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"And now the sun was set, and the boat came ashore for us; whereupon we assembled ourselves together, and went up to take the last view of our dead, and to look unto their tombs and other things. Here, leaning upon mine arm, on one of their tombs, I uttered these lines, which though perchance they may procure laughter in the wiser sort, (which I shall be glad of)... they yet moved my young and tender-hearted companions at that time with some compassion. And these they were.

I were unkind, unless that I did shed,
Before I part, some tears upon our dead';
And when my eyes be dry, I will not cease,
In heart to pray their bones may rest in peace;
Their better parts (good souls) I know were given
With an intent they should return to heaven.

Their lives they spent, to the last drop of blood,
Seeking God's glory, and their country's good;
And as a valiant soldier, rather dies,

Than yields his courage to his enemies,

And stops their way with his hewed flesh, when death Hath quite deprived him of his strength and breath,

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So have they spent themselves, and here they lie
A famous mark of our discovery.

We that survive, perchance may end our days
In some employment meriting no praise,
And in a dunghil rot; when no man names
The memory of us but to our shames.

They have out-lived this fear, and their brave ends
Will ever be an honour to their friends.

Why drop you so, mine eyes? nay rather pour
My sad departure in a solemn shower!

The winter's cold, that lately froze our blood,

Now were it so extreme, might do this good,

As make these tears, bright pearls, which I would lay Tomb'd safely with you, till doom's fatal day;

That in this solitary place, where none

Will ever come to breathe a sigh or grean,
Some remnant might be extant, of the true
And faithful love I ever tendered you.
Oh, rest in peace, dear friends! and, let it be
No pride to say, the sometime part of me.
What pain and anguish doth afflict the head,
The heart and stomach when the limbs are dead,
So grieved, I kiss your graves, and vow to die
A foster-father to your memory.

FAREWELL,

205. Brevity of the Greek and English

compared.

An an instance of compression and

brevity in narration, unattainable in any language but the Greek, the following distich was quoted:

Χρυσου ανήρ ευρων ελιπε βροχον αυταρ ὁ χρυσον Ον λίπεν, εκ ευρών, η εν ον ευρε βρόχον.

This was denied by one of the company, who instantly rendered the lines in English, contending with reason that the indefinite article in English, together with the pronoun "his," &c. should be considered as one word with the noun following, and more than counterbalanced by the greater number of syllables in the Greek words, the terminations of which are in truth only little words glued on to them. The English distich follows, and the reader will recollect that it is a mere trial of comparative brevity, wit and poetry quite out of the question.

Jack finding gold left a rope on the ground;
Bill missing his gold used the rope, which he found.

206. Dancing.

The Waldenses and Albigenses had some extraordinary notions concerning dancing. "A dance (said they), is the Devil's procession, and he that entreth into a dance, entreth into his possession: the Devil is the guide, the middle and the end of the dance. As many paces as a man maketh in dancing, so many paces doth he make to goe to Hell. A man sinneth in dancing divers wayes; as in his pace, for all his steps are numbred; in his touch, in his ornaments, in his hearing, sight, speech, and other va.

nities.

And therefore we will prove, first by the Scripture, and afterwards by divers other reasons, how wicked a thing it is to dance. The first testimony that we will produce is that which wee reade in the Gospell, Mark 6. it pleased Herod so well that it cost John the Baptist his life. The second is in Exodus, 32, when Moses coming neere to the congrega tion saw the Calfe, hee cast the Tables

from him, and brake them at the foote of the mountaine, and afterwards it cost three and twenty thousand their lives. Besides the ornaments which women weare in their dances are as crownes for many victories which the Devil hath gotten against the children of God; for the Devil hath not onely one sword in the dance, but as many as there are beautifull and well-adorned persons in the dance; for the words of a woman are a glittering sword, and therefore that place is much to be feared wherein the enemy hath so many swords, since that one onely sword of his may be feared. Againe, the Devil in this place strikes with a sharpened sword, for the women come not willingly to the dance, if they be not painted and adorned, the which painting and ornament is as a grindstone upon which the Devil sharpeneth his sword. They that decke and adorne their daughters are like those that put dry wood to the fire to the end it may

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