246 Metaphors for ye

ye lykened are the best, Be lyke in mercy as in all the rest.

"If ye know,"there is, then, a certain kind of knowledge without which we can not be happy.

Let me not fall under your knives of slaughter, and bring ye not forward my wickedness unto the god in whose train ye are; and let not evil hap come upon, me by your means.

"Those wives," says Mohammed, "whose perverseness ye may be apprehensive of, rebuke, and remove them into separate apartments, and chastise them.

Come in an' sit ye down, do; ye must be mortal hot and tired, walkin' so far in your deep.

Why, that very statye o' St. Pathrick that ye were talkin' of a while ago, wasn't it them brought it?

Away, keepe no distance, even both together, for wit ye may be Coacht together.

" "Was it Mr. Brennan ye were cryin' about, me poor child?" said Mrs. McNally, in a compassionate but distinctly audible whisper.

If I had kent for sure, I wud ha'e been knittin' ye socks instead o' a silly tie for yer birthday.' 'Ha'e ye been knittin' a tie for me?' 'Uh-hastrictly platonic, of course.

Keep them always by you, so that ye may tell your grandchildren, an ye are ever blessed with them, that ye are the very stoutest yeomen in all the wide world.

"Ye be al'ays jumpin' at notions, Mary.

Ye are men, and ye are mariners" "Away with him!"

"And who may ye be, a-wall climbin' and a breakin' over in folks' gardens to steal their fruit?" "Don't you cheek us," said Roy, throwing his head up, and putting on his most autocratic air; "this is our garden and our wall, and the road you're walking on is our private road!" "Then don't you take to insulting passers-by, or it will be the worse for ye!" retorted the man.

o' tending the rich Smith boy, ain't ye, doctor?" DOCTOR"Well, yes; I get a pretty good fee.

Hev ye ever been sea-farin' down in them waters, off the West Indies?" "No."

he said brokenly, "ye were always the good little girl, Roseen.

No; ye must ahlways be huntin' round fur harrum to be doin' or throuble to make.

"Ye were verra kind, Mistress Burnham," said the man, "to sen' Ralph the gude things to eat when he waur sick.

Ye've never a child that's so clever as ye are yerself.

[Pause.] EUPHORION Gracefully sporting, Light-footed roes, New frolic courting Scorn ye repose: I am the hunter, Ye are the game.

"Ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular."

That ye are villains, is to be proved, in your teeth, by your getting your sailing orders from the devil; and that ye are lubbers, any man may see by the fashion in which ye have rove this cord about my throat.

He was roused from his stupor by his companion shaking him and saying: "Fernando, me boy, it's a divil's own mess ye are makin' of this!

But oh, ye are an empty-headed crew!'

The cheerer Thou of our in-door sadness, 30 He is the friend of our summer gladness: What hinders, then, that ye should be Playmates in the sunny weather, And fly about in the air together!

246 Metaphors for  ye