" "Sweet children," spake the friar, "this world is oft-times a hard and cruel world, but God is a gentle God and merciful, wherefore as he hath given to man the blessed sun and the sweet and tender flowers, so hath he given him love.

Bird of the South, my Rondinello Under thy wing my heart hath lain

"And if the Republic hath no present need of the Consultore's mastery of sciences, the fame thereof hath made a hearing for any speech of his.

At him that hath me made of nought; His likeness he set my soul within, And all this world for me hath wrought; As father he fondid my love to win, set about.

And oft, when that dread vision hath past by, He holds with God himself communion high, There where the peal of swelling torrents fills The sky-roofed temple of the eternal hills; Or,

"Will Stutely hath been taken," cried they, when they had come to where he stood.

Marry, well bethought: Tis told me he hath very oft of late Giuen priuate time to you; and you your selfe Haue of your audience beene most free and bounteous.

Matthiolus brags, that he hath often, to the good of many, made use of it, and Heurnius, [4200]"that he hath happily used it, prepared after his own prescript," and with good success.

Indeed, I do love Nan our dairymaid: And hath he traine[d] her forth to that intent,

" "That is justly spoken," said the mother; "and nobly hath our boy fulfilled our hope.

As HESIOD wrote learnedly of husbandry in Greek: so TUSSER [hath] very wittily and experimentally written of it in English.

Then said Esau: Certainly and justly may his name be called well Jacob, for on another time tofore this he supplanted me of my patrimony, and now secondly he hath undernome from me my blessing.

What he will be next as yet he knoweth not; but ere he hath wintered his opinion it will be manifest.

" "Verily, she hath," interposed a female who had her hood drawn low over her face to protect it from the morning sun.

It will at least constrain any man to suspect all his discourse of vanity and unadvisedness, seeing he plainly hath no care to bridle his tongue from so gross an offence.

"And maidens, with such eyes as would grow dim Over a wounded hound Seem each one to have caught the strength of him Whose sword-knot she hath hound.

Like to a sacred image, unto which An oracle immutably hath bound A city's welfare, thee she bore away, Protectress of our house, and guarded here Within this holy stillness, to become A blessing to thy brother and thy race.

Pierre Ronsard, being an offshoot of this same College of Navarre, hath indubitably a claim upon our consideration.

MEPHISTOPHELES Madam, in truth, it grieves me sore, But he his gold not lavishly hath spent.

Very learnedly, in good faith, he hath also a smack in poetry.

His wealth enough to suffice nature, and sufficient to make him happy, if he were sure of it, for he hath little, and wants nothing; he values himself higher or lower as his master is.

Perplexing questions died within my breast, "Deep peace hath he who doeth lovingly

He is the star of my nativity, And often marvelously hath his aspect Shot strength into my heart.

Has not this same holy Saint Dunstan taught thee a goodly song or two?" "Why, as for that," quoth Little John, grinning, "mayhap he hath lent me aid to learn a ditty or so.

In order to reform the vices of this town, which, as we have said, hath so mighty an influence on the whole kingdom, it would be very instrumental to have a law made, that all taverns and alehouses should be obliged to dismiss their company at twelve at night, and shut up their doors, and that no woman should be suffered to enter any tavern or alehouse, upon any pretence whatsoever.