Very true, for I have heard it for a proverb many a time and oft, Hinc os faetidum;

My shift is long, for I play Friar Tuck; Wherein, if Skelton have but any luck, He'll thank his hearers oft with many a duck.

Noble Fitzwater, now we are alone, What oft I have desir'd I will entreat, Touching Matilda, fled with Huntington.

"Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine; But he that flieth in good tide

She recalled Endymion's prophecy that these entertainments would throw the domestic mechanismalways more delicately poised on Sundays than on weekdayscompletely oft its pivot.

1 "You oft call Parliaments, and there enact Lawes good and wholesome, such as who so breake Are hung by the purse or necke, but as the weake And smaller flyes i'th Spiders web are tane When great ones teare the web, and free remain.

Yea and full oft doth the keeping of silence bring forth a larger joy.

The three remaining compositions (expressly for the work) are a Song by T. Bradford, Esq.; a Scotch Song, by Mr. Feist; and the following pathetic Lines, by the Rev. Thomas Dale: Oft as the broad sun dips Beneath the western sea, A prayer is on my lips, Dearest!

Oft as the bright dawn breaks Behind the eastern hill, Mine eye from slumber wakes, My heart is with the still For thee my latest vows were said, For thee my earliest prayers are pray'd And O! when storms shall lour Above the swelling sea, Be it thy shield, in danger's hour, That I have pray'd for thee.

Mourn, all ye hawks of heaven, for me Oft, oft, by frith and flood, I called ye forth to feast on kings; Who now shall give ye food? Mourn, too, thou deep-devouring sea, For of earth's proudest lords We served thee oft a sumptuous feast With our sharp shining swords; Mourn, midnight, mourn, no more thou'lt hear Armed thousands shout my name.

Mourn, all ye hawks of heaven, for me Oft, oft, by frith and flood, I called ye forth to feast on kings; Who now shall give ye food? Mourn, too, thou deep-devouring sea, For of earth's proudest lords We served thee oft a sumptuous feast With our sharp shining swords; Mourn, midnight, mourn, no more thou'lt hear Armed thousands shout my name.

Mourn, all ye hawks of heaven, for me Oft, oft, by frith and flood, I called ye forth to feast on kings; Who now shall give ye food? Mourn, too, thou deep-devouring sea, For of earth's proudest lords We served thee oft a sumptuous feast With our sharp shining swords; Mourn, midnight, mourn, no more thou'lt hear Armed thousands shout my name.

let me get one look, Yon is the golden sky, With all its glorious lights, and there My subject sea flows by; Around me all my comrades stand, Who oft have trod with me On prince's necks, a joy that's flown, And never more may be.

Far up the dale, where Lynden's ruined towers O'erlooked the valley from the old oak wood, A lake blue gleaming from deep forest bowers, Spread its fair mirror to the landscape rude: Oft by the margin of that quiet flood, And through the groves and hoary ruins round, Young Arthur loved to roam in lonely mood; Or here, amid tradition's haunted ground, Long silent hours to lie in mystic musings drowned.

Till his young breast throbbed high with thirst of fame; But with fair manhood's dawn a softer flame 'Gan mingle with his martial musings high; And trembling wisheswhich he feared to name, Yet oft betrayed in many a half-drawn sigh Told that the hidden shaft deep in his heart did lie.

"Bilem saepe, jocum vestri movere tumultus." "Ye wretched mimics, whose fond heats have been, How oft!

And such was the candour and integrity of succeeding ages, that a deed (as I have oft seen) to convey a whole manor, was implicite contained in some twenty lines or thereabouts; like that scede or Sytala Laconica, so much renowned of old in all contracts, which Tully so earnestly commends to Atticus, Plutarch in his Lysander, Aristotle polit.:

If it trouble them at meal times that flushing, as oft it doth, with sweating or the like, they must avoid all violent passions and actions, as laughing, &c., strong drink, and drink very little, one draught, saith Crato, and that about the midst of their meal; avoid at all times indurate salt, and especially spice and windy meat.

But though my conscience would trouble me when I sinned, yet divers sins I was addicted to, and oft committed against my conscience; which for the warning of others I will confess here to my shame.

To this end, and to concur with naughty boys that gloried in evil, I have oft gone into other men's orchards, and stolen their fruit, when I had enough at home, &c. There is a childlike simplicity in this account of his sins of his childhood which is very pleasing.

And they sent for new ropes so oft to hang him, and all of them still broke, that they durst go no further, but saved all the rest.

oft repeated general ('O Lord, shew thy mercy upon us'.) Still worse.

Day and night am I here with my book in handday and night do you ride about, holding your sword, and sweating oft both in sun and shadow; and all to get round at last to the home from which we departedI say, all out of anxiety and hope to get back to our home of old."

And afterward, self-moved, they ceded the ten miles square, and declared the cession made "in pursuance of" that oft-cited clause, "Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legalisation in all cases whatsoever over such District," &c.

He hath delivered us from our enemies; Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven, For his mercy endureth forever, was the oft-repeated refrain that was sung in the temple service by the warriors when they returned victorious from battle and by the people as they went about their tasks.