the weakest and most worthless of thy sons; for even the instinctive worm on which we tread, turns, though it wound not;'-thou much injured calumniated guide, that wouldest make me all I dream of, happy, high, majestical, that wouldest have me love and pity all things, and moan for woes which others hear not, and behold the absent with the glass of phantasy,

"And near the poor and trampled sit and weep,
Following the captive to his dungeon deep ;"

that wouldest have me cast away all human passions, all revenge, all pride, and think, speak, act no ill;'-that wouldest quench the earthconsuming rage of gold and blood, till men should live and move harmonious as the sacred stars above;-thou that art pure as light, lasting as the world, I salute thee, immortal Mother of learning and grace and sanctity! Salve Magna Parens."

"This life," says a great modern, " is man's day in which man does what he pleases, and God holds his peace. Man destroys his brother and destroys himself, and confounds governments, and raises armies, and tempts to sin, and delights in it, and drinks drunk, and forgets his sorrow, and heaps up great estates, and raises a family and a name in the annals, and makes others fear him, and introduces new religions and confounds the old;"—and changeth articles as the fancy of the moment may require, and talks of wicked priestcraft, and affects

an air of philosophy, and loves to be incredulous, and puts off examination to a more convenient season, and scorns the Church, and sets up his own reason as infallible, and holds that his sincerity will excuse his errors ;" and all this while God ;is silent."-But then God shall have his day too; the day of the Lord shall come, in which He shall speak and no man shall answer; He shall speak in the voice of thunder and fearful noises, and man shall do no more as he pleases, but must suffer as he hath deserved." It is of faith that many who have been in the grave shall then come forth to the again-rising of doom. Woe and alas! and God help us all!

But let us now rise and release our minds from the fatigue consequent upon such meditations. May all gentle hearts forgive my having suggested them, remembering that many men as far removed as ever I have been from the service of God's altar have expressed similar thoughts, remembering that when lodged in the dungeon of Monodontes, in the solitude of their prison, it was Orlando who led Brandimart to think upon the Christian faith; that, at midnight, while awaiting the return of day, which was to bring death to the one or the other, it was · Orlando who attempted to instruct the haughty Agrican; that on the field of battle it was Tancred who wished Clorinda to become the child and handmaid dear of Christ; that, lying under the chains of

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the infidels, it was Hue de Tabarie who imparted to Saladin the knowledge which might have qualified him for obtaining the honour of Christian knighthood. We have, indeed, different parts allotted us to mount to the high seat of eternal felicity," yet, chivalry," as a noble Spaniard said, “is a religious order, and there are knights in the fraternity of saints in heaven." When we next meet, it shall be amid plumed helmets and neighing steeds, within sounding castle courts, under knightly towers and battlements, from which the sun of beauty and high-born grace may shed its purple light.

"To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new."

We shall return to those attractive scenes through which the feet of knightly and generous men delight to stray, of youths in whom is

"love's keen wish,

And eager hope and valour high,
And the proud glow of chivalry,

That burns to do and dare ;-”

for, as Aristotle saith, that "young men may be happy, yet not otherwise but by hope," so, as saith Lord Bacon, "we must all acknowledge our minority, and embrace the felicity which is by hope of the future world;" we shall return to those attractive scenes, escaping far from the sad realities of this poor world, and happy, though it be but wandering for the present in the wild scenes of

imagination, and following at a distance the track

of him who said that he

"From human to divine had past, from time
Unto eternity, and out of Florence

To justice and to truth."

THE END.

Printed by R. GILBERT, St. John's-square, London.

172, for ever, read even.

219, for works, read words.

130, the Count of Stolberg supposes that St. Paul, using a word of double signification, intended that the unfavourable sense should be gathered from his countenance, vi. 243.

P. 68, In the first place John v. 39. is addressed to the Jews for a specific purpose, and it is monstrous to convert it into a universal precept; but then again, consult the original, and look to Vater's Note on ɛpɛvvare, if afraid to trust your own scholarship, and you will see "vel indicat. vel imper," but the latter mood destroys

sense.