For thin holy grace ; 

 That we mote be present, 

 At the day ot'jujement, 



And seen thin holi face.' 



" Thanne he sei a leoun come. 

 And taken awci hese yonge sone. 



On hym he gaped wide. 

 The Lyoun bar that child with hyin, 

 Awei rennynge wroth and grym, 

 The knyth was ney aswoiine ; 

 There lie was in the water deep. 

 It was no wonder tliow lie wep. 



Of Care hadde [he] inow. 

 Sore he gan to sihhe and grone, 

 Thei he ne selde wordes none. 



To loude he moste tee ; 

 A wonder thyng he sey thar, 

 A wolf hose other child away bar. 

 He fel doun on swoune on kne. 

 Tho that he aswouning ros. 

 He loked aboiiten and hym agros, 



Hese wit was ney forlore ; 

 But yet ho thoutlie on Ihii Crist, 

 On his deth and on hese uprist. 



That for us was i-bore. 

 Lord God Almytbti, thou it wost, 

 Fadir sono and holi gost, 



To thee i menene my mone ; 

 For my spouse that was so trewe, 

 Fadir hende brith of newe, 



Wol wo is me alone. 

 For my sones that ben forlorn, 

 That wilde bcstcs hath awei born, 



I not noiith where to wone ; 

 To wheche lond mai i fle. 

 How longe schal i on lyve be, 



Sorewes comcn grct wone. 

 Of Job i well bethenke me. 

 That long in welthe hadde be, 



And fel sone in care ; 

 Ihu Crist for love of The, 

 To carfiil well i ncvere be. 



How so it ever fare. 

 I have wepte al my fille, 

 I nele no more, 1 well be stille, 



Goddes helpe is us ney ; 

 Thanne come an aungel from hevene, 

 And spake to liyni witli mylde Stevene, 



Of God that woneth on hey. 

 Be bold blithe, he seide, Eustace, 

 For in hevene is maad thi place, 



There thou schal t myrie be ; 

 Thi children and thi wif, 

 Schal have longe lyf, 



And al that blisse i-se. 

 Thus long he wente forth his Avai, 

 Biddynge his bedes on base lai. 



Til bL-ter tyme come ; 

 To Swynke and swate he most. 

 For hese spendyng was ney go, 

 it under no 



With bowe and arwe and horn, 

 For to kepe a lordis corn. 

 Be day and eke be nyth ; 

 • . • . • 



knyth es from fer i fare 

 For to seeke here and thare 

 After on manne 

 The emperoLires counceyler 

 AVe ban forth far and ner 

 There can no man liym kenne : 

 The wisest knyth of hese coort he was, 

 He was i hoten Sire I'lacidas, 

 On huntynge out be ferde ; 

 And never after come he bom, 

 Ne no tidyng of him com. 



On the mouthe is a wounde." 



[The first of these fragments is obviously a portion 

 of a religious tale (similar to the French Contcs Devots, 

 from one of which it is proliably borrowed). 



The second is a portion of the Legend of St. Eustace, 

 otherwise named Placidas, which occurs in an earlier 

 metrical English form among the Collections of Lives 

 of Saints in MS. Laud. 108. art. 59. ; MS. Digby 86. ; 

 MS. Bodl. 779. art. 64.; MS. Vernon, fol. 170.; 

 MS. Ashm. 43. art. 7.3. ; and MS. Cott. Cal. A. If. 

 It occurs as prose in the Golden Legend.] 



FOLK LORE. 



Medical Use of Mice.^Scc'mg some Queries and 

 Replies on this subject, I am induced to send you 

 a few extracts from an old book in my possession 

 (marked "very scarce"), published in 166L Its 

 title is Panzoologicnminerulogia, or a Compleat 

 History of Animals and Minei'als. By Richard 

 Lovell, St. C. C. Oxon. It treats chiefly of the 

 medicinal uses of the various objects. I am tempted 

 to tell you the use of a " unicorne," but confine 

 myself to the mouse. 



" The flesh eaten causcth oblivion, and corrupteth 

 the meat ; yet those of Chalecut eat them ; it is hot, 

 soft, and fattish, and expelleth melancholy. ... A 

 mouse dissected and applied, draweth out reeds, darts, 



and other things that stick in the flesh Mice 



bruised, and reduced to the consistence of an acopnn 

 (what's that?), with old wine, cause hair on the eye- 

 brows Being eaten by children when rosted, 



they dry up tlie spittle. The magicians eat them twice 

 a month against the paines of the teeth. The water in 

 which they have been boiled helps against the quinsey. 

 Being boiled and eaten, they help children's pissing 

 in bed. The fresh blood kills warts. The ashes of 

 the skiune, applied with vinegar, help the paines of the 

 head. The head worn in a cloth, helps the headach 

 and epilepsy. The braine being steeped in wine, and 

 applied to the forehead, helpeth the headach. Used 

 with water, it cureth the phrensy. The heart, ta'.en 

 out of a tnouse when alive, worne about the arme of a 

 woman, causeth no conception. The fillet of the liver, 

 drimk with austere wine, helpeth quartans. The liver, 

 rosted in the new of the moon, trieth the epilepsy. The 



