ke alone,--when I behold that forrest of masts upon
your river for trafficke, and that more than miraculous bridge, which
is the _communis terminus_, to joyne the two bankes of that river; your
Royall Exchange for merchants, your Halls for Companies, your gates for
defence, your markets for victuall, your aqueducts for water, your
granaries for provision, your Hospitalls for the poore, your Bridewells
for the idle, your Chamber for orphans, and your Churches for holy
assemblies; I cannot denie them to be magnificent workes, and your
Citty to deserve the name of an Augustious and majesticall Citty; to
cast into the reckoning those of later edition, the beautifying of your
fields without, and pitching your Smithfield within, new gates, new
waterworkes, and the like, which have been consecrated by you to the
dayes of his Majestie's happy reigne: and I hope the cleansing of the
River, which is the _vena porta_ to your Citty, will follow in good
time. But after all these, as Christ to the young man in the Gospell,
which had done all and more, _Unum tibi deest, si vis perfectus esse,
vade, vende_; so may I say to you. There is yet one thing wanting unto
you, if you will be perfit,--perfit this church: not by parting from
_all_, but somewhat, not to the poore, but to God himselfe. This Church
is your Sion indeed, other are but _Synagogues_, this your _Jerusalem
the mother to them all_, other but daughters brought up at her knees;
this the Cathedrall, other but Parochiall Churches; this the _Bethel_
for the daily and constant service of God, other have their
intermissions, this the common to you all, and to this _doe {369} your
tribes ascend_ in their greatest solemnities; others appropriated to
several Congregations, this the standart in the high rode of gaze;
others are more retired, this the mirrour and marke of strangers, other
have but their side lookes; finally, this unto you, as _S. Peters in
the Vatican_ at Rome, _S. Marks_ at Venice, and that of _Diana_ at
Ephesus, and this at Jerusalem of the Jewes; or if there be any other
of glory and fame in the Christian world, which they most joy in."

RICHARD JOHN KING.

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Minor Notes.

_Meaning of Luncheon._--Our familiar name of _luncheon_ is derived from the
daily meal of the Spaniards at eleven o'clock, termed _on