AN ACCOUNT OF THE BOAR'S HEAD FEAST AND CEREMONIES
FORMERLY OBSERVED AT ST. JOHN'S GATE.

BY

JOHN JEREMIAH,

HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE URBAN CLUB, ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL;
MEMBER OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND;
AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON EISTEDDVODAU; OR, WELSH MUSICAL FESTIVALS."

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1877.

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BY

JOHN JEREMIAH.

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"But call it worship, call it what you will, is it not a right glorious thing, and fet of things, this that Shakspeare has brought us? For myfelf, I feel that there is actually a kind of sacredness in the fact of such a man being fent into this earth. Is he not an eye to us all; a bleffed heaven-fent Bringer of Light?"

"He lafts for-ever with us; we cannot give-up our Shakspeare."

Thomas Carlyle, "On Heroes,” pp. 103, 105.

Hearing you praised, I fay-'tis fo, 'tis true,
And to the most of praise add fomething more;
But that is in my thought, whofe love to you,

Though words come hindmoft, holds his rank before. Then others for the breath of words respect

Me for my dumb thoughts, fpeaking in effect."

Shakespeare's Sonnet i.XXXV.