P. Hen. Pr'ythee, let him alone; we shall have more anon. Fal. Dost thou hear me, Hal?

P. Hen. Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.

Fal. Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine in buckram, that I told thee of,

P. Hen. So, two more already.

Fal. Their points being broken, they began to give me ground: but I followed me close, came in foot and hand; and, with a thought, seven of the eleven I paid.

P. Hen. Oh, monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!

Fal. But as it happened, three misbegotten knaves, in Kendal green, came at my back, and let drive at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou could'st not see thy hand.

P. Hen. These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brained, knotty-pated fool; thou tallow-keech!

Fal. What! art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth, the truth?

P. Hen. Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand? come, tell us your reason; what sayest thou to this? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.

Fal. What, upon compulsion? No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I

P. Hen. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin: this sanguine coward, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh;

Fal. Away, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat'stongue, you stock-fish!-0, for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's yard, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck:

P. Hen. Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons, hear me speak but this.

Poins. Mark, Jack.

P. Hen. We two saw you four set on four; you bound them, and were masters of their wealth.-Mark now how

plain a tale shall put you down.—Then did we two set on you four: and, with a word, outfaced you from your prize, and have it; yea, and can show it you here in the house:and, Falstaff, you carried your mountain sides away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared for mercy, and still ran and roared, as ever I heard a calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword as thou hast done; and then say it was in fight! What trick, what device, what starting hole, canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?

Poins. Come, let's hear, Jack; What trick hast thou now? Fal. Ha, ha, ha! I knew ye, as well as he that made ye. Why, hear ye, my masters: Was it for me to kill the heirapparent. Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince. But, lads, I am glad you have the money.—Hostess, clap to the doors; watch to-night, pray to-morrow.-Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? shall we have a play extempore?

P. Hen. Content,-and the argument shall be, thy run ning away.

Fal. Ah! no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me.

THE TREES OF THE BIBLE.-M. B. C. SLADE.

All.

First.

Let us look through sacred story,
Song and psalm, until we see,
In their beauty and their glory,

Forms of many a fair, green tree:
Trees that shaded saints and sages,
Trees that waved where prophets trod,
Trees that live through all the ages,
In the ancient Word of God.

When the captives wept for Zion,
For her power and glory gone,
What fair tree, with drooping branches,
Hung they, sad, their harps upon?

Answer.-"By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the WILLOWS."-[Ps. cxxxvii: 1.

Second.

When the prophet sang the story,

Zion's grandeur yet to be,

Sang her beauty and her glory,

Spake he then of any tree?

Answer. "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the FIR-TREE the PINE-TREE and the Box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary."―[Isa. lx: 13.

Third.

When he gives the invitation,

Come ye thirsting, thirst no more,
How in joyful proclamation,

Tells he of the good in store?

Answer. "Instead of the THORN shall come up the FIR FREE, and instead of the BRIER shall come up the MYRTLETREE, and it shall be to the Lord for a name."-[Isa. lv: 13. Fourth.

What says he, when men, forsaking
God most high, the living Lord,
Out of wood their gods are making
That can never speak a word?

Answer.-"He heweth him down CEDARS, and taketh the CYPRESS and the OAK, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest; he planteth an Asн, and the rain doth nourish it. He maketh a god and wor shippeth it."-[Isa. xliv: 14, 15.

Fifth.

On the hills and mountains, burning
Incense unto gods thus made,
Israel, far from Zion turning,

Sought what trees' most pleasant shade?

Answer. "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under OAKS and POPLARS and ELMS, because the shadow thereof is good."[Hos. iv: 13.

Sixth.

When another prophet telleth

Of God's judgments falling fast,

Whilst his heart with sorrow swelleth,
How speaks he of glories past?

Answer.-"The VINE is dried up, and the FIG-TREE languisheth; the POMEGRANATE-TREE, the PALM-TREE also, and the APPLE-TREE, even all the trees of the field are withered; because joy is withered away from the sons of men."[Joel i: 12.

Seventh.

After words of solemn warning

To the people in their sin,

Then what hope, like gleams of dawning,
Through the prophet's voice flows in?

Answer. "But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return. As a TEIL-TREE and as an ОAK, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof."-[Isa. vi: 13.

Eighth. Unto Israel returning,

Hear th promise of his Lord;

God to his dear children turning,

Speaks to them what precious word?

Answer. "I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon; his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the OLIVETREE."-[Joel xiv: 5, 6.

Ninth.

When God called the "weeping prophet,"

When he said, "What dost thou see?"
Lifting up his eyes, what saw he?

Spring's first brightly-blooming tree?

Answer. "The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Jeremiah, what seest thou?
ALMOND-TREE." —[Jer. i: 11.

And I said, I see a rod of an

Tenth.- When Elijah's spirit failed him,

And he asked that he might die,

When the angel touched and hailed him,
'Neath what did Elijah lie?

Answer." But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a JUNIPER-TREE; and he requested for himself that he might die.”--[I. Kings xix: 4.

Eleventh- When the Lord directed David

TREES.

Out to battle how to go,

O'er against what trees, then said he,
They should come upon the foe?

Answer.-"Come upon them over against the MULBERRYAnd it shall be when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the MULBERRY-TREES, that then thou shalt go out to battle."—[I. Chron. xiv: 14, 15.

Twelfth.

What tree, that now on Lebanon,

In solemn beauty reigns,

In the grand days of Solomon
Grew, like, upon the plains,
Another tree, whose branches bore
In a far later day,
Zaccheus, who ran on before,

When Jesus passed that way?

Answer. "And the CEDAR-TREES made he as the SYCA MORE-TREES that are in the low plains in abundance.”

"And Zaccheus ran before and climbed up into a SYCAMORE-TREE to see Jesus."- [II. Chron. ix: 27; Luke xix: 4.

Thirte'th.-What trees that Hiram sent, with gold

From far across the seas,

Made terraces, as we are told,

And harps and psalteries?

Answer.--"And the king made of the ALMUG-TREES pillars to the house of the Lord."--I. Kings x: 12.

Fourt'th.- Of what trees did Ezekiel write,

Strong, beautiful, and fair,

When he Assyria's strength and might

And beauty would declare?

Answer.-"The CEDARS in the garden of God could not hide him; the FIR-TREES were not like his boughs; and the