2 
“ Lifting the Good up to high Honour’s 
seat 
And evill damning evermore to dy.” 
While the “ Faery Queen”’ abounds 
in imitations and even paraphrases of 
Italian poets, the verse is original with 
Spenser, and has been called the 
Spenserian stanza. It consists in the 
addition to the favorite o¢tava rima of 
a line between the fourth and fifth, 
giving a triple rhyme, and making the 
last line an Alexandrine to close the 
cadence. This was a real metrical 
invention ; it-has been used by Aken- 
side and Thomson, and so on, to Ten- 
nyson; to Byron, Shelley and Keats 
it proved irresistibly attractive. 
The ‘‘Epithalamion,” one of the 
most chaste and beautiful wedding 
songs ever written, was made by the 
poet for his own bride, and sounded 
the note of a married life of unruffled 
peace and happiness. The sweet 
music that runs through the verse 
fills us with something like his own 
sense of fullest earthly joy. 
Like Chaucer, Spenser was a great 
lover of Nature; his Sonnets especially 
are full of the ‘‘ cheerful cheriping of 
birdes,’> whose ‘‘eccho”’ makes the 
groves to ring; his lauguage may be 
no longer familiar, but we even yet 
feel the rare grace of his earlier poems 
and the unusual charm of his verse. 
Here is a song of the flowers: 
‘“‘ Bring hither the pincke and purple cullam- 
bine, 
With gellincures ; 
“Bring coronations, and sops of wine, 
Worne of paramoures. 
areas the ground with daffadowndil- 
1eS 
And sar ine and kingcups and loved lil- 
lies.” 
Spenser began life poor, but re- 
ceived court preferment, had many 
rich and noble friends, such as the 
Word Treasurer, the Earl of Essex, 
«“magnificke lorde,’’ Howard, Wal- 
singham, Raleigh andall the “ gratious 
and beautifule’’ ladies of the court. 
He caught the grand manner and 
high-bred ways of the society of which 
he was so brilliant an ornament. After 
a lifetime of literary fame and success, 
and of vexatious political life in Ire- 
land, he returned to Englanda broken 
man, and died in extreme poverty, as 
Ben Johnson says, “ for lake of bread.” 
When the generous Earl of Essex 
sent him twenty gold pieces, he re- 
turned them, saying that he would 
not live to use them. Thus died one 
to whom Milton owned his indebted- 
ness, and whom the critics, without 
exception, unite to praise 
“The gentle Spenser, Fancy’s pleasing son.” 
The loving and loyal Essex, himself 
so soon to die, gave his friend a splen- 
did funeral in Westminster Abbey, 
where his memorial, in Poet’s Corner, 
still attracts the literary pilgrim. 
[To be Continued.] 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
CHRISTMAS CAROL. 
Rev. Mr. Brewster Preaches Strong Sermon 
at Manchester. 
“Glory to God in the highest, and 
on earth peace, good will toward men.” 
These words from Luke 2: 14, were 
the text of a very interesting Christ- 
mas sermon by Rev. Edward Hersey 
Brewster at the Baptist church in 
Manchester last Sunday evening. The 
subject of his sermon was ‘ The First 
Christmas Carol.’ Among _ other 
things Mr. Brewster said : 
“Nazareth was good enough for 
Jesus ; saving men along the shores of 
Galilee was glory enough for Him. 
“The Golden Age has not yet come 
for all our gold, but you may hasten 
its arrival by opening your heart to 
the Prince of Peace. Two thousand 
years of darkness were rolled aside to 
make way for the day of Christ.. The 
insignia of the Christian church is a 
white hand with the words “ good-will” 
across the palm. 
‘©The rich seldom know how to en- 
joy Christmas. The common people 
inherit the genius of the shepherds. 
The highest is where Christ is; the 
lowest becomes highest when it looks 
on the face of the Saviour. 
“ At the manger you behold a pure 
democracy, a righteous socialism. ‘A 
little child shall lead them’ is the 
prophecy fulfilled at Bethlehem. 
“Jesus came to war on sin though 
he is called the Prince of Peace. He 
had to conqucr Sin to be a prince, for 
satan was usurping the throne, and as 
for Peace there could be none while 
Sin remained unconquered. 
“Our hearts may echo the first 
Christmas carol, but to hear the origi- 
nal one must go to heaven. Remem- 
ber you who scoff at the attempts of 
‘the race to reach higher ground, that 
Jesus came as man. Those who as- 
sign to Jesus an inferior station are of 
the family of the inn-keeper, who sent 
the Messiah to the manger. * 
“The star will shine even if you 
don’t follow it.. After faith, the har- 
vest ; after doubt, the deluge.” 
—— 
Six Months in House of Correction. 
Samuel Wiggin of Manchester was 
sentenced to six months in the House 
of Correction at the District Court in 
Salem, by Judge Safford, Tuesday 
morning, for stealing four hens and a 
rooster from the hen houses of William 
B. Walker at West Manchester. 
Wiggin has been suspected of the 
theft since it was first reported to the 
police Thanksgiving morning, but 
Chief Peabody, who has been at work 
on the case, did not obtain strong 
enough evidence to arrest till last 
week. 
Four witnesses testified : Harry W. 
Kingsman, who has charge of the 
poultry at the Walker estate; B. F. 
Wade, F. A. Braceand Joseph Lovely. 
Wiggin did not wish to take the stand 
in defence, but explained to the court 
that there was a dance “upstairs ”’ 
Thanksgiving Eve and he went home 
early and retired. 
“That’s one of the meanest of 
thefts,” said the judge, ‘and is a 
state’s prison offence.” 
‘‘Find him guilty,’ he directed the 
clerk. ‘‘ House of Correction for six 
months.”’ 
Lawyer Quinn handled the case for 
the prosecution. Mr. Kingsman testi- 
fied that the hens were yearlings 
valued at $1 each, but that the cock 
was a prized bird, for which he had 
paid $10 two weeks previous to the 
theft. 
Subscribe for the BREEZE. 
Pool and Billiard tables always ready 
for use at Manchester Pool Parlors. * 
FINEST IMPORTED 
Turkish and Oriental 
Pipe nd Glgarellé TOBAGGOS. 
FRANK G. CHEEVER CO. 
Prescription Pharmacists, 
CENTRAL SQUARE, 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, 
Tel. 130. ; MASS. 
with every purchase here and no one can give you 
better values in CLOTHING than we can. 
$10, Buys a Good Wool Suit. 
$12, Buys a Better Wool Suit. 
$15, Buys a Pure Worsted Suit. 
Others, $13.50 and $6.50. 
You get a trifle more than you pay for here 
“Try us before deciding on your new Fall Suit 
or O’coat.” 
124 Main Street, 
J. E. PARSONS, 
GLOUCESTER, MASS. 
