Best friends must part, and so must you and I; There comes some consolation with the sigh; Germanicus, thy angel partner 3 bore, 2 This appellation was given to Cologne by the Ubians, in the time of the Romans; but which the Emperor Claudius afterwards changed to Colonia Agrippina, in honour of his wife Agrippina. In the time of Cæsar the country of the Ubians appears to have been a place of note.-(Comment. lib. iv. cap. iii.) 3 Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Agrippa, and wife of Germanicus, whom she accompanied to Syria; and, when Piso poisoned him, she brought his ashes to Italy, and accused the murderer, who stabbed himself. 4 That other Agrippina, surnamed Julia, the daughter of Germanicus ; she was first married to Domitius Enobarbus, and, after his death, to the Emperor Claudius, her uncle, whom she destroyed, in order that her son Nero might succeed him. XXXVIII. Similar names, but opposite qualities. Though than her mother far more beautiful; More beautiful, but Ah! how different! Stood paramount :-A monster was she sent, A husband first must fall;-those ties be rent, XXXIX. Yet e'er that horrid, murderous deed was done, 1 This took place about the 50th year of the Christian æra.-(See Nouveau Merian, ou Tems Anciens et Modernes du Rhin, page 290.) Colonia Agrippina, thenceforth call'd, In later days Cologne,-Vitellius' there, XL. A Roman origin. This sure were wrong, t' anticipate the city, Meanwhile, it were unfair, what's more á pity, To take no heed of Monheim in our eye; Its castle too, and Rolbach; by the bye, A purer rivulet runs not in this clime; Now, there's an error I would here descry, "Tis praise all premature,-who bawls sublime! And blurs the first fond glance, mistakes his time. Monheim Rolbach. 1 Aulus Vitellius, a Roman, who was raised by his vices to the throne, and who ultimately fell, under the fury of the populace, horrified at his enormities, A. D. 69. We learn, by Lendroy's Voyage du Rhin, page 395, that Vitellius was proclaimed Emperor at Cologne. 2 We also learn, from the same work and page, that at Cologne, Sylvanus had address enough to get himself clothed with the purple. He is well known to have been an officer of Constantius (the third son of Constantine the Great), who had revolted: he was afterwards slain by his soldiers. Mulhelm. Industry. XLI. Is that Cologne then, rising on the verge?— Not merely their bold truths, but by their toil, Whence is it ever, I would briefly ask, 1 In the latter end of the fifteenth century, the reformed religion met with many advocates in various cities on the banks of the Rhine: one of the most distinguished of these was Herman de Wied, the Elector of Cologne, the friend of Melancthon and of Bucer: in the succeeding century, the Archbishop Gebhard, who married the beautiful Countess of Mansfield, -Than where, with simpler ritual, penitent, And, he will heal whoe'er in truth repent, XLIII. And why should mended morals prove the fruits Both mode and metre.-Make the people wise, "Tis in the Pontiff that the mischief lies; Who'd rule by darkness, fasting, fête and feast ; The while the lands run waste-that were the least. Defects of the Roman Ca tholic Reli gion. was also much attached to the cause of the reformers; but, having testified a desire to make the electorate hereditary in his family, he was driven from the city, in 1583; and, at the same time, the religion which he had embraced was abrogated, and its followers banished. Then it was that so many industrious Protestants left Cologne, and went and settled at Mulheim. (See Le Nouveau Merian, page 303–304.) D |