They told him, that as for that, he needed not to trouble his head thereabout: for what they did they had custom for, and could produce, if need were, testimony that would witness it, for more than a thousand years.

They told him, that custom, it being of so long standing as above a thousand years, would, doubtless, now be admitted as a thing legal by an impartial judge.

Then he said, My lord, this man, notwithstanding his plausible name, is one of the vilest men in our country; he neither regardeth prince nor people, law nor custom, but doeth all that he can to possess all men with certain of his disloyal notions, which he in the general calls principles of faith and holiness.

The commander of the battalion, as is always the custom in similar circumstances, had sent orders into the adjoining houses to light up all the windows.

"Now, sir," said Cournet to the Custom House officer, "you are an Inspector of Customs, I am an Inspector of Railways.

" He presented the pass to the Custom House officer, the Custom House officer read it, found it according to due form, and said to Cournet, "Mr. Inspector, you are free.

" He presented the pass to the Custom House officer, the Custom House officer read it, found it according to due form, and said to Cournet, "Mr. Inspector, you are free.

" "There are two Custom House lines.

" "Then you are not afraid of the Custom House officers?"

Cournet gave fifty francs to Henry, and promised him fifty more when they should have crossed the second Custom House line.

The two Custom House lines had been cleared.

Cournet had nothing more to fear, either from the Custom House nor from the coup d'état, neither from men nor from dogs.

"It is a rare mark of favor that it hath been confided to me," Giustinian continued, still examining the goblet with pride, "since custom doth require that one should withdraw from the sitting of the Council when any matter touching his house is treated.

"That which seemeth best to thee, my mother, in the matter of the meeting, Marina would surely do; for it is thou who must guard for us these little matters of custom, which none knoweth better.

"To-night, at sunset, will I go with thee, quite simply, in thy gondola, to bid my daughter welcomeas our custom is.

"These cares of rank are new to me," she had said, with gentle dignity; "but thou wilt best know how to choose the elegance befitting Marco's home; for my father hath warned me that in these matters there is a custom which I, more than others, may not break.

Thus fortified he rose, descended the steps of the ducal throne, and addressed her with grave courtesy; the whole house, as in custom bound, rising also while their prince was standing.

On July 10, 1553, Queen Jane, the wisest and most beautiful woman in the kingdom, though only sixteen years of age, was conducted in state to the Tower, where it was the custom for the monarchs of England to spend the first few days of their reign.

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

Next day, 7th November, we arrived at a town belonging to the Mahometans named Kenchat, the governor of which came out to meet our guide with ale and other refreshments; for it is the custom of all the subjected cities, to welcome the messengers of Baatu and Mangu with meat and drink on their arrival.

I asked him wherefore he had not the cross and image of Christ, and he answered, that it was not their custom; wherefore I concluded the people were actually Christians, but omitted these things for want of instruction.

He is mingled with the vices of the age as the fashion and custom, with which he longs to be acquainted, and sins to better his understanding.

And Lambarde, in his Customes of Kent (Perambulation, 410, 1596, page 538), thus notices it:"The custom of Grauelkynde is generall, and spreadeth itselfe throughout the whole shyre, into all landes subiect by auncient tenure vnto the same, such places onely excepted, where it is altered by acte of parleament.

This custom is noticed in an Epigram written about the period in which this book first appeared.

The reader will find several allusions to this custom in the variorum edition of Shakspeare, K. Henry IV., part 2.