_"Guardian Angels now protect me," &c._--I remember John Wesley, and also his saying the "Devil should not have the best tunes." There was a pretty love-song, a great favourite when I was a boy:
"Guardian angels, now protect me, Send to me the youth I love."
the music of which Wesley introduced to his congregation as a hymn tune. The music I have, and I shall be glad if any of your correspondents { 444} can oblige me with the first verse of this love-song; I only recollect the above lines.
[The following is the song referred to by our correspondent:
"Guardian angels, now protect me, Send to me the swain I love; Cupid, with thy bow direct me; Help me, all ye pow'rs above. Bear him my sighs, ye gentle breezes, Tell him I love and I despair, Tell him for him I grieve, say 'tis for him I live; O may the shepherd be sincere!
"Through the shady grove I'll wander, Silent as the bird of night, Near the brink of yonder fountain, First Leander bless'd my sight. Witness ye groves and falls of water, Echos repeat the vows he swore: Can he forget me? will he neglect me? Shall I never see him more?
"Does he love, and yet forsake me, To admire a nymph more fair? If 'tis so, I'll wear the willow, And esteem the happy pair. Some lonely cave I'll make my dwelling, Ne'er more the cares of life pursue; The lark and Philomel only shall hear me tell, What bids me bid the world adieu."]
_K. C. B.'s._--I observe that in the _London Gazette_ of January 2, 1815, which regulates the existing order of the Bath, it is commanded by the sovereign that "there shall be affixed in the church of St. Peter at Westminster escutcheons and banners of the arms of each K. C. B." Has this command been regularly fulfilled on the creation of each K. C. B.? I believe that on each creation fees are demanded by the Heralds' College, for the professed purpose of exemplifying the knight's arms, and affixing his escutcheon; but I never remember to have seen the escutcheons in Westminster Abbey.
[The order _never_ was fulfilled. If the knights were entitled to armorial bearings, no fees whatever were demanded by or paid to the Heralds' College. The statutes of 1815 were, however, abrogated and annulled by the statutes of 1847, and the banners are not required to be suspended in the Abbey. The erection of the banners and plates, however, rested with the officers of the order, and the Heralds' College had nothing to do with the matter.]