"Where Truth in person doth appear,
Like words congeal'd in northern air."
_Hudibras_, Book i. Canto i.

It is possible that Zachary Grey, in his copiously illustrated edition of
the poem, may have quoted Sir John Mandeville's account of this notable
adventure, in his wanderings, like a true knight-errant, through Scythia,
Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Media, Persia, Chaldea, Greece, Dalmatia,
Belgium, &c. He wrote an Itinerary of his travels in English, French, and
Latin. In these he occupied nearly forty years, and was long supposed to
have died in the course of them, but (as if his person had been "congealed
in northern air" and suddenly thawed into warm life again) when he
re-appeared, his friends with difficulty recognised him.

J.M.G.

Hallamshire.

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DOMINICALS

(Vol. ii., p 154.)

I believe to have been that kind of customary payment or oblations made _on
Sundays_ to the rector, or his vicegerent, of the church where a person
heard divine service and received the sacraments:

"Hostiensis dicit quod in præcipuis festivitatibus tenetur quis
offerre, et _cogi potest_; maximè cum sit quasi _generalis consuetudo