Col. Let's see who dare denie ye Your place and right of councell.

Seventeen reounds in the wrist,tew an' one's the best seam" "Now, Miss Jemimy, just as if I didn't know how to knit mittens!" "Wal, it seems you don't," said she, "though I don' deny but you may know heow ter give 'em; an' ez I alluz like

"And who so els did goodnes by him game, And who so els his bounteous minde did trie*, Whether he shepheard be, or shepheards swaine, (For manie did, which doo it now denie,) 235 Awake, and to his song a part applie:

My Heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie (A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes); But the defendant doth that plea deny, And says in him thy fair appearance lies.

Had I but earlier known that from the eyes Of that bright soul that fires me like the sun, I might have drawn new strength my race to run, Burning as burns the phoenix ere it dies; Even as the stag or lynx or leopard flies To seek his pleasure and his pain to shun, Each word, each smile of her would I have won, Flying where now sad age all flight denies.

Whirled by the cannons' rage, in shivers torn, His thighs far scattered o'er the waves are borne; Bound to the mast the godlike hero stands, Waves his proud sword and cheers his woeful hands: Tho' winds and seas their wonted aid deny, To yield he knows not; but he knows to die.

Why did I loathe my lowly cot Where late I caroll'd free, Nor felt, contrasted with my lot, The pomp of high degree? Lo! where to mock the houseless head Huge palaces arise, Whose board uncharitably spread The unbidden guest denies.