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By diuers of my good frends haue I been dealt with to employ my dul pen in this kinde, it being a cleane different vaine from other my former courses of writing. Incomprehensible is the heigth of your spirit both in heroical resolution and matters of conceit.

Ah, Alcius, I cannot tell whether I should most lament in thee thy want of learning, or thy wanton lyvinge, in the on thou art inferiour to all men, in the other superiour to al beasts. Insomuch as who seeth thy dul wit, and marketh thy froward will, may well say that he neuer saw smacke of learning in thy dooings, nor sparke of relygion in thy life.

I doe nothing without blithnesse; and an over obstinate continuation and plodding contention doth dazle, dul, and wearie the same: my sight is thereby confounded and diminished. I must therefore withdraw it, and at fittes goe to it againe. As for Amadis and such like trash of writings, they had never the credit so much as to allure my youth to delight in them.

And one day, Menelayus went out hunting, and left Paris and Helener alone, and Paris said: "Do you not feel dul in this palis?" And Helener said: "I feel very dull in this pallice," and Paris said: "Come away and see the world with me." So they sliped off together, and they came to the King of Egypt, and he said: "Who is the young lady"? So Paris told him.

This battered yet coherent little edifice has the touching look that resides in everything supremely old: it has arrived at the age at which such things cease to feel the years; the waves of time have worn its edges to a kind of patient dul- ness; there is something mild and smooth, like the stillness, the deafness, of an octogenarian, even in its rudeness of ornament, and it has become insensible to differences of a century or two.

On the left long lines of poplars, enclosing the Moonshi Bagh and the various encamping grounds, with the Tukh-t-i-Suliman rising high above them. Behind, the Dul, spread out like a sheet of silver with the back ground of mountains, and many canals radiating and glistening in the sun-light. Of the fort I have but little to say.

Let me keep as many of them as I have room for aboard, and I'll pay for them in muskets and powder and bullets." "What do you want with them?" "Sell them to old Abba Dul, the king of the Pelews. I've done business with him before." Charlik called Kanka over to him, and the two spoke in low tones. Then the young ruler of Lele shook his head. "No.

It is customary I know to call these Asiatics our fellow subjects, but I never before had the fact so forcibly brought before me. AUGUST 24th. I got up early this morning and have spent half the day on the "Dul" or "City Lake" a large sheet of water which lies at the foot of the hill behind Sreenuggur.