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Lest you for a moment imagine that those words will be lost, which I, born on the far-resounding Aufidus, utter to be accompanied with the lyre, by arts hitherto undivulged If Maeonian Homer possesses the first rank, the Pindaric and Cean muses, and the menacing strains of Alcaeus, and the majestic ones of Stesichorus, are by no means obscure: neither, if Anacreon long ago sportfully sung any thing, has time destroyed it: even now breathes the love and live the ardors of the Aeolian maid, committed to her lyre.

I was in the mood when one tries sportfully to deceive one's self as to the depth and intensity of the emotion within. So there I lay hidden by the boulder and watched her.

As thou, false knave, didst swear the whelps in heaven licked the sores of Lazybones, a beggar of old. 'Nay, nay, said I, 'I said no such thing. But tell me, since they bit thee not, but sportfully licked thee, what harm? 'What harm, noodle; why, the sores came off. 'How could that be? 'How could aught else be? and them just fresh put on.

For the purpose of the present inquiry I also omit all the rites of leaping sportfully, and of driving cattle through light fires. People are said 'pyras circumire et transilire in futuri mali averruncatione' to 'go round about and leap over lighted pyres for the purpose of averting future evils, as in Mannhardt's theory of the Hirpi.

She hung on his arm confidingly and promised to consider his words. Sitting on the porch in the Sabbath twilight beside Salome, Burr softly intoned his regret that in the morning he must part from her. Sportfully he drew from her finger a diamond ring. "Do you want it back after all these years?" she murmured. "No, dear, you shall have it again in a moment."