Then the hermit came to Beltane and set his two hands upon his mighty shoulders and spake to him very gently, on this wise: "Thou knowest, my Beltane, how all thy days I have taught thee to love all fair, and sweet, and noble things, for they are of God.

Then Finn arose From deep and sleepless brooding o'er his woes, And spake unto the Fians, "Who shall rest While flees our evil foeman farther west? Arise!" ...

All lips spake of her and the wonder of her charms, how that a man could not look within her eyes but must needs fall into a passion of love for her.

" Then rose the hermit Ambrose to his feet and spake with eyes uplifted: "Now glory be to God, Who, in His mercy, hath made of thee a man, my Beltane, clean of soul and innocent, yet strong of arm to lift and succour the distressed, and therefore it is that you to-day must leave me, my well-beloved, for there be those whose need of thee is greater even than mine.

Thus presently comes Sir Fidelis, and standing afar, spake in voice strange and bitter: "What do ye there, my lord?

"So now," spake on the Duchess, "let us to the chapel where good Father Angelo shall give us heaven's blessing upon this our union.

Come your ways, for I would speak thee many thingsfollow!" As one that dreams, Roger stared into the eyes beneath the vizor, and as one that dreams he rose up from his knees, and, sheathing his sword, followed whither the gleaming vision led; yet betimes he blinked upon the moon, and once he shook his head and spake as to himself: "Verilyaye, verily, a lusty pray-er, I!"

So Gefroi the wrestler fell, and lay with hairy arms wide-tossed as one that is dead, and for a space no man spake for the wonder of it.

As when Corah and his accomplices did accuse Moses of being ambitious, unjust, and tyrannical: when the Pharisees called our Lord an impostor, a blasphemer, a sorcerer, a glutton and wine-bibber, an incendiary and perverter of the people, one that spake against Caesar, and forbade to give tribute: when the apostles were charged with being pestilent, turbulent, factious and seditious fellows.

Then the soldier spake from the deep, dark grave: 'I am content.'

And on the other side these words embroidered would I place: 'The word shall never fail that once I spake before thy face.'

In this combat no man can imagine, unless he had seen and heard as I did, what yelling and hideous roaring Apollyon made all the time of the fight; he spake like a dragon: and on the other side, what sighs and groans burst from Christian's heart.

But as he hesitated, there came a sudden knocking on the door and a voice spake without: "My lord!

Sometimes the devil (as they say) stands without and talks with them, sometimes he is within them, as they think, and there speaks and talks as to such as are possessed: so Apollodorus, in Plutarch, thought his heart spake within him.

You were running to destruction in the way of sin, and there was a voice, together with the Gospel preaching to your ear, that spake into your heart, and called you back from that path of death to the way of holiness, which is the only way of life.

And gazing thus upon his image, he spake beneath his breath: "O lady!

And having held consultation again, with the view of filling up the sea, they, with joined hands, spake about replenishing it.'

She speaks almost As if it were the Holy Ghost Spake through her lips, and in her stead!