The plant no closer does the ivy clip.
Stanza xxix. line 1.
Ut tenax hedera hâc et hâc
Arborem implicat errans.
For silence seldom was a cause for blame,
But oftener as a virtue well reputed.
Stanza xxx. lines 3 and 4.
Eximia est virtus præstare silentia rebus,
At contra gravis est culpa tacenda loqui.
Ovid.
Suspend the snare, or lime the fluttering thrush.
Stanza xxxii. line 6.
Birding in these and other modes is still a common sport with the Italians, who, moreover, like their ancestors, justly consider the thrush as a dainty.
And lots for her each day, divining, tries.
Stanza xxxix. line 6.
There were many forms for thus obtaining an insight into distant or future events, as the sortes Virgilianæ, which we hear were tried so lately as by Charles I. We read in the old Arabian Nights of casting figures in sand for this purpose; but we learn the prettiest conjuration of this kind in the New Arabian Tales, which, though they have been evidently much interpolated, bear strong internal evidence of an Arabian origin. Two damsels, attendant upon an island princess of genie race, and themselves fairies, going in search of succour for their mistress, then besieged by her rebellious subjects, find a young
