“Aprilis patule nucis sub umbra
post convivia dormio libenter.”
A CURIOUS DUET, CHICHESTER.
In this carving, however, the musicians appear to be within doors and to be giving a set duet. To the interest of the ear they add a curious spectacle for the eye, for they are seated in chairs which have no fore-legs, and their balance is kept by the flageoletist taking hold of the harp as the players sit facing, so that while leaning back they form a counter-poise to each other. The chairs are a curious study in mediæval furniture.
It is not unlikely that the sculptor in the case of the annexed block had in his mind something similar to the saying—
“When a man’s single he lives at his ease.”
BACHELOR QUARTERS, WORCESTER.
A man come in from, we may presume, frost and snow, has taken off his boots, and warms his feet as, seated on his fald-stool by the fire, he stirs the pot with lively anticipation of the meal preparing inside. He is probably a shepherd or swine-herd; on one side is seated his dog, at the other are hung two fat gammons of bacon.
