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Chap. I.
EPITAPHIA.
7
the walls of the church—much as we do our own
achievements in the country villages of England. They are
rich in carvings and highly ornamented. Many of these
portraits are excellent, and by first-rate masters. The
custom dates from the Reformation downwards, and
appears in the north to have nearly superseded the use
of stone and alabaster. It may be inferred that after
the introduction of the reformed faith—the demand for
saints, holy families, and angels having ceased—the
artists were glad to turn their talents to account, and
this style of monument was found to be less expensive
than either stone or bronze.
The sacristan pointed out to us an epitaphium painted
by a brother of Sir Godfrey Kneller, also a native of
Lubec, to the memory of the family of Drinklage—
(Drinkwater, Drinkwasser, Boileau, Bevilacqua—you
find them in every country)—who, strange to say, bear
for their cognisance a XXX.
We visited the Schifferhaus, an ancient tavern for
ship captains, where on the carved stalls you may,
among other heraldic shields, observe that of Iceland—
a stockfish surmounted by a crown—and old models
of naval architecture, dating from the days when the
ships of Lubec and the Hanseatic League swept the
seas of the Baltic as well as the German Ocean. Then,
too, there is the meeting-room of the burghers—a gem
of marqueterie—with fine portraits of her ancient
burgomasters, and views of the old mercantile ports of Europe,
such as they once were, ranged in panels around the
cornices of the apartment.
But the great charms of Lubec are the walks on the
ancient ramparts which surround the city—shady walks
under a canopy of fragrant limes, now in all their luxu-
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