And breadless serfs; England fomenting discord; To armed thunderbolts. The Arts lay dead; Sire, I know If statesmen rocked and dandled into power Could leave such legacies to kings. (LOUIS appears irresolute.) Baradas (passing him, whispers). But Julie,— Shall I not summon her to court? Louis (motions to BARADAS and turns haughtily to the Cardinal). Enough! Your Eminence must excuse a longer audience. Το your own palace! For our conference, this Nor place nor season. Richelieu. Good my liege, for Justice All place a temple, and all season summer. He turns from me!-Do you deny me justice? The humblest craftsman, the obscurest vassal, Though loathed by Charity, might ask for justice! As men who ask man's rights. My liege, my Louis, In the pale presence of the baffled Murther? Louis. Lord Cardinal, one by one you have severed from me The bonds of human love. All near and dear Marked out for vengeance,-exile or the scaffold. Enough of plots and treasons for one reign. I- Patience, heaven! sweet heaven!-Sire, from the foot On an Olympus, looking down on mortals Louis. No! When we see your Eminence in truth DEFINITIONS.-€är'di nal, one of the seventy ecclesiastical princes who constitute the Pope's council. Ex eul pa'tion, the act of vindicating from a charge of fault or crime. În ter çeş ́sion, mediation. Är'ti fiçe, a trick or fraud. Ri'fle, to plunder. Єoffers, chests or trunks for holding money or other valuables. Her'e sies, doctrines opposed to sound belief. Fo měnt'Ing, exciting. Prod ́i gal, profuse; lavish. Au'di ençe, a hearing. Eon'fer ençe, interview. Crafts/man, mechanic. Văs'sal, subject or dependent. Olympus, a mountain in Greece on which the gods were supposed to reside. NOTES.-Cardinal Richelieu (Resh'ê loo) (born at Paris in 1585; died in 1642) was the prime minister of Louis XIII. of France. Bas tile', an old fortification in Paris, built in the fourteenth century. It was long used as a state-prison, but was finally demolished by the populace in 1789. Either Ind, the East and West Indies, from which Spain at that time was obtaining large amounts of treasure. Louis XIII. was born in 1601, began to reign in 1614, and died in 1643, a few months after the great cardinal, his minister. 41. THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON-LOW. MARY HOWITT was born at Coleford, England, in 1804. She was the wife of William Howitt, who was also an author of some celebrity. They published many of their works conjointly, the first of which was The Forest Minstrel, in 1823. Mary wrote The Seven Temptations, Wood Leighton, and Tales for Children. She also translated the works of Miss Bremer and of Hans Christian Andersen. Her poems are marked by a simple tenderness that charms the reader. 1. "AND where have you been, my Mary, 2. "And what did you see, my Mary, 3. "And what did you hear, my Mary, And the ears of the green corn fill." 4. "Oh, tell me all, my Mary,- 5. "Then take me on your knee, mother, 6. "And merry was the glee of the harp-strings, And their dancing feet so small; But, oh, the sound of their talking 7. "And what were the words, my Mary, But let me have my way : 8. "And some they played with the water, 'And this,' they said, 'shall speedily turn 666 9. 'For there has been no water Ever since the first of May; And a busy man shall the miller be 10. "Oh, the miller, how he will laugh The jolly old miller, how he will laugh, 11. And some they seized the little winds That sounded over the hill, And each put a horn into his mouth, And blew so sharp and shrill. 12. "And there,' said they, 'the merry Away from every horn; winds go, And those shall clear the mildew dank From the blind old widow's corn. 13. "Oh, the poor blind old widow ! Though she has been blind so long, She'll be merry enough when the mildew's gone, 14. "And some they brought the brown lintseed, 'And this,' said they, 'by the sunrise, 15. "Oh, the poor lame weaver! When he sees his dwindling flax-field 16. "And then upspoke a brownie 'I have spun up all the tow,' said he, 17. "I've spun a piece of hempen cloth, A little sheet for Mary's bed, And an apron for her mother.' |