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An Elizabethan distich familiar to all barristers, but too rudely worded for insertion in this page informs us that in the sixteenth century Gray's Inn had an unenviable notoriety amongst legal hospices for the shamelessness of its female inmates.
Lancaster with its grey old castle on one hand; York with its reverend minster on the other the Irish Sea and its wild coast fell, forest, moor, and valley, watered by the Ribble, the Hodder, the Calder, and the Lime rivers not to be matched for beauty. You recollect the old distich 'Ingleborough, Pendle Hill, and Pennygent, Are the highest hills between Scotland and Trent.
And as we went down the slopes to the darkening vale I heard him crooning to himself in a high, quavering voice the single distich; then in a little his weariness took him again, and he plodded on with no thought save for his sorrows.
Over the western door-way is a mosaic of the Virgin with the following leonine and loyal distich beneath it: "Sponsa suae prolis, O Stella puerpera Solis, Pro cunctis ora, sed plus pro rege labora!"
The distich is highly fanciful and the conceits would hardly occur to a Andam is often mentioned in The Nights. So Al-Hariri in Preface quotes his predecessor: Justly of praise the price I pay; The praise is his who leads the way. "Shakhs"=a person, primarily a dark spot. So "Sawad"=blackness, in Al-Hariri means a group of people who darken the ground by their shade.
Thus, in the year 1515, he became Orpheus, and, while adorned with the plectrum and the lyre of the poet, Marforio addressed a distich to him in his new character, which hints at the popular appreciation of the Pope. The year 1515 was that of the descent of Francis I, into Italy, and of the bloody battle of Marignano.
Away from you, I shall recite this distich, which is worth more than a necklace of fine pearls: 'When a man is wronged on the soil of his tribe, there is nothing left him but to leave it; you, who have so wickedly injured me, before long shall feel the power of the kindly divinity, for he is your judge and mine, he is unchangeable and eternal."
A wit of the day described the Parliaments of James by this ludicrous distich: Many faults complained of, few things amended, A subsidy granted, the Parliament ended. But this was rarely the fact.
Despite our labours for the public weal, the ungrateful dogs see that we are above them; a single envious breast is sufficient to give us to the hangman. We have agreed that we are in danger; we have agreed to make an honourable retreat; we cannot do so without money. You know the vulgar distich among our set. Nothing can be truer, "'Hanging is 'nation More nice than starvation!
Despite our labours for the public weal, the ungrateful dogs see that we are above them; a single envious breast is sufficient to give us to the hangman. We have agreed that we are in danger; we have agreed to make an honourable retreat; we cannot do so without money. You know the vulgar distich among our set. Nothing can be truer, "'Hanging is 'nation More nice than starvation!
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