Complaints The Ruines of Time The Teares of the Muses Virgils Gnat Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale Ruines of Rome: by Bellay Muiopotmos: or the Fate of the Butterflie Visions of the Worlds Vanitie The Visions of Bellay The Visions of Petrarch Daphnaida Amoretti Epithalamion Prothalamion Fowre Hymnes Epigrams Sonnets APPENDIX.

3. Virgils Gnat.

Virgils Gnat v. 149, Ascraean, Q. Astraean.

Virgils Gnat v. 340, seest thou not (ed. 1611), Q. seest thou.

Virgils Gnat v. 387, throat (ed. 1611), Q. threat.

Virgils Gnat v. 575, billowes, Q. billowe.

Glauce, ii.; iii. Glauconome, iii. Glaucus, iii. Gloriana, i.; ii.; iv. Gluttony, i. Gnat, v. Gnidas, ii. Gobbelines, ii.

And God was pleased at the faith of his servant, and he sent a gnat that vexed Nimrod day and night, so that he built himself a room of glass in that palace that he might dwell therein and shut out the insect.

But the gnat entered also, and passed by his ear into his brain, upon which it fed, and increased day by day, so that the servants of Nimrod beat his head continually with a mallet that he might have some ease from his pain; but he died after suffering these torments four hundred years.

Caesar meanwhile Gathers the ocean pebbles, or the gnat Enraged pursues; or at his lonely meal Starves a wide province; tastes, dislikes, and flings To dogs and sycophants.

In the reeds there are a lot of little dams and canals with green, still water, where duckweed and pondweed run to seed; and where gnat-eggs and blackfish and worms are hatched out in uncountable masses.

Then there would be no more pondweed or duck-food for the grown wild ducks, and no blackfish or worms or gnat-eggs for the ducklings.

THE GNAT AND THE BULL A Gnat alighted on one of the horns of a Bull,

Just then a gnat came humming by, and the Elephant said, "Do you see that wretched little buzzing insect?

The Lion's spirits rose at once when he heard this: "For," he said to himself, "if the Elephant, huge as he is, is afraid of a gnat, I needn't be so much ashamed of being afraid of a cock, who is ten thousand times bigger than a gnat.

The Lion's spirits rose at once when he heard this: "For," he said to himself, "if the Elephant, huge as he is, is afraid of a gnat, I needn't be so much ashamed of being afraid of a cock, who is ten thousand times bigger than a gnat.

Meanwhile, a gnat put him in a passion, and unleavened bread destroyed his peace.

From him life flows out unto the smallest blade of grass beneath thy feet, the smallest gnat which dances in the sun, that it may live the life which God intends for it.

The machine goes on without perceiving that the blue-bottle or the gnat has fallen from its wheel.

"How often do we hear an air metamorphosed into a hair, a hat into a gnat, and a hero into a Nero!"Churchill's Gram., p. 205.

To argue away such a trifling spot on maiden modesty as the Shulamite's calling herself comely, while seeing no breach of delicacy in her inviting her lover to come into the garden and eat his precious fruits, though admitting (214) that "the maiden yields thus her heart and her all to her lover," is surely straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.

Poor Jane suffers worse from this gnat than you or I. Put up with it; and understand in your own mind that when he comes for another twenty pounds he must have it.

" "And you had passed him off just as though he were a gnat from which you were to receive as little annoyance as possible, forgetting the influence he must have on those six unfortunate children.

Algy has left his corner and his reversed picture-book, moved thereto by the unparalleled audacity of young Parker, who has pulled one of the sofa-cushions down on the floor, and is squatting on it, like a great toad at her feet, examining a gnat-bite on her sacred arm.

Having utterly failed in dislodging Mr. Parker from his cushionhaving had a suggestion on his part, on the treatment of the gnat-bite, passed over in silent contempthe has retired from the circle in dudgeon.