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titrn of the Machabray, or Machabre. From a French 
verfion of this poem, our old poet, Lydgate, made an Eng- 
)i(h tranflation, of which each fpeech was given to its cor- 
refponding figure in the picture. Dugdale has prelerved 
the ftanzas belonging to each couple of partners in this 
church-yard dance; and we think our readers, who may 
not have his Monafticon at hand, wall not be difpleafed 
with a few quotations from them. 
“ The Daunce of Machabree, wherein is lively expreffed 
and (hewed the hate of manne, and how he is called at 
certayne tymes by Death, and when he thinketh lead 
thereon.—Made by Don John Lydgate, monke of St. Ed¬ 
munds Bury. 
The Prologue. 
O ye folkes hard-hearted as a done. 
Which to the world have all your advertence, 
Like as it (hould ever laden in one ; 
Where is your wit, where is your providence? 
To feen a forme the fodayne violence 
Of cruel Death, that be fo wife and fage, 
Which flayeth, alas 1 by droke or pedilence, 
Both young and old, of low and high peeraget 
Death fpareth not, low ne high degree, 
Popes, kings, ne worthy emperours : 
When they (bine mod in felicity. 
He can abate the foftnefs of her flowers, 
Her bright fun clipfen with his (hours, 
Make them plunge from her fees lowe. 
Mauger the might of all thele conquerours. 
Fortune has them from her whele ytrovv.” 
&c. Sec. See. 
Death fpeaks firfl to the Pope, who anfwers; then to 
the Emperor, then to the King, the Patriarch, and nearly 
to all poflible deferiprions of men, down to the lowed rank. 
The lines to the Mindrel are as follows: 
,c O thou mindral, that can fo note and pipe 
Untofolke for to dowe pleafaunce, 
By the right hand I (hall anon thee gripe, 
With thefe other to gone upon my daunce. 
There is no fcape, nother avoydance 
On no fide to contune my fentence ; 
For in my muficke, my craft, and accordance. 
Each maider is (hewen his fentence. 
The Mindral maketh anfwer: 
This new daunce is to me fo draunge, 
Wonder divers and paffingly contrary, 
The dreadful footing doth fo often change* 
And the meafures fo oft fith vary. 
Which unto me is now nothing neceflary. 
If it were fo that I might aflert. 
But many a man, if I (hall nought tary. 
Oft daunfeth, but nothing of hert.” 
We (hall not extend our quotations farther, thefe being 
fufficient to give an idea of the fiyle of our ancient poet 
Don John Lydgate. The other (tanzas are exaftly in the 
fame mode, and many of them contain very fevere far- 
cafms pointed at the folly of man who bufies himfelf 
about all that is uncertain, thoughtlefs of that which is cer¬ 
tain—Death, with whom he mud (boner or later dance 
away from this temporary dage into eternity. It is a very 
common thing for the cloiders of convents upon the con¬ 
tinent to be decorated with paintings calculated to remind 
■the beholders of their latter end, placed at the four cor¬ 
ners of the building. They generally reprefent the quatre 
fins dcVhomme— Death, judgment, Hell, and Paradife ; four 
grand fubje&s which afforded the artiftsofthe fourteenth, 
fifteenth, and fixteenth, centuries, ample fcope to difplay 
their talents and indulge their fancy. We underhand 
that a print, and the French didichs, from the cloider of 
the Innocents at Paris, is in one of the libraries at Ox¬ 
ford, and well worth the attention of the antiquary. It 
appears that from that, or rather from the one in the cloif- 
jer we are now fpeaking of, the famous Holbein painted 
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his large performance on the fubjeft at Bade in Swiffer- 
land, his native town. 
Farther to the welt, and adjoining to the fouth wall of 
the church, not far from the Chapter-houfe, was the pa- 
rifh-church of St. Gregory. Over it was one of the tow¬ 
ers which ornamented the wedern front. It was called 
the Lollards Tower, and was the bifhop’s prifon for the 
heterodox, in which was committed many a midnight 
murder. That of Richard Hunn, in 1514, was one mod 
foul ; he was hanged there by the contrivance of the chan¬ 
cellor of the diocefe, one Horl'ey; was fcandaloitfly ac- 
cufed of fuicide, and his corpfe ignominioufly buried. 
The murder came out; the coroner’s inqued fat on the 
a(hes, and brought in a verdict of Wilful murder againd 
Horfey and his accomplices. The bifliop, Fitzjames, de¬ 
fended them. The king interfered, and ordered the mur¬ 
derers to make reditution to the children of the deceafed, 
to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds. Yet the per¬ 
petrators of this villany efcaped with a pardon, notwith- 
danding the king, in his order, fpeaks to them as having 
committed, what himfelf dyles “ the cruel murder.” Fox’s 
Martyrs, vol. ii. 
The lad perfon confined here was Peter Burchet, of the 
Temple, who, in 1573, defperately wounded the celebrated 
featnan fir Richard Hawkins, in the open dreet, wjioin he 
had midaken for fir Chridopher Hatton. He was com¬ 
mitted to this prifon, and afterwards removed to the 
Tower; where he murdered one of his keepers. He was at 
length tried, convicted, had his right hand druck oft', and 
was then hanged. He was found to be a violent enthu- 
fiaft, who thought it lawful to kill fuch as oppofed the 
truth of the gofpel.—The church of St. Gregory (hared 
the fate of the noble pile to which it was annexed. The 
ground on which it flood was then laid into St. Paul’s- 
church-yard; and the parifti has fince been united to that 
of Mary Magdalen, Old Fiih-ftreet. 
The re-edification of the church of St. Paul was hailed 
with gratitude and enthnfiafm by the inhabitants of the 
metropolis and of the furrounding country, to w hich the 
noble dome offers from all points a mod pleafing afpeCl, 
and, as it is jocofely faid, “ a land-mark” for all thofe who 
approach the metropolis.—Having given already an am¬ 
ple defeription of this majeftic ftrufture under the article 
Architecture, vol. ii. p. 120-122. we (hall merely 
add here what has not been, or could not be, infected iti - 
that article. 
As we feldom think of the fleeting progrefs of time, 
there ace very few (comparatively) of the inhabitants of 
London who have feen the interior of St. Paul’s cathedral 
with that attention which it deferves. They poftpone fa- 
tisfying their curiofity from day to day, and defeend into 
the grave without having feen what they had every day at 
hand. Not fo with foreigners and the inhabitants of the 
country: the appearance of the bafilica at a diftance, 
powerfully excites their defire of vifiting it; and they feel 
at their arrival an irrefiftible impulfe to enter its majeftic 
portal. ■ It is certainly a pity that the accefs to the interior 
(hould be bought for a few pence: much has been faid, 
and perhaps too feverely laid, on that account; but ob¬ 
jections of the ftrongeft caft arife, and militate againlt 
opening the doors, promifeuoufly to every one without 
diftindion. One of thefe obje&ions is, that the monu¬ 
ments infide might foon fufl'er the fame (hameful and fa- 
crilegious mutilations as the ft.atues in the area before the 
church. The charges, however, are moderate; and the 
following is a (ketch of the different curiofities which arc 
exhibited in the interior of this noble fabric. 
O11 entering the fouth door, there is ay>air of flairs 
within a fmall door on the right hand, leading to the cu ¬ 
pola; and the ftranger by paying two-pence may gratify 
his curiofity with a profpeH: from the iron gallery at the 
foot of the lantern, which in a clear day affords a fine view 
of the river, of the whole metropolis, and all the adjacent- 
country, interfperfed with pleafant villages. The afeent 
to this gallery is by live hundred and thirty-four fteps, 
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