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Extremity doth but fasten him, whilst he, like a well-wrought vault, lies the stronger, by how much more weight he bears.

Age's chief arts and arms are to grow wise, Virtue to know, and known, to exercise; All just returns to age then virtue makes, 79 Nor her in her extremity forsakes; The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

He for whom at the last extremity friend and slave give their lives does not fall ingloriously.

The foes swarm through the breach and o'er the walls, And Erech in extremity loud calls Upon the gods for aid, but prays for naught, While Elam's soldiers, to a frenzy wrought, Pursue and slay, and sack the city old With fiendish shouts for blood and yellow gold.

In his mountains he has the Oasis; it is a little shady valley, enlivened by the murmur of a streamlet, and with one extremity opening to the sea.

In this extremity recourse was had to the forest.

I could see nothing of the river itself beyond the reach in which the boats were lying; its upper extremity bore South by West and was about half a mile from our halting place.

But in this extremity relief at last was afforded by the decisive measures of the Prince of Orange, who ordered all the neighboring dikes to be opened and the sluices raised, thus sweeping away the besiegers on the waves of the ocean: the inhabitants of Leyden were apprised of this intention by means of letters intrusted to the safe carriage of pigeons trained for the purpose.