Once more, on the retirement of De Lucy in 1179, he divided the kingdom into new circuits, and chose three bishopsWinchester, Ely, and Norwich"as chief justiciars, hoping that if he had failed before, the seat least he might find steadfast in righteousness, turning neither to the right nor to the left, not oppressing the poor, and not deciding the cause of the rich for bribes."

Nicholas Rowe, who published the first life of Shakespeare, is the authority for this story; but there is some reason to doubt whether, at the time when Shakespeare is said to have poached in the deer park of Sir Thomas Lucy at Charlescote, there were any deer or park at the place referred to.

"She looks after grandfather, and helps Aunt Lucy with the housework.

Please, mas'r, want Lucy for wife.

With this Lucy of mine for an attendant, I am worth about twice as much as I should have been without her, and yet no mention has been made of this in the bargain.

" I folded Lucy to my heart, and, passing a moment of sweet sympathy in the embrace, we both began to talk of other things, as if mutually conscious that our feelings were too high-wrought for the place in which we were.

In the first place, I wish you to purchase some appropriate ornament, of the value of five hundred dollars, and present it to Lucy as a memorial of her friend.

The stranger flew across the field, and the ploughman saw him bound over the hedge, take Lucy into his arms, and drag her, bewildered and enraptured, into the cottage.

" "I do not know," said her father, hesitating, and patting Lucy on the head"that is a new idea; however, I believe I have no objection.

He courts Lucy by talking shop to her.

Lucy under cupboard light.

However, his resolution gave way under the arguments of Herbert, who urged upon him that he had no right, on a mere point of punctilio, to leave his father in his old age, and to take Lucy from her country and friends to a life of hardship in the plantations of Virginia.

"That did she, Captain Wallingford; for, while you were discussing Neb and Chloe with old Dido, we, that is, the doctor, the mother and myself, were discussing Andrew and Lucy between ourselves.

" I left the room as Chloe entered; and, in threading the long passage that led to the apartment which was appropriated to my own particular purposes, as an office, cabinet, or study, I met Lucy near the door of the latter.

I bore with it long enough; and now all I want is to get Lucy out of her hands and be quit of her, as you sayalthough it seems mean to leave her.

Besides, they came now to some very rough places in the path, and Rollo's father had to lift Lucy over them.