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site convex side is a short blunt thorn. This the river Paraiba. We copy the most singular plant, which might easily be mis-novel particulars taken for a production of art, climbs into The route over a sandy soil was fatiguing, Travels in Brazil, in the years 1815-6-7. the tops of the highest trees. Its leaf is but the magnificent scenery of the forest By Prince Maximilian, of Wied-Neu- small and bilobed. but I never saw the "wied. London. 1820, 4to. pp. 335. flower, though the plant itself is very com richly indemnified us for every exertion. mon. The odour exhaled by many of these Upon the trunk of a tree which grew obOur last Number commenced with creeping plants is strong, but extremely va liquely, I found a lead-coloured snake six the review of a ci-devant King historious: the cipo cravo smells very agreeably, coluber plumbeus. or seven feet long, which I shall denominate It suffered us all to rian: this begins with the notice of a something like cloves; another, on the con-ride past without moving. I had desired Prince traveller and man of science. trary, which is mentioned by La Condamine as growing on the banks of the Amazons, who carried the plants we collected, was hunters to shoot it, but a negro, Certainly, the fraternity of authors must has the smell of garlic. Many of them with great difficulty prevailed upon to carry feel elevated by the junction of such shoot downwards long branches, which take this farge, wholly innoxious animal, which distinguished auxiliaries. With the root; thus impeding the progress of the pursuits and talents of Prince Maximi-traveller, who must cut them down before stick, across his shoulders. After he had we tied up in a cloth at the end of a long lian our readers are partially acquainted, he can proceed. Such pendent branches, as we have had several opportunities of when agitated by the wind, frequently in gone a considerable distance, he perceived a laying before them accounts of his fliet severe blows on the traveller in these slight motion in his burden, and was so terHighness's proceedings in Brazil. We uriant in these climates, that every old tree forests. In general, vegetation is so lux-rified, that he threw it down and ran away. shall therefore abstain from preface, we saw presented a botanical garden of and, taking it for granted that the plants, often difficult to come at, and cerwriter and his course are sufficiently tainly for the most part unknown. known, fall at once into the middle of We shot many fine birds here: amongst his scientific labours, especially as a others, the trogon viridis of Linneus was naturalist; and curious observations on very common; his voice and oft-repeated are as much as six inches in diameter, shoot the natives, whose haunts he has ex- where heard. We soon learned to limitate upwards, and have a gentle bend at the top: whistle, sinking from high to low, is every plored, under the protection of the it, and could thus easily entice the bird, branches are short strong thorns which renthe leaves are feathery, and upon the government, and whose habits he has which settled on low branches near us, where der such a barrier impenetrable. This kind described more minutely than any pre-we could shoot it with ease. Woodpeckers, of bamboo forms extremely intricate ceding traveller. of different beautiful species, were equally thickets, which from their numerous dry leaves and their withered sheaths produce, with the slightest wind, a peculiar rustling noise. They are extremely welcome to the hunter; for on cutting off such a reed below found to be full of a cool pleasant liquid, the joint, the stem of the younger shoots is though of a rather flat, sweetish taste, which immediately quenches the most burning thirst. This remarkable plant loves mountainous, dry situations; it therefore abounds particularly in the capitania of Minas Geraes, where drinking vessels are made out of its stems.

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sca-beach again by this road, you pass over Near the river Ostras, before you reach the some hills, which are for the most part coforty feet in height, called taquarusku, or vered with a species of reed from thirty to the great cane. Ita colossal stems, which

The first excursion from Rio Janeiro, numerous. We often killed great numbers is to Cape Frio. The author set out on of the little parrots with a wedge-shaped the 4th of August, and almost immedi-tail, here called tribas. Towards evening ately got into the heart of scenery of red-necked magpie of Azara. had the good fortune to obtain the pavé, or the grandest kind, and teeming with beautiful black bird, of the size of a crow; This is a botanical and animal wonders. A brief the fore-part of the neck of a brilliant red extract here will afford an idea of the colour. Mr. Sellow did not find many new country, and of the author's inquiries plants; but he frequently met with the alsand mode of stating their result, tromeria ligtu, bearing a red and white striped flower. He also caught a snake, The forest itself was a dark wilderness of which, though very common here, is the ancient trees of colossal magnitude, commost beautiful of its species. This animal posed of the mimosa, lignum vitæ, bomba, is known in the country by the names of bignonia, and others, which as usual, were cobra coral, or coraës; but it must not be At St. Fidelis a visit is paid to a tribe attended by a number of parasite plants, confoundled with the crues described by of the Puris, whose good-will had been such as bromelia, epidendrum, passiflora, Lacepede and others. The name of coral- previously secured by presents. bauhinia, banisteria, &c. the climbing stems snake is most justly assigned to it; the most author thus relates the circumstances— of which are rooted in the ground, while brilliant scarlet alternates on its smooth body their leaves and flowers occupy only the with black and greenish white rings, so that We had scarcely left the house the next highest summits of their supporters; they this innocent reptile may be compared with a morning, when we perceived the Indians cannot therefore be examined without cut-string of variegated beads. I have frequent-coming out of the woods. We hastened to ting down one of those gigantic monarchs ly preserved it in spirits of wine; but could incet them, treated them immediately with of the forest, the extreme hardness of whose never succeed in retaining its fine red colour. brandy, and accompanied them to the forest. wood often defies the sharpest axe. Among In the Linnean system this species of snake When we rode round the sugar-works of the these creeping plants, a bauhinia is very re- has doubtless been described by the name of markable: its strong woody branches always coluber fulvius, from specimens which had grow in alternate arcs of circles: the con-lost their splendid hues in spirits. cavity of each are is as artificially hollowed, as

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From Cape Frio the Prince journeyed mployed for the purpose, and on the oppo- across the country to St. Salvador, on OL. IV.

The length of this animal was six feet, one inch, four lines; it bad two hundred and twenty-four divisions on the belly, and seventy-nine pair of tail-scales. The upper parts are of a dark lead colour; the lower of a une yellowish white, shining like porcelain.

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fazenda, we found the whole horde of the wise, owing to the want of clothing, suffer this boy heard his fate. He did not change Puris lying on the grass. The gronpe of severely from the cold, and because it is countenance, or even take leave of his friends, naked brown figures presented a most singular also attended with the important advantage but mounted cheerfully behind Mr. Freyand highly interesting spectacle. Men, wo- of scaring all wild beasts from their huts. reiss. This callous indifference on all occamen, and children, were huddled together, Such a habitation is abandoned by the savagessions, whether agreeable or melancholy, is and contemplated us with curious but timid without regret, when the adjacent country met with among all the American tribes. looks. They had all adorned themselves as no longer supplies them with a sufficiency of Joy and grief make no lively impression on much as possible : only a few of the women food; they then remove to other parts where them; they are seldom seen to laugh, and wore a cloth round the waist or over the they find greater abundance of monkeys, not often heard to speak very loud. Their breast ; but most of them were without any swine, deer, pacas, agutis, and other game, most urgent craving is food ; their stomach covering. Some of the men had by way of In this neighbourhood the Puris are reported requires to be constantly filled; they acornament a piece of the skin of a monkey, to have shot a great number of the bearded cordingly eat uncommonly quick, with greedy of the kind called mono (ateles) fastened ape, and they in fact offered to sell us several looks, their whole attention being directed to round their brows; and we observed also half-roasted pieces of that animal'; one of their repast. But they are said to be equally a few who had cut off their hair quite close these was a head, the other a breast with the capable of enduring hunger for a long time.

a The women carried their little children arms, but without the head; a truly disgust. partly in bandages made of bass, which were ing sight! especially because they roast all As we could not obtain flour at the fazenfastened over the right shoulder ; others cár- their game with the skin on, which is thus du to feed all these people, we considered of tied them on their backs, supported by scorched black. These tough half-raw dain- other means to satify the loud calls of their broad bandages passing over the forehead. ties they tear in pieces with their strong stomachs. The master of the house gave us

in white They are devour in the , , carry their baskets of provisions

when they same manner human flesh out of revenge; but telling them to shoot it themselves ; so travel. Some of the men and girls were as for their eating their own deceased relations, that we had an opportunity of seeing with much painted; they had a red spot on the as a last token of affection, according to the what savage cruelty they prepare animals for forehead and cheeks, and some of them red report of some early writers, no trace of such their food. The hog was eating near the stripes on the face; others had black stripes a custom is to be found, at least in our house ; a Puri advanced softly, and shot it lengthwise, and transverse strokes with dots times, among the Tapuyas on the east coast. too high, under the back-bone ; it ran away over the body; and many of the little chil. The Portugueze on the Paraiba universally screaming, and dragging the arrow along dren were marked all over, like a leopard, assert that the Puris feast on the flesh of the with it. The savage then took a second with little black dots. This painting seems enemies they have killed, and there really arrow, shot the animal, while running, in to be arbitrary, and to be regulated by their seems to be some truth in this assertion, as the shoulder, and then caught it. Meantime individual taste. Some of the girls wore a will appear in the sequel; but they would the women had kindled a fire. When we all certain kind of ribbons round their heads; never confess it to us. When we questioned came up, they shot the animal again in the and the females in general fasten a bandage them on the subject, they answered that the neck, to dispateh it, and then in the breast. of bass or cord tightly round the wrists and Botocudos only had this custom. Mawe It was not, however, yet dead ; it lay screamancles, in order, as they say, to make those relates that the Indians at Canta Gallo ate ing and bleeding profusely: but without parts small and elegant.

birds without plueking them. I never saw a regard to its cries, they threw it alive into The figure of the inen is in general robust, savage do this, they even carefully take out the fire to singe off the hair, and laughed squat, and often very muscular, the lead the entrails, and probalily had a mind to heartily at the groans which its sufferings large and round; the face broad, with most- amuse the English traveller by shewing him extorted. It was not till our loudly exly high cheek-bones ; the eyes black, small, some extraordinary trick.

pressed displeasure at this barbarity became and sometimes oblique ; the nose short and In the huts there were great numbers of more and more impatient, that one of them broad, and their teeth very white; but some women and children ; and in some of thein advanced, and plunged a knife into the breast were distinguished by sharp features, small several sleeping-nets, though in general there of the much tortured animal, on which aquiline noses, and very lively eyes, which in was only one in each hut. A Puri, on my they scraped off the hair, and immediately very few of them have a pleasing look, but offering him a knife, took down his sleeping-cut it up and divided it. From the small in most a grave, gloomy, and cunning ex- net and delivered it to me: others bartered size of the animal, many of them did not obpression, shaded by their projecting foreheads. away the bands of apes'-skin round their tain a share, and went back grumbling to

One of the men was distinguished from all forehead, their necklaces, and the like. Mr. their woods. the rest by his Calmuck physiognomy; he Freyreiss entered into a negociation with one had a large round head, the hair of which of the Paris for the purchase of his son, and a portion of the work which relates to

Our ensuing extracts are taken from was all cut to an inch in length ; a very mus- offered him various articles in exchange the route from St. Salvador to the river cular robust body; a short thick neck; a The women consulted aloud, in the singing broar flat face , his eyes, which were placed tone peculiar to them, and some of them with Espirito Santo, and thence to the Risobliquely, were rather larger than those of the gestures indicative of disapprobation; most dore. Calmucks usually are, very black, staring, and of their words ended in e, aud were drawled

The heat being very intense, we suffered wild ; the eye-brows were black, bushy, and out, which produced a very loud and singular much from thirst, which our much arched ; the nose small, but with wide concert. It was evident that they were un- taught us an infallible method of allaying. nostrils; the lips rather thick. This fellow, willing to part with the boy; but the head This was to break off the middle stiff leaves who, as our attendants said, had never been of the family, an elderly grave-looking man of the bromelias, in the corners of which seen here before, appeared to us all so for- with good features, spoke a few words with very good water from the rain and dew colinidable, that we unanimously declared we great emphasis, and then stood for some lects, and this nectar is caught by applying should not like to meet him alone warmed time lost in thought with his eyes fixed on the plant quickly to the mouth. in a solitary place. The Puris are in general the ground : a shirt, two knives, a handker

On the projecting points of the coast, we very short, and all the Brazilian tribes are chief, some strings of coloured glass beads, this day found stony hills, upon which grew inferior in this respect to the Europeans, and and some small mirrors, were successively a great number of slender wild cocoa-palms, even to the Negroes. All the men here given to him : he could not withstand this the fine leaves of which proudly waved in the carried their weapons, consisting of long temptation : he went into the wood, and bows and arrows, in their hands. soon returned leading by the hand a boy, among the savages any confirmation of what

#Neither here, nor in the sequel, did I find Fire, which the Puris call poté, is a prime who was however ugly, and in some measure Mr. Freyreiss says in Eschwege's Journal of necessary of life with all the Brazilian tribes : deformed, and was therefore rejected; here- Brazil, namely, that the savages never eat the they never suffer it to go out, and keep it up upon he brought a second, who was accept- flesh of animals which they have killed themthe whole night, because they would othered. It is incredible with what indifference selves.

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fresh sea-breeze. The oyster-eater was every where common, as well as plovers and sand-pipers. In a beautiful ancient forest we were highly amused with the loud notes of various birds, among which, as the evening approached, an owl (curuje) was also heard; parrots screamed aloud, and the sweet call of the juo (tinamus) resounded far off in this multitudinous concert, through the solitary wilderness. We took up our night's lodging at the Fazenda de Agá, where mandiocca, cotton, and coffee, are

cultivated. Extensive woods, filled with all kinds of wild beasts, nearly adjoin the plantations on the land side. In the preceding night, a large ounce (yaguarete, felis onca, Linn.) had killed a mare belonging to the proprietor, whose hunters, with their dogs, had in vain searched the neighbouring forests. Not far from the fazenda, a lofty rounded insulated mountain, called Morro de Aga, rises from among the contiguous woods. It consists of rocks and steep naked precipices, and is surrounded by high hills; its summit is said to command a magnificent prospect. Near the dwellings I found a little marsh, where I was astonished, at night-fall, by the remarkable voice of a frog hitherto unknown to me: it sounded exactly like a tinman or brazier working with his hammer; only the sound was on the whole deeper or fuller. It was not till long afterwards that I became better acquainted with this animal, which, on account of its voice, is called by the Portugueze the smith. Another curiosity, was a thick bush, of a kind of heliconia, which we had not yet seen; and which constantly

bends down the stalks of its flowers archwise, at a certain height, and then turns up the end again; many flowers, with scarlet calices, cover the crooked part of the stalk, which is of an equally fine colour. This magnificent shrub formed a perfect bower.

Two of our hunters found in the wood a large venomous serpent. It lay quietly in a hollow, where it was not easy to get at it; one of them therefore mounted on a low tree, from which he shot the animal. This beautiful serpent is called in this country gurucucú, attains the length of tight or nine feet and a considerable thickness, is of a pale reddish yellow colour, with a row of lozengeshaped spots on the back. The form of the shields, scales and tail, shews that it is the great viper of the woods of Cayenne and Surinam, described, though rather incorrectly, by Daudin, under the name of lachesis. Its bite is much dreaded, and persons who are wounded by it are said to die in less than

six hours.

At Pedra de Agoa the author says As evening came on, the cattle that had been out grazing began to assemble; we observed among them a singular sheep, which we learnt on enquiry to be a cross of a ram bled its dam; it was thick, corpulent, and and a she-goat. The animal greatly resemround, had soft goat's hair, and the horns turned rather more outwards.

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tering about. We found here the remarkable on Sir Richard Grenville; ..and several
bag-shaped nest of a little bird of the tody other curious tracts, little, if at all
genus, which always builds near the nests of known, even to the most diligent biblio-
a certain species of wasps, (marimbondo,) for
the purpose, as it is affirmed, of securing it- philists. These matters alone are suffi-
self from the attacks of its enemies. I at- cient to recommend the Poetical De-
tempted to approach the nest of the bird, cameron to a large class of readers
but was prevented by the wasps, which ac- and Mr. C. has endeavoured to make it
tually made their appearance immediately. more generally acceptable by the way
in which he has relieved its dryness.
have been more agreeable without a
We confess, that to our tastes it would
portion of this seasoning; but we have
no doubt that it will render it more pa-
lateable and popular with the majority
of our readers.

(To be concluded in our next.)

Of

We extract a passage from the preface, to explain the author's own opinion on this point.

meeting of friends should never consist of Graces: the latter has been chosen in this more than the Muses, or of fewer than the instance for greater convenience and simplicity, and as much diversity of character has been displayed as the nature of the conversations would easily allow. Congeniality of modifications of it was nearly all that could feeling was of course necessary, and different be attempted.

The Poetical Decameron, or Ten Con-
versations on English Prose and Poetry,
particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth
and James I. By J. Payne Collier,
of the Middle Temple. Edinburgh
and London, 1820. Cr. 8vo. 2 vols.
Mr. Collier, whose debut upon the
lettered stage is, we believe, made on
the present occasion, has pitched upon "With regard to the manner, the form of
a period for research and elucidation, dialogue has been selected, as allowing more
which has unrivalled charms for the ease and familiarity of observation, and at
lovers of English literature. In this he the same time a greater facility of excursion
has evinced not only a sound judgement ther. It is a saying of refined antiquity, that
from one book or from one subject to ano-
but a highly laudable ambition; and a
it gives us pleasure to add, that con-
siderable stores of bibliographical in-
formation are the result of his inquiries.
Having read much on the subject to
which he has devoted his pen, Mr. C.
has thrown the results into the form of
dialogue, in which the interlocutors,
three friends of the names of Blount,
Elliot, and Morton, maintain the con- "There is but one of the succeeding conver-
versation in a pleasant manner. sations, the seventh, which can be properly
course the Decameron is divided into called miscellaneous, for all the rest have
ten sittings. In these; the author's one leading object, more or less strictly pur-
object, while canvassing the productions sued. Thus in the first, a very rare poem
of our early writers, seems to have been to be the ground-work; all the digressions in
of much talent by Fitzgeffrey, may be said
to shun as much as possible the com- their degrees contributing to illustrate it.
least as much novelty as his purpose and progress of undramatic blank verse in
mon places of poetry, and to adduce at The second treats particularly of the rise
could bear. Nor is it to be supposed English, used at least a century before the
that preceding labourers in the same publication of Paradise Lost. The four next
rich field have left him gleanings only:
conversations are devoted to the origin and
so far from it, we look to see rich har-Bishop Hall, with a little of what Lord Ba-
improvement of satirical poetry, of which
vests gathered in for many seasons yet con calls "the varnish of boasting," falsely
to come, even after that of Mr. Collier's claims and has been generally admitted to
reaping. It is true, however, that the be the earliest inventor or practiser, when,
course which he has adopted, has led in truth, he was preceded by several cele-
him more into the examination of ra- brated writers. The seventh contains a col-
rities, than into the developement of lection of curious poems, independently of
unknown beauties. He is more of the such as the author had introduced in his pro-
antiquarian than of the poetical critic. Andress in furtherance of the main designs.
The eighth criticises an original novel, on
as a literary antiquarian, he has been re- which Shakespeare founded his "Twelfth
warded by the discovery, among other Night," very recently discovered, and un-
scarce tracts, of the original novel on known to all his numerous editors: it also
which Shakspeare founded his Twelfth adverts to other productions to which our
Night;
great dramatic bard was indebted.
and against theatrical performances from the
ninth and tenth conversations embrace a re-
view of many of the most rare productions for
earliest times to the Restoration: it of course
includes not a few interesting particulars
illustrative of the history of the stage, and

-a poem dedicated to Isaac which his biographers were not acWalton, the celebrated angler, with quainted ;...an original poem by ThoIn these forests, now that the summer was mas Churchyard, never before quoted;... just setting in, numerous butterflies of vari-Lord Morley's translation of Petrarch's

The

some tracts that have hitherto escaped notice."

There is an induction, which contains some pertinent remarks on Shakspeare and his Commentators; after disposing of whom Like winter foule became the Sommers Prime, the author proceeds to his "First Conver-The pleasant plotts brought forth wilde brier & sation." With this, relating to Charles With Raine & storme the lande was vexed still › Fitzgeffrey's poem on the death of Sir Fran- The ire of God the people could not shunne, cis Drake, we shall not now meddle more Great grewe the greef that came by headstrong than to quote two verses from that perwill, formance.

"Their enemies fled with such great hast,
They left their roastmeate on the spit;
Hens and chickens well crom'd and baste,
Tables coucred ready to sitte:

Wine and suger they found good store Their guests were come vnlooked for." "Vlysses with his Nauic great

In ten yeares space great valour wonne;
Yet all this time did no such feate,
As Drake within one yeere hath doone.

Both Turk and Pope and all our foes, Doe dread this Drake where ere he goes." Neither shall we go through the intervening conversations, which dwell largely on the early English satirists, but content ourselves with 'quoting from the 7th and 8th, such extracts as will afford fair grounds for judging Mr. Collier as an author.

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The seventh conversation turns on books of miscellaneons character, which may be styled literary curiosities. It sets out with Churchyard, who began writing in the reign of Edward VI., bnt 1559 is the carliest date of any extant and known performance by him, and he did not cease to publish until after the death of Elizabeth. [A very rare work of Churchyard's is then mentioned, which seems to have been unknown to Chalmers, Warton, and Ritson: Bourne says it is called] The Miserie of Flavnders, Calamitie of Fraunce, Misfortune of Portugall, Vnquietness of Jrelande, Troubles of Scotlande: And the blessed State of Eng lande. Written by Tho. Churchyarde, Gent. 1579. Imprinted at London for Andrewe Maunsell. The size, you see, is the old small quarto, and it consists of only 20 leaves."

The groud thought scorne to bryng forth frute
in time,

The Vines did rotte, the blade would beare no

corne,

thorn

Parts of this poem might well apply to circumstances within our own recollection; for example, on the "Calamitie of Fraunce."

The lost in feeld two hundreth thousande
men,

Yet still their mindes on murther ran so faste
Thei went about nothying but bloodshed then
To fight it out, as long as life might laste;
Revenge did woorke & weaue an endlesse webbe
Desire of will, à wofull threede did spinne,
The floode of hate, that neuer thinks of ebbe,
A swellyng Sea of strife brought gushing in.
The rooted wrathe had spred such braunches
out,

That leaues of loue were blasted on the bowe,
Yet spitfull twiggs began so faste to sprout
That from the harte the tree was rotten throwe.
No kindly sappe did comforte any spraie,
Both barke & stocke and bodye did decaie :
So that it seemde the soile infected was
With malice moods that smells of mischief
greate.

Their golden lande, was tournde to rustic Bras,
Aud eche thyng wrought, as God had curst the

seate:

And all these plagues by proude conceit begonne,.
That thought to rule perhapps past reasons lore;
Threate that who please, my muse not tramde
therefore."

And again

"O Fraunce, who lookes vpon thy bloodie waiest,
And notes but halfe the pageant thou hast plaied,
Will be therefore the wiser all their daies,
Or at the least, will howrely bee afraied
To plaie suche pranks as thou poore Fraunce

hast doon:

Thou hadst a tyme and wretched race to run
For others weale, that can good warnying take;
The harms of thee, and so a mirrour make
Thy neighbours have had laisure to regarde
Of thy greate doole and dulfull destinie harde.
Can greater plagues bee seen in any soile
Then reuell rage and hauocke euery waie!
A ciuille warre, with wicked waiste & spoile;
A deadlie botche that striks stoute harte by daie
And kills by night the harmles in his bedde:

ciuille warre, thou hast & Hidras hedde;
A Vipers kinde, a Serpentes nature throwe,
A Spider's shape, a forme of vglie Tode,
A Deuilishe face, a shamlesse blotted browe,
A bloodie hande at home & eke abrode."
Churchyard's picture of Scotland is also
curious.

"Shall man that hath the reason to forbeare
Be worse then beast? O God that fault forbid !
Shall malice find a place and succour there,
Where Gods greate gifts ought lie like treasure
hid?

Shall harts of men (the temple of the Lorde)
Shall those that knowes what lawe & peace is
Lodge murther vile, & nourish foule discorde?

worth

Breake Lawe and Peace, and breede dessention

still?

The tree is bad that bryngs suche braunches
forth,

The heddes are vaine, that showes no deeper

skill;

The ground is nought that breeds such scratting
brers,

And soile not good where murther still appers."
The contrast with England shall finish our
illustration.

"Here haue we scope to skippe or walke,
to ronne & plaic at base;
Still voide of feare, and free of mindo,

in euery poincte and cace.
Heere freends maie mecte and talke at will,
the Prince and Lawe obaied;
And necther strange nor home borne childe,
of Fortune stands afraied.
Here hands doe reape the seeds thei sowe,
and heads haue quiet sleeps;
And wisedome gouerns so the worlde,

that reason order keeps.
Here mercie rules, and mildnesse ráigns

and peace greate plentie bryngs;

And solace in his sweetest voice

the Christmas carrowle syngs.
Here freends maie feast, and triumphe too,
in suretie voide of ill;

And one the other welcome make

with mirthe and warme good will. The grounde it bryngs such blessyng forthe, that glad are forraigns all, Amid their want and hard extreems

in fauour here to faull:

Here wounded stacts doe heale their harms
and straungers still repaire ;
When mischief makes them marche abroad,
and drive them in dispaire.
Here thousands haunt and find releef,
that are in heouie cace.
And, friendly folke with open armes
doeth sillie soules embrace.
Here thyngs are cheape, and easly had,
no soile the like can showe;

No state nor Kyngdome at this daie
The trau'lar that hath paste the worlde,
doeth in such plentie flowe.

and gone through many a lande:
When he comes home, and noets these thyngs,
to heauen holds vp hande;

And museth how this little plotte

It argues where suche graces growe,
can yeeld suche pleasures greate:

that God hath blest the seate."
We wish we could say as much now!

This chapter also contains notices of Lewicke, who versified the well known story of Titus and Gisippus; of Markham, who wrote the tragedy of " Sir Richard Grenville, Knt.;" of Constable, from whom four unprinted Sonnets are inserted; and of others, their contemporaries.

The last of Constable's sonnets, which are addressed" to Sir Philip Sydney's Soule," is a good specimen of the poetry of the age. Great Alexander then did well declare

How great was his united Kingdomes might,
When eu'ry Captaine of his Army might
After his death with mighty Kings compare:
So now we see after thy death, how far
Thou dost in worth surpasse cach other
Knight,

One did of Macedon the King become,
When we admire him as no mortal wight,
In whom the least of all thy vertues are :

Another sat on the Egiptian throne,
But onely Alexanders selfe had all :
Some witty, wise, valliant, and learned some
So curteous some, and some be liberall,
But King of all the vertues thou alone.

But we must apply the small remaining space which we can allot to the Eighth Conversation, which treats of the novel hitherto undiscovered, whence Shakspeare took the plot of Twelfth Night. The title of the book in which it is found is "Rich his Farewell to Militarie Profession; Conteining very pleasant discourses fit for a peaceable time. Gathered together for the onely delight of the courteous Gentlewomen both of England and Ireland, for whose onely pleasure they were collected together, and vnto whom they are directed and dedicated. Newly augmented. By Barnabe Riche, Gentleman. -Malui me diuitem esse quam vocari.-Imprinted at London by G. E. for Thomas Adams, 1606."

And Mr. Collier thus proceeds:

"Morton. Was not Twelfth Night written before 1606, the date of Rich's book, where you say the original novel is inserted?

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