1607.] L£wxtracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
MARTIUS. 
Marche betokeneth the six yeres folowynge 
Arayeng the erthe with pleasaunt verdure 
That season youth thought for nothynge, 
And wothout thought dooth his sporte and 
pleasure. 
APRILIS. 
The next six yere maketh foure and twenty 
And figgured 's to joly Aprill 
That tyme of pleasures man hath moost plenty 
Fresche and louying his lustes to fulfyll. 
MA1US 
As in the month of Maye all thyng in mvgth 
So at thirty veres man is in chye? lykyng 
Pleasaunt and lusty to every mamnes sygth 
in |eaut- and strength to women pleasyng. 
JUNIUS. . 
In June all thyng ‘alieth to rypenesse 
And so dooth man at thirty-six yere olde 
Ana studyeth for to acquyre rychesse 
And taketh a wyfe to kepe his houscholde. 
Julius 
At forty yere of aege or elles never 
Is ony man endewed with wysdome 
For than forgth his myht fayleth ever 
As in July coth every blossome. 
AUGUSTUS. 
The goodes of the erthe is gadred evermore 
In August so at forty eight yere 
Man outghe to gacher sore gooues in store 
To susteyne aege that than draweth nere, 
SEPTEMBER. 
Lete no man tkynke forto gather plenty 
Yt at fiity four yere he have none 
No move than yr his barne were empty 
In Septembre whan all the corne is gone. 
OCTOBER 
By Ocrobre betokeneth sixty yere 
Thet aege hastely dooth man assayle 
Yf he have outgh than it dooth appere 
To lyve quyetiy after his travayle. 
NOVEMBER. 
Wan man isat sixty six yere olde 
Which lykened is to bareyne Novembre 
He wexeth unweldy sekely and cold 
Than his soule helth is time to remembre. 
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DECEMBER. 
The yere by Decembre taketh his ende 
And so dooth manat threscore and twelve 
Nature with acye wyll hym on message sende 
Tho’ tyme is come that he musi go hym 
selve. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
SONG. 
DEAF Chloe, let not pride devour 
That little, vain, affected heart; 
Because I said the fairest flower 
Ne’er breathed the sweets thy lips impart. 
Nor spoil that face with airs so silly, 
Nox point those lovely eyes with scorn; 
Because i swore the rose and lily 
Never gave such beauties to the morn 3 
Yes! thou art like—so like the flower, 
Its warning fate should fill with sorrow3 
The blooming plaything o; an hour, 
But pluckt—and torne-and dead to-mor 
Tow. S: W. 
ee 
FROM METASTASIO. 
s¢ Sogni e favole io fingo.” 
Wiuist dreams and tales unreal I devise, 
And strive to deck them with poetic 
art, 
The self-sprung woes so touch my foolisk 
heart, 
T melt in anguish and myself despise. 
Haply when snatch’d from Fancy’s blind 
controul 
Wisdom appears, and calms my troubled 
soul ? 
Haply i these impetuous transports prove 
From the resistless influence of Love ? 
Alas! not only these my mournful lays 
Are fables all; whate’er I hope or feary 
Ts all deceit; and Liie itself a maze, 
A tedious, idle dream trom year to year: 
Grant me, Oh Lord! when the illusion’s past 
Upon the breast of truth repose at last. 
Lincoln's Inn. E. B, 
EEL ie 
GRANDEES OF SPAIN. 
ie ae appears to be a title peculiar 
to some of the nobles of Spain, and 
is considered as distinct from any other 
title of honour, such as a Duke, Marquis, 
Count, &c. The Grandees have the pri- 
vilege of appearing covered in the pre- 
sence of the sovereign. In the time of 
Charies V, they were only sixteen in 
number, but the number has been in- 
creased by succceding monarchs. They 
affect an equality with the Electors of 
Germany, and the sovereign princes of 
Italy. In France, they enjoyed the same 
honours as the peers of that kingdom, 
HERALDS. | 
These officers had formerly more ac- 
tive and dangerous duties than at present: 
on the day of battle they bore the royal 
standard, they ascertained the number 
of the dead, reclaimed the prisouers, 
summoned cities and castles to surrender, 
and assisted at the capitulations. The 
last instance of a Herald being dispatch- 
ed to declare war, was in the time of 
Lewis XfU. of France, against the Car 
dimal-Infant, Governor of the Low Coun- 
tries. Since that time, the sovereigns of 
Europe have contented themselves with 
declaring war by manilestoes, 
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