Ceres ftands next, with her hair turned up, and tied behijl
over her forehead a leaf, an emblem of vegetation ; and in oil
hand a blunted fpear. Her robe and attitude are’ elegant. T|
other hand points to her neck, and paffes through a pendent ffl
let, hanging below her breaft. Beneath her feet, and that of tl|
fucceeding figure, are two ears, perhaps of corn, but fo ill ex|
cuted as to leave the matter in doubt.
Minerva is placed with her back to Ceres. Her figure is J
no means equivocal: her helmet, fpear, ihield, and the head of
Medufa on her breaft, fufficiently mark the goddefs. Her rigl
hand is lifted up, as if pointing to another figure, that of Diam
dreffed and armed for the chace.. Her lower garment is Ihorl
not reaching to her knee; over that flows a mantle, falling ;tdj
the middle of her legs, and hanging gracefully over one arm. Hi
legs dreffed in bufkins :
T a lia fuccinila pinguntur crura D ian je
C um fequitur fortes, fortior ipfa feras.
One hand extends her bow towards Minerva; the other holds a»j
arrow : between them is a tree branching over both of them, with!
feveral birds perched on i t : among them that of Jove, inimedl
ately over the head of Minerva, perhaps to mark her as thfl
daughter of that deity. On the fide next to Diana is an altaij
with a fmall globular body on it; probably, as my learned aiia
tiquary imagines, libamina ex fane, melle et oleo.
One leg of that goddefs is placed oyer a rock, on whofe W
is an urn, with a copious ftream flowing from it. The rocl
.¡ill
nd tree recal into Mr. Gale’s mind, the addrefs of Horace, to the
ime deity:
Montium cuitos nemorumque virgo.
Between the rock and the altar of eternal fire is a grey-hound,
»king up to her, and a dead deer; both belonging to this god-
Ifs of the chace.
[Mr. Gale imagines it to have been one of the Lances, or fa-
pficing plates, fo often mentioned by Virgil, on which were placed
ie leiler vidims.
Dona ferunt, cumulantque oneratis lancilus aras.
Continue our ride by the fide of the Tyne. Reach Bywell, a Bywsll.
tall village, feated in a manor of the fame name, which Guy de
fa was invefted with, by William Rufus *, and which Hugh de
fa held afterwards by the fervice of five knights fees, and
ping thirty foldiers for the defence of Newcajlle upon Tyne, as
p anceftors had done from their firft pofieffion -f.
Near the village is a handfome modern houfe, the feat of Mr.
peick. A little farther is a fquare tower, built by the Nevils,
fceffors to the Baliols, which was forfeited by the rebellion of
E Esrl of W’.ftmoreland, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. At
® tlme it was noted for a manufaiture of bits, ftirrups, and
ptkles, for the ufe of the borderers. At the fame time, fuch was
f U1,happy fituation of the place, that the inhabitants, through
p of the thieves of Tynedale, were obliged nightly, in fummer
wll as winter, to bring their cattle and Iheep into the ftreet,
f Baron, I . 523.
F M r Antient Tenures, 14.
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