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LYING VAGRANTS.

Ulysses, we do not suspect in looking at thee that thou art capable of guile and tricky frauds, though such the earth produces in numbers, vagrants, artful to deceive, so as to elude detection; to thee there is a grace of language, and gifts of mind; thou hast told thy story skilfully, like some bard the sad woes of all the Greeks and of thyself.

So Titus (i. 10)—“ There are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers;" and 2 John (7)-" For many deceivers are entered into the world."

A TIME FOR EVERYTHING.

A time for talking, however prolonged; a time, too, for sleep.

So Ecclesiastes (iii. 7)—“ A time to keep silence, and a time to speak."

WOMEN.

Than woman there is no fouler and viler fiend, when her mind is bent to ill.

TRUST NOT A SECRET TO A WOMAN.

Though thou lovest thy wife, tell not everything which thou knowest to her; but unfold some trifle, while thou concealest the rest.

HONOR TO THE OLD.

ENDURE.

Submit in silence to many ills, enduring the violence of men.

So Isaiah (liii. 7)—" He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth."

I CANNOT LEAVE THEE.

Wherefore I am not able to leave thee, since

THINK ALL WOMEN FALSE.

There is no trust to be placed in women.

So Psalms (xxxvii. 28)-"The Lord forsaketh not His saints."

Would that thou wouldst stand by me and en

HELL.

I would rather be a peasant and slave to some poor hind of slenderest means, than reign over the dead who have passed from life.

Milton ("Paradise Lost," i. 252) says the reverse of this"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven!"

"TO GO DOWN ALIVE INTO THE PIT." Unhappy wretches, who alive go'down into the pit of Hades, dying twice, while other men die only once.

WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF MISFORTUNES.

ceed homeward, yet great fear of divine vengeance falls upon them.

So Psalms (v. 5)-"Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; neither shall evil dwell with thee; Thou hatest

THE RETURN OF AN ONLY SON.

The father receiving his only son, the child of

So Colossians (iii. 9)—“ Lie not one to another."

ENJOY THE PRESENT.

returns from some far distant land after an absence of ten years, for whom he has suffered many a bitter pang of anxious care.

So Luke (xv. 20)-" And when he was yet a great way off,

So Philippians (iv. 11)-"I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content;" and Hebrews (xiii. 5)— **Be content with such things as ye have."

POWERS OF WINE.

For wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

So Proverbs (xx. 1)-" Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise;" and Isaiah (xxviii. 7" They have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way."

WOMAN MARRIED A SECOND TIME.

For thou knowest the dispositions of women; whoever marries a second time wishes her family to prosper, forgetting her former children and dead husband, never thinking of them.

So 1 Timothy (v. 9)-"A widow having been the wife of one man; but the younger widows refuse; for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will mary.” 66 WELCOME

THE COMING, SPEED THE PARTING
GUEST."

Who loves too much hates in the same extreme;

the golden mean is to be preferred. It is equally Wrong to urge the unwilling to come back and to detain him who desires to depart. True friendship's rule is "to welcome the coming, to speed the parting guest.”

So Ecclesiastes (iii. 8)—A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace;" and Romans (xii. 18)Given to hospitality;" and Hebrews (xiii. 2)-" Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; " and 1 Peter (iv. 9) "Use hospitality one to another without grudging;" and Genesis (xviii. 16)—“ And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way:" and Romans (xv. 24)-“For I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you;" and 3 John (6)-" Whom if thou bring forward on their journey, thou shalt do well."

MEN OF MEAN ESTATE.

With the good-will of the messenger Mercury, who imparts grace and honor to the works of men, few could with me cope in dexterous service, to pile the fire, to split the dry wood, to cut up the carcase, roast the flesh, pour out the wine, offices in which the humble wait upon the rich.

on his neck and kissed him."

I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND.

I know, I understand; thou art giving directions to one who is acquainted with these things.

So Job (xiii. 1)" Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you."

GOD INVISIBLE.

For the gods do not make themselves visible to all.

So Exodus (xxxiii. 20)—“Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me and live;" and 1 Timothy (vi. 16)—— "Whom no man hath seen, nor can see."

I AM NOT A GOD.

I am no god; why dost thou liken me to the immortals?

See 2 Kings (v. 7)-" Am I God?"-and Psalms (lxxxix. 6)— "Who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord ? "—and Isaiah (xlvi. 5)-"To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal and compare me, that we may be like?"

THE POWER OF GOD.

It is easy for the gods, who inhabit the wide heaven, to raise or cast down mortal man.

See 1 Samuel (ii. 7); and 2 Chronicles (xxv. 8)-" God hath

power to help and cast down;" and Psalms (lxxv. 7)—“ God is the judge; He putteth down one and setteth up another;" and Luke (i. 52)-"He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.”

READY SWORDS OFT CAUSE BLOODSHED. The steel blade itself oft incites to deeds of violence.

CONTRIVE NOT EVIL AGAINST ONE ANOTHER.

Men ought not to devise evils against one another.

So Proverbs (iii. 29)-"Devise not evil against thy neighbor;" and (xxiv. 8)-" He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person."

ONE ROGUE IS USHER TO ANOTHER. Here sure one rogue leads on another; thus it is that God for evermore links like with like. So Matthew (xv.14)—" Blind leaders of the blind."

THE IDLE.

Since he has learned evil deeds he will not be willing to turn to labor; but at the people's heels forever cowering, he wishes to feed his insatiable belly by begging.

So Proverbs (xix. 24)--“ A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again."

BAD SHEPHERDS.

Bad shepherds destroy their sheep.

So Ezekiel (xxxiv. 2)--" Woe be to the shepherds, ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are

fed, but ye feed not the flock;" and John (x. 12) But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep."

WANT.

It is not possible for the hungry belly to conceal her wants, causing unnumbered woes to mortals, for which well-benched galleys are equipped for the barren sea, bearing ills to the enemy.

So Ecclesiastes (vi. 7)—“ All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled."

PLAYTHINGS OF the great. Eumous, surely this is very wonderful, this dog lies in the dirt, beauteous in form, but I do not know whether or not he was swift in running as he is handsome, or like those lap-dogs which the rich keep for their beauty.

A SLAVE.

For loud-thundering Jove takes away half the worth of a man when he has made him a slave.

So Proverbs (xxix. 19)—“ A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand, he will not answer."

THE BEGGAR.

Modesty is not good for a needy beggar.

So Luke (xi. 8)- Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth."

PRUDENCE NOT EQUAL TO BEAUTY.

ENVY NOT THY NEIGHBOR'S PROPERTY. Thou oughtest not to envy the wealth of thy neighbor.

So Matthew (xx. 15)—“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good!"

MAN SUBJECT TO VICISSITUDES.

The earth produces nothing feebler than man, of all that breathes or creeps on earth; for he thinks himself exempt from evil in years to come, while the gods give him strength and his knees are able to support him. But when the blest gods bring sorrow, he is unwilling to bear it with patience. For men are such as the Father of men and gods wills it.

So Job (xxv. 6); and Psalms (xxxix. 5)—" Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity;" and (xc. 5)-"Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as asleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morn ing it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut said, I shall never be moved; " and Psalms (xxxi. 15)—“My down, and withereth; " and (xxx. 6)—“ And in my prosperity times are in Thy hand; " and Ecclesiastes (vii. 14)—"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity con sider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after Him."

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TO SORROW WITHOUT CEASING.

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

So 2 Corinthians (ii. 7)-"Lest perhaps such an one shouk be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow; " and (vii. 10)- Thi sorrow of the world worketh death."

"I THOUGHT as a child.”

But I know and understand everything, goo and bad; in days gone by I was a mere child, yet am not able to perceive what is prudent in all cir

cumstances.

So 1 Corinthians (xiii. 11)-"When I was a child, I spake a a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: bu when I became a man, I put away childish things;" and (xiii 9)-" We know in part." ..

A HYPOCRITE.

He soothed him with honeyed words, but hi intentions were far otherwise.

So Psalms (xxviii. 3)—“Which speak peace to their neigh bors, but mischief is in their hearts;" and Jeremiah (ix. 8)**One speaketh peaceably to his neighbors with his mouth, bu

So Proverbs (xv. 3)-"The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good; " and Acts (xiv. 11) The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men."

ATTEND TO YOUR HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.

I wish, my son, that thou wouldst look with care after thy household, and guard all thy pos sessions.