Next these, to make the show more pretty,
Came all the elders of the city,

In gowns, to make the crowd adore 'em,
That blushed for some of those that wore 'em;"
And hid at once, like cloak of trooper,
The rider, and his prancer's crupper.

A chain, at least four cubits long,
Round ev'ry elder's collar hung;
From each wise noddle hung a wig
S'extravagantly long and big,

That each grave Don had twice more hair
Upon him, than a Greenland bear;

On top of which, in quirpo, sat

A broad, umbrella, pot-lid, hat.

The sumptuous trappings of each horse
Hung down in pomp-

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Thus the tremendous, awful, troop
Jogged on in state and great decorum,
Each with a footman by his side,
More for their safety than their pride,
Whose business was to catch their masters,

In case of unforeseen disasters,

And keep their coursers in their ranks,
If subject to unlucky pranks.

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Next came a set of whiffling fellows, Tricked up in ribbons, blues, and yellows, Which, like the belt of round-head soldier, Hung dangling from the dexter shoulder Down to the sinister supporter, About a span below the garter; Each having in his clumsy hand A rod like a magician's wand. These were succeeded by a noise Of trumpets, blown by men and boys, With drums, more terrible than thunder, Rattling to raise the rabble's wonder. Streamers, like sticks, on Kentish hop-poles, As thick and tall as country May-poles, Were borne aloft by brawny fellows, In jackets dressed like punchinelloes.

Others, more modest than the rest,
In blushing looks their shame exprest;
While those of sense, the better sort,
Made the dull op'ra but their sport.

These, by their smiles, let others know
How much themselves despised the show.

The companies, twenty-four in number, which marched in procession, are next noticed; and the author says,

If but one you chance to see
In all their pomp and vanity,
The rest appear but just the same,
Distinguished by another name;
The colours that their whifflers wear,
And diff'rent ensigns that they bear;
But still each sev'ral brotherhood
Are so alike, some bad, some good,
That none, but by their streamers, knew

What Hall they did belong unto.

Hudibras Redivivus, vol. ii, part 6, p. 3-23.

11.-SAINT MARTIN

Was born in Hungary in 316, and was chosen Bishop of Tours in the year 374. He had the reputation of great zeal, piety, and meekness; and died at the age of eighty-four.

*12. 1715.—BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR.

On this day the Duke of Argyle defeated the rebels under the Earl of Mar, consisting of about eight or nine thousand men. After an obstinate contest, in which both sides claimed the victory, the Earl of Mar retreated to Perth, and left behind him evident signs

that the king's forces had vastly the superiority of the brave adherents of the Pretender. An old song thus commemorates the fury of this engagement :

I saw the battle sair and teugh,
And reekin red ran mony a sheugh,
My heart for fear gae sough for sough
To hear the thuds and see the cluds
O clans frae woods in tartan duds
Wha glaumed at kingdoms three, man.

The red coat lads, in black cockades,
To meet them were na slaw, man;.
They rushed, and pushed, and blude outgushed,
And mony a hook did fa' man.

The great Argyle led on his files,

I wat they glanced for twenty miles;

They houghed the clans like nine-pin kyles,

They hacked and hashed while braid swords clashed;
And through they dashed, and hewed and smashed,
Till few men did awa, man.

13.-SAINT BRITIUS

Was a native of Tours, educated under St. Martin, and afterwards his successor. He died A.D. 444.

15.-SAINT MACHUTUS.

Saint Machutus, or Maclou, was son of Went, a noble Briton; his parents were godly and religious, and his mother is said to have brought him forth, in an advanced age, on Easter Eve, in the vale of LlanCarvan, in Glamorganshire, to which place she had repaired to watch during the night, according to the devotion of that age, in the church of the famous monastery of S. Cadocus. After having been ordained priest, he retired to Aleth, in Brittany, of which place he was made Bishop, the see of which was afterwards translated to St. Malo, which took its name from our Saint. He desired to meet death in a penitential spirit, and, therefore, on that occasion, put on the habit of a penitent, dying in hair-cloth and ashes, on the above day, A.D. 630, being then 130 years old. He was buried without the walls of Saintes; and some of his relics were translated to St. Malo's,

and thence removed, on the incursions of the Normans, to Paris, where they are still honoured in the church of St. Maglorius.-Britannia Sancta.

17.-SAINT HUGH,

Bishop of Lincoln, was born in 1140, in Burgundy. Henry II invited him to England, and in 1186 he was made Bishop of Lincoln. He died in the year 1200. There is every reason to believe that he was a man of learning and piety.

20.-EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR,

: Was the last titular king of East Anglia, and a tributary king to Etheldred. He is said to have been killed by the Danes in 870, because he would not renounce Christianity. We know but little, however, in reference to him, except through the medium of monkish legends. In the year 903, his remains were removed to St. Edmund's Bury, whose abbey, from that time, grew into high reputation.

22.-SAINT CECILIA

Was a native of Rome, and was martyred by being plunged into boiling water (A.D. 230), because she refused to acknowledge the gods of the Pagans. Every one who remembers Dryden's exquisite Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, knows that she is regarded as the patroness of music.

Music's power

Is little felt in sunlit hour;

But hear its voice when hopes depart,
Like swallows, flying from the heart
On which the summer's late decline

Has set a sadness and a sign;

When friends whose commune once we sought

For ev'ry bosom wish and thought,

Have given in our hour of need

Such a support as gives the reed,

When we have seen the green grass grow
Over what once was life below;

How deeply will the spirit feel

The lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal ;

And how the heart drink in their sighs
As echoes they from Paradise.

L. E. L.

23.-SAINT CLEMENT

Was converted by St. Peter, and was a zealous coadjutor of the apostles. He is mentioned in Phil. iv, 3. He was Bishop of Rome, and is generally thought to have suffered martyrdom about the year 100. This Clement was the author of two epistles to the Corinthians, both of which were recognized as part of the New Testament in the Apostolical Canons (can. 85); but were subsequently omitted, because, though they were regarded as genuine, they were not thought to be inspired. They are both inserted in Wake's Epistles of the Fathers. The first of them is very excellent. 23.-0. MART.

Old Martinmas day, an ancient quarter-day. 25.-SAINT CATHERINE,

Virgin and martyr, is said to have been tortured by wheels turning with great rapidity, having nails, knives, &c. fastened on their rims, A.D. 305.

The inhabitants of every parish (observes Bishop Kennett) were accustomed to pay particular devotion to their tutelar saint. Old Simon Brunsdon, of Winterborn-Basset, in Wilts, had been parish clerk there from the reign of Queen Mary to the beginning of James 1. The Saint of that church was St. Catherine; and when the gad-fly had stung his oxen or cows, and made them run away upon the open downs, he used to run in pursuit of them, with this repeated prayer, 'Good St. Catherina of Winterborne, stay my oxen." -Kennett MS.

30.-SAINT ANDREW

Was the younger brother of Simon Peter. He was the first apostle who came to Christ. He is regarded as the tutelary Saint of Scotland; and the anniversary of the Order of the Thistle is on his day. The officers of the Royal Society of London are also elected on this day. The Order of the Thistle is described in T. T. for 1816, p. 283.-See also T. T. for 1820, p. 280, for some poetry on the subject. An account of the pro