sess great merit. Sir Walter Scott has introduced both father and son in Marmion. He makes old Bell-the-Cat appear in his true character: 'A letter forged! Saint Jude to speed! Did ever knight so foul a deed! At first in heart it liked me ill, When the king praised his clerkly skill. Let my boy-bishop fret his fill.” Canto VI And in another passage we have the poet-bishop himself: "Amid that dim and smoky light, Checkering the silver moonshine bright— A bishop by the altar stood, A noble lord of Douglas' blood. With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. More pleased that in a barbarous age Than that beneath his rule he held Canto VI. Bishop Gawain was compelled by the troubles in Scotland to flee from his native country, and to take refuge at the court of Henry VIII., where he lived for years an honored exile, dying in 1522, at London, of the plague. He was born in 1474. Each canto of his translation of Virgil was preceded by an original prologue; the address to Spring-whence the extract on flowers is taken-is one of the most pleasing of these, and forms his introduction to the 12th Canto of the Æneid. Far from regretting the Scotticisms of his style, the bishop only mourned that his verses were still so English in their aspect a defect which will not be likely to strike the modern reader. But in spite of the obsolete words and rugged style, the touch of a poetical spirit, and something of the freshness of the natural blossoms still lingers about Bishop Gawain's Spring chaplet. FLOWERS. Through their beauty, and variety of coloure, and exquisite forme, they do bringe to a liberal and gentle minde the remembrance of honestie, comelinesse, and all kinds of virtues; for it would be an unseemly thing (as a certain wise man saith) for him that doth look upon and handle faire and beautiful things, and who frequenteth and is conversant in faire and beautiful places, to have his minde not faire also. JOHN GERARDE, 1545-1607. SPRING-FLOWERS. And blissful blossoms in the bloomed sward, Some pers, some pale, some burnet, and some blue; Some heavenly-coloured in celestial gré, Some watery-hued, as the haw-waly sea; And some depeint in freckles red and white; Some bright as gold, with aureate levis lite. And every flower unlapped in the dale. The flower-de-luce forth spread out his heavenly hue, Sere downis smale on dandelion sprung, The young green-bloomed strawberry leaves among ; Heavenly lilies with lockerand toppis white Whereof the beeis wrought their honey sweet. GAWAIN DOUGLAS, Bishop of Dunkeld. Burmekyn, barbican; pers, light blue; burnet, brownish; gules, scarlet; fauchcolour, fawn; celestial gre, sky-blue; haw-waly, dark-waved; lite, little; flowerdamas, damask rose; rose-knobbis tetand, rose-buds peeping; kyth, show; locherand, curling; redemite, crowned; croppis, heads. ARRANGEMENTS OF A BOUQUET. Here damask roses, white and red, Out of my lap first take I, Which still shall run along the thread Among these roses in a row, Next place I pinks in plenty, These double pansies then for show, The pretty pansy then I'll tie Like stones some chain enchasing; And next to them, their near ally, The curious choice clove July flower, Whose sundry colors of one kind, A course of cowslips then I'll stick, |