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tion of the devil, and minding the hurt, 
undoing and impoverifhment of the king’s 
true and faithful jubjeéts, as enemics to 
the commenwealth of this vwealm, and as 
no true or obedignt {ubjects unto the king’s 
maieity, of their malicious and wicked 
minds, have of iate invented and prattifed 
a new dammable kind of vice, difpleafure , 
and dammnifying of the king’s true fub- 
jects and the commonwealth of this 
realm ; as in fecret burning of frames of 
timber,. prepared and made by the ewners 
thereof, ready to be fet up and edified for 
hroules—cutting out of heads of dams of 
pools, ftews and feveral waters—cutting 
of conduit heads or conduit pipes—burn- 
ing of wains and carts loaden with coais 
or other goods—burning of heaps. of 
-wood cut, felled, and prepared for making 
of coals—cutting out of beafts-tongues— 
cutiing off the ears of his majefty’s fub- 
jecis—barking of apple-trees, pear-trees 
and other fruit-trees, and divers other 
Liké kinds of miterable effences, to the, 
great dilpleafure of Almighty God and 
of the king’s maielty, and to the mof 
evil and pernicious example that hath been 
feen in this realm.”-—Therefore it is 
enacted, that the perfons guilty of any of 
thefe ‘* miferable cilences,” fhall forfejt 
treble damages (for the lofs of an ear for 
example!) to the party aggrieved, and pay 
a fine of ten pounds to the king, 

QUEEN MARY’S SONNET, , 
The tollowing beautiful tranflation of 
queen Mary's Sonnet on leaving France, is 
from tie pen of the late Fohu Baynes, 
elquire. 
«¢ Ah? pleafant land of France, farewell; 
My country dear, 
Where many a year 
OF early youth 1 lov’d to dwell. 
Farewell for ever, happy days! 
The thip which parts our loves conveys 
But half of me:-—one half behind 
T leave with thee, dear Fiance, to prove 
A token of our endlefs love, 
And bring the other. to thy mind.” 

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN ENGLAND. 
FORTESCUE, in his Treatife on limited 
Monarchy, gives the following reafen for 
the number of executions in England, 
which is rather afingular one, from the peu 
of the lord chief jufitce af England:—“ More 
men are hanged in Exelenzde in ene year, 
than in Frauuce in leven, becaufe the Eng- 
lifoe have betier hartes: the Scotchmenne 
hkewife never dare rob, but only commit 
Jarcenies..” In an old French treatife by 
Bouchet, entitled ‘ Les Avantages-ce la 
Pérfanifications in Poetry. 
[Auguf, 
Lardrerie,” we find a whimfical obferva- 
tion on the fame fubjeét:—* ouitre ces 
commoditez, les lardres font plus de plaifir 
aux femmes que les antres, @ raifon de ja 
chaleur eftrange qui les brule par dedans, 
et auffi que leurs vafes fpermatiques font 
remplis de grofles humeurs, erues, vif- 
gueufes, &c.”"—* 4 cette caufe, plufieurs 
femmes, ayants eu affaire a des lardres, ont 
fouhaité que leurs maris le fuffent.”?’ 

PERSONIFICATIONS IN PoETRY. 
(Continued from No. xuv-) 
FAME. 
SEW allegorical figures are better 
known, than that of Fame in the 
4th /Eneid ; it is not, however, very ealy 
to form a diftinét idea of the poet’s con- 
ception. ‘The reprefentation is clearly of 
the emblematical clais ; butthere is a mix- 
ture of literal and allegorical. meaning, 
which produces fome contufion. She is 
made, like Homer's Eris, a growing figure, 
{mall at firft, but foon towering to the fkies; 
an idea fuited, indeed, to the real] nature of 
rumour, but {carcely reconcileable to the 
notion of a permanent being, the fancied 
genius or goddefs of Fame. Her form is 
thus defcribed : 
‘Monftrum horrendum, ingens; cui quot funt 
corpore plume, 
Tot vigiles oculi fubter, mirabile dictu ! 
Tot linguze, totidem ora fonant, tot iubrigit aures. 
As many plumes as o’er her body fpread, 
Wond’rous to tell! fo many watchful eyes 
Beneath are couch’d, fo many tongues andmouths 
Difcordant found, fo many ears are rear*d. 
“ It is difficult to conceive of the exiftence 
of fuch a phantom; nor is the imagination 
aided by any leading features which refer 
jt to a particular clafs of animated forms 3 
fo that we know not whether to fancy it 
as a human creature or a bird. She pof- 
fefies, indeed, molt of the nature of a 
fereech-ow], or fome other nocturnal bird ; 
flying by night between heaven and earth, 
and perching by day on the tops of roofs 
and turrets: but how is this confiftent with 
the prior image of her walking en earth, 
and hiding her head amid the clouds? On 
the whole, I cannot think Virgil happy in 
his management of this fi€tion, much as 
it has been admired; and if it was the pro- 
du&t of his ewn invention, it is a proof 
that the ftrength of -his poetical talent-did 
not lie-in forming piétures, of this kind, 
Thecandid Heyne acknowledges that there 
are apparent-inconhitencies in this piece ; 
for icme of which, however, he makes @ 
general apology, by the remark, thatfuch:  ~ 
monfreus figures afford a proof of the 
po es Giteren& 
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