To which Gaddesden, I now make humble apologies: for since the above lines were written years ago, modern discoveries, those especially of Niels Finsen, of Copenhagen, a man of the truest worth, whom I saw at work, have justified him. Red light, it has been found, really has an influence on the healing of the scars left by small-pox, and even of the disease itself. So, biding the time when his beetle remedy, mentioned next, may prove operative too, I hold Gaddesden justified in turning, from above, the laugh on his deriders: and I submit to the penance in the same contrite spirit as Dr. Johnson once did at Uttoxeter. [235] “Rosa Anglica,” vol. i. p. 496. [236] A remedy for diseases of the spleen (“Rosa Anglica”). [237] “Memorials of London,” documents relating to the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, edited by H. Riley, London, 1868, p. 466. [238] “L’ordinance encontre les entremettours de fisik et de surgerie,” “Rolls of Parliament,” 9 Hen. V, vol. iv. p. 130. [239] Their charter of 1461 is given in Report and Appendix of the City Liveries’ Commission, 1884, vol. iii. p. 74. [L. T. S.] [240] “The Foure P.” London, 1545. [241] Statute 3 Hen. VIII, cap. 11. [242] Statutes 32 Hen. VIII, cap. 42; 34 and 35 Hen. VIII, cap. 8. [243] “The Fox,” Act II, sc. 1 (1605). [244] “Coryat’s Crudities,” reprinted from the edition of 1611, London, 1776, vol. ii. pp. 50, 53. Coryat set out from Dover, 14 May, 1608. [245] Visited in 1875, not since. [246] Horn and his companions, in the romance of “King Horn,” disguise themselves as minstrels, and range themselves at the gate of Rymenhild’s castle: “Hi yeden bi the gravel Toward the castel, Hi gunne murie singe And makede here gleowinge. Rymenhild hit gan ihere And axede what hi were: Hi sede, hi weren harpurs, And sume were gigours. He dude Horn inn late Right at halle gate, He sette him on a benche His harpe for to clenche.” “King Horn,” ed. J. R. Lumby, Early English Text Society, 1866, l. 1465. [247] Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper.” [248] “Cursor Mundi,” a Northumbrian poem of the fourteenth century, edited by R. Morris for the Early English Text Society, vol. v. p. 1651 and vol. i. p. 8. [249] It began to be customary to read aloud verses too, instead of singing them. Chaucer foresees that his poem of “Troilus” may be indifferently read or sung, and he writes, addressing his book: “So preye I to God, that non myswrite the, Ne the mys-metere, for defaute of tonge! And red wher so thow be, or elles songe, That thow be understonde, God I beseche!” (“Troilus,” book v., l. 1809.) [250] “Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight,” ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, 1864, pp. 38, ff.