P. 11, line 9. Sacred is He, eternal, infinite, all in all; yea, even Himself all; without, within, embracing all things in Himself; certain of all things, and yet like an uncertainty; *, who is ignorant of himself, or the mind of man see what the world itself cannot contain?

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22. It is a madness, plainly a madness, to go out from it, and, as if its inward things were all clearly known already, therefore to explore the things without it.

last 3. A thousand avenues and open doors

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The city has; as ocean all earth's streams,
So ev'ry soul that place receives.

20. All drinkable and wholesome waters, flow where
they may, or spring up whence they may, draw
their origin from the fount of Paradise through
hidden courses, and have their drinkableness and
wholesomeness from its sweetness.

37. If the poet could say,-Man's by his pleasure drawn,
how much more boldly ought we to say, Christ
draws every one who is delighted with truth,
blessedness, and eternal life,-all which Christ is.
8. As if the same question would not always occur at
close of thought, from desire of some end.
4. The path of the just is straight. The Lord has led
the just by straight ways, and shown him the
kingdom of God. This shall be to you the direct
way, so that fools may not wander through it.
And the crooked shall be made straight, and the
rough ways plain.

32. Make me straight in a straight path.

10. He veers about, and takes a wheeling flight,
And hovers over; as the spreading kite

That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high,
And sails around. (Addison.)

17. Their head is their circuit. In a circuit the wicked

walk.

24. As soft Mæander in the Phrygian fields

Plays, and with doubtful gliding ebbs and flows.

40. Lest error unforeseen should foil the man

Who leaves the covert's labyrinthine turns. 31. A Book of the Ways of Paradise and the Ways of

Hell.

27. By many ways we advance to God.

last 2. There are whose lasting verse's only theme

Is Virgin Pallas' towers.

35. Forest of life, bringing back of minds to faith.
38. The secret paths.

last line. Old Priam's fate I'll sing, and famous war.

3. Who many men's manners and cities saw.

8. Reason is to be preferred to examples, which yet

agree with it.

Behold, we have given a reason: let us add also examples agreeing with it.

P. 19, line 27. For we ought to relate not our own words, but those of the saints; not those which we can draw from

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our own heart, but those which we can derive from the fountains of Israel.

31. We run more healthfully in the ground of this book if we first gather out of the way the stones of scandals.

40.

Mortals 'gainst nought should swear,

For thought the judgment will belie.

-last line. Like a barren tree, when I have not works for apples,

I scatter words for leaves.

1. By how much the more a man is full of vices, so much the more is it necessary to speak of virtues ; for so, from their frequent mention, man is easily led into their embrace.

8. But I am of writing tired,

Of patience and of piety,
Of friendship and of charity,
Of sense and of humility,
Of faith and eke of clemency,
More than you'll keep in memory.

34. Without having unpacked.

38.

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yet my strength is firm.
why prate of this to thee?
'tis hateful to me

Again of things already said to prate.

24. The people is offering more than is needful: the offerings are enough, and superabundant.

39. We will attempt other things, since we cannot be

silent.

7. Thou too, whatever book of ours thou read'st,
Think it the only one, and prize it more.

11. Yet I think it profitable that thine ears should
resound on every side with such words, and hear,
if possible, nothing else.

24. This is the way, walk ye in it.

39. Of the spirit and the soul.

21. It is a difficult thing to give novelty to old things, authority to new, grace to things obsolete, light to the obscure, favour to things disliked, but to give nature to all, and refer all to their nature. 25. I do not repent of having devised no gayer title.

CHAPTER II.

THE ROAD OF CHILDREN.

P. 25, last 3. It is easy to see this in the first years of children; for, although I fear I may seem tedious in this

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kind, yet all the old philosophers come to the
cradle.

All drawn from the fountain of nature.
27. This too awaits thee: stamm'ring age will find
Thee teaching boys in lowest streets behind.

35. Was given to the sight of the boys.

a parent's gifts admires,

And, ignorant of things, in th' image joys. 16. And the harmony of this, viewed as a whole, is virtue. 32. Those who in the morning watch for me shall find

me.

38. I do not watch for thee at the dawn.

13. Brother John Guari, rise, since thou hast completed thy penance; for God has forgiven thee thy sin. 18. In little ones themselves, and their thoughts of little things, I was delighted with truth. What, in one so animating, is not wonderful and praiseworthy? . . . for what than thou more simple or more innocent is found?

1. Who am I, and who art thou?

12. Create a clean heart.

35. Congratulate me, all who love the Lord, because when I was a little one I pleased the Most High. 2. If any man shall scandalize one of these little ones who believe in me, it is expedient for him that a mill-stone be hung upon his neck, and he be plunged in the depth of the sea.

19. Out of the mouths of infants, O God! and of sucklings, hast thou perfected praise, because of thine enemies.

35. Remember, holy God! Datheus made

This house for wretched children's aid.

5. What thou wilt not have done to thee, do not to another.

9. Let the children go to the refectory, if there be any so little that they cannot wait till after vespers.

14. St. Benedict affords help to the tender age.

Shunning his touch; for dreadful in his eyes
The brazen armour shone, and dreadful more
The shaggy crest that swept his father's brow.
(Cowper.)

P. 40, line 40. Mother august.

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44,

45, 46,

41. Dropping a tender tear.

2. Arms, and the man I sing. 21. Both sporting and studying.

18. Brother Bart. Garriga, born of mean parentage, was brought by his father to this monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of Montserrat, on the 8th of May, 1511, and was here offered, when he was a child of seven years old, and of little use for the service of so great a house; but, being received by the Very Rev. Father Abbot, for no other consideration than the sole love of God, he was enrolled with the other scholars who sing before the image of the Mother of God.

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so strong is custom in the young.
1. Who loves well, chastises well.

3. To punish, *** to educate, to instruct.
6. Right of chastising.

16. On drawing little ones to Christ.

23. For by how much the more accomplished and clever any one is, so much the more angrily and painfully does he teach.

32. Lord, have pity on your poor servant, John Gerson. 47, 2. I love Thee more than myself, because Thou hast created, redeemed, and endowed me.

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8. Of the childhood of the Saviour.

49, 33. Lord Jesus Christ! help us still to gain the holy

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cross.

2. To those who bear the name of John.

8. Of the praises of the most holy mother Ann. 57,last line. Come and hear, and I will tell you, all who fear God, how great things the Lord has done for my

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soul.

all in the governance

Of one ladye, who was yclept Enfance.

28. The form shall be described, and site o' the field.
30. A fountain fit to give a river name,

As cold and clear as Thracian Hebrus' stream.
18. The Muse did speak: wings sounded thro' the air,
And voice of greeting came from lofty boughs.
last line. O'er heights, o'er woods, o'er moss-clad rocks he

strolls.

CHAPTER III.

THE ROAD OF YOUTH.

P. 61, Motto. To childhood thus I bade farewell,
And next with youth began to dwell.

64, line 13.

Who is he? There is no other except Zosimus, and
those who are with him.

65, 29. As oft as youth holdeth in lordship's bond.
34. Thou good father's child!

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69,

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If youths a boy, if many one ye cheat?

6. Therefore the old man mourns, youth, boy, and

ev'ry age:

Th' afflicted land its parent's loss bewails.

22. The Lord has given, and has taken away, be His name blessed for ever.

26. Thanks to God.

5. Swift in the race.

14. There is one boy here who has five loaves and two

fishes.

29. Say not, because I am a boy.

12. The blind man on his shoulders bears the lame :

One lends his eyes, the other feet.

24. In form like a young man, keeper of sheep,
All delicate, such as kings' children are.

34. The duty of relationship gilded the boldness.
71, last 2. Nor sod fortuitous to scorn

Thy limbs and mind, thou'lt swim without a cork. 20. Good child— * * * little word, great thing. 25. The journey is a way not trodden by authors, and in which a learned mind would not seek to wander. 30. Let us imitate little ones' simplicity when of little ones about to speak.

33. Simplicity, how dear to God, how pleasing to the saints,

When youth from tender years is rear'd without sin's mortal taints!

39. And to compose the looks.

73, 12. They are delighted with their equals, and led by the hearing of tales,-and they more curiously attend