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She is to be shot with arrows. Her brother comes to the Welsh, and goes with them to Aztlan. He rushes to save, or rather revenge her, and the Welsh take his part.

Some of the North American tribes held annually the Festival of the Dead, when they dug up all who had died in the preceding 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-born. There must be a book in which Madoc converts his Indians from Paganism. It may hinge upon this sacrifice. The high-priest 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 him. And what with his influence, and that of Madoc, the idols overthrown.

In Garcilaso, History of Florida, is an instance where the death of the chief occasioned the defeat of the Indians.-P. 202.

After reading Garcilaso's Floridan History, I find it was not a place for Europeans to fix in. South America will be better. Up the great river, and somewhere in 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 Fortunate 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.

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. Erilyab their chief, a man well minded, but too weak to be virtuous. His son, Rajenet, is a sullen and crafty savage, hostile to the Welsh from jealousy; and because Gwenlhian is refused to him. He therefore leagues in secret with the Aztecans.

Gwenlhian must marry a savage. I know only his name-Herma; but he must deserve her.

Melamin is the wife of Cadwallon. How he wooed her must be told to Madoc, because it will be a less interruption than that at any other time, and because I want a child born about the period of Madoc's return. This boy the priest Dithial claims as a sacrifice. He leagues with Rajenet.

In the great danger, when all hands are called out to rescue Madoc, Rajenet offers 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 tempted by superstition; and the promise that Aztlan will remit all tribute if he will assist 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 Urarāja.

Erilyab shall be a woman; hating the Aztecans for her husband's death.

The new characters then are Erilyab, Rajenet, Herma, Melamin, Uraraja, Dithial.

Madoc goes up the Mississippi certainly. The seven old ones make the whole number of prominent savages amount to thir

teen.

Elen and Gwenlhian must be brought grave. into the foreground.

This ought to be as solemn and striking as possible. During the after fesThe capture of Madoc must not be at tival, Tlalala's attempt on Caradoc: and here we fall into the great road.

the same time with that of Hoel.

I have seen the print of a snake-statue as an idol in Yucatan. It may be managed to have this the idol, and make Dithial tame a huge serpent and pass him for the descended deity. Madoc should kill him. The rescued victim is Melamin. To her tribe Cadwallon goes to seek an alliance. In his absence the capture of Madoc hap

pens.

There is a gap between books 7 and 8, which may be widened. Book 7 will swell into two.

Cadwallon shows Madoc an infant of but a few days, the first born of the colony, the child of himself and Melamin. After the rescue of Herma, all being peaceable, Cadwallon accompanied him to his own tribe-no-this is rambling. After the removal to the mountains, they go to form an alliance. The mode of entering a village. The calumet. Quits North American savages. Melamin first seen by her husband's war-pole. Then the festival of the dead. On their return Melamin accompanies her brother. Reverence. Gratitude ripens into love. Cynetha must be kept alive a little longer, that her attentions to him may half win Cadwallon's heart. The lamp-courtship of Canada. Books 7 and 8, in the room of 7, as now.

He

Book 9 follows thus, Dithial demands Cadwallon's child for the snake idol. has had a dream. He comes again the next day, or rather Rajenet comes, and demands it in Erilyab's name. For the snake idol has put on life, and at night seized one child, which, under protection of the Cambrians, had been refused. The mother tells the tale. A cavern is the temple; at the mouth is the great serpent sunning himself, and in the act of fascinating. Madoc kills him.

Rajenet's demand of Gwenlhian,

Book 10. A religious ceremony of naming the child it should be done on Cynetha's

Book 11 will then be the present 8th, and on 12, 13.

14 (the 11th). When Madoc reaches the settlement, he finds Dithial a prisoner, Rajenet dead. They had seized the opportunity of making their own terms. Meaning to secure the women as hostages. The dog killed Rajenet, and with Herma successfully defended them. The inweaving this throws the battle and capture of Aztlan to book 15. The twelfth remains for book 16.

Book 17. The town purified. Dithial's confession. The resignation of Erilyab. Herma's marriage. Eleno? I think so.

18. During that ceremony the war-embassadors. Caradoc retires in envious recollection to the lake banks. Senena follows, 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. Ilanquel and her child may have escaped, and be by Tlalala led to Madoc.

June 6, 1801, Lisbon.

Certainly to Bardsey, and there the interview with Llewelyn should be; he has watched his uncle, and follows in a coracle.

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 to answer a volunteer priest angrily.

The Welsh Indians have a Bible. Madoc will only preach what the feelings of man instinctively assent to; the rest he leaves for times of reason. Surely this is wisdom.

Tlalala's first feeling religious on his escape from the lake. Note Aguilar's release from the Indians.

Ceremony of the peace at Aztlan, and incensing Madoc.

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At Huitziton's coronation the Paste-Idol | abandon all to share his brother's sufferings; ground to powder and given to be drank.

October 4, 1801. Sentence of annihilation 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 is too episodical.

Out with Ririd! he is good for nothing.

No rupture before Madoc's return, only the gathering of the storm. Cadwallon's narrative therefore communicates little, only the escape of Herma. The arrival of Madoc is while the treason is preparing.

Book 8. Therefore an interview with Coanocotzin, wherein no ground for suspicion 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 Hoitziton,cui nomen Hiolqui,' a young man deeply attached to Madoc, and in his absence learning much from Cadwallon, his own inclination rather favoured by the wisdom of his elder brother. Him I would

attach to Gwenlhian; and when Hoitziton announces war to Madoc, the elder of intellect 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 Rajenet. In the subsequent defeat of the Aztecans, a heavy grief possesses him, and thus the interest of pity is excited in Gwenlhian. After the earthquake he should

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but on the emigration, Hoitziton commands him as his King. His brother, who has acted the father's part toward him, and his dearest and nearest friend to remain. So a fraternal tie is thus established between Hoitziton and Madoc by the marriage of Gwenlhian and Hiolqui, and nothing else of love can be suffered in the poem.

Helhua sleeps in the Field of the Spirit before the Great Serpent puts on life, and is warned against the strangers.

The Kalendar.

THE death of Henry V. The hermit's denunciation at the siege of Dreux.2 He tells him how beautiful he remembered that country, how happy the people. A sermon, and war the text.

Crecy. This must be a morality upon the Prince's crest. The only existing effects of that slaughter!

Wallace, an ode.3-The populace exulting as he goes to execution, and telling of his rebellion and outlaw life and hiding places. Lay on him the whole weight of such infamy. Then burst out.

Bosworth, a ballad.-A woman expecting her husband from that fight, and the utter inconsequence to her of the public event.

Mary Magdalen.-A musing on that exquisite picture of Corregio.

Lady Day.-A Socinian hymn to the Virgin. Catholic nonsense alluded to. Boatman's evening hymn. The Protestants in an extreme here. What object more deeply interesting than the Mother of Jesus?

St. John will furnish two poems. The tale of the robber, and moralizings on his last advice, "Love one another."

Milton.-A hymn to the memory of the blind republican.

Rape of the Sabines.-The part of this history to dwell upon is the reconciliation

See "King Henry V. and the Hermit of Dreux."-- Poems, p. 432.

3 See "Death of Wallace."-Ibid. p. 128.

J. W. W.

of the two armies. Like David, I would | ful, anti-puritanical, half catholic. I hate make history instruct mankind. puritan manners.

The Battle of Murat affords matter for a long poem. On the anniversary of the fight Henry Holland thinks he knows a mendicant pilgrim by the pile of bones. The beggar Charles, so more to humble himself, relates his history to the man whom he had once so spurned. His obstinate ambition, escape across the lake, and murdering the page. A wounded fugitive, he is healed by a Beguine, a young woman, Swiss, who had lost her betrothed husband in the wars he had occasioned; she is one whom religion has comforted; and whose holy resignation wakes agony in him; he resolves to be known no more, and on the day of the fight annually to visit the pile of bones, the monument of his wickedness. It is remarkable that this pile should have been destroyed on the anniversary of that day.

Azincour. The ruinous effects in England of that successful war.

Poictiers.-Glory. Detail of the consequences of such a battle. The field of battle. The distant wife.

The Conversion of St. Paul.-Conviction blazed on him. But who does not feel the inward monitor at times? Paul the hermit will make a fine serious narrative.

The story of St. Agnes is very fine. I wish I believed the miracle, for the rest must be true.

St. Cæcilia's is an amusing story. One might have invented it for its singularity. He was an odd angel-a kind of angelic incubus. Heywood would have been puzzled where to class him. I must not forget that admirable picture by Carlo Dolce, at Sir Lambert Blackwood's. Is it possible for poetry to equal it?

To the Dii Manes, a Christian hymn. Teresa. The progress of religious enthusiasm. This should be in Spenser's

stanza.

Christmas. But Good Friday will be a better day for serious musings on Christianity, to condense the moral and political system of Christ. Christmas must be cheer

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 indulge the fullness of those devotional feelings, which here every thing seems to curb. Why are they so little understood, and so generally professed only by weak enthusiasts, 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 III. 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.-Beneficial 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 declamatory.

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 Lothian 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 concerning those whom God is slow to punish.

See "The Battle of Pultowa."-Poems, p. 124.-J. W. W.

I should like to give it in a note to S. Patrick's Purgatory, but for its length.

December.-The senate passed a decree to make the year begin in that month, because Nero was born in it!-TACITUS, book xiii.' GORDON, vol. 2, p. 516.

L'Almanac chantant de M. Nau. L'Année sacrée de Pierre-Juste Sautel, Jesuite.

La Madelaine au Désert de la SainteBeaume, en Provence, par Pierre de St. Louis. Un chef-d'œuvre etonnant de ridicule et de mauvais goût," says the A. Sabatier.

The Death of Joan of Arc must be a regular drama.

Notes for Thalaba.

POISON 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 phenomenon.-Pennant. R. B. account of prodigies. 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 necessary 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 literature; 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 "Mensis quoque Aprilis Neronis cognomentum acciperet." In the second," Aprilem eumdemque Neroneum."-J. W. W.

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Balm. Martyrs' blood at Beder.-Carlos Magno. p. 44, 61. The balsam of Ferabraz. Sympathetic powder.—Sir K. Digby.

Fatalism. The story of Solomon. Our follies in England. The marked for death in Carlos Magno, 255. Inoculation strange, but beauty the most saleable commodity; and thus interest sets aside the creed. Nightingale. Gongora. Strada. A. Phillips. Crashaw.

Palace of Irem. Gongora. Escurial. Magical travelling. History of North Guadalupe, p. 246. The woman who told her husband the devil was coming for her. The Frenchman's scheme for getting out of the whirl of the world; rising up at Paris, and dropping down at the antipodes. Jehan Molinet, 181.

Superstition of emitted light. Vasconcellos, 211, 229. Dee lights. Corpse candles. Is Moses's forehead the fountain of this? The primary light which kindled them? The Mohammedans write often of

his shining hand.

The balance of the dead.-Carlos Magno. 287.

Bird-parasol. Anchieta. The one-footed man in the Margarita Philosophica. Magic.-English Chaplain, 3, cap. 8. Bird of the Brain. Seat of the Soul. Otaheitean opinion.

A good mock-philosophic note might be made upon the changes produced in the earth by the falling in of the Dom-Daniel. The origin of the Maelstrom proved to have been this. Increase of cold' also in those regions, the rush of the waters ha

1 Lord Dreghorn, &c.

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