In Naples as he stroll'd, a stranger there, A comely maid took pity on my friend: And gave such tokens of her love and care, That he retained them to his blessed end.

i. 633. 'Forgiving with a smile The perjuries that easy maids beguile.

"Put all that splendour away," she ordered her maid cheerfully.

" She looked at her maid curiously.

Most persons never saw an American woman making hay, unless in the highly imaginative cantata of "The Hay-Makers"; and Dolly the Dairy-Maid is becoming to our children as purely ideal a being as Cinderella.

" "I've pointed out to them all that there never is but one room haunted in a house as a rule," said the maid eagerly, "and I think they all quite sees that, ma'am.

Alone the youths made answer, "That cannot be, you fairest maid, that you with us be taken!

And many a goodly maid beside Nor ever glance to my abode.

"Doubtless, doubtless," here interposed the young maid somewhat hurriedly, desirous perhaps of distracting the grave butler's attention from the mischievous oglings of the lad as he went out of the room, "as you remarkhemas thou remarkest, this place of service is none to the liking of such as ... thee ...

Thou think'st to win the noble knightly maid By thy apostacy.

He spoke to the conductor on the way out, and tipped the porter and maid liberally to look after the travelers' comfort.

Oddly enough, almost exactly the same thing happened to him in 1888: "The door blew shut, with the maid outside, and no one in the house.

And hapless Juliet's unextinguish'd flame, Gives to the tomb she mock'd, her beauteous frame; Yet diff'rent far, where Claudio sees return'd To life, and love, the maid too rashly spurn'd; Or Falstaff, in his sympathetic scroll, Forth to the Wives of Windsor pours his soul.

"I didn't see him," said the maid, almost regretfully.

And the bowl and skittles there,the trim-waisted skittles, shapely maids, whose orderly quadrilles Patou in his gambols clumsily upsets!

What pity thuch a pretty maid Ath I thoud go to hell!"

"A thousand gnomes brought golden urns, With red, red wine and crystal filled; And all my couch was flowers and ferns, And whatsoever maid I willed.

Now I went forward for a space, and took heed not to look backwards; but to be strong of heart and spirit; for that which did lie before me had need of all my manhood and courage of soul, that I come to the succour of that Maid afar in the darkness of the World, or meet my death proper, as it might need to be.

"Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud noise of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rosea raucous voicethat sang "'Maids in the warmth of a summer day Dream of love and of love alway.