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252 NOTES TO THE DEVOTED ONE.
Creator, in the universal Triad. The single upright unhewn
pillar was another of these emblems, one of which is still to
be found in the Island of Purbeck, among many others in this
country.
Stubbs tells us, in his Anatomie of Abuses, 1595, that
" against May-day, every parish, town, or village, assemble
themselves together, both men, women, and children 5 and
either altogether, or dividing themselves into companies, they
go some to the woods and groves, some to the hills and moun-
tains, where they spend all the night in pleasant pastimes ; arid
in the morning they return bringing with them birch boughs
and branches of trees to deck their assemblies withal. But
their chiefest jewel they bring from thence is the May-pole,
which they bring home with great veneration."
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and shadowy Death
On his pale war-horse, followed by all hell. .
p. 187.
"The tenth Avatar of the Hindoos, yet to come, is expected
to appear mounted, like the crowned conqueror in the Apocalypse,
on a white horse, with a scimitar blazing like a comet,
to mow down all incorrigible and impenitent offenders who
shall then be on earth." Sir William Jones's Gods of Greece,
Italy, and India.
See Note to the
J^ragon-King, first Series, on the White
Horse. " To the White Horse of SUANTOVITE, which no one
was permitted to groom but his priests, the Saxons sought for
presages, and the future events of battle." Alyett Sammes.
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Thou a mother ?
Thou, savage woman of a savage race. ... p. 189.
We have introduced a Sclavonian family into England, but
we do not conceive that in this there is any approach to the
improbable or the marvellous ; for in the Roman, Saxon,
Danish, and Norman armies, either compelled, or as voluntary
adventurers, many of every warlike tribe in Europe have
visited the shores of Britain. What would have been said to
us, had we, like Lewis in the Castle Spectre,
introduced an
African negro and ; yet there are proofs that black slaves were
known in Europe, ay, and in England, in the eleventh century.
Had Lewis been aware of this, he might have triumphed over
those who laughed at his supposed anachronism.
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In the year 1094, Ordericus introduces a dream of a priest,
which displays some fancy, but which is more remarkable for
: he mentions
showing that blacks were then known in Europe
a trunk carried by two -^Ethiops j and afterwards, mentioning