"What fools these mortals be!"

Thus we mortals may be a flower-clock for higher beings, when our flower-leaves close upon our last bed; or sand clocks, when the sand of our life is so run down that it is renewed in the other world; or picture-clocks because, when our death-bell here below strikes and rings, our image steps forth, from its case into the next world.

Theodore's contentment in such a case is a theme for the moralista better moralist than I. The best and purest mortals are an odd mixture, and in none of us does honesty exist on its own terms.

So mortal was their malice and so sore, That both resolved (than yield) to die before.

"To reason how can we be said to rise? So hard the task for mortals to be wise!"Sheffield cor.

" "Bless me, how Braham is improved!" cried a man with spectacles, behind me; "he acts now better than he sings!" "Is it not strange," said Asmodeus, "how long the germ of a quality may remain latent in the human mind, and how completely you mortals are the creatures of culture?

The first mortals were the man, Cipactonal, and the woman, Oxomuco, and that the son born to them might have a wife, the four gods made one for him out of a hair taken from the head of their divine mother, Xochiquetzal.