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 than William Penn! I smile at his arguments, but adhere to his opinion.

 

It is curious to observe how the English Catholicks of the 17th century wrote English like men who habitually spoke French. Corps is sometimes used for the living body, and when they attempt to versify, their rhymes are only rhymes according to a French pronunciation.

This path most fair I walking winde
 * By shadow of my pilgrimage,

Wherein at every step I find
 * An heavenly draught and image
 * Of my fraile mortality,
 * Tending to eternity.

The tree that bringeth nothing else
 * But leaves and breathing verdure

Is fit for fire, and not for fruit
 * And doth great wrong to Nature.

