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now provided of (except the immoderate great sleeves, slashed apparel, immoderate great veils, long wings, etc.)." Was there ever another law enacted in which liberty and tyranny so closely shook

hands? Here was each citizen endowed with Comstockian powers ten times multiplied, and yet so much a serf that he could not ap pear on the streets in his own hair without danger of arrest.

RONDEAU FOR A LAWYER. BY PAUL L. DUNBAR.

T LOVE to lie the whole day thro' And canopy the waving trees That whisper to the whisp'ring breeze Tales centuries old but ever new. Where plaintive doves begin to sue For that warm love which is their due, And drown with moans the mock-birds glees, I love to lie. In fact, while the aforesaid 's true, To lie is what I always do, Whenever and where'er I please; Not only at such times as these, But any time, — I own to you, I love to lie.
 * • Where skies outspread their tents of blue,