with the view of preserving the host from any casualty.

At Rome, the ceremony is anticipated, the wafer being carried in
procession, on the Thursday in Passion Week, from the Sistine to the
Paoline Chapel, and brought back again on the Friday; thus missing
the whole intention of the rite. Dr. Baggs, in his _Ceremonies of Holy
Week at Rome_, says (p. 65.):--

"When the pope reaches the altar (of the Capella Paolina),
the first cardinal deacon receives from his hands the blessed
sacrament, and, preceded by torches, carries it to the upper
part of the _macchina_; M. Sagrista places it within the urn
commonly called the sepulchre, where it is incensed by the
Pope.... M. Sagrista then shuts the sepulchre, and delivers
the key to the Card. Penitentiary, who is to officiate on the
following day."

E.V.

* * * * *

POEM BY SIR EDWARD DYER.

_Dr. Rimbault's 4th Qu._ (No. 19. p. 302.).--"My mind to me a kingdom
is" will be found to be of much earlier date than Nicholas Breton.
Percy partly printed it from William Byrds's _Psalmes, Sonets,
and Songs of Sadnes_ (no date, but 1588 according to Ames), with
some additions and _improvements (?)_ from a B.L. copy in the
Pepysian collection. I have met with it in some early poetical
miscellany--perhaps Tottel, or _England's Helicon_--but cannot just