THE CHAPTER TO THE SECRETARY.

"Hɛ regretted that he was compelled to say the Dean and Chapter of Westminster had, on the occasion of the Coronation, been so ill-advised, or so greedy, as to cut down some very fine old trees of 50 years' growth, with the view of being enabled to dispose of additional ground for erecting scaffolding. The loss of this ornament to the public was great, while the profit to the Chapter did not perhaps amount to 10%."

Mr. Croker's Speech, Morn. Chros.

Good Mr. Croker, if you please,

View better this disaster;

The Dean, 'tis truth, has sold the Trees,
But Judas sold his Master.

Ten pounds was more than Judas' fee,
To leave him in the lurch;

And we have precedent, you see,
To profit by the Church!

But why should you, thus looking big,
Become so strict a teacher,
Who always caught at ev'ry Twig*
To make your coffers richer?

Sure, Ministers can ne'er do wrong

In Church, and State to boot,
Who hold that, Trees to them belong,

That gather all the fruit !

* Mem. The debate some years ago on Mr. C.'s legitimate claims

as Secretary:

"Cum tua pervideas oculis mala lippus inunctis,

Cur in amicorum vitiis tam cernis acutum,

Quam aut Aquila, aut serpens Epidaurius ?".

DOCTOR HARVEY.

"HB lies buried in a vault at Hempsted, in Essex, which his brother, Eliab Harvey, built; he is lapt in lead, and on his breast in great letters,' Dr. William Harvey.' I was at his funerall, and helpt to carry him into his vault."

When K. Ch. I. by reason of the tumults left London, he attended him, and was at the fight of Edgehill with him; and during the fight the Prince and Duke of York were committed to his care. He told me that he withdrew with them under a hedge, and took out of his pockett a booke and read; but he had not read very long before a bullet of a great gun grazed on the ground neare him, which made him remove his station; he told me that Sir A. Scrope was dangerously wounded there, and left for dead amongst the dead men, stript; which happened to be the saving of his life. It was cold, clear weather, and a frost that night; which staunched his bleeding, and about midnight, or some hours after his hurt, he awaked, and was faine to drawe a dead body upon him for warmeth

sake:"

"He was, as all the rest of his brothers, very cholerique; and in his younger days wore a dagger (as the fashion then was, nay, I remember my old schoolmaster Mr. Latimer, at 70 wore a dudgeon, with a knife and bodkin, as also my old grandfather Lyte, and Alderman Whitson of Bristowe, which I suppose was the common fashion in their young days), but this Doctor would be apt to drawe out his dagger upon every slight occasion. In visiting his patients, he

rode on horseback, his man following on foot, as the fashion then was, which was very decent, now quite discontinued. The Judges rode also with their footclothes to Westminster Hall, which ended at the death of Sir Robert Hyde, Lord Chief Justice. Anth. Earl of Shaftsbury, would have revived it, but several of the Judges being old and ill-horsemen, would not agree to it."-Aubrey M.S. at Oxford.

"SIR THOMAS CHALLONER, on his return from his travels in Germany, riding a hunting in Yorkshire (where the Allum Workes now are) on a common, he tooke notice of the soyle and herbage, and tasted the water, and found it to be like that where he had seen the Allum Workes in Germaine. Whereupon he gott a patent of the King (Charles I.) for an Allum Worke (which was the first that ever was in England), which was worth to him 2,000l. per annum, or better; but tempore Car. Imi. some courtiers did think the profit too much for him, and prevailed so with the King that, notwithstanding the patent aforesayd, he graunted a moietie, or more, to another (a courtier), which was the reason that made Sir Thomas so interest himselfe in the Parliament cause, and in revenge to be one of the King's Judges."-Aubrey M.S. at Oxford.

MORAL REFLECTIONS WRITTEN ON THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL'S.

THE man that pays his pence, and goes
Up to thy lofty cross, St. Paul,
Looks over London's naked nose,
Women and men:

The world is all beneath his ken,
He sits above the Ball.

He seems on Mount Olympus' top,
Among the Gods, by Jupiter! and lets drop
His eyes from the empyreal clouds
On mortal crowds.

Seen from these skies,

How small those emmets in our eyes!
Some carry little sticks-and one

His eggs-to warm them in the sun:
Dear! what a hustle

And bustle!

And there's my aunt. I know her by her waist,

So long and thin,

And so pinch'd in,

Just in the pismire taste.

Oh! what are men?-Beings so small,

That should I fall

Upon their little heads, I must

Crush them by hundreds into dust!

And what is life? and all its ages

There's seven stages!

Turuham Green! Chelsea! Putney! Fulham!
Brentford! and Kew!

And Tooting too!

And oh! what very little nags to pull 'em.
Yet each would seem a horse indeed,

If here at Paul's tip-top we'd got 'em,
Although like Cinderella's breed,
They're mice at bottom.

R

But now his victim, long opprest,

As gossips say,

With conscious look-by "fear unblest,”
In open day,

Stood boldly forth himself—as the accuser
Of him by whom he had been first accus'd.
One Phillips told him he should be no loser,
Since he already had been grossly used.
His Counsel with such eloquence harangu'd,
The tables turn'd; and what was mighty odd,
His foolish hearers said, the man of God
In justice ought to have been surely hang'd;
But soon the jury for the plaintiff found

A verdict and decreed him fifty pound—
The worthy Rector curs'd such times in grief,
And curs'd the jury too, when he must pay
Full fifty pounds for one thin slice of beef,
Which from a servant he had filch'd away.

ORIGIN OF THE WORD " LADY."

FORMERLY, when the affluent lived all the year round at their mansions in the country, the lady of the manor distributed to her poor neighbours, with her own hands, once a week or oftener, a certain quantity of bread, and she was called by them the Leff-day, that is, in the Saxon, the bread-giver. These two words were in time corrupted, and the meaning is now as little known as the practice which gave rise to it; yet it is from that hospitable custom that, to this day, the ladies of this kingdom alone serve the meat at their own table..