Three of the following stanzas have been finely paraphrased by Dr. And while his passion touch'd my heart, 'Till quite dejected with my fcorn, And fought a folitude forlorn, VOL. II. But G "Now goe thy wayes, and God before! But mine the forrow, mine the fauk, I'll feek the folitude he fought, And there forlorn defpairing bid, 50 55 60 To fhew what conftant tribute was paid to OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM, I shall give a few extracts from the MS 6 "bold ITEM, My Lorde ufith yerly to fende afore Michaelmas for his Lordship's Offerynge to our Lady of Wallyngeham. iiij d. ITEM, My Lorde ufith and accuftomyth to fend yerely for the upholdynge of the Light of Wax which his Lordship fyndeth birnyng yerly befor our Lady of Walfyngham, conteinynge vj lb. of Wax in it, after vj d. ob. for the fyndynge of every lb. redy wrought by a covenant maid with the Chanon by great, for the hole yere, for the findinge of the faid Lyght byrnynge, vi s. viij d. ITEM, My Lord ufeth and accuftometh to fend yerely to the Chanon that kepith the Light before our Lady of Walfyngham, for his reward for the hole yere, for kepynge of the faid Light, lyghtynge of it at all fervice tymes dayly thorowt the yere, xij d. ITEM, My Lord ufeth and accuftomyth yerely to fende to the Preft that kepith the Light, lyghtynge of it at all fervice tymes daily thorout the yere, iij s. iiij d. XV. K. EDWARD IV. AND TANNER OF TAMWORTH Was a ftory of great fame among our ancestors. The author of the ART OF ENGLISH POESIE, 1589, 4to, Seems to fpeak of it, as a real fact.-Defcribing that vicious mode of Speech, which the Greeks called AcYRON, i. e. "When we ufe a dark and obfcure word, utterly repugnant to that we fhould exprefs;" he adds, " Such manner of un"couth Speech did the Tanner of Tamworth ufe to king Ed"ward the fourth; which Tanner, having a great while miftaken him, and used very broad talke with him, at length perceiving by his traine that it was the king, was "afraide 66 66 G 2 Coliseton; he now refers the curious audi to it er an imperfette my corout Cope of fro the original. by |