That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.