a lonely flower.  Why camest thou out so early, and wouldst not tarry for thy more cautious spring-time companions?  Yet thou knowest not fear, “fair maiden of February.”  Thou art bold to come out on such a morning, and friendless too.  It must be true as they tell me, that thou wert once an icicle, and the breath of some fairy’s lips warmed thee into a flower.  Indeed thou lookest a frail and fairy thing, and thou wilt not sojourn with us long; therefore it is I make much of thee.  Too soon, ah! too soon, will thy graceful form droop and die; yet shall the memory of my Snowdrop be sweet, while memory lasts.  I know not that I shall live to see thy drooping head another year.  A thousand flowers with a thousand hues will follow after thee, but I will not, I will not forget thee my Snowdrop.

Major Convolvulus.

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OUR LADY’S CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK.

It may not plainly appear to some readers that our Engraving of this fine vestige of ancient art, is from a View taken in the year 1818.  The Bishop’s Chapel, which is there shown, was demolished about twelve months since, at whose bidding we know not; perhaps of the same party who now contend for the destruction of the Lady Chapel.

By the way we referred to the Altar Screen, of which we now find the following memorandum in a History of St. Saviour’s Church, published in 1795:[4]

    “Anno 1618. 15 Jac.  I. 
    “The screen at the entrance to the chapel of the Virgin Mary was
    this year set up.”

In the same work occur the particulars of the repairs of the Lady Chapel in 1624: 

“Anno 1624. 21 Jac.  I.  “The chapel of the Virgin Mary was restored to the parishioners, being let out to bakers for above sixty years before, and 200_l_. laid out in the repair.  Of which we preserve the following extract from Stowe: 

    “But passing all these, some what now of that part of this church
    above the chancell, that in former times was called Our Ladies
    Chappell.

“It is now called the New Chappell; and indeed, though very old, it now may be called a new one, because newly redeemed from such use and imployment, as in respect of that it was built to, divine and religious duties, may very well be branded, with the style of wretched, base, and unworthy, for that, that before this abuse, was (and is now) a faire and beautifull chappell, by those that were then the corporation (which is a body consisting of thirty vestry-men, six of those thirty, churchwardens) was leased and let out, and the house of God made a bake-house.

“Two very faire doores, that from the two side iles of the chancell of this church, and two that thorow the head of the chancell (as at this day they doe againe) went into it, were lath’t, daub’d, and dam’d up:  the faire pillars