. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1812.—Quintain. (From Pluvenal.). 1811.—Palm Sunday Processkn of the Wooden Ass 1813.—Tilting. (From Pluvenal.) No. G5.—Vol. II 129 130 OLD ENGLAND. Book V. that should in some modified form be extended towards them : it isin such a spirit they study Nature, and the Creator of Nature, andbecome worthy of their calling; it is in such spirit we shouldstudy them, with the certainty of raising ourselves in the scale ofintellectual and moral being as our reward for so doing. It is no new but
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1812.—Quintain. (From Pluvenal.). 1811.—Palm Sunday Processkn of the Wooden Ass 1813.—Tilting. (From Pluvenal.) No. G5.—Vol. II 129 130 OLD ENGLAND. Book V. that should in some modified form be extended towards them : it isin such a spirit they study Nature, and the Creator of Nature, andbecome worthy of their calling; it is in such spirit we shouldstudy them, with the certainty of raising ourselves in the scale ofintellectual and moral being as our reward for so doing. It is no new but always a pertinent remark, that when above allsuch men as those who make illustrious the latter part of the six-teenth century, one is seen to rise, towering far above his fellows,we have at once the best general illustration of the stupendousintellectual altitude of William Shakspere. Looking then uponhis presence in the sixteenth century as the most distinguishingcharacteristic of it, let us, by the aid of the very complete seriesof engravings given in our work, follow his steps with as muchaccuracy as the known facts or receiv
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