or named. A special work on them
would be highly acceptable." The time has perhaps arrived when
antiquaries may begin to be philosophers, and philosophers
antiquaries! The unhappy separation of erudition from philosophy,
and of philosophy from erudition, has hitherto thrown impediments in
the progress of the human mind and the history of man.

[90] Lect. Mem. i. ad. an. 1300.

[91] Many specimens may be seen in Carter's curious volumes on
"Ancient Architecture and Painting."

[92] The series published during the wars in the Low Countries are
the most remarkable, and may be seen in the volumes by Van Loon.

[93] Mr. Douce possessed a portion of this very curious collection:
for a complete one De Bure asked about twenty pounds.

[94] The Roman satirists also invented a tale to ridicule what they
dared not openly condemn, in which it was asserted that a play
called _The Marriage of the Pope_ was enacted before Cromwell, in
which the Donna having obtained the key of Paradise from Innocent,
insists on that of Purgatory also, that she may not be sent there
when he is wearied of her. "The wedding" is then kept by a ball of
monks and nuns, delighted to think they may one day marry also. Such
was the means the Romans took to notify their sense of the
degradation of the pope.

[95] Warton's "Life of Sir Thomas Pope," p. 58.

[96] This ancient caricature, so descriptive of the popular feelings,
is tolerably given in Malcolm's history of "Caricaturing," plate ii.
fig. 1.

[97] This pack was probably executed in Holland in the time of
Charles the Second. There are other sets of political cards of the
same reign, particularly one connected with the so-called "popish
plots," and the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. The South-Sea
Bubble was made the subject of a similar pack, after it had
exploded.

[98] The royal house of Navarre was fancifully derived by the old
heraldic writers from Hispalus, the son of Hercules; and the pageant
provided by the citizens of Avignon to greet his entrance there in
1600, was entirely composed in reference thereto, and Henry
indicated in its title, _L'Hercule Gaulois Triumphant_.

[99] He took for a device and motto on his shield on the occasion of
tilting-matches and court festivities, a representation of the sun
in splendour, and the words, _Nec Pluribus I