rice be thy vice, yet make it not thy punishment," or, " Measure not thyself by the length of thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave." This also gives food for thought: "Persons lightly dipped, not grained in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness and fainthearted in sincerity." If any of my readers are not familiar with Sir Thomas Browne, I advise application to his well-stored mind.

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Mousehold Heath is a large public park just outside the city, on a height, as East Country folk understand heights," as Miss Marshall says. In early times it was literally an open, wild heath and is associated in our minds with Crome's large canvas in the National Gallery - that historic picture which was once cut in two, and sold in different places, finally being rediscovered, and sewn together, and now known as Mousehold Heath. This spot was a favourite of the painters of the Norwich school, Crome, Cotman, Gainsborough, and others. George Borrow, too, introduces scenes on Mousehold Heath in his studies of gipsy life. Borrow was a delightfully whimsical Bohemian, sometimes a little heavy, but full of charm, describing the nomadic existence of these strange wayfarers.

When Queen Elizabeth left the city it is re

corded that she exclaimed, "I have laid up in my breast such good will as I shall never forget Norwich." That is the way I felt myself as we started to move on to Bury St. Edmund.

CHAPTER XV

THE SHRINE OF ST. EDMUND

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HE trip to Bury St. Edmund by way of Thetford is an interesting one. The curious hexagonal tower with

Norman features is clearly seen at Wymondham, near the scene of the celebrated tragedy of the Babes in the Wood, and one passes a delightful ivy-crowned ruin at Barnham.

Bury itself is a charming town. The remains of the great abbey are quite numerous, and its Norman tower is a superb monument. There is not very much of the actual fabric remaining, but the tombs of five abbots lie in line just as they were discovered in what used to be the floor of the chapter house, but is now a green meadow with only a snag of crumbling wall here and there to indicate the former pomp. The curious illustration is a photograph taken at the time of the opening of these tombs, with the skeletons just as they were found. Of