p. 107. of Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities, and in Vol. 1. pp. 11, 12. of the 2nd day of his Decameron, contained upon the margins thereof certain written rhymes, in an ancient hand, of a strange and mysterious nature: to wit, "the Little Credo," "the White "Paternoster," and the following curious Spell. PETERS Brother where lyest all night? What hast in thy honde? heauen keyes. What hast in thy tother? Broade booke leaues. Open heauen gates, Shutt hell yeates. Euerie childe creepe christ ouer White Benedictus be in this howse Euerye night. Within & without. This howse rounde about St. Peter att the one doore St. Paule att the other St. Michael in the middle Fyer in the flatt Chancell-op shatt Euerie naugers bore Amen, Dick Delver, THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHER: A SUFFOLK BALLAD FROM REAL LIFE. BY THE REV. JOHN BLACK. Though divines of contentment may preach, In his lowly condition content; In youth he no play-things did lack; For idleness, wise men remark, When Dick for the loss could atone? But what mortal can always be blest? Dick Delver no widow had wed, Her husband, tho' down, was not slain; Like a hero he valiantly bled, And return'd his own deary to claim. Dick Delver the charmer resign'd, Whom no longer he dar'd to retain, To London Dick Delver now hied, The lady of blacking complied, And united they quickly became. A A Dick Delver and spousy left town To his settlement off they were sent ; The soul of Dick Delver's dear spouse, Than crones on the prickly whin browze. The travellers attention to draw. Then off in a tangent she sped, And Dick heard no more of his bride. ; The sandland part of this county is that tract of land, which reaches from the river Orwell, by the sea-coast, to Yarmouth; and is nearly separated from the woodlands by the great road leading from Ipswich, through Saxmundham and Beccles, to Yarmouth. It, therefore, contains the Hundred of Colneis, and parts of the Hundreds of Carlford, Loes, Wilford, Plomesgate, Blything, Mut. ford, and Lothingland. But the title of sandland is given, more peculiarly, to the whole extent of country south of the line of Woodbridge and Orford, where a large extent of poor and even blowing sand is to be found. + The churches of Eyke and Sutton are both without steeples. Dick Delver got married once more, With a cart-lodge and donkey-shed fine. Were all like Dick Delver content; CORN HARVEST: BY THOMAS TUSSER. "In a life of husbandry," says Sir John Cullum in his interesting and well-written History of Hansted, "the harvest is ever an affair of the greatest consequence. I have therefore," says he, "given a year's 66 * Wilford bridge, near Melton. Ufford charch. |