1809.] 
day; Cucumbate, to cry like an owl]; Cucu- 
riale, to crow like acock ; Debuccinuie, 
to reportabroad; Decachinnate, to scorn ; 
Hilurode, a singer of wanton songs; 
Riircipill, whose hair is of two. sorts; 
Iconiched, very curiously painted; <y- 
golfle, a clerk of the market. In the 
vulgar, converted into good Finglish, he 
recommends, for Alderman, to put Se- 
nator ; for dismount reside; tor appeasing, 
pacification; for apprenticeship, ‘Vyrociny; 
for argument, Lemma; for'an army of 
men, Sabaoth; for baked, pistated ; for 
boxing the ears, depalmate ; for breaking, 
Lubefie, enfringe, delumbate; for calling 
by name, endigitate; for chipping- bread, 
defornicate’; tor chirping, like birds, 
Gingreate ; like a sparrow, pipillate ; for 
stripping naked, connudate ; in short, the 
old story; Is my Lord Chol-mon-de-ley 
at home? Yes, Sir, but he has a good 
many pe-o-ple with him. 
HENRY BUNTING 
In his “ Itinerarium Totius Sacre 
Scripture,” done ints'English by B. B. 
Ato, 1656, gave the following pieces of 
some remarkable matters, mentioned in 
the Old and New Testament. 
He makes (p. $86,) David give in the 
whole towards building the temple, eight 
Hundred, forty-seven thousand millions, 
Original Poetry. 7 585 
three hundred, eighty-two thousand, five 
hundred English pounds!!! 
The ointment, with which the womau 
of Bethany anointed Christ, saleable at 
nine pounds, seven shillings and six- 
pepe p. 391. 
Judas Iscariot’s reward, however, for 
betraying Christ, would have been de= 
spised indeed, by a modern informer, 
He makes it te amount only to three 
pounds, fifteen shillings. p. 391. 
Malta—St. Paul shaking off the viper; 
the Catulus Meliteus. 
In Bunting’s, ** Itinerarium,” (p. 560,) 
under Malta, we have the following 
passages: ‘¢ The children that are borne 
in this country, Jeare not any snakes, 
neither are hurt by eny thing that is 
venomous, insomuch that they will take 
Scorpions ‘and eat them, without danger, 
aithough in all other parts of the world, 
those kind of creatures are most perni- 
cious. In this isle, also, there are bred a 
kind of dogs that are but small, yet very 
white and “shagged, and so loving; that 
the inhabitants of all the neighbouring 
countries will buy them, though they be 
at dear.rates.” Thus the Catulus Me- 
liteus, of the classical ancients, was in 
equal vogue in the 17th century. 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
—— ie 
EFFUSION on a SUMMER’S EVENING, 
Wy HEN Twilight, last memorial of the 
day, 
Leads on sombre train, and shadows grey, 
And her dark sister, ebon- plumed Night, 
Waves her dun pennons o’er the rear of light, 
Then, when relentless heats oppress no 
more, 
Pensive Iseat me ly the lowly door. 
E’en now, though dusky shades involve the 
key, 
he forrniess landscape charms the inquiring 
eyes 
Now the dall outlines of the glimmering 
scene 
Wed with the shades that gloom the skies 
serene, 
Uncertain forms, commingling spread around, 
And doubtful objects fill the distant ground. 
Releas’d from torpid heats, the freshning 
gale 
Sails o’er the hill, and breathes along the 
vale. 
And, on cool pinions borne, the evening 
breeze 
Drops dews around, and si sighs thro’ quivering 
trees ; 
And, while the streamlet’s murmurs moan 
: around, 
The distant, fall is heard, by fits, to sound. 
More distant still is heard the mower’s song, 
Whose chorus’d strdinsy unequal, float along : 
Till all at length is hush’d—a general still 
Broods o’er the vale, and slumbers on the 
hill. 
Now let my thoughts to nobler views aspire, 
Where yon blue concave glows with gems of 
Press ug 
Circling the shades that fill the scene, be- 
hold 
The domeof heaven, inlaid with fretted gold, 
Rests on the pillar’d hills!—-The beamy star 
Of crested eve now glitters from afar 5 
The argent moon, unveil’d, appears on high, 
And rides. transcendant dames the spangled 
: sk 
Rosilakdett 0 Queen! whose mild and potent 
Sway 
Yon starry legions, clad in gold, obey. 
Now, now; the glories vf thy silvery beam 
Play thro’ the mist, and dance along the 
stream. 
_ Immortal Nesetens?: thou,whose soul ulin 
Blazed like a comet from the hand of Time, 
Explor'’d 
