It is needless to say that the Reformers, Bishop Horne of Winchester it is said, the accursed miscreant who ordered the destruction of all crucifixes in his diocese, defaced this glorious work of art and religion, cutting the relief away to the face of the wall so that only the outline remains.

Horne in speaking of the law, "Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God," remarks, "this law Lev.

30.: "Lobsters, so long as they are secure of any fear and danger, go directly straight, letting down their hornes at length along their sides; ... but if they be in any fear, up go their hornes straightand then they creep byas and go sidelong.

a Hee Christian told me that amongst them the young fellowes are such Earing rioted Rascals that they will runne into the parke of Matrimony at sixteene; are Bucks of the first head at eighteenes and by twenty carry in some places their hornes on their backs.

"You Enthrall Powers which the wide Fortunes doon Of Empyre-crown'd seaven-Mountaine-seated Rome, Full blowne Inspire me with Machlaean rage That I may bellow out Romes Prentisage; As when the Menades do fill their Drums And crooked hornes with Mimalonean hummes And Evion do Ingeminate around, Which reparable Eccho doth resound.