"Tis sweet to see the evening star appear; 'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. y. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto I. St. 122. Til that the brighte sonne had lost his hewe, For the orizont had reft the sonne his liht, (This is as much to sayn as it was nyht.) CHAUCER-The Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleynes Tale. Line 288.

Z.

f.

KEATS-A Prophecy. Line 1.

I heard the trailing garment of the night Sweep through her marble halls.

g. LONGFELLOW-Hymn to the Night. O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more.

h. LONGFELLOW-Hymn to the Night.

The night is calm and cloudless,
And still as still can be,

And the stars come forth to listen

To the music of the sea.

They gather, and gather, and gather,
Until they crowd the sky,

And listen, in breathless silence,
To the solemn litany.

i.

LONGFELLOw-Christus. The Golden
Legend. Pt. 5.

The Night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently,

All silently, the little moon
Drops down behind the sky.

There is no light in earth or heaven,
But the cold light of stars;

And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.

j.

LONGFELLOW--Light of Stars.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this

bank;

Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night,

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

m. Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars,

That have consented unto Henry's death.
n. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 1.

I must become a borrower of the night,
For a dark hour, or twain.

0.

Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1.

In the dead waste and middle of the night. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2.

p.

h.

Last lines.

t.

King Lear. Act III. Sc. 4.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 1.

น.

The iron tongue of midnight hath tol'd twelve.Lovers to bed.

Act I.

v.

Sc. 1.

Midsummer Night's Dream.

Act V. Sc. 1.

Mysterious Night! when the first man but knew

Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely Frame,
This glorious canopy of Light and Blue?
Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great setting Flame,
Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came,
And lo! Creation widened on his view.
Who could have thought what Darkness lay
concealed

Within thy beams, O sun? or who could find,

Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such endless Orbs thou mad'st us

Noble by birth, yet noble by great deeds. p. LONGFELLOW-Emma and Eginhard.

Line 82.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. q. LOWELL Sonnet IV.

His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.

r. Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 1.

Oaths terminate, as Paul observes, all strife--
Some men have surely then a peaceful life;
Whatever subject occupy discourse,
The feats of Vestris, or the naval force,
Asseveration blustering in your face
Makes contradiction such a happy case:
In every tale they tell, or false or true,
Well known, or such as no man ever knew,
They fix attention, heedless of your pain,
With oaths like rivets forced into the brain,
And e'en when sober truth prevails through-
out,

They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. i. COWPER-Conversation. Line 55.

And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure.

1. Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 1.

An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice.

m.

Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1.

But if you swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no more was this knight, swearing by his honour, for he never had any.

n. As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 2. Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry,

And I'll believe thee..

0. Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2.

For it comes to pass oft, that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

p. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;

Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

1.

Pericles. Act I. Sc. 2.

It is a great sin, to swear unto a sin; But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. Henry VI. Pt. II. Act V.

r.

Sc. 1.