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Literature.
" NOAV Achor spoileth Jericho And liveth of the theft ; And so live these Lollards In their false fables . ' ¦ ' Dathan and Abiram And Core's children With neiv censers incense
The altars of sin . " With all this Scriptural allusion , the friar professes to be a " lewd " pnila person : — " Leivd am I as thou ; God knoAvs the sooth ; I knoAv not A Prom a windmill ;
Nor A B from a Bull ' s foot ; I troAv , nor thyself either . " Under cover of this community of ignorance , they abuse each other in set round terms . The friar proceeds as follows : —
" It is ye that stand before In Antichrist ' s vanward , And in the middle and in the rereward Pull bigly embattled . The devil is your Duke , And pride beareth the banner ; Wrath is your gunner ; EiiA-y is your archer
, Your covetousness casteth far , Your lechery burnetii , Gluttony gathereth sticks thereto , And sloth mineth the walls , Malice is your man of arms , And Treachery is your spy . " Jacke Uplande retorts rather more briefly , but in much the
same style and tone . Neither party was disposed to mince words ; and , as we know , there were also some cruel deeds . The Lollards could plead their cause in Latin , too ; as Latin ran in those days . A specimen of a chronicle may amuse our readers . It occurs in a monkish poem on the murder of Archbishop Sudbury : — " Annum mil ter c . octogesimumque coerce
, Sunt mala priefata vulgo furiente patrata ; In quarto Regis Ricarcli posterioris , Anno sunt pestes hai prfesumpta ; per agrestes Jak Chep , Tranche , Jon Wrau , Thorn Myllere , Tyler , Jak Straw , . Erie of the Plo , Rak to , Deer , et Hob Carter , Rakstmve , Isti ductoves in plebe fuere pviores , Per quos mail-ores creverunt atque dolores . "
Let us pass hastily , in concluding , to the reign of Henry VI . A ballad on his coronation is quite comic in its picturesqueness . We quote the opening lines , modernising the spelling , as before .- — " Hold up our young king , Ave Penigna , And send peace in our land , Ave Regina . Mother , IIOAV bright be thy beams ,
Mother of mercy , save both realms ; See to our innocent our crown may be gladder , Hold up our Lord that never saAV his father . Nor the father his son reigning in his lands , Great need have we to keep peace among us . On a Sunday , truly ye may trow-e . Our bishops and our abbots Avere mitred in a I-OAV . TAVO archbishops so Avorthily acquainted , ")
Ancl a gracious cardinal about our king anointed . > Three sivords there ivere borne , one pointless and tiA * o pointed . ) The one ivas a sword of mercy , the other of estate , The third was of the empire of which thou art the gate . Three dukes AA'ere in presence , Av'orship to increase ; TAVO bishops him led to keep in peace ; Six earls in their estate slioived them all ; And the cinque ports bearing up the pall . "
And so on throughout tbe whole ceremonial , till at last the King ' s Champion , Philip Dymoke ( they spelt it Dymniok in those days ) rides into the hall all grand in full armour . If the Warden of the Cinque Ports in those days wanted advice on English policy , he could have it in abundance . Lord Palmerston , perhaps , might object that the following counsel is not quite in the spirit of reciprocity and freetrade , and implies too great a confidence in the precious metals as the sources of " wealth : —
Literature.
" If any wool be sold out of this land , Let it be of the worst both to free and bond , And none other in no manner wise , For many divers causes , as I can devise . " If the AVOOI be coarse the cloth is much the worse Yet within a little they put out of purse ,
As much for carding , spinning , and weaving , Fulling , rolling , dyeing , and shearing . " And yet Avhen such cloth is all yAA'rought , It is Avorth to the maker little or nought , The price is IOAV ; the cost is not the less ; They that worked such AVOOI , in wit be like an ass . " It Avere profitable also and expedient for our king
, And a great advantage of much Avinning , And a great cherishing to all the commonalty , That divell about there that the mines be , " If there ivere a mint ordered nigh thereby , And an ordnance made thereto surely , That all the silver , Avhen it fined Avere , Thither should be brought , and coined there
" And money to be carried into another place , Only to be coined in a short space , Whereby that the Avorkfolk might truly be paid , Then I dare say it AA'ould not be denied ,
" But against one man then should ye have ten , For the good payment of the Avorkmen ; And the more people that Avork in the mines , The more silver should be had up at all times . " There can be but one opinion as to the value of such a publication . It is a reflex of the thoughts , manners and customs of the times ivhich it embraces , aud there is no one better
qualified—indeed we are doubtful if there could be found any editor as well qualified—to do justice to such poems aud songs as are here collected as Mr . Thomas Wright . His life has been passed in a study of antiquity ; his reading is of the most comprehensive character and it is a subject of congratulation that the Master oftlie Rolls has selected so ripe a scholar , an antiquary , and diligent labourer in this field of historic enquiry , to edit two such excellent volumes .
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .
Miss Agnes Strickland , in her Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England , gives the folloAving picture of EdAvard the Sixth before he became the boy king : — " While EdAvard was residing either at Ashiidge or Ampthill , a little girl about his OAvn age , named Jane Dormer , the grand-daughter of Sir William Sidney , was sometimes admitted to the honour of associating Avith him , her paternal grandfatherSir William Dormerbeing steivard of the royal manor of
, , Ampthill , AA'hich AA'as only a short distance from his oivn mansion at Ascot . The prince , had therefore , frequent opportunities of seeing her AA'hen she ivas brought to pay her duty to Sir William and Lady Sidney . 'He took particular pleasure in her conversation , and greatly desiring her company , she Avas occasionally sent over with her governess , to amuse the lonely royal child , passing her time Avith him either in reading , playing , or dancing , and such like
pastimes aiiSAverable to their spirits and innocency of years . ' That infantine courtship on the part of the prince , and a spice of early coyness or coquetry on that of the little maiden , ivere sometimes enacted betAveen the pretty tvA'ain , may be inferred from the speech EdAvard Avas AA-OIV . to use to her at cards , Avhen the fortunes of the game so befell , ' N OAV , Jane , your king is gone , I shall be good enough for you , 'and Avould call her'my Jane , ' their natural dispositions
were so correspondent to each other . The same authority Avhence the above pretty anecdote of the infancy of our last bachelor king is derived , bears testimony that his natural disposition ivas of ' great towardness to all virtuous parts and princely qualities ; a marvellous siveet child , of very mild and generous conditions . ' " Sir James Kay ShuttleAvorth , Bart ., has published a Letter to Earl Granville on the Revised Educational Code , in AA'hich he says : — " To
give the people a Averse education from motives of short-sighted economy Avould be utterly inconsistent with all preceding national policy . The idea that an ignorant , brutish people , is either more subordinate or more easily controlled than a people loyal by convic-
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Literature.
" NOAV Achor spoileth Jericho And liveth of the theft ; And so live these Lollards In their false fables . ' ¦ ' Dathan and Abiram And Core's children With neiv censers incense
The altars of sin . " With all this Scriptural allusion , the friar professes to be a " lewd " pnila person : — " Leivd am I as thou ; God knoAvs the sooth ; I knoAv not A Prom a windmill ;
Nor A B from a Bull ' s foot ; I troAv , nor thyself either . " Under cover of this community of ignorance , they abuse each other in set round terms . The friar proceeds as follows : —
" It is ye that stand before In Antichrist ' s vanward , And in the middle and in the rereward Pull bigly embattled . The devil is your Duke , And pride beareth the banner ; Wrath is your gunner ; EiiA-y is your archer
, Your covetousness casteth far , Your lechery burnetii , Gluttony gathereth sticks thereto , And sloth mineth the walls , Malice is your man of arms , And Treachery is your spy . " Jacke Uplande retorts rather more briefly , but in much the
same style and tone . Neither party was disposed to mince words ; and , as we know , there were also some cruel deeds . The Lollards could plead their cause in Latin , too ; as Latin ran in those days . A specimen of a chronicle may amuse our readers . It occurs in a monkish poem on the murder of Archbishop Sudbury : — " Annum mil ter c . octogesimumque coerce
, Sunt mala priefata vulgo furiente patrata ; In quarto Regis Ricarcli posterioris , Anno sunt pestes hai prfesumpta ; per agrestes Jak Chep , Tranche , Jon Wrau , Thorn Myllere , Tyler , Jak Straw , . Erie of the Plo , Rak to , Deer , et Hob Carter , Rakstmve , Isti ductoves in plebe fuere pviores , Per quos mail-ores creverunt atque dolores . "
Let us pass hastily , in concluding , to the reign of Henry VI . A ballad on his coronation is quite comic in its picturesqueness . We quote the opening lines , modernising the spelling , as before .- — " Hold up our young king , Ave Penigna , And send peace in our land , Ave Regina . Mother , IIOAV bright be thy beams ,
Mother of mercy , save both realms ; See to our innocent our crown may be gladder , Hold up our Lord that never saAV his father . Nor the father his son reigning in his lands , Great need have we to keep peace among us . On a Sunday , truly ye may trow-e . Our bishops and our abbots Avere mitred in a I-OAV . TAVO archbishops so Avorthily acquainted , ")
Ancl a gracious cardinal about our king anointed . > Three sivords there ivere borne , one pointless and tiA * o pointed . ) The one ivas a sword of mercy , the other of estate , The third was of the empire of which thou art the gate . Three dukes AA'ere in presence , Av'orship to increase ; TAVO bishops him led to keep in peace ; Six earls in their estate slioived them all ; And the cinque ports bearing up the pall . "
And so on throughout tbe whole ceremonial , till at last the King ' s Champion , Philip Dymoke ( they spelt it Dymniok in those days ) rides into the hall all grand in full armour . If the Warden of the Cinque Ports in those days wanted advice on English policy , he could have it in abundance . Lord Palmerston , perhaps , might object that the following counsel is not quite in the spirit of reciprocity and freetrade , and implies too great a confidence in the precious metals as the sources of " wealth : —
Literature.
" If any wool be sold out of this land , Let it be of the worst both to free and bond , And none other in no manner wise , For many divers causes , as I can devise . " If the AVOOI be coarse the cloth is much the worse Yet within a little they put out of purse ,
As much for carding , spinning , and weaving , Fulling , rolling , dyeing , and shearing . " And yet Avhen such cloth is all yAA'rought , It is Avorth to the maker little or nought , The price is IOAV ; the cost is not the less ; They that worked such AVOOI , in wit be like an ass . " It Avere profitable also and expedient for our king
, And a great advantage of much Avinning , And a great cherishing to all the commonalty , That divell about there that the mines be , " If there ivere a mint ordered nigh thereby , And an ordnance made thereto surely , That all the silver , Avhen it fined Avere , Thither should be brought , and coined there
" And money to be carried into another place , Only to be coined in a short space , Whereby that the Avorkfolk might truly be paid , Then I dare say it AA'ould not be denied ,
" But against one man then should ye have ten , For the good payment of the Avorkmen ; And the more people that Avork in the mines , The more silver should be had up at all times . " There can be but one opinion as to the value of such a publication . It is a reflex of the thoughts , manners and customs of the times ivhich it embraces , aud there is no one better
qualified—indeed we are doubtful if there could be found any editor as well qualified—to do justice to such poems aud songs as are here collected as Mr . Thomas Wright . His life has been passed in a study of antiquity ; his reading is of the most comprehensive character and it is a subject of congratulation that the Master oftlie Rolls has selected so ripe a scholar , an antiquary , and diligent labourer in this field of historic enquiry , to edit two such excellent volumes .
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .
Miss Agnes Strickland , in her Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England , gives the folloAving picture of EdAvard the Sixth before he became the boy king : — " While EdAvard was residing either at Ashiidge or Ampthill , a little girl about his OAvn age , named Jane Dormer , the grand-daughter of Sir William Sidney , was sometimes admitted to the honour of associating Avith him , her paternal grandfatherSir William Dormerbeing steivard of the royal manor of
, , Ampthill , AA'hich AA'as only a short distance from his oivn mansion at Ascot . The prince , had therefore , frequent opportunities of seeing her AA'hen she ivas brought to pay her duty to Sir William and Lady Sidney . 'He took particular pleasure in her conversation , and greatly desiring her company , she Avas occasionally sent over with her governess , to amuse the lonely royal child , passing her time Avith him either in reading , playing , or dancing , and such like
pastimes aiiSAverable to their spirits and innocency of years . ' That infantine courtship on the part of the prince , and a spice of early coyness or coquetry on that of the little maiden , ivere sometimes enacted betAveen the pretty tvA'ain , may be inferred from the speech EdAvard Avas AA-OIV . to use to her at cards , Avhen the fortunes of the game so befell , ' N OAV , Jane , your king is gone , I shall be good enough for you , 'and Avould call her'my Jane , ' their natural dispositions
were so correspondent to each other . The same authority Avhence the above pretty anecdote of the infancy of our last bachelor king is derived , bears testimony that his natural disposition ivas of ' great towardness to all virtuous parts and princely qualities ; a marvellous siveet child , of very mild and generous conditions . ' " Sir James Kay ShuttleAvorth , Bart ., has published a Letter to Earl Granville on the Revised Educational Code , in AA'hich he says : — " To
give the people a Averse education from motives of short-sighted economy Avould be utterly inconsistent with all preceding national policy . The idea that an ignorant , brutish people , is either more subordinate or more easily controlled than a people loyal by convic-