EXERCISE XXIV.

And after these there came the day and night, Riding together, both with equal pace,

The one on palfrey black, the other white.

SPENSER'S Faery Queen,

EXERCISE XXV.

In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction ;

And in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

ECCLESIASTICUS XI. 25.

EXERCISE XXVI.

Oh! happy ghosts

Of those that fell in the last fatal fight,
And lived not to survive their country's loss !

DRYDEN'S Cleomenes.

EXERCISE XXVII.

One destined period men in common have,
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave.

GRANVILLE'S Meditation on Death.

EXERCISE XXIV.

But next there ride the (black-2 horsed) form of

night

On-the-other-hand and the white-horsed day,

A beaming pair, making a track of-equal-measure.

EXERCISE XXV.

Now whenever fortune goes-on-well, a man believes, That the same fortune will ever be favourable: but if he be disappointed,

Being-despondent on-the-other hand he forgets his former luck.

EXERCISE XXVI.

Oh! (happy 2shades) of those lately-slain (In the last struggle), you are dead seasonably, Before you saw the overthrow of your father-land.

EXERCISE XXVII.

Common is the destiny: in-common, mortals
Are food-for-worms, and fellow-guests of tombs,
Coward, and he-that-is distinguished for high-born
-spirit together.

EXERCISE XXVIII.

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes and perplexed with errors, Our understanding traces them in vain.

ADDISON'S Cato, Act I. Sc. 1.

EXERCISE XXIX.

God, of His endlesse goodnesse,

Walled a tongue with teeth and lippes eke, For man shulde him advisen what he speke. CHAUCER'S Manciple's Tale.

EXERCISE XXX.

Above the gloomy portal arch
The warden kept his guard,

Still humming, as he paced along,
Some ancient border-gathering song.

SCOTT's Marmion, Canto 1.

EXERCISE XXXI.

Mark how the fire in flints doth quiet lie,
Content and warm t'itself alone;

But when it would appear to other's eye
Without a knock it never shone.

HERBERT.

EXERCISE XXVIII.

How exceedingly enigmatical and indistinct are the

ways of Providence:

And their signs revealed doubtfully

A man could not learn-thoroughly, at-least withoutthe-help-of God.

EXERCISE XXIX.

God is both beneficent in other-respects, and on the tongue

He has put-as-a-fence a bulwark of teeth, sealed By the lips, that it might not speak inconsiderate

words.

EXERCISE XXX.

Above the dusky arch of the portal

A sleepless guard keeps his dewy watch:

But while-pacing along, he hums from time-to-time

a song,

Some song very fit-to-excite the spirit of those of

old.

EXERCISE XXXI.

For-instance, one may see the secret fount of fire,
How it delights to be-still in rocky recesses:
But if it be necessary to exhibit the before-invisible
flame of light,

Strike, smite perforce one stone against others.

EXERCISE XXXII

Oh! my beloved caves,

How oft when grief has made me fly,
Have I

In your recesses' friendly shade

All my sorrows open laid.

COTTON.

EXERCISE XXXIII.

Right's not impaired with weakness, but prevails In spight of strength, when strength or power failes : Frail is the trust reposed on troops of horse, Truth in a handful findes a greater force.

QUARLES' History of Queen Elizabeth.

EXERCISE XXXIV.

The brute crowd whose envious zeal,
Huzzas each turn of Fortune's wheel,
And loudest shouts, when lowest lie
Exalted worth and station high.

SCOTT'S Rokeby.