There hee leaped downe, and gazing the Queene and Prince in the face, went forward:

That is Cypariffus face!

And the Dame hath Syrinx grace!
O that Pan were now in place!

Sure they are of heavenly race.

Here he ranne into the wood againe, and hid himfelfe, whilft to the found of excellent foft mufique, that was there concealed in a thicket, there came tripping up the lawne a bevy of Faeries attending on Mab their Queene, who falling into an artificiall ring that was there cut in the pathe, began to dance a round, whilft their mistreffe fpake as followeth :

greene,

Faerie. Haile, and welcome, worthieft Queene,
Joy had never perfect beene
To the nimphes that haunt this
Had they not this evening feene.
Now they print it on the ground,
With their feete in figures round,
Markes that will be ever found,
To remember this glad found.

The Satyre, peeping out of the bufh, faid,
Trust her not, you bonny bell;
Shee will forty leafinges tell;
I doe noe her pranks right well.

Faerie. Satyre, wee must have a spell,
For your tongue it runnes to fleete.

Satyre. Not fo nimbly as your feete,

When about the creame boules fweete,
You, and all your Elves do meete.

Here hee came hopping forth, and mixing himfelfe with the Faeries, fkipped in, out, and about their circle, while the Elves. made many offers to catch at him.

This is Mab, the Miftreffe Faerie,
That doth nightly rob the dairie;
And can hurt, or helpe the cherning,
As fhee pleafe, without difcerning.
Elfe. Pug, you will anone take warning?
Shee that pinches countrey wenches,
If they rub not cleane their benches,
And with fharper nailes remembers,
When they rake not up their embers;
But if fo they chaunce to feaft her,
In a fhooe the drops a tefter.
Elfe. Shall we ftrip the skipping jefter?
This is thee that empties cradles,
Takes out children, puts in ladles;

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Traines

Traines forth midwives in their flumber,
With a five the holes to number;

And then leads them from her burroughs,
Home through ponds, and water furrows.
Elfe. Shall not all this mocking ftir us?

Shee can start our franklins daughters,
In their fleepe with fhrikes and laughters,
And on fweet Saint Anne's night
Feed them with a promis'd fight.
Some of husbands, fome of lovers,
Which an empty dreame discovers.
Elfe. Satyre, vengeance neere you hovers,
And in hope that you would come here,
Yefter eve the lady Summer

She invited to a banquet;

But (in footh) I con you thanke yet,
That you could fo well deceive her,
Of the pride which gan upheave her;
And, by this, would fo have blowne her,
As no wood-god should have known her,

Heere he skipped into the wood.

Elfe. Miftres, this is onely fpight;
For you would not, yefternight,
Kiffe him in the cock-fhout light.

And came againe,

Satyre. By Pan, and thou haft hit it right. There they laid hould on him, and nipt him. Faery. Fairies, pinch him black and blew, Now you have him, make him rue. Satire. O, hold, Mab, I fue.

Elfe. Nay, the Devill fhall have his due.

There he ran quite awaye, and left them in a confufion, while

the Faery began againe.

Faery. Pardon, lady, this wild ftraine,

Common with the Sylvan traine';

That do fkip about this plaine:

Elves, apply your gyre againe :
And whilft fome do hop the ring,
Some fhall play, and fome fhall fing;
Weele expreffe in every thing,

Oriana's well comming." P. 109.

Among the more fingular fragments of antiquity which are here preferved, we ought perhaps to have noticed the

Roll

Roll of New Year's Gifts prefented to Queen Elizabeth by her Courtiers. They were of this kind.

"MARQUESSES AND COUNTESES.

By the Lady Marques of Northampton, two knottes £. s. do of golde, garnished with fparkes of rubyes and pearles pendant.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Lady Marques of Winchester, wydowe, one fprigge of golde, gar' with fparkes of rubyes, one fmall dyamonde, and pearles of fondry fortes and bigneffes.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Countes of Kente, 6 hankerchers of cambricke, wrought with blacke filke, and edged about with gold lace.

Delivered to the Lady Scudamore.

By the Counteffe of Oxenforde, one rounde kyrtell of filver tabynne, with flyppes of white filke like vellat, and tuftes of carnacon filke, with some golde.

Delivered to the robes.

By the Countes of Shrewefbury, wydowe, in golde
Delivered to Mrs. Sackforde.

By the Countes of Shrewefbury, junfor, parte of a
doublet, unmade, of white fatten, embrothered all
over like fnakes wounde together, of Venyce
filver, richly wrought, and puffes of lawne em-
brothered with Venice filver like wheate eares.

Delivered to the robes.

By the Counteffe of Suffex, in golde

Delivered to Mr. Sackforde.

By the Counteffe of Nottingham, one carcanett of golde, garnished with 15 peeces of golde, fet with fparkes of rubyes, and a fmall dyamond in the myddeft of every of them, and 7 peeces like mullets, with pearles, with a rubye in the myddet of eche of them, and pearles threeded betwene them.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratcly f.

By the Counteffe of Huntington, widowe, in golde
By the Counteffe of Huntington, junior, in golde
By the Counteffe of Pembroke, in golde
By the Counteffe of Rutland, in golde

Delivered to Mr. Sackforde.

By the Countes of Darby, wydowe, one pettycote without bodyes, of filver tynfell, wrought in fquares, with a border of trees of grene fylke needleworke.

Delivered to the robes.

40 0 0

10 0 0

8

8

10

10

By the Countes of Darby, junior, one goblett of £. s. d taffeta, embrothered all over with a twyfte of

Venyce filver and fpangles, with flowers of filkewoman's worke.

Delivered to the robes.

By the Countes of Warwicke, fyve fprigges of golde, garnished with fparkes of rubies, pearles pendant, and a half perle.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Countes of Bathe, in golde
By the Countes of Bedford, in golde

Delivered to Mr. Sackford.

By the Countes of Bedford, widowe, 7 fprigges of golde, gar' with fparkes of rubies and pearle, and 7 pearles pendant, 4 bigger and 3 leffer.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Countes of Comberland, one paire of braceletts of golde, conteyninge 8 peeces like knottes, and 8 rounde peeces garnished with small sparkes of rubyes, pearle, and half pearles.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Countes of Southampton, fenior, one vale or mantle of white knytworke florished with filver. Delivered to the robes.

By the Countes of Northumberland, one jewell of golde, fet with a longe white topaz, and one longe pearle pendante.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Countes of Kildare, 7 buttons of golde of two fortes, garnished with sparkes of rubyes and pearle.

Delivered to Mrs. Ratclyf.

By the Countes of Worcester, one ruffe of lawne cutworke, fet with 20 fmall knottes of golde like mullets, gar' with small sparkes of rubyes and perle.

Delivered to Lady Scudamore." P. 130.

The book is full of entertainment, but the parts are not very perfpicuously put together. The reader opens the volume in the middle, and finds himself at p. 13. He turns back a page or two and finds himself at 190, and he does not immediately fee the reafon, fo that the opportunity of making any reference is perplexed and difficult. Neither do we fee the neceffity, or acknowledge the propriety of reprinting the whole of the Oxford and Cambridge verses, on the death of the Queen, to the extent of 240 pages. But the book muft Aill be confidered as a valuable and important acceffion

acceffion to antiquarian collections, and the amiable spirit of loyalty to our prefent gracious Monarch, with which the Author concludes his laborious tafk, is entitled to the highest praife. This fpirit we know to be founded on the nobleft principles which can adorn the heart, and which will not, which cannot fail to enfure the poffeffor the complacent approbation of his own mind, and the efteem of all who know him.

ART. IV. Sermons on various Subjects and Occafions. By Alexander Grant, D. D. Minifter of the English Epifcopal Chapel at Dundee. In three Volumes. Vol. III. 8vo. 296 pp. Dundee, printed for the Author. 1805.

OF

F thefe Sermons, which are twenty-four in number, nearly the fame character may be given as of the Sermons formerly publifhed by the fame Author. They are plain, picus, and practical; but we have obferved in this volume an occafional affectation of erudition, and an inelegance of ftyle, which we did not obferve in the others *. Thus, "the Stoics, though they did not abfolutely deny a superintending power, yet tied him down to fecond caufes," (p. 5) is not grammatical; and the quotation, which, in the fame page, is made from Diogenes Laertius, might have been spared. "Thefe (the Jewifh types and prophecies) have given way to the bright fhine of the gofpel," is a very inelegant expreffion; and the following interruption of the words of fcripture has, as indeed the introduction of the interjection O generally has, an effect different from that which was undoubtedly intended.

"He who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet, O amazing condecenfion! made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant." (p. 26.) Dr. Grant feems to delight in fuch exclamations; and yet we beg leave to affure him that they are not relifhed from the prefs by any reader of tafte; and that they have no good effect even in the pulpit, except in paffages extremely pathetic, pronounced by a preacher who can lend to them all the aids of voice and gefture.

Brit, Crit. vol. xvii. p. 546.