verdant, alluding to the power which he possessed of producing, wherever he trod, the most beautiful and enchanting verdure. These two are regarded as the protectors and tutelary gods of travellers; the former upon the sea, the latter upon the land; and they are thought to be incessantly employed in promoting these salutary objects. In their rapid and uniform courses, they are believed to meet once a year at Mina, in the environs of Mecca, the day on which the pilgrims are assembled.

D'Ohsson's Hist. of the Othoman Empire.

Page 156.-The swords that late flash'd to the evening sun.

Now does the day grow blacker than before,
The swords that glister'd late, in purple gore
Now all distain'd, their former brightnesse lose.
May's Edward III.

And again, Book 7.:

The glittering swords that shone so bright of late
Are quickly all distain'd with purple gore.

Page 158.-Of blessed Mary vow'd the vow of peace.

Il advint a luy et a toute sa gent, estant devant Chartres, qui moult humilia et brise son courage; car entendis que ces traicteurs Francois alloient et preschoient ledit roy et son conseil, et encores nulle response agreable nen avoient eue. Une orage une tempeste et une fouldre si grande et si horrible descendit du

ciel en lost du roy Dangleterre quil sembloit proprement que le siecle deust finer. Car il cheoit si grosses pierres que elles tuoyent hommes et chevaulx, et en furent les plus hardis tous esbahis. Adoncques regarda le roy Dangleterre devers leglise de nostre dame de Chartres, et se voua et rendit devotement a nostre dame, et promist, et confissa sicomme il dist depuis quil se accorderoit a la paix.

Froissart.

But while he lodged there (before Chartres), his army making a horrible spoile of the whole country, there chanced an occasion, as the work of Heaven, which suddenly quailed his ambitious design to ruin France: for behold a horrible and extraordinary tempest of haile, thunder, and lightning, fals with such violence as many horses and men in the army perished, as if that God had stretched forth his hand from heaven to stay his course. De Serres.

Page 162.-Deep thro' the sky the hollow thunders rolld.

The circumstance of the Maid's entering Orleans at midnight in a storm of thunder and lightning is historically true:

"The Englishmen perceiving that thei within could not long continue for faute of vitaile and pouder, kepte not their watche so diligently as thei wer accustomed, nor scoured not the countrey environed as thei before had ordained. Whiche negligence the citezens shut

in perceiving, sent worde thereof to the French capitaines, which with Pucelle in the dedde tyme of the nighte, and in a greate rayne and thundere, with all their vitaile and artillery entered into the citie."

Hall. fol. 127.

Shakespear also notices this storm. Striking as the circumstance is, Chapelain has omitted it.

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