D.K.R. PROLOGUE Beginneth the Book called Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta, sent by her to Ladies in Love.

"Here beginneth a new chapter," said he, quietly.

Enter on the Capitol SULPITIUS, Tribune, CAIUS MARIUS, Q. POMPEY, Consul, JUNIUS BRUTUS, LUCRETIUS, CAIUS GRANIUS, LECTORIUS, LUCIUS MERULA, Jupiter's Priest, and CINNA; whom placed, and their Lictors before them with their rods and axes, SULPITIUS beginneth.

If thy good beginneth to pass, And thou wax a poor man, Take good comfort and bear good face, And think on him that all good wan; did win.

ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR. CONTENTS THE LIFE OF ADAM HERE BEGINNETH

THE HISTORY OF NOAH THE RAINBOW HERE FOLLOWETH THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM HERE BEGINNETH

THE LIFE OF ISAAC, WITH THE HISTORY OF ESAU AND OF JACOB HERE BEGINNETH

Into her house I came at unaware, Her back was to me, and I was not seen; I stole behind her, till I had her fair, Then with my hands I closed both her een; She, blinded thus, beginneth to bethink her Which of her loves it was that did hoodwink her.

Here beginneth the iournall of Frier Odoricus, one of the order of the Minorites, concerning strange things which hee sawe among the Tarters of the East.

At the end of these hils endeth the Countrey of Sclauonia, and Albania beginneth.

When the water beginneth to increase, it maketh such a noyse and so great that you would think it an earthquake, and presently at the first it maketh three waues.

The ships depart from betwixt the tenth and 24 of August, for the Northward places abouesayde, and to these places they may saile all times of the yeere, except in the winter, which beginneth and endeth at the times abouesaid.

He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulnesse: but hee commeth to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-inchaunting skill of Musicke; and with a tale forsooth he commeth unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.

Here beginneth letter No. 3.

Upon this pennie the rose hath, on eache side, a button, (bud) the one whereof beginneth to blome, but not the other.

The winter beginneth here about the last of May.

This kings countrey beginneth twelue leagues from Cochin, and reacheth neere vnto Goa.

We departed from thence with our camels the last day of May with M. Iohn Newbery and his company, and came to Birrah in three dayes, being a small towne situated vpon the riuer Euphrates, where it beginneth first to take his name, being here gathered into one chanell, whereas before it commeth downe in manifolde branches, and therefore is called by the people of the countrey by a name which signifieth a thousand heads.

Here the two riuers ioyned together begin to be eight or nine miles broad: here also it beginneth to ebbe and flow, and the water ouerflowing maketh the countrey all about very fertile of corne, rice, pulse, and dates.

At this point Appius returned and, after an exchange of questions and answers as to what had been said and done during his absence, he said: "Here beginneth the second act of those industries which are wont to be practised at a villa, namely of those enclosures which are still known as leporaria from their ancient special designation.

How my instinct Uses the same word with which Even the book itself beginneth!

Here beginneth the first chapter of the story of the delusion in Connecticut.

ii. 13, "and he that beginneth a good work will perfect it," Phil. i. 6. 9.

3. Through carelessness, in not adverting at first to the beginnings and first degrees of this deadness and upsitting, when the heart beginneth to grow formal and superficial in duties, and to be satisfied with a perfunctorious performance, without life and sense.

To whom Gorgias Leontinus made this pithy and plausible answeer, "Now Sleep beginneth to deliver me up into the jurisdiction of his brother-germane, Death.