Three of the following stanzas have been finely paraphrased by Dr.
GOLDSMITH, in his charming Ballad of EDWIN AND EMMA; the
reader of tafte will have a pleajure in comparing them with the original,
• And' ftill I try'd each fickle art,
Importunate and vain;

And while his passion touch'd my heart,
I triumph'd in his pain.

'Till quite dejected with my fcorn,
He left me to my pride ¿

And fought a folitude forlorn,
In fecret, where be dy’d.

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"Now goe thy wayes, and God before!
"For he must ever guide thee ftill:
"Turne downe that dale, the right hand path,
"And foe, faire pilgrim, fare thee well!"

But mine the forrow, mine the fauk,
And well my life shall pay;

I'll feek the folitude he fought,
And ftretch me where he lay.

And there forlorn defpairing bid,
I'll lay me down and die:
'Twas fo for me that Edwin did
And fo for bim will I.

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To fhew what conftant tribute was paid to OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM, I shall give a few extracts

from the MS

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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.

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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

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