In the Cuts resembling Angels and Saints; nay groffer abfurdities, Pictures resembling the Blef fed Trinity.

D. I meant no harm: nor did I think it would offend your Majesty, when I intended it for a newyear's gift.

2. You must needs be ignorant then. Have you forgot our proclamation against Images, Pictures and Romish Reliques in the churches? Was it not read in your deanry?

D. It was read. But be your Majefty affured, Į meant no harm, when I caused the cuts to be bound with the Service-book.

2. You must needs be very ignorant to do this after our prohibition of them.

D. It being my ignorance, your Majefty may the better pardon me.

2. I am forry for it; yet glad to hear it was your ignorance, rather than your opinion.

D. Be your Majefty affured, it was my ignorance. 2. If fo, Mr. Dean, God grant you his fpirit, and more wifdom for the future.

D. Amen, I pray God.

2. I pray, Mr. Dean, how came you by these Pictures? Who engraved them?

D. I know not who engraved them. I bought them:

2. From whom bought you them ?

D. From a German.

2. It is well it was from a ftranger. Had it been any of our subjects, we should have queftioned the matter. Pray let no more of these mistakes, or of this kind, be committed within the churches of our realm for the future.

D. There fhall not.

This matter occasioned all the clergy in and about London, and the church-wardens of each parish, to search their churches and chapels; and caufed them to wash out of the walls all paintings that seemed to be Romish and idolatrous; and in lieu thereof fuitable texts taken out of the Holy Scriptures to be written.

HYMN TO IS I S.

LET our fong be of the benevolent Ifis, Who giveth fodder to the cattle,

And nourisheth the fowls of heaven:

By her command the North-wind bloweth,
The clouds pour down rain

Upon the mountains of Ethiopia,

They Scatter plenty thro' the land of Egypt.
What time the hawk flieth toward the South,
Her veffel fhall be filled, it shall overflow,
The Banana and the Lotus Jhall bloffom.

Let our fong be of the benevolent Ifis!
The earth is full of her goodness,
And all the elements rejoice.

She condefcended to abide with men ;
She filleth our fouls with wisdom;
Though connected with a mortal body,
They fhall be exalted in her prefence,
If their contemplations rife above the World.
Let our fong be of the benevolent Ifis!
Her bounty covers the earth,
Her goodness is in the clouds.

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