"How, messire, hath Roger babbled to thee?" "Babbled?" quoth Sir Benedict, shaking his head, "nay, Roger is no babbler of secret matters, for many do ken of thy love, Beltaneand I am thy friend, so is thy happiness my happiness.

Fire and Sword are slow Engines of Destruction, in Comparison of the Babbler in the Case of the Merchant.

" "Tell and begone!" said Bocca; "but carry the name of this babbler with thee; 'tis Buoso, who left the pass open to the enemy between Piedmont and Parma; and near him is the traitor for the pope, Beccaria; and Ganellone, who betrayed Charlemagne; and Tribaldello, who opened Faenza to the enemy at night-time.

It was the last city in the world to receive his doctrines,that city of grammarians, of pedants, of gymnasts, of fencing masters, of play-goers, and babblers about words.

Science has learned a new dialect and forgotten the old; the chemist of 1807 would be a vain babbler among his brethren of the present day, and would in turn become bewildered in the attempt to understand them.

Could they suppose that the neighbouring states would ascribe this proceeding to Scaptius, an old babbler at assemblies?