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 and Sentiments. 345 queen Guenever, has the misfortune to lofe his horfe, and, meeting with a carter, he feizes his cart as the only means of conveyance, for the weight of his armour prevented him from walking. Queen Guenever and her ladies, from a bay window of the caftle of fir Meliagraunce, faw him approach, and one of the latter exclaimed, " See, madam, where as rideth in a cart a goodly armed knight ! I fuppofe that he rideth to hanging." Guenever, however, faw by his Ihield that it was fir Lancelot. " ' Ah, mofl: noble knight,' fhe laid, when Ihe faw him in this condition, ' I fee well that thou haft: been hard befted, when thou rideft in a cart.' Then flie rebuked that lady that compared him to one riding in a cart to hanging. ' It was foul mouthed,' faid the queen, ' and evil compared, fo to compare the moft noble knight of the world in fuch a fhameful death. Oh Jhefu ! defend him and keep him,' faid the queen, ' from all mif- chievous end.' " Our next cut (No. 232) is taken from the fame manufcript in the Britilli Mufeum which furniflied us with No. 230. The playful draughtf- No. 232. A Criminal drinvn to the Gallo-zu man has reprefented a fcene from the world "upfo-down," in which the rabbits (or perhaps hares) are leading to execution their old enemy the dog. Y Y The