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" May a long . be trew and evyle. 

 Trootze ys good . and evyle ys navtze.' 

 God ys trootze . and navzt ys y^ devyle. 

 Ego sum Veritas . o'^ lord tavzt.'-* 

 At whyche word . my conceyt lavzt.'° 

 To s:;" our Lorde . ylT'- foly in liym be. 

 To use troozt . that few doth but he. 



" To inedyle w' trouthe" . no small game. 

 For trouthe told . of tyms ys shent. 

 And trouthe known . many doth blame. 

 When trouthe ys tyrned . from trew intent. 25 



Yet trouthe ys trouthe . trewly ment " 

 But now what call they trouthe . trow ye. 

 Trowlhe ys called colored lioneste. 



" Trouthe . ys honest without coloure. 



Trouthe . shameth not in no condycyon. 30 



Of hymself . without a trespasowre. 



Be myst and knowne . of evyle condycyon. 



But of trouthe thys ys y^ conclusyon. 



Surely good ordre there ys brokyne. 



Where trouthe may not . nor dare be spokyne.'* 35 



" Trouthe many tyms ys cast. 



Out of credence . by enformacyon. 



Yet trouthe crepthe'" out at last. 



And ovyr mastrythe cavylacyon." 



That I beseclie Cryst . every nacyon. 40 



May use trouthe . to God and man. 



* * that he * not * syn * * " ■ 



I would fill up the lacuna — 

 " Now that he do not syn . we can.'' 



Perlinps, I repeat, some more able antiquaries 

 will give their attentifm to this, and satisfy me on 

 the points of punctuation, date, &c. 



Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie. 



Aijot St. Lawrence Church (Vol. iii.,pp. 39. 102.). 

 Ayot St. Lawrence, Herts, is another deserted 

 church, like that of Landwaile, — in fact a ruin, with 

 its monuments disgracefully exposed. I was so 

 astonislied at seeing it in 18.50, that I would now 

 nsk tlie reason of its having been .allowed to fall 

 into such distress, and how any one could have had 

 the power to buihl the present Greek one, instead 

 of restoring its early Decorated neighbour. I did 

 not observe the 2 ft. 3 in. elHgy alluded to in Arch. 

 Journ. iii. 239., but particularly noted the elegant 

 Bculpture on the chancel arch capital. 



1 would suggest to Mr. Kelke, that the incum- 

 bents of parishes should keep a separate register, 



'Naught. "Our. "Taught. '" Lau!;hcd. "See. 

 " If. " Here tlie orthography changes. " Meant. 

 " I tliink there must be some nllusion lioro, which 

 can only be arrived at by knowing the date of its com- 

 position. '" An elision for creepeth ; possibly an inter- 

 mediate etymological state of crcrpa. " From " to 

 cavil." 



recording all monuments, &c. as they are put up, 

 as existing, or as found in MS. church notes, or 

 published in county histories. In the majority of 

 parishes the trouble of so doing would be trifling, 

 and to many a pleasant occtipation. A. C. 



Johannes Secimdus — Parnel — Dr. Johnson. — 

 In Dr. Johnson's Life of Patmel we find the fol- 

 lowing passage : — 



" I would add that the description of Barrenness, in 

 his verses to Pope, was borrowed from Secundus ; but 

 lately searching for the passage which I had formerly 

 read, I could not find it." 



I will first extract Parnel's description, and 

 then the passage of Secundus ; to which, I sup- 

 pose, Dr. Johnson referred. 

 " This to my friend — and when a friend inspires, 

 My silent harp its master's hand requires, 

 Shakes off the dust, and makes these rocks resound, 

 For fortune placed me in unfertile ground; 

 Far from the joys that with my soul agree, 

 From wit, from learning — far, oh far, from thee 1 

 Here moss-grown trees expand the smallest leaf, 

 Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf. 

 Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet. 

 Rocks at their side, and torrents at their feet ; 

 Or lazy lakes, unconscious of a flood, 

 Whose dull brown Naiads ever sleep in mud." 



Secundus, in his first epistle of his first book 

 (edit. Paris, p. 103.), thus writes: — 

 " Me retinet salsis infausta Valachria terris, 

 Oceanus tumidis quam vagus ambit aquis. 

 Nulla ubi vox avium, pelagi strepit undique murmur, 



Ccelum etiam larga desuper nrget aqua. 

 Flat Boreas, dubiusque Notus, flat frigidus Eurus, 



Felices Zephyri nil ubi juris habent. 

 Proquo tuis ubi carminibus, Philomena canora, 

 Turpis in obscoena rana coaxat aqua." 



Vakbo. 



The Kijig's Messengers, ly the Ttev. W. Adains. 

 — Ought it not to be remarked, in future editions 

 of this charming and highly poetical book (which 

 has lately been translated into Swedish), that it is 

 grounded on one of the " examples " occurring in 

 Barlaam and Josaphat ? " 



In tlie third or tburth century, an Indian prince 

 named Josaphat was cmiverted to Christianity by 

 a holy hermit called Barlaam. This subject was 

 afterwards treated of by some Alexandrian priest, 

 probably in the sixth century, in a beautiful tale, 

 legend, "or spiritu.al romance, in Greek, and in a 

 style of irrcat ease, beauty, warmth, and colouring. 

 The work was afterwards attributed to Johannes 

 Damasccnus, who died in 7G0. In this half' 

 Asiatic Christian prose epic, Barlaam employs a, 

 number of even then ancient folk-tales and fables, 

 spiritually interpreted, in Josapliai's conversion. 

 It is on the fifth of these "examples" tliat Mr. 

 Adams has built his riclily-glittering fairy palace. 



Barlaam and Josaphat was translated into almost 



