Four of our friars, Tolentinus de Marchia, James of Padua, Demetrius, a lay brother, and Peter de Senis, suffered martyrdom in the city of Thana.

Facto mane misit Kadi pro rebus fratrum prædictorum nostrorum, et tunc inuentus est frater Petrus de Senis quartus socius fratrum prædictorum, quem ad Kadi duxerunt:

De morte Senis de monte.

Verbis igitur senis attonitus et stupefactus, praesertim cùm Senex ille statim post dictum ab eius aspectu disparuit; reuerti decreuit; Et reuersus est in bona prosperitate nullam sentiens grauedinem corporis, seu aliquam infirmitatem; Cùmque esset in conuentu suo Vtinensi.

Periplectomines, that good personate old man, delicium senis, well understood this in Plautus: for when Pleusides exhorted him to marry that he might have children of his own, he readily replied in this sort, "Quando habeo multos cognatos, quid opus mihi sit liberis?

Cat. Major: Melior conditio senis viventis ex praescripto artis medicae, quam adolescentis luxuriosi.

Lusibus gaudet puer otiosis, Luxus oblectat juvenem theatri, At seni fluxo sapienter uti Tempore restat.

Me miserum sors omnis habet; florentibus annis, Pauper eram, nummis diffluit area senis; Queis uti poteram quondam, fortuna negavit, Queis uti nequeo, nunc mihi praebet, opes.

Laevum at utrumque decus, juveni quod praebuit olim Turba senum, juvenes nunc tribuere seni.

Lord Russellor, to give him the name by which he was most familiar to his countrymen, Lord John Russellwas born in 1792, and when I first knew him he was already old; but it might have been said of him with perfect truth that "Votiva patuit veluti descripta tabella Vita senis.

[Illustration: WALLENSTEIN AND SENI As performed at the Municipal Theatre, Hamburg, 1906.]

SENI is taking Observations through a window.

All welland now let it be ended, Seni.

SENI.

SENI (who has come down from the window).

And sun and moon, too, in the Sextile aspect, The soft light with the vehementso I love it; SOL is the heart, LUNA the head of heaven; Bold be the plan, fiery the execution. SENI.

Open, Seni!

[While SENI opens the door for TERZKY, WALLENSTEIN draws the curtain over the figures.

[SENI draws off the black table, and exit.

What brings thee hither At this late hour, Baptista? SENI.

What is it, then? SENI (still more urgently).

SENI.

SENI follows, GORDON remains on the darkened stage, following the DUKE with his eye, till he disappears at the farther end of the gallery: then by his gestures the old man expresses the depth of his anguish and stands leaning against a pillar.]

What is it, Seni? PAGE (from the Gallery).

Fortunately Guido has placed a date on his work, MCCXXI., and also inscribed on it a distich, which shows that he felt, with some consciousness and self-complacency, his superiority to his Byzantine models; "Me Guido de Senis diebus depinxit amoenis Quem Christus lenis nullis velit angere poenis.