Query, if now
in payment?_ ANNUAL gifts of Lady Coventry for putting out two
poor children born in this parish. Lady Martin's, and many
others, are annual gifts, which ought to be forthcoming to the
parish at this time."
This last note contains some Queries which I should be glad to see
answered.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. {173}
_The Plant "Haemony"_ (Vol. ii. p. 88. and p. 141.).--The mystical
meaning of "Haemony" is evolved by Coleridge in a passage which occurs
in his _Statesman's Manual_, appendix B., and which cannot fail to
interest the readers of _Comus_.
"It is found in the study of the Old and New Testament, if only
it be combined with a spiritual partaking of the Redeemer's
blood, of which, mysterious as the symbol may be, the
sacramental wine is no mere or arbitrary _memento_. This is the
only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all
debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek:
haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has
beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all
his commentators. Bear in mind, reader! the character of a
militant Christian, and the results (in this life and in the
next) of the redemption by the blood of Christ, and so peruse
the passage.
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