366 LANCELOT DU LAC-PERCIVAL. cloath, to be measured according to the King's | had left it in his drawing,; a thing, said the standard."-SIR JAMES WAre. [The Painter and the Virgin.] "CONCERNING Images which the heretics contemn, I will tell a story, which a traveller from the land in which it happened related to me, which appears to me most worthy to be known by the devotees of the virgin of stranger, which is worthy of admiration, and which being considered, moves one to tears, and makes one imagine piously a thought for the greater glory of the Virgin, which in having left holding her Son to hold a sinner who, perhaps, if he had fallen, would have been damned."-QUÆRE? the Castle.] "WHEN the Damsel saw the Seneschal before her, who was the man in the world whom she hated the most, her heart was inflamed and her countenance kindled, and she made answer to him haughtily like an angry woman, Certes, Seneschal, since I have known myself I never saw thing whereof I was more joyful than I am to have thee in my power, for well do I now mean to take vengeance for being exiled and disinherited by means of thee. Thereupon she made his hands and feet be tied, and those of his companion also, and her men knew not yet what she would do with them. And she commanded that the petrary (la perriere) should be placed right against the tent of her uncle, for I chuse (said she) that he should know in what manner I will teach his knights to fly. As soon as the Damsel had thus commanded them they who were within did accordingly; for they put the two knights in the petrary and sent them on high over the walls of the castle."-LANCELOT DU LAC, p. 2, ff. 23. any that I have ever heard or read of. He [Knights set in the Petrary, and hoisted over told me that in the chapel of a church a famous painter was painting a picture of the Virgin, and having painted the face, the shoulders, and one arm, he was sketching the hand with which she held the most precious Child, when the scaffold upon which he stood, and on which he had his colours, got loose from the timbers which supported it by means of two holes in the wall. The frightened painter, seeing it give way, and that he should be precipitated to the ground, which was so deep that he would have been dashed to pieces, cried out to the most holy image which he was painting, Virgin hold me! O astonishing miracle, scarce had the trembling tongue pronounced these words when the compassionate lady put forth the painted arm from the wall and caught the painter by his and held him firm. The scaffold came to the ground with the colours which were in large pots, and there being fire also to keep them melting, because the picture was in distemper, made so great a noise that the people of the church thought at least that the roof of the chapel had fallen from its foundation and come to the ground; but perceiving what it was, and having come out to see if there was any remedy for the soul of the painter, for of his body they thought nothing, they lifted up their eyes and saw the Virgin, although not finished, with one arm out of the wall holding the man. They all cried out Misericordia! and praised our peerless intercessor, they put ladders, and having brought him to the ground, the arm withdrew and returned to the wall as the painter [The Preux Chevaliers and the Knights Mamelot.] THE Romance of PERCIVAL mentions a distinction in Arthur's court between the Preux Chevalliers, and those who, not having yet entitled themselves to that distinction were called Knights Mamelot. "Avant en la salle se sevient les chevalliers qui alors furent chevalliers Mamelot JACQUELINE - PERCIVAL. nommez; et estoit ceste coustume establye, que au jour que le Roy court tenoit ja nul a table ne se seoit; mais sur chappes et sur manteaulx mengeoient sans nappes, ne sans aulchun linge; et pour ceste cause on congnoissoit lequel fust le meilleur ou le pire. Celluy qui chevallier Mamelot estoit, fust qui son seigneur rescoux navoit en aulchun lieu de mort, ou de prison; ou quil navoit son corps en adventure mis, tant quil eust en armes conquis chevallier que fust renomme en forest, en que, ou en plainne, ou eust une pucelle recousse, chambriere, dame ou damoiselle, ou de honte delivrée dont elle fust blasmée a tort, devant la majeste du roy Arthus; ou eust en luy tant de vertu quil eust telle prouesse faict par laquelle il deust estre mis au nombre des preux Chevalliers qui en la Court devant le Roy estoient assis, et mis en prys et renommee."-ff. 166. 367 Begllirick, one of the captains, was s reserved to be at the Countess's discretion who, notwithstanding, had leave given him to go and visit his friends, having past his word and oath to return to prison within a month, the which having performed according to his promise, he was in the night buried alive under one of the platforms of the castle."-History of the Netherlands, p. 137. [The Damoselle and Alardin du Lac.] A DAMSEL who falls in love with Alardin du Lac at first sight, seeing him from a window tells him of a tournament which is about to be held. "Alardin fust lors fort joyeulx quant par la pucelle entend que si vaillans et preux se deuvent a la jouste trouver, et de la joye quil en eust faisoit son cheval pour saillir si hault quil sembloit qui vollast: ce que tant pleust a la pucelle que le cueur au ventre luy dance; tant est ja la pucelle de lamour du chevallier esprinse quelle ne sçait tenir maniere, tantost paslist, tantost tressue, et souvent luy mue la coulleur, regardant le beau chevallier auquel elle a donne son cueur et octroye par bonne amour; et pour secretement faire ceste chose asscavoir a Alardin pas singe, luy donna la manche de sa cotte que nous appellons mancherons, de quoy il feist ung confanon ou banerolle a sa lance."-PERCIVAL, ff. 83. SCOTT-DR. SAYERS- LIGHTFOOT — FULLER-DR. WHITAKER. 369 "THERE is a book by ANDRES ANTONIO SANCKEZ, entitled Exclamacion a los heroicos hechos del Eremita del Ayre S. Simeon." -Sevilla. 1680. "HE," says ARISTOTLE, "that cannot contract society with others, or through his own self-sufficiency, does not need it, belongs not to any commonwealth, but is either a wild beast or a god." “Ο δὲ μὴ δυνάμενος κοινωνεῖν, ἢ μηδὲν de δεόμενος δι' ἀυτάρκειαν, οὐδὲν μέρος πόλεως, ὥστε ἢ θηρίον ἢ Θεος.” — SCOTT's Christian Life, p. 53. Britain. "CAPGRAVE, (Vit. S. Alban, ff. 8. 6.) and HOSPINIAN (De Origine Monochatus, 1. 4. c. 3,) attribute the introduction of Monachism into Britain to Pelagius the Heresiarch."-DR. SAYERS, vol. 2, p. 217. The Essenes and Pharisees. WHEN Josephus belonged to this sect, "understanding that there was one Banus, a hermit, who used no clothes but what were made of trees, and that ate nothing but what grew of itself, and that for chastity's sake, washed himself often, day and night, in cold water, I was very zealous, (he says,) to become an imitator of him, and I spent three years with him.”—This he says in his own Life. "WE might begin the history of the Essenes from Judges i. 16. And the sons of the Kenite, Moses's father-in-law, went out of the city of palms, with the sons of Judah, into the deserts of Judah.' From these, we suppose, came the Rechabites, and from their stock or example, the Essenes."LIGHTFOOT, Vol. 10, p. 17. เ "FULLER Says of the Pharisees, quoting EPIPHANIUS adv. Hæreses, (lib. 1, p. 20,) They wore coarse clothing, pretending much mortification, and örɛ nokov, when they exercised (that is, when these mountebanks theatrically acted their humiliation,) ακάνθας στρωμνὴν εἶχον, they had thorns for their bed to lay upon; and some of them wore a mortar on their heads, so ponderous, that they could look neither upward, nor on either side, but only downward, and forthright.” — Pisgah Sight, p. 107. 2nd paging. Benedictines. ACCORDING to DR. WHITAKER, (Hist. of Craven, 40 N.) twelve monks and an abbot were the legitimate number which constituted an early Benedictine House,-in reference to Christ and his apostles. He quotes Instituta Mon. Cist. DUGDALE, Vol. 1, p. 699. "Et sicut (Benedictus) Monasteria constructa per 12 monachos, adjuncto patre disponebat, sic se acturos confirmabant." "ONE novice at least seems to have been maintained by every religious house at one of the Universities."-Ibid. p. 52. "Ir was a practice of which I could produce many instances, from the Liber loci Benedicti, to send refractory monks to undergo a temporary discipline in some neighbouring monastery."—Ibid. “ THE Sartrina, in the religious houses, was the tailor's office. Vestiarius sartrinum habere debet extra officinas claustri interiores.' Lib. Ord. ST. VICTOR, Paris, as quoted by DU CANGE. But how the canons of Bolton should make a profit of this, amounting to sixteen pounds, unless their taylors wrought for all the country around them, or even then, I do not understand."Ibid. p. 385. BB 370 SENOR ALARCON - BAYLE-CRADOCK - DOBRIZHOFFER. ST. BERNARD's epistle to a nephew, who, from the Cistercian past to the Cluniac order. It is placed first among his Epistles, having been honoured by a miracle.-Ibid. p. 1380. COMPLAINT of the Abbot of Monte Cassino to Gonsalvo de Cordoba, that his abbey was deprived of the benefit of the reform, because it was held in Encomienda by cardinals.-Mem. del Señor Alarcon, p. 141. INTERLINEAR Saxon Versions of the Rules of S. Fulgentius, and of Benedict, are among the Cotton MSS.-Tiberius, A. 111, 43-44. BENEDICT is said to have been descended from Anicius, the first great Roman who was converted. Attempts have been made to show that the House of Austria are of the same extraction.-BAYLE, sub voce. "FROM all that I had heard from the monks of the Abbaye St. Victor, Father F. at Marseilles, (the superior at Thoulouse,) and some Benedictines in the neighbourhood, I began to get a clear insight into the secrets of the rich churchmen; but my ideas became greatly altered. I found they had little or no comfort; that the getting out of a warm bed at stated times, and going into cold chapels, had given most of them fixed rheumatism; that they had no benefit from wealth, and had much trouble in collecting it; that their members, when they were rich, were daily reducing, and that one year one convent had privately furnished a very large sum to the government, and said they wished it would take all, except a humble pittance."-CRADOCK's Travels, p. 300. wwwwww Franciscans. THE finest works of Cimabue are his decayed frescos in the church of S. Francis at Assissi. They are said, "notwithstanding the rudeness of their execution," to astonish the beholder, by their grand and simple style. "LUSITANI nautæ diem Divo Francisco Assisiati sacrum magnopere reformidant, quod ejus fune flagellari mare tunc, irritarique credunt. Hanc opinionem a majoribus suis acceptam, quamvis nobis ridicula luculenterque superstitiosa videatur, experientiâ tuentur suâ."-DOBRIZHOFFER, tom. 1, p. 378. "Les plus erudits de nos etymologistes pretendent qu'il faut chercher la source de l'ancienne locution faire la scote, dans l'usage adopté par les Capucins, qui, ne portant point de linge, passent leurs vétemens sur la flamme d'un feu clair, afin d'en chasser la mauvaise odeur dont la sueur du corps a pu les impregner. Cette origine paroit d'autant plus plausible, que l'Italie, comme on le sait, a été le berceau des Capucins, et que la locution, dont il s'agit, vient de cette contrée."-Mem. Historiques, tom. 36, p. 450, N. "If some laws are published with severe clauses of command, and others on purpose and by design with lesser and the more gentle, then the case is evident, that there is a difference to be made also by the conscience. And this is in particular made use of by the Franciscans in the observation of the Rule of their order. For in Clementina. Exivi de Paradiso, sect. Cum autem, de Verborum significatione,' it is determined that that part of the Rule of St. Francis which is established by preceptive or prohibitive words, shall oblige the Friars Minors under a great sin; the rest not, and this wholly upon the account of the different clauses of sanction and establishment."J. TAYLOR, Vol. 13, p. 247. |