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Coral ancl Bells . 451 
So let the ruddie vermeyle of your cheeke 
Make stain’d carnations fresher liveries seeke, 
So let your braunched arms grow crooked, smooth, and sleeke. 
“ So from your growth late be you rent away. 
And hung with silver bels and whistles shrill; 
Unto those children be you given to play. 
Where blest Eliza raign’d; so never ill 
Betide your canes, nor them with breaking spill, 
Tell me, if some uncivill hand should teare 
Your branches hence, and place them otherwhere; 
Could you still grow, and such fresh crimson ensignes beare ? ” 
(Nichols, Progresses of James I., vol. i. p. 17.) 
Coral was brought back by travellers from warm 
'countries. One of Purchas’s pilgrims, wandering through 
Brazil, reports that on the shores of that country they— 
“ find great store of white stone corrall under water; it groweth like 
small trees all in leaves, and canes, as the red corrall of India, and if 
this also were so, there would be great riches in this countrie, for the 
great abundance there is of it; it is very white, it is gotten with 
difficulty, they make lime of it also.” ( Purchas , vol. iv. p. 1316.) 
And Sir Richard Hawkins, whose travels in the South 
Seas (1593) are recorded in the same collection, informs 
us that “the corrall in the sea is soft, but comming 
into the ayre, becommeth a stone” (vol. iv. p. 1377). 
Shakspeare poetically introduces this beautiful material 
into Ariel's song:— 
“ Full fathom five thy father lies; 
Of his bones are coral made; 
Those are pearls that were his eyes: 
Nothing of him that doth fade 
But doth suffer a sea-change 
Into something rich and strange. 
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell. 
Ding-dong. 
Hark ! Now I hear them,—ding-dong bell.” 
(Tempest, i. 2, 396.) 
