  tautes  des  sots  sont  quelquefois  si 
lourdis  et  si  difficiles  &  pr^voir,  qu'clles 
mettent  lea  sages  en  di^faut,  et  ne  sont  utiles 
qu'b  ceux  qui  les  font."— Ibid.  p.  64. 

Pa.  xxxvi.  7.  "Thod,  Lord,  shalt  save 
both  man  and  beast."  I  wonder  nothing 
has  been  deduced  from  this  text  in  favour 
of  the  immortotiCy  of  brutes.' 

"Thb  doctrine  of  the  Church's  Infalli- 
bility," saya  the  excellent  Jackson,  "  un- 
dermines the  very  foundation  of  the  Church's 
faith, — those  of  merit  and  juatification,  and 
the  propitiation  of  the  mms  unroof  the 
ediGce  and  deface  the  walls,  leaving  nothing 
thereof  but  altar  stones  for  their  idolatrous 
sacrifices." — To  the  C/irietian  Reader, 

Thb  greedy  speculating  spirit  of  our 
trade  compared  with  old  frugality,  and  the 
hereditary  enjoyment  of  realiiod  wealth  as 
now  exhibited  in  Uolland. 

"  But  is  not  this  a  fear  makes  virtue  vninf 
Tears  from  yon  ministring  regents  of  the 


Their  right  P  plucks  from  firm-handed  Pro- 
vidence 
The  golden  reins  of  sublunary  swaj. 
And  gives  them  to  blind  chance  ?      If  this 

be  so. 
If  Tyranny  must  lord  it  o'er  the  earth, 
Ihere's  anarchy  in  heaven." — Caractaciii. 

CoNVBBTS  from  Popery.  Isaiah  xxix. 
18-24.  "Andinlhat  day  shall  the  deaf  heor 
tbe  worda  of  the  book ;  and  the  eyes  of  the 


>  Adam  Littleton  in  his  Sen 
fers  this  text  to  our  Lord's  t^inj 
sacrificea  by  tho  ascrificrof  hiro.- 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


blind  shall  see  out  of  obscurity,  and  out  of 
darkness. 

— '^They  also  that  erred  in  spirit  shall 
come  to  understanding :  and  thej  that  mur- 
mured shall  learn  doctrine.** 

'*  For  that  which  had  not  been  told  them 
shall  they  see ;  and  that  which  they  had  not 
heard  shall  they  consider." — Ibid.  lii.  15. 

The  Romish  system  is  to  be  taken  from 
its  authorized  records,  and  its  established 
practices.  From  books  which  have  been 
examined  and  re-examined,  revised  and 
corrected,  and  finally  approved  and  licensed 
by  Qualifiers,  Inquisitors,  Provincials,  and 
Heads  of  Orders,  not  from  such  books  as 
an  Englishman  sets  forth  at  his  own  plea- 
sure, and  for  his  own  purpose.  I  take  it 
as  it  appears  in  Baronius  and  Bellarmine, 
in  the  Acts  of  your  Saints,  in  the  Annals  of 
your  Religious  Orders,  in  your  Church 
Service,  not  as  it  is  in  the  British  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  nor  in  the  Declaration  of 
Kelly,  &c.  nor  in  the  Evidence  of  Drs. 
Doyle,  and  Co.  I  take  it  as  it  appears  and 
is,  at  Madrid  and  Rome,  not  as  it  is  in  Great 
Ormond  Street. 

CoNCEBNTNG  uovcl  reading,  the  Abbb  F. 
says,  ^*nos  voisins  sont  plus  sages  que  nous.** 
(Entret  ntr  les  Ronunu^  p.  1 12.)  The  English 
are  too  wise  a  people  to  read  such  frivolous 
things  (see  the  passage,)  and  he  speaks 
with  great  contempt  (p.  114)  **d*une  lec- 
ture, dont  le  seul  agr^ment  est  de  pouvoir 
dire  dans  un  cercle,  qu*on  a  lii  le  livre  du 
jour,  et  de  le  trouver  admirable  ou  detes- 
taUe.** 

PopEBT  makes  infidels,  and  is  the  worst 
enemy  of  Christianity.  Necessity  of  ex- 
posing it  for  this  reason,  which  Baronius 
applies  to  the  exposition  of  heresies.  **  Sed 
quorsum,  dicat  aliquis,  quae  profundo  per- 
petuoque  fuissent  sepeliendee,  silentio,  hu- 
juscemodi  sordes,  suo  putore  aSrem  ipsum 
corrumpentes,  hinc  inde  ex  indu8tri&  veluti 
scopft  collectas,  produntur  in  lucem?** — 
Vol.  2,  p.  69. 


A  oooD  passage  in  Baronius,  stating  why 
the  wise  and  good  among  the  heathen  be- 
came converts,  vol.  2,  p.  256.  It  is  per- 
fectly applicable  to  Bucer  and  Beza  and 
those  who  forsook  his  own  idolatrous  church. 

**  Let  us  take  care,**  says  Labdneb,  (vol. 
1,  p.  257,)  *Hhat  by  introducing  numeroio 
inferior  and  intermediate  beings  and  their 
agency,  we  do  not  derogate  from  the  Di* 
vine  empire  and  government,  as  supreme 
over  all  causes  and  things,  visible  and  in- 
visible.** 

Revblation.     Jacksok,  vol.  1,  p.  164. 

TniE  and  space.  St.  Augustine. — ^Ibid. 
vol.  1,  p.  883,  vol.  2,  p.  20. 

Oppobtubities  of  retirement  which  the 
convents  afibrded. — Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  926. 

152.  Hbavbn  within  us.  —  Ibid,  vol.2, 
p.  29. 


CoNTiBGEBCT  and  Providence. — J.  Tat- 
LOB,  D.  p.  13. 


105.  Police.     Louis  Buonaparte.  3,  p. 


80. 


"  PoirnriciA  potestas  est  velut  cardo, 
fundamentum,  et  ut  uno  verbo  dicam, 
summa  fidei  Christianse.**  —  Sxultehiui, 
ApoL  pro  Bellarmino,  c.  6.  Quoted  in 
Feat]ey*s  Advertisement  to  Crakanthorp*8 
Yigilius  Dormitans. 

**  In  Pap&  omnem  esse  potestatem  supra 
omnes  potestates,  tam  cceli  quam  terrse.** — 
Stephen,  Archiepisc.  Patracensis,  in  an 
oration  at  the  Lateran  Council  before  I^eo 
X.  Quoted  in  Poole*8  Nullity  of  the  Romish 
Faith,  p.  118. 

Cbesst  had  said  in  one  of  his  books  (the 
ExofnoL  I  believe)  that  '*no  such  word  as  in- 
fallibility is  to  be  found  in  any  council.  But 
in  his  second  edition  (**  et  secundss  cogitati- 


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ones  sunt  meliores,**  says  Poole)  I  find  him 
sick  of  his  former  notion.  I  suppose  he  hath 
met  with  sharp  rebukes  from  his  wiser  bre- 
thren :  what  penances  or  censures  thej  have 
inflicted  on  him,  I  know  not,  but  the  effect 
is  visible,  and  the  man  is  brought  to  a  re- 
canting strain.  And  that  he  may  have 
some  colourable  palliation  for  it,  he  pretends 
that  he  was  misunderstood,  and  never  meant 
to  deny  infallibility  to  the  Church,  save 
only  in  the  most  rigorous  sense  that  the 
term  would  import,  and  therefore  he  roimdly 
asserts  that  the  Church  can  neither  deceive 
believers  that  follow  her,  nor  be  deceived 
herself. — JSxomolog,  sect.  2,  c.  21.  Poolers 
NuIHty  of  the  Romish  Faith,  p.  244. 

*^  CoNcsBNiHa  this  glorious  text  of  not 
erring,  the  case  is  easy,  and  the  issue  short. 
If  the  true  church,  which  can  never  err,  be 
the  visible  church,  then  that  visible  church 
which  often  hath  erred,  and  doth  still  err, 
cannot  be  the  true  church.*' — Jackson,  vol. 
3,  p.  841. 


"'Oir 


\  ^avfiaZo/uyot'' — Nazianzbm.* 


L 


^  But  in  vain  they  do  worship  me,  teach- 
ing for  doctrines  the  commandments  of 
men." — Matthew,  xv.  9. 

"  Every  plant  which  our  heavenly  Father 
hath  not  planted  shall  be  rooted  up.** — 
Ibid.  13. 

To  the  words  of  your  church,  sir,  I  must 
keep  you,  "  for  by  thy  words  thou  shalt  be 
justified,  and  by  thy  words  thou  shalt  be 
condemned.** — Ibid.  xii.  37. 

Bbllarmins  saith,  they  roust  go  directly 
to  hell  who  do  not  believe  in  purgatory. — 
£>e  Purgatorio,  1.  1,  c.  11,  §§  Hsc  sunt. 
Quoted  in  Doctrines  and  Practice  of  the 
Romish  Church  truly  represented,  p.  119. 

'  I  have  not  been  able  to  verify  this  pessa^, 
and  it  certainly  does  not  read  right. <- J.  W.  W. 


The  real  name  of  Andreas  Eudeemon 
Johannes  Cydonius  was  Jean  L*Heureux. 
Refutation  of  P.  CoUnCs  Letter,  p.  18. 

See  the  Anti-Coion,  English  translation, 
p.  30-2,  for  the  Kakodflemon*8  justification  of 
Gamett.  Garnett  and  Oldcome  are  both 
by  him  and  by  Bellarmine  called  martyrs, 
and  their  names  are  in  the  Jesuits*  Catalogue 
of  their  martyrs  printed  at  Rome. 

In  Bai.b*8  Epistle  to  the  Reader,  before 
his  Pageant  of  Popes,  English  translation, 
A.  D.  1574,  he  says  of  the  Regulars,  **  they 
gave  unto  them  in  most  places  either  the 
French  pockes,  or  the  Spanish  disease.** 
Thus  (Ustingtdshing  them. 

"  Truth,  fully  and  evidently  declared, 
will  justify  itself  against  all  gainsayers.**  — 
Jackson,  vol.  2,  p.  170. 

**  I  SEE  not  how  any  man  can  justify  the 
making  the  way  to  heaven  narrower  than 
Jesus  Christ  hath  made  it,— it  being  already 
so  narrow  that  there  are  few  that  find  it.** 

r.  Tatix)b,  vol.  7,  p.  446< 


Permit  me,  sir,  in  my  turn,  to  ask  if  you 
have  read  it,  or  if  your  allusion  to  it  is  built 
upon  the  interpretation  given  to  it  by  that 
foul  slanderer  James  Laing,  whom  I  thank 
Sir  Egerton  Brydges  for  introducing  me  to 
in  one  of  his  erudite  volumes,  and  for  desig- 
nating him  as  a  furious  and  calumnious  bigot. 

Austerities. — ^The  man  who  worshipped 
cleanliness,  and  was  burnt  at  Paris.  Con- 
trast him  with  the  stinking  saints. 

Mr.  Hussenbeth,  a  Romish  priest  in 
Lord  Stafibrd*8  family,  expressing  his  dis- 
approbation of  a  book  of  Prayers  recently 
published  in  France,  "  which  are  nothing 
but  charms  or  spells  beneath  the  regards  of 
any  reasonable  person,**  complains  of  those 
who  would  make  **  it  believed  that  such  ri- 
diculous charms  are  sanctioned  by  the  Ca- 
tholic Church.  II  they  were,**  he  adds,  **  I, 
as  one  of  her  ministers,  however  unworthy, 


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should  be  bound  to  defend  them." — Nor- 
folk  Chronicley  Jan.  14,  1826. 

"  Tell  me,  gentle  reader,"  says  Light- 
foot,  vol.  4,  p.  59,  "  whether  doth  the  Jew 
Romanize,  ^or  the  Roman  Judaize  in  his 
devotions." 

**  It  is  a  canonical  saying  which  the  Son 
of  Sirach  hath  to  this  purpose,  *In  every 
work  be  of  a  faithful  heart,*  (£cc.  zxxii. 
23.)  Or  as  Drusius,  trust  thy  soul, — but 
most  directly  to  the  author*s  meaning,  be- 
lieve with  thy  soul,  for  this  is  the  keeping 
of  the  commandments." — Jackson,  vol.  1, 
p.  729. 

^*  Violent  passions,  intensive  desires,  or 
strong  affections,  either  strain  out,  or  suck 
in,  only  so  much  of  the  sense  of  scriptures 
as  symbolizeth  with  themselves,  for  with 
much  the  same  reason  that  if  one  string  be 
stiffly  bent  and  another  slack,  only  one  doth 
sound,  though  both  be  touched." — Ibid.  p. 
1021. 

Db.  Satess  (vol.  2,  p.  73)  argues  acutely 
that  **  a  want  of  miracles  would  have  been 
accounted  by  the  very  persons  who  object 
to  them,  and  certainly  by  others,  a  want  of 
the  material  part  of  the  evidence  for  a  di- 
vine revelation." 

Hartley  was  of  opinion  that  it  is  im- 
possible to  prove  all  Pagan  miracles  to  be 
false.  Sayers,  vol.  2,  p.  80,  differs  from 
him.  Pagan  miracles,  Baronius,  vol.  2,  p. 
102-3.     Romish  ones,  Matthew  vii.  22-3. 

Mas.  Hughes  heard  Wesley  say  at  a 
meeting  where  the  singing  did  not  please 
him,  "  There  are  two  ways  of  performing 
this  devotional  exercise,  singing  and  scream- 
ing.— Don't  scream." 

She  lived  in  the  street  at  Bath  where  he 
had  his  quarters,  and  observed  that  he  used 
to  order  his  carriage  every  day  some  half 
hour  before  he  wanted  it  himself,  that  the 
children  of  his  flock  might  be  indulged  in  a 


few  minutes*  ride,  as  many  at  a  time  as  the 
coach  would  hold. 

The  Armenian  Bible  Christians,  com- 
monly called  Briantes,  have  female  as  well 
as  male  itinerants.  The  female  preachers, 
described  in  the  Pulpit,  No.  6,  p.  91,  were 
dressed  like  Quakers.  One  of  them  held 
forth  fluently,  distinctly,  with  ability,  and 
apparent  effect  upon  a  not  numerous  audi- 
tory in  the  fields  between  the  City  Road 
and  Islington.  She  belonged  to  the  London 
Circuit,  and  was  No.  1 1  of  the  place. 

P.  Bagot,  who  was  confessor  to  Louis 
XIII.  used  to  say,  *^  si  Ton  vous  fait  entrer 
k  la  Cour  par  la  porte,  sauvez-vous  par  les 
fenetres." — Vie  de  Boudan^  p.  39. 

*^  Decem  pneceptorum  custos  Carolus," 
written  upon  Charlemagne's  sword. 

*'  It  is  a  strange  thing  that,  among  us, 
people  cannot  agree  the  whole  week  because 
they  go  different  ways  upon  Sundays."— 
Fabquhas. 

Poor  Farquhar  probably  did  not  care 
which  way  he  went. 

**  An  everlasting  reproach  upon  yon,  and 
a  perpetual  shame,  which  shall  not  be  for- 
gotten."— Jeremiah  xxiii.  40. 

**  Ceux  qui  sans  nous  connoitre  asaei 
pensent  mal  de  nous,  ne  nous  font  pas  de 
tort;  ce  n'est  pas  nous  qu'ils  attaquent, 
c*est  le  fant6me  de  leur  imagination.*" — La 
Bruterb,  tom.  2,  p.  144. 

*'''  KiEN  ne  nous  venge  mieux  des  mau- 
vais  jugemens  que  les  hommes  font  de  n6tre 
esprit,  de  nos  moeurs  et  de  nos  manieres, 
que  rindignit^  et  le  mauvais  caract^e  de 
ceux  qu*ils  approuvcnt." — Ibid.  p.  146. 

"  The  civil  magistrates'  facility  to  coun- 
tenance every  prating  discontent,  or  forth- 
putting  vocalist  in  preaching  what  he  li:^" 
— Jackson,  vol.  1,  p.  190. 

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**  Weeds  are  counted  herbs  in  the  be- 
ginning of  the  spring ;  nettles  are  put  in 
pottage,  and  sallats  are  made  of  eldem- 
buds/' — ^FuiXEB*s  Holy  State,  p.  11 

"  Cheist,"  says  good  old  Fuixee  the 
Worthy,  "  reproved  the  Pharisees  for  dis- 
figuring their  faces  with  a  sad  countenance. 
Fools!  who  to  persuade  men  that  angels 
lodged  in  their  hearts,  hung  out  the  devil 
for  a  sign  in  their  faces." — Ibid,  p  18. 

dya^iiy  aXri^et  iKJifivai  icaxoV.** 

Jackson,  vol.  2,  p.  318.  But  whether 
by  the  great  philosopher,  whom  he  quotes, 
Aristotle  or  Plato*  be  meant,  I  am  not  cer- 
tain, probably  the  former. 

*'  As  passengers  of  good  respect  would 
oflen  pass  by  unregarded  of  poor  cottagers, 
did  not  ill-nurtured  curs  notify  their  ap- 
proach by  barking ;  so  many  divine  myste- 
ries would  be  less  observed  than  they  are, 
did  not  profane  objectors,  become  our  re- 
membrancers.**— Jackson,  vol.  2,  p.  410. 

La  Bbuteee,  (vol.  1,  p.  40),  says  truly, 
that  there  is  a  sort  of  criticism  which  cor- 
rupts both  the  writer  and  the  readers. 

Jackson  says,  that  **  to  distinguish  feign- 
ed or  counterfeit  from  true  experimental 
affections,  is  the  most  easy  and  most  certain 
kind  of  criticism."— (Vol.  1,  p.  22.)  True  ; 
for  men  who  have  the  faculty  of  discern- 
ment. But  there  is  nothing  in  which  com- 
mon readers  and  common  critics  are  more 
frequently  deceived. 

^  Nob  is  it  when  bad  things  agree 
Thought  union,  but  conspiracy." 

Kathebine  Philips. 

*  I  hare  not  found  the  passage  in  Aristotle, 
whom  I  have  searched  by  the  Index.  The 
argument,  and  the  words  nearly,  I  have  found 
in  the  PhiUbus  of  Plato,  ii.  40.  Ed.  Priestley 
4  Bekker,  vol.  v.  p.  521.  As  Jackson  makes 
DO  reference  he  probably  quoted  mtmoriter. 

J.  W.  W. 


The  worst  malison  that  can  be  pro- 
nounced against  one  of  an  uncharitable,  en- 
vious, malicious,  spiteful  mind,  is — 

*^  Let  him  be  still  himself,  and  let  him  live." 

Ibid. 

The  brewers  have  a  society  for  the  pro- 
tection of  casks. 

If  the  argument  presses  you  with  ti  peine 
fort  et  dure,  you  have  brought  it  upon  your- 
self. 

The  gunpowder  heroes, — the  pious  and 
persecuted  Percy,  calumniated  Catesby,  in- 
trepid Tresham,  and  glorious  Grey;  base 
Bates ;  the  excellent  and  elevated  Sir  Eve- 
rard.  Best  speaks  of  his  family  as  illxu' 
trated  by  the  name  of  Sir  Everard,  and  the 
plot  as  ministerial.  Even  if  it  had  been  so, 
Sir  Everard  was  not  the  less  a  traitor. 

"  The  presumed  absolute  infallibility  of 
the  visible  Romish  church  for  the  time  being, 
doth  lay  a  necessity  upon  their  successors 
of  freezing  in  the  dregs  of  their  predeces- 
sors' errors." — Db.  J.  Jackson,  vol.  3,  p. 
187. 

*'  Fob  among  my  people  arc  found  wicked 
men ;  they  lay  wait,  as  he  that  setteth  snares ; 
they  set  a  trap,  they  catch  men. 

"  As  a  cage  is  full  of  birds,  so  are  their 
houses  full  of  deceit;  therefore  they  are 
become  great-,  and  waxen  rich. 

"  They  are  waxen  fat ;  they  shine." 

Jeremiah,  v.  26-7-8. 

Rome. 

**  As  a  fountain  castcth  out  her  waters ; 
so  she  casteth  out  her  wickedness." — Ibid, 
vi.  7. 

Refobmation. 

"  Thus  saith  the  Lord,  Stand  ye  in  the 
ways,  and  see,  and  ask  for  the  old  paths, 
where  is  the  good  way,  and  walk  therein, 
and  ye  shall  find  rest  for  your  souls." — Ibid, 
vi.  16. 


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"  They  have  made  lies  their  refuge,  and 
under  falsehood  have  they  hid  themselves'' — 
Iscdaht  xxviii.  15. 

"  Thbt  wUl  prove  their  religion,"  says 
LiOHTFooT,  (vol.  I,  p.  190),  "  by  antiquity, 
universality,  and  I  know  not  what.  Let 
them  show  it  by  the  humility  and  merciful- 
ness of  it,  and  we  shall  desire  no  more." 

"  This  is  the  reason,  (Ibid.  p.  1 92),  that  so 
many  Protestants  turn  Papists,  (1674);  be- 
cause Popery  opens  an  easier  way  to  hea- 
ven a  thousand  fold  than  the  Protestant 
doth." 

In  that  story  of  the  Frbon  chief,  (Ro- 
chardus,  Lightfoot  calls  him),  who  having 
his  foot  in  the  Baptistery,  asked  whether  his 
unbaptized  forefathers  were  gone  to  heaven 
or  hell ;  and  being  told  by  the  bishop,  that 
most  certainly  they  were  gone  to  hell,  with- 
drew his  foot,  and  saying,  then  I  will  go 
the  same  way  with  them,  refused  to  be 
baptized, — I  am  more  inclined  to  compas- 
sionate the  error  of  the  bishop  than  of  the 
barbarian. 

Old  truths  will  be  again  acknowledged, 
and  exploded  principles  re-established.  It 
will  be  in  philosophy  as  in  geography  since 
we  have  re-discovered  BafEn*s  Bay. 

"  Rouge  au  soir,  blanc  au  matin, 
C'est  la  joum^e  du  Pelerin. 
L*on  entend  cela  pour  le  temps 
Mais  je  Tentens  pour  le  vin."    Mot. 
Le  Berger  Extravagantt  vol.  1,  p.  40. 

Constant  alliance  of  the  Popes  with  any 
conquering  dynasty  noted  by  Thierry. 

"  When  thou  sawest  a  thief  thou  con- 
sentedst  unto  him." 

And  this  from  Phocas  and  Charlemagne 
down  to  Buonaparte. 

"  I  WILL  reprove  thee,  and  set  before 
thee  the  things  that  thou  hast  done." — 
Psalm  1.  21. 


"Benefits  please, like  flowers, while  th< 
.are  fresh." — Jacuia  Prvdentum,     G.  Hei 

BERT. 

"  Living  well  is  the  best  revenge." 
Ibid. 

'^  Tare  heed  of  an  ox  before,  of  a  hor 
behind,  of  a  monk  on  all  sides." — Ibid. 

"  A  PIECE  of  a  churchyard  fits  eve 
body."— Ibid. 

"  BoLERMOs  a  los  mismos  lances  de 
platica  paasada,  que  es  donde  dobkmos 
hoja." — Perez  db  Montaloan,  p.  74. 

"  '  The  fear  of  the  Lord  is  the  begmni 
of  wisdom;*  but  calling  it  the  beginnii 
implies  that  we  ought  to  proceed  fartb 
— namely,  from  his  fear  to  hb  love." 

Paley.  Senium  2. 

Worse  sins  than  idolatry,  when  men  wi 
every  one  afler  the  imagination  of  his  c 
heart. — Jeremiah  xvi.  11-12. 

And  above  all  things  well  and  thorougl 
consider  the  horrors  of  the  Mass, — for  ^ 
sake  of  which  idol  God  in  justice  mi| 
have  drowned  and  destroyed  the  onivez 
world. — CoU,  Mensalia^  p.  288. 

"  Who  dips  with  the  devil,  he  had  ni 
have  a  long  spoon."  * — Apius  and  Virgin 


*^k^^^^^i/^^^^^p^^/^^^^\,^,^v^ 


Jacvla  Prudenhan. 

He  that  stumbles  and  falls  not,  mei 
his  pace. 

The  gentle  hawk  half  mans  herself. 

A  lion's  skin  is  never  cheap. 

Nothing  is  to  be  presumed  on,  or  < 
spaired  of. 

Think  of  ease,  but  work  on. 


1  A  common  proverb.  So  in  the  Comedy 
Errarsy "  Marry,  he  must  have  a  long  spuon  t 
must  eat  with  the  devil." — Act  iv.  sc.  iii. 

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Fanishment  is  lame,  but  it  comes. 

A  maii*s  discontent  in  his  worst  evil. 

Fear  nothing  but  sin. 

You  cannot  make  a  windmill  go  with  a 
pwr  of  bellows. 

The  eyes  have  one  language  everywhere. 

Heresy  is  the  school  of  pride. 

For  the  same  man  to  be  a  heretic  and  a 
good  subject  is  incompossible, 

SncGiNO  the  ass*s  tune,  high  begun,  but 
lowly  ended.  —  Lutheb.  CoU.  Merualicu, 
p.  401. 

"  £bub  atramento  candefacbre." 

Erasmus.     Adag.  p.  140. 

A  German  quarrel — three  fighting,  each 
one  against  the  other  two. 

Th£R£*8  craft  in  the  clouted  shoe. 

"Desdichado  Convento,  triste  Religion, 
Que  la  Missa  del  Gallo  la  canta  un  Capon." 

The  Spaniards  applied  this  to  some  of 
their  officers  who  were  unworthily  entrusted 
with  command. 

"Cherchant  toujours  cinqpieds." — Pa- 
mela,  vol.  3,  let.  20.  "  En  un  mouton." — 
Amadis^  \,  10,  p.  37. 

"  NoviT  enim  Deus,  cur  caprse  curtam 
eandam  dederit." — ^Van  Uelmont,  p.  751. 

"  I  MUST  tell  you,"  says  Strafford  to 
Lord  Cottington,  *'  a  sow's  ears  may  prove 
good  souce,  albeit  no  silken  purse :  and  the 
proverb  is  such  as  any  king  in  Christendom 
must  be  pleased  withal,  the  expression  being 
so  significant,  and  yet  withal  so  quaint,  and 
so  little  vulgar.  Look  you,  put  it  among 
those  of  Spain,  which  you  brag  so  much  of, 
for  in  the  whole  catalogue  you  have  not  one 
so  poignant  and  pressing." — Stratford's 
Letters,  vol.  1,  p.  163. 

GuiBERT,  Abbas  de  Fignoribus  Sancto- 
rum in  Dacherius. 


He  tells  us  that.  Odo,  the  Conqueror's 
brother,  bought  the  body  of  a  countryman 
called  Exuperius  of  a  sexton  for  £100,  and 
made  a  solemn  translation  of  it  for  St.  Exu- 
perius. 

There  was  a  sort  of  wandering  monks 
called  Circelliones,^  who  made  a  trade  of 
selling  and  stealing  relics. — Hugo  Menard, 
Not  in  Concord,  Regul,  c.  3,  p.  125. 

Stillinoflbet's  Second  DUcourse,  pp. 
603-4. 

St.  John  of  Beverley's  relics  found — 
yielding  a  sweet  smell,  in  A.  Wood's  time. — 
Wood's  Life,  p.  193. 

"  It  must  be  a  hard  winter  when  one  wolf 
eateth  another." — Euphues. 

"  One  thing  said  twice  (as  we  say  com- 
monly) deserveth  a  trudge.^* — Ibid. 

'^  It  is  a  blind  goose  that  knoweth  not  a 
fox  from  a  fern -bush  ;  and  a  foolish  fellow 
that  cannot  discern  crafl  from  conscience, 
being  once  cousened." — Ibid. 

"  As  good  never  a  whit,  as  never  the  bet- 
ter."— Goodman's  Conference,  part  3,  p.  50. 

'^  Revenons  des  asnes  aux  chevaux,  com- 
me  dit  le  proverb."  —  Bouchet.  12  Serees. 
p.  370. 

"  Muck  is  the  mother  of  the  meal  chest." 
— Worgan's  Cornwall,  p.  123. 

**  Dexar  los  cuydados  en  el  jubon,  para 
tomarlos  en  lamanana  con  el." — Dona  Ouva 
Sabuco,  p.  33* 

"  LuN£  radiis  non  maturescit  botrus." — 
Such  things  will  not  prosper  with  cold  en- 
couragement. 

'  *'  CirceUiones  dicuntur  qui  tub  habUu  Mona- 
chorum  usquequaque  vaganturi  vtualem  circumje- 
rentet  hypocrisin.**  Gloss.  MS.  San^erman.  n« 
501.     Du  Canob  in  v.  Circelllo.— J.  W.  W. 


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As  you  sow,  80  you  must  reap  ;  as  you 
brew,  so  you  must  bake. 

You  would  be  over  the  style  before  you 
come  to  it. 

"  And  so  like  Cole's  dog,  the  untutored  mome. 
Must  neither  go  to  church,  nor  bide  at  home.*' 

Taylob,  the  W.  P. 

There  is  a  proverb  about  the  pride  of 
old  Cole's  dog,  who  took  the  wall  of  a  dung 
cart,  and  was  crushed  to  death  by  the 
wheel. 

"  Mewdacia  curta  semper  habent  crura." 
GoLDASTUs'  Rer,  Alem,  vol.  1,  p.  93. 

"La  ou  Dieu  batit  uneEglise,  le  Diable 
y  fonde  une  Chapelle." — Bekkeb,  vol.  2, 
p.  670. 

Cow  tiempo  se  maduran  las  nispolas.  This 
proverb  the  Hispanized  Irish  used  when 
plotting  the  rebellion.  —  Clabendon  Pa- 
perSy  vol.  2,  p.  138. 

Aglionbt,  in  his  account  of  the  Earl  of 
Cumberland's  last  voyage,  uses  this^  as  if  it 
were  a  common  saying. — "  Needs  must^  needs 
shall." — Rob.  Gbeene. 

TouB  proverb  in  England  is,  that 
"  That  country  is  best  for  the  bider. 
That  is  most  cumbersome  for  the  rider." 

"  El  que  no  fue  paje  siempre  huele  a 
azemilero."  Oviedo,  (ff.  14),  gives  this  as 
a  "  proverbeo  cortesano  que  suelen  dezir  los 
curiosos." 


He  gives,  too,  as  an  Italian  proverb, — 
"  Altro  vole  la  tabla  que  toualla  bianca."— 
ff.  14. 

"  Rim  AN  les  comadres,  y  descubrense  las 
verdades."— ff.  127. 

*  The  sayins  here  alluded  to  is,  "  To  return 
tterefore  to  the  stile  where  I  come  over." 
Greene's  is  a  parallel  one.»~J.  W.  W. 


"  Matabas  y  matarte  han, 
y  mataran  quien  te  matare. 

Ibid.  ff.  148. 

"  Set  the  hare's  foot  against  the  goose 
giblets."— Websteb,  vol.  3,  p.  131. 

"  Like  Coventry  bowlers,  who  play  their 
best  at  first."— AsGiLL. 

"  YouB  place  may  bear  the  name  of 
gentlemen. 
But  if  ever  any  of  that  butter  stick  to  your 

bread." 

Beaumont  and  Flbtchee, 
Hum,  Lieutenant^  p.  7. 

»*  Qui  veut  aller  les  pieds  nuds,  ne  doit 
semer  des  espines." — Bouchet,  vol.  2,  p.  16. 

St.  Jbbome  admonishing  St.  Augustine, 
**  ne  juvenis  senem  provocaret,"  remindetl 
him  that  "  Bos  lassus  fortius  figit  pedem." 
— Ebasmus.  Adagia. 

"  The  fatter  the  sow  is,  the  more  she 
desires  the  mire." — J.  Bunyan. 


"  None  of  God's  angels." 

Wedsteb,  vol.  3,  p.  173. 

Tough  Welsh  parsley,  which  in  our  vul- 
gar tongue  is,  strong  hempen  halters. 

"  Douce  parole  n'escorche  gorge."  — 
Amadis,  vol.  10,  p.  105. 

Fellows  who  have  well  deserved  that 
their  "heads  should  make  buttons  for  hemp- 
en loops." — ^Ivimet's  History  of  Baptists, 
vol.  1,  p.  158.  From  a  pamphlet,— "New 
Preachers,  New !" 

"  Like  a  winter's  day,  short  and  dirty."— 
Pisgah  View,  p.  187. 

"  The  thief  in  the  candle  wasteth  more 
than  the  burning  of  the  wick." — ^Ibid.  197. 

"  It  must  be  a  wily  mouse  that  shall  breed 
in  the  cat's  ear." — Euphues. 


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CucBCH  of  England.  "  We  have  re- 
nounced the  hidden  things  of  dishonesty, 
not  walking  in  craftiness,  nor  handling  the 
word  of  God  deceitfullj :  but  by  manifes- 
tation of  the  truth,  commending  ourselres 
to  every  man*s  conscience  in  the  sight  of 
God."— 2  Corinth,  iv.  2. 

In  the  patriarchal  and  earlier  age,  though 
men  were  so  much  nearer  their  origin  that 
the  intercourse  with  spiritual  beings  was 
open,  yet  they  were  incapable  of  conceiving 
any  but  a  personal  and  visible  Deity. 

Fuller  (Pisgah  Sights  p.  394),  speaking 
of  the  fire  from  heaven  which  consumed 
EIgah*8  sacrifice,  says  in  an  odd  parenthe- 
sis, "  God  employs  no  slugs  on  his  errands." 
Yet  the  slow  causes  of  destruction  which 
work  in  performance  of  the  Almighty  will, 
are  as  sure  and  more  numerous  than  the 
swifl  ones. 

Ibid.  p.  403-4.  Sacrilege.  No  such  sin 
in  their  days !  well  answered. 

Men  rendered  so  impotent  by  their  false 
philosophy,  even  more  than  by  ^eir  natural 
corruption,  that  they  are  not  sufiicient  ^*  to 
think  a  good  thing,  not  able  to  understand 
a  good  thing,  nor  to  comprehend  the  light 
when  it  shines  upon  them." — Br.  Retkolds, 
vol.  1,  p.  209. 

Some  in  the  prospect  of  death,  have  the 
galling  anticipation  of  what  others  will  gain 
by  it,  and  rejoice  therefrom :  some  the  pain- 
ful one  of  what  others  will  lose. 

I^Ien  may  more  easily  persuade  against 
their  inclination,  as  well  as  their  judgment, 
to  do  what  is  foolish,  absurd,  imprudent^ 
dangerous,  and  even  sinful,  than  to  what  is 
right,  if  inclination  to  the  right  is  wanting. 

The  author  who  draws  upon  the  firm  of 
envy,  hatred,  malice,  and  uncharitableness, 
is  always  sure  that  his  bills  will  be  ac- 
cepted there. 


"  To  pull  down  churches,  with  pretension 
To  build  them  fairer,  may  be  done  with 

honour. 
And  all  this  time  believe  no  gods." 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Wife 
for  a  Months  p.  277. 

"  Report  ?  you  are  unwise ;  report  is  no- 
thing : 
For  if  there  were  a  truth  in  what  men  talk, 
(I  mean  of  this  kind)  this  part  of  the  world 
I  am  sure  would  be  no  more  called  Christ- 
endom."— Ibid.  Captain,  p.  6. 

Few  of  our  present  unbelievers  retain  any 
natural  religion  :  they  verify  our  Saviour*s 
words,  **  He  that  .hateth  me,  hateth  my 
Father  also,"  (John  xv.  23.)  and  are  thus 
living  witnesses,  how  well  he  knew  what  is 
in  the  heart  of  man. 

"  II  y  a  certains  moyens  qui,  par  cela 
mSme  qu*ils  sont  fort  propres  k  faire  la 
moiti^  de  Toeuvre,  sont  incapablcs  de  la  ffdre 
toute." — Batle,  Diet  vol.  1,  p.  277. 

The  Jews  dedicated  their  houses. 

Deuter,  zx.  5. 

Thet  who  set  aside  the  consideration  of 
religion  in  political  matters,  act  like  a  phy- 
sician who,  in  the  treatment  of  his  patients, 
should  disregard  all  afiections  of  the  mind. 

Society,  or  rather  government,  is  like  a 
road;  the  best  require  to  be  constantly  kept 
in  order ;  else  nothing  can  be  worse  than 
the  decayed  and  broken  state  of  that  which 
has  been  most  firmly  constructed. 

"  II  est  de  Tutilit^  publique  que  certaines 
gens  soient  obliges  de  8*^crier," 

"  Eheu, 
Quam  temerb  in  nosmet  legem  sancimus 
unquam." — Horace,  sat.  3,  1.  1,  v.  67. 
Batle,  vol.  3,  p.  331. 

Nicius  Ertthrehs  says  there  is  a  pro- 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


verb  at  Rome,  "  Quo  dicitur,  tria  esse 
hominum  genera,  qui  nihil  fer^  legibus,  quas 
ipsi  aliis  imponunt,  utantur ;  nimirum,  Juris- 
consultos.  Medicos  atque  Theologos.  Nulli 
enim  magis  in  negotiis  abjure,  ab  squitate, 
discedunt  quam  jurisconsulti;  nulli  tuendse 
valetudinis  rationem  minus  servant  quam 
medici ;  nulli  conscientiae  aculeos  miniis  me- 
tuunt  quam  theologi." — Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  497. 

The  character  of  Margites  suits  many  a 
man  in  these  dajs. 

IIoXA.*  i}WflTaro  ipya^   tcatctac  ^^ijiriaraTO 
Tayra. 

"  This  heresy 
Must  be  look*d  to  in  time ;  for  if  it  spread, 
'Twill  grow  too  pestilent.    Were  I  a  scholar, 
I  would  so  hamper  thee  for  thy  opinion, 
That,  ere  I  left,  I  would  write  thee  out  of 

credit 
With  all  the  world,  and  make  thee  not  be- 

•  lieved. 
Even  in  indifferent  things  ; — that  I  would 

leave  thee 
A  reprobate  out  of  the  state  of  honour.** 
Beaumont  and  Fletcheb,  The 
Captain,  p.  13. 

"  A  PILL, 

Gilded  to  hide  the  bitterness  it  brings.** 

Ibid.  p.  18. 

"  I  COULD  now  question  heaven  (were  it  well 
To  look  into  their  justice)  why  those  faults, 
Those  heavy  sins  others  provoke  'em  with. 
Should  be  rewarded  on  the  heads  of  us 
That  hold  the  least  alliance  to  their  vices  : 
But  this  would  be  too  curious ;  for  I  see 
Our  suffering,  not  disputing,  is  the  end 
Reveal  d  to  us  of  all  these  miseries.** 

Ibid.  p.  27. 

"  ^"^"  wretched  people, 
That  have  no  more  to  justify  their  actions 
But  their  tongues'  ends;  that  dare  lie  every 

As  a  mill  g,.inds.**  j^id.  p.  35. 


"  Abbitbabt  government  would  quickly 
be  tampering  in  sacred  things,  because  cor- 
ruption in  the  church  is  marvellously  sub- 
servient and  advantageous  to  corruption  in 
the  state.*' — Bp.  Reynolds,  vol.  3,  p.  200. 

*^  Examples  that  may  nourish 
Neglect  and  disobedience  in  whole  bodies, 
And  totter  the  estates  and  faiths  of  armies, 
Must  not  be  plaid  withal.*' 

Beaumont  and  Fletcheb, 
Bonduca,  p.  330. 

"  The  gentlemen  will  praise  thee,  Ralph, 
if  thou  playest  thy  part  with  audacity." 
Knight  of  the  B,  Pestle,  p.  383. 

*^La  corruption  des  moeurs  a  ete  si  grande, 
tant  parmi  ceux  qui  ont  vecu  dans  le  monde, 
que  parmi  ceux  qui  ont  vccu  hors  du  monde 
(c*est  k  dire,  les  gens  d*eglise)  que  plus  on 
s*attache  h  donner  des  relations  fideles  et 
veritables,  plus  on  court  risque  de  ne  com- 
poser que  des  libelles  diffamatoires." 

Batjle,  vol.  4,  p.  181. 

"  II  y  a  sans  doute  une  grande  opposition 
entre  Thistoire  et  la  satire;  mais  peu  de 
ehoses  suffiraient  pour  metamorphoscr  Tune 
en  I'autre." — Ibid. 

Pen  War.  "  Je  ne  crois  pas  qu'on  doive 
exiger  d'un  historien  tout  le  sang  froid  avec 
quoi  il  faut  que  les  juges  prononcent  une 
sentence  de  condamnation  contre  les  volcurs 
et  les  homicides.  Quelques  reflexions  un 
peu  animees  ne  lui  sieent  pas  mal.** — ^Ibid. 

*'  II  est  utile  de  faire  voir  aux  lecteurs, 
par  des  cxemples  sensibles,  jusqu'  o^  peut 
aller  la  hardiesse  de  mentir  publiquement, 
quand  une  fois  on  a  T impudence  de  faire 
imprimer  tons  les  contes  qui  courent^les 
rues.**— Ibid.  p.  218. 

"  II  n'y  a  point  de  mensonge,  pour  si 
absurde  qu*il  soit,  qui  ne  passe  de  livre  en 
livre,  et  de  siecle  en  si^le.  Mentez  har- 
diment,   imprimez    totttes    sortes   d'extrtna- 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


679 


^ancesy  peut-on  dire  au  plus  miserable  lar- 
doniste  de  TEurope,  vaus  trouverez  assez  de 
gens  qui  copieront  vos  contes ;  et  si  ron  yous 
rebute  dans  an  certain  temps,  il  naitra  des 
conjunctures  oii  Ton  aura  int^rSt  de  vous 
faire  resusciter." — Ibid.  p.  399. 

**  AvABissiMA  honoris  humana  mens,  fa- 
cilius  regnum  et  opes  quam  gloriam  par- 
titur." — JEn,  SylvitUy  Hist.  Bob. 


**  AriH  qu*un  raillerie  sait  bonne,  il  faut 
que  celui  qu'on  raille  m^rite  d'etre  raille." 

Ibid.  vol.  5,  p.  243. 

**  Pjlus  je  lis,  plus  je  me  persuade  qu'il 
n'est  pas  aussi  difficile  de  trouver  des  ^cri- 
vains  qui  aient  de  belles  et  de  bonnes  pen- 
sees,  que  d*en  trouver  qui  les  expriment 
sans  s'embarrasser  dans  quelque  mauvais 
raisonnement.  Un  bon  logicien  est  plus 
rare  qu'on  ne  pense." — Ibid.  p.  501. 

A  FLisT  is  easily  broken  upon  a  pillow. 
Bp.  Reynolds,  vol.  4,  p.  300. 

"  A  DiSTEMPEBBD  Constitution  of  mind, 
as  of  body,  is  wont  to  weaken  the  retentive 
£Eumlty,  and  to  force  an  evacuation  of  bad 
humours." — ^Baerow,  vol.  1,  p.  285. 

"  The  reporter  in  such  cases  must  not 
think  to  defend  himself  by  pretending  that 
he  spake  nothing  false;  for  such  proposi- 
tions, however  true  in  logic,  may  justly  be 
deemed  lies  in  morality,  being  uttered  with 
a  malicious  and  deceitful  (that  is,  with  a 
calumnious)  mind ;  being  apt  to  impress 
false  conceits,  and  to  produce  hurtful  effects 
concerning  our  neighbours.  There  are  slan- 
derous truths  as  well  as  slanderous  false- 
hoods :  when  truth  is  uttered  with  a  de- 
ceitful heart,  and  to  a  base  end,  it  becomes 
a  Ue."  ^— Ibid.  p.  387. 


*  AacHBiSHOP  Leiqhton  says,  "  Even  sin 
may  be  sinfully  reproved  j  and  how  thinkest 
thou  that  sin  shall  redress  sin,  and  restore  the 
sinner  ?  "     See  on  1  Pet.  iv.  8.  Vol.  ii.  p.  339. 

J.  W.  W. 


"  As  for  wisdom,  that  may  denote  either 
sapience,  a  habit  of  knowing  what  is  true ; 
or  prudence,  a  disposition  of  choosing  what 
is  good." — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  491. 

Points  upon  which,  with  Jeremy  Taylor, 
I  will  express  my  own  sense  in  St.  Augus- 
tine's words  : — "  Mallem  quidem  eorum, 
quse  ^  me  quesivisti,  habere  scientiam  quam 
ignorantiam ;  sed  quia  id  nondum  potui, 
magis  eligo  cautam  ignorantiam  confiteri, 
quam  falsam  scientiam  profiteri." — J.  Tat- 
LOB,  vol.  7,  p.  435. 

The  wise  and  the  half-learned. — Pindas, 
Olym,  2,  V.  155,  &c. 

ViETUE  requires  struggling.  —  Olym,  4, 
30,  &c. 

At£t  5'  <V*^'  dpeToiaif  itovoq  Sana.' 

va  re  fxapyarai  irpoQ 
"Epyov  KivBvv^  KeKoXvfifJLivov, 

01  5,  V.  34. 

Eu  Zk  t\ovTig,  (ro<l>ol  ical  iroXi- 

Taic  iSo^av  efifuy.      Ibid.  v.  37. 

No  virtue  without  danger. — OL  6,  v.  14. 

TifuJvrec  2*  aperaCf 
*Elc  (^ayepav  oSoy  tp\ovTai, 

Ibid.  V.  122. 


TeKfxalpei 
Xprifi  eKaoTor.  Ibid.  v.  123. 


Impulse  to  compose  a  poem. 

Ibid.  V.  146. 


Mutability. 


AXXor  oXXoioi  haiOvtrffovtriy  aZpai. 

OL  7,  V.  173. 

o  T  efcXeyxwv  fioyoi 
^AXaOeiay  iriiTVfioy 
XpoyoQ.  01  10.  V.  65. 


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ffai  ^e  Kaipoc  apioroc* 

01.  13,  V.  67. 

The  graces. — 01.  14,  v.  4. 

*^  Many  times  the  use  of  new  phrases  and 
expressions  (a  curiosity  too  much  affected 
in  this  age)  doth  make  way  for  the  intro- 
ducing of  new  doctrines." — Retkolds,  vol. 
5,  p.  176. 

True  in  politics  as  in  religion. 

"  We  ourselves  bj  our  sins,  have  loosened 
the  joints  of  religion  and  government,  and 
done  that  with  our  own  hands,  which  our 
enemies,  by  all  their  machinations,  did  in 
vain  attempt.** — Ibid.  p.  225. 

"  Personal  chastisements  may  be  for 
trial  and  exercise  of  faith  and  patience: 
But  general  and  public  judgments  are  ever 
in  wrath  and  displeasure.** — Ibid.  p.  274. 

Thebe  b  no  end  to  the  mischief  and  mi- 
sery which  may  arise  from  any  folly,  or  any 
whim,  in  a  consciencious  but  weak-minded 
man,  if  it  amount  to  the  weight  of  a  scruple. 

"  These  can  no  greater  revenge  light 
upon  thee,  than  that  as  thou  hast  reaped 
where  another  has  sown,  so  another  may 
thrash  that  which  thou  hast  reaped.** 

£!uphues. 


",The  old  verse  standeth  as  yet  in  his  old 
virtue,  that  Galen  giveth  goods,  Justinian 
honours.** — Ibid. 

"  Le  bien  dire  ne  pent  pas  payer  le  bien 
faire.*' — Salmasius,  JEp.  1,  p.  1, 

"  II  y  a  moins  de  p^ril  a  ne  pas  s^avoir 
du  tout  une  chose,  qu'k  la  s^avoir  mal.** — 
Ibid.  Ep.  6,  p.  10. 

B£LL£AU*s  words  may  be  applied  to  hun- 
gry patriots,  who 

**  pris  d*ambition 
Dedans  leur  estomac  font  la  sedition.** 

Tom.  1,  p.  116. 


"  But  well  in  you  I  find 
No  man  doth  speak  aright  who  speaks  in 

fear. 
Who  only  sees  the  ill,  is  worse  than  blind.*" 

Stdnet,  p.  403. 

"  Why  should  such  plants  as  you  are, 
Tenderly  bred,  and  brought  up  in  all  ful- 
ness, 
Desire  the  stubborn  wars  ? 

Beaumont  and  Fustcheb,  Lovers 
PUgrimage^  vol.  7,  p.  40. 

*'  They  are  things  ignorant. 
And  therefore  apted  to  that  superstition." 

Ibid.  p.  43. 

"  What  a  world  is  this. 
When  young  men  dare  determine  what 

those  are. 
Age  and  the  best  experience  ne*er  could 
aim  at! 
Marc.  They  were  thick-eyed  then.  Sir ; 
now  the  Print*s  larger. 
And  they  may  read  their  fortunes  without 
spectacles.**  Ibid.  p.  43. 

The  tyrant  in  Beaumont  and  Fletcheb 
{Double  Marriage^  p.  139,)  says,  of  the 
people, 

"  Let  *em  rise,  let  'em  rise ;  give  me  the 

bridle  here, 
And  see  if  they  can  crack  my  girths !   Ah 

VilUo, 
Under  the  sun  there*s  nothing  so  voluptuous 
As  riding  of  this  monster,  till  he  founders.** 

"  Those  men  have  broken  credits, 
Loose  and  dismember*d  faiths. 
That  splinter  *em  with  vows.** 

Beaumont  and  Fi^etcheb,  Mmd 
in  the  Mill,  p.  214. 

A  lie,  that  will  stretch  well.  ^It  must 
be  faced,  you  know ;  there  will  be  a  yard 
of  dissimulation  at  least,  city  measure,  and 
cut  upon  an  untruth  or  two ;  lined  with 
fables,  that  must  be,  cold  weather*s  coming ; 
if  it  had  a  galoon  of  hypocrisy,  *twould  do 


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well,  and  hooked  together  with  a  couple  of 
conceits." 

Bostopha  the  miller*8  son,  in  the  Maid  in 
the  Mill,  p.  257. 

• 

**I  GRANT  you  we  are  all  knaves,  and  will 
be  jour  knaves ;  but  oh !  while  you  live, 
take  heed  of  being  a  proud  knave ! — Bbau- 
MOMT  and  Fletchjeb,  Martial  Maid,  p. 415. 

^*  How  men,  in  high  place  and  authority, 
Are,  in  their  lives  and  estimations,  wrong*d 
By  their  subordinate  ministers !  yet  such 
They  cannot  but  employ,  wrong'd  justice 

finding 
Scarce  one  true  servant  in  ten  officers.** 

Ibid.  p.  455. 

'^The  higher  thy  calling  is,  the  better 
ought  thy  conscience  to  be.  And  as  far  it 
beseemeth  a  gentleman  to  be  from  pride  as 
he  is  from  poverty ;  and  as  near  to  gentle- 
ness in  condition,  as  he  is  in  blood.** 

Euphues. 

*^  Such  a  quarrel  hath  there  always  been 
between  the  grave  and  the  cradle,  that  he 
that  is  young  thinketh  the  old  man  fond,  and 
the  old  knowelh  the  young  man  to  be  a  fool.** 

Ibid. 

"  II  faut  en  chaque  estat  vouloir  ce  que  Ton 

pent, 
Quand  on  ne  peut  atteindre  It  cela  que  Ton 

veut.**         Pasquieb,  vol.  2,  p.  880. 

"  In  truth,  I  think  there  is  no  more  dif- 
ference between  them,  than  between  a  broom 
and  a  besom.** — Euphues, 

Eup^ES  says,  "  I  have  now  lived  com- 
passes,^ for  Adam*s  old  apron  must  make  Eve 
a  new  kirtle;  noting  this,  that  when  no 
new  thing  could  be  devised,  nothing  could 
be  more  new  than  the  old.** 

"  Such  a  malady  in  the  marrow,  will  never 
out  of  the  bones.*' — Ibid. 


*  Not  being  able  to  find  the  passage,  I  leave 
it  as  it  stands. — J.  W.  W. 


**  An  archer  is  to  be  known  by  his  aim, 
not  by  his  arrow.  But  your  aim  is  so  ill, 
that  if  you  knew  how  far  wide  from  the  mark 
your  shaft  sticketh,  you  would  hereafter 
rather  break  your  bow  than  bend  it.** — Ibid. 

"  Be  your  cloth  never  so  bad,  it  will  take 
some  colour ;  and  your  cause  never  so  false, 
it  will  bear  some  shew  of  probability.*' — Ibid. 

"  Not  willing  to  have  the  grass  mown, 
whereof  he  meant  to  make  his  hay.** — Ibid. 

Hais  has  its  steel  shade  first,  because  it 
becomes  silvered. 

A  PRECIOUS  science  that  must  be,  in  which 
it  would  require  two  years*  study  for  a  man 
like  G.  T.  to  settle  his  opinion  upon  some 
of  its  fundamental  principles ! 

"  The  one*s  wealth 
Shall  weigh  up  t*other*s  wisdom  in  the  scale 
Of  their  light  judgment.** 

GoFr*8  Raging  Turk,  p.  62. 

The  court  of  chancery  becoming  a  court 
of  Nequity.    We  want  that  word. 

"  I  HAVE  seen  young  faces  traced  by  care ; 
cheeks  that  ought  to  have  been  bright,  al- 
ready faded  by  want :  some  poor  little  ones, 
to  whom  Christmas  day  was  not  a  feast  day.** 
Miss  Emba,  Scenes  in  our  Parish,  p.  27. 

"  To  tell  a  practical  lie  is  a  great  sin,  but 
yet  transient;  but  to  set  up  a  theorical  un- 
truth, is  to  warrant  every  lie  that  lies  from 
its  root  to  the  top  of  every  branch  it  hath.** 
Cobbler  of  Aggawan,  p.  6. 

"  Wise  are  those  men  who  will  be  per- 
suaded rather  to  live  within  the  pale  of  truth, 
where  they  may  be  quiet,  than  in  the  pur- 
lieus.**— Ibid.  p.  7. 

"That  state  that  will  give  liberty  of  con- 
science in  matters  of  religion,  must  give  li- 
berty of  conscience  and  conversation  in  their 


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moral  laws ;  or  else  the  fiddle  will  be  out 
of  tune,  and  some  of  the  strings  crack." — 
Ibid.  p.  8. 

Wb  live  in  expectance  "of  that  happy 
night  that  the  king  shall  cause  his  chronicles 
to  be  read,  wherein  he  shall  find  the  faith- 
fulness of  Mordecu,  the  treason  of  his  eu- 
nuchs, and  then  letHaman  look  to  himself." 
— Stbaffobd,  Letters^  vol.  1,  p.  33. 

Unwobtht  prelates.  One  of  this  descrip- 
tion, "  like  that  candle  hid  under  a  bushel, 
darkens  himself,  and  all  that  are  about  him." 
— VVandesfobd,  Ibid.  voL  1,  p.  49. 

"  The  rust  of  the  laws,  which  hath  almost 
eaten  out  the  very  iron,  the  strength  that 
was  in  them.' —Ibid. 

Mb.  Ch.  Hodson  tells  me  he  has  been 
informed  that  in  agricultural  countries  the 
Methodists  are  attached  to  the  church,  in 
manufacturing  ones  and  large  towns,  their 
feeling  towards  it  is  hostile.  This  might  be 
expected. 

"If  ye  will  not  believe,  surely  ye  shall  not 
be  established." — Isaiah,  vii.  9. 

"  A  WOUNDED  spirit, 
Dejected,  and  habitually  disposed 
To  seek  in  degradation  of  the  kind 
Excuse  and  solace  for  her  own  defects." 

Excursion,  p.  391. 


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"AVisDOM,  which  works  through  patience. 

Ibid. 


Enthusiasm  of  missionaries,  societies,  &c. 
The  tares  and  the  wheat  must  grow  to- 
gether, for  the  one  cannot  be  gathered  in 
without  rooting  up  the  other  also.  "Let 
both,"  therefore,  "  grow  together  until  the 
harvest." 

SUPEBSTITION 

"  Sprung  from  the  deep  disquiet  of  man's 
passion."        Lobd  Bbooke,  p.  158. 


The  reader  may  be  surprised  to  learn 
that  the  village  of  Islington,  as  late  as  the 
commencement  of  the  present  century,  was 
"  in  a  dark  and  benighted  stat-e,"  yea,  till 
the  forty-fifth  year  of  George  the  Third's 
reign,  a.  d.  1804,  when  the  Reverend  Evan 
John  Jones  took  upon  himself  the  care  of 
the  Islington  and  Silver  Street  churches. 
From  that  period  down  to  the  present,  the 
light  of  the  gospel  has  been  more  and  more 
abundantly  spread  abroad.  —  Evangelical 
Magazine,  August  1827,  p.  327. 

An  independent  congregation  in  a  plea- 
sant village,  where  the  prospect  is  encou- 
raging, having  an  exceeding  neat  chapel, 
unencumbered,  are  desirous  of  a  minister 
of  Calvinistic  sentiments,  who  can  support 
himself  independent  of  trade  or  profession, 
for  which  there  is  no  opening,  except  it  be 
a  day-school  for  boys.  No  salary  can  be 
ensured,  beyond  payment  of  rent  of  a  com- 
fortable house  and  garden.  Apply,  A.  B., 
Post-office,  St,  Alban*8. — ^Ibid. 

Heaven  deliver  us  from  persons  who 
are  bristled  with  virtue  like  a  hedgehog,  as 
Iso  appeared  to  his  mother  in  a  dream.— 

GOLDASTUS,  p.  51. 

The  Lord  promises  to  give  Israel  "  pts- 
tors  according  to  mine  heart,  which  shall 
feed  you  with  knowledge  and  understand- 
ing."— Jeremiah,  iii.  15. 

"  I  AM  surprised,"  says  Ladt  Hebvit, 
(p.  45)  "  to  hear  you  talk  of  bigoted  Jaco- 
bites as  of  a  numerous  set  of  people.  Do 
you  really  think  that  most  of  the  people 
concerned  in  this  affair  care  more  for  one 
king  than  another,  or  act  upon  a  principle 
of  right  or  wrong?  Would  to  God  they  did! 
for  one  might  convince  their  reason,  but  not 
their  passions." 

"  Thebs  is  undoubtedly,'*  says  Ladt  H. 
(p.  146)  "  a  great  deal  of  wickedness  in 
mankind,  but  indeed  there  is  a  great  deal 


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more  follj ;  and  I  have  alwajs  found  more 
springs  of  action  in  the  weakness  than  in 
the  wickedness  of  our  natures.** 

"  Mais  pour  quoy  s'en  Itonner  ?  il  n'j 
a  rien  de  si  naturel,  c*est  que  les  sots  font 
toujours  des  sottises."  The  old  French 
Lady  Stafford,  Grammont*s  daughter,  used 
to  say  this. — Ladt  Hebyet's  Letters,  p.  180. 

A  pHiix>eoPHB  who  puzzled  Lady  Her- 
vey  and  a  very  sensible  cautious  Abb^,  and 
engaged  them  in  controversy  with  each 
other,  ended  by  saying,  **  the  abb4  was  de- 
termined to  believe  more  than  he  could, 
and  Lady  H.  ready  to  give  up  as  much  as 
she  dared."  This  is  the  case  with  the  Ro- 
manists and  the  Unitarians. — Ibid.  p.  184. 

In  Denmark  and  Sweden,  the  reformation 
was  accomplished  without  a  struggle,  and 
the  same  good  consequences  seem  to  have 
resulted  in  the  church  there,  which  the 
peaceful  occupation  of  the  country  produced 
among  the  Icelanders  in  their  state  of 
society. 

"Mr,  Hallam  tells  us,  that  when  inno- 
vations are  intended  in  religion,  every  arti- 
fice of  concealment  and  delay  is  required, 
(vol.  1,  p.  30).  This  should  be  borne  in 
mind  when  we  observe  the  proceedings  of 
that  party  to  which  Mr.  H.  is  attached. 

"  He  b  an  irrecoverable  puppy  by  dispu- 
tation that  dares  avow  the  speaking  for  them.** 
Clab£ndom*s  State  Papers,  vol.  2,  p.  337. 

The  Romanists  who  cannot,  and  do  not, 
believe  what  they  uphold,  ^'Ile  that  sinneth 
against  me,**  saith  Wisdom,  **  wrongeth  his 
own  soul." — Proverbs,  viii.  36. 

The  seven  abominations.  Proverbs  vi. 
16-19,  are  found  in  the  Papal  church. 

**  He  that  justifieth  the  wicked,  and  he 
that  condemneth  the  just,  even  they  both 


are  abomination  to  the  Lord.** — Proverbs, 
zvii.  15. 

Mb. is  gravelled  here. 

**  Confidence  in  an  unfaithful  man  in  time 
of  trouble,  is  like  a  broken  tooth,  and  a  foot 
out  of  joint.** — Proverbs  xxv.  19. 

^*  Should  I  then  be  angry  Ood  hath  made 
him  no  wiser  ?  Howbeit  were  not  his  mean- 
ing better  than  his  understanding,  he  might 
chance  now  and  then  to  try  a  man's  pa- 
tience.**— Stbaffobd,  Letters,  vol.  1,  p.  381. 

**  Thus  saith  the  Lord :  If  ye  can  break 
my  covenant  of  the  day,  and  my  covenant 
of  the  night,  and  that  there  should  not  be 
day  and  night  in  their  season :  Then  also 
may  my  covenant  be  broken  with  David  my 
servant.** — Jer,  xxiii.  20-1. 

Stbaffobd  writes  of  Lord  Netherdale, 
"  all  I  say  is,  I  wish  him  more  christian, 
less  catholic,  and  for  the  rest,  let  him  do 
his  worst.** — Stbaffobd's  Letters,  vol.  2,  p. 
146. 

**  Thet  say  it  is  an  Englishman's  qua- 
lity not  to  let  things  alone  when  they  are 
well.**— Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  157. 

*'  Whebb  shame,  faith,  honour,  and  regard 

of  right 
Lay  trampled  on.** 

Ben  Jonson,  vol.  9,  p.  10. 

"  Sunk  in  that  dead  sea  of  life." 

Ibid.  p.  11. 

Still  the  creature  waiteth  in  earnest 
expectance  for  the  manifestation  :  and  the 
whole  creation  groaneth  and  travaileth  in 
pain  together  still. — Romans,  viii.  19-22. 

"  An  evil,  an  only  evil,  behold  is  come.*' — 
Ezekiel,  vii.  5. 

*^  La  hainc  et  la  demangeaison  de  midire 


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vont  toujours  plus  loin  que  la  recoxmois- 
sance  et  I'amitie,  et  la  calomnie  trouve  plus 
aisement  croyance  dans  la  public,  que  les 
^loges  et  les  louanges.** — Chasleyoix,  N. 
France,  vol.  2,  p.  287. 

What  the  church  of 'England  holds  with 
regard  to  the  church  of  Rome.  Joseph 
Mede. 

Nichols,  Calv.  and  Arm.  p.  496-7. 

Intboduction  of  new  articles  of  belief 
by  the  Romanists.  Hammond. — Ibid.  p.  560. 
llis  offer  for  a  groundwork  of  unity. 

^^THEvailisupon  their  heart.  Neverthe- 
less when  it  shall  turn  to  the  Lord,  the  vail 
shall  be  taken  away.** — 2  Corinth,  iii.  15-16. 

**  All  observation  tends  to  confirm  that 
female  life,  at  all  ages,  is  better  than  male, 
and  even  married  better  than  single." — 
Minutes  of  Evidence  on  Friendly  Societies, 
A.  D.  1827,  p.  38. 

The  increase  of  population  entirely  at- 
tributable to  a  diminution  in  the  rate  of 
mortality. — Ibid.  p.  38. 

A  VEBT  small  number  of  first-born  chil- 
dren are  alive  at  the  expiration  often  years. 
—Ibid.  p.  42. 

An  important  point  had  been  gained  in 
civilization  when  men  began  to  build  with 
stone. 

"  But  let  him  that  glorieth  glory  in  this, 
that  he  understandeth  and  knoweth  me, 
that  I  am  the  Lord,  which  exercise  loving- 
kindness,  judgement,  and  righteousness  in 
the  earth ;  for  in  these  things  1  delight, 
saith  the  Lord. — Jeremiah  ix.  24. 

When  the  Earl  of  Seafield  signed,  as 
Chancellor  of  Scotland,  the  engrossed  ex- 
emplification of  the  Act  of  Union,  he  re- 
turned it  to  the  Clerk,  in  the  face  of  Parlia- 


ment with  this  despising  and  contemning 
remark,  ^*  Now  there*s  ane  end  of  ane  old 
song." — ^LocKHABT*8  Mcmoirs,  voL  1,  p.  223. 
There  may  have  been  more  of  feeling 
than  of  levity  in  this. 

Mt  feelings  are  in  accord  with  the  Em- 
peror Baber,  when  speaking  of  a  villainous 
deed  he  says — "Let  every  man  who  hears  of 
this  action  of  Ehosrou  Shah  pour  out  im- 
precations on  him ;  for  he  who  hears  of  such 
a  deed,  and  does  not  curse  him,  is  himself 
worthy  to  be  accursed. — L£td£N*s  Mem 
of  Baber,  p.  63. 

"  He  that  getteth  wisdom,  loveth  his  own 
soul." — Proverbs  xix.  8. 

"  I  AM  on  my  Persian  steed,  sir,  and  the 
plains  of  prolixity  are  before  me. 

"  I  placed  my  foot  in  the  stirrup  of  re- 
solution, and  my  hand  on  the  reins  of  con- 
fidence-in-God." — ^Babeb^s  Memoirs. 

Papal  Church.  "  I  am  come  in  my 
Father*s  name,  and  ye  receive  me  not :  if 
another  shall  come  in  his  own  name,  him 
ye  will  receive." — John  v.  43. 

India.  Captain  William  Bruce  remarked 
to  me  that  if  our  empire  in  that  country 
were  overthrown,  the  only  monuments  which 
would  remain  of  us  would  be  broken  bottles 
and  corks. 

Along  the  whole  coast,  he  says,  our  go- 
vernment is  popular,  because  the  people 
share  in  the  advantages  of  a  flourishing 
trade.  But  in  the  interior  we  are  hated. 
There  it  is  a  grinding  system  of  exaction ; 
we  take  nine-tenths ;  and  the  natives  feel 
the  privation  of  honours  and  places  of  au- 
thority more  than  the  weight  of  imposts. 
One  of  them  compared  our  system  to  a 
screw,  slow  in  its  motion,  never  violent  or 
sudden,  but  always  screwing  them  down  to 
the  very  earth. 

SwoBD  and  spear  have  been  beaten  by 
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Ip  ye  search  the  Scriptures  "  ye  shall 
know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shidl  make 
you  free." — John  viii.  32. 

"  He  that  is  of  God  heareth  God*s  words  : 
ye  therefore  hear  them  not  because  ye  are 
not  of  God.*'— Ibid.  47. 

Sat  ATT  has  always  two  strings  to  his  bow. 

2  Corinthians  iv.  2. — This  our  Reform- 
ers did. 

Idoi^tbt  prevailed  because  it  was  adapt- 
ing religion  to  low  and  earthly  minds.  So 
their  saints  are  like  fetishes,  whom  they  treat 
familiarly,  coax,  threaten,  maltreat  and 
punish. 

Onb  of  our  Martyrs. — 2  Maccabees  yi. 
23. 

Effect  of  processions  in  which  children 
bear  a  prominent  part.  The  handsomest 
chosen  for  angels,  and  the  parents  making 
it  a  pride  to  decorate  them  with  all  the 
jewels  and  finery  of  the  family. 

A  DISTINCTION  between  glory  and  honour. 
The  glory  of  France  is  what  Buonaparte 
sought.  The  honour  of  England  is  that 
for  which  we  contend. 

The  Temple  at  Jerusalem  served  as  a 
bank  for  deposit. — Maccabees  ii.  See  the 
miracle  of  Heliodorus, — a  use  for  which  in 
war  time  the  convents  also  served.* 

At  Strasburg,  1826,  forty  days'  indul- 
gence to  all  those  who,  after  having  fully 
confessed  and  communicated,  shall  visit  this 
cathedral  on  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
the  holy  father  I.  Loyola,  and  shall  there 
pray  for  the  union  of  Christian  princes, — 
"Textirpation  des  heresies," — and  the  exalt- 
ation of  the  holy  and  true  religion. 

>  So  the  Oracles  of  old  time.  "Thus  Delphi,'' 
says  MiTFOBD,  "  appears  to  have  become  the 
spreat  bank  of  Greece,  perhaps  before  Homer, 
m  whose  time  its  riches  seem  to  have  been  al- 
ready proverbial." — C.  iii.  sect.  2.  vol.  i.  p.  213. 
8vo.— J.  W.  W. 


"  If  the  root  be  holy,  so  are  the  branches." 
— Romans  xi.  16. 

In  the  AOasofFehTUOTj  18, 1827,  is  this 
passage,  forming  part  of  a  leading  para- 
graph in  the  Morning  Chronicle, 

"  Those  who  use  the  word  liberty^  as  ap- 
plied to  civilized  life,  are  either  very  igno- 
rant, or  very  evil-intentioned.  "Wherever 
we  turn  in  civilized  life,  we  are  met  by  re- 
straints on  our  liberty ;  and  the  more  civi- 
lized the  society  the  more  numerous  the 
restraints.  If  we  use  the  words  good  gO' 
vemmenty  we  shall  then  speak  an  intelligible 
language.  Now  such  restrwnts  as  are  ne- 
cessary to  the  well-being  of  society,  that  is, 
to  good  government,  must  be  submitted  to." 

"  Ignobantub  inimicus  aliensB,  inimicis- 
simus  mese,  et  h  quocunque  corrigi  paratus." 
— ^Db.  O'Conob,  ad  lectorem. 

"  Tu  autem. — Memento,  genus  esse  ho- 
minum  adeb  malignum,  ut  quidquid  ben^ 
egeris  in  pessimam  semper  partem  acci- 
piant  et  aliorum  mentes  suo  metientes  in- 
genio,  benefacta  quselibet  pravo  animo  in- 
terpretentur." — Ibid. 

I  LAY  no  siege  to  impregnable  understand- 
ings. 

I  WOULD  examine  this  argument  farther, 
as  a  Spaniard  said  in  the  Cortes,  **  si  las 
bellas  razones  y  exemplos  con  que  se  ha 
sido  apoyada,  no  probaran  mas  bien  su  im- 
pertinencia  que  su  oportunidad." — Diario 
de  las  Cortes,  t.  4,  p.  182. 

Latent  hope,  which  exists  in  almost  all 
extremities. 

SiB  F.  Bubdett  admits  that  high  prices 
are  probably  best.  I  think  they  are  both 
an  effect  and  a  cause  of  prosperity.  I  am 
sure  that  system  must  be  the  best  which 
will  make  poor  lands  pay  for  cultivating. 

When  we  have  once  gone  astray,  the  best 
thing  we  can  do  is  to  retrace  our  steps. 


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**  Now  the  end  of  the  commandment  is 
charity,  out  of  a  pure  heart,  and  of  a  good 
conscience,  and  of  faith  unfeigned."  — 
1  Timothy  i.  5. 

"  The  time  will  come  when  they  will  not 
endure  sound  doctrine, — and  they  shall  turn 
away  their  ears  from  the  truth,  and  shall  be 
turned  unto  fables/* — 2  Timothy  iv.  3-4. 

One  of  the  sticklers  against  a  liturgy  in 
the  days  of  the  Puritan  Rebellion  used  to 
say  of  the  prayers  of  his  own  party, — 
"  Though  we  speak  nonsense,  God  will  pick 
out  the  meaning  of  it." — Walk£R*s  Suffer' 
ings  of  the  Clergy,  part  2,  p.  197. 

"  Invention  is  a  solitary  thing." — Har- 

RINQTON. 

Our  despondents. — Parliamentary  His- 
tory,  vol.  4,  p.  678. 

"  These  things  saith  he  that  is  holy,  he 
that  is  true,  he  that  hath  the  key  of  David, 
he  that  openeth  and  no  man  shutteth,  and 
shutteth  and  no  man  openeth." — Rev.  iii.  7. 

A  text  not  very  consistent  with  the  Pope's 
pretensions. 

Sir  Edward  Derinq,  (a.d.  1675),  says, 
"Another  thing  as  properly  under  our  cog- 
nizance as  Popery,  is  regulating  men*s  man- 
ners, very  worthy  of  our  consideration. 
Under  that  notion  of  religion  it  may  be 
done.  We  want  censores  morum  as  well 
as  inquisitors  of  faith  :  thinks  that  else  we 
cannot  see  religion  prosper. — Parliamentary 
History,  vol.  4,  p.  746. 

"  —  It  is  a  duty  which  we  owe  to  God 
and  to  ourselves,  to  the  present  age  and  to 
posterity,  to  improve  the  opportunities  God 
gives  us  of  fencing  our  vineyard,  and  mak- 
ing the  hedge  about  it  as  strong  as  we  can." 
— Lord  CHANCSLiiOR  Finch,  Ibid.  p.  980. 

**  He  whose  house  is  destroyed  by  fire, 
would  find  but  little  consolation  in  saying 


the  fire  did  not  begin  by  his  means.  But 
it  will  be  matter  of  perpetual  anguish  and 
vexation  of  heart  to  remember  that  it  was 
in  his  power  to  have  extinguished  it." — Ibid, 
p.  982. 

More  fit  to  be  answered,  as  King  James 
said,  /ustibus  quam  rationibus.  Or,  at  least, 
Jistibus, 

Fuller  said  well  in  Jameses  Parliament, 
1606,  **  that  country  is  miserable  where  the 
great  men  are  exceeding  rich,  the  poor  men 
exceeding  poor ;  and  no  mean,  no  propor- 
tion between  both." — Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  1082. 

"  Studied  orations,"  said  James  I.  "  and 
much  eloquence  upon  little  matters^  is  fit 
for  the  universities,  when  not  the  subject 
that  is  spoken  of,  but  the  trial  of  his  wit  that 
speakcth  is  most  commendable ;  but  on  the 
contrary,  in  all  great  councils  of  parliament, 
fewest  words  with  most  matter  do  become 
best ;  where  the  dispatch  of  the  great  er- 
rands on  hand,  and  not  the  praise  of  the 
person,  is  most  to  be  looked  into." — Ibid, 
p.  1099. 

*' Conferences  between  the  two  Houses,*' 
James  said,  "  breed  but  delays ;  for  some- 
times the  Lower  House  brought  nothing 
but  tongues,  sometimes  nothing  but  ears.*' 
—Ibid.  p.  1156. 

He  said  well  of  Ireland, "  they  can  never 
be  reduced  to  so  perfect  obedience  with- 
out establishment  of  religion." — Ibid.  p. 
1154. 

King  James  concerning  the  Papists.— 
Ibid.  pp.  984-1057. 

Church  discipline  relaxed. — Ibid.  p. 774. 

A  Mr.  Hislock  called  here  to-day  to 
solicit  a  subscription  for  the  Moravian  mis- 
sions. I  asked  him  if  he  were  a  Moravian 
minister  ?  He  said,  no  ;  an  Independent, 
so  called,  he  added,  though  we  are  the  most 


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dependent  poor  creatures  on  the  face  of  the 
earth.--April  12,  1827. 

Ptm  says, "  the  execution  of  laws  against 
Papists  forces  not  their  conscience,  but  pre- 
vents mischief;  and  therefore  he  would  have 
the  Papists  used  like  madmen,  and  have  all 
dangerous  weapons  taken  from  them.** — 
Parliamentary  History^  vol.  I,  p.  1314. 

Mb.  Thomas  Cbewe.  "  It  is  a  wonder 
to  see  the  spiritual  madness  of  such  as  will 
fall  in  love  with  a  Homish  harlot,  now  she 
is  grown  so  old  a  hag.**  a.d.  1621. — Ibid, 
p.  1321. 

"  Account  of  the  English  Government 
in  the  Corte  del  Dios  Momo.  55.  By  Dr. 
Joseph  Michelc  Marquez.**  Our  liberals 
know  about  as  much  of  the  Spanish  people 
now  as  this  writer  did  of  the  English  Go- 
vernment then. 

Some  good  remarks  upon  frugality. — 
Ibid.  pp.  351-9. 

ScoFFEBS  at  religion  cannot  make  good 
statesmen,  "  for  none  are  such  save  they 
who  from  a  principle  of  a  conviction  and 
persuasion  (say  rather  a  religious  sense  of 
duty)  manage  public  affairs  to  the  advan- 
tage of  those  who  employ  them.  Since  they 
care  not  for  the  things  themselves,  and  scorn 
such  as  employ  them,  they  must  never  care 
for  what  events  attend  them.*'  And  as  an 
example.  Sib  G.  Mackenzie  says,  (p.  439), 
"  Have  we  not  seen  some  of  these  great 
wits  prove  the  worst  of  all  statesmen  in  our 
own  days,  and  as  far  below  the  meanest  in 
management  as  they  were  above  the  wisest 
in  wit  and  sharpness  ?** 

Roman  Catholics  and  their  abettors  at 
this  time. 

"  Surely  in  vain  the  net  is  spread  in  sight 
of  any  bird.** — Proverbs  i.  17. 

"  The  prosperity  of  fools  shall  destroy 
them.**— Ibid.  32. 

Br  the  receipt-book  at  the  Margate  Pier 


OfEce,  the  persons  who  have  visited  Margate 
by  the  steam-packets  are  found  to  have  in- 
creased from  41,347  in  the  twelve  months 
ending  April  1822,  to  64,070  in  the  same 
space  of  time  ending  April  1827. 

Hallam*s  opinion  that  England  might  be 
made  a  republic. 

Yes ;  just  as  Melrose  was  made  a  kirk, 
and  Glastonbury  a  manufactory. 

H.  Walpole*8  wish  that  Whigs  and  To- 
ries would  call  themselves  Greens  and  Blues, 
as  at  Constantinople. 

Parties  are  thus  divided  into  colours  in 
the  counties. 

"  Be  not  persuaded  in  any  treaty  to  con- 
sent to  any  thing  you  do  not  think  simply 
good  in  itself,  upon  any  imagination  that  by 
yielding  now  to  somewhat  unreasonable  and 
inconvenient,  you  may  be  able  hereafter  to 
reverse  it.** — Clarendon  to  Lord  Hopton. 
1647.    Papersy  vol  2,  p.  369. 

"  —  PouB  qui  sait  y  lire,  pen  de  docu- 
mens  indiquent  mieux  la  verite  que  les  men- 
songes  ofEciels.** — M.  de  Babante. 

"  Since  I  have  ventured  to  preach  to  you,** 
says  Hyde,  writing  to  Lord  Hopton,  "  let 
me  prophecy  too,  that  those  Reformed 
Churches  will  be  destroyed,  and  grow  into 
contempt  for  want  of  Bishops,  whom  they  so 
much  contemn.** — Clabendon  Papers^  vol. 
2,  p.  403. 

"  Motives  for  founding  an  University  in 
the  metropolis.  1647.**  One  should  like 
to  see  those  motives,  and  compare  them 
with  the  views  of  the  present  founders  and 
supporters. 

"  Fob  the  wrath  of  man  workcth  not  the 
righteousness  of  God.** — James  i.  20. 

"  —  Cab  rien  ne  met  davantage  de  mau- 
vaise-humeur,  qu*une  proposition  raison- 
nable  et  sans  replique,  faite  b,  des  gens,  qui 


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ont  pretexte  une  fauese  raison,  pour  couyrlr 
leur  mauvaise  Tolonte." — Chableyoix.  N, 
France,  vol.  1,  p.  290. 

"  —  Vebt  true  it  is  of  all  the  rest  of  our 
passions,  if  they  be  not  bridled,  which  one 
said  of  love,  (as  that  word  hath  now  stabled 
itself  in  that  one  dirty  delight),  that  they 
are  as  good  as  spectacles,  to  make  every 
thing  which  they  either  run  to,  or  run  from, 
much  greater  than  it  is." — Aguokbt.  E.  of 
Cumberland's  Voyage, 

Regabd  to  family  estates  in  the  Mosaic 
law. 

-  Tub  mischief  which  such  a  minister  as 

Lord may  do  himself  in  the  revolution 

which  his  whole  conduct  tends  to  bring  on, 
is  like  that  of  the  barber  who  cut  a  deep 
gash  in  his  own  thumb  through  the  cheek  of 
his  unfortunate  patient. 

A  GOOD  crop  of  hemp  prepares  for  a  good 
crop  of  wheat.  It  destroys  the  weed. — 
Henniko.  AgricuUttral  Report,  p.  43. 

"  It  would  be  recollected,"  said  BBouGHA&r, 
"  that  when  a  bill  was  introduced  to  fix 
Easter  term,  Mr.  Justice  Rook  exclaimed, 
'  Good  God,  think  of  the  horror  of  depriv- 
ing the  whole  Christian  community  of  the 
consolation  of  knowing  that  they  all  kept 
Easter  on  the  same  day  ?'  (hear,  and  laugh- 
ter). Now  he  had  no  wish,  not  the  least 
desire,  to  deprive  the  Christian  community 
of  this  consolation,  if  consolation  they  found 
it.  They  might  enjoy  it  still.  But  busi- 
ness ought  not  to  be  sacrificed  to  their  ideas 
of  comfort  and  consolation  I  He  should  be 
more  glad  to  see  that  folly, — for  really  he 
could  not  call  it  by  any  other  name, — that 
absurd  and  vexatious  mode  of  regulating 
Easter  by  moons,  as  it  was  called,  done  away 
with,  (hear,  and  laughter.)  There  was  no 
inconvenience  in  Easter  •being  moveable, 
but  there  was  a  very  great  inconvenience 
in  making  the  returns  moveable." — Times, 
Sth  Feb,  Fnday,  1828.  I 


'*  He  that  opposes  his  own  judgment 
against  the  current  of  the  times,  ought  to 
be  backed  with  unanswerable  truths :  and 
he  that  has  that  truth  on  his  side,  is  a  fool 
as  well  as  a  coward  if  he  is  afraid  to  own  it 
because  of  the  currency  or  multitude  of 
other  men*s  opinions." — Defoe,  vol.  1,  p. 
153. 

"  I  TELL  you,"  says  Defoe,  "  there's  no 
people  in  the  world  so  forward  to  condemn 
a  man  upon  hearsay  as  the  Dissenters; 
when  they  have  a  mind  to  slander  a  man, 
they  take  every  thing  upon  trust ;  'tis  their 
shortest  way." — Ibid.  p.  228. 

"  You  Dissenters  are  rare  fellows  for 
punishments  !  If  God  should  have  no  more 
mercy  on  you  than  you  show,  to  all  men 
that  offend  you,  we  should  have  plagues, 
pestilence,  and  famine  every  year  upon  us." 
—Ibid.  234. 

"  Sib,  I  know  you  too  well  to  go  about 
to  persuade  you  to  any  thing,  whose  pecu- 
liar talent  is  to  be  unpersuadable  :  but  if 
you  will  please  to  answer  me  a  few  ques- 
tions, you  may  perhaps  persuade  yourself 
of  something  or  other." — Ibid.  p.  238. 

Lawgivebs  sometimes  **  by  engrafUng 
upon  a  defective  system  defective  remedies 
have  produced  nothing  but  confusion  and 
disorder."— Pitt.     I2th  Feb.  1796. 

I  believe,  with  T.  P.  Coubtenat,  "  thtt 
the  public  expenditure,  be  it  in  a  commer- 
cial view  profitable  or  ruinous,  increases 
wealth,  inasmuch  as  it  sets  wealth  more  ac- 
tively and  variously  in  motion.  I  believe 
that  a  multifarious  and  rapid  circulation  is 
of  all  things  the  greatest  promoter  of  wealth ; 
and  that,  generally  speaking,  the  more  « 
nation  spends  the  more  it  has." — Treatise 
on  P,  Law,  p.  80. 

The  great  rule  in  architecture  is, "  strong- 
er than  strong  enough." 


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—  I,  TOO,  say  hear  I  hear!  And  I 
would  also  say  learn — mark — and  inwardly 
digest,  if  I  did  not  know  that  there  are  cer- 
tain diseases  in  which  truth  is  found  to  be 
of  all  things  the  most  indigestible. 

It  is  truly  said  by  Sn  Whxiam  Merb- 
DiTH,  that  **  when  once  a  yillain  turns  en- 
thusiast, he  is  above  all  law.  Punishment 
is  his  reward,  and  death  his  glory.** — Locks, 
quoted  by  Gloybs.  Parliamentary  History^ 
Yol.  19,  p.  241. 

LosD  Georgb  GrOBDOir  complimented 
Burke  upon  "  the  wreath  of  flowers  that  grew 
out  of  the  fertile  bog  of  his  understanding.** 
—Ibid.  YoL  20,  p.  1406. 

^  CoMiNO  to  Parliament,**  said  Dundas, 
^  in  the  first  instance,  and  submitting  their 
crude  ideas  on  subjects  of  national  opera- 
tion, was  the  true  and  most  effectual  mode 
of  frittering  away  and  diminishing  the  vir- 
tue of  the  plan,  whatever  it  might  be.** — 
Ibid,  vol  23,  p.  5. 

A  COMBIHATION  at  Birmingham  for  nus- 
ing  the  price  of  firelocks  made  the  Grovern- 
ment  contract  for  them  in  Holland. — Ibid, 
p.  626. 

BuBKB  said  on  Pitt*s  Economical  Bill, 
1783,  it  substituted  vexation  for  economy, 
and  expense  for  reform. — Parliamentary 
Sistaryy  p.  958. 

Whigs  in  Parliament  during  the  war — 
Our  Agonales— our  Priests  of  Pavor  and 
I^allor. 

"  Akd  yet  see  the  age  we  live  in.  En- 
thusiasm and  atheism  divide  the  spoil,  and 
the  former  makes  way  for  the  latter,  till  at 
length  it  be  devoured  by  it.** — ^Bishop  Buul, 
>oL  1,  p.  265. 

**  It  is  enough  to  say  that  the  people  are 
txow  more  enlightened  than  they  were ;  the 
Uiob,  whenever  they  are  put  in  motion,  have 


but  one  way  of  proceeding,  and  that  is,  to 
take  a  catchword,  and  under  it  to  plunder 
and  destroy  wherever  they  proceed.** — She- 
ridan. Parliamentttry  History,  vol.  35,  p. 
365. 

"  Oh,  how  false 
Doth  the  eye  of  pity  see.** 
The  eye  of  law  takes  often  a  much  falser 
view. 

^*  Pubs  agora  claro  esta  que  no  entender 
una  cosa,  es  cierta  manera  de  entenderla, 
como  no  entendiendo  a  Dios,  entendemos 
que  es  infinito,  y  es  lo  que  nuestro  entendi- 
miento  no  alcan9a.** — DoiiA  Oliya  Sabuco, 
p.  299. 

^*  A  JJLKD  which  the  Lord  thy  God  careth 
for ;  the  eyes  of  the  Lord  thy  Grod  are  al- 
ways upon  it,  from  the  beginning  of  the 
year,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  year.** — 
Deuteronomy  xi.  12. 

Atkiks,  the  Purser  of  the  Weymouth, 
was  led  by  what  he  observed  in  Jamaica  to 
conclude,  ^*  that  although  trade  be  wealth 
and  power  to  a  nation,  yet  if  it  cannot  be 
put  under  restrictions,  controlled  by  a  su- 
perior and  disinterested  power,  excess  and 
irregularity  will  be  an  oppression  to  many 
by  increasing  the  difficulties  of  subsistence, 
and  with  it  men*s  disaffection.  Here  is  a 
distant  evil,  the  cure  of  which  lies  in  an 
expence  that  nobody  likes,  nor  for  such  dis- 
like will  ever  blame  himself  in  time  of  dan- 
ger.**—T.  S.  vol.  2,  p.  227. 

*'The  Lord  is  a  God  of  judgement :  bless- 
ed are  all  they  that  watt  for  him.** — Isaiah 
XXX.  18. 

*^  When  Englishmen,**  says  M.  Gauffb, 
(Italy,  vol.  1,  p.  302),*^  talk  nonsense,  they 
are  more  intolerable  than  any  nation  on 
earth,  because  they  talk  it  methodically,  and 
with  a  provoking  air  of  pedantic  assurance.** 

He  speaks  of  the  **  silly  observation  and 
vexatious  ill-nature  of  English  travellers.** 
p.  302. 


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Spirit-shops  corrupting  the  people  of 
Hindostan,  and  rendering  them  more  fero- 
cious.— Hbb£b*s  Journal,  vol.  1,  p.  217. 

Wholesome  feeling  in  the  Turks  of  the 
instability  of  earthly  blessings,  though  be- 
ginning in  servitude  perhaps,  and  carried 
to  superstition. — TuBNsa*8  Levantj  vol.  3, 
p.  374. 

**  Then,  man,  mark  by  this  change  what 

thou  hast  won, 
That  leavest  a  torrid  for  a  frozen  zone. 
And  art  by  Vice-vicissitudes  unknown.** 
LoBO  Bbookb.  Mor,  and  Rel,  p.  24. 
Applicable  to  the  Romanists  who  pass 
into  infidelity,  and  the  Calvinists  who  be- 
come Socinians. 

Pebiooical  Publications. 

*'  *Tis  true  these  publications  belong  to 
different  orders,  classes,  or  parties;  and 
that,  like  the  prismatic  colours,  one  is  blue, 
another  red,  another  green,  and  another 
yellow,  but  let  it  be  remembered  that  the 
whole  put  in  motion  constitute  light.** — 

Mb.  GeOBQB  P£AB801f*S  AfSS, 

To  a  Roman,.  Spanish  and  the  other 
mixed  languages  would  appear  as  the  talkee- 
talkee  does  to  U8» 

"  No  rules  of  ordinary  foresight  will  now 
serve  the  time,**  says  Obmond,  (a.d.  1668) 
**  but  those  of  honesty  and  loyalty  are  in  all 
events  safe,  provided  they  are  assisted  by 
prudence  and  iijdustry.** — Cabte,  vol.  2,  p. 
377. 

Bbag  is  a  safer  game  for  a  minister  than 
Hazard :  and  one  which  will  sometimes  suc- 
ceed when  weak  cards  are  in  an  unskilful 
hand. 

Almost  I  think  it  may  be  inferred  from 
Lukexiii.  16,  that  diseases  are  the  effect  of 
the  fall, — ^part  of  the  penalty,  not  in  the 
original  constitution  of  our  nature,  but  su- 
perinduced by  an  evil  agency. 


*'  Your  iniquities  have  turned  away  these 
things,  and  your  sins  have  withholden  good 
things  from  you.** — Jeremiah  v.  25. 

He  who  has  a  squint  in  his  intellect, 
never  can  keep  the  straight  line. 

Hebe,  I  think,  is  the  most  absurd  sen- 
tence I  ever  read — in  its  kind.  It  is  from 
Hoi>osKiN*s  Travels^  vol.  1,  p.  392. 

*'  If  men  be,  as  learned  doctors  say,  *  born 
to  evil,*  the  ambition  of  protecting  them 
from  it  far  surpasses  in  madness  the  mad 
ambition  of  conquerors ;  and  they  who  un- 
dertake it  make  themselves  responsible  for 
all  the  imbecility,  immorality,  and  misery 
which  are  found  in  the  world.** 

In  the  same  book  there  is  this  passage, 
which  contains  much  more  matter  for  con- 
sideration. 

^  Political  economy  means  with  them  (the 
Germans)  the  knowledge  of  promoting  the 
prosperity  of  the  people  by  means  of  go- 
vernments. If  that  general  opinion  which 
supposes  governments  to  be  beneficial  be 
accurate,  it  can  scarcely  be  possible  that  we 
can  have  too  much  of  them.  The  conduct 
of  the  Germans  is  perfectly  consistent  with 
this  opinion ;  and  those  nations  only  are 
inconsequent,  who  acknowledging  govern- 
ments to  be  beneficial,  seek  at  the  same 
time  to  limit  their  power  as  much  as  pos- 
sible.**— ^vol.  1,  p.  414. 

But  he  proceeds  to  deliver  an  opinion 
that  they  are  a  great  evil,  of  which  we  are 
to  get  rid — in  the  march  of  intellect. — ^Ibid. 
p.  417. 

"  Man,  instructed  well,  and  kept  in  awe, 
If  not  the  inward,  yet  keeps  outward  law.*' 

LoBD  Bbookb,  p.  61. 

Young  preachers.^ — Absurdity  of  letting 

**  Youth  appear 


<  The  reader  should  not  forget  that  when  Sir 
Bog^r  de  Coverley  asked  his  chaplain,  who 
preached  to-morrow  ?  the  good  man  answered, 
*^  The  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph  in  the  morning,  and 
Dr.  South  in  the  afternoon/*  as  it  convevB  the 
opinion  of  Addison  on  this  point. -*J.  W.  W. 

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And  teacli  what  wise  men  think  scarce  fit 
to  hear.-— Ibid. 

Thb  proper  object  of  government  is 

"  So  from  within  man  to  work  out  the  right 
As  his  will  need  not  limit  or  allaj 
The  liberties  of  Grod*s  immortal  way.** 

Ibid.  p.  62. 
Mmn— 

"More  divided 
Bj  laws  than  they  at  first  by  language 
were.** — Ibid.  p.  65. 

**  Men  joy  in  war  for  conscience.** 

Ibid.  p.  80. 

"  When  friends  or  foes  draw  swords 
They  ever  lose  that  rest  or  trost  in  words.** 

Ibid.  p.  143. 

**  I  WILL  bring  evil  upon  this  people,  even 
the  fruit  of  their  thoughts.** — Jer,  vi.  19. 

EvEBT  one  sees  howpreposterous  it  would 
be  for  lus  shoes  to  be  made  upon  another 
man*s  last.  And  how  many  a  one  is  there 
who  thinks  that  his  last  ought  to  fit  every- 
body's foot! 

Cebtain  reputations 

**  Which  glow-worm  like,  by  shining,  show 
*tis  night.** — ^LoRD  Brooke,  p.  225. 

^  We  do,  though  not  the  best,  the  best  we 


can." 
Spanish  CUpsy,     Middl.  and  Rowlet. 

Pebdisposition  to  contagion  is  less  in 
those  who  are  much  exposed  to  impure  air, 
than  in  those  who  live  in  the  country. 

What  we  want  is  a  state  of  feeling  and 
manners-  equally  opposed  to  the  sullen  cha- 
racter of  Calvinism  and  the  riot  and  license 
of  Popery — ^therefore  all  harmless  adjuncts 
of  religion  would  be  helpful.  Church  festi- 
vals, rush-bearing,^  catechetical   rewards, 

■  See  Da  Cangb  in  v.  Junetu^  and  Nofet  to 
Brand's  Pop.  Antiq.  The  **  Bush  -  bearing 
Sunday  "  is  still  a  high  day  in  the  north  of  Kn^- 
land.  The  happy  medium  is  what  is  wanted  m 
these  matters. — J.  W.  W. 


club  Sundays.  Any  thing  that  on  holy  days 
and  Sundays  might  make  men  eschew  the 
idle  vein,  &c. 

Nettles  and  docks  and  brambles  flou- 
rish and  spread  when  fields  and  gardens  run 
to  waste. 

Lord  Gosling  cackles  in  the  House  of 
Conmions  just  in  the  same  notes  as  Earl 
Gander,  his  father,  in  the  House  of  Lords. 

"  True  :  there  your  Lordship  spake  enough 
in  little.** 
MiDDLETON.  Old  PlaySy  vol.  4,  p.  377. 

"Wit,  whither  wilt  thou?**  — to  one 
talking  nonsense^ 

Wht  will  not  persons  in  better  life  en- 
gage in  colonial  adventures,  or  in  Owenite 
estiiblishments  ? 

Old  Mr.  Honest  from  the  town  of  Stu- 
pidity, Mr.  Feeble-mind,  Mr.  Timorous, 
and  Mr.  Pliable — ^whose  opinions  are  any- 
thing which  it  may  please  S^jeant  Plausible, 
or  Counsellor  By-ends  to  make  them. — ^Mr. 
Turn-away  of  the  town  of  Apostacy.  Sir 
John  Tumtail  and  Sir  Thomas  Weather- 
goose. 

•*  Gbeat  wealth  and  great  poverty, — ^if 
they  do  not  necessarily  produce  one  another, 
will  be  generally  found  co-exbtent.** — ZU" 
lah»  H.  Smith. 

Like  old  John  Bunyan  "I  bind  these 
lies  and  slanders  to  me  as  an  ornament.  It 
belongs, — let  me  not  say  to  my  Christian 
profession, — to  my  vocation,  to  my  prin- 
ciples, to  the  course  which  I  hold,  and  in 
which  I  will  proceed  manfully  till  the  end, 
— to  the  station  which  I  have  won  for  my- 
self, and  will  maintain, — it  belongs  to  them 
to  be  villified,  slandered,  reproached,  and 
reviled,  and  since  all  this  is  nothing  else,  as 
my  Grod  and  my  conscience  do  bear  me 
witness,  I  rejoice  in  such  reproaches.** — 
Chrace  Abounding,  p.  40. 


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*'  Thb  gratification  of  an  erroneous  con- 


science. 


f« 


.  BUHTAN. 


**  Thbt  are  bad  times,  and  bad  thej  will 
be  until  men  are  better ;  for  they  are  bad 
men  that  make  bad  times  ;  if  men  therefore 
would  mend,  so  would  the  times  P — Life 
and  Death  of  Badnian, 

Dayenant  thus  speaks  of  citj  labourers: 

^  Beasts  to  the  rich,  whose  strength  grows 

rude  with  ease. 
And  would  usurp,  did  not  their  rulers  care 
With  toil  and  tax  their  furious  strength 

appease/* — p.  105. 

The  doctrine  of  the  Times  is  that  in  all 
matters  afiecting  commerce,  the  comforts  of 
the  consumer  ought  chiefly  to  be  regarded, 
^  because  he  constitutes  the  nation  V* — the  lan- 
guage is  worthy  of  the  philosophy. 

To  make 
"  The  body  weak  by  softness  of  the  mind.** 

GONDIBSBT,  p.  139. 

Political  violence — 

*^  Which  in  a  few,  the  people  madness  call ; 
But  when  by  number  they  grow  dignified, 
What*8  rage  in  one,  is  liberty  in  all.** 

Ibid.  p.  152. 

Heaven  bless  some  popular  minister 
with  a  cold  which  may  take  away  his  voice, 
and  compel  him  to  make  him  written  state- 
ments— which  nuiy  be  short  and  to  the  mat- 
ter I 

A  cuitious  passage  in  Lord  Bbooks, 
(Bel.  and  Mon.)  pp.  168-9,  showing  that 
the  Roman  empire  bred  better  men  among 
the  emperors  than  ever  democracies  brought 
forth.  But  he  is  plainly  wrong  in  thinking 
that  democracy  cannot  breed  a  state. — p. 
169. 

^  Fob  though  books  serve  as  diet  of  the  mind. 
If  knowledge  early  got  self-value  breeds, 


By  false  digestion  it  is  turned  to  wind. 
And  what  should  nourish,  on  the  eater 
feeds.** — Goudibebt,  p.  221. 

^  Power  should  with  public  burthens  walk 
upright.**— Ibid.  p.  227. 

D*AvEHAiiT  very  justly  notices  "the 
usual  negligence  of  our  nation  in  examining, 
and  their  diligence  to  censure.** — Preface^ 
p.  32. 

In  mere  truth,  L  e.  vinonu  verity. 

"  Divines,*'  says  D'Avenant,  "are  made 
vehement  with  contemplating  the  dignity  of 
the  offended  (which  is  €rod),  more  than  the 
frailty  of  the  offender.'* — Preface  to  Goudi- 
bebt, p.  57. 

"  Poweb  hath  failed  in  the  effects  of  ta- 
thority  upon  the  people  by  a  misapplicatioQ, 
for  it  hath  rather  endeavoured  to  prevail 
upon  their  bodies  than  their  minds;  for- 
getting that  the  martial  act  of  constraining 
is  the  best,  which  assaults  the  weaker  part; 
and  the  weakest  part  of  the  people  is  their 
minds,  for  want  of  that  which  is  the  mind^s 
only  strength,  education ;  but  their  bodies 
are  strong  by  continual  labour,  for  labour 
is  the  educatiop  of  the  body.**— Ibid.  p.  59. 

A  BOOK  is  new  when,  on  a  second  or  third 
perusal,  we  bring  to  it  a  new  mind.  And 
who  is  there  who,  in  the  course  of  even  a 
few  years,  dees  not  feel  himself  in  this  pre- 
dicament ? 

FoBM ALiTT  in  business : 
"  Never  was  any  curious  in  his  place 
To  do  things  justly,  but  he  was  an  ass : 
We  cannot  find  one  trusty  that  is  witty. 
And  therefore  bear  their  disproportion.** 
Chapman,  Buuy  D'Ambais^  p.  294- 

"  If  any  worthy  opportunity 
Make  but  her  fore-top  subject  to  my  hold."* 
Ibid.  Monsieur  UOUve^  p.  376. 


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"  The  matter,  Sir, 
Was  of  an  ancient  subject,  and  jet  newly 
Called  into  question.** — ^Ibid.  p.  377. 


cc 


*TwiLL  be  expected  I  shall  be  of  some 
religion ;  I  must  think  of  some  for  fashion, 
or  for  faction  sake.** — ^Ibid.  p.  384. 

^  Thb  learning  of  the  ignorant  is,  as  it 
were,  printed  in  stereotype.  The  last  edi- 
tion of  their  minds  is  exactly  the  same  with 
the  forgoing  one.** — Roland*8  Eitmaie^ 
p.  115. 

It  was  Mirabeau  who  said  that  words 
are  things. 

LuTHEB  said  that  eyery  man  had  a  pope 
in  his  own  heart.^ 

Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbour  as  thy- 
self, St,  JameSj  \L  8,  calls  the  royal  law, 

Thb  perfection  of  society  would  be  a  state 
in  which  there  should  be  no  impediment  to 
the  full  and  fair  development  of  his  moral 
and  intellectual  capabilities  in  every  indi- 
viduaL 

• 

Where  there  is  "a  noonday  of  innocence 
in  their  intentions,**  men  will  be  careful  that 
no  "  twilight  of  suspicion  obsciire  their  ac- 
tions.**— Pi^ah  Viewj  p.  60. 

"  How  smooth  and  tender  are  the  gums 
of  infant  treason ;  but  oh !  how  sharp  are 
the  teeth  thereof  when  once  grown  to  full 
greatness.*' — ^Ibid.  p.  98. 

TiMB-pieces  in  France  became  bad  as 
they  became  common,  —  so  with  certain 
branches  of  literature. — Pbudhommb. 

ScoTico-jargonic^.  I  thank  thee,  Jeremy, 
for  teaching  me  that  word. 

' ''  It  was  an  usual  speech  with  Martin  Lu- 
ther, that  every  man  tuas  bom  with  a  Pope  in  his 
belly ;  and  we  know  what  the  Pope  hath  Iod^ 
cha^nged  and  appropriated  to  himself,  Infidh- 
bility  and  Supremacy,  which  like  two  sides  of 
an  arch  mutually  uphold  each  other." — ^Ant. 
Fabikdon's  SemumSf  voL  1,  n.  158.  He  often 
aUndes  to  the  saying,  e,g,  vol.  ii.  pp.  631,650, 
&c.— J.  W.  W. 


Make  it  as  impossible  for  an  open  ruf- 
fian to  exbt  in  the  land,  as  for  a  wolf  or 
bear. 

When  the  seven  deadly  sins  appear  to 
Faustus  in  Marlow*s  tragedy.  Envy  says, 
**  I  cannot  read,  and  therefore  wish  all  books 
burned.**— OW  PlaySy  vol.  1,  p.  37. 

Roman  geese  saved  the  capitol ;  our 
cacklers  will  destroy  us. 

Dissentino  churches.  The  ministers  and 
the  people  may  be  said,  in  a  certain  sense, 
to  ride  and  tie ;  the  latter  are  priest-ridden, 
the  former  congregation  ridden. 

I INCUBB  to  think  that  the  Scriptural 
opinion  of  demoniacal  possession  cannot  be 
explained  away;  and  that,  as  applied  to 
wickedness,  it  is  a  wholesome  opinion,  taking 
this  with  it,  that  the  mercy  and  grace  of  God 
afford  a  sure  preservation ;  and  that  these 
are  granted  to  all  who  earnestly  pray  for 
them. 

**  YouB  only  smooth  skin  to  make  vellum 
is  your  Puritan*s  skin ;  they  be  the  smooth- 
est and  sleekest  knaves  in  a  country.** — ^Ben 
JoNsoN,  Eastward  Hoe. 

The  thistle  might  be  my  emblem  (though 
I  shall  never  assume  its  motto),  because 
asses  mumble  it  with  impunity,  and  to  their 
own  great  contentment. 

I  havb  indeed  worn  my  opinions  for  daws 
to  peck  at:  but  though  many  daws  peck 
with  impimity,  those  which  I  lay  hold  on, 
are  not  likely  soon  to  forget  the  finger  and 
thumb  which  have  grasped  them. 

• 

Ttthes,  with  their  old  obligations,  would 
be  desirable  now  in  new  colonies,  if  only 
men  were  now  what  they  were  when  tythes 
were  instituted. 

Impatiebce  of  obligations,  as  e.  g.  of  rent 
in  Canada. 

Feudal  settlements  have  answered  in 
Canada. 


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^  Whatsoever  a  man  soweth,  tkat  shall 
he  also  reap.'* — OaloHaiu,  vi.  7. 

An  honourable  member  sometimes  in- 
dulges in  gratuitous  assertion  concerning 
one  who  is  not  present  to  defend  himself; 
which  he  would  not  dare  do  if  the  person 
whom  he  insults  and  slanders,  were  near 
enough  to  spit  a  contradiction  in  his  face. 

Thb  old  maxim  is  reversed,  and  in  these 
days  poetaftty  non  nascitur. 

"When  kingdoms  reel  (mark  well  my  saw!) 
Their  heads  must  needs  be  giddy." 

Ford,  vol.  1,  p.  299. 

"  When  I  understand  what  jou  speak,  I 
know  what  you  say :  believe  that."  —  Ibid. 
Witch  of  Edmonton,  vol.  2,  p.  443. 

"  Bbhold  the  fear  of  the  Lord,  that  is 
wisdom ;  and  to  depart  from  evil  is  under- 
standing."— Job  xxviii.  28. 


"  Yea,  what  things  thou  didst  determine 
were  ready  at  hand,  and  said,  Lo !  we  are 
here !  For  all  thy  ways  are  prepared,  and 
thy  judgements  are  in  thy  foreknowledge." 
— Judith  ix.  6. 

"  Fob  thy  power  standeth  not  in  multi- 
tude, nor  thy  might  in  strong  men ;  for  thou 
art  a  God  of  the  a^cted,  an  helper  of  the 
oppressed,  an  upholder  of  the  weak,  a  pro- 
tector of  the  forlorn,  a  Saviour  of  them  that 
are  without  hope." — Ibid.  11* 

"  He  maketh  small  the  drops  of  water ; 
they  pour  down  rain  according  to  the  va- 
pour thereof." — Job  xxzvi.  27. 

The  abomination  of  desolation  is  stand- 
ing where  it  ought  not. 

"Seest  thou  these  great  buildings?  there 
shall  not  be  lefl  one  stone  upon  another, 
that  shall  not  be  thrown  down." — Marh 
xiii.  2. 

This  verse  seemed  to  me  almost  appal- 
lingly applicable,  when  I  read  the  chapter 
this  morning. 


Some  hearts  are  like  certain  fruits,  the 
better  for  having  been  wounded. 

"  Take  heed  that  the  light  which  is  in 
thee,  be  not  darkness." — Luke  xL  35. 

The  author  of  the  Wisdom*  certainly  held 
no  doctrine  allied  to  that  of  original  sin,  for 
he  says, 

VHL  19-20,  "  I  was  a  witty  child,  and 
had  a  good  spirit : 

Yea,  rather,  being  good,  I  came  into  t 
body  undefiled." 

I  AM  afrdd  that  more  persons  abstun 
from  doing  good,  for  fear  of  contingent  e?il, 
than  from  doing  evil,  in  the  persuasion  that 
good  may  follow. 

As  Ume  and  tide  will  wait  for  no  maD, 
so  neither  will  they  hurry  for  any  man. 

Ths  condition  of  the  poor  must  be  bet- 
tered, before  they  can  be  improved ;  that 
of  the  great  must  be  worsened :  i.  e.  birth 
and  connections  must  not  be  passports  to 
situations  for  which  worth  and  ability  are 
required. 

"  Distrust  your  own  limbs,  and  they 
will  fail  you  in  the  moment  of  need."  Thus 
it  is  that  swimmers  arc  drowned. 

Man  is  the  most  valuable  thing  that  this 
earth  produces,  and  the  moral  and  intellec- 
tual culture  of  the  species  ought  to  be  the 
great  object  of  government. 

Moral  economy  versus  political. 

"  Thou  hast  moved  the  land,  thou  hast 
divided  it — ^heal  the  breaches  thereof,  for  it 
shaketh." — Psalm  Ix.  2. 

Perhaps  a  degree  of  Christian  holiness 
may  be  attainable  in  which  the  heart  will 

'  He  favoured  the  opinion  of  a  pre-existencf 
of  soids.  See  the  Note  of  Arnald  in  ioe.-^ 
J.  W.  W. 


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not  be  accessible  to  evil  thoughts.  But 
we  who  are  far  from  this  must  turn  from 
them  when  thej  assail  us,  and  never  for  a 
moment  entertain  them  with  the  will*8  con- 
sent. And  with  regard  to  angry  and  re- 
sentful emotions,  which  oftentimes  must, 
and  sometimes  ought  to  arise,  the  sin  lies 
in  giving  utterance  to  them,  in  any  other 
manner  than  is  solely  and  certainly  for  the 
good  of  others. 

Rbabons  which  may  prevail  if  at  some 
time  they  may  happily  "  find  your  affections 
quiet,  your  understanding  well  awakened, 
and  your  will,  willing  to  stand  neuter." — 
Bishop  Womlack,  Pref,  Epist,  to  the  Exam, 
of  Tilenus, 

*'  Woe  be  to  fearful  hearts  and  faint 
hands,  and  the  sinner  that  goeth  two  ways." 
— Ecclesiastiats  ii.  12. 

Thb  Church  (using  that  word  not  in  its 
Christian  but  in  its  ecclesiastical  sense)  very 
soon  adapted  itself  both  to  the  vulgar  belief 
of  the  heathens  and  to  their  philosophy. 

'*  Thb  words  of  such  as  have  under- 
standing are  weighed  in  the  balance." — 
EcdeiiasHctu  xxi.  25. 

*'  An  eloquent  man  is  known  far  and 
near,  but  a  man  of  understanding  knoweth 
when  he  slippeth." — Ibid.  7. 

The  increased  population  which  is  con- 
sequent upon  a  certain  degree  of  misery, 
in  a  crowded  conmiunity,  according  to  Sad- 
ler*8  theory,  may  seem  noticed  in  Exodus  i. 
The  more  the  Hebrews  were  afllicted  by 
their  Egyptian  taskmasters  *^  the  more  they 
multiplied  and  grew."  And  I  think  the 
fact  maybe  explained  physically,  by  the  care 
which  Nature  upon  the  great  scale  takes 
of  the  race,  rather  than  of  its  individuals. 

Mt  dissenting  assailants. — ^Men  who  are 
thus  manifestly  *'  in  the  gall  of  bitterness" 
give  proof  that  they  are  "  in  the  bond  of 
iniquity." — Acts  viii.  23. 


*^  Laissez  nous  faire."  But  this  is  what 
no  government  can  safely  do.  No  govern- 
ment can  rely  enough  upon  the  virtue,  the 
common  honesty  or  the  common  sense  of 
its  subjects  to  do  it. 

E.  g.  cruelty  of  soldiers  to  their  prison- 
ers, when  men  were  to  be  ransomed  instead 
of  being  exchanged. 

Privateers.   Quacks.  Carriers.   Posting. 

Monopolists. 

Let  every  man  choose  his  religion. 

EcclesiaHicua  xxxix.  12. — "  Yet  have  I 
more  to  say  which  I  have  thought  upon; 
for  I  am  filled  as  the  moon  at  the  full." 

Ibid,  xxviii.  31.  —  The  plague  which 
^*  shall  be  ready  upon  earth  when  need  b." 

The  peine  fart  et  dure  by  which  age  now 
destroys  us. 

Let  any  person  act  up  to  his  own  Chris- 
tian principles,  and  by  so  doing  he  will 
render  it  more  easy  for  all  about  him  to 
do  the  same :  he  will  take  away  from  them 
all  occasion  for  ofience.  For  whoever  sins 
in  temper  has  not  only  his  own  sin  to  an- 
swer for,  but  also  for  tJiat  which  he  thereby 
occasions  in  others. 

Stoopikq  for  the  golden  apples  of  popu- 
larity in  the  race  of  fame. 

**  An  heavy  yoke  is  upon  the  sons  of 
Adam,  from  the  day  that  they  go  out  of 
their  mother*s  womb,  till  the  day  that  they 
return  to  the  mother  of  all  things." — Eccle- 
eiasticus  xl.  1. 

^*  Death  and  bloodshed,  strife  and  sword, 
calamities,  famine,  tribulation,  and  the 
scourge :  these  things  are  created  for  the 
wicked." — Ibid.  ix.  10. 

It  is  stated  by  Sib  Andeew  Haludat, 
that  "  cases  of  insanity  have  increased  in 
this  country  during  the  last  twenty  years 
in  the  proportion  of  three  to  one.    There 


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are  now  of  lunatics  and  idiots  about  one  in 
a  thousand  in  England,  about  one  in  eight 
hundred  in  Wales ;  in  Scotland,  one  lunatic 
in  five  hundred  and  seyenty-four  persons.** 
The  lunatics  in  England  are  more  nu- 
merous than  the  idiots  bj  about  one-sixth. 
In  Wales  the  idiots  are  more  numerous  in 
nearly  the  same  proportion  (if  there  be  no 
mistake  in  the  newspaper  paragraph  which 
is  mj  authority). 

"  In  the  course  of  twenty-five  years,  out 
of  more  than  three  thousand  six  hundred 
Company*s  ofiicers  sent  to  Bengal,  not  more 
than  five  per  cent,  have  returned  home, 
after  twenty-two  years  actual  service,  on 
pensions.*' —  Times. 

AxGUBfENT  upon  which  "  a  poor  belief 
may  foUUmP  —  Beaumont  and  Fletcher, 
King  and  no  King,  p.  235. 

I  KNOW  not  in  what  latitude  to  look  for 
his  meaning. 

DiscsETioN  is  sometimes  as  much  the 
better  part  of  oratory  as  of  valour. 

*'  He  that  ploweth  should  plow  in  hope.** 
— 1  Cor,  ix.  10. 

"  EvssT  man  that  striveth  for  the  mas- 
tery is  temperate  in  all  things.** — Ibid.  25. 

This  is  said  with  relation  to  athletss  and 
such  persohsp 

**  He  that  observeth  the  wind  shall  not 
sow ;  and  he  that  regardeth  the  clouds  shall 
not  reap.** — Mcclesiasies  xi.  4* 

**  Vox  et  preterea  nihil — 

—  I  love  the  sound  on*t, 

It  goes  so  thundering  as  it  conjured  devils. 

—  do  you  understand  ?. 

J  tell  thee  no ;  that*s  not  material,  the 

sound  is 
Sufficient  to  confirm  an  honest  man.** 

FusTCHEB,  Elder  Brother^  p.  116. 


L 


"  Can  history  cut  my  hay,  or  get  my  com  in, 
And  can  geometry  vent  it  in  the  market** 

Ibid. 

"  To  be  of  no  religion 
Argues  a  subtle  moral  understanding, 
And  it  is  often  cherished.**       Ibid.  p.  160. 

• 

"  Fbom  the  black  guard 
To  the  grim  sir  in  office,  there  are  few 
Hold  other  tenets.**  Ibid. 


"  Now  my  eyes  are  open, 
And  I  behold  a  strong  necessity 
That  keeps  me  knave  and  cowu^.** 

Ibid.  p.  160. 

Whigs,  Whig  clergy,  &c. 

"  You  are  struck  blind  as  moles,  that  un- 
dermine 

The  sumptuous  building  that  allowed  jon 
shelter.**  Ibid.  p.  161. 

Cebtain  virtues — ^whose 

'*  Seeds  grow  not  in  shades  and  concealed 

places: 
Set  *em  in  the  heat  of  all,  then  they  rise 

glorious.** 

Ibid.  Spanish  Curate^  p.  201. 


"  SiMPLicrrr  and  patience  dwell  with  fools, 
And  let  them  bear  those  burthens  which 

wise  men 
Boldly  shake  off.*'  Ibid.  p.  258. 

This  is  the  language  of  those  who  seek 
to  raise  a  tempest. 

"  —  Gboss  untruths  P 
—  Aye,  and  it  is  a  favourable  language. 
They  had  been  in  a  mean  man  lies,  and  foul 
ones.** 
Beaumont  and  Fi.stchsb,  Beggars 
Bush^  p.  358. 

*^  A  BBGGABLT  clergy,**  says  Fuixeb,  ^'h 
the  forerunner  of  a  bankrupt  religion.**^ 
Pisgah  Sight,  p.  274. 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


697 


I  HATB  known  manj  men  who  made  the 
most,  and  in  that  sense  the  best  use  of  their 
abilities;  but  did  I  ever  know  one  who 
made  the  best  use  of  his  riches  ? 

**  Oh,  if  order  were  observed  for  eyery 
one  to  mend  his  own  heart  or  house,  how 
would  personal  amendment  bj  degrees 
quickly  produce  family,  city,  country,  king- 
dom reformation  I  How  soon  are  those 
streets  made  clean,  where  every  one  sweeps 
against  his  own  door  1**  —  Fulleb,  Pisgah 
Sight,  p.  327. 

What  Fuller  says  of  the  Libertines 
may  be  said  of  our  liberals ;  ^  such  as  used 
their  liberty  for  an  occasion  to  the  flesh,  or 
a  cloak  of  maliciousness.**  "  A  numerous 
society,  wherof  Satan*s  subtilty  and  man*s 
corruption  the  founders,  the  negligence  and 
connivance  of  magistrates  the  daily  bene- 
factors. A  college  whose  gates,  like  those 
of  hell,  stand  always  open,  having  no  other 
statutes  than  the  student*8  pleasure ;  where 
the  diet  is  so  dear,  that  their  commons  cost 
the  souls  of  such  as  feed  on  them,  without 
their  final  repentance.** — Ibid.  p.  340. 

"Wanton  children  by  breaMng  their 
parents*  old  rod,  give  them  only  the  occa- 
sion to  make  a  better  and  bigger  in  the 
room  thereof.*— 'Ibid.  p.  385. 

^  Indeed  in  all  fickle  times  (such  as  we 
live  in)  it  is  folly  to  fix  on  any  durable  de- 
sign, as  inconsistent  with  the  uncertainty  of 
our  age ;  and  safest  to  pitch  up  tent  projects, 
whose  alteration  may  with  less  loss  and  a 
clear  conscience  comply  with  a  change  of  the 
times.**— Ibid.  p.  386. 

Danger  from  a  king*s  wife  or  mistress 
of  a  different  religion. — ^"  Yea,  grant  at  first 
his  constancy  in  the  truth  as  hard  as  stone, 
yet  in  continuance  of  time  it  might  be  hol- 
lowed with  that  which  Solomon  called  a 
continual  dropping,  and  restless  importunity, 
advantaged  with  bosom  opportunity,  may 
achieve  a  seeming  impossibility.** — Ibid.  p. 
127. 


"  The  infection**  of  such  a  wife,  he  calls 
it. 

Certain  subjects,  which,  as  Fuller  says 
of  the  devil*s  riddling  oracles,  (Ibid.  p.  128) 
"  like  changeable  tafieta,  wherein  the  woof 
and  warp  are  of  different  colours,  seems  of 
several  hues,  as  the  looker-on  takes  his  sta- 
tion,** so  these  "  appear  to  every  one*s  ap- 
prehension as  he  stands  effected  in  his  de- 
sires.** 

"  Infra'Ommatedr — ^Ibid.  p.  140. 

"  In  the  mixture  of  ail  liquors  of  con- 
trary kinds,  the  best  liquor  (which  may  be 
said  to  lose  by  the  bargain)  incorporates 
always  with  a  reluctancy.** — ^Ibid.  p.  137. 

"  Etes  dry  for  their  sins,  are  vainly  wet 
after  their  sufferings,  and  a  drought  in  the 
spring  is  not  to  be  repaired  by  a  deluge  in 
the  autunm.** — ^Ibid.  p.  180. 

^  Few  drops  seasonably  showered  would 
preserve  the  green  blade  from  withering, 
when  much  rain  cannot  revive  the  roots 
once  withered.** — Ibid. 

Mr.  Fisher  of  Seatoller,  said  upon  oc- 
casion of  Wells  Fi8her*s  bankruptcy — 
"  double  religion  always  requires  double 
looking  after.** 

No  instrument  so  oflen  out  of  tune  as 
the  human  voice  I    And  then  all  is  discord. 

• 

'^T*ZiJN  de  valsche  begrippen  omtrent 
de  Greschiedinis,  waar  uit  walscbe  begrippen 
van  Staats-Vorsten-enYolksrecht  ontsprui- 
ten ;  daar  valsch  of  verkeerd  en  gebrekkig 
begrepen  gebeurtenissen  en  daden  valsche 
gronden  opleveren,  waar  men  hersenschim- 
mige  wetten  en  rechten  op  vest,  of  uit 
afleidt,  die  daarne  Thronen  en  Natien 
schudden  an  omkeeren.** — ^Uet  Treurspel, 
p.  162. 

i^  Lesley  is  said  to  have  come  to  this 
conclusion  at  the  latter  end  of  his  life,  that 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


it  was  scarce  worth  while  to  make  a  conyert 
from  either  of  the  religions  (Popbh  or  Pro- 
testant) to  the  other." — Spence's  Anecdotes, 
p.  202. 

Thii  can  onlj  have  been  meant  as  to  the 
improvement  of  the  individual, — and  even 
so  confined  is  not  maintainable. 

BXi^rov,  nuQ  oyo^  tiv,  ityiffTtf.  There 
are  men  in  place  and  power  always,  to  whom 
this  maj  be  applied. —  Zuinger,  vol.  2,  p. 
1496.     . 

It  is  lavish  expenditure  that,  more  than 
the  plenty  of  the  circulating  medium,  raises 
prices, — as  in  markets,  lodgings,  &c. 

A  country  may  be  rich,  and  yet  prices 
continue  low,  if  the  habit  of  fhigality  be 
retained. 

'^Behold  I  will  bring  evil  upon  this 
people,  even  the  fruit  of  their  thoughts ; 
because  they  have  not  hearkened  unto  my 
words,  nor  to  my  law,  but  rejected  it." — 
Jeb.  vi.  19. 

"  What  a  blockhead,"  says  Nelson,  "  to 
believe  any  body  is  so  active  as  myself!" 

^'  If  it  be  ill,  I  will  not  urge  the  acquaint- 
ance." 

Beaumont  and  Fletcheb.    Hum, 
Lieutenant,  p.  61. 

"  That  man  yet  never  knew 
The  way  to  health,  that  durst  not  show  his 
sore." — Faithful  Shepherdess,  p.  130. 

"  Thet  make  time  old  to  tend  them,  and 

experience 
An  ass,  they  alter  so." 

Ibid.  Mad  Lover,  p.  228. 

OuB  "recovery  must  be  by  the  medi- 
cines of  the  Galenists  and  Arabians,  and  not 
of  the  chemists  or  Paracelsians.  For  it  will 
not  be  wrought  by  any  one  fine  extract,  or 


strong  water,  but  by  a  skilful  company  of  a 
number  of  ingredients,  and  those  by  just 
weight  and  proportion,  and  that  if  some 
simples,  which  perhaps  of  themselves,  or  in 
over-great  quantity,  were  little  better  than 
poisons,  but  mixed  and  broken  and  in  just 
quantity,  are  full  of  virtue." — Bacon,  vol. 
12,  p.  285. 

"  On  Sunday,  the  28th  March,  1830,  the 
New  Baptist  Chapel  at  Highgate,  will  be 
opened,  when  a  sermon  will  be  preached  in 

the  morning  by  the  Rev. and  in  the 

evening  by . 

"  N.  B.  A  Prayer  Meeting  will  be  held 
every  Tuesday  and  Friday,  at  seven  o'clock 
in  the  morning. 

"It  is  hoped  that  the  Friends  of  the  Be- 
deemer  will  avail  themselves  of  this  oppor- 
tunity to  worship  the  Lord  Jesus  in  spirit 
and  in  truth." 

With  these  handbills  the  walls  were 
posted  about  the  environs  of  London. 

Many  who  think  they  are  proceeding  at 
quick  time  in  the  straight  forward  march 
of  an  upright  mind,  are  owing  to  a  squint 
in  the  intellect,  making  all  ^>eed  in  a  wrong 
line. 

Church  rents, — ^being  saved  from  rack- 
rent,  have  become  almost  the  only  benefi- 
cial tenure. 

"  I  AM  one  of  those,"  says  Sn  £o.  B. 
"  who  feel  no  particle  of  doubt  in  the  con- 
viction, that  whenever  we  give  up  what  na- 
tural sagacity  and  plain  reason  suggest  to 
us,  we  are  sure  to  go  vrrong,  and  repent  of 
it." — Gnomica,  p.  194. 

"  Thebx  is  no  glaring  fact  (as  indispu- 
table as  that  two  and  two  made  fdtir)  which 
will  not  be  disputed,  if  it  be  less  to  a  man*8 
conscience  and  sense  of  shame,  whether  he 
will  dispute  it,  or  not." — Ibid.  p.  197.  See 
also  p.  211-13. 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


699 


"  'Tis  rather  wished, 
For  such  whose  reason  doth  direct  their 

thoughts 
Witliout  self-flatterj,  dare  not  hope  it." 

BsAUifONT  and  Fletchsb.    Bloody 
Brother^  p.  83. 

Thb  Rake  in  the  WiM  Ooose  Chascj  p. 
197,  sajs  of  vows  and  oaths, — 

**  I  have  made  a  thousand  of  *em, 
They  are  things  indifferent  whether  kept 

or  broken. 
Mere  venial  slips,  tliat  grow  not  near  the 

conscience.** 

Hbadt  for  adventure  to  any  land. 

— ^"  I  care  not  how  far  it  be. 
Nor  under  what  pestiferous  star  it  lies.** 

Ibid.  p.  249. 

CoNSTiTTJTioH — ^what  is  meant  by  the  cry 
for  it. — Parliamentary  Historyy  vol.  9,  p.  410. 

Fbequent  Parliaments  not  the  same 
thing  as  frequent  Elections. — Ibid. 

SiE  R.  Walpolb  on  the  Test  Act. — Ibid, 
p.  1054. 

Kma  WiUiam.— Ibid.  vol.  28,  p.  18. 

Pitt.— Ibid.  pp.  410-12. 

MoBTMAiN. — Ibid.  p.  nil. 

Bill  for  limiting  the  Peerage  thrown  out 
in  the  Commons.  Greorge  I. — Ibid.  vol.  7, 
pp.  592-606. 

New  Nobles. — ^Bdeton's  JoumoLf  vol.  3, 
p.  362. 

Abguments  against  Population  Returns, 
when  proposed  by  Potter  in  1753. — Parlia- 
mentary  History,  vol.  14,  pp.  1318-31-47. 

The  Registry  Bill  exceedingly  popular 
when  it  was  thrown  out. — Ibid.  p.  1361. 

Jews*  Naturalization. — Ibid.  p.  1366. 


Dissentees  ministerial  and  Roman  Ca- 
tholic also — just  so  long  as  they  were  glad 
of  toleration. — Ibid.  p.  1427. 

Some  singularly  applicable  remarks  upon 
liberal  principles. — ^Ibid.  p.  1429. 

Clamoub  against  legislative  precautions 
when  the  plague  was  feared,  then  raging  at 
Marseilles,  and  the  act  repealed  in  conse- 
quence.— Ibid.  vol.  15,  p.  101  ;  vol.  7,  p. 
929. 

One  ill  effect  of  the  Marriage  Act.  Be- 
fore it  passed,  the  man  who  seduced  a 
woman  imder  promise  of  marriage  was 
compelled  to  perform  that  promise  by  the 
Ecclesiastical  Courts,  or  excommunication 
followed. — Ibid.  voL  15,  p.  58. 

Abbojos.  The  expression  is  found  in 
Columbus*s  journal. — "  Hay  muchas  bagas 
in  aquella  comarca,  y  conviene  abrir  el  ojo 
hasta  entrar  en  el  puerte." — Navabbete. 
Collect,  vol.  1,  p.  100. 

YouLABSiz  arslan,  —  unmuzzled  lions. 
The  Turkish  epithet  for  the  sultans. — Fo' 
reign  Review^  vol.  1,  p.  276. 

LoBD  CABfDEN*8  rant  about  representa- 
tion. —  Parliamentary  History,  vol.  16,  pp. 
178-9. 

LoBD  Chatham*s  about  the  Lord  Mayor 
and  Livery.— Ibid.  p.  968. 

Republics  more  turbulent  than  monar- 
chies.— ^Ab.  S.  Piebbe,  vol.  1,  p.  251. 

MoBE  stable. — ^Ibid.  p.  275. 

RooEB  Clutobb. — Palgbave*s  Volume, 
p.  6. 

Fox  agiunst  the  voice  of  the  people. — 
Parliamentary  History,  vol.  17,  pp.  146-9. 
And  against  the  cry  of  ruin. 

A  GOOD  speech  of  Lord  North,  showing 


why  articles  of  faith  were  introduced  and 
necessary. — Ibid.  p.  274. 

Dowi>E8wiLL*s  scheme  for  the  poor.  To 
invest  their  savings  in  the  funds,  and  re- 
ceive annuities  from  the  age  of  fifty. — ^Ibid. 
p.  640. 

BuBKB  upon  the  growth  of  atheism — a 
very  fine  passage. — ^Ibid.  p.  779.  See  his 
Works^  vol.  10,  p.  22. 

St.  Helena. — Lt.  Ed.  Thompson's  SaU" 
ors^  Letters,  vol.  1,  p.  116. 

Fabulous  History  of  Port. — Hist,  de  le 
Reoja,  p.  160. 

The  Abb^  S.  Pierre  agrees  with  Sir  Wil- 
liam Petty  concerning  colonies,  and  con- 
densing a  people ! — Vol.  1,  p.  357-8. 

Intebnal  and  external  legislation — for 
colonies.  Fox*s  distinction. — Parliamentary 
History,  vol.  23,  p.  21. 

All  Alva's  cruelties  committed  with  a 
good  conscience  —  by  Luiz  de  Granada's 
account  of  his  death. — Foreign  Review,  No. 
2,  p.  628. 

Representation  not  the  principle  of 
our  constitution.  How  it  grew  up. — Lobd 
Hawkesbuet.  Parliamentary  History,  vol. 
35,  p.  103. 

Men  of  birth  or  wealth  will  always  be 
chosen. — Galiffe's  Italy,  vol.  1,  p.  306. 

Prrr  on  removing  the  casual  poor. — ^Ibid. 
pp.  199-201. 

He  seems  always  to  have  spoken  humane- 
ly concerning  the  poor. 

Windham  sees  no  danger  in  Popery, — 
and  no  provocation  to  unbelief  that  it  gives. 
—Ibid.  p.  347. 

Emigrant  religioners.  Sir  W.  Scott — 
Ibid.  p.  360. 


Schools  require  superintendance. — ^Ibid. 
p.  383. 

Necbssitt  of  restraining  religious  zeaL 
— Horsley.— Ibid.  p.  372. 

Plans  of  assassination  among  the  Re- 
formers here. — ^Ibid.  pp.  1300-7. 

IsiSH. — Ibid.  p.  1317. 

Tampering  with  fanatics.  —  Ibid.  pp. 
1309-11. 

NoBiLiTT,  physical  d^radation  of  the 
lower  ranks  in  barbarous  times. — ^Phuip's 
Africa,  vol.  2,  p.  128. 

Admiration  of  the  Greeks  and  Romans 
an  ill  lesson  to  impress  upon  youth. — Ga- 
liffe's Italy,  vol.  1,  p.  75. 

Marriage  with  religious  ceremonies  not 
allowed  the  plebeians,  till  they  extorted  a 
law  for  it— Ibid.  p.  320. 

Numbers  who  died  of  famine  in  Italy — 
at  Rome,  Naples,  &c. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  244. 

Lottery  at  Salerno  in  which  provisions 
are  the  prizes. — ^Ibid.  p.  259. 

Pride  of  ancestry  justified. — ^Ibid.  p.  227. 

Old  families  respected  by  the  Hindoos. 
— Heber,  vol.  1,  p.  294. 

A  beautiful  picture  of  the  golden  age 
of  governments. — Lord  BrookJb's  Monareky 
and  ReUgion,  pp.  1-2. 

Mourning  ale, — ^perhaps  from  the  Jews. 
Jeremiah  xvi.  7. — "  Neither  shall  men  give 
them  the  cup  of  consolation  to  drink  for 
their  father,  or  for  their  mother." 

Cardinal  Xdcenxs  cured  of  a  hectic 
fever  by  outward  applicaticms — by  an  old 
Moorish  woman. — Alvas  Gomez,  p.  40. — 
Wadding,  vol.  15,  p.  249. 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


701 


Her  whole  practice  was  bj  liniments  and 
unctions. 

FasTACB  to  Gondibert,  p.  62. — ^FoUy  of 
the  maxim  exposed,  that  the  people  ought 
to  be  kept  in  ignorance. 

Tendsnct  in  the  public  to  disparage 
what  thej  read,  and  of  unsuccessful  authors 
to  became  malignant  critics.  —  Preface  to 
Gozzi,  p.  31. 

Abusb  of  words. — ^TnucTD.p.lSl.  Tfwu. 
p.  210.1 

Not  to  be  too  wise  in  imminent  danger. 
—Ibid.  p.  205.     Trans,  p.  237. 

'^Hb  who  places  a  seed  in  the  earth,"  says 
Fbanklih,  '*  is  recompensed  forty  fold ;  but 
he  who  draws  a  fish  out  of  the  water,  draws 
up  a  piece  of  silver." 

How  has  he  overlooked  the  outlay  of 
tackle  and  labour  ? 

Keplbb  drawing  by  a  camera  obscura. — 
Sib  H.  Wotton's  Remains^  p.  300. 

CoTTAOBS  and  their  comforts  in  Sir  G. 
Wheeler's  time. — Surtbes,  vol.  1,  p.  172. 

Thb  name  of  the  mother  is  sometimes 
mentioned  in  the  Old  Testament,  and  not 
that  of  the  father. 

At  the  inns  in  Germany,  Tatlob,  the 
Water  Poet,  says,  **  if  we  did  ask  them  why 
they  did  salt  tiieir  meat  so  unreasonable, 
their  answer  was  that  their  beer  could  not 
be  consumed  except  their  meat  were  salted 
extraordinarily."  —  Travels  to  Bohemia^  p. 
99. 


*  The  words  alluded  to  are  evidently  those  in 
the  Corcyrean  sedition.    Kal  riiv  iluBvlav  d^iw- 

liKcuwaiit  1. 6.  as  they  thought  right.    lib.  iii. 
c.  82.— J.W.W. 


Whbn  boys  (CuDWOBTH,  e,g.)  went  at 
thirteen  to  College,  were  they  broi^ht  more 
forward  at  school  than  they  were  in  the 
next  generation  ?  I  suppose  so ;  the  first 
ardour  of  study  afler  the  revival  of  letters 
had  not  ceased.  Emulation  has  recently 
brought  it  back. 

On  what  authority  does  the  Editor  of  the 
Correio  BraziUense  assert  that  Charles  V. 
wished  at  once  to  have  made  the  Spanish 
colonies  independent,  forseeing  the  impos- 
sibility, at  last,  of  keeping  them  in  subjec- 
tion ?— Vol.  5,  p.  353. 

Bt  observing  the  vibration  of  the  lamps 
in  the  Cathedral  of  Pisa,  Galileo  was  led  to 
the  important  discovery  of  the  isochronism 
of  the  pendulum. — Quarterly  Review^  No, 
78,  p.  435. 

CoTTLB,  vol.  1,  p.  93. — Some  very  just 
remarks  upon  Monday  markets. 

Thb  breed  of  bees  is  discouraged  in  the 
wine  countries,  owing  to  the  injury  which 
they  are  known  to  do  to  the  young  blossoms 
of  the  vine. — Em sbt,  p.  459. 

One  may  apply  what  is  said  of  the  va- 
rious classes  who  cross  the  Pont  Neuf,  (see 
Pbudhommb).  **  You  cannot  look  through  a 
magazine  without  finding  in  it  things  which 
bear  the  stamp  of  a  regularly  bred  author, 
of  an  aspirant  genius,  of  a  dandy  dabbler  in 
fine  literature,  of  a  radical,  of  a  sot  disant 
philosopher,  of  a  political  economist,  of  a 
clever  woman,  of  a  coxcomb,  and  of  a  tho- 
rough-paced profligate." 

Thebb  is  a  Roman  inscription  in  which 
bene  bibente  is  written  for  bene  viventi — as  a 
Spaniard  might  write  it  by  ear. 

Mliav  says  that  all  the  barbarians  esta- 
blished in  Europe  looked  upon  the  know- 
ledge of  letters  as  mean  and  disgraceful,  as 
did  the  barbarians  of  Asia  also. — CoUect. 
Hibemica,  vol.  2,  p.  166. 


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Somewhere  in  his  PoliHcB  Aristotle 
observes,  that  "  muUo  plura  Imperia  con' 
temptus  qyam  odium  evertity 

Roman  prose  was  corrupted  earlier  than 
poetry. 

The  political  economists  treat  this  sub- 
ject as  Machiavelli  treated  the  policy  of 
princes,  setting  aside  all  considerations  of 
morals  and  religion. 

Attempt  to  prove  that  tiie  old  law  re- 
lating to  the  frequency  of  celebrating  the 
Jewish  continual  sacrifice  is  still  in  force. 
A.  D.  1755. 

Fbize  questions  proposed  by  Dean  Tuck- 
er.— Memorial  Literario^  vol.  8,  p.  276. 

Lactation,  tiiree  years. — 2  Maccabees^ 
vii.  27. 

An  officer,  writing  from  the  camp  near 
Bhurtpore  to  his  brother,  says,  that  when 
he  went  round  the  walls  the  day  after  that 
place  was  taken  by  storm,  **  I  was  so  horror- 
struck,  that  I  could  have  knelt  down,  re- 
signed my  commission,  and  have  foresworn 
war  in  all  its  circumstances :  and  I  am  not 
very  squeamish  either."  —  Times,  Dec.  23, 
1829. 

I  wish  he  had. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  notice  the 
fact  on  which  Sadler  builds. 

**  'Tis  the  curse 
Of  great  estates  to  want  those  pledges,  which 
The  poor  are  happy  in.    They  in  a  cottage. 
With  joy,  behold  the  models  of  their  youth : 
And  as  their  root  decays,  those  budding 

branches 
Spout  out  and  flourbh,  to  renew  their  age.** 

Spanish  Curate  J  p.  190. 

There  is  a  passage  unfit  for  quotation 
to  the  same  purport  in  their  Wit  without 
Money, 

*  The  passage  referred  to  occurs  in  lib.  t. 
c.  X.  ic  ck  Ts  KaTa6povti<r9ai  noWcd  yivovrai 
Tbjv  KaToKvfffktv, — Jr.  W.  W. 


Fepts,  vol.  1,  p.  249.—"  25  Feb.  1661-2. 
Great  talk  of  the  effects  of  this  late  great 
wind ;  and  I  heard  one  say  that  he  had  five 
great  trees  standing  togeUier  blown  down; 
and  b^inning  to  lop  them,  one  of  them,  ai 
soon  as  the  lops  were  cut  ofi^  did,  by  the 
weight  of  the  root,  rise  again  and  fasten.** 

Marh  vii.  3-9.  —  Decision  against  the 
Romish  doctrine  of  tradition. 


's  Com' 


JoTOusNESS  of  the  world. 
ment  on  the  Creed,  p.  93. 


Changes  of  ministry  not  worth  any  pas- 
sionate interest. —  Mr.  yic&AR*s  Life  of 
Dr.  Bard,  p.  174-6, 

BoRT  St.  Vincent,  in  the  Isle  of  France, 
placed  hb  boxes  of  insects  on  a  stand  sur- 
rounded with  water,  two  inches  deep.  One 
night  the  ants  constructed  a  bridge  with 
straws,  reached  the  boxes,  and  devoured  all 
his  insects. — ^Fhillif*s  Coll.  vol.  2,  p.  77. 

"  The  Negroes  of  the  Isle  of  Bourbon 
say  that  the  souls  of  wicked  whites  go  into 
the  volcano,  where  they  are  employed  under 
black  drivers  to  throw  fuel  on  the  fire,  and 
dig  channels  for  the  lava.  Troops  of  white 
souls,  they  say,  have  been  seen  at  this.** — 
Ibid.  p.  132. 

*'  St.  Pierre  saw  all  the  French  saQors 
in  a  mess  (seven  in  number)  agree  to  go 
without  their  allowance  of  wine  or  brandy 
alternately,  each  for  six  days,  that  on  the 
seventh  he  might  have  the  allowance  of  the 
whole.** — Voyage  to  the  Isles,  p.  18. 

In  some  French  ships  tiiey  '*  amused 
themselves  with  flogging  the  cabin  boys  in 
calm  weather  to  procure  a  wind.**  —  Ibid, 
p.  19. 

European  trees  dwindle  in  tropical  cli- 
mates. '^  The  fir,  pine,  and  oak,**  says  St. 
Pierre,  **  grow  to  a  middling  stature  and 
then  decay.**    Many  of  our  fruit  trees  bios- 


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som,  but  produce  no  fruit  And  European 
man  docs  not  thrive  better.  He  is  out  of 
his  place  upon  the  globe. 

"  Sows  in  the  Isle  of  France  frequently 
produce  monsters.** — ^Ibid.  p  153. 

Dogs  never  go  mad  there. — ^Ibid.  p.  154. 

"  ScABCELT  had  the  terrace  at  Windsor 
been  opened  ten  minutes,  before  some  par- 
ties cut  their  initials  in  the  stone  work  sur- 
roun^g  it.  A  strong  feeling  of  indig- 
nation was  expressed  at  this  abuse  of  the 
liberty  of  walking  there,  by  many  respect- 
able persons." — Times,  August  9,  1830. 

'*  Some  Bibles  sent  by  the  Bible  Society 
for  Nova  Scotia  were  taken  by  an  Ame- 
rican privateer  in  1813,  carried  into  Port- 
land and  sold.  The  Massachusetts*  Bible 
Society  resolved  to  replace  them  by  send- 
ing from  its  own  funds  the  sum.  But  the 
people  of  Boston  raised  a  subscription,  and 
sent  the  full  amount,  £155.** — History  of  the 
Bible  Society,  vol.  2,  p.  486. 

"  Whew  the  Committee  of  the  Bible  So- 
ciety was  formed,  the  Wesleyan  Methodists 
refused  to  nominate  two  from  their  body, 
assigning  as  a  reason,  that  they  considered 
themselves  represented  by  the  bishops.** — 
Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  81. 

Trtdhs  of  Religion,  p.  102.—"  In  all  pri- 
mitive tongues,  vowels  of  small  consequence, 
and  therefore  not  marked.**  See  the  pas- 
sage. 

So  idle  is  it  to  reason  in  such  matters  upon 
what  miMf  naturally  be.  One  nation  stretches, 
attenuates,  and  liquifies  its  words  :  another 
compresses  and  hardens  and  stiffens  them. 

Co-oPBRATivs  system  that  on  which  go- 
vernments would  be  founded,  were  it  not 
for  the  depravity  of  human  nature.  This 
is  Mb.  Dou6la8*8  position  in  his  Truths  of 
Relig'on,  p.  157,  which  see. 

Sermons  used  to  be  preached  on  S.  Cae- 


cilia*s  day  as  late  as  1713,  and  I  know  not 
how  much  later. 

Wickedness  working  the  designs  of  Pro- 
vidence.— ^Bishop  Retnolds,  vol.  5,  p.  116. 

"  Aristotle  (PoUt.  7,  §  8)  reckoneth 
divine  worship  as  a  principid  thing,  without 
which  a  city  or  civil  polity  cannot  be.** — 
Ibid.  p.  333. 

What  preaching  should  be. — ^Ibid.  p.  397. 

In  feudal  times  opposition,  or  rather  re- 
sistance to  the  government,  arose  from  per- 
sonal feelings  :  it  was  to  some  favourite  or 
some  invidious  family,  not  to  public  mea- 
sures. The  people  took  part  only  upon 
feudal  principles  of  obedience  to  their  im- 
mediate lords. 

Then  came  the  age  of  religious  commo- 
tion, in  which  the  citizen  and  the  peasant 
took  as  deep  an  interest  as  the  peer. 

Botany  Bat,  1786. — ^The  marines  were 
to  take  out  twelve  women  to  a  company  of 
forty  men. 

Mr.  Matre  proposed  a  settlement  there 
for  the  American  loyalists  at  first;  but 
afterwards  recommended  it  for  convicts  ; 
and  he  thought  women  in  sufficient  number 
might  be  *'*'  obtained  in  a  friendly  manner 
from  New  Zealand.**  He  speculated  also 
upon  settlers  from  Java  and  Japan. 

There  is  scripture  for  the  opinion  that 
the  will  will  be  accepted  for  the  deed. 
"  The  Lord,**  says  Solomon,  **  said  unto 
David  my  father.  Whereas  it  was  in  thine 
heart  to  build  an  house  unto  my  name, 
thou  didst  well  that  it  was  in  thine  heart. 
— 1  Kings  viii.  18. 


Depreciation  in  consequence  of  an  in- 
flux of  wealth. — ^^Silver  "  was  nothing  ac- 
counted of  in  the  days  of  Solomon  : — the 
king  made  silver  to  be  in  Jerusalem  as 
stones,  and  cedars  made  he  to  be  as  the 


«» 


sycamore  trees  that  are  in  the  Tale  for 
abundance.**— Ibid.  x.  21-27. 

"  Foot  passengers  in  every  city  of  Eu- 
rope, except  London,  were  exposed  to  acci- 
dents from  being  mixed  with  horses  and 
carriages,  as  well  as  from  the  insolence  and 
brutality  of  their  riders  and  drivers,  for 
want  of  a  footpath.  In  Paris,  a  great  many 
people  are  annually  killed  and  maimed  for 
want  of  one.** — Bubmbt,  Musical  Tour  in 
Chrmany,  vol.  2,  p.  197. 

^  There  is  a  foot  pavement  in  Pompeii ; 
and  on  each  side  the  Via  Appia  and  other 
ancient  roads  in  Italy.** — ^Ibid. 

Ibid.  p.  36. — ^A  STRAHOB  story  of  a  native 
of  Poole,  driving  a  nail  into  a  hor8e*8  head, 
and  curing  it  by  a  chemical  liquid  of  his 
own  preparing. 

Son B  excellent  remarks  upon  those  poets 
whose  verses  are  made  up  from  memory, 
and  whose  memory  sticks  in  the  letter, 
without  having  a  glimpse  of  the  spirit. — 
Sib  Eoebtoh  Bbtdobs*  Recollections  of 
Travel^  vol.  1,  p.  240. 

Agbicultubists  prone  to  religion,  as  sol- 
diers to  impiety. — Max.  Ttbius,  Dissert. 
14,  p.  172.    A  valuable  passage. 

Thb  Hindoos  at  their  marriage  invoke 
the  manes  of  their  ancestors  to  be  present. 
— MoBGAH*s  Doct,  of  Mar,  vol.  1,  p.  97. 

1791.  Thb  Royal  Academy  of  Sciences 
at  Gottingen,  in  1791,  proposed  these  ques- 
tions : 

"  What  is  the  reason  that  ornaments  of 
public  buildings,  bridges,  railings,  monu- 
ments, mile  stones,  trees,  and  banks  of  walks, 
&c.  are  defaced,  out  of  mere  malice  (mis- 
chief) more  in  Grermany,  or  in  many  parts 
of  it  at  least,  than  in  Italy  or  other  coun- 
tries P  and  how  may  this  apparently  national 
viciousness  be  most  securely  and  speedily 
eradicated  P 

'^  What  is  the  least  expensive  mode  of  in- 
closing towns  that  have  neither  walls  nor 


dikes,  BO  that  no  one  can  go  in  or  out  on- 
perceived  P  " 

A  PASSAGB  in  Beaumont  and  Fletcheb 
vol.  8,  p.  192  (^WonuaCs  Prize),  which  looks 
as  if  there  was  a  notion  concerning  women 
like  that  concerning  sylphs,  upon  which  the 
tale  of  Undine  is  founded.  Yet  there  can- 
not have  been ;  the  meaning  must  be  acci- 
dental, I  think. 

*' A  coNjuBBB*s  the  devil*s  master,  and  com- 
mands him. 
Whereas  a  witch  is  but  the  devil*s  prentice. 
And  obeys  him.** 

Bbaumoht  and  Flbtchbb,  Fair 
Maid  of  the  Inn,  p.  360. 

'*  Lbs  Europ^ens  seuls  sont  capables  d*ap- 
prendre  aux  Indiens  leur  propre  histoire,  ct 
de  voir  dans  leurs  traditions,  dans  leurs 
monumens  des  id^  et  des  faits  qui  ne 
sauraient  Stre  d^ouverts  et  compris  par  les 
Indiens  aux-m^es.** — Doctrine  o/S,  Sinum, 
p.  118,  N. 

St.  AuGUSTiKB  derives  sertnts  from  ser^ 
vare. — Ibid.  p.  240. 

Thb  following  is  said  to  be  the  state  of 
church  preferment  in  this  country : — 
Livings  in  the  gift  of 

The  nobility  and  gentry 5033 

The  church 8769 

Government 1014 

The  universities 814 

Public  bodies 197 

The  inhabitants 64 


Onb,  in  the  Series  of  Bouchet,  (vol.  % 
p.  361)  asks,  *'  qui  est  celuy  de  nostre 
temps,  qui  ne  naisse  moindre  que  ses  pere 
et  mere  P  **  Perhaps  the  wars  of  that  age 
had,  as  in  Buonaparte*s,  left  only  the  imma- 
ture and  the  old  to  propagate ;  and  in  the 
same  way  affected  female  constitutions,  as 
the  revolution  is  known  to  have  done.  See 
the  account  of  Strasbuig. 

DuBDiG  the  civil  wars  in  France,  people 
retired  into  the  lazar  houses  for  safety,  feign- 


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ing  to  be  lepers,  and  exposing  themselves 
to  leprosy. 

See  tbis  very  curious  passage  in  the  Se^ 
ries  of  Bouchet,  torn  3,  p.  245-6. 

There  used  to  be  a  very  considerable 
demand  for  Irish  editions,  from  America. — 
Irish  DebateSj  vol.  16,  p.  73. 

The  roots  of  the  couch  grass  (Jtriticwn 
repens)  in  Flanders,  and  in  the  south  of 
Italy,  are  collected,  washed,  and  sold  in  bun- 
dles for  horses. — Quatle's  Survey  of  Jersey, 
Gruemsej/j  &c.  p.  255. 

Whobvbb  would  understand  what  reli- 
ance may  be  placed  upon  the  Unitarian  wri- 
ters on  the  score  of  integrity,  should  con- 
sult Archbishop  Magee*s  notes  upon  their 
improved  version  of  the  New  Testament. 
They  are  to  be  found  in  the  third  volume 
of  his  most  valuable  discourse  on  the  Atone- 
ment. 

See  also  in  the  same  volume,  N.  p.  8 10,  the 
fraudulent  manner  in  which  they  have  used 
the  names  of  Dr.  Watts  and  Mrs.  Trimmer. 

HoBBES  recommends  the  Whole  Duty  of 
Mian,  as  (except  a  few  passages  that  he  mis- 
liked)  very  well  worth  reading ;  and  as  con- 
taining the  then  system  of  church  morals. 
— Behemoth. 

It  has  been  said  that  **  bugs  were  first 
brought  into  the  country  after  the  fire  of 
London,  in  the  fir  timber  imported  for  the 
rebuilding  of  the  city."  Gifford  says, "un- 
fortunately for  them,  however,  they  were 
the  greatest  sufferers  by  the  fire,  having  been 
denizened  in  vast  numbers  long  before  that 
calamitous  event  took  place." — ^B.  J.  vol.  6, 
p.  50,  in  a  note  upon 

"  Run  away  like  ctmtci, 
Into  the  crannies  of  a  rotten  bedstead." 

This  seems  to  be  an  Italian  word. 

DuxLS. — ^B.  JoBSOH,  vol.  6,  p.  69. 

Gill,  the  master  of  St.  PauFs  school, 
circiter  a.  d.  1600,  published  Logonomie, 


a  conceited  and  barbarous  attempt,  Gifford 
calls  it,  to  rectify  the  writing  of  the  Eng- 
lish language,  which  seems  to  have  fallen 
into  the  hands  of  the  late  James  Elphin- 
stone. — Ibid.  vol.  6,  N.  p.  127. 

"As  just  a  carrier  as  my  friend  Tom  Long 
was."        Ibid.  Tale  of  a  Tub,  p.  201. 

He  was  of  that  age  then,  and  noted  for 
his  honesty. 

"  The  whirligig,  thewhibble,  the  carwidgen. 
Hey  day,  what  names  are  these  P 
New  names  of  late." 
MiDDLBTON,  Mayor  of  Queevhoraugh, 
Old  Plays,  Yo\,  11,  p.  167. 

Vindication  of  Alva's  cruelty. 

Adventures  of  Five  Hours,  Old 
Plays,  vol.  12,  p.  41. 

Thb  most  curious  stage  direction  I  have 
seen  is  in  Apius  and  Virginia,  "  Here  let 
him  make  as  he  went  out,  and  let  consci- 
ence and  justice  come  out  of  him ;  and  let 
conscience  hold  in  his  hand  a  lamp  burning, 
and  let  justice  have  a  sword,  and  hold  it 
before  Apius*8  breast.^* — Ibid.  p.  356. 

French  Memoirs, 

Tom.  28. — Vincent  Cabloix,  Mem.  du 
Vieillevilli. 

Tom.  165. — Defence  of  spies,  as  men  of 
principle. 

Tom.  331. — Bull  dogs,  and  bull  baiting 
introduced  from  England  into  France. 

Tom.  32. — Mem.  de  Tarannes.  A  French- 
man proposes  to  surprise  Malta,  as  a  sure 
step  to  Sicily,  and  to  the  conquest  of  Italy. 

Ibid.  tom.  30,  p.  197.  Br  the  usage  of 
war,  the  cannoneers  had  a  right  to  all  "  les 
cloches  d*une  ville  qu*ils  ont  battue,  en  quel- 
que  sorte  qu*elle  se  sont  rendue,  ou  par  force 
ou  composition." — ^Vincent  Cabloix. 

In  R.  Greene's  Looking  Glass  for  Lon- 
don and  England,  Jonah  is  cast  out  of  the 
Whale's  belly  upon  the  stage. 


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z  z 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


Waluits,  p.  106.  Paulus  Manntiiia  Al- 
dus, lib^l,  ep.4,  describes  his  way  of  borrow- 
ing from  ancient  authors,  which  is  precisely 
the  same  as  Ebenezer  Elliot's.  Wallius 
himself  (p.  150)  recommends  it. 

Pabnaso  Ital.  Modem,  vol.  13,  Parini, 
p.  125-7.  What  men  of  rank  learnt  from 
Voltaire,  and  what  they  did  not  learn. 

Mb.  Deyat  of  Boston  tells  me,  that  mad- 
ness is  more  common  in  America  than  in 
England;  and  that  the  most  frequent  cause 
is  political  excitement,  the  boundless  am- 
bition, and  continual  ferment  of  democracy. 

He  says  also,  that  a  small  collection  of 
good  books  is  more  generally  to  be  found 
in  an  American  house,  than  in  an  Englbh 
one.-- July,  1833. 

Uncalculated  and,  quasi,  uncalculable 
dangers,  or  consequences — 

*'  It  lately  happened  that  an  iron  bridge 
fell  in  very  curious  circumstances,  by  the 
marching  of  a  body  of  soldiers  over  it.  Now, 
the  bridge  was  calculated  to  sustain  a  greater 
weight  than  this  body  of  men;  and  had  they 
walked  tumultuously  over  it,  it  would  have 
withstood  the  pressure :  but  the  soldiers 
marching  to  time,  accumulated  a  motion, 
aided  by  the  elasticity  of  the  material,  which 
broke  it  down." — Bbll*s  Bridgwater  TreO' 
tise,  p.  234. 

**  Nous  entrdmes  dons  un  petit  batteau 
rond  qui  avoit  k  chacun  de  ses  flancs  ime 
roue  attachee  dont  les  ailes  servoient  de 
rames,  une  manivelle  double  les  faisoit  tour- 
ner  k  la  fois." — Lamekis,  vol.  1,  p.  93. 

Question  do  Amor.  At  a  tournay,  prizes 
both  for  knights  and  ladies  who  shall  appear 
in  the  most  gallant  attire. — H.  2,  I.  5. 

^*  I  DO  not  like  that  he  names  me  so  often. 
Especially  on  his  death-bed :  *tis  a  sign 
I  shall  not  live  long." 

Webstbb,  vol.  1,  p.  134. 


44 


Out  of  brave  horsemanship  arise  the 
first  sparks  of  growing  resolution,  that  raise i 
the  mind  to  noble  action." — ^Ibid.  p.  183. 

'*  The  smallness  of  a  kitchen,  without  ques- 
tion. 
Makes  many  noblemen  in  France  and  Spam 
Build  the  rest  of  the  house  the  bigger." 
Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  33,  DevU's  Law  Cote. 

Fios  were  called  fig  dates ;  unless,  which 
is  less  likely,  dates  were  so  called. —  Ibid, 
vol.  2,  p.  83. 

"  The  midwife  straight  howls  out  there  was 

no  hope 
Of  the  infant's  life :  swaddles  it  in  a  flayed 

lamb  skin. 
As  a  bird  hatched  too  early.** 

Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  98. 

**  This  three  months  did  we  never  house 

our  heads 
But  in  yon  great  star  chamber.** 

Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  152. 
This,  which  is  no  uncommon  allusioD  at 
that  time,  is  contrary  to  a  general  principle 
in  poetry,  of  a  sublime  character. 

**  Though  we  dine  to  day 
As  Dutchmen  feed  their  soldiers,  we  will  sup 
Bravely,  like  Roman  leaguerers.** 

Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  2^4. 

*'  A  Spaniard  is  a  Camocho,  a  Saliman- 
co ;  nay,  which  is  worse,  a  Dondego ;  and 
what  is  a  Dondego  P 

Clown,  A  Dondego  is  a  kind  of  Spanish 
stock-fish,  or  poor  John. 

Brett.  No,  a  Dondego  is  a  desperate  Yi- 
liago,  a  very  Castilian;  God  bless  us.**  — 
Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  298.  Sir  T.  WyaU. 

Cold  harbour,  Ibid.  Yok.  3,  p.  90.  It  was 
called  the  devil*s  sanctuary.  Hence,  no 
doubt,  the  song. 

At  the  sale  of  ordnance  in  England,  if 


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it  break  the  first  discharge,  the  workman  is 
at  the  loss  of  it;  if  the  second,  the  merchant 
and  the  woiiunan  jointly ;  if  the  third,  the 
merchant. — Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  IS5. 

GsHBBATiON  of  the  winds  as  marked  in 
the  compass;  a  good  satire  on  allegorical 
mjthologj. — Ilnd.  voL  3,  p.  346. 

Fuller,  Church  History,  p.  146.  Touch- 
ing for  the  king*s  evil.  He  believed  it,  and 
relates  a  cure  by  Queen  Elizabeth  on  a  Pa- 
pist, which  converted  him. 

St.  Ambrose^s,  perhaps,  the  first  hymn 
book  ever  publish^. — Culbke,  £cc.  IaU 
voL  1,  p.  465. 

Bt  St.  Basil*s  canons,  the  same  penance 
of  ten  years  is  appointed  for  him  who  opens 
a  tomb,  as  for  involuntary  homicide. — Ibid, 
vol.  1,  p.  356. 

Curious,  considering  **that  Anarch  old" 
of  Milton,  that  "Avap^oc  should  have  been 
one  of  the  names  given  by  the  early  Chris- 
tians to  the  Almighty. — Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  112. 

The  word  Trinity,  Tpidc,  first  used  at 
Antioch,  and  first  found  in  Theophllus,  a.d. 
18L— Ibid.  vol.  1,  p.  113. 

In  Gregorius  Nyssensis,  is  a  full  account 
of  the  necessity  of  hands  to  a  rational  being. 
—Ibid.  vol.  l,p.422. 

AuousTiHB  says  that  infants  dying  un- 
baptized,  depart  into  a  slight  damnation, 
^  in  damnatione  mitissimft.**— Ibid.vol.2,p. 
84. 

Accidental  discovery  of  fire  by  Adam 
and  Eve  throwing  a  stone  at  a  serpent, 
which  struck  a  spark  from  a  flinty  rock,  into 
the  crevice  of  which  the  serpent  escaped, 
and  that  spark  kindling  the  dry  vegetation 
around.  This  is  related  by  Victor  of  Mar- 
seilles in  his  poetical  commentary  on  Grene- 
818. — Ibid.  vol.  2,  p.  216. 


Cosmos  Indicopleustes  writes  to  prove 
that  the  world  is  an  universal  plain,  of  the 
form  of  a  parallelogram,  shut  in  by  walls, 
and  siuTounded  by  the  ocean,  which  is  again 
enclosed  by  another  land,  wherein  the  ter- 
restrial paradise  is  situated. — Ibid.  vol.  2, 
p.  310. 

"  The  master  in  the  fable  did  not  well  to 
beat  his  maid  for  serving  him  with  thin 
milk,  when  it  was  his  own  cow  that  gave  it.*' 
— Sandbb80m*s  Pre/ace, 

"  Who  knoweth  not  that  as  empty*  ves- 
sels give  the  loudest  sound,  and  shallow 
brooks  run  with  a  fiercer  current,  and  make 
a  greater  noise  than  deeper  rivers  do,  so 
they  that  are  the  least  able  to  judge  are  ever 
the  most  forward  to  pass  sentence,  and  when 
they  so  do,  the  most  rigid  and  peremptory 
therein." — Ibid,  to  his  Fourteen  Sermons, 

**  Sats  the  master  of  a  booth  at  a  fair  to 
the  fellow  who  managed  affairs  behind  the 
curtain,  '  Why  don't  you  snow  there?' 
*  Sir,*  says  the  fellow  aloud  to  him,  *  all 
the  white  paper's  gone.*  *  Why,  then,  you 
blockhead,'  cries  the  master,  '  snow  in  some 
brown  paper.'"  —  T.  Brown's  Dialogues, 
p.  294. 

It  is  a  just  remark  of  Charlevoix,  that 
"  il  n'y  a  qu'au  Tribunal  de  Dieu,  que  le 
t^moignage  de  la  Conscience  rassure  par- 
faitement." — N,  France,  tom.  1,  p.  92. 

OuB  old  lawyers  were  fond  of  rhymes, 
as  witness  John  Doe  and  Richard  Roe.  So 
when  two  representative  places  are  spoken 
of,  the  one  is  Dale  and  the  other  Sale ;  a 
beggar  is  to  be  whipped  at  Dale  and  passed 
to  Sale. — Statutes,  tom.  3,  p.  331. 

*  We  may  not  readily  forget  the  words  of  the 
Quaker  in  the  Spectator,  "  Th^  drum  b  a  type 
of  thee ;  it  soundeth  because  it  is  empty.  Yeruy 
it  is  not  from  thy  fulness,  but  thy  emptiness  that 
thouhastspokenthisdav."   No.  132.— J.W.W. 


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u 


Qn  noQ  8*ha  d*uopo  arer  da  Bonaparte 
Avuta  lezion  di  cavalcare.** 

Cacasenno^  xviii.  p.  5. 

If  the  date  of  this  Yillainoiu  poem  were 
to  be  made  out  by  internal  testimony  alone, 
who  would  suppose  that  it  was  older  than 
the  days  of  Napoleon. 

"  CuTTiKG  down  the  sea  weeds  for  kelp 
has  injured  the  Scotch  fisheries :  there  is 
no  longer  protection  for  the  young  fry,  and 
therefore  the  old  fish  forsake  those  places.** 
— Quarterly  Review^  No.  74,  p.  346. 

Watbb  melons  grow  in  the  deserts  of 
South  Airica.-^PHiJLip,  voL  2,  p.  121. 

Flies  annually  destroyed  by  fire  at  Flo- 
rence."— Galote,  /to/y,  vol.  2,  p.  408. 

'*  Rex  Nem obsnsis,  a  priest  of  Diana  at 
Nemi  by  the  lake,  who  held  his  place  by 
the  tenure  of  having  murdered  his  prede- 
cessor, and  was  never  without  a  drawn 
sword  to  protect  himself  against  his  aspi- 
rant successor." — MemerUoea  of  a  ToWj  vol. 
2,  p.  217. 

Gas  from  a  burning  spring  used  for  do- 
mestic purposes  in  America. — ^M*Kemnet*s 
Sketcheif  p.  84. 

Galilbo*8  finger  hitoffhj  tai  antiquary. 
DupPA*8  Travels,  p.  13. 

A  SAINTLY  beard. — ^Hbbbb^s  Journal,  vol. 
2,  p.  17. 

The  modem  Greeks  use  Mt  for  B. — 
TuBMEB*8  Tour,  vol.  1,  p.  145. 

Strahgb  history  of  a  Corsican  who  was 
like  Prince  Leopold  of  Naples. — Ibid.  p.  195. 

Red  sand  fell  with  the  rain  at  Zante. — 
Ibid.  p.  204. 


Spanish  Jews  in  the  Levant  are  very 
numerous,  and  still  speak  Spanish  as  theu* 
mother  tongue. — Ibid.  vol.  3,  p.  244. 

A  Fbeivchman,  for  want  of  bark,  cured 
ague  by  cofiee  in  powder. — ^Ibid.  p.  255. 

TuBKisH  allowance  of  heads  decapitanda. 
—Ibid.  p.  400. 

Pbohibitioh  of  smoking  is  thought  the 
hardest  duty  of  Wahabism. — Ibid.  p.  467. 

'*  Es  tan  grande  la  fuerza  de  una  batalla 
campal,  que  con  mucha  razon  dizen  los 
que  professan  la  arte  y  discipHna  militar. 
Dios  me  d^  cient  anos  de  guerra,  y  no  ub 
dia  de  battalia." — Gabibat,  vol.  4,  p.  1031. 

SuGAB  canes,  Jer,  vi.  20,  ^^  from  a  far 
country." 

"  Then  Samuel  told  the  people  the  man- 
ner of  the  kingdom,  and  wrote  it  in  a  book, 
and  laid  it  up  before  the  Lord.** — 1  Sam, 
X.  25. 

A  constitution  or  original  compact  here. 

"  —  L*oN  ^it  assure,  avant  que  Ton 
parlAt,  qu*il  ^toit  d*un  sentiment  contraire 
kce  qui  se  diroit.  Le  maU  etoit  sa  transition 
favorite,  et  le  non  son  mot  ch^  et  fami- 
Her.** — Mabivaux,  LaPaysanMePautre,Yol 
3,  p.  17. 

Tbb  miscreant  Burke  was  asked  how  he 
felt  when  pursuing  his  trade  of  murder,  he 
replied  that  ^  he  had  no  feelings  about  it 
when  he  was  awake,  but  that  when  he  slept 
he  had  frightful  dreams,  such  as  he  had 
never  had  before." 

Drink  had  something  to  do  with  this 
waking  state,  for  the  price  of  blood  was 
chiefly  expended  in  ardent  spirits. 

^'  Shall  I  make  sjnrits  fetch  me  what  I 

please  P 
— ^I'll  have  them  fly  to  India  for  gt^d, 
Ransack  the  ocean  for  orient  pearl. 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCLA.L  SOCIETY. 


709 


And  search  all  comers  of  the  new-foxmd 

world 
For  pleasant  fruits  and  princely  delicates.** 
Mablow,  Dr*  Faustus^  p.  15. 

Stobt  in  Oviedo  of  the  fruit  brought 
from  the  West  Indies  by  a  Devil  to  Eng- 
land. 

^  Enter  two  friars,  with  a  rout  of  stink- 
ards following  them.**  —  Mablow,  Lusts 
Dominion.  This  then  was  a  common  ap- 
pellation for  the  rabble.  The  dialogue  pro- 
ceeds with  1st,  2nd,  and  3rd  stinkard.  In 
our  days  this  would  be  high  treason  against 
the  majesty  of  the  people  I 

Balout*s  father  composed  a  sermon 
weekly  for  the  first  four  years  after  he  ob- 
tained his  small  preferment ;  and  that  his 
son  might  follow  the  same  course,  he  de- 
stroyed almost  his  whole  stock,  burning 
two  hundred  and  fifty  at  one  time. 

*•  Habtlepool,**  says  Mb.  Subtees,  vol. 
3,  p.  100,  '*  was  now  in  that  delightful  state 
of  existence  which  is  allowed  once,  and  once 
only  to  all  bodies,  as  well  human  as  corpo- 
rate, bourgeoning  with  the  fresh  vigour  of 
young  life,  regardless  of  the  distant  hours 
of  slow  decay,  which  as  surely  await,  if 
exempt  from  sudden  ruin,  every  institution 
of  human  policy,  as  they  do  every  form  of 
mortal  mould.** 

Not  so  necessarily. 

KiNSET  (Portugal^  p.  229),  says  "  cider 
b  an  African  liquor;  the  use  came  from 
thence  to  Spain,  so  into  France,  and  from 
Normandy  to  us." 

But  is  the  apple  an  African  fruit  P 

**  In  the  neighbourhood  of  Sheffield,  when 
the  garden  flowers  are  nearly  past,  bee 
hives  are  carried  to  the  moors,  that  they 
may  collect  honey  enough  from  the  heath 
to  maintain  them  during  the  winter.  This 
removal  takes  place  either  in  the  case  of 
late  swarms,  or  poor  stocks  which  have  but 
little  honey,  or  after  the  seasons*  honey  has 


been  taken  from  the  heavier  hives,  without 
destroying  the  labourers,  in  other  words, 
after  driving  them,  as  it  is  termed,  out  of 
the  full  hive  into  an  empty  one.** — Sheffield 
Iris. 

A  BOOK  or  pamphlet  was  published,  1712, 
with  this  good  title,  "  Account  of  the  dam- 
nable Prizes  in  Old  Nick*s  Lottery.** 

Common  Prayer  as  read  in  private  by 
Garrick.  1797. 

**  Island  newly  emerged  from  the  ocean 
obtains  peciiliar  plants.** — Pbichabd,  vol.  1, 
p.  35. 

N.  B.  Island  not  elevated  from  the  ocean, 
but  formed  by  coral,  &c. 

In  1679,  when  the  family  of  the  Lords  of 
Brederode  became  extinct,  their  escutcheon 
was  laid  with  the  last  of  them  in  the  grave, 
at  Vianen. 

Dalman,  a  Tarragonan  conjurer,  oflen 
taken  before  the  Inquisition  and  examined. 
— Grandezas  de  Tarragona^  p.  264. 

Fletcheb  {Elder  Brother,  p.  118)  sneers 
at 

"  Dunce  Hollinshed 
The  Englishman  that  writes  of  shows  and 
sherilTs.** 

In  the  description  of  an  Auto-da-Jtj  which 
is  in  Humboldt*s  possession  (  Travels,  vol.  7, 
p.  263),  ^  a  boast  is  made  of  the  prodigality 
with  which  refreshments  are  distributed  .to 
the  condemned ;  and  of  the  staircase  which 
the  Inquisition  have  had  erected  in  the  in- 
terior of  the  pile  for  the  accommodation  of 
the  rdaxadosl^ 

Selection,  GenttefnarCs  Magazine,  vol.  3, 
p.  455.  Gassendi*8  delight  in  the  singing 
of  birds ;  a  very  beautiful  passiige. 

Danish  FolkeMagn,  vol.  i.  p.  84.  Andebs, 
a  parallel  case  to  Huntingtou*s  way  of 
living. 


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Aaron  PurgatuSj  a  book  by  Monceau, 
or  Moncaeus,  to  justify  Aaron  for  making 
the  golden  calf  I — Batlb. 

**  Knowbst  thou  not  that  fish  caught  with 
medicines,  and  women  gotten  with  witch- 
craft are  never  wholesome." — JEuphttes. 

The  first  assertion  may  be  true,  and  pro- 
bably is;  the  beasts  killed  by  the  Indian 
poisoned  arrow  are  not  rendered  unfit  for 
food.     The  efiect  is  altogether  difierent. 

Indians. — "  Their  connection  with  the 
lowest  orders  in  the  United  States  has  in- 
duced a  shocking  demoralization ;  the  greater 
number  of  them  in  the  United  States  are 
now  entirely  dependent  on  them ;  they  are 
rapidly  decreasing,  or  in  some  instances  re- 
tiring further  west.  The  manner  in  which 
they  live  among  the  Americans,  without 
actually  amalgamating,  is  curious;  they 
have  no  vote,  no  privilege  as  citizens ;  but 
thb  indifference  towards  them  is  got  over 
by  saying,  *  t?iat  they  are  considered  as  and 
treated  with  as  independent  nations.*  I  should 
however  suppose,  if  they  became  farmers, 
out  of  the  lands  appropriated  to  them  and 
gained  property,  they  would  be  entitled  to 
the  rights  of  citizens.  Except  in  one  part 
of  this  Continent,  they  have  never  yet 
shewed  themselves  patient  of  regular  labour ; 
this  exception  b  at  Nantucket,  where  they 
have  long  assisted  in  navigating  the  whale- 
ships,  and  prove  active,  good  seamen.  They 
are  now  becoming  extinct  most  rapidly  ; 
the  habits  of  a  seaman  in  such  long  voyages, 
and  the  irr^nlarities  attached  to  it,  are 
sufllcient  causes.  The  few  who  remain  at 
home  marry  into  the  lowest  orders  of  whites 
or  of  negroes  ;  the  latter  is  the  most  com- 
mon." 

In  the  Independent  Whig  are  some  re- 
marks by  Gordon  on  Sir  R,  L'Estrange's 
style. 

Frozen  Potatoes. — "  Iw  the  time  of  frosts, 
the  only  precaution  necessary  is,  to  retain 
the  potatoes  in  a  perfectly  dark  place  for 
Kome  days  after  the  thaw  has  commenced. 


In  America,  where  they  are  sometimes 
frozen  as  hard  as  stones,  they  rot  if  thawed 
in  open  day;  but  if  thawed  in  darkness 
they  do  not  rot,  and  lose  very  little  of  their 
natural  odour  and  properties.**  —  Recueil 
IndusL  xiv.  p.  81,  as  quoted  in  Jameson^s 
JSdinburgh  New  Phil,  Journal. 

Choristers  pressed  formerly. — Tussxb, 
p.  316. 

"  For  some  centuries  there  was  scarcely 
a  Knight  of  Malta,  though  all  of  noble  fa- 
milies, who  could  write  his  name ;  where- 
fore the  Vice-Chancellor  who  committed  all 
the  acts  of  their  chapters  to  writing,  was 
always  a  clergyman.*'  —  Carte's  Life  of 
Omumd,  vol.  1,  p.  xxxviii. 

""  E  CRI]DELB  il  rimorso  a  i  solitari, 

Chi  i  pensier  non  divia, 
Ricadendo  sul  cuor,  come  in  lor  centro, 
Si  pascon  del  velen  che  sta  piu  dentro." 

Magqi,  torn.  2,  p.  72. 

"It  appears,"  says  Percy,  "from  the 
Earl  of  Northumberland's  Household  Book, 
that  horses  were  not  so  usually  fed  with 
com  loose  in  the  manger,  in  the  present 
manner,  as  with  their  provender  made  into 
loaves." — ^N.  Ben  Jonsoh,  vol.  2,  p.  118. 

Horse  loaves  and  horse  bread  are  fre* 
quently  mentioned,  and  probably  the  poor 
ate  the  same  bread,  at  least  bread  called  bj 
the  same  name,  certainly. 

"  A  serpent  ere  he  comes  to  be  a  dragoo, 
Does  eat  a  bat.'* 

Ben  Jonson,  Cataline^  vol.  4,  p.  269. 
A  serpent,  the  Greek  proverb  says.* 

*''  The  Roman  soldiers  bore  other  devices 
for  their  standards  as  commonly  as  the  eagle, 
minotaurs,  boars,  wolves,  dragons,  &c.  till 
Marius  having  won  many  battles  under  the 
eagle,  introduced  that  more  generally.  Cs- 
taline  had  his  (M.*s)  silver  eagle,  and  put 

»  See  Gifford's  Not©  in  ^.— J.  W.  W. 


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some  fmith  in  it/* —  Giffojud's  Ben  Jonaon^ 
Yoi.  4,  p.  272. 

"  The  Rhizomorpba — a  fungus.  This 
genus,  which  vegetates  in  dark  mines,  far 
from  the  light  of  day,  is  remarkable  for  its 
phosphorescent  properties.  Li  the  coal 
mines  near  Dresden  it  gives  those  places 
the  air  of  an  enchanted  castle.  The  roofs, 
walls,  and  pillars  are  entirely  covered  with 
them ;  their  beautiful  light  almost  dazzling 
the  eje." — Ed.  Phil.  Joum.  vol.  14,  p.  178. 
TuRMfis*s  Sacred  Historyy  p.  92. 

Scurvy — wainscotted  rooms  instead  of 
walled  ones  thought  to  mitigate  or  prevent 
the  disease. — Olavs  Magmus,  p.  653.^ 

"  Mb.  Burton,  afterwards  Lord  Conyng- 
ham,  was  with  Lord  Cfaarlemont  on  his 
passage  from  Greece  to  Malta,  when  a  tem- 
pest came  on,  and  the  Captain  at  length 
advised  them  to  prepare  for  the  worst.  Bur- 
ton t>roke  the  dead  silence  which  ensued  by 
exclaiming  **  Well,'*  and  I  fear  with  an  oath, 
^'this  is  fine  indeed.  Here  have  I  been 
pampering  this  great  body  of  mine  for  more 
than  twenty  years ;  and  all  to  be  a  prey  to 
some  cursed  shark,  and  be  damned  to  him  !** 
— Hardy.  Life  of  Lord  Charlenumt,  voL  1, 
p.  38. 

Such  a  feeling  many  a  man  entertains 
towards  his  heir. 

^  Ma  come  potrb  mai  condurmi  al  fine 
Senza  par  due  parole  delle  stringhe, 
Sorelle  delle  calze,  over  engine. 

Chi  le  vuole  spagnuole,  e  chi  fiaminghe, 
£  chi  le  fa  venir  fin  d*Inglalterra 
Come  se  possin  sertnom  au  o  arioghe.** 
BiNO.  Op.  Burl.  vol.  1,  p.  302. 

"  The  Roman  armies  used  to  carry  tiles 
with  them,  enough  for  paving  the  place 
where  the  praetorium  or  General's  tent  was 
set  up.     Suetonius  the  authority  in  Julius 

'  I  suspect  the  passage  here  alluded  to  occurs 
in  p.  316  of  the  iMit.  Roma-y  1555,  which  I  look 
upon  as  one  of  my  very  curious  books. 

J.W.W. 


Caesar.*' — Malcojlm's  Londinium^  vol.  3,  p. 
513. 

Ariosto  saying  that  when  Rodomonti  set 
fire  to  Paris  the  houses  were  all  of  wood, 
adds — 

"  Ch'  in  Parigi  ora 
De  le  dieci  le  sei  son  cosi  ancora." 

C.  16,  St.  26,  tom.  2,  p.  153. 

The  slaughter  of  the  pagan  put  a  stop 
to  by  night. 

"  Dal  Creatore  accelerata  forse, 
Che  de  la  sua  fattura  ebbe  pietade.** 

And  then 


u 


Villani  e  lupi  rescir'  poi  de  la  grotte 
A  dispogharli,  e  a  divorar  la  notte." 
Ibid.  e.  18,  st.  162,  tom.  2,  p.  275. 

AsTOLFo,  in  Ariosto's  abominable  story 
is  by  his  courtiers 

"  Lodato 
Or  del  bel  viso,  or  de  la  bella  mono." 

C.  28,  St.  6,  tom.  3,  p.  250. 

Ariosto  speaks  of 

*^  L'audaci  galee  d^  Catalani." 

OrL  Fur.  c.  42,  st.  38, 
tom.  5,  p.  14. 

"  La  ferocitk  de'  montoni,  ferendo  loro  il 
como  presso  I'orecchia,  si  possa  mitigere." 
Sanazzaro.  Pam.Ital.  vol.  16,  p.  229. 

^*  El  onzeno  mandamiento 
Es,  no  estorvarks." 
i.  e.  not  interfere  in  a  quarrel. 

Calderoh.    El  Maestro  de  Damaa. 

Soldiers  could  not  be  quartered  upon 
an  hidalgo.  The  high-minded  labrador  in 
Calderon's  play,  (El  Garrotte  mas  bien  dado) 
is  advised  to  buy  an  executoria  for  the  sake 
of  this  exemption. 

Thb  Venetians.  Du  Bella y,  in  the  Re- 
cueil,  vol.  1,  p.  214.  A  very  good  sonnet 
of  its  kind. 

Ibid.  p.  161. — Sonnet  of  St.  Gelais  upon 
the  whims  in  his  mistress's  head. 


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**  Atqui  ante  annos  yiginti-qoinque  nihil 
receptius  erat  apud  Brabantos,  quam  therms 
pubUcfle  :  eae  nunc  frigent  ubique.  Scabies 
enim  nora  docuit  no0  abetinere.**  —  £&▲«- 
MTS.  Divertoria,  p.  172. 

A.  D.  1459.  JoioiEs's  Mongtrelet,  toL  10, 
pp.  44-7,  a  horrid  persecution  at  Arras  for 
witchcraft.  Vaudoisie  it  was  called,  mean- 
ing a  nightly  meeting  of  sorcerers,  for  to 
this  calumny  the  poor  Vaudois  were  ex- 
posed I  It  was  known  ^^  that  these  charges 
had  been  raked  up  by  a  set  of  wicked  per- 
sons against  some  of  the  principal  inhabi- 
tants of  Arras,  whom  they  hated,  and  whose 
wealth  they  coyeted." 

Ibid.  p.  69. — MnxTABT patrols  established 
in  France,  which  made  travelling  safe.  The 
JEscorcheurs  were  thus  employed.  This  was 
in  the  latter  years  of  Charles  Vli. 

MoNSTBKLBT,  Tol.  10,  p.  74.  —  ^  It  has 
been  commonly  said  that  the  sons  of  the 
kings  of  France  are  made  knights  at  the 
font  when  baptized.** 

Des  gens  de  Guerre, 
**  Jb  ne  connois  qui  que  ce  soit 
De  ceux  qui  maintenant  suivent  Mars  et 

Bellone, 
Qui — s'il  ne  violoit,  yoloit,  tuoit,  bruloit, — 
Ne  fust  assez  bonne  personne.** 

Le  Chevalier  dc  Cayney,   Recteil, 
torn.  4,  p.  211. 

De  Chablevai^  ibid.  p.  301.    Au  Roy. 

**  Tout  rUnivers  B*ement  quand  ta  fondre 
8*aprest, 
Oh.  la  crainte,  oh  I'amour,  partagent  tous 

les  Rois; 
Et  le  BatBve  ingrat,  et  si  fier  autrefois, 
N*observe  qu*en  tremblant  oh  fondri  la 

tempeste. 
De  son  Ariyole  orgueil,  de  sa  temerit^, 
Tu  dois  un  grand  exemple  k  la  posterite, 

Et  sonabaissement  importe  pourtagloire. 
Tu  le  veux  ;  il  suffit ;  son  sort  est  dans  ta 
main  ; 


De  cet  Repttbliqaaiiis  tn  Tas  finir  llus- 
toire, 
Trop  heureux  mille  fois  s*n  t*ont  pour  Sou- 
verain." 

^  YouB  Dutchwomen  in  the  Low  Countries 
Take  all  and  pay  all ;  and  do  keep  their 

husbands 
So  silly  all  their  lives  of  their  own  estates, 
That  when  they  are  sick,  and  come  to  make 

their  will. 
They  know  not  precisdy  what  to  give  away 
From  their  wives,  becMise  they  know  not 

what  they're  worth.** 
Websteb,  voL  2,  p.  57.  Devil  Law  Com. 

*'  Tub  Empress  Endocia  wrote  a  history 
of  Cyprian  and  Justina  the  martyrs,  which 
is  lost.  It  was  probably  in  verse,  and  the 
legend  was  believed  in  her  time.**— Clabkb, 
vol.  2,  p.  154. 

''  Some  (in  Edward  IIL*s  r^gn)  had  a 
project  that  men*s  clothes  might  be  their 
signs  to  show  their  birth,  degree,  or  estate, 
so  that  the  quality  of  an  unknown  persoD 
might  at  the  first  sight  be  expounded  bj 
his  appMireL  But  this  was  once  let  faU  as 
impossible.  Statesmen,  in  all  ages,  (not- 
withstanding their  several  laws  to  the  con- 
trary) being  fain  to  connive  at  men*s  riot 
in  this  kind,  which  maintaineth  more  poor 
people  than  their  charity.** — Fuixbb.  Cknrck 
History,  p.  117. 

Hbbodotus,  lib.  2,  §  137. — Criminals  in 
Egypt  condemned  to  the  public  works. 

'^Gebbbaixt  speaking,  a  person  con* 
nected  with  grain  will  tell  you  at  once 
where  any  sample  of  wheat  from  any  part 
of  Europe,  or  any  part  of  the  world,  comes 
from.** — Mb.  Josbph  Sabdbbs.  Agrie,  Be* 
port,  1833,  p.  216. 

"  The  times  forbidden  to  matrimony  were 
from  Advent  Sunday  till  a  week  after  Epi- 
phany; from  Septuagesima  Sunday  till  a 
i  week  after  Easter ;  and  from  Ascension  day 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


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till  Trinity  Sunday.** — Cbanmsb^s  Remairu, 
Tol.  1,  p.  236. 

Rabbits  making  way  for  a  sand  flood  in 
Suffolk,  by  which  much  land  was  lost. — 
Pha.  Trans,  Ahr,  vol.  1,  pp.  264-5. 

The  Queen  of  Corinth^  in  the  Grand 
Cyrus,  said  to  have  been  intended  by  Scu- 
dery  for  Queen  Christina. — Drtdbn.  Pre^ 
face  to  Secret  Love^  or  the  Maiden  Queen. 

A  Latin  translation  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment in  hexameters,  with  dedications,  one 
to  the  Holy  Trinity,  another  to  King  James, 
preface,  index  to  the  gospels,  and  varise  lec- 
tiones,  all  in  hexameters.     1604. 

So  says  a  Catalogue. 

Ah  advocate  of  Poictiers,  Le  Breton  by 
name,  took  up  the  cause  of  a  widow  and 
her  child.  He  lost  it  both  there  and  at 
Paris.  But,  being  strongly  persuaded  that 
though  law  was  against  him,  all  justice  was 
on  his  side,  he  sought  to  reform  the  law, 
presented  himself  before  Henry  III.  and 
addressed  him  upon  the  subject.  The 
King  treated  him  with  contempt,  (probably 
as  a  madman),  so  did  the  Dukes  of  Guise 
and  Mayenne,  and  the  King  of  Navarre 
would  not  hear  him.  He  returned  to  Paris 
and  printed  a  book  containing  the  case,  and 
his  efforts  afterwards,  and  interspersed  it 
with  *'*'  a  thousand  injuries  and  calumnies 
against  the  King  and  the  Parliament."  M. 
Seguier,  the  Lieutenant-Civil,  seized  the 
book  and  the  author,  brought  him  to  trial, 
and  he  was  hanged  in  the  Court  of  the  Pa- 
lace, about  twenty  paces  from  the  grands 
degrez,  and  his  book  burnt  before  his  face. 

This  execution  ^*  fut  un  des  plus  specieux 
pr^textes  qui  pnrent  les  Seize,  de  parler 
contre  le  Roy  et  la  justice.** — Palm  a  Catet. 
Col  Oen.  vol.  55,  pp.  76-7. 

The  Pomoerium  was  that  space  of  ground 
both  within  and  without  the  walls  which 
the  augurs  at  the  first  building  of  cities 
solemnly  consecrated,  and  on  which  no  edi- 


fices were  suffered  to  be  raised. — Hookb, 
vol.  1,  p.  43.    LivT,  lib.  1,  c.  44,  referred 
to. 
A  politic  provbion. 

MoNCK  Mason  derives  Bachelor  from 
Bas  Chevalier, — the  title  Sir  being  still  ap- 
propriated to  Bachelors  of  Arts  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Dublin. — Shakespeabe,  vol.  xix. 
p.  203,  N. 

Monthly  RevieWy  October  1764. — A  Har- 
mony of  the  Gospels,  in  Welsh,  by  John 
Evans,  A.M.  Bristol. 

All  the  reviewer  says  is,  **  We  cannot 
conceive  how  any  subject  can  be  harmonized 
by  being  treated  in  Welch.  However  as 
the  poor  Welchmen  have  souls  to  be  saved 
as  well  as  other  people,  we  have  no  objec- 
tion to  their  receiving  the  assistance  of  good 
books,  in  whatever  language  they  can  read.** 

Ibid.  vol.  32.    May  1765.    P.  395. 

The  Freemasons*  Quadrille,  with  the  So- 
litary, printed  by  order  of  the  Prince  of 
Conti,  Grand  Master  of  the  Lodges  in 
France ;  and  revised  by  M.  de  Bergeron, 
Advocate  in  Parliament,  and  Perpetual  Se- 
cretary of  the  Royal  Lodge  at  Versailles ; 
in  French  and  English  ;  with  the  Free 
Masons*  Minuet  and  Country  Dance.— 
12mo.     Is. 

The  free  masons  of  some  of  the  principal 
lodges  in  France,  in  order  to  tiJce  ofif  a 
scandalous  imputation,  were  politic  enough 
to  admit  their  wives  into  their  assemblies 
and  societies;  and  this  quadrille  is  indebted 
to  the  female  masons  for  its  establishment. 
The  rules  are  nearly  the  same  as  those  of 
the  other  quadrilles  played  in  France ;  but 
there  b  a  variation  in  the  names  of  the 
cards,  which  have  been  changed,  in  order 
to  conform  to  the  terms  of  masonry. 

Mathematics  and  absence  of  mind  run- 
ning in  a  family.  Sir  Isaac  Newton  had 
an  uncle,  Ayscough  by  name,  a  clergyman, 
who  when  he  had  any  mathematic^  pro- 
blems or  solutions  in  his  mind,  would  never 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


quit  the  subject  on  any  account.  Dinner 
lias  been  oAen  three  hours  ready  for  him 
before  he  could  be  brought  to  table.  When 
he  has  been  getting  up  in  a  morning,  he  has 
sometimes  begun  to  dress,  and  with  one  leg 
in  his  breeches,  sat  down  again  on  the  bed, 
and  so  remained  for  hours  before  he  got  hit 
clothes  on. — Monthly  Review^  toL  47,  p.  332. 
In  a  letter  from  one  of  his  descendants. 

Curious  phenomenon  on  the  morning  of 
the  earthquake. — About  two  o'clock,  a.m., 
on  the  20th  ult,  a  smack  from  the  Wyre 
was  off  Bispham,  at  the  distance  of  about  a 
mile  and  a  half  from  the  shore,  when  the 
master,  who  was  at  the  helm,  perceived 
within  a  few  yards  of  the  vessel  a  large  vo- 
lume of  pale  fire  whirling  round  with  great 
rapidity  over  the  surface  of  the  sea.  The 
water  at  the  spot  did  not  seem  agitated. 
Report  says  that  a  slight  shock  was  felt  at 
Kirkham  about  two  o'clock. — Manchester 
Courier,  Sept,  12,  1835. 

In  the  Kamtchatsal  translation  of  the 
Lord's  Prayer,  the  passages — forgive  us  our 
trespasses,  and  lead  us  not  into  temptation, 
are  omitted.  M.  Kracheninnikow  assigning 
as  a  reason,  that  the  Kamtchadales  could 
not  be  made  to  comprehend  the  meaning  of 
the  terms. — Monthly  lieview,  vol.  41,  p.  443. 

An  enquiry  into  the  subject  of  suicide, 
published  by  some  Mr.  Moore,  in  1790,  is 
said  to  prove  that  no  cause  has  produced  it 
so  frequently  as  gaming, — probably  in  the 
proportion  of  nine  cases  out  of  ten. 

The  editor  of  Mrs.  Carter's  Letters  calls 
it  a  copious  and  elaborate  enquiry. 

Monthly  Review,  vol.  (d5,  p.  3 1 3. — Triumph 
of  Dulness,  a  poem,  against  this  Grace. 

A.  D.  1781.  A  GRACE  past  at  Cambridge 
to  prevent  those  who  either  directly  or  in- 
directly had  the  assistance  of  private  tutors 
for  the  two  years  preceding  their  degree, 
from  receiving  those  honours  to  which  they 
would  otherwise  have  been  entitled.  The 
ground  was,  that  it  increased  the  expenses  of 


the  University,  already  too  high,  and  gave 
an  undue  advantage  to  those  who  could  af- 
ford to  pay  for  this  assistRDce.  Feeders  iha^ 
tutors  were  called,  a  cockpit  term,  cram- 
ming being  thought  good  only  for  the  nonce, 
leaving  no  strength. 

In  the  year  1008  the  Emperor  Tchin- 
tsong  was  informed  in  a  vision  that  a  book 
should  be  sent  to  him  from  Heaven.  Ac- 
cordingly it  was,  suspended  at  one  of  the 
gates  of  his  palace,  in  a  covering  of  yellow 
silk,  twenty  feet  long.  The  Emperor  went 
to  the  place,  attended  by  his  grandees,  re- 
ceived the  celestial  book  on  his  knees,  placed 
it  on  a  magnificent  chariot,  and  read  in  it  a 
prediction  that  the  family  of  Song,  (his  dy- 
nasty), should  possess  tJbe  empire  during 
700  generations.  The  book  was  deposited 
in  a  gold  box,  the  monarch  received  the 
congratulations  of  the  whole  empire  on  occa- 
sion of  the  celestial  present,  and  public  re- 
joicings were  celebrated  five  days  succes- 
sively.— Monthly  RevieWy  vol.  60,  p.  508. 

From  the  Hist.  Oen,  de  la  Chime, 


The  vilest  wretch  may  become  an  object 
of  the  best  feelings  in  others.  When  Wil- 
liam Coxe  was  at  Moscow,  there  was  a  gen- 
tleman confined  there  in  the  prison  of  the 
police ;  and  he  alone  of  all  the  prisoner! 
was  denied  the  privilege  of  ever  coming  out, 
His  crime  was,  having  used  several  of  his 
peasants  so  cruelly  that  they  died.  Close 
to  the  door  of  his  prison,  his  nurse,  then 
about  seventy  years  of  age,  had  built  a  mi- 
serable shed  which  scarcely  protected  her 
from  the  weather,  and  there  she  lived  in 
order  to  render  him  all  the  sen-ices  in  her 
power, — services  which  could  have  no  other 
possible  motive  than  affection ;  for  it  was 
certain  that  his  punishment  would  be,  as  it 
deserved,  for  life.  Upon  Coxe's  giving  her 
a  small  piece  of  money,  she  immediatdy 
gave  it  to  the  prisoner. — Monthly  Review^ 
vol.  64,  p.  383. 

Spkcbt^s  (Rachel)  Mouzell  for  Melasto- 
mus,  the  Cynical  Bayter,  and  foul-mouthed 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


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1 


Barker  against  Evah^s  Sex,  and  Ansuere 
made  to  Jo.  Swetnan*8  Arraignment  of  Wo- 
men, 4to.  with  many  MS.  Notes,  half  russia, 
9s.  6c/.,  sold  for  £1.  ll«.  6J.  at  Gordonstoun 
sale.     1617. 

'*  In  ancient  Rome,  when  the  empire  was 
come  to  its  height,  and  learning  and  arts 
were  grown  into  reputation  among  them,  it 
was  the  fashion  for  such  as  aimed  at  the 
credit  of  being  accomplished  gentlemen,  to 
Aquent  conferences,  and  entertain  the  com- 
pany with  discourses  of  philosophy,  and  all 
other  specimens  of  study  and  wit.  In  con- 
sequence to  this  it  happened,  that  others 
who  had  neither  parts  nor  industry  to  ac- 
complish themselves  on  this  manner,  and 
yet  were  ambitious  to  have  a  share  in  every 
thing  that  made  men  look  great,  made  it 
their  practice  to  buy  some  learned  slaves 
out  of  Greece,  and  to  carry  those  about 
with  them  into  company ;  and  then  what- 
soever wit  or  learning  the  slaves  could  pro- 
duce, that  the  masters  looked  upon  as  their 
own,  and  took  the  glory  of  it  unto  them- 
selves."—  YousQ  (the  father's),  Sefjnons, 
vol.  1,  p.  97. 

Timesj  23d  March,  1836.— Wax  and  com- 
position casts  from  the  heads  of  Fieschi, 
Lacenaire,  Avril,  and  David,  exhibited  at 
the  Cosmorama  in  Regent  Street ;  in  ap- 
pearance like  so  many  heads  just  separated 
fi-om  the  bodies  by  the  guillotine.  And  to 
make  them  more  complete,  the  hair  and 
whiskers  are  those  of  the  murderers  them- 
selves ! 

July,  1836.  Strange  Discovery. — "About 
three  weeks  ago,  while  a  number  of  boys 
were  amusing  themselves  in  searching  for 
rabbit  burrows  on  the  north-east  range  of 
Arthur's  Seat,  they  noticed,  in  a  very  rug- 
ged and  secluded  spot,  a  small  opening  in 
one  of  the  rocks,  the  peculiar  appearance  of 
which  attracted  their  attention.  The  mouth 
of  this  little  cave  was  closed  by  three  thin 
pieces  of  slate-stone,  rudely  cut  at  the  up- 
per ends  into  a  conical  form,  and  so  placed 


as  to  protect  the  interior  from  the  effects  of 
the  weather.  The  boys  having  removed 
these  tiny  slabs,  discovered  an  aperture 
about  twelve  inches  square,  in  which  were 
lodged  seventeen  Lilliputian  coffins,  form- 
ing two  tiers  of  eight  each,  and  one  on  a 
third,  just  begun !  Each  of  the  coffins  con- 
tained a  miniature  figure  of  the  human  form 
cut  out  in  wood,  the  faces  in  particular  being 
pretty  well  executed.  They  were  dressed 
from  head  to  foot  in  cotton  clothes,  and  de- 
cently "laid  out"  with  a  mimic  representa- 
tion of  all  the  funereal  trappings  which 
usually  form  the  last  habiliments  of  the 
dead.  The  coffins  are  about  three  or  four 
inches  in  length,  regularly  shaped,  and  cut 
out  from  a  single  piece  of  wood,  with  the 
exception  of  the  lids,  which  are  nailed  down 
with  wire  sprigs  or  common  brass  pins. 
The  lid  and  sides  of  each  are  profusely 
studded  with  ornaments,  formed  with  small 
pieces  of  tin,  and  inserted  in  the  wood  with 
great  care  and  regularity.  Another  re- 
markable circumstance  is,  that  many  years 
must  have  elapsed  since  the  first  interment 
took  place  in  this  mysterious  sepulchre,  and 
it  is  abo  evident  that  the  depositions  must 
have  been  made  singly,  and  at  considerable 
intervals — facts  indicated  by  the  rotten  and 
decayed  state  of  the  first  tier  of  coffins,  and 
their  wooden  mummies,  the  wrapping  cloths 
being  in  some  instances  entirely  mouldered 
away,  while  others  show  various  degrees  of 
decomposition,  and  the  coffin  last  placed, 
with  its  shrouded  tenant,  are  as  clean  and 
fresh  as  if  only  a  few  days  bad  elapsed  since 
their  entombment.  As  before  stated,  there 
were  in  all  seventeen  of  these  mystic  coffins ; 
but  a  number  were  destroyed  by  the  boys 
pelting  them  at  each  other  as  unmeaning 
and  contemptible  trifles.  None  of  the  learned 
with  whom  we  have  conversed  on  the  sub- 
ject can  account  in  any  way  for  this  singu- 
lar fantasy  of  the  human  mind.  Tlie  idea 
seems  rather  above  insanity,  and  yet  much 
beneath  rationality ;  nor  is  any  such  freak 
recorded  in  the  Natural  History  of  Ewthu' 
siasm.  Our  own  opinion  would  be,  had  we 
not  some  years  ago  abjured  witchcraft  and 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


demonologj,  that  there  are  still  some  of  the 
weird  sisters  hovering  about  Mushat's  Cairn 
or  the  Windy  Growl,  who  retain  their  an- 
cient power  to  work  the  spells  of  death  by 
entombing  the  likenesses  of  those  they  wish 
to  destroy." — Scotsman. 

**  Albaqub  puniceas  interpllcat  infula 
cristas." — Statius.  Thdf.  lib.  4,  v.  218. 

This  is  plainly  the  origin  of  the  line  which 
Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge  used  to  say  Can- 
ning, in  one  of  his  prize  poems  made  up 
from  Folitian,  through  the  Gradus. 

*^Alba  coloratos  interstrepit  unda  la- 
pillos." 

^*  Candida  purpureos  interfluit  unda  la- 
piUos." 

CiBDER,  in  She  Would  and  she  Would  Not, 
makes  Trappanti  ask  the  Host  at  Madrid, 
"  Have  ye  any  right  Galicia  ?"  and  is  an- 
swered, "The  best  in  Spain,  I  warrant  it." 

Galicia  growing  no  wine. 

"  The  half-taught  and  therefore  the  dou- 
bly ignorant  classes." — Rickman. 

"VoiLA  une  abdication  sans  les  trois 
jours  I "  was  what  one  of  the  French  minis- 
ters said,  upon  hearing  of  the  Reform  Bill. 

Garasse,  whose  most  uncharitable  wri- 
tings belie  his  own  nature,  as  his  death 
proves,  came  to  this  charitable  conclusion, 
*'  que  la  pluspart  des  fautes  se  committent 
par  sottise,  et  quMl  y  a  plus  de  sottise  au 
monde  que  de  malice."  —  Doet.  Concup.  p. 
196. 

Taking  a  Licentiate's  degree  in  the  Uiii- 
versity  of  malice. — Ibid.  p.  613. 

"  Evert  man,"  says  Swift,  "  knows  that 
he  understands  religion  and  politics,  though 
he  never  learned  them."  —  Chesterfield, 
vol.  1,  p.  125. 


"  Young  men  are  as  apt  to  think  them- 
selves wise  enough,  as  drunken  men  are  to 
think  themselves  sober  enough.  They  look 
upon  spirit  to  be  a  much  bett^  thing  than 
experience,  which  they  call  coldness.  They 
are  but  half-mistaken;  for  though  spirit 
without  experience  is  dangerous,  experience 
without  spirit  is  languid  and  defective." — 
Ibid.  p.  308. 

Their  own  interest  he  calls,  '*  a  solid  se- 
curity with  knaves,  but  none  with  fools." — 
Ibid.  p.  379. 

That  Alderman  Yenables  who  qualified 
himself  for  the  Geographical  Society  by  the 
exploratory  voyage  which  he  happily  per- 
formed from  London  to  Oxford  during  his 
mayoralty,  of  which  voyage  a  full  and  im- 
mortal account  was  published  by  his  chap- 
lain and  historiographer,  but  who  cannot  be 
admitted  a  member  of  the  Travellers'  Club, 
because  of  the  illiberal  base  upon  which 
that  society  has  been  established  I 

Among  the  members  who  voted  for  the 
bill,  we  read  the  name  of  CalcraH;,  John — 
by  G.I 

Too  surely  may  the  scripture  be  applied 
to  the  government  and  constitution  at  this 
time,  "  he  that  is  not  with  me  is  against 
me. 

He  looks  at  things  with  an  evil  eye,  and 
when  the  *^  eye  is  evil,  the  body  also  is  full 
of  darkness." 

There  are  times  when  it  may  be  **  im- 
possible but  that  offences  will  come,  but 
woe  unto  him  through  whom  they  come." 

Calvinistic  teachers.  Deuteron.  xviii. 
20-2. 

Female  B.  Soc  By  far  the  most  deli- 
cate branch  of  the  B.  Soc.  system,  ••it 
scarcely  needs  to  be  intimated  of  how  great 
importance  it  is  that  all  the  duties  attached 


POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SOCIETY. 


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to  it  should  be  r^ulated  with  a  more  than 
ordinary  regard  to  propriety  and  decorum." 
— OwBN.  Hist  of  B,  Soc.  vol.  2,  p.  529. 
See  YoL  3,  pp.  154-5. 

How  the  B.  Soc.  may  be  looked  at  by  its 
friends. — ^Ibid.  toI.  1,  p.  44. 

''  What  truth,  what  knowledge, 
What  any  thing  but  eating  is  good  in  her  ? 
*Twould  make  a  fool  prophecy  to  be  fed 

continually ; 
Inspired  with  full  deep  cups,  who  cannot 

prophecy  ? 
A  tinker,  out  of  ale,  will  give  predictions.** 

Beaumont  and  Flbtchbb. 
PropfietesSf  p.  115. 

Bp.  Rbtiioij>8,  Tol.  3,  p.  201. — ^Wish  for 
a  Bible  in  every  family, — ^for  education  and 
discipline. 

Ibid.  vol.  4,  p.  268. — Chubch  and  State. 
Plato. 

The  Jesuits  divide  them, — agreeing  here 
with  the  schismatics. 

Ibid.  pp.  290-1. — How  unity  is  to  be  pre- 
served— unquiet — and  in  the  end  uncom- 
fortable singularities. 

"Tub  very  philosopher  could  say  that 
*  wickedness  doth  putrify  the  principles  of 
the  mind,*  and  that  -  *  such  as  are  men*s 
courses  of  life,  such  likewise  are  the  dispo- 
sitions of  their  minds  towards  practical 
truth.'  **— Ibid.  p.  803. 

Kaxia  ^apriin)  &px^*  —  Abist.  Eth. 
lib.  6,  c.  5. 

Ai  aKpoatreiQ  Kara  rd  lOrf  <fvfi€a(ytnf<nv. 
(Jc  yap  eiudafiir,  ovtuq  -diiovfuy  Xcyco'- 
Bai, — Ibid.  Metaphys.  Min,  lib.  1,  c.  8. 

*^  It  is  curious  to  observe,**  says  Godtbet 
HiGOiNS,  {Celtic  Druids,  p.  207)  '*  that  the 
more  elegant,  polite,  and  learned  these 
people  became,  in  the  same  proportion  they 


became  the  more  degraded  and  corrupt  in 
their  national  religion.** 

**  It  is  no  bad  maxim,  where  there  are 
two  handles,  to  take  hold  of  the  cleanest.** — 
Majob  Dotle.  Irish  Debates,  vol.  7,  p.  225. 

"  When  the  payment  of  the  clergy  by 
tithes  in  kind  was  instituted,  \h^  landlord 
was  also  paid  in  kind.  The  clergy  were 
paid  by  the  produce  of  the  land,  to  be  con- 
sumed upon  the  land ;  and  the  landlord  was 
also  paid  by  the  produce  for  the  use  of  his 
land.** — ^Mb.  Bbowke.    Ibid.  p.  849. 

**  CoABSE  expressions — ^which  men  are  apt 
to  bring  forth,  when  they  are  pumping  in 
vain  for  strong  ones.** — Mb.  Bubke.  Ibid, 
vol.  11,  p.  327. 

Lords  B.  and  Nugent  to  wit. 

**  Apbss  avoir  creus^  les  fertiles  sillons. 
Qui  reQoivent  le  grain,  espoir  de  nos  mois- 

sons. 
Si  chaque  jour  le  soc  repasse  sur  la  terre, 
Au  lieu  de  Tabondance  il  produit  la  mis^re, 
Et  detruit  aujourd*hui  ce  qu*il  a  fait  hier. 
Tel  est  le  mouvement  dont  le  siecle  est  si 

fier. 
Le  talent  naturel  s*^teint  dans  la  lecture, 
Et  Tesprit  est  sterile  k  force  de  culture.** 


'*  D*uw  ton  fier,  en  vrai  gentilhomme  de 
lettres,**  said  of  Chateaubriand  in  this  MS. 
satire. 

Nov.  1786.  "A  MEETiifG  of  lawyers  at 
Lord  Mansfield's  to  take  into  consideration 
the  alarming  growth  of  perjury,  which  had 
become  *  so  very  rife  in  our  courts  of  jus- 
tice, as  to  threaten  the  most  dangerous  con- 
sequences :*  it  was  determined  at  this  meet- 
ing that  nothing  short  of  capital  punishment 
was  sufiicient  to  deter  persons  from  the 
commission  of  this  crime,  and  it  was  agreed 
that  a  bill  should  be  prepared  to  make  per- 
jury in  any  court  of  justice,  &c.  a  capital 
offence,  punishable  with  death.**  —  Lady's 
Magazine,  vol.  17,  p.  667. 


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^^  QuoiQU*oif  en  dise,  Timagination  sert  k 
voir  beaucoup  de  choses  tr^s-r^elles."  — 
F.  R.  Bibliothtque  Umverselle.  Mai  1830. 
p.  84. 

'*  L*Akgleterbb  avec  son  orgueil,  sa  po- 
pulation, ses  richesses,  ses  prejuges,  et  ses 
o^r^onies,  est  le  Japon  de  TEurope.** — 
M.  DB  CusTiHB,  vol.  2,  p.  189. 

Oafbobough,  Rascalburgh,  and  Rabble* 
town. 

Jobbing  like  smuggling.  The  same  lax 
morality  is  the  cause.  In  our  indignation 
against  the  former,  let  him  who  is  guiltless 
of  the  latter  offence  cast  the  first  stone. 

Thb  system  of  reducing  a  conquered 
people  to  bond-service  seems  always  to  have 
been  pursued  when  wars  of  extermination 
ceased. — 1  Kings,  ix.  20-22. 

Tub  man  who  (for  a  wager)  was  made  to 
suppose  himself  ill, — and  died  in  conse- 
quence. 

A  case  like  that  of  this  nation  at  this 
time. 

^*Nb  mea  dona  tibi  studio  disposta  fideli, 
Intellecta  priito  quiun  sint,  contempta  relin- 
quas." — Lucbetius,  lib.  1,  v.  47. 

"  WoB  unto  them  that  are  wise  in  their 
own  eyes,  and  prudent  in  their  <  wn  sight." 
Isaiah  v.  21. 

"  SiNCB  it  is  customary  for  men  to  be- 
queath to  their  posterity  the  goods  of  for- 
tune, and  not  to  bury  them  with  them,  why 
should  they  6uff*er  that  which  is  more  pre- 
cious to  die  with  them,  and  not  communi- 
cate for  the  instruction  of  others,  some  part 
of  the  knowledge  and  experience  wherewith 
time  has  enriched  them.**  —  Aldbeman 
Whatson,  p.  7. 

"  Cbbtaihlt  the  volume  of  one  life  would 
afford  as  great  a  variety  of  examples  as  the 


long  volumes  of  antiquity,  if  we  would  be 
diligent  to  mark  them,  so  that  they  can  be 
compared  to  nothing  fitter,  than  to  a  whed 
ever  turning  in  the  same  motion.** — ^Ibid. 
p.  9. 

**Whatbtbb  oocuirenoes  seem  strange, 
they  are  but  the  same  fable  acted  by  other 
persons,  and  nothing  dififerent  from  those 
of  older  times  but  in  the  names  of  the  ac- 
tors."—Ibid,  p.  8. 

"  So  justly  is  avarice  plagued  in  itself, 
that  I  know  not  which  be  greater,  the  sin 
or  the  punishment.** — Ibid.  p.  10. 

And  this  is  equally  true  of  all  sins. 

Albxandeb  and  Csesar  ^*  pricked  like 
bladders  in  the  height  of  tbeir  tumour.** — 
Ibid.  p.  13. 

*'  Elizabeth  advised  the  House  of  Com- 
mons to  prefer  the  most  weighty  matters 
first,  and  not  trouble  themselves  with  small 
matters  and  of  no  weight.** — Pariiamentaty 
History,  vol.  1,  p.  707. 

See  abo.  Ibid.  p.  909. 

Upon  the  money-getting  system  no  free 
would  be  allowed  to  stand  afler  it  became 
worth  forty  shillings.  We  should  have 
young  mutton,  young  beef,  and  no  old 
timber! 

Almost  every  where  we  might  ask,  is 
Arthur  Young  does  of  the  Weald  in  Sussex, 
*'  Where  is  the  good  for  nothing  land  ?** 

"  The  wastes  only  within  forty  or  fifty 
miles  of  London  would  supply  that  city 
with  bread.** — Younq*8  Survey  of  Sussex, 
p.  188. 

^  That  breed  which  gires  the  greatest 
net  profit  in  money  from  a  given  quantity 
of  food,  must  at  last  be  allowed  t^  contain 
the  sum  total  of  merit.*' — Ibid.  p.  241. 

So  think  fAir  political  economists  of  man ! 


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^^Ths  public  mind/*  says  Sik  E.  Brtdgbs, 
'^  is  as  servile  as  it  is  capricious/* — RecoUeC' 
tioiu,  YoL  1,  p.  163. 

Ibid.  p.  243. — ^*'  To  suppose  that  poets 
are  less  in  search  of  truth  than  philosophers, 
is  to  draw  the  opinion  irom  bad  poetry." 

EvBii  of  ploughs,  Yahcoutsr  says,  **  that 
some  improvement  may  be  made  upon 
these  ancient  machines,  daily  experience 
very  clearly  shows,  at  the  same  time  it  was 
fully  demonstrated  that  there  is  an  absolute 
necessity  of  not  altogether  departing  from 
a  principle  the  utility  of  which  has  been 
established  upon  the  practice  of  ages.** — 
Survey  of  Hampshire,  p.  92.  See  also 
p.  93. 

Experiments  upon  old  civilization  are 
like  breaking  up  old  pastures. 

**  The  age  immediately  preceding  one*s 
own  is  less  known  to  any  man  than  the 
history  of  any  other  period.*'  —  Horace 
Walpole,  Pinkerton  Correspondence,  vol. 
1,  p.  61. 

^^  Akd  Friendship  like  an  old  acquaintance 

sends 
To  his  friend  Justice,  that  she  should  be 

mild 
And  look  with  eyes  of  mercy  on  your  faultJ* 

GoFFB*s  Orestes,  p.  237. 

NoRRi8*8  3ffM.  p.  158. — The  atheistic 
argument  from  the  self-sufficiency  of  God, 
— to  which  that  from  his  goodness  is  a  con- 
clusive answer. — P.  320. 

**  CsRTAiifLT,**  saysNosRU  (ibid.  p.  160), 
^*  there  is  more  required  to  qualify  a  man 
for  his  oum  company  than  for  other  men*s.** 
It  b  not  "  every  ihan  that  has  sense  and 
thoughts  enough  to  be  his  own  compa- 
nion. 


fi 


**  Th£  ancients  chose  to  build  their  altars 
and  temples  in  groves  and  solitary  recesses. 


thereby  intimating  that  solitude  was  the 
best  opportunity  of  religion.** — Ibid.  p.  163. 

**  There  are  monstrosities  in  the  soul  as 
well  as  the  body.**— Ibid.  p.  224. 

'^  It  is  well  observed  by  Pi^tarch,  *  that 
men  of  desperate  and  bankrupt  fortunes 
have  little  regard  to  their  expenses,  because 
should  they  save  them,  the  tide  of  their 
estates  won*t  rise  much  the  higher,  and  so 
they  think  it  impertinent  to  be  frugal,  when 
there*s  no  hope  of  being  rich.  Yet  they 
that  see  their  heaps  begin  to  swell,  and  that 
they  are  within  the  neighbourhood  of  wealth, 
think  it  worth  while  to  be  saving,  and  im- 
prove their  growing  stock.** — Norris,  Mis" 
ceU,  p.  268. 

Levellers. — It  is  not  thus  that  '^  every 
valley  shall  be  exalted  and  every  mountain 
and  hill  shall  be  made  low ;  that  the  crooked 
shall  be  made  straight  and  the  rough  places 
plain.**-r-/MiiaA  xi.  4. 

"  It  is  not  to  be  conceived  how  many 
people,  capable  of  reasoning,  if  they  would, 
live  and  die  in  a  thousand  errors  from  lazi- 
ness ;  they  will  rather  adopt  the  prejudices 
of  others  than  give  themselves  the  trouble 
of  forming  opinions  of  their  own.  They 
say  things  at  first  because  other  people  have 
said  them,  and  then  persist  in  thetn  because 
they  have  said  them  themselves.** — Ches- 
terfield, vol.  1,  p.  335. 

Speeches  or  things  which  one  wishes 
to  be: 

"  filwvQa  wipf  fin  fiaXa  ^//v.** 

HoM.  IL  i.  416. 

**  Hear,  ye  deaf;  and  look,  ye  blind, 
that  ye  may  see.** — IsakUk  xlii.  18. 

Primciplb  of  equality. — Vt^fogetir  PhUo' 
sophique,  tom.  2,  p.  306. 

PROPoeAL  that  every  one  on  arriving  at 
the  age  of  twenty  should  be  required  to 


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EXTRACTS,  FACTS,  AND  OPINIONS  RELATING  TO 


choose  a  set  of  opinions  for  himself!!  — 
Ibid.  p.  370. 

'*  When  youth  made  me  sanguine,^  sajs 
Horace  Walpous,  *'  I  hoped  mankind 
might  be  set  right.  Now  that  I  am  very 
old,  I  sit  down  with  this  lazy  maxim,  that 
unless  one  could  cure  men  of  being  fools, 
it  is  to  no  purpose  to  cure  them  of  any 
folly ;  as  it  is  only  making  room  for  some 
other.** — PiNiLERToii*s  Correspondence^  vol. 
1,  p.  91. 

*^  Sblf-iktbrsst  is  thought  to  govern 
every  man ;  yet  is  it  possible  to  be  less 
governed  by  self-interest  than  men  are  in 
the  aggregate." — H.  W.  ibid. 

Facts  "too big  for  oblivion,"  Ch.O'Conor. 
—Ibid.  p.  129. 

Fronto  said  well,  "  it  is  a  misfortune  to 
live  under  an  emperor,  '  qui  ne  permet  k 
personne  de  rien  foire,*-  but  a  greater  mis- 
fortune to  live  under  a  prince  who  allows 
every  one  to  do  whatever  he  pleases." — 
Batle,  vol.  6,  p.  605,  XiphU,  in  Nerva, 

"  Furieusement  hide,  A  Marchioness 
d'Ancre  of  shocking  memory." — Batle. 

Anb  what  think  you  would  happen,  if 
your  motions  were  to  be  carried  ?  They 
would  answer,  as  Batle  has  answered  for 
them,  "  Ne  soyez  pas  en  peine  sur  cela,  peu 
de  gens  nous  prendront  au  mot." — Ibid, 
torn.  7,  p.  86. 

Psalm  vii.  9. 

"  Let  now  wickedness  bring  the  wicked 
to  an  end." 

"  Let  the  wickedness  of  the  ungodly  come 
to  an  end." — Common  Version* 

Psalm  xi.  3. 

"  Wheh  the  foundations  are  overturned, 
what  can  the  righteous  man  do?" 


Psalm  xii.  1. 

"  Save  me,  Jehovah,  for  the  pious  are 
'  coming  to  an  end, 

For  the  faithful  are  failing  from  among 
the  children  of  men." 

WiTHiH  eye-shot  or  tongue-reach. 

"  It  was  an  ancient  rule  of  the  civilians, 
that  nobility  is  annuUed  by  poverty."— 
Fo8BRooKE*8  Berkeley  Family j  p.  162. 

"  Mistake  me  not,  I  have  a  new  soul  in  me 
Made  of  a  north  wind,  nothing  now  but 

tempest ; 
And  like  a  tempest  shall  it  make  all  ruin 
Till  I  have  run  my  will  out." 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  WotnaiCt 
Prize,  p.  178. 

"  It  grieves  me 
To  see  a  mighty  king  with  all  his  glory 
Sunk  o*the  sudden  to  the  bottom  of  a  dun- 
geon. 
Whither  should  we  descend  that  are  poor 

rascals 
J£  we  had  our  deserts  ?" 

Ibid.  Island  Princess,  p.  288. 

"  His  vines  as  fruitful  as  experience 
(Which  in  the  art  of  husbandry)  could 
make." 

Ibid.  Noble  Gentleman,  p.  386. 

"  He  carries  it 
So  truly  to  the  life,  as  if  he  were 
One  of  the  plot  to  gull  himself." 

Ibid.  p.  397. 

"  I ALWATS  maintained,"  says  Grat,  "  that 
nobody  has  occasion  for  pride  but  the  poor ; 
and  that  every  where  else  it  ia  a  sign  of 
folly."— Vol.  2,  p.  239. 

"  Men  are  very  prone  to  believe  what 
they  do  not  understand ;  and  they  will  be- 
lieve any  thing  at  all,  provided  they  are 
under  no  obligation  to  believe  it." — Ibid, 
p.  313. 


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not  yon  think  a  man  maj  be  tlie 
[  had  almost  said  the  better)  for 
hundred  or  two  of  miles ;  and  that 
d  has  more  room  in  it  than  most 
eem  to  think,  if  you  will  bat  fur- 
apartments.** — Ibid.  p.  821. 

.  Nazianzen  calls  S.  Basil  **  vwo- 

\  rii^ev^aroc,**  an  interpreter  of  the 

Hjrpophet  as  distinguished  from 


them  '*  le  grand  tort  et  le  petit 
ii*il8  ont  en  leurs  maximes  erron- 

GrAXASSB,  DoC»  CuT.  p.  21. 

proof  of  good  sense.     ^  C*est  de 

son  grand  chemin,  se  tenir  sur  les 

communes,  les  bicn  defiendre  par 

^elles  pensees,  ra  Kxuyd  Koiv&f,  icai 


ra  Kotyd  raci^iJci  nova  communiter,  et  com- 
mimia  noviter." — Ibid.  p.  31. 

Thus  it  is  that  ^  ceux  qui  ont  est^  bestes 
par  excellence,  ont  reput^  tout  le  monde 
sot,  except^  eux-mesmes.** — ^Ibid.  p.  57. 

The  band  of  Condottieri  in  Parliament. 
I  thank  Sir  Richard  Vyvjan  for  the  word. 

**  Lbs  Savans  ne  sont  susceptibles  ni 
d*errcurs  ni  de  prejug^s !  ** — Saloues. 

**  I  PEAT  God  he  maj  proye  himself  in- 
nocent. 

**  Juttice.  Fie!  say  not  so.  You  show 
jourself  to  be  no  good  commonwealth's 
man ;  for  the  more  are  hanged  the  better 
*tis  for  the  commonwealth.**  —  Beaumomt 
and  Flstchsb,  Coxcomb,  p.  232. 


TEXTS  FOR  SERMONSJ 


^KE  heed,  therefore,  how  je  hear.** 
— Luke  yiii.  18. 

>ld,  the  kingdom  of  God  is  within 
bid.  xvii.  21. 

that  fear  the  Lord,  wiut  for  his 
and  go  not  aside,  lest  je  fall.** — 
rficitf,  ii.  7. 

hat  fear  the  Lord,  believe  him,  and 
rard  shall  not  fail.** — Ibid.  8. 
that  fear  the  Lord,  hope  for  good, 
Terlasting J07  and  mercy.** — ^Ibid.  9. 
sins  also  shall  melt  away,  as  the 
le  fair  warm  weather.** — Ibid.  iii. 

1  not  one  sin  upon  another  ;  for  in 
[  shalt  not  be  unpunished.** — Ibid. 


)  texts  for  sermons,  most  of  them,  were 
ery  early ^—thev  occur  at  the  end  of  a 
k  for  1799.  Tlie  hist  text  of  all  is  in 
ii  inky  and  evidently  shows  the  oonso- 
ired  by  the  lamented  Soutbet  from 
day  study  of  the  Bible.— J.  W.  W. 


I 


**  My  son,  glorify  thy  soul  in  meekness.* 
—Ibid.  z.  28. 

''  Before  man  is  life  and  death,  and  whe- 
ther him  liketh,  shall  be  given  him.** — Ibid. 
XV.  17. 

^  Be  not  wise  in  thine  own  eyes :  fear  the 
Lord,  and  depart  from  evil.** — Proverbs  iii. 
7. 

"Ih  every  good  work,  trust  thy  own  soul : 
for  this  is  the  keeping  of  the  command- 
ments.**— EcdentuticuM  xxxii.  22« 

*^  Whoso  feareth  the  Lord,  shall  not  fear 
nor  be  afraid,  for  He  is  his  hope.** — ^Ibid. 
xxxiv.  14. 

'*  Bbbthbze,  I  declare  unto  you  the  Gos- 
pel which  I  preached  unto  you ;  which  also 
ye  have  receivedi  and  wherein  ye  stand.** — 
1  Cor,  XV.  1. 

^  By  which  also  ye  are  saved,  if  ye  keep 
in  memory  what  I  preached  onto  you,  un- 
less ye  have  believed  in  vain.** — Ibid.  2. 


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TEXTS  FOR  SKRMONS. 


^As  many  as  touched  him  were  made 
whole." — AiA9K  "vi.  last  verse. 

"  What  things  soever  ye  desire,  when  ye 
pray,  believe  that  ye  receive  them,  and  ye 
shall  have  them." — ^Ibid.  xi.  24. 

"Then  touched  he  their  eyes,  saying, 
According  to  your  faith  be  it  unto  you. 

"  And  their  eyes  were  opened.** 

Matthew  ix.  29-30. 


"  But  as  for  me,  1  will  come  into  thine 
house,  even  upon  the  multitude  of  thj 
mercy,'*—  Pwlm  v.  7. 

**  BuBsssD  are  they  which  do  hunger 
and  thirst  after  righteousness,  for  they  shall 
be  filled.**— -afa^Aetr  v.  6. 


TEXTS  FOR  ENFORCEMENT. 


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«*  nnHINK  of  the  Lord  with  a  good  heart 

^  and  in  simplicity  of  heart  seek  him : 
For  He  will  be  found  of  them  that  tempt  Him 
not,  and  sheweth  himself  unto  such  as  do 
not  distrust  him.'* — Wisdom  i.  1-2. 

^  For  iroward  thoughts  separate  from 
God.*'— Ibid.  3. 

"  Seek  not  death  in  the  error  of  your 
life ;  and  pull  not  upon  yourselves  destruc- 
tion with  the  works  of  your  hands. 

"  For  God  made  not  death ;  neither  hath 
he  pleasure  in  the  destruction  of  the  living. 

*'  For  he  created  all  things  that  they 
might  have  their  being;  and  the  generations 
of  the  world  were  healthful,  and  there  is  no 
poison  of  destruction  in  them. 

^*  But  ungodly  men  with  their  words  and 
works  called  it  to  them." — Ibid.  xii.  6. 

^'  Wisdom  is  easily  seen  of  them  that  love 
her :  whoso  seeketh  her  early  shall  have  no 
great  travail ;  for  he  shall  find  her  sitting 
at  his  doors." — Ibid.  vi.  12-14. 

^  She  goeth  about  seeking  such  as  are 
worthy  of  her.  Sheweth  herself  favour- 
ably unto  them  in  the  ways,  and  meeteth 
them  in  every  thought. 

"  For  the  very  true  beginning  of  her  is 
the  desire  of  dbcipline,  and  the  care  of  dis- 
cipline is  love : 

"  And  love  is  the  keeping  of  her  laws ; 
and  the  giving  heed  unto  her  laws  is  the 
assurance  of  incorruption : 


'^  And  incorruption  maketh  us  near  unto 
God. 

"  Therefore  the  desire  of  wisdom  bring- 
eth  to  a  kingdom. 

'*  If  your  delight  be  then  in  thrones  and 
sceptres,  O  ye  kings  of  the  people,  honour 
wisdom,  that  ye  may  reign  for  evermore." 
—Ibid.  16. 

*'  WoESHip  the  Lord  in  tlie  beauty  of 
holiness." — Psalm  xxix.  2. 

'^  He  that  trusteth  in  the  Lord,  mercj 
shall  compass  him  about."  —  Ibid,  xxzii. 
10. 

"  Let  thy  mercy,  O  Lord,  be  upon  us,  ac- 
cording as  we  hope  in  thee." — Ibid.  xxiiii< 
22. 

^*  O  taste,  and  see  that  the  Lord  is  good : 
blessed  is  the  man  that  trusteth  in  Hiffl.* 
— Ibid,  xxxiv.  8. 

'*  Where wrrHAL  a  man  sinneth,  by  tbe 
same  also  shall  he  be  punished." — Widom 
xi.  16. 

"  For  Thou  lovest  all  the  things  that  ire, 
and  abhorrcst  nothing  which  Thou  ba^t 
made ;  for  never  wouldest  Thou  have  midc 
any  thing,  if  Thou  hadst  hated  it. 

**  And  how  could  any  thing  have  endured, 
if  it  had  not  been  Thy  will  ?  or  been  pre- 
served, if  not  called  by  Thee  ? 

**  But  Thou  sparest  all:    for  they  tre 


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Thine,  O  Lord,  Thou  lover  of  souls."— Ibid. 
xxiv.  6. 

"'  Mt  soul  b  athirst  for  God,  yea  even 
for  the  living  Grod :  When  shall  I  come  to 
appear  before  the  presence  of  (jod  ?" — Ibid. 
xliL2. 

*'  But  executing  Thy  judgments  upon 
them  by  little  and  little,  Thou  gavest  them 
place  for  repentance." — Wisdom  xii.  10. 

"  Wherefore,  whereas  men  have  lived 
dissolutely  and  unrighteously.  Thou  hast 
tormented  them  with  their  own  abomina- 
tions."—Ibid.  23. 

"  Yea,  to  know  Thy  power  is  the  root  of 
inunortality." — Ibid.  xiv.  3. 

^^  His  heart  is  ashes ;  his  hope  is  more 
vUe  than  earth,  and  his  life  of  less  value 
than  clay : 

^  Forasmuch  as  he  knew  not  his  Maker, 
and  Him  that  inspired  into  him  an  active 
soul,  and  breathed  in  a  living  Bpirit."-^Ibid. 
10-11. 

*^  But  they  counted  our  life  a  pastime,  and 
our  time  here  a  market  for  gain ;  for,  say 
they,  we  must  be  getting  every  way,  though 
it  be  by  evil  means." — Ibid.  12. 

'^MrsmiBS  are  revealed  unto  the  meek." 
— Ecdesiatticus  iii.  19. 

"  Seek  not  out  the  things  that  are  too 
bard  for  thee,  neither  search  the  things  that 
are  above  thy  strength. 

"  But  what  is  commanded  thee,  think 
thereupon  with  reverence." — ^Ibid.  21. 

^  A  stubborn  heart  shall  fare  evil  at  the 
last,  and  he  that  loveth  danger  shall  perish 
therein."— Ibid.  26. 

'^  In  the  punishment  of  the  proud  there 
is  no  remedy :  for  the  plant  of  wickedness 
hath  taken  root  m  him."— Ibid.  28. 

**  He  that  keepeth  the  law  of  the  Lord 
gietteth  the  understanding  thereof:  and  the 
perfection  of  the  fear  of  the  Lord  is  wis- 
dom."— ^Ibid.  xxi.  11. 

**  Let  not  mercy  and  truth  forsake  thee : 
hind  them  about  thy  neck :  write  them  upon 
the  table  of  thine  heart." — Proverbs  iiu  3. 


"  If  any  man  think  that  he  knoweth  any 
thing,  he  knoweth  nothing  yet  as  he  ought 
to  know."— 1  Corinthians  viii.  2. 

*^  Now  the  end  of  the  commandment  is 
charity ;  out  of  a  pure  heart,  and  of  a  good 
conscience,  and  of  faith  unfeigned."  — 
1  Timothy  i.  5. 

*•  Fob  we  which  have  believed,  do  enter 
into  rest." — Hebrews  iv.  3. 

*'  The  kingdom  of  God  cometh  not  with 
observation.  Neither  shall  they  say,  Lo 
here!  or  Lo  there!  for  behold  the  kingdom 
of  €U)d  is  within  you." — Luke  xvii.  21-2. 

Into  that  kingdom  he  who  will,  may  en- 
ter; and  begin  his  Heaven  on  earth. 

**  Jesus  said  unto  them,  if  ye  were  blind, 
ye  should  have  no  sin :  But  now  ye  say, 
We  see  :  therefore  your  sin  remaineth." — 
John  iz.  last  verse. 

**  And  now,  Israel,  what  doth  the  Lord 
thy  (jod  require  of  thee,  but  to  fear  the 
Lord  thy  God,  to  walk  in  all  his  ways,  and 
to  love  him,  and  to  serve  the  Lord  thy  God 
with  all  thy  heart  and  with  all  thy  soul. 

*'To  keep  the  commandments  of  the  Lord, 
and  his  statutes  which  I  command  thee  this 
day,  for  thy  good?" — Deuteronomy  x.  12-13. 

"  —  To  be  spiritually  minded  is  life  and 
peace." — Romans  viii.  6. 

*'  Sat  ye  to  the  righteous,  that  it  shall  be 
well  iDith  him ;  for  they  shall  eat  the  fruit 
of  their  doings. 

**  Woe  unto  the  wicked,  it  shaU  be  ill  with 
him ;  for  the  reward  of  his  hands  shall  be 
given  him." — Isaiah  iii.  10-11. 

"  Bb  not  afnud ;  only  believe."— AfarA 
V.  36. 

»«  But  ask  now  the  beasts,  and  they  shall 
teach  thee ;  and  the  fowls  of  the  air,  and 
they  shaU  tell  thee : 


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TEXTS  FOR  ENFORCEMENT. 


'*  Or  speak  to  the  earth,  and  it  shall  teach 
thee ;  and  the  fishes  of  the  sea  shall  declare 
unto  thee." — Job  xii.  7-8. 

''With  Him  is  strength  and  wisdom;  the 
deceired  and  the  deceiver  are  His.** — Ibid. 
16. 

*'  —  Whatsobtee  a  man  soweth,  that 
shall  he  also  reap. 

"  For  he  that  soweth  to  his  flesh  shall  of 
the  flesh  reap  corruption  ;  but  he  that  sow- 
eth to  the  Spirit,  shall  of  the  Spirit  reap 
life  everlasting.** — OalaUam  vi.  7-8. 

^  Yb  fools,  be  je  of  an  understanding 
heart." — Proverbs  viii.  5. 


^  Draw  nigh  to  God  and  he  will  draw 
nigh  to  you.  Cleanse  jour  hands,  ye  sin- 
ners, and  purifj  jour  hearts,  je  double- 
minded.** — James  iv.  8. 

''  To  him  that  knoweth  to  do  good  and 
doeth  it  not,  to  him  it  is  sin." — Ibid.  17. 

'*  Yea,  what  things  thou  didst  determine, 
were  readj  at  hand,  and  said  Lo,  we  are 
here !  for  all  thj  wajs  are  prepared,  and 
thj  judgements  are  in  thj  fore-knowledge.** 
—Judith  iz.  6. 

**  I  BBMBMBEBED  THH^B  BVERLASTIHG 
JUDOBMBNTS,  O  LOED,  AND  BBCEIYED  COK- 

roBT.** — Psalm  cxix.  52. 


Jl'CntJop. 


L 


'*  dum  kelbgo,  8cbip9i88b  pudbt,  quia  plubim a  cbeboi 
Mb  quoqub,  qui  feci,  judigb,  digna  lihi.** 

Courteous  Reader  I  No  inan  living  can  quote  those  lines  with  a  fuller  sense 
of  their  realitj  than  mjself  I— Though  I  have  lived  amongst  men  sharp  as  Mechi's 
razors,  or  a  Januarj  frost,  or  the  spikes  of  English  bajonets, — ^jet  oogniiant  as  I  am 
with  ever  J  daj  life,  and  practical  in  mj  habits  and  mj  wajs,  I  am  a  ^'  Gierke  of 
Ozenforde  "  withal,  and  a  scholar, — such  as  the  punj  scholars  of  these  dajs  are  I 
And,  therefore,  I  lament  to  find  that  manj  errors  in  these  volumes  have  escaped  nj 
notice,  even  after  close  and  hard  labour,  and  thick  thinking  too  I  But,  when  I  state 
this,  I  think  it  right  to  add,  that  no  research,  no  locking  into  libraries,  no  corre- 
spondence with  learned  men,  no  labour  on  mj  own  part,  has  been  spared.  Every 
sheet  has  taken  up  more  hours  in  a  daj  than  are  easilj  found, — and  the  making  good 
a  single  reference  has  often  made  night  and  morning  closer  acquaintances  than  is 
good  either  for  sight  or  health !  Therefore,  Courteous  Reader,  look  gentlj  upon 
confessed  errors,  and,  of  thj  candour.  Learned  Critic,  correct  them  for  me,  and 
thou  shalt  have  thanks, — the  truest,  the  most  unreserved  I  Ye  will  not  have  half  the 
pleasure  in  correcting,  I  shall  have  in  learning  I 

One  word  more,  at  parting,  on  the  excellentlj  learned  Collector  of  these  Voluines. 
William  Chamberlajne,  in  the  Epistle  Dedicatorj  to  his  Pharonnidoj  speaks,  in  his 
own  quaint  language,  of  '*  eternizing  a  name,  more  from  the  lasting  liniaments  of 
learning,  than  those  vain  Phainomena  of  Pleasure,  which  are  the  delight  of  more 
vulgar  spirits;"  and  such  was  the  continued  onsight  of  South  by.  He  held  his 
learning  as  a  gift,  and  as  a  talent  to  be  accounted  for,  and  he  laboured  for  the  benefit 
of  others, — their  moral  and  religious  benefit, — as  long  as  the  daj  lasted,  and  before 


L' ENVOY. 


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night  came  in  which  it  was  no  longer  appointed  that  he  should  labour.  And  be 
^er  recollected,  that  although  he  wrote  fbr  his  daily  bread,  and  it  never  failed  him, 
ich  was  a  reward  of  his  faith  and  truthfulness),  yet  did  he  never  write  a  single 
d  or  line  populo  ut  placerent  fahuUg  / 

\  is  the  learned  Barkow,  in  his  Sermon  Of  Industry  in  our  Particular  Calling 
Scholars^  that  has  these  words: — *^  JJignum  laude  virum  Musa  vetat  mori; 
ning  consecrateth  itself  and  its  subject  together  to  immortal  remembrance.  It  is 
Uiug  that  fittcth  a  man  for  all  conditions  and  fortunes ;  so  that  he  can  enjoy  pros- 
ty  with  moderation,  and  sustain  adversity  with  comfort ;  he  that  loveth  a  Book  will 
*T  want  a  faithful  friend,  a  wholesome  counsellor,  a  cheerful  companion,  an  eflfectual 
forter.  By  study,  by  reading,  by  thinking,  one  may  innocently  divert  and  plea- 
ly  entertain  himself,  as  in  all  weathers,  so  in  all  fortunes."  Thus  did  the  lamented 
fTHEY,  rooted  and  grounded  in  the  Faith  I  And  with  these  words.  Gentle  and 
7RTE0US  Reader,  I  commend  to  thee  the  several  Series  of  his  (ETominon  ]BIqCC 

"  He  that  affecteth  Ood  in  chief, 

And  as  himself  his  neighbour; 
May  stiU  enjoy  a  happy  life. 

Although  he  live  by  labour  T — G.  Wither. 

JOHN  WOOD  WARTER. 


Abdol  Motalleb,  &tfaer  of 


AberfratB  Hulaee,  61. 
Abrnjoi,    used    in   Columbus' 
Journal,  699. 

^dm  1681,373. 

A<la«,;firMlH'ift,Bi. 

AddfT't-longutFem,  29. 

Adilft,  tribe  o{,  9T . 

Adctcalt  Iff  Ftietitrt,  stor;  of, 
and  reaulU,  713. 

.£80P,  good  morels  in,  uid  in 
RejDsrd  the  Fox  too,  62 1 . 

4fTiciai  Mult  MaiattTt,  75. 

Aggamm,  cobler  of,  622.  Ex- 
tracts, 681. 

Agla,  what,  432. 

AONEB  SOftEL  AND  ChAELBR, 

death  of,  36. 
AoKBB,  St.   Dunp  explained, 

132, 
Agncaltmitt,  ledilioai  when 

pruiisions  nre  cheap,  66?. 
.^fiui  cured  by  electricity,  436. 

By  fear,  441.     By  the  fourth 

Book  of  the  Iliad.  507. 
Agjri,  sort  of  directing  Posts, 

AiBSttr,  St.  S9. 

Aiaria,    what?     See    Mcurs. 

Gloss.  Grffic.  Barb,  in  v.  432. 
Akbar'b  Srol,  Motio  on,  4S0. 
AkenBIdE,  343. 
Alaodin'l  Paraditt,  84. 
AU-hotOf,  parsonage  in  Lang- 

dato  formerly  licensed   fur. 


Aleaiitibr,Cabdiiial,  his  epi- 
taph, 390. 

Alt  iotllt;  letters  sent  in,  505. 

Alrnau,  heraldic  term,  399. 

AUua»a,  La  gran  Ptrdida  dr, 
original  and  translation,  262- 
265.  Like  the  RmdcVocAo 
forbidden  to  be  lung,  3G5. 

AUmmbra,  perfumed  room  in, 
25-30. 

Ali'tSaiit,  Death  of, celebrated, 
121. 

Allbikb,  Bichard,  his  Fimdi- 
cia  Pulatit,  399. 

All  SokW  Dag,  customs  on,  at 
Naples  and  Salerno,  163. 

AUaniie,  heraldic  term,  432. 

AlnwUkj  themiry  pool  or,419. 

AuHBBT  HoKEFHBB,  history 
of,  399. 

Almanack,  Egyptian,  165. 
SWryofona  at  Kendal,  354. 

i4  Jmi,  cloth  for  pan  Uloons  mode 
from,  395. 

AtpliiHglini,  near  Exeter,  wo- 
men Treak  there,  3S0. 

AlonsodbEbCilla,  author  of 
the  Araucana,  so  called  from 
Arauco,  a  mountain  proiin 
of  Chili.  — Q.  R.  vol.  87, 
317,  16. 


Ameriaa  Sfira^r,o1dageof,  39. 

Servants,  object  to  ar 

ing  a  bell,  365. 
AKmiABANB,  Descant  of,  227. 
AmTtita-cup    of    Immortality, 

254. 
Ammenuiilt,  Public,  368, 
Anatomy,  subjects  begged 

588.    Discovery  of  the  I 


AncrtlTy,  one  good  effect  of,  79. 

Ahcillun,  remarks  of,  439. 

Anecdalti  for  Espritlla,  358. 
And  gleanings,  540,  Slc 

Aboer,  remark  on,  625. 

AnimaU,  Arabian,  110-11  , 
ITS.  Not  morally  respon- 
sible, 593.  Saying  of  Cana- 
dian Indians  about,  607. 
Slaugh  tered  in  London ,  in  the 
year  1810,  392.  Have  res 
soning,  428.  Redemptioi 
for,  446.     Extracts,  541. 

Atilimotii/,  red  oil  of  the  gloss 
of.  436,  646. 

.^p«,  venerable  ones  in  Ouinea, 
483. 

AjAKin  Raninum,  root  of,  best 
medicine  for  swine,  574. 

Aptlh,  victim  to,  58. 

Appleby  Aniza,  way  of  doing 

Appltby,  pretty  town,  632. 

Apple  Ireti,  wassailing  and 
howling  of,  380-1. 

Arabian  bteiury,  extracts  i 
live  to,  102.  Horses,  109. 
Atmosphere, — birds,  beasts, 
and  plants,  110-112.  Hospi- 
tality, ib. 

Arabi,    devotement    of,    105. 
Corrupted  the  science  of 
dicine,  438. 

Sung  during  Thunder 


Slonr 


It  frum,  630. 


ir  bleating  shewed  which 


,    .       wind  blew,  613. 
Abcbt,   Charles   the  First* 

fool,  died  at  Artbuset,  in 

Cumberland,  368. 
Abbtimb  Lbomaboo,  hi<  use  of 

mitU  for  mild,  643. 
>4rmif,  PsMpff,  62.    Remarks 


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INDEX. 


on  the  reduction  of,  after  a 

war,  666. 
Arnold  or  Bjubscia,  account 

of,  28,  141. 
Arrowa,  62.    Of  disease,  431. 
Art,  Benefit  qf,  at  Vicenza,  ana> 

L^ous  to  our  old  Beneiit  of 

Clergy,  399. 
Arundel  MarbleB,  how  abused, 

354. 
Arundeh,  what,  and  whence  de- 
rived, 238. 
Atiniias  hominnM,  Casaubon*s 

remark  on,  644. 
A$ker,  An,  i.  e.  a  beggar,  364. 
Atpalax.    See  Schol.  in  Ly- 

cophr.  y.  121,  and  Etymol. 

Mag.  in  y.  Aristotle  writes 

*A<r^dKaK»  Cf.  Hist.  Animal, 

lib.  i.  1,9.  yiii.  28,  433. 
Axpen-ffoplvr,  T^fody  Mirchent, 

or,  PVoimfn*9  Tongue,  172. 
Ab»,  singular  taste  of  one  for 

tobacco,  593.     A  student  of 

philosophy,  368. 
Aatranf,  remarks  on,  279. 
ilffroKomy,  Turkish,  156.  Hin« 

doo  prolixity,  435. 
Atone,  meaning  of,  288. 
Attila,  the  sword  of,  241. 
AuQOSTiNB,  saying  of,  630. 

Anecdote  of,  nndes  436.  Opi- 
nion of  the  human  soul,  479. 
Aurora  Borealis,  Captain  T. 

Southey's  account  of,  6, 162. 

North  and  South  Indian's 

name  for,  Ed^thin,  168. 
AusoNius,  beautiful  epigram 

of,  456. 
Avale,  i.  e.  to  descend^  89. 
Avarice  ever  finds  in  itself  mat* 

terofambitiony637.  Its  own 

plague,  718. 
Awkuwrdnem  at  Court,  44. 
Atscoogh,  Sirlzaac  Newton's 

uncle,  his  absence  of  mind, 

718. 
Azineour,  Song  on  the  Battleof, 

57. 

B. 

Babsb  Eupsror,  saying  of, 

when  speaking  of  an  infa> 

mous  deed,  684* 
Babel,  derivation  of!  582. 
Bachaumont,  Mem.  Set,  ex,* 

tracts,573,  617,  621. 
Bachelon'  Button$,  244. 
Bachelor,  i.  e.  Baa  Chevalier, 

718. 


Bacon,  Loko,  remarks  of,  637. 

Baddelet,  the  comedian,  be- 
quest of,  398. 

jB«^-ptpe«,grazier8' cattle  feed- 
ing to  the  sound  of,  393. 

Bahar  Danuah,  extracts  from, 
—  considered  by  Southey  to 
be  a  remarkable  work,  213. 

Balder,  The  Grave  of,  27. 

Balgut,  burnt  his  sermons, 
why?  709. 

Ballads,  subjects  for,  95. 

Balm,  great  use  of  in  Egypt, 
180. 

Balt  or  Belt,  account  of  in 
Hindoo  Mythology,  251. 

Bamboroygh,  story  about,  367. 

Bampton,  Oxon,  custom  of  the 
vicars  of,  395. 

Bank*,  temples  used  as,  685. 

Bantams,  the  Javanese,  nearly 
as  large  as  a  bustard,  367. 

Baptista  Porta,  observation 
of,  476. 

Baptists,  why  thev  seceded 
from  the  Evangelical  Maga- 
zine, 410. 

Barb£R,The,  his  consequence, 
198. 

Bardaay,  island  of,  140. 

Barons,  palace  pomp  of,  151. 

Barrow,  extracts  from,  626, 
679. 

Barruel,  Abbe^  extracts 
from,  381-383. 

Bartholomew-tide  Sports,  118. 

Barton  in  the  Beans,  341. 

Bas)\fulness—*^  rosy  modesty," 
658. 

Bati  short  and  quick  cry  of, 
201.  Dips  the  breast  like 
the  swallow,  202.  Proverb 
that  the  serpent  eats  one  ere 
he  comes  to  oe  a  dragon,  710. 

Bath  and  Bristol,  frightened 
by  a  prophet,  385. 

Battle,  shades  of.  ^41. 

Bauson,  or  Stuffed  Sentinel, 
238. 

Bajfts,  rewnire  de,  phrase  of,  7 1 . 

Bean-beUy,  Leicestershire,  341. 

Bear,  the  Dancing,  hints  for 
Poemlingon,  198.  Sucking 
his  paws,  199.  Story  of  one 
who  could  play  tha  piano, 
369. 

Beards,  extracts  relative  to, 
500,  598. 

Beasts,  examples  to  men,  592. 

Beattie,  extracts  from,  and 
remarks  on,  334. 


Be  AUCBAMF,  Richard,  Eari^ 
Warwick,  270. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  re* 
marks  on,  306,  &c.  Extracts, 
457,  9  ;  635,  &C  646,  Alc. 
657,  &c. 
Beavers,  formerly  in  Wales, 
140.     Account  of  one,  438. 

Bednunster,  subject  for  an  Ec- 
logue, 193. 

Bee,  why  a  fool,  198. 

Beech  and  Beech-mast,  164. 
Richness  of  the  beech-trees 
in  the  Forest  of  Dean,  201. 

Bedare  and  dture^tbe  same  word, 
323. 

Bee  hives,  carried  to  the  Moon, 
why,  709. 

Beer,  bottled,  origin  of,  39a 

Bees,  seem  formerly  to  have 
been  destroyed  by  water,  16. 
The  breed  of,  discouraged  in 
wine  countries,  why  ?  701. 

^^S^^  ^f  Moorfitld,  story  of, 
396. 

Beings,  Scale  t^,  576. 

Bellarjcii^,  430. 

Bellat,  Epitaph  by,  aod 
Translation  of  by  R.  S.  73. 

Bell-ringing,  its  music— *' the 
poetry  of  steeples'' — Sou* 
they 'a  love  for,  7.  Accounts 
of,  389,  400,  417,  418,  447. 

BeUs,  extracts  relative  to,  425, 
477,  582. 

Benevolence,  Practical,  cnrions 
letter,  623. 

Benin,  notions  in  the  kingdom 
of,  246. 

Benezkt,  Ajttont,  saying  of, 
637. 

Benserade,  641. 

Berkeley,  old  woman  of,  124. 

Bernal  Diaz,  saying  of,  633. 

Bernards',  Isle  of  Man,  ex- 
tracts from,  320. 

Bertrakd  of  Olesqcik, 
death  of,  109. 

Berwick,  omitted  in  the  first 
Income  Tiftx  BiU,  story  of, 
367. 

Betele,  vermilion  dye  of,  for 
lips,  257. 

Bettinelu  P.  Satbrio,  son- 
net by,  49.  Translation  of, 
80. 

Bhurlpore,  an  officer^s  obsem* 
tion  on  the  carnage  at,  708. 

Bible,  English  sailors'  love  for, 
483. 


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INDEX. 


729 


Birds,  extracts  relatire  to,  1 68. 
Of  the  Bennadas  that  bur* 
row,  592.  Education  of  sing- 
ing birds,  510. 

Bishop,  Samubl,  Podicai 
WvrlUy  309.  Shews  in  his 
domestic  poems  a  very  ami- 
able and  happy  fieelinfi^  of  du- 
ties and  enjoyments,  &c.  ih. 

Bisk,  i.  e.  to  ink  so  as  to  be  il« 
lecpble,  399. 

BlmMird  and  WoodUtrk,  notice 
of,  152. 

Blame  mp  Nose!  softened  im- 
precation, 477* 

Blamchabd  Alain,  70. 

Blank  Verse,  Irregular,  re- 
marks on,  1. 

Blind,  funds  for,  at  Christ's 
Hospital,  387. 

Blood,  Circulation  of?  allusion 
to,  in  Eccles.  xii.  546. 

Boar,  a  Norfolk  one,  ridden 
four  and  a  quarter  miles  by 
his  master,  415. 

Boar's  head,  174. 

Boat  like  an  Eagle,  67. 

BoDMER^s  Noachid,  a  bad 
Poem,  2. 

BoLiNGBBOKS,  remark  on 
Calvin's  Institutes,  reported 
tiirough  Madau,  410. 

Bombast,  Spanish,  259. 

Bonaparte  and  Dr.  Solomon, 
confusion  of,  365. 

Bone  Manure^  388. 

Bonfires,  Festhral,  116. 

Book,  occupations  necessary 
to  produce  one,  450.  When 
new,  692.     A  friend,  725. 

Bans  Esprits,  and  beaux  eaiirits, 
389. 

Book'keeper,  correct  and  in- 
correct, P.  Tompkin's,  death 
of,  390. 

B^s  WELL  had  a  foculty  for  man- 
ners, said  Adam  Smith,  6 1 7. 

Botany,  Medical,  extracts,  573. 

BoucHET,  Ser^s,  704. 

Bourg  de  Bar,  le  Capitaine,  170. 

Bovius,  Thomas,  an  Empiric, 
his  Hercules  and  Anmm  Fo- 
tabile,  436. 

BowDwonr,  James,  astrono- 
mical opinions  of,  431. 

Bowles  Cabolivb,  i.  e.  BIrs. 
Southey,  remark  of,  621. 

Bracha,Gallia  Braccata,&c,40. 

Brama,  how  he  first  made  roan, 
428. 

Bramins,  238. 


Branl,  thick  heads  in,  171. 

Breath,  111,  strange  cure  for, 
429. 

Brick,  custom  of  building  with, 
when  introduced,  400. 

Brescia,  Amald  of,  141. 

Bretagne,  Traditions  in,  240. . 

Brbuss,  The  Ladiff  174. 

Brianstone,  Great  Sergeanty 
Tenure  of,  175. 

Bride  Ale,  361. 

Britain,  the  thirteen  rarities  of, 
145. 

Bristol,  H.  Walpole  not  favour- 
ably impressed  with,  392. 
Goodness  of  the  water  of, 
426. 

Broad-cloth,  deterioration  of  by 
Devil's  dust  in  Latimer's 
time,  610. 

Broads,  meaning  of  the  term, 
86. 

Brooke,  Lord,  his  Poems,  re- 
marks on,  315.  Extracts, 
647-649,  691. 

Brougham  Ca«l(«,  fine  ruin,532, 
537.    Lord,  666,  688. 

Brough  Bells,  story  of,  and  Bal- 
lad, 422. 

Broughtok's  Diet,  of  all  Re- 
ligions, extracts  from,  121,2. 
Sir  Thomas, traditionabout, 
535. 

Browv,  John,  remarks  on  his 
Estimate,  &c  342. 

Browne,  Sir  T.  favourite  wri- 
ter of  Southey 's,  334. 

BRUCE,The  Heart  of,  172.  Ex- 
tracts from  "The,"  217. 

Bruciad,  not  a  good  Poem,  633. 

Brute  Creation,  Apology  for, 

Sprmon  by  James  Granger, 

592. 
Brutere  La,  extracts  from, 

645,  669. 
Buck,  St.   Paul's,    120,  414. 

Clubs  of  BoldBucks,&e.  377. 
BucKHURBT,  Lord,  advice  in 

Ferrex  and  Porrex,  to  settle 

the  succession,  323. 
Bull-Baiting,  Dr.  Parr  fond  of, 

585. 
BuNTAN,  JoHy,of  hisPilg^m's 

Proppress,  221.    Bemark  of, 

on  hes  and  slanders,  691. 
BurhoUs,  kind  of  fish,  Gadus 

Lotte,  of  Linnieus,  607. 

Burgess,  curious  custom  of  ta- 
king up  the  freedom  of  one 
at  Alnwick,  419. 


Burgomaster,  strange  mode  of 
choosing,  454. 

BuHOODioiis,  Dud  DB,  Lettres 
envojf^s  de,  par  le  Roy  d^An- 
gleterre  ««,  21 .  Charles  the 
Warlike,  Duke  of,  104,  109, 
115,  164. 

Burial,  Royal  and  Noble  Modes 
of,  133. 

Buried  Money,  story  o^  426. 

Burke  the  miscreant,  affrighted 
in  his  sleep,  708. 

BuRXB,  his  admiration  of  Spen- 
ser, 312.  Complimented  by 
Lord  G.  Gordon,  689.  His 
saying  on  Pitt's  Economical 
Bill,  689.  On  the  Growth 
of  Atheism,  700. 

BuBiiBT,  Sib  Thomas,  son  of 
Bishop,  saying  of,  350. 

Burkbt's  The^ia  Sacra,  ad- 
mired by  Sonthey  and 
Wordsworth,  184.. 

Burning,  better  than  Inter- 
ment, 195. 

Burrough,  or  Burgh,  Hutchin- 
son's remark  on  name,  618. 

BuBTON,  Anat,  qf  Mel,  ex- 
tracts, 467-8, 473-4. 

Bushbll's  Wells,  account  of 
at  Enstone,  405. 

Butterfly,  pretty  lines  of  Hall 
Hartston's,  661. 

C. 

Coder  Jdris,  242. 

C.SCILIA,  St.,    67;    sermons 

preached  on  her  day  as  late 

as  1713,  703. 
Caffabelli,  the  singer,  his 

wealth,  433. 
Calderon,  extracts,  468, 471, 

501,640.  658. 
Caltebt,   F.   Lobd   Balti- 

MOBE,  works  of,  348. 
Calvinistie  Teacha^,  716. 
Caltim's   Institutes,   Boling- 

broke's  remarks  on,  410. 
Camden,  Gough's,  quotations 

from,  57,  61,  62. 
Camel,  called  the  Ship  of  the 

Land,    176;    conveyors    of 

souls,  lb, ;  taught  to  dance, 

428. 
Camillub  Leonabdub,  Mirror 

qf  Stones,  46. 
Camoens,  627. 
Canary  Fanciers,  pattern  bird 

of,  433. 
CANOTA'sgenins  first  maaifiBst- 

ed  in  m^elling  butter,  510. 


730 

Captain,  sea,  gallant  ezclamft- 
tion  of,  270. 

CminmeU,  of  the,  37 ;  surpris- 
ing custom  of  the  Charake 
Prophets',  228;  maryeUous 
one,  239. 

CardinaU,  Fleckno's  remark 
upon,  637. 

Card-Player,  inveterate,  453. 

Cardt,  new  game,  517. 

Care,  young  faces  traced  by, 
681. 

Caribs,  their  contempt  of  ar- 
mour, 632. 

CarUale,  account  of  in  1805, 
527. 

Camtfex,  an  officer  of  g^reat 
dimity  under  our  Danish 
Kmgs,  400. 

Carrara  Ubsrttno,  his  Co- 
lumbus, extracts  from,  63 1 ,2. 

Carte's  Ormond,  remarks 
from,  690. 

Cartwriobt,  Major,  the 
sportsman,  anecdotes  of, — 
his  Book  &c.,  515. 

Carwichet,  what,  509,  705. 

Castillejo,  to  the  Authift:  of 
a  bad  Poem,  634. 

Castor  Church,  Lincolnshire, 
irreverent  custom  at,  414. 

Cataract,  dislodged  by  a  fisill 
from  a  horse,  589. 

Catesbt,  Thomas,  Lord  Pa- 
get, Essay  on  Human  Life, 
351. 

Cat  and  Dog,  instance  of  their 
travelling  together,  &c.,  400. 

CiUs,  Ma&me  de  Custine's 
praise  of,  490. 

Cathedra  Stercoris,  what  ?  401 . 

Cato's  Letters,  extracts  from, 
470. 

Cattle,  some  account  of,  and  of 
grazier's  terms,  401,  488. 

Cave,  King  Arthur's,  160. 

Cavern,  strange,  76}  wind- 
guarded,  138. 

Ceireoc,  battle  of,  108, 

Celebes,  poisonous  tree  of,  243. 

Cemeteries  at  Hamburg,  with- 
I      out  the  city,  579. 

Chafing,  cured  by  the  slime  of 
the  slug,  555. 

Chaises  private,  made  war  upon 
in  1733  bv  stages  and  hack- 
ney coaches,  377;  curious 
account  of  a  chaise  driver's 
lust  bequest,  418. 

CiiALKHiLL,  John,  his  Theal- 
ma  and  Clearchus,  630. 


INDEX. 

Chama  Gigas,  great  shell,  7. 
Chamberlatne,  author  of  the 

AngluB  Notitia,  vanity   of, 

430. 
Chancellor,  Lord,  is  his  of- 
fice compatible  with  Speaker 

of  the  House  of  Lords  ?  395. 
Charitable  men,  St.  Chrysos- 

tom's  character  of,  626. 
Charleicaqnb  and  his  Mis- 

tress,  taXe  of,  71. 
Charles  L,  omens  of  his  fi&te, 

159:    A  Marvel's  lines  on 

death  of,  635. 
Charles  II.,  best  likeness  of, 

accordingto  H.  Wal^le,620. 
Charleton,  Leicestershire,  392, 

415. 
Chaucer,  extracts  relative  to, 

322,  634. 
Charms  from  Ceylon,  609. 
Cheve,  chevir,  91. 
Child-Murder,  Lidian  woman's 

defence  of,  276. 
Chili,  Lidians  of,  114. 
Chinese  taste,  increase  of,  339. 
Chinon,  situation  of,  Rabelais 

born  there,  57. 
Chelmtford,  antiquity  of  the 

Black  Boy  of,  392. 
Chbnt,  Br.  his  advice  how  to 

read  the  Scriptures,  639. 
Chestnut  trees  at  Tortworth, 

469. 
Chester,  burial  place  of  Henry. 

a  Roman  Emperor,— Harold 

said  to  have  retired  there 

after  the  battle  of  Hastings, 

406. 

CHEVERNT,CHANCELLOR,pret. 

ty  story  of,  543. 

Chiaberra,  extracts,  497. 

Chimneysweepers,  women  em- 
ployed as,  391. 

Chesterfield's  Letters,  716. 

CAioalry,  stories  connected  with 
the  manners  of,  11  j  educa- 
tion of,  151 ;  L' Amour  de 
Dieu  et  des  Dames,  152; 
chivalrous  speech,  172. 

Choultries,  account  of,  238 ,  247 . 

Christiad,  the,  poem  by  Robert 
Clarke,  537. 

Christian  principles,  duty  of 
acting  up  to,  695. 

Christina,  Queen,  158 : 
Queen  of  Corinth  intendea 
for,  713. 

Christmas  Tale,  ideas  for,  275. 

Christopher,  St.,  Butfalmac- 
co's  painting  of,  433. 


Church  qf  EngUmdy  has  re- 
nounced hi<£len  things  of 
darkness,  677. 

Ckurch-R^ormers,%v[  G.Mack- 
enzie's remark  upon,  384. 

Churches,  want  of  ia  large 
towns,  419. 

Churchill,  extracts  from  and 
remarks  on,  335. 

Churchyards,  fVelsh,  account  of 
from  Booker's  Malvem,104 ; 
a  lesson  to  be  learnt  from, 
290;  desecration  of  Wool- 
wich one  by  some  drunken 
sailors,  386. 

Ciborium,  meaning  of,  283. 

Cfdcr,  an  African  uquor  ?  709. 

Circassian  Gentleman,  237. 

Circelliones,  or,  wandering 
monks,  675. 

Cistern,  SUver,  at  Belvoir  Cas- 
tle, 373. 

Clara,  the  Beata  of  Madrid, 
384. 

Clarendon,  Lord,  honest  ad- 
vice of,  687 ;  his  sayine  re- 
lative to  the  want  of  Bisnops 
in  Reformed  Churches,  687. 

Clarke,  Adam,  extracts  from, 
505,  707,  &c 

Clarke  Robert,  his  Chris- 
tiad, 537. 

Claudian,  extracts  from,  221. 

Clergy,  a  beggarly,  says  Ful- 
ler, the  forerunner  of  a  bank- 
rupt reli^on,  696. 

Clothes,  in  Edw.  III. 's  time,— 
a  prqject  to  show  men's 
birth,  &c.  712. 

Clover,  American,  537. 

Clovis,  christening  of^  71. 

Coals,  some  particulars  about 
shipping  of,  393. 

Coarse  expressions,  instead  of 
strong  ones,  717. 

Coat,  rapidity  with  which  one 
was  made  from  wool  of  the 
same  day's  shearing,395,482. 

Cod-fish,  prolific  milt  of,  435. 

Cock,  crowing  of,  the  notice  of 
ghosts  to  quit,  80. 

Cockatoo,  unruly  one,  389. 

Cock-crower,  the  king's,  office 
of?  375. 

Cockmate  &D.dCopesmate,q}ieTyt 
the  same,  299,  300. 

Cock-roackesp  exordsed,  109, ' 
535. 

Cojffin-rings,  use  of,  445. 

Coffins,  cast  iron  ones,  386; 
Story  of,  402,  403. 


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INDEX. 


731 


CohmbMe  Im,  extracts  from, 

saa. 

Cohun,  the  lore  language  of, 
88. 

CoU'm  dog,  ProT.  428,  676. 

CoUie  Timber,  what  ?  434. 

Columlna,  i.  e.  Dr.  Doveland, 
58^,  596. 

Comedy,  writers  of,  261. 

CometB,  396. 

Com,  the  son  of  the  Sun,  155. 

CoNDBR  JosiAH,  stoHes  bj, 
357. 

C&tmoisaeur,  extracts  from,338- 
340. 

Conqueror,  duty  of,  114. 

ConiradicHon,  spirit  of,  645. 

CoMKiiiplioii,  certain  messenger 
of  death,  358. 

Cookery,  old  Scotch,  29. 

Cookoo,  the,  ''erer  telling  of 
one  tale,"  288. 

Cooling  Card,  meaning  of,  459. 

Copenhagen,  anecdote  at  the 
siege  of,  389. 

Copper,  quantity  of  used  in  pin 
making,  467. 

Coracles,  account  of,  123. 

Ck>HELLi,  his  enthusiastic  ap- 
pearance when  playing  the 
violin,  571. 

Cormorant,  description  of,  44. 

Corps'  Candles,  160. 

Corwen,  town  of.  57. 

Corns,  sprouts  of  rheumatism, 
5555  Ali  Bey  known  by, 
665. 

Comagittm, —  comage  tenure, 
206,  456,  510. 

CoRTEZ,  censuring  of,  260. 

(]k>TT09,  Chaslbs,  306. 

CouBTOTS  Gtbon  Le,  cxtracts 
and  remarks  on,  280. 

CoYEBLBT,  Sir  Roger  de,  re- 
marks of,  690,  707. 

Cowardice,  whB.t?  29. 

CowHlung,  water  of,  a  purge, 
554. 

Cowley,  extracts,  627. 

CowFER,  his  taste— melancho- 
ly, &c.  322. 

Cows,  ladies  drawn  by,  108; 
in  the  Alps,  proud  of  their 
bells,  371 :  list  of  names  of 
iVom  a  Shropshire  Dairy, 
388.  ^ 

Cowslip  water,  good  for  the 
memory,  503. 

Crabs,  shower  of  at  Beigate  in 
1829,  469. 

Cramping  s,  blessing  of,  5 1 1 . 


Cranker,  Abp.,  said  by  Ful- 
ler to  have  had  an  amiable 
eye,  647. 
Craw-fish,  discharges  its  own 
stomacn,  curious  fact  in  Na- 
tural EUstory,  434. 
Creduliiy,  effects  of,  164  ;  m- 

stances  of  English,  359. 
Cricket,  merry  as,  PlroY.,  486. 
Crickei'match,\)etween  married 
women  and  maidens,  416 ; 
between  Greenwich  pension- 
ers with  one  arm  and  one 
leg,  418. 

CrimeSf  duty  of  exposing,  51. 

Crispin,  St.,  his  day  much 
kept  at  Keswick,  531. 

Criticism,  which  corrupts 
writer  and  readers,  673. 

Crocodiles,  the  king  of,  176; 
superstition  relative  to  the 
Indian,  237. 

Cromwell,  the  Devil  shall 
have  it  sooner  than,  426. 

Crow  by  the  wayside,  a  memen- 
to !  357 ;  some  of  the  Fa- 
thers saw  it  in  every  thing, 
500. 

Crows,  dutiful  children,  109; 
curious  account  of  a  tame 
one,  411 ;  caueht  in  Italy 
with  bird-limed  noods,  418. 

Crowthers,  i.  e.  black  pigs,  ori- 
gin of  the  name,  498. 

Croyhnd,  first  ring  of  bells  at, 
in  England,  425. 

Cranio,  or  Croon,  to  bellow  like 
a  disquiet  ox,  422. 

Cuckoo,  stuttering  one  ?  535. 

Cucupha,  quilted  cap  with  ce- 
phalic powder  in,  436. 

CuENCA  La  Beata  de,  account 
of,  384. 

Culm,  small  coal  not  exceeding 
two  inches  in  diameter,  393. 

Cumbrian  Customs,  531. 

CuMMiMG,  G.  R.,  quaere,  as  to 
the  veracity  of  his  adven- 
tures, 256. 

Customs,  good  old,  the  cause  of 
religion  and  order,  195. 

CuTTS,  Lord  John,  why  called 
a  suamander  by  Marlboro', 
349. 

Ctnetha,  107. 

Cypresses,  duration  of,  74. 

Ctveilioc,  Owen,  107;  ex- 
communicated, 140. 


D. 

Dagenham  Breach,  irruption  of 
in  1707,  401. 

Daoobbrt,  his  soul  fought  fur, 
170. 

Daltini,  or,  Irish  horsemen,  15. 

Damned,  the  Sabbath  of,  85. 

Dambt,  William,  extracts, 
502. 

Dance,  St.  Magnus's,  138. 

Dancing,  extracts  relative  to, 
388,  415,  434,  566,  604. 

Dandies,  Cambridge  ones,  403. 

Dandro,  and  dandrif,  meaning 
of  the  word,  171. 

Daniel,  extracts  relati?e  to, 
324. 

Danters,  C.  Southey's  early 
friend,  45. 

Dareira,  or,  gnat  of  the  Nile, 
food  for  the  bats,  228. 

Darkness,  province  of,  90. 

Darwin's  Phytologia,  ex- 
tracts, 493. 

Davenant,  Sir  William,  re- 
marks on ,  292 ;  extra^  from, 
293,  692. 

David,  St.  54. 

Da  VIES,  Howel,  Whitefield's 
Welsh  coadjutor,  story  of, 
397. 

Davt,  Sir  Humphrey,  reply 
of  to  Faraday,  608. 

Dead,  spirits  of,  229 ;  dead, 
the,  extracts  relative  to,  579, 
602. 

read  Letter  Office,  story  from, 
356. 

Death,  the  bitterness  of,  85; 
but  a  point  which  divides 
Adam  from  his  remotest  de- 
scendants, 626 ;  striking  ac- 
count of  a  sailor*s  death  at 
sea,  627 ;  extracts,  542, 544. 

Dee  RUjer  and  Ceiriol,  account 
of  from  churchyard,  122. 

Deer,  wounded,  lie  ou  the 
'*  Asphodelus  LancastriaeVe- 
rus"  for  cure,  see  note,  547. 

De  Foe,  remarks  of,  688. 

Delta  Scenery,  180. 

Demigod*s  death,  effects  of, 
163. 

Demoniacal  possession,  693. 

Demons,  dislike  music,  569. 

ArjfiOii  Ovtiputv,  243. 

Denny,  Sir  William,  his  Pe- 
lecanisidium,  &c.  305. 

Dens  intLsitatit  hellua,  37. 


733 


INDEX. 


DiRMODT,  Thomas,  ftocount 
of,  516. 

Derrigk,  Johnson's  saying  of, 
663. 

Deuri,  produce  of,  224. 

DbSFABD,  Ck>LOMXL,  194. 

Detpotism,  Eastern,  instance 
of,  498. 

Af  vrepoiror/ioc,  who,  431. 

DerUy  hath  not  always  had  his 
due,  195 ;  yisit  to  St.  An- 
thony, 196:  original  of  the 
DeTii's  walk,  199;  ^roii  Fi- 
losnfoy  443  ^  ugliness  of,  463 ; 
Scotch  dislike  to  mentioning, 
529. 

DeviC$  Dust,  what  ?  610. 

Dew-water  of  Ferrea,  285 ;  of 
St.  John's  niffht,  has  the  vir- 
tue to  stop  the  plague,  274. 

Dex,  the  larva  of  a  beetle,  which 
corroded  thewood  the  Greeks 
used  for  seals,  431. 

Dhahif  statues  in,  96. 

Diabolorum  Regnumf  applied  to 
England,  353. 

Diana's  Chamber,  near  St. 
Paul's  —her  temple  supposed 
to  have  been  on  the  present 
site,  414.  Jewel's  Works, 
vii.  292.  ed.  Jelfl 

Diet,  599. 

DitapidationM,  friends  of  Bp. 
Kidder  strangely  sued  for, 
612. 

Dirt,  latent  in  frost,  like  vices 
and  ill  qualities  in  society, 
665. 

Diaanf^eUedli,  a  name  for 
whom  ?  603. 

Diseases,  Lang^is  held  all  to 
be  animalcular,  436;  Dr. 
Hahnemann's  notion  of  cho- 
leraic miasma,  439 ;  effect  of 
the  Fall,  690. 

Disports,  master  of  merry,  1 15. 

Dissenting  Churches,  remark 
on,  693. 

DtvinniioH  bif  Twrrent,  or.  Tag' 
hnim,  39. 

Divine  Right,  remark  on,  665. 

Dock,  floating  one  of  iron,  ac- 
count of,  386. 

Doctor,  The,  &c.  Collections 
for,  427,  &c. 

Dog-ribbed  IndUm  9VomaMf  ac- 
count of,  166. 

Dogs,  know  the  dor-killer,  ac- 
oordluff  to  Lord  &oon,  108 ; 
Mrs.  Wilson's  story  of,  194 ; 
extracts   relative  to,    584; 


Newfoundland  dog's  puppy 
inherited  its  mother's  tricKs, 
593;  church -going,  356; 
gone  to  heaven,  story  of, 
363  j  hunt  of  wild  one,  369 ; 
famished,  370;  instinct,  37 1 ; 
over-tempted,  372  ^  speakinr 
one,  378 ;  the  pnde  of  old 
Cole's,  proverb,  428 ;  sacri- 
floed  to  the  dog-star  by  the 
Romans,  443,  478,  482 ;  af- 
fected by  music,  573. 

Dollars,  Spanish,  wide  spread 
of,  389. 

DolwvddeUtm  Cantle,  39. 

DoM  Danakl,  the  destruction 
of,  181. 

Domeaster,  collections  about, 
452-3. 

Dondego,  what  ?  706. 

DoirHE'sL«^/crs,extractsfrom, 
612,  620-1 ;  poems,  647-8. 

Doonu*s-day,  Lord  Sterlinge's, 
16. 

Doring  or  daring,  meaning  of, 
398. 

Dotterel  catdung,  proverb,454. 

Double  stars,  434. 

Dragon,  standard  of,  132. 

Daake,  Sir  Francis,  tradi- 
tion of  inSomersetshire,424. 

Dramatist's  English,  extracts 
from,  jMSStsi. 

Dratton,  remarks  on,  291. 

Dreams,  extracts  relative  to, 
565 ;  recurrence  of,  566, 601 . 

Drowned  persons,  Finlanders 
said  to  recover  after  two  or 
three  days !  553. 

Druids,  United  Lodges  of,  ce- 
remonies at,  402. 

Drum,  miraculous  ones,  7 ;  of 
captives'  skins,  158. 

Drunkenness,  Johnson's  re- 
mark on,  624. 

Druses,  opinion  of  relative  to 
transmigration,  586. 

Drtden,  remarks  on,  and  ex- 
tracts relative  to,  328 ; 
Charles,  his  eldest  son,  usher 
of  the  palace  to  Clement  XI. 
drowned  in  Thames,  351. 

Ducking-ttool,  a  legal  punish* 
ment,  401. 

Duelling,  effectual  sermon 
aeainst,  492. 

Dulness,  TYiumph  of,  a  poem, 
orig^of,  714. 

DuNCOMBE,  William,  notice 
of,  351. 

Dwarf*,  boys  bred  up  for  by 


the  Romans,  434 ;  £id  of  a 
Grerman  princess,  460 ;  way 
of  dwarfing  men,  507 ;  weigh- 
ed against  SirWilliam  Jones, 
510. 

E. 

Eaglet,  scared  by  lightning,  5 ; 

carving  of,  38;  made  young, 

142. 
Earthquakes   at   Tongataboo, 

244 ;    curious    phenomenon 

at,  714. 
Easter  -  dues,     painful    story 

about,  359. 
Easter-trte,   116;    water-tilts, 

119;  ebb  and  flow  felt  by 

the  sick,  290. 
Eaters,  great  ones,  558. 
Eating,  comfort  of,  according 

to  Bemal  Dias,  633. 
Ebb  Tide,  more  rapid  than  the 

flood,  197. 
Ebony,  Pausanias's  account  of, 

225. 
Echo,  remarks  on,  508. 
Edhowain,  court  or  palace  of, 

39. 
Edward  THBCoNVB880R,wby 

he  took  off  a  tax,  195. 
Edwards,  Thomas,  author  of 

Canons  of  Criticism,  351. 
Edwin  Frikcs,  exposure  of, 

112. 
Edwt,  181. 
Eel,  skinning   of,  barbarous 

story  of,  356;  how  one  came 

in  at  a  bedroom  window,  37 1 ; 

story  of  the  man  with  eels 

in  his  inside,  402 ;  mere  so 

full  of  small  eels  as  to  supply 

eel-cakes,  409. 
Eggs,  hatched  by  a  man,  queer 

story,  416. 
Egregori  of  the  Book  of  Enoch, 

who?  122. 
Egypt,  night  in,  223;   their 

medicine  wholly  upon  astro- 
logical or  magical  grounds, 

547;    leprosy  and  elephaoi* 

tiasis  peculiar  to^  551. 
Elden  Hole,  243. 
EUetisn  trick,  392. 
EleetricUy,  cure  for  agues,  436. 
ElephatUs,  nu^jestic  bearing  of, 

541. 
Elidore,  descent  of,  139. 
Eliearrtb,  sick  exfle  cored 

for  joy  at  her  snooessioo^ 

Fullerknewhis  ftither"right 


INDEX. 


783 


well,"  506;  advised  the 
House  of  Commons  to  prefer 
the  most  weighty  matters 
first,  718. 

Elton,  Oliysr,  story  of,  9. 

EmamoradoM  de  la  Fena  de  Un, 
83. 

EnehmUer,  cold-blooded,  why  ? 
243. 

Eiiforema,  what  ?  434. 

England,  should  be  the  scene 
of  an  Englishman's  poem,*- 
ideas  rebtive  to— why  not 
attempted,  17  ;  charity  of, 
— "  in  the  day  of  her  nsita- 
tion  may  it  be  remembered," 
20 ;  three  names  of,  46 ; 
saying  of  M.  de  Custine's 
alxmt,  718. 

Enolish  Litebatubb  akd 
PoETRT,  &c.  extracts  rela- 
tire  to,  279,  &c. 

EngHah,  account  of,  from  Mal- 
colm's MamieTs  and  Customs 
of  London,  876. 

EvrfXexc(ci,  Aristotle's  use  of, 
434,  440. 

EnikutiaimtaiA  Athiism,  689. 

Envy,  severely  just  vice,  626. 

Epic  writer$,  have  usually  been 
deficient  in  learning, — sug- 
gestions for  epic  poems,  11. 

EpitapkM,  48,  50-52,  73;  on 
Bicnard  I.,  Henry^II.,  &c. 
134;  on  Richard  II.,  King 
John,  &c.  185;  a  true  one 
at  Santarem,  633 ;  of  Thomas 
Tryon,634. 

Ergot  of  Rye,  poisonous  though 
used  medicmally,  401. 

ErvMma,  ancient  prescription, 
434. 

Escape  fiam  drowning  at  sea, 
extraordinary  one,  485. 

EsFiHOZA,  Nicolas  ?  a  galley 
slave  once  ?  635-6. 

EsFRixLLA,  ekaraeteriaiie  Eng- 
lish Aneedoie»and  Fragnunit 
/or,  352.  &c.;  projected  con- 
tents of,  419. 

Etqtumaux  Female,  awe  of  in 
St.  Paul's,  862 :  saving  of  iu 
the  streets  of  London,  516. 

Eatrella  de  Vemu,  &c.  266. 

Etymology,  perversion  of  by 
the  Meocans,  225. 

Eumenidet.  awful  to  name,  like 
the  Fairies,  529.  ^ 

Euphues,  extracts  firom,  457-9, 
680-1. 

EuBOHTinTS,  who  ?  227. 


EusTACHio  Mantbbdi,  Son- 
net of,  49. 

EuTHTMUS,  story  of  from  Pau- 
sanias,  226. 

EvangelicaU,  603 ;  Magazine, 
410. 

Eyahs,  Abel,  who,  349. 

EvELTK,  John,  348. 

Evergreens,  ChrigtmoM,  115. 

Excrements,  eating  of,  249. 

Executioner's  FaMuon,  self-re- 
moval of,  242. 

Exeter,  account  of,  522. 

Exorcism,  effect  of,  238. 

Expenditure,  Fubtie,  increases 
wealth,  688. 

ExuFERHTB,  St.  bow  sainted, 
675. 

Extracts,  &c  77,  215,  &c.  270, 
&c. 

Eyes,  arti/Sdal,  made  by  Juan 
€k>nxales,a  Catalan  optician, 
615. 

F. 

Faggots,  of  human  bones,  226. 

Fairies,  fountain  of,  43 ;  tree 
of  at  Dompr^,  64 ;  Indian's 
name  for,  168,  346.  Fairy* 
riiijn,858.  Extracts  relative 
to  Scottish  superstition,  529. 

Fairs,  the  two  great  oifls  in 
Edward  YI.'s  time  were  St. 
James'  at  Bristol,  and  Bar- 
tholomew's in  London,  405. 

Faithlessness,  Indian  notion  of 
European,  236. 

Falcon,  The  Faery,  90. 

Fame,  605. 

Family  Pride,  583. 

Fancy  A,  called  by  Steele  a 
fantasque,  620 ;  where  situ- 
ated, 548. 

Farmer,  small  one,  ought  not 
to  keep  a  pig,  610. 

Farthing,  Queen  Anne's,  trial 
about,  388. 

Fashion,  596. 

Fastolf,  Oath  of,  66 :  bad  cha- 
racter of  him  by  H.  Wind- 
sor, 72. 

Fasts  and  Thanksgivings,  in 
New  Eneland,  148. 

Fear,  a  bad  guard,  659. 

Featlet,  extracts  from,  445, 
644,  661. 

Feet' Metrical,  twelve  in  the 
English  language,  1. 

Feltham,  uwen,  extracts 
firom,  81. 


Femmes  couvertes,  remarkable 

story,  396. 
Fergus,  murder  of,  166. 
Fern  mate,  root  of,  good  against 

tape-worm,  575. 
Ferran   Gonzalez,  account 

of,  8. 
Ferris,  Bichard,  adventure 

of  him  and  his  wherry,  355. 
Festivals,  Church,  remarks  on, 

691. 
Fererfew,    Siveet,   Matricaria 

Suaveolens,  medicinal  pro- 
perties of,  575. 
Fez,  swurd  of,  26. 
fUf/i/y,  animal,  140. 
Fiddlers    t/  Ambleside,   their 

custom  on  Christmas  Day, 

531. 
Fig-dates,  i.  e.  figs,  706. 

FiLlCAJA  YiNCENZO  DE,  Son- 

nets  from,  48, 49, 50, 82,  87, 
97. 

Fingers,  art  of  conversing  with 
and  counting  by,  431. 

Fire,  Dtfensive,  173. 

Ftre-f7y,ominous  one,  160,276. 

Fish,  plan  for  naturalizing  salt- 
water ones  in  ponds,  872; 
extraordinary  price  of,  in 
Billing8p[ate,  Jan.  4,  1809, 
387 ;  afiection  for  each  other, 
541. 

Flaccus  Valerius,  extracts 
from,  77,  80,  81,  220. 

Fiamhorough  Head,  161. 

Flamen  Dialis,  or.  Priest  of 
Jupiter,  account  of,  614. 

Flamingos,  flight  of,  396. 

Fleas,  import  uf,  470. 

Fletcher,  The,  remarks  on, 
291. 

Floating  island,  Welsh  one,  76. 

Florida,  custom  there  of  sacri- 
ficing the  first-bom  male, 
181. 

Florist's  Feast  at  Bethnal 
Green  in  George  I.'s  time, 
377. 

Follies,no  christian  burial  for, 
when  outlived,  616;  hath 
eagle's  wings,  but  owl's  e^es, 
Dutch  Prov.  644. 

Foji<Ai/i,  Garrard's  description 
of  to  Strafford,  408. 

Food,  extracts  about,  558. 

Fool,  name  for,  original  in 
every  language,  577 :  origin 
of  fools— to  supply  tne  want 
of  free  society,  420;   fools 


7a4 


INDEX. 


and  wise  men,  opposed,  say- 
in?  of  Luuis  XII.,  445  ; every 
prince  should  have  two,  503. 

Forest,  thoughts  for  inscription 
in,  194. 

Fortitude,  a  royal  virtue,  625. 

Fortunate,  many,  but  few  blest, 
468. 

Fountains,  Turkish,  74;  of 
Epims,  240. 

Fox,  the  Martyrologist,  his 
account  of  Latimer  at  the 
stake,  192. 

Fox,  the  Statesman,  195 ;  in- 
scription under  bust  of,  lb. 

Fox,  tamo  one,  story  of,  370 ; 
stewed,  a  remedy  for  palsy, 
557. 

FoX'hnnter,  story  of,  373. 

Francus,  etymology  of,  70. 

Freedom,  noble  burst  relative 
to  in  "The  Bruce,"  217. 

French  Wars,  ruinous  to  the 
English,  56;  history,  its  atro- 
cious character,  275;  in- 
stance of  their  natural  gaiety, 
617 ;  the  people,  great  read- 
ers, 376. 

Friendship,  should  be  slow  of 
growth,  192  ;  staid  thoughts 
on,  440. 

Prison  Chief,  story  of,  674. 

Frost,  hard  one  of  Jan.  1809, 
when  the  rain  troxe  as  it 
fell,  387. 

Fubhs,  name  of  Charles  II.'s 
yacht,  543. 

Fuller,  quotations  from,  96, 
221,  242 ;  his  remarks  on 
Speed,  316, 414-15;  his  vein 
of  wit,475,480-l, 506-7, 673, 
697,  707. 

Funerals,  form  used  at  that  of 
Greek  Emperors,  153 ;  Mexi- 
can, 154;  North  American 
Indians,  230. 

Furze-pods,  crackling  of>  on  a 
hot  day,  6. 

Futura,  i.  e.  projects  for  future 
productions.  273. 

G. 

Gads-steel,  76. 

Gtdlasses,  what  ?  135. 

Gallots,  Perceval  lb,  ex- 
tracts and  remarks  on,  285. 

Garasse,  Doctr.  Curieuse,  ex- 
tracts from,  460-1,  463,487, 
495 ;  his  most  uncharitable 
writings  belie  his  own  na- 
ture, 716. 


Garci,  Fernandes,  murders 
his  adulterous  wife,  and  mar- 
ries the  servant  who  betrayed 
her,  78,  276. 

Garcilabso,  Commentarios 
ReaUs,  quotations  from,  158, 

&C.. 

Gardens,  Chinese,  600 ;  in  Cas- 
tle Ditch  at  Exeter  and  £c- 
cleshall,  523. 

Gascoiqkb,  289 ;  extracts, 
430. 

Gebir,  extracts  from,  216. 

Gems,  virtues,  of,  46. 

Genius,  Good,  fis^hting,  78. 

Gerald,  Epitaph  for,  195. 

Ghost^cry,  The  Sailor's,  241. 

GiaMs,  names  of,  606. 

Gibbet,  health  drunk  under  by 
plunderers,  355. 

Gibbon,  extracts  from,  177. 

Giggleswick,  ebbing  and  flow- 
ing well  of,  404. 

Gilpin,  Richard,  that  slew 
the  wild  boar,  534. 

Gitsland  Wells,  beauty  of,  and 
romantic  story  of  two  boys, 
409. 

Gin,  attempt  to  diminish  use 
of,  gave  origin  to  the  cry, 
"  No  ffin,  no  king."  378. 

Gipsies,  aussian,  their  skill  in 
music,  573. 

GiRALDCS  Cambrensis,  ex- 
tracts from,  139. 

Glacier,  damn'd  curious  thing, 
story  of,  356. 

Gladiators,  why  suppressed, 
121. 

Glamorganshire,  streams  of,  76. 

Glakyillb,  John,  Works  of, 
348. 

Glasses,  Musical,  414. 

Glastonbury  waters,  virtue  of, 
421. 

Gleanings  and  Anecdotes,  Mis- 
celkmiEous,  540,  &c. 

Gloyer,  accuracy  of  as  a  poet, 
11;  his  Medea  usually  se- 
lected by  Mrs.  Yates  for  her 
benefit,  —  H.  Walpole's  re- 
marks on,  343. 

Glover,  Joseph,  of  Keswick, 
born  at  Watenlath,  a  native 
genius,  —  Southey's  tribute 
to  his  worth  and  worthiness, 
534. 

Glow-worm,  notion  about,  142 ; 
glass-worm  used  for  by  Lylyy 
299. 

Gnat,  poisonous  bite  of,  497. 


Goat,  efficacy  of  blood  of,  453 ; 
anciently  thought  to  operate 
upon  themselves  for  cata- 
ract, 589. 

Gob  and  Gokbins,  meaning  of» 
407. 

GoBARCs,  Stephen,  opinion 
of,  585. 

God,  easier  pleased  than  man, 
625. 

GodoMf  "jurement  Anglois," 
25. 

Godissours,  i,  e.  jesters,  gibers, 
318. 

GoFF,  Thomas,  extracts  firom, 
301. 

Gold'dust,  used  by  the  Mero- 
vingian kings  to  powder  their 
heads  and  bearos  with,  597. 

Golden  legend,  extracts  from, 
132,  &c. 

Goldsmith,  O.,  remarks  on— 
told  Cradock  his  Hermit 
could  not  be  amended,  343. 

GoMBAULD,  Endymion  de,  ex- 
tracts, 628. 

Gondibertf  extracts  from,  648* 
9,  650. 

GONGORA,  Al  Escorial,  627. 

Good  man,  striking  remark  on, 
637. 

Good-nature,  a  thorough  Eng* 
lish  expression,  384. 

Gooseberry  Pi>,  lyrical  maimer 
described  in  an  ode  upoo, 
199;  names  of,  411. 

GothU  Genius,  259. 

GouQH,  the  loss  of,  538. 

Gout,  divers  fimtastic  remedies 
for,  556-7. 

Government,  proper  object  of, 
691. 

Gower,  quoted,  146. 

Grace,  Heart  qf,  299. 

Graham,  Dr.  half  knave,  half 
enthusiast,  360. 

Grandmother,  a  man  that  mar- 
ried his,  419. 

Grange,  tiADT,  story  of,  91. 

Grates,  Richard,  why  be 
wrote  his  Columella,  or  the 
Distressed  Anchoret,  618; 
Shcnstone  might  sit  for  the 
more  amiable  part  of  Cola- 
mella's  picture,  338. 

Gray,  extracts  relative  to,  343, 
&c. 

Greaal  Sainct,  remarks  and 
extracts,  282. 

Greeks  merry,  proverb,  380. 

Green,  Robert,  peculiar  use 


INDEX. 


73o 


of  "  for  to  do"  —  "  for  be- 
cause," 322. 

Green,  pale  translucent,  of  an 
evening  sky,  7. 

Greta  Hall,  annals  of,  448. 

Gridiron f  The,  timbers  laid  ftr, 
452. 

Grijxlfas'  Treasure,  inven- 
tory of,  260. 

Gripe,  story  of  spreading,  354. 

GrooMing'boards,  wonder  of,  in 
1682,  374. 

Groaners,  hired  ones  at  the 
Huntingdon  Chapel,  363. 

Groves,  I&yptian,  181. 

Ground  that  tnay  be  buiU  on, 
ideas,  &c.  10. 

GusscLiN  Du,  148. 

Guernsey  Lily,  naturalized  by 
the  snipwreck  of  a  vessel 
returning  from  Japan,  of 
which  country  it  is  a  native, 
432. 

Guitars,  ereat  run  for,  and 
story  of  Kirkman  the  harp- 
sicord  maker,  435;  poor 
teacher  of,  571. 

Gule  of  August,  121. 

ChUlSy  resolution  of  a  flock  of, 
486. 

GcNN,  Adolphus,  good  story 
of,  403. 

GuTHLAKE,  St.,  at  Crowland, 
415. 

Gyffydfiy  Rhees  ap,  Epitaph  on, 
134. 

Gttha,  the  mother  of  Harold, 
said  to  have  retired  to  Steep- 
Holme,  408. 

H. 

H,  power  of  the  letter,  416. 

Habikqton,  the  purest  writer 
of  his  a^,  305. 

Hacket,  Bp.,  extracts  from 
and  sayings  of,  466,  510: 
Christian  consolations  of, 
547,  639. 

Hadikous,  Descent  ofy  38. 

JJair,  long,  Clovis'  body,  son 
of  ChilperiCy known  by,  271 ; 
a  single  lock  of  seven  feet 
nine  inches,  431 ;  the  juta  of 
the  Synyasees,  435 ;  dyed 
yellow  by  Roman  ladies,  436. 

Haldants,  Club  of,  30. 

Hall,  Bp., extracts  from,  219; 
indebted  to  Hugo  de  Anima, 
222,  565. 

Hals,  i.  e.  neck,  "  Hange  myn 
hopcr  at  myn  hals."    Piers 


Plowman  v.  3918.  Pa*sus 
Sextus,  533. 

Hakdel,  anecdote  of,  425, 472, 
568. 

Handfast,  i.  e.  hold,  654. 

Hansford's  Oak,  156. 

Hannah,  Lines,  53. 

HAirwAY,  Jonas,  Mrs.  Car- 
ter's remark  on,  610. 

Hare,  that  kennelled  on  the 
hearth  at  Naworth,  406 ;  re- 
turns to  its  form  to  die,  543. 

Harp-strings,  the  bursting  of, 
241. 

Habysy's  Prose,  drunken  or 
maudlin,  340,  342. 

Hakut  and  Marut,  101. 

Hasan  Casa,  The  Seven  Songs 
of,  231-236. 

Hats,  a  ^ess  why  beaver's  fur 
is  used  for,  509. 

Hawkins,  Sir  John,  History 
of  Music,  568-9,570-1, 

Hawks,  of  Noroega,  237. 

Haw%e,  i.  e.  hals,  q.  v.  533. 

Haydn,  his  remark  on  the  sing- 
ing of  the  charity  children 
at  St.  Pauls,  the  most  pow- 
erful effect  he  ever  heard, 
393. 

Headless  Men,  account  of,  from 
Herrera,  244. 

Hear!  Hear !  quoth  Southey, 
689. 

Heart's  hope,  fine  cottages  of, 
533. 

Hearne's  Collection  of  Cu- 
rious Discourses,  &c.  133-4; 
journey  to  the  Northern 
Ocean,  extracts  from,  167, 
&c. 

Hedgehog,  Douza'spet  one  ,4  62. 

Heart  of  Man,  origin  of  Qnarles' 
Epigram,  219 ,  triangular 
architecture  of,  346. 

Heaven,  596. 

Hell,  extracts  relative  to,  591. 
Marlow's  works  on,  651; 
where?  504. 

Hengst,  Hengistus,  133. 

Henbane,  the  cimex  of,  546. 

Henry  II.,  cruelty  of,  173 ; 
stript  when  dead— his  epi- 
taph, 174. 

Henry  III.,  his  perjury,  141. 

Henry  IV.  ofFramce,  bad  ac- 
tion of,  73. 

Henry  YUI.,  a  saying  of, 
665. 

Hemp,  thiefs  dislike  to  the 
plant,  463. 


Herb,  of  Orpheus— that  starves 
tigers,  160 ;  that  hates  step 
mothers,  161. 

Herbaldown,  near  Canterbury 
575. 

D'Herbelot,  extracts  from 
100,  102. 

Herbert,  Geobge,  extracts 
501. 

Herbert,  Sou  they 's  marvel 
lous  boy,  278. 

Heree,  meaning  of,  133. 

Heresies,  extirpation  of,  685. 

Heretics,  Old,  had  a  masonic 
way  of  recognizing  each 
other,  383. 

Hereditary  Qualities,  583. 

Herrick,  remarks  on,  and  ex- 
tracts from,  303,  &c.;  no- 
ticed more  old  customs  and 
vulgar  superstitions  than  any 
other  of  our  poets,  305. 

Hesiod,  extracts  from,  220. 

Hexameters,  New  Testament 
translated  into,  713. 

Hexameters,  English,  remarks 
on,  1 ;  hexameters  and  pen- 
tameters composed  by  a  ta- 
ble, 839. 

Hexham,  Abp.  of  York's  at- 
tempt to  save  at  the  sup- 
Eresaion    of    the    religious 
ouses,  and  why,  403. 

HiGGOKS,  Sir  Thomas,  Cava- 
lier, and  Bevish  Higgons, 
his  son,  348. 

Hill,  Aaron,  398. 

HiMiLCON,  the  Carthaginian 
general,  story  for  monodra- 
ma,  274. 

Hindoo  Mythology,  extracts  re- 
lative to,  246. 

Hindoos,  remarks  on,  and  cus- 
toms of,  435 ;  old  families 
respected  by,  700;  invoke 
the  manes  of  their  ancestors 
to  be  present  at  a  marriage, 
704. 

HoBBES,  extracts  from,  410, 
411-13,  560,  625;  on  mul- 
titude of  suits,  667 ;  recom- 
mends the  Whole  Duty  of 
Man,  705. 

HoEL,  character  of,  107. 

Holiday-evenings,Summer, 11^ 
holidays  originally  humane, 
165. 

Holiness,  Christiitn,  694. 

HoLiNSBED,  extractsfrom,!  74, 
Slc, 


736 


INDEX. 


Uolkkmm  If Mise,  deicription  of, 
897. 

Holland,  Hbhbt,  156. 

UoUff  trte  and  ^Mvet,  193, 200; 
supentition  about,  in  Wales, 
on  St.  Stephen's  day,  365 ; 
at  Fornfiss,  browse  for  sheep, 
535. 

Homey,  formerly  not  sold,  but 
g^Ten,  at  Kesvnck,  537. 

Hope,  saying  about,  616 }  Ha- 
nz  remark  on,  635. 

Honu,  girl  with,  547. 

Home,  7%e  WUte,  quaere  ?  23 ; 
White  Horse  of  Swantowith, 
27 ;  Arabian  horses,  109  ; 
Hragist's,  133.  White  horse 
of  royalty,  171 ;  with  a  lUtU 
blood  is  best  roadster,  624 ; 
fierce  one,  story  of,  372; 
humane  treatment  of  stage 
ones,  389  ;  names  of,  472 ; 
blind  one,  what,  512,  541  ; 
flesh  eater,  557 ;  ooocert  for, 
571. 

Hoopiial,  of  Sultan  Bayaied  at 
Adrianople,  437. 

HonhoMf  maiden  lady  of,  queer 
story,  370. 

Houd,  Le  ProphetCf  98. 

Hour'Glau,  ancient  use  of, 
379,  471,  625;  South,  ii. 
339. 

HousaAiB,  Amblot  db  la, 
642,644. 

Howard,  Edward,  Eighth 
Earlof  Suffolk.  349. 

HowBS,  Edmund,  curious  par- 
ticuhurs  in  his  history,  51. 

HotPk,  the^  sound  from,  6. 

Huwum  Being,  annual  con- 
sumption of  one  (?)  890. 

Human  Natwre,  a  generic  term, 
625. 

''  Hmmpkrey  Homt,'*  calls  upon 
ever^  one,  615. 

Humitiiy,  Bp.  Reynold's  re- 
marks on,  653. 

Hungarum  IVommm,  story  of, 
for  Didrama,  196. 

HcTNTiNODON,  S.  S.,  story  of, 
357 ;  a  rogue,  remarks  on, 
366. 

Huntingfield,  House  of,  in  Suf- 
folk, 416. 

Hdrdi'8  Fawmritt  ViUoge,  ex- 
tracts from,  297;  imitated 
Cowper,  298. 

Hy  Hrasail.at,  The  Enchanted 
L»Und,  169. 

Hifrne,  i.  e.  a  comer,  306. 


I. 

lee-ikunden,  heard  by  Southey 
and  Wordsworth,  —  that  is 
the  breaking  up  of  the  ice  in 
the  lakes,  534. 

Ice-worm,  Erasmus  had  seen 
it  in  the  Alps,  467. 

Idbab  and  Stodibs  of  Litb- 

RART  COMFOaiTION,  1,  &C. 

Identity,  43. 

IdyUe,  subjecta  for,  95. 

ignorance,  general  of  the  age 
immediately  preceding  one's 
own,  719. 

Ignorant  cloMoes,  because  only 
half  taught,  716. 

Iguanodon,  leng^  of,  504. 

Imageo/or  Poetry,  4,  &c.,  29, 
&c.,  44,  45,  55,  75,  86,  94, 
105,  200-202,  274. 

Imitative  Talent,  as  common 
as  creatiye  genius  is  rare, 
448. 

Incab,  Boyal  Bounty  of,  158. 

Independents,  said  one  of  their 
ministers  most  dependent 
creatures,  686. 

India,  Capt.  W.  Bruce's  re- 
mark upon  the  English  I>o- 
minion  there,  684. 

Indians,  North  American,  ex- 
tracts relatire  to,  228-230: 
lone  hair  of,  260;  aged^gooa 
heidth  of,  483;  remarks, 
710. 

Indolence,  I  want  not  thee,  but 
thy  sister  Leisure,  198. 

InfaUUnUty,  Jackson's  remarks 
upon,  671,  673. 

Infontt,  their  lot  after  death, 
195:  dead  female  one  sent 
to  Dr.  Fierce,  Dean  of  Sa- 
rum,  873. 

Influenza,  earliest  account  of, 
1580,  433. 

Indulgences,  685. 

Indian,  Old,  plaint  of,  173. 

Inoculation,  originated  in  su- 
perstition, 576. 

Insanity,  remarks  on,  696. 

Inscription,  mysterious,  76. 

Insects  and  AnimalcuUe,  564. 

Inserenda,  curious  extracte  and 
omissions,  607   &c. 

Instrument,  self  •  performing, 
246. 

Insula  Virentium,  Giraldus*  ac- 
count of,  243. 

Insurrection,  duty  of,  65. 


Inundation,  7ke,  what  so  called 
in  Shropshire,  394. 

Irish  at  Rduen,  62 ;  half-  chris- 
tened, 74.  Iruh  coward, 
and  enchantment  of,  75; 
dirty-headed,  171. 

Iron  Bridge^  fidl  of  one,  and 
the  cause,  706. 

Iron  hot,  for  warming  feet,  call- 
ed a  Damsel,  or  Nun,— 
Friar?  434. 

Irontones,  custom  of,  169. 

/  say,  expletire,  remark  on, 
618. 

Itie  qfMan,  custom  of,  74. 

Islington^  benighted  state  of, 
682. 

IfiODORE,  St.,  ballad  from  life 
of,  193. 

Israel,  Sweet  Singers  «r.  ooms 
poor  crazy  people  in  Edin- 
burgh so  callea  themselTCS 
in  1681, 379. 

Itch  in  the  ear^  a  bad  distem- 
per, 641. 

/ry,  remarks  on,  200. 

J. 

Jacks,  a  late  invention,  874. 

Jackson's  Works,  extrscts, 
645,668-9,670-1,673. 

Jacula  Prudentum^  extrscts 
from,  674. 

Jambu,  Jkman,  or  Bose-appfe, 
the  richest  sort  of  which  is 
the  Amrita,  or.  Immortal, 
254. 

James  I.,  sayinr  of,  ''that 
men  baud  a  salmon-like  in- 
stinct to  visit  the  place  of 
their  breeding,  639;  extra- 
ordinary elixir  of,  554 ;  ssy- 
ing  of,  686. 

Jaices,  St,  explanation  of  text 
in,  590. 

Japanese  Penitents,  42. 

Jaundice,  The,  lice  a  cure  for, 
439;  recipe  of  the  Jews, 
485. 

J^  we  Jams,  the  most  cele- 
brated Work  of  Ali,  165,163. 

Jbbannb  la  Fucbllb,  2 1  ,&c : 
capture  of,  23 ;  sentence  of, 
24;  ikte  of  Fkvy,  who  be- 
trayed her, — insttlte  c/Stnd 
to  her  in  prison,  25,  56; 
Charles  eonWnoed  by,— flbre- 
told  by  a  Nun,  64 ;  fettered 
— throws  herself  from  a  tow- 
er—her  finToorite  Saints,  65 ; 
vision   of  —  Breaking  htr 


INDEX. 


737 


Sword,  67  ;  speech  of,  to  the 
children,  69  ;  the  Maid  and 
the  Voice,  170}  notes  for, 
202,  &c. 

Jeffries,  Chancellor,  coffin 
of,  in  Aldermanbury  Church, 
394. 

Jemappe,  story  of,  subject  for 
a  war  poem,  194. 

Jenktns,  Judge,  story  of, — 
his  works  should  be  col- 
lected, 400. 

Jerome,  St.,  absurd  story  of 
his  filine  his  teeth  to  pro- 
nounce Hebrew,  443;  say- 
ing of,  455 ;  remark  on,  506; 
admonishing  St.  Augustine, 
676. 

Je»uii»f  Tision  of  two,  237 ; 
doctor  of,  443. 

Jewel,  his  reply  to  Cole,  669. 

Jews,  journey  of,  after  death, 
85 ;  discipline  amongst,  390; 
say  that  e?ery  individual  of 
the  human  race  existed  in 
Adam,  501. 

JimmaU,  a  ring  of,  304. 

John  St.  Baptist,  vigil  of, 
116 :  account  of,  149,  &c. 

John  St.  The  Etangelistf  Chant 
fur  the  Feast  of,  63 ;  disap- 
pearance of,  131 ;  and  the 
caldron  of  oU,  1 47. 

Johnson,  S.  loved  ratiocina- 
tion in  poetry,  322 ;  formed 
his  style  upon  that  of  Sir  W. 
Temple,  325;  sayings  of, 
638,  663,  666. 

Jonah,  in  the  Hebrew  means, 
A  Dove,  481. 

Jonson  Ben,  extracts  from 
and  relative  to,  325 :  a  care- 
ful reader  of  the  Folyolbion, 
— himself  superintended  the 
first  folio  edit.  326;  extracts 
655-6,  462,  &c.  465,  497- 
499,  657,  &c. 

Jornetty  Ital,  gwmata,  nne 
verte  militaire,  117. 

Joumey-JoumaUf  517. 

Joyit'jewel'gaySt  456. 

Juggernaut f  processional  music 
of  the  Idol  of,  246. 

Jupiter^  inhabitants  of,  84; 
image  of,  in  Crete,  without 
ears,  why  ?  667. 

K. 
Kaba,  black  stone  of,  112. 
Kalendar,  sketches  for  poem 
on,  210,  212. 


Kanuchatdales,  su  perstitions  of, 
87  ;  why  a  passage  omitted 
in  the  translation  of  the 
Lord's  Prayer  for,  714. 

Kehama,  First  germ  of  the 
Curse  of,  &c.  12 ;  origii^y 
begun  in  rhyme,  ib. 

Kellet,  ALEXANDER,extract8 
from, — Sun  and  sea  worship 
—Men  ornamented,  not  wo- 
men— Tribes'fighting,  172-3. 

Ken,  Bishop,  Poems,  extracts 
from,  346. 

Kendal,  custom  at,  354. 

Kent,  his  sty  le  of  Architecture, 
512. 

Keradon,  i.e.  Kehama,  12. 

Keswick,  beautiful  morning 
prospect  seen  by  Southey, 
517. 

Killcrops,  157. 

King,  or  Chin  Cough,  remedies 
for,  531. 

King's  Effil,  touching  fur.  Ful- 
ler believed  in,  707. 

Knightley  Chetwood,  pre- 
fixed Dissertation  to  Dry- 
den's  Vir^a,  351. 

Knowledge,  imperfection  of,  in 
the  most  learned  men,  620. 

Koran,  extracts  from,  213. 

Koreish,  The  second  flight  of, 
225. 

Kosciusko,  General.,  affect- 
ing story  about,  363. 

Kraken,  Southey's  dream  a- 
bout,  538. 

Kpa/i/3i7  ^f  c  OdvaroQ,  coleworts 
twice  sodden,  459. 

L. 
'  Laeteals,  how  discovered  in  a 
human  subject,  588. 

Ladders  blackened  at  the  siege 
of  Geneva,  to  prevent  their 
being  seen,  152. 

Lttking,  apple  -  laking,  Cum- 
brian custom,  531. 

Lambert,  Mr.,  immense  size 
of,  388. 

Ijambs,  two,  suckled  by  a  pit- 
man's wife,  418. 

Lammas  Day,  —  St.  Peter  ad 
Vincula,  or  Gule  of  August, 
121. 

Lamprey,  pet  one  of  M.  Anto- 
ny's dauefater,  439. 

Lani>or,  Kobbrt,  extracts 
from,  655. 

Lands,  extent  of,  in  England 
andWaleB,S90;  conveyances 


of,  should  be  registered,  to 
hinder  suits,  667. 

Language,  extracts  relative  to, 
581. 

Lanthony,  death-place  of  St. 
David,  intended  inscription 
for,  192. 

Laos,  Laics,  or  Langiens,  Peo- 
pling of  the  World  in  the  Be- 
lief of,  41. 

Larks,  London  supply  of,  398. 
the  song  of,  518. 

Latimer,  account  of,  at  the 
stake,  192  ;  extract  from,  on 
the  deterioration  of  broad- 
cloth by  Devil's  Dust,  610. 

Latin,  Modem,  remarks  upon, 
259. 

Laughter^  an  image  dedicated 
to,  by  Lycurgus,  why  ?  503. 

Laurel,  Commtm,  introduction 
of,  357. 

Laziness,  in  reasoning,  719. 

Lead,  quantity  of  English  pro- 
duce, 396;  deleterious  effects 
of,  407. 

Leek  o/*a/amt/y,  Scandinavian 
saying  ?  432. 

Leiccbtershire  Proverb,  341. 

Lent  Fridays,  119. 

Leonardo,  Lupercio,  &c. 
Bartolome,  translations 
from,  268-9,  272. 

Leonnots  Msliadus  de,  ex- 
tracts, and  remarks  on,  281. 

Letter  tCopy  of  a  queer  one,  114. 

Letters,  revival  of,  a  conse- 
quence that  followed  from, 
701;  the  knowledge  of, look- 
ed upon  by  barbarians  as 
mean  and  disgraceful,  701. 

Levites,  a.d.  1781.  Les  der- 
nidres  robes  en  vogue,  597. 

Leyden,  extracts  remtive  to, 
599. 

Liberty,  remarks  on,  685. 

Licf, cure  for  the  jaundice,  439 ; 
used  in  choosing  a  burgo- 
master, 454. 

Lie,  a,  678,  680. 

Lightning,  Welsh -Town  de- 
stroyed by,  76 ;  Kalmnc  su- 
perstition of,  87 ;  Bells,  no 
effectual  charm  against,  96  ; 
a  paralytic  cured  by,  in  Mexi- 
co, 554. 

Ligbtfoot,  sayings  of,  450, 
645,  672. 

Lights,  feaBt  of,  121. 

Lilly,  his  similies  not  to  be 
relied  upon,  457. 


4+  + 
4** 


3b 


738 


INDEX. 


L 


Lime,  two  kinds  of,  in  the  neigh  • 
'bourhood  of  Doncaster,  607. 

LtMtf-<rccjyfirst  planted  in  Eng- 
land, 393. 

Unes,toS.T.&2i  toM.C.63. 

LiNOUET^  extracts  from,  639, 
640. 

Literary  Composition,  &c. 
Ideas  for  &c.  1,  &c. 

Uanrwsty  epitaph  at,  526. 

Uys  Bradwen^  39. 

Loates,  horse,  710. 

Locrine,  242. 

Locust,  hieroelyphic  on  the 
forehead  of,  228  j  why  so 
numerous  ?  356 ;  queer  no- 
tion about,  463. 

Locust  Bird,  or  Samarman,  ac- 
count of,  110. 

Lodges,  Masonic,  made  use  of 
by  the  Jacobites,  383. 

Lugonomie,  Gill's,  705. 

London,  Fire  of,  notion  that  it 
was  purposely  kindled  by  the 
government  to  annihilate  the 
plague,  378;  Hobbes'  opi- 
nion of,  665. 

Longevity  in  the  Vale  of  Gul- 
brand,  in  Norway,  544. 

Lotus,  account  of,  —  Duppa's 
work  on,  179. 

Lote,  extracts  about,  474.  578. 

Louver' Holes,  what,  373. 

Love  qf  God,  62. 

Lucar,  Por  la  plafa  de  San.  Lu- 
car,  &c.  267. 

Luther,  Colloquia  Mensalia, 
extracts  from,  156.  &c.;  says 
that  demons  dislike  music, 
569 ;  remarks  of,  on  the  evil 
of  writing,  624;  fondness  for 
the  lute,  570 ;  his  saying  that 
every  man  had  a  Pope  in  his 
belly,  693. 

Lycians,  governed  by  women, 
559. 

Lyly,  John,  extracts  from  his 
Euphues,  the  Anatomy  of 
Wit,  &c. ;  Euphues  and  his 
England,  298, 301. 
Lyttleton,  Thomab  Lord, 
story  of  his  death  believed 
in  the  family,  356. 

M. 

Mackinery,  creates  enormous 
wealth  fur  few  individuals, 
665. 

Mackenzie,  Sir  George,  ex- 

tracte  from,  476,  646. 


Mackerel,  their  food,  401. 

Madtnan,  story  of,  358. 

Madness,  increase  of,  384  ;  re- 
marks on,  470-1,  482 ;  poli- 
tical excitement  the  cause  of 
its  increase  in  America,  706. 

Madoc,  notes  for,  15;  puli- 
culars  relative  to,  45 ;  sketch 
of,  204-210. 

j|fai^a2tfi«,St.  James's,  extracts, 
&c.  340. 

Magoi  Carlo  Maria,  sonnet, 
94 ;  verses  of,  applicable  to 
Bp.  Ken's  poems,  347 ;  ex- 
tracts from,  655. 

Magic,  Midwives',  161 ;  gro- 
tesque, story  for,  193. 

Magnolia  and  Parvalia,  what  ? 
475. 

Magnus,  St.  his  dance,  138. 

Magpie,  or  Magety  Pie,  a  des- 
perate bird,  593. 

Maid  Marian,  a  nief,  or  bonds- 
woman, 18. 

Maintenon's,  M.  Letters,  ex- 
tracts, 621-2. 

Malachy,  St.  his  ejaculations, 
58. 

Malays,  their  dislike  to  large 
books,  454. 

Malcolm,  murderers  of,  153. 

Maldive  Ingenuity,  246;  cus> 
tom  if  one  dies  at  sea,  375 ; 
astonishment  of  a  priuqe  uf 
the,  428. 

Malta,  knights  of,  unable  to 
write,  710. 

^*  Malum  bene  positum  non  est 
movendum,"  sa^'ing  of  Sir 
Ph.  Warwick's,  640. 

Mambruni,  Constantinus, 
Idololatria  Debeilata,  627. 

AJan,  condition  since  the  fall, 
658. 

Man,  Isle  of,  extracts  relative 
to,  320. 

Mandrakes,  origin  of,  243. 

Mango  Capac,  Southey  could 
not  identify  Madoc  with, — 
some  account  of,  3,  4. 

Manipa,  Priest  i^f,  43. 

Manners,  corruption  of,  678; 
censores  morvin,  wanted,  686. 

Mantras,  or,  Charms  from  Cey- 
lon, book  of  obtained  by 
Adam  Clarke,  699. 

ManufactwrerSy  seditious  when 
provisions  are  dear,  667. 

Manure  and  Dunghills,  re- 
marks on,  493. 


Marathon,  sounds  on  the  plains 
of,  225. 

Mar«6,^reservoir  of,  104. 

Margaret,  St.,  69. 

Margites,  character  of,  suits 
many,  678. 

Mariatalb,  account  of,  in 
Hindoo  mythology,  253. 

Marine,  on  board  the  Royal 
George,  story  of,  for  balJad, 
193. 

Marriage  Act,  proof  of  the  ne- 
cessity of,  396 ;  ill  effect  of, 
699. 

Marriage,  extracts  relative  to, 
598,  605 ;  better  a  relative 
marry  than  a  friend,  why  ? 
614;  saying  of  Plymouth 
sailors  about,  363,  563. 

Marriage  ttpportionment,  Mar> 
tin  Heemskerke's  239. 

Martinist,  lodge  of  at  Avignon, 
381-2. 

Martingale,  who  sent  you  to 
London  without  one  ?  356. 

Marullb  of  Sttdimine^  story 
of,  196. 

Martell,  Andrew,  lines  on 
Charles  I.'s  death,  635. 

Mary,  Queen,  the  days  of, 
sketch  of,  poem,  190. 

Mascarenha,  Andre  da  Sil* 
VA,  and  Bras  Garcia,  629, 
630. 

Masonry,  curious  trial  about, 
374 ;  derived  from  the  Tem- 
plars? 383. 

Mason,  the  poet,  notes  and  ex- 
tracts relative  to,  294-296; 
manlinessof  his  moral  poems, 
295 ;  last  book  of  the  Garden 
miserably  bad,  296. 

MA88ENOER,extracts  from,  and 
remarks  on,  331,  473. 

ilfiiss,  horrors  of,  674. 

Mast,  reflection  of  on  a  river  it 
evening,  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  images  Southey 
ever  saw,  201  j  hollow  iron 
ones.  386. 

Mastiff,  Lyiy's  derivation  of 
the  word,  301. 

Materialism,  595. 

Mathematics,  and  absence  of 
mind  running  in  a  family, 
713. 

Mathracal,  54,  57. 
BIatthew  of  Wsstminstxb, 

extracts  from,  124,  138. 
Matthew  op  Paris,  extracts 
from,  130,  131. 


Hacsdetillr,  extracts  from, 
90,  91. 

Maurice  of  Sixont,  Jack- 
Boa's  remark  oa  his  qnick- 
nesB,  649, 

Moxtmi,  Orienttil,  101. 

Hat,  Ihe  translator  of  Lacan, 
Hiecdote  of,  312. 

Maji-rfajF  in  the  Highhuids,  sc- 
coant  of,  S2,  116. 

M*ZARIN,  saying  of,  439. 

Itfecli^icat  KvluHU,  359, 
lUedicinti,  Iinrd   Bacoa's  re- 
mark on,  6SB. 
Medical   Ftl;   Lc.    437-B-9, 

474,  47B. 
JVnr-«(oiw,  481. 
MtlaidulB,  436,  461,  473. 
Milntt,  the  woodorful  beauty 

of,  539. 
Mtmvry,  Ions  of,  460 ;  how  to 

increase,  509. 
Uekit,  oflWprtng  of,  S46  ;  how 

poets  ratUied  in,  634. 
Sftrcy-feNim,  23. 
Ueblin,  54. 
lUtrrimnl,  morality  snd  duly 

of,  449. 
Merthyr  Tydvil,  attfcj  of  che 

forgemen  and  ihe  devil,  358, 
MBERiAn,  Jewish  ideas  of,  102. 
MetaBTjUIO,  extracts  relative 

to,  3-28,  469,  6S6. 
Afefhodiid,  church  i^vemment 


Metricid  lUemorimda,  3. 
UaricaH  Gxli.accoiuitof,  142, 

ic.  146-7, 
JUiet,  follow  the  steps  of  mm. 


iMiciU,p 


INDEX. 

Minehead,  account  of,  and  of  the 

boroueh,  519. 
Minn,  Irish  gold  and  silrer, 

169  ;  at  Keswick,  537. 

r  ij/"  Afa^islraiM  .entracts. 


mKnglish  places  of  worship. 


*,  technical  si 


leof. 


643. 

413. 

Miijtd,  or,  PUce  of  Prayer, 
175. 

MUniman/  Potms,  aubjectsfor, 
278. 

Mitram  —  nitnint,  St.  Peter  e. 
Salt-Peter,  37  a. 

MoAUjjtAT,  extracts  from, 
106-7. 

Mob,  the,  Sheridan's  opinion 
of,  6S9. 

itfodtmify  at  Gloucester  cathe- 
dral, 392. 

MOBAHHBD,  intended  poem, 
IB;  sketch  of,  19;  Turptn's 
account  of  the  image  of  Ma- 
homed, 26;  flight  of,  177; 
arriial  at  Medina,  178; 
flight  of,  224- 

Mvmtslic  Life,  141- 

MOMBODDO,  Lord,  opinion  on 
four  distinct  minds  in  man, 
58  6. 


on  ah  sides,  674. 

Monkey,  the  primitiTe,  96; 
monk  and  fish  mortality, 
24-1;  uiyings  of  Rabelais 
about,  638. 

MOMBTBGLLeT,  quoted,  21,  55, 
66  ;  reports  that  the  sons  of 
the  kings  of  France  are  made 
knights  at  the  font  when 
baptized,  712. 


MoirtLCC,  e 


ta  from,  626, 


Middlbtoh's  Plays,  extracts 

from,  649. 
Midtummer  Watch,  1 17. 
ViJoN,  Philip,  Duke  of,  1S3. 
MJkg-IVag,  Patagonian  notion 

MiUrpeia,  remedy  far  obstruc- 
tion in  the  glands  \  9SS. 
AfitM,  Indun,  180. 
Mimoia'»AT9hian,U\- 


lUfOM,  man  in,  dream  of  the 
death  of,  274  ;  extension  of, 
275;  women  of  lay  w^,BC- 
ccrdji^  to  Keccki  of  Croto- 
na,  613. 

MuoKif,  HiNNAH,  affected  at 
the  death  of  Ma-wn,  294  ;  her 
strange  remarks  on  Sir  Phi- 
lip Sydney's  Arcfutia,  322 ; 
bar  frienitship  with  Beattie, 
334;  sayingofH,  Walpole's 
to,  620. 

MvoriMh  Prutcnta  evntrttd, 
82;  customs  after  meat,  231 ; 
just,  241 ;  remark  of  a  Hoor 


Marm'ua  HfBtH,  extract  from, 

385. 
MOBE,  Sib  T.,  no  one  pat  k 

death   for  heresy  when  he 

wns  chancellor,  664. 
MoBLBT,     John,     sometime 

butcher,  story  of,  618. 
Jfsro    Aicaifdt,    original    and 

translation  of,  265- 
Motelty,  ruin  of,  sonneton, 
Jtfou-cap*,  specific  for  hooping 

cough,  548. 
JHa(h^,one  at  the  age  of  sixty- 

JtfDKraiiii:  Ale,  TOO. 
Mouull/ar  Mtltutnut,  &c.  7 1 4. 
Muck,  the  mother  of  the  m 

cheat,  675. 
Mdlet,  Ibhhiel,  saying  of, 

231. 
MuLLEH,  Petke  Erasmus 

Sofobibliothfk,  581, 
Wmida,  phantoms,  or,  Fnlan- 

ligtua,  about,  237. 
Mummic;  Sir  T.  Browne's  i 

mark  on,  504. 
Afiirat,  battle  of,  109. 
JtfiUM.what?  221;  power  of, 

243;  sign  of  predestination, 

436;   a  temper  keeper,  472, 

480,484,501,51)8;  strange 

effects  of,  571. 
Miaical  fuframnifs,  Frenrh, 

64. 
WjrieriM,  6,44. 
MyiHJIailim,  use  nf,  577. 
Mylhotogg,  CathoUc,  9. 

N, 
AraiMt,extracts  relative  to,  46 

!-3.  590, 606. 
yiBiu't-takt,   likiog  for,  467, 

643. 
Katlua,  remark  on  the  name, 

Naiure,  Skftdieiof,  105. 
NrgTo  Store  at  Surinam,  of  a 

sacred  order,  story  of,  366  ; 

saying  of  the  negroea  of  the 

Isle  of  Bourbon,  702. 
Ntif,  a,  i.e.  a  bond  woman, 

Fr.iM  j/",— mUiva, — nalKralit, 

18. 
Kbu-t,  the  bint  r^Af ,  lities  oi 


740 


INDEX. 


NequUjf,  i.e.  no  equity.  We 
want  the  word,  681. 

Newaulle,  pririleg^ of  the  town 
of,  405. 

Newcastle,  Duchess  of,  her 
writings,  and  remarks  on, 
333. 

New  Forett,  old  story  of  the 
exorbitant  price  of  the  wood 
of,  405. 

Newgate,  keys  of,  stolen  in 
1780,  found  in  draining  the 
basin  in  St.  James's  Square, 
371. 

New  River,  not  liable  to  be 
frozen  over,  380. 

News,  like  fish,  commended  for 
its  freshness,  646. 

NiEBUHR,  extracts  from,  105, 
110.112. 

NightingaUtt  of  Orpheus'  tomb, 
227  ;  sings  all  night  to  keep 
herself  awake,  lest  the  slow- 
worm  should  devour  her, 
305;  heard  in  Lord  Lous* 
dale's  gardens  at  Whiteha* 
Ten,  A.  D.  1808, 423 ;  a  tame 
one  agitated  at  migration 
time,  496;  sings  tul  she 
bursts,  511. 

Nile,  Savary's  account  of,  179 ; 
islets  of,  181. 

NiMON  Lbnclob,  saymg  of, 
402. 

NiQUEA,  FLORia^EL  DB,  and  the 
latter  books  of  Amadis,  ex- 
tracts from,  317,  &c. 

NispoUu  Leu,  am  Hempo  se  ma- 
dMran, Spanish  Proverb, 676. 

Nix,  the  water-spirit,  157. 

No,  only  to  be  said  to  the  devil, 
Turkish  saying,  613. 

Nfhname  Lake,  606. 

Noah,  of  all  subjects  the  most 
magnificent,  —  the  one  on 
which  Southey  would  have 
introduced  hexameters  into 
our  language,  2  ;  ideas  of  it, 
ib.  I  Noah's  Ark,  remnant  of, 
on  Mount  Ararat,  76  ;  why 
he  lived  longer  than  Adam, 
609. 

Notuense,  philosophy  of,  577  ; 
the  sense  of,  and  Orator  Hen- 
ley's remark  on,  601;  no- 
thing, say  musical  compos- 
ers, so  melodious  as,  372 ;  a 
Puritan  saving  about,  686  ; 
talked  methomcally  by  the 
English,  689. 


NoRDEM,  extracts  from,  228, 
&c. 

NoRRis,  J.  remarks  of,  491, 
719. 

North,  Lord  Keeper,  his 
love  for  music,  without  which 
he  could  not  have  mastered 
the  drudgery  of  law,  573. 

Northern  Ughtt,  162. 

Norwegian  Brothers,  in  the  tor- 
rent circled  island,  27. 

Notched  Bridge,  beautiful  one 
over  the  Teign,  522. 

Number  T\oo,  extracts  about, 
544. 

Nuns,  formerly  confessed  by 
some  Abbesses, — the  custom 
put  a  stop  to  owing  to  their 
curiosity,  432;  at  Ghent, 
amused  themselves  with 
country  dances,  568. 

Nurse,  affection  of  a,  714. 

O. 

Oaded,  i.e.  woaded,  286. 

Oaks,  Hankford's,  156;  of  the 
forest,  and  of  our  fathers, 
197. 

Oa//k»,  extracts  relative  to,  591. 

OBETDAL.LA  THE  MooR,  Chris- 
tian princess  married  to,  79. 

Obituary  Anecdotes,  proposed 
chapter  of,  419. 

Ohjects,  Inanimate,  feeling  to- 
wards, 543. 

Observations,  Literary,  258. 

Ocean^shells,  the  murmur  of, 
216. 

Off  A,  apparition  qf,  75. 

OJices,  Good,  requisites  for, 
647. 

Oil,  boiling,  old  use  of,  for  gun- 
shot wounds,  231. 

Old  Age,  the  North  Lidian's 
misfortune,  168. 

OmmM,  Dirge  of,  181. 

Ophioglossum,  or  Adder's 
Tongue,  29. 

Orchesugraphia,  Thornet  Ab- 
beau's  Treatise  on,  434, 566. 

Organ,  powerful  effects  of  one 
of  Elliot's,  402. 

Oriental  Images,  255,  &c. 

Orleans,  siege  qf,  55;  from  Da- 
niel, 66. 

Orrery,  Lord,  story  of  his 
writing  love-letters,  616. 

Osmond,  Mlle.  de,  her  pas- 
sion for  making  verses,  613. 

OssAT,  Cardinal  de,  643. 


Osw/e«,Cancasian  tribe,  said  to 
be  under  the  government  of 
women,  480. 

Ostrich,  the  intense  affectton 
*'  the  mother  ostrich  fixes  on 
her  ^iggy'*  Thmlaha,  p.  838. 
7.  120. 

Otaheite,  superstitions  of,  845. 

Othomaeas,  one  of  the  rudest  of 
the  Orinois  tribes :  suppose 
themselves  descenaiDd  firam  a 
pile  of  stones,  663. 

Ottery,  St.  Mary,  the  birth- 
place of  Gower,  and  Brown 
the  Pastoral  Poet,  and  O^e- 
ridge,  522. 

Outcast,  is  the  word  any  way 
traceable  to  Hindostan,  859. 

Ovid  wrote  Getic  verses  in  La- 
tin measure,  346. 

Oip/,  no  worshipper  of  the  light, 
592;  the  egg  of,  acoormng 
to  Pliny,  a  cure  for  a  drunk- 
ard, 400. 

Ox-eye,  i.e.  a  sUver  cup,  425. 

Oa/ord,  notes  relative  to,  425. 

Oysters,  Mr.  Senhouse  ct^ 
nized  the  Solway  Frith  with, 
405. 

P. 

Paciecidos,  extracts,  629. 

Paddington,  curious  custom  at. 
408 ;  the  Rev.  J.  S.  Boone 
writes  me  word  that  it  hss 
been  obser\-ed  within  the 
memory  of  persons  now  liv- 
ing,—and  that  there  is  still 
an  estate  called  the  "  Bread 
and  Cheese  Land." 

Pages,  151 ;  amusements  of, 
and  ceremony  on  quitting 
Pagehood,  152. 

Pahat,  humorous  rigmarole  of, 
440. 

Palencia,  why  rebuilt,  79. 

Palet,  William,  striking 
story  of,  365. 

Palm  Soap,  354. 

Palm-tree,  113,180. 

Pamela,  the  history  of,  516. 

Pantagruelism,  577-8. 

Panther,  queer  story  of,  435. 

Paper-mill,  the  first  in  Eng- 
land erected  by  John  f^u- 
man  about  haft  a  mile  ] 
of  Dartford  in  Kent, 

PapiUs,  Pym's  saying  < 
conversion  of,  by  Toi 
for  the  Evil?  707. 


INDEX. 


741 


Paradise,  CalifomiBn,  96 ;  aiii« 
mals  in,  592. 

Paradisiacal  State ^  585. 

Paraguaify  germ  of  tale  of, 
276. 

Paree,  Ambrose,  superseded 
the  use  of  boiling  oil  for  gun 
shot  wounds,  231. 

Parents,  eat  by  the  Indians, 
158. 

Pjlrfit,  Owem,  who,  274. 

Parrot,  that  knew  the  Creed, 
428. 

Parson,  a  beau,  339 ;  fox-hunt- 
ing, lb.  Vital  Christianity 
one,  358. 

Parsonage  in  Langdale  for- 
merly licensed  as  an  Ale- 
house as  the  Curate  could 
not  otherwise  support  him- 
self, 537. 

Pasque  Dieu,  oath  of  Louis  XL 
591. 

Paschal  Loqf,  362. 

Passing  BeU,  The,  lOA. 

Passion,  some  men  wholly  made 
up  of,  625 ;  like  a  thief^ 
627. 

Parsnips,  wild,  effect  of,  566. 

Pastunes,  ancient  London,  88. 

Party-feeling,  strong  in  death, 
372. 

Fasberini,  Ferdikando,  Son- 
net of,  and  translation,  94. 

Pastoral  Poetry,  remarks  on, 
215. 

Pabtorini  del  p.  Sonnet,  93. 

Patay,  ButtU  qf,  55. 

Patrick,  Bp.  his  Pilgrim,  ex- 
tracts from,  647. 

Patrick,  St.  his  purgatory, 
124,  &c.  132, 140 ;  his  horn. 
Ibid,  Purgatory,  149,  169: 
twenty -eignt  boys  baptizea 
at  one  time  by  the  name  of, 
388. 

PauLj  St.  and  St.  James, 
their  agreement,  357. 

Paul,  The  Hermit,  62,  65. 

Paula,  Prancibco  de,  mira- 
cle of,  239 ;  Appearance  of, 
385. 

Paubakiab,  ghost  •  haunted, 
163  ;  the  story  of,  needs  no 
alteration  for  a  ballad,  195  ; 
extracts  from,  225-227. 

Pavan,  grave  majestic  dance, 
567. 

Pawlt,  i.  e.  lame,  applied  by 
Lyly  to  Vulcan,  299. 

Peace-pudding,  huge  one,  377. 


Peacocks,  varied  plumage  of, 
in  the  sun,  257. 

Pearls,  Mineral,  query?  301. 

Pedeoache,  Madam,  her 
quickness  of  sight,  555. 

Pedro  the  Just,  sketch  of 
poem,  189. 

Peele,  George,  extracts  from 
and  relative  to,  323. 

Peeler,  what  ?  307. 

PWtcan,  account  of,  101. 

Penitentiary,  Female,  remarks 
on,  402. 

Penn,  William,  no  Cross  no 
Crown,  288. 

Penniless  Bench,  300. 

Pendulum,  isochronism  of,  Ga- 
lileo led  to  the  discovery  of 
from  observing  the  vibration 
of  the  lamps  m  the  Cathe- 
dral of  Pisa,  701. 

Pennyll,yfh&t?  40. 

Penryn,  in  Cornwall,  story  of 
a  party  of  Spaniards  who 
landed  at,  405. 

Penshurst,  inscription  for,  193. 

Perch,  first  appearance  of,  in 
Ireland?  611. 

Perenuth,  Horse  of  the  Idol  of, 
23. 

Pereyra,  Luts  de,  Elegiada, 
628. 

Perjury,  frequency  of,  717. 

Persian  Story,  ideas  for,  12; 
doctor,  his  balsams  and  elix- 
irs, 487. 

Personal  Observations  and  Re- 
collections  and  Journal  Frag- 
ments, 514,  &c. 

Peruvians,  their  ideas  of  the 
moon  —of  the  sun— of  thun- 
der, 158:  dirge  over  the 
body  of  his  Famer,  197. 

Petenlair?  or,  new  cap,  339. 

Peter,  St.  the  sailor's  patron, 

260. 
Petronilla,  St.  69. 

Phallas,  the  celebrated  horse 
of  Ueraclius  that  did  for  him 
what  Copenhagen  did  for  the 
Duke  of  Wellington  at  Wa- 
terloo, 512. 

Pharamond,  extracts  and  re- 
marks about,  280. 

Pharos  of  Alexandria,  93. 

Phenomenon,  curious,  witnessed 
by  Southey ,  and  what  might 
have  been  the  impression  on 
the  mind  of  an  enthusiast, 
538. 


Philip,  Augustus,  reconciled 
to  his  Queen,  74. 

Philosophers,  no  absurdity  un- 
said by,  453-4. 

Philobtratub'  Blount's,  ex- 
tracts, 511,565,  568. 

Pbipbonb  of  Colgarth,  their 
covetousness,  and  the  end 
thereof,  426. 

Phosphorus,  discovery  of,  436, 
489,  508. 

Physic,  extracts  relative  to, 
546. 

Physicians,  Chinese,  the  skill 
of,  547  ;  praise  of  in  Moliere, 
550^  bad  ones  purged  and 
vomited  in  the  next  world, 
554, 

Picts''  Wall,  visited  by  Scotch 
empirics  for  vulnerary  plants, 
353. 

Piebald  horse,  he  that  rides  has 
a  remedy  for  the  king  (?chin) 
cough,  531. 

Pig,  i.  e.  an  apple  puff,  417. 

Pig,  hints  for  colloquial  poem 
on,  197  ;  ringing  his  nose, 
198 ;  not  to  be  kept  by  small 
farmer,  610 ;  notions  about, 
in  the  Society  Islands,  481 ; 
extracts  about,  498 ;  Bowles' 
love  for,  514. 

Pigeon,  curious  one,  story  o^ 
360;  corrected  one?  445; 
orgaui  in  stomach  for  secret- 
ing milk,  469;  voracious 
vermin,  493. 

Pijgeonfancier,  Herod  one,  619. 

Pigeon  dung,  set  fire  to  the 
great  Church  at  Pisa,  509. 

Pilgrim,  letters  conveyed  by, 
72. 

Pill-gilding,  began  with  Avi- 
cenna,  549. 

Pillow,  wooden  one  of  Upper 
Nubia,  596. 

Pinch  or  Plain,  quiet  saying, 
364. 

Pindar,  extracts  from,  679. 

Pinglern,  that  is,  labouring 
horses,  299. 

Pipes,  distance  measured  by,  in 
Holstein,  442. 

Pitchers  have  ears,  466« 

Pitylisma,  what  ?  430. 

Pitt  Fmiti/y,  talents  of, whence 
derived,  512 ;  always  spoke 
humanely  concerning  the 
poor,  ^00. 

Plague  Boil,  lancing  of,  and 
analyzation  of  the  pus,  547. 


742 


INDEX. 


PUme-treeSf  Hortensius  irri- 
gated with  wine,  430. 

Plants  insipid  to  the  taste  and 
smell,  generally  of  little  vir- 
tue, and  ric«  ternA^  574; 
Bousseau's  remark  on  the 
study  of,  575. 

Pleasure,  masculine  sense  of, 
defined,  624. 

Plinlimon  and  Secern,  57. 

Plough,  spoken  of  by  a  Nor- 
wegian as  she,  544;  Van- 
couver's remark  on,  719. 

Plural  Number,  Caesar  the  first 
personever  addressed  in,  609. 

Plutarch,  his  remark  on  men 
of  desperate  fortune,  719. 

FooocKE,  extracts  from,  113. 

Podagric  ointment  of  Fr.  Jos. 
Borrhi,  how  composed,  546. 

Poemlings,  Sketches  for,  20, 
192-200. 

Poems,  notanda  for,  181-192, 
195,  210. 

Poetical  Ornaments,  not  e- 
nough,  258  ;  Recreations, 
extracts  from,  296. 

Po€lry,  Collections  for  English 
Literature  and,  279. 

Poets,  ranks  of,  &c.  133 ;  how 
called  by  Davenant,  634 ;  re- 
marks on  from  Alirror  of 
Magistrates,  643;  unbaked 
poetry,  652. 

Policy,  overfine.  Bacon's  re- 
mark on,  637. 

Political  Economy,  German  no- 
tion of,  690. 

Polycronicon,  account  of  Wales 
from,  136,  &c. ;  character  of 
Clerkes  of  Irelonde,  634. 

Poitutriu  w ,  wh  at,  7 1 3 .    • 

Pontificia  Polestas,  cardo  et 
fundamentum  hdei  Christi- 
anflB,  670. 

Poor,  condition  of,  must  be 
bettered,  694. 

Pope,  Walter,  notice  of,  357. 

Popery  makes  infidels,  and  is 
the  worst  enemy  of  Christi- 
anity, 670. 

Popish  Superstition  and  Barba- 
rity, 581. 

Population,  remarks  on,  695, 
702. 

Porlock  Bay,  Should  Old  Eng- 
land betray ,  Mother  l$k  ipton  's 
prophecy,  520. 

Port  de  Francis,  on  the  N.  W. 
coast  of  America,  114;  a  su- 


blime picture  of,  in  Perouse's 
Voyage,  182. 
PoRTES,  i.e.  Philip  db  Por- 
TE8,  the  French  Poet,  292. 

Porting,  i.  e.  carrying,  used  by 
Ben  Jonson,  327. 

Portland,  Duke  of,  gallery 
in  the  stables  of,  that  the 
horses  might  have  a  concert 
once  a  week,  57 1  ;  the  Au- 
thor of  the  Caxton  Family 
has  made  use  of  this  anec- 
dote, vol.  1 ,  252. 

Portugal  Delivered,  projected 
Poem,  273. 

Potatoes,  introduced  into  Ben- 
gal by  the  Dutch,— how  cul- 
tivated, 387 ;  love  the  taste 
of  new  ground,  492 ;  frozen 
ones?  710. 

Poultry,  how  fed  for  the  Lon- 
don market,  493. 

Prawn  or  Shrimp,  necessary  to 
the  production  of  soles,  446. 

Prayer,  expressed  and  con- 
cealed, difference  between, 
633. 

Preachers^  Youngs  remarks  on, 
690. 

Presbyterian,  a  staunch  one,  al- 
ways Roman  Catholic  in  his 
liquor,  617. 

Presents,  King's,  261 . 

Preston,  the  M.  P.  edifying 
account  of,  403. 

Prior,  Queen  Anne  doubted  if 
his  birth  would  entitle  him 
to  the  office  of  envoy,  309. 

Prisoner,  Royal  Privilege  of 
purchasing  one  in  France, 
70. 

Private  Spirii,  Hobbes'  re- 
marks on,  410. 

Processions,  children  in,  as  an- 
gels, 685. 

Prodigals,  their  estates,  like 
those  of  lunatics,  put  in 
charge  of  guardians  by  the 
Flemings,  616;  the  same 
thing  proposed  in  that  very 
sensiofe  tract  called  Eng- 
land*s  IVants,  667. 

Progressive  U/e,  585. 

Pronunciation,  Engtith,  diffi- 
culty and  looseness  of,  397. 

Prostitution,  s^d  details,  387. 

Protestants,  why  they  turn  Pa- 
pists, 674, 

Provence  Rose,  origin  of,  422. 

Prorerb,  Fuller's  definition  of, 


452;  Spanish   and  English 
ones,  676. 

Psalmody,  regularly  taught  in 
the  northern  counties,  423. 

Psaltns,  Old  and  New  Version, 
struggle  between.  340. 

PsyUi,  African  snake  charm- 
ers, 227. 

Puberty^  age  of,  dangerous  to 
colonies  and  individuals,  356. 

Publicaiions,  Periodical,  re- 
marks on,  690. 

Pudding,  one  of  nine  hundred 
pounds  weight,  377. 

Pulpit,  position  of,  and  a  re- 
mark,  420. 

Pumpkins  and  melons,  food  for 
Camels,  112;  degenerate,  if 
grown  near  squashes,  431. 

Punishment,  Eternal,  extracts 
relative  to,  586;  perhaps 
Souther's  opinion  was  not 
dissimilar  to  that  of  Origeu, 
588. 

PuRC'HAS,  quotations  from,  84, 
85,  169. 

Purgatory,  Mahommcdan,  1 00 ; 
St.  Patrick's,  extracts  about, 
from  Matthew  Pcrw,  JJJ4- 
130, 132, 140 ;  from  St.  Ber- 
nard, 142. 

Purl,  and  purled,  what  ?  306. 

Pyramids,  bold  hypothesis  a 
bout,  608. 

Q- 

Quadrille,  Freemasons,  713. 

Qudin/o/ogia,  i.e.  quaint  or 
queer  extracts,  103,  368. 

Quaker,  and  the  Snorer,  story 
of,  404. 

Quarles,  extracts  from,  222, 
286,  &c.  631. 

Quatrain,  remarks  on,  840. 

Quatted,  i.e.  satiated,  glutted, 
299. 

Quetzalcoatl,  154. 

Quilt,  patchwork  one  at  Seat- 
oiler,  and  Lord  Carrick's  re- 
mark, 531. 

Quipos,  what  ?  487. 

Quop  and  quop, —  meaning  of, 
329. 


R. 

RabbVs,  sayings  of,  449,  451, 

487. 
Rain,  remarkable  sound  of  a 

heavy  shower  fidling  on  the 


Rain  StMt,  The  Magic,  338. 
RaiSciaC  Bod  hU  SiHI,  115. 

Tiuger  ?  S9D. 
RAiii>OLFH,extrB(ls  from,  3 14, 

&c. 
i{aiu/ag'h,Siind>jEteiUTiglea- 

driflkingg  nt,  339. 
RapperKkipeit,     " °'"' 


,    i60i 
n  Ger- 


many, 469 ;    white    nkl    of 
Greenland,  Query  ?  S35. 

BEU0LLEDO,Col<DeDB,(ntnit- 
latidDB  from,  271-S- 

lUd-lurriagoa  boneback,  Eas- 
ter-day dish,  373. 

Rird,  that  discorera  guilt,  161. 

H^ermalio»  in  Donmark  and 
Sweden  accumplished  with- 
out a  struggle,  6S3. 

QeLIQIOM,  Strada'a  remark  on 
changes  in,  639 ;  and  Mr. 
Hallum's,  683;  buffers  at, 
nevpT  good  atslcamen,  687  ; 
a  cheerful  tofLe  of,  wanted  aa 
opposed  to  the  auUen  charac- 
ter of  Calviiiiam,  and  the  riot 
and  license  of  Popery,  69t ; 
Bgriculturisls  pronn  to,  704; 
remark  of  Godfrey  Uiggina, 
717. 

Rbhebal,  Don  a  Ana  Maria, 
story  of,  194. 

Rtturrectiom  Planti,  or  Anas- 
stancCB  of,  432. 

Rttiuiiert,  lately,  339. 

Rtticntei,  advantage  uf !  44!. 

RtnlatioK,  Tlu,  the  shock  the 
n^hy  received  at,  664. 

Retholdb,  BiBiioF,  bis  atyle 
has  a  msembUnce  both  to 
Burton  and  Barrow,  323; 
tsfrom,  4M,456,  680, 


IticDF.i.iED,  Count  Hamilton 'ri 

remark  on  his  age,  640. 
RlcHEHEMT,    his    humanity, 

170, 
Rickrtt,  in  ahecp,  caused  by  a 
maggot  in  the  brain,  554. 

illDLEY  Gl-OBTEH,  bom  Bt  SCa 

on  board  the  Gloucester  Eaat 

Indian,  34S. 
Ritual,  Horleechian,  one  for 

the  union  of  two  friends,  &c. 

611. 
Rhwr,  dotbI  way  of  croaalng, 

Rirrt»  alaain,  Quipre  7  1 17. 

Rlrum,  i.e-  Wrejtharo.the  or- 
gans of,  409. 

Robin  Hood,  aPastoral  Epic, 
11,  17. 

RoDEBiCK,(»(  hut  DTlhrGBfAi, 
first  germ  of,  10. 

BOOER  B ,  Ti  KOTU  r,  remarks  of , 
438. 

Rogatry,  strong  in  death, strik- 


717. 
RJiaam«rp\a, 


t,  Mi. 


ing  in 


s  of,  4( 


Romiil 


ieor,a. 


-"-^  "nfOK,  to  be  taken 
from  its  authorized  records, 
&c.  not  from  its  pretended 
sol^ning  down  here,  670. 

ROBCALD,  St.  154,194. 

RmJu,  their  »isita  to  Colches- 
ter and  Harwich  in  flocks, 
387. 

Bojf,  The,  Origin  of,  91 : 
smells  the  sweeter  by  iU- 
Bcenled  plants,  437,  456. 

Rimmd  arSquart,  extracts,  545. 

Rnbrie  PmIi,  340. 

Rut,  called  Herb  of  Grace,  be- 
cause used  in  Exorcisms, 57 5. 

Run,  Madoc'B  brother,  his 
death,  107. 

Rupliirt  Surgtmu,  itinerant 
ones,589;  frequency  of  rup- 
tures, 384. 

Raih-inriag  Sunday,  691. 

RussBL,  Lord  John,  why  Sir 
Robert  Peel's  speeches  had 
no  eRect  upon  him,  608. 


phosphoric 


fung     . 

RholacumuM,  » 

Richard  II.,  i 

died  at  Richmond, cursed  the 

place,  and  pulled  down  tlie 

palace,  406. 
KicQABuBON,  entracla  relativi 

to,  312,  &c 


fiiffran  Pouet,  good  for  heavi 

ncss  of  spirits,  557. 
Sirifsr,  Ejigtiik,  affecting  story 


last 


serrations  on  the  lettering  on 
a  coffin,  4;94. 

Salamtmirr,  deadly  venom  uf, 
342 ;  being  a  long  time  nou- 
rished in    the   tire, 
quenched   it,    301;    Pliny' 
winged  one,  467. 

Sale,  extracts  from,  97,  101. 

Sullel,  i.e.    casque,   or  head- 
piece, 260. 

Sallptlrt,   from  churchyards, 
medicinal  use  of,  546. 

Koliidadsrci,  or  Spanish  quacks. 


Sanctb  deNavasre, story  of; 

196. 

Sand-tKi,  grants  of,  for  m^ing 
salt,  535. 

Soiid-irrifiB^,  of  vdcanic  ori- 
gin, from  tlieCanary  Islands, 
510. 

Sands,  David,  the  Quaker,  his 


curate,  563-4. 
Saxo  GRAHH«llC^^   qu 

26,  28,  30,  31 


selfish  than  tnii^e,  hinted  by 

Sir  Humphrey  ]>avy  to  Fii- 

raday,  eOS. 
Scnr/non,  supcrGtilinua  notion 

about,  from  Pliny,  4J3. 
Scott,  Sih  Walter,  visit  of 

Soulhey  to,  at  Ashiestlel  in 

1805,  529. 
ScoiT,  J,  bis  Oiristiwi  Life, 

highly  eateemedhy  Soulhey, 

505,  542. 
Scrraming,  instead  of  lingiag, 

sUiry  of  J.  Wesley's,  673. 
Scripture  Exlnut',    165,  219, 

66S,  694,    &c. ;    Texts    for 

Sermons,  721;   for  Enforce- 
ment, 722,  &c. 
Scriflum,  advice  how  to  read, 

639. 
Sca-guU,  hint  for  sonnet,  199. 


n 


744 


INDEX. 


SewHy  PrUsteases  qf,  54. 

SetuonMf  alteration  of,  165. 

Seat  qf  konoury  some  thing 
about,  636. 

Sea- Weedy  the  cutting  of,  for 
kelp,  injured  the  Scottish 
fisheries,  708. 

Sedgwick,  Dr.  story  of,  613. 

Senbsino  and  Fjl&ineixi,  a- 
necdote  of,  572. 

Senhoube,  H.  Esq.  of  Nether- 
hall,  Southey's  old  friend, 
colonized  the  Solway  Frith 
with  good  oysters,  and  first 
tmhed  his  windows  iii  Cum- 
berland, 405. 

Sentence^  most  absurd  of  its 
kind,  690. 

Sentences,  44,  80. 

Sepulchre  knocking,  244. 

Sermony  The,  when  it  teaches 
nothing  else,  teaches  pa- 
tience, 642 ;  remarks  on, 
445. 

Serpent,  the  deaf  one,  146; 
charmers  of,  227. 

Servant  burnt  voluntarily  with 
her  mistress,  80. 

Sevione,  Madame  Db,  ex- 
tracts, 644,  668. 

Sexton  of  Tunbridge,  story  of, 
359. 

Shaftbsbcbt,  his  remark, 
that  profound  often  leads  to 
shallow  thought,  466. 

Shaketpeare,  members  sworn 
on,  in  mistake  for  the  Bible, 
398 ;  extracts  from,  pa$$im. 

Sikawl,  Indian,  curious  one, 
price  500  guineas,  399. 

Sheldon,  Abp.,  his  desire  for 
the  fout  as  an  antidote  to 
apoplexy,  551. 

Shells,  rare  specimens,  401. 

Shenstove,  extracts  from,  and 
remarks  on,  335;  his  un- 
common fielicity  of  attract- 
ing the  love  of  his  readers, 
338;  imitated  by  Cunning- 
hnme  and  Cowper,  ib. 

Sherbet,  or  Sorbet,  derivation 
of,  223. 

S/iepherda,  Guide,  &c.,  curious 
account  of,  536. 

Sherlock,  Vindication  of  the 
Trinity,  South's  remark  on, 
601. 

Ship  returning  to  port,  idea  for 
Sonnet,  193. 

Shippin^c,  Anglo-Norman,  26. 

Shoreditch  lidU^   and    Qu^en 


Elizabeth,  583:  sermon  an- 
nually preachea  at  St.  Leon- 
ard's on  Botanical  Philoso- 
phy, 575. 

Shrove  Tuesday,  119. 

Shufflbbottom  ,  Abel,  hints 
for  Poems  of,  196 ;  amatory 
sonnets  of,  199. 

Shtlock,  story  of,  from  G. 
Leti's  Life  of  Sixtus  V.  339. 

SiiOntese  Heaven  and  Hell, — 
Hermits,  42. 

Siberian  earth,  superstition  re- 
lative to,  239. 

Side,  UJt,  why  respectful  to 
take  among  the  Germans, 
625. 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  Southey 's 
Life  of,  240 ;  extracts  rela- 
tive to,  321 ;  saying  of,  that 
'^  he  never  found  wisdom, 
where  he  found  not  courage," 
639 ;  extracU,  456,  483. 

Sight,  quickness  of,  585 :  cu- 
rious restoration  of,  oy  a 
cow's  lacerating  the  eye,  552. 

Silence,  extracts  relative  to, 
577  ;  eood  remark  about, 
from  Lady  Pomfret's  Let- 
ters, 620;  saying  of  Am- 
brose, 626. 

Similies,  6,  &c.  52,  260. 

Simples,  482. 

Sion  Chapel,  Hampstead,  great 
place  for  marriages  about 
1716,377. 

Sire,  name  by  which  the  an- 
cient Barons  affected  to  be 
called,  270. 

Skiddaw,  view  from  the  bottom 
of  the  first  summit,  423. 

Slaves,  learned  ones  of  Greece, 
bought  up  by  illiterate  Ro- 
mans, who  considered  their 
learning  as  their  own,  715. 

Sleeping  naked,  164. 

Slug,  the  slime  of,  a  cure  for 
chafing,  and  hence  caUed  the 
Doctor,  555. 

Small  Pox,  American  Indian's 
name  for,  228  :  increased 
in  England  by  Inoculation, 
377  :  infusion  of  juniper 
wooa  used  against,  in  the 
Island  of  Skie,  548;  New 
Ei^land  preserved  from  by 
strict  laws  vigilantly  en- 
forced, ib. ;  originally  occa- 
sioned, Dr.  Lister  tnought, 
by  the  bite  of  some  venom* 
ous  creature,  551. 


Smugglers,  their  idea  of  mnr' 
der,  359  ;  saying  of  tbe 
Christ  Church  ones,  when  a 
comrade  is  drowned,  361. 

Snake,  and  the  Little  Boj, 
pretty  story  of,  426 ;  killed 
by  swaUowing  a  porcupine, 
509. 

•^K^nri^r,  extraordinary  GMe  of, 
442. 

Snoreham,  Essex,  Rectnij  of, 
368. 

Snowdon,  Eagle  of,  139. 

Snow-drops,  called  in  Norfulk 
«  Fair  Maids  of  Februsiy," 
368. 

Snuff-box,  hints  fur  Poemling 
on,  198. 

Society,  Christian,  what  like  to, 
219. 

Society,  Political  asd  So- 
cial, Extracts,  Facts,  ssd 
Opinions,  relating  ts,  6^, 
&c. 

Soil,  bloody,  near  Battle-BekL 
154. 

Soles,  require  prawns  sod 
shrimps  for  their  production, 
446. 

Solomon,  reported  by  Saidss 
andCedrenus  to  have  written 
of  the  remedies  of  all  dis- 
eases, 549. 

Somerset,  The  Protector, 
omen  of  his  fate,  160. 

Sommona  Codom,  Siamese  dei- 
ty, 40. 

i^oii  qf  Man,  and  Sons  f^mn, 
Luther's  remark,  415. 

SoNNERAT,  extracts  from,  246, 
&c. 

SonnH,  by  B.  W.  H.  46;  un- 
less strikingly  good,  imme- 
diately foreotten,— likeness 
of,  to  Greek  Epigram,  858. 

Sophonisba,  drinking  the  Poi- 
son, a  Monodrama,  193. 

Sorrow,  Steele's  remark  oo, 
645. 

Souls,  descent  of  fallen,  ccm- 
pared  to  the  Fall  of  tlie 
Ganges,  42 ;  St.  Evremond's 
remark  on  the  immortality 
of,  637  ;  extracts  relative  to, 
560. 

Sounds,  Evening,  the  harshest 
harmonised  by  distance,  200; 
remarks  on,  572. 

SoutB,  extracts  and  sayings, 
640-2;  horrid  iMMsage  ci>n- 
coming  original  sin,  667. 


INDEX. 


74^ 


SouTBCOTT,  JoANVA,  ber  cra- 
dle, 391,  393. 

SoDTHET,  Robert,  Verses  on 
the  first  day  of  his  residence 
in  London,  38  ;  easily  and 
painfolly  affected,  195;  his 
oelief  that  spirits  of  good 
men  behold  the  earth,  198. 

SoDTHEY,  Thomas,  Captain, 
R.N.,  acute  observer  of  na- 
ture, 4, 186. 

Sow,  Mayor  chosen  by,  341. 

Sow's  ears  may  prove  good 
sauce  albeit  no  silken  purse, 
saying  of  Strafford's,  675. 

i^nieUy  story  of  the  late  Duke 
of  Norfolk  relative  to  the  St. 
James's,  479. 

Spaniardy  swallowed  up  like 
Amphiaraus,  77. 

Speech,  Isaac  Vossius,  remarks 
on,  561. 

Spectacles,  reason  for  wearing, 
149. 

Speed's  Works,  the  world  in- 
debted to  Sir  Fulk  Greville 
for,  316. 

Spenser,  remarks  on,  and  ex- 
tracts relative  to,  310-312. 

Spence,  Joseph,  amiable  man, 
the  Phesoi  Ecneps  of  Tales 
of  Grenii,  351. 

Sphinx,  or  Singh,  Hindoo  su- 
perstition of,  255. 

Spirits,  extracts  relative  to, 
541,  603;  three  orders  of, 
Cardan's  notion,  460. 

Spirits,  Ardent,  formerly  used 
as  cordials,  552. 

Spleen,  all  distempers  attribut- 
ed to,  1662,  556. 

Sprites,  sacred,  South's  re- 
mark, 357. 

Spurtzheim,  Dr.  ,  shews  there 
is  a  great  difference  between 
the  skulls  of  men  and  wo- 
men, 433. 

Squirrel,  formerly  mieht  have 
gone  from  Crow  I*ark  to 
Wythebum  Chapel,— shew- 
ing the  quantity  of  woodland, 
535. 

Staggers,  extraordinary  cure 
for,  554. 

Stags,9,  herd  led  by  music,  570. 

Star-shoot,  i.e.  Tremella  Nos- 
toe,  546. 

Stars,  Paracelsus'  notion  of 
tenebriferous  ones,  which 
bring  on  the  night,  510. 

Statutes,  a  head  for,  *'  Capo  da 


far   statuti."—  ItaL    Prov, 
638. 

Steinkirk,  muslin  neckcloth, 
why  so  called,  261 ;  the  bat- 
tle alluded  to  was  fought  the 
beginning  of  August  1692. 

Sterlinoe,  Lord,  his  Poem 
on  Doom's-day,  16,  214 ;  re- 
marks on,  328;  extracts, 
631. 

Sterne,  L.,  remarks  on,  341 ; 
question  as  to  the  reason  of 
his  wife  and  daughter's  re- 
tiring to  France,  342. 

Stinkard,  old  appellation  of  the 
rabble,  709. 

Stevenson,  Matthew,  au- 
thorof  Norfolk  drollery,  347. 

Stiper-stonen,  burst  on,  394. 

Stillinoflbet,  Benjamin, 
notice  of,  350. 

Stokes,  Captain,  stories  of, 
his  superstition,  361. 

Stone,  that  produces  water, 
86;  field  of,  in  Shropshire, 
24 1 ;  omen  of  the  coronation 
stone,  ib. ;  with  smell  of 
corpse,  242;  Battle -Stone 
field,  U), ;  thrust  down  the 
throat  of  a  New  Zealand 
babe,  to  give  him  a  stony 
heart,  599;  conjoined  with 
St.  John's  Gospel,  virtue  of, 
646;  warm  in?  stones,  433; 
in  bladder,  lomiense  one, 
506. 

Stonehenge,  superstition  con- 
cerning, 405. 

Stories,  Ideas  for  Jewish,  Gre- 
cian, Runic,  &c.  11. 

Storm  at  the  Cape,  grandeur  of^ 
5 ;  awful  one  in  Worcester 
and  Shropshire,  May  28, 
1811,394. 

Story,  long  one,  how  to  tell, 
601. 

Stowe's  Survey,  extracts  from, 
115-120. 

Strada,  extracts  from,  639. 

Strafford,  his  hope  for  bet- 
ter days,  striking  passage, 
682. 

Strathmore,  Countess  of, 
anecdotes  of,  514. 

Strawberries,  seemed  formerly 
to  have  required  more  care 
than  now,  290. 

Striding-edge,  fearful  place, 
533. 

Strong  man  of  Andalusia,  383. 

Sulked  s  for  Literary  Composi- 


tion, 239 ;  manner  of  hand- 
ling a,  575,  600. 

Succutms,  account  of,  156. 

Sugar,  said  to  cause  melancho- 
ly, 493;  why  put  into  the 
mouths  of  the  dying,  555. 

Suicide,  suggestion  for  a  paper 
on,  after  the  manner  of  Ad- 
dison, 9 ;  account  of  a,  101 ; 
notable  argument  against, 
612;  indued  by  gaming, 
714. 

Sully,  opinion  of  the  four  per- 
sons ne  employed  to  write 
his  memoirs,  601. 

Sumatra,  the  Battas  of,  their 
notion  of  their  ancestors, 
540. 

Sun-dial,  motto  on  that  at  All 
Souls',  336. 

Suns,  Five,  according  to  the 
Indians  of  Culhua,  159  ; 
Gondomar's  message  to  from 
Enghmd,  353. 

Supernatural,  the,  a  story,  and 
an  explanation,  426. 

Superstitions,  barbarous,  87 ; 
oavage,  244. 

Surgery,  extracts  relative  to, 
588. 

Swallows,  angling  for  in  Italy. 
485;  cruelty  of  making  oil 
of,  657. 

Strait,  swimming  of,  200. 

Swantowith,  white  horse  of, 
27. 

Swartmoijr,  near  Ulverstone, 
535, 

Sweat  of  death,  at  a  bull*  fight, 
*'  and  now  the  death-sweat 
darkens  his  dark  hide," — 
1  halaba,  p.  2Sb,  5. 

Sweden,  prophecy  that  the 
Queen  of,  shall  talk  Greek, 
69. 

Swedenborg,  381 ;  stonr  of  his 
acquaintfince  with  St.  Paul, 
515. 

Sweet  Johns,  and  Sweet  Wil- 
liams, 38. 

Swimming  women,  180 ;  pranks 
in,  by  Galup,  a  Catalan,  37 1. 

Sword-dance,  Italians  had  one. 
Chiaberras'  Sonnet.  462. 

Sycamore  Fig-tree  of  I^ypt, 
180, 228. 

Sycamore-seeds,  quantities  that 
sprung  up  during  the  mild 
winter  of  1819,  on  the  green 
at  Greta  Hall,  535. 

Symbols,  Christian,  148. 


746 


INDEX. 


T. 

Taghaim,  or  Torrent  Dtruia- 
tioHy  39. 

TaUoTj  determination  tn  be  one, 
and  nothing  else,  452. 

Talassi  Anoelo  di  Ferrara, 
story  of  on  being  refused  an 
interview  with  Cottle,  517. 

Talbot's  Sword,  136. 

Tanbillo,  extracts,  469. 

Tatte,  not  confined  to  the 
mouth.  See  Arist.  Eth.  Nic. 
446. 

Taylor,  Jeremy,  extracts 
from,  625,  645. 

TcHiNTSONO,  Emperor  of  Chi- 
na, and  the  Book,  story  of, 
714. 

Tea,  how  taken  on  its  early 
introduction,  402. 

Tea-Green,  how  proved  by  Dr. 
Lettsom  to  be  unwholesome, 
610. 

Tears,  Ali's  remarks  on,  651. 

Teetk-cutting,  death  from,  at 
the  age  of  96,  444. 

Temple,  Sir  W.  formed  his 
style  upon  Sandys'  View  of 
State  and  Religion,  325  j  say- 
ings and  remarks  of,  637  5 
his  heart  buried  at  Moor 
Park,  near  Famham,  405. 

Tench,  the  Doctor  fish,  555. 

Tenderness,  54. 

Testicles  yutterized,  virtue  of, 
243. 

Thaj.aba,  original  sketch  of, 
181;  alterations,  189;  notes 
for,  212. 

Theatre,  remarks  on,  561 ; 
Bishop  Uacket's  remark, 
562. 

Theocritus,  story  of,  613. 

Theresa,  St.  142. 

thieves,  adroitness  of,  in  1717, 
376. 

Thinking  t\f  nothing,  good  re- 
mark on  the  phrase,  61 1 ; 
**  close  and  thick,"  a  saying 
of  Eachard's,  637. 

Thistle,  grounds  laid  out  in  the 
shape  of,  hugest  absurdity, 
618  ;  why  Southey  might 
have  taken  it  for  his  motto, 
693. 

Thorkill,  Voyage  of,  31. 

Thomson,  the  Poet,  passage 
omitted  in  the  Seasons,  346. 

Thorn,  Jo8ErH,who?  298. 


Thunder-storm  at  Cintra,  eagles 
scared  by  the  lightning,  5 ; 
Turkish  idea  of  Novogorod, 
god  of  thunder,  47. 

Thurcillus,  vision  of,  130. 

Till  to^  i.  e.  to  set,  to  prepare, 
A.  S.  523. 

TiLLOTSON,  Abp.  story  of,  406. 

Tilts,  heater,  at  Easter,  119. 

Timanthes,  death  of,  226. 

Tipis,  efficacy  of  the  water  of, 
557. 

Titieaca,  Peruvian  lake,  176. 

Tlxal  Poetry,  extracts  from, 
289. 

Toad  in  a  stone,  happiness  and 
tranquillity  of!  195;  call 
him  ugly  and  useless,  quo- 
tha! 199  ;  remarks,  and  ex- 
tracts on,  429  ;  in  fountain, 
486. 

Tobacco,  extracts  relative  to, 
593;  prevents  worms  and 
greasy  heels,  and  creates  a 
fine  c<iat  in  horses,  594 ; 
Captain  William  Myddlet<m, 
the  first  who  smoked  to- 
bacco in  Ix)ndon,  595; 
Adam  Clarke's  Pamphlet 
against,  385. 

Toby  Philpot,  the  original 
of,  Mr.  Paul  Pamell,  392. 

TooKE,  HoRNE,  request  rela- 
tive to,  580. 

Toon,  Lord  Liverpool's  tailor, 
story  of  his  honesty,  367. 

Tootia  Flower,  gathered  by 
oculists  at  Eyesti  as  a  grand 
specific  for  diseases  of  the 
eye,  574. 

Tortoise-shell  shields,  16. 

Toir/on,  story  at  the  evacuation 
of,  194. 

Trade  without  restriction,  re- 
marks on,  689. 

Tradesmen,  retired,  stories  of, 
354 ;  repeated  by  an  over- 
sight, 422. 

Traditions,  &c.  240. 

Translathm,  remarks  on  by  S. 
T.  Coleridge,  609. 

Trapp,  Joseph,  first  Profess- 
or of  Poetry  at  Oxford,  349. 

Travellei',  cast  on  his  own  re- 
sources, compared  to  a  bear 
in  winter  sucking  his  paws, 
109. 

Travelling,  Sir  Hildebrand  Ja- 
cob's way  of,  in  1735,  355. 

7Vef«,  extracts  concerning,  167; 
felling  of,  in  token  of  grati- 


tude—as we  shoukl  plant 
one,  story  of,  543;  Euro- 
pean dwindle  in  tropical  cli- 
mates,— like  men,  702. 

Trepanning,  remarks  on,  588. 

Triad,  ^Velsh,  45. 

THltes,  The  Ten,  their  kicality 
in  the  ''  monntaynes  of  Cas- 
pve,"  89. 

Tribby,  an  American  abbrevia- 
tion, 480. 

Trinity,  revilers  of,  effect  of 
Mr.  W.  Smith's  biU  for  re- 
pealing  the  laws  in  force 
against,  384. 

Trichtfmata  Patasiasis!  176. 

Trim,  Corporal,  the  name  pro- 
bably borrowed  by  Sterne, 
from  the  Funeral,  612. 

Tristan,  Romance  of,  282. 

Truth,  all  necessary  truth  le- 
gible and  plain,  625. 

Tryon,  Thomas,  epitaph  on, 
634. 

Tunbridge  Castle,  the  enclosure 
of,  turned  into  a  vineyard, 
409. 

TurdilU  Tnrdi,  *<  tuti  contu- 
melise  causa,"  608. 

Turquoise,  virtue  of,  420. 

Turk,  George  I.  had  one  for 
his  valet  de  chamUre,  376; 
wholesome  feeling  of,  on  the 
instability  of  human  bless- 
ings, 690. 

TcBSER,  Thomas,  extracts 
from,  290. 

TwAMBY  the  Great,  story  of, 
357. 

Tyber,  skating  on,  to  the  sur- 
prise of  the  Romans,  354. 

Tyrannicide^  suicide  of  Spa- 
nish, 77. 

TytheSt  in  new  colonies,  693, 
717. 

U. 

Ugarthilocus,  37. 

Unction  of  Charles  V.  of 
France,  171. 

Unitarian  H'titers,  not  to  be 
trusted,  705. 

University,  motives  in,  1647; 
for  founding  one  in  the  me> 
tropolis,  687. 

Urine  Doctor,  celebrated  one. 
556. 

Utensils,  shape  of,  extracts  re- 
lative to,  559. 


V, 

FiiceiiuH»N,  inaiited  on  hy  the 

Bavariui  Aod  Donuh  gDveni- 

Fathri,  Riinidc,  cetaiT,sicheri 

dea  Subsea,  264. 
ymlt,  alwaya  uwd  by  Lyiy  for 

/inb,300. 
FaU  qfSI.  John,  great  beauty 

of,  533. 
VitEHTiw,    French   DanciDg 

Muler,  itray  of,  604. 
Talehtiiib,  Bf.  135;  number 

of  letters  on  his  day,  354. 
VaUt^  Iff  Stme$,  new  LinU 

account  of,  520. 
Cal«ar,  Tmt,  658. 
rmiiit,  question  of  bis  Athe- 
ism, 429. 
Fowtouu.  what  ?  713. 
Vauoelih,  Nicnous,  hi 

■nantic  notion  of  a  paatoral 

life,  430. 
Veoa  lofe  da,  639. 
FriAj,  en  interjection  of 

prise,—  ralho  mr  Dioi,  is  the 

PortuRueae  exclsmetion  ,326. 
VtUttm,  the  best  material  fur ! 


Venn,  so  elated 

prospect  of  disnolutic 


the  n 


VUt,  "  let  no  worship  ever  be 

paid  to  any."  saying  of  xii 

Tables,  615. 
Villaa,     turned      Enthusiast, 

above  all  law,  689. 
ViLLEOAS   tnuislation    from, 

261. 
Voii,  why  planted  by  Noah, 

613. 
CiiifnU'i,  51.,  RiKk;  intended 

local  Puem  on,  199. 
Viaeyard,  our,  the  dutf  in  these 

times  of  fencing  it,  GB6. 
Viperi,  Arabian,  149 ;    vipers 

and  the    balsam   tree,  '217 ; 

viper   wines,    mentioned  by 

Quarles     as     Aphrodisiacs, 


ViRIATUB    tl 


the  Lusitaniai 


Vitus,  St.  dance,  music  a  re- 
medy for,  4BG. 

VLADUioit,  message  to  Con- 
stantino     Porphyrogenilua, 


fVad,  i.e.  black-lead,  531. 

WadKam  Collegt,  altar-pieoe  at, 
how  wrooght,  425. 

WagiT,  qaeer  one,  378. 

Wakefield,  Oilbeet,  his  in- 
Bexible  honesty,  190. 

Wafcs, description  or,from  the 
Folycrunicon,136,&c.;  wan 
in,  154;  waming  against, 
169. 

Wali^b,  the  Po€l,  308. 

WjkLLiDS,  his  manner  of  bor- 
rowing from  the  ancient, 
Ebeneier  Elliot's  from  the 
moderns,  706. 

WiLLPOLti,  H.  extracts  an 
marks,  ei9,  620;  striking 
saying  of,  621-3:  remarhs 
on  Gray,  344  ;  bis  disaii- 
pointmeni  as  to  making  folly 
wiser,  720. 

tViadtr'ag  Jrnr,  suraestion  of, 
"  ;   story  of  one  who  set  up 


for,  3 


H'm 


329. 


Warburtoh,  his  saying,  thai 
the  people  are  much  more 
reasonable  in  their  demands 
on  their  patriots  than  mi- 
nisters, 63e. 
'VaT-engint,  Archtdamas'  ex- 
clamation on,  164. 

War-I'Blt  of  the  North  Ame- 
rican Indians,  199,  229. 

fVaniorti    (North    American 
Indian'!        '      * 

of,  640, 

Waif,  mischief  done  by,  353. 
fVatte,  great,  of  good  advice 

and  gSud  inlentiuos,  613. 
fViateri,  i.  e.  cudgels,  88. 
H  uirr,  boring  the  earth  for, 

4S1. 
n'ata-drinker,  hilled  himself 

by  secret  drunkenness,  354. 
Water-ipoBlt,   Capt.    T.    Sou- 

they'a  account  of,  6. 
Watson,  Bp.  a  schoolboy   at 

Uensingbam,  539. 
Wealth,  Aoltoao/,  when  whole- 


747 

fVtam,  i.e.    beUy,   355; 
wamefbu'    is    a   wamei 
St.    Rimaa's  Wtll,  vol.  33, 
p.  174. 

Irtap<m-aaltt,  principal  ingre- 
dient in,  moas  of  a  Setd 
man's  skull,  551. 

Weubtsu,  fine  instai 

Appiaa  and  Vii^ginia  of  the 
p^usiunale  use  of  familiar 
expressions,  315 
648,  505. 

Weidrng,  WcUk,  in 

Wttit*,  how  accounted  of,  673. 
■!«■  CVoM,  300. 
t  Sij/CTs,  query  ?  716. 

H'tU,  rihrSoilinf,  near  Bristol, 
6;  St.  Winifred's,  63;  of 
Zemiem,  112:  St.  Keyne's, 
154;  the  boiling,  275;  the 
wishing,  406;  at  Brough, 
422;  of  Cumberland  have 
each  a  Saint  or  Patron,  536. 

IFVlsb  -  Mannan,  39 ;  lances, 
140;  raggedness,  172;  Monk- 
hatred,  175;  Euperstilion  " 
-"—' 1  enemy,  375. 


Wbblbt,  Jobm,  story  of,  and 
kindly  disposition,  472. 

WUALLET,  JiTMtaltm,   whj  BO 

called,  375. 
WkarliBg  in  Iht  Ikroal,  habil 

of  the  people  of  Charleton 

in  Leicestershire,  393,  415. 
It'htateari.   abundance   of,  on 

the  South  Downs.  407. 
""lifs,  Bottomleu,  a  saying  ul 
ohnson's.  666  ■   Rwift'*  m. 


Johnson's,  666 ; 
mark  on,  667. 
Whitkey  aHd   Earlh,  ^iven  to 
inpant^  by  Scutch  midwives, 

Wkile  Boyt.  Busby's  name  for 
bis  favourite  eclidars,  239. 

IVhile-Virclf,  Indian  supersti- 
tion of,  339. 
White,  Joseph,  wealthy  mer 
chant  of  Puole,  stiiry  of, 
361. 
Whiteside,  Mk.  Dissenting 
Minister  of  Yarmouth,  who 
destroyed  h  i  msel  r,lines  found 
in  the  pocket  of,  92. 

jVliiTTiNQTON's  epitsph,  1 19. 

ffici-iFFE,   the  virtue  of  his 
diisl,  242. 

fig;  remarks  on,  512,  583 ; 
clever  observation  of  Cum- 


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INDEX. 


berland's  in  the  Choleric 
Man,  620. 

ff' t//,  singular  one,  391 ;  will 
for  deed,  Scripture  authority 
for,  703. 

William  Ill.Prince  of  Orange, 
remark  to  Sir  W.  Temple, 
of  Charles  II.  379. 

Williams,  Edward,  seditious 
bookseller,  364. 

Will  Wimble,  parallel  in- 
stance in  the  Natural  Son, 
346. 

H'^inander  Mere,  notion  that  the 
bottofn  is  paved  and  smooth, 
like  polished  marble,  536. 

'*'tMd,  The,  hath  a  human  voice, 
7. 

h^indoWy  if  there  were  one  in 
men's  breasts,  a  shutter 
would  soon  be  ag^ed  upon, 
44. 

fVine,  called  by  Mahomet,  **  the 
mother  of  sin,"  214 ;  love 
for,  638. 

rr'in/r*,  property  of  genius,  636. 

IVinsUy  Dale,  story  of,  426. 

H'intefy  Southey 's  view  of,  1 93 ; 
evening,  eclogue  on,  194 ; 
Keswick  on,  538. 

fVishy  A  threefold,  645. 

ff'it,  not  such  unless  it  consist 
with  wbdom,  641,  647. 

Hitchcrqfi,  extracts  relative 
to,  589,  412,  424,  450  ;  hor- 
rid persecution  at  Arms  for, 
712;  something  concerning, 
715. 

Wither,  George,  remarks 
on.  Southey's  wish  to  edite 
a  collected  edition  of  his 
Poems,  292 ;  extracts,  635, 
449. 


Wives,  Petition  qf  the  London, 
50 ;  pains,  sympathetic,  442. 

PVo{f,  tame  one  of  a  lady  near 
Geneva,  592 ;  cross  with  a 
racoon,  392  ;  baiting  of,  at 
Ispahan,  425. 

Wolleslet,  Robert,  347. 

Wolsey,  Cardinal,  stone  cof- 
fin of,  given  by  the  king  for 
the  body  of  Ix)rd  CoUing- 
woc)d,  385. 

M'omb,  babe  crjing  in,  244. 

Women,  fight  between  two  at 
Hockley  in  the  Hole,  1722, 
378;  other  instances,  ibid.; 
extracts  relative  to,496,  558 ; 
condition  of,  664. 

Wood,  foundation  in  Fifeshire 
for  twenty  old  men  of  the 
name  of,  385. 

Wood  house,  on  London  bridge, 
entirely  without  nails,  419. 

Wood-lice,  how  best  taken  me- 
dicinally !  551. 

Woofs,  meaning  of,  329. 

Worcester,  Marquis  of,  his 
reply  to  the  Maior  of  Bala 
r^ative  to  the  King  and  the 
Parliament,  414. 

IForc/«,  abuse  of,  701. 

Workington,  paintings  on  the 
altar-piece,  531. 

World,  "  so  whirled,"  deriva- 
tion of !  431. 

Wormhood,  was  formerly  as  a 
flea-fuge,  290 ;  infused  with 
beer,  "  an  oxeye  of  worm- 
hood,"  425. 

Wor^ip,  indispensable,  Aris- 
totle's remark,  703. 

WoundSt  gun-shot,  Arab  cure 
for,  231. 


X. 

Xarifa  and  Fatima,  original, 
and  translation  of,  261-2. 

Xenocrates,  wise  order  of, 
relative  to  children,  recorded 
by  Plutarch,  413. 

Xerxes,  why  he  wept,  and 
why  we  should,  a  saying  of 
Mile,  de  Goumay,  638. 

X1MIKE8,  Cardinal,  cured  of 
a  hectic  fever  by  outward 
applications,  by  a  Moorish 
woman,  700. 


Y. 

Yamen,  God  of  Death,  247. 
Ye   He  Wah,  the  author  of 

Vegetation,  228. 
York  Cathedral',  custom  as  to 

Residentiaries  there,  355. 
YoDNO,  Dean,  extracts  from, 

611. 
YocNG,  The  Poet,  remarks  on 

his  poetry,  346. 
YsiARTE,  La  Ardilla  y  el  Ca' 

ballo,  and  translation,  269. 

Z. 

Zemzem,  well  of,  112. 

Zimmerman,  Dr.  his  opinion 
about  the  sensibility  of  a 
man's  nose^  557.. 

Zinzendorf,Cardinal,  bath- 
ed his  legs  in  pig^s  blood  as 
a  remedy  for  the  gout,  556. 

ZiscA,  stratagem,  of,  142. 

ZciKOER,  Theodore,  of  Basil, 
never  took  a  fee  except  from 
the  rich,  racy  saying  of,  551. 


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