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exchange for that statue. The statue was
then gilt, and on 9 July, 1751, having been
baptized with the title of George II, was
unveiled and inaugurated with all possible
ceremonial. A representative company ot
each division of the island militia and ot the
garrison, and all the civil authorities in due
form, were present, and Mr. Charles Marett,
Deputy Viscount, having mounted the
pedestal whence public notifications are
usually made, and which for that occasion
was dressed with carpets, declared that the
aforesaid statue had been set up in honour
of his Majesty King George II. Three
rounds of cheering followed this declaration,
and at the signal given by the hoisting of a
flag on the steeple of the town church the
garrison of Elizabeth Castle three times
saluted with seven guns, each round of seven
guns being followed by a small-arms volley
on the part of the troops in the Royal
Square. Then wine was brought to the
vicinity of the statue, and his Majesty's
health was drunk by the civil and military
officials. After these ceremonies the mace,
the emblem of the authority wielded by the
States, was taken back in charge of the
proper officials, and with a very solemn and
dignified escort, to the place where it was
usual to keep it ; and refreshments were sup-
plied to the soldiers, some being detained
to serve as guard of honour to General Hurst,
the Governor-in-Chief, who was expected^to
arrive that day. However, when the tide
turned, and it was thereby evident that the
Governor could not make the port till the
morrow, all the rest of the soldiers were
allowed to go ; and in the evening there
were public fireworks. From the foregoing
history we may conclude that all parties
concerned were satisfied : the king with the
honour, Mr. Gosset by having got his wish
on easy terms, the States and the Jersey
public because they felt that they had done
the right thing at the smallest possible
outlay, and the soldiers and others who
took part in the ceremony with the extra
refreshments and drink. One thing only
was lacking to fill up the cup of joy the
Governor-in-Chief, General Hurst, had not
been present. Whether he reached the
island on the next day I do not know, but it
seems to me highly probable that he also
may have been satisfied, for to miss his
tide on 9 July was a way, without offending
any one, of getting out of a ceremony in
which he was reluctant to take part.
Having concluded the account of this incident, I should like to draw the attention of those who infer, from the existence of so
many Vine Streets in this country, that wine
was formerly made in England from grapes
grown out of doors, to the following passage
on p. 38 of M. de la Croix's book. The
louses in St. Heliers,
for the most part covered with thatch, were tapestried externally with trellis-work, over which a vine spread itself. People were so fond of the vine, and the habit of cultivating it was so general, that the street which starts from ' Royal Square and terminates at the ' little Douet' is called Vine Street to this day" (1845).
H. G. K.
THE SOURCE OF THE "SEVEN AGES." The Variorum editor of 'As You Like It' cites numerous allusions to the idea that " All the world's a stage," &c. ; but, apparently. Dr. Furness has overlooked Shakespeare's in- debtedness to Lodge, from whom the drama- tist appears to have borrowed. Lodge attributes the allusion to Plutarch, an authority not mentioned heretofore ^ by commentators. In ' A Margarite of America,' 1596 (p. 91), there is this passage :
' True it is that Plutarch saith (quoth he) that life is a stage-play, which even unto the last act hath no decorum : life is replenished with al vices, and empoverished of all vertue."
Here is a description of the lodging of Protomachus in the fortress of Arsinous :
'About the walles of the chamber in curious imagerie were the seven sages of Greece, set forth with their seuerall vertues, eloquently discovered in Arabiccke verses : The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of black Ebonie enchased with Rubies, Diamons and Carbuncls, made in form of an arch on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured, and on the testerne of the bed the whole contents of the same most sagelie deciphered in these verses :
HUMANE MISERY DISCURSUS. wherof boasteth man, or by what reason Is filthy clay so much ambitious ? Whose thoughts are vaine, and alter euery season. Whose deeds are damned, base, and yitious, Who in his cradle by his childish crying, Presageth his mishaps and sorrowes nying.
An infant first from nurces teat he sucketh With nutriment corruption of his nature : And from the roote of endless errour plucketh That taste of sinne that waits on every creature, And as his sinewes firme his sunne increaseth And but till his death his sorrow never ceaseth.
In riper years when youthly courage raineth, A winters blast of fortunes lowring changes, A flattering hope wherein no trust remaineth, A fleeting love his forward ioy estranges : Atchive he wealth, with wasteful wo he bought it, Let substance faile, he grieues, and yet he sought
it.
In staied yeares whenas he seekes the gleaning : Of those his times in studious Artes bestowed, In sum me, he oft misconstrueth wise-mens mean- ings,
