Did you ever look out the word "prophetes" in Liddell and Scott?' 'Why, what do you know about Liddell and Scott?' 'Nothing, thank goodness; I never had time to waste over the crooked letters.

But I have heard say that prophetes means, not a foreteller, but an out-tellerone who declares the will of a deity, and interprets his oracles.

And oure Lord himself seythe, be the prophetes mouth, Si in viis meis ambulaveritis, super tribulantes vos misissem manum meam.

And therfore alle be it that there ben many dyverse lawes in the world, zit I trowe, that God lovethe alweys hem that loven him, and serven him mekely in trouthe; and namely, hem that dispysen the veyn glorie of this world; as this folk don, and as Job did also: and therfore seyde oure Lorde, be the mouthe of Ozee the prophete, Ponam eis multiplices leges meas.

For he hathe amonges hem many of the prophetes, and alle weye hathe had.

For thei han no knouleche of the Sone, ne of the Holy Gost: but thei cone alle speken of the Bible: and namely of Genesis, of the prophetes lawes, and of the Bokes of Moyses.

London Managers (except, perhaps, Sheriff DRURIOLANUS, who revived Le Prophete this season) will be on the side of the objectors, as they would rather have to do with a genuine profit than a fictitious one.