On a Lazy Idle Boy

I had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British king, saint, and martyr, Lucius,* who founded the Church of St. Peter, on Cornhill. Few people note the church now-a-days, and fewer ever heard of the saint. In the cathedral at Chur, his statue appears surrounded by other sainted persons of his family. With tight red breeches, a Roman habit, a curly brown beard, and a neat little gilt crown and sceptre, he stands, a very comely and cheerful image: and, from what I may call his peculiar position with regard to Cornhill, I beheld this figure of St. Lucius with more interest than I should have bestowed upon personages who, hierarchically, are, I dare say, his superiors.

* Stow quotes the inscription, still extant, from the table / fast chained in St. Peter's Church, Cornhill; and says, "he / was after some chronicle buried at London, and after some / chronicle buried at Glowcester" -- but, oh! these incorrect / chroniclers! when Alban Butler, in the "Lives of the / Saints," v. xii., and Murray's "Handbook," and the Sacristan / at Chur, all say Lucius was killed there, and I saw his tomb / with my own eyes!