1805.]  Extraéis from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
But, alas! all my caution tn vain I lamenty 
For the Storm has deftroy’d them at laft:. 
It was Envy, enrag’d at their beauties, that 
lent 
Her unpitying refolves to the blatt. 
If content to have flourifh’d in Spring’s lovely 
prime, 
They had fipp’d the pure breeze and the 
ftream, 
They had mourn’d not, as Flowerets ¢* born 
out of due time,” 
The falfe {mile of a premature beam. 
147 
Yet one Floweret ftill lifts her low creft from 
the vale, 
*Tis of Chrifimas the time-hallow’d rofe ;* 
Tho’ with texture fo fragile, and afpect fo 
ale, 
Yet the image fhe looks of Repofe ; 
Unditturb’d, fhe ‘can pillow ber head on the 
fnow, 
And furvey, calmly fmiling, the fcene, 
Till, fubdued by her firmnefs, the turbulent 
foe 
Becomes filent himfelf and ferene 
* Hellebore. 
Extrafls from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
BRAWN... 
RAWN wasan old word for flefh, and 
though now appropriated to the rolls 
made from the boar, was once common to 
other kinds of meat. Among our old re- 
cipes of cookery we have brawa of capons ; 
and.in the Forme of Cury, in the time of 
Richard the Second, brawn of fwyne is 
particularly difting uifhed. 
Ma SS-PRIEST- 
A very fingular inftance of a majfs- 
prief occurs in the Domefday Survey, at 
Witton, in Norfolk. He held thirty 
acres of land in free alms, by finging 
three daily maffes for Edward the Con- 
feffor and his Queen ; but, ftrange as it 
may fem, was deprived of his poiletlions 
at the coming of the Conquerer. 
ANCIENT GAME OF QUINTAIN. 
In the days of teudal tyranny no per- 
fon below the rank of an Efquire could 
enter the jifls at a tournament. Such a 
prohibition, however, only operated 
among the inferior orders of the people in 
leading them to the invention of {ports 
which had a fimilar tendency. Of this 
kind was the Quintaine, delcribed in Dr. 
Henry’s Hittory of Britain, vol. VI. page 
371. See alfo Spelman and Dufrefoe 
in voce. Archeslogia. Bihop Ken- 
net’s Parochial Antiquities in Glofs. 
Pancirollus Tit. 21, cum Commentario. 
Dugd. Warw. page 166. Stowe 1, 301. 
Fitz Stephen’s Hiftory of London page 43, 
A paflage in one of Bithep Hali’s Sa- 
tires intimates the Quintaine to have been 
a well-known fport fo late as the time of 
Queen Elizabeth : 
‘6 Time bids thee raife thine headftrong 
thoughts on high, 
To valour and advent’rous chivalry 5 
Pawne thou no glove for challenge of the 
deed, 
Nor make thy Quintaine others’ armed head.” 
-And an ancient, manufcript Life of 
Alexander the Great, in French verte, 
written in the time of Edward the Third, 
and now preferved in the Bodleian libraryy 
at Oxford (MS. Bodley. 264) contains 
feveral hundred illuminations of the 
manners and {ports of early times. Among | 
them there i¢ one inftance of the Quintairn, 
engraved in Mr. Strutt’s Sports and Pai- 
times, which forms a fingular illuftration 
of the laft line quoted from Bifhop Hall. 
Du Cange has cited one or two ancient 
romances where it ranks among the chief 
{ports of the time; as in Roman de Jor- 
daine de Blaye, 
‘¢ A la Quintaine et a V’efcu jufter, 
Et courfe as barres, et luities, et verfer.” 
and then adds a pafflage, I think, more im- 
mediately in point with the illumination 
that has been already mentioned, from 
Le Roman de Giron le Courtois. ** Je ne 
vous tiens mie a fi bons Chevalier, que je 
daigne prendre lance pour jouiter 4 vous 3 
ains vous dy, que vous efloignez de moy 
ec me venez ferir de toute votre force, et 
je vous feray Quintaine. 
VIRTUES OF THE Mass*. 
Firft, St. Auften faith, the vertue of the 
ma{s is more profit to him that heareth it, 
than if he went all his life days, and gave 
all his goods in alms; @ alfo, that day 
he feeth the bleffed body of Chrift thal} 
be given to him necefiary food ; q and 
idle words, and idle oaths {poken or {worm 
are forgiven ; and that day he fhall not 
dye of no fudden death, for if a man fud- 
denly dye, it fhall ftand for his {yufett. 
St. Gregory faith, the fecond vertue is, 
* Found about the year 1770, at Burnham 
Abbey,in Buckinghamfhire, where it had been 
concealed in the ceiling of a chamber. 
municated by Mr, C. Jarman, of Windfor. 
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