The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.

Though tempered in hotter climates, I had no sooner driven out of the sombre hotel and the deep shade of the great Cathedral, by which it has been darkened for ages, than I was conscious that the temperature of Rheims even could occasionally rise to a height to test the endurance of the most sunbaked.

The tramp of horses was now heard, and the Lady Rowena appeared, surrounded by several riders, and a much stronger party of footmen, who joyfully shook their pikes and clashed their brown-bills for joy of her freedom.

In this context, exposure to house dogs, especially in childhood, might be an easy way for human contamination with a heterogeneous morbillivirus which is highly encephalomyelitogenic.