With treach'rous gleam he lures the fated wight, His glimm'ring mazes cheer th' excurfive fight, And frequent round him rolls his fullen eyes, Ah, lucklefs Twain, o'er all unbleft indeed! Whom late bewilder'd in the dank, dark fen, To fome dim hill that feems uprising near, His fear-fhcok limbs have loft their youthly force, For him, in vain, his anxious wife fhall wait, His babes fhall finger at th' unclofing gate t * Firft written, fad. A blank in the manufcript. The line filled up by Dr Carlyle. Firft written, cottage. Firft written, Shall seem to prefs her cold and shuddʼring cheek. While First written, proceed. While I lie welt'ring on the ozier'd shore, Drown'd by the Kacipie's * wrath, nor e'er fhall aid thee mose! Unbounded is thy range; with varied stile Thy mufe may, like thofe feath'ry tribes which fpring The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid ‡: No flaves revere them, and no wars invade : X. But, O! o'er all, forget not Kilda's race ||, On whofe bleak rocks, which brave the walling tides, Go, juft, as they, their blameless manners trace! Of those whofe lives are yet fincere and plain, * A name given in Scotland to a supposed spirit of the waters. Hard On the largest of the Flannan islands (ifles of the Hebrides) are the ruins of a chapel dedicated to St Flannan. This is reckoned by the inhabitants of the Wefle ern Ifies a place of uncommon fanctity. One of the Flannan islands is termed the fle of Pigmies; and Martin fays, there have been many fmall bones dug up here, refembling in miniature thofe of the human body. The island of Iona or Icolmkill. See Martin's Defcription of the Western Islands of Scotland. That author informs us, that forty-eight kings of Scotland, four kings of Ireland, and five of Norway, were interred in the Church of St Ouran in that ifland. There were two churches and two monafteries founded there by St Columbus about A. D. 565. Bed. Hift. Eccl. 1, 3. Collins has taken all his information refpecting the Weftern Ifles from Martin; from whom he may Likewife have derived his knowledge of the popular fuperftitions of the Highlanders with which this ode fhows fo perfect an acquaintance. The character of the inhabitants of St Kilda, as here defcribed, agrees perfectly with the accounts given by Martin and by Macaulay, of the people of that ifland It is the most wefterly of all the Hebrides and is above 130 miles diftait from the main land of Scotland. Hard is their shallow foil, and bleak and bare; XI. Nor need'st thou blush, that such falfe themes engage The fhadowy kings of Banquo's fated line, Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant paft. The native legends of thy land rehearse ; XII. In scenes like thefe, which, daring to depart Believ'd the magic wonders which he fung! Hence at each found imagination glows; Hence his warm lay with fofteft fweetness flows; Melting it flows, pure, num'rous, ftrong and clear, And fills the impaffion'd heart, and wins th' harmonious ear ‡. XIII. This ftanza is more incorrect in its ftructure than any of the foregoing. There is apparently a line wanting between this and the fubfequent one, In mufing kour, &c. The deficient line ought to have rhymed with scene. Thefe four lines were originally written thus: "How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's fide, Thefe lines were originally written thus ; "Hence, fure to charm, his early numbers flow, "Though ftrong, yet fweet "Though faithful, fweet; though ftrong, of fimple kind. "Hence, with each theme, he bids the bofom glow, "While his warm lays an eafy paffage find, "Pour'd thro' each inmoft nerve, and lull th* harmonious car.” Dd 2 XIII. All hail, ye fcenes that o'er my foul prevail, Or Don's romantic fprings, at distance, hail! Then will I drefs once more the faded bow'r, To him lofe, your kind protection lend, And, touch'd with love like mine, preferve my abfent friend Hiftorical and Biographical Anecdotes | Account of the Funeral of William the TH Conqueror. HOUGH the Conqueror had no grave or monument in England, the circumstances that attended his death are remarkable. He had no fooner breathed his laft at the Abbey. of St Gervafe, on a hill out of Rouen to the West, than all his domeftics not only forfook him, but plundered his apartments fo completely, that bis corpfe was left naked, and he would have wanted a grave, had it not been for the more grateful clergy and the Archbishop of Rouen, who ordered the body to be conveyed to Caen, and one Herliun, a gentleman of the place, (pagenfis eques) from pure goodness of heart (naturali bonitate) took upon himself the care of the funeral, pro vided the proper perfons (pollinfores vefpiliones) and hired a carriage to convey it to the river, and thence quite to Caen. There the abbot and con vent, attended by crouds of clergy and laity, came out to meet it. But as they were proceeding to pay the proper ho nours, they were alarmed by a fudden fire which broke out in a house, and deftroyed great part of the city. The diftracted people went to give the neceffary afliftance, and left the monks, with a few bifhops and abbots, to go on with the fervice; which being fis nifhed, and the farcophagus laid in the ground, the body till lying on the bier, Gilbert, bishop of Evreux, pronounced a long panegyric on the deceafed; and, in conclufion, called on the audience to pray for his foul. On a fud. A blank in the manufcript. The word fpacious fupplied by Dr Carlyle. Ben Johnfon undertook a journey to Scotland a-foot in 1619, to vifit the poet Drummond, at his feat of Hawthornden, near Edinburgh. Drummond has preferved, in his works, fome very curious heads of their converfation. A blank in the manufcript Social fupplied by Dr Carlyle. Both thefe, lines left imperfect; fupplied by Dr Carlyle. This laft ftanza bears more marks of haftiness of compofition than any of the reft. Befides the blanks which are fupplied by Dr Carlyle, there is apparently an entire line wanting after the feventh line of the ftanza. The deficient line ought to have rhymed with broom. Mr Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, &c, lately published. peared. But in 1562, the Hugonots not content with destroying this paints ing, demolished the tombs of the Cons queror and his wife, with their effigies in relief to the life, and broke in pie ces with their daggers the Conqueror's biere, made of pierrede volderit, and fupported on three little white pilafters. They expected to have met with some treafure, but found only his bones, ftill joined together, and covered with red taffety. Thofe of the arms and legs were thought longer than thofe of the talleft men of the prefent age. One of thefe facrilegious wretches named Francis de Gray de Bourg a fudden ftarts up from the croud tion. The abbot caufed a painting to Afcelin Fitz-Arthar, and demands a be taken of it in wood jult as it ap compenfation for the ground; hetfood on, which he faid William had forcibly taken from his father to found his abbey on it; and in God's name for bids the burying him on his property, or covering him with his turf. The bishops and nobles having fatisfied them felves about the truth of his demand, were obliged to pay him immediately fixty fhillings for the grave, and promife an equivalent for the reft of the ground, which they afterwards gave him. They then proceeded to the interment: but, in laying the body in the farcophagus, it was found to have been made fo fmall, by the ignorance of the mafon, that they were forced to prefs the corpfe with fuch violence, that the fat belly burft, and diffused an intolerable ftench, which all the fmoak of the cenfers and other fpices could not overcome. The priests were glad to hurry over the fervice, and make the best of their way home in no fmall fright. Abbe, gave them to Dom Michael de Comalle, religious and bailiff of the abbey, who kept them in his chamber, till Admiral Coligny and his reiftres ruined and deftroyed every thing there Anecdotes of Edward III. THIS great Prince, who wiped out the stain of his premature acceshion tỏ the crown of England by the unnatus ral intrigues of his mother, with equal glory fupported the king of Scots in his throne, on which his grandfather had placed him, and his own claim to the crown of France, and after he had in two bloody battles exhaufted the blood of its beft fubjects, difmembered that kingdom of fome of its beft pro vinces. The first forty years of his reign were truly glorious. The des cline of his life was diftreffed by the lofs of his confort and his gallant fo Edward Prince of Wales, and the am bition of his fourth fon John of Gaunty and finking into dotage, his affectionn life of fixty-four years, and à reign of fixt on unworthy objects, he clófed i fifty-fix (the longeft of any of our fos vereigns fince Henry III.) at Shené, June 21. 1377. His body was brought by four of his fons and others of the nobility, through the city of London, with his face uncovered, and buried by his wife in Westminster abbey "Dum |