tered. One man alone was missing; a trifling loss, compared with the number of followers.
In the Keep may be still discovered the prison, hanging post, and two carved heads, placed in opposite directions, one of Harold, the other of his victorious opposer. They are in fine preservation, though the ceiling of a gateway belonging to the Abbey, appears a strange place" for the exhibition of monarchy : William is crowned, and views his exasperated enemy with serenity and composure. It cannot be supposed that the magnanimous Norman could delight in a triumph after death ; and it certainly betrays a species of savagism in the contrivers of such a despicable insult to the memory of a fallen man, who, after balancing every pro and con, was certainly as brave to the full, and probably as just as the hero of St. Valery. Such is the difference of possession--the sun misplaced, would have no worshippers: Harold had lost his diadem, and his fall obliterated the remembrance pf every virtue he once possessed.
