Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it, fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die out of mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers.'

I present to you, in their name, the feathers of an eagle, which is the swiftest of birds, and flieth around our nations.

Little creatures often terrify great beasts: the elephant flieth from a ram: the lion from a cock and from fire; the crocodile from all sea-fish; the whale from the noise of parched bones.

Thy soul flieth after R[=a], thou shinest at dawn, thou settest at twilight, thou risest every day; thou shalt rise on the left hand of Atmu for ever and ever.

Once more, according to the "Shepherd's Calendar," "Chaff, leaves, thistle-down, or such light things whisking about and turning round foreshows tempestuous winds;" And Coles, in his introduction to the "Knowledge of Plants," informs us that, "If the down flieth off colt's-foot, dandelion, and thistles when there is no wind, it is a sign of rain.

" In the Andreas, the poet speaks of the ship in one of the most charming of Saxon similes: "Foaming Ocean beats our steed: full of speed this boat is; Fares along foam-throated, flieth on the wave, Likest to a bird.

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