314 MAUTILMAS TIDE. 



NOV, 9. Dedication of S. Saviour's at Rome. 

 St. Theodorus Tyro, martyr, a.d. 306. 

 St. Mathurin, priest and confessor, 388. 

 St. Vanne or Vitonus, bishop of Verdun, 525. 

 St. Benignus or Binen, bishop of Armagh, 468. 



0A.«. Tlie Dcflication of Oiir Saviour's Chui'cli at Rome, called St. John 

 Luterans, gave rise to a festival, for vvliich there is the Othce in the Breviary, 

 that of the Dcilication of Churches. Under the account of this feast iriveii 

 bv Butler, vol. xi. piire 170. will he found a loni; account of dedications 

 in general, and of the antiquity of numerous ecclesiastical rites and religions 

 ceremonies. 



St. Theodorus was a young Syrian enlisted in the Roman legions in the 

 time of Dioclesian. His martyrdom for the faith i< related by St. Gregory 

 of Nyssa : he was scourged, says this author, and then burnt alive, on the 17th 

 of February, on which day the Greeks keep his festival. 



Glaucous Aletris Veltheimia ylauca fl. 



This day has been for years called Lord .Mayor's Day in London, on account 

 of the processions in iiilded carrianes by land, and on the river in ornamental 

 barges, of the new Lord Mayor and Conrt of Aldermen of the city of London. 

 The order of the proiession is well described in the following parody of a 

 speech in Shakspeare's Henry V. : 



Suppose that you have seen 

 The new appointed Mayor at Queenstairs 

 Eiiiliark his royalty ; his own company 

 With silken streamers, the younix gazers pleasing. 

 Painted with different fancies ; — have beheld 

 Upon the golden galleries music playirir. 

 And the horns echo, which do take the lead 

 Of other sounds :— now view the city barge 

 Draws its huge bottom through the furrowed Thames, 

 Breasting the adverse surge. Odo hut think 

 You stand in Temple Gardens, and behold 

 London herself, on her proud stream afloat; 

 For so appears this fleet of maaistracy 

 Holding due course to Westminster. 

 A country gentleman, much averse to city revelry, made the followiHi; 

 couplet : 



Music hath (harms to sooth the savage beast. 



And Iherefiire proper at a city feast. 



A city genUeman, who had laid up a store of wealth, replied : 



The chink of gold with sold, transporting sound' 



Exceeds llie Timbiel, or tlie Syren's voice 

 Harmonious, when collective plates go round, 



And Hock and Turtle make the heait rejoice. 



A country protestant parson, hearing early his favourite cry of Beatrlfs from 

 the wood, exclaimed : 



Hark, friend, what heavenly music meets the ear; 

 Haste, farmer, we shall lose it all, I fear. 



The rustic, who dreads hounds over his newsown Wheat, replies : 



Music ! I cannot hear it for the noise 



Of those curs'd dons, loud shouts, ai.d bellowing boys. 



Traliil sua qucmque voluptas. 



