[593:1] See Bolingbroke, page [304].

[593:2] Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.—Hume: History of England, vol. i. chap. lxii.

[593:3] Macaulay, in a letter, June 29, 1831, says "I sent these lines to the 'Times' about three years ago."

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J. A. WADE.  1800-1875.

Meet me by moonlight alone,

And then I will tell you a tale

Must be told by the moonlight alone,

In the grove at the end of the vale!