@12° On the Means of bettering the Condition of the Poor. [April {, 
That Ishall ever venerate the hero, 
That I repent of my ungrateful anger, 
And that the basty hand which snatch’d his 
earldomn 
Willdouble every grant that it resum’d. 
Atonement wins <’en harshness to forgive== 
' ‘Tostishall learn to love me. Learn it too. 
Betore mine eye had wander’d o’er thy form, 
Had nestled in the ringlets of thy hair, 
Or bath’d in heaven’s mild azure in thy 
Tb laok: 
There were, whose arms to Edward’s wishes 
op’d - 
Their ivory portals, and whose glistening 
eye 
Was dewy with desire that he inspir’d, 
Upon whose panting bosom he reclin’d 
As in Valhalla. 
thee, 
Those arms have vainly beckon’d my return, 
Those eyes elicit no responsive gaze, 
‘Those bosoms heave and flutter unobserv’d. 
Edi. My lord, you trouble me, farewell. 
(Harotpn, who,during the interview, conies once 
» or twice into the room, when be sees Epitua 
retiring, comes forward.) 
Edw. Yet stay, yet hear, at least look 
back upon me. 
“Wilt thou not grant me, after the repast, 
Ouie short half-hour of converse? Heed my 
prayer. 
She gave me no denjal—I may hope- 
And while I spoke, methought her eyes grew 
languid, 
Closing like evening flowers to chalice dew.. 
She drew a shorter breath ; j and wandering 
blushes, 
Like northern lights reflected upon snow, 
Quiver’d along her bosom.——Harold, come: 
Thou know’st the forfeit Jands of Ulf and 
Gamel, 
Whom Tosti in rebellion crush’d and slew 5 
‘They are for thee. 
H. Monarch, a life of service 
Will not acquit my debt of gratitude. 
Edw. A single hour may overpay it all: 
Make. me but happy in Editha’s love. 
H.. Think you to halve the throne with 
Tosti’s daughter, 
Afianc’d as you are? 
Edw. Half of my throne 
Were still too little toexpress my passion 5 
But England’s interests are sacred to me. 
H. What must Ido? . 
Edw. Aid me to bear her hence : 
And, asthy guest, convey her to my palace: 
Here she will never yield, while those ure 
nigh 
"With whom she has the habit to be virtuous ; 
At Windsor, half resisted, half allow’d, 
3 shail-obtain my wishes). and far eee. 
H. She may imagine that I journey with 
you, 
Bat leave me here: let it seem done by 
force, 
That she is hurried from me. 
Bw. Be it se 
From the hour I view’d 
_ tively 
This evening then, when the repast is over——e 
H. Thy wishes are the law of all my 
actions. 
(King of Slaughter.) Odin was the war-god 
of our northern ancestors, 
(Nornies) were the Parce of Gothic my- 
thology. 
(Wight-mares 5 or Night-maids, as it should 
be all were of the race of elves, and 
supposed to dispense dreams. 
(Frea.) The Goths, in the true spirit of 
their pure manners, adored Frea, a virgin, a3 
the goddess of love and beauty. 
(Balder) was the handsomest of Odin’s 
sons. 
(Braga) was god of music and poetry, 
and celebrated the heroes in Valhalla, the 
paradise of the dead. 
( Hermod) presided over eloquence. 
(End of the first Act.) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
On the mMEAwns Of BETTERING the CONs 
DITION of the PooR. 
LETTER IL. 
he my former letter I have not men- 
tioned a section of the statute 43 
Elizabeth, which is the basis ef our 
system of the poor-laws, and which well 
deserves to be mentioned. It is this: 
‘“¢ The churchwardens and overseers, | 
or the greater part of them, by the leave 
of the lord of the manor, whereof any. 
waste or common within, the parish is 
parcel, and on agreement. made with 
him in writing, under his hand and 
seal ; or otherwise according to any order 
to be set down by the justices i in sessions, 
by like leave and agreement of the lord, 
in writing, under his hand and seal; may 
build, in fit and convenient places of has 
bitation in such waste or common, at 
the charge of the parish, or otherwise of 
the county or hundred aforesaid, to be 
rated and gathered in manner as before ex- 
pressed, convenient houses of dwelling for 
the said impotent poor.” 43 Eliz. c. 1. §5, 
‘* jmpotent poor” would be construed 
here, as it has been construed in other 
Instances, not poor whoily unable to 
maintain themselves, but poor in want 
of occasional relief: which almost every 
labourer in husbandry, or working ma- 
nufacturer, now is. The difficulty is, 
that commons are becoming compara- 
scarce, from the number of 
enclosures: a the waste of the manor, 
which is the only other alternative given 
by the act, often becomes personal pro- 
perty under the enclosure; or, where it 
does not, Is often inconveniently situated, 
both for the poor, and in other respects. 
One great object, if a poor man be 
‘yndustrious, 
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