*The list of foul names bestowed upon those poor creatures is long and curious; and, as is, alas! too natural, most of the opprobrious appellations are drawn from circumstances into which they were forced by their persecutors, who even consolidated their miseries into one reproachful term, calling them Patarenians or Paturins, from pati, to suffer.

"Dwellers with wolves she names them, for the pine

And green oak are their covert; as the gloom
Of night oft foils their enemy's design,
She calls them riders on the flying broom:
Sorcerers, whose frame and aspect have be-

come

One and the same through practices malign."

Go forth, great king, ! claim what thy birth bestows;

Conquer the Gallic lily which thy foes Dare to usurp ;-thou hast a sword to wield, [mitred sire And Heaven will crown the right."-The Thus spake-and lo! a fleet, for Gaul addrest, [ing seas; Ploughs her bold course across the wonder. For, sooth to say, ambition, in the breast Of youthful heroes, is no sullen fire, But one that leaps to meet the fanning breeze.

WARS OF YORK AND LANCASTER. THUS is the storm abated by the craft of a shrewd counsellor, eager to protect The Church, whose power hath recently been checked, [the shaft Whose monstrous riches threatened. So Of victory mounts high, and blood is quaffed In fields that rival Cressy and PoictiersPride to be washed away by bitter tears; For deep as hell itself, the avenging draught Of civil slaughter! Yet, while temporal power [truth

Is by these shocks exhausted, spiritual
Maintains the else endangered gift of life;
Proceeds from infancy to lusty youth;
And, under cover of this woeful strife,
Gathers unblighted strength from hour to
hour.

CORRUPTIONS OF THE HIGHER CLERGY. "Woe to you, prelates! rioting in ease And cumbrous wealth-the shame of your estate;

You on whose progress dazzling trains await Of pompous horses; whom vain titles please,

Who will be served by others on their knees,
Yet will yourselves to God no service pay;
Pastors who neither take nor point the way

To Heaven; for either lost in vanities
Ye have no skill to teach, or if ye know
And speak the word" Alas! of fearful
things

'Tis the most fearful when the people's eye
Abuse hath cleared from vain imaginings;
And taught the general voice to prophesy
Of justice armed, and pride to be laid low.

ABUSE OF MONASTIC POWER.

Of its grave echoes, swells a choral strain, Whose votive burthen is-" Our kingdom's here!"

DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES.

THREATS come which no submission may

assuage;

mute,

No sacrifice avert, no power dispute; The tapers shall be quenched, the belfries [rage, And, 'mid their choirs unroofed by selfish The warbling wren shall find a leafy cage; The gadding bramble hang her purple fruit;

And the green lizard and the gilded newt Lead unmolested lives, and die of age." The owl of evening and the woodland fox For their abode the shrines of Waltham choose :

Proud Glastonbury can no more refuse

shocks-[tells, She whose high pomp displaced, as story Arimathean Joseph's wattled cells.

Pours out his choicest beverage high and
Sparkling, until it cannot choose but run
Over the bowl, whose silver lip hath won
An instant kiss of masterful desire-
To stay the precious waste. In every brain
Spreads the dominion of the sprightly juice,
Through the wide world, to madding
fancy dear,

Till the arched roof, with resolute abuse

*These two lines are adopted from a MS. fell into my possession. The close of the prewritten about the year 1770, which accidentally ceding sonnet on monastic voluptuousness is taken from the same source, as is the verse, "There Venus sits," &c.

CONTINUED.

YET some noviciates of the cloistral shade, Or chained by vows, with undissembled glee

The warrant hail-exulting to be free; Like ships before whose keels, full long embayed

In polar ice, propitious winds have made Unlooked-for outlet to an open sea, Their liquid world, for bold discovery, In all her quarters temptingly displayed! Hope guides the young; but when the old must pass [find The threshold, whither shall they turn to The hospitality-the alms (alas! Alms may be needed) which that house bestowed?

[mind Can they, in faith and worship, train the To keep this new and questionable road?

Like saintly Fisher, and unbending More. Lightly for both the bosom's lord did sit Upon his throne;" unsoftened, undismayed By aught that mingled with the tragic scene Of pity or fear; and More's gay genius played

With the inoпensive sword of native wit, Than the bare axe more luminous and keen.

THE POINT AT ISSUE.

FOR what contend the wise? for nothing less [of sense; Than that pure faith dissolve the bonds The soul restored to God by evidence Of things not seen-drawn forth from their recess,

Root there, and not in forms, her holiness; That faith which to the patriarchs did dispense

Sure guidance, ere a ceremonial fence

melt.

REVIVAL OF POPERY.

MELTS into silent shades the youth, discrowned

[the Lord gress; That faith, more perfect still, with which Of all, himself a Spirit, in the youth Of Christian aspiration, deigned to fill The temples of their hearts-who, with His word

Informed, were resolute to do His will,
And worship Him in spirit and in truth.

[ground They cast, they cast with joy upon the Their gods of wood and stone; and, at the sound

Of counter-proclamation, now are seen, (Proud triumph is it for a sullen queen !) Lifting them up, the worship to confound

stand;

And prayer, man's rational prerogative, Runs through blind channels of an unknown tongue.

LATIMER AND RIDLEY.

How fast the Marian death-list is unrolled!
See Latimer and Ridley* in the might
Of faith stand coupled for a common flight!
One (like those prophets whom God sent of
old)
[told
Transfigured, from this kindling hath fore-
A torch of inextinguishable light;
The other gains a confidence as bold;
And thus they foil their enemy's despite.
The penal instruments, the shows of crime,
Are glorified while this once-mitred pair
Of saintly friends, the "murtherer's chain
partake,

Corded, and burning at the social stake:"
Earth never witnessed object more sublime
In constancy, in fellowship more fair!

CRANMER.

OUTSTRETCHING flame-ward his upbraided hand

(O God of mercy, may no earthly seat Of judgment such presumptuous doom repeat !)

*"M. Latimer very quietly suffered his keeper to pull off his hose, and his other aray, which to looke unto was very simple; and being stripped into his shrowd, he seemed as tomely a person to them that were present, as one should lightly see: and whereas in his clothes hee appeared a withered and crooked sillie (weak) olde man, he now stood bolt upright, as comely a father as one might lightly Then they brought a faggotte, kindled with fire, and laid the same downe at doctor Ridley's feete. To whom M. Latimer spake in this manner, 'Bee of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never bee put out." "— Fox's Acts, etc.

behold.

Similar alterations in the outward figure and deportment of persons brought to like trial were not uncommon. See note to the above passage in Dr. Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography, for an example in a humble Welsh fisherman,

Firm as the stake to which with iron band His frame is tied; firm from the naked feet To the bare head, the victory complete ; The shrouded body, to the soul's command, Answering with more than Indian fortitude, Through all her nerves with finer sense endued,

Till breath departs in blissful aspiration: Then, 'mid the ghastly ruins of the fire, Behold the unalterable heart entire, Emblem of faith untouched, miraculous attestation !t

GENERAL VIEW OF THE TROUBLES OF

THE REFORMATION.

AID, glorious martyrs, from your fields of light

Our mortal ken! Inspire a perfect trust (While we look round) that Heaven's decrees are just :

Which few can hold committed to a fight That shows, even on its better side, the might

Of proud self-will, rapacity, and lust, 'Mid clouds enveloped of polemic dust, Which showers of blood seem rather to incite

Than to allay.--Anathemas are hurled From both sides; veteran thunders (the brute test

Of truth) are met by fulminations newTartarian flags are caught at, and unfurled

Friends strike at friends-the flying shall [rest! And victory sickens, ignorant where to

pursue

ENGLISH REFORMERS IN EXILE.

SCATTERING, like birds escaped the fowler's net, [strand; Some seek with timely flight a foreign Most happy, re-assembled in a land By dauntless Luther freed, could they forget [they met, Their country's woes. But scarcely have Partners in faith, and brothers in distress, Free to pour forth their common thankfulness,

Ere hope declines; their union is beset

+ For the belief in this fact see the contemporary historians.