1810.) 
ve laught at and jeared in every coffee- 
house, and be subject to the old mens’ 
tobacco-pipes, to bring them fire. But 
coffee-houses are going down, you'll say: 
faith, that’s one comfort; for I heard 
such damning of a pamphlet there once, 
that I thought they had sate on the life 
and death of the author: besides, I know 
some persons hate new fashions, as much 
as an old don in the university hates 
Burgerdicius logick, because he was 
taught in Sanderson’s.. Shall the matter 
be old then as the Pre-Adamites?—No, 
thai’s foolish too. 
now me scemeth to think on his whole- 
some saw, 
In the mid way, 
"tis safe to play. 
So then I must write what’s nether 
new nor old; in a dialect that is both 
daubed over with novelty, and hath an- 
tiquity for itsground, FHlave at’um then, 
and let any novice say what he will; 
since there isa temple built to antiquity, 
‘whatever the world may say of my su- 
perstition, I am resolved ta fix this tablet 
there. —Farewell, 
Coryugis adventum  prasenserat, 
nifentem 
ing ; 
Jnaclsidos vultus mutaverat ille juvencam. 
Ovid. 1.1. 
Ovid telleth in his saws, 
how Jupiter in ancient days, 
lay by a maid, which Jo. 
was called, yheucall s wife Juno 
was wroth; and as she was gocdess, 
of Jo turned the likeness 
into a cow, to go througheut 
the fields and pastures thereabout, 
and get hes meat upon the green j 
and thereupon the lofty queen, 
betook hes Argus for to keep ; 
for he was seldom wont to sleep, 
because he had an hundred eyes, 
all were aliye, and all were spies. | 
Now hearken how he was beguiled 
by Mercury, who was affied 
this cow to steal > he came disguised, 
and nad a pipe full well devised 
of musick, and thus to the field 
he came, where Argus he beheld 
with Jo, which beside him went 
with that anon his pipe he bent, 
and ’gan to pipe in such manner, 
things which were sleepy for toe hear 5 
and in his piping eves among, 
he sung him such a lulling song, 
that he the giant brought asicep, . 
and there was no eye that might keep 
his head, which Mercury off smote, 
and so away the cow he got; 
the cow, I say, which Argus kept, 
and all this fell for that he slept. 
Scarce Tracts, Se. 
O Gramery, mine old grete granfader, 
(07 
“ The Legend of Saint Brandon.” 
Tt should not be supposed, that in» 
tract of this title, stories of curiosi- 
ty and invention, somewhat assimilating 
the celebrated Arabian Nights’ Enter 
tainments, would at all appear. The 
work from which the following extracts 
are taken, is the ‘ Golden Legend, 4: 
printed by Julian Notary, in 1503, 
f CCRXX. seq. nae ae 
The first extract which I shall give, 4s 
the fabulous description of the Parajlise 
of our first parents. 
‘¢ Vhey sawe a full fayr ylond, and 
thyderwarde they drew; in the ylonde 
was joy and myrthe ynonge, (and that 
erthe of the ylond shined as bri ight as the 
sonne) and there were the fayrest trees 
and herbes, that ever ony man sawe) and 
there were many precious stones shyning 
bright, (and every herbe there was full 
of “Agures, and every tree full of frute) 
so that it was a glorious sent and an 
hevenly joye tabide there: and then ne 
there came to them a ve vong man; 
and full curtously he welcomed them all, 
and called every Monke by hys name, 
and sayd yt they were moche bounde to 
pryse the name of our Lord Jhesy, that 
wolde of his grace shewe to them the 
glorius place; which is ever daye, and 
never nyght, and. this place is called 
paradys terrestre, but by this ylonde, aa 
other ylond, wherein noman may come: 
this yonge man sayd.to them, ‘ Ye have 
been here half a yere, without mete, 
drynke, or slepe; and they supposed that 
they had de not ben there the space of 
half an houre: so mery and joyeful, 
they were there, and the yonge man told 
them, that this isthe place yt Adam and 
Eve dwelte in firsi.” 
The next account is of the Kraken, of 
which the earliest mention, known to 
this writer, as ever published, is in the 
seventeenth century. 
‘‘ They wente upon an ylond, wening 
to them, they had ben saufe, and made 
theron a fyre for to dresse theyr dyner ; 
and whan the fire was ryybt hote, and 
the mete nyghe soden, thenne this ylond 
began to moeve, (wherof the Monkes 
were aforde) and fled anone to shyppe, 
and left the tyre and mete behynde them, 
and merveylled sore of the moeving. 
And Saint Brandon comforted them, 
and sayde, that it was a grete fysshe, 
named Jassone, whyche laboured nyght 
- and day, to put hys tayle in hys mouthe, 
but for gretenes he may not.” (f. cexx, x1.) 
But it is more distinctly deseribed in 
(i, cexxxiil.) “ From them they came 
to 
