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d the produce applied to levy those bands which shortly after fought the celebrated battle of Bosworth, in which the arms of Oxford and his son contributed so much to the success of Henry VII. This changed the destinies of De Vere and his lady; and the manners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration at the English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalet. [1] The word Wehme, pronounced Vehme, is of uncertain derivation, but was always used to intimate this inquisitorial and secret Court. The members were termed Wissenden, or Initiated, answering to the modern phrase of Illuminati. [2] _Baaren-hauter_,--be of the Bear's hide,--a nickname for a German private soldier. * * * * * THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS._ * * * * * LORD BYRON. Mr. Nathan, the musical composer, has just published a pleasant volume of "_Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron_," with a new edition of the celebrated "Hebrew Melodies," and some never before published, of which the following are three, with Mr. Nathan's Notes:-- SPEAK NOT--I TRACE NOT. I speak not--I trace not--I breathe not thy name, There is grief in the sound--there were guilt in the fame, But the tear which now burns on my cheek may impart The deep thought that dwells in that silence of heart. Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace, Where those hours can their joy or their bitterness cease, We repent--we abjure--we will break from our chain, We must part--we must fly to--unite it again. Oh! thine be the gladness and mine be the guilt, Forgive me adored one--forsake if thou wilt, But the heart which I bear shall expire undebased, And man shall not break it--whatever thou mayest. And stern to the haughty--but humble to thee, My soul in its bitterest blackness shall be; And our days seem as swift--and our moments more sweet With thee by my side--than the world at our feet. One sigh of thy sorrow--one look of thy love Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove; And the heartless may wonder at all we resign, Thy lip shall reply not to them--but to mine. Many of the best poetical pieces of Lord Byron, having the least amatory feeling, have been strangely distorted by his calumniators, as if applicable to the lamented circumstances of his latter l
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