What makes this more curious is, that, like the later battle, neither of the contending parties on this occasion were natives of the country in which the battle was fought, they being the French Calvinists on one side and the Spaniards on the other.
Philobiblion.
"Tuch."—In "The Synagogue," attached to Herbert's Poems, but written by Chr. Harvie, M.A., is a piece entitled "The Communion Table," one verse of which is as follows:
"And for the matter whereof it is made,
The matter is not much,
Although it be of tuch,
Or wood, or mettal, what will last, or fade;
So vanitie
And superstition avoided be."
S. T. Coleridge, in a note on this passage, printed in Mr. Pickering's edition of Herbert, 1850 (fcap. 8vo.), says: