" "Indeed 'tis a something well-laden basket," said Beltane, relieving the friar of his burden with gentle force.

Ye do remember how upon a time we met a white friar in the green that was a son of Godthey call him Brother Martin?

So Beltane followed the white friar with the three upon his heels who wrangled now no more; and in a while the friar paused beside a new-digged grave.

We have had in England, as Armachanus demonstrates, above 30,000 friars at once, and as Speed collects out of Leland and others, almost 600 religious houses, and near 200,000l.

Corbett thought the thing all out and Davis did the hard work, and then every Friar for miles around put in their little gab and told Davis how it should be done.

All these circumstances agreed together to clear the friar from any hand he could be supposed to have had in these complicated slaughters, further than as the unintended consequences of his own well meant, yet too artificial and subtle contrivances.

Then went in the friar to them and laid his hands upon the squat man's shoulder and spake him gently.

Obeying the magic of his eloquence and the magnetism of his personality, her citizens accepted this Dominican friar as their political leader and moral reformer, when events brought about the expulsion of the Medici in 1494.

Many of them were versed in the scientific and historical basis of property, they knew that the friars by their own statutes could not own property, but they also knew that to come from far across the sea with an appointment secured with great difficulty, to undertake the duties of the position with the best intentions, and now to lose it because an Indian fancied that justice had to be done on earth as in heaventhat surely was an idea!

[This while most compassing the FRIAR about the ring.

"In very sooth," quoth Little John, "it is a goodly song, and, were I not a yeoman of Sherwood Forest, I had rather be a strolling friar than aught else in the world.

Then the bells for matins ring, And the grey friars past it go, Into church in double row, And it hears the chaunts they sing.

Then Beltane took from his pouch flint and steel and tinder and gave them to the old man's trembling fingers as Giles o' the Bow came running with the stalwart friar behind him.

[208] The old copy here repeats, in part, the preceding stage direction, viz., Enter Friar like a pedlar, and Jenny, which must be an error, as they are already on the stage; in fact, only Sir Doncaster and his armed followers enter.

If one considers the indifference of the friars toward such events in Nature, it is not improbable that the eruptions of 1641 when a mountain fell in in Northern Luzon and a lake took its place, has been transferred on the Iriga.

" "What uses hath the Senate for this cloistered scholar, skilled in many sciences and master of tongues," the Lady Laura persisted, "that it should create an officewhich since the serrata it hath not been known to doand appoint a friar over the heads of our nobles who have loyally served the Republic since our ancestors first sat in the Consiglio?