of, and the assaut was given in as mutch order as might be; the enemie was three times repolsed, and beholdyng nue suckors commyng from the courte to the forts great comfort, the enemye agreed on a parley, whearin was rehersyd that the cortain was beaten down, and the fort maed sawtable; and yet the enemye, to save the lives of good citizens and soldiors therof, would give them leave to depart with bag and bagaeg, as orders of warres required. To the which the fort maed answer, that the cortayns nor bulwarks was not their defence, but the corrage of good peple, and the force of a mighty prince (who saet and beheld all these doyngs) was the thyng they trusted to, on which answer the enemie retired, and so condicions of peace were drawn and agreed of; at which peace both the sides shot of their artillery, in sien of a triumphe, and so crying "God save the Queen,” these triumphes and warlik pastimes finished. The prince, liking the handlyng of these causes verie well, sent ij hundreth crowns to make the souldiors a banket. Now heer is to be considered that the prince went into the gallees, and so down to Kyngroed, aer these things wear brought to an end.

¶ At her hignes departuer a gentilman in the confiens of the towns liberties spack this speech that follows.

The dolfull a Due.

OUR joy is joynd with grevous groens, our triumphe tornd to

tears;

The brantch whoes blosoms gladnes broght a bitter berry bears.
In house and street whear mirth was hard is moen and moorning noies,
The sommer day is dimd with clowds, eclypsed are our joyes.
The loedstar leavs our wished cowrs, and clims the heavens hie;
Our sofrant will no longer lord in walls of Bristow lye.
No marvell sins our barrain soyl, and ground of groes devyce,
Haeth yelded nothing that might pleas a prince of so great price.

Our deuties are not half discharged, no thoghe we kist the ground,
And prostraet fall full flat on face whear her footsteps are found.
The Persian daer not cast up eies, nor look upon thear king;
Shall Christians then presuem to preace on sutch a sacred thyng,
And sho no part of duties bownds, O God forbid I say;
But that the Lord's anointed should be honor'd evry way.
Long loekt this citie for a prince, long sens and many a year,
A king or queen beheld this town, short tyme she taryes heer.*
Good fortuen follow thee, O queen, and gied thy doings all,
A world of threfold blessed happ upon thy kingdom fall.
As loeth to taek our heavy leave, as leave our lives indeed;
A due, deer lady of this land; the living Lord thee speed!

Some of these speeches could not be spoken by means of a scholemaister,† who envied that any stranger should set forth these shoes.

* In one of the MSS, entitled Annals of Bristol, it is said that the Queen arrived on the 13th of August and departed on the 20th-Ed. + With whom, probably, originated the 'occasion unlooked for' that prevented the delivery of the speech in the College. Vide p. 151.ED.

In Lord Burghley's Diary, printed at the end of the second volume of his "State Papers," the following entries occur:

"1574, August. Erle of Oxford retourned; and he and I went to the Queen's Majesty to Bristol.

"21. The accord at Bristol between the commissioners David Lewes and William Aubry for the Queen's Majesty, and the King of Spayn for restitution of the goods arrested 1568."

A worthy Dittie, song before the QUEEN'S
MAJESTIE at BRISTOWE.*

MISTRUST not troth that truely meanes, for every jelous freke, Insteade of wronge condemne not right, no hidden wrath to wreke: Looke on the light of faultlesse life, how bright her virtues shine, And measure out her steppes eche one, by level and by line.

Deeme eche desert by upright gesse, whereby your prayse shall live,
If malice would be match with might, let hate no judgement geve:
Enforce no feare with wresting wittes, in quiet conscience brest,
Lend not your eares to busie tongues which breedeth much unrest.

In doubtfull driftes wade not to farre, it weeries but the mind,
Seeke not to search the secret harts whose thoughtes are hard to find:
Avoid from you those hatefull heads that helpes to heape mishapp,
Be slowe to heare the flatterers voyce which creepeth in your lapp.

Embrace their love that wills you good, and sport not at their praise,
Trust not too much unto your selfe, for feeble are your staies:
How can your seate be setled fast, or stand on stedfast ground,
So propped up with hollowe hartes, whose suertie is unsound.

Geve faith to those that feare for love, and not that love for feare, Regard not them that force compels to please you every where: All this well waide and borne away, shall stablish long your state, Continually with perfect peace, in spite of puffing bate.

Finis. D. S.§

* From the Paradise of Daynty Devises, 1576. In this edition it is numbered 25; in the republication of 1600, 33.

i. e. Daniel or David Sand.

THE

BRISTOL MEMORIALIST.

SEPTEMBER 1816.

General Communications.

ON COMBINING A TASTE FOR LITERATURE WITH THE PURSUITS OF COMMERCE.

Est quôdam prodire tenus, si non datur ultrà.

"Though of exact perfection you despair,

Yet every step to wisdom's worth your care.'

HORACE.

FEW opinions have been more unfavourable to happiness, than that which represents the pleasures of literature as totally incompatible with the avocations of trade. It is indeed readily confessed, that the man who devotes his days to the labours of the ware-room or of the counting-house, must not expect to acquire the profound learning of Porson, or to rival the critical acumen of Johnson. It is also equally certain, that he who from small beginnings has resolved to accumulate one hundred thousand pounds, because he thinks that

* "Gold, the sovereign queen of all below,

Friends, honour, birth and beauty can bestow,"

* The original is so forcibly expressive as to deserve transcription.

should give his days and his nights to the drudgery of acquiring wealth, and he will infallibly DIE rich.

Between these different pursuits of life, however, there are obviously various gradations, and it is more than probable that in this, as in many other cases, happiness will be found to be equally removed from each extreme. Among the faculties of the human mind, the power by which it contracts and expands, to suit itself to surrounding circumstances, deserves more attention than it has hitherto received. Let it also be remembered, that this power universally acts by the impulse of a necessity, either real or imaginary. Few minds possess sufficient energy to submit to toil, from the pure love of labour. The majority of mankind, therefore, satisfy themselves with performing all that may be requisite, rather than from attempting to accomplish all that may be possible. This at length becomes habit, and forms the character of the mind. Its faculties gradually contract, till at length, by imperceptible degrees, the little intellectual exertion which necessity has demanded is all that the mind has the capacity to perform. In this case, rust has corroded powers which exercise would have preserved bright and elastic.

The pleasures of literature have ever been represented as the highest of which the mind is susceptible. They have been pronounced to be, of all times and of all places, equally the solace of age as the ornament of youth.* It

Mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera, porrò et
Tertia succedant, et quæ pars quadret acervum.
Scilicet uxorem cum dote, fidemque, et amicos,
Et genus, et formam regina pecunia donat;
Ac benè nummatum decorat Suadela Venusque.

HORATII Epist. Lib. I. Epistola vi

* Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secun