"RESTABAT cura sepulchri;

Te term is old French.

corpus

Frondibus obtexi, puerum nec ab ubere

vulsi,

Sicut erat foliis tegitur, funusq; paratur Heu nimis incertum et primis violabile ventis."-BUSSIERES.

A Gallery.

"UNE porte d'airain s'ouvre alors en deux parts.

Le lieu vaste reçoit les avides regards.

Vers le bout éloigné, que l'œil à peine acheve, La voûte semble basse, et le pavé s'éleve. Le lambris qui les suit vers un but limité Diminuë à l'égal d'un et d'autre costé." CLOVIS.

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"Yo vi con apariencia manifiesta que no fue el respuesta por él mismo, mas por algun espiritu compuesta: como si alguna furia del abismo al sabio las entrañas le royera, 6 como que le toma parasismo con los mismos efectos y tal era la presencia del viejo quando vino a darme la respuesta verdadera. Andaba con furioso desatino torciendose las manos arrugadas, los ojos bueltos de un color sanguino : las barbas, antes largas y peynadas, llevaba vedijosas y rebueltas, como de fieras sierpes enroscadas : las rocas, que con mil nudosas bueltas la cabeza prudente le ceñian,

por este y aquel hombro lleva sueltas: las horrendas palabras parecian salir por una trompa resonante, y que los yertos labios no movian.” L. LEONARDO.

"OLD bed-rid age laments

Its many winters, or does wish 'em more, To have more strength to fight, or less to die."

SOUTHERNE's Persian Prince.

"O CALL me home again, dear Chief! and put me

To yoking foxes, milking of he-goats,
Pounding of water in a mortar, laving
The sea dry with a nut-shell, gathering all
The leaves are fallen this autumn, making
ropes of sand,

Catching the winds together in a net, Mustering of ants, and numbring atoms; all

That hell and you thought exquisite torments, rather

Than stay me here a thought more. I would sooner

Keep fleas within a circle, and be accomp

tant

A thousand year which of 'em and how far Outleap'd the other, than endure a minute Such as I have within."

BEN JONSON. The Devil is an Ass.

"HERE is Domine Picklock My man o' law, sollicits all my causes, Follows my business, makes and compounds my quarrels

Between my tenants and me; sows all my strifes

And reaps them too; troubles the country for me,

And vexes any neighbour that I please." B. J. The Staple of News.

Conscience.

"Poor plodding priests, and preaching friars may make

Their hollow pulpits and the empty iles Of churches ring with that round word:

but we

That draw the subtile and more piercing

air

In that sublimed region of a court,
Know all is good we make so, and go on
Secur'd by the prosperity of our crimes."
B. J. Mortimer's Fall.

"NASCE con noi l'amor della virtu,
Quando non basta ad evitar le colpe
Basta almeno a punir le.

E un don del Cielo, che diventa castigo
Per chi n'abusa, il piu crudel tormento
Ch' hanno i malvagi, e il conservar nel core,
Ancora alor dispetto,
L'idea del giusto, e dell' onesto i semi."
METASTASIO. Issipile.

"EXPECTATION in a weake minde, makes an evill greater, and a good less: but in a resolved minde, it digests an evill before it comes, and makes a future good long before present."-DR. Jos. HALL'S Meditations and Vowes. 1617.

"THE heart of man is a short word, a small substance, scarce enough to give a kite one meale; yet great in capacitie, yea, so infinite in desire, that the round globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it."-Ibid.1

This I suspect to have suggested Quarles' Epigram.

"CHRISTIAN societie is like a bundle of stickes layed together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evill, but againe fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evill, will I account Christian good fellowship better than an Eremitish and melancholike solitarinesse."Ibid.

"Le monde n'a point de longues injustices." M. DE SEVIGNÉ.

Scripture Extracts.

"BEHOLD I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen 'See infrà, p. 222.-J. W. W.

walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

"And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee."--Jeremiah, chap. i. 18, 19.

"THE lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

"For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl; for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

"And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.”—Ibid. chap. iv. 7, 8, 9.

"I BEHELD, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

"I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger."-Ibid. chap. iv. 25, 26.

"FOR thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem; this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

"As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

"Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited."-Ibid. chap. vi. 6, 7, 8.

"AND the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away."—Ibid. chap. vii. 33.

"OVER their marriage bed I'll write their ages,

And only say, here lies Sir Argent Scrape,
Together with his wife the Lady Covet.
And whosoever reads it, will suppose
The place to be a tomb, no marriage bed.
To fit them for an Hymenæal song,
Instead of those so high and spirited strains
Which the old Grecian lovers used to sing,
I'll sing a quiet dirge, and bid them sleep
In peaceful rest, and bid the clothes, instead
Of earth, lie gently on their aged bones."

Ibid.

"WELL, let it be a riddle! I have not so much wit as to expound it, Nor yet so little as to lose my thoughts,

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HERCULES when left by the Argonauts : Tacitumq; pudet potuisse relinqui." V. FLACCUS, lib. iv. 57.

"EXUVIE tibi ludus erant, primusq; solebas Aspera complecti torvum post prælia patrem, Signa triumphato quoties flexisset ab Istro Arcteâ de strage calens, et poscere partem De spoliis, Scythicosve arcus, aut rapta Gelonis

Cingula, vel jaculum Daci, vel frena Suevi. Illecoruscanti clipeo te sæpe volentem Sustulit arridens, et pectore pressit anhelo Intrepidum ferri, galeæ nec triste timentem Fulgur, et ad summas tendentem brachia

cristas."- Ibid. De III. Cons. Honor,

v. 23, &c. "Hos tibi virtutum stimulos, hæc semina laudum, Hæc exempla dabat." Ibid. v. 59.

"ILLI justitiam confirmavere triumphi; Præsentes docuere Deos." 2

Ibid. iv. Cons. Honor. v. 98.

John Bunyan of his Pilgrim's Progress. "IT came from mine own heart, so to my head,

And thence into my fingers trickled;
Then to my pen, from whence immediately
On
paper I did dribble it daintily.”

"MUSICK is nothing else, but wild sounds civilised into Time and Tune. Such the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth as low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels. For horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, gingel away their weariness."FULLER.

"INSTANS de bonheur-goûtés d'avance par l'espoir de les voir renaître, goûtés après qu'ils se sont écoulés, par le souvenir qui les perpétue."-Voy. du J. Anacharsis. Motto for Christmas or May day.

Thalala. [This is evidently intended to refer to Madoc in Atzlan, ix. See Poems, p. 377. J. W. W.]

2 Conquests of the French.