CATHKRINE TIDE. 333 



NOV. 28. St. Stephen the younger, m. a.d. 764. 



St. James, confessor of La Marca, of Ancona, 476. 



Obs. St. Stephen, surnamed the younger, of St. Auxentius' 

 I\Iount, was one of the most renowned martyrs in the persecution of 

 the sacrilegious Iconoclasts in the year 764. Those who desire to 

 be truly well acquainted with the real spirit which actuated image- 

 breakers and pretended reformists of all kinds, cannot do better. 

 than read the ''History of the Reformation," by William Cobbett, 

 a work full of very curious information, and of which, though only 

 published two years, upwards of two hundred thousand copies have 

 already been sold. 



Variegated Stapelia Stapelia variegata fl. 



We promised to resuine on the octave of the Presentation, uliicli, if kept, 

 would fall on today, some further ohservatioiis on the resiiect paid to vii ;^inity 

 by the antieiits, as well as hy even the heretical writers of our own times ; the 

 subject, however, having been amply discussed already, we shall content our- 

 selves with citing Milton's lines from Conuis : 



1 mean that too, but yet a hidden streUL'tli, 



Which, it Heaven gave it, may be termed her own ; 



'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity; 



She that has is clad in complete steel ; 



And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen, 



May trace huge forests and nnharboured heaths, 



Infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds ; 



Where, thromih the sacred rays of Cliastity, 



No savage fierce bandite, or monntaincer, 



Will dare to soil her viri^in purity. 



Yea there, where Desolation dwell-. 



By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, 



She may jiass on with unblench'd ina.jesty, 



Be it not done in pride, or in liresumption. 



Some say, no evil thing that walks by night. 



In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen. 



Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost 



That breaks his magic chains at Curfcu time. 



No goblin, or swart taery of the mine, 



Hath hurtful power o'er tine virginity. 



Do you believe me yet, or shall I call' 



Antiquity from the old schools of Greece 



To testify the arms of Chastity ? 



Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow, 



Fair silvershafted queen, for ever chaste, 



Wherewith she tam'd the brinded Lioness 



And spotted Mountainpard, but set at nought 



The frivolous bolt of Cupid ; gods aiul men 



Fear'd her stern Iroivn, and she was queen o' the w'ooas. 



What was that snakyheaded (jorgou shield 



That wise JMinerva wore, unconqner'd virgin. 



Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stoue. 



But rigid looks of chaste austerity. 



And noble grace, that dash'd brute violence 



With sudden adoratioa and blank awe J 



