Punch: Punch (70.1876)

February 26, 1876.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

73

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY AT G1RTON.

First Young Lcuhj {opens Valentine, and reads):—

" '"Epoos aviKare ixax^v,

"EpocSf bs iv Kriffxacn 7ri7rTeiy,' . . . &c, &c.

C it arming, isn't it? Gl'ssie'must have sent it from oxford ? "

Second Young Lady (overlooking). "Yes, it's out of the Antigone—the Love-Chorus,
you know. How much jollier than those silly English Verses Fellows used to

send ! "

LUNAR VAGARIES.

There are two Moons, one ecclesiastical and the other civil. Perhaps we ought to say
there are three, and include the Moon poetical, , which hath influences over

" The lunatic, the lover, and the poet."

The Moon ecclesiastical definesRasterDay ; and this year there is a great outcry against
her for putting that festival a week later than if the actual Moon had decided it. The
Reverend Lord Alwyne Compton, however, comes forward with consolation, and says :—

"Among the proposals for amending the Rubrics now before Convention is one .that the following
words should be added to the rule quoted by Mr. Jackson from the Book of Common Prayer :—' Note.—
That the full moon of this rule is not the full moon of the heavens, but the 14th day of the moon of the
Ecclesiastical Calendar.'

Plain people will fancy that this is an odd way to mend a Rubric (if it be a Rubric), since,
instead of altering it, a note is added stating that "full Moon " means something else, and
that the "Moon of the heavens" is not the Moon recognised by the Church of England.
What an insult to " Siderum Regina btcorms" .' "Why should not the Moon of the heavens
regulate Easter, so that everybody may calculate the date of that feast for himself ?

There is a story of a Greek Cockney who was surprised to find the same Moon in Athens
that he had left behind him at Corinth. His astonishment could hardly have been greater
than is that of Mr. Jackson and his friends at finding that the. Clergy have a special
Moon of their own, which declines to be bound by astronomical rules.

IS. Payson Weston's Perpetual Motion.
[110.-miles in tw«ntv-four hours,, followed, within less than a week, by ISO miles in forty-eight! ]
Well ! there is one thing no one can say of our American Cousin's unequalled pedestrian
feat—and feet—and that is, Walker!

THE FOLLY AT FOLKESTONE.

Air—" The Vicar of<Bray."

0 Ridsdaxe, Reverend Gent., desist
Erom antics Ritualistic.

Are you determined to persist

In aping rites Papistic ?
What, is it really your intent
To disregard " monition " ?
On that wild course if you are bent,
Consider your position.
In the face of the Law no longer fly;

At Popery cease to play, Sir.
You had better cave in and knuckle
down,

And act the Vicar of Bray, Sir.

Oblige the Law to turn you out

As being its transgressor,
And you may. call yourself, no doubt,

A "Catholic" Confessor.
But you 're a Heretic, Sir, says Rome,

Until her pale you enter;
Whilst from the Church that was your
home

You '11 stand a mere Dissenter.

In the face of the Law, &c.

This is a land of Liberty,

And all, in these dominions,
To own what faith they please are free,

And preach their own opinions.
Whatever crotchets they may hold

They 're licensed to avow them,
Without, but not within, the fold,

Whose Doctors disallow them.

In the face of the Law, &c.

To Bishops if 3*011 thus deny

Obedience that you owe, Sir,
Oh whither do you think to fly,

And where expect to go, Sir ?
What refuge from " Erastianism,"

But knuckling down to Cesar ?
Some new conventicle of Schism,

A High-Church Ebenezer ?

In the face of the Law, &c.

Will.you compete, .for cure of souls,

With each sectarian surgeon,
And, in your chasubles and stoles,

Attempt to cut out Spurgeon ?
But first a requisite.you'11 need

'Twill puzzle you to fish up;
For your secession to succeed,

You '11 have to find a Bishop.

In the face of the Law, ,&e.

Debarred-by Vatican Decrees,
All their gainsayers banning,

1 You fellows can't, as refugees,

Take service under Manning.
Like bats you .fl.it 'twixt birds and beasts,

in view of either erring,
Nor Protestants nor Popish Priests,

Eish, flesh, nor-good red herring.

In the face-of the Law, &c.

You know, if once yon overstepped

Rome's fixed and rigid border,
That all of you would then be kept

Severely under order;
Eor pranks allowed no further scope,

Obedience forced to render ;
No more himself each playing Pope,

But snubbed as a Pretender.

In the face of the Law, &c.

Not a Bad Interpretation.

Inquisitive Small Boy. Papa, what does
Fugitive mean ?

Papa {Conwlting Xuttall s Dictionary).
'' Xot tenable — not durable — volatile —
short-lived."

Little Boy. Then, does Fugitive Slave
Circular mean Short-lived Slave Circular ?