It does not appear, that, in those days any _single_ English word was employed, to express the _vehicle_, which we call a _hearse_, at the present day, unless the word _bier_ may suffice: and this, like the Roman _feretrum_, which I take to be much like our common graveyard article with legs, will scarcely answer the description of a four-wheeled car. I infer, that the _feretrum_ was a thing, which might be taken up, and set down, from the word _posito_ in Ovid's Fasti, iv., 851-- Osculaque applicuit posito suprema feretro. The _feretrum_ and the _capulus_, among the Romans, were designed mainly, for the poor. Citizens of any note were borne, as was our own practice, not very many years ago, on the shoulders of their friends. The _funeral car_ of Henry VIII. was a noble affair:-- "There was ordained for the corps a sumptuous and valuable chariot of four wheels, very long and large, with four pillars, overlaid with cloth of gold at the four corners, bearing a pillow of rich cloth of gold and tissue, fringed with a goodly deep fringe of blew silk and gold; and underneath that, turned towards the chariot, was a marvellous excellent cloth of majesty, having in it a doom artificially wrought, in fine gold upon oyl: and at the nether part of the said Chariot was hanged with blew velvet down to the ground, between the wheels, and at other parts of the chariot, enclosed in like manner with blew velvet." Ibid. 295. "The next day early, the 14 February, the chariot was brought to the court hall door; and the corps with great reverence brought from the _herse_ to the same, by mitred prelats and others, temporal lords." Ibid. 598. Then, over the area of thirteen remaining pages, the record contains the minute particulars of the monarch's obsequies, which, though full of interest, are no farther to our present purpose. No. CIV. Bull--I speak not of Ole, but of John--Bull, when the teazle of opposition has elevated the nap of his temper, is a pestilent fellow: whatever the amount--and there is enough--of the milk of human kindness within him, there is, then, but one way, known among men, of getting it out, and that is, by giving Bull a bloody nose; whereupon he comes to his senses directly, and to a just appreciation of himself and his neighbors. True indeed it is, Bull is remarkably oblivious; and it sometimes becomes necessary to give him another, which is invariably followed, by the same happy result. _Qui hæret in cortice_ will never come at the milk of a cocoa nut. It is necessary to strip off its rough coat, and punch sundry holes in its _wooden walls_, and give it a regular cracking. It is precisely so with Bull. When the fit is upon him, Bull is terrible. He is the very Bull of Crete--the Bull of Claudian, in his rape of Proserpine-- Dictæus quatiens mugitibus urbes Taurus-------------------------- Bull is a prodigious fellow; Nations tremble at his bellow.