This is the reason why he wore a mitre on his head, and was dressed in a robe, a tunic, and an ephod, like Aaron; and why the bride had a crown on her head, and wore a mantle like a queen; but to-morrow they will be dressed differently, because this representation lasts no longer than to-day."

Their impious march to God's high altar bend, With feet impure the sacred steps ascend; With wine unbless'd the holy chalice stain, Assume the mitre, and the cope profane; 35 To heaven their eyes in mock devotion throw, And to the cross with horrid mummery bow; Adjure by mimic rites the powers above, And plite alternate their Satanic love.

But for his suspected Jacobitism, he would probably have received the mitre.

They might as well have tried to exorcise my mitre from my head by any other charm than the offer of a better one.

All are there, two-and-twofrom the youngest deacon to the oldest canonin his robe of purple silk edged with goldwearing a white mitre.

From Tyre, Alexander marched to Jerusalem, fully determined to punish that city for having refused to supply his army with provisions during the siege; but his resentment was mollified by a deputation of the citizens coming out to meet him, with their high priest, Taddua, before them, dressed in white, and having a mitre on his head, on the front of which the name of God was written.

The feeling of paternity is so deeply rooted in me that I would sooner lose my mitre than abandon my children.

Thou preferrest the mitre to the laurel chaplet, and the hymns of Gregory to the epics of Homer?" "O Phoebus," replied Nonnus, "were it any God but thou, I should bend before him in silence, having nought to reply.

The consecrating prelate, putting down his mitre, then knelt at the feet of the monarch and took the oath of allegiance, his example being followed by the other peers and their vassals who were in attendance.

Many among the multitude announced her as the famous Kitty Cut-dash, and nodded knowingly as she passed them; but the greater number detected in the beautiful charioteer, the equally famous Albina Countess Knocklofty, the female chief of that great oligarchical family, the Proudfortsa family on which the church rained mitres, the state coronets, and the peoplecurses.

M. is said to bear his mitre high in India, where the regni novitas (I dare say) sufficiently justifies the bearing.

His body lies just without the east window and the grave is thus described by Lord Houghton: A basket-work where bars are bent, Iron in place of osier; And shapes above that represent A mitre and a crosier.

His head-attire was high, and adorned with hanging ribbons, the sides were open, and it rather resembled a bishop's mitre.

And the old Luna, leaping from ancestor to ancestor through the long centuries, remembered the Archduke Alberto, who resigned the Toledan mitre to become Governor of the Low Countries, and the magnificent Cardinal Tavera, protector of the arts, all excellent princes, who had treated his family affectionately, recognising their secular adhesion to the Holy Metropolitan Church.

I have read of the pranks Of that mad archer, and of the tax he levied On travellers, whatever their degree, Baron, or knight, whoever pass'd these woods, Layman, or priest, not sparing the bishop's mitre For spiritual regards; nay, once, 'tis said, He robb'd the king himself.

A set of episcopal robes depended from a hook, and on a side table stood half-a-dozen mitres, which, to all appearance, the designated prelate had been trying on.

My two friends also were in their way types,the cowled Franciscan, aloof in a mediaeval seclusion though he breathed nineteenth-century air, and the dancer whom I encountered in the vale, above which the Watzmann upholds forever its solemn mitre.

" "Now," said the Bishop, "I would wager my mitre and ring that his life was prolonged by the daily ministrations of yonder fowl that he caresses with such singular affection?"

One morning his skeleton there was seen, By a load of flesh the lighter; They had picked his bones uncommonly clean, And eaten his very mitre!