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that it is a sweloghe of the gravely See." Now truly, as Sir John 

 says, this " is a gret mervaille," and may have proved b good induce- 

 ment with our generous Bibliopole to represent the process in a bold 

 graphic illustration. This is accompanied by another in which 

 Sampson appears exerting his strength to make a great halle falle 

 upon the Philistienes the whiche had put out his Eyen, and schaven 

 his Hed, enprisound him be Tresoun of Dalida his paramour. 



Our " Travailere's" account of Cyprus would be duly appreciated 

 in the days of his pilgrimage. He delineates the geography and ec- 

 clesiastical institutions of this island, without omitting notes on " Dis- 

 mas the gode Theef," and on some of the earlier " seynts" who, it 

 seems, were either born or buried in this happy country. They of 

 this " Londe" have a rather singular domestic custom : at meals, 

 " they had lever sythen in the erthe than setten formes and tables." 

 We are informed that here it is the manere of Lordis and alle othere 

 men to eten on the erthe ; for they make dyches in the erthe alle 

 aboute in the halle depe to the knee and thei do pave hem, and whan 

 thei wil ete thei gou there in and sytten here ; and the skylle is, for 

 thei may ben the more fressche, for that londe is meche more hotter 

 than it is here." Field-sports, in Sir John's time, were not neglected 

 by the Cyprian squires : for they, he relates, hunten with Papyonns 

 that ben lyche Lepardes, and they taken wylde bestes righte welle, 

 and thei ben somdelle more than Lyouns, and thei taken more 

 scharpely the bestes and more delyverly than don Houndes. While 

 the fancier of word-lore may be exercising his ingenuity on the Pa- 

 pyann,viQ submit a figure of thig clever animal to the attention of 

 practical zoologists. 



