1822.] 
To whipe awaye the starting teare 
He proudly strove to hide. 
In deepe revolving thought he stood 
4nd musde a little space ; 
Thea raisde faire Emmeline from 
: ground, 
With many fond embrace. 
* The Nut-Browne Mayd,” forms 
the ground-work of Prior’s “ Henry 
and Emma,” aud though thickly cover- 
ed with the rust of antiquity—being at 
least three hundred years old—is justly 
adinired for sentimental beauties. We 
give the introductory stanza: 
Be it ryght, or wrong, these men among, 
Ou women do complayne, 
A Hyrmyge this, how that it is 
A Jabour spent in vayne, 
To love them well; for never a dele 
They love a mon agayne: 
For late a man do what he can, 
Theyr favour to attayne, 
Yet yfa newe do them pursue, 
Theyr fyrst true lover then 
Laboureth for nought; for from her thought 
He isa banysned man. 
The elegant little scunet of “ Cupid 
and Campaspe,”’ though not so old as 
the last, isa real déjou. It is found in 
the third act of an old play, entitled 
“ Alexander and Campaspe,”’ written 
by John Lilye, a ceiebrated writer, in 
that prolific age of true poetry, the 
Elizabethan : 
Cupid and my Campaspe playd 
At cards for kisses ; Cupid payd: 
He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, 
His mother’s doves, and teame of sparrows, 
Loses them too; then down he throws 
The coral of his lippe, the rose 
Growing on’s cheek (but none knows how) 
With these, the crystal of his browe, 
Aud then the dimple of his chinne ; 
All these did my Campaspe winne. 
At last he set her both his eyes, 
She won, and Cupid blind did rise. 
O Love! bas she done this to thee ? 
What shall, alas! become ofme? ~ 
The next, with which we shall con- 
elude our selections, though too deeply 
tinged with affectation and refinement 
to be ranked among bardic beauties 
has too much merit to be omitted : 
TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WAR 
Tell me not, sweet, I am uvkinde, 
That from the nunnerie 
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde 
To warre aud armes J flie. , 
the 
True, a new mistresse now I chose, 
The first foe in the field ; 
And with a stronger faith embrace 
A sword, a horse, a shield. 
Yet this inconstancy is such 
As you, too, shall adore ; 
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I could not love thee, deare, so much, 
Lov’d I not honour more. 
In these extracts we have passed over 
“ Barbara Allan,” * Chevy Chase,” and 
others, the beauties of which are teo 
universally known to need pointing out. 
Our object has only been to gather a 
few flowers from the rich meadow of 
ancient poesy, avd range them in a 
garland, not inferior, we trust, either 
in fragrance or beanty, to many of our 
modern bouquets. Many pieces of per- 
haps greater excellence we have been 
obliged to omit from their length, and 
the dificulty of quoting them in mode- 
rate compass, soas to be intelligible. In 
this, indeed, have consisted the difieul- 
ties of our task, for it must be con- 
fessed, that the old poetry, like the old 
architecture, was a little massive in 
structure, and in taking away a few 
fragments, or perhaps, some of those 
impurities with which its beauties are 
obscured, one is iv danger of bringing 
down too much of the building. But in 
what we have done, we trust, our ex- 
tracts will not be considered too long, 
nor affected by these indelicacies that 
have been objected to the otherwise 
incomparable Old Ballad. 
—— oe 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S every information respecting 
meteorological phenomena cannot 
fail to be acceptable to you, and, by in- 
sertion in your Magazine, will be more 
extensively circulated than by any 
other means with which I am acquaint- 
ed, I beg to communicate to you my 
observations on the extraordinary fall 
of the barometer, which occurred at 
this place, on the 24th, and 28th of last 
month. 
On the 23d of December, at 10 P.M. 
the barometer stood at 28-92, but sunk 
rapidly during the night and following 
day until 9 P.M. when it had reached 
the minimum 27°77, the wind blowing 
from the §.E.a heavy gale, and the 
thermometer indicating a temperature 
of 45°50. Very soon after this time the 
mercury began to rise, for at ten 
o’clock that night it had risen to 27-S5, 
a gradual ascent followed, and on the 
night of the 27th, the barometer was at 
28°74, but in the course of that night 
and the next day it fell with great ra- 
pidity, and in the evening of the 28th 
had descended to 27-915 after this it 
continued rising during the remainder 
of the month. 
1 anvinduced to consider this depres- 
sion 
