whom he does not see at church; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a Bible to be given him next day for his encouragement, and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a-year to the clerk's place; and that he may encourage the young fellows to make themselves perfect in the church service, has promised, upon the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable, because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the squire; and the squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The squire has made all his tenants atheists and tithe-stealers; while the parson instructs them every Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon, that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half-year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation. Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the country, are very fatal to the ordinary people; who are so used to be dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate, as of a man of learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several men of five hundred a year who do not believe it. THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GREY. BISHOP PERCY. T was a friar of orders grey, IT Walk'd forth to tell his beads, And he met with a lady fair, Clad in a pilgrim's weeds. "Now Christ thee save, thou reverend friar! I pray thee tell to me, If ever at yon holy shrine My true-love thou didst see." "And how should I know your true love From many another one? "O by his cockle hat and staff, "But chiefly by his face and mien, "O lady, he is dead and gone! "Within these holy cloisters long He languish'd, and he died, Lamenting of a lady's love, And 'plaining of her pride. "Here bore him, bare-faced on his bier, And many a tear bedew'd his grave "And art thou dead, thou gentle youth? "O weep not, lady, weep not so! "Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain : For violets pluck'd, the sweetest show'rs "Our joys as wingèd dreams do fly, "O say not so, thou holy friar! "And will he never come again? Will he ne'er come again? Ah, no! he is dead, and laid in his grave, "His cheek was redder than the rose, "Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more, "Hadst thou been fond, he had been false, "Now say not so, thou holy friar, I pray thee, say not so! My love he had the truest heart; O he was ever true! "And art thou dead, thou much-loved youth? And didst thou die for me? Then farewell, home! for evermore A pilgrim I will be. "But first upon my true-love's grave My weary limbs I'll lay ; And thrice I'll kiss the green-grass turf "Yet stay, fair lady, stay awhile See, through the hawthorn blows the wind, And drizzly rain doth fall." "O stay me not, thou holy friar, "Yet stay, fair lady, turn again, Thy own true-love appears. grey, "Here, forced by grief and hopeless love, "But haply, for my year of grace "Now farewell grief, and welcome joy For since I've found thee, lovely youth, We never more will part.' THE HE elegant Greek slave imposed his language and his modes of thought upon his barbarous Roman master; our civilized Chinese attendants have communicated to us outer barbarians the syntax of the Chinese tongue. They have made for us a new English language, wherein sounds once familiar to us as English words startle us by new significations. My friend introduced me to his comprador thus :"You see gentleman, you tawkee one piecey coolie one piecey boy-larnt pigeon, you savey, no number one foolo-you make see this gentleman-you make him house pigeon." This was said with great rapidity, and in my inno |