. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. in Belgia confind ?Or why did you so much regard the wind ?Scarce could the ocean (tho enragd) have tostThy sovreign bark, but where th obsequious coastPays tribute to thy bed : Romes conquering handIMore vanquishd nations under her commandNever rediicd : glad Berecynthia, soAmong her deathless progeny did go ;A Avreath of towrs adornd her revrend head,Mother of all that on Ambrosia godlike race mus
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. in Belgia confind ?Or why did you so much regard the wind ?Scarce could the ocean (tho enragd) have tostThy sovreign bark, but where th obsequious coastPays tribute to thy bed : Romes conquering handIMore vanquishd nations under her commandNever rediicd : glad Berecynthia, soAmong her deathless progeny did go ;A Avreath of towrs adornd her revrend head,Mother of all that on Ambrosia godlike race must sway the age to comeAs she Ol3anpus, peopled with her womb. Would those commanders of mankind obeyTheir honourd parent, all pretences layDown at her royal feet, compose their on the growing Turk discharge these Avars:Jhe Christian knights that sacred tomb should AvrestFrom Pagan hands, and triumph oer tlie East;Our Englands Prince and Gallias Dauphin vouna; Rinaldo and Tancredo, fightIn single combat; by their swords againThe proud Argantes and fierce Soldan slain,Again Ave might with valiant deeds recite,And Avith your Thuscan Muse exalt the fight. DESCRIPTION. 549 DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND, IN THE 17th century : BY JOREVIN. The Descriptions of England, by Messieurs Perlin and De la Scrre,which form the preceding article, shew the opinion foroi<rnersentertained of this country in the reigns of Edward VI. andQueen Mary, as well as some of the prevailing manners andcustoms of those times. The Reader, it is more than probable,will be glad to sec the observations of other travellers on the samesubjects at a later period. Under this supposition, a translationis here presented of the travels of Monsieur Joreviu de Rochcford :at least, that part which treats of England and Ireland. Thisbook was printed at Paris in 1672, in three volumes duodecimo,and is now extremely rare. Monsieur Jorevin, though far from a writer of the first rank, appearsto have b
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