Thomæ Regiolapidensis, ex ordine FF. Prædicatorum_, excerpta.

"Quum verò prædicator indefensus, missionum ecclesiasticarum causâ, in
borealibus versaretur partibus, miraculum ibi stupendum sanè patravit.
Conspexit enim taurum ingentem, vaccarum (sicut poëta quidam ex
ethnicis ait) 'magnâ comitante catervâ,' in prato quodam graminoso
ferocientem, maceriâ tantum bassâ inter se et belluam istam horrendam
interpositâ. Constitit Thomas, constitit et bos, horribiliter rugiens,
caudâ erectâ, cornibus immaniter sæviens, ore spumam, naribus vaporem,
oculis fulgur emittens, maceriam transsilire, in virum sanctum irruere,
corpusque ejus venerabile in aëra jactitare, visibiliter nimis paratus.
{407} Thomas autem, eaptâ occasione, oculos in monstrum obfirmat,
signumque crucis magneticum in modum indesinenter ducere aggreditur, En
portentum inauditum! geminis belluae luminibus illico palpebrae
obducuntur, titubat taurus, cadit, ac, signo magnetico sopitus, primò
raucum stertens, mox infantiliter placidum trahens halitum, humi pronus
recumbit. Nec moratus donec hostis iste cornutus somnum excuteret, viv
sanctus ad hospitium se propinquum laetus inde incolumisque recepit."

RUSTICUS.

"_Her Brow was fair._"--Can any of your many readers inform me of the
author of the following lines, which I copy as I found them quoted in Dr.
Armstrong's _Lectures_:

"Her brow was fair, but very pale,
And looked like stainless marble; a touch methought would soil
Its whiteness. On her temple, one blue vein
Ran like a tendril; one through her shadowy hand
Branched like the fibre of a leaf away."