“But they will find that bodily exercise touches not the soul, and that neither pride, nor lust, nor covetousness, was ever mortified by corporal discipline; ’tis not the back, but the heart that must bleed for sin; and, consequently, that in their whole course they are like men out of their way; let them lash on never so fast, they are not at all the nearer to their journey’s end; and howsoever they deceive themselves and others, they may as well expect to bring a cart as a soul to Heaven by such means.”—_Sermons_, vol. i. p. 34. * * * * * _In those weeds Which never from the hour when to the grave She follow’d her dear lord Theodofred, Rusilla laid aside._—II. p. 18. _Vide nuper ipse in Hispaniis constitutis et admiratus sum antiquum hunc morem, ab Hispanis adhuc omnibus observari; mortuâ quippe uxore maritus, mortuo marito conjux, mortuis filiis patres, mortuis patribus filii, defunctis quibuslibet cognatis cognati, extinctis, quodlibet casu amicis amici, statim arma deponunt, sericas vestes, peregrinarum pellium tegmina abjiciunt, totumque penitus multi colorem, ac pretiosum habitum abdicantes, nigris tantum vilibusque indumentis se contegunt. Sic crinibus propriis sic jumentorum suorum caudis decurtatis, seque et ipsa atro prorsus colore denigrant. Talibus luctui dolorisve insignibus, subtractos charissimos deflent, et integri ad minus spatium anni, in tali mærore publica lege consumant._—Petri Venerabilis Epist. quoted in Yepes, t. vii. ff. 21. * * * * * _Her eyeless husband._—II. p. 18. Witiza put out the eyes of Theodofred, _inhabilitandole para la monarchia_, says Ferraras. This was the common mode of incapacitating a rival for the throne. _Un Conde de Gallicia que fuera valiado, Pelayo avie nombre, ome fo desforzado, Perdio la vision, andaba embargado, Ca ome que non vede, non debie seer nado._ Gonzalo de Berceo. S. Dom. 388. The history of Europe during the dark ages abounds with examples of _exoculation_, as it was called by those writers who endeavoured, towards the middle of the 17th century, to introduce the style-ornate into our prose after it had been banished from poetry. In the East, the practice is still continued. When Alboquerque took possession of Ormuz, he sent to Portugal fifteen of its former kings, whom he found there, each of whom, in his turn, had been deposed and blinded!