"Brief!" quoth the knight, "brief!

Then quoth the man of law in a trembling voice, "This is surely an ill way to talk of matters appertaining to business; let us be mild in speech.

" "Why, how now," quoth the King wrathfully.

Oh! oh! quoth the Devil, 'tis my John-a-Combe.

"Trouble not, my lord," quoth Beltane gently, "behold, the door is barred: moreover, Hugo lieth withoutpray God I have not killed him.

And Sir Tristram said: "Fellow, who are you?" "Lord," quoth the fellow, "I am an attendant upon the knight of yonder castle, which same is hight Sir Nabon surnamed le Noir.

"I would rather have come to anchor anywhere than here," quoth our captain.

To him quoth my lord Duke, smiling: "Messire, an you be in a mind to wager now, I will lay you this my roan stallion 'gainst that suit of triple mail you won at Dunismere joust, that Gefroi breaks thy forester's back within two fallshow say you?" "Sweet my lord, it liketh me beyond telling, thy roan is a peerless beast!"

I, quoth the dog, or what?

'Better than some of them,' quoth the lady, looking peevishly at the lower limbs of her husband.

"That is a reason for doing it," quoth Irving.

Doubtless, quoth the Rationalist.

'Enough, Moussa Isa, thou mayest return, I can track the camel of Ibrahim now that he hath left the road,' quoth my brother, breaking a long silence; but Moussa Isa, panting as he ran before, replied: 'I come, Mir Saheb.

Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, broke out into this passionate speech: What a fool, quoth he, am I, to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!

"What, Walkyn?" quoth the friar.

"Nay," cried the host, throwing up his elbow, for he feared the blow, "how knew I that thou knewest him not?" "Well and truly thankful mayst thou be," quoth the Tinker, "that I be a patient man and so do spare thy bald crown, else wouldst thou ne'er cheat customer again.

"Thou art tired and lame," quoth a kindly dame, "Come taste of our humble store.

When the host asked for his reckoning, "How! Is this an inn?" quoth the Don.

" "I thought of that," quoth the donor, "but I knew very well that the first new friend you had, you would turn it out and put his in, just as both of you turned my photograph out of those pretty frames, and put in Prince Leopold after he had passed through the town.

When wrinkling with a sneer his trunk, 'Friend,' quoth the elephant, 'you're drunk; E'en keep your money and be wise: Leave man on man to criticise; 70 For that you ne'er can want a pen Among the senseless sons of men.

"But" quoth his Excellency, "what will you ask of Government in return?"

Then quoth St. Francis to the wolf before them all: "And thou, brother wolf, dost thou make promise to keep firm this pact of peace, that thou offend not man nor beast nor any creature?"

" "I'm glad to see you," quoth his brother-giant.

On the occasion of one of the annual gatherings at the Marshall house of the Seniors in her father's classes, she remarked fiercely to Judith, "If Father gets off that old Emerson, 'What will you have, quoth God.

"Heave him up on his pins, and let us look at him," quoth a burly guardsman.