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'Perhaps, in some respects, he may merit better usage at our hands, said Alan; 'for if he has described vice plainly, it seems to have been for the purpose of rendering it generally abhorred. 'Well, said the seaman, 'I have heard of the Sortes Virgilianae, and I dare say the Sortes Sallustianae are as true every tittle.
Whereupon grew the word of Sortes Virgilianae, when, by sudden opening Virgil's book, they lighted upon any verse of his making, whereof the histories of the emperors' lives are full: as of Albinus the governor of our island, who in his childhood met with this verse And altogether not without ground, since both the oracles of Delphos and Sibylla's prophecies were wholly delivered in verses.
She had another such flower on her breast. A young girl's graceful compliment, that is all, no doubt, no doubt. "Incipit effari, mediaque in voce resistit." A remembrance of an ancient superstition flashed through the master's mind, and he determined to try the Sortes Virgilianae. He shut the volume, and opened it again at a venture. The story of Laocoon!
The merchandises which he had out of Persia for the returne of wares are silke of all sortes of colours, both raw and wrought. Also all maner of spices and drugs, pearles, and precious stones, likewise carpets of diuers sortes, with diuers other rich merchandises.
The councils sought to put an end to this superstition. The sixteenth canon of the Council of Vannes, held in 465, forbade clerks, under pain of excommunication, to consult these sortes sacrae, as they were called. This prohibition was extended to the laity by the Council of Agde in 506, and by that of Orleans in 511.
Lady Delacour opened the book, which was a volume of Marmontel's Tales. "La femme comme il y en a peu!" exclaimed Hervey. "Who will ever more have faith in the Sortes Virgilianae?" said Lady Delacour, laughing; but whilst she laughed she went closer to a candle, to read the page which she had opened. Belinda and Clarence Hervey followed her.
The same spirit led him to the superstitious and objectionable practice of having recourse to the 'Sortes Biblicæ, by which folly he was more than once misled against his own better judgment; the same spirit tempted him to lend far too eager an ear to tales of witchcraft and magic.
Protesting further, that if their Kings and the Estate had throughly followed that action, France had bene freed of their long ciuill warres, and the variable humours of all sortes of people might haue had very ample and manifold occasions of good and honest emploiment abroad in that large and fruitfull Continent of the West Indies.
Happily the tree is bulky, and within but a few yards of the speculator; and the great enigma of the Calvinistic church is answered in favour of Madame de Warenne's protege, whose propensities and proclivities at that period did not very strongly indicate his claim to a place among the elect. Valentine remembered the sortes Virgilianae the Wesleyan's drawing of inferences from Bible texts.
There was no attempt made to find a passage suitable to the occasion, but one of the palm leaves after being shuffled was selected at random. To this custom of drawing fateful leaves from the Sibylline books called in consequence sortes sibyllinæ there is frequent allusion by classic authors. We know that the writings of Homer and Virgil were thus treated.
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