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"On foot they went, and took Salisbury in their way, purposely to see the good bishop, who made Mr. Hooker sit at his own table,-which Mr. Hooker boasted of with much joy and gratitude when he saw his mother and friends; and at the bishop's parting with him, the bishop gave him good counsel, and his benediction, but for got to give him money; which when the bishop had considered, he sent a servant in all haste to call Richard back to him, and at Richard's return, the bishop said to him, 'Richard, I sent for you back to lend you a horse which hath carried me many a mile, and, I thank God, with much ease,' and presently delivered into his hand a walking-staff, with which he professed he had travelled through many parts of Germany; and

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he said, 'Richard, I do not give, but lend you my horse; be sure you be honest, and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford. And I do now give you ten groats to bear your charges to Exeter; and here is ten groats more, which I charge you to deliver to your mother, and tell her I send her a bishop's benediction with it, and beg the continuance of her prayers for me.. And if you bring my horse back to me, I will give you ten groats more to carry you on foot to the college; and so God bless you, good Richard.'"-See WALTON'S Life of Richard Hooker.

Beneath the roof of settled modesty.

TROUBLES OF CHARLES THE FIRST.

move,

The Romanist exults; fresh hope he draws SUCH is the contrast, which where'er we
From the confusion-craftily incites
The overweening-personates the mad *--
To heap disgust upon the worthier cause:
rotters the throne; the new-born Church

is sad,

For every wave against her peace unites.

GUNPOWDER PLOT.

FEAR hath a hundred eyes that all agree
To plague her beating heart; and there is

one

(Nor idlest that!) which holds communion With things that were not, yet were meant to be.

Aghast within its gloomy cavity

That eye (which sees as if fulfilled and done Crimes that might stop the motion of the sun)

Beholds the horrible catastrophe

Of an assembled senate unredeemed

To the mind's eye religion doth present;
Now with her own deep quietness content;
Then, like the mountain, thundering from
above

Against the ancient pine-trees of the grove
And the land's humblest comforts. Now
her mood

Recals the transformation of the flood,
Whose rage the gentle skies in vain reprove,
Earth cannot check. Oh, terrible excess
Of headstrong will! Can this be piety?
No-some fierce maniac hath usurped her

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PREJUDGED by foes determined not to spare,

From subterraneous treason's darkling An old weak man for vengeance thrown

power;

Merciless act of sorrow infinite!

Worse than the product of that dismal night,
When gushing, copious as a thunder-shower,
The blood of Huguenots through Paris

streamed.

ILLUSTRATION.

THE Virgin Mountain,† wearing like a
queen

A brilliant crown of everlasting snow,
Sheds ruin from her sides; and men below
Wonder that aught of aspect so serene
Can link with desolation. Smooth and
green,

And seeming, at a little distance, slow,
The waters of the Rhine; but on they go
Fretting and whitening, keener and more
keen,

aside,

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(Like a poor bird entangled in a snare Laud, in the painful art of dying" tried, Whose heart still flutters, though his wings

forbear

To stir in useless struggle) hath relied
On hope that conscious innocence supplied,
And in his prison breathes celestial air.
Why tarries, then, thy chariot? Wherefore
stay,
[wheels,
O death the ensanguined yet triumphant

In this age a word cannot be said in praise of Laud, or even in compassion for his fate, without incurring a charge of bigotry; but fearless of such imputation, I concur with Hume, "that it is sufficient for his vindication to observe, that his errors were the most excusable of period." A key to the right understanding of all those which prevailed during that zealous those parts of his conduct that brought the most odium upon him in his own time, may be found in the following passage of his speech before the bar of the House of Peers:-"Ever since I came in place. I have laboured nothing more, than that the external public worship of God, so much slighted in divers parts of this kingdom, might be preserved, and that with as much decency and uniformity as might be. For I evidently saw, that the publick neglect of God's service in the outward face of it, and the nasty lying of many places dedicated to that service, had almost cast a damp upon the true and in in-ward worship of God, which, while we live in the body needs external helps, and all iittie enough to keep it in any vigour."

Till madness seizes on the whole wide flood,
Turned to a fearful thing whose nostrils
breathe
[he tries
Blasts of tempestuous smoke-wherewith
To hide himself, but only magnifies;
And doth in more conspicuous torment
writhe,

Deafening the region in his ireful mood.

* A common device in religicus and political conflicts.-See STRYPE in support of this stance.

The Jungfrau.

Which thou prepar'st, full often to convey, (What time a state with madding faction reels)

The saint or patriot to the world that heals All wounds, all perturbations doth allay?

AFFLICTIONS OF ENGLAND.

PATRIOTIC SYMPATHIES.

LAST night, without a voice, this vision spake

Fear to my spirit-passion that might se
Wholly dissevered from our present then
Yet do I love my country-and partake
Of kindred agitations for her sake;
She visits oftentimes my midnight dream;
Her glory meets me with the earliest beam

HARP! couldst thou venture, on thy boldest of light, which tells that morning is awake.

string,

The faintest note to echo which the blast
Caught from the hand of Moses as it past
O'er Sinai's top, or from the shepherd king,
Early awake, by Siloa's brook, to sing
Of dread Jehovah; then, should wood and

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If aught impair her beauty or destroy.
Or but forebode destruction, I deplore
With filial love the sad vicissitude;

If she hath fallen and righteous Heaven re

store

[newed, The prostrate, then my spring-time is reAnd sorrow bartered for exceeding joy.

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With frantic love-his kingdom to regain?
Him virtue's nurse, adversity, in vain
Received, and fostered in her iron breast:
For all she taught of hardiest and of best,
Or would have taught, by discipline of pain
And long privation, now dissolves amain,
Or is remembered only to give zest
To wantonness.-Away, Circean revels !
Already stands our country on the brink
Of bigot rage, that all distinction levels
Of truth and falsehood, swallowing the
good name,
[misery, shame,

FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE | And, with that draught, the life-blood: By poets loathed; from which historians shrink!

PRESENT TIMES

I SAW the figure of a lovely maid
Seated alone beneath a darksome tree,
Whose fondly overhanging canopy
Set off her brightness with a pleasing shade,
Substance she seemed (and that my heart
betrayed,

For she was one I loved exceedingly);
But while I gazed in tender reverie
(Or was it sleep that with my fancy played?)
The bright corporeal presence, form, and
face,

Remaining still distinct, grew thin and rare, Like sunny mist; at length the golden hair, Shape, limbs, and heavenly features, keep

ing pace

Each, with the other, in a lingering race Of dissolution, melted into air.

LATITUDINARIANISM.

YET truth is keenly sought for, and the wind Charged with rich words poured out in thought's defence;

Whether the Church inspire that eloquence,
Or a Platonic piety confined

To the sole temple of the inward mind;
And one there is who builds immortal lays,
Though doomed to tread in solitary ways,
Darkness before, and danger's voice behind!
Yet not alone, nor helpless to repel
Sad thoughts; for from above the starry
sphere

Come secrets, whispered nightly to his ear;
And the pure spirit of celestial light
Shines through his soul-"that he may see

and tell

Of things invisible to mortal sight."

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NANTERS.

With outstretched hands and earnest specch -in vain !

Yea, many, haply wont to entertain
Small reverence for the mitre's offices,
And to religion's self no friendly will,
A prelate's blessing ask on bended knees.

WILLIAM THE THIRD.

CALM as an under-current-strong to draw
Millions of waves into itself, and run,
From sea to sea, impervious to the sun
And ploughing storm-the spirit of Nassau
(By constant impulse of religious awe
Swayed, and thereby enabled to contend
With the wide world's commotions) from
its end

Swerves not-diverted by a casual law.
Had mortal action e'er a nobler scope?
The hero comes to liberate, not defy
And, while he marches on with righteous
hope,

PERSECUTION OF THE SCOTTISH COVE-Conqueror beloved ! expected anxiously! The vacillating bondman of the pope, Shrinks from the verdict of his steadfast

WHEN Alpine vales threw forth a suppliant

cry,

The majesty of England interposed And the sword stopped; the bleeding wounds were closed;

And faith preserved her ancient purity. How little boots that precedent of good, Scorned or forgotten, thou canst testify, For England's shame, O sister realm! from wood, where lie Mountain, and moor, and crowded street, The headless martyrs of the Covenant, Slain by compatriot-protestants that draw From councils senseless as intolerant Their warrant. Bodies fall by wild swordlaw; [a straw But who would force the soul, tilts with Against a champion cased in adamant.

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eye.

OBLIGATIONS OF CIVIL TO RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY.

UNGRATEFUL country, if thou e'er forget
The sons who for thy civil rights have
bled!
[head,
How, like a Roman, Sidney bowed his
And Russel's milder blood the scaffold
wet;

But these had fallen for profitless regret Had not thy holy Church her champions bred; And claims from other worlds inspirited The star of liberty to rise. Nor yet (Grave this within thy heart!) if spiritual things

Be lost, through apathy, or scorn, or fear, Shalt thou thy humbler franchises support, However hardly won or justly dear; What came from Heaven to Heaven by nature clings, [short. And, if dissevered thence, its course is

Down a swift stream, thus far, a bold design

Have we pursued, with livelier stir of heart Than his who sees, borne forward by the Rhine,

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WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES.

THERE are no colours in the fairest sky
So fair as these. The feather whence the
pen
[good men
Was shaped that traced the lives of these
Dropped from an angel's wing. With
moistened eye

We read of faith and purest charity
In statesman, priest, and humble citizen.
Oh, could we copy their mild virtues, then
What joy to live, what blessedness to die!
Methinks their very names shine still and
bright;

Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night;
Or lonely tapers when from far they fling
A guiding ray; or seen, like stars on high,
Satellites burning in a lucid ring
Around meek Walton's heavenly memory.

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Nor

* Among the benefits arising, as Mr. Coleridge has well observed, from a Church establishment of endowments corresponding with the wealth of the country to which it belongs, may be reckoned as eminently important, the examples of civility and refinement which the clergy, stationed at intervals, afford to the whole people. The established clergy in many parts of England have long been, as they continue to be, the principal bulwark against barbarism, and the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age. is it below the dignity of the subject to observe that their taste, as acting upon rural residences and scenery, often furnishes models which country gentlemen, who are more at liberty to follow the caprices of fashion, might profit by. The precincts of an old residence must be treated by and necessity. I remember being much pleased ecclesiastics with respect, both from prudence some years ago, at Rose Castle, the rural seat of the see of Carlisle, with a style of garden and architecture, which, if the place had belonged to a wealthy layman, would no doubt have been swept away. A parsonage-house generally stands not far from the church; this sometimes suggests an affecting union of the proximity inposes favourable restraints, and accommodations and elegances of life with the outward signs of piety and mortality. pleasure I recall to mind a happy instance of this in the residence of an old and much-valued friend in Oxfordshire. The house and church

With

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