Then he began:Your kindness hath been great, Your courtesy great, and your love not common; Yet so much favour pray let me entreat, To be excus'd from marrying any woman.

Say, why so soon does all thy kindness fade, And doom me, thus, affliction's cup to taste? Ungen'rous deed!

A voice, not earthly, thus addressed The Símúrgh in his mountain nest "To thee this mortal I resign, Protected by the power divine; Let him thy fostering kindness share, Nourish him with paternal care; For from his loins, in time, will spring The champion of the world, and bring Honour on earth, and to thy name; The heir of everlasting fame.

At bed time that night, Joe White begged his school-fellow's pardon for entangling his kite twine, and went to bed very humble and grateful, and with a little love and kindness dawning, which made his rest sweeter and his dreams happier.

A certain kindness dwelt in her emerald eyes.

The greatest kindness dying friends can have, Is to dispatch them, when we cannot save.

And let thy breast with kindness glow, And gentle thoughts within thee move, While yet a heart, through weal and woe, Beats to thine own in faithful love.

[Illustration: M] My father, my mother, I know, I cannot your kindness repay; But I hope that, as older I grow, I shall learn your commands to obey.

Oh, may the blessings of His loving-kindness shower down upon me, soften yet more my heart to receive His glorious image.

Fragrance from the meadows blowing, Naught of heat or hatred knowing, Kindness seeking, kindness sowing, Not to-morrow, but to-day.

I promise you truly that you shall receive from me for your kindness affection equal, and perhaps greater, in exchange; for I never loved a man more than I do you, nor desired a friendship more than I do yours.

She wore a naturally kind expression on her old face, but when she saw who the gentleman was, the kindness positive increased to kindness superlative.

" "I sha'n't try to do anybody else a kindness agin, if that's wot you mean," I ses, looking at 'im.

And because it is so, he exhorteth to give diligence to make your calling and election sure, by giving all diligence to add to faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity, for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.