And surely to omit would not be fair, The famed Sir RICHARD WHITTINGTON, Lord Mayor, Of whom each 'prentice has the story pat, Of London bells, cross cook maids, and a cat.* Q. Did not the King, who ow'd it most protection, Oft' violate the freedom of election? A. Most shamefully, and Sheriffs were required Chaucer addresses him, "O! moral Gower ! &c, &c." James I. of Scotland thus speaks of him and Chaucer : "Unto Impnis of my maisteris dere "Gower and Chaucer, on the steps they sate "Of rhetorike, whyle they were lyvande here, * Whittington founded an Hospital, made many charitable bequests, and rebuilt Newgate, where the statue of his Cat, according to Pennant, accompanied his own. "Duce "Duce ace non possunt, et sise cinque solvere nolunt, "Est igitur notum, Cater-tray solvere totum." CAMDEN. Of which, for ladies' information, We add James Petit Andrew's imitation: SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF HENRY THE FIFTH, SURNAMED OF MONMOUTH. Born at Monmouth, 1388. Crowned 1413. Married the Princess Katherine of France, by whom he had Henry VI. who succeeded. The Queen Dowager afterwards married Owen Tudor, a private Welch Gentleman, from whom descended Henry VII. The King reigned near Ten years; died 1422, and was buried at Westminster. PRINCIPAL EVENTS. The Earl of Cambridge, and others, beheaded for Treason. Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, burnt alive for heresy. Sixty thousand French defeated by fifteen thousand English, at Agincourt. Conquest of France. Conquest of France. A law was passed in this Reign, that Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, serving in Parliament, should be residents of the places represented. EMINENT PERSONS. Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury. Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, younger Son of John of Gaunt, and Preceptor to Henry the Fifth and Sixth. Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury. COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Popes. John XXIII. 1410. Martin V. 1417. Emperors. HENRY V. SURNAMED OF MONMOUTH. "Young Harry's the lad for me." Mrs. BROOKES, Who gain'd at Agincourt the victor's bays, Nor took himself, but gave to Heav'n, the praise! "By pleasure's bright allurements led along, TICKEL, "Soon did he shake his head, and say that all was wrong! "Then, streams of radiance mark'd his destin'd way; "Where'er he trod the magic gleams appear; "His burnish'd breast-plate sparkled on the day, "And glory's harp still roll'd along his ear." LEIGH HUNT'S PALACE OF PLEASURE. "Not to day, O ! lord, "Oh! not to-day! Think not upon the fault 66 My father made in compassing the crown. "I Richard's body have interred new, "And on it have bestowed more contrite tears, "Than from it issued forced drops of blood. "Five hundred poor have I in yearly pay, Who, twice a day, their wither'd hands hold up 'To Heav'n, to pardon blood!—And I have built SHAKESPEARE. In our fifth Harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion "To thump the French, poor creatures, to excess, "Tho' Britons now-a-day show more compassion, And thump them, certainly, a great deal less.* * Mr. Colman wrote this before some late glorious events in the Peninsula, and other parts of Europe. "For |