The value of the vessels of gold and silver, the robes and copes of silk and velvet, the chalices, the altar-pieces, and the shrines enriched with jewels, was inestimable.

We are reminded of all this history by the fine altar tomb in the north chapel where lie William Goldwell and Alice his wife (d. 1485).

Only, if a poor working-girl don't want to make it everybody's darn business, she can't run around with the fast rich boys of this town and then get invited to help hem the altar-cloth.

Next Sunday his reverence, after mass, came to the front of the altar-rails, and looking very hard at the supposed culprit, exclaimed, "Who stole Pat Doolan's pig?"

A certain amount of the old furniture remains to the church in the restored screen of the fourteenth century, and the reredos over the communion table and another in the Lady Chapel; here, too, is the old altar stone of Purbeck.

Within the church may be seen the old altar frontal used prior to the Reformation, and the fifteenth-century font.

At the eastern end of the choir is the altar-table, raised above the regular floor by a series of 15 steps.

Sett'st her dear life against thy moonstruck thought, And slay'st thy dove on Folly's altar-steps.

retablo, m., reredos, retable, altarpice, altar-screen.

You see, this good bishop, he dreamed three times that they would sail past those rocks, and he was told to give all the sailors holy wax from an altar-candle to stop their ears, so that they shouldn't hear the music.

If a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; and the terrible dream of Darkness, which at least in the ghastly power of the close, where the survivors meet by the lurid light of a dim altar fire, and die of each other's hideousness, surpasses Campbell's Last Man.

It was like an altar-flame in the darknessthat place where first their lips had met.

they call me 'the Jewess'; the neighbors' boys did so, hooting at me last Sunday as I stood outside the open church door, and looked in where the altar-lights burned and the congregation sang.

Unburied Priam lies By his own hearth, on God's high altar-stair, And Phrygian gold goes forth and raiment rare To the Argive ships; and weary soldiers roam Waiting the wind that blows at last for home, For wives and children, left long years away, Beyond the seed's tenth fullness and decay, To work this land's undoing.

" He commanded them to bring their mantles and make a bed upon the altar-pace.

" They all sat down, in their embroidered caps, on the steps of the high altar railing.

Note (1) altar slab fixed to N. wall of sanctuary, (2) rood-loft stair and turret, (3) three altar-tombs under tower, one (early 15th cent.)

In the sacristy are collected gilt candelabra and other altar-furniture, turned yellow by the fumes of picric acid.

He would go to Rome, stab himself on the altar-hearth in young Caesar's house, and call down the vengeance of heaven upon the traitor.

I strike the scales that arm thee round, And twice and thrice I print the wound; The sacred altar floats with red; And now he dies, and now he's dead.

"Yesterday it was an altar-vase.

This has another fine altar painting of the Crucifixion, thought by some authorities to be by Vandyck.

The interior of the church is spacious, wonderfully clean, and decorated at the high altar end in most tasteful style.

Whatever the subject of the altar-piecewhether the Nativity, or the Enthroned Madonna, or the Coronation, or the Crucifixion, or the Last Supper,the Annunciation almost invariably formed part of the decoration, inserted either into the spandrels of the arches above, or in the predella below; or, which is very common, painted or carved on the doors of a tabernacle or triptychon.

Thus came the cherub with the laughing face That long has lighted up an altar-place.