Twice did he wed-his second Queen, the child
Of GODFREY, of Loraine. In time of dearth
(From April till the harvest time,) he fed
Ten thousand of his Norman subjects,-built,
In Oxfordshire, famed Woodstock Palace, which
Still bears the stamp of his munificence.

Yet will the liberal minded mourn to hear
That, having ta'en in war a hapless bard,
Who in some paltry measures (like to mine,)
Had ridiculed his greatness, his revenge,
(Tho' Sov'reigns for the poet pleaded hard,)
Depriv'd the wretched captive of his eyes,
Whose agony ensuing caus'd his death.*
Henry Beauclerc, of all our British Kings,
Shou'd have respected the proud name he bore,
Nor by inordinate and mean revenge,

Have own'd the poet's satyre had its force.

*"No, no," said the irritated King to a great foreign Prince who interceded for the wretched poet, " for this man being for"sooth a Wit, a Bard, and a Minstrel, hath composed many inde66 cent songs against me, and moreover hath sung them openly to "the great entertainment of my enemies. Now, since it hath "pleased God to deliver him into my hands, he shall be punished "to deter others from the like petulance." So the sentence took place, and the imprudent poet died of the wounds he receiv'd in struggling with the executioner.

ORDERICUS VITELIS.-Vide ANDREWS.

In this King's reign a house of monk's first gave
The Dunmow Charter, which entitles those
Who live in wedlock, sans debate, one year
To a fine flitch of bacon-one blest pair
Ask'd and obtained it; and about that time,
Thames water fail'd, the river bed was dry,
Men, women, children, walked across where now
Stands London Bridge.-This and the happy two
Who gain'd the Dunmow Flitch, astonish'd much
The gaping vulgar, and we hav'nt heard
That either prodigy occur'd again.

A Muse, cotemporary with the King.
By way of Elegy, thus chose to sing.

POETRY

POETRY of the Year 1135.

King HENRY is ded! bewty of the world,

.

For whom is grete dole ;

The Goddes now maken room for their kind bro

ther,

For he is Sole.

Mercurius in speech, Marce in battayle,

In hest strong Appollo;

Jupiter in hest,* egall with Saturn,

And enemie to Cupido;

King he was a right,

And man of most myght,

And glorious in rayninge.

And when he left his crowne
Then fell honour down,

For misse of such a King;

Normandy then gave Lowre,
For loss of their flowre,

And sange wel-a-way!

Englond made mone,

And Scotland did grone,

For to see that day!

Vide" THE MUSE'S LIBRARY."

• Hest-Command.

THE

THE SAXON LINE RESTORED..

SUMMARY OF the reign of

STEPHEN.

Born at Blois, 1105. Crowned, December 6, 1135. Married Maud, daughter of Eustace, Earl of Boulogne. Had issue, Baldwin, Eustace, William, Maud, Mary, and two natural sons, William, and Gervase, Abbot of Westminster. Reigned nineteen years. Died 1154. Buried at Faversham.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Stephen usurps the crown from the Empress Maud. The Barons assert their independence, and erect upwards of eleven hundred castles. The Empress Maud, with various success, attempts to gain the crown, her claim is at length compromised in favour of her son's succession. The Welch successful against the English. David, of Scotland, invades England and is repulsed. The Abbies of Coggeshall, Essex; Farness, in Lancashire; Carew and Higham, with an Hospital at York, and a Monastery at Faversham, erected. A fire, beginning at London stone, burnt eastward to Aldgate, and westward to St. Paul's.

EMINENT PERSONS.

John of Salisbury, Roger de Hoveden, Henry of Huntingdon, Ailred, Abbot of Revesby, Geoffry of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph's, William of Malmsbury, historians lived about this period. Curboil and Theobald, Archbishops of Canterbury. Thurstan, Archbishop of York, Lieutenant to the King, appoints Ralph, Bishop of Durham, his General against the Scols. Robert, Earl of Glocester. Ranulph, Earl of Chester.

COTEMPORARY

COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS.

Popes.

Cœlestine II. 1143. Lucius II. 1144. Eugenius III. 1145. Anastatices IV. 1153. Adrian IV. 1154.

Emperors.

Of the East.-John Comnenus, 1118. Emanuel Comnenus, 1143.

Of the West.-Lothaire II. 1125. Conrad III. 1128. Frederick I. 1152.

Kings.

Of France.-Lewis VI. 1108. Lewis VII. 1137.

Of Portugal.-Alphonsus I. 1112.

Of Scotland.-David I. 1124

STEPHEN.