♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



OUR HOUSEHOLD INSECTS. 

 Br E. A. BuTLEB. 



COLEOPTERA {continued). 

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As late as the reign of Henry YII. half England was 

 fen and forest. Through the dense masses of the one 

 wandered the roe and the red deei-, and the silence of the 

 immense breadths of the other was broken only by the 

 cry of wild bii-ds, the trustard, and the swan, and by the 

 ringing of the vesper bell from the monastery 

 like a beacon across the wastes. 



The richest lauds, mostly pasture, wore in the 

 of the monks, who swarmed in tle.rc.n.d. like 

 r the country, whilst ronud llnin wa^ a jn asau 



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* There is a JIS. of the sixteenth century extant in the Bodleian 

 Library of three miracle-plays written in the old Cymric of Corn- 

 wall, the EQbjects of which are " The Origin of the World,' 

 Passion of our Lord," and " The Resurrection of our Lord"; an 

 Carew, in his " Survey of Cornwall " (1602), describes the earthei 

 amphitheatres built by the Cornishnien for the performance < 

 jniracle-plays. Of. " Morley's Eng. Writers," vol. I., 748. 



fMorley's "Bartholomew Fair," p. 16. 



