con lagrimas de algunos y que se movian | enterprize which he should appoint them, con aquel triste espectaculo de aquellos as to murther any prince his enemy. For moços desgraciados, y a pesar del padre, they feared not death, in hope of their Macomo estavan, los enterraron en aquel mis- humetical Paradise. But Haolon or Ulan, mo lugar; constancia que se empleara mejor after three years' siege, destroyed him and en otra hazaña, y les fuera bien contada la this his Foole's Paradise. About A. D. 1200. muerte, si la padecieran por la virtud y en -PURCHAS. So also MAUNDEVILE, p. 336, defensa de la verdadera religion, y no por and MARCO POLO, Harris's Col. p. 599. satisfacer a sus apetitos desenfrenados.”Ibid. ALOADIN'S Paradise. "BETWEENE Orpha and Caramit (in Mesopotamia, now Diarbeth) was the Paradise of Aladeules, where he had a fortresse, destroyed 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 musicke, damosells, dainties, &c. which after, 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 commit such murders, or haughty attempts, it should be theirs. A dangerous devise. Zelim 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 hilles, and furnished it with all variety which Nature and Art could yeeld, as fruits, pictures, rilles of milk, wine, honey, water, pallaces, and beautifull damosells richly attired, and called it Paradise. 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 minister 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 seene, and by this delusion would make them resolute for any | Inhabitants of Jupiter. แ "THERE 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 themselves. The inhabitants of that earth (Jupiter) do not fear death, except on this account, that they leave their conjugal partner, their children, or parents, for they know that they shall live after death, and that in dying they do not quit life, because they go to Heaven; wherefore they do not call it dying, but being Heaven-made. Such amongst them as have lived in true conjugal love, and have taken such care of their children as becometh parents, do not die of diseases, but in tranquillity, 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 years 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 partner of such connection and to take care of their children. Other delights they indeed call delights but respectively external."-SWEDENBORG, concerning the Earths in our Solar System. Journey of the Jews after Death. "JACOB desired to be buried in Canaan, not in Egypt, for three causes (sayth R. SALOMON TARCHI), because he foresaw that of the dust of Egypt should be made lice; 2ndly, because the Israelites which die out of Canaan shall not rise againe without much pain of their rolling through the deep and hidden vaults of the earth; 3rdly, least the Ægyptians should make an idoll of him. For the better understanding hereof, let us heare what is said out of the book Tanchum (an Exposition of the Pentateuch) concerning this subject. The Patriarchs (sayth he) desired to be buried in Canaan, because they which are there buried, shall first rise in the time of the Messias. And R. Hannaniah sayth, that they which die out of Canaan must endure two deaths: and the same appeareth Jer. 20, where it is said Pashur should go into Babel and should there die, and there be buried. What?' quoth R. Simon, 'shall then all the just perish which die out of Canaan ?' 'No; but God will make them Mechillos, that is, deep clifts and caves under the earth, by which they may pass into the land of promise, whither when they are come, God shall inspire into them the breath of life, that they may rise again, as it is written (Ezek. xxxvii. 12), 'I will open your graves, and cause you to come out of your sepulchres,' &c. The like is written in their Targum, or Chaldæan interpretation of the Canticles: when thy dead shall rise, Mount Olivet shall cleave asunder, and the Israelites which have been dead shall come out of the same, and they which have died in strange lands, coming thither by holes under the earth, shall come forth. And for this cause, I myself,' sayth our author, 'have heard the Jews say, that sometimes some of the wealthiest and de voutest among them goe into the land of Canaan, that their bodies may there sleep, and so be freed from this miserable passage under so many deep seas and rough mountains.""-PURCHAS. Sabbath of the Damned. "THEY begin their sabbath thus soon and end it also later than the just time, in commiseration of the purgatory souls, which begin and end with them this sabbath's rest, being the whole week besides tormented in that fire. Judas himself, in honour of the Christian sabbath, obtained like priviledge; witness S. Brandon in the legend (can you refuse him?) who found him cooling 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-refreshing 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. The 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 killeth him, the second maketh him pale, the third rotteth and putrifieth."-Ibid. Possibly the expression to taste the bitterness of death may refer to this.1 wwwmmm ADAM's first Wife. "WHEN God had made Adam, and saw him a woman of the earth like unto him, it was not good for him to be alone, he made and called her Lilis. These disagreed for superiority. Lilis, made of the same mould, would not be underling, and Adam would hope of agreement, uttered that sacred word not endure her his equal. Lilis seeing no See 1 Sam. xv. 32, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."-J. W. W. Images. APRIL 23. The blossoms swept from the fruit tree like a shower of snow. The wood was in the shade, but a few tree Jehovah, with the cabalistical interpretation | over above, withouten that men take fro thereof, and presently did fly into the air. withinne."-The Voiage and Travaile of Sir Adam plaining his case, God sent three John Maundevile. angels after her, Senoi, Sensenoi, Sanmangeleph, 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, tops peered into the slant beam. Their they threatened her drowning; but she be-light heads rose like plumes of verdure. 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 nevertheless 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 infants' necks. Thus far BEN SIRA. "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 the authority of this history, collected by their wise men out of those words, "Male and female created 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. 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 The daw below sailed unseen, till the light fell upon his glossy wings. April 22, the Rocks.' April 24. The brown young leaves of the walnut scarcely distinguishable from the boughs. There is some tree, perhaps the aspin or dog-wood, whose large buds shine like silver, showing only the under part of the leaves. In a wet day, I observed that the smoke rose brighter. On remarking this to Tom, he told me that in dull days the white flags were very bright; in clear weather, the dark colours shone most visibly. May 14. The ash is still unfoliaged, except at the extremity of every spray, where its sharp young leaves spread in tufts like stars. The oak still reddish with its opening buds. May 18. The oak unfolds its leaves timorously; they droop and hang loosely. I observed the motion of the corn most like the sparkling of a stream in the sun. In Norfolk they call the flat country the Broads. It presents a kind of ocean im 'The Rocks, near Ucfield in Sussex. This was therefore written probably in 1796, when he again visited his friend, T. P. Lamb, Esq. at Mountsfield Lodge, near Rye. See Life and Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 290. Some very curious letters of this date are still in existence. J. W. W. I think this is a mistake. I certainly al ways heard the word used in the sense given by FORBY in his Vocabulary of East Anglia, i. e. a lake formed by the expansion of a river in a flat country, in v.-J. W. W. "WHERE is thine own right arm, O Italy? Why dost thou use the stranger's? he who aids, He who attacks thee are Barbarians both, Barbarous Superstitions. "THE Patagonians regard the milky way as the hunting forest where departed souls delight themselves in hunting ostriches.”FALKNER, p. 115. "THE Kamtshadales make of the rainbow 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."-Steller, p. 64. "THE Kopts 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 earthquakes 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."-STELLER, p. 267. "THE Calmucs hold the lightning to be the fire spit out of the mouth of a dragon, ridden and scourged by evil Dæmons, and the thunder they make to be his roarings." -PALLAS, vol. 1, p. 343. "RESPECTING 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 possessions of the Spaniards, they rejoice that the souls of their forefathers have repulsed those of their enemies, and call out aloud to them to give them no quarter. When the contrary happens, they are troubled and dejected, and encourage the yielding souls to rally their forces and summon up the last remains of their strength.”— VIDAURE, p. 122. Meiner. "SOME of the pagan Arabs believed that of the blood near the dead person's brain was formed a bird named Hâmah, which once in a hundred years visited the sepulchre; though others say this bird is animated by the soul of him that is unjustly slain, and continually cries Oscâni, Oscûni, i. e. give me to drink, meaning of the murtherer's blood, till his death be revenged; and then it flies away."-SALE. "Mohammed having hung up his arms on a tree, under which he was resting himself, 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!" and Gabriel beating the sword out of the Arab's hand, Mohammed took it and asked him the same questionup, "Who hindreth me from killing thee?" the Arab replied, "Nobody!" and immediately professed Mohammedism."-SALE. The Love Language of Colours. From AGUSTIN DE SALAZAR Y TORRES. O SOVEREIGN beauty, you whose charms All other charms surpass, Whose lustre nought can imitate Except your looking glass. A choir of nymphs, the planets they If they are graces who attend In Cytherea's train. These nymphs by various colours now Alone the straw's pale hue. A constant and an ardent love The mingled red and white display A love triumphant there; The copper's cankerous verdure speaks Love, envy, and despair. A faithful and devoted heart, The girdle's circling white, The hue of burnish'd gold, so bright, That emulates the flame, The gay and gorgeous emblem shines [Ancient London Pastimes.] "THE youths of this city also have used, on holidays, after evening prayer, at their masters' doors, to exercise their wasters1 and bucklers, and the maidens, one of them playing on a timbrel, in sight of their masters and dames, to dance for garlands hanged athwart the streets. Which open pastimes in my youth being now suppressed, worser practises within doors are to be feared."-STOW. 1i. e. cudgels. See NARES' Glossary in v. who quotes this very passage from Srow's London. J. W. W. |