54. Mounted upon a mule, the gift of the outlaw, with two tall yeomen to act as his guard and guides, the Jew had sent out for the Preceptory, for the purpose of negotiating his daughter's redemption.

55. When Cedric the Saxon saw his son drop down senseless in the lists, his first impulse was to order him into the custody and care of his own attendant, but the words choked in his throat.

56. My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart some late lark singing,

Let me be gathered to the quiet west,

The sundown splendid and serene.

57. Among boys there are laws of honor and chivalrous codes, not written or formally taught, but instinctively understood by all, and invariably acted upon by the loyal and the true.

58. I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of birdsong at morning and starshine at night.

59. Go where he will, the wise man is at home,

His hearth the earth-his hall the azure dome.

60. Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

61. How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them!

62. Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

63. Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander, hath as lasting fame as his master.

64. The sun descending in the West,

The evening star does shine;

The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.

65. I will tell them what hath been written in the tablet.

66. They warned the king to trust any other man rather than me.

67. Teach me half the gladness

That thy brain must know;
Such harmonious madness

From my lips would flow

The world would listen then, as I am listening now. 68. Jaques: Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing. Rosalind: Why, then, 'tis good to be a post.

69. I pray you, Sire, to let me have that honor. 70. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease,

Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

71. The Major had a sincere liking and regard for his sister-in-law, whom he pronounced, and with perfect truth, to be as fine a lady as any in England.

72. Brutus had rather be a villager

Than to repute himself a son of Rome.

73. If I should live to be

The last leaf upon the tree

In the spring,

Let them smile as I do now.

74. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;

75.

The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting.

Live a thousand years,
I shall not find myself so apt to die,

No place will please me so, no means of death,
As here by Cæsar, and by you cut off,

The choice and master spirits of this age.

76. If I come drest like a village maid, I am but as my fortunes are.

77. Many years ago lived a king and queen who had twelve sons, all bright, intelligent lads; but they

were not happy, although they loved each other very much.

78. With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect; With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;

And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.