TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings To whisper at my grates; When flowing cups run swiftly round Our careless heads with roses crown'd, Know no such liberty. When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories of my king; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Enjoy such liberty.-Richard Lovelace. bacco. He tempt for 1 Saracen kr The Celi nanimity of tapestried with sid over fires of cedar sausages hung from melting the heart of ing forth, with dear would show itself, to the knife. And no squab of flesh-a rest upon. And the as at Babel, hanging of antelope, of Indig Indian cooks. Glowin dred vitreous jars of pe the cell with the fines effect. There, too, wa mild, immortal green dinner hour to dally wis Welcome, welcome, h To these abodes wher Breathes perfumes, and Doth find his object's Where's no heat, nor c No winter's ice, no su Where's no sun, yet ne Day always springing Chorus. All mortal sati Here in endless and his colts'-tooth with his pedigree, such as no infidel can The son of Rabhamy, out equal power to his he is finely an ostrich; In the sire of CHARACTER OF RICHARD III. Richard had reigned a couple of years and a couple of months when he received his quietus on the field of Bosworth. If ever there was a king of England whose name was bad enough to hang him, this unfortunate dog has a reputation which would suspend him on every lamp-post in Christendom. The odium attaching to his policy has been visited on his person, and it has been asserted that the latter was not straight because the former was crooked. His right shoulder is said by Rouse, who hated him, to have been higher than his left; but this apparent deformity may have arisen from the party having taken a one-sided view of him. His stature was small; but in the case of one who never stood very high in the opinion of the public, it was physically impossible for the fact to be otherwise. Walpole, in his very ingenious "Historic Doubts," has tried to get rid of Richard's high lump, but the operation has not been successful, in the opinion of any impartial umpire. Imagination, that tyrant which has such a strange method of treating its subjects, has had perhaps more to do than Nature in placing an enormous burden on Richard's shoulders. His features were decidedly good-looking; but on the converse of the principle that handsome is as handsome does," the tyrant Gloucester has been regarded as one of those who ugly was that handsome didn't.” It is a remarkable fact that Richard III. during his short reign received no subsidy from Parliament, though we must not suppose that he ruled the kingdom gratuitously; for, on the contrary, his income was ample and munificent. He got it in the shape of tonnage and poundage upon all sorts с PEDIGREE OF A HORSE. The following pedigree of an Arabian horse was tied about the neck of one bought in Egypt "In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, and of Seed Mahommed, agent of the High God, and of the companions of Mahommed, and of Jerusalem. Praised be the Lord, the omnipotent Creator. "This is a high-bred horse, and his colts'-tooth is here in a bag about his neck, with his pedigree, and of undoubted authority, such as no infidel can refuse to believe. He is the son of Rabhamy, out of the dam Lahadah, and equal in power to his sire; of the tribe of Zazhalah; he is finely moulded, and made for running like an ostrich; and great in his stroke and his cover. In the honours of relationship he reckons Zaluah, sire of Mahat, sire of Kallac, and the unique Alket, sire of Manasseh, sire of Alshah, father of the race, down to the famous horse, the sire of Lahalala, and to him be ever abundance of green meat, and corn, and water of life, as a reward from the tribe of Zazhalah for the fire of his cover and may a thousand branches shade his carcase from the hyæna of the tomb, from the howling wolf of the desert; and let the tribe of Zazhalah present him with a festival within an inclosure of walls; and let thousands assemble at the rising of the sun in troops hastily, where the tribe holds up, under a canopy of celestial signs within the walls, the saddle with the name and family of the possessor. Then let them strike the hands with a loud noise incessantly, and pray to God for immunity for the tribe of Zoab, the inspired tribe." CHARACTER OF RICHARD III. Richard had reigned a couple of years and a couple of months when he received his quietus on the field of Bosworth. If ever there was a king of England whose name was bad enough to hang him, this unfortunate dog has a reputation which would suspend him on every lamp-post in Christendom. The odium attaching to his policy has been visited on his person, and it has been asserted that the latter was not straight because the former was crooked. His right shoulder is said by Rouse, who hated him, to have been higher than his left; but this apparent deformity may have arisen from the party having taken a one-sided view of him. His stature was small; but in the case of one who never stood very high in the opinion of the public, it was physically impossible for the fact to be otherwise. Walpole, in his very ingenious Historic Doubts," has tried to get rid of Richard's high lump, but the operation has not been successful, in the opinion of any impartial umpire. Imagination, that tyrant which has such a strange method of treating its subjects, has had perhaps more to do than Nature in placing an enormous burden on Richard's shoulders. His features were decidedly good-looking; but on the converse of the principle that "handsome is as handsome does," the tyrant Gloucester has been regarded as one of those who ugly was that handsome didn't." 66 66 It is a remarkable fact that Richard III. during his short reign received no subsidy from Parliament, though we must not suppose that he ruled the kingdom gratuitously; for, on the contrary, his income was ample and munificent. He got it in the shape of tonnage and poundage upon all sorts C |