Easter King.
As the emperor, Charles V., was passing through a small village in Arragon, on Easter-day, he was met by a peasant, who had been chosen the paschal, or Easter king of his neighbourhood, according to the custom of his country, and who said to him very gravely, “Sir, it is I that am king.” “Much good may it do you, my friend,” replied the emperor, “you have chosen an exceedingly troublesome employment.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 43·95.
[104] Antiquarian Repertory.
[105] Drake’s Shakespeare and his Times.
[106] Hitchins’s Cornwall.