44.

"Never wore that Chieftain armour, in a knot himself he ties,

With his grizzly head appearing in the centre of his thighs,

Till the petrified spectator asks, in paralysed alarm, Where may be the warrior's body?—which is leg, and which is arm?"

1. "But the jingling of the helps

I.

The hurt that honour feels."

2. "And the splashing water drenches
Their dirty brats and wenches;

And they crawl from bales and benches
In a hundred thousand stenches."

3. "Upon my tongue continual slanders ride : The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports."

4.

5.

6.

7.

"Well skilled to combine

Civil law with divine;

As a statesman inferior to none in that line;

As an orator, too,

He was equalled by few."

Sly Beelzebub took all occasions
To try his constancy and patience."

He bends him to the people with a calm and princely grace;

Through all the land of Xeres and banks. of Guadalquiver,

Rode forth bridegroom so brave as he, so brave and lovely, never."

"In her starry shade

Of dim and solitary loveliness

I learn the language of another world."

45.

Solid and Fluid.

1. "She who in other's words her silence breaks,

Nor speaks herself but when another

4.

5.

Which was an image of the mighty world.'

"She had the Asiatic eye,

Dark as above us, is the sky;

But through it stole a tender light,
Like the first moonrise of midnight."

"He threw

His length beneath the oak tree shade,
With leafy couch already made

A bed, nor comfortless, nor new
To him."

Through

46.

's straits survey the steepy shore,

Europe and Africa on each other gaze."

1. "Cry, Trojans, cry, a Helen and a woe, Cry, Cry, Troy burns, or else let Helen go."

2. "And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the

And as silently steal away."

3. "Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravish

ment?

Sure something holy lodges in that breast,
And with these raptures moves the vocal

air

To testify his hidden residence."

4

"He laugh'd and swore by Peter and by

Then fillip'd at the diamond in her ear."

5. Struck with the soil that gave

birth."

C. C.

47.

"To the ship's bow he ascended,
By his choristers attended;
Round him were the tapers lighted,
And the sacred incense rose."

1. "At my feet the city slumbered.

its chimneys, here and there,

From

Wreaths of snow-white smoke ascending, vanished, ghost-like, into air."