Frondibus obtexi, puerum nec ab ubere

vulsi,

Sicut erat foliis tegitur, funusq; paratur Heu nimis incertum et primis violabile ventis."-BUSSIERES.

A Gallery.

"UNE porte d'airain s'ouvre alors en deux parts.

Le lieu vaste reçoit les avides regards.

Vers le bout éloigné, que l'œil à peine acheve, La voûte semble basse, et le pavé s'éleve. Le lambris qui les suit vers un but limité Diminuë à l'égal d'un et d'autre costé." CLOVIS.

"Yo vi con apariencia manifiesta que no fue el respuesta por él mismo, mas por algun espiritu compuesta: como si alguna furia del abismo al sabio las entrañas le royera, ó como que le toma parasismo con los mismos efectos: y tal era la presencia del viejo quando vino a darme la respuesta verdadera. Andaba con furioso desatino torciendose las manos arrugadas, los ojos bueltos de un color sanguino: las barbas, antes largas y peynadas, llevaba vedijosas y rebueltas,

como de fieras sierpes enroscadas : las rocas, que con mil nudosas bueltas la cabeza prudente le ceñian, por este y aquel hombro lleva sueltas: las horrendas palabras parecian salir por una trompa resonante, y que los yertos labios no movian." L. LEONARDO.

"OLD bed-rid age laments

Its many winters, or does wish 'em more, To have more strength to fight, or less to die."

SOUTHERNE's Persian Prince.

walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

"And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee."--Jeremiah, chap. i. 18, 19.

"THE lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

"For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl; for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

"And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder."-Ibid. chap. iv. 7, 8, 9.

"I BEHELD, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

"I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger."-Ibid. chap. iv. 25, 26.

"FOR thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem; this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

"As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

"Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited."-Ibid. chap. vi. 6, 7, 8.

"AND the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away."-Ibid. chap. vii. 33.

Or study to find out what the no-reason Of a young wenches will is.”

Ibid.

"DEATH is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets."-Ibid. chap. ix. 21.

"SAY unto the King and to the Queen, humble yourselves, sit down; for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

"Lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the North: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”— Ibid. chap. xiii. 18. 20. 23.

« MOREOVER I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,

the voice of the bridegroom and the voice

of the bride, the sound of the millstones and

the light of the candle.”—Ibid. chap. xxv.

10.

"If thou art read in amorous books, thou'lt find

That Cupid's arrow has a golden head, And 'twas a golden shaft that wounded them." MAY. The Old Couple.

"OVER their marriage bed I'll write their ages,

And only say, here lies Sir Argent Scrape,
Together with his wife the Lady Covet.
And whosoever reads it, will suppose
The place to be a tomb, no marriage bed.
To fit them for an Hymenæal song,
Instead of those so high and spirited strains
Which the old Grecian lovers used to sing,
I'll sing a quiet dirge, and bid them sleep
In peaceful rest, and bid the clothes, instead
Of earth, lic gently on their aged bones."

Ibid.

"WELL, let it be a riddle! I have not so much wit as to expound it, Nor yet so little as to lose my thoughts,

"Nor eravam lungh' essol mare anchora,
Come gente ch'aspetta su camino,
Che va-col cuor, et col corpo dimora."
DANTE, Purgatorio.

"EVEN in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness." -Proverbs, chap. xiv. 13.

BISHOP HALL1 has stolen from Hugo de Anima. QUARLES' Emb. p. 51. "The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet

the whole world is not sufficient for it."

"AH! where's that pearl portcullis that adorn'd

Those dainty two-leaved ruby gates ?"
QUARLES.

"EL canonizar los yerros, y los defectos, es cerrar la puerta a su correccion."—Biblioteca Española.

"HEAVEN is the Magazin wherein He puts Both good and evil; Pray'r is the key that shuts

And opens this great treasure: 'tis a key Whose wards are Faith and Hope and Charity.

Wouldst thou prevent a judgement due to sin?

Turn but the key and thou mayest lock it in. Or wouldst thou have a blessing fall upon thee?

Open the door and it will shower on thee." QUARLES.

"AMBITION hath now sent Thee on her frothy errand; Discontent Pays thee thy wages."

See suprà, p. 219.-J. W. W.

Ibid.