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 and Se?2tme?2ts. 291 when ihe is walking out, and efpecially when paffing along the ftreets of a town, or going to church. "As you go," he fays, " look ftraight before you, with your eye-lids low and fixed, looking forward to the ground, at five toifes (thirty feet) before you, and not looking at, or turning your No. 196. Ladies lUiilking in the Garden. eyes, to man or woman who may be to your riglit or left, nor looking upwards, nor changing your look from one place to another, nor laughing, nor flopping to fpeak to anybody in the ftreet" (vol. i. p. 15). It muft be confeffed that this is, in fome points, rather hard counfel for a lady to follow 5 but it is confifient with the general fyftem of formalities of behaviour in the middle ages, upon which the ladies gladly took their revenge when removed from conllraint. When two or more perfons walked together, it was the cuftom to hold each other by the hands, not to walk arm-in-arm, which appears to be a very modern praftice. In the romance of " Ogier le Danois," the emperor and Ogier, when reconciled, are thus reprefented, walking in a friendly manner hand in hand. The ladies in our laft engraving are walking in this manner 3 and in our next (No. 197), — taken from a copy, given in M. du Sommerard's "Album," from a manufcript in the library of the arfenal at Paris, written and illuminated for a prince of the houfe of Burgundy, in the fifteenth century, — the lords and ladies of a noble or princely houfeliold are repre- fented as walking out in the fame manner. It is well known that the court