As I laye a-wakynge, 'twas soe she seemed to say--

"Whatte and if it alle bee feynynge?

There be better thynges than gaynynge,

Better pryzes than attaynynge."

And 'twas truthe she seemed to saye.

Whyles the dawne was breakynge, I rode upon my waye.

Q. (Oxford Magazine.)

THE WIDOW LAMPORT.

CHAPTER I.

[AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE.]