field and lies beneath,...and after many a summer dies the swan.-Tennyson.

Thy threats, thy mercy, I defy! let rec'reant yield who fears to die.-Scott.

The red2 stream issuing from her azure veins3, dyes her white veil2, her ivory bosom stains.—Darwin.

Here2, in2 my scabbard, is* my argument, shall dye your* white rose2 to* a bloody red2.-Sh.

Her brow was white* and low; her cheeks pure dye...like twilight rosy, still with the set sun.2-Byron.

A vein3 had burst, and her sweet lips' pure dyes...were dabbled with the deep blood which* ran o'er3; and her head drooped as when* the lily lies...o'ercharged with rain2.-Byron.

40.-DOE, DOUGH.

It was the time2 when lilies blow,...and clouds are lifted up in2 air,...Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe...to give to his* cousin*, Lady Clare.-Tennyson.

Then, but2 forbear your food a little while*, whiles* like a doe, I go to find my fawn2, and give it food.—Sh.

Bread' is the spongy mass produced by 2 baking the leavened or* fermented dough of wheat or rye2 flour2, at a proper heat*. It is the principle food of highly civilized nations. Dough baked without being fermented constitutes cakes or* biscuits; but2 not2 bread2 strictly speaking.—Dr. Ure.

41.-DONE, DUN.

Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear2 Son2, the* ill which* I this day2 have done; that with the world2, myself, and thee, I2, ere2 I sleep, at peace2 may be2.-Evening Hymn.

Of all our band,...though firm of heart2 and strong of hand,.......in2 skirmish, march, or* forage, none2...can2 less have said or more* have done...than thee, Mazeppa! On the earth ...so3 fit a pair3 had never birth2, since Alexander's days till

now,...as thy Bucephalus and thou; all2 Scythia's fame to thine should yield...for pricking on o'er flood and field. -Byron.

'Tis morn, but2 scarce yon level sun2...can* pierce the warclouds rolling dun2,...where* furious Frank2, and fiery Hun,... shout in their* sulphurous canopy.-Campbell.

White* as a white sail2 on a dusky sea2, when* half the horizon's clouded and half free,...fluttering between the dun wave2 and the sky,...is hope's last gleam in man's extremity. Her anchor parts; but2 still the snowy sail2 attracts our2 eye amidst the rudest gale; though every wave2 she climbs2 divides us more*,-the heart2 still follows from the loneliest shore.-Byron.

The haunt of birds, a desert to mankind, where* the rough2 seal reposes from the wind,...and sleeps unwieldy in his cavern dun, or* gambols with huge frolic in the sun?.Byron.

42.-EARN, URN.

Last week2 he earned thirty shillings, and he sometimes earns as much as two2 pounds; his* average earnings, however, are under a pound a week2, owing to his profligacy and intemperance.

Can* storied urn or* animated bust...back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust2,...or* flattery soothe the dull cold ear* of death? -Gray.

43.-EWE, YEW, YOU, U.

There were* two2 men in one2 city; the one2 rich, and the* other poor. The rich man had* exceeding many flocks and herds, but the poor man had* nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which* he had bought and nourished up. And it grew up together with him2, and with his children; it did eat* of his own* meat3, and drank of his own' cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him as* a daughter. And there? came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his* own* flock and of his own herd2, to dress for the way

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faring man that was come unto him2; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And David's anger was kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done2 this thing shall surely die2; and he shall restore the lamb four2 fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no2 pity.-B.

I pray2 you, think you question with the Jew.... You may as well go stand upon the beach2,...and bid the main2 flood bate2 his usual height2; you may as well use question with the wolf, why he hath made2 the ewe bleat for the lamb; you may as well forbid the mountain pines...to wag their2 high2 tops, and to make no2 noise,...when* they are fretted with the gusts of heaven ;...you may as well do anything most hard,... as seek to soften that (than which* what's harder?)...his Jewish heart2;-therefore, 12 do beseech you3,...make no2 more offers, use no2 further means,...but2 with all2 brief and plain2 conveniency, let me have judgment, and the Jew his will.-Merchant of Venice, Sh.

Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,...where* heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,...each in his narrow cell2 for ever laid2,...the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.-Gray's Elegy.

The letter U (pronounced you), never has that sound in any other language than English. In the continental languages, as German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, &c., it has the power, when* short, of* our2 oo in good; and, when* long, of our2 oo in moon; for instance, uno, Italian, is pronounced oono, not2 you know. The dotted German ü and the French u have a different sound still, which* does not2 exist in English.

44.-FAIN, FANE, FEIGN.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea2 for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown furze3, any thing; the wills above be2 done2! but2 I would2 fain die2 a dry death.— Tempest, Sh.

If e'er with wreaths I hung thy sacred fane, or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain; God of the silver bow! thy

shafts employ, avenge thy servant, and the Greeks destroy. -Iliad, Pope.

See2 yonder hallowed fane; the pious work...of names once famed, now dubious or* forgot.—Blair.

And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.-Sh.

Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly; most friendship is feigning, most loving, mere folly.-Sh.

45.-FAINT, FEINT.

I pray2 you3, one2 of you3 question yond man...if he for gold will give us any food; I faint almost to death.—Sh.

Faint heart2 never won2 fair2 lady.—Proverb.

A strain of war,—a deep and nervous strain...of full and solemn notes, whose long-drawn swell...dies2 on the silence slow and terrible,...making the blood of him2 who listens to it...to follow the great2 measure; every tone...clear in its utterance, and eloquent...above all2 words: there was the settled tramp...of warriors faithful to ancestral swords ;... there was the prayer that was not2 all2 a prayer, but2 rising in a suppliant murmuring...grows to a war cry,-'Victory, oh God!...For Israel's God and Israel, Victory!':...Then came the* onset, chord2 fast following chord2,...in passionate clang, as* if the unconscious harp...were prodigal of all2 its life of sound,...to give that awful feint reality.-R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton).

46.-FAIR, FARE.

Happy, happy, happy pairs; none2 but2 the brave deserves the fair.-Dryden.

Shall 12, wasting in despair, die2, because a woman's fair ; or* make pale2 my cheeks with care, because another's rosy are? Be2 she fairer than the day, or the flowery meads2 of May, if she be2 not2 kind to me, what care I how fair she be2!

Wakefield fair is held in the month of July.

Go farther and fare worse.-Proverb.

Fare thee well thou lovely one2.-Moore.

Then turn to night2, and freely share whate'er my cell2 bestows; my rushy couch and frugal fare, my blessing and repose. Goldsmith.

The competition between the Great Northern and the Midland Railway Companies was so3 fierce in the summer of 1851, the time2 of the first Great2 International Exhibition in London, that the third-class excursion fare from Wakefield to London and back, a distance of 360 miles, was, for a short time2, only one2 shilling.

47.-FLEA, FLEE.

He that lies down with dogs must expect to rise* with fleas.-Proverb.

For Andrew, if he were opened, and you2 find so2 much blood in his* liver as* will clog the foot of a flea, I'll3 eat the rest of the anatomy.-Sh.

That's a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.-Sh.

Sad is my fate! said the heart2-broken stranger,-the wild deer2 and wolf to the covert can* flee; but I have no2 refuge from famine and danger; a home and a country remain not2 to me.-Campbell.

The wicked flee when* no2 man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as* a lion.-B.

And Moses severed three cities on this side2 Jordan toward the sun rising; that the slayer might2 flee thither, which* should kill2 his neighbour unawares, and hated him2 not2 in2 times past2; and that fleeing into one2 of these cities he might2 live.-B.

48.-FLOUR, FLOWER.

And the woman had* a fat calf in the house, and she