And then through the stillness she heard the sweet voice singing, "I love thee because thou hast first loved me, And purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree; I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow, If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

Mercifully the mass was not over, so we found thee at once.

" "Fidelis, I would I ne'er had seen thee.

When he called on Mr. Whittaker in Nottingham, as already related, after some conversation had taken place, he remarked: "I should like to hear thee again, Tom".

nowand there be more riddles for thee, boy, and so, until we meet, fare thee well, messire Beltane!"

"Aha!" said he, "hast heard such a name ere now, even here in the greenwood?" "Sir," answered Beltane, "betimes I have talked with soldiers and men-at-arms, so do I know thee for that same great knight who, of all the nobles of Pentavalon, doth yet withstand the great Duke Ivo" "Call you that black usurper 'great,' youth?

Weak and wavering in their own pursuits of felicity, thou wilt not wonder to see them so in their sense of thy merit, and their zeal for thy honour: but I am commissioned to bear thee to that All-seeing Power, who can alone truly estimate, and perfectly reward thy desert.

Take them to aid thee on thy journey, for the county of Bourne lieth far to the south.

"Good my lord," spake Giles, viewing the Pardoner's plump person with a yearning eye, "pray thee bid me kick him hence!"

Farewel, Aminta, mayst thou want a Lover, When I shall hate both thee and thy whole Sex; I can endure your sober Cruelty, But do despise it clad in Jollity.

To leave thee free, to leave thee yet a Virgin.

"Oswin," quoth he, and beckoned with his finger, "Oswin, did I not bid thee keep watch upon yon dainty light o' love?"

"And yet," quoth Giles, "as I am in my lord's dear friendship, so art thou in mine, Roger, man, nor in my vaulting fortunes will I e'er forget thee.

Look not at David, but at David's greater Son; and consider Christ upon his Cross. Consider him of whom it is written, 'Thou art fairer than the children of men: full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

"When thou prayest," says our Lord, "enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

" "May Allah protect both thee and thy people!" replied Al Raxid, mournfully, who saw that the die of fate was cast.

But I will not wrong thee, husband!

How vile a thing, then, am I" "Nay, Beltanedear my lord, I would not have thee grieve, indeed 'twas but" "Once ere this I would have slain thee, Fidelismurdered thee before my wild fellowsII, that did preach them mercy and gentleness!

I do believe thee; for by Sympathy, Mine takes new Fire and Hope.

Nay, but I will save thee from thyself.

Thus it is: I hear that two tinkers are in the stocks for drinking ale and beer!" "Now a murrain seize thee and thy news, thou scurvy dog," quoth the Tinker, "for thou speakest but ill of good men.

Take thy life and go, and let any follow thee that willPentavalon needeth not thy kind.

I knew thou didst dissemble when we parted, And therefore durst not trust thee with thy Passions: I only staid to gather from my Sister What news I might concerning your affairs, Which I with joy came to impart to you,

I will remember thee in my prayers.

So am I here to claim thee, beloved.