THE TEMPLE CHURCH,

LONDON.

"Hail Calvary, thou mountain hoar,
Wet with our Redeemer's gore!
Ye trampled tombs, ye fanes forlorn,
Ye stones by tears of pilgrims worn,
Your vanished honours to restore,
Fearless we climb this hostile shore ;
And thou, the Sepulchre of God!
By mocking pagans rudely trod,
For thee from Britain's distant coast
Lo! monarchs lead a faithful host."

THOMAS WARTON.

It may safely be said that there is no one human institution, in the annals of the world, which caused greater changes in the habits and manners of society, than did that of Chivalry, nor one on which we now look back with equal wonder and surprise. To say nothing of the restrictions which it placed on the strong, and the protection it rendered to the weak, so important in the absence of other laws, the devoted gallantry to the fair sex, and the high feeling of honor which its ordinances inculcated and

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