There was no end to the arrivals and departures there: the peasant women were ever galloping through the place, dragging trunks about, carrying babes in swaddling clothes, and filling the rooms and the passages with wild cries and vile odors.

pices around all the remainder of the body, crossed the sacred stiffened arms on the chest, and bound the large white sheet round the body as high as the chest, in the same manner as if they had been swaddling a child.

Do you suppose there is any country where they do not scald milkpans, and swaddle the infants, and burn the brushwood, and broil the fish?

This so shapely and potent, yet Scarcely-born delicate nursling, Straight have his gossiping nurses Folded in purest swaddling fleece, Fastened in costly swathings, With their irrational notions.

And for thy swaddling the primeval mire!" Then stooped our Manhood nearer, deep and still, As from earth's mountains an unvoyaged sea, Hushed my faint voice in its great peace until It seemed but a bird's cry in eternity; And in its future loomed the undreamable, And in its past slept simple men like me.

Though nothing definite could yet be seen through the shrouding dazzle that swaddled the world's rim, this fore-hint of land confirmed their reckonings of latitude and longitude.

Whence it came, or how it came, or who bid it come, or whether it came purely of its own head, neither you nor I knowbut there lay, sure enough, wrapped in its little cloudy swaddling bandsa Child Angel.

There were six veiled and swaddled women, with a black eunuch as guard, in the boat, which lay tossing for some time at the foot of the gangway ladder, before the frightened passengers could summon courage to step out.

That this play was written before the two others is indubitably collected from the series of events; that it was written and played before Henry V. is apparent, because in the epilogue there is mention made of this play, and not of the other parts: Henry the sixth in swaddling bands crown'd king, Whose state so many had i' the managing That they lost France, and made all England rue, Which oft our stage hath shown.

He is not to be hindered by swaddling bandssuch as are in use in Continental countriesnor, later on, to be "spoiled by too much assistance," words which every mother and teacher should write upon her phylacteries.