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Error sits brooding there, with added train
Of vain credulity, and joys as vain :
Suspicion with sedition join'd are near,

And rumours raised, and murmurs mix'd, and panic fear.-(Dryden.)

Paternal hearth.

There they were join'd in youth, and in that cot
Grew old together.

give a resting-place

A seat secure, a region of their own,

A lasting empire, and a happier town.-(Dryden.) 7. O hail, my house and threshold of my hearth, How glad I saw thee !

11. O house, for thee with pleasure I look out
From Troy arriving: seeing thee I groan.
15. Me, if the heav'nly pow'rs had wish'd to live,
These seats they would have saved me.
18. Embracing hold the posts, and kisses fix.
30. Solemn hotel of great diversions.

3. His house to each doth fatal seem,

And the cause hid-the place is mark'd for crime. 6. What should our rest and rising walls withstand, Or hinder here to fix our banish'd band?

9. One ardour seizes all new roofs to seek.

They left the houses.

6. A house not fit enough.

7. The wind never enters an advocate's house. 21. Through houses rich in shade.

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but which not e'en the night-owl would Possess so black and old the cottage is.

36. Will not he fear the very house,-lest it throw out

some voice?

27. Of souls sedate this is the thinking-place.

in her chamber at the palace-top.

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6. Ah, toil innate !

Ah, woe of hopeless end,

Ingrain'd in houses!

11. Hating heaven

Conscious of many self-destroying ills.

21. This roof will ne'er be given up by band
One-voiced,-not sweetly sounding.

(Cowper.)

24. They hymn a hymn, as by the house they sit,
Its primal curse.

31. Err'd I, or like some bowman do I aim?

Out witness, sworn already, that I know.
Full well the ancient errors of this house...

234, 5. Alas, all-wretched hearth!

"" 7. The houses breathe of blood-distilling murder.
Such vapour would a sepulchre befit.

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P. 234, line 16. But no whole window shuts upon my cell,
In which e'en Boreas would let me rest;

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Thus, cruel! dost thou bid an old friend dwell?
Then of thy tree I'll be a safer guest.

Large hollow, at the foot of oak-tree old,
Of wolves and bears the melancholy fold.
As he who ascends must descend, so also he who lives
must die.

32. Do good for ill, for God thee it commands.
A house and decent food and country sweet
For life suffice: all other care is toil.
last 2. As us join'd love, so by our toil acquired,
One-minded minds one mansion covereth.

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2. Do well, and for sayings care not.

4. Peace to this house and those that dwell in it.
6. Thus says the Lord, J. H. S.,

Whatever house ye enter,

First say, Peace to this house.

11. More thought than speech.

16. To valiant hearts nothing's impossible.
19. Mouth shut, neuter. Hear say.

Do.

Silence. 24. Thou, too, beware; and what to thee seems glad, While thou read'st this, think may be turn'd to sad.

27. Here Crato with physicians Moses joins:

Our work and life Christ, our Apollo, rule! 34. Under Jesu's power be the race and house.

238, 15. An old possession of the house.

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17. Man learned to provoke nature. It delighted him to carve lusts on cups, and to drink through obscenities.

24. The happy waters, closed in metal's light,

Bathe in their stream their mistress' cheeks more
bright.

For when the queen is o'er this basin bent,
Her face's whiteness to the silver 's lent.

31. These writings would attract both boys and girls. 240, 12. Priam's recesses, and th' old kings', appear: Arm❜d men are standing in the threshold seen. 16. It occurred to that most prudent man, that the figures of ancestors with their titles are for this reason usually placed in the first part of the house, —that their descendants might not only read but copy their virtues.

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2. Ask thy father, and he will declare to thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

8. Likenesses of St. Gregory and of his parents. 21. Thou art surrounded by highest authorities; which will not allow thee to forget household praise, but admonish thee day and night.

26.. Let no man recall into remembrance a Manichæan or a Donatist,-who do not cease to rage.

P. 244, line 7. Free wilt thou be, to sup out if unwilling. 246, last line. Religion, muses, poor, law, country, friends,

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The wife and children, fields, too, are our love. 5. These are mine: old farmers, now remove.

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such fortune does not wait

Our suff'ring house in this abandon'd state :
A foreign grave and thy poor mother's tears
Are all the honours that attend thy hearse.
(Stanyan.)

20. To sudden see my country's soil beloved,

And home's deserted look, and mindful friends. 30. For neither was it otherwise lawful for your race, name, family, and breeding.

32. If I return, and with my eyes behold

My country, wife, and high-roof'd spacious house. 248, last 5. O what than loosen'd cares more blessed is?

When mind lays down its load, and with remote
Toil wearied, we are come to our own hearth,
And take our rest in the desired bed.

This balances alone so many toils.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE ROAD OF HERALDS.

P. 251, line 7. Receive a soul unsullied yet with shame,
Which not belies my great forefather's name.
(Dryden.)

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12. For to our house we many glories owe.
15. Of good blood art thou the offspring dear.
17. Of his race I boast to be.

20. I could not, men, still wonder at a man

Who nothing is by birth, if he goes wrong, When those who seem of goodly race to be So widely wrong are going in their words. 26. On account of very old nobility, and the fresh memory of his father.

3. Of the deeds of the Lombards.

9. Of those who have falsely inserted themselves among other families.

20. The days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve
years, and he died. The days of Enos were nine
hundred and five years, and he died.

3. But if it please thee more at large to know
My lineage, thousands can attest it true.

9.

Previously a seat had it been of Satan: from them had gone forth iniquity over the face of that land. 32. As the war's standard from Laurentius' tow'r

Turnus uprear'd, and the hoarse trumpets sang.
40. But, what in that order of men is prodigious, of good
esteem and harmless life.

13. And all the blind guilt of the house unwove.
he came from town, for many days

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His wealth t' o'ersee, which stretch'd o'er countless fields.

18. Within household walls.

25. Why my race dost ask?

29. But he much better than his sire.

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loaded both with woes and years,

Then to recount past sorrows they begin, And trace them to the gloomy origin.-(Eusden.) 37. The blood-abounding house of Pelops' line. 14. why now my race's ancient woes

Do I record?

6. Faith, hope, charity,—that I have fallen enough. 11. Under whose foot a living fountain flows forth.

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and of dreadful hell

He saw the empire, and his ancestors.

last 2. Something of your forefathers and of yourself you will say, after their manner.

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thou shalt see

Th' Elysian fields, th' infernal monarchy,

Thy parent's shade: this arm thy steps shall guide;
To suppliant virtue nothing is denied.-(Garth.)

262, 4. Of father good by race I boast to be.

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Of wife let each

And of his roof be mindful: now bring back
Your fathers' deeds and praises.

See thou seem not rather to use foreign examples, and those new, than the ancient and homely. 264, 25. In whom there is nothing except basest crimes and highest wealth.

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27. A great lord a wicked man is a terrible thing.
30. In world no so great loss is had

As a great lord with courage mad.

last line. Who rather daily feed the belly with feasts than the mind with heavenly sacrifices.

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Beeves sacrificing, sheep, and fatted goats,

They feast, and swallow down the dark-hued wine
Wastingly.

9. But often a preacher of error with this world's rich
is joined.

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The heaven of heaven to the Lord, but the earth
hath He given to the sons of men.

15. For such the race: upon the fortunate
Fawn ever heralds: he to them is dear
Who sways the city, and in office is.

3. He, to conceal the scandal of the deed,

A purple turban folds about his head.-(Croxall.)
13. There is no dearth in their houses but of truth.
35. One eye is mine, and broad my nose o'erhangs ;
But being such, a thousand sheep I feed.

5. For race and ancestors and deeds not ours,
Scarce these to us I reckon.

29. And would that fortune had remain'd.

12. And race, and manliness, when poor, is viler than sea-weed.

21. Great boldness can be impressed by memory of ancient nobility.

8. If we look into the first origin of men, nature has given all alike birth; yet the virtue of nobility carefully ennobles her with honour, and exalts her to a degree of elevation, which the shamefulness of horrid vice stains, and plunges into the place of weakness.

27. Be ye lovers of brotherhood.

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