she graciously observed of his highness, "That, if the letter had not excused his passing by, he should have done homage before he had gone away, although he had been a greater prince than he was: yet," she said, "she liked his gallant shows, that were made at his triumphant return;" and added, "if he should come at Shrovetide, he and his followers should have entertainment according to his dignity."

The prince and his company continued their course to the Tower, where, by the queen's command, he was welcomed with a volley of great ordnance by the lieutenant of the Tower: and, at Tower Hill, his highness's landing was awaited by men with 100 choice and great horses, gallantly appointed for all the company. So the prince and his company mounted, each of his retinue being in order according to his office, with the ensign thereof; and they rode gallantly through Tower Street, Fenchurch Street, Gracechurch Street, Cornhill, and St. Paul's church-yard, where, at St. Paul's school, one of the scholars entertained his highness with a Latin oration (as set forth in the prince's history), and the prince rewarded the speaker bountifully, and thanked all the scholars for their goodwill, and marched on his way by Ludgate and through Fleet Street, where, as during the entire progress, the streets were so thronged with people that there was only room for the horsemen to pass. In this state his

highness arrived at Gray's Inn, where he was received with a peal of ordnance and sound of trumpets, and all the entertainment that his loving subjects could make. After the prince had been thus received, and supper ended, his highness entered the hall and danced and revelled among the nobles of his court.

In like manner the day following was spent, but there was no performance because of the want of the stage and scaffolds.

At shrove-tide, the prince, in discharge of his promise, went with his nobles to the court of her majesty (queen Elizabeth), and represented certain sports, consisting of a masque in which the chief characters were an esquire of his highness's company attended by a Tartarian page; Proteus, a sea-god, attended by two Tritons; Thamesis and Amphitrite, attended by their sea-nymphs. These characters having delivered speeches, Proteus struck a rock of adamant with his trident, and they all entered the rock, and then

the prince and seven knights issued from the rock, richly attired, in couples, and before every couple there were two pigmies with torches. On their first coming on the stage, they danced a newly devised measure, and then took ladies, and with them they danced galliards, courants, and other dances. Afterwards they danced another new measure, at the end whereof, the pigmies brought eight escutcheons with the masker's devices thereon, and delivered them to the esquire, who offered them to her majesty; which being done, they took their order again, and, with a new strain, went all into the rock; and there was sung at their departure into the rock another strain, in compliment to her majesty.

It was the queen's pleasure to be gracious to every one, and her majesty particularly thanked his highness the prince of Peerpoole for the good performance, with undoubted wishes that the sports had continued longer; insomuch that, when the courtiers danced a measure immediately after the masque ended, the queen said, "What! shall we have bread and cheese after a banquet?"

The queen having willed her lord chamberlain that the gentlemen should be invited on the next day, and that he should present them unto her; this was done, and her majesty gave them her hand to kiss with gracious commendations in general, and of Grays Inn, as a house she was much beholden unto, because it always studied for sports to present unto her.

On the same night there was fighting at the barriers; the earl of Essex and others being the challengers, and the earl of Cumberland and his company the defenders;-into which company the prince of Peerpoole was taken, and behaved so valiantly, that to him was adjudged the prize, which was a jewel set with seventeen diamonds and four rubies, and worth 100 marks. Her majesty delivered it to his highness with her own hands, saying "That it was not her gift, for if it had, it should have been better; but she gave it to him as that prize which was due to his desert and good behaviour in those exercises; and that hereafter he should be remembered with a better reward from herself."

And thus, on Shrove Tuesday, the sports and revels of Gray's Inn, and the reign of the mock prince, were ended at the court of her majesty queen Elizabeth.

The infant in arms makes known its desire for fresh air, by restlessness; it cries for it cannot speak its want,-is taken abroad, and is quiet.

All children love to "go out:" they prefer the grass to the footpath; and to wander, instead of to "walk as they ought to do." They feel that

God made the country, and man made the town. While they are conducted along the road, their great anxiety is to leave it." When shall we get into the fields?"

They seek after some new thing, and convert what they find to their own use. A stick, placed between the legs, makes a horse; a wisp of grass, or a stone, drawn along at the end of a string, is a cart. On the sides of banks, and in green lanes, they see the daily issues from the great treasury of the earth,-opening buds, new flowers, surprising insects. They come home laden with unheard-of curiosities, wonderful rarities of their newfound world; and tell of their being met VOL. I.-12

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by ladies whom they admired, and who spoke to them.

As children increase in years they proceed from particulars to generals-observe the weather, sun-rising and sun-setting, the changing forms of clouds, varied scenery, difference of character in persons. In a short time they know so much as to think they know enough. They enter upon life, and find experience-the schoolmaster is always at home.

-In manhood the instincts of childhood, recollections of our old love, return. We would throw ourselves upon the bosom of Nature-but we are weaned.

-We cannot see her as we did: yet we recall, and keep representations of her features; throw landscapes and forests into portfolios, and place Claudes and Poussins in our rooms. We turn from nature herself to look at painted shadows of her; and behold pictures of graceful human forms till we dream of human perfection, and of our being, still, "a little lower than the angels."

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deathe, and of his five woundes, to say five Pater-nosters, five Aves, and one Ende, that it may please his mercifull goodness to make us parteners of the merites of this his most gloryous passyon, bloode, and deathe."

Of the remarkable usages on Good Friday there are large accounts in the EveryDay Book, not forgetting hot-cross-buns. They still continue to be made, and cried about the streets, as usual, though certainly in less quantities than can be well remembered.

A provincial newspaper, of about the year 1810, contains the following paragraph:-"Good-Friday was observed with the most profound adoration on board the Portuguese and Spanish men of war at Plymouth. A figure of the traitor Judas Iscariot was suspended from the bowsprit end of each ship, which hung till sun-set, when it was cut down, ripped up, the representation of the heart cut in stripes, and the whole thrown into the water; after which the crews of the different ships sung in good style the evening song to the Virgin Mary. On board the Iphigenia Spanish frigate, the effigy of Judas Iscariot hung at the yard-arm till Sunday evening, and, when it was cut down, one of the seamen ventured to jump over after it, with a knife in his hand, to show his indignation of the traitor's crime by ripping up the figure in the sea; but the unfortunate man paid for his indiscreet zeal with his life; the tide drew him under the ship, and he was drowned."

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he was created master of arts. scene of his military exploits was Ireland, where, in the year 1599, he was president of Munster. With a small force he reduced a great part of the province to the government of Queen Elizabeth, took the titular Earl of Desmond prisoner, and brought numbers of the turbulent Septs to obedience. The queen honored him with a letter of thanks under her own hand. He left the province in general peace in 1603, and arrived in England three days before the queen's death. James I. rewarded his service by making him governor of Guernsey, creappointing him master of the ordnance ating him Lord Carew, of Clopton, and for life. Charles I., on his accession, created him Earl of Totness. He was not less distinguished by his pen than his sword. he wrote his own commentaries, of which In his book "Pacata Hibernia," his modesty prevented the publication of Antiquities relating to Ireland, at this during life. He collected four volumes Library, and collected materials for the time preserved unheeded in the Bodleian his Chronicle. Anthony Wood eulogizes life of Henry V., digested by Speed, into him as "a faithful subject, a valiant and prudent commander, an honest counsellor, a gentle scholar, a lover of antiquities, and great patron of learning." monument at Stratford upon Avon.* Ile lies interred beneath a magnificent

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In March, 1798, died, aged eighty-four, at his house in the neighbourhood of Kentish Town, where he had resided more than forty years, John Little, Esq. His life exemplified the little utility of money in possession of such a man. few days before his death the physician who attended upon him advised that he wine. should occasionally drink a glass of After much persuasion he was induced to comply; yet by no means would entrust even his housekeeper with the key of the cellar. He insisted on being carried to the cellar door, and, on its being opened, he in person delivered out one bottle. By his removal for that purpose from a warm bed into a dark humid vault, he was seized with a shivering fit, which terminated in an apoplectic stroke, and occasioned his death.

* Pennant.

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had an inveterate antipathy to the marriage state, and discarded his brother, the only relative he had, for not continuing like himself, a bachelor. On examining his effects, it appeared that he had £25,000 in different tontines, £11,000 in the four per cents., and £2000 in landed property. In a room which had been closed for fourteen years were found 173 pairs of breeches, and a numerous collection of other articles of wearing apparel, besides 180 wigs hoarded in his coach-house, all which had fallen to him with other property by the bequest of relations. All his worldly wealth fell to the possession of his offending brother.*

The time of keeping Easter in England is according to the rule laid down in the Book of Common Prayer, which it may be here proper to re-state." Easter-Day (on which the movable feasts depend) is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon, or next after the twenty-first day of March; and, if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-day is the Sunday after." In conformity, therefore, to this rule, if the 21st of March falls upon a Saturday, and a full moon happen upon that day, the next day, Sunday, the 22nd of March, must be Easter-day. It will be observed, therefore, that Easter-day can never occur earlier than the 22nd of March.

Among the abundant information in the Every-Day Book concerning former

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customs at Easter, the practice of “stoning Jews in Lent" is stated at some length. It may be added, as an historical fact, that the people of Paris were accustomed, during Holy Week and on Easter-day, to pursue the Jews through the streets with stones, and to break the doors and windows of their houses. In some provincial towns it was the practice on holidays to conduct a Jew to the church, and publicly beat him on the face. An old chronicler relates that, Aimeric Viscount de Rochechouard having visited Toulouse, the chapter of St. Etienne, in order to do him honor, appointed Hugues, his chaplain, to beat a Jew, according to annual custom at the Easter festival. Hugues performed the office so zealously, that the brains and eyes of the unhappy victim of intolerance fell upon the ground, and he expired upon the spot.*

THE FIRST EASTER.

It happen'd, on a solemn even-tide,
Soon after He that was our surety died,"
Two bosom friends, each pensively inclin'd,
The scene of all those sorrows left behind,
Sought their own village, busied, as they went,
In musings worthy of the great event:
They spake of him they lov'd, of him whose
life,

Though blameless, had incurr'd perpetual strife,

Whose deeds had left, in spite of hostile arts,
A deep memorial graven on their hearts.
The recollection, like a vein of ore,
The farther trac'd, enrich'd them still the

more;

They thought him, and they justly thought him, one

Sent to do more than he appear'd to have done;

To exalt a people and to make them high Above all else, and wonder'd he should die. Ere yet they brought their journey to an end, A stranger join'd them, courteous as a friend, And ask'd them, with a kind engaging air, What their affliction was, and begg'd a share. Inform'd, he gather'd up the broken thread, And, truth and wisdom gracing all he said, Explain'd, illustrated, and search'd so well, The tender theme on which they chose to dwell,

That reaching home, the night, they said, is

near,

We must not now be parted, sojourn here.The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He bless'd the bread, but vanish'd at the word,

History of Paris, iii. 256.