"And with his beams enamel'd every greene."

_Fairfax's Tasso_, b. i. st. 35.

On l. 97. (G.):--

"Those brooks with lilies bravely deck't."

_Drayton_, 1447.

On l. 106. (G.):--

"Pan entertains, this coming night,
His paramour, the Syrinx bright."

_Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess_, Act i.

J.F.M.

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DERIVATION OF EASTER.

Southey, in his _Book of the Church_, derives our word _Easter_ from a
_Saxon_ source:--

"The worship," he says, "of the goddess _Eostre_ or _Eastre_,
which may probably be traced to the Astarte of the Phoenicians,
is retained among us in the word _Easter_; her annual festival
having been superseded by that sacred day."