her past sufferings appearing as nothing to her before even a month of love; and even sorrowful habit having endeared it to her. Tancred, and his knights, and learned clerks, came in a noble ship, every oar having a painted scutcheon over the rowlock: and Gualtier and his lady feasted them nobly, and drank to them amidst music in cups of Hippocras, that knightly liquor afterwards so renowned, which she retained the secret of making from her sage father, whose name it bore. And when King Tancred, with a gentle gravity in the midst of his mirth, expressed a hope that the beautiful lady no longer worshipped Diana, Gualtier said, "No indeed, Sir ;" and she looked in Gualtier's face, as she sat next him, with the sweetest look in the world, as who should say, "No indeed :-I worship thee and thy kind heart*."

SALE OF THE LATE MR. WEST'S PICTURES.

It is a villainous thing to those who have known a man for years, and been intimate with the quiet inside of his house, privileged from intrusion, to see a sale of his goods going on upon the premises. It is often not to be helped, and what he himself wishes and enjoins; but still it is a villainous necessity,-a hard cut to some of one's oldest and tenderest recollections. There is a sale of this kind now going on in the house we spoke of last week. We spoke of it then under an impulse not easy to be restrained, and not difficult to be allowed us; and we speak of it now under another. We were returning the day before yesterday from a house, where we had been entertained with lively accounts of foreign countries and the present features of the time, when we saw the door in Newman-street standing wide open, and disclosing to every passenger a part of the gallery at the end of the hall. All o our boyhood came over us, with the recollection of those who had accompanied us into that house. We hesitated whether we should go in, and see an auction taking place of the old quiet and abstraction; but we do not easily suffer an unpleasant and vulgar association to overcome a greater one; and besides, how could we pass? Having passed the threshold, without the ceremony of the smiling old porter, we found a worthy person sitting at the door of the gallery, who on hearing our name, seemed to have old times come upon him as much as ourselves, and was very warm in his services. We entered the gallery, which we had entered hundreds of times in childhood, by the side of a mother, who used to speak of the great persons and transaction in the pictures on each side of her with a hushing reverence as if they were really present. But the pictures were not

F This story is founded on a tradition still preserved in the Island of Cos, and repeated in old romances and books of travels. See Dunlop's History of Fiction, vol. 2, where he gives an account of Tirante the White.

there-neither Cupid, with his doves, nor Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus, nor the Angel slaying the army of Sennacherib, nor Death on the Pale Horse, nor Jesus healing the Sick, nor the Deluge, nor Moses on the Mount, nor King Richard pardoning his brother John, nor the Installation of the old Knights of the Garter, nor Greek and Italian stories, nor the landscapes of Windsor Forest, nor Sir Philip Sydney, mortally wounded, giving up the water to the dying Soldier. They used to cover the wall; but now there were only a few engravings. The busts and statues also were gone. But there was the graceful little piece of garden as usual, with it's grass plat and it's clumps of lilac. They could not move the grass plat, even to sell it. Turning to the left, there was the privileged study, which we used to enter between the Venus de Medicis and the Apolo of the Vatican. They were gone, like their mythology. Beauty and intellect were no longer waiting on each side of the door. Turning again, we found the longer part of the gallery like the other; and in the vista through another room, the auction was going on. We saw a throng of faces of business with their hats on, and heard the hard-hearted knocks of the hammer, in a room which used to hold the mild and solitary Artist at his work, and which had never been entered but with quiet steps and a face of consideration. We did not stop a minute. In the room between this and the gallery, huddled up in a corner, were the busts and statues which had given us a hundred thoughts. Since the days when we first saw them, we have seen numbers like them, and many of more valuable materials; for though good of their kiud, and of old standing, they are but common plaister. But the thoughts and the recollections belonged to no others; and it appeared sacrilege to see them in that state.

And each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.

Into the parlour, which opens out of the hall and into the garden, we did not look. We scarcely know why; but we did not. In that parlour, we used to hear of our maternal ancestors, stout yet kind-hearted Englishmen, who set up their tents with Penn in the wilderness. And there we learnt to unite the love of freedom with that of the graces of life; for our host, though born a Quaker, and appointed a royal painter, and not so warm in his feelings as those about him, had all the natural amenity belonging to those graces, and never truly lost sight of that love of freedom. There we grew up acquainted with the divine humanities of Raphael. There we remember a large coloured print of the old lion-hunt of Rubens, in which the boldness of the action and the glow of the colouring overcome the horror of the struggle. And there, long before we knew any thing of Ariosto, we were as familiar as young playmates with the beautiful Angelica and Medoro, who helped to fill our life with love.

May a blessing be upon that house, and upon all who know how to value the genius of it.

THE BEE AND THE KISS.

The following is an extract from the Editor's Translation of Tasso's Amyntas, which is now ready to appear. It is Amyntas himself, who is speaking.

One day, Sylvia and Phillis

Were sitting underneath a shady beech,
I with them; when a little ingenious bee,
Gathering his honey in those flowery fields,
Lit on the cheeks of Phillis, cheeks as red
As the red rose; and bit, and bit again
With so much eagerness, that it appeared
The likeness did beguile him. Phillis, at this,
Impatient of the smart, sent up a cry;

"Hush! Hush!" said my sweet Sylvia, "do not grieve;
I have a few words of enchantment, Phillis,

Will ease thee of this little suffering.

The sage Artesia told them me, and had
That little ivory hora of mine in payment,
Fretted with gold." So saying, she applied
To the hurt cheek, the lips of her divine

And most delicious mouth, and with sweet humming
Murmured some verses that I knew not of.

Oh admirable effect! a little while,

And all the pain was gone; either by virtue
Of those enchanted words, or as I thought,
By virtue of those lips of dew,

That heal whate'er they turn them to.
I, who till then had never had a wish
Beyond the sunny sweethess of her eyes,
Or her dear dulcet words, more dulcet far
Than the soft murmur of a humming stream
Crooking its way among the pebble-stones,
Or summer airs that babble in the leaves,
Felt a new wish move in me to apply
This mouth of mine to hers; and so becoming
Crafty and plotting, (as unusual art
With me, but it was love's intelligence)
I did bethink me of a gentle stratagem

To work out my new wit. I made pretence,
As if the bee had bitten my under lip;

And fell to lamentations of such sort,

That the sweet medicine which I dared not ask
With word of mouth, I asked for with my looks.
The simple Sylvia then,

Compassioning my pain,

Offered to give her help

To that pretended wound;

And oh the real and the mortal wound,

Which pierced into my being,

When her lips came on mine.

Never did bee from flower

Suck sugar so divine,

As was the honey that I gathered then

From those twin roses fresh.

I could have bathed in them my burning kisses,

But fear and shame withheld

That too audacious fire,

And made them gently hang.

But while into my bosom's core, the sweetness,
Mixed with a secret poison, did go down,

It pierced me so with pleasure, that still feigning
The pain of the bee's weapon, I contrived

That more than once the enchantment was repeated.
From that time forth, desire

And irrepressible pain grew so within me,
That not being able to contain it more,

I was compelled to speak; and so, one day,
While in a circle a whole set of us,

Shepherds and nymphs, sat playing at the game,
In which they tell in one another's ears
Their secret each, "Sylvia," said I in her's,
"I burn for thee; and if thou help me not,
I feel I cannot live." As I said this,
She dropt her lovely looks, and out of them
There came a sudden and unusual flush,
Portending shame and auger: not an answer
Did she vouchsafe me, but by a dread silence,
Broken at last by threats more terrible.

She parted then, and would not hear ne more,
Nor see me. And now three times the naked reaper
Has clipped the spiky harvest, and as often
The winter shaken down from the fair woods
Their tresses green, since I have tried in vain
Every thing to appease her, except death.
Nothing remains indeed but that I die!

And I shall die with pleasure, being certain,
That it will either please her, or be pitied;
And I scarce know, which of the two to hope for.
Pity perhaps would more remunerate
My faith, more recompence my death; but still
I must not hope for aught that would disturb
The sweet and quiet shining of her eyes,
And trouble that fair bosom, built of bliss.

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THE INDICATOR.

There he arriving round about doth flie,
And takes survey with busie curious eye:
Now this, now that, he tasteth tenderly.
SPENSER.

No. XXXVII.-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21st, 1820.

A RAINY DAY.

THE day that we speak of is a complete one of it's kind, beginning with a dark wet morning and ending in a drenching night. When you come down stairs from your chamber, you find the breakfast-room looking dark, the rain-spout pouring away, and unless you live in a street of traffic, no sound out of doors but a clack of pattens and an occasional clang of milk-pails. (Do you see the rogue of a milkman? He is leaving them open to catch the rain.)

son.

We never see a person going to the window on such a morning, to take a melancholy look out at the washed houses and pavement, but we think of a re-animation which we once beheld of old Tate WilkinBut observe how sour things may run into pleasant tastes at last. We are by no means certain that the said mimetic antique, Tate Wilkinson, was not Patentee of the York Theatre, wore a melancholy hat tied the wrong way, and cast looks of unutterable dissatisfaction at a rainy morning, purely to let his worthy successor and surpasser in mimicry, Mr. Charles Mathews, hand down his aspect and countenance for the benefit of posterity. We once fell into company with that ingenious person at a bachelor's house, where he woke us in the morning with the suspicious sound of a child crying in another room. It was having it's face washed; and had we been of a scandalizing turn, or envied our host for his hospitality, we should certainly have gone and said that there was a child in his house who inherited a sor rowful disposition from somebody, and who might be heard (for all the nurse's efforts of a morning) whining and blubbering in the intervals of the wash-towel ;-now bursting into open-mouthed complaint as it left him to dip in the water; and anon, as it came over his face again, screwing up it's snubbed features and eyes, and making half. stifled obstinate moan with his tight mouth. The mystery was explained at breakfast; and as it happened to be a rainy morning, we were entertained with the re-animation of that "living dead man" poor Tate aforesaid,-who had been a merry fellow too in his day. Imagine a tall thin withered desponding-looking old gentleman, entering his breakfast-room with an old hat on tied under his chin the wrong way of the flap,-a beaver somewhat of the epicene order, so you do not know whether it is his wife's or his own. He hobbles and shrinks up to the window, grunting gently with a sort of preparatory despair; and having cast up his eyes at the air, and seen the weathercock due east and the rain set in besides, drops the corners of his mouth and eyes into an expression of double despondency, not uns

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