892 893 His tongue and heart did not turn backs; but went the friendships that he vow'd most constant were, ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN N the reproof of chance INN S. DANIEL lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth, how many shallow bauble boats dare sail upon her patient breast, making their way but let the ruffian Boreas once enrage the gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold the strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, like Perseus' horse: where's then the saucy boat and flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage, as roused with rage, with rage doth sympathise, and with an accent tuned in selfsame key, retorts to chiding fortune. W. SHAKESPEARE CARDINAL WOLSEY'S LAMENT AREWELL! a long farewell, to all my greatness! FAREWELL! a long to all my the tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, and then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, but far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. never to hope again. W. SHAKESPEARE 894 THE CONJUNCTION OF JUPiter and venuS HAPLESS Greece! enough of blood has wet thy rocks, and stained of thy pure maidens, and thy innocent babes, and Europe shall be stirred throughout her realms, must fight it single-handed. Yet thy wrongs W. C. BRYANT 895 CHARALOIS VIEWING THE FUNERAL PROCESSION 896 OF HIS FATHER THE MARSHAL OF BURGUNDY OW like a silent stream shaded with night, How and gliding softly with our windy sighs, stay here awhile.-Rest, rest in peace, dear earth! that makes his life prisoner to bail thy death; than virgins, long in love, their wedding weeds. I thank you for this last and friendly love. all means of thee, her son, but last thyself, thy worth in every honest breast builds one, TIME BEHOLD, the world rests, and her tired inhabitants have paused 897 crowning with Hope's bland wreath his shuddering nurse, poor victim! smiles. Silence and deep repose the general moral; tells us, that repose, shall soon taste lasting quiet, wrapped around H. K. WHITE OLIVER TO ROSALIND AND CELIA WHEN HEN last the young Orlando parted from you, within an hour; and, pacing through the forest, and, mark, what object did present itself: under an old oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, a wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, a green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself, a lioness, with udders all drawn dry, lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, to prey on nothing that doth seem as dead: and found it was his brother, his elder brother. W. SHAKESPEARE 898 CARDINAL BEAUFORT-DUKE of suffolk-quEEN Car. MARGARET-HUMPHREY DUKE OF GLOSTER-DUKE Myths that care to keep your royal person Y liege, his railing is intolerable: from treason's secret knife, and traitors' rage, and the offender granted scope of speech, with ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd, as if she had subornéd some to swear false allegations to o'erthrow his state? Q. M. But I can give the loser leave to chide. Glou. Far truer spoke than meant: I lose, indeed;— beshrew the winners, for they played me false! and well such losers may have leave to speak. Buck. He'll wrest the sense, and hold us here all day:lord cardinal, he is your prisoner. Car. Sirs, take away the duke, and guard him sure. thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side, W. SHAKESPEARE 899 Ant. ANTONY-VENTIDIUS IE there, the shadow of an emperor; LIE the place thou pressest on thy mother earth is all thy empire now: now it contains thee: some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, when thou'rt contracted in thy narrow urn, shrunk to a few cold ashes; then Octavia, (for Cleopatra will not live to see it) Octavia then will have thee all her own, and bear thee in her widowed hand to Cæsar; to see his rival of the universe lie still and peaceful there.— I'm now turned wild, a commoner of nature; of all forsaken, and forsaking all; live in a shady forest's sylvan scene, stretch'd at my length beneath some blasted oak, I lean my head upon the mossy bark, |