but not with health,
her eye,
And her mouth, whose slightest smile had won the hearts of ARTHUR'S
train,
By its pale thin lips' quick tremor half confessed the inward pain.
Much she laughed, when LANCELOT told her what had brought him to her
door,
And how ARTHUR'S famous knights had sprawled upon the sandy floor.
"Though," said she, "my quick clairvoyant spirit saw the merry scene,
And I heard you ask each other what the mystic raps might mean;
So I cast a glamour round you, that your dazzled eyes might see
All the glories of the future, and the wonders that shall be.
Ask not why the table moved or what the mystic raps may be;
Marvels, such as these, we Media can't explain without a fee;
But be sure, these things that fright thee in the future shall not fail
To avenge thee on the men who'll deem _thy_ fame an idle tale.
Though the men of future ages you and yours shall despise,
They shall not be wholly prescient, and not altogether wise;
Some defect, to prove them human, shall their brightest plans deface;
Follies worthy of the weakest, shall the wisest age disgrace;
And as if _some_ superstition still the human brain _must_ bother,
They shall but shake off one folly to be taken with another,
So that those, who all the tales of ARTHUR as mere lies reprove,
Shall believe his great round table by his knights' mere will could
move."

As she spoke the glamour faded, and SIR LANCELOT saw the moor
And the woodland stretching out for many a league his road before;
Many a sign of knoll and headland marked an old familiar spot,
So, upon the vision musing, back he rode to Camelot.

[Footnote 1:] This historical personage was apparently the first
landlady of the Belle Sauvage.

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FRIENDS OF CABMANITY.

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SIR ROBERT INGLIS, LORD DUDLEY STUART, and MR BONHAM CARTER are to be
congratulated on the highly respectable lifehold residence which, it
appears, they have acquired. They are to dwell, conjointly, in the
hearts of the cab-owners, where, let us hope, they will not quarrel:
especially as MR. BRIGHT is to be their fellow-tenant. On Wednesday
evening last, at a meeting of that worthy proprietary, convened for the
purpose of asserting the principle of extortion against the Legislature,
a man named BEADLE, who proposed a shilling a mile fares, is reported to
have said:--

"The gentlemen who