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university sermon preached in the stone pulpit at the 

 south-east corner of the first court within the college 

 gate, the court on that occasion being decked with 

 boughs and strewed with rushes, alluding to St. John's 

 preaching in the wilderness and in commemoration of 

 the hospitals being dedicated to St. John. The most 

 advantageous view of the tower and niche with the 

 head of John Baptist is from the Physick Garden. 

 The tower contains a very musical peal of ten bells. 

 On May Day morning the clerks and choristers assemble 

 on the top of it, and instead of a mass of requiem for 

 King Henry VII. sing cheerful songs and catches.' 



Music from the tops of towers is sometimes heard 

 in Scandinavia to this day. I have heard Luther's hymn, 

 and other solemn music, played on trumpets by men 

 standing up outside the central tower of Roskilde 

 Cathedral, on Whit Sunday after morning service. It 

 was sweet to sit in the cathedral square and listen to 

 the aerial music being played there aloft. 



Within the circle of your incantation 



No blight nor mildew falls ; 

 Nor fierce unrest, nor lust, nor low ambition 



Passes those airy walls. 1 



Dillenius, though he never publicly adopted the 

 Linnsean arrangement, at length became so partial to 

 the young Swede that he would not leave him for an 



1 The Angclus, Bret Harte. 



