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 But Bacchus now full gloriously himselfe in Heaven doth showe. And Persey bearing in his hand the monster Gorgons head, That famous spoyle which here and there with snakish haire was spread, Doth beat the ayre with wavyng wings. And as he overflew The Lybicke sandes, the droppes of bloud that from the head did sew Of Gorgon being new cut off, upon the ground did fal. Which taking them (and as it were conceyving therwithall) Engendred sundrie Snakes and wormes: by meanes wherof that clyme Did swarme with Serpents ever since, even to this present tyme. From thence he lyke a watrie cloud was caried with the weather, Through all the heaven, now here, now there as light as any feather. And from aloft he viewes the earth that underneath doth lie, And swiftly over all the worlde doth in conclusion flie, Three times the chilling Beares, three times the Crabbes fel cleas he saw: Oft times to Weast, oftimes to East did drive him many a flaw. Now at such time as unto rest the sonne began to drawe, Bicause he did not thinke it good to be abroad all night, Within King Atlas western Realme he ceased from his flight, Requesting that a little space of rest enjoy he might, Untill such tyme as Lucifer should bring the morning gray, And morning bring the lightsome Sunne that guides the cherefull day. This Atlas, Japets Nephewe, was a man that did excell In stature everie other wight that in the worlde did dwell. The utmost coast of all the earth and all that Sea wherein The tyred steedes and wearied Wayne of Phoebus dived bin, Were in subjection to this King. A thousande flockes of sheepe, A thousand heirdes of Rother beastes he in his fields did keepe: And not a neighbor did anoy his ground by dwelling nie. To him the wandring Persey thus his language did applie: If high renowne of royall race thy noble heart may move, I am the sonne of Jove himselfe: or if thou more approve The valiant deedes and hault exploytes, thou shalt perceive in mee Such doings as deserve with prayse extolled for to bee. I pray thee of thy courtesie receive mee as thy guest, And let mee only for this night within thy palace rest. King Atlas called straight to minde an auncient prophesie Made by Parnassian Themys, which this sentence did implie:


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 The time shall one day, Atlas, come in which thy golden tree Shall of hir fayre and precious fruite dispoyld and robbed bee. And he shall be the sonne of Jove that shall enjoy the pray. For feare hereof he did enclose his Orchard everie way With mightie hilles, and put an ougly Dragon in the same To keepe it. Further he forbad that any straunger came Within his Realme, and to this knight he sayde presumtuouslie: Avoyd my land, onlesse thou wilt by utter perill trie That all thy glorious actes whereof thou doest so loudly lie And Jove thy father be too farre to helpe thee at thy neede. To these his wordes he added force, and went about in deede To drive him out by strength of hand. To speake was losse of winde For neyther could intreating faire nor stoutnesse tourne his minde. Well then (quoth Persey) sith thou doest mine honour set so light, Take here a present: and with that he turnes away his sight, And from his left side drewe mee out Medusas lothly head. As huge and big as Atlas was he tourned in that stead Into a mountaine: into trees his beard and locks did passe: His hands and shoulders made the ridge: that part which lately was His head, became the highest top of all the hill: his bones Were turnd to stones: and therewithall he grew mee all at once Beyond all measure up in heighth (for so God thought it best) So farre that Heaven with all the starres did on his shoulders rest. In endlesse prison by that time had Aeolus lockt the wind And now the cheerely morning starre that putteth folke in mind To rise about their daylie worke shone brightly in the skie. Then Persey unto both his feete did streight his feathers tie And girt his Woodknife to his side, and from the earth did stie. And leaving nations nomberlesse beneath him everie way At last upon King Cepheyes fields in Aethiop did he stay. Where cleane against all right and law by Joves commaundement Andromad for hir mothers tongue did suffer punishment. Whome to a rocke by both the armes when fastned hee had seene, He would have thought of Marble stone shee had some image beene, But that hir tresses to and fro the whisking winde did blowe, And trickling teares warme from hir eyes adowne hir cheeks did flow, Unwares hereat gan secret sparkes within his breast to glow.

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 His wits were straught at sight thereof and ravisht in such wise, That how to hover with his wings he scarsly could devise. As soone as he had stayd himselfe: O Ladie faire (quoth hee) Not worthie of such bands as these, but such wherewith we see Togither knit in lawfull bed the earnest lovers bee, I pray thee tell mee what thy selfe and what this lande is named And wherefore thou dost weare these Chains. The Ladie ill ashamed Was at the sodaine striken domb: and lyke a fearfull maid Shee durst not speake unto a man. Had not hir handes beene staid She would have hid hir bashfull face. Howbeit as she might With great abundance of hir teares shee stopped up hir sight But when that Persey oftentimes was earnestly in hand To learne this matter, for bicause shee would not seeme to stand In stubborne silence of hir faultes, shee tolde him what the land And what she hight: and how hir mother for hir beauties sake Through pride did unadvisedly too much upon hir take. And ere shee full had made an ende, the water gan to rore: An ougly monster from the deepe was making to the shore Which bare the Sea before his breast. The Virgin shrieked out. Hir father and hir mother both stood mourning thereabout, In wretched ease both twaine, but not so wretched as the maid Who wrongly for hir mothers fault the bitter raunsome paid. They brought not with them any help: but (as the time and cace Requird) they wept and wrang their hands, and streightly did embrace Hir bodie fastened to the rock. Then Persey them bespake, And sayde: The time may serve too long this sorrow for to make: But time of helpe must eyther now or never else be take. Now if I, Persey, sonne of hir whome in hir fathers towre The mightie Jove begat with childe in shape of golden showre, Who cut off ougly Gorgons head bespred with snakish heare, And in the ayre durst trust these winges my body for to beare, perchaunce should save your daughters life, I think ye should as then Accept mee for your sonne in lawe before all other men. To these great thewes (by the help of God) I purpose for to adde A just desert in helping hir that is so hard bestadde. I covenaunt with you by my force and manhod for to save hir, Conditionly that to my wife in recompence I have hir.


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 Hir parents tooke his offer streight: for who would sticke thereat? And praid him faire, and promisde him that for performing that They would endow him with the ryght of al their Realme beeside. Like as a Gally with hir nose doth cut the waters wide, Enforced by the sweating armes of Rowers wyth the tide Even so the monster with his brest did beare the waves aside, And was now come as neere the rocke as well a man myght fling Amid the pure and vacant aire a pellet from a sling. When on the sodaine Persey pusht his foote against the ground, And stied upward to the clouds his shadow did rebound Upon the sea: the beast ran fierce upon the passing shade. And as an Egle when he sees a Dragon in a glade Lie beaking of his blewish backe against the sunnie rayes, Doth seize upon him unbeware, and with his talants layes Sure holde upon his scalie necke lest writhing back his head His cruell teeth might doe him harme: so Persey in that stead Discending downe the ayre amaine with all his force and might Did seize upon the monsters backe: and underneath the right Finne hard unto the verie hilt his hooked sworde did smight. The monster being wounded sore did sometime leape aloft, And sometime under water dive, bestirring him full oft As doth a chaufed Boare beset with barking Dogges about. But Persey with his lightsome wings still keeping him without The monsters reach, with hooked sword doth sometime hew his back Where as the hollow scales give way: and sometime he doth hacke The ribbes on both his maled sides: and sometime he doth wound His spindle tayle where into fish it growes most smal and round. The Whale at Persey from his mouth such waves of water cast, Bemixed with the purple bloud, that all bedreint at last His feathers verie heavie were: and doubting any more To trust his wings now waxing wet, he straight began to sore Up to a rocke which in the calme above the water stood: But in the tempest evermore was hidden with the flood. And leaning thereunto and with his left hand holding just The top thereof a dozen times his weapon he did thrust Among his guttes. The joyfull noyse and clapping of their hands The which were made for loosening of Andromad from hir bands,


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 Filde all the coast and heaven it selfe. The parents of the Maide Cassiope and Cepheus were glad and well appayde: And calling him their sonne in law confessed him to bee The helpe and savegarde of their house. Andromade the fee And cause of Perseys enterprise from bondes now beyng free, He washed his victorious hands. And lest the Snakie heade With lying on the gravell hard should catch some harme, he spred Soft leaves and certaine tender twigs that in the water grew, And laid Medusas head thereon: the twigs yet being new And quicke and full of juicie pith full lightly to them drew The nature of this monstrous head. For both the leafe and bough Full straungely at the touch thereof became both hard and tough. The Sea nymphes tride this wondrous fact in divers other roddes And were full glad to see the chaunge, bicause there was no oddes Of leaves or twigs or of the seedes new shaken from the coddes. For still like nature ever since is in our Corall founde: That looke how soone it toucheth Ayre it waxeth hard and sounde, And that which under water was a sticke, above is stone. Three altars to as many Gods he makes of Turfe anon: Upon the left hand Mercuries: Minervas on the right: And in the middle Jupiters: to Pallas he did dight A Cow: a Calfe to Mercurie: a Bull to royall Jove. Forthwith he tooke Andromade the price for which he strove Endowed with hir fathers Realme. For now the God of Love And Hymen unto mariage his minde in hast did move. Great fires were made of sweete perfumes, and curious garlandes hung About the house, which every where of mirthful musicke rung The gladsome signe of merie mindes. The Pallace gates were set Wide open. None from comming in were by the Porters let. All Noblemen and Gentlemen that were of any port To this same great and royall feast of Cephey did resort. When having taken their repast as well of meate as wine Their hearts began to pleasant mirth by leysure to encline, The valiant Persey of the folke and facions of the land Began to be inquisitive. One Lincide out of hand The rites and manners of the folke did doe him t'understand. Which done he sayd: O worthie knight I pray thee tell us by


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 And lest it should unpunisht be, she turnde hir seemely heare To lothly Snakes: the which (the more to put hir foes in feare) Before hir brest continually she in her shield doth beare.

ow while that Danaes noble sonne was telling of these things Amid a throng of Cepheys Lordes, through al the Pallace rings A noyse of people nothing like the sound of such as sing At wedding feastes, but like the rore of such as tidings bring Of cruell warre. This sodaine chaunge from feasting unto fray Might well be likened to the Sea: whych standing at a stay The woodnesse of the windes makes rough by raising of the wave. King Cepheys brother Phyney was the man that rashly gave The first occasion of this fray. Who shaking in hys hand A Dart of Ash with head of steele, sayd: Loe: loe here I stand To chalenge thee that wrongfully my ravisht spouse doste holde. Thy wings nor yet thy forged Dad in shape of feyned golde Shall now not save thee from my handes. As with that word he bent His arme aloft, the foresaid Dart at Persey to have sent, What doste thou brother (Cephey cride) what madnesse moves thy minde To doe so foule a deede? is this the friendship he shall finde Among us for his good deserts? And wilt thou needes requite


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FRENCH, THOMAS VALPY (1825–1891), first bishop of Lahore, the eldest son of Peter French, vicar of Holy Trinity with Stretton, Burton-on-Trent, was born at the Abbey, Burton-on-Trent, on 1 Jan. 1825. Educated first at Reading grammar school, Burton grammar school, and Rugby, he matriculated from University College, Oxford, on 20 March 1843, graduating B.A. in 1846 and M.A. in 1849. In 1848 he won the chancellor's prize for a Latin essay, and in the same year was elected a fellow of University College. He was ordained deacon by the bishop of Ripon in 1848, and priest by the bishop of Lichfield in 1849. In 1850 he offered his services to the Church Missionary Society, and was sent out as principal of St. John's College, Agra. During the mutiny he was foremost in protecting native Christians. In 1858 he came home, but in 1861 returned to found the Derajat mission on the Indian frontier. In 1863 he came to England again, and was vicar of St. Paul's, Cheltenham, from 1865 to 1869. He then returned to India and founded the Lahore divinity school. After short incumbencies at Erith, Kent, and St. Ebb's, Oxford, he was consecrated first bishop of Lahore on 21 Dec. 1877, and received the degree of D.D. from Oxford University on 11 Dec. French was equally remarkable as an evangelist, an administrator, and a linguist. In 1887 he resigned his see, and in 1891 he went as a simple missionary to Muscat, where he died on 14 May 1891. He published a number of sermons.

FRIPP, GEORGE ARTHUR (1813–1896), water-colour artist, born at Bristol in 1813, was the son of the Rev. S. C. Fripp, who married a daughter of [q. v.], a leading artist in Bristol, and one of the founders of the Old Watercolour Society in 1804. Fripp learned the rudiments of oil painting from [q. v.], but his real master was (1794-1869) [q. v.], the father of the Bristol school. For some years he worked at portraits in oils at Bristol, and in 1834 he passed seven months in Italy with his friend [q. v.] On his return in 1835 he contributed to the picture gallery at Bristol. His London career began at the Old Watercolour Society's gallery in 1837, with a drawing of Lake Walenstadt; he moved to London in the following year, and in 1841 was elected an associate of the Old Society. In 1838 and 1841 he contributed oil paintings to the Royal Academy and British Institution, and Turner sent him a message highly praising the powerful ‘Mont Blanc, from near Courmayeux,’ a painting which Mr. Robinson of Liverpool presented to the corporation gallery of that city.

Fripp became a full member of the Old Society in 1845, and during the following fifty years sent nearly six hundred drawings to its exhibitions. Some of his works are commented on by Ruskin in his ‘Notes on some of the Principal Pictures in ... the Society of Painters in Watercolours’ for 1856, 1857, and 1858. From 1848 to 1854 Fripp was secretary of the society, a post which was held by his younger brother, Alfred D. Fripp (d. 1895), from 1870. In 1860 the queen commanded him to stay at Balmoral while he completed for the royal collection a series of drawings of the neighbourhood.

Fripp died on 17 Oct. 1896 at 50 Holmdale Road, N.W., after a long illness, and was buried on the 20th at Highgate, a few yards from George Eliot's grave. He married, in 1846, Mary Percival, and among his children were George Fripp, Charles E. Fripp, an associate of the Old Society, and the Rev. Edgar Fripp, minister at Mansfield.

Fripp was a good draughtsman, with great love for his art. Preferring tender and pure tints, he painted with quiet-toned pigments known to be permanent, and did not attempt to rival oil paints. The reverse of an impressionist, he fortunately had faithful patrons who supported him in his effort to carry on the early traditions of English water-colour art. Some good specimens of his work are in the Prescott Hewett bequest at South Kensington.

FROST, PERCIVAL (1817–1898), mathematician, born at Kingston-upon-Hull on 1 Sept. 1817, was the second son of [q. v.] He was educated at Beverley and Oakham, and entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in October 1835, graduating B.A. as second wrangler in 1839 and M.A. in 1842. He was chosen first Smith prizeman in 1839, beating the senior wrangler, [q. v. Suppl.], his fellow-collegian, and he was


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CONDUCTED BY J. D. FORREST, C. H. HASTINGS, AND PAUL MONROE.

Report of the National Divorce Reform League for the year ending December 31, 1895. A Review of Fifteen Years. This brief document surveys the history of an enterprise which deserves much more extensive and sympathetic attention than it has received. The corresponding secretary. Dr. Samuel W. Dike, has been foremost among American pioneers both in theoretical and in applied sociology. This history of the movement in which he has been the most important factor is therefore a considerable contribution to the history of American sociology. The report is also a valuable outline of specific subjects of inquiry, and an indication of needed effort to be centered about the family institution. (26 pp. Boston: The Everett Press Co., 47 Franklin St.)

The Restriction of Immigration.—Measures for straining out the unfit will not be neglected by our government in the future. Americans are changing their minds about further admission of foreigners fit for citizenship. It may be that the past view and the present view are equally right in their relations. Certain ideas about the effect of immigration are untenable: (a) That immigration constitutes a net reinforcement of the population of the country. The population of 1850, in spite of a million and three-quarters added from abroad was only 6508 above what it would have been according to the estimates of in 1815, based on the rate of natural growth up to that time, (b) That luxury, other than relative luxury tends to diminish the birth rate. Prior to 1850 the increase of luxury in the United States, was in ways to improve natural vigor and reproductive capability. (c) Immigration was economically necessary because our own people would not do the necessary work. This opinion puts the cart before the horse. Americans never refused to do manual labor till the foreigners came.

The positive reasons for restricting immigration are, (a) our arable land is practically exhausted; (b) the prices of agricultural products have fallen below a remunerative level; (c) we have a glutted labor market and consequently a labor problem; (d) immigration now brings to us elements least like our own people, and centuries behind us in capacity for civil action. The wage earners and not the rich will decide whether immigration shall be checked. So long as the working people are willing to see their standard of living threatened by the admission of more working people, the invasion will continue. I am willing to leave it to them, whether, for the sake of the American standard of living and the American rate of wages, the ports shall be at least temporarily closed.—, in The Manufacturer, Philadelphia, December 21, 1895.

Labor in England.—The general condition is a distinct improvement over the preceding year and the preceding months. The proportion of unemployed was only 4.26 per cent, as compared with 7.0 for the corresponding month in 1894. Trade disputes for November were 38 as compared with 77 in October and 56 in November 1894. Only 50 laborers sustained a decrease in wages in November as compared with 117,000 in the corresponding month in 1894. Immigration shows a slight increase. (The Labor Gazette, December 1895.)

Labor in France.—The French Labor Bulletin furnishes a model analysis of the status of labor based upon full reports by special correspondents, by patronal institutions, by labor organizations and by various other associations. This analysis reveals the conditions of the various departments and cities and of the various industries. The report on strikes shows twenty-nine for November and twenty-four for December 1895, an increase in both months over the corresponding months of the two preceding years. The syndicate movement in France is one of the most significant


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1. Immediately after birth the child is sometimes spat on by the father.

2. Child very generally given a piece of sugar after birth.

3. On May 1st, Shrove Tuesday, and certain Mondays in the year, the country people will not give food or fire or any commodity out of their houses.

4. Woman, before childbirth, occasionally wears coat of father of expected child, with the idea that he should share in the pains of childbirth.

5. There is a witch of great repute in the neighbourhood of Carna. When consulted by a rich person she goes into the fields, collects certain herbs not known to anyone but herself, performs secret rites and incantations, and, when these are over, the first living thing she sees is affected by the malady of the sick person, who immediately recovers. A man who saw her performing the incantations crawled away on his face and hands, to avoid being the first living thing seen by her.

6. At Letterard, two sisters tried to cure a sick brother by walking three times round three houses adjacent to one another, the tenants of which all had the same name.

7. A posthumous son (not daughter) is supposed to have healing power by breathing or expectorating on part affected.

8. A seventh son is also supposed to possess the power of healing by stepping across the body of diseased person.

9. A pregnant woman will not take an oath in a Court of Justice. This custom is recognised by the local magistrates.

10. A pregnant woman considers it unlucky to meet a hare.

11. A drowned body is searched for by floating a bundle of straws on the surface of the water; it is supposed to stop and quiver over the body.

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14. No grave allowed to be dug on Monday. 15. The gravediggers, once having commenced, must finish the digging, no change of diggers being allowed. 16. On Handsel Monday (first Monday in the year) the country people will not pay any money for anything if possible. 17. Doctor not allowed to take lymph from arm of child until he gives it some present, however trifling. 18. Chalking the backs of unmarried girls is practised on the last Sunday before Lent at Galway and elsewhere.

19. If a child falls accidentally, an old women makes him take three tastes of salt ; the idea being that the fairies caused the fall in trying to run away with the child, and salt is an antidote against fairies. 20. Weasels, so-called (properly stoats), are greatly respected, and addressed as "Pretty Lady" in Irish, with raised hat.

21. Dwarf or misshapen children are held to be given to a mother by the fairies in place of a healthy child they have stolen from her to renew the stock of fairies, and who, while the dwarf lives, is supposed to be a sort of fairy apprentice. When the dwarf dies, the healthy child it supplanted is supposed to have been admitted into the fairy band, and mothers assert at death of dwarf that they see the healthy child that should have been theirs. 22. When in a graveyard it is customary to walk as much as possible "with the sun", with the right hand towards centre of circle. 23. At Innisbofin, when the old women natives meet Mrs. Allies' baby out with its nurse, they spit on the ground all round it in a circle, to keep fairies from it ; an interesting but disagreeable custom. The following were given to Mr. Lane by Dr. T. V. Costello of Bealadangan : —

On Lettermore Island, which also is in South Connemara, immediately after the birth of a child — which, by the way, is always delivered with the mother in a kneeling posture — the father throws (counting as he does so) nine articles of clothing over the mother : the number never varies.


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 Rh A piece of the ash from the remains of the peat-fire is tied up in a red rag and attached to the cow's tail, to prevent the fairies milking her during night.

Part of the ashes from the bonfire on the 24th June is thrown into sown fields to make their produce abundant.

After marriage, the bride and bridegroom go out of the church door simultaneously, as, if one went in front of the other, the former would be the first to die. I have heard of this custom elsewhere.

There also exist "knowledgeable women" and "herb women", which are the meanings of their Irish names, who live by fortune-telling and herb-healing. The Doctor is going to collect particulars of their remedies, and how they are applied.

Dr. C. R. Browne, as I have mentioned above, was good enough to give me the accompanying notes on most of Mr. Lane's items. They are derived from an exceptionally wide experience. (May 1892.)

1. This custom must be local, as in other parts of the country the father is carefully kept well out of the way on these occasions.

2. Child is given sugar after birth if it is in danger of death; also on the way to chapel when taken to be christened, in the same case (Wicklow and Dublin). Child after birth sometimes given salt for luck. Salt is considered very lucky, and no poor person ever refuses salt to a neighbour, even though it may be the last in the house, which it is unlucky to give away, as it brings want to the house, but it would bring worse luck to refuse, as giving is a charitable act (Tipperary).

3. On Shrove Tuesday and All Souls' Day souls of the departed come out of Purgatory. Lamps and fires are lit for them, and chairs set, and no one will give food or fire out of the house, as that would bring great misfortune (Wicklow). In Tipperary and Limerick the country people object to giving away anything on a Monday, or going into a new situation on that day.

4. In the counties mentioned, women in childbirth often wear the trousers of the father of child round the neck, the effect of which is supposed to be the lightening of the pains of labour. I have myself seen a case of this in Dublin, about two years ago.

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 364 put a worm near that mark, it will crawl towards the mark and then draw back as if terrified, repeating this action again and again till it really crosses the line and remains motionless. If you examine it you will find it is dead. The actions of the worm are described as giving you the impression that it is mesmerised. If that same boy puts his finger into a pail of worms, every single one will die almost at once. My cousin says that the country people, having got a pail of worms for fishing with, will avoid meeting the seventh son of a seventh son (who are sure to be well known) lest their trouble should go for nothing and the worms should die.


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 Rh Magpie Rhyme.—"One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for heaven, Six for hell, Seven 's the de'il's own sel!

It is very unlucky to meet a red-haired person first thing in the morning.

If you pass a house where there is building or painting going on, you must never walk underneath a ladder; always go out in the road.

If you find a little spider on any article of dress, or in the china closet, etc., don't brush it off. If you leave it alone someone may give you a new one of whatever the spider was on, It is a common superstition amongst the Irish peasantry that the last person who has been buried has no rest, as they have to keep watch over the rest. Consequently, when two deaths occur near together, their friends make a great rush to see who shall be buried first. Near Renvyle, co. Galway, the relatives provide a quantity of new pipes and parcels of tobacco, which are distributed amongst those who attend the funeral, who sit about and smoke while the grave is being dug. They believe that the departed spirit, while watching the other graves, might like the solace of a little tobacco, so that all unused pipes and parcels of tobacco are left in the graveyard, but the people are at liberty to take away the pipes they have used.

A thread is sometimes tied round a toe of a corpse.

I don't know if the following can be included in folk-lore; it is more curious than edifying, but I can vouch for it absolutely, as my cousin has seen a seventh son do what follows. The seventh son of a seventh son has always been dowered with miraculous powers in the co. Meath they do this: When the child is born, the nurse puts a worm in a piece of muslin into each hand, and ties the hand up till the worm dies. One worm must be male, the other female. When the worms die they are thrown away and nothing more is done. When the boy grows up, you may get him to draw a line or a circle or any mark in the road,


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 362 in falling through the water, and when it had all settled in the bottom of the tub, the old nurse proceeded to read its surface. I don't know whether there was originally one especial story of the "willow pattern" description, but I do know that the many I have heard all bore a family likeness. There was always a castle with a tower here, and a narrow window there, and a knight riding to the door to deliver a beautiful lady who was imprisoned there. And of course the lady was the round-eyed child who was listening with bated breath, and who was eventually to marry said knight. (If anyone likes to try the experiment, he will find that the lead falls in wriggles like snakes, with no possible pretensions to any shape or form.)

There was also something we did with salt, earth, and water, which I have quite forgotten.

Then there was bobbing for apples, which sometimes consisted in an apple being put at the bottom of a tub of water, to be fetched up by the teeth; and sometimes by suspending a piece of wood from a hook, with an apple at one end and a candle at the other. The wood was set revolving, and the victim, with open mouth, endeavoured to get a bite from the apple; he sometimes bit the candle instead.

Then you go out to the garden blindfolded, and each pull up a cabbage. If the cabbage was well grown the girl was to have a handsome husband, but woe betide the unlucky damsel who got one with a crooked stalk ; her husband would be a stingy old man.

Then comes nut-burning, as an antidote to all this boisterous fun. You put two nuts on the bar and name them, but must not mention the names or all luck will vanish. If one hops off, then that pair will not marry ; if one burns to a cinder and not the other, it is a case of unrequited love; but if both burn away steadily, they will marry and live happy ever after.

County Dublin.—You must always bow when you meet a sweep, or even see one in the distance. If you don't, you will never have any luck.

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 Rh Paying money on that day supposed to bring poverty for the year. Any money the people receive on this day they spit on for luck.

17. When I was vaccinated (in co. Tipperary) my nurse said that my arm kept inflamed because doctor did not put silver in my hand when taking lymph from me.

18. In Tipperary the first Sunday in Lent is called Chalk Sunday, and men and boys chalk a cross on the back of any unmarried person who may pass. This sometimes gives rise to very amusing scenes.

19. This custom prevails in Tipperary and Wicklow.

20. Weasels in Tipperary and Wicklow hunted down and dreaded, and they are supposed to be able to spit fire and injure men and beasts. They are supposed to steal the milk from cows.

21. Belief in changelings was very common in Munster. If child was weak and pining it was supposed to be a changeling, and was put out at night on a hot shovel. A case occurred in Tipperary some years ago, but parents were acquitted.

23. In Wicklow they spit on a child for good luck, the first day it is brought out after birth.

I hope to be able to give you some notes on other points soon. I forgot to mention that a case of the cross in the hedge at scene of death may be seen near Rathfarnham, co. Dublin. Hansel custom, not confined to Hansel Monday, but silver is spit upon and considered specially lucky on Monday. Bargains are concluded by spitting on hand or luck-penny; a match is made by breaking a stick and spitting on the hands of the matchmakers. If a thing or animal is sold on a Sunday, the Wicklow people will not take a luck-penny. Finally, I may add some notes kindly forwarded to me by Miss A. Watson. (May 1893.)

Queen's County.—When we were children Hallow Eve was always an occasion for practising mysterious rites, the end and aim of each being to foretell the future. The first thing always was to get an old iron spoon, filled with lead in scraps; this was held over a hot fire till it melted. Then a key, which must be the hall-door key, was held over a tub of cold water, and the hot lead was poured through the wards of the key. The lead cooled


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 What force or wile thou gotst the head with haires of Adders slie. Then Persey tolde how underneath colde Atlas lay a plaine So fenced in on every side with mountaines high, that vaine Were any force to win the same. In entrance of the which Two daughters of King Phorcis dwelt whose chaunce and hap was such That one eye served both their turnes: whereof by wilie slight And stealth in putting forth his hand he did bereve them quight, As they from t'one to tother were delivering of the same. From whence by long blind crooked wayes unhandsomly he came Through gastly groves by ragged cliffes unto the drerie place Whereas the Gorgons dwelt: and there he saw (a wretched case) The shapes as well of men as beasts lie scattered everie where In open fields and common wayes, the which transformed were From living things to stones at sight of foule Medusas heare, But yet that he through brightnesse of his monstrous brazen shield The which he in his left hand bare, Medusas face beheld. And while that in a sound dead sleepe were all hir Snakes and she, He softly pared off hir head: and how that he did see Swift Pegasus the winged horse and eke his brother grow Out of their mothers new shed bloud. Moreover he did show A long discourse of all his happes and not so long as trew: As namely of what Seas and landes the coasts he overflew, And eke what starres with stying wings he in the while did vew. But yet his tale was at an ende ere any lookt therefore. Upon occasion by and by of wordes reherst before There was a certaine noble man demaunded him wherefore Shee only of the sisters three haire mixt with Adders bore. Sir (aunswerde Persey) sith you aske a matter worth report I graunt to tell you your demaunde. She both in comly port And beautie, every other wight surmounted in such sort, That many suters unto hir did earnestly resort. And though that whole from top to toe most bewtifull she were, In all hir bodie was no part more goodly than hir heare. I know some parties yet alive, that say they did hir see. It is reported how she should abusde by Neptune bee In Pallas Church: from which fowle facte Joves daughter turnde hir eye, And with hir Target hid hir face from such a villanie.


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Brereton bulk of his large collections in ethnography, natural history, oriental objects, paintings, and library to the town of Maidstone, leaving also an endowment for their due preservation, and they are installed in the museum there, towards the enlargement of which he was a munificent donor. A marble bust of him, executed by J. Durham, R.A., and a portrait in oils by W. C. Dobson, R.A., also commemorate him in the Maidstone Museum.

 BRERETON, WILLIAM (d. 1541), lord justice in Ireland, was eldest son of Sir Andrew Brereton of Brereton, Cheshire, and his wife Agnes, daughter of Robert Legh of Adlington in the same county. There were many branches of the Brereton family settled in Cheshire, and the lord justice must be distinguished from his contemporary, William Brereton (d. 1536) of Shocklach, who was groom of the chamber to Henry VIII, married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Somerset, first earl of Worcester [q. v.], and was beheaded on 17 May 1536, in conconection with the charges against Anne Boleyn; to this fact Clarendon somewhat fancifully attributes the hostility of Sir William Brereton (1604-1661) [q. v.] to Charles I.

The future lord justice was knighted before 1523, and served on various local commissions, in which it is difficult accurately to distinguish him from contemporary William Breretons. In October 1534 he was sent with Sir William Skeffington [q. v.] to Ireland when Henry VIII resolved to substitute a firmer control for the rule of Kildare. It was rumoured that the Irish had captured Dublin, and Skeffington sent Brereton to effect a landing, while he himself proceeded to Waterford. The rumour proved false, Brereton was welcomed by the citizens on 17 Oct., and a week later Skeffington followed him. In the ensuing operations against the Irish Brereton was Skeffington's right-hand man, and he led the storming party which captured Maynooth Castle in March 1534-5. After Skeffington's death at the end of the year, Brereton returned to England, where he became deputy chamberlain of Chester.

On 2 Oct. 1539 Brereton was ordained to levy two hundred and fifty archers, and proceed with them to Ireland. Returning home one day from musters he broke his leg, but nevertheless he sailed for Ireland early in November. On his arrival he was made marshal of the army in Ireland and a member of the Irish privy council. In spite of his broken leg he took an active part in fighting against Desmond in Munster during the winter, and when Henry VIII recalled Lord Leonard Grey [q. v.] the deputy, Brereton was on 1 April 1540 commanded to act as lord justice during his absence. On 7 July Sir Anthony St. Leger [q. v.] was appointed lord deputy, and on his arrival at Dublin on 12 Aug. Brereton ceased to be lord justice. During the following autumn he was fighting in Odrone. He died at Kilkenny on 4 Feb. 1540-1, and is said to have been buried in St. Canice church, though Graves and Prim make no mention of him in their history of that cathedral.

Brereton married, first, Alice, daughter of Sir John Savage, by whom he had issue one son, William, grandfather of Sir William Brereton (1550-1630), who in 1624 was created Baron Brereton of Leighlin, co. Carlow (his portrait, painted by Lucas de Heere, was No. 682 in the third loan exhibition at South Kensington). He married, secondly, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Ralph Brereton of Ipstones, by whom he had issue three sons and five daughters ; his son, Sir Andrew Brereton, served in Ireland, was a member of the privy council, and was recalled in 1550 for quarrelling with Con Bacach O'Neill, first earl of Tyrone [q. v.]

 BRETT, WILLIAM BALIOL, (1815–1899), judge, second son of the Rev. Joseph George Brett (d. 20 May 1852), of Ranelagh, Chelsea, for many years incumbent of Hanover Chapel, Regent Street, by Dorothy, daughter of George Best of Chilston Park, Kent, was born at the rectory, Lenham, Kent, on 13 Aug. 1815. He was educated at Westminster School and the university of Cambridge, where (from Caius College) he graduated B.A. (senior optime) in 1840, and proceeded M.A. in 1845. He rowed once (1839) for his university against Oxford, and twice (1837, 1838) against the Leander Club. On 30 April 1839 he was admitted student at Lincoln's Inn, and was there called to the bar on 29 Jan. 1846, and elected bencher in 1861. He early showed an unusual aptitude for handling mercantile and marine cases, which brought him a plentiful supply of briefs on the Northern circuit and at Westminster.


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 The saving of thy Neeces life with such a foule despight? Whome Persey hath not from thee tane: but (if thou be advisde) But Neptunes heavie wrath bicause his Sea nymphes were despisde: But horned Hammon: but the beast which from the Sea arrived On my deare bowels for to feede. That time wert thou deprived Of thy betroothed, when hir life upon the losing stoode: Onlesse perchaunce to see hir lost it woulde have done thee good, And easde thy heart to see me sad. And may it not suffice That thou didst see hir to the rocke fast bound before thine eyes And didst not helpe hir beyng both hir husband and hir Eame? Onlesse thou grudge that any man should come within my Realme To save hir life, and seeke to rob him of his just rewarde? Which if thou thinke to be so great, thou shouldst have had regarde Before, to fetch it from the rocke to which thou sawste it bound. I pray thee, brother, seeing that by him the meanes is found That in mine age without my childe I go not to the grounde, Permit him to enjoy the price for which we did compounde, And which he hath by due desert of purchace deerely bought. For brother, let it never sinke nor enter in thy thought That I set more by him than thee: but this may well be sed I rather had to give hir him than see my daughter dead. He gave him not a worde againe: but looked eft on him, And eft on Persey irefully with countnance stoure and grim, Not knowing which were best to hit: and after little stay He shooke his Dart, and flung it forth with all the powre and sway That Anger gave at Perseys head. But harme it did him none, It sticked in the Bedsteddes head that Persey sate upon. Then Persey sternely starting up and pulling out the Dart Did throw it at his foe agayne, and therewithall his hart Had cliven asunder, had he not behinde an Altar start. The Altar (more the pitie was) did save the wicked wight. Yet threw he not the Dart in vaine: it hit one Rhetus right Amid the foreheade: who therewith sanke downe, and when the steele Was plucked out, he sprawlde about and spurned with his heele, And all berayd the boorde with bloud. Then all the other rout As fierce as fire flang Dartes: and some there were that cried out That Cephey with his sonne in lawe was worthy for to die.


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 But he had wound him out of doores protesting solemly As he was just and faithfull Prince, and swearing eke by all The Gods of Hospitalitie, that that same broyle did fall Full sore against his will. At hand was warlie Pallas streight And shadowed Persey with hir shielde, and gave him heart in feight. There was one Atys borne in Inde, (of faire Lymniace The River Ganges daughter thought the issue for to be), Of passing beautie which with rich aray he did augment. He ware that day a scarlet Cloke, about the which there went A garde of golde: a cheyne of golde he ware about his necke: And eke his haire perfumde with Myrrhe a costly crowne did decke. Full sixtene yeares he was of age: such cunning skill he coulde In darting, as to hit his marke farre distant when he would. Yet how to handle Bow and shaftes much better did he know. Now as he was about that time to bende his horned Bowe, A firebrand Persey raught that did upon the Aultar smoke, And dasht him overtwhart the face with such a violent stroke, That all bebattred was his head, the bones asunder broke. When Lycabas of Assur lande, his moste assured friend And deare companion, being no dissembler of his miend, Which most entierly did him love, behelde him on the ground Lie weltring with disfigurde face, and through that grievous wound Now gasping out his parting ghost, his death he did lament, And taking hastly up the Bow that Atys erst had bent: Encounter thou with me (he saide) thou shalt not long enjoy Thy triumphing in braverie thus, for killing of this boy, By which thou getst more spight than praise. All this was scarsly sed, But that the arrow from the string went streyned to the head. Howbeit Persey (as it hapt) so warely did it shunne, As that it in his coteplights hung. Then to him did he runne With Harpe in his hand bestaind with grim Medusas blood, And thrust him through the brest therwith. He quothing as he stood Did looke about where Atys lay with dim and dazeling eyes, Now waving under endlesse night: and downe by him he lies, And for to comfort him withall togither with him dies. Behold through gredie haste to feight one Phorbas, Methions son, A Swevite: and of Lybie lande one callde Amphimedon


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 By fortune sliding in the blood with which the ground was wet, Fell downe: and as they woulde have rose, Perseus fauchon met With both of them. Amphimedon upon the ribbes he smote, And with the like celeritie he cut me Phorbas throte. But unto Erith, Actors sonne, that in his hand did holde A brode browne Bill, with his short sword he durst not be too bolde To make approch. With both his handes a great and massie cup Embost with cunning portrayture aloft he taketh up, And sendes it at him. He spewes up red bloud: and falling downe o Upon his backe, against the ground doth knocke his dying crowne. Then downe he Polydemon throwes, extract of royall race, And Abaris the Scithian, and Clytus in like case, And Elice with his unshorne lockes, and also Phlegias, And Lycet, olde Sperchesies sonne, with divers other mo, That on the heapes of corses slaine he treades as he doth go. And Phyney daring not presume to meet his foe at hand, Did cast a Dart: which hapt to light on Idas who did stand Aloofe as neuter (though in vaine) not medling with the Fray. Who casting backe a frowning looke at Phyney, thus did say: Sith whether that I will or no compeld I am perforce To take a part, have Phyney here him whome thou doste enforce To be thy foe, and with this wound my wrongfull wound requite. But as he from his body pullde the Dart, with all his might To throw it at his foe againe, his limmes so feebled were With losse of bloud, that downe he fell and could not after steare. There also lay Odites slaine the chiefe in all the land Next to King Cephey, put to death by force of Clymens hand. Protenor was by Hypsey killde, and Lyncide did as much For Hypsey. In the throng there was an auncient man and such A one as loved righteousnesse and greatly feared God: Emathion called was his name: whome sith his yeares forbad To put on armes, he feights with tongue, inveying earnestly Against that wicked war the which he banned bitterly. As on the Altar he himselfe with quivering handes did stay, One Cromis tipped off his head: his head cut off streight way Upon the Altar fell, and there his tongue not fully dead Did bable still the banning wordes the which it erst had sed,


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 And breathed forth his fainting ghost among the burning brandes. Then Brote and Hammon brothers, twins, stout champions of their hands In wrestling Pierlesse (if so be that wrestling could sustaine The furious force of slicing swordes) were both by Phyney slaine. And so was Alphit, Ceres Priest, that ware upon his crowne A stately Miter faire and white with Tables hanging downe. Thou also Japets sonne for such affaires as these unmeete But meete to tune thine instrument with voyce and Ditie sweete, The worke of peace, wert thither callde th'assemblie to rejoyce And for to set the mariage forth with pleasant singing voyce. As with his Violl in his hand he stoode a good way off, There commeth to him Petalus and sayes in way of scoffe: Go sing the resdue to the ghostes about the Stygian Lake, And in the left side of his heade his dagger poynt he strake. He sanke downe deade with fingers still yet warbling on the string And so mischaunce knit up with wo the song that he did sing. But fierce Lycormas could not beare to see him murdred so Without revengement. Up he caught a mightie Leaver tho That wonted was to barre the doore a right side of the house And therewithall to Petalus he lendeth such a souse Full in the noddle of the necke, that like a snetched Oxe Streight tumbling downe, against the ground his groveling face he knox. And Pelates, a Garamant, attempted to have caught The left doore barre: but as thereat with stretched hand he raught, One Coryt, sonne of Marmarus did with a Javelin stricke Him through the hand, that to the wood fast nayled did it sticke. As Pelates stoode fastned thus, one Abas goard his side: He could not fall, but hanging still upon the poste there dide Fast nayled by the hand. And there was overthrowne a Knight Of Perseyes band callde Melaney, and one that Dorill hight, A man of greatest landes in all the Realme of Nasamone. That occupide so large a grounde as Dorill was there none, ' Nor none that had such store of come. There came a Dart askew And lighted in his Coddes, the place where present death doth sew. When Alcion of Barcey, he that gave this deadly wound, Beheld him yesking forth his ghost and falling to the ground With watrie eyes the white turnde up: Content thy selfe, he said,


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 With that same litle plot of grounde whereon thy corse is layde, In steade of all the large fat fieldes which late thou didst possesse. And with that word he left him dead. Perseus to redresse This slaughter and this spightfull taunt, streight snatched out the Dart That sticked in the fresh warme wound, and with an angrie hart Did send it at the throwers head: the Dart did split his nose Even in the middes, and at his necke againe the head out goes: So that it peered both the wayes. Whiles fortune doth support And further Persey thus, he killes (but yet in sundrie sort) Two brothers by the mother: t'one callde Clytie, tother Dane. For on a Dart through both his thighes did Clytie take his bane: And Danus with another Dart was striken in the mouth. There died also Celadon, a Gypsie of the South: And so did bastard Astrey too, whose mother was a Jew: And sage Ethion well foreseene in things that should ensew, But utterly beguilde as then by Birdes that aukly flew. King Cepheyes harnessebearer callde Thoactes lost his life, And Agyrt whom for murdring late his father with a knife The worlde spake shame of. Nathelesse much more remainde behinde Than was dispatched out of hand: for all were full in minde To murder one. The wicked throng had sworne to spend their blood Against the right, and such a man as had deserved good. A tother side (although in vaine) of mere affection stood The Father and the Motherinlaw, and eke the heavie bride, Who filled with their piteous playnt the Court on everie side. But now the clattring of the swordes and harnesse at that tide With grievous grones and sighes of such as wounded were or dide, Did raise up such a cruell rore that nothing could be heard. For fierce Bellona so renewde the battell afterward, That all the house did swim in blood. Duke Phyney with a rout Of moe than of a thousand men environd round about The valiant Persey all alone. The Dartes of Phyneys bande Came thicker than the Winters hayle doth fall upon the lande, By both his sides, his eyes and eares. He warely thereupon Withdrawes, and leanes his backe against a huge great arche of stone: And being safe behind, he settes his face against his foe Withstanding all their fierce assaultes. There did assaile him thoe


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 Upon the left side Molpheus, a Prince of Choanie. And on the right Ethemon, borne hard by in Arabie. Like as the Tyger when he heares the lowing out of Neate In sundrie Medes, enforced sore through abstinence from meate, Would faine be doing with them both, and can not tell at which Were best to give adventure first: so Persey who did itch To be at host with both of them, and doubtfull whether side To turne him on, the right or left, upon advantage spide Did wound me Molphey on the leg, and from him quight him drave. He was contented with his flight: for why Ethemon gave No respite to him to pursue: but like a franticke man Through egernesse to wounde his necke, without regarding whan Or how to strike for haste, he burst his brittle sworde in twaine Against the Arche: the poynt whereof rebounding backe againe, Did hit himselfe upon the throte. Howbeit that same wound Was unsufficient for to sende Ethemon to the ground. He trembled holding up his handes for mercie, but in vaine, For Persey thrust him through the heart with Hermes hooked skaine. But when he saw that valiantnesse no lenger could avayle, By reason of the multitude that did him still assayle: Sith you your selves me force to call mine enmie to mine ayde, I will do so: if any friend of mine be here (he sayd) Sirs, turne your faces all away: and therewithall he drew Out Gorgons head. One Thessalus streight raging to him flew, And sayd: Go seeke some other man whome thou mayst make abasht With these thy foolish juggling toyes. And as he would have dasht His Javeling in him with that worde to kill him out of hand, With gesture throwing forth his Dart all Marble did he stand. His sworde through Lyncids noble heart had Amphix thought to shove: His hand was stone, and neyther one nor other way could move: But Niley who did vaunt himselfe to be the Rivers sonne That through the boundes of Aegypt land in channels seven doth runne, And in his shielde had graven part of silver, part of golde The said seven channels of the Persey here beholde From whence we fetch our piedegree: it may rejoyce thy hart To die of such a noble hand as mine. The latter part Of these his words could scarce be heard: the dint therof was drownde:


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 Ye would have thought him speaking still with open mouth: but sound Did none forth passe: there was for speache no passage to be found. Rebuking them cries Eryx: Sirs, it is not Gorgons face, It is your owne faint heartes that make you stonie in this case. Come let us on this fellow run and to the ground him beare That feightes by witchcraft: as with that his feete forth stepping were, They stacke still fastened to the floore: he could not move aside, An armed image all of stone he speachlesse did abide. All these were justly punished. But one there was a knight Of Perseys band, in whose defence as Acont stoode to feight, He waxed overgrowne with stone at ugly Gorgons sight. Whome still as yet Astyages supposing for to live, Did with a long sharpe arming sworde a washing blow him give. The sword did clinke against the stone and out the sparcles drive. While all amazde Astyages stoode wondring at the thing, The selfesame nature on himselfe the Gorgons head did bring. And in his visage which was stone a countnance did remaine Of wondring still. A wearie worke it were to tell you plaine The names of all the common sort. Two hundred from that fray Did scape unslaine: but none of them did go alive away. The whole two hundred every one at sight of Gorgons heare Were turned into stockes of stone. Then at the length for feare Did Phyney of his wrongfull war forthinke himselfe full sore. But now (alas) what remedie? he saw there stand before His face, his men like Images in sundrie shapes all stone. He knew them well, and by their names did call them everychone: Desiring them to succor him: and trusting not his sight He feeles the bodies that were next, and all were Marble quight. He turnes himselfe from Persey ward and humbly as he standes He wries his armes behind his backe: and holding up his handes, O noble Persey, thou hast got the upper hand, he sed. Put up that monstruous shield of thine: put up that Gorgons head That into stones transformeth men: put up, I thee desire. Not hatred, nor bicause to reigne as King I did aspire, Have moved me to make this fray. The only force of love In seeking my betrothed spouse, did hereunto me move. The better title seemeth thine bicause of thy desert:


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 And mine by former promise made. It irkes me at the heart In that I did not give the place. None other thing I crave O worthie knight, but that thou graunt this life of mine to save. Let all things else beside be thine. As he thus humbly spake Nor daring looke at him to whome he did entreatance make, The thing (quoth Persey) which to graunt both I can finde in heart, And is no little courtesie to shewe without desert Upon a Coward, I will graunt, O fearfull Duke, to thee. Set feare aside: thou shalt not hurt with any weapon bee. I will moreover so provide as thai thou shalt remaine An everlasting monument of this dayes toyle and paine. The pallace of my Fathrinlaw shall henceforth be thy shrine Where thou shalt stand continually before my spouses eyen, That of hir husband having ay the Image in hir sight, She may from time to time receyve some comfort and delight. He had no sooner sayd these wordes but that he turnde his shielde With Gorgons heade to that same part where Phyney with a mielde And fearfull countnance set his face. Then also as he wride His eyes away, his necke waxt stiffe, his teares to stone were dride. A countnance in the stonie stocke of feare did still appeare With humble looke and yeelding handes and gastly ruthfull cheare. With conquest and a noble wife doth Persey home repaire And in revengement of the right against the wrongfull heyre, As in his Graundsires just defence, he falles in hand with Prete Who like no brother but a foe did late before defeate King Acrise of his townes by warre and of his royall seate. But neyther could his men of warre nor fortresse won by wrong Defend him from the griesly looke of grim Medusa long. And yet thee, foolish Polydect of little Seriph King, Such rooted rancor inwardly continually did sting, That neyther Perseys prowesse tride in such a sort of broyles Nor yet the perils he endurde, nor all his troublous toyles Could cause thy stomacke to relent. Within thy stonie brest Workes such a kinde of festred hate as cannot be represt. Thy wrongfull malice hath none ende. Moreover thou of spite Repining at his worthy praise, his doings doste backbite: Upholding that Medusas death was but a forged lie:


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 So long till Persey for to shewe the truth apparantly, Desiring such as were his friendes to turne away their eye, Drue out Medusas ougly head. At sight whereof anon The hatefull Tyran Polydect was turned to a stone. The Goddesse Pallas all this while did keepe continually Hir brother Persey companie, till now that she did stie From Seriph in a hollow cloud, and leaving on the right The Iles of Scyre and Gyaros, she made from thence hir flight Directly over that same Sea as neare as eye could ame To Thebe and Mount Helicon, and when she thither came, She stayde hir selfe, and thus bespake the learned sisters nine: A rumor of an uncouth spring did pierce these eares of mine The which the winged stede shouldmake by stamping with his hoofe. This is the cause of my repaire: I would for certaine proofe Be glad to see the wondrous thing. For present there I stoode And saw the selfesame Pegasus spring of his mothers blood. Dame Uranie did entertaine and aunswere Pallas thus: What cause so ever moves your grace to come and visit us, Most heartely you welcome are: and certaine is the fame Of this our Spring, that Pegasus was causer of the same. And with that worde she led hir forth to see the sacred spring. Who musing greatly with hir selfe at straungenesse of the thing, Surveyde the Woodes and groves about of auncient stately port. And when she saw the Bowres to which the Muses did resort, And pleasant fields beclad with herbes of sundrie hew and sort, She said that for their studies sake they were in happie cace And also that to serve their turne they had so trim a place. Then one of them replied thus: O noble Ladie who (But that your vertue greater workes than these are calles you to) Should else have bene of this our troupe, your saying is full true. To this our trade of life and place is commendation due. And sure we have a luckie lot and if the world were such As that we might in safetie live, but lewdnesse reignes so much That all things make us Maides afraide. Me thinkes I yet do see The wicked Tyran Pyren still: my heart is yet scarce free From that same feare with which it hapt us flighted for to bee. This cruell Pyren was of Thrace and with his men of war


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 The land of Phocis had subdude, and from this place not far Within the Citie Dawlis reignde by force of wrongfull hand, One day to Phebus Temples warde that on Parnasus stand As we were going, in our way he met us courteously, And by the name of Goddesses saluting reverently Said: O ye Dames of Meonie (for why he knew us well) I pray you stay and take my hou.e untill this storme (there fell That time a tempest and a showre) be past: the Gods aloft Have entred smaller sheddes than mine full many a time and oft. The rainie wether and hys wordes so moved us, that wee To go into an outer house of his did all agree. As soone as that the showre was past and heaven was voyded cleare Of all the Cloudes which late before did every where appeare, Until that Boreas had subdude the rainie Southerne winde, We woulde have by and by bene gone. He shet the doores in minde To ravish us: but we with wings escaped from his hands. He purposing to follow us, upon a Turret stands, And sayth he needes will after us the same way we did flie. And with that worde full frantickly he leapeth downe from hie, And pitching evelong on his face the bones asunder crasht, And dying, all abrode the ground his wicked bloud bedasht. Now as the Muse was telling this, they heard a noyse of wings And from the leavie boughes aloft a sound of greeting rings. Minerva looking up thereat demaunded whence the sounde Of tongues that so distinctly spake did come so plaine and rounde? She thought some woman or some man had greeted hir that stounde. It was a flight of Birdes. Nyne Pies bewailing their mischaunce In counterfetting everie thing from bough to bough did daunce. As Pallas wondred at the sight, the Muse spake thus in summe: These also being late ago in chalenge overcome, Made one kinde more of Birdes than was of auncient time beforne. In Macedone they were about the Citie Pella borne Of Pierus, a great riche Chuffe, and Euip, who by ayde Of strong Lucina travailing nine times, nine times was laide Of daughters in hir childbed safe. This fond and foolish rout Of doltish sisters taking pride and waxing verie stout, Bicause they were in number nine came flocking all togither


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 Through all the townes of Thessalie and all Achaia hither, And us with these or such like wordes to combate did provoke. Cease off, ye Thespian Goddesses, to mocke the simple folke With fondnesse of your Melodie. And if ye thinke in deede Ye can doe ought, contend with us and see how you shall speede. I warrant you ye passe us not in cunning nor in voyce. Ye are here nine, and so are we. We put you to the choyce, That eyther we will vanquish you and set you quight beside Your fountaine made by Pegasus which is your chiefest pride, And Aganippe too: or else confounde you us, and we Of all the woods of Macedone will dispossessed be As farre as snowie Peonie: and let the Nymphes be Judges. Now in good sooth it was a shame to cope with suchie Drudges, But yet more shame it was to yeeld. The chosen Nymphes did sweare By Styx, and sate them downe on seates of stone that growed there. Then streight without commission or election of the rest, The formost of them preasing forth undecently, profest The chalenge to performe: and song the battels of the Goddes. She gave the Giants all the praise, the honor and the oddes, Abasing sore the worthie deedes of all the Gods. She telles How Typhon issuing from the earth and from the deepest helles, Made all the Gods above afraide, so greatly that they fled And never staide till Aegypt land and Nile whose streame is shed In channels seven, received them forwearied all togither: And how the Helhound Typhon did pursue them also thither. By meanes wherof the Gods eche one were faine themselves to hide In forged shapes. She saide that Jove the Prince of Gods was wride In shape of Ram: which is the cause that at this present tide Joves ymage which the Lybian folke by name of Hammon serve, Is made with crooked welked homes that inward still doe terve: That Bacchus in a Geate, And Phebus sister in a Cat, and Juno in a Neate, And Venus in the shape of Fish, and how that last of all Mercurius hid him in a Bird which Ibis men doe call. This was the summe of all the tale which she with rolling tung And yelling throteboll to hir harpe before us rudely sung. Our turne is also come to speake, but that perchaunce your grace


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 To give the hearing to our song hath now no time nor space. Yes yes (quoth Pallas) tell on forth in order all your tale: And downe she sate among the trees which gave a pleasant swale. The Muse made aunswere thus: To one Calliope here by name This chalenge we committed have and ordring of the same. Then rose up faire Calliope with goodly bush of heare Trim wreathed up with yvie leaves, and with hir thumbe gan steare The quivering strings, to trie them if they were in tune or no. Which done, she playde upon hir Lute and song hir Ditie so: Dame Ceres first to breake the Earth with plough the maner found, She first made come and stover soft to grow upon the ground, She first made lawes: for all these things we are to Ceres bound. Of hir must I as now intreate: would God I could resound Hir worthie laude: she doubtlesse is a Goddesse worthie praise. Bicause the Giant Typhon gave presumptuously assayes To conquer Heaven, the howgie Ile of Trinacris is layd Upon his limmes, by weight whereof perforce he downe is weyde. He strives and strugles for to rise full many a time and oft. But on his right hand toward Rome Pelorus standes aloft: Pachynnus standes upon his left: his legs with Lilybie Are pressed downe: his monstrous head doth under Aetna lie. From whence he lying bolt upright with wrathfull mouth doth spit Out flames of fire. He wrestleth oft and walloweth for to wit And if he can remove the weight of all that mightie land Or tumble downe the townes and hilles that on his bodie stand. By meanes whereof it commes to passe that oft the Earth doth shake: And even the King of Ghostes himselfe for verie feare doth quake, Misdoubting lest the Earth should clive so wide that light of day Might by the same pierce downe to Hell and there the Ghostes affray. Forecasting this, the Prince of Fiendes forsooke his darksome hole, And in a Chariot drawen with Steedes as blacke as any cole The whole foundation of the Ile of Sicill warely vewde. When throughly he had sercht eche place that harme had none ensewde, As carelessly he raungde abrode, he chaunced to be seene Of Venus sitting on hir hill: who taking streight betweene Hir armes hir winged Cupid, said: My sonne, mine only stay, My hand, mine honor and my might, go take without delay


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 Those tooles which all wightes do subdue, and strike them in the hart Of that same God that of the world enjoyes the lowest part. The Gods of Heaven, and Jove himselfe, the powre of Sea and Land And he that rules the powres on Earth obey thy mightie hand: And wherefore then should only Hell still unsubdued stand? Thy mothers Empire and thine own why doste thou not advaunce? The third part of al the world now hangs in doubtful chaunce. And yet in heaven too now, their deedes thou seest me faine to beare. We are despisde: the strength of love with me away doth weare. Seeste not the Darter Diane and dame Pallas have already Exempted them from my behestes? and now of late so heady Is Ceres daughter too, that if we let hir have hir will, She will continue all hir life a Maid unwedded still. For that is all hir hope, and marke whereat she mindes to shoote. But thou (if ought this gracious turne our honor may promote, Or ought our Empire beautifie which joyntly we doe holde,) This Damsell to hir uncle joyne. No sooner had she tolde These wordes, but Cupid opening streight his quiver chose therefro One arrow (as his mother bade) among a thousand mo. But such a one it was, as none more sharper was than it, Nor none went streighter from the Bow the amed marke to hit. He set his knee against his Bow and bent it out of hande, And made his forked arrowes steale in Plutos heart to stande. Neare Enna walles there standes a Lake: Pergusa is the name. Cayster heareth not mo songs of Swannes than doth the same. A wood environs everie side the water round about, And with his leaves as with a veyle doth keepe the Sunne heate out. The boughes doe yeelde a coole fresh Ayre: the moystnesse of the grounde Yeeldes sundrie flowres: continuall spring is all the yeare there founde. While in this garden Proserpine was taking hir pastime, In gathering eyther Violets blew, or Lillies white as Lime, And while of Maidenly desire she fillde hir Maund and Lap, Endevoring to outgather hir companions there, by hap Dis spide hir: lovde hir: caught hir up: and all at once well nere, So hastie, hote, and swift a thing is Love as may appeare. The Ladie with a wailing voyce afright did often call Hir Mother and hir waiting Maides, but Mother most of all.


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 Brett Gazetted Q.C. on 22 Feb. 1861, he soon led both in the court of passage at Liverpool and in the court of admiralty. A sound, though hardly a profound lawyer, an easy speaker, and, above all, a clearheaded and experienced man of the world, he was especially at home in addressing juries, and was naturally led to form an unusually high estimate of the value of their verdicts. He had also a considerable bankruptcy practice, and was for some years revising barrister for one of the Liverpool districts. Keenly interested in politics, and an ardent conservative, or, as he preferred to say, tory, he made in April 1859on the death of Cobden in 1865 [sic] a gallant but vain attempt to carry the borough of Rochdale against Cobden. In a subsequent contest (July 1865) for the same borough he was worsted by Thomas Bayley Potter [q. v. Suppl.]against Cobden's friend Thomas Bayley Potter [q. v. Suppl.], but he was defeated. [sic] He next tried his fortune at the Cornish borough of Helston, where he polled a parity of votes with his antagonist, who was nevertheless irregularly returned. The return, however, was amended on petition (5 July 1866), and the seat thus hardly won Brett retained until his elevation to the bench. He entered parliament with views already matured on the burning question of franchise reform, which he desired to see settled on as broad a basis as prudence would permit, and the practical experience which he had gained as a revising barrister was of great use to the government in committee. His services were recognised by his appointment to the office of solicitor-general, in succession to Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn [q. v.], when he received the honour of knighthood (10, 29 Feb. 1868).

As solicitor-general Brett took part in the prosecution of the Fenians implicated in the partially successful plot to blow up Clerkenwell House of Detention (20 April 1868). In parliament he had the conduct of the measure abolishing public executions, and contributed to shape the enactments which conferred admiralty jurisdiction on county courts, and transferred the jurisdiction on election petitions from the House of Commons to the superior courts of common law. Under the clause in the latter measure providing for an augmentation of the judicial staff, he was appointed additional justice of the common pleas, and invested with the coif on 24 Aug. 1868. On the bench Brett proved himself no less competent to direct than he had been to convince a jury. He was what lawyers call a 'strong' judge, more strong indeed than discreet, and his excessively severe sentence on the employés of the Gas Light and Coke Company, convicted of conspiracy in 1872, was commuted by the crown (see Cox, Criminal Cases, xii. 351). The Judicature Act of 1875 gave him the status of justice of the high court. He took part, not without distinction, in the deliberations of the court for crown cases reserved, and delivered in November 1876 an elaborate dissentient judgment on the question of jurisdiction reserved by Baron Pollock in Regina v. Keyn [cf. ]. On the passing of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act of 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 59, s. 15), he was appointed, with Barons Amphlett and Bramwell, justice — the title lord-justice was given in the following year — of appeal (27 Oct.), and sworn of the privy council (28 Nov.) He sat first with Bramwell, and shared the credit of a period of singularly efficient administration, afterwards with Sir George Jessel,whom, not altogether to the advantage of his reputation, he succeeded as master of the rolls on 3 April 1883. As a judge his most salient characteristic was a robust common sense, which predisposed him to make short work of legal and equitable technicalities when they seemed to militate against substantial justice; but this admirable quality was united with a criterion of justice which was unduly elastic, being, by his own avowal (Law Times, 20 Nov. 1897), nothing more than the general consent of 'people of candour, honour, and fairness.' He thus assimilated the functions of the judge to those of the jury, for whose verdict he had indeed such respect as virtually to renounce the jurisdiction to order new trials. His judgments were colloquial in style, and, even within his own special domain of mercantile and marine law, by no means unimpeachable. (See the judgments of the House of Lords in Glyn, Mills, & Co. v. East and West India Docks ; Law Reports, Appeal Cases, vii. 591, and Sewell v. Burdick, ib. x. 74, overruling his view of the effect of the endorsement of a bill of lading ; and cf. ib. xii. 29, 503, 518, 531, xiv. 209.) Excessively impatient of prolix argument, he sometimes forgot his dignity in altercations with pertinacious counsel.

Brett was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher of Esher, Surrey, on 24 July 1885, and on his retirement from the bench in 1897 was created (11 Nov.) Viscount Esher, the highest dignity yet attained by any judge, not being a chancellor, for merely judicial service since the time of Coke. In the House of Lords he made no great figure, and indeed seldom spoke except on legal questions. His sole legislative achievement was the Solicitors Act of 1888, a small but salutary disciplinary measure. In law, as in politics, his bias was conservative, and his resistance


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 And as she from the upper part hir garment would have rent, By chaunce she let hir lap slip downe, and out hir flowres went. And such a sillie simplenesse hir childish age yet beares, That even the verie losse of them did move hir more to teares. The Catcher drives his Chariot forth, and calling every horse By name, to make away apace he doth them still enforce: And shakes about their neckes and Manes their rustie bridle reynes And through the deepest of the Lake perforce he them constreynes. And through the Palik pooles, the which from broken ground doe boyle And smell of Brimstone verie ranke: and also by the soyle Where as the Bacchies, folke of Corinth with the double Seas, Betweene unequall Havons twaine did reere a towne for ease. Betweene the fountaines of Cyane and Arethuse of Pise An arme of Sea that meetes enclosde with narrow homes there lies. Of this the Poole callde Cyane which beareth greatest fame Among the Nymphes of Sicilie did algates take the name. Who vauncing hir unto the waste amid hir Poole did know Dame Proserpine, and said to Dis: Ye shall no further go: You cannot Ceres sonneinlawe be, will she so or no. You should have sought hir courteously and not enforst hir so. And if I may with great estates my simple things compare, Anapus was in love with me: but yet he did not fare As you doe now with Proserpine. He was content to woo And I unforst and unconstreind consented him untoo. This said, she spreaded forth hir armes and stopt him of his way. His hastie wrath Saturnus sonne no lenger then could stay. But chearing up his dreadfull Steedes did smight his royall mace With violence in the bottome of the Poole in that same place. The ground streight yeelded to his stroke and made him way to Hell, And downe the open gap both horse and Chariot headlong fell. Dame Cyan taking sore to heart as well the ravishment Of Proserpine against hir will, as also the contempt Against hir fountaines priviledge, did shrowde in secret hart An inward corsie comfortlesse, which never did depart Untill she melting into teares consumde away with smart. The selfesame waters of the which she was but late ago The mighty Goddesse, now she pines and wastes hirselfe into.


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 Ye might have seene hir limmes wex lithe, ye might have bent hir bones. Hir nayles wext soft: and first of all did melt the smallest ones: As haire and fingars, legges and feete: for these same slender parts Doe quickly into water turne, and afterward converts To water, shoulder, backe, brest, side: and finally in stead Of lively bloud, within hir veynes corrupted there was spred Thinne water: so that nothing now remained whereupon Ye might take holde, to water all consumed was anon. The carefull mother in the while did seeke hir daughter deare Through all the world both Sea and Land, and yet was nere the neare. The Morning with hir deawy haire hir slugging never found, Nor yet the Evening star that brings the night upon the ground. Two seasoned Pynetrees at the mount of Aetna did she light And bare them restlesse in hir handes through all the dankish night. Againe as soone as chierfull day did dim the starres, she sought Hir daughter still from East to West. And being overwrought She caught a thirst: no liquor yet had come within hir throte. By chaunce she spied nere at hand a pelting thatched Cote Wyth peevish doores: she knockt thereat, and out there commes a trot. The Goddesse asked hir some drinke and she denide it not: But out she brought hir by and by a draught of merrie go downe And therewithall a Hotchpotch made of steeped Barlie browne And Flaxe and Coriander seede and other simples more The which she in an Earthen pot together sod before. While Ceres was a eating this, before hir gazing stood A hard faaste boy, a shrewde pert wag, that could no maners good: He laughed at hir and in scorne did call hir greedie gut. The Goddesse being wroth therewith, did on the Hotchpotch put The liquor ere that all was eate, and in his face it threw. Immediatly the skinne thereof became of speckled hew, And into legs his armes did turne: and in his altred hide A wrigling tayle streight to his limmes was added more beside. And to th'intent he should not have much powre to worken scathe, His bodie in a little roume togither knit she hathe. For as with pretie Lucerts he in facion doth agree: So than the Lucert somewhat lesse in every poynt is he. The poore old woman was amazde: and bitterly she wept:


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 She durst not touche the uncouth worme, who into corners crept. And of the flecked spottes like starres that on his hide are set A name agreeing thereunto in Latine doth he get. It is our Swift whose skinne with gray and yellow specks is fret. What Lands and Seas the Goddesse sought it were too long to saine. The worlde did want. And so she went to Sicill backe againe. And as in going every where she serched busily, She also came to Cyane: who would assuredly Have tolde hir all things, had she not transformed bene before. But mouth and tongue for uttrance now would serve hir turne no more. Howbeit a token manifest she gave hir for to know What was become of Proserpine. Her girdle she did show Still hovering on hir holie poole, which slightly from hir fell As she that way did passe: and that hir mother knew too well. For when she saw it, by and by as though she had but than Bene new advertisde of hir chaunce, she piteously began To rend hir ruffled haire, and beate hir handes against hir brest. As yet she knew not where she was. But yet with rage opprest, She curst all landes, and said they were unthankfull everychone, Yea and unworthy of the fruites bestowed them upon. But bitterly above the rest she banned Sicilie, In which the mention of hir losse she plainely did espie. And therefore there with cruell hand the earing ploughes she brake, And man and beast that tilde the grounde to death in anger strake. She marrde the seede, and eke forbade the fieldes to yeelde their frute. The plenteousnesse of that same lie of which there went suche bruit Through all the world, lay dead: the come was killed in the blade: Now too much drought, now too much wet did make it for to fade. The starres and blasting windes did hurt, the hungry foules did eate The come in ground: the Tines and Briars did overgow the Wheate. And other wicked weedes the corne continually annoy, Which neyther tylth nor toyle of man was able to destroy. Then Arethuse, floud Alpheys love, lifts from hir Elean waves Hir head, and shedding to hir eares hir deawy haire that waves About hir foreheade sayde: O thou that art the mother deare Both of the Maiden sought through all the world both far and neare, And eke of all the earthly fruites, forbeare thine endlesse toyle,


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 And be not wroth without a cause with this thy faithfull soyle: The Lande deserves no punishment. Unwillingly, God wote, She opened to the Ravisher that violently hir smote. It is not sure my native soyle for which I thus entreate. I am but here a sojourner, my native soyle and seate Is Pisa and from Ely towne I fetch my first discent. I dwell but as a straunger here: but sure to my intent This Countrie likes me better farre than any other land. Here now I Arethusa dwell: here am I setled: and I humbly you beseche extend your favour to the same. A time will one day come when you to mirth may better frame, And have your heart more free from care, which better serve me may To tell you why I from my place so great a space doe stray, And unto Ortygie am brought through so great Seas and waves. The ground doth give me passage free, and by the lowest caves Of all the Earth I make my way, and here I raise my heade, And looke upon the starres agayne neare out of knowledge fled. Now while I underneath the Earth the Lake of Styx did passe, I saw your daughter Proserpine with these same eyes. She was Not merrie, neyther rid of feare as seemed by hir cheere. But yet a Queene, but yet of great God Dis the stately Feere: But yet of that same droupie Realme the chiefe and sovereigne Peere. Hir mother stoode as starke as stone, when she these newes did heare, And long she was like one that in another worlde had beene. But when hir great amazednesse by greatnesse of hir teene Was put aside, she gettes hir to hir Chariot by and by And up to heaven in all post haste immediately doth stie. And there beslowbred all hir face: hir haire about hir eares, To royall Jove in way of plaint this spightfull tale she beares: As well for thy bloud as for mine a suter unto thee I hither come. If no regard may of the mother bee Yet let the childe hir father move, and have not lesser care Of hir (I pray) bicause that I hir in my bodie bare. Behold our daughter whome I sought so long is found at last: If finding you it terme, when of recoverie meanes is past. Or if you finding do it call to have a knowledge where She is become. Hir ravishment we might consent to beare,


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 So restitution might be made. And though there were to me No interest in hir at all, yet forasmuche as she Is yours, it is unmeete she be bestowde upon a theefe. Jove aunswerde thus: My daughter is a Jewell deare and leefe: A collup of mine owne flesh cut as well as out of thine. But if we in our heartes can finde things rightly to define, This is not spight but love. And yet Madame in faith I see No cause of such a sonne in law ashamed for to bee, So you contented were therewith. For put the case that hee Were destitute of all things else, how greate a matter ist Joves brother for to be? but sure in him is nothing mist. Nor he inferior is to me save only that by lot The Heavens to me, the Helles to him the destnies did allot. But if you have so sore desire your daughter to divorce, Though she againe to Heaven repayre I doe not greatly force. But yet conditionly that she have tasted there no foode: For so the destnies have decreed. He ceaste: and Ceres stoode Full bent to fetch hir daughter out: but destnies hir withstoode, Bicause the Maide had broke hir fast. For as she hapt one day In Plutos Ortyard rechlessely from place to place to stray, She gathering from a bowing tree a ripe Pownegarnet, tooke Seven kernels out and sucked them. None chaunst hereon to looke, Save onely one Ascalaphus whome Orphne, erst a Dame Among the other Elves of Hell not of the basest fame, Bare to hir husbande Acheron within hir duskie den. He sawe it, and by blabbing it ungraciously as then, Did let hir from returning thence. A grievous sigh the Queene Of Hell did fetch, and of that wight that had a witnesse beene Against hir made a cursed Birde. Upon his face she shead The water of the Phlegeton: and by and by his head Was nothing else but Beake and Downe, and mightie glaring eyes. Quight altred from himselfe betweene two yellow wings he flies. He groweth chiefly into head and hooked talants long And much adoe he hath to flaske his lazie wings among. The messenger of Morning was he made, a filthie fowle, A signe of mischiefe unto men, the sluggish skreching Owle. This person for his lavish tongue and telling tales might seeme


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 To have deserved punishment. But what should men esteeme To be the verie cause why you, Acheloes daughters, weare Both feete and feathers like to Birdes, considering that you beare The upper partes of Maidens still? And commes it so to passe Bicause when Ladie Proserpine a gathering flowers was, Ye Meremaides kept hir companie? Whome after you had sought Through all the Earth in vaine, anon of purpose that your thought Might also to the Seas be knowen, ye wished that ye might Upon the waves with hovering wings at pleasure rule your flight, And had the Goddes to your request so pliant, that ye found With yellow feathers out of hand your bodies clothed round: Yet lest that pleasant tune of yours ordeyned to delight The hearing, and so high a gift of Musicke perish might For want of uttrance, humaine voyce to utter things at will And countnance of virginitie remained to you still. But meane betweene his brother and his heavie sister goth God Jove, and parteth equally the yeare betweene them both. And now the Goddesse Proserpine indifferently doth reigne Above and underneath the Earth, and so doth she remaine One halfe yeare with hir mother and the resdue with hir Feere. Immediatly she altred is as well in outwarde cheere As inwarde minde. For where hir looke might late before appeere Sad even to Dis, hir countnance now is full of mirth and grace Even like as Phebus having put the watrie cloudes to chace, Doth shew himselfe a Conqueror with bright and shining face. Then fruitfull Ceres voide of care in that she did recover Hir daughter, prayde thee, Arethuse, the storie to discover, What caused thee to fleete so farre and wherefore thou became A sacred spring? The waters whist. The Goddesse of the same Did from the bottome of the Well hir goodly head up reare. And having dried with hir hand hir faire greene hanging heare, The River Alpheys auncient loves she thus began to tell. I was (quoth she) a Nymph of them that in Achaia dwell. There was not one that earnester the Lawndes and forests sought Or pitcht hir toyles more handsomly. And though that of my thought It was no part, to seeke the fame of beautie: though I were All courage: yet the pricke and prise of beautie I did beare.


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 My overmuch commended face was unto me a spight. This gift of bodie in the which another would delight, I, rudesbye, was ashamed of: me thought it was a crime To be belikte. I beare it well in minde that on a time In comming wearie from the chase of Stymphalus, the heate Was fervent, and my traveling had made it twice as great. I founde a water neyther deepe nor shallow which did glide Without all noyse, so calme that scarce the moving might be spide. And throughly to the very ground it was so crispe and cleare, That every little stone therein did plaine aloft appeare. The horie Sallowes and the Poplars growing on the brim Unset, upon the shoring bankes did cast a shadow trim. I entred in, and first of all I deeped but my feete: And after to my knees. And not content to wade so fleete, I put off all my clothes, and hung them on a Sallow by And threw my selfe amid the streame, which as I dallyingly Did beate and draw, and with my selfe a thousand maistries trie, In casting of mine armes abrode and swimming wantonly: I felt a bubling in the streame I wist not how nor what, And on the Rivers nearest brim I stept for feare. With that, O Arethusa, whither runst? and whither runst thou, cride Floud Alphey from his waves againe with hollow voyce. I hide Away unclothed as I was. For on the further side My clothes hung still. So much more hote and eger then was he, And for I naked was, I seemde the readier for to be. My running and his fierce pursuite was like as when ye se The sillie Doves with quivering wings before the Gossehauke stie, The Gossehauke sweeping after them as fast as he can flie. To Orchomen, and Psophy land, and Cyllen I did holde Out well, and thence to Menalus and Erymanth the colde, And so to Ely. All this way no ground of me he wonne. But being not so strong as he, this restlesse race to runne I could not long endure, and he could hold it out at length. Yet over plaines and wooddie hilles (as long as lasted strength) And stones, and rockes, and desert groundes I still maintaind my race. The Sunne was full upon my backe. I saw before my face A lazie shadow: were it not that feare did make me see't.