1810.] 
Heva.—Celum iras dat ultrices. 
Adam,—Infelices 
Montes operiant nos ! 
Lucifi—Nobis parta est victoria, 
in cuna Lucifer tumulavit vos ¢ 
Incautos cepi, 
Cautos decepi, 
Arte, versutia 
Evomi venenum, 
Moerore suspiranty 
Dolore delirant, 
Cor tabescit angustiis plenum, 
Arte, versutia 
Evomi venenum. 
Adam.—Ah mei causa dolotris ! 
Heva, fuge! 
daeva.—Sequar te, 
Quz vox clamet contra nos? 
Adaim.—Siste gradus, 
In cortice plantarum 
Sententia scripta est. 
fizva.—Lege, Adam, coram me. 
Extracts from the Port-folie of a Ras of Letters, 
\ 
147 
Adamu—'¢ Yn frontis sudore 
‘¢ Vescar infelix pane. 
Heva.—=** Parturiam in dolore. 
Adam.—** Gradietur anguis supra pectus 
mane.” 
Heva.In duo {lumina \ 
Si sunt satis mea lumina 
Largo fluctu, 
Mesto luctu 
Vos abite, 
Frande perdita serpentis 
Fuit Hva exitium gentis, | 
. Nimis lesit Numen vite. 
Vos abite : 
Mesto luctu, 
Largo fluctu 
Sisunt satis mea lumina 
In duo flumina. 
Adaiiee** Oh virtus magna lacryme do, . 
lentis ! 
_ Mollitur Celum stilla peenitentis.” 
ee eeeereme 
Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
— ee 
A SCOTTISH PRAYER. 
N the year 1879, a dreadful pestilence 
happened in the northern parts of 
this kingdom, insomuch that whole fami- 
lies were swept away. During the height 
of thiscalamity, the Scots took the ad- 
vantage to enter the land, and carried 
off great spoils in small parties ; but durst 
not stay long for fear of infection, Ask- 
ing some of the English the reason of so 
great a mortality among them, and being 
told that it came ‘*‘ by the grace of 
God,” they therefore, by way of preser- 
vative, used every evening and morning 
the following prayer, or charm :—" God, 
and St. Mango, St. Thomas, and St. 
Andrew, shield us this day from God’s 
grace, and the foul deatas that English- 
meh die upon.” 
DON SANCHO. 
Qne of the grandees of Spain being at 
the’ consistory at Rome, the pope pro- 
claimed him King of Egypt. The prince, 
hearing the applauses of the assembly, 
and not understandinge the Latin laa- 
giiage, asked his interpreter what it 
meant. ‘ Sir,” says he, “ the pope 
has created you King of Eyypr.”—« £ 
mist not then be ungrateful,” said he ; 
«do you arise, and proclaim from me, 
the we ‘father Caliph of Bagdad.”— 
Mem. Vie. de Petrarch, vol. i. p. 200.. 
THE SURPRISE. ; 
Some years ago, it matters not how 
many, an organ was erected in the 
€ church at Aylsham, in the county of 
Norfolk. The organist of the cathedrak 
of Norwich was to open the organ. He 
_arrived in due time; and was admired by 
the crowd for his beau-like appearance, 
to which, being a young man, he had no 
objection. He ascended the organe 
gallery stairs; made a most consequen- 
tial bow to the builder, who bowed most 
respectfully in return; placed himself on 
the stool, adjusted his long ruffles, and 
drew out all the stops: stop diapa-~ 
son, open diapason, principal tweltth, 
tierce, cornet sesquialtia, trumpet, and 
regretted that there was not a.clarion, ° 
After keeping the audience in suspense 
for a reasonable time, his fingers de- 
scended on the full chord of D. Nota 
note spoke ; the organ was dumb. En- 
raved and disappointed at not producing | 
the intended grand effect, he stamped 
most furiously, asa sional to the blower 
to administer that ea without which 
an organ, like a windmill, is a body with- 
outa soul. He had no doubt he heard 
the wind rushing into the chest, ready to 
be emitted most copiously; as grand 
music in an organ consumes a great deal 
of that necessary commodity. Again 
he struck the full chord of D, Not a 
sound was heard ; the organ, again, was 
dumb. Being a man of genius, and 
~ yather a fanciful linagination, though he 
did not believe in the existence of Aolus, 
yet he began to think tnere had been : 
conspiracy against him.’ He stared < 
the builder in the ufiaost consternation, 
‘Lag 
