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COMMITTEE FOR THE REPAIR

OF THE

TOMB OF CEOFFREY CHAUCER. JOHN BRUCE, Esq., Treas. S.A., 5. Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square.

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SAMUEL SHEPHERD, Esq., F.S.A., Marlborough Square, Chelsea.

WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq.. F.S.A., Honorary Secretary, 25. Holy-Well Street, Millbank, Westminster.

THE TOMB OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY stands in need of repair. The portrait and the inscriptions have disappeared; the overhanging canopy has suffered damage; the table is chipped and broken; the base is fast mouldering into irretrievable decay.

Such an announcement is calculated to stir every heart that can respond to the claims of poetry, or feel grateful for the delight which it affords to every cultivated mind. It summons us, like the sound of a trumpet, "To the rescue!" It cannot be that the first and almost the greatest of English bards should ever be allowed to want a fitting memorial in our "Poet's Corner," or that the monument which was erected by the affectionate respect of Nicholas Brigham, nearly three centuries ago, should, in our time, be permitted to crumble into dust.

A sum under One Hundred Pounds will effect a perfect repair. It is thought that there can be no difficulty in raising such a sum, and that multitudes of people in various conditions of life, and even in distant quarters of the globe, who venerate the name of Chaucer, and have derived instruction and delight from his works, will be anxious to contribute their mite to the good deed. The Committee have therefore not thought it right to fix any limit to the subscription; they themselves, with the aid of several distinguished noblemen and gentlemen, have opened the list with a contribution from each of them of Five Shillings, but they will be ready to receive any amount, more or less, which those who value poetry and honour Chaucer may be kind enough to remit to them.

The design of the Committee is sanctioned by the approval of the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Shaftes bury, Lord Braybrooke, Lord Londesborough, Lord Mahon, the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, and by the concurrence of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

An account of the sums received and expended will be published when the work is completed.

Subscriptions are received by all the members of the Committee, and at the Union Bank, Pall Mall East. Post-office orders may be made payable to William Richard Drake, Esq., the Treasurer, 46. Parliament Street, at the Charing Cross Office.

And here, talking of prophecy, we would, first reminding our readers how, in the olden time, the Poet and the Prophet were looked upon as identical, call their attention to the following vision of our Queen in her Crystal Palace, which met the eye when in "fine phrensy rolling" of the Father of English Poetry, as he has recorded in his House of Fame. Had Chaucer attended the opening of the Exhibition as "Our own Reporter," could his description have been more exact?

THE TEMPLE Y-MADE OF GLAS.

A Prevision by Dan Chaucer, A.D. 1380.
Now hearken every manir man
That English understandè can,
And listeth to my dreme to here,
For nowe at erst shall ye lere :

O thought, that wrote al that I met
And in the tresorie it set

Of my braine, nowe shall men see
If any vertue in thee bee

To tellen al my dreme aright

Nowe kithe thy engine and thy might!

But, as I slept, me mette I was Within a temple ymade of glas, In which there were mo images Of gold, standing in sundry stages, Sette in mo rich tabernacles, And with perrie mo pinnacles, And mo curious portraitures, And queint manner of figures Of gold worke, than I saw ever.

But all the men that been on live
Ne han the conning to descrive
The beaute of that ilke place,
Ne couden casten no compace
Soch another for to make,

That might of beauty be his make;
Ne so wonderly ywrought,
That it astonieth yet my thought,
And maketh all my witte to swinke
On this castel for to thinke,

So that the wondir great beautie
Caste, crafte, and curiositie,
Ne can I not to you devise,
My witte ne may not me suffise;
But nathelesse all the substaunce
WI have yet in my remembraunce,'
Me thoughtin, by saint Gile,
All was of stone of berile,
Bothe the castel and the toure,
And eke the hall, and every boure;
Without peeces or joynings,
But many subtell compassings,
As barbicans and pinnacles,
SH Imageries and tabernacles;

I saw, and ful eke of windowes
As flakes fallen in great snowes;

And eke in each of the pinnacles
Weren sundry habitacles.

When I had seene all this sight In this noble temple thus,

Hey, Lord, thought I, that madest us,
Yet never saw I such noblesse
Of images, nor such richesse
As I see graven in this church,
But nought wote I who did them worche,
Yet certaine as I further passe,
I wol you all the shape devise.
Yet I ententive was to see,
And for to poren wondre low,
If I could anywise yknow

What maner stone this castel was:
For it was like a limed glas,
But that it shone full more clere,
But of what congeled matere

It was, I n' iste redely,

But at the last espied I,

And found that it was every dele
A thing of yse and not of stele:
Thought I," By Saint Thomas of Kent,
This were a feeble foundement
To builden on a place so hie;
He ought him little to glorifie
That hereon bilte, God so me save."

But, Lord, so faire it was to shewe,
For it was all with gold behewe:
Lo, how should I now tell all this,
Ne of the hall eke what need is?
But in I went, and that anone,
There met I crying many one
"A larges, a larges, hold well!

up God save the Lady of this pell! Our owne gentill Lady Fame

And hem that willen to have a name."
For in this lustie and rich place

All on hie above a deis

Satte in a see imperiall

That made was of rubie royall

A feminine creature

That never formed by nature
Was soche another one I saie:

For alderfirst, soth to saie,

Me thought that she was so lite
That the length of a cubite

Was lenger than she seemed to be;

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Tho was I ware at the last
As mine eyen gan up cast
That this ilke noble queene
On her shoulders gan sustene
Both the armes and the name
Of tho that had large fame.

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And thus found I sitting this goddesse In noble honour and richesse Of which I stinte a while now

Other thing to tellen you.

But Lord the perrie and the richesse,
I saw sitting on the goddesse,
And the heavenly melodie
Of songes full of armonie
I heard about her trone ysong
That all the palais wall rong.

Tho saw I standen hem behind
A farre from hem, all by hemselve
Many a thousand times twelve,
That made loud minstralcies,.
In conemuse and shalmies,
And many another pipe,
That craftely began to pipe.
And Pursevauntes and Heraudes
That crien riche folkes laudes,.
It weren, all and every man
Of hem, as I you tellen can,
Had on him throwe a vesture
Which men clepe a coate armure.
Then saw I in anothir place,
Standing in a large space,
Of hem that maken bloudy soun,
In trumpet, beme, and clarioun.

Then saw I stande on thother side
Streight downe to the doores wide,
From the deis many a pillere

Of metall, that shone not full clere,
But though ther were of no richesse
Yet were they made for great noblesse.
There saw I, and knew by name
That by such art done, men have fame.

There saw I Coll Tragetour
Upon a table of sieamour
Play an uncouth thing to tell,
I saw him carry a wind-mell
Under a walnote shale.

Then saw I sitting in other sees,
Playing upon sundrie other glees,
Of which 1 n' ill as now not rime,
For ease of you and losse of time,
For time ylost, this know ye,
By no way may recovered be.

What should I make longer tale?
Of all the people that I sey
I could not tell till domisdey.

Then gan
I loke about and see

That there came entring into the hall
A right great company withall,
And that of sondry regions

Of all kind of condicions

That dwelle in yearth under the Moone,
Poore and riche; and all so soone
As they were come into the hall
They gan on knees doune to fall
Before this ilke noble queene.
"Madame," sayd they,
66 we bee
Folke that here besechen thee
That thou graunt us now good fame,
And let our workes have good name;

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At the last I saw a man,
Which that I nought ne can,
But he semed for to bee,
A man of great auctoritie

And therewithall I abraide,
Out of my slepe halfe afraide,
Remembring well what I had sene,
And how hie and farre I had bene
In my gost, and had great wonder
Of that the God of thonder

Had let me knowen, and began to write
Like as you have herd me endite,
Wherefore to study and rede alway,
I purpose to do day by day.

Thus in dreaming and in game,
Endeth this litell booke of Fame.

We are indebted for this interesting communication to our correspondent A. E. B., whose admirable ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER in our columns have given so much pleasure to the admirers of the old poet. Our correspondent has sent it to us in the hope that it may be made available in helping forward the good work of restoring Chaucer's tomb. We trust it will. The Committee who have undertaken that task could, doubtless, raise the hundred pounds required, by asking those who have already come forward to help them, to change their Crown subscriptions into Pounds. With a right feeling for what is due to the poet, they prefer, however, accomplishing the end they have in view by small contributions from the admiring many, As rather than by larger contributions from the few. we doubt not we number among the readers of " NOTES AND QUERIES" many admirers of

"Old Dan Chaucer, in whose gentle spright, The pure well-head of poetry did dwell,"

to them we appeal, that the monument which was erected by the affectionate respect of Nicholas Brigham, nearly three centuries ago, may not in our time be permitted to crumble into dust; reminding them, in Chaucer's own beautiful language,

"That they are gentle who do gentle dedes."

Notes.

ON "THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL."

I resume the subject commenced in the comments on "a Passage in Marmion," printed in No. 72., March 15, 1851; and I here propose to consider the groundwork and mechanism of the most original, though not quite the first production of Scott's muse, The Lay of the Last Minstrel. In the Introduction prefixed to this poem, nearly thirty years after its publication, Sir Walter Scott informs the world that the young Countess of Dalkeith, much interested and delighted with the wild Border tradition of the goblin called "Gilpin Horner" (which is given at length in the notes appended to the poem), enjoined on him the task of composing a ballad on the subject:

"And thus" (says Sir Walter) "the goblin story objected to by several critics as an excrescence upon the poem, was, in fact, the occasion of its being written."

Yes, and more than this; for, strange as it may appear to those who have not critically and minutely attempted to unravel the very artful and complicated plot of this singular poem, the Goblin Page is, as it were, the key-note to the whole composition, the agent through whose instrumentality the fortunes of the house of Branksome are built up anew by the pacification of ancient feud, and the union of the fair Margaret with Henry of Cranstoun. Yet, so deeply veiled is the plot, and so intricately contrived the machinery, that I question if this fact be apparent to one reader out of a thousand; and assuredly it has never been presented to my view by any one of the critics with whose comments I have become acquainted.

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The Aristarchus of the Edinburgh Review, Mr. Jeffrey, who forsooth thought fit to regard the new and original creations of a mighty and inventive genius as a misapplication, in some degree, of very extraordinary talents," and "conceived it his duty to make one strong effort to bring back the great apostle of this (literary) heresy to the wholesome creed of his instructor," seems not to have penetrated one inch below the surface. In his opinion "the Goblin Page is the capital deformity of the poem," a perpetual burden to the poet and to the readers," "an undignified and improbable fiction, which excites neither terror, admiration, nor astonishment, but needlessly debases the strain of the whole work, and excites at once our incredulity and contempt."

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Perhaps so, to the purblind vision of a pedantic formalist; but, nevertheless, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, that poem, whose varied imagery and vivid originality, combined with all its other beauties, have been, and ever will be, the delight and admiration of its readers, could not exist without this so-called "capital deformity." This I shall undertake to demonstrate, and in so doing

to prove the "capital absurdity" of such criticism as I have cited.

Let us therefore begin with the beginning. The widowed Lady of Branksome, brooding over the outrage which had deprived her husband of life, meditates only vengeance upon all the parties concerned in this affray. The lovely Lady Margaret wept in wild despair, for her lover had stood in arms against her father's clan :

And well she knew, her mother dread,
Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed,
Would see her on her dying bed."

The first Canto of the poem contains that singular episode, when —

"(The Ladye) sits in secret bower
In old Lord David's western tower,
And listens to a heavy sound

That moans the mossy turrets round," &e.
"From the sound of Teviot's tide
Chafing with the mountain side,
&c. &c.

The Ladye knew it well!

It was the Spirit of the Flood that spoke, And he called on the Spirit of the Fell." And when the River Spirit asks concerning the fair Margaret, who had mingled her tears with his

stream:

"What shall be the maiden's fate?

Who shall be the maiden's mate? "

the Mountain Spirit replies, that, amid the clouds and mist which veil the stars,—

"Ill may I read their high deeree :
But no kind influence deign they shower
On Teviot's tide and Branksome's tower,
Till pride be quelled, and love be free."

I must here transcribe the following Section xviii. :

"The unearthly voices ceased,

And the heavy sound was still;
It died on the river's breast,

It died on the side of the hill,
But round Lord David's tower,
The sound still floated near,
For it rung in the Ladye's bower,
And it rung in the Ladye's ear,
She raised her stately head,

And her heart throbbed high with pride:
'Your mountains shall bend,

And your streams ascend,

Ere Margaret be our foeman's bride ( *" sought the lofty hall" where her retainers were In pursuance of this stern resolution, "the Ladye

assembled:

"And from amid the armed train

She called to her William of Deloraine."

She then gives him the commission, well remembered by every reader, to proceed on that night to Melrose Abbey to unclose the grave of Michael

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