rbos facit mites;
Et post flumen hoc te amoenum
Annos reparare senum:
O Pampine! tibi habe,
Bibe si sis dignus tabe.

Hoc si tu gustabit nectar,
Si sis Paris fies Hector,
Iras demit inquietas,
In memento facit laetas;
Pro doloribus est solamen,
Pro pulicibus medicamen;
O Pampine! habe tibi,
Bibe tu cum ego bibi.

Hic est aqua vera fortis,
Vincula quae solvet mortis,
Aut, si placet, aqua vitae,
Roborans ab atra Dite:
Hinc sunt uti qui potestis
Omnia, cibus, potis, vestis;
O Pampine! tibi cito
Bibe, aut ab hinc abito.

Si frigistis, sine joco,
Solo hoc utare foco,
Si esuries hic sunt oves,
Pulli, vituli, et boves;
Quod si sitis ecce montem,
Quem si scandes habet fontem;
O Pampine! bibe rursus,
Bibe, tu nam venit cursus.

Si aegrotas sume potum,
Vis ut valeas tolle totum,
Cape potum hunc paratum,
Sanus eris,--est probatum;
Si in corpore aut in mente
Dolebant in quavis dente;
O Pampine! tibi statim
Sume potum hinc gradatim.

Bacche jam et jam Silene,
Pocula impleatis plene,
Ope jam adiutus vestra
Domum, feram e fenestra.
AEdes vertunt jam rotundae,
Et succedant res secundae:
O Pampine! tibi bibo,
Bibe, vale! ego abibo."

[Footnote 1: Southey was not aware that the whole of Chaucer's Poem, and
the "Testament of Cressid," by Henryson, was translated by Kinaston and
accompanied by a copious commentary in English, but only exists in one sole
MS. The press of the Camden Society would be well employed on it.]

[Footnote 2: In Baron von Aretin's _Beytrage zur Geschichte und Literatur_,
vol. vii. p. 301.; but the copy, though a good text, was defective at the
end.]

[Footnote 3: [We are sure we are only expressing the opinion of the
majority of our readers when we say it will be _most acceptable_.--ED.]]

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STRANGE APPEARANCES IN THE SKY.

Strange appearances in the sky have not been without their ominous
signification from the time that the greater and lesser lights were placed
there at the creation, to the rainbow after the Deluge; and onward to the
"star in the east" which announced our Saviour's birth, and the "light from
heaven" which accompanied St. Paul's conversion. But the question is,
whether there has since been any meaning in other like celestial
illuminations? Some historical credit is claimed for the fiery sword, and
armies fighting in the air, which prece