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 knaves. They saw Milton, and we see Mr. Sackbut.

"The false knave, sir, is my honest friend: therefore, I beseech you, let him be countenanced. God forbid but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request."

"Good men and true" was their common term, like the of the Athenians. It is so long since men have been either good or true, that it is to be questioned which is most obsolete, the fact or the phraseology.

There is no worth nor beauty but in the mind's idea. Love sows the wind and reaps