Calendar: 1860-1861 Page 471

472 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles rain Come read to me some poem Some simple and heart-felt lay That shall soothe this restless feeling And banish the thoughts of day Longfellow VI -Cranslate into reds f5ros We see in contracts and other dealings which daily pass between man and man that to the utter undoing of some many things by strictness of Law may be done which equity and honest meaning forbiddeth Not that the Law is unjust but unperfect nor equity against but above the Law binding men's consciences in things which Law cannot reach unto Will any man say that the virtue of private equity is opposite and repug- nant to that Law the silence whereof it supplieth in all such private dealing No more is public equity against the Law of public affairs albeit the one permit unto some in special consi- derations that which the other agreeably with general rules of justice doth in general sort forbid For sith all good Laws are the voices of right Reason which is the instrument wherewith God will have the world guided and impossible it is that right should withstand right it must follow that principles and rules of justice be they never so generally uttered do no less effec- tually intend than if they did plainly express an exception of all particulars wherein their literal practice might any way prejudice equity