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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 389 as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief what would become of man himself whom these things now do all serve See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of Nature is the stay of the whole world Notwithstanding with Nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve though his art do that it should his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had He that striketh an instrument with skill may cause notwithstanding very unpleasant sound if the string whereon he striketh chance to be uncapable of harmony IV -Eranslate into reek iambics Gaunt All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to wise man ports and happy havens Teach thy necessity to reason thus There is no virtue like necessity Think not the king did banish thee But thou the king Woe doth the heavier sit Where it perceives it is hut faintly borne Go say-I sent thee forth to purchase honour And not-the king exil'd thee or suppose Devouring pestilence hangs in our air And thou art flying to fresher clime Look what thy soul holds dear imagine it To lie that way thou go'st not whence thou com'st Suppose the singing birds musicians The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd The flowers fair ladies and thy steps no more Than delightful measure or dance For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light Soling who can hold fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite