"May the Almighty Lord give thee, from the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn, wine, and oil! May the people serve thee, and the tribes adore thee! Be the lord of thy brothers, and let the sons of thy mother bow before thee! He who blesses thee shall be filled with blessings; for God will be thy helper. May the Almighty bless thee with the blessings of the heaven above, and in the mountains and the valleys; with the blessings of the deep below; with the blessings of the suckling and the womb; with the blessings of grapes and apples; and may the blessing of the ancient fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, be heaped upon thee!--May the blessing of Him, who appeared in the bush, come upon his head, and may the full blessing of the Lord be upon his sons, and may he steep his feet in oil! With his horn, as the horn of the rhinoceros, may he push the nations to the extremities of the earth; and may He who has ascended the skies be his auxiliary for ever!"] [Footnote 84: Chron. Sax. 257.] [Footnote 85: Lingard, vol. i. 485.] [Footnote 86: A tax of two shillings per hide on land, gathered annually.] [Footnote 87: History of England, 8vo. edit. vol. i. p. 413.] [Footnote 88: Holinshed.] [Footnote 89: This is the common statement: Mr. Taylor (Glory of Regality, p. 249,) objects to this being considered as a second coronation, and thinks it only a renewal of the royal festivities at Easter, with unusual splendor. But he seems to overlook the formal resolve of the council at Nottingham, on the point.] [Footnote 90: See the whole speech, in Matt. Paris.] [Footnote 91: Leg. Sex. 154.] [Footnote 92: Brompton, 1283, 4.] [Footnote 93: See M. Paris, Rymer, &c.] [Footnote 94: Holinshed.] [Footnote 95: The queen is said to have sucked the poison out of a wound which her husband received in the Holy Land, from the poisoned dagger of the emir of Jaffa.--See Lingard, v. ii. p. 369.] [Footnote 96: Johnes' Froissart, i. xxv.] [Footnote 97: Rymer, vii.] [Footnote 98: Rot. Parl. iii.] [Footnote 99: See the curious original document in Hume.] [Footnote 100: King Henry IV. p. ii.] [Footnote 101: See a curious MS. account of this 'solempnyte' in the Cotton Library, as quoted by Mr. Taylor, Glory of Regality, p. 263.] [Footnote 102: See the preceding Note.] [Footnote 103: Grafton, vol i. p. 592.] [Footnote 104: Historic Doubts, Lord Orford's Works, 5 vols. 4to. vol. ii. p. 146.] [Footnote 105: Grafton, vol. ii. p. 156.] [Footnote 106: Burnet on the Reformation, and Appendix.] [Footnote 107: Walker's Circumstantial Account, 8vo. 1. p. 78.] [Footnote 108: Taylor's Preface, p. x.] [Footnote 109: Page 37.] [Footnote 110: No. 335.--The Spectator's encomium on Booth is, however, sufficiently slight. The good bishop, it is evident, was better acquainted with the realities he was here describing than these theatrical types.] [Footnote 111: Here the archbishop took the paten into his hands.]