She, for the own'd a keen and fearching wit,
Right well the fecret of the ailment hit,
And, in an hour when all the rest were gone,
With friendly guife and fympathifing tone
She question'd him, as one who fought to trace
The state, first caufe, and progrefs of his cafe.
The lucklefs leech, who thought himself too blefs'd
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pour his griefs into his lady's breast,

All bafhful turns and windings laid afide,
Own'd frankly 'twas for love of her he died.

'Twas this the fought :-foft pity, as it feem'd,
Infpir'd her foul for wight fo well esteem'd;
And thus the fpoke:

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Deep blot of blame from all,
And heavier felf-reproach, on me muft fall,
Should I, poffeffing power, refufe to fave,
And quench fuch matchlefs merit in the grave:
Yet, were my love to you like yours to me,
(Ask your own heart, and tell that heart's decree,)
What mortal means remain such love to show,
Known as I am, and eyed where-e'er I go?
Let then this word thy kind acceptance meet:
Reft fatisfied awhile with my regret ;
Reft fatisfied thy welfare fills my mind;
And fhould thy luckier genius after find
Apt means of intercourfe, fucceed or fall,
I here anticipate and fanction all !"

Ceas'd the fair Gaul, then hafted to depart,
All blushing to have thus difclos'd her heart.
But, for the fage Hippocrates, her strain

Shot hope, health, luftihood, through every vein:
Soon to the palace, blithe of cheer, he hied,

Soon buzz'd about his Gaulith fair-one's fide.

"Well!" quoth the dame, the first fit time fhe found, How profper we? our budding hopes are crown'd?”Ah me!" with doleful tone the leech replied, "Or night or day I've known no thought befide, Yet, to his hour, it grieves me to confefs, Device has fail'd, I cannot boaft fuccefs." "Then lift to me, and thank me as you hear," Return'd the dame with well pretended cheer; "I too have pain'd me, and forfworn my rest, If not more eager in my fearch, more bless'd. Thou know'ft right well my manfion and my tower; Beneath thofe walls at midnight's loneliest hour Wait thou befure; for furtherance of the plan

Bear a large basket, fit to hold a man:

Then, while my maids are hufh'd in fleep profound,

One lafs, my coufin, to my interefts bound,

Shall with my aid a well-wrought cord let down;
Make thou the pannier faft, and love's our own.
By our joint, toil we'll hale thee up on high:
There joy fhall reign in dreadless privacy."

So counfell'd the fair Gaul, and amorous rage
To fuch a blindnefs wrought the infenfate fage,
That the coarfe fnare begat no jot of doubt,
But feem'd a mafter-piece of skill throughout.
Brief leave he took, with thankfulness o'ercome,
Then for a spacious basket ranfack'd Rome;
And, fwoln with hope, and wild with ftrange delight,
Stay'd reftlessly the lingering fhades of night,

Night came at laft; mankind in fleep lay dead;
Forth with his load in breathlefs hafte he sped,
And fpied-O judge his joy that blifsful hour!
The long cord pendent from the lofty tower.
To the firm basket, with inceffant toil
Of many a rugged knot and many a coil,
Its end he bound; then in the graybeard went,
And gave the appointed fignal for afcent.
Straight rofe the load, updrawn by female might,
Till, juft as it had reach'd its midway height,
To a ftrong hook the dame made fast the cord,
And ftay'd 'twixt earth and fky her penfile lord;
And "O fweet dumbers on thy eyelids reft!
Sweet fleep," he cried, "with joyous visions bless'd!
May Love's light dreams around thy temples play!"
So fpake the laughing dame, and tripp'd away.
Now wot ye all, what learned writers tell,
How, when in Rome this strange event befell,
A fpecial cuftom reign'd, that mark'd the times,
Ordain'd the punishment for pettier crimes:
'Twas that the convict, pendent from a tower
Aloft in air, from morn till evening hour,
Should in a basket expiate his offence;
'Twas nam'd the Basket of the Judges hence,

Grim with defpair, Hippocrates look'd down,
Enfnar'd 'twas plain, the jeft of all the town;
In countless mutterings fpat forth fpleen and gall,
And execrated love and ladies all.

But, bootlefs ire! and wifdom now too late!
The remnant hours of night he needs must wait;
Needs must he view the hateful blaze of morn,
And, helpiefs all, hang there the general fcorn.
In vain, when light his lucklefs hap reveal'd,
His twain uplifted hands his face conceal'd;
The penal fign attracts each paffer by,

And none but knew him as they drew more nigh

There through the livelong day the rabble rout
With ceaseless mockery throng'd and boisterous fhout.
The warders of the tower, who kenn'd his plight,
But ween'd the emperor had fo doom'd the wight,
Befted him nought: and now the weftering fun
Well nigh the circuit of his course had run,
When fome blefs'd chance led onward to the place
The emperor, that time hafting from the chace;
Upward his eye he caft, and wondering faw
A wretch fufpended, uncondemn'd by law:
"Who were the wight?-the medicinal fire!"—
Loud menaces of vengeance spoke his ire:
But, when he learnt the wherefore and the why
That rais'd this graybeard mocking-ftock fo high,
He laugh'd full loud: the tale became the sport
Of him and every baron of his court.'

P. 63.

It appears that in addition to the thirteen fabliaux, the titles of which we have recited above, Mr. Way intended to have inferted in the prefent volume at leaft five more. Of these Mr. Ellis has given analyfes, and has alfo exhibited his friend's tranflation, which had not received his laft corrections. The Lay of the Gray Palfrey Mr. Way left not more than half completed; but the deficiency is well fupplied by the skill of bis editor, whofe vertion poffeffes uncommon merit. This volume is also enriched with translations of fome fmall lays and fongs contained in the first volume of Corps d'Extraits de Romans de Chevalerie, par M. Le Comte de Treffan;' and for the purpose of exhibiting a fpecimen of the poetical style, which prevailed in England at the time when many of the French fabliaux were compofed, Mr. Ellis has fubjoined the Lay of Launfal, tranflated from Mlle. Marie's French original, by Thomas Cheftre, who flourished in the reign of Henry VI.

Elements of Chemistry. By Jofeph Francis Jacquin, Profeffor of Chemiftry and Botany at Vienna, &c. 8vo. 75. 6d. Boards. Murray and Highley.

THE remark we have fo often had occafion to make, refpecting the difficulty of giving a complete view of a rapidly improving fcience, applies with particular force to the work before us. It is a tranflation from another language, published in à diftant country, and from caufes, which it would be ufelefs to explain, has been unexpectedly delayed in our hands. To fay, therefore, it is incomplete, can be no imputation to the author; and to add that the tranflator has not fupplied every deficiency, will be no reflexion on his diligence or accu

racy. It is more to the purpose to obferve, that the clearnefs and fimplicity of the introductory remarks, the comprehenfive views of an intricate fubject, and the judicious felection of the leading facts on each part, render thefe Elements one of the moft valuable introductions to chemistry that we have yet feen. They comprehend the most striking and ufeful properties of each fubftance, and fhow, in the clearest manner, the different actions of substances both in decompofition and reformation of new compounds. It would be hypercritical to notice a few errors quos incuria fudit;' and it would be unjust to expect an account of discoveries made fubfequent to the publication. The date of the original is not indeed mentioned, but we trace it nearly to the beginning of the year 1798. Yet, perhaps, at this æra the nature of æther had been more fully investigated, and the properties of hydro-carbonat gaz better known than it appears to have been to our author. Some other discoveries had been also made previous to that time. The translator, who has added in the notes a few of the new facts, has not been always fortunate in his felection. The nature of the adamantine fpar was known at the period of the English verfion; and various other information might have been fubjoined to M. Jacquin's work, and fome elucidations appended. Some, indeed, are fuggested; but of these, as many have been refuted as have been confirmed by fubfequent experience. This, however, is no great fault. Several of thefe doubtful affertions for a time claimed much attention, particularly Girtanner's pretended difcovery of the radical of the muriatic acid, which many confided in, even of thofe who were well aware of that author's rapid glances and hafty conclufions. In another edition all these defects may be fupplied, and thefe errors erafed; and the real merit of the work will probably foon make another impreffion peceffary.

We have said that this is one of the clearest and most judicious introductions to chemistry that we have feen; but as pretending to no new difcoveries, and claiming only the merit of a clear explanation of a science already known, it requires not from us a full analyfis. It is fufficient to give a fhort account of the author's plan, and a specimen of his manner.

The introduction relates to the reputed chemical elements, to chemical folutions and affinities; the matters of heat and light, to the atmosphere and water. The fubjects of chemistry are confidered as belonging to the mineral, the vegetable, or the animal kingdom; but in this way the moit homogeneous fubjects are feparated; the acids and their neutrals are difperfed in different parts of the work; nor is it eafy, without the index, to find where the properties of many fubftances are explained. Thus the nitrous and muriatic acid are noticed among the falts, the fulphuric among the inflammables; the

malic, citric, &c. in the chapter belonging to the vegetable kingdom, the phofphoric, bombic, &c. with the animal fubftances. The index, however, which is full and complete, will remedy much of the inconvenience refulting from fuch an arrangement; and to the ftudent in his early career this will be no great impediment, as the general properties of acids are premifed.

The chemical defcription of the vegetable kingdom is rendered more interesting by fome very valuable pharmaceutical remarks; but on the subject of aroma, and of the peculiar nature of the cruciform plants, many curious obfervations had been published, at least before the English verfion of this work, the infertion of which would have rendered it more complete. When, however, we recommend additional notes in the fecond edition, we could wifh that the fubjects were explained with the fame precifion, the fame perfpicuity, which fo eminently diftinguish M. Jacquin's own work, and, in the mean time, the ftudent will not be at any lofs if he read, together with the prefent fyftem, Mr. Parkinfon's very excellent publication, The Chemical Pocket-Book.'

The different animal productions are very clearly explained, though fomewhat might be added from the late experiments of Vauquelin. Perhaps we can offer no better fpecimen of our author's perfpicuity than the following entire fection. General confideration of the proximate and remote principles of

animal bodies.

It is obvious, from the analyses of the animal parts on which we have treated, that the following fubftances may be confidered as the principal components of animal bodies: 1. Water; 2. jelly; 3. albuminous matter or lymph; 4. faccharine matter; 5. fat; 6. refin; 7. the fibrous part of blood or mufcles; 8. falts; and 9. calcareous earth. '

Animal bodies are, therefore, much more compound than vegetables. Both have fome parts in common, as water, faccharine matter, and lime. Other parts, on the contrary, are peculiar to each; thus plants contain volatile oils and fome effential falts, whilst animals contain albumen, which, in vegetables, is met with in small quantity only. Finally, although fome of the conftituent parts of animals and vegetables refemble each other in fome degree, yet they appear under circumftances by which they may be easily diftinguished from one another.

Such conftituent parts are animal jelly, which, though it agrees in many of its properties with vegetable mucilage and gum, is yet fufficiently diftinguished from thefe bodies on account of the difficulty with which it dries; the property of attracting humidity from the atmosphere; its change to a tremulous mafs, and its greater tendency to putrefaction. Thus alfo the fibrous part of muscles pof