I talk not, I, to please or him or thee, But what I speak, I think and practise too: 'Twere better Sylla learnt to mend in Rome, Than Marius come to tyrannise in Rome.

Mr. Trius certainly could give her a few baskets of apples for all the shirts she sews and mends for him.

But Hubert will be still his dread lord's friend, However he deserves, his master serve; Though he neglect, him will I not neglect: Whoever fails him, I will John affect; For though kings fault in many a foul offence, Subjects must sue, not mend with violence.

" The loan here mentioned was perhaps in anticipation of "the mending;" and Malone subsequently met with the following notice: "For mending of Robin Hood for the Corte;" which might be written after the improvements, considered necessary before the performance of the play at Court, had been completed.

" So up they went to a little room where, in a chaos of boots mended on one hand, and boots to mend on the other, sheets of leather lying about, in one corner a great tubfull of water in which the leather was soaked,an old boyish fascination of Henry's,Mr. Tipping spent the greater part of his days.

Enclosed within this narrow stall, Lies one who was a friend to awl; He saved bad souls from getting worse, But dn'd his own without remorse; And tho' a drunken life he pass'd, Yet say'd his soul, by mending at the last!

They had been seated in Celia's room, mending by candle-light, and the steward who brought the message was awaiting Ailsa's response, and Celia's lifted eyes grew curious as she watched her sister-in-law's flushed face.

Guiltless I gazed; heaven listened when you sung, And truths divine came mended from your tongue.

"The sledge won't stand much o' sich work, and if it breaksgood-bye to it, for it won't mend without wood, and there's none here.

But I'll see it mended against next time for you.

This will consist chiefly in mending; which is first to be seen to; everything, except stockings, being mended before washing.

Felicia was mending beside the lamp; Kirk sat at the melodeon, rapturously making music.

It was patched up and mended like a broken vase, but it could not be restored.

If things do not mend within a few days I shall startle my colleagues by proposing to abandon the town altogether, giving reasons for it which will enable me to state on paper all these points.

Never had the efficiency of the Union Cavalry been at such a low ebb; but it was low-water mark, indeed, and matters were destined to mend after a history of nearly two years of neglect, disorganisation, and misuse.