Thereupon spake one, close in his fellow's ear: "Where tarries Walkyn, think you?" said Beltane below his breath.

Now with every moment the temper of the crowd grew more threatening; voices shouted, fists were clenched, and the scowling pike-men, plying vicious spear-butts, cursed, and questioned each other aloud: "Why tarries Sir Gui?" Hereupon a country fellow hard by took up the question: "Sir Gui!"

he shouted, "Why cometh not Sir Gui?" "Aye!" cried others, "where tarries Sir Gui?"

"Why doth he keep us?" "Where tarries Sir Gui?" "Here!" roared a voice deep and harsh, "Waymake way!"

But Sir Robert, nothing heeding, secure in his noble might, scowled about him 'neath lifted vizor, and summoned the Reeve to his stirrup with imperious hand: "How now, master Reeve," quoth he, "I am in haste to be gone: where tarries Sir Gui?

Send me Fideliswhere tarries Fidelis?" "Master, I know not.

"Why tarries Cardinal Barbadico thus?"

Nine, he comes; ten, he tarries; Eleven, he courts; twelve, he marries.

And if within Tantallon strong The good Lord Marmion tarries long, Perchance our meeting next may fall At Tamworth, in his castle-hall.'

And yet the Wrellis comes singing out of eternity, and tarries for a very little while in the village where roads end, and passes on into eternity again; and so surely do all that dwell in Wrellisford.

"If had my own way, he should leave it through the window," said Mrs. Bloundel; "and if he tarries a minute longer, I will give the alarm.

But himthe man-child glorious, Where tarries he the while?

"She tarries long," he said at last, beginning to grow uneasy.

from the bridal bower, Rings out the bridesmaid's song; ''Tis the mystic hour of an untried power, The bride she tarries long.

He took the Duke apart, and said in his ear, "Sire, whence is this that your niece tarries so long, and comes not to the dancing?

Thou dost not to this age belong: Thou art three generations wrong: Old Time has miss'd thee: there he tarries!

Methinks he cometh late and tarries long.

Methinks he lingers late and tarries long.

He is a lively chatterer and an agreeable companion; and as he never tarries long in one place, he does not tire one with his garrulity.

It tarries not, nor waiteth the hurried one to free.

Elfrida, at her lattice high, Sits with the bridal throng She looks and looksthen heaves a sigh "Why tarries he so long?" He comes!'tis he!and by his side Attend a noble band He comes to claim his royal bride His lov'd Elfrida's hand.

Well, well; a monarch's business is to sustain the world, and he must not expect much repose; because Onward, for ever onward, in his car The unwearied Sun pursues his daily course, Nor tarries to unyoke his glittering steeds.

Aurore hesitates beside her chair, desirous of resuming her seat, even lifts her sewing from it; but tarries a moment, her alert suspense showing in her eyes.

But he, the man-child glorious, Where tarries he the while?

Down in the loneliness of this dell, the twilight is creeping quickly on: when once it begins it tarries not.