Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about; And (c)take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.

Oh, when I hear infidelity prate of the horrors of slavery and defend a Godless theory of the State, I remember that those who had it in its purity did not regard the slave as a man.

Truly, I" "How now," broke in the Prior in a quivering voice, his eyes glistening and his cheeks red with anger, "dost thou prate to my very beard, sirrah?

Bad luck t'you, cease your senseless pigeon's prate!

Good, Sir, y'are welcome: sirrha, hold your prate.

Illusions yet undashed my soul excite And of success in luring whispers prate.

Tut, I have wit, and carry warlike tools, To charm the scolding prate of wanton fools.