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[196] The Cardinal, sent by the Duke of Glo'ster and the High Commissioners, to persuade the Queen to resign her son to them. The dialogue is almost entirely from Speed.
[197] Thebes.
[198] The vale of Avalon was surrounded by waters at the time. King Arthur is described as buried in the island of Avalon. Part of a sculptured lion remains; and it may be observed that Leland, in his "Itinerary," speaks of "Duo leones sub pedibus Arthuri." The masonry over the sacred well, discovered by Mr Warner, is eminently beautiful. It is a singular fact, that the last meeting of the Bible Society was held amidst the august desolation of Glastonbury Abbey.
[199] A celebrated station and city, on the great Roman road from Bath to London; the walls of which, covered with trees, yet remain nearly entire.
[200] The Amphitheatre.
[201] This majestic but dilapidated pile has been repaired at great expense, and with taste and judgment, in every respect consonant to and worthy of its ancient character. These verses were written under the contemplation of this singularly beautiful and unique pile being open again for public worship by a sacred musical performance.
[202] The service by the prayer-book was forbidden.
[203] Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, built and endowed at Salisbury, Collegium Matronarum, the college of matrons, widows of clergymen. They are entertained by each canon during his residence. These lines were written when they were the guests of the author.
[204] He returned to Walton's cottage from the scene of execution of his brave friend, Lord Capel.
[205] Anne, born 1677, and mother of William Hawkins.
[206] Walton died 1683, aged ninety; Morley, the year after, 1684, aged eighty-seven. They are buried in the same Cathedral.
[207] In allusion to Bishop Ken's well-known morning and evening hymns.
[208] Supposed to have been addressed to Bishop Ken, by Princess Mary of Orange, before her marriage with William III., who, but for the interposition of the Bishop, would have broken his engagement to marry her.
[209] See Moore's Life of Sheridan.
[210] The legend on which this ballad is founded, is related in Latin, in the Book of Lacock.
[211] Mount St Michael, in periculo maris, and answering to St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
[212] This magnificent ruin of the favourite castle of Richard I. is on the banks of the Seine, near Les Andelys, the birth-place of Poussin, and the retreat of Thomas Corneille. A single year sufficed to form its immense fosses, and to raise those walls which might seem to be the structure of a lifetime. When Cœur de Lion saw it finished, he is said to have exclaimed with exultation, "How beautiful she is, this daughter of a year!" It was the last hold of the English in Normandy; and, under the command of Roger de Lacy, long mocked the efforts of Philip Augustus, who came in person to invest it in August 1203. The siege was memorable for its length, the incredible exertions of De Lacy, and the sufferings endured by the besieged until its capture in the following March.—Wiffen's "Memoirs of the House of Russell," vol. i. p. 548.
[213] It is a remarkable coincidence, that the present possessor of Lacock Abbey should be a Talbot.
[214] The Bishop of Gloucester.
THE END.
BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
Transcriber's note
The following changes have been made to the text:
[Page 35]: Was 'Christain' (A [a/]Christian loves them; and this holiday)
[Page 35]: Was 'Christain' (His first pure [a/]Christian feelings, hallowing)
[Page 43]: Was 'mall' ('Judicium metuit sibi mens [a/]mali conscia justum.')
[Page 76 (Footnote 61)]: Was 'rythm' (The [a/]rhythm of this song is taken from a ballad)
[Page 211]: Was 'Forgotton' (Forgotten, and Oblivion on our works)
[Page 239]: Was 'is is' (There is a God, who knows what [a/]is best.)
[Page 257]: Was 'the the' (Lo! houseless o'er [a/]the world they stray,)
[Page 270]: Was 'Cheftain' (This counsel pleased the [a/]Chieftain well:)
[Page 286]: Was 'Iris' (Great Isis, seems herself to stand.)