De ce temple fameux, le plus heureux des Et la foule Chrestienne, émeuë en mesme temples, Qui vid laver l'erreur des antiques François, Et garde encor le droit de sacrer tous nos Roys. temps, De joye épand des pleurs, et des cris écla tans. Clovis avec Remy s'avance vers le temple. Clovis tourne ses yeux vers ses troupes vail- On y void tous les Francs entrer à son exlantes, Et fait entendre aux chefs ces paroles char mantes. emple. Aussi-tost à genoux ils reverent la Croix. Tous adorent le Verbe, et de cœur et de voix. Mes compagnons, dit il, mon heur est im- Remy commence2 un chant, les prestes le parfait, secondent, Cent voix benissent Dieu, les orgues leur repondent." Clovis, ou La France Chrestienne par DESMARESTS. Letters conveyed by Pilgrims. WE see in one of the original letters published by Fenn, how little intercourse was kept up between one part of the kingdom and another; no opportunity perhaps having occurred of sending a letter from Norwich to London, unless at the time of the fair. Another thing strikes us, which is, the use that pilgrims were of in conveying intelligence. Fastolf. HENRY WINDSOR gives a bad character of Fastolf, "hit is not unknoon that cruell and Dit il haussant sa voix. Nous quittons les vengible he hath byn ever, and for the moste faux Dieux Jadis hommes mortels, et peu dignes de cieux. Nous croyons d'un seul Dieu l'éternelle puissance, Et Christ qui d'une Vierge 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 ensemble, [ble, Du temple resonnant toute la voûte en trem Tout cecy est de l'histoire. parte with aute pite and mercy. I can no more but vade et corripe eum, for truly he cannot bryng about his matiers in this word (world) for the word is not for hym. I suppose it wolnot chaunge yetts be likelenes, but I beseche you, sir, help not to amend hym onely, but every other man yf ye kno any mo mysse disposed."-FENN, IN 1455 the government were indebted to Fastolf, £4083 15s. 74d. for costs and charges during his services in France, "whereof the sayd F. hiderto hath had nouther payement nor assignacion." 2 S. Remy commenca le Te Deum, Epitaph by Bellay. "QUAS potius decuit nostro te inferre sepulchro Petronilla, tibi spargimus has lacrimas. Spargimus has lacrimas, mosti monumenta parentis, Et tibi pro thalamo sternimus hunc tumulum. Sperabam genitor tædas præferre jugales, Et titulo patris jungere nomen avi. per te Se sperabat avum, desinit esse pater." Translation. "I WEEP upon thy grave-thy grave, my child! Who should'st 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 Mary! O dearest yet! the grandsire's name R. S. Were paths of pleasantness, and in that hour Epitaph. "THE tenant of this grave was one who Remembering God, and in the hour of death Lambs-Conduit Street, A bad Action of Henry the Fourth. 1599. "In the country of Mayne was seen a peasant named Francis Trouillu, 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 wreathings 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."-MEZERAY. Henry IV. The original, ascribed to Callimachus is as follows, Greek Epitaph translated. "BENEATH in holy sleep Nicander lies, O traveller! say not that the good man dies." I have translated this from memory, and believe the name is changed.' January 14, 1798. Epitaph. "THE quiet virtues of domestic life Τῇδε Σάων ὁ Δίκωνος, Ακάνθιος, ἱερὸν ὕπνον κοιμᾶται· θνήσκειν μὴ λέγε τὰς ἀγαθούς. J. W. W. doores, gird themselves about with the winding sheet that they purpose to be buried in, to shew themselves mindful of their mortalitie. Such of them as are at any time condemned to die, are sowed within a sack, and flung from a rock into the sea.”—A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World. 1646. Half-christened Irish. "In some corners of Connaught, the people leave the right armes of their infants end that at any time afterwards, they might male unchristened (as they terme it) to the give a more deadly and ungracious blow when they strike; which things doe not onely show how palpably they are carried away by traditious obscurities, but do also intimate how full their hearts be of inveterate revenge."—Ibid. Philip Augustus reconciled to his Queen. "PHILIP AUGUSTUS had put away his wife Gelberge, 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 decision 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 wonderfully 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 Gelberge, 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 plain 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, hevels. 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." -DE SERRES. Philip II. 1193. Pontanus calls her Ingeburga. Custom on the Isle of Man. "THE women of this countrie, (Isle of Man,) whensoever they goe out of their Cypresses. "THE duration of the cypress is equalled only by that of the oak; they are seldom seen in forests. In cemeteries and the environs of palaces, six feet is a circumference not uncommon, with a height proportioned to a pyramidal shape."-DALLAWAY'S Tra Turkish Fountains. "THE frequent fountains, all built by useful piety, are placed at certain distances, and measure plains which seem to widen as we advance. In those situations, if not picturesque, 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 remark the devout Mussulman, after his ablutions, prostrating himself on his carpet, and repeating in a still voice those addresses to the Deity which are prescribed by his prophet."—Ibid. FEB. 16. The earliest buds on the elm, is suddenly caught from the ground, and giving 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 melancholy 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 massiness. The buds of the elder appear in circular tufts. Whiteness of a shower swept by the wind. Large buds of the horse chesnut terminating 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 Prospect, &c. but I have not the means of verifying the Quare's. In a note to Joan of Arc, SOUTHEY 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. carried as it were flying in the ayre, into some desert vallies, 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."— Quære? "AFRICA every year produceth some strange creature before not heard of, peradventure not extant. For so Pliny thinks, that for want of water, creatures of all kindes at sometimes of the yeere 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."-Quære? Apparition of Offa. "NOT farre from Bedford sometime stood a chappell upon the banke of Ouse, wherein (as Florilegus affirmeth) the body of Offa, 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; but to them that seeke it (saith Rosse) it is there is heard above a sound of cymbals, invisible."-Quære? for the wind being driven backe from his hole, is forced to make a loud sound at her vent."-Quare? Mysterious Inscription. "UPON the same shore, on the top of a hill called Minyd-Margan, is erected a monument inscribed with a strange character, and as strange a conceit held thereof by the Streams of Glamorganshire. "GLAMORGANSHIRE-upon whose hills you may behold whole herds of cattle feeding, and from whose rocks most cleare springing waters thorow the vallies trickling, which sportingly doe passe with a most pleasant sound, and did not a little revive my wearied spirits among those vast moun-by-dwellers whose opinions are possessed tains; whose infancie at first admitted an that if any man reade the same he shall easie step over, but growne unto strength shortly after die.”— Quære? more boldly forbade me such passage, and with a more sterne countenance held on their journey unto the British seas. Tave among these is accounted for a chief.". Quare? 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 Iland 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; sometimes the noise of the grindstone in grinding of iron tooles, then the hissing sparks of steel-gads, as they flie from their beating, with the puffing noise of flames in a furnace." Whether this is the place whereof Clemens Alexandrinus speaketh, I determine not, where in his writings he hath these words," they that have recorded histories (saith he) doe say that in the Ile 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 write these words." Tit. Andron. iv. 1. See NARES' Gloss. in v.-J. W. W. Welsh Town destroyed by Lightning, and "Just over against the river Conway, than to goe to see whether they be so or no."-Quære? www Noah's Ark. "ON Mount Ararat (called Lubar, or the descending place) is an abbey of St. Gregorie's monks. These monkes, if any list to beleeve them, say that there remaineth yet some part of the arke, kept by angels; which, if any seeke to ascend, carrie them backe as farre in the night, as they have climbed in the day."-PURCHAS. |