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"It must be so;--Plato, thou reason'st well" --CATO: Enfield, p. 321.

"Slow rises worth by poverty depressed." --Wells's Gram., Late Ed., p. 211.

"Rapt into future times, the bard begun." --POPE.--Ib., p. 165.

"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens   To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy    But to confront the visage of offence?" --Shak., Hamlet.

"Look! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through." --Id., J. Cæsar.

"And when they list, their lean and flashy songs   Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw." --Milton, Lycidas.

"Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?" --''Dodd and Shak. cor.''

"May I express thee' unblam'd? since God is light" --Milton, B. iii, l. 3.

"Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream?" --Id., B. iii, l. 7.

"Republics, kingdoms, empires, may decay;    Great princes, heroes, sages, sink to nought." --Peirce or La-Rue cor.

"Thou bringst, gay creature as thou art,   A solemn image to my heart." --Hallock cor.

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;   The proper study of mankind is Man." --Pope, on Man, Ep. ii, l. 1.

"Raised on pilasters high of burnished gold." --Dr. S. Butler cor.

"Love in Adalgise' breast has fixed his sting." --Id.

"Thirty days each have September,   April, June, and old November;    Each of the rest has thirty-one,    Bating February alone,    Which has twenty-eight in fine,    Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine." --Dean Colet cor.

LESSON II.--RHYTHM RESTORED.

"'Twas not the fame of what he once had been,   Or tales in records old and annals seen." --Rowe cor.

"And Asia now and Afric are explored   For high-priced dainties and the citron board." --Rowe cor.

"Who knows not how the trembling judge beheld   The peaceful court with arm~ed legions fill'd?" --Rowe cor.

"With thee the Scythian wilds we'll wander o'er,   With thee the burning Libyan sands explore." --Rowe cor.

"Hasty and headlong, different paths they tread,   As impulse blind and wild distraction lead." --Rowe cor.

"But Fate reserv'd him to perform its doom,   And be the minister of wrath to Rome." --Rowe cor.

"Thus spoke the youth. When Cato thus express'd   The sacred counsels of his inmost breast." --Rowe cor.

"These were the rigid manners of the man,   This was the stubborn course in which they ran;    The golden mean unchanging to pursue,    Constant to keep the purpos'd end in view." --Rowe cor.

"What greater grief can on a Roman seize,   Than to be forced to live on terms like these!" --Rowe cor.

"He views the naked town with joyful eyes,   While from his rage an arm~ed people flies." --Rowe cor.

"For planks and beams, he ravages the wood,   And the tough oak extends across the flood." --Rowe cor.

"A narrow pass the horn~ed mole divides.   Narrow as that where strong Euripus' tides    Beat on Euboean Chalcis' rocky sides." --Rowe cor.

"No force, no fears their hands unarm~ed bear,"--or, "No force, no fears their hands unarm'd now bear,   But looks of peace and gentleness they wear." --Rowe cor.

"The ready warriors all aboard them ride,   And wait return of the retiring tide." --Rowe cor.

"He saw those troops that long had faithful stood,   Friends to his cause, and enemies to good,    Grown weary of their chief, and satiate with blood." --Rowe cor.

END OF THE KEY.