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"'Tis well," said Prince John; then added, after a moment's pause, "Bardon, it imports our service that thou keep a strict watch on Maurice De Bracy so that he shall not observe it, however And let us know of his motions from time to time with whom he converses, what he proposeth. Fail not in this, as thou wilt be answerable." Hugh Bardon bowed, and retired.
On this part of the Poem we have only to remark, that if Mr JOHN MILTON proposeth to make himself merry with Russet lawns, and fallows grey Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide, Towers and battlements, &c. &c. &c.
To explain which, he proposeth the instance of a water-clock, which gives the account of time by the running of water.
For it is variety that in everything draws us on to use more than bare necessity requires. This is manifest in all sorts of pleasures, either of the eye, ear, or touch; for it still proposeth new provocatives; but in simple pleasures, and such as are confined to one sort, the temptation never carries us beyond nature's wants.
Without knowing what is in his mind, vainly do we roar in wrath! Let the high-souled Krishna give out what he proposeth. Accomplish promptly what he desireth to do. Then all of them, hearing those words of Halayudha that deserved to be accepted, exclaimed, 'Excellent! Excellent! They then all became silent.
"I pray thee, good brother, let this youth, Edward Glendinning, be conveyed to the Chamber of the Novices, and placed under their instructor. God hath touched his heart, and he proposeth laying aside the vanities of the world, to become a brother of our holy order; which, if his good parts be matched with fitting docility and humility, he may one day live to adorn."
His most sublime majesty proposeth to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which by a solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform. First. The man-mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under our great seal. Second.
But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all that, however, is the gold of the shopman. The God of the Hosts of war is not the God of the golden bar; the prince proposeth, but the shopman disposeth! By all that is luminous and strong and good in thee, O Zarathustra! Spit on this city of shopmen and return back!
Without knowing what is in his mind, vainly do we roar in wrath! Let the high-souled Krishna give out what he proposeth. Accomplish promptly what he desireth to do. Then all of them, hearing those words of Halayudha that deserved to be accepted, exclaimed, 'Excellent! Excellent! They then all became silent.
For, "seeing," saith he, "an oath doth call God for witness, and proposeth Him for umpire and voucher of the things it saith; therefore to induce God so upon occasion of human affairs, or, which is all one, upon small and slight accounts, doth imply contempt of Him: wherefore we ought wholly to shun swearing, except upon occasions of highest necessity."
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