The author of "_The Blasynge of Armes_,"[7] at the end of Dame Julian Berners's celebrated Treatise on Hawking, Hunting, and Fishing, has informed us that "Tharmes of the Kynge of Fraunce were certaynly sent by an angel from heven, that is to saye, thre floures in manere of swerdes in a feld of azure, the whyche certer armes were given to the forsayd Kynge of Fraunce in sygne of everlastynge trowble, and that he and his successours alway with batayle and swerdes sholde be punysshyd."
[7] This book was printed at St. Albans in the year 1486, and afterwards reprinted by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1496.
Perceiving that you sometimes admit curious and eccentric epitaphs into your very amusing and instructive periodical, if the enclosed is worthy a place, it at least has this merit, if no other, that it is a _literal_ copy, from a tombstone in St. Edmund's churchyard, Sarum:--
_In Memory of 3 Children of Joseph and Arabella Maton, who all died in their Infancy, 1770._
Innocence Embellishes Divinely Compleat To Prescience Coegent Now Sublimely Great In the Benign, Perfecting, Vivifying State.
So Heavenly Guardian Occupy the Skies The Pre-Existent God, Omnipotent Allwise He can Surpassingly Immortalize thy Theme And Permanent thy Soul Celestial Supreme.
When Gracious Refulgence, bids the Grave Resign The Creators Nursing Protection be Thine Thus each Perspiring Æther will Joyfully Rise Transcendantly Good Supereminently Wise.
"Or like a lamb, whose dam away is fet, He treble _baas_ for help, but none can get." SIDNEY.
Its pronunciation is supposed to resemble the bleating of a sheep; upon which account the Egyptians represented the sound of this letter by the figure of that animal. It is also one of those letters which the eastern grammarians call _labial_, because the principal organs employed in its pronunciation are the lips. With the ancients, B as a numeral stood for 300. When a line was drawn above it, it stood for 3,000, and with a kind of accent below it, for 200.
I read your story of the cherry-coloured cat. The clergyman with whom I was educated astonished me when a child, by saying, when at his living at ----, he preached in a cherry-coloured gown and a _rose_-coloured wig (white.)