"The 'Book of Odes' contains three hundred pieces, but one expression in it may be taken as covering the purport of all, viz.,

He spoke a few words to the same purport from himself, in addition to Pompey's apology.

It is true that the Conqueror forged a charter purporting to date from Canute in which the king's sole right to take beasts of chase was asserted, and to this he appealed as justifying his harsh new laws; but it is untrue that he depopulated and destroyed a thriving district to make a wilderness for the red deer.

" "May I," she suggested, "write your message for you, and put your purport in words that will be understood by my father alone?" "Do," I rejoined, "but do it in my name, and I will sign it.

The king, according to the Darweshes' advice, wrote a note to this purport on paper sprinkled with gold, and put it in the golden cradle.