good,

care

Do but behold where glorious cities stood

With gilded tops and silver turrets shining,

Where now the hart fearless of greyhound feeds,

And loving pelican in safety breeds, Where screeching satyrs fill the people's empty steads.

Who, then, shall look for happiness beneath, Where each new day proclaims chance, change and death,

And life itself's as flit as is the air we breathe? PHINEAS FLETCHER.

Not conquest makes us great: blood is too deare

A price for glory; honour doth appeare
To statesmen like a vision in the night,
And jugler-like workes o' th' deluded sight.
Th' unbusied onely wise, for no respect
Indangers them to errour; they affect
Truth in her naked beauty, and behold
Man with an equall eye, nor bright in gold
Or tall in title; so much him they weigh
As vertue raiseth him above his clay.
Thus let us value things, and, since we find
Time bends us toward death, let's in our
mind

Create new youth and arm against the rude.
Assaults of age, that no dull solitude

light

Has never touched it, and never can;

It is fashioned and formed of night-of night

Too dark for the eyes of man.

twice;

Fourth, that he use all common courtesies,

Sit bare at meals, and one half rise and wait;

Last, that he never his young master beat, But he must ask his mother to define

proved

As a grain of mustard-seed to me,

line.

All these observed, he could contented be

removed,

And be thou cast in the sea."

JOSEPH HALL (Bishop of Exeter).

THE CAPTURE OF TROY.

FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL.

[After a siege of ten years' duration, the city of Troy fell into the hands of the Greeks by means of a stratagem. The Greeks, professing admiration of the valor of the Trojans in the brave defence of their city, constructed a large wooden horse, and presented it to the defenders as a testimonial of appreciation. Then, apparently abandoning the siege, the besiegers embarked in their vessels and sailed away. The Trojans, who had enthusiastically accepted the wooden

horse-the inside of which, being hollow, was filled with

armed men-removed a portion of the wall of the city to permit its entrance, as it was very large in its proportions. In the night, while the inhabitants were giving themselves up to rejoicing in consequence of their supposed deliverance, the imprisoned Greeks released themselves from their selfimposed captivity, and with the aid of those who had apparently sailed for home, and who gained admission through the breach in the wall, compassed the downfall of the city.] HE Greeks' chieftains, all irked with the war

TH

Wherein they wasted had so many years, And oft repulsed by fatal destiny,

sons,

And that would stand to good conditions:
First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed,
While his young master lieth o'er his head;
Second, that he do on no default
Ever presume to sit above the salt;

By the divine science of Minerva :
Of cloven fir compacted were his ribs ;
For their return a feignèd sacrifice
The fame whereof so wandered it at point.
In the dark bulk they closed bodies of men
Chosen by lot, and did enstuff by stealth