1 82 T.] The Lord Mayer's Journey to Oxford, 



were multiplied by the arrival " of Mr. Alderman Heygate and his lady," 

 accompanied by " Miss M'Murdo, Mrs. Heygate's sister," than 



" An ample breakfast was provided in a large room, on the first floor, overlook- 

 ing the street called the corn-market. The table, which extended through the 

 whole length of the room, was covered with as elegant linen as the wardrobe of 

 the inn could furnish, and was loaded 'with a magnificent breakfast. The tea and 

 coffee were accompanied not only with bread, warm and cold, in the shape of 

 loaves, cakes, and biscuits, with other varieties, and butter, but with every delicacy 

 with which the morning meal, when sumptuously provided, is usually furnished. 1 ' 



The precise hour and minute at which this repast concluded, is not 

 named ; but it appears that it did not render the party incapable after- 

 wards " of doing honour to a copious luncheon, which, at two o'clock, 

 was presented at the Star." 



And, again the " hour of six" had " scarcely arrived" 



"When the company, invited by the Lord Mayor to dine with him, began to 

 assemble." 



By times, between these fierce exertions of delight, amusements of a 

 lighter and more various character were served up : 



" From raised crusts levelled, never more to rise, 

 From murdered ducks, and massacred mince pies," 



The strangers rose, and proceeded to nourish the mind as well as the 

 body by viewing some of the curiosities and antiquities of the place. 



Even, here, however, the peculiar tact of the Oxonians enabled them 

 to select such objects for display, as were best calculated to touch the 

 hearts (through the stomachs) of their visitors. The attention of Mr. 

 Dillon himself seems to have been particularly attracted by the exhi- 

 bition of 



" A large, old, curious gridiron, apparently about four feet square, supported by 

 four wheels, used in former times for dressing whole joints, betore spits and ranges 

 were invented."" 



A lecture, illustrating the offices of "the teeth," and their peculiarly 

 apposite location for all the various descriptions of " chewing," is pro- 

 uounced to have afforded, at every second sentence, new insight into 

 " The wisdom and goodness of the Creator !" 



But the crowning display of the whole appears to have been an exhi- 

 bition, by Dr. Kidd, the Regius Professor of Anatomy, of an anatomical 

 preparation of " a TURTLE !" the arteries and veins tilled with 

 wax, and the absorbent vessels with quicksilver!" 



Upon the effect of such a display as this, to such a company and 

 before "luncheon" too!" it is unnecessary for us to speak. It must 

 have acted upon a Lord Mayor of London, we take it not to speak of its 

 effect upon a Chaplain as a provocative amounting almost to insanity. 



" Petit ille dopes 



Oraqne vana movet, dentemque in dcnte fatigat, 



Exercetquecibo deluyum guttur inani, 



Proque epulis tenues necquicqnarn devorat auras." 



But the joys of this world, alas ! are fleeting. " Flowers !" says Mr. 

 Somebody, the poot, somewhere- " why bloom ?" And the answer is 



" To light us to our tomb !" 



Or, as the writer of " Warnings," in the last " Amulet," more melo- 

 diously advises us 



