If thou couldst, thou wouldst. ALLIGATOR.

For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary!

But what moved thee, wayward, spiteful K., to be so importunate to carry off with thee, in spite of tears and adjurations to thee to forbear, the Letters of that princely woman, the thrice noble Margaret Newcastle?knowing at the time, and knowing that I knew also, thou most assuredly wouldst never turn over one leaf of the illustrious folio:what but the mere spirit of contradiction, and childish love of getting the better of thy

Did one of thy followers come on this quarter-deck and insist on hearing all thine own motives for the orders given in this little felucca, how readily wouldst thou drive him back as mutinous and insolent; and yet thou wouldst question the God of the universe and pry into his mysteries!" Raoul was mute, while Ithuel stared.

"They shall carry thee whither thou wouldst not," said our Lord Jesus Christ to Peter.

Wherefore wouldst thou speak with him, my daughter? THEKLA.

But if the God of my father Abraham and the dread of Isaac had been with me, haply thou wouldst now have left me naked.