plied; they would not suffer their empty and unrecruitible colonels of twenty men in a company to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant : yet in the mean while to be overmastered with a score or two of drunkards, the only soldiery left about them, or else to comply with all rapines and violences. No certainly, if they knew aught of that knowledge that belongs to good men or good governors, they would not suffer these things.

Of Education: To Master Samuel Hartlib.

Propending

P. 65, 1. 8. inclining. Of the once numerous group of words to which this belongs, only “ propensity” survives in common use. P. 65, l. 18. Demeaned the matter. Milton has ample warrant for this rare use in the O. F. employment of demener. In modern French, as in modern English, the verb is reflexive only.

P. 65, l. 19. Of whom. We could not now dispense with the double genitive, "of those, of whom,” and it may be doubted whether the compression was ever good English, though it was common.

P. 67, II. 35, 36. They would not then.

The drop in style (“unrecruitible,"

for instance, is little better than a vox nihili) as well as in tone here is very noteworthy, and very characteristic of Milton. He passes in both from the poet to the pamphleteer.

JEREMY TAYLOR.

Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor, was born at Cambridge in 1613, and died at Lisburn in 1667. The greatest of all sacred orators in English, and perhaps the greatest ancient master of the florid and ornate style of English prose, he was a voluminous writer, but he is nowhere read to such literary advantage as in his sermons.

THE

THE FRUITS OF SIN.

HE fruits of its present possession, the pleasures of its taste, are no less pleasant, because no sober person, no man that can discourse, does like it long.

Breve sit quod turpiter audes. Juv. 8. 165.

But he approves it in the height of passion, and in the disguises of a temptation; but at all other times he finds it ugly and unreasonable; and the very remembrance of it must at all times abate its pleasures, and sour its delicacies. In the most parts of a man's life he wonders at his own folly, and prodigious madness, that it should ever be possible for him to be deluded by such trifles; and he sighs next morning, and knows it over night; and is it not therefore certain that he leans upon a thorn which he knows will smart, and he dreads the event of to-morrow? But so have I known a bold trooper fight in the confusion of a battle, and being warm with heat and rage, received, from the swords of his enemy, wounds open like a grave; but he felt them not, and when, by the streams of blood, he found himself marked for pain, he refused to consider then what he was to feel to

plied; they would not suffer their empty and unrecruitible colonels of twenty men in a company to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant : yet in the mean while to be overmastered with a score or two of drunkards, the only soldiery left about them, or else to comply with all rapines and violences. No certainly, if they knew aught of that knowledge that belongs to good men or good governors, they would not suffer these things.

Of Education: To Master Samuel Hartlib.

P. 65, 1. 8.

Propending

inclining. Of the once numerous group of words to

which this belongs, only “propensity” survives in common use. P. 65, l. 18. Demeaned the matter. Milton has ample warrant for this rare use in the O. F. employment of demener. In modern French, as in modern English, the verb is reflexive only.

P. 65, l. 19. Of whom. We could not now dispense with the double genitive,

of those, of whom,” and it may be doubted whether the compression was ever good English, though it was common.

P. 67, II. 35, 36. They would not then. The drop in style (“unrecruitible," for instance, is little better than a vox nihili) as well as in tone here is very noteworthy, and very characteristic of Milton. He passes in both from the poet to the pamphleteer.

morrow; but when his rage had cooled into the temper of a man, and clammy moisture had checked the fiery emission of spirits, he wonders at his own boldness, and blames his fate, and needs a mighty patience to bear his great calamity. So is the bold and merry sinner, when he is warm with wine and lust, wounded and bleeding with the strokes of hell, he twists with the fatal arm that strikes him and cares not; but yet it must abate his gaiety, because he remembers that when his wounds are cold and considered, he must roar or perish, repent, or do worse, that is be miserable or undone.

Apples of Sodom.

THE WEAKNESS OF MAN.

WE are as water, weak, and of no consistence, always descending, abiding in no certain place, unless we are detained with violence; and every little breath of wind makes us rough and tempestuous, and troubles our faces; every trifling accident discomposes us; and as the face of the waters wafting in a storm so wrinkles itself that it makes upon its forehead furrows deep and hollow like a grave; so do our great and little cares and trifles first make the wrinkles of old age and then they dig a grave for us and there is in nature nothing so contemptible, but it may meet with us in such circumstances, that it may be too hard for us in our weaknesses; and the sting of a bee is a weapon sharp enough to pierce the finger of a child or the lip of a man; and those creatures which nature hath left without weapons, yet they are armed sufficiently to vex those parts of man which are left defenceless and obnoxious to a sunbeam, to the roughness of a sour grape, to the unevenness of a gravel stone, to the dust of a wheel, or the unwholesome breath of a star looking awry upon a sinner.

But besides the weaknesses and natural decayings of our bodies, if chances and contingencies be innumerable, then no man can reckon our dangers, and the preternatural causes of our deaths: so that he is a vain person, whose hopes of life are too confidently increased by reason of his health: and he is too