ber, by and by a great heap will be accumulated, falling leaves; the wind and the waves bear them From their gleanings. without effort wherever they choose. MEDICATED POISON. Deadly poisons sometimes lurk under sweet noney. Watt says: "The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring;) From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint they bear, EVERY LOVER IS A SOLDIER. Every lover is a soldier. LOVE IS A CAUSE OF GREAT ANXIETY. Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love. THANKS. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. FAME FROM POETRY. The honors which poetry will confer will be never-dying. THE SUPREMACY OF POETRY. We are ever hankering after the forbidden, and covet what is refused us: thus the dropsical long Let kings and the triumphs of kings give way for the water they must not touch. to verse. ENVY. Envy feeds on living merit; it ceases after death, when a man's real character defends each according to his actual deserts. THE MAN THAT IS FEARED. Every one is desirous that the man should perish of whom he is afraid. TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE'S FAULTS. I would not presume to defend my dissolute habits, and to throw a false glare over my misdeeds. PATIENCE. Let those who have deserved it suffer punishment with patience. COALS TO NEWCASTLE. Why dost thou add leaves to trees, stars to the crowded sky, water to the vast ocean? SLEEP. So Genesis iii. 1: "And the serpent said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" WE COVET WHAT IS CAREFULLY GUARDED. We are apt to covet the more whatever is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few care for what they may have. WEALTH GIVES HONORS. Parliament is closed to the poor; it is wealth that confers honors. Sophocles (Philoct. 304) says: "Not hither are the voyages of the prudent among men." GENIUS IN OLDEN TIMES. Genius in olden times was more precious than gold, but the barbarism of the present day puts no account on it. THE CRETANS ARE LIARS. The Cretans do not always tell lies. THE LICENCE OF POETS. The unbridled licence of poets ranges "from earth to heaven," nor are his words subject to Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of cold historic truth. death? Fate will give an eternity of rest. THE SHIP. It is too late to look with wistful eyes to the shore, when the rope has been loosed, and the rounded keels sweeps through the boundless deep. THE WORDS OF A GIRL. THE SECRETS OF NIGHT. What madness it is to confess in the day what is concealed by the darkness of night, and to relate openly what thou hast done secretly! THE ADVANTAGES OF ART. Ships are moved with rapidity by art, sails, and oars; the light chariot is moved by art; and love The words of younger girls are lighter than the is governed by the assistance of art. TO SEE AND BE SEEN. They come to see; they come to be seen. LIGHT SERVICE. Light service charms light minds. HEAVENLY GENIUS. THE PEACOCK. The bird of Juno displays her feathers, which thou praisest; if thou look at her in silence, she conceals her beauty. PERJURIES OF LOVERS. Jupiter, from on high, laughs at the perjuries abroad. Heavenly genius springs up more quickly, than of lovers, and orders the winds to scatter them its years, and submits, with regret, to the losses brought by slow time. WINE. Wine prepares the mind, and makes it ready to be inflamed; care flies, and is drowned in plenteous draughts. SIMPLICITY. Simplicity most rare in our age. NIGHT COVERS ALL DEFECTS. ARTIFICERS OF DEATH. For there is no law more just than this, that the workman should be hoisted by his own petard. CROCODILE TEARS. If tears fail thee, for they do not always come at the wished-for moment, wipe thy eyes with thy moistened hand. THE SWARTHY SAILOR. A fair complexion is unbecoming a sailor; he Night covers all blemishes, and every flaw is ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea forgiven. and the rays of the sun. While youth and years allow it, put thy hand to the plough; soon bent old age will creep on with silent foot. Euripides (Fr. Antiop. 44) says: "Such is the life of wretched men: they are neither altogether happy nor unhappy, they are prosperous and again are unprosperous. Why, pray, as we walk through the world in uncertain bliss, do we not live as pleasantly as we may, not yielding to grief.” WHY IS THERE EVIL IN THE WORLD? Some of the vulgar throng will say, Why is there poison in the serpent? And why give up the sheep to the ravenous wolf? LAY NOT THE FAULTS OF THE FEW ON THE MANY. Do not lay the blame on the multitude that is due to the few. Be mindful even now of old age which is approaching; thus no moment will pass without profit. TIME. We must make use of time: time flies with rapid foot. ENJOY THE PRESENT. Our advantages fly away: gather flowers while ye may. CONSTANT CROPPING. A field gets exhausted by constant cropping. NEATNESS OF PERSON. We are charmed by neatness of person; let not thy hair be out of order. BASE DEEDS. Many deeds, which are base in being committed, when done please. THE BAD PREDOMINATE. And there are always more bad than good. HYPOCRISY EVEN IN TEARS. To what point does not art reach? Some learn even to weep with grace. MUSIC OUGHT TO BE LEARNED BY LADIES. Music is a pleasing accomplishment; let the fair learn to sing. FAME OF A POET. Perhaps even my name will be mingled with theirs, nor shall my writings be given over to oblivion. THE UNKNOWN. What is hid is unknown; for what is unknown there is not desire. So Romans vii. 7:"For I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." LET YOUR HOOK ALWAYS BE READY. Chance is always powerful: let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. PEACE. Fair peace becomes mankind; fury belongs to wild beasts. GOD IN MAN. A God resides in us, and we have intercourse with heaven. This spirit within us comes from the eternal abodes. SWEET AND BITTER. We do not bear the sweet; we are recruited by a bitter potion. Time is generally the best doctor. HOW LOVE IS TO BE CONQUERED. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business, love gives way to employments: then thou art likely to be safe. HOW CARE IS TO BE DISSIPATED. The country, companions, and the length of the journey will afford a thousand solaces for your cares. TO BURST THE CHAINS OF LOVE. He is the best assertor of his liberties, who has burst the chain that galls his breast, and has once for all got rid of the cause of his pain. VIRTUE AND VICE NEARLY ALLIED. And who has not a thousand causes of grief ? AN ILL-TEMPERED MAN. All his words bristled with passionate threats. PUT SPURS TO THE MIND. And thou wilt be able if thou choosest; now thou must push on steadily; now put spurs to the swift steed. DEEDS OF GLORY. It is deeds of high renown that give age to man; these are what ought to be counted; time is to be filled with these and not with years of idleness. So P. J. Bailey ("Festus "): "We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Sheridan ("Pizarro," act iv. sc. 1):— "A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line -by deeds, not years." Herbert ("Iacula Prudentum"): Life is given to us for use; it has been given to us as a loan without interest, and not to be payed back on any fixed day. Fortune distributes time In unequal portions at her will; she hurries off The bad is often too near akin to the good: by the young; she props up the old. PERSIUS. BORN A.D. 34-DIED A.D. 62. silently. I allow they do, for it is not every one that can in the temple do away with the low muttered whispers and offer up prayers in the open AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS, born at Volaterræ in face of heaven. "A clear conscience, a good Etruria, during the consulship of L. Vitellius and name, integrity," for these he prays loudly, that Fabius Persicus, A.D. 34, received the first rudi- all at hand may hear. But in his inmost breast, ments of his education at his native town, remain- and with bated breath, he murmurs, “Oh that my ing there till the age of twelve, when he proceeded uncle would evaporate! What a splendid funeral! to Rome and studied under Remmius Palamon and Would by the favor of Hercules that a pot of gold Verginius Flavius. would ring against my rake! or, would I could When he approached manhood he received lessons of philosophy from Cor-wipe out my ward, to whom I am next heir! For nutus the Stoic, to whom he became much attached. he is scrofulous, and swollen with acrid bile.” He was the friend of Lucan and Cæsius Bassus the lyric poet. He died A.D. 62, before he had completed his twenty-eighth year. The extant works of Persius consist of six short satires, extending in all to 650 hexameter lines, and were left in an imperfect state. AN IGNORAMUS QUOTING FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Who made the parrot so ready with his "How d'ye do?" THE BELLY. The belly, master he of all art, the bounteous giver of genius. VANITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS. GOD DOES NOT FORGET THE WICKED. Thinkest thou that God has forgiven thee, because, when He thunders, the holm-oak is rather riven with His sacred bolt than thou and thy house? In Ecclesiastes (viii. 11) we find the same idea:"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." UPRIGHTNESS. Why do we not offer that to the gods, which the blear-eyed progeny of great Messala cannot give from his high-heaped charger, Piety to God and Justice to man enshrined within the heart; the Oh the cares of men! Oh how much emptiness soul's inmost cell free from pollution; a bosom there is in human affairs. THE WISE MAN. Whatever Rome in its perverted judgment may disparage, do not thou subscribe to its verdict, nor by that scale of theirs try to correct thy own false balance, nor seek beyond thy own breast for rules to guide thy conduct. THAT'S HE. Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge? But it is a fine thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to have it said, "That's he!" PUBLIC APPLAUSE. Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept by cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense. PRAISE. When I write, if anything by chance be expressed correctly (though this, I must confess, is a rare bird), yet if anything be expressed correctly, I would not shrink from being praised; for my breast is not made of horn: but I deny that that "excellently" and "beautifully" of yours is the end and object of what is right. PRAYERS. Thou at least dost not with mercenary prayers ask heaven for what thou wouldst not dare to name to the gods, unless in some corner. But then the greater part of the nobles offer libations imbued with generous honor? Give me these to present at the altar, and I shall gain what I ask even with a little meal. Gifford translates it thus: "No: let me bring the immortals, what the race EDUCATION. Thou art now clay, moist and pliant; even now must thou be hastily moulded and fashioned uninterruptedly by the rapid wheel. HYPOCRISY.. Show these trappings to the rabble; I know thee intimately inside and out. TYRANTS. O mighty father of the gods! when once dire lust, dyed with raging poison, has fired their minds, vouchsafe to punish cruel tyrants in no other way than this, that they see virtue and pine away at having forsaken her. This passage is thus paraphrased by Wyatt ("Ep. to Poynes"): "None other payne pray I for them to be, But, when the rage doth lead them from the right, |