POETRY
... . THE JESTER'S SERMON (From Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundhea&d, by G. W. . ' Ttornbury.) The Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped tipon a chair; The pages laughed, the women screamed, and tossed their scented hair ; The falcon whistled, stag.hounds bayed, the lap.dog barked without; The scullion dropped the pitcher brown, the cook railed at the lout!I The steward, countiog out his ...