Why shouldst thou here look for perpetual | O' th' country dead our thoughts, nor busie good, At care loss against heaven's face repin-O' th' towne make us not thinke where now ing? every Do but behold where glorious cities stood With gilded tops and silver turrets shining, Where now the hart fearless of greyhound feeds, And loving pelican in safety breeds, Where screeching satyrs fill the people's empty steads. Who, then, shall look for happiness beneath, Where each new day proclaims chance, change and death, And life itself's as fit as is the air we breathe? PHINEAS FLETCHER. we are AM AMBITION. MBITION mocks itselfe, and grasps the wind. Not conquest makes us great: blood is too deare A price for glory; honour doth appeare Create new youth and arm against the rude Is it under the moon, then?" No; the | Third, that he never change his trencher light Has never touched it, and never can; It is fashioned and formed of night-of night Too dark for the eyes of man. twice; Fourth, that he use all common courtesies, Last, that he never his young master beat, Yet I sometimes think, if my faith had How many jerks he would his breech should proved line. As a grain of mustard-seed to me, I could say to this mountain, "Be thou "Be thou removed, All these observed, he could contented be JOSEPH HALL (Bishop of Exeter). And be thou cast in the sea.' SARAH M. B. PIATT. BOOKS. BOOKS are a part of man's prerogative: THE CAPTURE OF TROY. FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL. [After a siege of ten years' duration, the city of Troy fell into the hands of the Greeks by means of a stratagem. The Greeks, professing admiration of the valor of the Trojans in the brave defence of their city, constructed a large wooden In formal ink they thoughts and voices horse, and presented it to the defenders as a testimonial of appreciation. Then, apparently abandoning the siege, the besiegers embarked in their vessels and sailed away. The Trojans, who had enthusiastically accepted the wooden. horse-the inside of which, being hollow, was filled with armed men-removed a portion of the wall of the city to permit its entrance, as it was very large in its proportions. In the night, while the inhabitants were giving themselves up to rejoicing in consequence of their supposed deliverance, the imprisoned Greeks released themselves from their selfimposed captivity, and with the aid of those who had apparently sailed for home, and who gained admission through the breach in the wall, compassed the downfall of the city.] HE Greeks' chieftains, all irked with the war THE Wherein they wasted had so many years, Some willing man that might instruct his A huge horse made, high raised like a hill, sons, And that would stand to good conditions: By the divine science of Minerva : |