2»<» S. VIII. DEa 24. '59.] 



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Leighton, vol. i. pp. 22. 223., iii. p. 187., with 

 Norris, pp. 91. 200. 208—9. 



The Simile of Christ'a Purity and the Sun 

 shining unpolluted on pollution has also beeYi 

 traced in " N. & Q." ; I may add Leighton, Serm. 

 V. vol. iii. p. 141. Cf. Cawdrie's Treasurie of 

 Similies. Lond. 1609, p. 551. 



The Simile of the Wounded Deer (Med, on 

 Ps. xxxii. 4. vol. ii. p. 306. )> is very beautifully 

 drawn out in one of Wither's Emblems 5 cf. also 

 Cowper's lines beginning " I was a stricken Deer." 

 Task, B. iii. 



Leighton, commenting on 1 Peter, i. 3., ob- 

 serves : — 



"A living Hope, living in death itself 1 The World dares 

 say no more for its device, than Dum spiro spero ; but the 

 Children of God can add, by virtue of this living Hope, 

 Dum expiro spero," &c. vol. i. p. 85. 



Cf. the following passage which occurs in The 

 Three Divine Sisters, Faith, Hope, and Charity, by 

 Thomas Adams of WjUington. — Wo?-kes, Lond. 

 1630, folio: — 



" Hope is the sweetest friend that ever kept a distressed 

 Soul company ; it beguiles the tediousness of the way, all 

 the miseries of our Pilgrimage. Therefore Dum spiro 

 spero, said the Heathen ; hut' Dum expiro spero, says the 

 Christian. The one, ' Whilst I live I hope ; ' the other 

 also, ' When I die, I hope ; ' So Job, / will hope in Thee 

 tho' Thou killest j«e."— Repr. 1847, p. 8. 



All Things attend and serve Man — Fragm. on 

 Ps. viii. vol. ii. p. 346. Cf. G. Herbert's Poem 

 on " Man." 



The Elixir — Comment on St. Peter, iv. 2. 11.; 

 vol. ii. pp. 294. 353—4. Cf. G. Herbert's poem 

 of that name. 



Leighton's account of True Philosophy is very 

 striking : — 



" The exactest Knowledge of things is to know them 

 in their causes ; it is then an excellent thing, and worthy 

 of their endeavours who are most desirous of Knowledge, 

 to know the best things in their highest causes ; and the 

 happiest way of attaining to this Knowledge is, to pos- 

 sess these things, and to know them by experience." — 

 Vol. i. pp. 13—14. Cf. ii. 120. ; iv. 120. 275-6. 324. 348. 



The above is a beautiful expansion of Virgil's 



" Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas." 



Georg. ii. 490. 



EiRIONNACH. 



(To he concluded in our next.) 



LEGEND OF JERSEY : THE SEIGNEUR DE HAMBIE. 



In the island of Jersey, upon an artificial mound 

 facing the coast of Normandy, is a chapel called 

 La Hogue-bie. Hogue is a word synonymous 

 with tumulus, and answers precisely to what we 

 term a sepulchral barrow. There are many of 

 the kind in the isle, but this is the largest. There 

 is a tradition that a Norman nobleman, the 

 Seigneur de Hambie, being killed in the island, 



was interred here ; and the mound raised over 

 him that from Normandy his widow might daily 

 view the burial-place of her departed husband. 

 The chapel was added, wherein to say masses for 

 the repose of his soul. A strong spice of romance 

 pervades the story, which is printed in Latin, from 

 the original MS., in Falle's Jersey, continued by 

 Morant (4to. edit. 1798), and in substance is as 

 follows : — 



" It is related that once on a time, in the marshes of 

 St. Laurence, in the island of Jersey, there existed a ser- 

 pent (or dragon) which greatly troubled the islanders 

 with its ravages. Upon its coming to the ears of the 

 Lord of Hambie in Normandy, he, instigated by the re- 

 port, and to add glory to his name, repaired thither — 

 killed and decapitated the dragon. He had a servant 

 who accompanied him, and who was to have carried 

 home the news of this valiant action, but, envious of the 

 renown of so great a deed, turning suddenly treacherous, 

 he slew his master and buried him. Returning to Ham- 

 bie he persuaded his mistress that his lord had been 

 killed by the serpent, and that he himself had avenged 

 his death by despatching the monster. He moreover in- 

 structed her that he was charged with his lord's dying 

 wish to the effect that she should marry the servant: 

 a concession to which the lady for the pious love that 

 she bare to her liege lord yielded. The .servant, now 

 elevated to the position of Lord of Hambie, raved fre- 

 quently in his sleep, and seemed agitated in dreams, con- 

 stantly exclaiming, ' Alas, wretch that I was to kill my 

 master.' A reiteration of this excited her suspicions: 

 she consulted her friends, taxed him with the fact, and 

 brought him to justice, when he acknowledged the 

 crime. The lady, as a memorial, erected a mound upon 

 the spot where he was killed and buried, in the parish of 

 St. Saviour, and it was called Hogue Hambie, otherwise 

 by corruption Hogue-bie, Hogue being an obtuse pyramid 

 of earth of the sort called by the French Montjoyes." 



These tales of valiant knights combating with 

 fierce and pestiferous dragons have been common 

 in history, and I should be glad to have some 

 theory of their origin. The old serpent, the arch- 

 enemy of the human race, may have been the idea 

 to build on, but it would be hardly consistent to 

 drag in the Apocalypse to help us out, as Pagan- 

 dom would furnish doubtless as many examples. 



A friend once imaginatively suggeste/i to me 

 that mankind having some oral tradition of the 

 pre-adamite monsters, may have furnished ma- 

 terial for such fables, which lost nothing in the 

 perpetual telling of successive generations. 



Is this edition of Falle's Jersey rare ? I can- 

 not meet with a copy in the British Museum. 



This romantic story has been versified by a 

 writer in the European Magazine, vol. Ixxii. 

 (1817), whose initials are R. A. D., Esq. Is it 

 known to whom these initials appertain ? 



Ithuriel. 



FBANGIPANT. 



This is the name of a composition sold as a per- 

 fume, and which of late, through the enterprise 

 of its vendors, has been much pressed on the at- 



