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FLORENCE.

WHILE the eye rests on this far-famed and beautiful city, its magnificent edifices, fine architecture, and antique buildings, rising in dark and imposing majesty, its bridges, and its noble river, watering, far as the eye can reach, the vale of the lovely Arno, the mind insensibly wanders back, and recals the days. when turbulence and bloody feuds raged within the walls; when, on the surrounding amphitheatre of hills, now luxuriant with the olive and the vine, and richly studded with peaceful dwellings, stood proudly frowning the castellated towers of the feudal chief, at once the terror and protection to the city.

A river, even in a city that has no trade, still presents a busy and an animating scene. In Florence, the Arno, with its numerous bridges, offers all that is most gay and attractive in the city. Its waters, radiant and sparkling in the mid-day sun, add life to the whole prospect; and when the heat is spent, and night closes in, the landscape assumes a mellower hue, the starry, cloudless sky, and clear pale moon, shining as it does in these southern climates, with the splendour but of a lessened day. The sensation produced from the continued return, on each succeeding morning, of unchanging lovely weather, is peculiarly striking to those who have been accustomed to the turbulence of a northern sky. You lie down and rise to the same glorious light, and meet again, as evening comes, the same soothing feelings.

BELL'S OBSERVATIONS ON ITALY.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

ACT III. SCENE V.

Without the Walls of FLORENCE.

An old Widow of FLORENCE, DIANA, and others.-Enter HELENA in the dress of a pilgrim.

Wid. Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at my house thither they send one another: I'll question her.-God save you, pilgrim! Whither are you bound?

Hel. To Saint Jaques le grand.

Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?

Wid. At the Saint Francis here, beside the port.

Hel. Is this the way?

Wid.

Ay, marry is it.-Hark you!

They come this way :-If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,

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Wid. If you shall please so, pilgrim.

Hel. I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.

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