The great feast-day had certainly not dawned propitiously.

" The man led the way into the feast hall, and there Theseus saw his fifty cousins sitting about the table, and eating and drinking and making merry; and there was a great noise of revelry in the hall, the minstrels singing and playing, and the slave girls dancing, and the half-drunken princes shouting and cursing.

In the kitchen the cooks and amahs were busy with the feast-cooking.

In your feast-cup, my brethren, forget not our story; The death of the Free is the noblest of glory!" FIRST SEMICHORUS.

Mr. Clendon, however, persuaded them to give one of their feast-dances.

It is on the famous shield of Achilles that Homer has described a marriage procession Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance and hymeneal rite.

But from a cloud of smoke he breaks to light, And pours his specious miracles to sight; Antiphates his hideous feast devours, Charybdis barks, and Polyphemus roars.

they cry, "thy feast doth wait!" Dainty fingers thine, and nice, With thy bodkin picking rice!

But mark this, O Hair-Face: it was an insult, not to Niblack the feast-giver, but to the man chiefest of rank who sat among those of the circle.

A good feast-hound or banquet-beagle, that will scent you out a supper some three miles off, and swear to his patrons, damn him!

During this feast indications were taken of the felicity of the remaining part of the winter.

In solemn croak Thus one his hungry friend bespoke: 'Methinks I scent some rich repast; The savour strengthens with the blast; Snuff then, the promised feast inhale; I taste the carcase in the gale; 80 Near yonder trees, the farmer's steed, From toil and daily drudgery freed, Hath groaned his last.

Lectio brevis, which in feast offices is the Capitulum from None.

Come, noble Earle, let your kind presence grace Our feast prepard for this obdurate Lord, And give some comfort to his sorrowfull bride Who in her pitteous teares swims after him.

On Cape Misenum shone a palace fair Among the laurels by the summer sea; Long colonnades, and wondrous artistry, And all that should a gorgeous feast prepare.

Shout, and fill the hirlass horn, Round the dirge-feast quaff till morn; Songs and joy sound o'er the heath, For he died the warrior's death!

The source of the story is in Ægidius Tschudi, a Swiss chronicler; and Schiller appears to have adhered, with much fidelity, to the original narrative.] At Aachen, in imperial state, In that time-hallow'd hall renown'd, At solemn feast King Rudolf sate, The day that saw the hero crown'd!

It is understood that these compassionate maidens who, on such occasions, step forward to the rescue, and take one of the young men by the hand, are willing to accept of the same when it may hereafter be offered to them in marriage, so the contagion of wedding-feasts spreads, and one marriage makes many.

The skins are immediately bartered for guns, ammunition, clothing, trinkets, &c. Invitations are then sent to the inhabitants of the various friendly villages, and when they have all assembled the feast commences, and presents are distributed to each visitor.

In choosing a wife, you follow the craft, And forthwith on the mats the feast-vessels stand.

"Up, ye feast companions!