Go, go, go, go, says Poulter,

And make haste back again,
For until thou hast found the Mare,
In grief I shall remain.
Away went Will so willingly,

And all day long he sought;

Till when it grew towards the night,
He in his mind betbought

He would go bome and rest him,
And come again to-morrow,
For if he could not find the Mare,
His heart would break with sorrow.
He went a little farther

And turned his bead aside,

And just by goodman Whitfield's gate
Oh, there the Mare he spied.

He asked her how she did,

She stared him in the face,

Then down she laid her head again-
She was in wretched case.

Note 14, page 92, col. 2.

lead and iron. They built the gates of them forty cubits under ground, and they made the height of the Pyramids one hundred royal cubits, which are fifty of ours in these times; he also made each side of them an hundred royal cubits. The beginning of this building was in a fortunate horoscope. After that he had finished it, he covered it with coloured sattin from the top to the bottom; and he appointed a solemn festival, at which were present all the inhabitants of his kingdom. Then he built in the western Pyramid thirty treasures, filled with store of riches, and utensils, and with signatures made of precious stones, and with instruments of iron, and vessels of earth, and with arms that rust not, and with glass which might be bended and yet not broken, and with several kinds of alakakirs, single and double, and with deadly poisons, and with other things besides. He made also in the east Pyramid divers celestial spheres and stars, and what they severally operate in their aspects, and the perfumes which are to be used What, though unmov'd they bore the deluge weight. to them, and the books which treat of these matters. He Concerning the pyramids, « I shall put down,» says also put in the coloured Pyramid the commentaries of Greaves, that which is confessed by the Arabian writers the Priests in chests of black marble, and with every to be the most probable relation, as is reported by Ibn Priest a book, in which were the wonders of his proAbd Alhokm, whose words out of the Arabic are these: fession, and of his actions, and of his nature, and what 'The greatest part of chronologers agree, that he which was done in his time, and what is, and what shall be, built the pyramids was Saurid Ibn Salhouk, King of from the beginning of time to the end of it. He placed Egypt, who lived three hundred years before the flood. in every Pyramid a treasurer. The treasurer of the The occasion of this was, because he saw, in his sleep, westerly Pyramid was a statue of marble stone, standing that the whole earth was turned over with the inhabit- upright with a lance, and upon his head a serpent, ants of it, the men lying upon their faces, and the stars wreathed. He that came near it, and stood still, the falling down and striking one another, with a terrible serpent bit him of one side, and wreathing round about noise; and being troubled, he concealed it. After this he his throat and killing him, returned to his place. He saw the fixed stars falling to the earth, in the simili- made the treasurer of the east Pyramid, an idol of black tude of white fowl, and they snatched up men, carrying agate, his eyes open and shining, sitting upon a throne them between two great mountains; and these moun- with a lance; when any looked upon him, he heard of tains closed upon them, and the shining stars were one side of him a voice, which took away his sense, so made dark. Awaking with great fear, he assembles the that he fell prostrate upon his face, and ceased not till chief priests of all the provinces of Egypt, an hundred he died. He made the treasurer of the coloured Pyraand thirty priests; the chief of them was called Acli-mid a statue of stone, called Albut, sitting he which mum. Relating the whole matter to them, they took the altitude of the stars, and, making their prognostication, foretold of a deluge. The King said, Will it come to our country? they answered, Yea, and will destroy it. And there remained a certain number of years for to come, and he commanded in the mean space to build the Pyramids, and a vault to be made, into which the river Nilus entering, should run into the countries of the west, and into the land Al-Said. And he filled them with telesmes,' and with strange things, and with riches and treasures, and the like. He engraved in them all things that were told him by wise men, as also all profound sciences, the names of alakakirs, the uses and hurts of them; the science of astrology and of arithmetic, and of geometry, and of physic. All this may be interpreted by him that knows their characters and language. After he i had given order for this building, they cut out vast columns and wonderful stones. They fetcht massy stones from the Ethiopians, and made with these the foundation of the three Pyramids, fastening them together with

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looked towards it was drawn by the statue, till he stuck
to it, and could not be separated from it, till such time
as he died. The Coptites write in their books, that there
is an inscription engraven upon them, the exposition of
which, in Arabic, is this, I KING SAURID built the Py-
ramids in such and such a time, and finished them in
six years: he that comes after me, and says that he is
equal to me, let him destroy them in six hundred years;
and yet it is known, that it is easier to pluck down,
than to build up: I also covered them, when I had
finished them, with sattin; and let him cover them with
matts.' After that ALMAMON the Calif entered Ægypt,
and saw the Pyramids, he desired to know what was
within, and therefore would have them opened. They
told him it could not possibly be done. He replied, I
will have it certainly done. And that hole was opened
for him, which stands open to this day, with fire and
vinegar. Two smiths prepared and sharpened the iron
and engines, which they forced in, and there was a great
expense in the opening of it. The thickness of the walls
was found to be twenty cubits; and when they came to
the end of the wall, behind the place they had digged,
there was an ewer of green emerald. in it were a thou-
sand dinars very weighty, every dinar was an ounce of
our ounces; they wondered at it, but knew not the
meaning of it. Then ALMAMON said, cast up the account
how much hath been spent in making the entrance;

they cast it up, and lo it was the same sum which they of the trees that form the bowers of Paradise: the Gold found; it neither exceeded nor was defective. Within and Silver trees refused their shade to the father of the they found a square well, in the square of it there were human race. God asked them why they did so? because, doors, every door opened into a house (or vault ), in replied the Trees, Adam has transgressed against your which there were dead bodies wrapped up in linen. commandment. Ye have done well, answered the They found towards the top of the Pyramid, a chamber, Creator; and that your fidelity may be rewarded, 't is in which there was a hollow stone: in it was a statue of my decree that men shall hereafter become your slaves, stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was and that in search of you they shall dig into the very a breast-plate of gold set with jewels; upon his breast bowels of the earth.-Chenier. was a sword of invaluable price, and at his head a carbuncle of the bigness of an egg, shining like the light of the day; and upon him were characters written with a pen, no man knows what they signify. After ALMAMON had opened it, men entered into it for many years, and descended by the slippery passage which is in it; and some of them came out safe, and others died.'» -Greaves's Pyramidographia.

Note 15, page 92, col. 2.

The living carbuncle.

The Carbuncle is to be found in most of the subterranean palaces of Romance. I have no where seen so circumstantial an account of its wonderful properties as in a passage of Thuanus, quoted by Stephanius in his Notes to Saxo-Grammaticus.

The black-lead of Borrodale is described as lying in the mine in the form of a tree; it hath a body or root, and veins or branches fly from it in different directions: the root or body is the finest black-lead, and the branches at the extremities the worst the farther they fly. The veins or branches sometimes shoot out to the surface of the ground.—Hutchinson's Hist. of Cum

berland.

They have founde by experience, that the vein of golde is a living tree, and that the same by all waies that it spreadeth and springeth from the roote by the softe pores and passages of the earth, putteth forth branches, even unto the uppermost parts of the earth, and ceaseth not untill it discover itself unto the open aire: at which time it sheweth forthe certaine beautiful colours in the steede of floures, round stones of golden earth in the steede of fruites; and thinne plates insteede of leaves. They say that the roote of the golden tree extendeth to the center of the earth, and there taketh norishment of increase: for the deeper that they dig, they finde the trunkes thereof to be so

«Whilst the King was at Bologna, a stone, wonderful in its species and nature, was brought to him from the East Indies, by a man unknown, who appeared by his manners to be a Barbarian. It sparkled as though all burning with an incredible splendour, flashing radiance, and shooting on every side its beams, it filled the sur-much the greater, as farre as they maye followe it, for rounding air to a great distance, with a light scarcely by abundance of water springing in the mountains. Of any eyes endurable. In this also it was wonderful, that the branches of this tree, they finde some as small as a being most impatient of the earth, if it was confined, it thread, and others as bigge as a man's finger, according would force its way, and immediately fly aloft; neither to the largeness or straightnesse of the riftes and cliftes. could it be contained by any art of man, in a narrow They have sometimes chanced upon whole caves, susplace, but appeared only to love those of ample extent. tained and borne up as it were with golden pillers, and It was of the utmost purity, stained by no soil nor spot. this in the waies by the which the branches ascende: Certain shape it had none, for its figure was inconstant the which being filled with the substance of the trunke and momentarily changing, and though at a distance it creeping from beneath, the branche maketh itself waie was beautiful to the eye, it would not suffer itself to be by whiche it maie pass out. It is oftentimes divided, handled with impunity, but hurt those who obstinately by encountring with some kind of harde stone; yet is it struggled with it, as many persons before many specta-in other cliftes nourished by the exhalations and virtue tors experienced. If by chance any part of it was broken off, for it was not very hard, it became nothing less. — Metals, says Herrera, (5. 3. 15.) are like plants hidThuanus, lib. 8. den in the bowels of the earth, with their trunk and In the Mirror of Stones, Carbuncles are said to be boughs, which are the veins; for it appears in a cermale and female. The females throw out their bright-tain manner, that like plants they go on growing, not ness the stars appear burning within the males.

Like many other jewels, the Carbuncle was supposed to be an animal substance, formed in the serpent. The serpent's ingenious method of preserving it from the song of the charmer, is related in an after-note.-Book 9.

Note 16, page 93, col. 1.

Yet innocent it grew.

Adam, says a Moorish author, after having eaten the forbidden fruit, sought to hide himself under the shade

Since this note was written, I have found in Feyjoo the history of this story. It was invented as a riddle or allegory of fire, by a French physician, called Fernelio by the Spanish author, and published by him in a Dialogue, De abditis rerum causis. From hence it was extracted, and sent as a trick to Mizaldo, another physician, who had written a credulous work, De Arcanis NATUR; and a copy of this letter came into the hands of Thuanus. He discovered the deception too late, for a second edition of his history had been previously published at Frankfort.

of the roote.-Pietro Martire.

because they have any inward life, but because they are produced in the entrails of the earth by the virtue of the sun and of the planets: aud so they go on increasing. And as metals are thus, as it were, plants hidden in the earth; so plants are animals fixed to one place, sustained by the aliment which Nature has provided for them at their birth: And to animals, as they have a more perfect being, a sense and knowledge hath been given, to go about and seek their aliment. So that barren earth is the support of metal, and fertile earth of plants, and plants of animals: the less perfect serving the more perfect.

Death is come up into our windows, and entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.—Jeremiah, ix, 21.

The Trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them? The Grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for all places shall be desolate of men.-2 Esdras, xvi, 25.

For strong is his right hand that bendeth the Bow, his arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.-2 Esdras, xvi, 13.

the doctrine of the Koran), for refusing to pay homage to Adam at the command of God.-Koran, ch. 2,7, 15. God created the body of Adam of Salzal, that is, of dry but unbaked clay; and left it forty nights, or, according to others, forty years, lying without a soul; and the Devil came to it, and kicked it, and it sounded. And God breathed into it a soul with his breath, send ing it in at his eyes; and he himself saw his nose still dead clay, and the soul running through him, till it reached his feet, when he stood upright.-Maracci.

In the Nuremberg Chronicle is a print of the creation of Adam; the body is half made, growing out of a heap of clay under the Creator's hands. A still more absurd print represents Eve half-way out of his side. The fullest Mahommedan Genesis is to be found in Rabadan the Morisco's Poems.

one of them, either first or last, dared to defile the purity of their hands with it. Upon which Azarael, an Angel of an extraordinary stature, flew down, and, from the four corners of the Earth, brought up a handful of it which God had commanded. From the south and the north, from the west and from the east, took he it; of all which four different qualities, human bodies are composed.

The Almighty, perceiving in what manner Azarael had signalized himself in this affair, beyond the rest of the Angels, and taking particular notice of his goodly form and stature, said to him; «O Azarael, it is my pleasure to constitute thee to be Death itself; thou shalt be him who separateth the souls from the bodies of those creatures I am about to make; Thou henceforth shalt be called Azarael Malec el Mout, or Azarael, the Angel of Death.>>

Then God caused the Earth, which Azarael had brought, to be washed and purified in the fountains of Heaven: and El Hassan tells us, that it became so resplendently clear, that it cast a more shining and beautiful light than the Sun in its utmost glory. Gabriel was then commanded to convey this lovely, though as yet inanimate, lump of clay, throughout the Hea vens, the Earth, the Centres, and the Seas; to the intent, and with a positive injunction, that whatsoever had life might behold it, and pay honour and reverence thereunto.

God, designing to make known to his whole choir of Angels, high and low, his scheme concerning the Creation, called the Archangel Gabriel, and delivering to him a pen and paper, commanded him to draw out an instrument of fealty and homage; in which, as God had dictated to his Secretary Gabriel, were specified the pleasures and delights he ordained to his creatures in this world; the term of years he would allot them; and how, and in what exercises, their time in this life was to be employed. This being done, Gabriel said, Lord, what more must I write? The pen resisteth, and refuseth to be guided forwards! God then took the deed, and, before he folded it, signed it with his sacred When the Angels saw all these incomprehensible hand, and affixed thereunto his royal signet, as an in-mysteries, and that so beautiful an image, they said, dication of his incontestable and irrevocable promise « Lord! if it will be pleasing in thy sight, we will, in and covenant. Then Gabriel was commanded to con- thy most high and mighty name, prostrate ourselves vey what he had written throughout the hosts of An- before it: » To which voluntary proposal, God replied; gels; with orders that they all, without exception, I am content you pay adoration to it; and I command should fall down and worship the same: and it was so you so to do when instantly they all bowed, inclining abundantly replenished with glory, that the angelical their shining celestial countenances at his feet; only potentates universally reverenced and paid homage Eblis detained himself, obstinately refusing; proudly thereunto. Gabriel returning, said, O Lord! I have and arrogantly valuing himself upon his Heavenly comobeyed thy commands: what else am I to do? God re-position. To whom God sternly said, « prostrate thyplied, Close up the writing in this crystal; for this is the inviolable covenant of the fealty the mortals I will hereafter create shall pay unto me, and by the which they shall acknowledge me. El Hassan tells us, that no sooner had the blessed Angel closed the said crystal, but so terrible and astonishing a voice issued out thereof, and it cast so unusual and glorious a light, that, with the surprise of so great and unexpected a mystery, the angel remained fixed and immoveable; and although he had a most ardent desire to be let into the secret Arcanas of that wonderful prodigy, yet all his innate courage, and heavenly magnanimity, were not sufficient to furnish him with assurance or power, to make the enquiry.

All being now completed, and put in order, God said to his Angels, « Which of you will descend to the Earth, and bring me up a handful thereof?»> When immediately such infinite numbers of celestial spirits departed, that the universal surface was covered with them; where, consulting among themselves, they unanimously confirmed their loathing and abhorrence to touch it, saying, How dare we be so presumptuous as to expose, before the throne of the Lord, so glorious and sovereign as ours is, a thing so filthy, and of a form and composition so vile and despicable! and, in effect, they all returned, fully determined not to meddle with it. After these went others, and then more; but not

self to Adam.» He made a show of so doing, but remained only upon his knees, and then rose up, before he had performed what God had commanded him. When the Angels beheld his insolence and disobedience, they a second time prostrated themselves, to complete what the haughty and presumptuous Angel had left undone. From hence it is, that in all our prayers, at each inclination of the body, we make two prostrations, one immediately after the other. God being highly incensed against the rebellious Eblis, said unto him,

Why didst thou not reverence this statue which I have made, as the other Angels all have done? >> To which Eblis replied, «I will never lessen or disparage my grandeur so much, as to humble myself to a piece of clay; I who am an immortal Seraphim, of so apparently a greater excellency than that; I, whom thou didst create out of the celestial fire, what an indignity would it be to my splendor, to pay homage to a thing composed of so vile a metal." The irritated Monarch, with a voice of thunder, then pronounced against him this direful anathema and malediction: «Begone, enemy; depart, Rebel, from my abode! Thou no longer shalt continue in my celestial dominions.-Go, thou accursed flaming thunderbolt of fire! My curse pursue thee! My condemnation overtake thee! My torments afflict thee! And my chastisement accompany thee! »-Thus fell this enemy of God and mankind, both he, and all

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