Yet do I venture to pray unto ye for pardon, and surely the sinner who repents and perseveres in repentance should in due season obtain your forgiveness.

"Sir Jocelyn, lord of Alain, why come ye against me in arms and so ungently arrayed, wherefore come ye in such force, and for what?" Then answered Sir Jocelyn: "My lord Ivo, thou wert upon a time our honoured guest within Mortain, thou didst with honeyed word and tender phrase woo our fair young Duchess to wife.

Sing Ye to the Lord, by Rev. R. Eaton (London, Catholic Truth Society.

" "What ken ye of Alison Steel?"

o' your head, I'll git it out fur ye with a bullet,' an' he draws on me.

Now, I got a skin here with the head on it, an' if it comes to the wust we might rig that up, natural like, so ye cud git a picter o' a wild an' ferocious beast coming at ye on his hind legs.

I heerd tell about ye at the trial, but supposed ye ter be an older man.

"What aileth thee, Xarifa, what makes thine eyes look down? Why stay ye from the window far, nor gaze with all the town? I've heard you say on many a day, and sure you said the truth, Andalla rides without a peer, among all Granada's youth.

Ye tender arms, the same dear mould have ye As his; how from the shoulder loose ye drop And weak!

When for a drunken Sot, that had kind hours, And taking their own freedoms, left you yours; 'Twas your delib'rate choice your days to pass With a damn'd, sober, self-admiring Ass, Who thinks good usage for the Sex unfit, And slights ye out of Sparkishness and Wit.

Then I heard in my dream that all the bells in the city rang again for joy, and that it was said unto them, "ENTER YE INTO THE JOY OF OUR LORD."

I looked for a better end for ye than that, Petrak; but go ahead and take his advice, and see where ye come to.

"What is it?" "Mind ye, if ye say yes, I'm goin' to stand by ye through thick and thin."

Rich colours, how I wrong ye by this wrong!

"Leave the half o' ye to guard the arms, and come on the rest of ye without 'em," shouted Buzzby.

'How came ye among us, in your cruel armed blindness, ye unspeakable County Yeomanry, sabres flourishing, hoofs prancing, and slashed us down at your brute pleasure; deaf, blind to all our claims and woes and wrongs; of quick sight and sense to your own claims only!

do I reign over christian warriors, valiant captains who have been sworn to protect beauty in distress; or are ye like the graceless dogs of Mahomed, insensible to female honour?"

Examples taken promiscuously from the wardens accounts of the day are: "paid for three prayer books for the good successe of the French Kinge;" "paid for a prayer of thankes gevinge for ye over throwe of the Rebelles in the North."

" "And what are ye about, within the sweep of my hawse?

"How long," cried the preacher, with a loud voice and fierce aspect, "halt ye between two opinions?

" "And I tell ye," said Galahad, "ye'r a liur, and to be so kind an' get yersel' to the front stoop, as I'm desiruz o' kickin' ye before the crowd.

55 TO HIS BROTHERS CARL AND BEETHOVEN O ye men who regard or declare me to be malignant, stubborn, or cynical, how unjust are ye towards me!

'I wud ha'e excused ye under the unique circumstances,' she said graciously.

And ye, silent, supreme in serene and victorious marble, Ye that encircle the walls of the stately Vatican chambers, Juno and Ceres, Minerva, Apollo, the Muses and Bacchus, Ye unto whom far and near come posting the Christian pilgrims, Ye that are ranged in the halls of the mystic Christian pontiff, Are ye also baptized?

"What in blazes are ye up to now, John?" inquired the major, on receiving this order.