Prioress, who makes such a delicate figure among his Canterbury
Pilgrims, he tells us, among her other accomplishments, that--

'French she spake full faire and featously;'

adding with great gravity,

'After the school of Stratford atte Bowe;
For French of Paris was to her unknowe.'

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CURIOUS FACTS RELATING TO SLEEP.

_(For the Mirror.)_


"Next to those nourishments that sustain the body (says Dr. Venner)
moderate and seasonable sleep is most profitable and necessary. It helps
digestion, recreates the mind, repairs the spirits, and comforts and
refreshes the whole body." It is also observed by Dr. Hufeland, that
"sleep is one of the wisest regulations of nature, to check and moderate
at fixed periods, the incessant and impetuous stream of vital
consumption. It forms as it were, stations for our physical and moral
existence, and we thereby obtain the happiness of being daily reborn,
and of passing every morning through a state of annihilation, into a new
and refreshed life."

The writer of the article "Sleep." in Rees's _Cyclopædia_, says, "the